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Kingham William Charles, cycle repl' Miller William, builder Richardson James, market gardener Lever Mary (Mrs.), private school for Nelson Geo. farmer, Parsonage farm Roots William John,farmer &;game da boys &; girls Pollard Elizabeth &; Sons, farmers &. Smith Thos..basket maker &; drap"l" Lovell David, shoe maker millers, Tingewick mill Steeden Newltt, carpntr. &; whlwrgJr. Lucas Jesse, chimney sweeper Pollard Ebenezer, shoe maker Timms William, White Hart P.H Lucas William, baker &; mealman Pollard George, farmer Tow George, farmer Markham Arm (Mrs.), laundries Price Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Williams Ann (Mrs.), dressmaker Markham Richard, thatcher Little Tingewick Woodman Samuel, draper Marshall James, haulier Read Thos. Stockley, butcher &; grocr Worvill Julia (Miss), dressmaker TOWERSEY is a parish on the borders of Oxford- of £25 yearly, left by Mr. Christopher Deane, for appren­ shire, one and a quarter miles east from Thame station ticing poor boys and for elementary education, another of on the Wycombe, Thame and Oxford branch of the £5 a year for the vicar of the parish, and one left by Dame Great 'Western railway, and 9 south-west from Ayles- ' Catherine Pye, of Braddenham, Bucks, for the benefit of bury, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Towersey and four other parishes, and consisting of the rent Ashendon, petty sessional division of Aylesbury, Thame of a farm in this parish, which is expended in providing union and county court district, rural deanery ~f Ayles- I elementary education and in doles given to poor widows. bury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Ox- Towersey Manor, the seat of James Whiteh{)use Griffin ford. 'fhe church of St. Catherine is a small edifice of esq. J.P. is a handsome building in the Italian style, plea­ stone, chiefly in the Decorated style, but with traces of 8antly seated in well-kept grounds. James Whitehouse 13th ,century and earlier work, and consists of chancel Griffin egq. who is lord of the manor, and Philip James and nave, and an embattled tower with pinnacles, on the Digby Wykeham esq. of Tythrop House, Thame, are the south side of the nave added in 1854, at the sole ex- chief landowners. The soil is strong loam; subsoil, clay, pense of the late Edward Griffin esq. and containing 4 gravel and limestone. The chief crops are wheat, beans, bells, a sanctus bell, and a clock, presented in 1887 by barley, clover and grasses, and there is much pasture Mr. S. Lacey, of Thame, it had previously been for 100 land. The area is 1,378 acres; assessable value, [,2,016; years in the 'fown hall at Thame, and for 200 years the population in 1891 was 349. prior to that at Rycote chapel, but was renovated Sexton, William Williams. and re-constructed by Sainsbury, of Walthamstow, for Pos~ Office. John Bowden, sub-postmaster. Letters are this church; the hexagonal and richly carved pulpit is received from Thame by foot messenger at 7.30 aom. ; Jacobean, and there is a very good piscina in the chan- dispatched at 6 p.m.; sundays arrive 7.30 a.m.; dis- eel; the font is reputed to be of Saxon date. A new patched 10.15 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but organ was presented in 1887, at a cost of £65, and a not paid. The nearest money {)rder &; telegraph office brass lectern in 1892, at a cost of 50 guineas, by Mr. S. is at Thame, 3 miles distant Lacey, of Thame: the church was thoroughly restored National School, built in 1848 &; supported in part by a in 1850, and the interior in 1877: there are 225 sittings, moiety of the rent of Quash farm, left by the late 100 being free. The register dates from the year 1580. Dame Catherine Pye to five parishes, for the education The living is a vi~arage, net yearly value £85, including of the poor, &; also, under a scheme of the Commis- 57 acres of glebe, with residenl'e, in the gift of the sioners, by a moiety of the late C. Deane's charity; the trustees of the late W. B. Slater M.D. and held since school will hold 84 children; average attendance, 66; 1885 by the Rev. Robert Parglter. The Baptist chapel, John Widdicombe, master; Mrs. 1. C. Widdicombe, erected in 1837, will seat 100 persons. The charities, one mistress Griffin James Whitehouse J.P.Tower- Bowden In. assist-overseer, Post office Pollicut James, Black Horse P.H sey lnanor Collins Alfred, 'White Hart P.H Rose Geo. Pitt,Three Horse Shoes P.B Pargiter Rev. Robert, Vicarage Grange Thomas Alfred, farmer Saund6'l's John, farmer Stevens James Sheen, The Walnuts Jackman Thos. gamekeeper to James Stanley Thos. &; Wm. In. stone haulrs COMMERCIAL. Whitehouse Griffin esq. Pen farm Stevens Edward, farmer, Quash farm Andrews Wm. farmer, Grange farm King Edmund Thos. baker &; grocer White Rerbert, dairy farmer Baverstock Thomas, farmer North Jane (Mrs.), farmer Williams William, boot ma. &sexton Biggs Raymond &; Samuel, farmers I North William, g-razier Wright George. farmer & coal dealer (anciently called Turfield) is a parish the church school; Beisley's charity {)f 1896 produces an and village on the border, 7 miles north annual income of £18 14s. 8d. which is distributed in from Henley terminal station on a branch of the Great coals. Turville Park, the seat of Stafford O'Brien Western railway, and about 6 south-west from West Hoare esq. D.L., J.P. is a place of historic in­ Wycombe station on the Maidenhead and Oxford section terest: the mansion is an ancient and picturesque of the same line, 7~ west-by-south from High Wycombe, building seated on an eminence and commanding exten­ and 7 north-west from Marlow, in the Southern division sive views of the surrounding country; it was formerly of the county, Desborough hundred, 1st division of Des- the residence of the late Lord Lyndhurst and was built borough petty sessional division, union and county court by William Perry esq. of Wormington, Glos. who married district of Wycombe, rural deanery of Wycombe, arch- about 1653, Elizabeth, second daughter of Col. Thomas deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford; part of Sydney, and eventual sole heiress of the Sydneys, Earls the village is in parish. The church of St. Mary of Leicester. Turville Court, the residence of Clifton Bran­ is a small building of stone in the Norman style, con- don esq. is a plain brick building standing on an eminence, sisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and commanding a fine view of the surrounding country. Lord an ivy-clad tower, built of flint and containing 4 bells: Glanusk, of Glanusk Park, Brecon, Lord Camoys, S. O'B. attached to the church is a private aisle belonging to the I Hoare esq. and Ri,chard Ovey esq. of Badgemore. Henley­ Turville Park estate, the pews in which are occupied by on-Thames, are l{)rds of the manor and principal land­ Stafford O'Brien Hoare esq. and his family: the east owners. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, light in th& window is stained, and there is a good Norman font, and valley. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Th& several mural monuments in the transept to the Sydney, area is 2,327 acres; assessable value, £l,goO; the popul East, Butlin, King and Perry families: the organ was tion in 1891 was 468. presented by Stafford O'Brien Hoare esq. of Turville Sexton John Sewell. Park: the church was restored in 1722 and again in ' 1876, at a cost of £150, and aff{)rds 225 sittings. The re· Post, rr:e1egraph &; Express Delivery O~ce, Turville Heatn. gister dates from the year 1582: about forty years are .Mlss Ehza Morgan, sub-postmlst~ess. Letters re· missing previous to 1660. The living is a vicarage, net celved from Henley at 8.50 a.m.; dIspatched at 5. 15 yearly value £85, including 40 acres of glebe, with resi- :pom.; sundays, II a.m. The neares~ money order offic& dence, in the alternate gifts {)f Lord Glanusk, Lord Camoys IS !it Hambledon. Postal orders are ISSUed here, but not and Richard Ovey esq. and held since 1897 by the Rev. paId Michael Graves BoD. of the University of Durham. The Wall Letter Box in Village cleared at 5.50 p.m.· sun- church of St. Saviour, in Turville Park, erected days, 10.15 p.:n' , in 1898 on a .site pres.ented by. S.. O'B. Hoa:e Sub-Delivery Office, North End. Letters arrive from Hen- esq. D.L., J.P. IS an edifice of flint ID the GothIC ley at 9 a m style, consisting of chancel and nave, and affords . 120 sittings. At Turville Heath is a Primitive Wall Letter Box, cleared at 4·50 p.m.; sundays, 10.15 a.m Methodist chapel, erected in 1872. Rool's charity produces Schools £8 yearly, and there is also a charity of £1,100 bequeathed • by Miss Tempero in 1885, the interest of which is for the A School Bo~rd of five members was formed 3 June, maintenance of the church and for the poor of the parish. 188o; Edwm J. Vernon, clerk to the board Butlin's charity consists of the interest of £40, and is for There is a red brick school in the village for the dis- church expenses; Bartlett's, the interest of £500, is for tricts of lbstone, &; Turville