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5 bells : the font is Early English, probably dating from acres; rateable value, £3,018; the population in 18gx 12oo, and has the following inscription, as rendered into was 662. modern French, running round the base : Parish Clerk, Isaac Stapleton. " Trestui qui par ici passerez PosT OFFICE, Mill Hill.-.Mrs. Rachel Stapleton, sub­ Pour l'IUlle de Ware! priez postmistress. Letters through St. N eots arrive a~ Que Dieu par sa grace 8 a.m. & 1.45 p.m. (to callers only); dispatched at Vraie merci lui fasse: Amen." 10.25 a.m. & 4·55 p.m. Postal orders are issued from this office, but not paid. Riseley is the nearest money There is also an ancient slab, inscribed in Lombardic order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant capitals: '' .A.VIlRE : DE : T-YE : GIST : CY : LETTER Box in Keysoe Row cleared at 4·45 p.m DIEV : DE : SA : .A.L~IE : EYT : MERCY," and a Letters for Brook End & ~fill Hill & other parts are coped slab carved with crosses reoerclee and roses : delivered via Kimbolton at 8.10 a.m. & those for Keysoe there is a piscina on the south side of the chancel and Row via Great Staughton at 8 a.m east end of the north aisle : the east window of the County Police Station, Ebenezer Matthews, constable chancel was filled with stained glass in 1885 represent­ .A. School Board of 5 members was formed July 29o ing the Crucifixion, in memory of the Rev. William 1873; William Woodward, clerk to the board & at;.. Airy M.A. vicar from 1836; the edifice was restored in tendance officer 1885, and has now 270 sittings. The register dates Board School (mixed), erected in 1875, at a cost of from the year 1715. The living is a vicarage, net £x,soo, inclusive of house for master, for 150 chil­ yearly value, £255, including 150 acres of glebe, dren; average attendance, 114; .Arthur McKechnie, with residence, in the gift of the Master and Fellows ol master Trinity College, Cambridge, who are also the impro­ The .National School, erected in 184o, is now used as a priators of the rectory, and held since 1875 by the Rev. sunday school .John Hill Banham M.A. of that college and rural dean of CARRIERS TO:- Riseley. There are Baptist chapels at Brook End, Keysoe William Gillett, wed. & sat.; Thomas Whit­ Row and Mill Hill. Francis .Crawley esq. J.P. of Stock­ lock, sat. ; Rohert Cunnington, sat. ; Charles Staple­ wood, Luton, is lord of the manor and principal rand­ ton, sat owner. The soil is stiff clay; .subsoil, clay. The chief ST. NEoTs-William Gillett, thurs.; R. Cunnington, crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 3,69B thurs Banbam Rev. John Hill M.A. (vicar & George Thos. shopkpr. Keysoe row IMatthews Thomas, farmer rural dean), Vicarage Gillett William, carrier, Keysoe row Perkins Mary (.:\frs.), shpkpr. Mill hill 1 Herbert Joseph, :Maitland cottage Green Frank, miller (wind), Mill hill Sharman Edrop Jsph.farmr.Keysoefrm \-arley Rev. Thomas (Baptist), The Green Thomas, farn1er, Keysoe row Stanton Eli, butcher, Brook end :Manse, Brook end Hart William, beer retailer & black- Stanton Eliza (Mrs.), farmr.Brook end smith, Brook end Stapleton Chas. team o'wner & carrier COMMERCIAL. Hartop Benjamin, farmer, Brook end Stapleton William, farmer & threshing Barleyman Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Hartop John, farmer, Brook end machine proprietor, Brook end Keysoe row Hartop Josiah, rate collector, assessor Stewart Joseph, "White Horse l'.n. Barnett Geo. G. cowkpr. Brook end & collector of income tax & clerk to Keysoe row Barrs Geo. wheelwright, Mill hill School board 'Wagstaff William, beer ret.Keysoe row Brown Joseph, farmer, Keysoe row Hartop William, farmer, College farm, Walker .A.bel, tailor & shopkeeper, Cunnington &bert, Chequers P.H. Keysoe row ·Brook end farmer & dealer, Brook end Hawkins Benj. farmer, Keysoe row Walker George, farmer, The Grange Cunnington William, farmer, Brook end Hawkins Thos. beer retlr. Keysoe row '\Vhitlock Thomas, farmer & carrier, Dickins Wm. bricklayer, Keysoe row Hill John, shopkeeper, Keysoe row Church farm Farrer William, farmer, Berry fields James George, farmer, Keysoe row Wilson Wm. Hy. farmer, Keysoe row Felce .A.lfd . .Tn. farn1er, Kcysoe row James John, beer retailer &; butcher, Wise Rhoda (Mrs.), farmer, Mill hill Fisher Charles, carpenter, Keysoe row Keysoe row !Wise William, farmer, Mill lane t'isher John, carpenter, Keysoe row King Charles, farmer & threshing 'Voodward Thomas, boot & shoe ma Freeman Thos. shopkpr. Keysoe row machine proprietor, Park farm Woolston Elijah, shopkpr. Keysoe row George John, farmer, Keysoe row Matthews John, farmer KNOTTING is a village and parish, on the borders of £3oo, with residence, in the gift of Herbert R. Magniac Northamptonshire, 3 miles north from station J.P., D.L. and held since 1896 by the Rev. Francis Edward on the main line of the Midland railway, xo north from Millard Girling M.A. of Oare College, Cambridge, who Bedford, 8 south-west from Kimbulton and 4~ south­ resides .at Sonld!rop. He!N3 is a Wesleya.n Methodist south-east from Higham Ferrers, in the Northern division chapel. S. 1Vhitbread esq. of Southill Park, Biggleswade, of the county, hundred of Stodden, Sharnbrook petty is lord pf the manor and chief landowner. The soil is sessional division, union and county court district of black loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, Bedford, rural deanery of , archdeaconry of barley, beans and peas. The area is I ,739 acres; rateabie Bedford and diocese of Ely. The church of St. Margaret value, £1,332; the population in r891 was 161. is a small edifice of stone in the Norman and Early Eng­ Parish Clerk, Joseph Hodby. lish styles, with Decorated insertions, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch, chapel and a small western Letters through Bedford, via Sharnbrook, arrive at 8.30 tower containing a clock and one bell: the chancel arch a.m. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6.10 p.m. The is Norman, with zigzag mouldings: on the parapet of the nearest money order & telegraph office is at Sham­ tower is the date 16I5, and a roof beam of the nave is brook, 2 miles distant dated 166g: there are about 70 sittings. The register National School (mixed), erected by the Duke of Bedford dates from about the year 1592. The living is a rectory, in r858, ~or 46 children; average attendance, 25; Mrs. consolidated with that of , joint yearly value Louisa Leverton, mistress Belgrove Hy. G. farmer, Manor ho Robinson Wallace, farmer, The Green Campion Edward, farmer, The Green ·wiggings Thomas, shopkeeper LANGFORD is a parish and village, bounded on the with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held west by the river Ivel, 2 miles south from Biggleswade since 1871 by the Rev. Christopher Cooper Ewbank M.A. station on the main line of the Great Northern railway, of Clare College, Cambridge. Here iR a '\Yesleyan cha,pel, 4 north-east from Shefford, 9 north from Hitchin and 7 and there are charities amounting to £r4 yearly, for bread north-north-"'!:est from Baldock, in the Northern division and clothing. The Oub Hoom, erected by the late Mrs. of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union D. Brown in 1885 at a cost of about [3oo, now belongs to and county court district of Biggleswade, rural deanery Mrs. C. Wright, of Ivy Cottage. Some British mounds of Shefford, arch deaconry of Bedford and diocese of Ely. have bee-rl. discovered on the west side of the church. The church of St. .A.ndrew is an unpretending but There are here three manors : the manor of Holme with ancient building ot stone, consisting of chancel and nave Langfurd, of which the Dean and Chapter of Westminst!'r of five bays, north aisle, south porch and a south tower are lords; the manor of Langfurd Rectory, of which the containing 3 bells: there are a few ancient monuments : Hon. 1\Ir. Justice Hawkins is lord; and the manor of the church was partially restored in 1875 and was re­ Langf()lrd, of which Francis John Gurney esq. is lord. The seated in 1884 in oak: a vestry has been erected in principal landowners are the Marquess of Salisbury K.G., memory of the Rev. Henry .Addington M.A. vicar x85o-7I : P.C. Sharples, Tuke and Co. Hitchin :Bank (branch of a new organ was erected in 1885: there are 36o sittings. Barclay and Co. Limited), and Mr. C. T. Lindsell. ll'he The register dates from the year 1700. The living is a soil is chiefly gravel; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are vicarage, yearly value £265, including 104 acres of glebe, wheat, oats, barley and peas, and market garden produce.