DIRECTORY. J . EA TON SOCON. lOl Treasurer, Theodore Bromhead Bassett, BarcJay & Corn- Public Elementary School (originally Wesleyan) (mixed pany's Bank, Leighton Buzzard & infants), enlarged in 1861, for 250 children; there Medical Officer of Health, Thomas Bernard Stedman is a house for the master; William Peters Paddock M.D.Lond., D.P.H.Camb., M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. A.C.P. master; ~iss E. Whitehouse, infants' mistress Land. 23 North street, Leighton Buzzard Carriers.-J effrey Tearle, to Leighton Buzzard, tues. & to Dunstable, wed. & sat.; James Charles Sanders, to Surveyor & Inspector of :Nuisances, vacant Luton, mon. tues. & fri Sharrett Jeffery, Yew Tree farm Edwins Thomas, shopkeeper, High st Osborn Jesse, poultry dlr. School la Button Rev. Edwin M.A. Vicarage Fountain Sydney, marine store dealr. Pearson Chas. shopkeeper, Moor End COMMERCIAL. School lane Pears on Mary (Miss), sliwpkeeper, Early closing day, Thursday. Frisby Harriett (Mrs.), apartments, Summerleys Archer Jeffrey, fruit grower, The, Summcrleys Puddifoot George, shopkccper,High st Green Gadsden James, shopkeeper,The Rye Roberts Arthur Richard, farmer Batchelar Gaius&John,frmrs.Park fm · Gadsden Thomas, shopkeeper,High st Roberts Wm. J. shopkeeper, High st Bates Fred, farmer, Moor End farm Gadsden William Ellingham, hay & Roe Albert, butcher, High street Bates George, carpenter, :Moor End straw dealer, The Rye Rollings Wm. beer retailer, Bower la Bates Hannah (Mrs.), dress maker, GeorgP. Kate Elizabe~h (Mrs.), grocer, Rootham Waiter, cycle repr.Moor End Moor End High street Ruffett Emma (Mrs.), farmer Bird Ar~hur, farmer George Thomas Parry, surveyor & Sanders Jas. Chas. egg mer.& carrier Brinklow Jeffrey, baker, Pm;t office tax collector, High ~treet Seaton Charles, Plough P.H Brooks George Arthur, wheelwright : Gibbs Albert, Five Bells inn Sharrett J effery & Sons, builders, con- Brown Clara Louisa (Miss), registrar i Groom David, wheelwright, Moor End tractors,house decorators & farmers of births & deaths for Edlesborough Groom William, wheelwright Sharrett Thos.farmer,ValenceEnd fm sub-district Gurney Francis, shopkeeper Simmons William, miller (water) BrowR George, blacl•smith Hawkins Fredk. beer retlr. Bower la Tearle Frederick, egg mer. Vine cot Brown Priscilla (Mis;;), stationer Hazzard David, hay & straw dealer, Tearle" Jeffrey, carrier Bnnker Jas. miller (steam & water), Moor End Tearle Nathaniel, dairyman ~Ioor End , Heley Wm. Jas. boot maklH,Moor End Tearle Wm. shopkf~r. Sumfnerleys Chanin William George, baker Higgs Sidney, harness maker Thorn Jabez, butcher Cemetery (John Wood Mallett, clerk. Holmes David, farmer, Moor End Thorn William, harness ma. High st to Parish Council) Howe Henry, coal dealer, Moor End Thorne Alfred, flour & corn merchnt Clinton Thomas, White Horse inn Knight Jas. shopkeeper, Bower lane Tompkins Ezra,fruit grwr. Moor End Deverell Thos. Jsph. brewers' agent Mclntyre Hugh, beer retlr. High st Tompkins Gains, duck brdr.School la

Durrant Leonard, Chequers inn, Moor i Mallett John Wood, assistant overseer Wallace 1-Vm. Edmd .florist, Poplar fm End : & clerk to Parish Council Wildman David, bricklayer, High st Eaton Bray Reading Room & Coffee! ~eville John, tailor, Northall road Wood John, egg merchant, High st Tavern (Henry Thurgood,manager), Newman Charles, baker, Sumrnerley~ Wood William, duck breeder, High st High street Nicholls William, shopkeepr. High st is an extensive parish, on the some mounds of earth wchere a castle i!! said to have borders of , and the Grea1; North roacf stood. Frank Day esq. M.A. who is lord of the manor, which passes through the village; the navigable river William Hul,!"h Wade-Gery esq. Arthur John Thornhill Ouse, flowing on the east, divides this parish from St. esq. and Miss Fanny Squire are the. principal land­ Neots, and is crossed at Eaton FoTd by a stone bridge owners. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, gravel in most of three arches, built in 1589 from the ruins Df the parts of the pariih; the remainder i;; mixed and subsoil. PrioTy of St. Neots, and connecting this county with clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. Huntingdonshire. The parish is in the Northern divi- The area is 7,557 acres of land, a great part being sion of the county, · petty sessional division, cultivated by market gardeners, and 45 of water; rate­ hundred of Barford, union and county court district of able value, £I2,029. This parish contains 27 miles or St. ~eots, rural deanery of Eaton, Bedford archdeaconry road. The population in 19II was, including 14 officers and St. Albans diocese; the village is 2~ miles west and 104 inmates in St. Neots workhouse, 2,319. from St. N~ots station on the main line of the Great , 3 miles west-by-south; Eushmead, 4 west- ~ orthern railway, r r north-east from Bedford, ro south- b th C h l. th D 1 l. th E t west from Huntingdon and 55 from London by road. y-nor ; ross 8 11 • 1 ~ nor ; u oe, 12 nor ; a on Part Df the parish has been lighted since I 893 by oil Ford, I north-by-east; , 2 west; , 2 lamps the expense being defraved by subscriptions. north-west; , 2 north-west and , The church of St. Mary is a noble edifice of the Per- I~ so~th-w~~t,_ ~re :am~ets. pendoicular peri