172 TOWERSEY, . [KELLY's living is a vicarage, net yearly value £85, including 57 acres The soil is strong loam; subsoil, clay, gravel and limestone. of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley, clover and grasses., W. B. Slater M.D. and held since 1885 by the Rev. Robert and there is much pasture land. The area is 1,378 acres ~ Pargiter. The Baptist chapel, erected in 1837, will seat 100 assessable value, £2,055; the population in 1901 was 305. persons. The charities include one of about £25 yearly, left Sexton, William Williams. by Mr. Christopher Deane, for apprenticing poor boys and for Post Office.-John Bowden, sub-postmaster. Letters are elementary education ; another of £5 a year for the vicar of received from Thame by foot messenger at 7.30 a.m. ; the parish, and one left by Dame Catherine Pye, of Bradden­ dispatched at 6 p.m. ; sundays arrive 7.30 a. m.; dispatched ham, Bucks, for the benefit of Towersey and four other parishes, 10.15 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. and consisting of the rent of a farm in this parish, which is The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Thame~ expended in providing elementary education and in doles 2 miles distant given to poor widows. Towersey Manor, the property of J. W. Griffin esq. and residence of the Hon. Paulyn Francis Elementary School, built in 1848 & supported in part by a. Cuthbert Rawdon-Hastings J.P. is a handsome building in moiety of the rent of Quash farm, left by the late Dame the Italian style, pleasantly seated in well-kept grounds. Catherine Pye to five parishes, for the education of the poor~ James Whitehouse Griffin esq. who is lord of the manor, & also, under a scheme of the Commissioners, by a moiety Philip James Dig by Wykeham esq. of Tythrop House, Thame, of the late C. Deane's charity; the school will hold 84 chil- and Thomas Alfred Grange esq. are the chief landowners. dren; average attendance, 60; Miss Violet L. Gibbs, mist Fielding Harry, The Walnuts Biggs Raymond & Samuel, farmers North William, farmer Griffin James Whitehouse J.P Bowden John, assist. overseer, Post office Pollicut James, Black Horse P.H Grange Thomas Alfred, Westbrook Collins Alfred, White Hart P.H Rose George Pitt, Three Horse Shoes P.H Pargiter Rev. Robert, Vicarage Copcutt J oseph & J esse, farmers, Deans fm Saunders John, farmer Rawdon-Hastings Hon. Paulyn Francis Gomme George, farmer & carpenter Stevens Edward, farmer, Quash farm Cuthbert J.P. Towersey manor Grange Thomas Alfred, fa.rmer, Westbrook White Henry, dairy farmer J ackman Thomas, gamekeeper to J ames White Herbert, dairy farmer COMMERCIAL. Whitehouse Griffin esq. J.P. Pen farm Williams William, boot maker & Hexton Andrews William, farmer, Grange farm King Edmund Thomas, baker & grocer Wright George, farmer & coal dealer Baverstock Thomas, farmer, Manor farm North Jane (Mrs.), farmer (anciently called Turfield) is a parish and charity consists of the interest of £40, and is for church ex­ village on the border, lying among the Chiltern penses; Bartlett's, the interest of £500, is for the church. Hills, 7 miles north from Henley terminal station on a branch school; Beisley's charity of 1896 produces an annual income­ of the Great Western railway, and about 6 south-west from of £18 14s. 8d. which is distributed in coals. Turville Park. station on the Maidenhead and Oxford section the seat of Stafford O'Brien Hoareesq. D.L.,J.P. is a place of of the same line, 7! west-by-south from High Wycombe historic interest: the mansion is an ancient and picturesque and 7 north-west from Marlow, in the Southern division of the building seated on an eminence and commanding extensive­ county, Desborough hundred, 1st division of Desborough views of the surrounding country; it was formerly the resi­ petty sessional division, union and county court district J deuce of the late Lord Lyndhurst and was built by William of Wycombe, rural deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry Perry esq. of W0rmington, Glos. who married about 1653~ of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford ; part of the Elizabeth, second daughter of Col. Thomas Sydney, and even­ village is in parish. The chureh of St. Mary is tual sole heiress of the Sydneys, Earls of Leicester. Turville­ a small building in the Early English and Decorated styles, Court, the residence of Miss Hewitt, is a plain brick building with a Perpendicular tower, and containing some traces standing on an eminence, commanding a fine view of the sur­ of Norman work: it consists of chancel, nave, north transept, rounding country. Lord Camoys, S. O'B. Hoare esq. T. W. G­ south porch and an ivy-clad tower, built of flint and contain- Hewitt esq. of Weelsby Old Hall, Grimsby, and Richard L. Ovey ing 4 bells: attached to the church is a private aisle belonging esq. of Badgemore, Henley-on-Thames, are lords of the manor to the Turville Park estate, the pews in which are occupied and principal landowners. The soil is chalk and gravel ;. by Stafford O'Brien Hoare esq. and his family : the east subsoil, light in the valley. The chief crops are wheat, barley window is stained, and there is a good Norman font, and several and oats. The area is 2,200 acres; assessable value, £1,667 ; mural monuments in the transept to the Sydney, East, Butlin, the population in 1901 was 371. · King and Perry families; the organ was presented by Stafford Sexton and Parish Clerk, John Sewell. ~'Brien Hoare ~sq." of Turville Park: the church w~s ~estored Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B .. & A. & I. 0. m 1722 and agam m 1876, at a cost_of.£150, and aga~n m 1900 Turville Heath.-Miss Kate Nash, sub-postmistress. Let- at a cost of £1,800, and affords 225 stttmgs. Th~ r~gtster d!l'tes ters received from Henley at 8.50 a.m. ; dispatched at from the year 1582; but about 40 years are mtssm~ ~reVI_ous 5.15 p.m.; sundays 11 a.m t~ 1660, and there are several o.ther ~aps. The bVIng IS a Wall Letter Box, in Village, cleared at 5.50 p.m.; sundays,. 'VlCarage, net yearly value £90, mcluding 40 acres of glebe, 10 15 p m with residence, in the alternate gifts ofT. W. G. Hewitt esq. Wall. Lett~r Box North End cleared at 4 50 pm. sundays~ Lord Camoys and Richard L. Ovey esq. and held since 1897 10 15 a m ' ' · · ., by the Rev. Michael Graves B.D. of the University of Durham. · ' Schools. The church of St. Saviour, in Turville Park, erected in 1898 on a site presented by S. O'B. Hoate esq. D.L., J.P. is an edifice Elementary, North End, built in 1861, for 80 children; aver­ of flint in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave, age attendance, 52 ; Stephen George Long, master and affords 120 sittings. At Turville Heath is a Primitive Elementary, Village (mixed), built in 1873, for 50 children; Methodist chapel, erected in 1872. Rool's charity produces average attendance, 39 ; Mrs. Emma Ayres, mistress £8 yearly, and there is also a charity of £1,100 bequeathed Carrier to Henley.-Edwin Almond, thurs. 9.30 a.m. re­ by Miss Tempera in 1885, the interest. of which is for the main­ turning same day; to Wycombe, Harry White, fri. return­ tenance of the church and for the poor of the parish. Butlin' s ing same day Constable Mrs. Turville Heath Bartlett Robert John, chair turner, Hughes Edwin, farmer, Balhams farm Donald Joseph Hayes, The Grange, Heath North end Hughes Thomas, farmer, Rose farm Thomas, White house, Heat.h Bartlett James, farmer, North end Lane Thomas Hampton, grocer & Graves Rev. Miehae! B.D. Vicarage Bartlett John, chair turner, North end assistant overseer, North end Hewitt :Miss, Turville court Carpenter Henrietta (Mrs.), beer retailer Langford James, beer retailer, North end Hoare Stafford O'Brien D.L., J.P. Turville Clark George, farm bailiff to R. L. Ovey Nash Catherine (1\irs.), farmer, Turvill~ park; Junior Carlton & Hurlingham esq. Kimble Valley farm clubs, London Dell Jesse, chair turner Pieroy Albert, farmer, Dolsden farm Law Arnold William, White ho. North end Dent Matthew, shopkeeper Pitcher William, builder, North end Morrison Mrs. The Hut, North end Dixon Wm. White Hart P.H. North end RockallSaml. chairt.urner,Summersheath Quarry .Miss, Heath cottage Frost Fredk. T. farmer, North end Sherville Richard, Bull P.H COMMERCIAL. Harman Erlwin, farmer, Turville heath Simmons Joseph, farmer, South end Almond Edwin, farmer & carrier, Rosefrm Hatfield Waiter, Drover P.H. & shop- Webb Frederick, chair turner Ayres Robert, chair turner keeper, South end White Harry, chair turner, carrier & Ayres William, chair turner Hawkes George, shoe maker shopkeeper TURWESTON is a parish on the river Ouse, which here of St. Mary the Virgin, erected in 1694, is a building of stone,. divides the county from Northamptonshire, half a mile north consisting of chancel with aisle, clerestoried nave, aisles, south from Brackley station on the Great Central railway, 2 miles porch and a western tower with saddle-back roof, containing­ north from Brackley station on the Bletchley and Banbury line 2 bells ; the piers and arches of the north arcade are very of the London and North Western railway, 7! north-west good Norman, with a variety of enriched capitals; those of from Buckingham and 63 from London, in the Northern the south arcade are Early Decorated : in the chancel is a piscina. division of the county, hundred and petty sessional and Easter sepulchre, both of the same period: the east. division of Buckingham, union and county court district of window is Perpendicular: there is a brass effigy of a priest,. Brackley, and in the rural deanery of Buckingham and arch- c. 1450, inscription lost, and a small brass to Thomas Grene deaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church and his wives, Joan and Agnes, c. 1490: the church was