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Clarke William, farmer Thorp.e G~o.. cQlljqtor of rl}tes & taxes & Bisbopston.e. CokeI' Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer farmer, Little~orth Bishop Thomas, farmer Harris John.boot maker Ward George, Bugle Horn (larter Elijah, shopkeeper & baker Miles Samuel, farmer, Hartwell end Washington Charles, shopkeeper Crook Cozens, farmer Raban William, miller j & Haydon mill, Washington Geprge, County Arms, & Eames Thomas, blacksmith Hartwell market gardener Ing J oseph, farmer Roads Francis, farmer, Stone Hill farm Washington Richard, market gardener Miles RlChd.Han'ow, &marketgardener Seaton Thos. Richd. farmer, Stone farm &; beer retailer Plested James, wheelwright Sherman William Henry, house steward Woodford Frederfck Horwood, bu,tcher lThorne Thomas, farmer,Standa.Is &clerk of county lunatic asylum Woodford George, farmer, Vicarage frm Woodruff William, blacksmith

STONY STRATFORD is l\ sman market town and a gregational chapel was founded in '1:808 and -the 'present polling place for the county, on the chapel in road was built in I 823,and the Wesleyans border of the county, comprising the united parishes of St. have one erected In 1844. The Cemetery of one acre, formed Giles and St. Mary Magdalene, 8 miles north-east from at the expense of the parishioners in 1856, is sitqated at Ca,l­ nnckin~ham, 6 south-west from Newport Pagnell, I~ west verton End; the entrance is through a Iych-gate and there from Woh-erton station and 54~ from by rail and are two elegant Gothic mortuary chapels. A County Police SI by road; it is in the hundred of Newport, union of Pot- Court was erected in 1865 of red brick and stone in the terspury, county court district of Newport Pagnell, rural middle of the Market square and the petty sessions are h~ld deanery and archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of by the county magistrates every alternate Friday. The Oxford. The town mainly consists of one long street and market is held on Friday for corn: the fairs take place on the Market square and is built on theold Roman road oalled August 2, the Friday following October 10 and the firstfri­ Watling street, which passes. through this county in a direct day in No\T.ember; the first and last for cattle and the second line from Little Brickhill. At the west end of the town and for hiring servants. The engineering establishment of ~r. E. 'lonnecting it with Old Stratford, in Northamptonshire, js, a Hayes, known as the Watling Works, at the south end of handsome stone bridge of three arches spannin2' the river the town, is occupied principally in building small steam ()use. This town is supposed to have been the Lactodorum launches and tugs A weekly newspaper, "The North Bucks ()f the Romans; a Roman urn and a number of Roman coins .Advertiser/' is published here on Friday. Tbe Provident have been discovered here. King Edward IV. appears to Dispensary, Calverton End, was established in 1866 i the have gone from this place to Grafton in 1464 to marry average number of patients are 3,000. A small cottage hos­ Elizabeth Woodville; the oak, under which tradition says pital was opened on the Green in 1871, in the same building they first met, is still standing and is known as the Queen's in which the Provident dispensary is conducted. 'fhel'e are Oak. At an inn also in this town slept the unfortunate charities left by John Whalley of Cosgrove in I679 and by young prince Edward V. on his journey to London to be Arnold of Furtho about 1689 for the apprenticing of boys, to .crowned, to which circumstance Shakespeare alludes in his the amount of £300 yearly; also the Bridge and Street tragedy of Richard IlL, Act 2, Scene 4:- charity o( 140 acres, producing £200 yearly, for lighting, Archbishop--'" p~ving, and cleansing the town: also the Bradwell charity " Last night, I heard, they lay at , Ileft by Simon Bennett of Beachampton, of £80 devoted to And at Northampton do they rest to-night: this place, Beachampton ~nd Calverton, given in clothing to To-morrow. or next day, they will be here." old men: John OliveI', of Stony Stratford, by wil~, 1856, left One of the memoria~ crosses to Eleanor, queen ot Edward I. £500 invested in Consols, realizing £16 per annum, g-h'en :stood at the western end of the town, but was demolished in money to 10 men and IQ women; also Whitnell's, derived about 1646 during the turbulent times of Charles 1. In from land, realizmg £20 per annum. given in bread weekly I742 an accidental fire destroyed a large portion of the town William Selby-Lowndes esq. is lord of the manor (west side) and part of the church of St. Mary Magdalene, the tower pf and the Radcliffe trustees are lords of the east side, The -which alone remains; it has a saddle-back roof and is con- area of Stony Stratf~rd is 70 acres; rateable value, £5,019, sidered a particularly good specimen of the Perpendicular viz. east side, £2,295, west side. £2.724; and its population style. The church of St. Giles. <>riginally a chantry chapel, in 1881 was, east side, 727, west 8id~ 1,21(i" making ~ total of was founded Ilbout 1450, the tower, which is in the Perpen- 1,943' 'l1icular style, and contains a peal of 6 modern bells, being the Parish Clerk. John Johnsoq. ~nly part of the original structure which remains; the Sexton, William Seweil, remainder of the church WiJ,S rebuilt in the year 1776. it CALVERTON END, in Calverton parish, s\tuated at the -was reseated in 1866; the plaster ceiling is groined and is south·east extremity of the town, comprising some good "ilia ~pported by eight clustered columns of iron, cased in wood i residences, and WOLVERTON END, in Wolvert<>n parish, fonn the interior was thoroughlr restored in 1876, new side important additions to the town of Stony Stratford,. Wol. galleries replacing the heavy old ones, the groined ceiling verton End is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1870 front and pillars decorated, and by the erection of a pitch pine the civil parishes of Wolverton and Calverto,n; tbe ('hurch $Creen, a chancel and choir were fonned out of the church, named St. Mary the Virgin, was erected and opened in 1861 ; Olsting £1,600: there are two memorial windows to pre- it is of stone, in the Early English style, after a design by the 'ViOIlS vicars, that in the south to the Rev. W. T. Sankey and late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A.: it has apsidal chancel, na,'e -that in the north choir to the Rev. George William Corker with arcades of five arches and aisles; the north aisle was and Lady Corker. The register dates from the year 1613. added in r867; the cost was chiefly defrayed by the Rev. W. 'The livings of the two parishes are united and form a vicar- P. Trevelyan. Lady Mary Rllssell and the Radcliffe trustees. ~e, yearly value £235 with residence and 6 acres of land, The register for- baptisms dates from the year 18640 for 10 the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held, since 1880, by marriages 1867, and deaths 1871. The living is a "icarllge, 1he Rev. John Mocre Lester M.A. of University College, Ox- endowed with £200 yearly, in the gift of the Radcliffe trus­ ford. The vicarage house is a ha.ndsome building of stone tees and held ~mce 1872 by the Rev. Armine Wale Moun­ -:and brick, standing at the foot of ~ew street. The Baptist tain M.A. of University ColIe~e, Oxford. There is a vicara~e ~hapel which dates its origin as early as the year 1625) house, corresponding in architecture with the church. The was enlarged jn J823 and subsequently in 186o, The Con- area is 330 acres. Official Establishments;, Local Institutions &c. POST, MoNEY ORDER & TEI.EGRAPU OFFICE, Savings Bank & Lord Penrhyn, Wicken park, Stony Stratford Government Annuity &Insurance Office, High street.- Rev. Richard Norris Russell M.A. The. Grange, Chalfont St Samuel CalIadine, postmaster. Letters are dispatched :- Peter, Slough Local post, 6 a.m.; London, 7.30 a.m.; London, South & Edward Hanslope Watts esq.Hanslope park, StonyStratford Kewport PagnelI,. 10,30 a.m.; London & East & South, Clerk tQ tlte Magis.trates, EdwardSwinfen Harris, High st 2.20 p.m..; London & all parts, 8.30 p.m,. The delivery Petty Sessions are held at the Police Court, Market square, commen< es-from London & all parts at ~ & I I.3~ a.m: & every alternate friday. The division comprises thefollowing 6 p.m. Money orders ~re granted & paId, at thiS Qilic@ plac~s :-(In Bucks), Beachampton, Bmdwell Abbey, Cal- from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. relegrams 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. verton, Castle Thorpe, Loughton, Shenley Brookend & CoUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR STONY STRATFORD PETTY I Shenley Churchend, Stony Stratford East &: Stony Strat- SESSIONAL DIVISION. . 1 ford West & Wolverton. (In North;lmpton) Alderton, 1) k G k ~ P lod S S f d Ashton, Cosgrove, Furtho, Grafton Regis, Hartwell, n e of ~fton X.G. "':a e.... e.... g-~, tony drat or Passenham Pottersnury Wicken & Yardley Gobion ~~1' RIchard HarrlSon ~q, WpJverton J;lOuse, Ston~ ',r , Stratford - INSURANC~ AGENTS:~ .J. Christopher Mansel esq. C()ggrov~ hall, Stony Stratford .Brit/Ilh Empire JIutual Life, A. A. Cosford, High street