38' BLIDLOW .. BUCKING HAM:SHIRE, [KELLl'S of Eton College are lords or the manor. The principal nave with soutb porch, and a western turret contain· landowners are Earl Carrington 1?.0., G.C:M.G. Eton Col­ ing I bell, and the church contains an organ added hy lege, J ames Britnell, Simeon Thompson and John Grange the vicar: the cost of building, with purchase of site,. esqrs. and the Messrs. Gibbons. The soil is in some parts including- burial ground and endowment, amounted to chalk loam, other parts stiff clay; subsoil, chalk, or rag­ over £4,000, and was chiefly defrayed by Mrs. Grace, stone and clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, peas of Eastbourne: there are 230 sittings. The register dates. and barley. The area is 4,II2 acres; assessable value, from the year r868. The living is a vicarage, net yearly £3,184; the civil parish includes Ridge, Pitch value £r36, with residence, in the gift of five trustees, Green, half a· mile north, Rout's Green, 2~ miles south, and held since r868 by the Rev. John Hillmer B..A.. of Forty Green, 1! north-west, Skittle Green, three-quarters Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan Metho· of~ mile north-west, and Holly Green, I north: the popu~ dist chapel, built in 1887. The area of the ecclesiastical lation in rgor was 854, including 3D in the Wycombe Union parish is 1,738 acres; the population in rgor was 354· Workhouse. Schools and of the ecclesiastical, 500. Police Station, P. C. William Dible Parish Clerk, George Avery. Parish Clerk, J onah Britnell. Sexton, Richard Piggott. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 3·5 p.m.; suns. 8.40 p.m Post Office, Bledlow. Herbert :Stratford Brazell, sub-post­ Letters arrive at 9.30 a.m. from Wallingford via Stoken­ master. Letters arrive from S. 0. church by faot post at 8. 30 a.m. ; dispatched at 4.20 p.m. & a is the nearest money order office & tele­ second dispatch via Oxford at 6.so p.m. Postal Orders graph office, about 2 miles distant are issued here, but not paid. The nearest M. 0. & Schools. T. 0. is at Princes Risborough, 3 miles distant Wall Letter Boxes.~Pitch Green, cleared 9.10 a.m. & 4·5 Elementary (mixed), , built in 1874,. & 7·5 p.m. week days only; Railway station, cleared at & enlarged in r898, for 124 children; average attend. g.ro a.m. & 4·5 & 7·5 p.m. week days only ance, 76; JDhn William Turner, master Elementary (mixed), built in r868, & enlarged in r89r, for BLEDLOW RIDGE is an ecclesiastical parish formed 135 children; average attendance, g8; Edwin J. T. in 1868 and is 3 miles south from Bledlow village, in Catton, master the rural deanery of Wycombe. The church of St. Paul, Wycombe Union (mixed), average attendance, 66; Geo. consecrated by the late Bishop of Oxford, July 13th, Harold Quint, master ; Mrs. Edith Sarah Quint, mis­ r868, is a building of flint with Bath stone facings, in tress; Miss Lilian Maud Spink, girls' industrial trainer the Early English style, and consists of chancel and Railway Station, John Wrighton, station master BLEDLOW. Gomme Edwin, jun, carpenter, Pitch tJoslin Henry C. Loxborough house Boutwood Arthur, Icknield .cottage Green Buckman Miss, Sandpits Grange John, farmer & landowner, COMMERCIAL. Catton Edwin J. T. The Gables Forty Green Lester Frederick, Ford house Heybourn Fredk. shopkpr. Statio11 rd *.A.v~ry George, farmer Pritchitt Rev. John Frede:rick Stephen Hunt James, Leathe: Bottle P.H :Br~tnell James & Sons, f~rmers R'oberts George Holm lodge Ing Thomas Fredenck, Queen P.H ,.Bntnell Jonah, beer retailer Rogers Thomas,' Holly Green KnifSht William, poultry farmer,Wood- tBrooks John, ~armer. Wright Mrs. Rosedene bme_ cottage ..,Edmonds David, cha1r turner, Yew NeweH William1 blacksmith & beer Tree cottage COMMERCIAL. reta:iler, Perry lane tEggleton Francis, farmer, Austin Herbe-rt James, paper maker Stopps Jacob, farmer, Holly green Bottom farm . (Joseph ..Austin, manager),Bledlow& Stopps William, farmer, Pitch green *Farey John, farmer, Shmnal's farm North mills (409) Stratford George William, gnl. dealer tFeasey Gemge (.Mrs-), farmer .!very James W11liam, assjstant over- Walker Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Bake- tFeasey William, farmer seer & insur. agent, Pitch Green house farm *Horwood Thos. frmr. Lodge Hill frm Avery Willaby, farmer, BreW'house fm Ward Charles, Seven Stars P.H t.James Walter, Two Brewers P.H Bowler Jesse, poultry brdr.Forty grn Webster Thomas, baker, Station road tKeen Jane (Mrs.), farmer Brazell HeTbert Stratford, grocer & White Robt. Old ThTee Crowns P.H tKeen Robt.butcher & higgler & miller Post office<, Church end Wooster Edward Lee, farmer & land- *Lutman William, farmer, Wigans fro Brooks John, farmer, Holly Green owner, Manor House farm tMonk John, farmer BurnhamGeo.poultry hreeder,Forty gn , BLEDLOW RIDGE. tNeill Albt. poultry farmer, The Firs Oarey J ames, boot maker tNewell Whitney, chair turner Oralvley .A.rthur, watercress grower, Marked *letters through Princes Ris. tRogers Charles, ,shopkeeper Mill house borough S.O. . tSeymour .A.bel, blacksmith Oummings George, beer ret.Pitch Grn Marked t letters through High Wy- tTaylor Thomas·, farmer,Pankridge fm Denton John Georg~, Red Lion P.H combe. fWard Charles Hy. Light Dragoon P.H Folley Fredk Jas. farmer, West field Marked t letters through Stoken- fWheeler Henry, farmer, Ridge farm Folley John, farmer, Manor farm church, Wallingford. tWhite Harriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper . Gomme Charles, carpente:r tHillmer Rev. John B ..A.. Vicarage

BLETCHLEY iSJ a parish, village and Tailway station a triangle sUTrounded by cherubs: the church was re~ r ·mile west from Fenny Strat.ford, r2! miles, east from 1 s-tored by Dr. Browne Willis, in 1704, at a cost or £1,345, Buckingham, 6~ s·outh from Newport Pagnell and 4G~ 1 in accordance with the prevailing taste, but quite out of from London, in the No:rthe:rn division of the connty, character with the style of the building,. in the chancel hundred, petty sessionrul division, union and county court are four early sedilia, a1J. of which, hidd&~~ by the restora~ 6istrict of Newp