DIREC rGRY I J BUCKI:KGHAMSHIRE. LOL'DWATER. 137 charity, have been thrown into a general fund, which Post, :M. 0. & T. Office.-A.ugustus Shrimpton, sub­ ie distribut~d in coal, with the exception of £3 2s. postmaster. Letters receivoo through Thame at 6 r~erved for the repair of the Dormer aisle and tomb a.m. & 12.10 p.m.; snndays, 7.ro a.m.; dispa;tched and £2 for a court dinner. Denman's charity, con· at ro.2o a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sunday;;, 12.30 p.m sisting of the rent Buckingham, and Ermengarde, hi!! wife, in the year p.m. Long Crendon, r mile distant, is the nearest u62, for canon!! of the Order of St. Augustine: the estate money order office & Chilt-on the nea.rest telegraph has been for three generations in the possession of the office Reynolds family, who still reside there. The Old Court Wall Letter Boxes.-Commercial square, cleared ro. 15 House, standing near the church, is a timber-framed a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 12.30 p.m.; Bottom of structure resting upon a low stone wall and dating from Carter's lane, cleared 8.15 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sundays, the 14th century. The house was at one time known as 12.30 p.m "Staple Hall," its original use having probably been that of a wool store. The Manorial Courts appear to have LONG CRENDON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. been held here from 1422. The lordship of the manor wa.<; till lately shared by three owners, viz.-the Meets at the Board Room of the Workhouse, Thame, on Ecclesiastical Commissioners, .All Sou:ls. College, OxfGrd, Thursday after the last Board of Guardians' meeting in and Lady Kinloss, but in rgoo the triple ownership of each month, at II-3° a.m the CAmrt House terminated, when it was purchased by The parishes in the district are :-Brill, Chilton, Cren- the National Trust in a •ery dilapidated condition, at a don (Long), Dorton, Ickford, Oakley, Shabbington. cost of about £400: the building has since been made Towersey, Worminghall. The are·a is 21,262 acres; habitable and let to a tenant. The long room on the first rateable vaJ.ue, Lady Day, rgn, £25,295 ; the popu- f!oor, in which the courts were held, is still retained by the lation in I9I I was 4,235 Trust, and the courts which had been discontinued are Chairman, H. Dodwell now held there occasionally. Herbert DGdwell esq. is Clerk, William Parker, r6 Corn market, Thame lord of the manor of LGng Crendon, the manGrial Treasurer, C. Pigott, London & County Bank, .Aylesbury business being transacted by the courts of the other Medical Officer of Health, Waiter Biggar Bannerman manors. The old manor house, now occupied by :M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Oxford road, High

Herbert Dodwe!:l esq. at the extreme west end of the 1 Wycombe village, is of the Tudor period, with the exception of Highway Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, A.rthur J. Webh the kitchen and the entrance arch, which date back to the qth century. Waiter Giffard, Earl of Longueville County Police, High stre-et, Wil!iam Wright, constable and Buckingham (ob. no2), built a castle at Crendon. of which he was lord. Courts leet and baron are held .A.sodstant Overseer, George Bassett annually on the Thursday in Whitsun week by the fir~t Schools. three, each takinf5 the third year alternately. Herbert • Do dwell esq. H. Reynolds esq. .All Souls College, Oxford, Elementary, erected with master's house in 1877, at a and Stone's trustees are the chief landowners. The soil cost of about £2,500; it will hold 234 children~ is pa.rtly lrmm and clay; ombsoil, clav and partly sand. avera~e a-ttendance, I6o; Matthew Maughan, master ').'he chief crops are wheat, barley and beans ; clover is Infants' School, built in rBgB, for 130 children; aver­ lar!!ely g-T'Own: the land is about equally divided be· age attendance, 70; Miss Sarah A.. Junes, mistress tween arable and pasture. The area is 3··34I acres of Carriers. land and 7 of water; rateable value, £4,632; the popu· Thomas Hudson, jun. wed. & sat. to Oxford ~ation in r90r was r,o75. Harry Wright, w Thame, tues. & fri.; to .A.ylesbur~. Sexton, George Mortemore. wed. & sat. Both carriers return the same day PRIV A TR RESTDRNTS. Crook Cozens, farmer, Madge's farm :Messer Henry, cowkeeper Buckman Sydney Savory, .Southfield, Crook Harry, mealman Mortemore George, thatcher Thame road Ci'1·nok Herbt. farmer, Warwick farm Nappin Henry, coal dealer Burrows Col. Edmund .Augustine Dodwell ErnestA farmer, W{)()dway fm Pax ton A. Charles, saddler R.F ..!., C.M.G., J.P. Manor house Dodwell Henry William, grocer Pearce Frederick, baker Cooper Rev. Jas. Lewitt (Baptist) Dodwell John Christopher, farmer Pearce Herbert, coal dealer Dodwell Herbert, J.P. The Manor Dodwell Louis, farmer, College farm Pearce Herbert, wheelwright E!well Rev. Edward Simeon D.D. Dodwell Owen William, baker Pullen William George, boot make:r Vicarage Dunkin George, shopkeeper Ray Thomas A.lbert, baker Gomme Sir George Laurence F.S.A., Elton George, butcher Reynolds Henry, farmer & landowner. F.S.S. The Mound Flower Show (Georg-e Bassett, sec) Notley abbey Reyno;ds Henry, N otley Abbey Binton Harriett (Miss), beer retailer Rose Francis William, grocer

Revnolds• Mrs. Dorcas, Notlev• villa Holland Thomas, .Angel P.H Saw 'Mary (.Mrs.) & Son, farmers Woodcock BurtonEdwin,The White ha Holvfield Henry, miller, Notley mill' Shrimpton Albert Richard, musical CO!BIERCIA I,. (letters received direct fromThame) instrument dealer Anderson Harry, hair dresser Hudson Thomas, beer retailer Shrimpton Thomas, shopkeeper Arnott Maria (.:VIrs. ), b~acksmith Hudson Thomas, jun. carrier Shrimpton William, painter Betts John, g-rocer & baker Humphreys Charles, farm bailiff to Simmonds George, beer retailer Bird Henry, Star mn Herbert Dod"'ell esq Smith Willium, Crown inn Blane Albrrt, builder Kingswell Alfred, Eight Bells P.H Timms Herbert, blacksmith Briscoe Gains John, boot & shoe Lawrence Alfred, chimney sweeper Walker Robert, farm bailiff to Fredk. maker, Rose cottage Lecture Hall (Albert R. Shrimpton, Burrow esq. Mead farm Brooks John, beer retailer acting trustee) Ward Charles, Churchill .Arms P.H Brown Jas farmer, Bigmarsh farm Lovell Benj.Rising Sun P.H.Easingtn White Thomas, butcher Burrow Fredk. E. farmer, Mead farm Maslen Helen (Miss), clerk to Long Williams Alice (Mn.), dress maker Conservative Club (William Henry Crendon sub-committee vf Bucks Wilson William John, builder Danrer, sec) Local Pension Committee Wright Harry, beer retailer & carrie:r LONGWICK, see Princes Risborough. LOOSLEY ROW, see Lacey Green.

LOUDWATER is a villa~e and ecclesiastical parish, Oct. 17th, rBrB, the further sum of £400 toward!'> the formed in I866, and is on the road from London to endowment of the living: the church now consists of Oxford and on the river Wick, with a station on the nave, a chancel, added in 1903, and a small turret, Wycombe, Aylesbury and Thame branch of the Great surmounted by a vane and containing one bell: the West~rn railway, 26 miles from London, 2~ mile-s s-outh­ entrance is at the wes,t end : the font was presented by east from High Wycombe, 7 north from Maidtmhead R G. Rennell esq. in I 866 : there a.~e 400 si ttings, 25 o and < west from Beaconsfield, in the Southern di,,ision being free. The register dat-es from the year 1866. of the county, hundred of Desborough, 2nd division of The living is a vicarage, net yearly va:lne £248, with DesbQrough petty se;;sional division, union and countv residenoo, in the gift of trustees, and held since rgro con•t cJi-;triot of Hig-h Wycomhe, archdeaconry of by the Rev. Henry Beauchamp St. John. There is a Buckingham, rural deanery of Wycombe and di-ocese Wesleyan chapel, seating about 300; and a Tempe:ranc~ of Oxford. The church of St. Peter is a structure of hall, seating about 200, at Flackwell Heath, and a Bap· brick. erected in 1788 and endowed with the sum of ti~t chapel at Loudwater, seating rso. From FLACK­ [.1,200 by William Davis esq. who left, at his death, WELL HEATH, a portion of which is in this parish,