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60 BOXMOOR • HERTFORDSHIRE. • :BOXMOOR is a "t"'illage on the road from London to 1889: the church was enlarged in 1893 at a cost of Aylesbury, and was formed into an ecclesiastical district £x,ooo, and now affords 850 sittings. The register dates A.pril 19, 1844• from the civil parish of Hemel Hemp- from the year 1820. The living is a vicarage, net yearly stead; it has a station on the London and North Western value £164, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of railway, ~~ miles south from Hemel Hempstead, 7 west Hemel Hempstead, and held since 1865 by the Rev. Alfd. from St. .Albans and 24i from London, and is in the Cornelius Richings M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge-, • ".est ern division of the county, Dacorum hundred, and and surrogate. The Catholic chapel is in St. John's road • petty sessional division, St. Albans county court The Baptist chapel has 500 sittings, and there is also a district, and in the rural deanery, archdeaconry Primitive Methodist chapel. The Public Hall, St. John'$ · and diocese of St. Albans. Boxmoor is managed by road, Boxmoor, was erected in 1889-90 at a total cost, trustees appoin,ed under the Act, 49 Geo. m, c. 169, in including fittings, of about £1,300, derived from funds 1809: there are now 10 trustees (life govert;~ors), and produced by the annual surplus of Boxmoor, and voted ihe trust produces a net fund of over £400 yearly, for this purpose about 12 years since at the annual derived from rents of houses, wharf &c.; the balance vestry: the building is of grey and red brick and Batu after meeting the expenses of the trust is voted to c;tone in the Flemish style of the 17th century, from different objects by the inhabitants of Hemel Hempstead designs by Mr. W. A. Fisher, architect, of Hemel Hemp and Bovingdon, respectively, in vestry assembled in the stead: on the ground floor is a reading and recreation proportions of three-fourths to Hemel Hempstead parish room, with lavatories &c. : the upper storey consists of and one-fourth to Bovingdon. In 1885 the trustees a public assembly room 50 by 25 feet, with permanen~ purchased Rough Down, New Green and Shothanger stage and three retiring rooms. The area of the dis- ~ Commons bounding the moor, and comprising together trict is 2,ooo acres; and the population in 1891 was 4,210. about 261 acres, and held therewith for the use and Parish Clerk, F. Rogers. recreation of the inhabitants of the parish. The church Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery. of St. John the Evangelist, rebuilt and consecrated in Parcel Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, 1874, is an edifice o~ stone with dressings of Bath st<Jne, Boxmoor. John Toms, sub·postmaster. Letters ar- in the Early English style, erected at a cost of £ 4,aoo, rh·e from Hemel Hempstead at 5·45 & 10 a.m. & 4.15 from designs by Mr. NOI'lllan Shaw, architect, and con- p.m.; dispatched at 10 & 1r.4o a.m. 2.45, 7 & 9·45 sists of chancel with aisles, nave of six bays, aisles, p.m. ; on sunday all letters leave for Hemel Hemp- north and south porches, and a turret at the west end stead at 7.30 p.m containing <Jne bell: the east window, erected 1868, is a National School, Boxmoor (boys, girls & infants), erected memorial to the late Rev. Thomas White and Miss .Anne in 1841 & enlarged in xBBo, for 156 boys, 140 girls & White, fm'lllerly of The Lawn and Corner Hall, who were 120 infants ; average attendance, 125 boys, 95 girls &. eo-founders of this chureh : there are others to the 95 infants ; Francis St. John Badcock, master; Miss wife of the present vicar, d. 27 June, 1885, and Mr. Kate Seabrook, mistress; Miss Katherine Edgar, in- · Thomas 1Yoodman, 29 years churehwarden, d. 28 Feb. fants' mistress PRIVATE BESIDENTS. Ga:rdner Henry G. N. Ash:eigh, 10wen William, 3 Roughdown villas Green End road Parker Mrs. Haston cot.Green End rd Barker Mrs. 4 Roughdown villas George Mrs. 108 St. John's road Parnell Rev. Claude William B.A. Bartram Chas.Greenfield,St.John's rd Ginger Waiter Willis, Green End road (curate), Green Park road Bayley Mrs. Morella cottage, Kings- Hall Percy, Holly grove Peel Wm. Aug. Gravel hill, Green end land road Hardy Rev. Henry James M.A.. (Catho- Pearson John Heath, Stoneyhurst~ Blamire Jn. Pury lo. St. John's road lie), 42 St. John's road Green End road Braxton Mrs. Moorland road Hartley John Charles, Hillside, Pott Frank, The Cabin, Green End rd Buxton Dudley M.D. Yew Tree house, Green End road Richings Rev. Alfred Cornelius M.A. Fishery road Hunt Arthur Hamond, The Fishery (vicar), Vicarage Byass Robert William, Belgrave house Jackson Waiter John, Springdale Richings .Alfred Richard Cornelius, Catling James, Ivy house, London rd Jolliffe John Willi.am, 43 St. John's rd Moorland cottage, Green End road Chennell Robert, The Laurels, Judge Edwd. Oakleigh, Green End rd Robinson John Wadham M.D. Green Green End road Lock wood Henry, Kingsland road End road Cloutman Alfred, Southridge Makgill Geo. Thornleigh,Green End rd Rose John William, 34 St. John's road ' Colliver Frederick P. Chauldron house Marnham John J.P. The Hollies Sansom Charles, Holly Bush house Downing Henry Bourne, Apna villa Master'lllan Henry Chauncy, Rough- Scantlebury Arthur John, Wilton lodge- Evetts Wm. Charles, 3 St. John's rd down Tillas Trotman Ham]ton K. The Firs, Eyre George Ridgway, Moorland road Maynard Rev. Henry Martin M.A. Green end Flatt Rev. Frederick Joseph (Bapt:.st), (curate), Horsecroft road Twyman Chas. Hi:Iside, Green End rd The Manse, St. John's road Micklim Nathaniel J.P. Northr:.dge TysonDudley,Springdale,Green End r({ • Flint Geo. Gilham, Green End house Mutton Waiter, St. John's road West Alfred, Juan vil. Fishery road Forty William Henry, Woodlands Nathan Nathaniel, The Chestnuts Wrey Mrs. Woodlands house Freeman Mrs. 6 Roughdown villas Naunton George Herbert, Park hill COJDIERCIA.L. Hall J esse, beer retailer, .Anchor lane .Andrews Charles James, grocer, St. John's road Harding John, rope & twine maker .Austin Bros. grocers & corn dealers, 1 Green End road Harrison Joseph (Mrs.), watercress grower, Fishery west Bailey .A.lice (Mrs.), draper, 46 London road Hassall John, earthenware dealer, 20 London road Bailey Charles, beer retailer, 34 Puller road Hemel Hempstead District Gas Co. Limited (George Pa~- Bartlett Lionel, butcher, St. John's road ton Daniels, sec. ; .A. F. Phillip, engineer; William Batchelor William, coal dealer & beer ret. 9 London rd Fendick, manager) . Boxmoor Reading Room & Institute (Rev. H. M. May- I Hewitt Basil Overton, comcl. trav. 35 St. John's road nard 1\f.A. sec.), St. John's road Hide John, beer retailer, 32 Greenend road Brentnall & Cleland, coal factors & merchants, 33 St. Hoare Frederick, beer retailer, 6o London road John's road; chief office, Kew Bridge, Brentford Holl~ck W~~· hair dresser, 73 St. John's road Butcher Percy, goods agent to L. & N. W. Railway statu Holliday W1lliam, coal merchant, Puller road Carter Thomas, stationer &c. St. John's road Jones .A.braham, plumber & painter, 89 St. John's road Cater Harriett (Miss), dress maker, 6 Horsecroft road IJones .A.braham (Mrs.), draper, 89 St. John's road Cater William, carman & builder, 6 Horsecroft road Jorden William, farrier, Puller road Chennells David, corn merehant, 45 London road Leach John, confectioner, 51 St. John's road Coubrough Jessie (Miss), dress maker, St. John's road Lee & Smith, painters & decorators, 3 Cowper road Coubrough Robert, tailor, St. John's road Loosley Jabez, shopkeeper, 28 St. John's road Crawley .A.rthur, china dealer, IOC) St. John's road Loosley James, butcher, St. John's road Dale Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 5 a· St. J<Jhn's road Luck William, dairyman, so London road Dowse Richard, builder, 19 London road Malin Thomas, station master Dunning Emma (Mrs.), Railway hotel & posting house Mansbridge Frederick, baker, 21 Cowper road Edwards Arthur, beer retailer, 23 Anchor lane Margrave Frederick, beer retailer, Catlin street Englefield Tryal William, grocer, 85 St. John's road Marshall .Alfred, chemist & d.ruggist, 6o St. John's roalf Foskitt Thomas, boot maker, 20 Puller road Masters Thomas, grocer, So St. John's road Fosters Limited, steam & water saw mills Messenger William, rope, sack, rick cloth & waterproof Gisborne Thos. Jn. building material dlr. Kingsland road cover & gig & carriage apron manufacturer Glover Jn. Chas. Halsey, chimney sweeper, 26 London rd Miles Samuel, Three Black Birds P.H. St. John's road Glover George, plumber, 28 London road Morgan Henry, dairyman, Horsecroft road Glover William, lime burner, 38 London road Newton Henry, hawker, Boxmoor Gower Brothers, builders, Horsecroft road Xunn Charles & Co. coal, coke, salt & moss litter mef'o- Green Williaxn, corn & straw dealer, St. John's road chant, Railway wharf .