8 ABBOTS RIPTON. HUNTINGDONSHIRE. [KELLY'~ ABBOTS RIPTON is a parish and village, with a of an acre of land, called "Church Acre," which produces station, ! mile from the village, on the main line of the Great about £2 yearly for church purposes. Abbots Ripton Hall Northern railway, 63 miles from London and 5 miles north is the residence of Howard Gilliat esq. Lord de Ramsey is. from Huntingdon, in the Northern division of the county, lord of the manor and principal landowner. The old Manor petty sessional division and hundred of Hurstingstone, union House is now occupied as a private residence, the moat being and county court district of Huntingdon, rural deanery of partly filled in. The soil is clay; subsoil, gravel. TBe chief St. Ives, archdeaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely. crops are beans, wheat and barley. The parish contains It formerly belonged to the abbots of Ramsey. The church (including the hamlet of Wennington) 3,998 acres; assessable of St. Andrew is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Early value, £11,164; the population in 1901 was 386. English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, Wennington hamlet is one mile north-east from Abbots south porch and a low western embattled tower containing Ripton. 3 bells, and a clock placed in 1881 as a memorial to the Rev. Parish Clerk, William Coulson. Plummer Pott Rooper: the church generally was restored Post & Telegraph Office.-William Ayres, sub-postmaster_ by subscription in 1858; the roofs of the nave and south Letters received through Huntingdon, which is the nearest. aisle were renewed in 1868 as a memorial to Frances Rooper, money order office, at 7.40 a.m.; dispatched at 5,45 p.m. ;. who~died at Tunbridge Wells, June 6th, 1867, by her brothers no sunday delivery. Postal orders are issued here, but and sister; there are sittings for 150 persons. The register not paid dates from the year 1559. The living is a rectory, yearly Wennington wall letter box is cleared at 5.10 p.m value £400, including glebe, with residence, in the gift of National School (mixed), with house for mistress, for 67 and held since 1881 by the Rev. John George Rooper B.A. children; average attendance, 45; Miss Jane Bone, mis.tress of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a small charity consisting Railway Station, Edward Smith, station master ABBOTS RIPTON. smith, agricultural implement maker, Poole Emma (Mrs.), Three Horse Shoes p.m dealer & repairer; & at Wennington Wilson John Oaks, farmer Arkwright Harold Arthur, Manor house~ Collett Hannah (Miss), farmer Woodcock Robert Henson, f.armer Gilliat Howard J.P. Abbots Ripton hall! Collett William, farmer nooper Rev. John George B.A. Rectory Flowers Richard, farmer WENNINGTON. Goodliffe Wm. J ohnson, farmer, Grange fm Bedford George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Henson William, grazier Brawn Jonathan, shoeing smith &0 Ayres Eliza (Mrs.), grocer, &:Post office Nichols Robert, farmer Dorrington Samuel, farmer Baker William, boot maker &.£armer Nixon Tom, farmer Everitt David, farmer Brawn .Tonathan, shoeing6~& general Pack William, Railway inn Hobbs Kathleen (Mrs.), beer retailer ABBOTSLEY is a small village and parish on the I a vicarage, net yearly value £73, including 130 acres of gleb~ borders of Cambridgeshire, on the road from St. Neots to ' with residence, in the gift of Balliol College, Oxford, and helt! Great Gransden, 5 miles north-west from Gamlingay station since 1901 by the Rev. John Robert Lawrence M.A. of Christ on the Bletchley, Bedford and Cambridge branch of the Church, Oxford. The great and small tithes were commuted London and North Western railway, 5 south-east from St. for land at the time of the inclosure of the parish. Here is.. Neots station on the main line of the Great Northern railway, a Wesleyan chapel. The charities amount to about £2() and 9 north-west from Biggleswade, in the Southern division yearly. The principal landed proprietors are the Master of the county, petty sessional division and hundred of TORe- and Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge. who are lords land, union and county court district of St. Neots, rural of the manor, Francis Pym esq. of Sandy, Beds, Captain deanery of St. Neots, archdeaconry of Huntingdon and diocese 'Valter Henry Octavius Duncombe, of 'Varesley Park.. of Ely. The church of St. Margaret is an ancient building and Julius Alington esq. of Little Barford. The rectorial of clunch and rubble, in the Early English style of the 14th farm belongs to Balliol College, Oxford, and there is a Vicarage century, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north farm. The land is arable. The soil is clay and gravel. The porch and an embattled western tower with four statues of chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is kings in place of pinnacles at the angles, and containng a 1,722 acres; assessable value, £932; the population in 1901 clock and 5 bells: the church was partially restored in 1854, was 329. when the nave was new roofed and open seats substituted Parish Clerk, Thomas Lincoln. for the old pews: in 1861 a new chancel and north porch were Post Office.-Miss Rebecca Barringer, sub-postmistress.. erected and other improvements carried out, under the super- Letters are received from St. Neots at 8.20 a.m.; dis- intendence of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect: the tower was patched at 6.30 pom. Great Gransden is the nearest money restored in 1884 by Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, architect, when order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, the two figures on the north side which had fallen were but not paid replaced by others of a similar character, and a new National School, built in 1844, & enlarged in 1871, for 100- weathercock fixed, at the total cost of £400: there are children; average attendance, 84; John Edmonds, master. 261 sittings. The registers of baptisms and burials date Children attend this school from parts of the parishes oJ: from the year 1725, and marriages from 1754. The living is Tetworth & Eynesbury Lawrence Rev. John Robert M.A. The BrockettArthur, Eight Bells P.R. &builder Reading Room (F. Preedy sec. & treas) Vicarage Cade John Robert, grocer Rothrey William. farmer Aldridge Thomas Culham, farmer Gilbert .Joseph, shoemaker Sheard John, farmer, Grange farm Barford Geo. blacksmith & beer retailer Harper Thomas, beer retailer Wisson George. grocer Beal John, farmer Humbley Thomas, farmer Wisson Thomas, farmer Brawn John, farmer Jeffs Charles, farmer Wright Philip, wheelwright ALCONBURY is a parish and large scattered village, Williams M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. Here is a. Wes­ on the road from St. Neots to Stilton, 5 miles north-west leyan chapel. The Oddfellows and Juvenile Oddfellows from Huntingdon and 4 south-west from Abbots Ripton lodges are held at the Globe Inn. Alconbnry House, the station on the main line of the Great Northern railway, in property of G. J. Rust esq. but the residence of WilIiam the Southern division of the county, hundred and petty ses- Frederick Beauford esq. is a brick mansion, standing on high, sional division of Leightonstone, union and county court ground in a small but well wooded park and commands district of Huntingdon, rural deanery of Leightonstone, arch- extensive views of the surrounding country. George John deaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely. The Alconbury Rust esq. of Huntingdon, who is lord of the manor, the Duke brook flows through the village. The village is lighted with of Manchester and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster oil lamps by the Parish Council. The church of SS. Peter are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay. and Paul is a building of Barnack rag and rubble, in the The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The parish Early English style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, contains 3,646 acres of land and 7 of water; assessable value, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with £2,058; the population in 1901 was 543. spire, containing a clock and 6 bells, 3 of which were recast Parish Clerk, Albert Elliott. and a neow one added in 1877; ~he church was thor~u~Wy Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A. & res~red m 1877, under the dIrectIOn of Mr. Ewan ChrIstIan, I. O.-George Barnard, SUb-postmaster. Letters are re- archItect, at a cost of ~bout £5,000, when the lower part of ceived through the Huntingdon office at 7.5 a.m· dispatched the tower was under-bUIlt, the pews repla<:ed by opeon be~ches, at 6.15 p.m ' and an organ presented by G. J. Rust esq. : a memOrIal wmdow Sergeant Waiter Storey is the police constable in charO'e to the late James Rust esq. was erected about 1877 and. o. 0 0 another, to the late Mrs. Rust, in 1902: there are 450 sittings. NatI?nal School (mIXed & mfants), reb~~t III 1871, for 240 The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a children; average ~tten~ance, 120; WI1ha;n Joseph ~dams,o vicarage, comprising the parishes of Alconbury and Alconbury master; Mrs. Anme Elizabeth Adams, mfants mIstress Weston, which are united for ecclesiastical purposes only, Carriers.-Dew, to Huntingdon, tues. & sat. returning same-- and known as Alconbury-cum-Weston; net yearly value days; to St. Neots, thurs. returning same day. Crow, to- £200, including 191 acres of glebe, with residence, erected Huntingdon, sat. returning same day; to St Neots, thurs. about 1872, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of West- returning same day & Page, to Huntingdon, sat. returning minster, and held since 1900 by the Rev.