52 BISHOP's STORTFORD. . [KELLY'S • Taylor H. A. & D. maltster, Dane street Volunteer Battalion Ist (Hertfordshire) Bedfordshir~ Taylor George, boot maker, South street Regiment (C Co.) Sergt. 1Ym. Sargent, drill instruc- Taylor Stephen J. greengrocer, 1\'"ew Town road tor), \\11ite Horse yard, North street Thickings George, cowkeeper, New town Wardle Hannah (Mrs.), Swan P.H. South street Thorneycroft 'Charles Vandyke (firm, Baker & Thorney- Warner Samuel, bill poster & town crier, London road croft), solicitor, & dep. supt. registrar of births, Warner Samuel George, master mariner, Nursery road deaths & marriages, commissioner for oaths in the Warren George Charles, grocer, Potter street Supreme court & deputy coroner for East Herts, Warren .Allen Miciah, clerk of works, London road North street Waterman Edward, music seller, Bridge street Thurgood J essie & .Alice Miriam (Misses), dress makers, Waterman Thomas, bODt maker, Castle street .Apton road Waylett William James, miller (steam & wind), Dun- Thurgood Lizzie & ,sarah (Misses), dress mas. Windhill mow road; farmer, Stortford Hall & Clay Pits farms Thurgood Charles, bricklayer, South mill Webb 1\laria Jane (Mrs.), grocer, South street Thnrgood. Richard, bricklayer Collins Cross Webb James M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgeon, Northgate end Tidmarsh John W. carriage ,builder, Hockerill street Wedlock Sarah (.~Irs.), shopkeeper, Hadham road Tipler George, carter, South street Welch Jos. Marsh, auctioneer, North st. & at Dunmow Tofts George Miller (water), Parsonage mill Westwood .Alfred, beer retailer, Xorthgate end Tofts William, draughtsman, Collins Cross White George, beer retailer, South street Tripp "\Yilliam, superintendent of police, Police station Whitnall William, farmer, South Mill farm Tucker Henry James, caretaker to the cemetery & sex- · Willcocks "\Villiam D. H. manager of Gibson, Tuke & ton of St . .Michael's, C~metery lodge Gib son's Bank, North street Turner Ch11rles, boot maker Hockerill street Willett Frances (:Miss), dress maker, Jervis road Turner William, Red Lion P.H. & shoeing smith, Willey Walter (~Irs.), laundress, ~ew Town road Hockerill street Wright Emma (Mrs.), confectioner, South street Tyler John, sawyer, Nursery road "''right Thomas, dentist, High street Tyler John, bird & animal preserver, Potter street Wrightson Thomas, tailor, Hadham road Tyler Susannah (Mrs.), beer retailer & sawyer, Rye st Young Henry William, school atendance officer, Bells Wakeling Robert, shoe maker, Church street hill, Hadham road :BOVINGDON is a village and parish on the Bucking- • for the convenience of the villagers and in memory of the hamshire border, 2~ miles south-west from • Hon. Granville Dudley Ryder, late of \Vestbrook Hay in o;tation on the London and ~orth Western railway, 4. this parish, d. 24 Nov. r87g. Thomas Fredericlr. Halsey south-west from , 4 north-east from · esq . .M.P. of , is lord of the manor. , and 23~ from London, in the Western division The principal landowners are D. H. Ryder esq. the Rev. of the county, petty sessional division and hun- j J. Steavenson and .Mrs. Blackwe1l, of . The dred, Hemel Hempstead union, Chesham county court ! soil is mixed; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, district and in the rural deanery, archdeaconry and dio- barley and turnips. The area is 3,513 acres; rateable cese of St . .Albans. The church of St. Lawrence is a I value, [,7,8rg; the population in r8g1 was 1,o56. building of flint and Bath stone in the Gothic style, · Parish Clerk, George Fullock. originally erected about 1840 and rebuilt in I846; it con- Bourne End is a district of Bovingdon, on the Grand

sists of chancel, nave of five 'bays, aisles, south porch 1 Junction canal and London and North Western railway and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, contain- and the road between Boxmoor and , I mile ing a dock and 3 bells, dated respectively, 1633, 1654 west from Boxmoor and 2 south-west from Berkhamsted. and I845 : under the tower is the effgy of a knight in • Here is a school chapel, the private property of the trus­ full armour, carved in clunch and probably dating from ·tees of the late Hon. G. Dudley Ryder, and lent by them about 1360: the east window is a memorial to Lieut. to the parishioners residing at Bourne End; it is a Henry Stuart Ryder, killed at the storming of the Redan, structure of brick, consisting of chancel and nave, seat­ in the Crimea, 8 Sept. r855 ; there are also other win- ing 120 persons, and is used during the week as a day dows and various memorials,from 1760 to 1874, includ- school; the Rev. Richard Earle B. .A. of Corpus Christi ing a memorial window to Henry, 7th Duke of Beaufort, college, Cambridge, has been curate in charge since d. I] :Xov. IB53, and his duchess, and one, erected Feb. r885. · 1857, to Dudley, 1st Earl of Harrowby D.C.L., F.S . .A. d. Box Lane lies near Boxmoor. Ilere is a Congrega- 26 Dec. 1847, and Susan, his countess, d. 26 May tional chapel 1838; there are also memorial hrasses Lo the Moutagu Post & ~L 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- family, Dukes of Manchester, I8oo-48; to that Of .Mayne, }liss Eliza Bevan, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive 1621-42, and to Reginald, son of the late Rev . .A. Brook- from Hemel Hempstead at 8 a.m. ; sundays, 8.20 a.m.; ing, for over 40 years vicar of the parish. There dispatched at 6.5 p.m. ; sundays, 10.45 a.m. The are 446 sittings, 274 being free. The register nearest telegraph office it at Boxmoor dates from the year 1674· The living is a vicarage, Schools. average tithe rent-charge £zu, net yearly value £237, Parochial School (mixed), Bovingdon, for 180 children; with re~idence and IO acres of glebe, in the gift of five average attend'ance, 145 ; N ewman Dix, master; Miss trustees and held since r885 by the Rev. Thomas Palmer Gurney, assistant mistress; :Miss M. A. Barnett, in- Stevens. fl'here is a Baptist chapel. In the neighbour- fants' mistress hood are the remains of a Roman camp and villa and in , Bonrne End school-chapel (mixed & infants), for go chil­ thc centre of the village is a well, constructed in 1881 dren; average attendance, 8o; Miss Tomlin, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. ,Batchelor Thos. farmer, Green farm 'Hobbs Henry, Rose & Crown P.H Blackwood Lady .Alicia, Boxmoor ho Beaven Cornelius, blacksmith Hosier Samuel, farmer, Street, farm Clements "\Yilliam John, Lilda cottage Bnurne Charles, beer retailer Johnson Noah, Bell P.H Cornwall Frank Breed Emma ().Irs. ), Venus Hill farm J ones Charles, baker & corn merchant Conrtney John Florence Bryant 1rm. farmer, ·water Lane farm. Knowles & Son, millers (water),Bourne Earle Rev. Richard B.A. (curate), The Burgin James, beer retailer I End mills Parsonage, Bonrne end Bur gin Jonathan J osiah, beer retailer Lewin Robert, shopkeeper, Bonrne end Gooch Thomas J.P. Shantock hall Burgin Moses, farmer, "'IIarchants frrn Xash 1Yilliam, farmer, Kellam Godfrey l\1. L. Bourne lodge Cain William, farmer, Longcroft farm Orchards John Liddon, farm bailifi to 1\Ic.Arthur .Alexander, 1Yestbrook Hay Chalk James, farmer, Feuonians farm Dudley H. Ryder esq Ogle John William 1\f. D. Bovingdon cot Channer .Amos, £rmr. .Austin Ilall frm Reeve Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Oxenham :Mrs. Kat€, Bovingdon house Chrnnells .Adam, farmer, Box lane Rickett Thomas, farmer Piffard Albert, Felden house Chennells John Wm. Bourne End farm Salway Edward, beer rtlr. Bourne end Salter Misses, Bovingdon lodge Chennells ·wm. farmer, X ewhouse frm Sammes John, beer retailer Stevens Rev. Thomas Palmer, Vicarage Druce William, butcher Sims Charles, farm bailiff to Thomas 1Yormald John, Bourne end :Fulluck Francis Edrnund, blacksmith Gooch esq COlDlERCLI.L. Fulluck George, rate & tax collector Skinner & Sons, coach builders Ambrose James, beer retailer Gee Frederick, farmer, Renstreet farm Stone John Thomas, Bull inn .Austin Katharine (1\Irs.), farmer Gee Henry, farmer, Bury farm Stuart Shadrach,cofTee rms.Rourne end Austin Thos. farmer, Duck Hall farm Gee William, farmer, Moor End farm Swaie Cha.rles, Swan P.H Raldwin Chas. frmr. Cottingham's frm Gilmore Thomas, carpenter Teasdale 1Villiam James, provision dlr Balrlwin James, farmer, Water lane Gilmore William, farmer 'Yilson .Tesse, farmer, Whelpley Baldwin James, wheelwright Godwin Lucy (Mrs.), frmr. Cross frm Wilton William, boot & shoe maker Runes Wm. farmer,Little Collier's frm Hinson .Alfred, draper BOXMOOR is an ecclesiastical district formed April 19, miles south from Hemel Hempstead and 24! from Lon- 184-l, from the of Hemel Hempstead, with a don, in the Western division of the county, Dacorum station on the London and North 'Vestern railway, I~ hundred, and petty sessional division, St. .A.lbans county