DIRECTORY • J BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. BLEDLOW. 45

the staff by four screws, and it weighs eight pounds Post & M. 0. Office. James William Bonham, sub­ eleven ounces : all the spears found here were of the postmaster. Letters through .Aylesbury arrive at 6.15 Stnart period; on the skeleton of one man two large & ID a.m. ; dispatched II.3D a.m. & 6-45 p.m. Sun­ buttons, gilt beneath and hollow, still remained. The days, arrive at 6.40 a.m. ; dispatched, 7.30 a.m. trustees of the late John Parker esq. F.S.A. of High Aylesbury is the nearest telegraph office, 2 miles Wyc

BLEDLOW is a parish, on the borders of Oxford· London markets. The register dates from the year Jhire, with a station I mile north of the village, on 1592. The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly the main Birmingham line of the Great Western rail­ value £2oo, including 134 acres of glebe, with residence, way, 44 miles from London, 2~ miles west-south-west in the gift of the Marquis of Lincolnshire, and held from Princes Risborough and 5~ east-south-east from since 1904 by the Rev. John William Cruikshank M ..A. of Thame, in the Mid division of the county, in the Lincoln College,, Oxford. An addition to the burying hundred of Aylesbury, petty sessional division of Des­ ground was consecrated in I9o8. Ther{} is a small Wes­ borough second division, union of Wycombe, county leyan chapel here, and another at Bledlow Ridge. The ~onrt district of High Wycombe, rural deanery of school of the Wycombe union situated here occupies Aylesbury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of what was formerly the. workhouse; adjoining are four OxfMonks Risborough. The Marquis of Lin­ doorway of the south porch is very fine, consisting of colnshire K.G., P.C. and the, Provost and Fellows of a pointed arch with small circular shafts of Early Eng­ Eton College are lords of the manor; Robert White esq. lish date; on the right of this door there is an un­ is lord of the manor of Coram. The principal land­ usually large holy-water stoup ; over the outer door is owners are the Marquis of LincolnshirB! K.G., P.C., a dial and near the entrance the stone base of an G.C.M.G. and Eton College. The soil is in some parts ancient cross : the north aisle contains a canopied niche chalk loam, other parts stiff clay; subsoil, chalk or rag­ and a double piscina, and the south aisle has also a stone and clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, peas, piscina and retains traces of two recessed tombs : in oats, barley and roots. The area is 4,169 acres; rate­ the chancel is a bra.ss of a former vicar (r525) in able value, [4,405; the civil parish includes BLEDLOW Eucharistic vestments : the walls of the nave and aisles RIDGE, PITCH GREEN, half a mile north, ROUT'S bear traces of some ancient paintings: the font and a GREEN, 2! miles south, FORTY GRERN, I! north­ doorway on the north side are Norman; the former west, SKITTLE GREEN, three-quarterfl of a mile north­ has a large fluted basin and some elaborate carved west, and ROLLY GREEN, I north : the population in work: there are tablets of the early part of the last 19 rr was 954, and of the ecclesiastical, 569. 'l:entury to members of the Blancks family: since 1895 Parish Clerk, George Avery. a new chancel screen, altar table and litany desk, all Sexton, James Allen. executed by Mr. Harry Hems, of Exeter, and five stained windows have been provided: the chur.ch was Post Office, Bledlow, Herbert Stratford Brazen, sub-post­ master. Letters arrive from Princes Risborough, thoroughly re.~tored in 1909, when the tow{!r was re­ l>aired and the bells were also quarter-turned and re­ Bucks, by cycle pvst at 8.35 a.m. & 4.10 p.m.; dis­ hung; during the course of the work an aumbry was patched at 8.35 a.m. & 4.15 p.m. & a third dispatch uncovered in the south aisle and on the south side of via Oxford at 6.50 p.m. No sunday delivery. Prince11 the chancel the tympanum of a Norman door was dis­ Risborough, 2~ milPs distant, is the nearest money covered: some r3th century stained glass was also dis­ order & telegraph office covered in the chancel and was cleaned and re-leaded : Wall Letter Boxes.-Pitch Gr~n. cleared g.20 a.m. & a memorial window was erected in 1912 in the north 3-35 & 7·5 p.m. week days only; Railway station, aisle to the memory of the Roberts family, for many cleared at 9 IS a m. & 3.30 & 7.30 p.m. week days years resident in this parish: there are 211 sittings: only ihe churchyard is bounded on the east by a deep and School. 11'oody glen, into which several springs of water fall, Elementary (mixed), built in 1868, & enlarged in 189r, and uniting form a small lake called " The Lyde," in 1903, 1912 & 1914. for q.g children; Edwin J. T. which large quantities of watercress are grown for the Catton, master