106 GREAT H.ARROWDE~. NORTHAl\iPTONS HIRE. [KELLY'S Parish Sexton. George W allis. I money order & the nearest telegraph Post O:ffi.ce.-Mrs. Charlotte Ann Sammons, sub-postmis- , office, I mile distant tress. Letters arrive from by cycle The children of this place attend the school at Little messenger about 6.30 & ro.5 a.m. through whom the Harrowden letters are dispatched at ro.4o a.m. & 5.50 p.m. ; no I carrier pa'SSes through here daily en route delivery on sunday. Wellingborough is the nearest to Wellingborough, except thurs

Vaux of Harrowden Lord D.L., J.P. Pegge Rev. John Stanton M.A. Bolton William, farmer & grazier, Harrowden hall ; & Brooks' & (vicar), The Vicarage W entworth farm Travellers' clubs, London S W Sanders John, farmer Curtis Major Edward George (organ­ COMMERCIAL. Wood Wm. frmr. lo izing secretary to the National Groome John Dickens, farmer & Service League), The Cottage grazier, Manor house

LITTLE li ARROWDEN is a pleasant village and the payment of church expenses. The poor's land parish adjoining Great Harrowden, r! miles SO"\lth-west yields r8s. which is annually distributed. .Arthur from station on the main line of the Midland Young esq. who is lord of the manor, and Lord Vaux railway and 3 miles north from Wellingborough, in the of Harrowden are the principal landowners. The soil El&stern division of the county, hundred of Orlingbury, is of a good fertile mixed character; substratum, loamy. petty sessional division, union and county court district ' great oolite limestone, sand and ironstone. The chief of Wellingborough, rural deanery of Rothwell (firat por- crops are cereals; there is much pasture land. The tion), archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of Peter- area is r,574 acres; rateable value, £4,4II; the popu- borough. The church of St. Mary is a building of lation in rgu was 682. · stone in the Transitional style from Early English to Parish Clerk, Charles Crump. · Decorated, erected c. 1370, and consists of chancel with Sexton, William Dobbs. , 80uth vestry, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south Post & T. Office.-Miss Emily Hobbs, sub-postmistress. porch and an embattled western tower containing a Letters arrive by cycle post from Wellingborough at clock and 4 bells: the south entrance e:rhibits some 7 & ro.2o a.m.; dispatched at 10.25 a.m. & 5.40 good Norman work: the south aisle has a quatrefoiled p.m. ; no delivery on sunday. The nearest money parapet, and a banding of similar character runs round order office is at Wellingborough, 3 miles distant that of the to:we;r-, with gargoyles at the angles:. in. the Police Station Victor Hazel constable in charge church are piscmre: flhe church was restored m 1851 . . ' , ' . at a cost of about £6oo: the organ was erected by sub- William .Aylworth s ~ndowed School fo; Great & Little scription in 1s76 at 8 cost of £ 150. The register dates Harrowden & Orhngbu~y, foun~ed m 166r t? corn- from the year r653. The living is a discharged vicarage memora~e the restoratwn of Kmg Charles, 1s sup- united to that of Great Harrowden, joint net yearly parted m. part. by a ~ent-charge on an estate at ..-alue £ 321 , including 1 s7 acres of glebe, with residence, Gu~ley, m Leicestershue, & b! ab~ut £~ yearly, in the gift of George Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam denved from 5 a?res. of land m this p~nsh: the esq. and held since rgr2 by the Rev. John Stanton present. scbool, built ~n 185r & en~arged m r876 & Pe&'g~ M.A. of Corpus Christi Coll~ge, Cambridge, who 18gg, ~Ill hold 220 children; there IS a. house, for the resides at Great Harrowden. Here IS a Wesleyan chapel, maste~' Ch~rles Crump, master. The mfa.nts sc_ho~l, erected in r882, and seating about 150 persons. The established m r884, was amalgamated with this m proceeds of 44a. xr. 33P· of land in this parish, given 1899 by the Marquess of Rockingham at the end of the r8th Carrier.-'Mrs. Fanny Bollard passes through daily to century, when this parish was inclosed, are applied to 1 Wellingborough, except thurs Young Misses,Little Harrowden house Hobbs Emily (Miss),draper,& post off Reynolds William T. Lamb P.H Hobbs Jn. SI. beer retailer & butcher Skinner Edward Banks, farmer COMMERCIAL. Lodder John, dairyman Smith Samuel, shopkeeper & baker Burland Hrbt. M.R.C.S.Eng.,L.R.C.P. Page George, boot & Shoe maker Smith Vernon Letts, farmer Lond. surgeon; attends tues. i& fri. Page William, shopkeeper S.tanion Thomas William, beer retlr • ~ p.m Reynolds John, beer retailer Tomlinson Jsph. blacksmith & beer ret Crump Charles, assistant overseer & Reynolds Thomas, farmer, Manor frm Ward Alfred, cycle maker & agent clerk to Parish Council Reynolds Tom, iron & brass founder; Ward Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Dack Philip Henry, farm eT fire grate & iron fencing manufac- Weekley Thomas, boot ·manufacturer Gambrell Samuel, Red Lion P.H turer; blacksmith & shoeing smith Wooding Benjamin, baker & grocer ' ' HARTWELL, sometimes called "Wold Hartwell," distributed in calico to the poor of the parish. The and in Domesday " Hartewelle," is a scattered village Duke of Grafton K.G., C.B. who is lord of the manor, and parisb on the borders of Bucks, 2 miles east-by­ is the principal landowner. The soil is chiefly clay; aouth from Roade station on the main line of the Lon­ subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, beans don and North Western railway, 7 south-by-east from &c. The area is 2,049 acres ; rateable value, £4,404 ; Northampton and 7 east from Towcester, in 'ehe Southern the population in I9II was 363 in the , and division of the c<;>unty, hundred of Cleley, union of 352 in the ecclesiastical parish. Potterspury, petty sessional division and county court By Local Government Board Order No. 31,794, that district of Towcester, rural deanery of Preston (second part of Hanslope civil parish in the Administrative County portion), archdeaconry of Northampton and diocese of of Northampton was, in rgo4, added to Hartwell civil Peterborough. Tihe church of St. John the Baptist, parish. erected in r851, at a cost of £2,ooo, from designs by Salcey Forest is situated about one mile north-east Mr. Charles Vickers, of London, is a ·building of stone of the village of Hartwell, and contains the famous in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of Salcey oak, now but a picturesque sylvan ruin, said to chancel, nave, north aisle and a western turret, contain­ be more than 1,5oo years 'Old: the trunk is now 33 feet ing one bell: the interior fine Norman arcade, removed in height, and 47 in circumference on the outside base, from the old church, which stood about 2 miles south but is so decayed as to form a complete arch qft. -Bin. of flbe village, has been incorporated: the organ, erected high. Salcey Lawn is the residence of Lieut.-Col. at a cost of £roo, was the gift of Mrs. Fitzroy, of Charles Ferguson Campbell, and the property of the Salcey Lodge, and the late Mrs. Castleman presented Commissioners of Woods and Forests. the communion plate : there are 300 sittings. The That part of Salcey Forest in this parish is reputed register dates from the year 1683, and under the date to be extra-parochial for ecclesiastical purposes. 16go contains an entry of the death of Nathaniel Brougb­ Hartwell Vicarage, about half a mile north-east of. the ton, aged ros years, with a statement on the margin village, is the residence of the Rev. Charles Ryde:r that he was married at the age of 102 years. The Macnally B.A. vicar. living is a vicarage, net yearly value £no, with resi­ Post & T. Office.-Mrs. Thomas Shaw, sub-postmis­ dence, in the gift of the Bishop of Peterborough, and tress. Letters through Northampton at 7.30 a.m. & held since rgo3 by the Rev. Charles Ryder-Macnally 2.5o p.m. & dispatched at r.1o & 4.50 p.m.; no B.A. of Dul'ham University. There is a Wesleyan sunday delivery. Roade is the nearest money order chapel, erected in the year r88g. The poor's land con­ office, 2! miles distant sists of about 2! acres, allotted in lieu of forest rights, the rent of which, now amounting to £4 18s. 3d. yearly, Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 186r & en­ is given away by the churchwardens and overseers. larged in r884, & again enlarged in 1912, for gS Thomas Barber left in the year r84o a sum of £5oo, children; Mrs. Martha Ann Fox, mistress the interest of which, now £13 ros. yearly, is at present Carrier to Northampton.-Harry Sparks, wed. & sat