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86 HUSBORNE CRAWLEY. BEDFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S Orlebar and Mr. Morris are the principal landowners. sundays, 9-30 a.m. The nearest money order & tele. The soil is light sandy; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops graph office is at .Aspley Guise, ~~ miles distant are wheat, barley and beans. Tbe area is 1,6ro acres; A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1878; rateable value, 1,2,419; the population in 1891 was 410. William Henry Smith, Leighton street, Woburn, clerk to the hoard Parish Clerk, John Alley. Boord (formerly Church of England) School (mixed), Letters received from Bletohley about 7 a. m. Wall Letter erected in 1867, with mistress's Louse, by tLe gth Boxes, near t.iie church, cleared at 7·45 a.m. & 7-IS p.m. Duke of Bedford, for go children; average attendance, & on sundays at 9-45 a.m. ; Ridgmount Railway station, 61 ; Miss E. A. Sharpe, mistress cleared 7.30 a.m. & 8 p.m.; sundays at 7 p.m.; & Ridgmount Railway Sitation, Frederick Wheeler, station near White Horse P.H. cleared at 6.50 a.m. & 7 p.m. ; master Bickmore Rev. Charles Falkland M.A. Bunker Lizzie (Mrs.), White Horse Mardling Henry, coach builder Vicarage P.n. & cattle dealer &c Morris J ames Sibthorpe, farmer &; Field Henry Harrison, White cottage Denton Albert E. Bull P.H landowner Forrester Jas. J. Experimental farm Den ton Frederick, butcher Parker "'illiam, carter, Reading Hardy Thomas, Elms cottage F1eld Henry Harrison, solicitor, com- Sanders Isaac, farmer & cattle dealer~ Orlebar Mrs. Crawley house missioner for Qaths & notary public, Manor fann Wastell Mrs White cottage Turney Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper co~MERCIAL Forrester James J. experimental farm Turney William Edward, farmer, Red Barnwell Chas. Ralph, bkr. & corn dlr manager, Experimental farm Field farm Barnwell George Step'hen, grazier & Francis Henry, Bedford Arms P.H Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm assistant overseer & tax collector Harris Georgc, farmer (Lewis Castle, manager), fruit grwr5 Bevington Thos. farmer, Highfield frm Hobbs William, farmer HYDE is a village and parish, on the borders of Hert this chapel : the floor of the chapel was of black and fordshire, 3 miles south-east from Luton stations on the white marble, but the whole interior of this grand Midland and Great Northern railways, in the Southern mansion, with the exception of the library, was de division of the county, hundred of Flitt, petty sessional stroyed by fire on the mth November, 1843; by the division, union and county court district of Luton, rural exertion of seve;al gentlemen most of the paintings~ deanery of Luton, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese forming one of the finest collections in this country~ of Ely. In r8g6, under the provisions' of section 1 (sub were preserved: the house was thoroughly restored section 3) of the " Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and and redecorated by the late John Shaw Leigh esq_ 57 Vict. c. 73), the hamlets of EAST and WEST HYDE, and one half of the north wing, which had been in with CHrLTER~ GRln~'N" and part of KrNSMAN GREEN, for shell only, ever since it was erected by the E~rl of Bute merly in the parish of Lutvn, were formed into the civil in r816, has been converted into a private chapel for the parish of Hyde. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in househo:d, under the direction of the late G. E. Street r843. The Great ~orthern railway has a station here, esq. R.A. of London: the walls are faced with polished called "Lut{)n Hoo," and facing- this station is the alabaster marble and Bath freestone, the architectural Chiltern Green station of the Midland railway. The ornamentation partaking of a Byzantine character: the church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1840-I by sub mansion is surrounded by a well-wooded park, covering scription, on a site given by the late Marquess of Bute, r,67o acres of land: its preserves are richly stocked is a building of brick, in the Norman style, consisting with game; adjoining are its fine pleasure grounds, of chancel, nave, porch and a small western tower: farm, keepers' lodges and farm buildings, erected on it has stained windows, and sittings for 400 persons. a most extensive scale; the grounds were laid out by The register dates from the year 1841. The living is a "Capability Brown." The river Lea flows through tlm· vicarage, yearly value £ rgo, with residence, in the gift park, expanding in its course into large lakes. !\ear of Lieut.-Colonel Gerard Vivian Ames, and held since the wood is Someries, an ancient village and manor. r88o by the Rev. Waiter Begley l\I.A. of Corpus Christi held by the family of Somerie before the ConquesL College, Cambringe. LutDn Hoo, the seat of Madame de Here, in 1448, John, Lord Wenlock, built a large ami Falbe, widow of H. E. Christian F. de Falbe, late Danish sumptuous castellated residence of brick, of great ambassador, is about 2 miles south-east, from Luton, strength, and inclosed it with a wall and moat: th~ on an eminence, at the edge of the Bedfordshire downs: machicolated gateway, flanked by massive polygonal the manor of Hoo was hAld long before the Norman Con towers, and some portion of the chapel and other quest by the Hoo family, from whence it derives its name, buildings remain. The Hyde, the property of Lt.-Col. since it appears that Robert de Hoo held thf;l manor in the Gerard Vivian .Ames, of .Ayot St. Lawrence, is now occu time of King Cnut, the Dane: it was held by this pied by Cecilia, C<Juntes-s of Iddesleigh; Copt Hall, now family till the middle of the I5th century, the last occupied by a farmer, was for seventeen years th& male heir 1wing Sir Thomas Hoo knt. ""ho, for signal residence of Dr. Stuart, late Archbishop of Armagh. services in the time of Henry VI. obtained a grant of "·hile vicar of Luton (1779-96). Madame de Falbe, of £4o yearly, and in 1447 was created a baron by the Luton Hoo, who is lady of the manor, and Lt.-Colonel title of Lord Hoo and Hastings, and also made a Knight Ames are the landed proprietors. The soil is sandy of the Garter; he died a Lout 1453, leaving three loam; subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops ar& daughters, and this baronetcy subsequently became ex corn and the usual green crops. The area is 4•447 acres; tinct. The Hoo, after passing through several changes, rateable value, £rs,rgo; the population is now (r8g8) was bought in 1763 by John Earl of Bute, and held about 6oo. by that family till r844, and in 1848 it was purchased Parish Clerk, .A.. Bruton. of Mr. Ward by the late John Shaw Leigh esq.: the Letters t!..mmgh Luton. The nearest money order offic~ mansion has been altered and added to on several is at Luton & telegraph office at G.~. station, Luto11 occasions, but it attained its greatest grandeur during Hoo, in the parish the time of John, third Earl of Bute, who bought it WALL LETTER Box cleared at ro.rs a.m. & 6.45 p.m in an nnfini~hed state from Robert Napier esq. and Board School (under the Luton School Board) (mixed), employed in its completion and adornment the celebrated for 70 children; average attendance, so; there is 11 architect, Robert Adam : the library was 146 feet long mistress's house ; Miss Sarah .Ann Horton, mistress with a ceiling painted by Cipriani, and contained above 30,ooo volumes: there was also a splendid chapel, R.ULWAY STATIOKS :- fitted up with exquisitely carved woodwork, brought Chiltern Green, J\lidland, George Bland, station maswr from some dismantled church, which has been beauti Luton Hoo, Great Northern, Thomas Richards, statioD fully illv3trated by Mr. H. Shaw in his history of master Hyde. Harris Charles, Leather Bottle P. H Halsey Regimld Begley Rev. Waiter M.A. Vicarage Hollinshead Joseph Thomas, farmer, Kent Rev. Charles (private chaplain to Thrall~end (letters through Harpen Madame de J<'albe ), The Hermitag~ Cole Benjamin• Iddesleigh Cedia, Countess of, The den, Herts) Halsey Reginald, land steward & estate Lines Ph'neas,blacksmith,ChilternGrn Hyde agent to Madame de Falbe .Avery RiC"hard, farmer, Hyde farm Lyon 1\alter, farmer, Copt hall Longmuir Hector, farm bailiff to Pigott George, farmer, New Mill end Madame de FalbEI Cole Benj am in & Son, millers ( stPam Lnton Hoo Estate Office (Reginald & water), & "OT"n merchants, East Pigott Hy. Frank, farmer,ChilternGrn Halsey, agent) Hyde -team roller mill"; & farmers, Reekie Andrew, head gardener to Cmmtess of Iddesleigh, 'l'he Hyde Maycock George, head gardener Somer'e~ fal"!n Nott Ernest, furmer, Newlands fariD Godfrey Gu~bvus,farmer,Chiltern hall Luton Hoo. Payne \Villiam, head gamekeeper Holdstock Ernest, farmer, Dane (Letters direct from Luum.) Street farm de Falbe Maia:m€, Luton Hoo park .