110 HIGH CROSS. . [KELLY'S Harrison Alfred, blacksmith COLLIERS END. WADE'S MILL. Harrison Ellen (Miss), beer retailer Armstrong John, Waggon & Horses Hayden George, blacksmith Dixon William T. Feathers commercial P.H. &; farmer Jordan Alfred, farmer hotel; accommodation for cyclisu, Barrett William Lamb &; Flag P.R. Neighbour David, brick maker; &; at good fishing Brown William, hay & straw dealer Ware Ford Maria (Miss), shopkpr. Post office !lush Alfred, hay & straw dealer Page Henry, Fox & Hounds P.R Oliver Marsena, farmer Bush Henry, draper &; grocer Parkins Charles, butcher Taylor Alfred, Anchor P.H Edwards Henry, beer retailer Terry In. frmr. &; auctioneer, Labdens Vigu George, shoe maker :HINXWORTH is a parish and village on the borders of in the reign of Richard HI. it was held by John Ward, and , 4?t miles north from Lord Mayor of London, and after several changes of " station on the and Cambridge branch ownership became the abode of the abbot and monks of 1)f the Great Northern railway, 9 west from Royston the Cistercian convent of Pipewell (Northampton) # John and 42 from London, in the Korthern division of the Gray, barrister-at-law, held it in 1614; Thomas Han­ eounty, Odsey hundred and petty sessional division, chett in 1620, and in 1629 Sir Paul Bayning or Ban· ~oyston union and county court district, rural deanery ning (late Malory), created in 1627 Baron and Viscount 'Of Baldock and archdeaconry and diocese of St. Albans. Bayning of Sudbury (ob. July 29, 1629): the armorial The church of St. Nicholas is a structure of clunch and bearings of the three last mentioned families still flint, in various styles, erected about 1400 on the site appear in stained glass in one of the windows: the ()f an older building, and consists of chancel, nave of manor next descended to the Harleys, Earls of Oxford, Qne bay, south porch (used as a vestry) and a low who sold it and the advowson which had /Zune with it embattled western tower containing 5 bells, dating from to Mr. Serjeant Peck, of the Inner Temple, and after ~651 to 1825: in the nave are two fine canopied niches: passing through several hands it was purchased in 1801 the stained east window, placed in 1888, is a memorial by Robert Clutterbuck, an ancestor of the presen~ to relatives of former rectors of this parish: the chancel rector, and from whose family the property counected has a memorial window to the Rev. Edward Cox, a with Hinxworth Place was bought in 1880 by Mr. John former rector, and several members of his family 1822- Sale, the present owner: the thick walls of c1unch and 47, and another erected in 1890 to the widow of a mullioned windows point to the antiquity of the house. former rector; there is also here a very fine brass to Another ancient manor in this parish is that of Canti­ John Lambard, alderman and master of the Mercers' lupe or Cantlow Bury, now called Hinxworth Bmy. .company, ob. 1487, Anne his wife, three sons and one Roman coins and other remains have been found in th~ daughter, with a marginal inscription, and brass effigies parish. George Charles Gostelow Lockhart esq. J.l'. of a man and wife; the rood stairs remain: in the nave who purchased the Manor farm in 1892, and is lord of :are tablets to John Harvey, d. 1755; Mary Harvey, d. the manor, Mr. John Sale and the rector are lhe ~7S8; the Rev. Edmund Harvey, vicar of Willian from principal landowners. Allotmenh were provided by the ~804, d. 1823, and his wife, d. 1775, Elizabeth, his rector iH. 1893. The soil is mixed loamy and blue ~ister, d. 18°7; Frances Ann Harvey, d. 1751; and to clays; subsoil, various. Coprolites were formerly and the Sale family, 182S-7.~: the church was partially re- are still to be dug in this parish. The chief crops are stored and reseated by subscription in 1881, and in 1887 wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 1,462 acres; a. new oak roof was provided for the nave, replacing one rateable value, £1,281 IOS.; the population in 1891 which had fallen into complete decay: a new door was was 289. added to the chancel in 1890, and in 1892 a new oak Parish Clerk, Edward Morgan. Toof was placed on the chancel. The register dates from Post Office.-Albert AlIen Gatward, sub-postmaster. the year IS70. The living is a rectory, net yearly valu'3 Letters through Baldock R.S.O arrive at 8 a.m.; £'IS0, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of St. dispatched at 5.40 p.m.; sunday dispatched at 9.30 .Albans, and held since 1886 by the Rev. Arthur Clutter- a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is buck M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The Wesleyan at Ashwell. Postal orders are issued here, but not chapel affords IOO sittings. Roman antiquities have been paid found here. The poor have the proceeds of land County Constabulary, WaIter John Dee, police constable. situated at Stocken Pelham, Essex, left in 1795 by Jane A School Board of 5 members was formed 18 Dec. 1874 llrooks. spinster, of Hinxworth Pelliam, Essex, but at for the united parishes of Hinxworth & present (1894) unlet. Rinxworth Place, mentioned in (Beds); A. Hart Christy, A'shwell, clerk to the board DomesdAy as the manor of Hamstewarde, was known Board School (mixed), erected in 1876, rof 72 children; from the time of Edward IV. as the manor of Pulter: average attendance, 57; Miss Sarah Goading, mistrllss Cluttel'buck Rev. Arthur M.A. Rectory Haskill John, New inn Sale James, Middle farm Sale Mrs. William, Glebe house Kitchener Albert, farmer Sale William, blacksmith Kitchener Mary(Miss),butcher &baker Sale John, farmer & landowner &; sur­ COMMERCIAL. Lockhart Sydney Wilson, farmer, veyor of highways, Hinxworth plac6- Barton AIlen, Three Horseshoes P.H Manor farm Savill David, farmer Eryant Reuben, blacksmith, New inn Russell Jas. Green, farmer, Dew mead Stanton Alfred, carpenter Gatward Albert AlIen, blacksmith, Sale Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Stanton Ann (Mrs.), shopkeept'r Post office Sale Daniel, baker

• . HITCHIN. IDTCHIN is a market and union to-wn and parish, the after its rebuilding to St. Mary, was partly restored in head of a petty sessional division and of a county court 1858 and subsequent years at considerable expense and district, in the northern part of the county near Bed­ is an edifice of stone, covered with cement, in the fordshire, 32 miles from London, 16 south·east from Pointed style, consisting- of chancel with aisles, nave of "Bedford, 261 from Cambridge, 13! south-east from four bays, aisles, north and south porches, and an Royston, 16 north-west from and 15 north from embattled western tower with small octagonal spire St. Albans, in the Northern division of the county, and containing a peal of 8 bells, dating from 1762 to hundred of Hitchin, and in the rural deanery of Hitchin 1784: the whole fabric is embattled, the chancel being ~md archdeaconry and diocese of St. Albans. The Great ornamented with pinnacles: of the interesting south Northern railway has a station here, which is also the porch none of the exterior ornament remains, save a junction for a branch line to Cambridge, and the Mid­ small carving, but it has a groined roof, and both aisle! land (Bedford and Hitchin branch) Railway also ter­ retain their original Perpendicular roofs: the font, of minates here. Roche Abbey stone, belongs to the earliest period of the The town lies in a fertile valley, surrounded by con­ existing church: amongst the monuments, which are siderable eminences: it was given by Edward the very numerous, the most striking are those of the Rad­ Confessor to Earl Harold, being then called "Hitche" cliffe family, of Hitchin Priory, 1559-1783; there are or "Hicche:" the town is governed by a local board of also some fine brasses, several of which were dis· twelve members, formed in December, 1873, and is covered underneath the floor during the restoration. supplied with water under the direction of the board resumed in 1877-8; these include the following: in the from works in Queen street, and lighted with gas from sonth aisle a. brass to .John Pulter, draper, ob. 1421 (the works at Starling's Bridge by a company formed in feet only of the male effigy remaining), his wife Alic~, 1833. and a merchant's mark; a merchant of the staple The church, form!lrly dedicated to St. Andrew, but of Cah~is, Db. 1452, his wife Alice and ten children, no"