DIRECTORY.] 443 CHESHAM. [BUCKS.] PosT OPFICE.-Jobn Andrews, receiver. Letters arrive INSURANCE AGBNT.-Leeds ~ Y01·kshire Fire ~ Life, through Tring at 8.45 a.m.; dispat<'hed at 5 p.m. The John Andrews nearest money order office i~ at Tring Station Master, Robert Bugden National Sclwol, John Lewis, master Damer Rev. Lionel Dawson W. M.A. Cox Joseph, shopkeeper Pickett William H. shopkeeper [rectorl, Rectory Elliott Thomas, butcher & shopkeeper Punter Samuel, farmer Andrews!ohn, shopkeeper & postmaster Gale William, farmer Reed Thomas, blacksmith Archer George, farmer Harrowill William, boot & shoe maker Stevens Thomas, Three Horseshoes Archer John, farmer J oily John, farmer Tompkins "Tilliam, wheelwright Archer William, Old Swan Langbourn John, baker & shopkeeper Turner Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ash by Thomas, beer retailer Millins Daniel, straw dealer Williamson John, Aylesbury Arm.~,&; Bird William, baker Montague Richard, wheelwright brewer OHENIES is a village and parish, 5 miles south-south­ and endowed in 1603 by Anne, Countess of Warwick, east from Chesham, 4 east from Amersham, and 4 north­ daughter of the second Earl of Bedford. The population in north-west from Rickmansworth, in the hundred of Burn­ 1861 was 468; the acreage is 1,744, chiefly woodland; the ham, union and rural deanery of Amersham, county court soil is gravel, flint, and chalk. district of Chesham, archdeaconry of Buckingham, and Pm·ish Clerk, Robert Hockley. diocese of Oxford, near the Chess stream. The church of St. :Michael has been recently nearly rebuilt, and is now a • lmndsome building, with square tower, nave, aisle, chancel, PosT 0FFICE.-Thomas Barr, postmaster. Letters from and 6 bells. The register dates from 1545. The living is a Rickmansworth arrive at 7.40 a.m.; dispatched at 5.:hl reetory, in the gift of the Duke of Bedford, annual value p.m. The nearest money order office is at Rickmansworth .£625, with residence; the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell is INSURANCE AGENTs.-General Life ~ Fire, J. M. the incumbent, and the Rev. William Seymour curate. The Hughes; John Pope country around is richly wooded. Here is the seat of the Rev. PuBLIC ScHOOLS:- Lord Wriothesley Russell. There is a public school, for the Infant, Mrs. Clarke, mistress education of 40 boys and 40 girls; an Infant school for 40 National, James Dolman, master; Mrs. Harriet Hockley, children, and a school of industry. There is one Baptist mistress chapel. The objects of interest are the Mausoleum, the CoNVEYANCE.-Omnibuses from Chesham to Rickmans- burying place of the Bedford family; also the Old Manor worth station, calling at the 'Bedford Arms,' every morn- House, some six or seven centuries ago the residence of ing at 8.45, returning every evening at 7, sunday excepted Lord Chenies. The Duke of Bedford is lord of the manor. CARRIER TO LoNDON.-Daniel Brown, from his house to There are charities of about .£70 annual value, given by the Angel inn, Farringdon street, every monday & thurs­ the Dukes of Bedford. Here are IO almshouses, founded I day, returning every wednesday & friday Dodd :Mrs Armstrong Caroline (Mrs.), lilaker Glenister John, linen draper Forbes Misses, Woodside house Barr Thomas, BPdfm·d Arms inn HughesJohn Martin, tailor & beer retlr Parker Thomas, esq Beeson John, blacksmith Kemp John, beer retailer Ricards Charles Frederick, esq Body George, farmer, Lodg·e farm Kentish Jesse, shopkeeper Russell Rev. Lord Wriotbesleyfrector] Body William, farmer, l\iount farm Marshall James, butcher & farmer Seymour Rev. William [curate Brown Daniel, carrim• Warrell William, engineer \Vhittaker Mrs Bryant Mary (Mrs.), grocer Weston Henry, draper & grocer COMMERCIAL. Collins Thomas, boot & shoe maker Wilson Wm. farmer, Green Street farm .A.uthonyLetitia(Mrs.),straw bonnetma Dodd Elizabeth (Mrs.), miller & farmer CHESHAM, with ASHRIDGE, BELLINGDON, ASHLEY GREEN, BOTLEY, CHARTRIDGE, HUNDRIDGE, and WATERSIDE. CHESHAM derives its name from the river Chess, a feeder of well Hall. The town is improving, and the country around the river Colne, which flows through the town from two is beautifully diversified and very picturesque: it is spring heads, one in the park of William Lownues, Esq., famous for the growth of the beech tree, from which variou<~ and the other from Higham Mead, the property of George articles are made, such as malt shovels, brush blocks and Hepburn, Esq. The town consists of three streets. It is a covers, hoops in sizes, bowls, churn heads and cheese vats, post and markettown, in the hundred of Burnham, union and &c. In the town are two breweries, beside extensi vc rural deanery of Amersham, archdeaconry of Buckingham, manufactories for paper, silk, and shoes; straw plait is also nnd diocese of Oxford, distant by road from London 28 miles, manufactured here to a great extent. There is a considerable from Uxbridge 14, Amersham 3, Aylesbury 13, and Buck- trade in shoe making for the London market. Some copious ingham 30; and from the different stations-6 miles from springs near the town form a fine expanse of water, supply­ Eoxmoor, 5 from Great Berkhampstead, 8 from Tring, and ing the river Chess which falls into the Gade, near Rickmans- 12 from \Vatford. The church ot St. l\Iary is in the Gothic worth, working several paper and flour- mills on its course. style of architecture, and extremely ancient. The regis- Gas has been introduced into the town, and works built at ters date from 1538. The living is a vicarage, value .£550 3s., an estimated expense of about £2,200, raised in £10 shares. with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Bedford, who is The market for corn and cattle is held on Wednesdays, and impropriator of the great tithes; the Rev. Adolphus for straw and tuscan plaits on Saturdays; and annual fairs Frederick Aylward, M.A.1 of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, is on the 21st April, 22nd July, and 28th September, and one vicar. A new church in the Waterside hamlet, with 380 lately established for sheep on the second Wednesday in sittings, will shortly be opened. 'fhere are Dissenting November. J,ord Chesham, William Lowndes, Esq., and places ofworship for General, High Calvinistic, and Parti- Benjamin Fuller, Esq., are lords of the manor. The annual calar Baptists ; also one Independent chapel, and a Friends' charities in the parish amount to about £100. The popula­ Meeting House. Here is an excellent building for the Church tion in 1861 of town and parish was 5, 985; the parish school, and there are Free Sunday schools at all the Dis- contains 12,657 acres, chiefly arable; the soil is chalk, clay, senting chapels; and connected with the Dissenting places and flint. of worship are societies for visiting the sick at their AsHRIDGE and BEr.LINGDON are hamlets in the parish homes. There is an efficient Town Club for the poor of both of Chesham, the latter commencing at the verge of the sexes, for relief in times of sickness. The county court is town and extending a distance of 4 miles from Chesham. held in the Town Hall once a month. The district comprises AsHLEY GREEN is a hamlet in the parish of Ches~am, the following places :-Amersham, W oodrow, Berkhamp- situated on a. hill, about 3 miles from the town, and 2 from stead, Bovingdon, Chenies, Chesham, Chalfont, St. Giles, Berkhampstead. It is surrounded by several farms o~ con• Choulesbury, Coleshill, Flaunden, Great and Little Missen- siderable importance, and in Grove Farm are t~e r~mams of den, Hawridge, Lee, Nettleden, N orthchurch, and St. an old Danish fort· the walls and moat are still m a state Leonards. There is a Mechanics' Institute in the Town of preservation. Here is a Baptist chapel. There is also a hall, and a Temperance Hall in Church-street. A school for the education of poor children of both sexes, erected short distance from the town is a mineral spring, said to at the sole cost of Smith Dorien, Es'l., of Harestoot. T.be be very efficacious in scorbutic complaints; it is held by land is chieflv arable. shareholders. In the neighbourhood are the following BoTLEY is a hamlet in the parish of Chesham, corn• sea~ :-William Lowndes, Esq., .J,P., The Bury; Ger- mencing at the verge of the town, on the high road to Hemel mams, the residence of John Hale, Esq., 1 .P., and Black- Hempstead: it is long and straggling, extending about 2 .