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GREAT A~J) } DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. { LITTLE KIMBLE. 117 Selby-Lovrndes Meyrick Edward esq. Mursley grange, Police Station, John Newman, sergeant-in-charge & :z Winslow constables The chairmen for the time being of the Linslade Urban Town Hall, John N Bwman, keeper & Wing Rural District Councils, are ex-officio magis PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services. trates St. Mary's Church, Rev. Treffry Harvey M. A. vicar; Clerk to the Magistrates, Charles Wallace B. Calcott, II a.m. & 6 p.m. ; holy communion 8, 2nd & 4th Leighton Buzzard sundays, mid-day rst & 3rd Baptist, IO. 30 a. m. & 2 & 6 p.m PBt<y Sessions are held for Ivinghoe sub-divi<!ion of WeslByan, Ivinghoe, 2.30 & 6 p.m Lins~ade petty sessional division in the Town hall, on Wesleyan, Horton, 2.30 & 6 p.m } Leighton Buz- the last saturday in every month at 11 a.m Wesleyan, Ivinghoe Aston, 2.30 & 6 p.m zard circuit The following places are in the Ivinghoe sub-division: i:lalvation Army, Ivinghoe, various Cheddington, Dagnall, 'Edlesborough, Horton, Iving Elementary School (mixed & infants), built in 1865, for hoe, Ivinghoe Aston, Marsworth, Northall, Pitstone & 200 children ; average attendance, 102; Arthur Hann, Slapton I mastBr; Mrs. J ane Kentish. infants' mi!!tress lVINGROE. Heley George, pi umber Town Hall (John Newman, keeper) Dillirnore James Thomas, The Den Horn Edwin, shopkeeper Turney Ambro.se, baker Elliott Arthur, Warwick house Jellis Charles, farmer & miller (water) Harris Mrs Kt-able James William, blacksmith . ROR"'ION. Harvey Rev. Treffry M . .A. Vicarage iron fence maker Buckmaster ChristophBr, Horton house Roberts Henry Mann Parradine Charles, duck brdr .& drymn Brandom James, farmer Wisdom Charles S. Ivinghoe house Parsons John, tailor Buckmaster Christopher, farmer COMMERCIAL. Payne Robert, beer retailer Cook Davi'' Noah, King's Head P.H Andrews Jane (Miss), shopkeeper, Pickering George Thvmas, King's Ruff Jame~;, grazier Post office Head hotel Bailey Margaret (Mrs.), farmer, Vicar- Putnam Arthur George, shopkeeper IVINGROE .ASTOX. a~ farm Roberts & Wilson, brewers & malt- Ashby Waiter (exors. of), farmers Bates Henry. boot & shoe maker sters, Ivinghoe brewery Brigginshaw Frederick, shopkeeper Bonham Frederick, coal dealer Rogers Alfred, coal dealer Draper Charles, bBer retailer Cato Caroline (Mrs.), beer retailer Rogers Frederick, farmer Horn Ethered, grazier De~ley Louis. carpenter Rogers Fred (Mrs.), apartments Y!uirhead James, grazier Do\:imore Arthur, baker Rog-ers William. carpBnter, & registrar Ruffett Ellen (:Miss), grazier Elliott Phillip, butcher, draper & shop- of births & deaths for the Ivinghoe Sanders William, grazier & carrier sub-district, Leigh ton Buzzard keeper • Seabrook David, Swan P.H Emmerson Amos, shopkeeper un10n Warren Frank, farmer, Grove farm Franklin Frederick, boot maker Seamons Alice (Miss), apartments Gale Agnes (Miss). farmer Simmons J esse Thomas, Brownlow SE!.BROOK. Green William J. cycle agent Arms P.H Archer Ernest George, farmer Heley Andw. frmr. & insurance agent Simons William, duck breeder Simmons John, farmer GREAT and LITTLE KIMBLE form a parish in Marsh, 2! miles, and Kimble Wick, 2! miles north the Mid division of the county, hundred, pBtty sessional west are ham]e,ts. At Marsh is a small Mission room, division and county court district of AyleS'bury, union of huilt in r8g4, and seating about 70 persons ; services are Wycombe, rural deanery of Ayles1bury, archdeaconry of conducted here at 6 p.m. on the 3rd Sunday in the month Buckingh!IJD and diocese of Oxford. By a Local Govern and I0.30 a.m. on the 4th Sunday by the rector. A ment Order, dated March 25, rBB5, all the ·parish of reading-room was also added in 1897· Little Kimble and a part of Little Hampden were amal Sexton, Benjamin Darvill. gamated with Great Kimble, the parish to be designated Great and Little Kimble. Great Kimble is a quarter of Letters through Tring by foot messenger from Butler's a mile south-eaSit from Litt;6 Kimble station, on the Cross arrive at 8 a.m. & a second delivery from Aylesbury branch of the Great Western railway, 3! PrincBs Risborough at 1.20 p.m. Wall Letter Box, mi·es west-south-west from Wendover, and 6 south from 1 by the church, cleared at rr.r5 a.m. & 1.50 & 6.20 Aylesbury. 'flhe churdh of St.· Nicholas, situated on an ; p.m. week days & 4.50 p.m. sundays. The nearest em:nence and thoroughly restored and reseated in 1876-Br · money order & telegraph office is at Butler's Cross, at a cost of [3,543, is an ancient embattled building of Ellesborough, about r~ miles distant flint and stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chan cel with aisles of two bays, nave of four bays, aisles, Elementary School for Great & Little Kimble, built about; south porc-h and a large embattled western tower, with 1837, for go children; averag0 attendance, 8o; JohiLJ a corbel table of heads supporting the parapet and con Mackaig, master - taining 6 bells : in the chancel is a handsome window, Carrier to Ay~esbury. John Spittles, wed. & sat painted 'by Sir Robert Frankland-Russell bart. of Thirk leby, Yorkshire, who died rrth March, 1849: others to . ){rs. Frankland-Russell Astley, Rev. John Steward, a LITTLE KIMBLE is a village, with a station on the· former vicar, and one erected in I 8g2, by the parishioners Aylesbury branch of the Great Western railway, 3 miles and friends, to the Rev. Edward Keating Clay B.A. west-by-south from Wendover, 2~ north-north-east from vicar r87B-91; the font is Norman and richly carved: a Princes Risborough and 5~ south from Aylesbury. The chapel has been added 'by the present vicar as a church of All Saints, Little Kimlble, is a small but an memorial to his mother, Mrs. Marianne Hobart, and cient building of stone, probably dating from the end of was consecrated by the Bishop of Oxford in r()o4 : therB tfue 13th century, and chiefly in the Decorated style : it are 200 sittings. A large tumulus behind the church, consists of chancel, nave, north and south porches and a called "Dial hill," was opBned by the late vicar in rBB7, bell gable at the west end containing 2 bells; the ea&t and found to be an ancient burial place, in which SOIIIle a'nd west windows are stained, and on the north side of relics were met with. The register dates from the the chancel is a memorial window to the Rev.; Samuel year r664. The living is a rectory and vicarage, amal Thomas Chapman, rector here from 1810: five oth61' J!'amated in 1903, joint net yearly value £265, in windows in the church retain fragments of ancient stained clnding the rental of the rectory of Little Kimble and glass: the pu:pit, reading-desk and open soeats a.re Df 16o acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the oak : on the walls of the nave are some ancie'nt paintings, Earl of Euckin~hamshire, and held since r8gr by the now nearly dbliterated; the floor Df the chancel retaiD.II Rev. Arthur Kennet Hobart-Hampden M.A. of New some ancient tiles, much defaced : there are two piscinre, College, Oxford. There are 4a. 2r. 3op. for the benefit one in the ea<lt wall and the other in the south wall of of the poor. G. H. D. Frankland-Russell Astley esq. the nave: the font i.s a:so ancient: the church was re who is lord of the manor, George Ball esq. of 61 Buck stored and reseated in rB75-6, at a cDst of £r,300 and ingham road, Aylesbury, the Earl of Buckinghamshire. affords 70 sittings. The register dates from the year and Lord Rothschild P.C., G.C.V.O. are the principal 16_')7, but is very imperfect Th~ living is a. rectory, landowners. The soil varies ; on the hig-h lands, chalk united to the vicarage of Great K im blP.. Here is a and flints; lowlands, stiff clay; subsoil, chiefly clay. Dissenting chapel, which serves for all denominations. The chief crop!! are wheat, beans, barley and oats; a The poor's allotment consists of xa. 2r. of land. Lady great portion of the lowlands is pasture. The area is "Mede, the property of Henry Vivian Gibson-Craig esq. 3·4II ac1es of land and 4 of water; rateable value, J.P. is now the residrnce of James Daniell esq. {.3,927; the population in rgoi was 503. .