DIRECTORY. J . .MILL END. 185 Rowdon. Here is a Baptist chapt>l with 150 and a Public Elementary School for Long Marston & Putten­ Wesleyan chapel with 120 sit-tings. One acre of land ha.m (mixed), built in IB75• for 130 children; average st was given to the parish in 1898 by Lord attendance, go; Miss Hannah Ann Pamment, m is· Rothschild for use as a cemetery, of which one-half is tress; D. Whiting, , attendance officer consecrated ground. The principal landowners are Lord Correspondent, Rev. H. M. Rowdon, The Vicarage Rothschild P.C., G.C.V.O.; thP Dean and Chapter of Railwav Station. Marston Gate, William Lee, statioi:l • Christ Church, Oxford, J. G. Williams esq. of Pendley ma,.ter, L. & N. W. Ry. Aylesbury branch Manor, and the Rev. H. M. Rowdon. The soil is loam, chal)!: and clay. The crops are wheat, oats and barley. WILSTONE is a small hamlet and chapelry of Long The population of Long Marston, Gubblecote and Betlow Marston and united by an Order in Council, June, tgto, lordship is now included in Tring Rural. The area of from which it is 1! milPs south-east, and 6! east from Tring Rural parish is 3,406 acres of land and 128 of Aylesbury. The village is pleasantly seated in a valley water; rateable value, £4,647; the population in I9II under the hills, on the Aylesbury braneh of the Grand was69o. · Junction canal. The church of St. Cross, built and In June, 1910, parts of Tring and were added opened in 1877, and consecrated June 12th, 1913, is an to Long Marston for ecclesiastical purposes. edifice of flint and brick, in the Early English style, consisting at present of a. ·nave only, seating about 200 B~TLOW is a lordship within the district, containing persons. There is a small Baptist chapel, seating 120. t~bout 1,ooo acres, owned by the Earl of Rosebery K.G., • K.T., P.C. Post Office. George Hanwell, sub-postmaster. Letters Parish Clerk, Charles Reeves. arrive from Tring at 7.40 a.m. & 4.50 p.m. (to callers Post Office. Joseph Arthur Reed, sub-postmaster. Let­ only); dispatched at 7.40 a.m. & 6.35 p.m.; sundays, ters through Tring; deliveries at 8 a.m. ; sundays, 8 10.55 a.m. The nearest telegraph & money order a.m.; dispatched 6.5 p.m. from the village & at office is at Tring, nearly 3 miles distant 7.20 p.m. from the pillar box at :\Iarston Gate rail­ Harts Constabulary, Frederick King, constable way station; sundays, 10.30 a.m. Cheddington, 2 Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1847• for miles distant, is the nearest money order &; tele­ Ioo children ; -average attendance, 68 ; Mrs. Ruth graph office Ainsworth, mistress Wall Box at Gubblecote, cleared at 7.50 a.m. & 6.25 Attendance Officer, D. Whiting, Tring p.m.; sundays, 10.45 a. m Corresponrlent, Rev. H. M. Rowdon

. LO~G MARSTON. Hooges John Bates, farmer, Boars•! Ro'll"don Rev. Hugh ~Iarmaduke, croft farm COlUIERCB.L. ncarage Henley Frederick, bailiff to · Lord Bethell William & Son, blacksmiths CO::UMEBCIAL. Rothschild P.C., G.C.V.O Carter Malcolm George, shopkeeper Bethell' Wm. & Sons, cycle repairers Kidston Filmer M. frmr . .A.ldwick frm Cartwright Waiter, Half Moon P.H Chandler James & Son, builders Mullis John, boot & shoe maker Cartwright William, beer retailer Chapman Carolina (Mrs.), farmer, Oakley Mary (~Irs.),frmr. Whittle fm Denchfield Thomas Charles, shopkeepr Red house Reed Joseph .A..rth. grocer, Post office Gregory GeorgP, farmer, Chapel & Chapman J oseph, poultry dealer Roberts William, beer retailer Church farms • {)hapman Thomas, farmr. Folly farm Rodwell &; Chapman, farmers, Church Hanwell George, baker, Post office Chapman Waiter, farmer, Broadmead farm Jeffery William Frederick, coal mer- farm Smith William,OldQueen's Head P.H chant, Canal bridge Gregory Ann (Mrs.), baker Southernwood William Boyer,farmer, Mead Percv Edward, farmer, Gubble- Gregory Edwd.farmer,Old Church fJll College farm cote farm Gregory Ernest George, butcher Stewart Daniel, Rose & Crown P.H ~ewman William, farmer, College Gregory Herbert, builder farm, Gubblecote Gregory James, farmer WILSTONE. Proctor Lewis, thatcher Harrowell Ernest, farmer, Loxley frm Woodman Hy.• farmr. Wilstone Gt. fm Haynes Georgina (Mrs.), White Hart Leighton Rev. Thomas Leighton M.A. Working Men's Club (William Maple. P.H - (curate) cnretaker) is a parish on the Essex border of the Pembroke S. Stephens esq. K.C. and held since 19II county, 6! miles north-east from terminal by the Rev. Charles Henry Spurrell ~LA. of Corpus station on the Great Eastern railway and 9! miles south­ Christi College, Cambridge. The rent of a field nampd east from Royston, in the Northern division of the Town Close (about £2 annually), bequeathed in x867 county, Edwinstree hundred, .Albury petty sessional divi­ by Edward Young D.D. dean of Exeter, is given to thM sion, Buntingford union, Royston county court district, poor of the parish. Baron DimsdaJ.e J.P. who is l()rd and in the rural deanery of Buntingford and arch deaconry of the manor, and the :Marquess of Salisbury P.C., and diocese- of St. Albans. The population is at Meesden G.C.V.O., C.B. are the principal landowners. The soiL Green. from which the church is half a mile east. The is heavy; subsoil. clay. The chief crops are wheat, church of St. Mary is a small and ancient building barley, beans and peas. The area. is 1,009 acres; rat-e­ of Dint., erected probably in the 13th century, but with able value, £849; the population in 1911 was 144· some features of earlier date, consisting of chancel, Parish Clerk, Charles Sell. nave, south porch of red brick, and a western turret Letters through Buntingford, Herts, arrive at 8.30 a.m. containing 2 bells, dated 1877: the pavement of tht> sacrarium, composed of vitrified tiles of various colours, & 12.20 p.m. Wall Letter Box in school play-ground. cleared at 1.25 & p.m. also Letter Box at the appears to be of great antiquity and is the most interest­ 5 Rec· ;ng feature in the church: in the chancel is a monument tory cleared at 12.20 & 5·5 p.m. The nearest tele­ graph & money order office is at , li to Robert Young, gent. ob. J626: the church was miles distant Pntirely restored in 1877• the chancel at the expense of the Rev. F. Budge M . .A.. a former rector, and the nave Public Elementary School (mixed), built about Il374• by W. Rolfe esq. at a total cost of £I,soo: there are 1oo for 40 children; average attendance, 34; .Miss Gwen­ 11ittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates dolen M. Whiffen, mistress; ~Iiss Edith i\1. Anthony, from 1737; marriages, I795· The living is a rectory, assistant net yearly value £rgo, including Ioo acres of glebe, Correspondent. Rev. C. H. Spurrell, The Rectory. with residence, in the gift of the tiu;;tees of the late ~leesden

• COMMERCIAL • George William, farmer, Rectory frm . PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Abrams .A.lbert. gamekeeper to Baron Holland John, gardener to Baron Dimsdale Baron Charl~;o Robert Dimsdale Dimsdale South-well B.A., J.P. Meesden mnr Abrams Harry, foreman to Mr. J. Lay Waiter, Beehive P.H Spurrell Rev. Charles Henry ~L~. Sparrow, ·Manor farm Mace Herbert Harry, gamekeepe:- to (rector), Rectory Flack Thos. g-ardener to Rev. C. H. E. E. Ba!'Flay esq. M.A., J.P ~ SpurrPll Prime Frank, fa.nner, Meesdenbur" Fox Charles, Fox P.H - - . MILL END is a village and ecclesiastical parish, mile! south-west from , in the Western division formed 29 June, 1875, out of Rickmansworth and Chorley of the oounty, Cashio hundred, Watford petty ses­ Wood ; tiD.e village is near tht- Colne, on the road from sional division, union and county court district. and 1 Uxbridge to Rickmansworth. about r mile south-west in the rural deanerv• of Watford and archdeaconry and from Rickmanswort.h station on the London and North diocese Of St. A.lbans. The church of St. Peter, erected at Western railway and half a mile from the Rickmansworth a cost, including organ and fittings, of about £4,ooa. 1tatien en the Metropolitan E-xtension railway, and 4 aad consecrated in 1875• is a building of flint with ston~

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