DIRECTORY.] BEDFORDSHIRE. EATON SOCON. 93 Henderson Edward, beer retailer Roberts Arthur Richard, farmer & Thorn Jabez, butcher Henley William, duck breeder, High street carting contractor Thorn Richard, harness maker Heys Thomas, White Horse P.H RoIlings Wm. beer retailer, Bower lane Thorn William, harness maker Holme.s David, baker & fruit grower Ruffett Louis, farmer Tompkins Amos, straw piait delle!", Holmes Frederick, mealman, Moor end Sanders J ames, chimney sweeper, High st Moor end Rorton James Frederic, butcher Sanders James, egg merchant, Moor end Tompkins Ezra, duck breeder Rorton WaIter, farmer, Comp farm Scott George, carrier, Moor end Turner Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Jackson William, farmer, The Rye Scott John, beer retailer Turner John, insurance agent Knight James, shopkeeper, Bower lane Seaton Charles, Plough P.H Tooley Frederick, miller Mead Arthur, butcher, Summerlays Sharratt Jeffery & Sons, builder & farmer Vardon Percy C. W. (clerk to the Council Neville Richard, tailor, Northall road Tearle Alfred, boot & shoe maker & assistant overseer) Newman Charles, baker, Summerlays Tearle Frederick, egg mer. Vine cottage Varney Henry, duck breeder, School lane Pearson Charles, shopkeeper, Moor end Tearle William, straw plait dealer & Wallace William Edmund, nurseryman, .Pratt Frederick Geo. farmer, Poplar farm carrier, Church end florist & fruit grower Pratt George, beer retailer, Bower lane Thorn Alfred, draper, grocer & flour & Wildman David, bricklayer Pratt Jeffery, carter, Moor end corn merchant Wood James, farmer PuddehotGeorge, carter, The Rye Thorn Charles, butcher 'Nood John, hay & straw merchant Puddefoot Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer EATON SOCON is an extensive parish, on the borders This parish contains 20 miles of road. The population in 1901 of Huntingdonshire, and the Great North road which passes was, including 10 officers and 99 inmates in St. Neots work­ through the village; the navigable river Ouse. flowing on the house, 2,080. .east, divides this parish from St. Neots, and is crossed at Beggary, 3 miles west-by-south; Bushmead, 4 west-by­ Eaton Ford by a stone bridge of three arches, built in 1589 north; Crosshall, It north; Duloe, I! north; Eaton Ford, from the ruins of the Priory of St. Neots, and connecting I north-by-east; Honeydon, 2 west; Staploe, 2 north-west; this county with Huntingdonshire. The parish is in the Upper Staploe, 2 north-west and lVyboston, It south-west, Northern division of the county, Bedford petty se.ssional are hamlets. division, hundred of Barford, union and county court district Parish Clerk, George Fh1wn. of St. Neots, rural deanery of Eaton, archdeaconry of Bedford Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., E. D., P. P. & A. and diocese of Ely; the village is 2! miles west from Rt. & I. Office.-Mrs. Emma Ann Drake, sub-postmistress. Neots station on the main line of the Great Northern railway, Letters arrive from St. Neots, Hunts, at 7 & 11.30 a.m. 11 north-east from Bedford, 10 south-west from Huntingdon & 7.25 p.m; dispatched at 11.45 a.m. & 3.30, 7.20, 8 & and 55 from London by road. Part of the parish has been 9 p.m. On sundays there is only one delivery at 7 a.m. & lighted since 1893 by oil lamps, the expense being defrayed one dispatch at 7 20 p.m by subscriptions. The church of St. Mary is a noble edifice Post Office, Wyboston.-Samuel Brown, sub-postmaster, of the Perpendicular period, consisting of chancel, clerestoried Letters arrive from St. Neots, Hunts, at 4.30 a.m.; delivered nave of five bays, aisles and a western embattled tower con­ at 7 a.m.; dispatched 7 p.m. Postal orders are issued taining 6 bells and a clock with chimes: the church was restored here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph in 1868, the parishioners and others having subscribed about office is at Eaton Socon, 2 miles distant. Letters for Bush­ £2,700 for the work, carried out under the direction of Messrs. mead, Duloe, Eaton Ford & Staploe are delivered from the Cory and Ferguson, architects, of Carlisle: the rood-loft stairs St. Neots office remain, and an ancient carved chancel screen with a modern Wall Letter Boxes, Eaton Ford, cleared at 10.10 & 11.55 cornice; there are also some fragments of old oak carving a.m. & 3.35 & 8.15 p.m. ; Stl1ploe, cleared at 8.30 a.m. & in the aisles and fragments of stained glass: the font is oc­ 5.30 p.m. week days only tagonal and coeval with the church: there are brasses to John Coesgrave and wife, c. 1400; and a female effigy, worn, EATON SOCON RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. c. 1450: the communion plate bears date 1609: the church NIeet the first thursday in every month, when following a affords 460 sittings. The register dates from the year 1556. Board day, at 2.30 p.m. at the Union offices, New street, St. The living i8 a vicarage, net yearly value £210, including 20 Neots acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1883 The parishes in the district are :-Dean, Eaton Socon. Perten­ by the Rev. Thomas Reginald Horley M.A. of Emmanuel hall, SheIton, Staughton (Great), Staughton (Little) & College, Cambridge, and chaplain of St. Neots union. The Swineshead Wesleyan chapel here was built in 1850, and will hold 300 per­ Chairman, Tom William Stocker, Staploe, St. Neots sons. There is also a 'Vesleyan chapel at Honeydon. built Clerk, John Adams Ennals. New street, St. Neots in 1872, with 50 sittings; a Primitive Methodist chapel at Treasurer, Charles .Tohn Desbol'ough, Huntingdon Eaton Ford, built in 1870, with 250 sittings; another at Medical Officer of Health. Thomas Poyntz Wright M.R.C.S. Wyboston, built in 1870, and seating 150; and at Staploe Eng. New street, St. Neots a Gospel hall, built in 1884, with 50 sittings. The poor's Sanitary Inspectors••Tames Edey, St. Neots & John Brown, land of 12 acres produces £25 yearly. Bushmead Priory, Great Staughton surrounded by a park of about 100 acres, in which there are remains of a camp, is the seat of William Hugh 'Vade- St. Neots Union Workhouse, Eaton Ford, in this parish, was Gery esq.: the priory was founded temp. Henry n. by Hugh erected in 1842 at a cost of £8,145, & is available for 338 Beauchamp for canons of the order of St. Au:;u'ltine, and paupers; additional rooms for infirmary &; bedroom" were dedicated to the Virgin Mary; it was valued at from £71 added in 1878 at a oost of £1,500; Rev. Thoma8 Reginald to £8], and was granted 29 Henry VIII. (1537-8) to Sir William Horley M..\. chaplain; Arthur Cromack Turner L.R.e.-p. Gascoyne: much of the conventual buildings remain, but Lond. medical officer; Caarles Nettleship White, master; the front of the mansion is of red brick and of modern date. Near the churnh a,re som!'! mounds of earth where a cailtle is Mr'l. Mary Jane White, matron said to have stood. Frank Day esq. M.A. of St. Neots, who A School Board of five members was formed Dec. 23, 1872; ;s lord of the manor, 'Vm. Hugh Wade-Gery esq. of Bushmead Francis George Butler, EatonFord, clerk to the board; Priory, Arthur John Thornhill esq..Lp. of Diddington Hall, Joseph Billington, attendance officer Hunts, Thomas Addington esq. and Miss Nanny Squire are Board School (mixed), erected in lR60, for 400 children; the principal landowners. The soil is rich loam: subsoil, average attendance, 240; Thomas Waiter Huckle, ma.'1ter; gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. Mrs. Agnes Huckle, mistress The area is 7,557 acres of land, a great part being cultivated by Carriers.-.James Goss, to St. Neots railway station, daily, & market gardeners, and 45 of water; rateable value, £1l,200. William Bell, from Staploe to St. Neots, on thurs EATON SOCON. IPeppercorn Col. John Hutchinson Cook Edward, tailor Fiennes, Manor house Cooper Jane (Miss), milliner & dressmaker PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Sanders John Daniels George, farmer, Little End Brackenbury A. B. Ock.vells Stephenson Mrs. White house Dawson Sarah, Virtue & Ada (Misses), Darby J ames C Wagstaff Alfred T seamstresses Dawson Miss Wilkinson Mrs Day Frank, frmr. & landowner, Tithe farm Elgood George COMMERCIAL. Day John, coal dealer Gay Kenneth, Acacia lodge Arnold David, market gardener Day Thomas. carpenter & hurdle maker Glossop John Rhodes, Fernleigh BarnardElizabeth(Mrs.),WhiteHorsep.H Drake Emma Ann (Mrs.), grocer & Goodgames Mrs. The Limes Barnes Alfred, ch;mney sweeper, see draper, Post office Harris Rev. William (curate) Holley & Barnes Draper William, George & Dragon P.H Horley Rev. Thomas Reginald M.A. Barnes Christopher, carter Eaton Bedfordshire Brewery Co. Limited (vicar & chaplain to St. Neots union), Barnet Robert John, hairdresser Fletcher Edward, higgler Vicarage Billington Jsph. school attendance officer Flowerdew Dinah (Mrs.), beer retailer, Rorley Mrs. Ivy house Bishop William Rosamond, baker &; Acreman street Hulneck Robert mealman; steam bread bakings care- Giblett Henry, hawker McNish Ellwood, Field cottage fully attended to; offals of all kinds, Goodes Charles, machinist Marshall Samuel, sen. The Elms Steam bakery Gray John, baker &:; mealman • Nightingale Miss, Retreat Cambers James, bricklayer Ha.le John, toy dealer & hawker.