DlllECTORY.] 487 . [BUCKS.] J arvis Charles, baker ·wingrove Robert, carpenter Penn Street. King William Garrett, butcher Wingrove Stephen, blacksmith Bayley Rev. Thomas, M.A. Parsonage Lacey Henry, carrier Wooster Louisa (~Irs.), baker Curzon Viscount, M.P. Penn house Larkin John, farmer, Penbury farm Knocklock's Green. George Mr. James Pusey William, Horse§; Groorn Coates Mr. Thomas COMMERCIAL. Randall Edmund, Bell COMMERCIAL. Carter Job, farmer Randall George, blacksmith Fladgate Robert, farmer, Gomm's farm Hancock & Perkins, farmers, lnkerman Rolfe George, Red Lion Graveney Wm. farmer, Sadgrove'sfrm Hickson Thomas, farmer~ Penn bottom Scott George, boot maker Reading William, farmer, Baylin's farm Randall George, blacksmith Shrimpton Saml. farmer, Parsonage frm W orster George, farmer Smith Michael, farmer Tilbury Frank, Crown, & bricklayer Forty Green. Taylor Jas. Hit§; Miss, & wheelwright Wheeler Edw:ird, baker Perfect Henry, farmer Ware Frederick, beer retailer Wheeler Zacariah, bricklayer Puddifoot Elizabeth (1\Irs. ), beer retlr W oodbridge Thomas, shoe maker

PITCHCOTT is a small village and parish, distant 7 tecture, was repaired in 1863, and com.ists of nave and miles north-west from , and 2 west from Whit­ chancel, with a square tower containing 3 bells at the church, in the hundred of , union and county west end. The living is a rectorv, annual value £310, with court district of Aylesbury, rural deanery of Claydon, arch­ residence, in the gift of the Saunders family; the Rev. deaconry of , and diocese of Oxford, situaterl on William Noble, M.A., is the incumbent. The population an eminence overlooking Aylesbury and the surrounding in 1861 was 36; the acreage is 924. country for many miles. The church of St. Giles, a Parish Clerk, John Evans. simple structure in the Early English style of archi- Noble Rev. William, M.A. [rector] Daucer :!\'lark, farmer throug:1 the A)'lesbury office at 9.30 COMMERCIAL. Vines John, farmer, l\fanor farm a.m. dispatched at 4 p.m. The nearest CurtisThomasSamuel,farmer,Low.farm Letters are received by messenger money order office is at Whitchurch

PlTSTONE (or PIGHTLESTHORNE) is a village and applied to the schools of the parish, which is appropriated to parish of considerable extent, about 7 miles in length, and the Sunday and Evening school&. There are also a mixed one mile in breadth, distant one mile from I vinghoe, 9 miles day school, and a dame school, with a house for the school­ from Aylesbury, and 32 from London, in the hundred of mistress. About a mile from the extensive park of Earl Cottesloe, union of Berkhampstead, county court district Brownlow, and within view of the splendid mansion, Asbridge of Aylesbury, rural deanery of , archdeaconry House, is a monument, erected in the year 1832, in honour of Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford. The church of of Francis, third Duke of Bridgwater, who has been denomi­ St. Mary is an elegant structure in the Decorated and Per­ nated the father of inland navigation. Ashridge was a pendicular styles of architecture: the interior is very neat; rich abbey, where Edward I. (1290) spent his Christmas it consists of nave, chancel, two aisles, and a tower at the and held a Parliament; and after the dissolution of the west end in which are 3 bells: the font is Norman, the base convent Queen Elizabeth resided there. The population in and basin escalloped, with a bold cable moulding between 1861 was 457 ; the acreage is 2,431. them; the rim is ornamented with roses : the pulpit is of Parish Cle1·k, John :Fenn. oak, elaborately carved, of the 17th century: there is a NETTLEDEN is n small hamlet belonging to the parish of tesselated brick floor in the chancel, supposed to beN orman, , or Pightlesthorne, 2~ miles south-east from Berk­ which was scattered about in various parts of the church, hampstead, and 3 south from Hemel Hempstead, in the but has been collected and placed in its present position. Cottesloe hundred, union of Berkhampstead, Chesham The earliest register dates from 1653. The living is a per­ county court district, rural deanery of Mursley, arch­ petualcuracy, value £172 per annum, in the gift of Earl deaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford. The Brownlow, and held by the Rev. Charles Ring Hutchinson, church of t\t. Lawrence is a neat structure, partly rebuilt li.A., of Hrasenose Colle~e, Oxford. The parish has been by the late Duke of Bridgwater: in the interior is an enclosed, and, by the enclosure award, the labouring poor elegant marble tablet to the memory of Robert Clark, Esq., have allotted to them, in lieu of their right of com­ many years auditor to the late Duke and Countess of monage, 3a. Or. lOp.; also an allotment of 4 acres Bridgwater. The benefice is a perpetual curacy, valued at for exercise and recreation. The London and North £58 per annum, in the gift of Earl Brownlow; the Rev. Western Railway and Grand Junction Canal intersect the George Spencer Cautley, 1\I.A., is the incumbent. The prin­ parish. The soil is very variable; considerable portions of cipal occupation of the villagers is the plaitin~ of straw. it are chalky and unfit for tillage, but other parts are The hamlet contains 780 acres of land, the property of Earl suitable for arable and pasture. Here is a Sunday school, Brownlow, with a population in 1861 of 124, including St. and an evening· and plaiting school. The late Countess of Margaret's. Bridgwater, by will, left the sum of £10 per annum to be Pitstone. Groom ,T ohn, farmer & carrier Williamson Humphrey, farmer Hutchinson Rev. Charles Ring, M.A. Hawkins John, farmer Letters through at 8 a.m. 'I'he COl\IMERCIAL, Jellis Thomas, Bell inn, & farmer nearest money order office is at Tring Beesley Francis, baker & miller Jellis William, Ship Nettleden. Blinco Moses, farmer Lloyd William, shoe maker Cautley Rev. George Spencer, li!.A. Collins John, farmer, Barley End farm MooreThomas, Chequers, & blacksmith [incumbent] CollyerJohn, shopkeeper Procter James, farmer, Church farm Gash William, blacksmith Darvill 'l'bomas, mealman Stevens William, shoe maker Letters received by foot post through Dimmock Wm. Chas. coal merchant Tompkins John, miller Hemel Hempstead, which is the nearest Gregory William, shopkeeper U :if William, wheelwright money order office

PRESTON BISSETT, with COWLEY. PRESTON BrssETT is a parish, in the hundred, union, and separates the counties of Buckingham and Oxford. rural deanery, arch deaconry and county court district of The soil is clay; the land is pasture and arable. The population Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford, 4 miles south from Buck- in 1861 was 469; the acreage is 1,455; rateable value, £2,7:29. ingham, 9 south-west from Bicester, 9 east from Winslow, Cow.LEY is a hamlet of and in the parish of Preston and 63 from London. The church of St. John the Baptist is Bissett, situated about one mile south-east from the village, supposed to have been built in the 14th century; it consists 9 miles south-west-by-west from Bicester, 41 south from of chancel, nave, aisles, and western tower with 2 bells; the Buckingham, and 9 east from "Winslow. style is Decorated: on the south side of the chancel there are Pari8h Clerk, John Bennett. double sedilia : there are three piscinre, one in the chancel and one in each aisle. The living is a rectory, rated in tl1e PosT OFFICE.-Richard Brassett, receiver. Letters arri'e King's Books at £11 9s. 4~d., annual value £457, with from Buckingham at 8 a. m.; dispatched at 4.45 p.m. week residence, in the gift of, and held by, the Rev. J. S. Bolden, days only. The nearest money order office is at Buckingham M.A. There is a charity of £100, the interest to be given to National School, W alter Baugham, master the poor yearly. The principal proprietors are James CARRIERS:- j\lorrison, Esq., of Basildon Park, Berks; 1\Irs. Russell, and William Thorpe, to ' Butchers' Arms,' Buckingham, & the Rev. J ohu S. Boltlen. Here is a Parochial Sunday and returns daily day school for boys and girls, supported by subscription. Christopher Cox, to Buckingham, daily Here is a small chapel belonging to the Primitive Metho­ - Dawney, to Buckingham, daily dists. A feeder of the river Ouse passes through the parish, William Haines, to Buckingham, mon. wed. & sat