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DIRECTORY. 45 MILTON ERNEST. (BEDS.] Kin!! John, farmer J Martendale Thomas, blacksmith I Philpot Thomas & Son, carpenters Linnell Thomas, farmer Osborn Thomas, farmer Willison John,' Greyhound' PosT 0FFICB.-Mrs. Eli~abeth Burrows, receiver. Letters arrive from.Woburn at 8 a.m.; dispatched at ! before 6 p.m MJ:LTON EBNEST is a small village, 5 miles north- family. There is also a day and Sunday school for poor north-west from Bedford, in the Hundred of Stodden children. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, and 6 almshousea and diocese of Ely. The living is a vicarage, value £275, for aged persons, endowed with land yielding an income in the gift of Charles Turner, Esq.; the Rev. Charles of £65 per annum. The Bedfordshire subscription Colyear Beaty Pownall, M.A., is the incumbent. The hounds are kept here. Population, in 1851, was 445; church, dedicated to All Saints, is a stone building, with acreage, 2,100; annual nlue of assessed property amounts tower, clock, and 5 beJls; in the interior, is a nave, aisles, to £2,000. The Countess or Bridgewater and Philip and chancel, and some ancient monuments to the Rolt Booth, Esq., are lord and lady of the manor. Pownall Rev. Charles Colyear Beaty, Brown Susanna (Mrs.),' Booth A.rm1' Lord George, parish clerk M.A. Vicarage Covington Joseph, shoeing smith Makbam George, wheelwright TRADERS. Crisp James & Benjamin, farmers Newall Edward, baker Ball James, miller & farmer Gibbins Pancras, brewer, maltster, Russell John Thomas,' Swan' :Ball John, farmer farmer, & assessor of taxes Russell Sophia (Mrs.), shopkeeper Bayley John, farmer Lamb James, farmer PosT 0FFICE.-William Mortimer, postmaster. Letters School, William Mortimer, master; Miss Mary Mor· received through Bedford at l past 9 a.m.; box closes :l timer, mistress to 4p.m CARRIER.-Thomas Alien, to & from Bedford, wed. & sat XEW MILL El\TD is a village, 3 miles south-east from lgguelden, M.A., is chaplain, who has a neat residence Luton, in the Hundred of Flitt and diocese of Ely. Here with £80 per annum for officiating. There is a Free is a chapel of ease, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, erected school for poor children, supported by the Ames family. a few years since by subscription. It is a square building, John Shaw Leigh, Esq., is lord of the manor and owner with portico and 2 small towers at the western of the greater part of the soil. The population is entrance. The interior is neatly fitted up, and contains a returned with East and West Hyde. gallery, in which is a small organ; the Rev. William H. lgguelden Rev. Wm. H. M.A. Vicarage· Dunham John,' Swan' Markham Thomas, beer retailer TRADERS. Gamby William, shoeing smith Meacher Edward, farmer Bassel .Edward, shopkeeper Jones John, miller Millard (Mrs.), schoolmistress :Broach James, 'Leather Bottle' Maiden Thomas, farmer Letters through Luton OMNIBus.-The Hatfield, to & from Luton, passes daily l\TOKTBILL, with t:he Hamlets of' BROOK. END, the gift of the Grocers' Company, or London. The church, BUDNA, 11PPEK and LOWER CALDBCOTB, dedicated to St. Mary, is a noble building, with square ICKWELL, and THORl\TCOTE. tower, nave, aisles and 5 bells, and slated roof, which has N ORTHILL is a village iu a very large parish, including recently undergone repairs. John Harvey, Esq., of Ickwell the hamlets of BROOK. END, BUDNA, UPPER and LoWER Bury, is lord or the manor; the mansion is substantially CALDECOTE, HATCH, ICKWELL, and THORNCOTE, 3! built. There is a National school for boys and girls, miles west-north-west from Biggleswade and 48 from Lon- recently founded by the parishioners. The acreage of don, in the Hundred of Wixamtree, Union of Biggleswade, N orthill, with its hamlets, is about 5,000; the population, and diocese of Ely. The living is a rectory, value .£400, in in 1851, was 1,364. l\Torthlll. WagstaffThomas, farmer, Brookend Wagstaff John, gardener Taddy Rev. John, x.A. [rector] Young Thomas, shopkeeper, Hatch WagstaffWm. beer retailer& gardener TRADERS. Caldecote. Wale Robert, gardener Ball James, gardener GENTRY. Webb Thomas,' Rose 1t Crown' Bowers John, farmer Atterton Mrs. Mary Letters through Big-gleswade. Burton William, farmer Bryant James, esq. the Grange :rckwell. Uooper John, gardener Inskip George, esq GENTRY. Course Geo. blacksmith & wheelwright Pawlett Miss Elizabeth Clark Mrs. Sarah, Ickwe11 green Davies John Crout, farmer TRADERS. Harvey John, esq. Ickwell bury Freeman Amos, basket mkr. Brook end Balls Josepb, jun. gardener Harvey Mrs. Susannah, Ickwell house Garner John, beer retailer & carpenter Balls Joseph, sen. gardener TRADERS. Green Thomas, shoemaker Bates James, farmer & gardener Course George, blacksmith &; wheelwri Holmes William, farmer, Highland llall Bone William, gardener Davies John Cront, farmer · Masters Geo.frmr.Leasows farm~Budna Chandler Robert, gardener Enders by Saml. farm bailiff, Wood farm Nicholas Charles,' Crown' Dillamore Henry,jun. farmer Green Thomas, shoemaker Pope William, farmer, Budna Dillamore Henry sen. farmer Hensby Samuel, farm bailiff Rolfe Thomas Eaton, shopkpr. & tailor Dillamore James, farmer Jefferies Edward, farmer Ross John, gardener, Hatch Lee Joseph, gardener Owen Charle8, farmer & butcher Sargeant James, farmer, Hatch Lovell William, beer retailer Pope Thomas, gardener Sims Thomas, carpenter, Brook end Masters James, grocer & beer retailer Wbiteman John, carpenter Tate James, farmer Norman Mark John, farmer Whiteman Samuel, carpenter Wagstaff Mary(Mrs.), beerrtlr. Hatch Odell James, beer retailer Woodward John, grocer WaplesJohn,grocer,draper,ironmonger, Odell John, farmer & gardener Letters through Biggleswade oil&; colorman, & dealer in british Owen Charles, farmer & cattle dealer Thorncote. wines,& agent to the Globe fire & life Pope Mark Nesfield, 'King's Head' Fuller David, farmer insurance, & post office Shelton George, gardener Fuller Edward, farmer Whiteman John, farm bailiff, Dead- Tingey James, sen. farmer & gardener Gillions Thomas, farmer man's oak farm Tingey James,jun. gardener Letters through Biggleswade PosT OFPICE.-John Waples, postmaster. Letters received CARRIER.-Mrs. Ann Spencer, from Biggleswade, wed. & through Biggleswade at 20 min. past 9 a.m.; dispatched sat. returning same days 5 min. to 6 p.m OAK:LET is a small viiJage, about 4 miles north-west bridge with 6 arches. The tillage has been visited with from Bedford and 7 north-east from Newport Pagncll, in heavy :floods, one in Nov., 1823, which rose 6 feet above Stodden Hundred, Bedford Union, and Ely diocese; the the road for miles round, and the other in Nov., 1852, river Ouse runs through it, and turns a mill, above which doing serious damage in this and the surrounding vil the river is- strictly preserved by order of the Duke of lages. Oakley House, the residence of the Duke of Bed Bedford. Over this river is a very old-fashioned stone Cord, i:J pleasantly situate in the centre of the parish. .