BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY's and Brick, with a Belfry Containing One Bell, and Affords HAMBLEDEN RURAL DISTRICT OOONCIL
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\1~ HAMBLEDE~. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY's and brick, with a belfry containing one bell, and affords HAMBLEDEN RURAL DISTRICT OOONCIL. 144 sittings. Here is also a small Gospel Hall. PAR Meets at the Institute, on the first Monday in every ~IOOR is 2 milPs north-east; Frieth is 2~ miles north month (except May & August), at ro.3o a.m. east; MILL END one mile south; ROCKWELL END is r! miles north-east ; PHEASANTS HILL is half a The district comprises the following parishes :-Fawley, mile north and has a Congregational chapel, built in Hambleden. & Medmenham. The area is n,253 acres; r3Io, and seating 200 .persons. rateable Yalue, Sept. 1914, £15,759; the population ia Parish Clerk, John White. 19II was 1,975 Sexton, John White Chairman, Charles J. Bar nett, Mill End, Hambleden Sexton (Frieth), William Lathan. Post, M. 0. & T. &J Telephonic EXtPress Delivery Office. Officials. -Miss lda P. White, sub-postmistress. Letters are Clerk, Artlmr Richard Lloyds, Bank chambers, 12 Hart; received through Henley-on-Thames at 6-45 a.m. & street, Henley-on-Thames 12-40 p.m.; dispatchPd at 8-45 a.m. & 1.10 & 6.30 Treasurer, John Simonds, Bank, Henley-on-Thames p.m.; sund:1ys, arrive 7.15 a.m.; dispatched rr.35 MPdical OfficPr of Health, John Dun bar Dickson M.D , a.m M.Ch R.U.L, L.R.(j.S.I. The Gables, Marlow Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Greenlands.-William Turnham, s~.nitary Surveyor, W. Wing, Caversham sub-postmaster. Letters are received through Hen Sanitary lnsp~ctor, E. V. Ives, 12 Hart street, Henley ley-on-'l'hames; delivery commences at 7 a.m. & on.-Thames 12. ro p.m.; sundays, 7 a.m. ; cleared for dispatch at Highway Surveyor, Percival Keene,The Roost,Hambledea 1.40 & 0.45 p.m.; 12.5 p.m. on sundays Post Office, Skirmett.-Mrs. William Turton, sub-post Assessor & Collector of Taxes & Assistant Overseer, mistress. Letters arrive from Henley at 8 a.m. & Henry Harper, Pheasants Rill 1.45 p.m.; dispatched at 11.45 a.m. & 6 p.m.; sun Clerk to Hambleden Sub-Committee of Bucks Local. days, arrive 8.15 a.m.; dispatched 10.40 a.m. Frieth, Pension Committee, Arthur Richard Lloyds, Bank about 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & chambers, Hart strPet, Henley-on-Thames telegraph office Po~t, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, Elementary Schools. Frieth. Ephraim Robert Webb, sub-postmaster. Let ters arrive from Henley-on-Thames at 8.25 a.m. ,& Hambleden, built in 1837, & rebuilt in 1897-9 by Viscount Hambleden, for r8o children; with an en 2.25 p.m. ; dispatched II a..m. & 5.30 p.m Wall Letter Boxes: -Mill End, cleared at 1.30 & 6-40 dowment of £5 a year; Harold P. Heath, master p.m. & sundays at n.5o a.m. ; Pheasants Hill, cleared Frieth, built in r865, enlarged in 1873 & again in r88r, 153 at ri.I5 a.m. & 5.5o p.m.; sundays, 10.30 a.m.; for children; Albert E. Derry, master Skirmett (infants'), built in 1857, for 30 children; Miss Rockwell End, cleared at I I. ro a.m. & 5·35 p.m.; Florence Dell, mistress sundays, ID-45 a.m.; Oolstrope, cleared at 12.20 & 6.15 p.m. ; sundays, 11.20 a.m Carrier to Henley-Francis Sherlock, daily (except wed) Turnham William, gardener & farm • IIAMBLEDEN. 1 Bet>ver William Frederick Halt B. A.., J.P. agent to Viscount Harnbleden, bailiff to Viscount llam bled en, Po~t PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Yewden office, Greenlands .A.cland Theodore Varnells Belgrove Richa,rd, farmer,Rotten Row Vivian Harry, farmer, Oolstrope farm Barnett Charles James, Mill end Biggs Alfred, grocer White Sydney, laundry, Pheasants m Beales Hnbert G. D. Huttons Olark Thos. Giles,frmr. Rockwell End Wight James W. beer retailer Beever William Frederick Holt B.A., Gollinson George, gamekeeper to F. J. Williams David, blacksmith J.P. Yewden Scott :Murray esq Wilsdon Frederick J ames, farmer, Mill Cripps Hon. Alfred Henry Seddon Crees Sidney, farmer, Woodend (let- End & Burrows farms J.P. Parmoor house f ters, Fawley, Henley-on-Thames) WilsDn Andrew .Stewart :M.B., Ch.B. :Evans Mrs. Flint hall Dean{) Louis William Francis, farmer, Aberd. physician & surgeon, ~ Frift Rev. Waiter B.A. (curate), The Beeches, Pheasants medical officer & public vaccinator Rectory cottage Gray Charlas, boot repairer Hambleden district, Henley union, . Garvi~e- Charles, Mill End Gray Miss Minnie, i!hopkeeper Little Colstrope Grenfell Mrs. Henry Riversdale,Bacres Harper Henry, assessor & collector of Working Men's Institut~ (Harold P. Haddock Richd. Launcelot, The Hide taxes & asst. overseer, Pheasants Hl Heath, sec) Hambleden Viscount, Greenlands; & Harris Edward John, saddler 3 Grosvenor place SW & Garlton & Holloway Edward Thomas, head gar- FRIETH. Wellington clubs SW, London dener to F. J. Scott Murray esq Collier Thomas Hunter Frederick Joseph Walmsley, Home of Rest Graha.m Rev. Percy Gore, Parsonsge Hatchmans Jess Thomas, steward to Lord Par- West Edwin, The Laurels Luard Major Richd. Hambleden cot moor, Parmoor COMMERCIAL. "Murray Fras. Joseph Scott, Manor ho Jones J. head gardener to Lord Par- Barksfield J ames, shoe maker Parmoor Lord P.C., K.C.V.O., K.C. moor Barlow Sarah (Miss), beer retailer Parmoor house; & 29 Wilton cres- Keene Alfred & Arthur D. farmers, Frieth Village Hall cent S W & Garlton, Athenreum, Rockwell End Le aver J ames, beer retailer Oxford & Cambridge & :Marlborongh Keene Chas. Daniels, Ghisbridge frm Lowe George, farmer clubs S W, London Keene Percival, highway surveyor to Plowman Thomas, beer retailer, Moor Shepherd Fred, Birch cottage, 1 t..he Ham bled en Rural District Coun- End, common Pheasants Hill cil & farmer, The Roost Webb Ephraim Rt. grocer, Post office Spowart Miss, Pheasants Hill Mason Josiah, builder West & Collier Ltd. church fnrnishrt Stanton Rev. Alfred Herbert M . .A. Nash Jn. beer retailer, Pheasants Hill Rectory O'Hara & Lee Brothers, butchers SKIRMETT. Webster Capt. John A.S.C. Ramble- Parkins Moses, blacksmith Cocks Alfred Heneage M.A., F.S.A. den Place Payton Edgar B.A. esmtil clerk to Poynetts Wetherman Mrs. Valeska Viscount Hambleden, Mill End Chandler John, beer retailer Wilson Andrew Stewart M.B. Little Pond John, baker Gunnell George, shoe maker Oolstrope Reynolds John, farm bailiff to Vis- Purcell Frank, grocer & beer retailer count. Hambleden, Yewden farm Seymour Daniel, King's Arms P.H COJ\IMEUCIAL. Sherlock Francis, Stag & Huntsman Turton William (Mrs.), grocer &: Barnett C. & Sons, millers (water), hotel, & carrier baker, Post office Hambleden mills Siveter Charles S. E. draper Whitehall Fredk. butcher & farmer GREAT AND LITTLE HA:MPDEN form a By a Local Government Board Order which came into parish in the Mid division of the county, in the hundred operation March 25, r885, parts of Little Hampden and and petty sessional division of Aylesbury, union and Stoke Mandeville wtJre amalgamated with Great Ramp oounty court district of High Wycombe, rural deanery den, and the latter so altered was designated Great and of Aylesbury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese Little Hampden. The church of St. Mary Magdalen is of Oxford. Great Hampden is 4 miles south-east from an ancient structure of flint and stone in various styles, Princes Risborough station on the Great Western and consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays. Great Central (Joint) railway, through Wycombe to aisles, large south porch furnished with stone seat; Aylesbury, 3 west from Great Missenden station on the and a small embattled tower at the south-west angl~ Metropolitan and Great Central (Joint) railway, from containing 3 bells : the chancel is Perpendicular, and Ba.ker street, Londcm, to Verney Junction, 5 south-south retains a piscina with .shelf and drain ; on either sidP west from Wendover and 6 north from High Wycombe. of the chancel arch is a hagioscope: the pier~ and .