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. Post, M. 0. &; T. Office. Thomas William Sparrow, l deed of gift, executed by Lieut.-Col. Bramston, con'"'~~ sub-postmaster. Letters are received through Chelms­ veyed to the vil'ar and churchwardens in trust fOh ford, arrive at 7.20 a.m. &; 1.40 p. m.; box cleared educational purposes: Blencowes charity of [,gu 3'-3d. 9.40 a.m. &; 6.25 p.m. & on suudays, arrive 7·35 a.m. vested in Consols, the interest is applied toward &; dispatchec:l at 9.Jo a.m educational purposes: it will hold 170 children; Wall Letter Boxes. , cleared 8.30 a.m. &; average attendance, n8; Henry Bracey, master; Misa 6.1:5 p.m.; sunda.ys, 9 a.m.; Thatchers, clear-ed at Dorothy Engwell, girls' mistress; Miss Emily Wright, 9·55 a. m. &; 6.35 p.m.; snndays, g.2o a.m infants' mistress County PolicP, James Saich. constable in eharge Carriers t.o & from Chelm!;{uJ'd --~1 a ruet> Lee, tuea. t Pubhc Elementary School (boys, g1rls &. mfants), built fri. &; the Willingale carrier~o i•ll~~ l·hrough on mon. in 1834• by T. W. Bramston esq. &; about 1890 b~- wed. &; fri (Marked thus * arp in the WrittlP Earnshaw Hy. Aaron, Chequers P.H *Pochin Henry Stanley, farmer. postal delivery.) Gaudy Geo. wheelwrt. Boyton Cross Armswick farm, Cooks Mill Green PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Glasse Thomas, farmer, Newland hall Pope Alfred J. land agent to Hen11 Bickmore Rev. Francis .Asliew M.A. Henderson Bros. farmers, Butt hatch Otho Nicholson Shaw Psq (vicar), Vicarage Heywood Joseph, farmer, Elms farm Ray Ernest Shep'herd, mille1· (steam l Christy Miss Ad a, Vicarage cottage J acobsen. Charles & Gerald, farmers, water mills) Christy Miss Charlotte, Boyton Cross The H1ll farm Roots James, farm bailiff to Georgl! Christy Miss Lilian,Little Boyton hall Jones Horace 0 .. farmer, Broadgates D. French, Tye hall Pope Alfred J Lee James, earner Sayer William Henry,Cross Keya P.H Shaw By. Otho Nicholson, Skreens pk Lodge Charles & Arthur, farmers, Shead Percy, cycle repairer Young Mrs The Cottage farm Sparrow Thos. Wm. baker, Post offic& · · LukiesThos.Lewis,frmr.Mountneys fm Towns George Arthur, farmer, Eleyt., COMMERCIAL. Mabbitt Robt. bailiff to Messrs. Chas. farm ; & at High Easter Adams Fred, Thatcher's Arms P.H &; Benj. Webb, Balding Hatch farm Webb William Jam·es, farmer, clerk Bird William, Hare & Hounds P.H M:etson Albt.Edwd.frmr.Colley bridge t<> Parish Council, assistant overseer Bridge Frederick James, grocer (letters via Blackmore, Ingatestone) & cllctr. of poor's rates, Roxwell ho Christy Reginald William, farmer, *Metson Herbert, 11-mr. Radley Green Wi:ffen William, blacksmith Boyton hall & Little Boyton hall Milbank Geo. & Son, farmerl'l, Duke's Willmott James William, farmer, Hoe Christy Theodore. farmer,Boggiss fm *Milbank .A.rth. frmr. Cooks :Mill Gm Street farm Cogdale Geo. blacksmith, Boy ton Ors,_ 1Young Harry, farmer, Thatchers frm ROYDON (or Woodredon) is an ancient town and this place in 15o5, but she died in 1512, leaving one parish on the borders of HertfiJrdshire, on the road from son and three daughters. Roydon Lodge, the residence Waltham Abbey to Harlow and on the navigable river of George C. Beckwith esq. is a mansion of brick and Stort, over which is a wooden bridge of one arch; it has stucco, with well-arranged pleasure grounds sloping to a station on the Cambridge sect-ion of the Great Eastern the :river Stort, and is close to Roydon station on tM railway, and is 22 miles from London, 5 south-west Great Eastern railway. Earl Cowley is lord of the from Harlow, 5! east from 'Hertford and 7 north-west manor, and Capt. H. L. Arch.er-Houblon, of Hailing­ from Epping. The parish is in the Western division bury, i~ the principal landowner. 'l'he soil is mixed, of the county, Harlow and Waltham hundred, Harlow mostly heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, petty sessional division, Epping union, Waltham county barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,007 acres of court district; and in the rural deanery of Harlow, land and 24 of water; rateable value, £12,706; the archdeaconry of Essex and diocese. The population in xgu was 1 , 1 38. church of St. Peter is an edifice of flint in mixed Verger, George Stock. styles, repaired in 1854• and consists of chancel, nave, Post, M. 0. &; T. Office. Mrs. Georgina Greenfield, sub- north aisle, which is thickly covered with ivy, and an postmistress. Letters through Ware &; a portion of embattled western tower, with small spire, containing the parish through Waltham Cross, arrive at 7 & ti a clock and 6 bells: in the eburch are brass.es with a. m. ~X~'- 5 .3,~ p.m. ; d'1spa t c h e d a t g.2 5 a . m . IX/'- 2. 35 011'- effigies to Thomas Colte esq. "Edwardi regis consul 6.20 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 7 a.m. ; dispatched a' honorificus," ob. 1471 and Joan c~rusbut) his wife, both s.so p.m figures having collars; to J1Jhn ()olte esq. ob. 1521 and Post & Telegraph Office, Broadley Common.-William his wives Mary (Anle) and Elizabeth (Eldrington), with ,H. Brown, sub-postmaster. Letters anive from 18 children; to Eli7.abeth (Dinn), wife of John StanleJ- Waltham Cross at 9.1 5 & 11. 1 5 a. m.; dispatched at gent. ob. 1589, with five children, and the figure of a 10.10 a.m, & 5.45 p.m. Nazeing is the nearest mone,. civilian, c. 1580: in 1isgo· an oak lectern was presented order office, 2 miles distant, which is open on snndays by Major Longley. son of the late Dr. Longley, arch1 from 9 to lO a.m bishop of Canterbury, and a new organ was provided Pillal"' Letter Box, Station. cleared at 9·35 a.m. & 12.45 in 1906: the church affords 300 sittings. The register & 6. 30 p.m. ; sundays at 6 p.m dates from t~e year 1567. The living is a discharged Pillar Letter Box, East End, cleared at 8 & II.3o a.m.-; vicarage, net yearly value £1go, with residence, in the sunday, a a.m gift of Earl Cowley, £nd held since 1903 by the Rev. Pillar Letter Box, Low Hill, cleared at 7.30 & 11.45 Cecil Copland M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridl!e. m s day ~ a. . ; un , 7. 3o a. m In the village is a Congregational chapel, founded in Pillar Letter Box, Hall's Green, cleared at 9 a.m. &

1798, with 200 sittin!rS,~ and at Broadley Common one r2.3o p.m.; sun d ay, C) a.m erected in 1870, seating 100 persons. Nether Hall, an Police Station, Harrv Girt ancient mansion near here, of which only the gateway · now stands, formerly belonged to the Colte family, A small endowment, amounting to £4oo &. producing some of whom were buried in the chancel of the about £ 18 yearly, given by John :Manning in I752 for church: the gateway is constructed of brick, with a 1 edncnti.-mal purposes, was some time since sold by the semi-hexagonal tower on each side of the entrance, dEdfuca~ionalh department, the proceeds ~oingh towbards il t d b t I e ravmg t f!' expense of the schools wh1ch ave een an d b ears th e arms o f th e f am y suppor e y wo ' erected · colts: the whole pile when complete was surrounded . . . . by a moat and a wall: the property is now in the Public ~lementary School (miXed), bmlt m 1876, for possession of Capt. H. L. Archer-Houblon, of Great I6o ~hlldren; averege atte_nd~nce, 151 ;_ John NewPll Hallingbnry. Sir Thomas More, chancellor in the reign Harr1s, master; Mrs. Harrts, mfants' m1streu iJf Henry VIII. married as his first wife Jane Oolte of ' Railway Station, William Waiter Cunnell, station master ROYDON. Harrison Sidney Herbert, The Lim~s j Sayle Bordman Bromhead Dalton, Hooper Cornelins Francis, Tenby Highbank l'RIVATB RESI~ENTS. Innocent Edward John, Elmhurst J Shaw Henry Aylwin. Orchard cottage Abbey .A.rthur William, Didgemere , Kearsley .A.rthur, Bardswell Smith George Hill, Kingsmead lleckwith George C. Roydon lodge Lawr·ence Thomas Rowley, The Mount Sm•ll Harry. Lea cotta!!'e Betterton H. B. Fedsden Longhurst Felix Waiter, Maycroft S:ver Hubert Lionel, The Pippins

Brandon Noel H. Li!!'htfoots Mansfield-Robinson Hugh 1Tidy Bernard, The Nook Copland Rev. Cecil M.A. Vicarage Martin Emile, Bellevue 1Tomkins William H Cox Rev. Charles H. W. (Congrega- Michell James, Harkendown Wninwrig-bt ErnPst H. Dover boose tional), The Manse Procter John, The Elms Watts Herbert Waliefield, Moorlapds Day William Frank Lydstone M.B Pvne 'Rdmund Robert, Cambridge ho Wolfe Edward Alfred, Broadlands, Deacon Albert, Roydon Bury Rien Henry. Walnut Tree cottage Roydon Hamlet (postal address. Dewey Percy Edwin, Sunnyside I Rust Edward George. Westview Nazeing, via Waltham Cross) Gerrard William Clarke, Weblands , Rust John Eddon, Hillcroft jWormell Mrs. The Grange Giffard .A.nthony Henry, Al.freda 'Villas . Young Ernest Clarence, The Rosea