DIRECTORY.] . ASBLEY GREEN. 17 T.arbuck WTIliam. greengrocer, Union street Whiteside John, baker, High street Tomlins Fred-erick, beer retailer, High street Wilkins William, coal merchant, Bury end 'Toovey Clement, shopkeeper, Union street Williams M. &; Sons, agricultural implement repairers ~ Toovey Frederick S. furniture broker, High street general plumbers, High street Toovey James T. chair maker, Bury end Williams Fred P. builder, High street Turner Frederick Senior L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. Wilson Ernest, hair dresser, High street surgeon, certifying factory surgeon, public vaccinator Wilson Waiter John, harness maker, High street & medical officer to , Penn & Coleshill dIS- Wingrave Thomas, builder, High street trict & medical officer of health to Rural District Coun- , Woodbridge Joseph, boot &; shoe maker, The Common cil, Broadway house Woolhead Charles, shopkeeper, The Common Ward George, photographer, High street Young Elizabeth (Miss), fancy draper & millnr. nigh it Weller W. & G. brewers & maltsters, Church street COLESIDLL. Fawcett Edmund Alderson, The Rosary) COMMERCIA.L. Hudson Arthur, Red Lion P.H Helps Mrs. Bun~alow Boag Goo. farmer, Hertfordshire farm Lane Stephen (Mrs.), wheelwright Hodgson Mrs. 'l'he Larches Butcher Edward, farmer MuckIey Mary (Miss), beer retailer Howland Thomas Arth. Rushey mead Cyster Elizabeth (Mrs.), Magpie r.H Newton WaIter, miller (wiud) Inwards James, Orahard house Gibbs James, farmer, Fragnall farm Palmer Ephraim, grocer Jarvis Mrs. Nosseghem Gurney James, land steward to H. Pursey Geo. Plough P.H. &; chair ma Shaw Mrs. Prospect villa Pocock esq. Brentford grange Sears Allen Moore, boot &; shoe maker Taylor Mrs. Tom, Porch house Gurney Wm. farmer, Glory farm &; post office Turner Mrs Hatch Joseph, chair maker Slade James, blacksmith lfeatherby Edward, Co:eshill house Hobbs Joseph, beer retailer & potter Ware Frederick, farmer, Ongar hill ASHENDON is a villag-e and parish, and is the head 1670. The living is 80 vicarage, with that of Dor­ 'Of a petty sessional division (sessions held at Brill), I ton annexed, joint net yearly value £160, in mile south from the Wotton station on the tramway from the gift of Earl Temple, and held since 1871 by the Rev. Quainton road, and 4! south-west from Quainton John Cramer Add'ison RA. of St. John's College, Oam­ Road sta,tion on the Metropolitan Extension railway, 9 bridge, who resides at Dorton. The finest examples of weSlt from Aylesbury, and 4 east from Brill, in the saucer-shape fibulre known are tW() of the Anglo-Saxon Northern division of the county, hundred of Ashendon, period, 3! inches in diameter and iewelled, found in this union and county oourt district (}f Aylesbury, rural deanery parish and placed in the collection of the late Lord of Waddesdon. archdeaconry of Buokingham and dIocese Braybrooke F.S.A. Earl Temple is the lOrd of the manor 0f Oxford. The church of St. Mary i5 an ancient build- and principal landowner. The soil is lOam and clay; ing of stone in the Decorated, Early English and Perpen- subsoil, clay and limestone. The land is principally used dicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, for pasture. The area is 1,790 acres; assessable valuet Ilnd an arcade of three arches connecting it with the south £2,479; the population in 1891 was 199. aisle, south por?h .and ~ western t(}wer containing 3 bells; Pollicott (Upper and Lower) form a hamlet in this there are two pls~mre; I~ th.e chancel,beJ.leath a depressed parish about half a mile SOUlth ()f th village. erocketed ar{'h WIth fimal, IS a tomb WIth the figure of a' . e cross-legged warrior in chain mail, the hauberk rooching Letters through Thame arrIve at 9 a.m. & 4.30 p.m. to his knees and oovered with a surcoat; his right hand Wall Box cleared at 5 p.m·i. sunday, 8.45 a.m. The grasps his sword and his left the scabbard, the left arm nea~est Ill;0ney order & telegraph office is at Brill, about bearing a large heater-shaped shield; the effigy is said 2 .miles dIstant .. . to be that of Sir John Bugden (or BuckJtotJt) of Pollicott· NatIonal School, bUIlt ID 1775, for 40 children; average there are also many mural monumenihs; the church. attendance, 16; the elder children attend the school affords 100 siUings. The register date.s from the year at Wotton Luckett Misses, Ivy cottage Curtis Albt. Edwd. farmr. East farm Ridgway Emma (Mrs.)& Frank,farmn Harper Edward, farmer, Hill farm Ridgway Wm. Hy. farmer, Watbridg~ COMMERCIAL. George Thomas John, farmer, Upper Tompkins Shadracht farmer, Upper Boughton Richd. farmer, Eastend frm Pollicott Pollicott Churchill Alfred, Red Lion P.R Read Thomas, farmer Watts Edward, blacksmith is a parish, formed by an Older of mains of an old Danish fort; the walls and moat are still the County Council, dated 16 March, I8g6, from the civil in a state of preservation. The breeding of pheasants is parish of ; it is situated on a hill on the borders carried on extensively in this parish. The land is chiefly of Herts, about 3 miles north-east from Chesham, and 2! arable. The area is 3,500 acres; assessable value, £2,868 ; 'from Berkhampstead station on the main line of the Lon- the population in 1891 was 56!. don and North Western railway, in the Mid division of Leigh Green, Il miles SQuth, and Whelpley Hill, 3 the county, hundred of Chesham, Amersham union, Ches- miles ell!st, are places in this parish. There is a school ham petty sessional division and county court district, chapel at Whelpley Hill, in wJlich divine service is held rural deanery of Amersham, archdeaconry of Bucking- once every Sunday. By the will of Thomas CurtiS', (}f ham and diocese of Oxford. The ecclesiastical parish Berkhampstead. £6,000 was left to support a, scho(}l at was formed October 29, 1875. The church of St. John Whelpley Hill in this parish, the remainder to a clergy­ the Evangelist, erected at the cost of Miss Dorrien, and man of the Church of England for performing one consecrated in 1875, is a building of flint with stone dres- service in Whelpley Hill school chapel every Sunday. sings, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, Parish Clerk, Ezra Waterton• .nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and a bell Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. • turret over chancel arch containing 2 bells: the stained James Palmer, sub-posrtmaSlter. Letters through Berk- -east window is a memorial to Col. R. A. Smith-Dorrien, hampstead arrive at 8.15 a.m. & 4.30 p.m.; dispatched who died in 1879, and was inserted by his family: the at II.30 a.m. &; 8.20 p.m; sunday, dispatched, 8.20 ~ast end of the chancel has been adorned with mural paint- p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Berkhampstead, ings, executed as a memorial to the late Miss Darrien, 3 miles distant founder of the church: there is a fine eagle lectern of Schools. carved oak: there are ISO sittings. The register dates National (mixed), for 90 children; average attendance, from the year 1875. The living is a vicarage, net yearly 80; & supported in part by Mrs. Smith-Dorrien; Miss value £250, with residence, in the gift of Thomas .Alger- Rose Abbey, mistress non Smith-Dorrien-Smith esq. of Tresco, Scilly Islands, National (mixed), Whelpley Hill, built in 1880, for 100 and held since 1884 by the Rev. John Ross Barker M.A. children; average arotendance about 41; supported in '6f Trinity College, Dublin. Here is a small Baptist part by a bequest of Thomas Onrtis esq. meIlJtioned 'Chapel, seating 50 persons. In Grove farm are the re- above; Miss Mercer, mistress Earker Rev. John RosSi M.A. Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Brown Jas. farmr. & pheasant breeder Northoote Hon. Amyas Stafford, The Bunker Jonathan, frmr. Leigh green Thorne Barnes Edwin, farmer, Whelpley hill Burley George, Eagle P.B Shelley Frederick, The ~horne Batchelol" Thomas, farmer & pheasant Dickens Fredk. William, farm bailiff Woodiwiss Samuel, Sloughlands Stud breeder, The Grove farm w Capt. Curtis, Spencer's farmt farm; & at Sedgemere, East Finch- Bedford Barnett & William, farmers Whelpley hill ley, London N Bedford Edwin & Ephraimt farmers BUCKS. 2