BUCKING Halvishire. [KELLY S

7 104 HAN8LOPE. BUCKING HAlVISHIRE. [KELLY S Curtis George, Green Man P.H Partridge Emma (Mrs.), provision dlr Tucker David, farmer Eakins Edwin, carrier. Malt Mill lane Paybody Alfd. beer retailer &i farmer Walmisley Edward, Black Bull P.H Easte William Alfred L.S.A. surgeon, Payne Alfred, farmer Webb Stef!hen & Geo. frmrs. Ivy farm The Old vicarage Platten Stanley Wm. market gardenr Webb William, wheelwright Elkington John, Watt's Arms P.H Priestley George, farmer, ~pinney Weston Charles, farmer, Lincoln lodge Frost John Albert, farmer, Long street Lodge farm Weston Waiter, farmer Green wood J emima (Mrs.), grocer Ho5e ,] ohn, build er Wheeler Thomas, farmer, Lnurch end Higgins Emma (~frs.), Swan l'.H Russell George J. farmer, Park farm 1\'nitbread Geo. Frederick, carpenter Higgs John, butcher Rutherford Wm. George L.R.C.l'. & S. Whitby Albert Charles, grocer & bkr. Hutchings George, farmer, Forest fm Irel. surgeon &i medical officer & High street Keats Charles, farmer public vaccinat<Jr, No. 7 district, Whiting Bros. farmers Kerridge Harriet Ann(Mrs. ),Cock P.H ~ewport Pagnell union Wilson Agnes (Mrs.), farmer, Rec- Lord John, saddler & harness maker 3awbridge Alfred, butcher tory farm Lowe Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper Slade Jehu, farmer, Green end Wood:and· Jane (\frs.), shopkeeper Markham Frank, jun. farmer Smith George, farmer Working Men's Club (C. L. Adams, Neil John, boot &; shoe maker Smith Levi, farmer, Bullington end sec) Newberry Henry, rate collector & Stimsun John, farmer York Frederick, baker & sexton assistant overseer Tomkins Fredk. faTmer, Green farm • HARDMEAD is a parish s! miles north-east from value £w6, including 20 acres of glebe with residence, Newport Pagnell terminal sta.t!ion on a branch of the in the gift of C. E. Lamplugh esq. of Mentone, and held London and North Western railway, 6~ south-east since 1856 by the Rev. Bartlet George Goodrich B.A. of from Olney station on the Bedford and Northampton University College, Oxford, and surrogate. The pay branch of the Midland railway, and 8 from Bedford, in ment in lieu of the Town Land amounts to £2 yearly, the Northern division of the county, hundred, peJtt;y which is distributed in coal. George Shedden esq. of sessional division, union and county court district of I East Cowes, Isle of Wight, who is lord of. the manor, Newport Pagnell and in the rural deanery of Newport and Mrs. Edward Shedden are the landowners. The Pagnell, archdeaeonry of Buckingham and diocese of soil is clay. The chief crops are whoot, barley and .Oxford. The church of St. Mary, ·built in the 12th roots. The area is 1,2 IT acre~ ; assP-;~sable valnP-, £567; century, is a small edifice of shme chiefly in the Early the population in 1901 was 57 in the civil and 5 r in .English style, and consists of chancel, nave of three bays the ecclesiastical parish. -wi•th clerestory, aisles, south porch and low embattled By Local Government Board Order 18,130, dated western tower of Perpendicular date, rontaining 5 bells, [March 25, 1886, a detached part of Hardmead was added only 2 of which are nGw in u~e; the church was restored to Emberton. in 1861 and contains some memorials of the Catesbys, Parish Clerk, Charles Bason. including a brass, with effigy in a furred robe, to Letters through Newport Pagnell arrive at 8.30 a.m. Francys Catesby, youngest son of Antony Catesbye, of Wall Letter Box cleared at s.xo p.m. week days; no Whyston esq. 1556, with effigy in civil dresp, and an sunday collection or delivery; Newport Pagnell i1 inscription; and the recumbent effigy of another Francis the nearest money order &i telegraph office, 5~ miles Catesby, 1636: there are g6 sittings. The register dates distant from the year 1536. The living is a rectory, net yearly The children of this parish attend the Astwood school Goodrich Rev. Bartlet George B.A. Lee Arthur, farmer, Lodge farm Wait Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer (rector & surrogate), Rectory Mundy James & Cale;b, farmers Wait Thomas, farmer, Church farm • HARDWICK is a parish, on the road to Bucking C.V.O. of Ascott Park and Lord Cottesloe are the prin ham, 4 miles north of Aylesbury, its nearest railway sta cipal landowners. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, t-ion, and 13 110uth-east from Buckingham, in the Northern clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and hay. The diwsion of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, petty ses· area is 1,213 acres; rateable value, £x,86g; the popula· sional division, union and county court district, of Ayles tion in 1901 was r67 in the civil and 488 in the eccle bury, rural deanery of Mul'sley, archdeaconry of Bucking siastical parish. ham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is Parish Clerk, Thomas Ming. a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting Letters through Aylesbury arrive at 8 a.m. & 11 a.m. of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a western Wall Letter Box cleared at 12.20 & 6 p.m. ; sundayil, 5quare embattled towe:t: containing 5 bells and a sanctus 12 noon. Whitchurch is the nearest money order & bell and a south porch ; in the south aisle is a very telegraph office, about r mile distant curious monument to Sir Thonws Lee knt. dated 1616; Elementary Schools (boys & girls), rebuilt in 1871, for there are aLso seven ta'blets to former rectors o.f this 120, were endowed in 1781 by the late Dr. Bridle, who parish: at the east end of the aisle is a curious cir· bequeathed a legacy for the education of I 8 boys & cular window and a piscina; the church was re~tored 12 girls, since which the administration of the bequest in 1872-3 under the mpervision of the late G. E. Street has been reorganized by the Charity Commisioners; e!q. R.A. at a cost of nearly £4,ooo, when several the endowment now produces £ns yearly; £3 is distri Rtained windows were inserted, principally through the buted in bread, £3 is payable to the parish clerk, A. munificence of Peter Reid esq. of the St{)ck Exchange ; of the remainder four-ninths goes to the maintenance there is also a memorial window to the Rev. Christopher of school & five-ninths to the clothing of children; Erle M.A. rector from 1833, and a brass eagle lectern average attendance, 68 ; Alfred Bishop, master ; Mrs. ha!! been placed in the. church as a memorial to Philip Bishop, mistress Cazenove esq. by hi!! !!on, Henry Cazenove esq. who died 1894; on the north side of the nave is a stained Carrier to Aylesbury. Joseph Hughes, mon. wed. & eat window commemorating the silver wedding of Mr. and WEEDON is a hamlet of the parish of Hardwick, 3 Mrs. Cazenove; a font was presented about 18g3 by Miss miles north from Aylesbury and 14 south-east from C. M. Yonge, and in 1901 a reredos was erected in Buckingham. The poor's allotment of 28 acres is the memory of the Rev. W. H. Biggwither, rector 187o-gg; property of Earl Fortescue. About two-thirds of Weedon there are 360 sittings ; in the churchyard is a lych and one-third of Ha.rdwick belong to the Rothschild gate, and on the south side is a monument recording family. Weedon is a. meet for the !Wthschild hounds. the re-interment by the late Lord Nugent, of 247 persons The pour of the hamlet have £2o yearly distributed to killed at the battle of Aylesbury, March 21st, 1642, which them, principally in coal, and they also share in the had been found on a field near Aylesbury. The registers Eardwick charitills. Lilills, the seat of Vm·non Brittain date from the 16th century and are very imperfect. The esq. is a mansion of red brick, with stone dressings, living is a rectory, net yearly value £6oo, derived from erected in 1870 and standing in a well-wooded park and 477 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of New grounds of about 100 acres, containing fine trees and College, O~ford, and held sine& 1904 by the Rev. Francis shrubs. A se1 vice is held at the scliool every sunday by Edwin Allen M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, and rural the Rector of Hardwick. The Wesleyan chapel was dean of Mnrsley. Here is a Mission hall, built in 1883, built in 1854, and has a burial ground attached; the and seating rso persons. Two charities of £3 each are Primitive Methodist, built I 892, will a eat 150 persons. annually distributed in bread to the poor; there are The area is 1,790 acres of land a.nd 6 of water ; rate also small charities left by Dr. Barker and Dr. Dummer, able value, £2,848 ; the population in rgor was 325. rect<Jrs in the 17th century, and one left by T. C. How Post Office, Weedon. Miss Alice Fleet, sub-postmistress. land esq. in 1882. Some gigantic Saurian and other Letters through Aylesbury arrive at 6-45 & 10.30 fossil remains discovered here were presented by a late a.m.; dispatched 12-45 & 6.r5 p.m.; sundays, 12.15 rect<Jr to the Mu~um of Practical Geology, in Jermyn p.m. Whitchurch, 2 miles distant, is the nearest street, London. The Warden and Fellows of New Col mor.ey order & telrgraph oJllce lege, Oxford, who are lords of the manor, Vernon The children of Weedon now attPnd Hardwick school Brittain esq. of the Lilies, Leopold de Rothschild esq. Carrier-William Simonds, Aylesbury, daily .

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