106 IBSTONE. EUCKING HAlVISHIRE. [ KELLY'S former county. The church of St. Nicholas is a plain Br~wis are the principal landowners. The soil is chalky; building of stoM in the Norman and Early English styles, subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and -consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western oats, The area. is r, r21 acres; assessable value, £r,874; turret cantaining 2 bells·: the doorways and ~hancel arch the population in rgor was 230. are of Norman date,· the chancel and nave are Early Under the provisions of the ~'Local Government Act, English: there is a fine old carved pulpit: there are 120 IBBB," by Local Go-vernment Board Provisional Order, -sittings. In the churchyard there is a remarkably fine dated September 30, r8g5, the whole of Ibstone civil parish yew tree supposed to be about r,ooo year~ old. The is now in Bucks. register dates from the year r&65. The living is a rectory, Sexton, Timothy White. united to Fingest, joint net yearly value [2oo, inclusive Post Office.-Edmund Hunt, sub-postmaster. Letters of ro7 acres of gle,be and residence, in the alternate gift arJ;ive through Wallingford at 8.45 a.m. & 3.30; dis- of the Bishop of Oxford and Merton College, Oxford, and patched at 5· IS p.m. Postal Orders are i~sued here, held since 1878 by the Rev. Henry Joscelyne M.A. of New but ~ot paid. The nearest money order & telegraph Inn Hall, Ch::ford. Ibstone House, the. seat of Mrs. . . office is at Stokenchurch, 3 miles distant Brewis, is a modern rltuccoed buildin5 on an en::.inence, Elementary School (mixed), with an endowment from the and affords good views of the neighbourhood. Here is Goring Heath trustees, will hoh:l. so children; average a Primitive Methodist chapel. 'The Warden and Fellows attendance, 40; Miss Catherine A. Scales, mistress & Qf Merton College, Oxford, who hold the manor, and Mrs. Miss Elizabeth Scales, infants' mistress Brewis Mrs. Ibstone house Chilton John, beer retlr, & shopkeeper Pitcher Samuel, farmer Joscelyne Rev. Henry M.A. Rectory Edgerton Thomas, miller·(wind), Cop- West Arthur, farmer, Twig11ide COMMERCIAL. stone mill White Philip, farmer, Hill Corner frm Bloxsidge Jarnes, Crown P.H Hunt Edmund, !Post office • ICKFORD is a village a:nd parish on the borders of clothing. Arthur Parsons-Guy esq. who is lord of the Oxfordshire, from which it is separated by the river manor, Sir Walter Gray kt. of Oxford, Williaro Henry Thame, 2 miles from Tiddington station, on the ·Wy- Ashurst esq. of Waterstock, Oxon, and: Alfred Fuller esq. combe, Thame and Oxford branch of the Great WesU!rn are the principal landowners. The soil is alluvial; sub­ railway, 4 noTth-west from Thame, 5 south from Brill, soil, elay. The land is principally pasture. The chief 14 west-south-west from Aylesbury and ro east from crops are wheat and beans. The area is r,249 actes; Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, in the rateable value, without Draycott, £I, 8 52 ; the population hundreds of Ashendon and Ewelme, Ashendon petty I!:E'S- in :rgor was 3I9 in the civil, and 331 in the ecclesiastical sional division, Thame union and county court district, parish, which includes. 22 in Oxfordshire. rural deanery of Waddesdon, archdeaconry of Bucking- D:raycott, formerly a hamlet of this parish, bnt ham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas situated in Oxfordshire, in the hundred of Ewelme, now is a small but ancient building of stone in mixed styles, forms part of Waterstock in that county, but for eccle­ principally Transitional and Early English, consisting of siastical purposes still remains part of Ickford. chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and awes- Parish Clerk, William Lester. tern tower containing 3 bells and a sanctus bell: in the Post Office.-George Tapping, sub-postmaster. Letters chancel is an Early English piscina, with a projectiilg received through Thame at 7·45 a.m. ; dispatched at basin, and a low-side window, and the church still retains 5.30 p.m.; sundays, arrive 8.35; dispatched at 10.45 some remains of ancient glass: there are 150 sittings. a. m. Postal Orders are issued here, but not paid. The registers date from the year r56r. The living is a The nearest money order office is at Worminghall & rectory, net yearly value £"zzs, with r6 acres of glebe the nearest telegraph office at Thame, 4 miles distant and residence, in the gift of Mrs. A. H. Turner, and held Elementary School, for 40 children, held on the rector's since rB95 by the Rev. Thomas Archer Turner M.A. of premises; average attendance, 25; Miss Esther Jane Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Gilbert Sheldon D.D. Wood, mistress Archbishop of Canterbury r663-77, was sometime rector The elder children attend the school at Worminghall here·. There is a Baptist chapel, built in 1825 and seat- Carrier.-Edward Honour, to Thame, tuBs.; to Oxford, ing rzo persons. Phillip's charity of £ro yearly is for wed. & sat Chandler Mrl! Brazil Thomas & Son, blacksmiths & Hutt John, farmer Fuller Alfred, Manor house beer retailers Neale James,grocer & market gardener Hilliard Capt. E. W. G., R.~. The Dover Robert, coal merchant Pullen Mary (Mrs.), blacksmith Hollies Freeman Williarn, butcher ifteeves H~rbert, grocer Parsons-Guy Arthur, Grange Fruin Richard, policE!! constable Silver Henry, Rising Sun P.H Turner Rev. Thomas Archer M.A. Fuller Alfred, farmer, Manor house Slade William, wheelwright Rectory Garner Frederick, carpenter Tapping Geo. bakr. & grocr. Post off COMliiERCI.AL. Honour Edward, carrier Woods Samuel, shoe maker Cox Harriet (Mrs.), farmer ILMIRE (or Ilmer) is a small parish on the borders of vicarage, united to the rectory of Horsenden, under an Oxfordshire, 2 miles north from the Bledlow station on the Order of Council, November, r865, joint net yearly value Wycombe, Thame and Oxford branch of the Great £r8z, in the gift of L. Jaques esq. and Mrs. Jaques, and Western railway, 3 west-north-west from Princes Ris­ held since r898 by the Rev. John Edwin Varley M.A. of borough, 9 south-west from Aylesbury and 5 east from Durham University, who resides at 3 Bicester road, Thame, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Aylesbury. 'l'he rent of about 2 acres of land, bequeathed Ashendon, Aylesbury petty sessional division, union of by a former Earl Stanhope, is devoted to the repair of Wycombe, county court district of Tha.me, rural deanery the church. Miss Moreton is lady of the manor and prin­ of Aylesbury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese cipal landowner. The soil is stiff loam and clay; sub­ of Oxford. The church of St. Peter is a small building soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley. of stone in the Perpendicular sty le, with traces of earlier The area is 697 acres; assessable value, [494; the popu­ work, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and an lation in 1901 was 51. unsightly wooden belfry at the west end containing 3 Sexton, Thomas Goodchild. • bells: the piscina and rood screen. still remain, and there Parish Clerk, Richard Belgrove. ill an ancient stone font: the chancel was rebuilt and the nave restored in 1859-6o, under the superintendence of Letters received through Tring, via Princes Risborough, the late G. E. Street R.A. diocesan architect, at the cost of which is the nearest money order & telegraph office. the late Rev. William Edwards Partridge, vicar from 1833 Letters delivered. about 8 a.m. Wall Letter Box, near and further restored in 1893: there are roo sittings. The the church, cleared at 8 a.m. week days. only register dates from about the year r6oo. The living is a The children of this parish attend the school at Longwicl\ Belgrove Richd. sen. frmr. Upper frm Hill Alfred, farmer, Manor farm Kingham George, farmer & overseer, Goodchild Thos. frmr. The Vicarage ' Lower farm IVER is a large parish and scattered village on the the Grand Junction canal with a branch from Yiewsley Middlesex border, I6 miles from the Marble Arch, Lon- to Slough. The church of St. Peter, restored in rB48 don, 2 west from West Drayton station, on the Uxbridge at a cost of [2,8oo, is a building of flint in mixed styles, branch of the Great Western railway, 3£ north from Coln- from Early Norman to Perpendicular, consisting of chan· brook and z! south from Uxbridge, in the Southern eel, clerestoried nave, with two Norman bays on the division of th~ county, hundred and petty sessional divi- north side and three Early English bay-s on the' Month, sion of Stoke, union of Eton, county court district of aisleg. and an embattled western tower containing & clock Uxbridg&, rural deanery of Amersham, archdeaconry of and 6 bells, tuned and rehung in 1866 to celebrate the Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The river Colne completion o.f the soth year of the ministry of the Rev. flows through the parish, to the eastward of which passes William Sparrow Ward M ..A. late vicar of the parish~