DIRECTORY.] "BEDFORDSHIRE. LITTLE STAUGHTON l~; . ·Powers &, Sons, millers (steam & water) .Wiles Frank, tailor, Stanford Chambers Albert, beer retailer (Will. Dilley, manager), Stanford mill Williamson George, accountant, The Chambers John, market gardener & RobinsonArthur, White Horse inn Cottage seed grower *Rook Frederick, Crown inn, Stanford King John &Sons, farmers WaIler Noah, head gamekeeper to Samuel BROOM. King A. Ernest, farmer (John King & Whitbread esq. Stanford Fordham Rupert Oswald J.P. Broom hall Sons), Broom farm .Ward James, farmer, Stanford King Herbert, farmer (John King &Sons), *WatfordJoseph, BlackHorsep.H.Ireland COMMERCIAL. Manor farm *Webb WaIter WiIliam, Red Lion inn, Ballard Alfred, beer ret. & shopkeeper King Sam, carpenter Stanford Boud Fredk. Waiter, White Horse P.H Woodward Fredk. poulterer & farmer STAGSDEN(formerly called STACHEDENE and STAG- r room was opened in 1896 and is supported by voluntary sub. GISDEN) is a pleasant villltge and parish, on the main road scriptions. In 1898 a cottage was purchased and remodelled from Bedford to Newport Pagnell and Wolverton, and is one for use as a Church room at a cost of £200. Pillow lace is of the villages, on the borders of Bucks, 5 miles west-south- made in the village, in which there is- a chalybeate spring. west from Bedford stations, on the Midland and London and Nearly the whole of the land in this parish was purchased in North Western railways, and 8 north-east from Newport 1873 by the Crown, which also owns the manorial rights. Pagnell, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of The soil is strong, stiff and cold clay; subsoil, blue clay and Willey, Bedford petty sessional division, union and county chalkstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, peas court district, rural deanery of Bedford, archdeaconry of Bed- and beans, with some roots. The area is 3,418 acres; rateable ford and diocese of Ely. The church of St. Leonard, situated value, £2,569; the population in 1901 was 429. on an eminence near the centre of the village, is an ancient West End is a mile south from the village; Up End, about edifice of stone, erected in the Transitional period between a mile west; North End, a mile and a quarter north-west; the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and consists of and Bury and Wick Ends are a mile and a quarter north-easti chancel, nave of five bays, with clerestory, north transept of the church. or chapel, south aisle, porch and an embattled western tower Parish Clerk, Richard Bonnett. containing a clock and 5 bells: on the north side of the church Post Office.-Brighton Wallace Gardiner, sub.postmaster. are the remains of a rood loft and an arched recess: in the Letters received through Bedford at 7.15 a.m.; dispatched south aisle are several niches: the chancel retains a piscina: 5.10 p.m.; sundays. arrive 7.45 a.m.; dispatched, 4.10 there is a monumental brass to the Cocke family, dating from p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Kemp- 1617. The register dates from the year 1670. The living is stOll is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 3t miles a vicarage, net yearly value £200, including 5 acres of glebe, distant with residence, in the gift of and held since 1879 by the Rev. Church of England School (mixed), for 140 children; average William Hippisley Jackson B.A. of Trinity College, Cam- attendance, 87; Brighton Wallace Gardiner, master bridge. Here is a Congregational chapel; the Bunyan meet· Carriers.-Arthur Prickett, to Bedford, sat. & Newport ing, Bedford, have freehold land here of 72 acres. A reading Pagnell wed.; George Bird, to Bedford, wed. & sat • JacksonRev. Wm. HippisleyB.A. Vicarage Freeman Albert, Dog & Duck P.H Pettitt WaIter Geo. farmer, West end Spooner Rev. Shirley Alan M.A. (curate), Gardiner Brighton Wallace, schoolmaster, Pheazey Amos, farmer, Dropshort The Bury & sub-post office Prickett Arthur, carrier Howkins Benjamin, farmer, West end Reading Room (William Linger, sec) COMMERCIAL. Jackson George, shopkeeper Stevens Charles, White Horse P.H Bazley Charles, wheelwright Landon & Wells, farmers, Bury end Summerlin Albert, blacksmith BonnettRichard, parish clerk Landon William, farmer, Up end Walker Lewis, farmer, West end Dimmock Barnard Edward, farmer, Lay John Thomas, baker & mealman Wells Robt. farmer, see Landon & Wells Tithe farm Linger Albert John, shopkeeper Whitmee Arthur J ames, farmer, Bun • Fensom &Son, farmer, North End farm LockhartSidney William, farmer, Hill frm yan farm Fensom Samuel; builder & contractor, Newman Benjamin, farmer, Village farm Wright John Albert, farmer, Wick &c., &c. ;& at Kempston Odell J ames, Royal George P.H End farm STANBRIDGE is a small village and parish, 1 mile 1870, and a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1860. There Mrth from Stanbridge Ford station on the I,eighton Buz. are two annual charges of 5s. each for the poor. The principal zard and Dunstable branch of the London and North Western landowners are Peter Valentine Gilpin esq. J.P. of Kilcullen, railway, 3 miles east-by.south from Leighton Buzzard and co. Kildare, Ireland, the trustees of the late Miss Lawford~ about 4 north-west from Dunstable, in the Southern division Mrs. Twidell, Mr. Littleboy and Mr. Christopher Buckmaster~ of the county, hundred of Manshead, petty sessional division, The soil is a kind of clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops union and county court district of Leighton Buzzard, rural are wheat, barley, beans and peas. The area is 1,514 acres ;. deanery of Dunstable, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese rateable value, £2,346; the population in 1901 was 342. of Ely. The churc~ of St. John the ~aptist is a bu~ld~ng of Post Office.-Levi Stevens, sub-postmaster. Letters through the 13th century~ m the Early Enghsh s~yle, conslstmg of Leighton Buzzard, delivered at 7.30 a.m. Box cleared at chancel, clerestol'led nave of four bays, ~1~les, south porch 6.10 p.m. week days only. Postal orders are issued here, and an embattled. western tower contammg 5 bells: the but not paid. Hockliffe and Eaton Bray, both 3 miles church was altered m the l,5th cent~ry, the ~ave roof flatten~ distant are the nearest money order & tele raph offices and leaded, and PerpendICular wmdows mserted: there IS, , g an ancient stone font, of very early, possibly Saxon, date: PIllar Letter Box, near School, cleared at 6.10 p.m. week in the north wall of the chancel is a low side window, and days only at the west end of the north aisle a curious quatrefoil window: A School Board of 5 members was formed July 7, 1874, for the church was re-opened in 1893, after complete restoration, this parish, Tilsworth & Eggington; David Thomas Willis, at a cost of £2,100. The register dates from the year 1560. 42 High street, Leighton Buzzard, clerk to the board; The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £260, including Samuel Radley Middleton, 14 Grove road, Leighton Buzzard, 15 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of attendance officer Leighton Buzzard, and held since 1871 by the Rev. Thomas Board School (mixed & infants), built in 1881, for 150 chil. Green M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who is also dren; average attendance, 90; Samuel Delamont, master vicar of Tilsworth. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in Miss Jenny Crament, infants' mistress Bames David, sen Bunker Arthur, cattle dealer & farmer Groom Joseph, farmer Gladwell James Bunker George, cattle dealer Hawkins Albert, farmer Green Rev. Thomas M.A. Vicarage Clarke William, carpenter & joiner Higgs Thomas, shoe maker Costin William Edward, carpenter Labrum Joseph Richard, coal merchant COMMERCIAL. Eames David, jun. cattle dealer & farmer Olney David, duck breeder & pig dealer AbelArthur, duck breeder & butcher Edwins John, farmer, Blue Gate farm Olney George William, butcher, farmer & Abraham George. carter Florrence George Hy. beer retailer Red Lion P.H Abraham JDhn, beer retailer FoxleyFrederick,coaldealer&shopkeeper. Olney Phillip, Five Bells P.H Abraham William, duck breeder Gadsden Thos. jun. farmer, Bluegate farm Rose Charles, butcher Billington WaIter Thos. boot & shoe ma Gadsden Thomas, sen. farmer Stevens Levi, sh,)pkeeper, Post office Blake Gains, blacksmith Griffin John, farmer & threshing machine Yirrell Charles, butcher & farmer, Blake Henry, farmer owner, Church farm Mead farm LITTLE STAUGHTON (or STAUGHTON PARVA) is deanery of Riseley, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese a parish and village, on an eminence, 6 miles west from St. of Ely. The church, supposed to have been dedicated to Neots station on the main line of the Great Northern railway, St. Margaret, is a building'in the Decorated and Perpendicular 10 north from Bedford and 4 south from Kimbolton, on the styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, south aisle, Runts border of the county, in the Northern division of the with south porch and an embattled western tower of four -(l()unty, hundred of Stodden, Sharnbrook petty sessional stages, with octagonal truncated spire, of which the upper division, union and county court district of St. Neots, rural portion was destroyed by lightning in 1901; it is relieved.