172 WOBURN. BEDFO RDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S Smith William Henry, Bedford street Warren Mrs. George street Wilson Thomas, George street Tanqueray Frederic Thomas, High street Whitcombe George E. Park farm Wiseman Mrs Park street Timreus Frederick William, Bedford street Wilson Miss, Park street

COMMERCIAL. Lucas Arthur M.R.c.s.Eng., L.S.A. (firm, Lucas &; Holmes), surgeon & deputy coroner for the King's HODor of , Early closing day, Wednesday. I Bedford street Adams William Charles, beer retailer, Chapel street McKay Bros. linen & woollen drapers & tailors, 3 Market sq Andrews Misses, day & boarding school, Leighton house IMarshall Wm. Hy. coach builder & wheelwright, Leighton st Andrews Gibson, ironmonger, Bedford street Matthews Mortimer Joseph, relieving & vaccination officer, Bailey James, farmer, Birthmoor Woburn district & registrar of births & deaths, Woburn Barclay & Co. Limited, bankers (sub-branch) (open on fridays sub·district, Ampthill union, George street & fair days, 11 to 4), Market square; draw on head office, Negus Henry Thomas, butcher, Bedford street 54 Lombard street, London EC Norman George, timber merchant, Leighton street Bank (Bassett, Son & Hams), Pacey Henry, ironmonger, Bedford street see Barclay & Co. Limited Pillimore Jane (Mrs.), coffee tavern & fancy berlin dealer, Beesley William, carrier & refreshment rooms, High street Bedford street Boughton George Richard, saddler & harness ma. Market square Pickering Rose (Mrs.), laundress, Union street Bowles Mrs. Royal Oak P.R. London road Potter George, tailor, Chapel street Brittain Alfred, Horsemoor farm Roberts William Henry, boot & shoe maker, High street Brown Frederick, dairyman & carter, Leighton street Sear John, farmer, ~peedwell farm Byway 'Villiam, cooper, Lcighton street Sear 'William Henry, Sun inn, London road Calvert Richard, head gardener to the Duke of Bedford, Scrivener Thomas, farmer, Cold Harbour farm Froxfield gardens Smith Francis, clerk to & School Carpenter Ann (Miss), dress maker, Chapel street Boards, Bedford street Clark Elizabeth & Jane (Misses), girls' day school, Bedford st Smith Francis, assistant overseer, clerk to Parish Council & Clarke George (Mrs.), dentist & chemist, 3 High street clerk to Aspley Heath & Aspley Guise School Boards, 3 Clarke John, gamekeeper to the Duke of Bedford Bedford street Coleman Robert, beer retailer, London road Smith William Henry, solicitor & commissioner for oaths, Cottage Hospital clerk to the Woburn, & School Co~nty Police Station (William Tatman, insp.), Leighton street Boards, Leighton street Emery William C. grocer & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Lim. wine Strong Henry, draper, Market square & spirit merchants, High street Tanqueray Frederic Thomas, solicitor, commissioner for Farr Frank, stone mason, Leighton street oaths & coroner for the King's HODor of Ampthill in Beds Fisher & Son, printers & stationers, High street & Bucks, clerk to the commissioners of taxes for , Fisher Henry John, printer, see Fisher & Son, Post office, Flitt & Redbornstoke & to the magistrates of Ampthill, Bedford street I,eighton Buzzard & Woburn divisions & clerk to Ampthill Gaskin William, farmer, Hundreds farm Rural District Council, High street; & at Ampthill Geeves John, Birchmoor Arms P.R Tatman William, inspector of police, Leighton street Gilby John, general draper, tailor & undertaker, High street Thorne Waiter P. butcher, Market square Goodman Harry, bO.:lt & shoe maker, London road Tompkins Frank, farmer, Jobs farm Gregory Henry, builder & contractor, Bedford street Tompkins Thomas, coal, corn, seed, beer & forage merchant, Gregory Martha (Mrs.), milliner, Bedford street Market square; & at Woburn Sands & Ridgmount rail. Hall Charles P. land steward to the Duke of Bedford, Park I way stations Farm office ITown Hall (Francis Keen, keeper), Leighton street Hall Frederick, Black Horse P.R. Bedford street I Turney George, grocer, High street Hammond David, saddler, Bedford street I Tyers Edward John, plumber & grazier, George street Harbert Mary Ann (Miss), upholstress, Bedford street Volunteer Battalion (3rd) Bedfordshire Regiment (K Co.), Hulatt William Thomas, tailor, George street Capt. A. G. Grimshawe; Colour-Sergt. A. Plater, drill instrctr Jones William, watch maker, High street Walker James C. Bedford Arms hotel & posting house & Keen Fras. bill poster & town crier, Market square farmer, George street King Charles, baker, Bedford street Watson John, farmer, Uteoate grange Lambert Charlotte (Mrs.), milliner, 5 High street Wesson William, Bell P.R, Bedford street Lilley Edward, baker, Bedford street Weston Robert, Magpie commercial hotel, Bedford street London & County Banking Co. Limited (sub-branch) (open Woburn Gas Co. (Henry John Fisher, sec.), High street on fridays & fair days, 2 to 4), Park street; draw on head Woburn Institute & Reading Rooms (W. H. Roberts, librarian office, 21 Lombard street, London E C & hon. sec.), Leighton street I,ucas & Hormes, surgeons, Bedford street

WOBURN SANDS, which is on the Bucks border the centre of the parish; it has a library of upwards of 800 &nd on the road from to Newport Pagnell, is an volumes, and is used for concerts and other village purposes. ecclesiastical parish formed in 1867, and comprising the A Training Home for seven girls was established in 1891, ciTil parish of Aspley Heath and parts of the parish of Aspley in the parish of Aspley Heath, as a branch from the Girls' Guise and Wavendon, the two former being in the Southern Training Home at Bedford. The parish is particularly division of the county, Woburn petty sessional division, salubrious, being situated on the lower greensand formation, Ampthill union, Leighton Buzzard county court district, the which here is a reddish-brown sand, and partly covered by latter in the union of Newport Pagnell, Bucks, all in the rural pine woods. Edgebury is the residence of Alfred Allnutt deanery of Fleete, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of esq. and Hardwick House of the Ven. Frederick Bathurst M.A. Ely. The village has a station on the Bedford and Cambridge archdeacon of Bedford. The principal landowners are the branch of the London and North Western railway, 12 miles Duke of Bedford K.G. C. Ridgway esq. and Alfred Allnutt esq. south-west from Bedford, 4 east from Bletchley, 2l north­ The area is 1,400 acres, including 600 acres for Aspley Heath; west from Woburn and 50 from London: it is 44 mnes from about 450 acres is woodland; the population in 1901 was London by road. The church of St. Michael, at Aspley Heath, 1,749, of which 1,016 are in Bucks. erected in 1868 from designs by Mr. Henry Clutton, architect, By Local Government Board Order 15,338, dated 24 June, is an edifice in the French Gothic style, and originally consisted 1883, Aspley Heath was made a separate , and by of chancel, nave of five bays and a small circular western bell Order 18,187, dated March 25, 1885, part of Wavendon, in turret :in 1889 it was enlarged from designs by Sir Arthur Bucks, was added to it. The area is 600 acres; rateable .Blomfield A.R.A., F.S.A. at a cost of £2,400, when the chancel value, £2,309; the population in 1901 was 462. was extended and new chancel and nave built on the north Parish Clerk, Henry Hebbes. side, and transepts and vestries were also added; an oak Po~t, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., E. D., P. P. & A. I. 0., pulpit with stone base has been presented by Mr. and Mrs. Woburn Sands. Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have Stuart in memory of four of their children, and an oak lectern RoS.O. Beds added. - John Pikesley, SUb-postmaster. by :Miss F. A. Stuart, in memory of Mrs. Nicholson. The Letters arrive at 4.50 a.m & 12.15 & 4.45 p.m. ; dispatched stained east window was erected in 1889 as a memorial to at 10.30 a.m. & 12.15, 8 & 10 p.m.; parcel mail, 10.30 a.m. Mr. \V. H. Denison, for 21 years churchwarden, and there is & 12.15, 5.45 & 8 p.m.; sundays the box is cleared at 8 another memorial window to Maud F. Stuart. The reredos, p.m designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield A.R.A. was erected in 1896, Wall Letter Boxes, Station road, cleared at 11.50 a.m. & as a memorial to Misses C. and E. Pain. The church affords 7.25 p.m.; sundays, 5.15 p.m. Aspley Heath, cleared at 450 sittings. The register dates from the year 1867. The 10 a.m. & 7.25 p.m.; sundays, 5.15 p.m living is a vicarage, net yearly value £160, with residence, in A School Board of 5 members was formed July 25, 1885, for the gift of the Duke of Bedford K.G. and held since 1900 by the Aspley Heath & subsequently representatives of the con­ Rev. Douglas William Henry M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. tributory districts of Aspley Guise & Wavendon (Bucks) There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and Particular Bap­ were added, the former sending two & the latter four members; tist chapels, and a Friends' meeting house. The Village Francis Smith, 4 Bedford street, Woburn, clerk to the board; Institute, built in 1874, at a cost of about £800, stands near George Newling, attendance officer