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Whitbread esq. to four poor widows, occupying alms­ Apsley End, I mile south ; Upton End, half a mile lwuses situated in the churchyard; the interest of £3oo, north; and Holwell Bury, 3 miles east, are other placeg left bv• the late Mrs. Lines, and the interest of a in this parish . similar sum, left by the late Mr. George Simkins, both Post, M. 0., T. & Expres~ Delivery Office, Church st.­ to be distributed amongst the deserving poor at Christ­ vVilliam Ambrose Rufiell, sub-postmaster. Letters mas. Holwell Bury is the property and seat of Arthur recPived from Hitchin at 8.20 a.m. & 4-30 p.m.; dis­ Wllliam Leedam esq. Williarn Hammond Hanscombe patched at 8.45 a.m. &:, 12-40 & 6.rs p.m. week days e~.

Lucas Roht. Beart, Shillington manor 1 Elliott George, Swan inn, Apsley End L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon, medical Postgate Rev. Langdale Horwood; Elliott Josiah, saddler & harness ma officer & public vaccinator Shilling- M . .!.. (vicar), Vicarage Elms George, farmer, Upton End ton & Gravenhurst districts, Roberts Kilham, Windmill lodge Elms J onah, farmer . union, medical officer of Simkins Mrs. George, Bleak house Gregory Albt. builder,Woodmore End health. Ampthill Rural District Tuke Miss, house, Pegsdon Gregory J ohnThos.shopkpr. UptonEnd Council & medical superintendent COMMERCIAL. Grigg-s Walter G. shopkpr. Bury rd Small Pox Hospital, Ampthill Rural Ash ton Alfred (Mrs.), baker liriggs William, baker District Council, Windmill lodge .A.shton William James, baker Grundon Harriett, Victoria & Mav Ruffell Geo. Hv. farmer, Chiblev frm . - - Blackmore Arthur, shopkeeper (Misses), shopkeepers Ruffell William Ambrose, shopkeeper Ilrown George (exors. of), farmers, Haynes Thomas, Red Sign Post P.H & sub-postmaster Rose hill Hill yard Geo. Musgrave Arms P. H Rust As a, shopkeeper, Ilford End Ru:rckitt John, farmer, Bury farm Hill yard Harry, blacksmith Rust Isaac, farmer, Moorhen farm Cooper Frederick, farmer, Whitehall Hinge George, beer retailer Simkins Saml. D. & Sons, corn mer~ Cooper Mary (Mrs.), Marquis of In grey Frank W. baker Simkins James, butcher Granby P.H JPpps Albert, farmer,Red House farm Smith Elizabeth(Mrs.),Five BPlls PH Davis Fras. Hy. farmer, Pump farm Jepps Harry, insurance agent Smith James, farmer, Kettledeane Day Abraham William, assistant over- Jepps Jabez (exors. of), farmers, Wailer Harry S. & Arthur, farmers seer & clerk to the Parish Council, Lordship farm Wailer Arthur George, Crown P.H regist.rar of births & deaths for the King John 'Villiam, builder West James, farmer, Apsley End sub-district of Shillington, Ampthill Levitt J onah, beer retailer, Pegsdon Wilson Bros. builders & blacksmiths is a parish and a very picturesque village, on 1;round.-; with ornamental waters, of 100 acres, originally the road from Bedford to Luton, 4 miles east from laid out b~- Lance lot (better known as " Capability") station on the main line of the Midland rail- Brown, under the dit·ection of Henry (Grey), 12th Earl way, in the Southern diYision of the county, hundred of and Ht Duke of KPnt K.G. and have from time to time Flitt., petty sessional division, union and county court been addt>d to and improYed; at Cain Hill, adjoining the district of _\.mptbill, rural deanery of Ampthill, Bedford park, there is a column, erected by Amabel, Countess -archdeaconry and St. Alban~ diocese. The church of de Grey, in 183r, on the site o.riginally occupied by the St. James is an edifice of local red sandstone, consisting Hill House; at , ths mother church, about a mile of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled tower con- to t-he north-west, is the mausoleum of the De Grey taining 3 bells: the east window is stained; the church family. Lord Lucas and Ding-wall P.C. is lord of the wa~ rebuilt in r83r, at a cost of £5,ooo, of which £4,000 manor and principal landowner. The crops are of the was given by the 2nd Earl de Grey (d. r85g), who also usual kind. The so1l is part day and Jlart sand; sub­ endowed the living with £150 yearly: considerable soil, strong- clay and a loamy ;;;and. The area is 2,146 -additions and alterations were made in 1884 and the a£'res of land and 12 of ~ater; rateable valne, £3,429; -church entirely refloored and reseated: towards the cost the population in I9II ...-a~ 561. of these repairs £4oo was contributed by the 7th and. Sexton, Arthur White. last Earl Cowper K.G. (d. rgo5), and £mo by the Post, ill. 0., T. & 'l'Plephone Call & Expres>: Delinry Misses Delme-Radcliffe, the remainder being raised by Office.-Isaac J. Cook, sub-postmaster. Letters rr- general subscriptions. The separate register dates from ceived from London k all parts from _.\.mpthill at the year 1846 only; the earlier entries are included in 6.45 a.m. & 1.45 p.m.; dispatched at 7-30 & 10.45 the registers of Flitton. The living is a vicarage, yearly a.m. & 5-45 p.m.; snnday, 6.45 a.m.; dispatched at Yalne £r5o, with residence, in the gift of Lord Lucas and 9-30 a.m Dingwall P.C. and held since 1905 by the Rev. Thoma~ Public Elementary Schools. for 250 children; William Francis Ford Williams M . .A. of Oriel College, Oxford. Treacher, ma~ter; .Mi~s K. ·wilson, mi~trPss A fair is held here on May 13th. Wrest Park, the County Police, Ralph Robert Leopold Tingey, acting pTOperty and residence of Lord Lucas and Dingwall P.C. sergeant is a finely timbered domain, stocked with fallow deer, Carriers to- ~hich range oyer nearly sou acres of good pasture land: Hitchin-.\rthur "Vheder, tues. & sat the statelv mansion, erected bv the 2nd :Earl de Grev, is Luton-Woodward, mon. &; wed - - - in the French style, and is surrounded ·by pleasure Wilshamstead & Bedford~Arthur Wheeler, sat PRIV.\TE RESIDENTS. Orlebar John, High street Browning Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, '\'\-'est ~"-rgles Cecil George J.P. Wrest Park Squire Miss End farm lodge Williams Rev. Thomas Francis Ford. Cook Isa.ac James, grocer, k past Delme-Radcliffe The Misses, Red ho M.A. (vicar), Vicarage. T N 7 office, High street Field Misses, Fielden house COMMERCIAL. Cooke Geo. Ed. carpentr. & be{'r retlr .Jones Richard Edward, Silsoe house Argles Cecil Geurge J.P. land agent! Day Abraham, registrar of births & Lucas & Dingwali Lord P.O. Wrest\1 to Lord Lucas &. Dingwall P.C ! deaths; attends second & fourth park (T N 6 Silsoe); & 3:1 Old Telephoni! :a Silsoe I ~ednesdays in each month; houri Queen street, Westminster S W &I Bosworth Edwd. farmer, Fielden frm f 2 to 3 Brooks's, Travellers' &. Reform 1 Brightman Samuel, farmer 'Dunham James, shoe maker clnhs S W, London Brown Alfred, beer retailer Emerton John, farmer