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82 WISTOW. HUNTINGDONSHIRE. [ KELLY'S Garton Lionel, poultry dealer Howes Caroline (Mrs.), 'rhree Horse Swiffen Jas. frmr. Wistow Rill farm Gifford William, grocer & draper Shoes P.H Swiffen William, farmer, Brookgrove Goodes Zeno Thomas, Plough inn Saunders Alfred lsaac, farmer, Col Thomas .Alfd. saddler &; harness ma Rales James Samuel, miller (wind) lege farm Truss Ida (Miss), grocer, Post office Rarrity John, blacksmith Squires Frederick, farmer WOODHURST, formerly Wodehurst, is a village and and seating about 200 persons; there is also a Particular parish, 4 miles south-west from Somersham station on Baptist chapel. There ·are 7 acres of land vested in the St. Ives, Much and Wisbech -section of the Great the overseers, and producing about [,7 yearly, which Eastern railway, and 4 north from St. Ives, in the sum is given in coal &c. to the poor. Miss Annie Northern division of the county, hundred and petty Evelyn Pelly, who is lady of the manOr and impropriate sessional division of Hurstingstone, union of St. Ives, rector, ,and Homesteads Limited are the principal land county court district of Huntingdon, rural deanery of owners. The soil is of a clayey nature; subsoil, yellow St. Ives, arehdeaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of and blue clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, Ely. The church, or more properly chapel of ease, of beans, peas and clover. The ar,ea is 1,823 acres; rate St. John the Baptist is a building in the Early English able value, £1,432; the population in 1901 was 253. style, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of By Local Government Board Order 15,913, dated March four bays, south aisle, south porch and a wooden turret 24, 1884, a detached part of Old Hurst parish was trans over the western gable, formerly containing 3' bells, but ferred to Woodhurst, and by Order 17,765, dated March 1 now only one: one o~ the pe~s bears the date 163 : 25, 1885, a detached part of Woodhurst known as Bathe the chancel was rebUIlt by Slr J. H. Pe~ly bart. (d. Hill was added to Bluntisham. 1864), and the whole church was restored m 1871, at a I cost of £5°0: there are 200 sittings. The register of Sexton, Walter Coope~. baptisms dates from 1682; marriage's, 168o; burials, Post Office.-~rs. EmIly M~rden, sub-postmistre~s. 1690' The living is a chapelry, annexed, together with Letters receIved from Huntmgdon at 8 a.~.; dlS- Old Hurst, to t·he vicarage of St. Ives, in the' gift of patched at 8 a.m. & ~ p.~.; no ~unday dehvery of the Guild of All Souls, and held since 1899 by the Rev. letters. St. Ives, 4 mIles dIstant, JS the nearest tele- Oscar Wade Wilde M.A. of St. John's Oollege, Oxford, gra~h & money ~rder o~ce ., rural dean of sf Ives, and surrogate, who resides at St. Council Sch.ool (mIxed & mfants), establIshed .m 18r2, Ives; the Rev. Thomas Bernarli Parley L.'Dh. of Dur- for 80 ohIldren;. average .attendance, 47; MISS Ahce ham University, has been curate in charge ,since 1909. E. M. Blades, mIstress Here is a Union Baptist and Congregational chapel, built Carrier. Martin Murden, to St. Ives, mon.; to Hunt- in 1841 at the expense of Mr. John Longland Ekins, ingdon, sat (Marked thus * should be addressed Cooper George, correspondent clerk Murden Martin, poultry dealer St. Ives.) to school managers, rate collector Ring-row John HOl'nsby, farmer, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. & collector of income tax Manor farm Parley Rev. Thomas Bernard L.Th. Cooper J oseph Stephen, carpenter Reynolds Frank, grocer & draper (eu'rate in charge) Cowling David, farmer, Natts farm RoweIl George, farmer, White house Rowell Mrs. The Cedars Ding Snarey, beer retailer Rowell John Dean (exors. of), The Gurry Ebenezer, farmer Cedars COMMERCIAL. Gurry .Edward, farmer Rowell William, farmer, South vi\w Anniss J ames, farmer Gurry Emanuel. farmer, Bull's farm Saddington William, Half Moon & *Barton Arthur, farmer, Wigan farm Gurry George, farmer, Red house Stars P.R Broughton Holmes, horse dealer Matthews Thos. Murfin, blacksmith *Shelton John,beer retailer,Pell's hole Chapm~n John, beer retailer Meeks Rannah (MiSS), farmer Stokes George, beer retailer WOODSTONE (in Domesday Wodestun) is a village I in 1892-3: the church was almost entirely rebuilt in and parish, on the Oundle and Peterborough road, on 1844, and in 1884 was restored and enlarged from the borders of Northamptonshire, and bounded on t'he designs by the late Sir A. W. Blomfield M.A. architect north by the river Nene, 12 miles east from Oundle (d. 1899), at a cost of £2,100; i}l 1896 the church was and I south-west from Peterborough, in the Northern further enlarged to commemorate the completion of the division of the county, hundred .and petty sessional 25th ye.ar (If the Rev. Canon Tompson's iucumbency. division of Norman Cross, union and county court dis- and in 1908 a brass was erected in memory of this trict of Peterborough, rural deanery of Yaxley, arch- gentleman's 27 years' ministry from 1871-98. A list (If deaconry of Huntingdon and diocese of Ely: a large rectors since 1210 hangs in the church. The register portion of the parish was incorporated in the borough dates from the year 1558, and is singularly perfect, 'lPf Peterborougrh in 1874, and is a civil parish known as being deficient only from 1590 to 1597. The living is a "Woodstone Urban. The church of St. Augustine, an rectory, net yearly value £285, with residence, in the ancient cru,ciform 'building of stone, consists of chancel, crift of Major-Gen. William Dalrymple Tompson C.B. of llave, transepts, ai~les, north porch and a western tower lver, Bucks, and held since 1907 'by the Rev. Norton with panelled parapets containing 3 bells: the tower, Jo:hn Raper M.A., L.Th. of Durham University. A Mis three sides of which are within the nave, is Norman, sion chur<lh has been erec(ed in Orton avenue, on a with a Perpendicular parapet; over the western door site given by J. C. Hill esq. at a cost of £900, and there remains a considerable portion of well-preserved affords 250 sittiuO's. There is also an iron Primitive Saxon masonry; the north arcade is Transition Nor- Methodist chapel. '" A cem~tery of one acre was formed man; the south arcade rather later, and the chancel in 1883; it contains a mortuary chapel, and is under is Early Decorated: during the restoration a fine trefoil- the joint control of t.he Peterborough Town Council headed piscina. was discovered and restored, and several and the Old Fletton Urban District Council. The good crosses, found at the same time, were placed on C1harities for the poor of this parish consist of [,466, the gables: in the chancel chapel is an inscription to left by Mary Walsham in 1744, the interest of which. John Dickenson (1730), Who bequeathed his house and amounting to £13, is distributed on St. Thomas' day; garden in Westgate to the vicar of St. John the Baptist, she also gave during her life £100 to the living, and Peterborough; and a massive mural monument of founded a school; Mary and John Walsham in 1728 marble to Mary WalS'ham, his mother, who left £2,000 O'ave 28 acres of land in Whittlesea field and elsewhere for charitable purposes to this and other parishes: there ~nd part of a house, producing £40 yearly, for the en are numerous other memorials dating from the middle dowment of a school. In 1731 John Wright left £30 of the 17th century, many of them to the Wright and in 1733 his brother Thomas left £5, the interest family; in the south wall is an inscribed stone to the for the poor: there is also poor's land of 3a. 21'. 26p. Rev. Arthur Smyth, rector in 1730 and a noted anti- producing £4 yearly for fuel. The principal landowners quary; and a singular one to Ann (Addison), Ann are Major-Gen. William Dalrymple Tompson C.B. of (Grombell) and Jane (Parrish), wives of William Shipp, Iver, Bucks, who is lord of the manor, the trustees of of this parish, who died in 1683: the stained east the late Lady George Gordon and the London Brick window, erected in 1885, is a memorial to the Rev. Company. The soil is various; subsoil, clay and gravel. Mathew Carrier Tompson, rector from 1829, and his The chief crops are wheat, oats, peas, beans and barley. wife: in the south transept is a memorial window to The area of Woodstone Rural parish is 981 acres of the late Herbert Bird esq. erected by his widow in 1888, land and 3 of water; rateable value, £6,878; the popu and one in the north aisle- to the late Canon and Mrs. lation in 1901 was 1,3°9, and of the ecclesiastical parish, Pratt, placed in the same year: in 1892 a. stained 2,817' window was placed in the chancel, commemorating the Under the provisions of section 36 of the "Local dedication of the church of St. Augustine of Canter- Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), the old hury: three other windows were filled with stained glasll parish of Woodstone has been divided into Woodstone.

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