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lPBIVATE RESIDENTS. Boston John Wm. market gardener Manton Bros. leather dressers &;, mfrs Beck .Arthur Cecil Tyrrell J.P. Boston John William (Mrs.), boarding Neal Charles, coal dealer Harrold hall t & Queen .Anne's honse, Uplyme house Nichols Thomas, tailoil' mansions, St. J ames' park & Re­ Clayson C. & Sons, builders Parns Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer form club, London ·s W Clayt~on George, jobmaster Fettit & Co. leather dressers Croxford Jesse Charles, Rose cottage Clayson George B. builder Pickering Thomas B. farmer Drage -James Clayson John, china & glass dealer Riseley .Arthur James, cycle agent Clayson Waiter, carpenter, Folly Robinson Thomas .Austin, carpentel" Fairev• John, West view Goff Mrs. Barham house Clayson Wilfrid, saddler Rootham & Son, plumbers &c Goodes James Coleman Bros. farmers, Harrold park Rudd Louisa (Mrs.), draper Hubbard George Robert, The Haven Cook George, baker Rumsey John Abery, grocer Langley Arthur G. The Manor Crouch Frederick George, blacksmith Rushbroake Abraham, boot & shoe dlr Li1iey Rev. Herbert (vicar), Vicarage Day James, farmer, The Mansion · Sanders William .Arthur, grocer Manton Mrs Day Osborne J. farmer, Dungee farm t!mith Samuel Charles, .butcher Osborne Mrs. Rose villa (postal address, Odell, Sharnbrook, I Somerville Hy. B.Sc.Lond., M.R.IQ.S. Pettit Charles J.P. Harrold house Bells) Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. physician .& Pickering Thomas B. St. Quintin ho Fairey William, farmer, Priory surgeon, & medical officer & publi~ Sanders Mrs. The Maples Fairey Wm. Rd.draper & photogrphr vaccinator Harrold district, Bedford Samerville Henry Flute Herbert, shopkeeper union Somerville Mrs Gayton Ann (Mrs.), laundress Squires Edgar Charles, tailor Steward Charles James, Mill house Harrold Institute (John Spencer,mgr) Stock William, hurdle maker Wells George, Pleasant villa H~u~:hton Elizabeth (Miss), laundress Stote Alfred, hair dresser Knight John, farmer Surridge Charles .!Hen, beer retailer COMMERCIAL. Knight John, vermin destroyer Thompson Wm. watch & clock repairer .A.shwell Sarah Elizabeth (Miss), fancy Knight Thomas, carpenter & joiner & Titmas Samuel, miller (water) repository assessor & collectAmpthill, rural in this parish, is an interesting old building once con­ deanery of Haynes, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese nected with the Chicb-ands Priory, and contains a fine of Elv.• The church of St. Marv,• rebuilt, with the sta.irca.se leading to a spacious apartment. The soil is exception of the tower, and enlarged in IBSo by the half clay and half sand. the junction of the strata run­ late Rev. Lord John Thynne D.D. d. 9 Feb. 188I, i.s an ning through Haynes Park; subsoil, ~and. The prin­ elegant structure in the Early Decorated style, consistJing cipal crops are wheat, barley, beans and turnips. The of chancel, memorial chapel to Anne Constantia (Bares­ area is 2,607 acres; rateable value, £2,731; the popu­ ford) wife of Lord John Thynne, nave, aisles, with vestry lat.i.on in 1901 was 746. beyond, south porch and an -embatt~ed tower: at the North Wood End, West End, I, miles west, and north side of the chancel there are three stained windows Deadm-an's Oross, 2l,- miles eMt of the church, on the and one in the west end of the church in memory of road from Hitchin to Bedford, are hamlets in this parish. Mrs. Thynne, besides one in the south of the chancel in memorv of the Rev. Arthur E. D. Osborne B..A. Sexton, Joseph Dunih:.m. vicar 1878:87: beneath th~ south aisle is the vault of tlhe :Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Alice Alien, sub-post­ Carteret family. The register dates from the year 1596. mio;tress. Letters received from Eedford at 8.30 a.m. The living is an endowed vicarage, net yearly value & 3-45 p.m.; box c-loses at 2.10 & 4·55 p.m. & on sun- £286, with residence, in the gift of Sir Algernon K. B. days at 10.55 a.m · Osborn hart. and held since 1895 by the Rev. William Post Office, Ohuroh End. Joseph Dunh.am, sub-post­ Charles Browne. There is a Mission Room at North ma.st3r. Letters througth Bedford arrive at 8.I5 a.m.; Wood End, built in I·Bgg on a site given by the le.te dispatched at 2.30 & 5. IO p.m. Haynes, I mile di;;:;­ Francis John Thynne esq. (d. 1910) to the Ely Diocesan tant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office Trustees, for the use of the parisih of Haynes. :Services are held frequently and the room is also used for secular Public Elementary Schools. purposes. Here are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels. MI'\S. Emma Edwards, of Woking, and Sir Algernon K. Butler Church End (mixed), built at the expense of the Re"~· Osborn bart. of Ohicksands Priory, are the prindpal Lord John Thynne D.D. for 130 children; average at­ landowners. Haynes Park, now (I9IO) unoccupied, tendance, 70; C. J. Edwa.rds, master is a handsome and capacious mansion, standing in a North Wood End, for 70 infants; average attendanoe. well-wooded park Gf Boo acres, containing a small lake 36; Miss Hyatt, mistreso; of about half an acre: this estate passed from the hands Carrier:; to Bedford. Francis Whittamore, man. wed. &. of the Newdegate family to Sir George Oarteret, known sat. returning same day; Thomas Green, mon. wed. & in his•ory as the Royalist defender of the island of sat. returning same day; Joseph Dunham, sat

Browne Rev. William Chas. Vicarage Deer Walt.er, beer retailer,Deadman's J Simms Mary Ann (Mrs.), baker Simms Arthur, Jude's farm · Cross Simms Thos. farmr. Standalone frm COMMERCIAL. Dunham Frederick, farmer .Simpson Thos. farmer, Rook Tree fm .Alien Alfred Joseph, baker,& assistant Dunham John H. beer retailer, North Sims De Lacy, butcher, North Wood overseer, North Wood End Wood End End .A.llen Waiter James, beer retailer, Dunham Joseph, carrier, Church End Sims Reginald, farmer North Wood End Green Thos.Greyhound P.H.& carrier Strauss Frederick C. White Horse Bray William James, cycle manufac­ Keens Mary (Mrs.), laundry P.H. Deadman's Cross turer & official repairer to the King A.da (Miss),· beer ret. West End Trig-g Samuel, blacksmith, North Cyclist Touring Club · Matthews John (Mrs.), farmer, North Wood .End Church John, farmer End farm TurtlP FredPrick Peter, carpenter Cole Martha (Miss), shopkeeper Rogers Alfred (Mrs.), baker Walker Thomas, shoe maker Cook George, farmer, West End farm Simms Arthur, farmer, Jude's, Q-xley Whittamore Fr'lncis, carrier Cook William, farmer, Keyses farm & The Grange farms Wiles Jesse, tailor HEATH a.nd REACH fmm a civil parish, on the Dunstable, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of Ely. borders of Bucks and the road from Leighton Buzzard to The villa~e is remarkable and picturesque, covering­ Woburn, 2! miles north from Leighton Buzzard station several hills and valleys, witlh pleasant land-scapes on the main line of the London a.nd North Western rail- stretching away into the distance with beautiful woods way, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of and plantations. The church of St. Leonard, rebuilt, Manshead, petty ,sessi·Jnal division, union and county with the exception of t•he tower, in 1829, is a. plaiD court district of Leighton Buzzard, rural deanery of I building in the Gothic style, consisting