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100 BILLESDEN. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [ KELLY'S and retaining part of the beautiful group of niches; the ancient stone implement, supposed to be an nnfinishe<f cross is 7 feet 7 inches high and derives additional quern or handmill; it is a large slab of stone, having interest from its standing near the grave of the Royal- in the centre a cup-like hollow about 10 inches in ists who fell at the siege of Hillesden House, March 3rd, diameter, in which is inserted a lid without handle; it 1643: the church door, originally ibelonging to the old was found some years ago whilst digging a drain; Mr. lUanor house, still retains the marks of bullets: there are Barge also has a very perfect calf-bound volume of 200 sittings. The churchyard was extended on tho north accounts relating to the estate of Sir Alexander Denton, side ill 1898. The register dates from the year 1594. found about 1860 built up in an old wall at the ManoI' The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, with farm, and mentions among other items, the cost of residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of sending a messenger to London in 1665, the year of the Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1868 by the Rev. great plague. Charles Morrison esq. of Basildon Park, Robert Holt M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Berks, is lord of the manor, the Dean and Chapter of of Christ Church, Oxford. The vicarage house, which Christ Church, Oxford, are the owners of the tithes and is in the Domestic Gothic style, was built by the present of about 200 acres of land; Charles Morris esg. and Capt. incumbent in 1870. The parish consists of scattered Sir William Cecil H. Domv-ille bart. R.N., C.B. of The farms and a few cottages. In January, 1635, and again C"'hantry, Ipswich, are the principal landowners. The soil in November, 1822, this place and the neighbourhood is principally clay; about three-fourths of the land i8 are said to have been visited by shocks of earthquake. pasture. '1'he area is 2,600 acres of land and 6 of water; Hillesden House was during the Civil war garrisoned in assessable value, £3,°32; the population in 1891 was 197. 1641 for the king, being then the seat of Sir Alexander L h h k' l' & Denton kt.; in 43 it was attacked by and surrendered etters t roug Buc -mg lam arnve at 8 a.m. 4 p.m. 16 'Wall Box cleared at 5.50 p.m. week days only. The to the Parliamentary forces, who destroyed it by fire, nearest money order & telegraph office is at Steeple Sir A. Denton, Col. Smith, besides two field officers and Claydon, about I! miles distant divers captains, being amongst the prisoners: a portion of the old wall still remains: it was rebuilt at the Parochial Srhool, built in 1867, by George Morrison e~q. Restoration, but taken down again when the estate was for 50 children; average attendance, 26; ~Iiss ~I. L. .sold to the lat,e Duke of Buckingham. Mr. Fred T. Gibbard, mistress llarge, farmer of this parish, has in his possession a very Carrier to Buckingham.-Ephraim Jeffs, wed. & sat Cowper '1'he Misses, Nut1ey Coates Nathaniel, farmer, Lower farm Lepper Alfred, farmer Holt Rev. Robert M.A. Vicarage Coat.es Nath. jun.farmr.Stocking wooo Lepper Charles, farmer COMMERCIAL. Coates Thomas, farmer, Plank's farm Lines Margaretta (Mrs.), farmer Adams Andrew, farmer, Home farm Evered George, farmer, Wood farm Perrin Thomas Henry, blarksmith Barge Frederick Thomas, farmer Hedges William, farmer, Manor farm Staley Thomas, Plough P.H. & shop- Barge George \V. bookseller Jeffs Ephraim, carrier keeper HITCHAM is a parish, li miles north-east from value from 160 acres of glebe £360, with residence, in. Taplow station on the main line of the Great Western the gift of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College, and railway, 2! miles north-east-by-east from Maidenhead held since 1873 by the Rev. George Frewer M.A. of St. and 6 miles north-west from Windsor, in the Southern John's College, Cambridge. Here is a Mission Room for division of tho county, hundred and petty sessional divi meetings and lectures. Blythe \Vood House is the seat sion of Burnham, union of Eton, county court district of George Hanbury esq. J.P. John Bevill Fortescue esq. of 'Vindsor, rural deanery of Burnham, archdeaconry of of Droprnore, is lord of the manor; William Henry Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Grenfell esq. of Taplow, Harvey Ranking esq. and Mary is a small building of stone, brick and flint, dating George Hanbury esq. are the principal landowners. The from the 12th century, and consists of chancel, nave, soil is gravel; subsoil, loam. The chief crops are wheat, south porch and an embattled western tower containing oats and barley. The area is 1,478 acres of land and 6 3 bells: there are three windows retaining fragments of of water; assessable value, £5,448; the population in ancient stained glass, and three modern stained win 1891 was 512 in the civil and 453 in the ecClesiastical dows, one of which, in the chancel, was erected in 1887: parish. there is a monument with kneeling figures to Roger Parish Clerk, William Horwood. Alford, hiS' wife, son and daughter, 1580, and Post & M. O. 0., S. B. & Annuity &; Insurance Office. one with a recumbent figure !in marble to Sir J. Howard, sub-postmaster. Letters through Maiden William Clarke kt. 1624; a monument to George Cruick head arrive at 7.30 & 10.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. Box shank, 1765; a urass with effigies of Nicholas Clarke cleared 12 &; 7.30 p.m.; sunday, 11.15 a.m. Taplow is and two children, 1551; and brass to Sir Francis Clark the nearest telegraph office, I mile distant knt. 1631: there are 120 sittings. The register dates Kational School (mixed), built in 1872, for 96 children; from the year 1608. The living is a rectory, net yearly average attendance, 75; Miss Anness E. Salter, mistress Frewer Rev. George M.A. Rectory .Ranking Harvey Lever WiIliam, farmr. Shdep;lotc farm Hanbury George J.P. Blyth~ Wood ho Horewood William, cab p\'oprietor Quick Samuel, beer retailer Irby Hon. Cecil Saumarez, IHtcham Howard James, shopkeep~:- Webster In. &; Geo. farmers, Hi] frm grange Langham Robert, coal agent Williams William, builder HOGGESTON is a village and parish 31 miles soutl. rectory, net yearly value £300, with 80 acres of glebe and' east from Winslow station on the Bletchley and Oxford residenc~, in the gift of the Provost and Fellows of 'Wor branch of the London and North Western railway and 8 cester College, Oxford, and held since 1886 by the :Rev. north-east from Aylesbury, in the Northern division of Charles Henry Tomlinson M.A. formerly Fellow ana t,he county, Cottesloe hundred, Winslow petty sessional 'l'utor of that college. Thomas Gataker B.D. a great division and union, Buckingham county court district, scholar and divine of the reign of Charle& n. rural deanery of Mursley, archdeaconry of Buckingham and rector of this parish, who died 20th ~ov. and diocese of Oxford. The church of SS. Peter and 1680, and his 'SOn and successor, CharleS! Gataker. Paul, or oi the Holy Cross, is an ancient edifice of stone equally celebrated a~ a critic and divine, who died' in the Transition style of the 13th century, consisting of Nov. 10th, 1701, are both buried in the chancel. <:hancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north porch and a In the village is a Reading-room, open during the winter western tower with shingled spire containing 4 bells: it evenings. The Earl of Rosebery K.G., P.C., :F.S..A. is '\'tas restored, the chancel rebuilt and enlarged and fitted lord of the manor and owns all the land w~th the ex with carved oak stalls and the nave with oak benches in ception of the glebe. The old Manor House, a pictur· 1882 at a cost of £1,35°: there are memorials of the esque building, with a good panelled room, massive oak Mayne family, and a tomb erected to Sir William de stairs and fine chimneys, is occupied by Mr. Illick Bermingham, the founder of a chantry here, of whom Morris. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil, clay. ThlJ there is also an effigy, holding in the hands a model of land is principally pasture, but wheat and beans ar& 8 building, perhaps representing the church: the original grown in small quantities. The area is 1,570 acres: Decorated oak framing supporting the belfry and one of rateable value, £1,906; the population in 1891 was 166. the original Norman windows on the south side of nave Sexton, Thomas Hopkins. remain, but the latter is now blocked: there is a piscina and remains of the rood stairs in south aisle and a Letters through Winslow arrive at 7.15. Wall Letter piscina and double sedile in chancel: the stone cross Box cleared week davs at 3.20 p.m.: sundays at IO•.~O formerly in the churchyard is now built into the wall of a.m. Winslow &; Whitch'uch are the nearest money the porch: the church contains one or two specimens of order &; telegraph offices, both about 3~ miles distant the old tussock-hassocks: there are 120 sitting-so The ~ational School (mixed), for 50 children; average at register dates from th~ year 1547.