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PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Pitaluga Henry John, Ingleside Fordham Joseph Edward, farmer Bagnall George Fredk, Red hollSe Platt-Higgins Francis M. Westfield Gall .Arthur, livery stable keeper Br1ght-Smith Vandeleur Savory John. Ivy cottage Gall Christr. S. rope & twine maker Carr Rev. Edwin Trevor Septimus Stevens William Wood, Rose cottage Larkin Henry, insurance agent M.A.. Rectory Thompson Mrs. Kirby lodge Lewin Charles, Prince Regent P.H Clay Charles Felix, Manor farm Thornton Lt.-Col. ·D.S.O. King's farm Marshall Frederick .Albert, builder Eaden Jn. Frdk. LL.M. Shelford ho Wood Col. Thomas Meadows William & Son, farmers Eccles tone Wm. Garrett; St . .Andrews Miles Sarah .Annie (Mrs.) & Son, Fenton Miss, Primrose villa COMMERCIAL. grocers, & post office Harris George S. Cintra lodge Builer Charles Philip, baker M.oore Edwa.rd, Plough P.H Lofts Charles, Fern cottage Cracknell Thomas, boot maker, Thompson James, The Chequers P.H Mowlam Mark William Mount view Walker Edward, ccarpenter & builde:r Peart Alfred Henry, Saintfoins Elbourne Edward, blacksmith & assistant overseer •. SHEPRETH is a parish, with a station on the Wimbish Manor is the residence of Mowbray Frederick Hitchin, Royston and Cambridge section of the Great Vivian James .Arthur Webber esq. J.P. and Tyrrels, of Northern· railway, 5 miles north-east from Royston, 8 Miss Nash-Woodham. In the parish are four manors. south-vrest from Cambridge and so from London by The trustees of the late Biscoe Hill Wortham esq. are rail and 44 by road, in the Western division of the lords of the manor of Shepreth; W illiam and John county, hp.ndred of Wetherley, petty sessional division Nash-Woodham- esqrs. of Docwraies and Tyrrel manors,. of .Arr ington and Melbourn, union and county court and Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Ellis is lady of the manor of district Of Royston, rural deanery of Barton and arch- Wimbish-cum-Foxton; and these, with Henry W. Wells deaconry and diocese of Ely. The church of .All Saints esq. impropriator of the great tithes, which belonged is an aneient edifice of brick and flint in the Early to the nuns of Chatteris, and Miss Nash-Woodham, English style, con;;isting of chancel, nave and a low are the chief landowners. The soil is chalky, clayey western tower containing 3 bells (one of which is not and gravelly; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief crops fit for use): the church was restored in 1870, at a cost are wheat a-nd barley; oats, beans and peas are also of £·soo, and .contains some monuments to the Layer grown. The area is 1,318 acres; rateable value~ family (who formerly possessed property here), dated £3,314; the population in 19ll was 426. 1730, 1743 and 176o, and affords 120 sittings. The Post & M. 0. Office.-William James Hunt, sub-post- register dates from the year 1569. The living is a ·master. Letters received from Royston (Herts) at vicarage, net yearly value £6o, with Tesidence and 6.17 a.m. & 12.5 p.m.; dispatched at ·8.20 a.m .. & including- 12 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Rev. 7·45 p.m. The t.elegraph office is at the Railway B. H. Wortham B.A. rector of Dunton Waylett, Essex, station, which is 'open on week days only . and held since 1915 by the Rev. Edward Hyacinth Wall Letter Box, near the 'Green Man,' cleared at 7 Tottenham M.A.. of Exeter College, Oxford. There is p.m. week days only a Congregational chapel, erected in 1901 and seating Public Elementflil'y School (mixed), erected in 1869, for 120 persons. The Village Hall, erected in 1909, at a 144 children; Henry Darlow, master cost of £6oo, has a billiard and reading room attached. Railway Station, Chas. Herbert Constable, station mast Ellis Mrs. The Wimbish cottage Bowd James Charles, farmer Samuel Charles, coal dealer Gildea George Percy, Rushmoor ho Boyce William, nurseryman Smith .Albert Edward, beer retailer Hart Henry Preston, The Moorlands Chamberlain Waiter, beer retailer Smith .Alfred, photographer & as· (postal address, Meldreth, Royston, Oollins William, wheelwright f!istant overseer Herts) Cooper Annie (Mrs.), Plough inn · Smith Jonas, farmer & miller (water) Nash-Woodham Miss, Tyrrels Ea·st .Anglian Cement Co. Limited Stockbridge Augustus A. miller Nash-Woodham Wm.Docwraies manr Gray John, farmer · . (water & steam) Smith Wm . .Albert, The Chestnuts Hunt Wm. Jas. grocer, &·post office · Tuck King, farmer Tottenham. Rev. Edward Hyacinth Marshall Benjamin, blacksmith Village Hall(Henry Darlow,sec.; Geo. M . .A. (vicar), Vicarage Mead Frederick, gardener to M. F. Adams, caretaker) Webber Mowbray Frederick Vivian V. J . .A. Webber esq. J.P Waller Stephen, fruit grower James Arthur J.P. Wimbish manor Payne John George, corn dealer Wilkin Thomas, Railway tavern COMMERCIAL. Rhee Valley Portland Cement Worb Wisbey Ralph, farmer Bishop George, Green Man P.H (G. P. Gildea, proprietor) SHIN GAY (or Shengy) is a parish and village, about here up to 1716; eventually it was disused and it 6 miles north from Ashwell station on the Hitchin, becarne ruinous, and about r82o the materials were Royston and Cambridge branch of the Great Northern appropriated for secular purposes. ~~n iron Mission raihvay, and 6 south from Potton station on the Sandy church was erected here in 1902. The living is a and Cambridge section of the London and North chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Wendy, joint net Western railway, 5~ north-west from Royston and 45 yearly value £r3o, including 32 acres of glebe, with· from London, in the Western division of the county, residence, in the gift of the Church Patronage Society, hundred of .Armingford,, petty sessional division of and held since 1913 by the Rev. John George M.A. of Arrington and Melbourn, union and county court dis- St. John's College, Cambridge, who resides at Wendy. trict of Royston, rural deanery of Shingay and arch- There is also a Nonconformist Mission room. After deaconry and diocese of Ely. This was formerly a the Dissolution in 1538 the lands of the preceptory place of importance, having been the seat of a pre- were granted by Henry VIII. to Sir Richard Longe, ceptory of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of master of the king's hawks, whose g-randdaughter Jerusalem, founded in 1140 by Sybilla de Reynes. .At Elizabeth, marrying Sir William Russell, 1st Baron the Dissolution its revenues were estimated at Russell of Thornhaugh, carried the estate into that £17.6 4s. 6d. No tra0es of the building now remain, hmily. It next belonged to the family of Sandys, nor anything to testify to its former existence, except Barons Sa.ndys of Ombersley, and eventually by pur­ the dry moat which surrounds the site, a space of chase became the property of the Earl of Hardwicke, about 200 yards square, the ineqnaltiies of the ground and later of Viscount Clifden; it is tithe free, and is and the .avenue of. trees which mark the former now vested in Messrs. William Bath and John May approaches to it. .Among-st the preceptors of this house Coleman, who are the sole landowners. The soil is of may be mentioned Sir Thomas Dockwra, grand prior a rich loamy character, and the subsoil clay. · The chief of the order 1504, and Sir Thomas Sheffield, grand crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 768 seneschal of Rhodes 1518. _<\dmiral Edward Russell, acres; assessable value, £949; the population in I9II Earl of Orford and Baron Russell of 'Shingay, after the was 45· rewoval of the preceptory buildings in r6c:J7, erected Letters received through Royston (Herts), via Wendy, here a small chaoel, on a site close to that of the which is also the nearest post office; .arrive at 7.40 preceptory and still called "Chapel yard," and dedicated a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is it to St. Mary; this chapel continued to be used until at Guilden Morden, about 2 miles distant th"' beg-inning- of the 18th century, and, as appears The children of this place attend the schools at Wendy from the register of W endy, marriages were solemnized & Guild en Morden • Bath William, farm~r & overseer, Manor & South farms r Matthews Frank & Horace ~hcher, farmers SHlJDY CAMPS is a village and parish on the of Chilford, union and petty sessional division of Linton, borders of Snffolk and Essex, 2~ miles east from Bartlow county court district of Haverhill, rural deane;y of stntion on the Cambr:idge and Melford branch of the Camps and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. The Great Eastern railway, 3! south-west from Haverhill, church of St. Mary, an edifice of rubble in the Perpen­ A. south-east from Linton and :r6 south-east from Cam- dicular style, . is said to have been originally built bridge, in the Eastern division of t·he county, hundred about the year 1060; it consists of chancel, .:nave, sou~'h