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Post & Postal Order Office.-l"rederick Matlock, sub-post- Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1877, for 120 master. L~tters arrive -from Oambridge at 5.50 a.m. & children; average attend!a.nee, 85; Albert Bruwn Nor- 2 p.m.; dispatched at 8 p.m. Box closes at 7.50 p.m. man, master The neoare8't money ordeCambridge. Jonae JJaynes, tues. thurs. & Shelford, 2 miles distant sat. returning same days PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Wilson Mrs. Osborne \Tilla Bird George, draper & grocer Anderson Hugh Kerr, Foxhill (letters Wright Oharles Henry, The Lodge Cemetery (Albt. Brown Norman,c1rk) through -Great Shelford) Wyman Rev. Robert A., M.A. (vicar) Green John, beer retailer Annistead William M.B COMMERCIA.L. Gumbley James, blacksmith Chaston Ernest Angell Joseph William, farmer, Gog- Hagger Stephen, farmer Cook Bertie A. The Chestnuts Magog farm Howland James Wm. The Rose P.lI Franklin Joseph Armistead William M.B., C.M.Edin., Lester James, butcher Hawkins Edward Lake, Brooklands F.e.S. medical officer of health,New- Matlock Fredk. shopkpr. &; POl'lt office Linton I. H. H. Stapleford house market,Moulton,Clare & Bump$tead, Norman Albert Brown, schoolmaster, Morley Robert John Saffron Walden, Linton & Risbridge &; clerk to the Parish Council &; Mortimer :Mrs Rural District Councils & Saffron Burial Board Short George A. The Grove Walden & Havethill Urban District Pammington Joseph, beer retailer Tackett Ivor Lloyd, Galewood tower Councils Ransom Cath. Three Horse Shoes P.H (letters through Great Shelford) Barker Richard, butcher Skipper Harry, taxidermist &; cycle Taverner Mrs Baynes 10nas, carrier manufacturer White Frederick Beavis Eversden, beer retaller Wisbey Fdk. parish clerk & constable STEEPLE XORDEN is a parish, on. the borders of possession of Viscount Clifden. The principal landowners Hertfordshire, and the village is 3 miles north-west from are Viscount Clifden, St. John's and Jesus Oolleges, Cam­ Ashwell station on the Hitchin, Royston and Camlbridge bridge, and John Inns ~sq. The town lands of 7 acres section of the Great Northern railwa,y, which is within produce £10 yearly, for public uses. The soil is clay the boundary of this parish, 43 miles from wnoon and 5 and gravel; &ubsoil, clay. The chief cropll ar~ wheat. nortlh-west from Royston, in the Western division of the barley and peas. The area is 3,846 acres; l'atooble value. county, hundred of Armingford, petty sessiDnJal division £4,487; the population in 1901 was 713. of.Arrington and Melbourn, union an~ county oourt dis- NORTH BROOK END is 2 miles north-east. • tnct of Royston, rural doonery of Shmgay, archdeaconry . and dioceM of Ely. The church of SS. Peter and Paul Pansh Clerk. Robert Gray. is a building of stone and flint in the Early English and Post & Postal Order Office.-William Swan, lIub-post- Decorated styles, coosisting

STETCHWORTH is a village and parish, 2 miles east of E1lesmere, who is lay rector. and held since 1882 by from Dullingham stetion1QD. the Cambridge 'llnd Newmarket the Rev. Alfred Burton M.A. of Trinity Col1eg~ Dublin. section. of the Great Eastern !l'8i1way. end 3l south-west Here is a. Congregational chapel, erected in 1883, and from Newmarket, in the Eastern division of the county, having 400 sittings. Lord Gorges' charity of £33 yearly hundred of Radfield, union, ~tty sessional division arid is lor two qld men and two old women, each of whom county court district of Newmarket, rUTal doonery of receives 2S. weekly and a biennial gift, the men of a coat Fordham, archdeooonry of Sndbury and diocese of Ely. and the women of a gown; and they .occupy the a1ms­ The church of St. Peter is an ancient structure of flint houses rent free. There is also an allotment charity of partly in a debased Perpendicular style, and consisting 25s. yearly, which sum is distributed in money to the of chancel (Norman and Early English), nave and an poor. Stetchworth House, which stands in a fine park of emba.ttled western tower with pinnaoles containing 5 40 acres, with a piece of orl1J6lIlental water, is approoched bells: the north aisle retains a piscinl8, and in the south by an avenue of trees: the garden, covering about five aisle is a :fIoriated niche and priests' doorway: a memorial acres, contains l11rge and fine greenhouses and hot­ window was erected in 1864 to the Rev. Richard Eaton hauses; it is now the property and occasional residence and one to Capt. Henry Pardoe Eaton, 60th Rifles, who of the Earl of ElleMDere, who is lord of the manl)!' and died at Delhi: in the church is a fine monument of white principall&ndowne.T. The soil is various; subsoil, chalk. mArble with effigies on a background of black marble, The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is erected by Sir Richard Gorges bart. second Baron Gorges 2.891 acres; rateable value, £6,163; the population. in. of Dundaolk, and Bridget (Kingsmill) his wife, to their 190~ was 864. son Henry, ob. 1674: both titles became extinct on the. ... death of Lord Gorges in 7.712: there is also a memorial Parlsh CleTk, William Bailey. to Ashton Benyon esq. d.' 7.856: the nave and aisles were Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., S. B. &; A. & I. restore~ in 1894 a.t a oast of £450, of which £300 was Office.-Mrs. A. E. Skinner, sub-postmistress. Letters given 1JY the Earl of Ellesmere: the church affords 300 arrive from Newm:arket a.t 4.30 a.m. & at 7.1.0 p.m. sittings. The register dates from about the year t666. to calle-rs only; dispatched at 8.5 p.m. Also same The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £198, including hours on sundays, except the 7.10 p.m. arrival 2l acres of glebe. with residence, in the gift of the Earl •