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DIRECrORY.] . LUTO~. J17 Battams Thomas Crouch Wallace, baker Mead Frank, carpenter Creasey Edward, Walnut T~a Deverell Daniel, farmer, Lower End farm National Deposit Friendly Society (G. E. Dobbie Mrs. White lodge Evans Thoma!!, butcher Ruflhead, sec) Hartnup MrR. Linden lodge Grant John, farmer, North Common farm Roberts William Inwards, farmer, Thrupp Kingston Mrs. Charles, Hill'lide Humphreys Francis, farmer, The Corn· End farm Thomason Mrs , mon farm Rowe J oseph, beer r€'tailer & clerk Veasey Rev. Frederick M.A. (vicar) Jackson David, chimney sweeper Rnffhead Thomas William, shopkeeper, COMMERCIAL. Kingston William, bntcher Post office Battams Thomas, farmer, Park farm Lines Henry, farmer. Escheat farm Rump Arthur, Green Man P.H. & carrier Bosworth John Edward, farmer, Bough- Lines Joseph, farmer, Vale farm Sinfield Edward, tailor ton End farm Miller Sarah A. (Miss), farmer, Flying. Smith Jasper, shopkeeper Brl1.dshaw Joseph William, blacksmith horse farm Welch William, beer retailer -CUM- (BISHOPSCOTE) is a vil- Board School (under United District School Board) lage and parish 2! miles north-west from Luton stations (mixed) erected in 1879, for 153 children; average attend- on the Midland and Great Northern railway, and is in the ance, 100; Mrs. Jane Maidment, mistress Southern division of the county, hundred of Flitt, Luton , in the ecclesiastical parish of Limbury- union. petty sessional division and county court district, cum-Biscot, is a formed in 1896, 21 miles north• .and in the rural deanflry of Luton, archdeaconry of Bed. west from Luton, and one mile west from Limbury, with a sta· ford and diocese of Ely. The hamlets of Limbury-cum- tion on the main line of the Midland railway. Near the Biscot and I,eagrltve were in 1866 formed into the eccle. village is Leagrave Marsh, whence springs the , siastical parish of Holy Trinity, Biscot, under the provisions which flows through Luton, , of section 1 (3) of the" Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and other towns. Here are Primitive Methodist and Wes­ and 57 Vict. c. 73), by Local Government Board Order 33,979, leyan chapels. F. Gerard Leigh esq. (a minor) is lord of the dated April 1, 1896, they became,;ieparate civil . rThe manor; John Cumberland esq. J.P. of St. Ann's, Park street, church of the Holy Trinity, built in 1867 at the cost of the Luton, is the principal landowner. The area is 1,137 acres; late John Sambrooke Crawley esq. consists of chancel, nave, rateable value, £6,646; the population in 1901 was 801. north transept, north porch, organ chamber on the south side, Post Office.-Isaiah Hudson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive and a western bell-cote containing 2 bells: there are 300 through Luton at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m.; dispatched at 10.40 sittings. The register dates from the year 1867. The living a.m. & 5.40 p.m. Postal Orders are issued here, but not is a vicarage, endowed in 1867 by J. S. Crawleyesq. net yearly paid. Luton, 3 Iniles distant, is the nearest money order & value £118, with residence, built by the patron, in t.he gift telegraph office of Francis Crawleyesq. and held since 1894 by the Rev. Erskine Post Office, Marsh road.-Mrs. Ellen S. Cowdery, sub-post. William Langmore M.A. of Keble College, Oxford. Here is a mistress. Letters are dispatched at 10.50 a.m. & 5.50 p.m. small Baptist chapel. Here was once a nunnery, founded by week days only. Postal Orders are issued here, but not Roger, abbot of St. Albans, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, paid. Luton, 2i miles distant, is the nearest money order which, at its dissolution, was valued at £143. Several skele. & telegraph office tons have been found in this hamlet. The area is 2,454 acres; Board School (under Luton United District School Board) rateable value, £5,104; the population of the civil parish in (mixed), built in 1875 & enlarged in 1900, for 200 children; 1901 was 377, and of the ecclesiastical parish 1,570. average attendance, 140; William J. Eastmond, master Wall Letter Box, cleared at 11.10 a.m. & 6.20 p.m Railway Station, George AIdred, station master LIMBURY-CUM.BISCOT. LEAGRAVE. Hoar Frederick, Three Horse Shoes P.H. I.eagravo marsh Langmore Rev. Erskine Wm. M.A. (vicar), Lye WaIter Thomas J.P. Leagrave hall Hudson Isaiah, coal merchant & post office Vicarage Jull F. & J. nurserymen COMMERCIAL. Langley William, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Aldred George E. station master Lathwell Joseph, wheelwright, Lea· BlundellAlfred,farmer, Limburymanor Anstee John H. farmer, farm grave marsh BrowningJames,farmer, Lit. Bavister John, shopkeeper Lee Evan & Leonard, farmers, Lea. Cook Joseph, farmer Cowdery Ellen S. (Mrs.), grocer, Post grave marsh CraigJames, farmer office, Marsh road Little Jesse, nurseryman DanbySamuelWilliam, nurseryman Eastmond William J. schoolmaster & Scott William, farmer, cattle dealer Harthop W. & B. farmel"ll assistant overseer Sanders .John, farmer North Charles, nurseryman Fensom Alfred, farmer, Pond farm Stokes William, Sugar Loaf P.H Smith Jacob, farmer Glenister Arthur, farmer, Whitefield farm Weedon & Sons, farmers & carriers .stokes Anne (Mrs.), Black Swan P.H Hills Jane (Mrs.), frmr. Leagravc marsh Weedon Frederick, Royal Oak P.H

LUTON LUTON, called by the Saxons "Lygetune" (A.S. lygean, opened in 1886, at a cost of about £20,000, and in 1887 a a common), and in Domesday "Loitoine," is a municipal new scheme of sewage and drainage was carried out at a total borough market and union town, head of a petty ses· estimated cost of £40,000. sional division and county court district, and railway Under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, station, 31 miles from London, 19 south from , 1894," the ancient civil parish of Luton was formed into two, 17 from Watford and 9 south-west from Hitchin, in the Urban and Rural being respectively the parts inside and Southern division of the county, hundred of Flitt, rural outside the municipal borough. By Local Government Board deanery of Luton, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese Order P. 1095, November 9th, 1895, part of the Rural parish' of Ely, near the source of the river Lea, from which it is conjec. was added to the Urban parish and the remainder formed tured that its name is a corruption of the word " Leatown," into the civil parishes of Hyde, Leagrave, Limbury and while some maintain that its original appellation was " Low­ . These places will be found under separate headings. town" ; it stands completely in a valley, surrounded by hills, The parish church of St. Mary is a cruciform building in which render it beautifully picturesque; it is very clean, the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with some traces of and well paved and lighted. The Midland Railway Company Early English, and consists of chancel with chapel and vestry, have a station here, on their main line from St. Pancras, and north and south transepts, the latter having an eastern aisle a branch of the Great Northern Railway from Hatfield to Dun­ or chapel, clerestoried nave of five bays, north and south 'Stable passes through and also has a station here. The London porches and a massive western embattled tower of flint and 1l,nd North Western railway Co. have running powers over the other stones in chequer work, 90 feet in height, with hexa­ Great Northern Company's line from . The gonal turrets at the angles, and a low pyramidal roof with town was incorpora1:€d by charter 26 Feb. 1876, and is divided vane, and is supported by bold double buttresses of seven into three wards; the Corporation consists of mayor, six stages, enriched in the lower part with canopied niches; aldermen and eighteen common councillors; has a com­ in the tower is a clock and a peal of 8 bells, recast in 1775 mission of the peace and a police force. Gas was introduced and 1761: the chancel was rebuilt in the time of Edward IV. in 1834, and is supplied by a company. Electric light works by John Wheathamstead, 23rd abbot of St. Albans. Robert, belonging to the Corporation have been erected at a cost of abbot of St. Albans, procured this place for, his convent from £27,067 and were opened by the Rt. Hon. Lord Kelvin in Robert Waudari. to whom Luton had been given upon the .July, 1901. Water obtained from deep wells in the chalk Earl of Gloucester's rebellion: one of the most striking i3 provided by a company, and in 1881 by tne construction features of the interior is the celebrated and unique" baptis. ~f a reservoir for one million and a quarter gallons, with the terium "inclosing the font; this consists of a lofty hexagonal old reservoir, affords sufficient water for three days' consump­ canopy of the Decorated period, each side exhibiting a richly tion, and there is an engine capable in 15 hours of raising 11 crocketed gable filled with tracery and terminating in a finial: million gallons to an elevation of 225 feet above the lowest betwgen the gables are slender buttresses rising into crocketed supply in the town. A sewage farm, of over 102 acres, was pinnacle!!, and the roof is groined and enriched with allegorical