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74 E.A1'0N SOCON. BEDFORDSHIRE. (KELLY's Green James, miller (wind & steam), Wade Willia.m, general builder & con Wyboston. Duloe mills tractor, &; monumental mason. See • advertisement Marked thus * should be addressed Colmworth, St. Neots. Eaton Ford. Honeydon. Addington Thomas, The Rookery Addington John Waiter, Ivy house Bailey James, farmer Hartley William, Chestnut cottage Butler Francis George, Crosshall lodge Bailey William, farmer Levett Frederick 'fhomas Dyble Isaac, Mill view Cooper Christopher, fa..,rnm1er Wilkerson James, Manor farm Cotton Robert, farm bailiff to Mrs. John l.'OMMKRCIAL. Hall COMMERCIAL. Bainbridge Charles Thomas, farmer Ford Amy Elizabeth (Miss), farmer, Baker William, carpenter Yew cottage *Addington Leonard Peter, farmer, Bartram Francis Chas.market gardener James John, farm bailiff to Mrs. Wilkin- Beggary Brittain George, market gardener son, Goodwick Addington Thomas, farmer&landowner Butler Francis George, solicitor & clerk Richards Eliza (Mrs. ),farmer,Goodwick Addington William, farmer,Porty farm to Eaton Socon school board; & at Topham Phrebe (Mrs.), farmer Bradshaw George, thrashin~ machine & St. Neots, Hunts Watts William, farmer steam plough owner, North house Ekins Richard, baker & mealma9 Brittain Christopher, market gardener Frost William, fanner, Crosshall Staploe. Brown Saml. grer. & draper, Post office Hall John, market gardener Squire Miss, Basmead manor Eaton George, beer retailer Hedge Reuben, Rose & Crown P.H. & Ball William, carrier Emery Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper pork butcher Beesley Joseph, blacksmith *Ford Leonard, beer retailer & farmer. Bite Arthur William, grocer Ford William, Three Horseshoes P.H Beggary Howard Isaac, market gardener Miles Jesse, wheelwright Haynes Jacob, higgler Lee Annie (Mrs.), apartments Partridge Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper N ewman W illiam, beer retailer & market. Linford John, market gardener Stocker Tom William, farmer & thrash- gardener N ewman Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer ing machme proprietor Odell John Robert, market gardener Osborne Saml. BarleyMowP.H.&builder Wilmer George, farm bailiff to :Miss Paine Arthur, beer retailer Pye Abraham, shoe repairer Squire Parren Edward, beer retailer Reynolds George, bee keeper Parren Thomas, market gardener Sandever William, beer retailer Upper Staploe. Pestell Thomas, poultry dealer Sears Edward, farmer, Dirt ho. Crosshll Infield William, beer retailer Richards John, market gardener Simons Frederick, tailor Mayes Samuel, farmer *Richards William, farmer, Beggary Squire Herbert Edwd. farmer, Crosshall Phillips John, beer retailer Wilkerson James, farmer, Manor farm EDWORTH i~ a parish, on the borders of Hertford William Spurway B.A. of Caius College, Cambndge. shire, 3t miles south-south-east from Biggleswade and 5 William Edmund Brand Hale esq. of the Bury, Kmg's north-north-west from Baldock, in the .Northern division Walden, Herts, is lord of the manor and owner of all the of the county, petty sessional division, hundred, union and land with the exception of about seven acres of glebe. The county court district of Biggleswade, rural deanery of soil is principally clay; subsoil, strong clay. The land i& Biggleswade, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of Ely. partly arable and partly pasture. The area is 1,122 acres; The Roman way passes to the west of the village. The rateable value, £8g6 ; the population in 1891 was 100. church of St. George is a small building of stone in the Deputy Clerk, J ames Street. Decorated and Perpe11.dicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south transepts, north and south porches, Letters are received through Baldock at 9 a.m. Biggles and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells : there wade is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 3 are two ancient stained windows in good preservation and miles distant in the chancel is a memorial window to members of the WALL Box in Edworth cleared at 8.40 a. m. & 5 p.m. ; Smyth family : the church was restored in 1876, at a cost sundays 5 p.m of £8oo : there are 120 sittings. The register dates from A School Hoard of 5 members was formed 18 Dec. 1874• the year 1552. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £x3o, for the united district of Hinxworth, Herts&Edworth,Beds including 8 acres of glebe, in the gift of William Edmund The children of Edworth attend the Board school at Hinx B. Hale esq. and held since 1892 by the Rev. Richmond worth, Herts Spurway Rev. Richmond William B.A. (rector) IWilliamson John, farm bailiff to John Inns esq. Lower farm Smyth Thomas, farmer, Church farm EGGINGTON is a parish 3 miles east from Leighton and Wesleyan chapels. The t<Jwn lands, of 120 acres, pro Buzzard station on the London and North Western rdilway duce about £125 yearly, of which one moiety is paid to end si north-west from Dunstable, in the Southern division the vicar, and the remainder applied to the church and the of the county, hundred of Manshead, petty sessional division, poor. The principal landowners are Mr. Gaius Batebelar, union and county court district of Leighton Buzzard, rural of Eaton Bray. the Misses Claridge, Mr. C. W. and Mrs. J. deanery of Dunstable, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of Hurnall, and Messrs. William Smith and John Warner Ely. The church of St. Michaelis a small building of the 13th Adams, of Hockliffe. The soil is loamy, subsoil, clay. The century, in the Early English and Early Decorated styles, chief crops are grass, wheat and barley. The area is 1,37Z consisting of chancel and nave and a small western turret, acres; rateable value, £2,035; the population in x8gx was 268. containing 2 bells, and there is a trefoiled Decorated piscina CLIPSTONE is a hamlet I mile north, in the south wall: the church was entirely restored in 1883, Pansh Clerk, Charles Baker. at a cost of£ 1,2oo, when a beautiful stained east window was erected to the memory of the Rev. Thomas L. J. Sunderland PosT OFFICE.-Alfred Leach, sub-postmaster. Letters H.A. formerly curate of the parish and rector of Tilsworth, through Leighton Buzzard arri,,e at 7 a. m. & 12 noon; 1833 : the font dates from the 12th century: the church will dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. week days only. seat 140 persons. The earlier re~r is included in that of Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. · The near.t. Leighton Buzzard and dates from the year 1653, but there money order & telegraph office is at Hockliffe is a !'eparate register for the parish, of marriages from 1844; This place is included in Stanbridge, Eggington &; Tilswortb baptisms, 1813 and burials, r835. The living is a !vicarage United School Board district, formed in 1874 (net yearly value about £153, with l acre of glebe and residence), in the gift of the parishioners, and held since Board School (mixed), erected in x88o, for 6o children; 188x by the Rev. James Sunderland LL.M. and M.A. oi average attendance, so; Miss Agnes Bishop, mistress Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Here are Congregational CARRIER, Leighton.-Leach, 'Peacock,' tues, thurs. & sat Duncombe Alfred IBatchelar Ezra, farmer, Manor. Charity Edwards Henrietta (Mrs.), grocer Need :Mrs. Eggington house & Hill farms Leach Alfred, grocer & earrier, Post off flmith William Bennett Jo'rederick, beer retailer Manners Joseph, farmer Sunderland Rev. James LL.M., M.A. Edwards H. & Sons, carpenters & Price William Henry, Horse Shoes P.Jl Vicarage joiners, builders & contractors Spiers Arthur, farmer, Eggington farlP ELSTOW (formerly called Helenstow) is a parish and [church of SS. Mary and Helens., anciently attached to thB pleasant village, on the road from Bedford to Luton, one Benedictine abbey, is chiefly a building of the Normllll mile south from Hedford, in the Northern division of the period, with some portions of Early English date, and con· county, hundred of Redbnrnestoke, petty sessional division, sists of a chancel, or choir, with clerestory, lofty clerestoried union and county court district of Bedford, rural deanery of nave, aisles, north porch, a vaulted chamber on the nortb Haynes, archdeaeonry of Bedford and diocese of Ely. The west and a noble detached tower on the north-west with lo'lf" .

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