DIRECTORY.] . CLAPHAM. 51 in 1852, for 120 children; average attendance, 6o; Miss I Wesleyan (or British) (mixed), with house for master, for .Annie Tomkins, mistress 85 children; average attendance, so; Jas. Bransom,mastr Hodgson Rev. John Willoughby, Chal- DayJn.Edwd.fnnr.&landownr.Tebwrth Sayell Joseph, farmer & landowner, grave vicarage, Tebworth Emerton Charles, straw dlr. Tebworth Tebworth. Purrett Misses, Tebworth FollRichd.Wm.farrner,Chalgravemanor Smith John, boot maker, Tebworth

Whinnett James, Wingfield Grove Amos, grocer, Tebworth Stevens David1 Shoulder of MuttonP.H. COMMERCIAL. Gurney Thomas, farmer, Wingfield Tebworth Adams John, farmer, Tebworth Osborn James, butcher, Tebworth Tompkins Eruest,blacksmith,Tebworth l:lradshaw Cornelius, farmer, Tebworth Overy William, grocer Whinnett Frederick, farmer, Wingfield Chapman Thos. beer retailer, Tebworth Pratt Thomas, baker, Tebworth Whinnett Thomar-, farmer, Wingfield Cook Thomas, butcher, Tebworth Reeve Joseph, Queen's Head P.H. & Whinnett James, farmer, Wingfield Cook William, carpenter, Tebworth boot maker, Tebworth CHELLINGTON is a parish and village adjoining 1770: there are 72 sittings. The living, consolidated with Carlton, 4 miles from Turvey railway station, 9 north-west Carlton, is a rectory, tithe rent-charge£10, net joint yearly from Bedford, bounded on the north by the river Ouse, value £430, including 413 acres of gleba, in the gift of and which is crossed by Harrold bridge, in the Northern division held since r876 by the Rev. William Henry Denison M.A. of of the county, Sharnbrook petty sessional division, hundred St. John's College, Oxford, who resides at Carlton. The of Willey, union and county court district of Bedford, rural trustees of the late Miss Trevor, of , are the princi­ deanery of Felmersham, arch deaconry of Bedford and diocese pal landowners. The soil is clay ; subsoil, gravel. The of Ely. The church of St. Nicholas is a building of stone, chief crops are wheat and pasturage. The area is 6ro acres ; in the Early English and Decorated styles, pleasantly situated rateable value, £632; the population in r88r was 97· on the summit of a hill, and was restored in r869: it oonsists Parish Clerk, George Brandon. of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a Decor- Letters received through Bedford are delivered through the a.ted western tower with broach spire, containing 4 bells: the village at 8. 30 a. m. & .15 p.m.; dispatched from Carlton font, Early English, is a cylindrical basin on circular shafts : t ffi t 3 & d · · h h d d d · . . pos o ce a 9.30 a.m. 5 p.m.; sun ays, 2.30 p.m. t h ere IS a pans c est, ate 1 66 7 i an mscnptwns to The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Harrold William Chaderton A.M. 1724; Rev. Thomas Chaderton A.H. 1735, and to the Bamford family: in the churchyard is Parochial School (mixed), built in 1859, for 105 children; a tomb to Sir Robert Darling kt. who, as a boy, it is said, average attendance, 65 ; there is a master's house attached, used to keep cows on Chellington hill; in 1767 he was sheriff built in 18781 at a cost of about £200; Edwin Simpson, of London and Middlesex and in 1768 was elected M.P. for master Wendover, as the colleague of Burke; be died 4th August, CA:RRIER TO BEDFORD.-Franklin, tues. thurs. & sat Borton Albert, The Yews McGrath William, shoe maker Rudd William, wheelwright & carpentr Cocks Thomas, saddler & harness ma Medlow William(Mrs.),farmer,Hill frm Wallinger Alfred, general dealer Eyles Hugh, shopkeeper Noble John, &hopkeeper Wooding Thomas, Royal Oak P.H Izod E.lizabeth (Miss), grocer & draper (formerly extra·parochial) is now a Naseby (14 July, 1645); and Henry Osborn, Vice-Admiral parish, one mile and a half north-west from Shefford, and of Great Britain, was a distinguished naval officer, who died 40 miles from London by rail, in the Northern division of in 1771; there is also a fine full-length portrait of Edward the county, petty sessional division, hundred, union, and VI. by Holbein, and a valuable portrait of Oliver Cromwell, county court district of . The Priory, the seat by Sir Peter Lely. The state bed-chamber, at the end of of Sir George Robert Osborn hart. D.L., J.P. pleasantly the north gallery, was built by the late Sir George in situated on a gentle declivity in a well-wooded park of 1,353 imitation of the Chapter House at Peterborough, and con­ acres, consists in part of the original buildings of the ancient tains a state bed, once the property of James I. :richly Gilbertine priory founded here by Payne and Roise Beau- adorned with crowns and the letters J. R. In the cloisters champ, about nso; the south and east fronts were rebuilt is an enriched coffin slab, with effigy in relief of an ecclesi­ by Wyatt towards the end of the last century, but the astic vested and bearing a pastoral sta:ff and book, and whole retains much of the monastic appearance, and the inscribed : HIC IACET F:RATER THOli!AS DE COTGRA VE ABBAS double cloisters on the south and west sides of the quad- Dill PIPPEWEL' CVI .AlE PPICIETVR DEVS AMEN j but the rangle through which the Canons and Canonesses went to inscription is now nearly illegible. 'rhe Duke of Bedford the church, unseen by each other, are almost entire; within K.G. is lord of the manor. The principal landowner is Sir the church the sexes were kept apart by a longitudinal G. R. Osborn bart. D.L., J.P. The soil is sandy; subsoil, wall. The late Sir George Osborn formed a collection of gravelly. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. antiquities, and filled the windows with ancient stained The area is 1,353 acres; rateable value is £1,418; the glass: there is also a valuable collection of portraits, chiefly population in 188r was 43· of the Osborn family, one of whom, Peter Osborn, who Letters received through Biggleswade, via Shefford, purchased this estate in 1576, was keeper of the Privy arrive at 8.30 a. m.; dispatched at 7 p.m. Sheffordis the Purse to Edward VI. and one of the Commissioners for nearest money order & telegraph office Ecclesiastical Affairs in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; This parish is included in Campton United School Board another, Colonel Henry Osborn, was slain at the battle of district Osborn Sir George Robert bart. D.L., I Gray John, farmer, Lodge farm Stanbridge Alfred, carpenter & market J.P. The Priory j Mossman Alfred, farmer, gardener, Little Chicksands Cole James, farmer, Chicksands lodge . CLAPHAM is a village and parish, situated on the north diminish gradually in thickness from 5 ft. at the base ; the bank of the river Ouse, and o;n the road from Bedford to third, or upper stage is of Early Norman work, and has a Higham Ferrers, 2 miles north-west from Bedford, in the very wide rounded-headed two-light window set nea11 the Northern division of the county, hundred of Stodden, petty outer face of the wall and broadly splayed within, divided in sessional division, union and county court district of the centre by a heavy mullion: about the year 1630 o. Bedford, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bedford and battlement was set upon the walls, and a new roof diocese of Ely. The church of St. Thomas-a-Becket, rebuilt, added, slightly raised in the middle and terminated with an with the exception of the tower, in, 186r, is a building of iron cross~ there are five stained windows in the south native limestone, in the Early English style, from designs aisle to the Dawson family, and in the church is a monu­ by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott B.A. and consists of chancel, ment to Thomas Taylor esq. of this place, whose widow nave, aisles, and a very Early but massive tower 81 feet founded the charity mentioned below. The register dates high, without buttresses, mentioned by Rickman as one of from the year 1696. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent­ the best and most remarkable of the remaining -examples of charge £157, net yearly value about £224, including 75 Early Sa.xon work in the kingdom, and containing 5 bells ; acres of glebe in the adjoining parishes o£ Oakley and the two. lower stages are of earlier date tl).au the third or Goldington, in the gift of Francis lohn Thynne esq. D. I.,., upper portion; they are lighted by narrow s~micircular- J.P. of Haynes Park, and held since r86r by the Rev. Jere­ headed openings, equally splayed within and without; the miah William Haddock M. A. of Clare College, Cambridge, entrance from the outside in the west front is by a semi- and hon. canon of Ely, who resides at 7 Windsor terrace, circular-headed doorway, 4 ft. wide, entirely destitute of Goldington road, Bedford, there being no parsonage. There moulding, and in the east side from the church by a plain is a Wesleyan ohapel, built in 1876. The only charity be­ semicircular arch with abacus, to which the arch between longing to this parish is one founded by Mrs, Ursula Taylor, the nave and chancel corresponds; the seCQnd stage has o~ widow of Thomas Taylor esq. who died m 1724, "to put its east fac.e a large squar.a-b.eaded. aperture or doorway, out and apprentice to some trade every year one or two poor coeval with its constructi11n;. the walls of botb ihese sta.ge$ cbildrelt i" the income, amollDting to about £1o yearly, i1

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