DIRECTORY.] . BISHOP STORTFORD. 59 Stort; it was formed into an eeclesiastical district 2 Rhodes M.A (d. 1878): the church affords 600 sittings. Feb. 1852, and has becoIDtl since a new paris'h by the 'rhe register dates from the year 1852. The living is a operation of "Lord Blandford's Act, 1856" (19 and 20 vicarage, net yearly value £260, with residence, in the Vict. c. 104). Hockerill paris'h includes (as defined by gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1893 by the t,he Order in Council) " all that portion of the (original) Rev. Alexander Irving RA. and D.Sc. of the University parish of Bishop Stortford lying to the east of the old of London. A vicarage house was built in 1894 at a ," and bounded on the other sides by the cost of over £2,000, including a grant of £1,5°0 by the parishes of Birchanger and Great Hallingbury. All Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and has two acres of Samts' church, erected from designs by Mr. G. E. land attached. Waytemore Castle, the erection of Prit.chett, architect, of Bishop Stortford, at a cost of which has been attributed to the Conqueror, stands II about £2,000, and consecrated in Jan. 1852, is a build­ little off the high road on the left in the parish of ing of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, Hockerill, and is built on an artificial mound of eartb nave of five bays, aisles, baptistery, south porch, two about 60 or 70 feet high, of an oval form: around the vestries and a bell-cot at thtl no·rth-east angle of the top is a wall from 2 to 3 feet in width, built of rougb nave containing 2 bells: it was enlarged in 1878-9, lI.t a flint and inclosing an area of about 30 yards by 12: in cost of nearly £9,000, in accordance with designs by October, 1850, the summit of the mound was uncovered Mr. Joseph Clarke F.S.~\. of , diocesan and the foundations of various chambers disclosed: the architect: the stained east window was presented in the whole is now overshadowed by trees and partly sur­ year. 1852 by the congregation of St. James', Birch, rounded by a moat. Sir WaIter Gilbey bart. C. J. Manches'ter, the Rev. John Menet M.A. late vicar, 1852­ Hegan esq. J.P. of Plaw Hatch. and the Tajlor family 93, having been curate there; and there are numerous are the principal landowners. The area of the parish ill> other stained windows, including one to Mrs. Rowley I,O~ acres; the population in 1901 was 1,817' Smith, of Plaw Hatch, and another to the Rev. F. W. Sexton (All Saints'), Albert Hutchin. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS. LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &;c~ Post., M. O. & T. 0., S. R & A. & I. & Telephonic I Petty Sessions artl held at the Police station every Express Delivery Office, Market .square.-William G. i alternate thursday at 11 o'clock Young, postmaster. Open d~uly from 7 a.m. to 1 The places in the division are Bishop Stortford, East- 9 p.m.; sundays, open from 8 till 10 a.m.; for money wick Thorley &; order &; savings bank business, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; " , postal orders from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.; telegraph busi- URBA.N DISTRICT COUNCIL. ness, 8 a.m. 00 8 p.m. &; on sundays, 8 to 10 a.m. ; Council offices, 7 North street. telephone, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m Meeting day, every a:ternate tuesday at 6.30 p.m. Inward mails are delivered at 7.15 & 10 a.m. & 3.45 & 6.40 p.m Membp.l's. All retire April, 1910. Dispatch of Mails. Chairman, Henry Kent. London &; South of , 9.45 a.m.; Stansted & Vice-Chairman, Frank Flinn. Manuden, Berden &;. Oakley:, 11·30 a.m.; London &; Edgar Carruthers William Holland all parts of the Umted Kmgdom, 12 noon & 2.30 I George Cox Henry Kent p.m.; London & all parts, 4 p.~.; Dunmow ~ towns John Smalley Dockray :M.B Frederick William Newey In & Suffolk, 5. 10 p.m., Northern mall, 5.30 ! Silvester Edwards Amos Pryer &; 8,45 p.m.; London &; all plaoees South &; West, IFrank Flinn Herbert Sworder 10 p.m. &; I a.m Frank W. Fowler Percy William Taylor The Letter Boxes in North street, Hadham road, New- William J. Gee Edward Charles Waterman town, South street, Railway station &; Hockerill, John Laybank Glasscock Windhill, Rye street, Dunmow road, Silverleys, Officers. B.arrell's down & Thorley Bourne, cleared for each Clerk, Thomas ISwatheridge, 7 North street ,dIspatch &; on sundays at 8.30 p.m ' Treasurer, Alfre.d A. Pask, Market square Mail Carts :-To Chelmsford, through Dunmow & Medical Officer of Health, Hobert Ayton Dunn M.D.,. Takely, starts 5.15 p.m. arrives (return journey) 6.20 D.P.H. The Grove, a.m. 'fo Newport, through Stansted Mountfitchet, Surveyor, Robert S. Scott A.M.LC.E. 54 Portland raalt Oakley &; Quendon, starts 4 a.m. arrives (return Sanitary Inspector, William Tripp, 89 Apton road journey) 8.20 p.m.; motor service to Epping, 12.15 Collector of Rates, Ernest R. Lee, Erlscote, Grange ~oad a.m BlSHOP STOIRTFORD UNION. Town Sub-Post &; M. O. 0., S. R & A. & I. Office, Hockerill.-Mrs. Eleanor Brown, sub-postmistress. Board day, alternate tuesdays, 11. Letter box cleared at 8.30 &; 10.30 a.m. & 1·30, 3,45, The Union comprises the following parishes in Herts:­ 7.30 & 8.45 p.m Albury, Bishop Stortford, , ,. Town Sub-Office, New t,own.-J. H. Rayner, sub-post­ Furneaux Pelham, , ,. master. Letter box cleared 8.45 & 10·45 a.m. & 1.45, High Wych, Sawbridgeworth, Stocking Pelham, Thor- 4, 7·45 & 9 p.m , ley &; the following parishes in Essex :-Berden,. Birchangher, Elsenham, Farnham, Hallingbury COlJNTY MAGISTRATES USUALLY ATTENDING (Great), Hallingbury (Little), Henham, Manuden,. THE BISHOP S~ORrFORD PETTY SESSIONS. Stansted 'Mountfitchet &; Ugley. The population of the­ Houblon Col. George Bramston Archer-, Hallingbury union in 1901 was 21,498; area, 54,471 acres; rate-' Place, near Bishop Stortford (chairman) able value at Miehaelmas, 1907, £157,462 Blyth Lord, Blythwood, Stansted S.O Chairman of the Boa.rd of Guardians, Rarford Green Barker John esq. M.P. The Grange, Bishop Stortford J.P. Stansted 8.0. Essex Barnard Edmund Broughton esq. M.P. Fairgreen house, Vice-Chairman, Rev. Horace Fuller Rackham M.A Sawbridgeworth Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Alfred Barnard John esq. Alston Oak, Harlow G. Gwynn, 29 North street, Bishop Stortford Bowlby Arthur Salvin esq. Gilston park, Harlow Treasurer, Alexander Gibson (Barclay & Co. Limited) Burton Thomas esq. Sawbridgeworth S.O Relieving Officers, 1st district, George E. W. Ackerman,. Buxton Fras. Wm. esq. 42 GrosvE-nor gdns. London SW 46 Apton road, Bish{)p Stortford; 2nd district, Joseph Flinn Frank esq. Clonmore, Bishop Stortford Freeman, Stansted Mountfitchet; 3rd district, T. W. Gilbey Tresham esq. Whitehall, Bishop Stortford Brown, Litt:e Hadham Gosling Robert Cunliffe esq. Hassobury. Bishop Stortford Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Braughing dis­ Hag-an Charles John esq. Plaw Hatch, Bishop Stortford trict, Mic-hael Bernard Foster L.R.C.P.Lond. The Moat. Holland William esq. Plantation house, Bishop Stortford Puckeridge; Hadham dis.trict, Wm. Blundell Willans Kent HE-nrv esq. 137 South street, Bishop Stortford L.R.C.P.Edin. The lHadhams; Ha:lingbury district, Taylor :\Iarshall esq. Warwick road, Bishop Stortford Edward Dalton Agnew L.R.C.P.Lond. North st. Bishop Vander-Meulen Admiral Frederick Samuel, Stansted I'd. Stortford; Pelham district, Emile Frederico Crahtree Bishop Stortford L.RC.P.Lond. Bonhams, Furneaux Pelham; Saw­ Wigan J,ames Lewis esq. Haverbrack, Bishop Stortforcl bridgewol'th district, Ethelbert Collins M.RC.S.Eng., L.RC.P.Lond. The Red house, Sawbridgeworth; The Chairmen, for the time being, of the Bishop Stort­ Stansted district. WaIter Frederic Havnes I•. R.CP. ford &; 8awbridgeworth Urban Dist~ict Councils &; the Lond. ·the Ri~e, Stansted MOllnHitchet;' Stortford dis­ Had-ha.m Rural District Council, are ex-officio magis­ trict, John Edward Morris M.D.Durh. (med. officer), trates Windhill & John S. Dockray M.D. (vacc. ofllcer), 24­ Clerk to the Magistrates, Wm. Johnstone Gee,Water la Hadham road, Bi~hop Stortford