150 . . [RELLY'S persons. The registers date from the year 1562, but are the manor, Mrs. E. Glynn Taddy, of Caldecote Lodge, only continuous from 1727. The living is a rectory, Mrs. Dillamore and the rector are the principal land­ yearly value [44o, including 321 acres of glebe, with owneu. The -soil is part clay and gravel; subsoil, residence, in the gift of the Grocers' Company, of Lon- clay and gravel ; the chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, don, Rnd !held since 19o8 by the Rev. Henry Lestock De beans, peas and market gardening produce, such as la Cour De Brisay M.A. of New Oolle"'e, Oxford. The onions, brussels sprouts, potatoes &c. The area of Church of All Saints, CAJ,DECOTE, a ~hapel of ease to Northill with its hamlet is 4,124 acres of land and 16 of the PR:rish churoh, wa.s _erected at a c~t of a:bout [2,1oo, water; rateable value, [8,139; the population in 1901 of which £r,'2oo was giVen by Mr·s. Arthur Pott, widow was 1,348 in the civil, and 1,334 in the ecclesiastical of a form·er rector, and £1,ooo and a site for tilie parish. church, glebe-house an-i schools, by J. Harvey esq. : it is a cruciform edifice of hrick, in the Byzantine Brook End, I mile north-by-east; , I mile style, and consists of chancel, nave, transepts and small north-west i , 2 miles east; Upper baptistery at the west end, and a central bell-cot, with Caldecote, r; miles south-east, on the road from Hitchin 2 bells: there are :zso sittings. 'Dbere is also a Church to Sandy; H::ttch, I mile north; , half a mile Room, built in at a cost of £ oo. A Wesleyan south, and Thorncote, three-quarters of a mile north, 1907 4 arp hamlets. chapel, seating 220, was built in CALDEOOTE in 1909. The charities for distribution amount to £Jo yearly. Under t-he provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, At CaldecCJte are five almshouses, erected and en- :t882/' a detached. part of Sandy was added to Northill, dowed in I8 6 by Miss Elizabeth Harvey, in memory and a detached part of the latter transferred to the of Edmund 7and Susan Harvey. Ickwell Bury, the former parish for civil purposes. property of John Edmund Audley Harvey esq. and Parish Clerk, John Powell, Ickwell; deputy, Archie now occupied by John Cunningham Thomson esq. M.A. Phillip~. _ · as a pre-paratOTy school, is a mansion of red brick, Post & Telegraph Office, Northill. Mre . .A:-nnie Elizabeth in the Queen Anne style, standing in a park and Marsom, sub-postmistress. Letters received through woodlands of about soo acres, approached by an JJiggleswade at 8.20 a.m. & 12.45 & 7.25 p.m. ; dis- avenue of trees about a. mile in length; in 16a3• patched 8t 8.55 & 11.20 a.m. & 7.25 p.m.; sundays, the lhou.ae was enlarged and almost ~built, and 9·55 a.m. is the nearest money order various additions and a'lterations have been sinoe office made ; it contains some handsome carvings and many Post &: Telegraph Office, Upper Caldeeote.-Mrs. Emma curious relics of paMi times, as well as a fine collection Milton, sub-p()f;tmistress. Letters from of armour and several good pictures. In the wood, arrive at 8.Io & n.5o a.m. & 6.45 p.m. & are dis- a.bout half way between the house and Northill church, patched at 9-IO & 11.55 a.m. & 7.40 p.m.; no l!!nnday is a very singular and perfect earthwork, either of delivery of letters or dispatch. Biggleswade, 2 miles Roman or British origin, with a high bank thrown up on distant, is the nearest. money order office tha east side, where the exterior ground is higher, Wall Boxes.-Jckwell Grenn, cleared at 9 & 11.30 a.m. but the most remarkable feature of these remains is the & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, IO.IO a.m.; , existence of long pools inside the enceinte; it is sur- .cleared 9-I5 & II-30 a.m. & 7·45 p.m. week days only; mised that they were used as fish ponds, either by the Lower Csldecote, cleared at 9.25 & n.15 a.m. & 7·5:9 monks of the college of Northill or the priory of Ickwell p.m. week days only; & Hatch, cleared 9 a.m. & 6.50 Bury. The Old House, Ickwell, the res!idence of Capt. p.m. week days only L. F. G. Tippinge R.N. is an ancient and interesting Police Station, Samuel Stock, constable mansion, and was formerly surrounded by moats, now filled up: it originally belonged to the Fysshe family, Public Elementary Schools. and on the extinction ol the male branch in 1720, it Built in 1855, & enlarged in 1896, for 137 children .came through the female line into the possession of the (mixed); average attendance, II5; & supported by Fysshe-Palmers, the last member of which family, Lady an endawment of [20 yearly, t-he grant & voJuntary Madeline Palmer, died in 1B4o, when it was bought by contributions; John A. Evason, master J. HMvey -esq. in whose family it still ·remains. A Caldecote (mixed), built in 1861, for 134 children; college was founded here, temp. Hen. IV. (1399_1413), average attendance, 96; & supported by voluntary as a. cell to Marmoutier, for a master, warden and contributions & usual grant; Miss C1ara Metoalfe,mist fellows; on its dissolution the revenues were estima.ted Carriers. William Dew, from Biggleswade to , at £6r. Oapt. J. E. Audley-Harvey D.L., J.P. of The wed. & sat. Teturning same days; Frank Hnmphreys, • . Antlers, ElswoTthy road, London NW, who is lord of from Ickwell to Biggleswade, daily • NORTHJJJ.. C.ALDECCYI'E. Odell James, farmer, Manor farm (Marked thus * receive letters PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Stokes George, market gardener through Sandy.) Dillamore Mrs. Caldecote house Street Henry, beer retailer De Brisay Rev. Henry Lestock De la Hipwell Geo. Matthias, Caldecote ho Tingey Hy. Horace, farmer, Ivey frm Conr M.A. Rectory Jarrett John Stephenson, Elmside Webb John, market gardener Thornton Capt. Claude Frederiok R.A. Kendall Mrs. The Hollies Wheatley William, beer retailer The Grange Lines John Woodward George, market gardener COMMERCIAL. Moller William Hy. Caldecote grange Woodward Harry, market gardener Ebbs Sidney Waiter, beer retailer Searight Rev. Frederic Sidney M.A. WoodwarA John, market gardener Garner William, carpenter (curate), C.hturch house Woodward William, beer retailer Young Nathan John, market gardenr Marsom & Sons mineral water mfrs T a ddY M rs. E · Gl ynn, C a Id eco t e 1 o Marsom .Annie Elizabeth (:Mrs. ),shop- Taddy Jn. Lionel Glynn, Oaldecote lo ICKWELL. keeper, & post office . COMMERCI.\L. Marsom Martha (Mrs.), Crown P.H Thomson John Cunningham M,A. Ball George, market gardener Ickwell Bury *~Iatthews Samuel, beer retailer Northill Institute (Archie Phillips, Bowles Charles Wm. King's HeadP.H Tippinge Capt. Leicester F. Gartside hon. sec) Britten Charles, market gardener R.N. The Old house Phillips Goodwin, farmer Bryant Arthur, market gardener Course Albert George. blacksmith Phillips Jonah, farmer Cope Arthur, market gardener Humphreys Frank, carrier Thomas Geo. frm.r. Beeston Leasowes Dalton .Arbel'lt Edward, farmer, Water Law .Arthur, farmer W eeden John, shopkeeper Lane farm Thomson John Cunningham M.A. York Jas. beer ret. Biggleswade brdg Dalton Elizh. (Mrs.), farmr. Road fm boys' preparatory boarding school Darnell Jo-siah, market gardener for the public schools, Horton BROOK END. Godfr"!y Arthur,. marliet gardener school, Ickwell Bury *Darnell George, market gardener Godfrey Solomon, market gardener Whiteman John, carpenter *Norman George, market gardener 1fatthews James, farmer & market *Stanford Samuel, beer retailer gardener, Manor farm THORNCOTE. )iaudlin Charles, grocer Charles, farmer HA.TCH. MiltonEmma(Mrs. ),shpkpr .& post off *Howard *'Br~mt Waiter, market gardener ~ottingham Martha (Mrs.), Rose & *Capon Chas. Hy. farmer, Hateh frm Crown P.H BUD~A. *Tmin George, Barley Mow P.H Odell Harold, farmer *Wagstaff Ernest Geo. market gardnr OAKLEY is a village and parish, about 4 mile!' f~rd, archdeaconry of Bedf~rd and Ely diocese : the north-west from Bedford, and 13 north-east from ~ew­ river Ouse bounds the pansh on three sides, west, port Pagnell, in the Northern division of the countY, north and south; an ancient stone bridge of five arches Stodden hundred, Bedford petty sessional did~ioi1, connects the parish with Bromham and Stevington; uniol! and county court district, rural d('anery of Bed- and the Midland railway, which has a station here, • •