144 PITSTONE. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. [ KELLY's of it are chalky and unfit for tillage, but other parts are arable Wall Letter Box, near the church, cleared at 6.15 p.m.; .and pasture; subsoil, chalk. The area is 1,641 acres ; rate- sundays, 11.15 a.m .able value, £3,986; the population in 1901 was 396. The late Countess of Bridgewater, by will, left the sum of Sexton, Henry Green. £10 a year to be applied to the schools of the parish, which Post Office, Pitstone Green.-George Mardell, sub-postmaster. is appropriated to the sunday & day schools Letters received from Tring at 7.20 a.m.; dispatched at Elementary School (mixed), for 140 children; average attend- 6 p.m.; sundays, 11 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, ance, 74; Miss Clara Edmeads, mistress but not paid. The nearest money order office & telegraph Carrier.-George J. Groom, from Ivinghoe to London, thurs.; office is at Ivinghoe, ! mile distant return sat "Broad Rev. ,John Ashley (vica.r), Vicamge Elliott George, butcher J ackson John Matthew, brewers' traveller, Tompkins Charles Gregory George, Chequers P.H Louise cottage Whitridge F Gregory Zilpha (Mrs.), shopkeeper Jellis George, Ship P.H COMMF.RCIAL. Groom George J. carrier Mardell George, shopkeeper, Post office Archer Thomas, farmer Hawkins John Henry & Joseph, farmers, Moor Charles, blacksmith Bird Jeffery, bricklayer Pitstone Green farm Reeve James, farmer, Church farm Chennells William, farmer Hewett Jesse James, Bell inn Sharratt Mark, miller (steam & water) Cook George, wheelwright Horn Charles, farmer & corn merchant, Pitstone mills .Elliott Charles, boot maker Howlett William Henry, baker Tompkins George, wheelwright PRESTON BISSETT is a. parish and village, 4 miles by his will in 1528, appointed his burial in this church, before south-west from Buckingham station on the Banbury and the image of St. John the Baptist: the church was repaired :Bletchley section of the London and North Western railway, and improved in 1823 and again in 1853, and during the about 2! from Finmere station, and 4 north from Calvert incumbency of the Rev. John Satterthwaite Bolden M.A. station, both on the Great Central railway, and 8! north-east rector, 1863-73, a thorough restoration of the church was from Bicester, in the Northern division of the county, in the undertaken, under the direction of Messrs. Hahershon and hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court Brook, architects, of London, in the course of which a gallery district of Buckingham, and in the rural deanery of Bucking- was taken down, a new pulpit and other fittings provided, ham, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. and the interior reseated : during the progress of the works A feeder of the river Ouse passes through the parish and here many traces were met with of an earlier Norman structure, .separates the counties of Buckingham and Oxford. The including portions of semi-circular window heads, the bases parish was inclosed by Act of Parliament in 1781. The and capitals of columns, and several fragments of stone in ()hurch of St. John the Baptist, standing on rising ground at the zig-zag pattern; these have all been built into the wall the entrance to the village, and almost entirely screened of the north aisle : the restoration was completed in 1893 : from view by surrounding trees, is an object of considerable there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year interest to the archroologist, from the purity of its style and 1662. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £382, in­ unique beauty of its windows, the tracery in each of which eluding 240 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and -exhibits a different design; it is supposed to have been built held since 1874 by the Rev. Charles Bolden B.A. of Christ's .about 1320, and is all of one date : it consists of chancel, College, Cambridge. The Primitive Methodist chapel, built clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a low western tower ·in 1853, will hold 60 persons. Pearse's charity of £100 pro­ 'Containing 2 bells : all the details are of uniformly good ducing interest £2 16s. yearly, is at present assigned for the Decorated work, the east window of three lights presenting benefit of the parish, to the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford. 'features of a very excellent Flamboyant character, and all The Baroness Kinloss is lady of the manor. The principal the remaining windows being graceful examples of the same landowners are Hugh Morrison esq. of Tisbury, Wilts, the -style, the east windows of the aisles in particular exhibiting Rev. Charles Bolden B.A. and Mrs. Seaton. The soil is clay nnely elaborated tracery : on the south side of the chancel and gravel; subsoil, various. The land is pasture and arable. there are double canopied sedilia with crocketed pinnacles, The area is 1,520 acres; rateable value, £1,617 ; the popu· .and there are also three piscime, one in the chancel and one llation in 1901 was 290. in each aisle : the clerestory windows, three on either side, are Cowley is a hamlet of Preston Bissett, about 1! miles south- unusual, consisting of circular feathered lights within square east from the village and 4! miles south from Buckingham. panels: on the western gable of the nave is a bell cot of stone: Parish Clerk, Josiah Jeffry Jones. in the chancel is a slab once containing the brass effigy of a Post Office,-George Turvey, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive 'female, and an inscription to Ann, wife of Edmund Major from Buckingham at 7.7 a.m.; dispatched at 6.10 p.m. the younger, gent. ob. 1613; there are modern brass in- week days only. Postal orders are issued here, but not 'BCriptions to Capt. L. Bolden, 68th Durham Light Infantry, paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at and E. H. Sabin, son of the Rev. ,J. E. Sabin, a former rector, Tingewick, 2! miles distant to whom there is a mural monument; in the chancel still The Elementary School, to the south of the church, in the remain inscribed slabs to Richard Bankes M.A. rector 1674-79, principal street, & erected in 1857, is a substantial & well- 'Stephen Townshend M.A. rector, 1706-24, and John Ford M.A. designed building of brick with stone facings, & will hold minister of Hillesden, ob. 1684: there is also an ancient slab 100 children; average attendance, 55; Miss Mary Anne with a cross, apparently of the time of Edward I. : in the Morris, mistress -churchyard is an altar tomb, commemorating Daniel Whitby, Carriers to Buckingham.-Miss Emma Cox & John Coxhill, -eleven years rector here, ob. 1674: Thomas Woodward, gent. I daily PRESTON BISSETT. Hawes John, The Old Hat P.H Stevens ,John Geo. wheelwright & builder Baldwin Mrs Healey Isaac, farmer Turvey George, shopkeeper, & Post office Bolden Rev. Charles B.A. Rectory Heritage George, assessor & coli. of taxes Varney Chas. ,Jas. sanitary inspector t<1 Russell Miss, The Poplars Jackman George, blacksmith & agricul- Buckingham Rural District Council Seaton Mrs. Preston villa. tural implement agent & repairer Welford Thomas, White Hart P.H Jones Josiah Jeffrey, baker COWLEY. COMMERCIAL. Na~h. John! ?arpenter . Bar~e Arthur John, farmer, Cowley lodge 'Cadd J ames, farmer Philhps W1lham & Sons, coach bmlders, Him·ns Rowland Mervyn farmer 1?add William John, farmer wheelwrights & builrle~s. Lepper Alfred, farmer ' Cox Emma (Miss), carrier Sheppard John & Wllham, farmers, Smith William Thomas & Son, millers & Denny Jeremiah, jun. butcher Casemore farm mea]men, Three Bridge mills PRESTWOOD is a village and ecclesiastical parish, vicar 1873-92: the stained east window was presented, at formed April 9th, 1852, out of portions of Great Missenden, a cost of £85, by Mrs. Busk, of Codicote, and there are two Hughenden and a detached portion of Stoke Mandeville others, one in the chancel and another in the north aisle, parishes, I! miles north-west from Great Missenden station erected to the memory of his mother (d. 1857) by the Rev. on the Metropolitan Extension railway, 11 south from Ayles- Thomas Evetts, first incumbent of this church, 1849-63 ; bury, 4! north from Wycombe, 4! south-east from Princes the chancel rail originally belonged to the church of Little Risborough, in the Mid division of the county, petty sessional Gidding, Hunts: there are 250 sittings. The register dates division of Desborough 2nd division, hundreds of Brands from the year 1850. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Fee and Desborough, unions of Wycombe and Amersham, value £70, with 33 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift ()ounty court districts of Wycombe and Chesham, rural of Coningsby Ralph Disraeli esq. M.P., n.L., J.P. and held deanery of Aylesbury, IU'chdeaconry of Buckingham and since 1903 by the Rev. Allan Mackintosh Maclean B.A. of diocese of Oxford: the houses are very scattered and nearly Lampeter. The Baptist chapel, rebuilt in 1870, is a small all of modern construction. The church of the Holy Trinity, edifice of flint and brick, seating 250 persons. The Wesleyan -erected by subscription at a cost of £1,400, and consecrated chapel, erected in 1863, will seat 130: and the Primitive Metho­ and opened for divine service in 1849, is an edifice of flint dist chapel·at Bryant's Bottom, built in 1871, has 120 sittings. with stone dressings in the Decorated style, and consists of The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in lace makin~ and chair <lhancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, small vestry, turning. Denner Hill stone is dug here. Lord Dormer, who llouth porch and an open western turret containing one bell; is lord of the manor, Arthur Lasenby Liberty esq.