22 AMERSHAM. BUCKING HAl\:ISHIRE. [KELLY'S Strange William, shopkeeper, Bury end friday, I-30 to 3; draw on head office, 2 Prince• 1\. Strong Frederick James, beer retailer, The Common London E C Sumner & Co. architecb & surveyors, land, house & Ward lieorge, ironmonger, High street estate agents, Station Parade estate office (T N 12 Welch Waiter Thomas, butcher, Whielden street P.O. Amersham); & at 23 Devereux court, Strand, Weller W. & G. brewers & maltsters. T N I? P.O. London Amersham Swain John, coal merchant, The Common Whincop Ann Jane (Mrs.), beer retailer, Bury end Swannell & Sly, house & estate agents Whiteside John, baker, High street Tarbucks Mary Ellen (Mrs.), greengrocer, Whielden st Wilkins W. & Son, coal merchants & goods agenh f01 Tedham Percy, blacksmith, The Common Metropolitan & Great Central joint railways, Station Thrower T. J. corn & seed merchant W ilkins Alethea Fanny (Mrs.), coal merchant, Bury entl Tomlin Frederick, refre5hment rooms, The Common Wilkins George, beer retailer, .Mop end Toovey Clement, shopkeeper & baker, Whielden street Wilkinson Edward, boot & shoe dealer, High street Toovey E. (Miss), apartments, White house, High street Wilkinson Edward John, boot maker, High street Toovey Frederick S. furniture broker, High street Williams Fred P. builder, Station road Toovey James T. furniture de.Iler, Station road Williams Joseph A. plumber, Whielden street Truman T. D. motor garage, London road Wilson Ernest, hair dresser, High street Tunka .James Ar"thur, accountant, collector of income Wilson Thomas, farmer, Whielden street tax, clerk to governors of Dr. Challoner"s Grammar Wingrave Thomas, builder, High street school, sec. Local Higher Education Committee & in­ Weodbridge Joseph, boot & shoe maker, The Common surance agent & deputy supt. registrar of births & Woolhead Charles, shopkeeper, The Common deaths, High street Wooster Edwin, farmer, Upper Bottom House farm Union of London & Smiths Bank Ltd. (sub-branches); Wynne Graham Shaw Arnold Smith M.R.C.S.Eng.• open. daily. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; saturday, 9-30 to L. R. C. P. Land. physician & surgeon, public vaccinator 12.30, High street; Amersham-on-the-Hill, tuesday & & me· dical officer to Penn & Coleshill districts, Amersham union, Broadway house COLESBILL. Walker Rev. Cecil George Cumner ·Pursey Thomas, Plough P.H. Winch- PRIVATE RESIDENTS. M . .A.. (curate in charge) more Hill Alien Frederick J. Coleshill lodge Pursey Wm.chair ma.Winchmore Hill Bartlett Miss COMMERCIAL. Pusey Charles, j o bmaster Bayley James, Lnckins farm Bayley James, farmer & land owner,· Sawyer Mary A. (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Davies Arthur Henry Luckins farm ! Winchmore Hill Dendy Charles Heatbfield, Coleshill ho Farr George, farmer,Brentford grange Sears Alien Moore, boot & shoe- Dandy Miss E. The Larches Gurney Wm. fanner, Glory farm maker, Post office Fawcett The Misses, The Ro~ary Hatch Herbert, farmer , Slade James, blacksmith Hayes Mrs. Hertfordshire house Hobbs Joseph, beer retailer, Winch- Stevens Charles, Magpie P.H Helps Edmund Arthur, Coleshill cot more Hill 1 Ware Fredk. Lane, farmer, Ongar hill Howland Thomas Arthur, Rushymead Lofty Sidney J. farmer, Bury farm i Ware Fredk. R. frmr. Bowers farm Schwann Ernest, Windmill house Muckley Henry George, builder I Weedon James Edward,Red Lion P.H Taylor Mi1111, Porch house Palmer Ephraim, shopkeeper I Wilkins Alfd. boot repr.Winchmore ID Turner Mrs , Woolvin James, beer retailer ASHENDON is a village and parHlih, and is the head 1 annexed, joint net yearly value £I8o, with residence. of a petty 11essional division (sessions held at Brill), I in the gift of Earl Temple, and held since IQ07 by th~t mile south from the W otton stations on the Great Rev. Thomas Appleton L.Th. of Hatfield Hall, Durham, Central railway and Brill and Quainton Road branch of who resides at Dorton. The finElst examples of saucer­ the Metropolitan and Great Central joint railway, and shape fibulre known are two of the Anglo-Saxon period. .4! south-west from Quainton Road station on the 3' inches in diameter and jewelled, found in thi& Metropolitan and Great Central joint railway, 9 west parish and placed in the collection of the late Lord from Aylesbury, and 4 east from Brill, in the Northern Braybrooke F.S.A. Earl Temple is lord of the manor division of the county, hundred of .Ashendon, union and principal landowner. The soil is loam and clay;. and county court district of Avlesbury, rural deanery subsoil, clay and limestone. The land is principally of Waddesdon, a.rchdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese used for pasture. The area is 2,128 acres; rateabl& of Oxford. The church of St. Ma.ry• is an ancient build- value, £z,63I; the population in 1901 was 212 . ing of st-one in the Decora.ted, Early English and Perpen- dicul11r styles, consistin~ of chancel, nave with clerestory, POLLICOTT (UPPER and LOWER) form a hamlet iu and an arcade of three arches connscting it with the south this parish, about half a mile south of the village. aisle, oouth porch and a western tower containing 3 bells ; [ Letters throug-h Thame arrive at 8.30 a.m. &. 2.30 p.m. there are two piscinm; in the chancel, beneath a depressed Wall Box cleared at 9.Io a.m. & 5.10 p.m.; sunday. crocketed arr.h with finial, is a tomb with the figure of a 9·55 a.m. Brill, 4 miles distant, is the nMrest cross-legged wanior in chain mail, the hauberk reaching money order office & Wotton, about 2 miles distant. to his knees and C{)Vered with a surcoat; his right hand the nearest telegraph office grasps his swurd and his left the scabbard, the left arm Wall Letter Box, Upper Pollicott, cleared at g. IS a.m. bearil}2" a large heater-shaped shield ; the effig-y is said & 5. I5 p .m. ; sundays, 10 a.m t.o be that of Sir John Bugden (or BucktotJt) of Pollicott; there a.re also many mural monument,s; t.Jle church Elementary School, built in 1775, & rebuilt in IB94· fo-r affords 100 silitings. The reg"ister dat.€11 from the year 6o children; average attendance, 55; Miss Jam~ 1070. The living is a vicarage, with that of Dorton Starck, head mistress COMMERCIAL. Gforge Thomas John, farmer, Upper Tompkins .Arthur R. farmer, Upper Boughton Richd. (exors. of), farmers, Pollicott - ?ollicott · Eastend farm Payne John, farmer, Watbridge Watts Edward, blacksmith Curtis .Albert Edward (exors. of), Roads Robert, farmer, Hill farm Yammer Albt. Joseph, Red Lion P.H farmers, East farm Smith Robert,Manor frm.Low.Pollicott • ASHLEY GREEN is a parish, formed by a\J. Order uave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and a bell of the County Council, dated 16 March, 18g6, confirmed turret over chancel arch containing 2 bells: the stained by Local Government Board Order No. 34.772, which e. 1st window is a memorial to Col. R. A. Smith-Dorrien, came into operation Ist .April. 1897· from the civil "''bo died in IB79· and was inserted b:v his fam1ly: thtt parish of Chesham ; it is situated on a hill on the bcrders east end of the chancel b11s been adorned with mural paint­ of Herts, about 3 miles north-east from Chesham, and 2' ings, executed as a memori11l to the late Mi88 Dorrien, from Berkhampstead station on the main line of the Lon­ founder of the church: there is a fine eagle lectern of don and North Western railway, in the Mid division of carved oak: there are 150 sittings. The register datee the countv, hundred of Chesham . .Amersham umon, Ches­ from the year IB75· The livini! is a vicarage, net yearly hHm pettv ses~ional divi!'inn and countv court rli!'trict, valne £zso, with residence, in the gift of Thoma• Alger­ rural rleanery of Amersham. archdeaconry of Huckin~­ nnn Smith-Dorrien-Smith e>~n. of TrPsco, Scillv !~lands, hllm and diocese of Oxford. The ecclesiastical parish and held since I902 by the Rev. Arthur Charli>s :Sapier was formed October 29, I87S· The church of St. John Lukin .M.A. of Selwyn College, Cambridg"e. Here is 1 thl' Evang"elist, erected at the cost of Miss Dorrien, and ~m~ll Baptist chapel, sPating so persons. In Grove farm ('nmecrated in r875, is a bnildin~ of flint with stone dres­ are the remains of an old Danish fort; thP wall~ and moat lrings, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, are still in a state of preservation. The breeding of .