DmEGrORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. L:3SLADE. 115 LINSLADE is a parish adjoining Leighton Buzzard, Wall Box, Canal bridge, cleared 8.35 &i u a.m. 12.10, bounded on the east by the river Ousel, which seyarat.s 2.30, 5.30, 8 &; 9.30 p.m.; sUlldays, 7.30 p.m the counties of Bedford and Buokingham: it is in the Wall Box, Railway station, cleared at 8.35 &; 1I.0 a.m, :Mid division of the county, three hundred of Cottesloe, 12.20, 2.30, 5.30, 8.0 &; 9.30 p.m.; ,sundays, 7.30 p.m the head of a petty sessional division, union and county Wall Box, Southcote, cleared at 7.5 p.m.; su'nday, court dilltrict of Leighton Buzzard. rural deanery of 9.40 a.m Ivinghoe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR LINSLADE PETTY This parish is governed by an Urban District Council of nine members, formed in , under the pro­ SESSIONAL DIVISION. visions of the" Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Finlay Lt.-Col. .Alex. Manor house, Little Brickhill, Bletcb. Vict. ch. 73). ley, chairman The church of St. Barnabas, erected in 1849, Orkney Earl of, Wing lodge, Leighton Buzzard is a building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting Cotes Oharles esq. Burcott lodge, Wing,Leighton Buzzard of Chancel with a vestry opening into it on. the south Finch Henry esq. The Gables, Linslade, Leighton Buzzard side, nave of four bays, north porch, south aisle, and a Fountaine Bernard Thomas esq. Stoke house, Stoke western tower with low spire added in 1868, and con­ Hammond, Bletchley .. taining 5 beils, form€rly in 1Jhe old church tower: the Freeman William Russel Stewart esq.-D.L. Old Manor stained east window is a memorial to Elizabeth Sarah house, Wingrave, Aylesbury • Hadley, d. 1872: a new organ, the gift; of Henry Finch Jenney Stewart William €sq. Drayton lodge, Tri'ng esq. of The Gables, Linslade, was erected i'n 1889 at a Lovett Percival Cosby Ernest esq. The Cottage, Soul. cost of £1,4°0: there are 600 sitting9. The register bury, Leighton Buzzard dates from the year 1690. The living is a vicarage, net Rothschild Leopold de esq. D.L. Ascott, Leighton Buzzard yearly value £130, including 18 acres of glebe and re­ Javal Paul Cremieu esq. Beausite, Linslade, Leighton sidence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and !h€ld Buzzard since 1889 by the Rev. Oharles Edward Dandridge M.A Selby-Lowndes Meyrick Edward esq. Mursley, Winslow of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, who is also Lec­ Williams Joseph Grout esq. Pendley manor, Tring turer in Pastoral Theology at St. .A.idan's College, Bir­ kenhead. The old church of St. Mary, a building of the The Chairmen, for the time being, of the Linslade Urban Decorated and Perpendicular periods, is now used for &; Wing Rural District Councils are ex-officio magis­ burials and in summer for divine worship; it consists of trates chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower contain­ Clerk to the Magistrates, John Newton, LeightoIl ing one bell: in 1898 this church was beautifully restored Buzzard at the sole cost of Henry Finch esq. :the churchyard was Petty sessions are held at the Police court, Wing road, enlarged in 1893 by ! acre of ground, giv>en by Sir A. D. the 1st monday in the month at 10 a.m. and at the Hayter bart. and a new boundary wall built by public Town hall, Ivinghoe the last saturday in every month subscriptio'n: it contains the remains of a cross: the at 1I a.m church, with the manor house and a smaller house The following Iiaces are i'ncluded in the petty sessional near, form the old village of Linslade. The Baptist division: Aston Abbots, Oheddington, Cublington, chllipel here, erected in 1843, will seat 300 Rer·sollS: the Dagnall Edlesborough, Grove, lvinghoe, Linslade, Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1861, affords 400 Marsworth, Mentmore, Northall, Pightlesthorne or Pit­ sittings. The village, now rapidly assuming the pro­ stone, Slapton, Soulbury, Stewkley, Wing, Wingrave portions of a town, is contiguous to the Leighton railway station on the London and North Western railway and Police Station, Wing I'd. Inspector Bunker &; 2 constables adjoins the town of Leighton Buzzard. The Gralnd Junc­ tion canal passes through this place, occupying 26 acres URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. of the parish. The petty sessions for the Ivinghoe bench Meets at Council Room, Leighton road, the first &; third of the Linslade division are held here. Two .small chari­ friday in every month. ties, left under the wills of Mrs. Peacock a'nd Sir Andrew Corbet bart. of Moreton Corbet, Salop, produce £3 Officers. yearly, and the Had~ey bequest amounts to £4 5s. yearly, Clerk, Robert John Platten, Bridge street and Miss O. Lawford's to £2 10S. yearly, which is dis­ Treasurer, Francis Bassett, banker, Leighton Buzzard tributed in money to poor widows. Dr. Lawford's charity, Medical Officer of Health, Henry William Adrian Sandell producing £1 9s. yearly, is spent in blankets for the L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. 28 Lake street, Leigh­ poor. Here is a police station with three cells for pri­ ton Buzzard soners, a house for the inspector and a police court. Surveyor &; Sanitary Inspector, Thomas Brown The Right Hon. Sir .A.rthur Divetb Hayter bart. of Southill Park, Berks, is lord of the manor and principal Schools. landoWD€r. The soil is principally sand; ,subsoil, sand­ sto'ne and ~avel. The chief erop~ are wheat, oats and A School Board of 5 members was formed 21 June, 1871; barley. The area is 1,667 acres of land and 26 of water; A. Blake, clerk to the board; Benjamin Franklin, at-­ rateable value, £21,236; the population in 1881 was tendance officer 1,724; in 1891 was 1,982. Board School (boys), built in 1£74, &; €nlarged in 1893,. Southcote is a 'small hamlet, included in the. parish of for 170 children; average attendance, 140; William Linslade, one mile south, and adjoins Leighton Buzzard Oarter, master on the west. Board (girls &; infants), built in 1842, at a cost of £965, Post, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel for 100 girls &; 90 infants; average attendance, 100 Post, S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office. Thomas girls &; 100 infants; Miss Kate Bulmer, mistress; Mis. lloyd, sub-postmaster. Letters through Leighton Buz­ Eliz8ibeth Botsford, infants' mistress zard delivered 7 &; 9.45 a.m. &; 3.30 &; 6.15 p.m.; dis­ Leighoon Buzzard Railway Station, Robert Anthony Dun­ patched, 8-:,5 &; II a.m. &; 12.20, 3, 5.30 &; 8 p.m leavy, station master • LINSLADE. Hadley Mrs. Brooklands Street Mrs. Np.w road PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. HaITis Johnstone Delavil John, Tattam Edward, New road .A.bbott Thomas, Mentmore l'{)r.d Bridge house Tavener Mrs. The Acacias .Arden D'luglas, Mentmore road Johnstone Frederick, Vicarage road Theobald Miss, N3W l('ad Brooke Mrs. New rOdd King Mrs. Harcourt Watkins William, 'TIhe Elms Collingwood J Bnssington house Lawrence Joseph Thomas, Binfie1d Wabb James, Beaufort ho. Wing road' Cooper Samuel, FerDside couse, Stoke road Yirrell Thomas, Bridge street Cremieu-Javal Paul J.P. Beausite Lievesley Miss, New road OOM:MERCIAL. Dandridge Rev. Charles Edward M.A. Mead Matthew WaIters, Buxton house Abraham Mark, beer retailer (vieal") Merry Mrs. New road Abbott Thos.coal dlr.& machine owner Dennis Woodrow, New road Platten Robert John, Bridge street Bl-nnett William, Tl:'mperance hotel,. Emery Edward, Clifton ho. Wing road Price .Alfred. Wuburn cuttage Canal bridge Faulkner Jr.m.es, Old road Richardson Oharles, Southcott .avenue Blake Alfred, registrar of marriages~ Field William, Wing road 8a.unders Edwd. Percy, Mentmore rd New road Finch Henry J.P. The Gables Simpson Mrs. Linslade house Blundell John, builder, Old road Gatehouse John, Wing road Sloan John Thame, Waterloo road Bc.dsworth Job, saddler Grant Rev. Alfred Jas. (Baptist), The StevPll8 Thomas, Wing villa. Blantom Th":>mas, miller (~team) ~ Bridge Stratford Mrs. New road coal merchant BUCKS..