DIRECTORY • J BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. BLEDLOW. 45 the staff by four screws, and it weighs eight pounds Post & M. 0. Office. James William Bonham, sub­ eleven ounces : all the spears found here were of the postmaster. Letters through .Aylesbury arrive at 6.15 Stnart period; on the skeleton of one man two large & ID a.m. ; dispatched II.3D a.m. & 6-45 p.m. Sun­ buttons, gilt beneath and hollow, still remained. The days, arrive at 6.40 a.m. ; dispatched, 7.30 a.m. trustees of the late John Parker esq. F.S.A. of High Aylesbury is the nearest telegraph office, 2 miles Wyc<Jmbe (d. r9o6) are lords of the manor; and Leopold distant rle Rothschild esq. C.V.O. is the chief landowner. The Broughton Pillar Box:, cleared at· 6.30 & u.so a. m. ; soil is clay with a portion of stone brash, but chiefly sundays, 7·30 a.m loam; subsoil, clay and limestone. The chief crops are Elementary School (mixed), built in I849 & enlarged wheat, beans, barley and clover. The area is 2,466 1885, for 134 children; William George. Plimmer, acres of land and 9 of wate.r; rateable value, £4,893; master; Mrs. Annie Towers Plimmer, mistress the population in 19II was 633 in the civil parish and ()OI in the ecclesiastical parish. Broughton, 2 miles sonth, and Burcott, half a mile south, are 'hamlets in Carrier. !his parish. Ha.rry Honour, to Aylesbury, wed. & sat. ; to Leighton Sexton, John Busby. Buzzard, tues BIERTON. 1 Dearing A bel, builder Wink Edward, beer retailer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ellis Thomas, duck breeder Woodward Leslie, farmer Gadsden Williarn Thomu, f8.l'IIler Baws William J onas, Poplars BROUOOTON. Goodey Henry John Gurney George, farmer Grist John Wesley, Bierton house Hill Harry, duck breeder Bates Wm.mllr.(water),Broughton rul Norwood Thomas, Peartree cottage Honour Harry, carrier Jeffs Thomas, duck breeder Stewart Robert Thos. Merton cottage Honour Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Landon George H. farmer Taylor Frederick Horwood Thomas Walton, builder & Pitcher Charles Hy. farmer, Oak frrn 'l'hompson Rev . .Arthur James Kayss assistant overseer Roads John Thomas & Robert,farmers M.A. (vicar) Hutchins W . .A. clerk Stratford Mary (Mrs.),Seven Stars P.H .Teffs John, baker & farmer White George, beer retailer OOMMERCIAL. King Ellis, coal dealer Wright Albert, smallholder Bell John, farmer, Ivy House farm Norwood William, farmer, Corner frm Brll Thomas, farmer, Church farm Roberts William, blacksmith l3URCOTT. llierton Association for the Protection Shadlock George, beer retailer Gilkes Stephen of Persons & Property (Jn. Bell, sec) Spicer John, boot ma.ker Horwood Mrs Bonham Ja.mes Smith, fa.rmer,Fir cot Taylor John, Red Lion P.H Plomer Col. Wm_ H. P. Burcot cot Bonham Jas. Wm. grocer, Post office Thorne J oseph, Bell inn Wilson Mrs. Claresholme Cannon G. & T. builders Thorne Reuben J. builder & con­ COMMERCIAL. Cannon Henry, farmer, Hoods farm tractor, painter, plumber & dec01-a­ Drill John, cow keeper Cooper Cla.ra (Miss), apartments tor; estimates furnished Chappin Frederick, duck breeder Clarke Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer lVatts William Henry, grocer Gray Hep.ry, duck breeder BLEDLOW is a parish, on the borders of Oxford· London markets. The register dates from the year Jhire, with a station I mile north of the village, on 1592. The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly the main Birmingham line of the Great Western rail­ value £2oo, including 134 acres of glebe, with residence, way, 44 miles from London, 2~ miles west-south-west in the gift of the Marquis of Lincolnshire, and held from Princes Risborough and 5~ east-south-east from since 1904 by the Rev. John William Cruikshank M ..A. of Thame, in the Mid division of the county, in the Lincoln College,, Oxford. An addition to the burying hundred of Aylesbury, petty sessional division of Des­ ground was consecrated in I9o8. Ther{} is a small Wes­ borough second division, union of Wycombe, county leyan chapel here, and another at Bledlow Ridge. The ~onrt district of High Wycombe, rural deanery of school of the Wycombe union situated here occupies Aylesbury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of what was formerly the. workhouse; adjoining are four Oxf<Jrd. The Princes Risborough and Watlington rail- acres of land used as a playground; the girls do most • way passes through and trains stop at Bledlow Bridge of the domestic work. The charities produce about £58 to take up and set down passengers. The church of yearly, inclusive of rent for the poor's land of 25 acres the Holy Trinity, restored in 1876 at a cost of £I,4oo, and five cottages, distributed in fuel, and the dividend is an ancient structure of flint and stone, in the Tran­ of Slangh ter's charity distributed in bread; the prin­ sition Norman style with Decorated windows and cipal testators have been-Henry Smith in 16o8, John clerestory added, and consists of chancel, clerestoried Blancks in 1671, Marg. Dabham in 1672, and Edmund nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a; western Slaughter in I83r. On a lofty hill in this parish is a tower containing 5 bells, four of which date back to Greek cross, cut into the turf, and similar to that at 1865, the fifth having been recast in 1841: the inner WhitelBaf in Monks Risborough. The Marquis of Lin­ doorway of the south porch is very fine, consisting of colnshire K.G., P.C. and the, Provost and Fellows of a pointed arch with small circular shafts of Early Eng­ Eton College are lords of the manor; Robert White esq. lish date; on the right of this door there is an un­ is lord of the manor of Coram. The principal land­ usually large holy-water stoup ; over the outer door is owners are the Marquis of LincolnshirB! K.G., P.C., a dial and near the entrance the stone base of an G.C.M.G. and Eton College. The soil is in some parts ancient cross : the north aisle contains a canopied niche chalk loam, other parts stiff clay; subsoil, chalk or rag­ and a double piscina, and the south aisle has also a stone and clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, peas, piscina and retains traces of two recessed tombs : in oats, barley and roots. The area is 4,169 acres; rate­ the chancel is a bra.ss of a former vicar (r525) in able value, [4,405; the civil parish includes BLEDLOW Eucharistic vestments : the walls of the nave and aisles RIDGE, PITCH GREEN, half a mile north, ROUT'S bear traces of some ancient paintings: the font and a GREEN, 2! miles south, FORTY GRERN, I! north­ doorway on the north side are Norman; the former west, SKITTLE GREEN, three-quarterfl of a mile north­ has a large fluted basin and some elaborate carved west, and ROLLY GREEN, I north : the population in work: there are tablets of the early part of the last 19 rr was 954, and of the ecclesiastical, 569. 'l:entury to members of the Blancks family: since 1895 Parish Clerk, George Avery. a new chancel screen, altar table and litany desk, all Sexton, James Allen. executed by Mr. Harry Hems, of Exeter, and five stained windows have been provided: the chur.ch was Post Office, Bledlow, Herbert Stratford Brazen, sub-post­ master. Letters arrive from Princes Risborough, thoroughly re.~tored in 1909, when the tow{!r was re­ l>aired and the bells were also quarter-turned and re­ Bucks, by cycle pvst at 8.35 a.m. & 4.10 p.m.; dis­ hung; during the course of the work an aumbry was patched at 8.35 a.m. & 4.15 p.m. & a third dispatch uncovered in the south aisle and on the south side of via Oxford at 6.50 p.m. No sunday delivery. Prince11 the chancel the tympanum of a Norman door was dis­ Risborough, 2~ milPs distant, is the nearest money covered: some r3th century stained glass was also dis­ order & telegraph office covered in the chancel and was cleaned and re-leaded : Wall Letter Boxes.-Pitch Gr~n. cleared g.20 a.m. & a memorial window was erected in 1912 in the north 3-35 & 7·5 p.m. week days only; Railway station, aisle to the memory of the Roberts family, for many cleared at 9 IS a m. & 3.30 & 7.30 p.m. week days years resident in this parish: there are 211 sittings: only ihe churchyard is bounded on the east by a deep and School. 11'oody glen, into which several springs of water fall, Elementary (mixed), built in 1868, & enlarged in 189r, and uniting form a small lake called " The Lyde," in 1903, 1912 & 1914. for q.g children; Edwin J. T. which large quantities of watercress are grown for the Catton, master .