DIRECTORY.] BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. GREAT KIMBLE. 345 aJll()unt to about £3T annually, which are given in money Seabrook (divided in two parts, called Great and Little to the poor on the first Saturday in November. The Seabrook) is a hamlet of Ivinghoe,Cheddington and Pitstone, church lands produce about £17 a year. The beautiful lying between the London and North Western railway and lawn, the property of Earl Brownlow, that joins the town the Grand Junction canal, one mile and a half west from with the village of Pitstone or Pightlesthorne, has a very Ivinghoe and one south from the Cheduington station. The rural appearance. According to tradition, one of the Hamp­ soil produces good wheat crops. dens lost this manor for striking the Black Prince a blow Ringshall is a hamlet in this parish, situated about 4 with his racket when they quarrelled at tennis- miles south-east from Ivinghoe, on the Herts border. " Tring, Wing and Ivinghoe Pansh Clerk, George North. Hampden of Hampden did forego, POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & Savings Bank.-Benjamin • For striking of ye Prince a blow, And glad he might escapen so." Andrews, postmaster. Letters are received through 'fring This tradition has, however, been disproved, the manors in at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. 'fring is the nearest question never having belonged to the Hampdens. A more telegraph office interesting association connected with this place is the INSURANCE AGENT.-Live17Jool .f London .f Globe, A.J.Heley fact that from the above lines Sir WaIter Scott took the COUNTY MAGISTRATES sitting here:- Dame of one of the most celebrated of his novels, "Ivanhoe." Charles S. Hadden esq. Northchurch Earl Brownlow is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Steward William Jenny e!lq. Drayton Beauchamplodge,'fring Courts baron and leet are held annually for this manor. A Frank John Moore esq. Woodcock hill, Northchurch large portion of the soil is chalky; subsoil, chalk. The area Joseph J. Williams esq. Pendley house, Tring is 5,564 acres; rateable value, £8,181; the populatiun in Clerk, Samuel Stallon 1871 was 1,722. Petty Sessions are held in the Town hall on the third satur­ Horton is a small hamlet belonging to the parishes of day in every month lvinghoe, Edlesborough dnd Slapton. 2~ miles north-west The following places are in the Ivinghoe division :-Ched­ from Ivinghoe, and half-a-mile north from the Cheddington dington, DagnaIl, Drayton Beauchamp, Edlesborough, station on the London and North Western Railway junction. Horton, Hudnall, lvinghoe, Ivinghoe Aston, Marsworth, Bere is a small Wesleyan chapel. Letters through Nettleden, Northall, Pitstone, RingshaIl, St. Margaret's & Leighton Buzzard. Slapton CARRIER.-William Horne, to Leighton Buzzard, tues PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services:- Ivinghoe Aston is a scattered hamlet of the parish of JYJary'.~ Ivinghoe, 1l miles north-east. The Wesleyans have a chapel St. Church, Rev. John Henry Rawlinson M.A. rector here, to which is attached a Sunday school. Many of the 1I a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. &fri. no stated times inhabitants are employed in the straw plaitingbusiness. The Baptist Chapel, 10.30 a.m. & 2 & 6 p.m area is about 1,.641 acres. Wesleyan Chapel, Ivinghoe, 2.30 & 6 p.m ])aySchool Wesleyan Chapel, Horton, 2.30 & 6 p.m St. Margaret's is a small hamlet of Ivinghoe, from Wesleyan Chapel, Ivinghoe Aston, 2.30 &6&6 p.m which town it is 6! miles south-east, and about one mile Police Station, Robert Burfield, sergeant-in-charge north-west from Great Gaddesden, on the Herts border, con­ Town Hall sisting of a farm-house and cottages. Letters through NatlOnal School, vacant Hemel Hempstead, which is the nearest money order and CARRIER-George J. Groom, from Ivinghoe to London, telegraph office. thurs. returning sat.; mOll. returning wed Ivinghoe. North George, coal dealer Ruff J ames, shopkeeper Rawlinson Rev. Hy. John M.A. Vicarage North Thomas, coal dealer Sayell William, carrier Roberts Henry Mann Paradine William, shopkeeper Woodman Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Parsons John, tailor . COMMERCIAL. Roberts & Wilson,brewers & maltsters, IVlnghoe Aston. Andrews Benj.land survyr. & postmstr Ivinghoe brewery Cox Thomas, Swan Andrews Waiter, registrar of births & Rogers Henry, cattle dealer Draper. Cha~les, Ca!penters' Arms deaths for the Ivinghoe district Seabrook WaIter baker Horn l'ranCls, graZIer Ashby Edward, King's Head inn Sharratt George,'wheelwright &builder Horn James, grazier Bailey James & Sons, farmers, Town & ShortSarah(Mrs.),butcher&shopkeeper Horn Joseph, grazier Wardscombe farms Simmonds William, ~eer retailer Horn William, shopkeeper & carrier Bates Henry, boot & shoe maker Simons Ell7..abeth (Mrs.), beer retailer Proctor James, farmer Buckmaster Christr. farmer, Grove frm Simons Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper RufIett Jesse, grazier Cook George, boot maker Tompkins Eli, beer retailer St Mar aret's. Cook WilIiam Charles, tailor Tompkins George, wheelwright . g Costin Thomas, carpenter & undertaker Tompkins Moses, farmer & miller Meacher Edward Augustus, farmer Elliott Charles, butcher I Turney Ambrose, baker Seabrook. Elliott Phillip, draper & shopkeeper ~~r:en Geo. straw dealer ~ shopkeeper Archer George (Mrs.), farmer Harrowell James, Brownlow Arms, & \\ Ilhamson John,farmer, VIcarage farm Simmons John farmer farmer, lYinghoe bridge H t Williamson John farmer Ivinghoe t:f Horton iJrick t:f Tile Co. or on. .' LImited (James Foxen, manager) Buckmaster Mrs. Charlotte Rlngshall. Beley Andrew, plumber & glazier Buckmaster Alfred, farmer Bailey James & Son, farmers Beley George, farmer, Great Gap Burdett Robert, farmer & brickmaker Fountain Alfred, grocer Keble William, blacksmith Jellis Stephen (Mrs.), King's Head Jones James, builder GREAT KIMBLE is a parish within the parliamen-,' since 1878 by the Rev. Edward Keatinge Clay B.A. St. John's tary borough of Aylesbury, in the union of Wycombe, College, Cambridge. There are 4A. 2R. 30P. for the benefit of hundred and county court district of Aylesbury, rural' the poor. Mrs. Frankland-Russell Astley is lady of the manor. deanery of Aylesbury, archdeaconry of Buckingham and The landowners are Sir Astley P. Cooper bart. H. A. P. Cooper diocese of Oxford, a quarter of a mile east from Little Kimble esq. the Rev. the Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lady de Roths­ atation, 3! miles west-south-west from Wendover and 6 child, Mrs. Frankland-Russell Astley and others. The soil south from Aylesbury. The church of St. Nicholas was varies; on the high lands chalk and flints, lowlands stiff thoroughly restored and re-seated in 1876 at a cost of clay; subsoil, chietly clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, 1.3,Q(X); it is an ancient stone building, with embattled walls, barley and oats; a great portion of the lowlands is pasture. ID the Decorated style, standing on an eminence, and con- The area is 2,529 acres; rateable value, £2,745; the popuIa­ aists of chancel, nave, aisles, porch and largesquareembattled tion in 188r was 422. tower, with a cornice of heads underthe battlements and COll- taining 5 bells; the aisles are divided from the nave by an : MARSH, one and a half miles, ~md ~IMBL~ WICK, one mi~e areade of arches on either side· the chancel contains a hand- north-west, are hamlets, partly m thIS parIsh and partly m MOle stained.window, painted by Sir Robert Frankland- Little Kimble. Russell; one to the memory of the late vicar, the Rev. John Sexton Daniel Beckett. Stewart: the font is Norman, richly carved: the roof is open ' oak timbered and at the junction of the nave and chancel is Letters through Tring byfoot messengerfrom Ellesborough. a fine old oak screen. The register dates from the year 1664- LETTER Box cleared at 6.20 p.m. week days & 4.20 p.m. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £180 with residence, in sundays; the nearest money order & telegraph office is at the gift of the Rev. the Earl of Buckinghamshire, and held Princes Risborough.