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* Wooburn  <ref>Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire 1911, pp223-225</ref>  
* Wooburn  <ref>Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire 1911, pp 223-225</ref>  
* Little Marlow  <ref>INSERT SOURCE</ref>  
* Little Marlow  <ref>Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire 1911, pp 146-147</ref>  
* Hedsor  <ref>INSERT SOURCE</ref>  
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= External Links =
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[https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/335100 University of Leicester, 1876 Harrod Directory of Buckinghamshire Berkshire Oxfordshire Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire]
[https://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/50902/rec/8 University of Leicester, 1911 Kelly Directory of Buckinghamshire]

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Wooburn

is a parish and scattered village on the Wye or Wick riv er and also non the Thames; the parish comprises The Green., The Town, Cores End, Bourne End, The Common, The Moor, Havenslea and Northern Woods with two stations on the Wycombe, Thame and Oxford branch of the Great Western railway, viz. Bourne End, 28 miles and Wooburn Green, 30 miles from London, and is about 3 miles south-west from Beaconsfield and 5 south-east from Wycombe, in the Southern division of the county hundred of Desborough, second division of Desborough petty sessional division, union of Wycombe, county count district of High Wycombe, rural deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Paul is an ancient edifice in the Late Norman, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel with north aisle, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles and massive embattled western tower with turret containing a clock, erected in 1870, and 8 bells rehung and the 9th bell recast in 1902, at a cost of £360, in commemoration of the coronation of King Edward VII: the pulpit, of carved stone, is adorned with representative heads of the four Evangelists: the east window is stained, and there are several other stained windows: in the church are brasses of John Goodwin and Pernell, his wife, who built the church tower, A.D. 1488; Christopher Askowe 1500, and his wife; to Thomas Swaine S.T.P. prebendary of Aylesbury, 1519, and to Arthur, infant son of Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, 1642: one other brass, with a single figure shroud, surrounded by shields and scrolls, has a rhyming inscription of eleven lines, but not name or date; there are memorials to the families of Bertie and Wharton, including a monument to Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, who died 5th Feb. 1695: in 1899 a handsome chancel screen, designed by Mr. J. N. Comper, was presented by Miss Emily Du Pre, at a cost of over £500, in memory of her father, the late James Du Pre esq. a former lord of the manor and patron of the living: the organ was erected as a memorial to Alfred Gilbey esq. of Wooburn House, d. 29 Nov 1879: and in 1901 a reredos was presented by Mrs. Gilbey, of the Kennels, Wooburn and her daughter: the church was completely restored internally in 1857 and externally in 1869 at a cost of over £3,000, when the nave was heightened by the erection of a clerestory and the substitution of an open-timbered roof for the flat plastered ceiling: the church has since been entirely reseated and affords 500 sittings; a new churchyard, near the church, was enclosed and consecrated in 1862. The register dates from the year 1653; the list of rectors and vicars exists from A.D. 1216. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £115, including 94 acres of glebe, and residence. in the gift of W. Baring Du Pre esq. and held since 1904 by the Rev. Reece Unsworth M.A. of University College, Oxford. St. Mark's church, at BOURNE END, built in 1889 as a chapel of east to Wooburn Parish church, at a cost of £900, and opened by the Bishop of Reading, 23rd April 1890, is an edifice of red brick in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a turret containing one bell, and will seat 200 persons. There is also a small Mission church in Wycombe road, the gift of an anonymous donor in 1903 and seating 100 persons. A Church hall was erected in 1910 on a site near the church at a cost of £1,000. The Congregational chapel, founded in 1768 and rebuilt in 1804, was enlarged and reseated in 1881, and will seat about 400 persons; the Baptist chapel at Wooburn Green was erected in 1836, and there are chapels at Wooburn and Bourne End, the latter erected in 1910 at a cost of £700, and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The Working Men's Institution and Reading Room is on the Green. Fairs are held here on the 4th May and 12th November. Charities: - John Fromow left the interest of £00, now about £6 yearly, to be distributed in blankets at Christmas: the benefaction of Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, who died 5 Feb 1695, provides annually 20 Bibles bound up with prayer books; the poor's land of 28 acres produces about £21 yearly for distribution in money; Mrs S. Ballard gave the surplus of interest of £50 in £3 per Cent. Consols, after repairing the vault of J. Osmer esq. to be distributed every second year in bread; Mrs L. Butterfield's charity consists of the interest of £100 stock in £3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities, to be given to twelve poor families of the parish at 5s. each on St. Thomas' day; Mrs. Rook gave the interest of £50 stock in £3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities, to be distributed equally to six poor widows not in receipt of any relief on St. Thomas' Day. The Church Estate produced £10 yearly and there is a sum of £20 a year for a second service. The parish contains extensive paper and millboard mills, which give employment to most of the labouring inhabitants. Wooburn House, now (1911) unoccupied, is a find mansion, built in 1756, n the site of what was for many years the palace of the Bishops of Lincoln and subsequently the seat of the D'Eyncourts and Whartons, one of whom, Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, had the honour of receiving a visit here from William III. Sir Giffin Wilson kt. recorder of Windsor, resided here about 20 years till his death in 1848; the house and grounds were much improved by the late A. Gilbey esq. William Baring Du Pre esq. of Taplow, is lord of the manor and principal landowner The soil is loam and gravel; subsoil, chalk and sand The area is 3,118 acres of land and 21 of water, consisting of wood, arable and pasture; rateable value, £23,134; the population ion 1901 was 3,328 and in 1911, 4,048

Parish Clerk, Stephen Wood.


Post, M.O & T. Office, Wooburn Green. Letters should have Bucks added. - Arthur Norman, postmaster. Letters arrives at 06.10 & 10.30 a.m. & 4.40 p.m. Letters cleared at 09.50 a.m. and 12.25, 2.45 & 7.30 p.m. Sunday dispatches at 7.15 p.m. Post Box at Wycombe Lance cleared at 9.15 a.m. 12.15, 2 & 7 p.m.; sundays 9 a.m.

Town Sub-Post M.O. & T. Office - Frederick John Gray, sub-postmaster.  Letters are received from Wooburn Green, Bucks, at 7.30 and 10.55 a.m. & from London 5.10 p.m. ; dispatched at 9.45 a.m. and 12 noon and 2.15 & 7.20 p.m. Sunday dispatch at 7 p.m. Pillar Letter Box, Wooburn Common, cleared at 8.5 a.m. & 6.40 p.m.

Post, M. O. T & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, Bourne End. Letters should have Bucks added. - - Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Turley, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive at 6 and 10.20 a.m. and 5.45 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.10 a.m. & 12.30, 2.40 & 7.40 p.m. ; sundays 7 p.m.

Town Sub-Post Office, The Parade - Miss Annie Cleave, sub-posmistress. Letters cleared at 9.30 a.m. & 12.15, 2.30, 5.30 and 7.15 p.m. ; sundays 6 p.m.

Town Sub-Post & M. O. Office, Well End -,                            (sic.) sub-postmaster. Letter Box cleared at 9.30 a.m. & 12.15, 2.15 & 7.15 p.m. on week days ; sundays 6 p.m.

Railway Stations.
Bourne End, William C. Hitchman, station master
Wooburn Green, George Barnby, Station master

Marlow (Little)

Hedsor

Directory Entries

Surname Forenames Title Suffix Address Location
Private Residents
Abrahams G.


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|| Hollands || Bourne End

Andrews Ernest F


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|| Hillside Cottage || Bourne End

Atwood Mrs Fron Heulog


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|| Cores End || Bourne End

Bailey George Frederick Selbourne


|| M.D. || Claytons || Bourne End

Baker C.


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|| The Meads || Bourne End

Baker Mrs.


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|| Whyteleafe || Bourne End

Barnes J.


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|| Gayreach || Bourne End

Beley Mrs.


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|| Lowther cot || Bourne End

Bennett Mrs.


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|| Mill house || Bourne End

Bird Ernest


||
|| Deepwater || Bourne End

Boston D.L. Lord


|| Hedsor wharf || Bourne End

Chandler G.


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|| Abbey view || Bourne End

Clark L.


||
|| Briar holme || Bourne End

Clarke William Balfour


||
|| The Cottage, Well End || Bourne End

Clifford C.E.


||
|| Kingsdene || Bourne End

Clifford W.B.


||
|| Roland vil || Bourne End

Cloete M.


||
|| The Abbey || Bourne End

Cooper F.E.


||
|| Everdene || Bourne End

Croft-Montague William F. Capt.


|| Riverdene || Bourne End

Curtis W.H.


||
|| The Grove || Bourne End

D'Esterre Miss.


||
|| Summer cottage, Well end || Bourne End

Dickson Robert Arthur


||
|| The Manse, Cores End, Wooburn || Wooburn Grn

Downey A.J.


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|| Summerholm || Bourne End

Ellis Harry


||
|| Willowhedge || Bourne End

Evison W.J.


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|| Egham ho || Bourne End

Finch Mrs


||
|| Abey cottage, Well end || Bourne End

Ford Wm N.


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|| Normount || Bourne End

Gardner Mrs.


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|| The Willows || Bourne End

Gibbs Mrs.


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|| Glengarry || Bourne End

Gilbey G.


||
|| Chalklands || Bourne End

Goldie Claude J. D.


||
|| The Nyth || Bourne End

Gooselin Miss.


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|| Rivemead || Bourne End

Green R.


||
|| Fairhome || Bourne End

Greig W.G.


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|| Creek cot || Bourne End

Griggs R.S.


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|| Laurenny || Bourne End

Hadfield Miss.


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|| Baroda || Bourne End

Hammersley A


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|| Abney ho || Bourne End

Hemming H.B.


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|| Wellfield || Bourne End

Hepworth Montague


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|| Hedsor Priory, Hedsor || Bourne End

Hollingsworth Alexander T


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|| Coldmoorholme || Bourne End

Howes Mrs


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|| The Chalet || Bourne End

Hume Mrs


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|| Lock cot. || Bourne End

Irvine Edwd. Foster


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|| Hawthorne cottage || Bourne End

Jackson F


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|| The Moorings || Bourne End

Jackson F


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|| Wharton ho. || Bourne End

Jagger W M.B.


|| Walden || Bourne End

James William H. Dudley


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|| Under Ridge || Bourne End

Johnson Alfred William


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|| Kenilworth || Bourne End

Johnson Edwd. Foster


||
|| The Watchett || Bourne End

Joicey James J.


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|| The Homestead || Bourne End

Jolly Stratford


||
|| The Nest, Cores End || Bourne End

Kessler George Alfred


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|| New York lodge || Bourne End

Leech Mrs.


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|| Lindenhurst || Bourne End

Lehmann Rudolph Chambers M.A. J.P.


|| Fieldhead || Bourne End

Leslie Fras. D.


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|| Leto cot. || Bourne End

Lightbody Mrs.


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|| Bournecourt || Bourne End

Lunnon R.A.


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|| Southfields || Bourne End

Lunnon Thomas Grantham


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|| Bournebank || Bourne End

Lunnon William


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||
|| Bourne End

Markes Charles B.D


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|| River view || Bourne End

Matthews Mrs


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|| St David's || Bourne End

Methuen Alfred


||
|| 1 Tithe Barn cottages || Bourne End

Morse A


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|| The Bourne || Bourne End

Mortimer Charles F. Tandy


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|| Erin Shamrock || Bourne End

Noakes Miss.


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|| Homeside || Bourne End

Parker Mrs.


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|| The Firs, Cores end || Bourne End

Parnell Robert Henry Capt.


|| Winterholm || Bourne End

Pratt Charles


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|| Deene || Bourne End

Read Miss.


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|| Hawthornden || Bourne End

Reeves Miss.


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|| Cores End || Bourne End

Reynolds E.V.


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|| Brook cot. || Bourne End

Ridsdale A.C.


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|| Moorholm || Bourne End

Roberts F.P.


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|| Refton cot. || Bourne End

Roberts H.B.


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|| Aspenden || Bourne End

Rolfe William J. Vineyard


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|| Well end || Bourne End

Rose Herbert


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|| Fairfield || Bourne End

Rose-Innes Hugh


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|| Abbey bungalow || Bourne End

Rubardt Mrs.


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|| Lyncroft || Bourne End

Rutland P.J.


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|| Gowan lea || Bourne End

Shaw E.V.


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|| The Bungalow || Bourne End

Speed E.A


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|| Sunnyhill || Bourne End

Spry Samuel


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|| Cortegar || Bourne End

Stacpoole Mrs.


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|| The Rest ho. || Bourne End

Tebb R.H.


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|| Prior ford || Bourne End

Thomas Mrs.


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|| Trefoil || Bourne End

Townsend E.


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|| Willow ho. || Bourne End

Townsend Fred W.


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|| 2 Ferry view || Bourne End

Townsend V.


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|| Thames vw. || Bourne End

Tudor W.O.


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|| Brookfield || Bourne End

Auctioneers
Aldridge & Lever


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|| Bourne End

Harvey Charles Sidney


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||
|| Bourne End

Bakers
Barnett J


|| & Sons || Cores end || Bourne End

Banks
Capital & Counties Bank Limited


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||
|| High st. || Bourne End

Lloyds Bank Limited-Webster Frederick C.


|| Manager ||
|| Bourne End

Beer Retailers
Osborne George


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||
|| Bourne End

Pawley George


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|| Well end || Bourne End

White George


||
|| Cores end || Bourne End

White G.


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||
|| Bourne End

Bird & Animal Preservrs
Tirrell Henry


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||
|| Bourne End

Boat Builders
Shaw Robert


|| & Sons ||
|| Bourne End

Townsend Brothers


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||
|| Bourne End

Boat Owners
Townsend Brothers


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||
|| Bourne End

Boot & Shoe Makers & Dealers
Gray Henry


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|| Bourne End

Langston William B.


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|| Bourne End

Oke William


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||
|| Bourne End

Builders
Billinghurst Ambrose


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|| Bourne End

Grimsley Albert


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|| Bourne End

Hearn William J.


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|| Bourne End

Lane G.


|| & Sons ||
|| Bourne End

Page Herbt


||
|| Fairlight || Bourne End

Butchers
Evans Ellen Mrs.


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||
||

Naylor & Co.


||
||
|| Cores end || Bourne End

Wyatt Samuel


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||
|| Bourne End

Carmen
Webster R.


|| & Sons. ||
|| Bourne End

Club – Sailing
Finch W.A.


|| Hon. sec. || Upper Thames || Bourne End

Coal & Coke Merchants
Child Joseph


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||
|| Bourne End

Smith Chas.


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|| Spring gdns. || Bourne End

Turney H.


|| & Co. ||
|| Bourne End

Confectioners & Pastrycooks
Day Edwin James


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|| Post Office, Well End || Bourne End

Starnes Ernest T.


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||
|| Bourne End

Corn & Flour Dealers
George


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||
|| Bourne End

Corn & Flour Merchants
Turney H.


|| & Co. ||
|| Bourne End

Dairymen
Roberts Brothers


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|| Spade Oak farm || Bourne End

Drapers
Cleave E.J. & N.C.


||
||
|| Bourne End

Foster W.J.


||
|| Cores end || Bourne End

Dress Makers
Hillary Mary


|| Miss ||
|| Bourne End

Rumsley Margt.


|| Mrs. ||
|| Bourne End

Wilson Lee


|| Mrs. ||
|| Bourne End

Drug Stores
Jones Pryce


||
||
|| Bourne End

Engineers _ Mechanical
Burrett Joel Henry


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||
|| Bourne End

Skinner Russell


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|| Bourne End

Farmers & Farm Bailiffs
Lane Herbert


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|| Bourne End

Lunnon Robert Arthur


||
||
|| Bourne End

Roberts Brothers


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|| Bourne End

Fishmongers
Godden W. & H.


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|| Cores end || Bourne End

Florists
Speller Walter


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|| Bourne End

Grocers & Tea Dealers
Green Arthur J.


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||
|| Bourne End

High Wycombe Co-operative Society Limited


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|| Bourne End

House James


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|| Bourne End

Pratt Jane


|| Miss ||
|| Bourne End

West Samuel


||
|| Cores end || Bourne End

Grocers & Tea Dealers inc. Winer, Spirits & Bottled Beers
Bidmead David


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|| Bourne End

Grocers & Tea Dealers inc. Wines & Spirits
Ford William Norris


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|| Bourne End

Hairdressers
Goodall Samuel


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||
|| Bourne End

Hotels
Urne Alfred


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|| Ye Ferry || Bourne End

Insurance Agents
Barber Richard


||
||
|| Bourne End

Oliver William Thomas


||
||
|| Bourne End

Ironmongers
Woodbridge


|| & Sons ||
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|| Bourne End

Job Masters
Naylor William


||
|| Cores end || Bourne End

Land Stewards
Hepworth montagu


|| To Lord Boston || Hedsor Priory, Hedsor || Bourne End

Wood James


|| To Lord Boston || the Cottage, Hedsor || Bourne End

Laundries
Fryer Pelham


||
|| Well end || Bourne End

Prass George


||
|| Cores end || Bourne End

Trimmings Ernest Edward


||
||
|| Bourne End

Legal List – Solicitors
Weed & Mason


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|| Bourne End

Market Gardeners
Clifford Charles


||
||
|| Bourne End

Medical List – Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edin.
Swallow Francis McDonald


||
|| St. Edmunds || Bourne End

Medical List – Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Bailey G.F. Selborne


|| M.D.Camb. || Claytons || Bourne End

Millboard Manufacturers
Jackson's Millboard & Paper Co. Limited


||
||
|| Upper & Lower mill || Bourne End

Lunnon Thomas & William


||
|| Hedsor Mills, Hedsor || Bourne End

Milliner
Palmer Lillie


|| Mrs. ||
|| Bourne End

Motor Car Builders & Agents
Wise William W.


||
||
|| Bourne End

Painters & House Decorators
Spicer Edward


||
||
|| Bourne End

Paper Makers
Jackson's Millboard & Paper Co. Limited


||
||
|| Upper & Lower mill || Bourne End

Lunnon Thomas & William


||
|| Hedsor Mills, Hedsor || Bourne End

Plumbers & Glaziers
Armstrong John


||
||
|| Bourne End

Poulterers
Colebrook


||
|| & Co. ||
|| Bourne End

Public Houses
Hughes george Benjamin


||
|| Black Lion, Well end || Bourne End

Blythe John


||
|| Garibaldi || Bourne End

Ashby Henry


||
|| Prince of Wales, Cores end || Bourne End

Harman Henry


||
|| Railway hotel || Bourne End

Hart James Frank


||
|| Red Lion || Bourne End

Saddlers & Harness Makers
Coddington George W.


||
||
|| Bourne End

Shopkeepers
Kempster Wm.


||
|| Cores end || Bourne End

Seagrove William


||
||
|| Bourne End

White George


||
||
|| Bourne End

Smiths, Blacksmiths & Farriers
Smith Walter


||
|| Well end || Bourne End

Taylor Walter


||
||
|| Bourne End

Stationers – Retail
Russell Rupert


||
||
|| Bourne End

Tailors
Weatherill Bros.


||
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||
|| Bourne End

Teachers of Music
Andrew Eva


|| Miss ||
|| Bourne End

Telephone Company
National Telephone Co. Lim.(call rooms)


||
||
|| Cores end || Bourne End

Watch & Clock Makers
Townsend Frederick


||
||
|| Bourne End

Watercress Growers
Winfield James


||
|| Hedsor || Bourne End

Notes

<references>

  1. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire 1911, pp 223-225
  2. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire 1911, pp 146-147
  3. ↑ INSERT SOURCE

External Links

University of Leicester, 1911 Kelly Directory of Buckinghamshire

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