1939 Kelly Directory
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Wooburn
is a parish and scattered village on the Wye or Wick river and also on the Thames; the parish comprises The Green, The Town, Cores End, Bourne End, The Common, The Moor, Havenslea and Northern Woods, and has 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, it is about 3 miles south-west from Beaconsfield and 5 south-east from Wycombe, in the Wycombe division of the county, hundred of Desborough, second division of Desborough petty sessional division, county court district of High Wycombe, rural district and rural deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. Gas and electricity are available. Water is supplied by the Marlow Water Co. 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, 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 to John Goodwin and Pernell, his wide, 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 in shroud, surrounded by shields and scrolls, has a rhyming inscription of eleven lines, but no name or date, probably c 1520: there are memorials to the families of Bertie and Wharton,m including a monument to Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, who died 5th Feb. 1695: in 1899 a chancel screen was presented by Miss Emily Du Pre, in memory of her father, 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 Woodburn House, d. 28 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, 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 £313, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1932 by the Rev. Raymond Audley Hendy M.A. of Aberdeen University, C. F. (Res. of Off.). St. Mark's church at BOURNE END, a chapel of ease to Wooburn parish church, was built in 1914 at a cost of £1,900 to replace an older edifice which was been pulled down; it is of red brick in the Gothic style and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a turret containing one tubular bell: in the south side of the chancel is a stained window in the memory of the Rev. E. Sladen, first priest in charge of St. Mark's Church, 1890-1905: the sanctuary was erected by Mrs. Radcliffe-Crocker in 1914 to the memory of her husband, H. Radcliffe-Crocker M.D.: there are 250 sittings. There is also a small Mission church in Wycombe road, the gift of an anonymous donor in 1903, seating 100 persons. A Church hall was erected in 1910 on a site near the church. 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 Methodist chapel. On the Green is a Cornish granite cross erected in memory of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918. The Working Men's Institute 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 £200,, 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 consist 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 on £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 produces £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 many of the inhabitants. Wooburn House, now (1939) unoccupied, is a fine mansion, built in 1756, on 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 til his death in 1848. Brigadier Hon. Edward Frederick Lawson D.S.O., M.C., T.D., D.L. and Lt,-Col W.B. Du Pre D.L., J.P. are the chief landowners. The soil is loam and gravel; subsoil, chalk and sand. The area is 2,291 acres of land, consisting of wood, arable and pasture, and inland water; the population in 1931 was 4,187.
By the Bucks Review Order, 1934, part of this parish was added to the parish and urban district of Beaconsfield, and part to the parish of Chepping Wycombe Rural.
Post, M. O. & T Office, Wooburn Green. Letters through High Wycombe
Town Sub-Post, M. O. & T. Office, Letters through Wooburn Green
Town Sub-Post, M. O. & T. Office, Wycombe lane
Post, M. O. & T. Office, Bourne End. Letters should have Bucks added
Town Sub-Post Office, The Parade
Police Station
Railway Stations, - Bourne End; Wooburn Green
Marlow (Little)
is a parish two miles from Great Marlow market place, in the Wycombe division of the county, hundred of Desborough, 1st division of Desborough petty sessional division, rural district, county court district and rural deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford; it is a widely scattered place, with a few farms and shops, and bounded on the south by the Thames. Gas and electricity are available. Water is supplied by the Marlow Water Co. The church of St. John the Baptist is a plan edifice of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, north porch and a lofty western tower containing 3 bells and a clock: it was originally erected in 1190, but of the earlier building the Early English tower and chancel only remain: the nave and aisles, rebuilt in 1430, were reseated with open benches, an organ placed in the south aisle and the church carefully restored in 1866; a gallery and the high square pews were then removed, the timber roof of the chancel opened and two elegant Early English windows in the chancel restored: the east window is stained, and there are three others in the church are many marble tablets to the Nugent, Chase and Warren families and an altar tomb with brasses to Nicholas Ledewich, ob. 1430: there is also a tablet recording the names of the men connected with this parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: during 1902 various restorations and repairs were carried out at a cost of about £1,000, the 14th century roofs being re-covered and the window mullions renewed; in the course of the work traces of the rood-loft, a priest's door in the chancel and a Norman piscina were brought to light: there are 270 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from 1562; marriages and burials from 1559; these books also include the baptisms and burials of Hedsor till about 1590. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £340, including 2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Capt. J. E. M. Bradish-Ellames, and held since 1935 by the Rev. Henry Lloyd Arnould M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. There is a Parish Council, which also acts as the burial board; Henry Langton Stephenson esq. chairman. The Congregational mission hall at Well End, built in 1886, is of red brick, and will seat 120. The Upper Thames Sailing Club was its head quarters and club house at Bourne End. There are charities of £24 yearly value left by Field-Marshal Sir George Nugent bart. G.C.B/, D.C.L. d. 1848, and Messrs. Allanson and Birch, for distribution in bread and clothing. The Manor House, the seat of Capt. John Edward Montegue Bradish-Ellames, is partly of Elizabethan date and stands in its own grounds on the north bank of the Thames; the south front overlooks well laid out pleasure grounds and contains many noble and ornamental trees. Messrs. H. J. Mash Limited are the principal landowners. The soil is chalk, flint and gravel. The chief crop is wheat, and there is much woodland abounding with beech trees. A portion of Bourne End, Well End and a great portion of Flackwell Heath are in this parish. The area is 3,337 acres of land and inland water; the population in 1931 was 725 in the civil and 1,102 in the ecclesiastical parish.
The Abbey Estate, Bourne End, situated chiefly in this parish and partly in Wooburn, is laid out in a very artistic manner: there is a trout stream running through the estate: the property originally formed part of the Abbey farm, where slight remains of the Benedictine Priory dating from the early 13th century and probably founded by the De Clares, can still be seen. the entire site of this nunnery was excavated in 1902 by Mr. Vaughan Williams, of the Abbey Farm house, which is largely constructed from materials from the monastic buildings, the only part of which now above ground is part of the north-east angle of the frater (refectory), but the whole plan has been made out and comprises an aisleless church, with north transept having an eastern chapel, and a western tower; south of the nave were cloisters, having on the west cellars with guest hall over; on the east chapter house and warming house with dorter (dormitory) over; on the south the frater with kitchen, and south of this the infirmary: part of the left of a mailed effigy, floor tiles of the 14th and 15th centuries, and a stone coffin have been found. By the construction of a weir, about three-quarters of a mile of water is now available for navigation, with roads so arranged that the gardens of the houses slope to the water's edge: numerous bungalows and quaint thatched cottages and boat houses have been erected.
Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act" WELL END has been transferred from Hedsor to Little Marlow.
Under the Bucks Review Order, 1934, part of Little Marlow was transferred to Chepping Wycombe Rural and a part of that parish was added.
Post Office, Letters through Marlow. the nearest M. O. office is at Well End. Flackwell Heath letters arrive via High Wycombe.
Post & M. O. Office, Well End. Letters through Bourne End, nearest T. office
Hedsor
is a parish on the rivers Thames and Wick, 1.5 miles south from Bourne End station, on the Maidenhead, Wycombe and Oxford branch of the Great Western Railway, 3.5 south-west from Beaconsfield, 6 south-east from High Wycombe and 4 north from Maidenhead, in the Wycombe division of the county, hundred of Desborough, petty sessional division of Marlow, county court district, rural district and rural deanery of Wycombe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford.
Electricity is available. The church of St. Nicholas, one of the smallest in the county, is beautifully situated on a hill 213 feet above the level of the sea, within Hedsor Park, and is a structure of chalk and flint with stone facings in the Decorated style consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, baptistery, west porch and a belfry: according to a somewhat eccentric inscription on a tomb at the west end of the church, it was "re-edified" by Roland Hynd, then owner of the manor in 1575: a north aisle was added and the church restored generally by George, 4th Lord Boston, in 1862, and a reredos of stone enriched with mosaics has since been erected; the chancel screen, of oak with brass gates, is a memorial to Florance (sic) George Henry, 5th Lord Boston, who died 3rd January 1877; there are several memorial windows, a tablet to Roland Hynd and one erected by Frederick, 2nd Baron Boston, in 1801, to Nathaniel Hooke, author of a Roman History, who died 19th July 1763, and is buried here, in 1886 considerable alterations were made in the church, a baptistery was erected on the site of the old porch, and a new porch built at the west end of the aisle: the stone pulpit was adorned with quatrefoils, mosaic work and marble bosses, and the interior rearranged and decorated: the church affords 150 sittings: the churchyard presents an unusually simple appearance, from the fact that all the tombstones are level with the turf, which custom has always prevailed here, these are only from 12 to 18 inches square, and simply bear names and dates. The register dates from the year 1678; many earlier entries are included in the registers of Little Marlow. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £300, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1937 by the Rev. Ernest Patrick Horton. There are charities of £2 annual value. Hedsor Park, rebuilt in 1860, the residence of Phillip Shephard esq. is a mansion of white brick with stone dressings, in the Italian style, and stands 303 feet above sea level: the house is surrounded by extensive grounds, in which, on the summit of a hill, stands an ornamental castellated building overlooking Cookham: the square tower was erected by George, 3rd Baron Boston, in memory of King George III. The soil is gravelly loam, subsoil, sand. The land is wood, arable and pasture. The area is 531 acres of land and 11 of water; the population on 1931 was 207 in the civil and 215 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Under the provisions of the Divided Parishes Act, Well End has been transferred from Hedsor to Little Marlow for civil purposes.
Letters through High Wycombe. Bourne End nearest M. O. & T. office.
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