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Adstock is a parish of 1,130 acres, in 1861, in the hundred of Buckingham. Three miles to the north-west from Winslow and four south-east of Buckingham.

There must have been some changes in the parish as the land covered was 1,166 acres in 1921.

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Akeley derives its name from 'Ake', the Anglo-Saxon word for , and 'Ley', a field. In the Domesday Book it is spelled Achelei. Akeley had a church in 1164 and its living came into the possesion Longueville Abbey.

Of the interesting people who were buried at Akeley one was a Ann Clark, who died at the age of 104 years. She saw no less seven kings and queens on the throne of England, being born in the reign of Charles II and dying in the reign of George III. Akeley used to be noted for its lace industry. It had a large school for teaching the children the art of pillow lace making in cottages opposite the Grey Hound public house which was also the village bakery. It is now closed and has been converted into a private house

Akeley also possessed a flourishing brickyard and pottery in the early part of the 19th century. This was owned by a Mr and Mrs Bartonn who specialized in making flower pots, drain pipes for the building trade, and ornamental pedestals, bread bins and bricks etc.  The clay was dug from a field at the back of the Pits, which used to have water at the bottom. The kiln stood for a number of years after the brick yard closed. The property was owned by a Mr Watts who had a large house and orchard in the village where some of the ornamental bricks were used in the garden walls, There was also a butcher with its own slaughter house, two shoe repairers, one post office and shop and another shop selling a large selection of goods and food.

During the First World War hundreds of horses taken from the farms and land were re-shod before being shipped off to the battle front in France. Milk was delivered straight from the farm to the houses in milk buckets and ladled into customers' jugs etc. Two coal and wood dealers used to make up faggots of wood. A local builder also made coffins.

Akeley Church was built in 1854 and the Methodist Chapel was built in 1829. The church was pulled down in 1979 owing to the rotting stone and the chapel closed down in 1986.

In Akeley Wood there is a very large school which was built on a large estate which was built by Mr C. Pilgrim Esq. and has changed ownership over the years.

The main event of the village social life was the Horticultural Show which was considered the best in North Buckinghamshire, This closed down in 1918 but was restarted in 1976 and is once again a popular social village event.

Article written by members of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes for the publication "The Buckinghamshire Village Book" (1987) and reproduced here with their permission

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Akeley Parish (Pop. 291.)

One Daily School, in which 3 boys and 3 girls are instructed at the expense of their parents.

One Sunday School, consisting of 30 males and 26 females (commenced 1829), supported by Wesleyan Methodists.
Abstract of Education Returns 1833

Memories

At the turn of the century, this little village in north Bucks was almost entirely self-supporting. There were two general stores, a butcher, a baker, who was also landlord of the Greyhound, a builder and undertaker, a coal and wood merchant, two cobblers, a tailor and a wheelwright who carried on his trade in the yard of the Bull and Butcher

There was a headmaster and two assistants in the little school, built in 1854, and a new church built on the site of an early thirteenth century one.
In addition, there was a thriving pottery where simple bowls, puncheons and flowerpots were made from clay obtained nearby, and hand-made bricks in sufficient quantities to build cottages in the village. Every Saturday a load of flowerpots, bowls and other crocks were taken to Buckingham market and from time to time into the surrounding villages.
Bread was made at the Greyhound by John Miller. When the bread was taken out of the ovens, villagers took their pies, cakes and stews to be cooked in the residual heat. On Sunday mornings the ovens were heated specially so that Sunday dinners could be cooked there, for the price of a penny-halfpenny.
Milk was fetched from the Church Farm where the farmer's wife, Mrs Winterburn, on Christmas Day stood a large basket of oranges by her door and gave one to each child who came for their milk.
In August, the village feast was held. The local showman, Sheppard by name, who lived at Blisworth when not 'on the road', brought all his gear and set it up in a field allowed for the purpose. Swings, roundabouts, shooting-gallery, hoop-la, were all manned by members of his family.
Akeley has always been a village of sturdy independence, with small farms and cottage industries. The nearest it came to having a squire was in 1873, when a gentleman named Pilgrim bought some land and built an Elizabethan-style residence in Akeley Wood. He also became patron of the living. His widow, Mrs Pilgrim, is still a legend in the memories of the older parishioners, for she was a strange woman of strong evangelistic tendencies, with generous impulses towards the village while seeking, by missioners and others, to instil the rigid code of her own beliefs.
The school children were taken in two wagons every Christmas by one of the farmers for a sumptuous tea and Christmas tree in the 'riding-school', now used as a gymnasium, since the house was converted to a preparatory school about forty years ago. At this Christmas treat each boy was given a muffler and the girls a doll. These dolls were beautifully dressed by Mrs Pilgrim's lady's maid. On May Day the children assembled there with their garlands to be judged by Mrs Pilgrim, and a doll given as a prize.
When Mrs Pilgrim died, she was buried at her expressed wish with feet towards the west instead of the east; her reason being that when she rose again at the Last Day, she would be facing towards her old home. On the stone slab, encircled by iron posts and chain around her grave, are two words only; Anna Pilgrim.
Lady Verney of Claydon House took an interest in the village school and provided wall-pictures which she changed periodically. They were usually by Landseer and contemporary artists.
The traditional country craft, Bucks lace, was' encouraged by a 'lace school' in a thatched cottage which was then opposite the Greyhound but which was pulled down later to make room for Council houses. Many of the village girls were taught there.
Akeley has a record of longevity, many living to their late nineties but none as yet exceeding that of Ann Clarke, who died in 1773 at the age of 104 as her tombstone shows. The story goes that one old lady who lost a daughter aged seventy lamented, 'Ah! I never did think I should rear her', and a retired postmistress remembers a mother and son, he aged seventy, both drawing the old age pension in the 1950's.
The old people remember the characters that village life produced and fostered, such as Jonas Knibbs, one-time sexton and verger, who was employed as milkman at Manor Farm and spent his Sundays in a frenzy of changing his clothes as he fulfilled the day's obligations: from milking to church, back to milking and then church again. Indeed, clothes were such a part of Sunday observance that children of careful parents might change from 'everyday' to 'Sunday best' three and four times.
Becky Knibbs—this surname was noted in the church registers for over two hundred years—lived in Duck End. She was a tall old woman who constantly wore a sun-bonnet and made medicaments from herbs kept fiercely secret.
Where the children once found excitement in watching the Duke of Grafton drive four-in-hand through the village, mothers now watch them anxiously cross the road where the great lorries and giant containers lumber along.
Plans for a new school are in preparation, modern houses stare brashly across the fields, the many little duck ponds have long been filled in, but to many of its older inhabitants Akeley is still the best place to live.

Edith Victoria Cox, Akeley

Extracted from 'A Pattern Hundreds' (1975) and reproduced with the kind permission of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes

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Akeley is a parish on the road from Buckingham to Towcaster, 3 miles Buckingham station on the Verney Junction and Banbury branch of the London, Midland and Scottish railway. In the Buckingham hundred has an area of 1,325 acres and a population of 267 in 1921.

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Ashendon, which includes the tiny hamlets of Upper and Lower Pollicott, is a small, friendly village which has changed relatively little in living memory. Built high on a ridge, it has magnificent views across the Vale of Aylesbury, particularly from the grounds of the 12th century church. The stone and brick cottages, some even thatched, convey the impression of an age old settlement, and indeed the 'place of ash trees on the hill' appears to have been of some importance in Saxon times.

Ashendon can boast of no 'big house' or well known personality, but it is a complete village, with its church, shop and public house, and the seven original farms still being worked, one of which has been farmed by the same family for at least 350 years. In the early part of the century a roadman was asked where a gentleman of the name of George lived; he replied, 'There b'aint no gentlemen in Ashendon, they be all farmers!' Agriculture remains the only industry in the village, and there are still several of the old village families left.

Although there is very little population movement, there is a good mix of old and new inhabitants, the newer ones always welcomed into the many and varied village activities. The traditional Ashendon Feast is alas now a distant memory of the past, recalled only by inhabitants in their late seventies and eighties. This was a great day to look forward to, always held on the first Tuesday in May, and folk used to say the weather would never warm up until after the Feast. The children were up bright and early, many going to the top of Lynch Hill to catch a first glimpse of the Fair people. A roundabout was soon erected in the Hanger, and swinging boats in the Square. Coconut shies ran parallel with the garden hedge of Cherry Cottage, and an old lady frying an inexhaustible supply of sausages was always part of the scene. Salt beef and ham were eaten in the evening at Ashendon Farm.

In 1962 a new village tradition began, originally to celebrate the belated hanging of a gate into the allotments. The gate had lain in the Hedge for several years, and at last two villagers fixed it in place. It was decided that a dinner should be arranged to mark the occasion, and each year since then the men of the village have met for the Ashendon Gatehangers dinner. Over the years the Gatehangers have helped the village in many ways, including gifts OAP's at Christmas, visits and gifts to people in hospital, and donations to help start the football club and to the Village Hall

Article written by members of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes for the publication "The Buckinghamshire Village Book" (1987) and reproduced here with their permission

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Ashenden is a parish in Ashenden hundred with a population in 1921 of 213 and is situated 9 miles to the west of Aylesbury.

In 1861 the population of Ashenden was 290.

Education

Ashendon (with Pollicot) Parish (Pop. 368)

The children of this parish attend a National School at Wootton, supported by the Duchess of Buckingham.

Abstract of Education Returns 1833

Memories

Until just before the First World War, Ashendon was a completely agricultural village. About that time, the first farmworker broke away from that way of life to work on the railway, and this caused a stir.

There were and still are seven farms in Ashendon with eight to ten men working on each. Farm workers were very proud of the farms they worked on and there was a friendly rivalry between them. It used to be customary for the men to meet in the evenings to compare the day's happenings and to boast of their achievements. They had great pride in their work.

Farmers brewed their own beer in large quantities as it was part of the men's wages. They had beer mid-morning, beer with their lunch and beer at tea-time. The more they had the better they worked. The mower had a pint at 4 am before starting work. Probably a hundred gallons of beer was drunk by each man a year. At haymaking they had a pint between each load and at night there was free access to the cellar. Despite this they were always fit and ready for work the next morning.

As in most villages, there was the annual Feast which was the great event of the year. It usually took the form of sports with a good feed afterwards and was always held on the first Tuesday in May. The farmworkers were given the day off as a paid holiday for this occasion. They usually took the next day off as well, to recover.

Molly Boughton, Ashendon

Extracted  from ‘A Pattern of Hundreds’(1975) with the kind permission of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women’s Institutes 

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Aston Abbots is a small village in the Cottesloe hundred with a population of 343 in 1851, 311 in 1861, 327 in 1871 and 264 in 1921.

The church of St James has 140 sittings and has the war memorial in the graveyard. There is a Congregational Chapel which was built in 1839 and will seat 200. The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1862 and seats 50 and has a Sunday School attached (1921) In 1861 there is a National School with 40 to 50 students.

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Aston-Abbots Parish (Pop. 303)

Three Daily Schools, wherein 40 children of both sexes are instructed at the expense of their parents.

One Sunday School, supported by Independent Dissenters, consisting of about 30 children.

Abstract of Education Returns 1833

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Aston Clinton is a large village nestling in the lee of the Chiltern Hills some 4 miles east of Aylesbury. It is traversed by the busy A41 trunk road with its tremendous volume of traffic. (It is now by-passed by the new A41)

The inhabitants mostly commute to the larger towns as there is little industry nearby. The saw mill owned by Mr Weston has long since disappeared, so has the wood-turning business run by Mr Marriott, who turned chair legs and sent them by the load to High Wycombe.

Just over seventy years ago Mr Howe ran a horse bus to Aylesbury and operated from the house now owned by the Raglan Kennels. In 1919 he acquired a motor bus which ran twice daily to the market town. However, the horse and cart was still the main mode of travel and the blacksmith had premises in the Main Street on the site of what is now Madge Garage, and the wheelwright resided further down the road. The present Partridge Arms was the home of the saddler.

Motor vehicles became more sophisticated and a maker by the name of Martin used to race his cars up Aston Hill; thus the name of Aston Martin was derived. This hill now forms part of the land owned and managed by the Forestry Commission.

Lords of the Manor, or Squires, include the medieval Minshull family, Lord Luke of Delhi, and Sir Anthony de Rothschild. It is the latter, one of the four sons of Nathan Maye de Rothschild, who is best remembered.
He came to live in Aston Clinton in 1853 and amongst his achievements was the establishment of the Chiltern Hills Spring Water Company. The Buckland, Drayton Beauchamp and Aston Clinton W.I. meet in the Anthony Hall, now a listed building, which was given to the village by Lady de Rothschild in memory of her husband.

It contains a painting of his two daughters Connie and Annie, who as children discovered that whereas boys were educated in the church school, girls were only allowed to attend a straw plaiting school situated in the main street. Although aged only eleven and nine respectively, the de Rothschild children took it upon themselves to teach the girls. Sir Anthony came to the rescue and built a girls school and subsequently, at her request, gave Connie an infants school for her sixteenth birthday present. The boys school vvas rebuilt in 1887 and is surmounted by the Jubilee Clock, which was erected to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.

By a quirk of nature, the village has suffered three whirlwinds. One in 1950 when extensive damage was done, including the lifting of the school roof, causing the school to be closed, one in the late 1970s and one in 1984. The latter ripped off roofs, moved fences and garden sheds, splintered greenhouses and bent many a television aerial.

Although the adjoining parishes of Buckland and Drayton Beauchamp retain their independence, they have associations with Aston Clinton and share some of its amenities.

Article written by members of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes for the publication "The Buckinghamshire Village Book" (1987) and reproduced here with their permission

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Aston Clinton parish included the ancient chapelry of St. Leonard which was in ruins by the 17th Century. St Leonard was formed into a separate parish in 1860.

Aston Clinton is in the Aylesbury hundred and is one of the many strip parishes along the Chiltern escarpment. The principle of strip parishes was to allow the even distribution of different land types for agriculture when the parishes were originally formed. The original parish is seven miles long and about a mile at wide.

The Aston Clinton, without St Leonard had an area of 2,670 acres in 1861. In 1921 both the ecclesiastical parish of Aston Clinton and St Leonard form the civil parish of Aston Clinton with a population of 2,791 people.

Sir Anthony De Rothschild, Baronet, became Lord of the Manor of Aston Clinton when it was purchased from the estate of Warwick Lake in 1851. The original manor house and moat were removed when a new mansion were built on the site. This house was pulled down in 1956 and the Green Park Training College now occupies the site.

Aston Clinton Parish (Pop. 854)

Two Daily Schools, wherein 44 children are instructed at the expense of their parents.

One Sunday School, chiefly supported by the curate, the Rev. William Howard, in which 130 children of both sexes, receive gratuitous instruction.

Leonard, St., Hamlet (Pop. 147)

No School in the hamlet.

Abstract of Education Returns 1833

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Description from J .J. Sheahan in 1861.

This is a small parish of 669 acres, divided into two farms. Population 88, rateable value, £697.

It has its name from being a town of plase east of some particular village or manorial seat in Saxon times. The addition of Sandford was subsequently acquired from from the family of the Norman owners. The parish is locally situated in the hundred of Aylesbury, in a detached portion of Ashendon hundred.The soil is a deep, stiff, blue clay.

The village is small, neat and secluded, 4 miles E.N.E. from Thame, and 7.5 miles S.W. of Aylesbury.

Tosti held the Manor of Estone in the reign of the last Saxon monarch of England. Ater the conquest it was part of the possessions of Maigno Brito, who had the seat of his Barony at Wolverton. Towards the close of the 1th century it was held by the family of de Saundford, or Sandford, as of the Barony of Wolverton. From this family it passed in marriage to the De Veres, Earls of Oxford, about the middle of the 13th century. 

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Aston Sandford Parish (Pop. 82)

No School in the parish.

Abstract of Education Returns 1833

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I was born in Aylesbury and lived in the town centre. My parents had a fruit and florist shop. In my younger days all shopkeepers lived on their premises.
Aylesbury was a lovely country town. I remember when the villagers brought their wares into the town for sale. It was one side of the cattle market which was the venue – under cover. It consisted of garden and dairy produce, milk, butter and newly laid eggs in abundance. Pets could also be bought, tame mice, puppies, kittens and rabbits particularly.
On the opposite side of the market were pens full of sheep, pigs and calves. Cows and bulls were also there. They went inside to be sold. The farmers all gathered round on stands and it was a treat if we could catch a sight of the auctioneer on his dais, high and lifted up. We never understood what he was saying. It was very noisy.

At the bottom of the market horses would be sold. Their owners would trot them through the arches by what was the Town Hall and past what is now the Civic Centre. That was a corn merchant's then.

The canal was an interesting place, too. At the Basin End was a coal yard. Barges were busy all the time and many goods were transported this way. Nestle had their own loading bay. Chocolate was the main product then, and cocoa. It was a lovely smell we had when we passed on our way to school. Many times I stood on the bridge and watched them loading. The barges were all very gay, and there would be a horse towing the barge along, as it walked along the tow-path.

Very few people had bathrooms. We used to go once a week to the public baths. Lashings of hot water and half an hour allowed for threepence. For sixpence you could have a towel and soap provided. This was after we were too big to have a tub in front of the fire. The fire brigade was housed next to the baths. It was always very exciting when the fire alarm sounded. The engine was horse drawn.
We used to love to rush up, and see if we could arrive before the firemen and see the horses harnessed up. Off they would go, clanging the bell. We followed as far as we could. I will never forget one fire which happened on my birthday. It was over a shoe shop. The smoke and the flames took a long time to control and sadly the proprietor's wife died in that fire. I didn't realise the severity at the time.

It was a special event when the fair came to town. There would be big roundabouts, and little roundabouts, and hoopla, and coconut shies. I loved the swinging boats. Another great feature was the rock they used to make. They had gaslights on their stalls to make the rock. After cooking, in some sort of cauldron, it had to be stretched over a hook and looped over again and again as it was pulled into shape. A brown substance was put on it, and as it was stretched it made a stripe. When cool enough shears cut it in bars. It smelled lovely and tasted lovely too.

Down Cambridge Street there was a gipsy encampment. The Fire Brigade now occupies that site. Their caravans were all very ornate and the people were colourful too. Many of them were quite illiterate, except for money. Many times they came to my mother to decipher letters.

Tramps were seen daily, traipsing up to the workhouse. They had a casual ward where they could stay overnight. I believe they had some chore to perform in the morning before they left. They were harmless enough. Sometimes they asked for their billycans to be filled with hot water.

Article written by members of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes for the publication "Buckinghamshire Within Living Memory" (1993) and reproduced here with their permission

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Lies in the centre of Buckinghamshire, in a pleasant vale, abounding with very good corn and pasture land for feeding sheep and beef. Aylesbury was a strong town in the beginning of the Saxon times ; and was made a manor royal in the time of William the Conqueror, who parcelled it out under this odd tenure,- that the tenants would find litter or straw for the king's bed-chamber three times a year, if he came that way so often, and provide him three eels in winter and three green geese in summer.

Aylesbury is a borough-town, and sends two members to parliament. Its market-day on Saturday
here is brought plenty of corn and meat of all sorts exceeding good, likewise butter, eggs, and fowls in abundance. Here the quarter-sessions and Lent assizes are held. At the bottom of the market square stands the county gaol, a very slately fabric of brick:-here is neither justice of the peace nor mayor, therefore the head officers are constables. The parish contains about 700 dwelling
houses: the poor are numerous. Here are six fairs yearly, viz. the Friday after the 18th of January, Palm Saturday, the 8th of May, the 14th of June, the 25th of September, and the 12th of October, all for the sale of cattle.

There are several very good inns, the two chief are Mr. Sherriff's, the George, and Mr. Hicks's, the White Hart. The Aylesbury coaches set out from the George inn, every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, morning at 7 o'clock.-No coach on Saturday goes up.-Sunday coach sets out from the George at 9 o'clock; and returns every night, Sunday excepted.- The Birmingham coaches stop at the White Hart going down every night, Saturday excepted, and stop every day coming up, Sunday excepted. The Banbury coaches stop at the Bull's Head, Aylesbury, coming up at 11 o'clock, and going down at one o'clock every day, Sunday excepted. Post hours from Aylesbury to London every night at 8 o'clock, Saturday excepted: every morning from London at 5 o'clock, Monday excepted. Stage waggons from Aylesbury; Wall and Co. every Wednesday and Saturday night at 8 o'clock; and return on Sunday and Wednesday mornings. Thorpe and White's Veale waggon from Aylesbury the winter season, Thursday night for London; the summer season on Friday morning, and returns every Monday morning. Ezra Eagle Buckingham carrier's waggons to London, stop at John Fletcher's, the Crown Inn, Aylesbury, every Wednesday and Saturday night; and return every Monday and Wednesday morning. Kirby's Bicester waggon stops at the Crown Inn Aylesbury every Thursday and Saturday night going to London; and returns every Monday and Wednesday morning. Hannah Eagle's Brackley, Northamptonshire, waggons stop at Thomas Perrin's, the Greyhound, Aylesbury, for London every Thursday morning and Saturday night; and return every Monday morning and Tuesday night. Stuchbury's Buckingham wagons stop at the Greyhound for London every Wednesday and Saturday night- and return every Monday and Wednesday morning. George Nelson's stage cart from Heath, Oxon, stops at Thomas Hodgkin's, the Red Lyon, Aylesbury' for London every Saturday night, and -returns every Tuesday night -

Here is no navigation. Aylesbury with Walton, have only one parish-church. All round this town is a large track of the richest land in England, extended for many miles almost from Tame, on the edge of Oxfordshire, to Leighton in Bedfordshire, and is called from this town, the Vale of Aylefbury. It is famous for fattening cattle and sheep, and they very frequently sell a ram here for breeding for ten pounds, Here they shew one remarkable inclosed field of pasture-ground, let for 1400d per annum to a grazier.

Near this place lies Chilton, famous for giving birth to that steady patriot the Lord Chief Justice Crook who strenuously opposed the arbitrary measures of levying ship-money without the authority of parliament.
The principal villages and noblemen and gentlemen's seats adjacent to Aylesbury are, Dinton 4 miles; here is a noted quarry for Stone, exceeding good for paving or building: near this place the late Sir John Vanhattelm of Dinton built a tower or small castle; this fabric has a fine prospect round the whole country: Wotton-under-wood, here stands a fine house, has been a great number of years possessed by the Grenville family, and is now the country feat of the Right Hon. Lord Grenville, youngest brother to the Marquis of Buckingham, 10 miles Waddesdon and Pitchcott each 5 miles; Quainton 7 miles; Oving, where is a gentleman's house inhabited by Richard Hopkins, Efq. 6 miles; Whitchurch in the road to Birmingham 5 miles; Hardwick 3 ; Weedon in the parish of Hardwick, here stands a new-built brick house Inhabited by John Terill Moren, Efq. 3 miles; Aston Abotts and Wingrave each 5 miles; Rowsham and Hulcott each 3 miles; Bierton and Broughton 1 mile; Aston Clinton 5 miles; Turret House near Tring, Herts, a new red brick-built house, stands on a high hill, inhabited by General Lake, M. P. for the borough of Ayleshury, 7 miles; Wendover, a market-town 5 miles; Princes Risborough, a market-town 7 miles; Ellsborough 5 miles; Stoke Mandeville a miles; Weston Turville 3 miles; Bishopstone 3 miles; Sedrope and Hartwell each 2 miles, here is a stately stone-built house, called Hartwell House, inhabited by Sir William Lee, Bart. Stone 3 miles; Eythrope, here stands a famous stone-buit house and fine canal river close by it, belonging to the Right Hon. the Earl of Chesterfield, 5 miles; Cuddington 6 miles; Lower Winchendon, here stands a house built with brick, with some new additions now making, the country seat of Scrope Bernard, Efq. M. P. for the borough of Aylesbury, 6 miles; Upper Winchendon, here formerly stood a famous house surrounded with a fine estate belonging to the Duke of Warton, whosc name will never be forgotten here:-the loss of that family was much lamented on account of their charity to the poor of the parishes adjoining; it now belongs to the Duke of Marlborough, 6 miles.

Extract from the Universal British Directory 1791

Education

Aylesbury Borough and Parish, with Walton (Pop. 5,021)

One Infant School,(lately commenced), containing 43 children of both sexes, supported by subscription, aided by weekly payments of one penny from the parents of the children.

Ten Daily Schools:-

A Grammar School supported by endowments, contains 120 males, 20 of whom are instructed in the Greek and Latin languages ; the head master is allowed to take boarders, of whom he at present has 24
 
A British School,(re-commenced 1830), the average attendance in which is about 55 (males), the school­room and cottage for the master and mistress were purchased by subscription, and invested in trustees ; there is a debt of £60 on the building, and the master and mistress' emoluments are solely derived from the children's weekly payments;

There was, until lately, a British School for girls, but not succeeding, it was discontinued, and a few girls from it were admitted to the Infant School.

In the other eight Schools, about 220 children of both sexes are under instruction at the expense of their parents.

Five Sunday Schools, in two of which (commenced 1828), are 200 females; in
another (commenced 1830), are 100 males; these attend the Established Church. Another, appertaining to Calvinists (having a small lending Library), consists of 73 males and 87 females; the other to Wesleyan Methodists, of 66 males and 64 females; these Sunday Schools are all supported by voluntary contributions. In addition to the above, there are numerous small Schools wherein children are taught to make lace and to read.
 
Abstract of Education Returns 1833

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Barton Hartshorn is on the borders of Oxfordshire and on a feeder of the Ouse.

1.5 miles east of Finmere station on the Great Western railway. The church of St James is an ancient cruciform structure in the Early English ans Perpendicular styles. The area is 892 acres and has a population of 60 in 1921.

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Beachampton is in low-lying ground west of Milton Keynes in the north of Buckinghamshire. The name has changed little since Beachampton was mentioned in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there were 30 heads of households recorded making a population of 100-120. By 1871 there were 272 inhabitants and lace-making was mentioned as a chief occupation of the females. Today the population is about 150 persons. Most people are employed in Milton Keynes though there are some jobs on local farms.

After the Norman Conquest the Manor of Beachampton was given to Walter Giffard, Commander of the Norman Army at the Battle of Hastings. A Manor House was in existence by 1333 and at that time there were two water mills - a name recalled by the present Mill Farm on the Stony Stratford Road.
Subsequently the Manor passed to the Cecils, the Marquess of Salisbury selling the estate in 1807. Later it was inherited by the Walker family and remained in their ownership until it was broken up at an auction in 1922.
The best starting point for a tour of the village is the church. It is The Church of the Assumption of St Mary the Virgin and dates from the 14th century. The whole building was extensively restored by the Victorian architect G. E. Street.

On leaving the church by the main gate, look into the field opposite. The wall and gateway are those of Hall Farm, the former Manor House. In this field Queen Anne is said to have inspected some of her troops.
The present 17th century stone built farmhouse was an addition to the Tudor Manor House. That, according to tradition, was the home of Catherine Parr, sixth wife of King Henry VIII. The earlier building was largely dismantled in the 18th century and some material used for farm outbuildings.
On the opposite side of the road is Beachampton Place, formerly the Victorian Rectory. Now continue down the lane and, before turning right into Main Street for the village, look ahead to Manor Farm. The stone built farmhouse dates from the 17th century.

As you walk down Main Street, you will pass the one remaining thatched cottage in Beachampton, although old photographs show that other houses, including the inn, were originally thatched.

The Old School on the opposite side of the road was built in 1869. It closed in the 1920s and is now a private house and the Village Hall. On the right are four Victorian cottages, originally built for workers on Beachampton Estate. The one with a post box by its gate was the village post office and shop.


Article written by members of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes for the publication "The Buckinghamshire Village Book" (1987) and reproduced here with their permission

Memories

Before the First World War a number of men in Beachampton worked for the railway in Wolverton Works and as there was no transport four men acquired a horse and cart and gave a lift to the others. The fares helped to pay for the horse's keep and the four took turns to feed and care for the horse. At six o'clock in the morning the horse and cart went slowly through the village and passengers jumped on as it went along. Those who did not catch up by the top of the hill came out of the village had to walk the five miles to work.

Article written by members of the Buckinghamshire Federation of Women's Institutes for the publication "Buckinghamshire Within Living Memory" (1993) and reproduced here with their permission

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Beachampton is a parish and a village on the borders of Northamptonshire - the river Ouse forms the boundary between the counties. Beachampton is 5 miles from Wolverton station on the London, Midland and Scottish railway. The parish covers 1,520 acres of land and 8 of water; the population in 1921 was 130.

Education

Beachampton Parish (Pop. 254.)

One Daily School, endowed with freehold lands, now producing 48/. per annum, in which 68 males are receiving instruction.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.

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Description of Biddlesden Parish from Sheahan, 1861

This parish lies at the extreme northern verge of the county, and is bounded on the north and west by Northamptonshire. Its area 1,630 acres; population, 168 souls. The soil is principally a heavy deep clay; stone is found, but is used only for road making; and small quantities of gravel are met with. About half the land is arable - the remaining half pasture. There are about 100 acres of woodland.

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Biddlesden Parish (Pop. 184)

One Sunday School (commenced 1822), supported by George Morgan, Esquire, in which from 30 to 40 children are instructed.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.

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Description of Bierton from Sheahan, 1861 The parish of Bierton, with the hamlets of Broughton and Burcott, is situated to the north of Aylesbury. The area of Bierton with Broughton, is 2,470 acres, and the number of inhabitants in the two places at present is 691. The Hulcott is 850 acres; population 144. The rateable value of the whole parish is £4,308. The soil is a rich clay, and loam resting upon chalk.

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BlERTON with Broughton Parish (Pop. 605)

One Daily School, in which 15 males and 5 females are instructed at the expense of their parents.
Two Sunday Schools, one of which is endowed with £8 5s. per annum, wherein 25 males and 29 females are instructed; these attend the Established Church, and books are provided by the minister; the other is supported by Wesleyan Methodists, (commenced 1828) and consists of 25 males and 25 females.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.

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Description of Boarstall

Boarstall is a scattered village and parish situate in a hilly district on the borders of Oxfordshire, 2.5 miles west from Brill, on the road from that place to Oxford, from which it is distant about 11 miles and 8 from Bicester and 7 north-west from Thame, in the hundred of Ashendon, union and county court district of Bicester.

The area is 3,080 acres; rateable value, £3,000; the population in 1861 about 240 in 1861, (from Sheahan), 1881 it was 209 and 138 in 1921

Education

Boarstall Parish (Pop. 268)

One Sunday School, in which 14 males and 19 females receive gratuitous instruction.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.