Wycombe District

Introduction

Church: Holy Trinity

Hundred: Aylesbury

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres): 4169

Easting & Northing: 477202

Grid Ref SP770020 Click to see map

Names

Names & Places

Name	Type	Note
Bledlow	PARISH	Holy Trinity
Shingles Fm	NAMES	name for Shimmell's Farm in 1826
Independent	NON-CONFORMIST	Church End. First Mentioned: 1820
Bledlow Cross	PLACE	within the parish
Callow Down	PLACE	within the parish
Common Leys	PLACE	within the parish
Drewells (lost)	PLACE	within the parish
Forty Green	PLACE	within the parish
Olive Green	PLACE	within the parish
Pitch Green	PLACE	within the parish
Shimmels	PLACE	within the parish
The Ford	PLACE	within the parish
The Lyde	PLACE	within the parish
Winnall	PLACE	within the parish

Links

	Bledlow Workhouse
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial in Church
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial in Methodist Chapel
	Church painting
	Disused railway
	Explore Holy Trinity Church, Bledlow
	Church Stained Glass
	Search The National Archives for Bledlow
	Historical Statistics/Maps

Photographs

Photographs in our Gallery

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Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

Note
1801	917
1811	931
1821	1050
1831	1135
1841	1205
1851	1202
1861	1189
1871	1170
1881	1070
1891	978
1901	854
1911	954
1921	879
1931	925
1941	N/A
1951	1679
1961	1871
1971	1984
1981	2134
1991	2000

There was no census in 1941.

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Bledlow	Holy Trinity	Baptisms	1590	1901	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Bledlow	Holy Trinity	Marriages	1592	1901	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Bledlow	Holy Trinity	Burials	1591	1901	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	STEVENS	STEVENS	SMITH	STEVENS
2	SMITH	EUSTACE	BROOKS	SMITH
3	SALE	SALE	STEVENS	BROOKS
4	COSTARD	TRIPP	BRITNELL	SALE
5	RAUNCE	PRATT	AVERY	BRITNELL
6	TOWNE	HOLT	KEEN	PRATT
7	BIGGE	SMITH	ALLEN	GOMME
8	STEEVENS	TURNER	FOLLEY	AVERY
9	CLARKE	HARRIS	WHITE	EUSTACE
10	RANCE	GOMME	GOMME	KEEN

Description

Bledlow is a conservation village and thus retains much of its original pattern. It now includes the hamlets of Skittle Green, Forty Green, Holly Green and Pitch Green all of which lie north of the busy B4009, the Lower Icknield Way.
Though the origins of the village can be traced to the 10th century, there is clear evidence of earlier occupation. Close to the Upper Icknield Way is a Bronze Age barrow known locally as 'The Cop' which was excavated in 1938. One mile south of the village is Bledlow Cross, carved out of the Chiltern Ridge by the Anglo-Saxons and, with its neighbour Whiteleaf Cross, are the only turf-cut crosses in the country.

After the Norman Conquest, William I granted the Manor of Bledlow to his half-brother Robert, who held it in 1086. In the reign of Henry VI it was granted to Eton College but in 1650 James Blanck became owner and he built the original Manor House. Records show that the present Manor was sold in 1801 to Lord Carrington whose successor holds it at the present day.
The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Chapel Lane was built in 1869. In 1913 a schoolroom was added on reclaimed marshland where older residents of Bledlow can recall skating on frozen water. The Chapel provides the village with its Sunday School attended by many young children in the schoolroom.
The main Village School was built in 1868 and celebrated its centenary before closure in 1973 and subsequent demolition in 1984. Miss E. M. Folley had almost 52 years association with the school as both pupil and teacher. Present primary children must travel some 2 miles to Longwick. Five new flint and brick houses now stand on the site of the old school.

Bledlow has many listed buildings. The 16th century timber framed houses built near the church show the decorative Elizabethan brick herringboning but 'The Cottage' in West Lane is reputed to be the oldest house in the village of ancient cruck construction. It was once 2 cottages, the older of which is some 600 years old.

Now, although the old names of Heybourn, Gomme and Tappin are still here, most residents are commuters either to London, High Wycombe or Aylesbury. Like many villages it has become a haven, of rural living rather than a bustling village where people once were born, lived, worked and died; where the village was a self-sufficient entity within its own community.

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

Bledlow Station was opened at the beginning of 1864. The first Station Master was Mr John Greenaway; his son kept the Seven Stars public house opposite and had seven children. The pub was quite small, so every night beds were set up in the station waiting room for some of the children and removed before the first passenger train arrived in the morning.
In those days at Bledlow there were thirty-two trains a day, the station being manned by the master and two porters. Goods sent from the station were varied and in large quantities, ranging from two tons of Aylesbury ducks a week during the season to trawler blocks from James Walker's timber mills at Longwick which amounted to some two hundred tons a week, and milk from farmers in Bledlow and Henton. Many trucks of wood were unloaded at Bledlow and paper in large quantities sent in and out from the paper mills. In those days, rags were chopped at nearby North Mill in preparation for paper making at the Paper Mills. Then on a very sad day in January 1963, the station was closed after a busy and useful life of ninety-nine years. The line is still used to supply Thame Petrol Depot, B.P. and Shell.

J. Walker, Bledlow

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

Notes

Description of Bledlow from Kelly's Directory 1883

Bledlow is a parish within the parliamentary borough of Aylesbury, in the hundred of Aylesbury, union of Wycombe, county court district of High Wycombe.

The area of the parish is 4,130 acres and have a rateable value of £4,414; the population in 1881, including Bledlow Ridge, Pitch Green, and Rout's Green was 1,070. Lord Carrington and Eton College are lords of the manor. The principle landowners are Lord Carrington, Eton College, Mrs Heybourn, Thomas Taylor, James Britnell, William Clarke, Henry Gibbons and Edward Crough Esqrs.

Education

Bledlow with Bledlow-ridge Parish (Pop. 1,135)

One Boarding School, in which about 4 females are educated at the expense of their parents.

Three Sunday Schools, consisting of 64 males and 76 females, chiefly supported by the Vicar and his friends; there are also Eight Lace Schools, containing about 75 children, many of whom are taught to read at the expense of their parents.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.

Introduction

Bledlow Ridge Parish

Church: St Paul

Hundred: Aylesbury

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres):

Easting & Northing: 479198

Grid Ref SP790980 Click to see map

Name	Type	Note
Bledlow Ridge	PARISH	St Paul
Methodist	NON-CONFORMIST	First Mentioned: 1834

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	Church Stained Glass
	Search The National Archives for Bledlow Ridge

Photographs

Photographs in our Gallery

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Bledlow Ridge	St Paul	Baptisms	1868	1903	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Bledlow Ridge	St Paul	Marriages	1868	1902	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Bledlow Ridge	St Paul	Burials	1869	1903	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	CAREY	RANCE	BROOKS	BROOKS
2	SALE	BUTLER	SMITH	SMITH
3	WESTON	STYLE	BRITNELL	BRITNELL
4	STONE	STEVENS	KEEN	KEEN
5	SMITH	BROOKS	MARTIN	MARTIN
6	RAUNCE	BRITNELL	EGGLETON	EGGLETON
7	RANCE	SMITH	NEWELL	NEWELL
8	MALLERY	HILL	AVERY	STEVENS
9	CLARKE	MORRIS	FEASEY	BUTLER
10	BRAITHWAIT	NEWELL	STEVENS	AVERY

Notes

At Bledlow Ridge forty years ago the dwellings were few and far between, often tucked away down a side lane, and the population was little more than four hundred. Cattle and sheep grazed serenely and safely on neat grass verges.
It was a marvellously tidy place, conservation being practised more than it was preached in those days. Although there was no organised refuse collection, no unsightly rubbish littered the countryside and leaving paper litter was a punishable offence for the reason that it might blow about and frighten horses and bring some poor creature to an untimely end. All waste material usually found its way back to the land. No milk bottle problem existed either for, armed with a milk jug, one went to the nearest farm and queued at the dairy door after the morning or evening milking.

Water was a valuable commodity. Time was when on these hills rain water was the only source of supply and was stored in large underground tanks usually miscalled 'wells'. For watering of cattle most farmers relied on ponds. The hard water which now gushes through Bledlow Ridge taps certainly has its recommendations. The quality of tank water varied to a great extent; it was assumed that the rain itself was pure, but its collection and after-care were a different matter. A time of drought was deemed the best for descending to the bottom of a tank to remove any remaining water, and an amazing assortment of debris would have collected there. The concrete lining was thoroughly wiped, all down-pipes, catch pits and guttering cleaned out and examined. Then one waited for the rain. Thunder rains were usually impregnated with dirt which had to settle before use. Rain off a galvanised tin roof was cleanest and quickly collected. Second best was rain from slates or tiles but that collected from thatching was usually discoloured and difficult to catch efficiently. For this reason families in thatched cottages drank surface water for preference. There was no drainage. Only a few cottages had sinks in the kitchen. Most cottages had sizeable gardens and usually every bit was put to practical use. Often pigs were kept, either to sell or for the household. Pig-keeping helped to keep up the cycle of conservation in the garden. No chemical other than lime was applied to the soil.
Monday morning early found the few industries of the village already working. The blacksmith at The Old Forge was clanging at his anvil, the chair bodger was at his pole lathe, the farm labourer leading his team of horses, the chimney sweep with tackle in his pony-drawn cart, schoolchildren, packets of lunch sandwiches in hand, walking the lanes to school. At his last was the shoe-maker, locally called a 'snob'.
With the population of Bledlow Ridge at now more than one thousand many of the picturesque thatched and flint cottages have disappeared, modern homes having taken their place, and much of the pasture has been built upon. Gone too is the old windmill, but happily the Mill House, three hundred years old, still remains a sturdy structure, reminder of a former way of life. Gone too is a vast wild cherry tree of tremendous girth that stood at the corner of a lane dwarfing a cottage beneath it.

D. Rogers, Bledlow Ridge

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

Notes

Bledlow Ridge is a long stretch of roadway that winds up a steep ascent from West Wycombe over the Chiltern Hills towards Oxfordshire. It is part of the ancient parish of Bledlow and gets a mention in the Domesday Book. The name means 'Bloody Hill' and commemorates a fierce battle between the Danes and the Saxons. It goes further back into history than that. Impressions exist of hut circles and the occasional fragments of pottery and implements, which together with the nearness of the Icknield Way, indicate a Romano-British settlement of around 300 BC. From time to time, iron cannon balls, silver shoe buckles and coin of the early Stuart kings are unearthed, evidence of a battle between the Royalists and the Roundheads in the Civil War and the famous victory for the Royalists at Chinnor in 1643.

Bledlow Ridge was mostly common land in those days. On the common stood an Elizabethan farmhouse where Cromwell stabled his horse in one of the adjoining barns. As recently as the last couple of decades, a sword of the period was discovered concealed in the wide chimney of an open fireplace. Pankridge now faces onto a busy road, no longer a farm but an integral part of the village and centre of many social gatherings.

In 1917, Loxborough House at the top of Loxborough Hill, once regarded as the Manor House, was acquired by a Mr Henry O'Reilly Stevens, the maker of the famous Stevens Ink. The grounds were a popular venue for garden parties and similar festivities that raised money for village needs. By this means a Parish Institute was built.

There are houses on the Ridge that date from over 300 years ago. Among these was The Old Mansion noted for a large loft where fleeces were stored for collection by woolpack men who plied their trade between Wantage and London. Three of these nomadic people named Brooks squatted on nearby land called The Scrubbs. Several families all bearing the same name was the result, making it necessary to distinguish them by adding the name of their dwelling or occupation. Some had Bible names — Able, Isaac and even Moses. The name 'The City' mystifies newcomers. There are two explanations: refugees fleeing from the City of London sought protection there from the Great Plague of 1666 or it was a hideout for a City Guild with good reason to escape from the Bow Street Runners.

Changes took place at The Old Mansion in 1918 when Sir William and Lady Lister bought it as a country residence. A nephew of Lord Lister of antiseptics fame, Sir William was consulting oculist to King George V and surgeon oculist to His Majesty's Household. During the Second World War, Sir William developed a portable electro-magnetic device for removing foreign bodies from the eye.
Bledlow Ridge W.I. has earned a place in local history for its phenomenal jam making record during the Second World War. They produced 25 cwt. from a glut of cottage garden grown greengages the like of which had never been known before or since. Their efforts received high praise from the County.

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

Description

Description from Sheahan, 1861. With other notes.

Bledlow Ridge is a high hill, 3.5 miles from the parish church, on the south side. It extends five or six miles in length, having detached farmhouses on side of it. The prospects from this "ridge" are extensive.

A small chapel of ease was erected in this hamlet in 1801; and was rebuilt on a larger scale in 1834. There is a Wesleyian Chapel, built in 1834, on a plot of land given by Robert, Lord Carington.

Many females in Bledlow Ridge find employment by making cotton and blonde lace by hand, on pillows.

Loxborough House, Chinnor Road, south of Bledlow Ridge. Was a hunting lodge built about 1800 for the Dashwoods of West Wycombe.

Education

Bledlow with Bledlow Ridge Parish (Pop. 1,135)

One Boarding School, in which about 4 females are educated at the expense of their parents.

Three Sunday Schools, consisting of 64 males and 76 females, chiefly supported by the Vicar and his friends; there are also Eight Lace Schools, containing about 75 children, many of whom are taught to read at the expense of their parents.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.

Introduction

Bradenham Parish

Church: St Botolph

Hundred: Desborough

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres): 996

Easting & Northing: 482197

Grid Ref SU820970 Click to see map

Names

Names & Places

Name	Type	Note
Bradenham	PARISH	St Botolph
Bradeham	NAMES	name for Bradenham in Domesday Book in 1086
Bradenhamme	NAMES	name for Bradenham in 1535
Independent	NON-CONFORMIST	First Mentioned: ?. Recorded in 1851 religious census
Smallden	PLACE	within the parish

Links

	Bradenham, A short history
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - The Memorial Lynch Gate at Bradenham Church
	Church Stained Glass
	Search The National Archives for Bradenham
	Historical Statistics/Maps

Photographs

	Photographs in our Gallery
	Pictures in the Frith collection

Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

Note
1801	170
1811	181
1821	220
1831	263
1841	226
1851	138
1861	185
1871	169
1881	183
1891	152
1901	154
1911	142
1921	132
1931	134
1941	N/A
1951	652
1961	724
1971	775
1981	935
1991	869

There was no census in 1941.

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Bradenham	St Botolph	Baptisms	1590	1902	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Bradenham	St Botolph	Marriages	1590	1906	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Bradenham	St Botolph	Burials	1601	1905	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	LOVEDAY	LACEY	LACEY	LACEY
2	DARVOLL	WINGROVE	STALLWOOD	WINGROVE
3	WINTER	KING	KENNEDY	KING
4	WINGROVE	PARISH	GOODCHILD	STALLWOOD
5	SHRIMPTON	BILLING	WOOSTER	KENNEDY
6	ALICE	LEE	KING	SMITH
7	CARTER	FINCH	BALL	GOODCHILD
8	RATCLIFFE	WHITBOURNE	GOODEARL	WINTER
9	EAST	BELSON	SMITH	WOOSTER
10	GUNNELL	STONE	BROWN	BALL

Notes

I was born, as was my mother before me, at the Bradenham Bradenham Red Lion. My grandmother died when my mother was eighteen years old so she and my grandfather ran the pub until he died and then my father took it over.
Bradenham is now a National Trust Village but before that it was preserved as an old Manor holding by the Graves family.

The Graves family were very domineering folk. The Reverend Graves was strict with the villagers about attending church on Sundays and woe betide any parishioner who failed to turn up for service. When he died, his son had the living; at his death his widow had a life interest. Her maiden name was Tempest and she reverted to that as widow after the death of her two brothers in the 1914-18 War, which made her the last of her line. Mrs Tempest vigorously opposed any change in the village and it is consequently much the same as in its feudal days. Only recently has one house been erected—the first in over a hundred years. She lost the battle with the Air Ministry, however, and land on the outskirts of the village was compul-sorily purchased in May 1940, to build what was then Bomber Command Headquarters. She did force through certain provisions, principally that no buildings or overhead wires were to intrude on the line of the Queen's Ride which was a path cut through the woods and countryside for the use of Queen Elizabeth I when she came to visit the Manor.

Another old house on the Common is Admiral Silver's House. After the death of Miss Silver, the last of that line, the Hudson family from West Wycombe rented the property from The National Trust and made it into the very beautiful house it is today. They were carvers by profession and in addition to carvings in the house made the lovely interior door of St. Botolph's church. The church is separated only by a wall from the old Elizabethan Manor House.

When I was young Mr Ball, the blacksmith, was also the verger of the church.
Bradenham held the prettiest Garland Day for miles around on May Day. The garland of fresh flowers was always made by Mrs Brown, the wife of the Keeper of the Woods, who only earned £1 a week to keep a wife and family of seven children. On Garland Day, all the children wore their most colourful clothes and after the May Revels went out singing, first to the Manor House and then to the workhouse at Saunderton. We also danced around a Maypole at the fete held in the Manor grounds every summer.

Dora Smith, Sands

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

Description

Desciption of Bradenham from Sheahan in 1861

The parish of Bradenham contains 1,001 acres, and 182 inhabitants. The soil is chalk and flint. The village, which is situated 4 mile N.W. from High Wycombe, is built around a small green of a rural character. At the upper end of it, and approached through lofty iron gates, is the Manor House, backed by extensive woods; and close to the mansion is the church.

The Manor House is best known as the residence for many years of Isaac Disraeli Esq., D.C.L, was the descendant of a Hebrew family which flourished in Spain, and after in Italy. His father Benjamin Disraeli, settled in England in 1748, as a Venetian merchant, and being successful in his affairs retired from business, while yet in middle life to Enfield, where he died in 1817aged 90 years.

Introduction

Cadmore End Parish

Church: St Mary-le-Moor

Hundred: Desborough

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres):

Easting & Northing: 478192

Grid Ref SU780920 Click to see map

Name	Type	Note
Cadmore End	PARISH	St Mary-le-Moor

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	Search The National Archives for Cadmore End
	Church Stained Glass

Photographs

Photographs in our Gallery

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Cadmore End	St Mary-le-Moor	Baptisms	1786	1912	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Cadmore End	St Mary-le-Moor	Marriages	1852	1901	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Cadmore End	St Mary-le-Moor	Burials	1852	1973	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	MESSENGER	LACEY	PLUMRIDGE	PLUMRIDGE
2	MESSINGER	TAYLOR	AYRES	AYRES
3	YOUNG	PLUMRIDGE	OXLADE	OXLADE
4	WYATT	EAST	DRUCE	DRUCE
5	WRIGHT	MESSENGER	NEWELL	BARLOW
6	WORTON	DORMER	BARLOW	NEWELL
7	WOODMAN	SHEPHERD	SMITH	SMITH
8	WOODBRIDGE	PLOMER	BASTON	BASTON
9	WIXON	PISEY	ATKINS	ATKINS
10	WITNEY	MOLE	JOHNSON	JOHNSON

Description

Description of Cadmore End

Cadmore End, with Lewknor-up-Hill, is an ecclesiastical parish formed April 2nd, 1852, out of portions of the parishes of Fingest, in the county of Buckingham, and the civil parishes of Lewknor and Stokenchurch, in the county of Oxon, but by the County of Buckingham (Stokenchurch) Order, 1895, the Oxfordshire portion was, March 31, 1896, transferred to Bucks, and the whole is now in the latter county. It is 4 miles south-west from West Wycombe station, on the Princes Risborough and Maidenhead section of the Great Western Railway, 8.5 south-east from Watlington terminal station on a branch of the same line from Princes Risborough, and 5.5 north-west from Great Marlow, in the Wycombe Division of the county of Buckinghamshire, chiefly in the hundred of Lewknor, and in the petty sessional division, rural district, county court district and rural deanery of Wycombe.

The church of St. Mary-le-Moor, erected in 1851, in place of the little church at Ackhampstead, commonly called "The Moor Chapel " and then taken down, is a small building of flint with Bath stone quoins and dressings, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, vestry and a small western turret containing one bell: all the windows are stained.

Lord Paramoor P.C., K.C.V.O., K.C., is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is flinty and friable sand with chalk and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The population in 1921 was 284.

Notes

Cadmore End is a small quiet hamlet between Lane End and Stokenchurch. Unfortunately when the M40 motorway was built it divided the village into two, but this does not seem to detract from the beauty around it.
As Cadmore End is conveniently situated to Heathrow Airport via the M4 Motorway, we have our share of pilots living here. Most families work very locally or commute to London by train from High Wycombe.

There are many walks nearby including the old 'woolpack track' to Hambleden and the Thames and we get people taking the 'walks from the car' at weekends.
The Smock windmill which has been restored and used as a 'cottage' can be seen over the trees from this track. This was used in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

There are old brickworks on one side of Cadmore Common but they have now been disused for many years.
The social life revolves around the village green cricket club, The Blue Flag and The Ship public houses, the church and school.

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

Introduction

Ellesborough Parish

Church: St Peter and St Paul

Hundred: Aylesbury

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres): 3595

Easting & Northing: 483206

Grid Ref SP830060 Click to see map

Names

Names & Places

Name	Type	Note
Ellesborough	PARISH	St Peter and St Paul
Ellesborowghe	NAMES	name for Ellesborough in 1580
Ellysburgh	NAMES	name for Ellesborough in 1509
Esenberge	NAMES	name for Ellesborough at Domesday Book in 1086
Turwick	NAMES	name for Terrick in 1825
Aspley	PLACE	within the parish
Beacon Hill	PLACE	within the parish
Buckmore End	PLACE	within the parish
Busheylays	PLACE	within the parish
Butlers Cross	PLACE	within the parish
Chalkshire	PLACE	within the parish
Chequers (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Coombs (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Dunsmore (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Nash Lee	PLACE	within the parish
North Lee	PLACE	within the parish
Terrick	PLACE	within the parish
Whorley Wood	PLACE	within the parish
Widnell Wood	PLACE	within the parish

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	Search The National Archives for Ellesborough
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - Butlers Cross
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - Dunsmore
	Church Stained Glass

Photographs

Photographs in our Gallery

Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

Note
1801	480
1811	469
1821	581
1831	665
1841	708
1851	782
1861	724
1871	703
1881	608
1891	641
1901	577
1911	519
1921	590
1931	628
1941	N/A
1951	828
1961	819
1971	800
1981	827
1991	771

There was no census in 1941.

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Ellesborough	St Peter & St Paul	Baptisms	1603	1903	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Ellesborough	St Peter & St Paul	Marriages	1575	1837	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Ellesborough	St Peter & St Paul	Burials	1603	1909	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	SMITH	ALLEN	FLITNEY	ALLEN
2	NEIGHBOUR	SMITH	ELDRIDGE	ELDRIDGE
3	CLARKE	ELDRIDGE	BIRCH	SMITH
4	BUTLER	ALDRIDGE	JOHNSON	KING
5	ALLEN	KING	KING	FLITNEY
6	EGLETON	ADAMS	WHEELER	ALDRIDGE
7	ELDRIDGE	WELLS	GARNETT	BIRCH
8	WADE	HITCHCOCK	LANE	JOHNSON
9	HILL	GINGER	ALLEN	ADAMS
10	TOMLINS	TAYLOR	FLEET	WHEELER

Notes

Ellesborough is beautiful. The church of St Peter and St Paul, rising on its own hillock from the flat vale of Aylesbury, is set against a backcloth of hills. Beacon Hill and Coombe Hill rise above it. The focal point on the latter, the South African War Memorial, is visible for many miles.

It is a favourite place for locals and the view is breath-taking. From there, Chequers, the country home of Britain's Prime Ministers, can be glimpsed. It is in Ellesborough parish, and many Prime Ministers and visiting notables have attended the church services.

The friendly church ghost is said to be the Rev. Robert Wallis, rector of Ellesborough before the Civil War. He was seen on the path up to the church by the present rector not long ago.

The almhouses opposite the church are set in a colourful garden which is tended by the inhabitants. The building is known as 'Lady Dodd's Cottages'.
Down the steep hill is Ellesborough Manor, which has been a home for retired clergy, their wives and widows since 1950.
At St Peter's Cottage there is an aviary of beautiful white doves and down the first lane off the B4010 Mr Will Thomson breeds and delights in prize-winning pigeons. This lane leads to Springs, a fine house, 16th century with Edwardian additions. Immediately below a sheer drop in the lawn, four springs dramatically form the source of the stream called Bonnybrook.

A chain of ponds follow, the last of these being Ellesborough mill pond. The Mill was burnt down by a tramp in 1937.
Further down the Upper Icknield Way is Butlers Cross. This is the hub of the village. The much used Ellesborough village hall, the Russell Arms (the only public house) and the shop and post office are all here. The village hall, built in 1910 by public subscription, is a hive of activity.

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

Description

Description of Ellesborough from J. J. Sheahan, 1861.

Ellesborough parish is situated on the north side, and on a spur of Chiltern Hills. Its southern part rises into irregularly shaped hills, the northern portion is nearly level, and the soil accordingly varies. In the inferior grounds it is an argllaceous loam, interspersed with limestone; and in the higher lands, mostly chalk, gravel, and flints of various thickness. The area of the parish, including the hamlet of Dunmore, is 3,310 acres; population, 723; rateable value, £3,465.

The village is scattered and stands 2.5 miles W. by S. of Wendover, among the hills on the verge of the Vale of Aylesbury. At Butler's Cross, about a quarter of a mile from the church are a number of houses - the principle part of the village.

Introduction

Church: St Mary the Virgin

Hundred: Desborough

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres): 2213

Easting & Northing: 475186

Grid Ref SU750860 Click to see map

Names

Names & Places

Name	Type	Note
Fawley	PARISH	St Mary the Virgin
Ffawlwy	NAMES	name for Fawley in 1639
Benhams	PLACE	within the parish
Bosmore	PLACE	within the parish
Oxey Grove	PLACE	within the parish

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	Church History
	Victoria County History
	Church Stained Glass
	Search The National Archives for Fawley

Photographs

Photographs in our Gallery

Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

Note
1801	181
1811	189
1821	276
1831	254
1841	280
1851	254
1861	272
1871	289
1881	302
1891	266
1901	235
1911	218
1921	217
1931	209
1941	N/A
1951	215
1961	382
1971	378
1981	371
1991	232

There was no census in 1941.

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Fawley	St Mary the Virgin	Baptisms	1577	1909	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Fawley	St Mary the Virgin	Marriages	1607	1836	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Fawley	St Mary the Virgin	Burials	1588	1836	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	HEATH	HARMAN	HARMAN	HARMAN
2	SHARPE	HEATH	HEATH	HEATH
3	KITSON	RANDALL	SHARP	SHARP
4	CARPENTER	SHARP	GOULDER	RANDALL
5	HOUSE	DREW	RIXON	WEBB
6	WHITELOCKE	WEBB	JOHNSON	SHARPE
7	RANDALL	SANDERS	HARRIS	KITSON
8	WINTER	DOBSON	MACKENZIE	DREW
9	WEBB	HOUSE	VARNEY	DOBSON
10	RYDER	RIGGS	TURNER	SANDERS

Description

Description of Fawley from Sheahan, 1861.

This parish forms the extreme S.W. angle of Bucks, and is bounded on the E. by the Thames, and on the S. and W. by Oxfordshire. The boundary line between Bucks and Oxon passes through the lawn of Fawley Court. Area, 2,216 acres; population, 272. The village is much scattered; the Church stands 3 miles N. by W. from Henley-upon Thames, and 8 miles W. from Great Marlow.

Fawley Court is a handsome and spacious mansion, erected in 1684, from a design by Sir Christopher Wren. It occupies an elevated site overlooking the Thames, about a mile from Henley, and is surrounded by a park of 250 acres, well planted, and terminated by undulating hills, part clothed in beach.

Introduction

Church: St Bartholomew

Hundred: Desborough

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres): 1285

Easting & Northing: 477191

Grid Ref SU770910 Click to see map

Names

Names & Places

Name	Type	Note
Fingest	PARISH	St Bartholomew
Mozzells	NAMES	name for Muzwell in 1825
Bolter End	PLACE	within the parish
Cadmore End (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Ditchfield (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Hanover Hill	PLACE	within the parish
Lane End (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Moor Common (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Muzwell (Fm)	PLACE	within the parish
Wheeler End (Part)	PLACE	within the parish

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	Church History
	Search The National Archives for Fingest
	Church Stained Glass

Photographs

Photographs in our Gallery

Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

Note
1801	316
1811	303
1821	295
1831	340
1841	379
1851	387
1861	352
1871	337
1881	333
1891	364
1901	367
1911	334
1921	353
1931	436
1941	N/A
1951	1908
1961	2063
1971	3080
1981	3824
1991	3652

There was no census in 1941.

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Fingest	St Bartholomew	Baptisms	1600	1901	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Fingest	St Bartholomew	Marriages	1600	1901	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Fingest	St Bartholomew	Burials	1600	1901	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	DEANE	PLUMRIDGE	PLUMRIDGE	PLUMRIDGE
2	PLUMRIDGE	BARLOW	OXLADE	BARLOW
3	BARLOW	MOLE	BARLOW	OXLADE
4	FERRERS	OXLADE	PLUMERIDGE	MOLE
5	PLOMRIDGE	CUTLER	HOBBS	TYLER
6	WEST	WEST	DRUCE	STEVENS
7	STEVENS	GIBBS	TYLER	WEST
8	RIDER	ROCKALL	TAYLOR	DEANE
9	MOLE	TYLER	STEVENS	HOBBS
10	KEENE	RIDER	SMITH	TAYLOR

Description

Description of Fingest from J. J. Sheahan, 1861.

Fingest parish lies on the verge of Oxfordshire, and contains 1,304 acres, and 352 inhabitants. The Church, glebe-house, a farm residence, and two cottages constitute the village, which is distant 6 mile E.N.E. from Henley. Most of the other houses are at Cadmore End, a recently formed ecclesiastical district. The valley from Fingest to the Thames, four miles in extent, is very pretty

The manor house, on the north side of the Church, has been plain old mansion, but it is now in ruins.

The rectory of Fingest-cum-Ibstone (for upon the formation of the Cadmore End district the rectory of Ibstone was united to that of Fingest) is in the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford and Merton College, alternately; and the present Rector is the Rev. George Augustus Baker. The Rectory is rated in the King's books at £6 7s. 11d. The tithes of Fingest have been commuted for $188; but two-thirds of that rent charge has been transferred to the incumbent of Cadmore End.

The Rectory House is occupied by the tenant of the glebe land, and the rector resides at Ibstone.

Notes

Fingest is a huddle of houses centred around the Norman church with its unusual saddle-back roofed tower. No doubt this community came into being here because of the several springs which are still around, which would have been a convenient supply of water.

The surrounding farm land is basically chalky, but there is both silt and gravel close to the water sources. The poorer tops of the hills are rough pasture or woodland, mainly beech, but in recent times some conifer has been planted.

Fingest Manor of comparatively recent birth, is set on the site of an old abbey. There are stories of tunnels from the abbey to the church and of course ghostly ladies who roam around. The original name of Fingest Manor was Tingehurst which was once the name of the village. At the entrance to the driveway to the house is the old village pound. Stray animals were collected up and put in the pound and no doubt a fine of some sort would have been paid to get them out again.

Apart from the church which is within the Hambleden Valley group of churches, the meeting place in Fingest is the Chequers Inn.
Early in the century it is said that there was a tiny school, run by the incumbent of the church, in what is now the old rectory. Alas no school now, not even a 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

Introduction

Church: St John the Evangelist

Hundred: Desborough

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres):

Easting & Northing: 479190

Grid Ref SU790900 Click to see map

Name	Type	Note
Frieth	PARISH	St John the Evangelist

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	Fingest, St John the Evangelist
	Search The National Archives for Frieth
	Frieth History
	Church Stained Glass

Photographs

	Photographs of Frieth, Fingest & Skirmett
	Photographs in our Gallery

Notes

There are only some two hundred houses in our small village. These surround a square of lanes with Frieth Hill forming one side.
The name Frieth is said to have come from a word meaning forest; an aerial view of the village still shows this to be true, for Frieth appears as a patch of open fields and houses cut out from the surrounding woods.

One could say that Frieth is a comparatively new village, as its little Victorian church was built in 1848. The church stands at the top of the hill beside the village green and its best architectural features are its wood carving and stained glass. Most of the woodwork was done by the firm of West and Collier whose factory was in the village and who employed and housed many of the villagers. The firm specialised in making chairs and carved woodwork for churches and cathedrals and its products were sent all over the world. Sadly, the firm closed during the Second World War.

Most of the beautiful stained glass windows in Frieth Church are by Kempe and were the gift of the Cripps family who lived at Parmoor House until 1948. Probably the most well-known member of Lord Parmoor's family was his youngest son, Sir Stafford Cripps, a famous Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Parmoor was referred to as The Squire, and the village owes much to his philanthropy. He owned most of the farms in the northern half of Hambleden parish. But that is all in the past. Now the farmland around Frieth is divided into four large units and no farm labourers live in the village itself. Parmoor House is St Katharine's Convent, and a community of Anglican nuns run it as a home for the elderly.

Ours is not a tourist village like Hambleden, Fingest or Turville, nor will you find Frieth in the many publications about the Chilterns, but we have an undefinable something that welds us into a community. Perhaps we have been fortunate that new buildings have come gradually; one can find an example of most building periods here. Frieth has been spared the large housing estates which could have been difficult to assimilate. Also, the majority of people who have moved into the village have done so because they saw a quality in village life they had failed to find elsewhere. The remark often made, and one we like to hear, is that Frieth is a caring friendly village. Half a century ago no Frieth man would have met another without the friendly greeting, 'Ow be on'. Yes, we still say, 'Good-morning' to one another!

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

Introduction

Church: St Mary Magdalen

Hundred: Aylesbury

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres): 1763

Easting & Northing: 484201

Grid Ref SP840010 Click to see map

There are no articles linked to this parish.

Names

Names & Places

Name	Type	Note
Great Hampden	PARISH	St Mary Magdalen
Hamdenenam	NAMES	name for Hampden in Domesday Book in 1086
Methodist	NON-CONFORMIST	Bryant's Bottom. First Mentioned: 1863
Aldridge Grove	PLACE	within the parish
Bryants Bottom (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Honor End (Fm)	PLACE	within the parish

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial at Bryants Bottom
	Church Stained Glass
	Search The National Archives for Great Hampden
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - St Mary Magdalene

Photographs

Photographs in our Gallery

Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

Note
1801	228
1811	235
1821	281
1831	286
1841	290
1851	308
1861	266
1871	262
1881	255
1891	246
1901	207
1911	424
1921	440
1931	408
1941	N/A
1951	334
1961	331
1971	315
1981	247
1991	277

There was no census in 1941.

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Great Hampden	St Mary Magdalen	Baptisms	1557	1812	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Hampden	St Mary Magdalen	Marriages	1559	1835	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Hampden	St Mary Magdalen	Marriages	1838	1909	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Hampden	St Mary Magdalen	Burials	1557	1905	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	HAMPDEN	WALKER	MARTIN	MARTIN
2	PAGE	TYLER	BIGNELL	WALKER
3	LITTLEPAGE	MARTIN	REDRUP	TYLER
4	TYLER	STONE	ATKINS	PAGE
5	EAST	MASON	LEWIS	HAMPDEN
6	MILLER	REDRUP	WARD	REDRUP
7	HORE	PAGE	FREE	MASON
8	BOURD	LANCASTER	COCK	STONE
9	WALKER	BRYANT	WALKER	LANCASTER
10	RANDALL	MARTEN	CHILTON	EAST

Notes

Great Hampden is one of those places where it is said nothing ever happens but once upon a time it did.

Most villages have their Big House, and Great Hampden is no exception. The large dwelling that stands on top of the hill overlooking the valley between the two Hampdens, was once the home of John Hampden, cousin of Oliver Cromwell. A man of great integrity, it was he who, took a stand against his king in opposition to the crippling 'Ship Tax', which ultimately triggered the Civil War in England. He died at Thame after being wounded at the Battle of Chalgrove Field. He was brought home to be buried at Great Hampden. His memorial cross stands, like a sentinel, on the road from Prestwood.

The last Earl of Buckinghamshire to live in his ancestral home was, like his ancestor, a much respected man. Affectionately known as 'The Squire', he knew most of the villagers by name. In 1950, it was he who organised the laying of the cricket field, and when he died, his memorial was an extension to the village hall, incorporating committee room, entrance, and pavilion. The much envied, immaculately maintained field, where for generations sons have followed fathers in the team, still provides a venue for them and their families.

A staunch supporter of the cricket team for many years was the Rev. P. Hill. The love of the game was one of his reasons for taking the living, and when he died in 1985 a great sense of loss was felt by the community. Hampden House, once the ancestral home of the Earls of Buckinghamshire, was taken over as a girls school at the outbreak of the Second World War, and it subsequently took on the role of a film studio, the perfect setting for historical dramas, and macabre films.

When a project to re-discover a village pond was taken up, an enthusiastic band of W.I. members and their families hacked away small trees, shrubs and undergrowth and cleared the site of Blakemore Pond. Water is back, plants are growing, frogs abound, and ducks have been seen. The work of maintaining this small oasis will, it is hoped, continue.

The Chiltern woodland integrating the 50 homes that comprise the village of Great Hampden has, over the years, provided timber for the local furniture industry. At one time the 'bodgers' (chair-leg makers, who worked in the woods) worked there and the last man to ply his trade was a local man, Mr Dean.

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

Description

Description of Great Hampden from J. J. Sheahan, 1861.

The parish of Great Hampden, or Hampden Magna, contains 1,720 acres and 266 inhabitants. It is situated amongst extensive beech woods, on the high table of the Chiltern Hills. There is neither a river or brook in the parish, and the supply of water is at all times meagre. The springs that exist are very deep and pure. The houses in general are supplied with tanks for holding rain water, and the cattle are watered at ponds. The soil; but here are also very fine limes, balm of gilead firs, and cedars of uncommon size and great beauty. There are no assemblage of houses which could properly be denominated a village. Nearly all the farmsteads and cottages lie scattered on the side of a large common, and are known as Hampden Row. This place is distant from Wendover 5 miles E.S.E., and from Great Missenden 3 miles W.N.W. The females are partly engaged in lace making.

Education

Great Hampden Parish (Pop. 286)

One small Daily School, in which 3 males and 3 females are instructed at the expense of their parents.

One Day and Sunday School, attended by 12 males and 18 females daily, and 25 males and 31 females on Sundays; supported by the Earl of Buckingham, who allows a weekly salary of twelve shillings to the mistress, small payments being also made by the children, which are appropriated in purchasing requisites for the furnishing of the School.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.

Introduction

Church: St Nicholas

Hundred: Aylesbury

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres): 2507

Easting & Northing: 482205

Grid Ref SP820050 Click to see map

Names

Names & Places

Name	Type	Note
Great Kimble	PARISH	St Nicholas
Bulpittwood	NAMES	name for Pulpit wood in 1639
Chenebelle	NAMES	name for Kimble in Domesday Book in 1086
Chenebelle, Parva	NAMES	name for Kimble in Domesday Book in 1086
Kymball	NAMES	name for Kiimble in 1510
Baptist	NON-CONFORMIST	Union Chapel, Church Street. First Mentioned: 1875
Grange (Fm)	PLACE	within the parish
Kimble Wick (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Longdown	PLACE	within the parish
Marsh (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Pulpit Wood	PLACE	within the parish
Sollinger	PLACE	within the parish

Links

	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	Church Stained Glass
	Search The National Archives for Great Kimble

Photographs

	Photographs in our Gallery
	Pictures in the Frith collection

Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

Note
1801	316
1811	319
1821	360
1831	436
1841	489
1851	501
1861	408
1871	459
1881	422
1891	395
1901	345
1911	478
1921	541
1931	662
1941	N/A
1951	765
1961	807
1971	917
1981	883
1991	873

There was no census in 1941.

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Great Kimble	St Nicholas	Baptisms	1756	1909	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Great Kimble	St Nicholas	Marriages	1575	1901	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here
Great Kimble	St Nicholas	Burials	1575	1902	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Yes, click here

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	GOODCHILD	BLACKWELL	GILBERT	GILBERT
2	STATHAM	FORD	RUTLAND	TAPPING
3	CLARKE	WEST	TAPPING	RUTLAND
4	SMITH	GURNEY	WYATT	WYATT
5	KING	CLARK	EAST	EAST
6	WARDEN	TAPPING	ORCHARD	READING
7	REYNOLDS	ALLEN	LEACH	HERITAGE
8	GYLES	HUMPHREY	READING	BLACKWELL
9	BARRETT	GATES	HERITAGE	CLARK
10	HERBERT	BATES	BRAY	ORCHARD

Note

Cymbeline's Mount, high in the hills in Chequer's land, was the stronghold of the British King Cunabelin or Cymbeline, from whom Great and Little Kimble derive their names. A gold coin depicting him was found here. Relics indicate that there was a Romano British village, a Roman villa and a Neolithic hill camp in Kimble hills.

The Kimbles consist of three churches, two schools, three pubs, a railway station, a garage, a cricket club and a much used village hall.
St Nicholas's church, Great Kimble, was famed for the stand John Hampden took against paying Ship Tax money in 1637. Legend has it that he galloped up the hill and into the church to make his protest to his assembled tenants and neighbours.

All Saints, Little Kimble, has stood for 700 years on Britain's oldest highway, the Icknield Way. An unspoilt medieval church, its greatest treasure is a series of 14th century wall paintings, recently restored and considered by an expert, Mr Clive Rouse, as 'artistically the best in Bucks'.
As early as 1636 there was Baptist witness in Kimble with people meeting in their homes. The present church was built in 1933 and is well loved and attended.

On Remembrance Sunday Scottish pipers, traditionally dressed, pipe the procession from St Nicholas to the War Memorial at Little Kimble for the service for the dead of two world wars, and then return to The Bernard Arms for refreshment.

The Crown mainly serves the villagers of Little Kimble. Annually a Harvest Festival has been held there. After the thanksgiving service, accompanied by Ellesborough Silver Band, produce donated is auctioned, the proceeds going to charity. Morris dancers also entertain there.

The Swan and Brewer is a free house. The open space in front is used for many things — for bonfire night, for the Beagles to meet, and also for the Vale of Aylesbury Hunt to foregather. Sometimes as many as 100 horses and ponies meet.
Kimble Cricket Club was formed in 1907 some three years after a Ladies C.C. was started. Most players live locally. It has literally been a family club to the Adams, the Spitalls and the Woolcott families. Frank Woolcott was outstanding with over 32,000 runs and 200 wickets to his credit.

The Kimble Point to Point Races are well known. The Queen is patron and the Queen Mother has attended. At the Easter meeting the Trumpeters of the King's Troop lead the field to the start. This event is held on Mr C. M. Robarts' land.
The Berkeley Hunt was changed to The Vale of Aylesbury Hunt several years ago. The livery colour is old tawny, that of the Earl of Berkeley. They meet at The Swan and Brewer as do the Old Berkeley Beagles.

The inhabitants of Kimble include farmers and farm workers, engine drivers, Lloyds underwriters, caretakers, gardeners, architects, estate agents, motor mechanics, shop keepers and many retired people, among them nurses, postmen and journalists who all participate in village life.

To conclude, Kimble dwellers range from Baroness Berkeley who sat in the House of Lords for 18 years yet joined in village activities, to Freddie Foster who scythed the grass verges for innumerable ages and was known and liked by all.
A friendly couple of villages!

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

Description

Description of Great Kimble from J. J. Sheahan, 1861.

The parish of Great Kimble contains 2,473 acres (including the hamlets of Kimble of Wick and Marsh), and 408 inhabitants. It is of oblong form; the soil, in its northern part, is a deep clay, and on the southern, or Chiltern side, is intermixed with flints and chalk.

The village is small, and lies about 3.5 miles W.S.W. from Wendover.

The manor house is a farm residence, erected on the site of an old moated mansion, which stood west of the church. It was erected about 60 years ago. The ancient moat may still be traced. Near the house is an old building, now used as a barn, which has a handsome roof, to which particles of colouring still adhere. It is probable that this was the chapel of the old house. In a field at the rear of the Manor House are some remains of ancient entrenchments. There is also a large fishpond in the vicinity.

Education

Great Kimble Parish (Pop. 436)

Two Day and Sunday National Schools; one is attended by 20 females daily, and 50 on Sundays ; the other (lately commenced), by 20 males daily, and 25 on Sundays; these Schools are supported by subscription, aided by weekly payments from the children.

There is also a School, in which about 20 children are taught lace-making.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.

Introduction

Church: All Saints with Holy Trinity

Hundred: Desborough

Poor Law District: Wycombe

Size (acres): 6245

Easting & Northing: 484186

Grid Ref SU840860 Click to see map

Names

Names & Places

Name	Type	Note
Great Marlow	PARISH	All Saints with Holy Trinity
Ackhumstead	NAMES	name for Ackhampstead in 1825
Balmers	NAMES	name for Barmoor in 1826
Bermers	NAMES	name for Barmoor in 1766
Bormers	NAMES	name for Barmoor in 1797
Bubington	NAMES	name for Bovingdon in 1766
Fenny More	NAMES	name for Finnamore in 1766
Wydmer	NAMES	name for Widmere in 1535
Baptist	NON-CONFORMIST	Ebernezer Chapel, Glade Road. First Mentioned: 1856
Independent/URC	NON-CONFORMIST	Salem Chapel/Christ Church . First Mentioned: 1692. Rebuilt 1840, 1863, 1890
Methodist	NON-CONFORMIST	Spittal Street. First Mentioned: 1810. Rebuilt 1900
Primitive Methodist	NON-CONFORMIST	Chapel Street. First Mentioned: 1831
Ackhampstead (lost)	PLACE	within the parish, see Cadmore End PRs for 1786 - 1837
Barmoor (Fm)	PLACE	within the parish
Beechwood	PLACE	within the parish
Bovingdons Green	PLACE	within the parish
Burrows Grove (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Dirty Bottom	PLACE	within the parish
Ditchfield (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Finnamore (Fm)	PLACE	within the parish
Forty Green	PLACE	within the parish
Handy Cross	PLACE	within the parish
Harleyford	PLACE	within the parish
Juniper Hill	PLACE	within the parish
Lane End (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Marefield	PLACE	within the parish
Marlow Bottom	PLACE	within the parish
Marlow Common	PLACE	within the parish
Monkton	PLACE	within the parish
Moor Common (Part)	PLACE	within the parish
Mortons (lost)	PLACE	within the parish
Munday Dean	PLACE	within the parish
Rassler Wood	PLACE	within the parish
Spinfield	PLACE	within the parish
Widmere	PLACE	within the parish
Wymers Hill Green	PLACE	within the parish

Links

	Church Stained Glass
	Great Marlow Workhouse
	The Marlow Society
	Town History
	Church Stained Glass St Mary the Virgin
	Search The National Archives for Great Marlow
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - All Saints
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - Baptist Chapel
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - Cemetery
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - Holy Trinity
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - Spittal Street Methodist
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - Roman Catholic Church
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - War Memorial
	Buckinghamshire Remembers - Marlow Christchurch URC
	RL Buckinghamshire Remembers - Marlow Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
	Church Stained GlassSir William Borlase's School

Photographs

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	Photographs in our Gallery

Population

These population figures are based on the Census results. The boundaries are those used in the particular census which may vary over time..

Note
1801	3236
1811	3965
1821	3763
1831	4237
1841	4480
1851	4485
1861	4661
1871	4701
1881	4763
1891	5250
1901	5645
1911	5876
1921	6391
1931	6751
1941	N/A
1951	7883
1961	10686
1971	11749
1981	14413
1991	13222

There was no census in 1941.

Records

Parish	Church	Register	Start Date	End Date	Online Search	E-Mail Search	Publication
Great Marlow	Salem Chapel	Baptisms	1774	1907	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Marlow	All Saints with Holy Trinity	Baptisms	1592	1716	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Marlow	All Saints with Holy Trinity	Baptisms	1758	1783	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Marlow	All Saints with Holy Trinity	Marriages	1592	1837	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Marlow	Salem Chapel	Burials	1777	1906	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Marlow	All Saints with Holy Trinity	Burials	1813	1851	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available
Great Marlow	All Saints with Holy Trinity	Burials	1592	1610	Yes, click here	Yes, click here	Not available

Surnames

These were extracted from our own records and presented as a guide.

Position	Before 1700	18th Century	19th Century	Overall Surnames
1	WEBB	WEBB	SMITH	SMITH
2	CARTER	WHITE	WHITE	WHITE
3	LANGLEY	OXLADE	HARRIS	CARTER
4	GRAY	HARMAN	EAST	HARRIS
5	LOVEJOY	SMITH	PRICE	EAST
6	JAMES	STEVENS	DAVIS	WEBB
7	HILL	LANGLEY	CARTER	CLARK
8	BROWNE	CARTER	CLARK	DAVIS
9	RAVENINGE	HARRIS	COLLINS	COLLINS
10	HOBBS	EAST	BOWLES	PRICE

Notes

In the late 1920s it would have taken someone with a flair for predicting the future to guess that Marlow Bottom, which was then little more than rough fields with a muddy track running down the centre, would 40 years later provide homes for nearly 5,000 people. It was in the mid-1940s that the move towards development started. Families from the poorer parts of London who were experiencing nightly bombing found that they could escape for short weekends just for the down payment of £20 for a 40 ft frontage on the unmade-up road. These settlers, all do-it-yourself fans, had fiercely held views on what their new homes should look like. At weekends the valley hummed with activity, and at that time there were no disapproving planning officers looking over their shoulders to curb their eccentricities.

The first amenity for the new dwellers was milk delivered down the valley in a trap carrying the milk churns. Today what started so simply has become recognised as a highly desirable residential area, with developers hovering to pounce on the smallest plot of vacant land. However, traces of its country past can be found in the naming of 'Badger's Way', 'Oliver's Paddock' — Oliver being a much respected donkey - and 'Patches Field' where Patch the pony surrendered his rights to a much admired sheltered housing development. Also it is still possible to find some of the original downland flowers, including the Pyramid orchid and the Chiltern gentian.
A long established feature has been the Village Hall. This started inauspiciously as the 'Witches' Barn', a cafe that did not prosper. It had as neighbour a Nissen hut which was used as a canteen by Land Army Girls. This later became the Barn Club. Both these buildings have been modernised and are run by the Village Hall Trust. The most important annual event in Marlow Bottom has been the Rose Carnival and it was through the organisers that money was raised and targeted to buy and help maintain the playing fields. These are ideally situated and much used by local children.

The first President of the Village Hall was a Mr Folker, a flamboyant character who strode the valley in a large black sombrero and a black cloak. He had the good fortune to add to his life style by living in Dingley-Dell. A partner to his eccentricity was a slightly demented lady who was to be seen walking in the valley at nightfall, wringing her hands, clothed only in her nightgown.

More recently Marlow Bottom has been able to celebrate having its own local hero. Stephen Redgrave brought back a Gold Medal from the Los Angeles Olympics, 1984 a record 3 Gold Medals at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986 and a gold medal from the 1986 World Championships for rowing. It seemed quite right that he should ride down the Bottom on the top of a double decker bus to universal applause. Another local resident, Margaret Beer, is well known for her hobby of restoring injured birds and animals to health.

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

Notes

I come of a bell-ringing family. My grandfather, who was manager of the rope wharf opposite the 'Compleat Angler' (where now Turk's Boat Yard is) pealed
the bells for forty-five years. In those days the ringers used to spin their own 'string' for the bells and would go to the rope wharf to do it, where there was space for the ropes to be laid out. Grandfather was also elected verger of the church in spite of his refusal to bow and scrape to any odd Lord or Lady who chose to walk through the churchyard.

We went to the Parish Church four times on Sundays. After the last service, we walked round Westhorpe Park, now lost under the motorway, and had our weekly treat of ginger pop. In 1897 the spire of the church was struck by lightning and the steeplejacks were called in to repair it. A little unwisely, they left the ladder up and in the evening my cousin, Mary Truss, clambered to the top. The vicar was furious, the Truss's landlord (they kept the Two Brewers inn) threatened to evict them: but it all ended happily with the steeplejacks presenting the daring Mary with a gold watch.

Once a friend and I walked along the river to Bisham side and to Sandy Bay. At the second bridge, General Sir George Higgison was passing underneath in his boat and called out, asking where we had been. When we said 'to church', he gave us twopence each. I kept that twopence for years but finally succumbed to the tempations of a local sweets' shop. The General lived to be a hundred years old and gave Marlow the land now known as Higgison Park.

The big event of the year was Marlow Regatta. The original Maidenhead and Marlow Rowing Club was formed in 1871 with a subscription of half a guinea per annum and donors of ten guineas were made life members. For two guineas you could become a vice-president. Eleven years after that Marlow ran its own regatta and gradually it became the largest open competition of its kind in the world.

Another big day was Rag Regatta when they hung tyres from Marlow Bridge and the contestants in punts had to climb through them. They also played water football and the entire river bank was open to watchers and no enclosures allowed in my young days.

May Harvey, Sands

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

Description

Description of Great Marlow from J. J. Sheahan, 1861.

Great Marlow is a parliamentary borough, and an ancient market town, situated on the banks of the Thames, 5.25 S.W from High Wycombe, 5 N.W from Maidenhead, 4 W from the Marlow Road Railway Station, and 31 miles W. by N from London. The parish comprises 6,152 acres (including 674 acres of wood-land), and the population at present (1861) numbers 4,659 souls, viz, 2,248 males, and 2,411 females. The rateable value of the town and parish is £12,551. The parish being so extensive, the soil is very variable. The commons were inclosed in 1850.

The Parliamentary Borough of Great Marlow consists of the parishes of Great and Little Marlow and Medmenham, in Buckinghamshire; and the parish of Bisham on the south side of the Thames , county of Berkshire. It was wholly situated within the parish of Great Marlow until 1832. The borough sent two members to Parliament so early as the year 1299, but for a long period the privilege was disused. The present representatives are Colonel Thomas Peers Williams, of Temple House, Bisham; and Lieut.-Colonel Brownlow Knox of Wilton Cresent, London.

The town consists of one principle street (High Street), with minor streets branching from it nearly at right angles. All the streets are well paved, and lighted with gas, and the houses and shops generally present a neat and respectable appearance. The High Street is spacious, with a gradual descent and nearly a quarter of a mile in length; at the top of it are the Town Hall and Crown Hotel. The town is well sheltered on the northern side, and on the south it is connected with Berkshire by a handsome suspension bridge.

The surrounding scenery is remarkably picturesque and beautiful; and the Thames between here and Maidenhead is considered to be the finest portion of the river. The air is mild and temperate, and the place is remarkably healthy. Marlow is a favourite resort of anglers.
There are three breweries here - one of which belongs to Messrs. O. and L. W. Wethered, and is worked by steam. The operations of Mr. James Meeks's brewery are also carried on by the aid of steam power. There are extensive paper-mills on the banks of the Thames, and the other trades of importance are in corn, coal, and timber. Lace embroidery, and satin-stitch work was formerly carried on here to a considerable extent.

The town hall is a substantial edifice, erected in 1807, at the cost of the late T. Williams, Esq., M.P. for the borough. The ground floor, formerly used for the purposes of the market, has three arces in front, and from the roof rises a turret in which are two bells and a clock. The hall, which is handsome, spacious, and lofty, is used for assemblies, lectures, etc. The Lecture Hall, in St. Peter's Street, is a spacious building in the Gothic style, just erected (1861). The room is lofty, and open to the stained timber roof. The County Magistrates hold Petty Sessions every alternate Saturday, at the Crown Hotel; and a Savings' Bank is held at the National School-room. The town was first lighted with gas in November, 1848. The gas-works belong to a company of shareholders.

Description

Marlow is a pleasant town on the banks of the river Thames, over which a new bridge has been lately erected by subscription of the nobility and. gentry in the neighbourhood: the inhabitants have likewise paved the foot-paths of the town by voluntary subscriptions. The chief manufacture of the place is black silk lace, and paper.

Marlow is distant from Wycomb five miles, Beaconsfield seven, Maidenhead five, Henley seven, and London thirty-two.

This town lies under the Chiltern-hills, in a marly soil; it is a pretty large borough, though not incorporated, and has a handsome church and town-hall, with a charity-school for twenty boys, who are taught and clothed.-The borough of Marlow being the joint property of William Clayton, Esq. and W. Lee Antonie, Esq. is one of those many which can boast of no privilege except that of voting at the will of a superior. It may be proper here to observe, that William Clayton, Esq. resigned his seat, at the last election, to Thomas Williams, Esq. a partner in the Anglesea copper-mines. The majority of the houses and property joining the borough belonging to the above gentlemen, no opposition to them can ever be attempted with success.

This borough sent fourteen times to parliament before the 3d Edw. II and then ceased sending for four hundred years, until it was restored at James I when it began again to send member's. The right of election was resolved, Dec 21, 1680, and Nov. 21, 1690, to be in those inhabitants only who pay scot and lot. (A local tax usually paid by members of the merchant guilds) The returning officers are the constables. Number of voters, 216.

The Thames brings goods hither from the neighbouring towns, especially great quantities of meal and malt from High Wycomb, and beech from several parts of the county, which abounds with this wood more than any in England. In the neighbourhood are frequent horse-races ; and here are several corn and paper mills, particularly on the river Loddon, between this town and High Wycomb. It has two fairs, one on the 29th of October and two following days, for horses, cattle, hops, cloathing, and toys ; also a statute for hiring servants: and the other on the ist and 2nd of May for cattle and toys. Market-day is Saturday. There are two good inns in the town, one, the Upper Crown, the port and excise office, the other the Lower Crown.

A bye-post comes here every day (except Mondays) from Wycomb 5 postage four-pence. The letters are delivered out at nine o'clock in the morning, and are sent off at seven in the evening.

A stage-coach sets out from the Upper Crown at five o'clock in the morning, and returns the same day: fare 7s.-Another coach goes from the Lower Crown three times a-week : fare 7 s. There are two stage-waggons set off on Monday morning, and return on Wednesday

Marlow is surrounded with a number of villages and gentlemens seats, the chief of which is, Temple Mills, a village with a large manufactory of copper, brass, and brass-wire; here is the seat of Thomas Williams, Esq. member for Marlow. Near this are two mills, which are both of an extraordinary kind; one for making of thimbles, the other for pressing of oil from rape and flax seed; both which turn to very good account to the proprietors.

Bisham, (Berks,) a small village, with a large mansion the seat of George Vansittart, Esq. member for Berks. This village is pleasantly situated on the Thames, almost opposite to Great Marlow. Its church, though small, is well worth seeing. On the river not far from hence are those called the temple, or brass-mills, for making brass kettles, pans, &c. of all sorts, which were attended with great success till 1710, when, it being made a bubble, it underwent the fate of all its cotemporary bubbles. At Bisham was formerly an abbey, and the remains of it are still to be seen. The estate belonged once to the Knights Templar, and since came to the ancient family of Hobby, whereof Sir William Hobby, and Sir Edward Hobby, are noted in our histories; the latter as having been employed by Queen Elizabeth in the most important foreign negotiations, as a learned man, and great antiquarian. Their monuments, with those of their ladies and children, are in the little church of Bisham, and well worth seeing. The seat of the family is now in Dorsetshire; but hither they are generally all brought, when they die, to be buried with their ancestors.

Hurley, (Berks,) a pleasant village on the Oxford road, about two miles and a half distant, with several gentlemen's seats.-Hedfor, east of Marlow, near Cliefdon, is in a delightful situation, and possesses beauties sufficient to attract the visits of strangers, especially the gardens and park with the woods-adjoining, which are exceedingly picturesque and romantic.

Notes

Bovingdon Green has a gentle village atmosphere and most of the people who live on the Green find that there is a friendly way of life. This friendship is helped by the fact that in 1968 a group of residents decided to form the Bovingdon Green Preservation Society. This society not only keeps the grass cut and the green looking tidy, but also has social and fund raising activities, a picnic barbecue lunch in the summer and a supper usually twice a year in the Village Hall. Since the society was founded, it has become the custom to plant ornamental trees to the memory of residents who have died.

The Village Hall, built in 1926, is thriving at the present time, being used regularly by many groups in the evening and a successful play group meets every morning during term-time. Bovingdon Green W.I. have met there since it was built and Marlow Common also use the hall.

In 1983 the Lord of the Manor offered Bovingdon Green for sale. It was purchased by a local business man. Life goes on much the same except that the Green now has large notices warning people not to park cars or ride horses.
At one time there was a village school at Bovingdon Green. It vras founded by General Sir George Higginson in memory of his wife. This school closed in 1925 and the building was demolished.

For a long time the village supported two public houses. The Jolly Cricketers closed during the 1930s, but the Royal Oak Continues and is situated by the pond where mallards raise duckings every spring.

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

Notes

I came to live in Bovingdon Green in 1906, when my Bovingdon father went to work as head gardener at a large house Green called The Orchards, where they kept a carriage and a pair of lovely black horses. I was five years old at the time.

I went to Bovingdon Green village school where there were about eighty children with three teachers. It sounds quite a large school for such a small village, but families were big in those days; there were six children in my family and thirteen in another! Children used to come from outlying farms and cottages, some of them walking three to four miles each way. After the first war, the school was closed and the building unfortunately knocked down. A private house called School House, which still exists, was built on the site. The iron railings that surrounded the original school remain round the house.

There were about fifteen cottages around the village green and two pubs. The first one, the Royal Oak, beside the village pond, is still there and has not changed very much. At the other side of the green was the Jolly Cricketers which had a pretty garden where people sat sipping their drinks in the summertime. Parties used to travel out from London for the day in horse-brakes, bringing their food with them for what they called a 'bean-feast', which they washed down with beer from the Jolly Cricketers. I can remember them throwing pennies to us children which we hastened to spend at a cottage on the green, where the wife sold sweets which she produced from jars kept under her bed. They were 4 oz for one penny!

The Jolly Cricketers was later closed and became the village shop with a little post-office. This has now also gone. When I was a child there was no shop in the village, so if we wanted to visit the shops we walked the two miles into Marlow. But there was no need for this really as the baker, grocer and butcher called every day; also paraffin was brought to the door.

On Empire Day, 24 May, we danced round the Maypole on Bovingdon Green dressed in our white frocks, with the boys in white blazers.

I left school at fourteen and went to work at The Orchards. There were three gardeners and four staff in the house. I started in the kitchen and after some time was housemaid, parlourmaid and finished up as cook. We had plenty of work to do but were quite happy.

Jerome K. Jerome, who wrote Three Men in a Boat, lived in a house on Marlow Common, which is just beyond Bovingdon Green. I can remember going to tea at his house with my brothers and sisters.

Elsie Frith, Bovingdon Green

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

Education

Great Marlow, Borough and Parish (Pop. 4,237)

Six Infant Schools, in which about 50 children are instructed at the expense of their parents

Six Daily Schools, two of which are endowed, one with £50 per annum, for which 24 males are educated, the other with £12 per annum, which is paid to a mistress who
instructs 12 females.

One National School, supported by voluntary contributions, containing 95 males and 55 females; two others contain 36 females; the other, 6 males and 6 females. In the three last Schools the instruction of the children is paid for by their parents.

Four Boarding Schools, two for males and two for females, wherein 70 of the former sex and 50 of the latter are educated at the expense of their parents.

ABSTRACT OF EDUCATION RETURNS, 1833.

Introduction

Data provided by Julian Hunt, see Julian Hunt's Local History website.

He gathered the material in preparation for the book Marlow - A Pictorial History and has kindly allowed the Buckinghamshire Family History Society to reproduce it here

1610

1610 20th July Charity Commissioners
1) John Brinkhurst
2) Sir William Borlase & 11 others
All that messuage or tenement situate at the end of Marlow Bridge, within the parish of Great Marlow, and all that barn curtilage and barn houses adjoining the Parsonage Lane in Great Marlow, and the close near the Thames side within the said parish called Pond Close, and 3a
1r 0p of arable land in the great common field, and all those four small tenements then used by the said John Brinkhurst as almshouses built for poor people, situate in Oxford Lane by Mearefield Gate in the parish of Great Marlow, with all and singular the appurtenances to hold to the said trustees and their heirs to the use of John Brinkhurst for his life, and after his decease to the use of the said trustees….

1827

1827 Property of Oxford Lane Almshouses Charity Commissioners
1) Three houses in Peter Street, a wharf on the bank of the Thames, and 3a 1r of land in a field called Marlow Field, let on lease for 21 years commencing 25 March 1822, to Thomas Gibbons as yearly tenant, at a rent of £35
2) A house in Church Lane called the Barge Pole, let on lease for 21 years commencing 29 September 1822, to Thomas Wethered Esq at a rent of £15 per annum.
3) A house at the corner of Peter Street, let to Lydia Beenham, as yearly tenant, at a rent of £8 8s.
4) A house and shop in Church Lane, let to Ann Wix, as yearly tenant, at a rent of £6 6s.
5) A piece of ground adjoining Mr Thomas Gibbon’s wharf, let on lease for 21 years commencing Lady Day 1827, to the late Sir James N Morris, at the yearly rent of £5 5s. This lease is now vested in his widow Lady Morris

1861

1861 17 July Thames Lawn Deeds via Mark Wyatt
1) Sir William Robert Clayton of Harleyford bart
William Wright of Marlow Mills paper manufacturer
Owen Wethered of Marlow Esq
Rev Frederick Bussell Lieut Gen in H.M. Army
Lawrence William Wethered of Marlow Esq
Peter Borgnis of Marlow Esq
Thomas Rolls of Marlow coal merchant
Rev Francis Ashpitel formerly of Lane End Fingest now of Great Hampden clerk
George Henry Vansittart of Bisham Abbey Esq
Rev Thomas Edward Powell of Bisham clerk
Rev Wadham Huntley Skrine of Camley Corner Bisham clerk
[Trustees of Brinckhurst's Charity]
2) Thomas Somers Cocks of Thames Bank Marlow Esq
£1,100

All that Wharf situate lying and being on the North East side of St Peter Street in Great Marlow aforesaid fronting the River Thames together with the small piece of garden or shrubbery land adjoining the same on the north east side thereof which said Wharf and piece of land were formerly called Pond Close many years since in the occupation of John Pond afterwards in the occupation of Thomas Gibbons the elder then in the several occupations of Sir Thomas Nicoll Morris and Thomas Gibbons the younger but now of Thomas Somers Cox and Messrs William Edward and Sydney James Gibbons
Schedule begins with foundation deed to John Brinkhurst’s almshouses, Oxford Lane, 20 July1610

1874

1874 18 May Michael Davies’s Deeds
1) Trustees of Brinckhurst Almshouses Charity
Lawrence William Wethered of Stubbings House Maidenhead
Peter Bornis of Highfields Great Marlow
Rev. Francis Ashpitel late of Lane End, Fingest but then of Great Hampden
George henry Vansittart of Bisham Abbey
Rev. Thomas Edward Powell of Bisham
Rev. Wadham Huntley Skrine of Bisham
2) Hoare’s Trustees
£1,333 6s 8d

Site of Barge Pole Inn now closed
(14) Farrier’s Shop
(15) Farrier’s Shed
(16) Cottage in occ J Truss
(17) Cottage in occ J Collins
(18) Shed in occ J Truss
(19) Cottage in occ widow Heath
(20) Cottage in occ W Shaw jun
(21) Cottage in occ W Shaw sen
(22) Shed

[Numbers from Dickinson’s plan 1991]

Data provided by Julian Hunt, see Julian Hunt's Local History website.

He gathered the material in preparation for the book Marlow - A Pictorial History and has kindly allowed the Buckinghamshire Family History Society to reproduce it here

Brewery_1

1607 23 March Quitclaim D-CE/M330
1) John Ponde of Marlow gent
2) John Brinckhurst of Lane End gent
House where Ponde and formerly Michael Turner dwells adjoining the Churchyard, and house called the Brewhouse belonging to it

1610 5 June Settlement D-CE/M66
1) Roger Smythe, yeoman
2) Richard Hill, yeoman
William Childe, bere brewer, of Marlowe, in trust for his sons John, citizen and salter of London, and Valiantus, of Wooburn, Showmaker, (who are bound to him, 31 May 1610, in £300 for payments of £120 to be appointed in his will) for their lives, and their heirs.
Same property.

1617 27 Nov. Bargain & Sale/Feoffment D-CE/M67
1) Roger, John and Valleantus (of Walton on Thames, chandler) Smyth
2) Edward Wooden of Marlowe, brewer.
Same property – Hughe Priest, E, Roger Hayward, W - for £300.

1632 1 February Assignment D-CE/M59
1) John Farmer, gent
2) John Moore, brewer.
His interest in a Patent, 22 June 1625, licensing them to retail wines in Great Marlow for life.

1653 24 Dec. Will of John Moore of Great Marlow brewer
To be buried in the Church of Great Marlow as near to my late wife as conveniently may be
I give and bequeath to my eldest son John Moore upon the provisos and conditions hereafter mentioned and expressed the sum of £100 of
current money to be paid to him three months after my decease he giving a general release of all demands unto his brother my son Thomas Moore
and also he living lovingly and friendly with his said brother Thomas and other his brothers And also that he my said son John do not or shall
not by himself or by any other by his meanes or procurement do or cause to be done any act or thing whereby to hinder or prejudice my said son
Thomas Moore in the trade of a brewer which he now useth
Item I further give and bequeathunto my said son John Moore during his natural life the sum of £30 yearly to be paid half yearly at our Lady Day and the Feast of St Michael Tharchangel by equal portions to be issuing and payable to him my said son John Moore out of my lands and hereditaments hereafter mentioned That is to say All that my Tavern and Inn called or known by the name or sign of the Angel and my Inn called the Bullhead in Great Marlow aforesaid and out of all my lands and hereditaments in cookham in the County of Berks with power for him to distrain for the said yearly sum …. And further upon this condition that my said son John Moore shall permit and suffer my said son Thomas Moore and his assignsquietly to hold use and enjoy the Store house at the Wharf where the said John now dwelleth with free liberty of ingregress egress and regress to and from the same in such manner as myseld have had and used to do according to my lease which I have of the same
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Robert Moore the sum of £300 of current money to be paid within one year next after my decease ….
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Francis Moore the sum of £100 ….
I give and bequeath unto my grandchildren the six children of my son in law Robert Fish the sum of £20 apiece of current money to be paid to the sons at their respective ages of one and twenty years apiece and to the daughters at their respective ages of eighteen years apiece ….
I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Moore all my messuages lands tenements inns and hereditaments with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances whatsoever in the said County of Bucks or elsewhere (that is to say) As for and concerning my now dwelling house wherein I now dwell with the brewhouses malthouses barns stables outhouses orchards gardens backsides and appurtenances whatsoever
thereunto belonging with all the coppers furnaces vats barrels and kilderkins and all other vessels now or hereafter used with or leonging to
the said brehouse and malting houses …. for default to my said son John Moore …. for default to my said son Robert Moore …. and for default to my said son Francis Moore….
I give and bequeath to Anne Moore the wife of my said son John Moore £5 a year ….
I give and bequeath unto my sister in law Ann the wife of Hugh Harman 20s and to her daughter my goddaughter Mary the sum of 10s
I give and bequeath unto my sister in law Mary the wife of John Hawes 20s
I give unto the poor of Great Marlow the sum of £5
I give unto the poor of Bisham the sum of 20s
I give unto the poor of Beaconsfield where I was born the sum of 20s
The rest and residue of all my goods cattle chatells and personal estate unbequeathed my debts being paid and funerals and legacies discharged I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Moore who I make and ordain full and sole executor

Proved by Thomas Moore 22 Feb 1654

1664 10 Oct Bap Katherine dau Robert Moore & Joanne [Doyley]

1671 21 Nov Will of Thomas Moore of Great Marlow gent
Body to be buried in the Parish Church of Great Marlow near to my father and mother
I give and bequeath to my kinsman James Fish all that plot of ground I purchased of John Webb called Acre Hanger in consideration of a legacy given by his grandfather
I give and bequeath to Samuel Fish 40s
I give and bequeath toJoane the daughter of Edward Fish deceased 50s
I give and bequeath to Thomas Lees son of John Lee and my kinswoman Anne his wife deceased twenty marks the year during the life of my executor Robert Moore to be paid yearly towards his education
I give unto the widow Harman £5 the year during her life
I give unto the widow Hawes 20s to buy a ring
I give to the poor of the parish of Great Marlow £10
I give unto Ralph Moore 20s to buy him a ring
I give unto his wife 20s to buy her a ring
I give unto his son Thomas Moore 20s to buy him a ring
All my estate goods chattels leases land houses and what else soever within the Kingdom of England which is not by me in these presents formerly bequeathed I give and bequeath unto my brother Robert Moore making him the full and sole executor of this my last will
Proved by Robert Moore 24 March 1672

1673 21 June Deed to declare uses of a fine and recovery D/CE/M/96
1) Robert Moore
2) Thomas Medlycott of Middle Temple gent
3) Winckles
Moore’s house and brewhouse in lower end of High Street, with barn and stable on west thereof and 3r adjoining between Thomas Emerson Esq’s land north west, Butt Close, the way to Goblin Pitts, and the Common Pound south west
The Black Boy, on west side of High Street, Goblins Pitts west, Richard Ingram north, house now annexed to Moor’s brewhouse south

1678 Poor Rate
Robert Fortune for the Wharf 28 months at 1s per month £1 8 0

1681 20 July Will of Robert Moore of Great Marlow gent
I give to the poor of the Parish of Great Marlow £10
I give towards the reparation of Great Marlow Bridge the sum of 5
I give to each of my servants which shall be living with me at the time of my decease 20s
I give to my brother in laws Laud Doyley Thomas Doyley Robert Doyley and Thomas Winckles severally the sum of 20s to buy each of them rings if they please
I give to my uncle Ralph Moore and to his sister my Aunt 20s apiece and to his son Thomas Moore 10s
And to my Aunt Hawes 20s
I give to my son in law Andrew Dominick and to Johane his wife 20s apiece to buy them rings
I give to my nephews Samuel Fish and Henry Fish the sum of £4 apiece
I give to Johane the daughter of my kinsman Edward Fish deceased the sum of 50s
I give unto Thomas Powell the son of Mary sister to my nephew Samuel Fish the sum of £10
I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Johane Moore All the goods and household stuff that are now in my possession or elsewhere that are undisposed of which were formerly the goods of John Langley her former husband deceased excepting all my other goods to my disposal by this my will I do further give unto my said wife one annuity or yearly rent of £40 per annum in case she live sole and unmarried and after her intermarriage only £30 per annum to be issuing and payable to the said Johane my wife and her assigns during the residue of the life out of all those my two farms with my land tenements and appurtenances thereto belonging called or known by the several names of Becking and Hooks situate lying and being in Great Marlow
I give unto my cousin Thomas Lee of Great Marlow aforesaid all that my messuage or tenement with the lands and appurtenances thereunto
belonging and therewithal used situate at Cookham in the County of Berks
I do hereby further will and appoint that my wife shall have the use of one room above stairs and likewise the use of the kitchen for the necessary occasions where I now live and the liberty of the Brewhouse and yard and freedom to go into the garden and orchard at all times
during the will and pleasure of my executor before the intermarriage of my daughter Katherine and for and during so long time after the intermarriage of my said daughter as my said daughter shall allow and no longer
I do give and bequeath unto my loving and dutiful daughter Katherine Moore all my rings jewels plate and ready money that shall be in my house at the time of my decease
I do hereby nominate and appoint Thomas Hobby late of Bisham Esq and Edward Baldwyn of Beaconsfield Esq and my wife Johane Moore to be executors of this my last will and testament to whom after my funeral debts and legacies paid I give and bequeath all my goods chattels and personal estate whatsoever
And also I do give and bequeath unto my said executoss Thomas Hobby Edward Baldwin and Johane Moore and their heirs all my messauges lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever situate in Great Marlow aforesaid in trust nevertheless and to this intent and purpose only that my said executors shall dispose of my personal estate and also shall receive the rents issues and profits of all my said lands and tenements
whatsoever to the only use and behoof of my daughter Katherine until she shall be married or attain the age of one and twenty years And I do hereby appoint the said Thomas Hobby Edward Baldwin to be guardians of my said daughter until her marriage or age of one and twenty years as aforesaid And I do hereby desire my said daughter to be advised by her said guardians and by her mother (in the great affair of the disposal of herself in marriage) upon whose integrity I do very much rely

1681 28 Sept Inventory of Robert Moore gent of Great Marlow
In the Brewhouse one Copper 30 0 0
One Mash Tunn 8 0 0
One guile Tunn 2 0 0
Foure Coulers 8 0 0
One Leaden back and pump 15 0 0
Two trofes 2 10 0
One Floate 0 10 0
One….backe 2 0 0
Three standand one Peale 0 5 0

In the severall Inns of the said Mr Moores called the King’s Head,
the Bull’s Head, the Bare and the Crowne several tables bed
steads forms stools and other moveables 10 0 0

1681 30 Dec Probate of Will of Robert Moore of Great Marlow gent P.C.C.

1683 6 Nov James Etheridge m. Katherine Moore

1685 Poor rate
Robert Fortune for the Wharf £1 6 0

1686 22 Jan, Deed to Lead to Uses of a Fine D-CE/M128
1) Sir James Etheredge and Katharine his wife
2) George Bruere of the Middle Temple gent
Thomas Bigg of Chopping Wyoombe gent
3) Thomas Medlicott of Abington, Co. Oxon.,Esq
Laud Doyley of St.Paul Covent Garden. Co Midd. gent.

Etheredges to assure to Bruere and Bigg; property marked x to the use of Sir James; the residue to use of him and Katherine for life, and their children, and to use of Medlicott and Doyley for preserving the contingent remainders in the said children, during the lives of James and Katherine.
House-where Sir James lives, and la. plot adjacent Lady Etheredge’s house occupied Ralph Harman, NW, way to Goblins pits, SW, highway, E; and la. In The Ham, occupied Wm. Harman.
The Black Boy occupied R. Harman - Stephen Chase Esq., NW, K.Etheredge’s dwelling, S
The Crown - John Langley, E, late Roger Hayward, W
X And 2 half-acres on N side, in Meere Feild, occupied Peter Rivers.
X The Feathers, late occupied John Collins, now Francis Pagett.
X The Beare inn, occupied by Ric. Clarke, and 13a arable in the common fields
X The Bullhead inn, occupied John Clarke
8 a. arable in common fields -
½ a. - late John Langley, s. Henry Micklem, N, abutting land by Goodyers hedge, W.
la. – John Farmer, E, John Godfrey, W, abth. Millway, N, J. Crodfrey, S.
½ a. in Upper Furlong - late Mr J. Farmer, W, Lord Pagett, E, abtg. Dunmore, S.
3 half-acres - Mill garden hedge, S.
3 half-acres - W of Parsonage Elms-Chapple End road, and 3 half-acres E of this road
½ a. shooting on Ivens Field between J, Farmer and J. Langley
½ a. abtg. Road to Gallow Gate, near the gate, N, and late Thomas Langley, sr.,E.
The Greate House, and la. meadow behind, in High St. occupied Mr Andrew Dominick.
X The Kings Head inn, and l ½ a. close of pasture adj. 1 ½ a. meadow or pasture adj. Goblins pits or Aldermary Lakes, l ½ a, meadow in Wynch Mead. All occupied by Joane Pomfrett, widow.
Lady Croft als. Virgin Coppice in Pare Croft - 2a. wood, adjoining Hookes Ground. Gosnam Meade with Gosnam Ditch - 8a. meadow,
occupied Ric. Corteee. Amy croft - 11a. wood, “Beokett”, W & N, lane to Finamore, S, late John Brinckhurst, E.
8a. arable in Great Common Feild, occupied Roger Hayward
4a. in Middle Furlong - John Langley, dec'd,, E, Bottom Farm, now Burfords, W, N & S.. 2a. near Parsonage Elms - la. belonging to the
Bridge, occupied Hayward, shooting between them, late John Langley, E. & W. (See M. 113-9)
3a. arable in Great Common Feild - Bakers Path, N, Wm carter W, former parcel of Leymors Farm in Little Marlow, occupied R. Hayward.
(See M. 114-9.)
X 4a. arable in Great Common Feild, late the Tye Piece - Widow Eliz. Elyott, E & S, John Hearne's meadow near Goshenham Ditch, SW, Edw. Shanok and Anthony Turberfeld, esq., N & W. (3ee M. 115-9)
Lake of pasture - 3a. near The Ham. Court Feild, 26a.. The two Horse Leas and The Lakes - 9a. meadow and pasture. Aldermany Lakes -5a. meadow & pasture. Acrehanger (close) - 2a. arable, - Kingshold, occupied John Harmond, E, Gyles Durvall, W, abtg. West Street, S.
Schoolhouse Close - 2a. meadow or pasture, occupied Wm. Harmon, - West St.,N, Church Land, E, Aldermary Lakes, S, Bridgeland, W. (See M. 120-4)
X Noemans - 12p., on W of Oxford Lane, adj, Richard Langley'e orchard, W, occupied by Wm. Alce.
X The Courthouse, wharf, brewhouse, and 3a. close adj.
Property in Cookham, co. Berks.

1687 Poor rate
Mr Fortune for the Wharf at 1s 3d £1 15 0

1688 Poor rate
Mr Geary for the Wharf & premises at 1s 3d £2 0 0

1688 10 May Mortgage for £670 D-CE/M134
1) Etheredge
2) Appleton.
Tenement, brewhouse, wharf close, garden, etc. - 3a., former occupier Anne Moore, widow, now dec'd., since, Robert Fortune, now Richard Collins and Jasper Geary. Schedule of brewing vessels:- Copper, Marsh Tunn, Huile Tunn, leaden back, fower coolers, Two Troughs, One
Floate, One underback, Leaden liquor pump, Three stands, One Iron Peele.
Endorsed - Several receipts for interest and principle.

1689 Poor Rate Mr Geary for part of the Wharf 9d per month £1 8 0
John Stevens for the Wharf & house 1s per month £1 4 0

1690 Poor Rate Mr Geary for part of the Wharf 9d per month £1 8 0
John Stevens for the Wharf & house 1s per month £1 4 0

1691 Poor Rate for 28 months
Mr Geary or Jeremiah Goodchild for part of the Wharf at 9d per month £1 1s 0d
John Stevens for the house and part of the wharf at 1s per month
£1 8s 0d

1692 Poor Rate for 28 months
Mr Geary Jeremiah Goodchild & Cornelius Latemore for part of the Wharf at 9d per month 19s 6d
John Stevens for the wharf & house at 1s per month £1 8s 0d

1693 Poor Rate
Cornelius Latemore for the Brewhouse at 9d per month £1 4 0
John Stevens for the Wharf at 1s per month £1 12 0

1701 Poor Rate
Cornelius Latemore for the Brewhouse at 8d per month £1 4 0
John Stevens for the Wharf at 10d per month £1 10 0

1703 Poor Rate
Cornelius Latemore for the Brewhouse at 8d per month 18s 8d
John Stevens for the Wharf at 10d per month £1 15 0

1704 Poor rate
John Stevens for the Wharf at 10d per month £1 16 8
For the Brewhouse at ……

1705 Poor Rate 32 months
John Stevens for the Wharf at 10d per month £1 6s 8d
Mr Brewer for the Brewhouse at 6d per month 16s

1706 Poor Rate John Stevens for the Wharf at 10d per month £2 3 4
Mr Brewer for the Brewhouse at 6d per month £1 6 0

1715 16 Dec. Will of Cornelius Latemir of Great Marlow brewer
I give and bequeath to my four children (that is to say) to my son John Latemir Mary Latemir Ann Latemir and Dorathy Latemir to each of them one shilling together with my blessing desiring all of them to be dutiful and obedient to their mother and loving and kind to each other
I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Elizabeth Latemir all my messuages or cottages and premises to them belonging together with my
leases stocks in trade moneys goods chattels and all my personal estate whatsoever
I do hereby make declare and appoint my said loving wife Elizabeth Latemir my full and sole executrix
Probate 24 Feb 1716

1717 15 March
1) Sir James Etheridge
2) Sir John Guise of Rendcombe Glous
Let to Mr Samuel Manning and George Bruere Esq £81
Brewhouse and Wharf 4acres
In Common Fields 32 acres
Let (for 10 years yet to come) at £71 p.a. to be advanced £5, 2 years hence
Paine’s land 3 closes let to Mr Bruere at £10

1721 Marlow Church Plaque inside Church
Morris son of George Bruerre Armr. Born 5 March 1704, died 26 April 1721

1729 19 March Bond in £120. D-CE/M489
1)John Lattimore of Marlow, brewer
2)John Lacye of Maidenhead, hostler, to secure payment of £70
Re White Hart

1735 21 May Bargain and Sale D/CE/M/320
1) Sir John Guise of Reedcombe co Glous bart only son & heir of Sir John Guise late of
Elmore in the said County bart deceased
James Pitt of City of Gloucester gent
2) Sir William Clayton. Of Marden Co Surrey bart
All those the manors or reputed manors of Great Marlow and Harleyford
All that chief mansion or manor house of Great Marlow aforesaid commonly known or called by the name of Court House
And all wharfs brewhouses and hereditaments whatsoever thereunto belonging or therewith used situate lying and being in Great Marlow
aforesaid and now or late in the tenure or occupation of the said Lattimore
And all that close in Great Marlow aforesaid containing by estimation three acres be the same more or less lying and being behind the said mansion or manor house with all common fishing and commodities whatsoever thereunto belonging and also now or late in the tenure or
occupation of the saidLattimore [note in margin ‘now part of Roses’]

1735 2 August Will of Elizabeth Lattemore of Great Marlow widow
Dau Elizabeth wife of William Langley of Great Marlow mealman
Dau Mary Lattmore £200, all stock in trade, household goods, money, plate, rings wearing apparel
Dau Anne wife of James Howard of Great Marlow ropemaker £200
Remainder to son John Lattemore
Executor dau Mary Lattemore

1736 1 Dec Will of John Lattimer of Great Marlow brewer
Wife Mary
Freehold estate tanyard and other premises in parish of Bray Co Berks purchased of Ann Murden
Messuage or tenement malthouse and appurts situate in the town of Great Marlow Co Bucks which I lately purchased from John Saunders
Two messuages or tenements with appurts in West End of the said town of Great Marlow lately purchased from widow Howard and others and built thereon one new tenement
One other messuage or tenement all thereunto belonging which I lately purchased from Richard Webb
One other messuage or tenement with all thereunto belonging which I lately purchased from John Laws
Which said last mentioned tenements are situate in West End aforesaid
All those several messuages or tenements in Chappel End on the East side of the said Town of Great Marlow lately purchased from the said John Laws
Two messuages or tenements situate in Well End in said town of Great Marlow purchased from William Haychraft
One other cottage or tenement situate in Well End lately purchased from Robert Ewing and others
Three several messuages situate in Great Marlow near the Pound lately left me by the last will and testament of my mother Elizabeth Lattimer
Two messuages in Chepping Wycombe in a place called Back lane purchased from Edward Easly
Messuage or tenement in Burnham in occ Simon Southery
Messuage in Walgrave Co Berks in occ John Bassett
Executor wife Mary Lattimer
Proved 4 April 1744 by Mary Lattemore widow relict

1745 14/15 February Lease & Release D-CE/M487-8
1)Langley
2)Mary Lattemore of Marlow, widow.
Consideration £130.
The White Hart and brewhouse, occupied by Menday

1758 21 Oct Will of Daniel Lofting of Great Marlow gent
Brother William Lofting £10
Brother Benjamin Lofting £10
Brother Samuel Lofting £100 + all that messuage cottage or tenement wherein Richard Stevens now dwells situate in Oxford Lane
Godson John Rose son of Ralph Rose the elder of Little Marlow £50
Mrs Mary Latimer £5
Mary Holmes £5
Ralph Rose the younger of Great Marlow brewer all and every my messuages cottages lands tenements hereditaments and premises whatsoever and wheresoever and not herein before otherwise disposed of both freehold and leasehold situate lying and being in Great Marlow aforesaid

1761 10 October Counterpart Lease for 21 Years D-CE/M492
1)Mary Lattemore
2)Ralph Rose, jr., of Marlow, brewer.
The Duke's Head on north side of West Street, occupied by Elizabeth Wright, widow.
The White Hart on north side of Chapel End, occupied by John Dormer.
The Anchor in Cookham, occupied by Joseph Charters.
Rent £20. 10s.

1783 Land Tax Parish
Wm Clayton Esq Brewhouse & Wharf: Mr John Chark £5 4s 0d

1795 Land Tax Parish
Wm Clayton Esq for Wharf: Mr Williams £5 4s 0d

1800 Near this place lie interred the remains of Mr Ralph Rose and Mrs Sarah Rose his wife. She departed this life May 26th 1800 aged 63 years. He departed this life August the 30th 1800 aged 67 years.

1802 Poor Rate
John Clark house & workshops £1 8 0
Ditto for land at Red Pits £1 5 6
Ditto for part of Storehouse & wharf £1
Thomas Williams Esq for remainder part of Storehouse & Wharf £3

1804 8 Jan. Will of John Clark of Great Marlow carpenter
I give and devise my cottages or tenements with their appurtenances and all other my real estate in Great Marlow in the County of Bucks unto my wife Catherine for her life and from and after her decease I give and devise the same to my son John and his heirs and assigns
Children Catherine, John Thomas Henry and Elizabeth
Executors wife Sarah and Mr Richard Lovegrove

1804 Poor Rate
John Clark house & workshop now Wm Clark 1 1 0
Ditto for part of Storehouse & wharf now
The Commissioners of the Thames Navigation 1 0 0

1807 John Clark house & workshops 0 14 0
The Commissioners of the Thames Navigation
the part of Storehouse & wharf 1 0 0
O Williams Esq remainder part of Storehouse & Wharf 0 5 6

1831 Land Tax Parish
Owen Williams Esq: himself Wharf £5 4s 0d

Brewery_2

1704 9 August Will of James Fish of Great Marlow brewer
To be buried in the chancel of Great Marlow Church
Son James Fish £5 only
All that my house or tenement with the appurts wherein my said son James Fish now dwelleth in Marlow aforesaid unto my dear and loving
wife Elizabeth Fish for ever
I give and devise unto my son Benjamin Fish the other two houses or tenements adjoining to that wherein Richard Harding and Henry
Snelling now dwell in Marlow aforesaid all which three houses or tenements I purchased of Christopher Morgan
I give devise and bequeath unto my three daughters Elizabeth Fish Anne Fish and Katherine Fish their executors and assigns All that my
messuage or tenement with the appurts and a close of pasture ground called Bonners Close thereunto belonging which I purchased of Henry Cane and Elizeus Fletcher and the Brewhouse near adjoining to the said messuage And also all that close of pasture land with the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging which I purchased of William Elliott butcher deceased All which are situate and being in Great Marlow
aforesaid and now in the occupation of Mr Prosser from and immediately after my decease equally to be divided between them my said three daughters share and share alike the Copper and utensils of brewing in the said brewhouse only excepted
And the rest and residue of my estate goods and chattels and the said Copper and utensils of brewing I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth my said wife whom I make and constitute full and sole executrix

Proved 21 Sept 1704

1705 Poor Rate 32 months
James Fish for the Brewery at 2d per month 5s 4d

Brewery_3

1744 George Wethered m. Elizabeth Gibbons
George Wethered, son of Edward & Susannah Wethered of Penn (V.C.H.)
1745 Birth of George son of George & Elizabeth Wethered
1757 Death of Elizabeth wife of George Wethered
1758 George Wethered m. Anne Reynolds
1761 Birth of Thomas son of George & Anne Wethered
1780 Sun Fire Insurance 11936/273/412209 Lady Day 1781
George Wethered sen. of Great Marlow in Bucks brewer & Maltster
On his Utensils & Stock in a Malthouse & Storehouse
Under one roof situate as aforesaid
brick plaister & tiled 300

1780 Sun Fire Insurance 11936/273/412210 Lady Day 1781
George Wethered jun. Of Great Marlow in Bucks brewer & Maltster
On his Household Goods in his now Dwelling House & Malthouse
adjoining & communicating situate as aforesaid
brick timber plaister & tiled 50
Utensils & Stock therein 250

1782 Sun Fire Insurance 1963/296/452202
George Wethered sen. of Great Marlow in Bucks brewer & maltster
On his household goods in his now Dwelling House
only situate as aforesaid 120
Wearing Apparel therein 30
Utensils & Stock in a Brewhouse &
four Store Houses communicating with
The said House 550
In the Stable, Storehouse &
Granary adjoining timber & tiled 100
In Robinson’s Storehouse only 400
In Langley’s Storehouse only 200
In the Ship Storehouse only 260
In the Cellar only 40
In a Storehouse at the Coiting Place 300
One House only in the tenure of George
Phelps victualler Timber & tiled 100
Stock in a malthouse only
adjoining timber & tiled 300
All brick & tiled except as above & situate as aforesaid

1782 22 Oct William Hickman m. Ann dau George Wethered
n.b. William Hickman surgeon & apothecary 1794 directory

1783 31 May Will of George Wethered of Marlow brewer
Whereas I now hold by lease from the late Henry Smith a dwellinghouse, malthouse, maltkiln and appurtences situate and being in the East side of High Street in Great Marlow aforesaid and now in the tenure or occupation of my son George Wethered and I have already given to my said son George Wethered the stock utensils and implements of and belonging to the said malthouse, maltkiln and premises in his occupation as aforesaid and all my right and title to the said premises but no regular assignment hath been made of the said lease Now I do hereby ratify and confirm the same unto the said George Wethered to hold unto him his executors administrators and assigns for and during all the residue
and remainder of the said lease paying the rent and performing the covenants on the tenants part to be paid and performed free from all
legacies and bequests hereinafter mentioned
Also I give and bequeath unto the said George Wethered all my woolen wearing apparel to be delivered to him in one month next after my
decease
Also I give and bequeath unto my said son George Wethered the sum of four hundred pounds of lawful money to be paid to him to be paid
to him by two equal payments of two hundred pounds each the first payment to be made within three years next after my decease and the residue to be paid within seven years next after my decease but in case the said George Wethered shall die before either of the said payments shall
become due then I give the said legacy or so much thereof as shall not have been payable unto the children of the said George Wethered equally
if more than one to be paid at their ages of twenty one years and in the mean time the lawful interest thereof from the time the said legacy would have become due to be applied by my executor towards their maintenance and education till their said ages
Also I give and bequeath to my dear wife Ann Wethered the sum of twenty pounds of lawful money and also one half of my household
goods…..
Also I give and bequeath to my said wife Ann Wethered for and during the term of her natural life one annuity or clear yearly sum of
forty pounds of lawful money …..
Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Ann wife of Mr William Hickman the sum of one hundred pounds ….
Also I give and bequeath unto Mr John Reynolds of Long Crendon in the County of Bucks blacksmith and Mr Thomas Langley of Great Marlow aforesaid the sum of five hundred pounds of lawful money in trust to lay out and invest the same in some government funds or securities and to pay the interest or dividends thereof still as the same shall arise to my daughter Ann Hickman….
Also I give and bequeath unto my to son Thomas Wethered all my lease of the malthouse, maltkiln, yard carthouse and appurtenances situate and being in the High Street of Great Marlow aforesaidon the west side therof and which I hold of William Clayton Esq and also all my stock of malt, barley utensils and implements belonging to the said malthouse and the business there carried on and alsoall other and the rest residue and remainder of my goods chattels drays cattle ready money and securities for money book and other debts rights credits and personalestate and effects whatsoever….
And lastly I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint my said son Thomas Wethered full and sole executor

Witnesses: Henry Allnutt attorney of Great Marlow
Thomas Deverell his clerk

Proved by Thomas Wethered the son 12 July 1783

1783 Land Tax
William Clayton Esq: Mrs Freeman £2 0 0
William Clayton Esq Mr Wethered 16s 0d

1786 Sun Fire Insurance 11936/331/508143 Mid S 1786
Thomas Wethered of Great Marlow in Bucks brewer
On his household goods in his now Dwelling House only 100
Wearing Apparel therein 30
Utensils & Stock therein & in the Brewhouse
Store Rooms Granary & Offices communicating 350
In the Stable Storehouse & Granary
adjoining each other timber & tiled 140
In Robinson’s Storehouse only 290
In Hickman’s Storehouses adjoining 240
In the Ship Storehouse only 140
In the Cellar only 30
In his Store room under the dwelling
house of Collins & others 160
In East’s Cellar 100
In the Malthouse & Storehouse adjoining
brick timber & tiled 190
House only in tenure
Phelps brick timber & tiled 100
Utensils & Stock viz: in Monday’s Cellar 40
In Lomax, Cowdery & Mill’s Cellars 90
All brick & tiled except as above and situate
at Great Marlow aforesaid and no hazardous trades therein

1786 Royal Insurance 7253/12/99756 22 Nov. 1786
William Clayton of Harleyford in the Parish of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks Esq
House Bakehouse & Malthouse adj & having communication
Brick plaister & tiled Tenant George Murray baker & Thomas
Wethered maltster 200
House Brewhouse Storehouse & Offices
Tenant Thomas Wethered brewer 250
[N.B. The first house is between the White House and the Lower Crown on the West side of the High Street. The second house is to the
south of the Chequers Inn on the east side of the High Street]

1786 Sun Fire Insurance 11936/338/520427
Thomas Wethered of Great Marlow in Bucks brewer
On his household goods in his now Dwelling House only 100
Wearing Apparel therein 30
Utensils & Stock in his Brewhouse Storehouse
Granary & Offices all communicating near 400
In his Stable Storehouse & Granary
all adjoining near timber & tiled 150
In Robinson’s Storehouse only 300
In Hickman/s two Storehouses adjoining near 300
In the Ship Storehouse only 170
In the Ship Cellar 30
In his Store room under Collin’s dwelling house 200
In his Store room under East’s dwelling house 150
In his Malthouse & Storehouse adjoining timber & tiled 300
In Lomax’s Cellar only 35
In John Mill’s Cellar only 35
All brick & tiled except as above and situate at
Great Marlow aforesaid and no hazardous trades therein

1787 Land Tax
William Clayton Esq: late Mrs Freeman £10 £2 0 0

1788 Land Tax
William Clayton Esq: Thos Wethered £10 £2 0 0

1788 Lease for 99 years at £18 p.a.
1) William Clayton
2) Thomas Wethered
Premises formerly Miss Freeman’s boarding school and the Three Tuns Tavern

1788 Datestone TW 1788 outside the back door to offices

1791 Lease
2) Thomas Wethered
White House

1795 Land Tax
Thos Williams Esq: Mr Thos Wethered £2 0 0
Thos Williams Esq: Mr Thos Wethered £1 10 0

1796 Sale of freehold for £400
Premises formerly Miss Freeman’s boarding school and the Three Tuns Tavern with new brewhouse, stable storehouses and premises lately erected and built

1798 Posse Comitatus Great Marlow Borough
Brewers
Joseph Plumridge
Thomas Wethered
Maltsters
George Wethered
George J Wethered
Persons keeping draught horses H W C
Joseph Plumridge 5 2 2
George Wethered - - 2
Mr Thomas Wethered 5 2 1

1800 Land Tax
Thomas Williams Esq: Mr Thomas Wethered £10 £2 0 0

1801 Royal Fire Assurance Mss 7253/43/184777
Thomas Wethered of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks brewer
Utensils & Stock in his Malthouse £800
On Beer Casks old lead iron copper and other Stock in a House late Dormers £150
On Beer casks Vats & Stands in a Brehouse now used as a Storehouse only and in three small storehouses all adjoining and communicating separate from the above £1200
On a New Stable separate brick built & tiled £150
On Horses Hay Corn Straw and Garden Tools therein £80
On a Waggon house mill House Malt Lofts over Brewhouse & Shed all adjoining and communicating separate from the above £1200
Warranted not to have any kiln or steam engine therein or adjoining or communicating therewith onn Horses Coals and Casks in the said Waggon House Mill House Brewhouse & Shed and in a Counting House all adjoining and communicating £150
Fixtures and utensils therein £1000
Stock in the said Malt Loft near said Mill House Waggon House & in a Hop Loft over said Brewhouse £1400
Beer & Casks therein and in the said Brewhouse £600
On a large Storehouse separate £200
On Beer Vats Stands & Casks therein £2100
On his now Dwelling House and Offices adjoining each other and the last mentioned but not communicating therewith £600
Furniture £280
Apparel £100
Plate £20
On Beer Wine Spirits & Casks in two cellars under the said Dwelling House £400
On beer & casks in a storeroom adjoining the late James Creases Malthouse in the Lower Crown Yard £50
Utensils and Stock in the said Malthouse late in thetenure of the said James Creas £600
All situate in the High Street in Great Marlow aforesaid
On a public house and offices adjoining known by the sign of the Sun tenant Thomas Plummer victualler situate at Lane End in parish of Great Marlow aforesaid £100
On a dwelling house called the Three Tuns and offices adjoining situate in West Street in Great Marlow aforesaid tenant Ollis victualler £100
On a Dwelling House and offices adjoining tenant John Porteridge victualler and known by the sign of the Red Lion situate in West Street aforesaid £100
On a dwelling House known by the sign of the Hare & Hounds tenant R Corbey victualler situate at Red Pitts in the parish of Great Marlow aforesaid £90
On a Cottage adjoining in the same tenure £40
On a Dwelling House known by the sign of the Chequers tenant M Frier victualler situate at Flackwell Heath in the parish of Chepping Wycombe in the County of Bucks £50
On a Dwelling House known by the sign of the Black Lion tenant Thomas Allen victualler situate at Well End in the parish of Little Marlow in the County of Bucks £100
On a Dwelling House known by the sign of the Queens Head situate at Tylers Green in the parish of Chepping Wycombe aforesaid tenant James Deane victualler £100
On a Cottage adjoining brick & tiled and slated £20
On a Dwelling House called the Rose & Crown and Barn adjoining thatched tenant E Edmunds victualler situate Coldmoram in the parish of Little Marlow aforesaid £60
On a Dwelling House known by the sign of the Swan tenant Edward Chandler victualler situate in the High Street in Beaconsfield in the County of Bucks brick built & tiled £120
On two cottages adjoining in the same tenure near and situate as aforesaid £40
Total £12000

1810 Land Tax
Thomas Wethered Esq: himself £10 £2 0 0

1810 31 Jan. Royal Fire Insurance Mss 7253/4/251745
Thomas Wethered of Great Marlow Bucks brewer
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in his Malthouse No 1 having communication with a bakehouse £600
On Utensils and Stock in Trade in his Malthouse No 2 late James Creases Situate near £500
On his Malthouse No 3 situate on the opposite side of the way late James Saunders £350
On Utensils & Stock in Trade therein £500
On a House adjoining not communicating £150
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a Malthouse No 4 late Joseph Plumridge £400
On his Brewhouse Millhouse Waggon House adjoining and communicating with Malt Hop & Corn Lofts over warranted there be no steam engine or kiln therein or adjoining or communicating therewith situate detached in the yard behind the Assured dwelling house & malt Storehouse £2000
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in the said Brewhouse Millhouse & Waggon House and in the Malt Hop & Corn Lofts over the same £1500
On a Coopers Shop & Scalding Shed adjoining situate detached about 36 feet from the last mentioned buildings and detached from the Great Storehouse hereafter mentioned by a gateway about 5 feet wide £100
On the said Large Storehouse situate detached about 34 feet from the buildings mentioned in the last article but one £500
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in the said Large Storehouse Vats & the Stock therein in the said building included £5000
On his Dwelling House Two Cellars and offices adjoining each other and the said Large Storehouse but separate therefrom by a party wall without any internal communication therewith except by one doorway only underground opening from the said Storehouse into one of the said cellars £2000
Household Furniture and Wearing Apparel Plate and Printed Books in the said House and offices £1750
On his Utensils & Stock in Trade including his Stock of Wines and other Liquors in his said two cellars £500
On his Privy Woodhouse & Mangling House adjoining each other part timber built and adjoining also to the said dwelling house & Storehouse but having no communication with either £50
On two new Stables and Chaisehouse adjoining with lofts over the same situate detached about 48 feet from the Brewhouse and Millhouse & Waggon House above mentioned £300
On his Utensils & Stock in the said Stables Chaisehouse & lofts over £250
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in two Stables adjoining and in a loft over one of them situate in the yard late George Butlers on the opposite side of the Street part timber built £350
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a Storehouse & Loft over adjoining the last mentioned part timber built £150
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a Storehouse late dormers situate near £100
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a Storehouse and loft over situate near £150
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a shed Storehouse adjoining £50
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a Vat Storehouse adjoining £50
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a shed Storehouse adjoining the last mentioned and in a Loft over the same £1300
On Spiritous Liquors Casks Glass Bottles and other Stock in a House near £300
On a Cottage in the occupation of Mr Buffett £100
On a House in the occupation of John Fowler butcher £200
On a Slaughter House near in the same tenure £40
The above buildings are situate in the High Street in Great Marlow aforesaid

1816 25 April Royal Fire Insurance Mss 7253/73/293579
Thomas Wethered of Great Marlow Bucks brewer
On Utensils & Trade in his Malthouse No 1 brick lath & plaster built communicating with a bakehouse £700
On Utensils and Trade in his Malthouse No 2 late James Creases near brick lath & plaster built in which high dried malt is made £1000
On his Malthouse No 3 situate on the opposite side of the way late James Saunders brick timber & tiled £350
On Utensils & Trade therein £800
On a House adjoining and communicating with the last mentioned malthouse £100
On a House adjoining the last mentioned but not communicating therewith £150
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a Malthouse No 4 brick lath & plaster built late Joseph Plumridge £900
On Utensils & Trade in 2 Storehouses adjoining and 3 lofts over the same brick & timber & tiled near late Joseph Plumridge’s £300
On Utensils & Trade in his Malthouse No. 5 brick built and part hatched situate on the east side of the High Street late Charles Wethered £800
On Utensils & Trade in his Malthouse No. 6 brick & timber & tiled near late Thomas Oxlade £700
Warranted that no high dried malt be made in either of the above malthouses except the Malthouse No. 2 on his Brewhouse Millhouse & Waggon House adjoining and communicating with Malt Hop & Corn Lofts over situate detached in the yard behind the Assured’s Dwelling House and Great Warehouse Warranted there be no steam engine or kiln in adjoining to or communicating therewith £2000
On Utensils & Trade therein £2500
On Liquor Back & Stand adjoining on the south side of the said Brewhouse £50
On the Coopers Shop Scalding Dray Grain Shed Tun & Hemp House all adjoining situate detached from the last mentioned and from the Great Storehouse hereafter mentioned by a gateway about 5 feet wide £150
On the Great Storehouse Fining House & Counting House all adjoining but detached from any of the above buildings £500
On Utensils & Trade therein £4500
On his Dwelling House Two Cellars and offices adjoining each other and the last mentioned but not communication therewith except by one doorway only underground opening from the said Storehouse into one of the said cellars £2000
On Furniture Apparel Plate and Printed Books in the said House and offices £1750
On his Utensils & Trade including his Stock of Wines and other Liquors in the said two cellars £600
On his Privy Woodhouse & Mangling House adjoining each other part timber built and adjoining also to the said dwelling house & Storehouse but having no communication with either £50
On two new Stables and Chaisehouse adjoining with lofts over the same situate detached about 48 feet from the Brewhouse and Millhouse & Waggon House above mentioned £300
On his Utensils & Stock in the said Stables Chaisehouse & lofts over £150
On Utensils & Trade in two Stables adjoining and in a loft over one of them situate in the yard late George Butlers on the opposite side of the Street part timber built £250
On Utensils & Trade in a Storehouse & Loft over adjoining the last mentioned part timber built £150
On Utensils & Trade in a Storehouse late Dormers situate near brick & tiled £100
On Utensils & Trade in a Storehouse and Loft over situate near brick timber & tiled £200
On Utensils & Trade in the Vat Storehouse adjoining £350
On Utensils & Trade in a shed Storehouse adjoining the last mentioned and in a loft over the same £50
On a Cottage in the occupation of Mrs Hawes brick timber & slated £100
On a House in the occupation of John Fowler butcher £200
On a Slaughter House near in the same tenure £40
The above buildings are situate in the High Street in Great Marlow aforesaid

1820 Purchase of freehold of White House

1831 Land Tax
Thos Wethered: himself house £2 0 0
Thos Wethered himself college £9 0 0
C Williams Esq: Thos Wethered Esq malthouse £1 0 0
C Williams Esq Thos Wethered house 14 0

1849 Death of Thomas Wethered aged 88, leaving a fortune of £100,000 and his brewery was producing 24,500 barrels a year.

1851 Census
Owen Wethered 52 In partnership …. employing 47 men

1851 Church Rate Book
Wethered: Owen & Lawrence Wethered
House, garden & orchard High Street
Additional buildings
3 rooms large High Street
Building & Counting House, coopery, scalding sheds,
drayhouse,and stables, 2 stables & cart house High Street
Malthouse, storehouse & carpenter’s shop High Street
Table beer tun room with loft over High Street
Brewhouse buildings with malt lofts &
engine house High Street
Timber yard, saw pit, piggery & store room High Street
Davenport: Owen & Lawrence Wethered
Store Room Pound Lane
TP Williams: Owen & Lawrence Wethered
Malthouse & sheds Lowes Yard
Storehouse, three stables & yard Maddocks Yard
Wethered: Owen & Lawrence Wethered
Cellar West Street
Malthouse Camden’s Yard
Storehouse & lofts Adj Withers

1862 Death of Owen Wethered
Brewery taken over by sons:
Thomas Owen Wethered of Seymour Court
Owen Peel Wethered of White House

1870 Third brother Robert Peel Wethered becomes partner

1872 Wethered's Brewery owned or leased over 100 pubs in Buckinghamshire alone.

1873 Death of Robert Peel Wethered

1881 Census High Street
Frances A Wethered 36 wife of head
Thomas A Wethered 9 son
Evelyn A Wethered 7 dau
Cicely E E 3 dau

1890 New Partners Francis & Walter, sons of Owen Peel Wethered

1890 Retirement of Thomas Owen Wethered. Replaced by son in law John Danvers Power

1899 Business turned into limited liability company Owen Peel Wethered chairman

1908 Death of Owen Peel Wethered. New chairman son Francis Peel Wethered. Col F.E. Stevens managing director

1915 Death of Walter Wethered

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1781 Sun Fire Insurance 11936/3288/436048 Xmas 1781
Joseph Plumridge of Great Marlow Co Bucks maltster & shopkeeper
On his household goods in his now Dwelling House Malthouse & Lofts
adjoining and communicating brick plaister & tiled £50
Utensils & Stock therein £150
Wearing Apparel therein £20
Utensils & Stock in his Brewhouse & Storehouse adjoining brick
& tiled £100

1783 Land Tax
William Clayton Esq: Mr Plumridge 16s 0d
Mrs Plumridge: Mr Goldsmith 16s 0d

1784 Royal Insurance 7253/11/97952 June 1784
Thomas Plumridge of Great Marlow maltster & brewer
On household furniture in his dwelling house malthouse lofts
& storehouse adjoining brick & plaister built & tiled in Great Marlow aforesaid £80
On wearing apparel £20
On utensils & trade £300
On utensils & trade in a Storehouse & Brewhouse adjoining brick & timber built & tiled situate near £150
On utensils & trade in a Storehouse in Daniel Walker’s Yard in Great Marlow aforesaid brick & tiled £80
On a House brick built & tiled situate in Great Marlow aforesaid in the tenure of Thomas Allen £70
TOTAL £700

1786 Midsummer Sun Fire Insurance 11936/331/50814
Joseph Plumridge of Great Marlow Co Bucks brewer & maltster
On his household goods in his now Dwelling House Malthouse & Lofts £80
Adjoining and communicating brick plaister & tiled Utensils & Stock therein £250
Wearing Apparel therein £20
Utensils & Stock viz: in a Brewhouse & Storehouse under one roof near £100
In a Storehouse in Daniel Walker’s yard near £80
House only in the tenure of Thomas Allen victualler £70
All brick & tiled except as above & situate at Great Marlow aforesaid £600

1786 Royal Insurance 7253/12/99756 22 Nov. 1786
William Clayton of Harleyford in the Parish of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks Esq
On a House & Malthouse adj & having communication brick plaister & tiled Tenant Joseph Plumridge £200
Brewhouse Storehouse Stable adj & bel £50

1786 Exmas Sun Fire Insurance 11936/334/513148
Joseph Plumridge of Great Marlow Co Bucks brewer & maltster
On his household goods in his now Dwelling House Malthouse & Lofts
Adjoining and communicating situate as aforesaid brick plaister & tiled £80
Utensils & Stock therein £250
Wearing Apparel therein £20
Utensils & Stock viz: in a Brewhouse & Storehouse under one roof near £100
In a Storehouse only in Walker’s yard near (not an Inn yard) £80
House only in Great Marlow aforesaid in the tenure of Thomas Allen, labourer £70

1791 25 July Will of Sarah Smith of Great Marlow widow
Executors, James Crease of Great Marlow Maltster and Joseph Plumridge of Great Marlow brewer

1794 Directory
Plumridge, Joseph brewer and malster.

1795 Land Tax
Thos Williams Esq: Mr Plumridge 16s 0d
Mrs Martin: Mr Plumridge £4 0s 0d

1798 Posse Comitatus Great Marlow Borough
Brewers
Joseph Plumridge
Persons keeping draught horses H W C
Joseph Plumridge 5 2 2

1798(about)Will of Joseph Plumridge
of Great Marlow brewer made in presence of Joseph Haynes of Great Marlow millwright whilst he was dressing the malt mill belonging to the said deceased and John Smith of Great Marlow stone mason who lived next door to Plumridge
Wife Rebecca
All my personal estate and all my copyhold leasehold and freehold estates…except £20 per annum to be paid to my father James Plumridge and my mother Mary Plumridge during their natural life if not overrun half of the property I die possessed of
After decease of wife Rebecca then to two families:
My godson Joseph Plumridge son of Thomas and Plumridge £10
My godaughter Ann Clark £10
John Plumridge son of Robert and Sarah Plumridge
Executors
Mr John Badger of Bisham
Mr Wildsmith Badger of Great Marlow
Wife Rebecca
Joseph Plumridge died 27 Dec 1809
Will proved 21 Feb 1810 by Wildsmith Badger

1800 Land Tax
Thomas Williams Esq: Mr Joseph Plumridge £0 16 0

1807 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: Mr Joseph Plumridge £4 £0 16 0

1809 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: J. Plumridge £4 £0 16 0

1810 3 Jan. Bur Joseph Plumridge aged 61

1810 Great Marlow Parish Church Interior
In memory of Mr Joseph Plumridge who died Dec 27, 1809 aged 61 years.
Also Rebecca his wife who died Feb 26 1810 aged 77 years.
They both lived deservedly respected and died justly lamented.

1810 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: George Goldsmith £4 £0 16 0

1810 31 Jan. Royal Exchange Insurance Mss 7253/4/251745
Thomas Wethered of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks brewer
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a Malthouse late
Joseph Plumridge’s 400

1814 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: George Goldsmith £4 £0 16 0

1815 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: Empty £4 £0 16 0

1816 25 April Royal Fire Insurance Mss 7253/73/293579
Thomas Wethered of Great Marlow Bucks brewer
On Utensils & Stock in Trade in a Malthouse No 4 brick lath & plaster built late Joseph Plumridge £900
On Utensils & Trade in 2 Storehouses adjoining and 3 lofts over the same brick & timber & tiled near late Joseph Plumridge’s £300
On a house situate in Great Marlow Tenant Wm Lilley, victualler, and known by the sign of the Two Brewers £400
On a stable and workshop adjoining near £50

1817 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: Empty £4 £0 16 0

1818 Land Tax
Mr Thomas Wethered: house & malthouse
late Plumridges £4 £0 16 0

1819 Land Tax
Mr Thomas Wethered: malthouse
late Plumridges £4 £0 16 0

1820 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: malthouse
late Plumridges £4 £0 16 0

1823 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: malthouse
late Plumridges £4 £0 16 0

1824 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: Thos Allum £4 £0 16 0

1825 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: Thos Allum £4 £0 16 0

1830 Francis’s Map Mr T.W. Allum near corner of High Street and Pound Lane

1830 Directory
Allum, Thomas William bricklayer High Street

1831 Land Tax
Owen Williams Esq: Thos Allum house £0 16 0

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1774 10 Aug Will of Henry Smith of Great Marlow maltster
Leaves copyhold, leasehold and freehold estates to wife Sarah on her decease to be divided between his four sisters

1778 4 Nov Burial of Henry Smith

1783 Land Tax
Mrs Smith: Mr Wethered 1 0 0
Mr Thomas Robinson …………… 1 16 0

1791 25 July Will of Sarah Smith of Great marlow widow
Executors, James Crease of Great Marlow Maltster and Joseph Plumridge of Great Marlow brewer

1792 Rate Book
Mr George Wethered for house & malthouse £19/19 £0 9s 9d
House & Malthouse in High Street £11 £0 5s 6d

1794 Directory Wethered, George, maltster

1795 17 June Will of Sarah Smith of Great marlow widow proved PCC

1795 Land Tax
Late Mrs Smith: Geo Wethered 1 0 0
Mr Thos Robinson: Geo Wethered 1 16 0

1797 Rate Book
Mr George Wethered house & malthouse £19/19 £0 9s 9d
House late Mr Smith’s £4 £0 2s 0d
House & Malthouse in High Street £11 £0 5s 6d

1799 Rate Book
Mr George Wethered for malthouse & new malthouse £16 £0 8s 0d
House late in Mrs Smith’s occupation £4 £0 2s 0d
For malthouse & premises adj £11 £0 5s 6d
Malthouse in Duck Lane £11 £0 5s 6d
Nb house not occupied

1800 Land Tax
Mr Thos Robinson: Mr Badger £9 £1 16 0

1800 Rate Book
Mr William Badger house & malthouse £20 £0 10s 0d

1802 Rate Book
William Badger for house & malthouse £2 8 0

1807 Rate Book
John Gibbons for house & malthouse £1 4 0

1810 Land Tax
Mrs Robinson: John Gibbons £9 £1 16 0

1823 2 Sept Will of Thomas Gibbons of Great Marlow gent
Son Richard Gibbons
All that messuage or tenement with the yard garden outbuildings warehouse & appurts thereunto belonging situate and being in St Peter Street Great Marlow aforesaid now in his own occupation
And also all those five several messuages cottages or tenements with the yards gardens outbuildings and appurts thereunto severally belonging situate and being in St Peter Street in Great Marlow aforesaid now in the respective occupations of John Sparks James Downer William Weymall Thomas Gardener and Richard Beath
And also all that piece or parcel of ground with the newly erected messuage or tenement counting house outbuildings and warehouse thereon standing or being or thereto adjoining with all and singular yards gardens premises rights members and appurts thereunto belonging or therewith used occupied or enjoyed situate and being in the parish of Great Marlow aforesaid near to Marlow Bridge and commonly called or known by the name of Limbrocke

Executors sons & dau Thomas, Richard & Elizabeth Gibbons
Proved PCC 17 July 1824

1823 Directory
Gibbons, Richard ropemaker St Peters Street

1830 Directory Rope manufacturers
Gibbons, Richard St Peters Street

1841 Schedule to 1861 deed to Limbrook includes mortgages by Richard Gibbons of Great Marlow Brewer 1841-

1842 Directory
Maltsters
Gibbons, Richard St Peter Street
Misc
Gibbons, Richard brewer & ropemaker St Peter Street

1848 Directory
Gibbons, Richard brewer maltster & rope manufacturer St Peter Street

1851 Census St Peter Street
Richard Gibbons brewer 5 men
Ann Gibbons 62
Edward Frederick Gibbons 27 brewers assistant
Charles Edmund 25 brewers assistant
Alfred Gibbons 22 Wine Merchant

1851 Church Rate Book
Owner: Gibbons; Occ: Richard Gibbons
House garden malthouse brewery yard stables store
rooms St Peters Street £34 17s
Store Rooms St Peters Street £7 4s 6d
Owner: Exec late S Barnes: Occ: Richard Gibbons
Malthouse St Peters Street £12 15s

1861 Census St Peters Street
Edward Frederick Gibbons 37 brewer employing 4 men

1864 Directory
Gibbons, Charles Edmund brewer St Peters Street

1866 Rate Book PR 140/20/1
680 Gibbons, Chas E. house, buildings,
storerooms, brewery, yard, land £49 12 0

1871 Census St Peters Street
William Betts head 41 boarding house keeper
Charles E Gibbons boarder 43 brewer

1872 Public Houses
Brewery Tap 1868 Charles Edward Gibbons Messrs Gregory, Great Marlow

1875 By 1875, the malthouse of R Gibbons in St Peters Street had been converted into a chair factory

1877 Directory
Buckingham Chair Co Ltd. (Reuben Nereus Smith managing director) St Peter’s Street
Smith, Reuben Nereus Assistant Overseer Marlow Fields

1881 Census St Peters Street
Richard Pearce 40 chair polisher (cabinet maker)

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