Chalfont St Giles pub history index
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CHALFONT ST. GILES is a large village and parish in the hundred of Burnham,
union of Amersham, situate on the west of the Misbourne stream, 3 1/2 miles
S.E. of Amersham, 2 from Chalfont St. Peters, 4 from Gerrard's Cross, and 23
from London. The church is a very ancient structure, in the Norman style;
the interior is neat, and contains an old Saxon font. In the chancel (which
has been lately restored) was discovered behind one of the marble monuments,
a very handsome double piscina, in one of the drains of which were found
nine silver coins, some of them of the reign of Edward I. There are brasses
to the Gardiner and Fleetwood families; monuments to Dr. Francis Hare,
Bishop of Chichester, and his family; also to Sir S. Fleetwood, Sir Hugh
Palliser, the Rev W. Jones, Charles Molloy, and Thomas Allen, Esqrs. The
living is a rectory, in the deanery of Amersham and gift of the Bishop of
Oxford, annual value £804; the Rev. Charles Lloyd, rector. At Jordans is the
burial-place of the Quakers, called the Westminster of that persuasion, from
the fact that the ancestors of most of the leading Quakers of the present
day are there interred. Here lie the remains of the great William Penn,
Governor of Pennsylvania; of Thomas Elwood, author of "Davideus;" also of
the Penningtons, Mastermans, Mildreds, Peters, and others brought from
different parts of England to be buried at this place. There are chapels for
Independents, Congregationalists, and Primitive Methodists. A very fine
building has lately been erected for the Free National School, the old one
having been found inadequate to the wants of the population. This
institution is endowed by the late Sir Hugh Palliser, Bart., with a sum of
money at present producing £43 per annum, also with two sums of £664 13s.
4d. each, bequeathed by Mrs Molloy and the Rev. W. Jones. Among the objects
of interest in tbe village is the house in which the immortal John Milton
resided during the plague of London in 1665. It was here, when already
blind, he concluded his "Paradise Lost," and drew out the first design of
"Paradise Regained." The house bears the name of Milton on its front, and is
a humble half-timbered cottage. The Vache, the property of Thomas Newland
Allen, Esq., JP., lord of the manor, was according to local tradition, a
dairy-farm of King John. It was the ancient residence of the Fleetwoods, one
of whom having been one of the Judges of Charles I., was attainted and this
estate confiscated to the Crown, from whence it passed to James, Duke of
York, afterwards James II., who sold it in 1665 to Sir Thomas Clayton, from
whom it descended to his son, who bequeathed it to his wife who left it to
her niece, then the wife of Bishop Hare, the representatives of whom sold it
to the late Sir Hugh Palliser, whose son sold it to Thomas Allen, Esq,
father of Thomas Newland Allen, Esq., the present possessor. The other mow
important seats in the neighbourhood are the Rectory (lately enlarged and
improved), the residence of the Rev. Charles Lloyd, J.P.; the Stone House,
the Rev. Henry Palmer; Stone Dean, the Rev. Edward Moore; and the Grove,
Mrs. Hannah Priestley. The parish comprises an area of 3641 acres; the soil
is i loam, and chalk; the population in 1861 was 1217.
Gentry.
Allen Thomas Newland, esq., J.P.
Anthony Mrs Mary
Best Rev J. K., (curate), Hill cottage
Fenn Rev W. M., Misbonrne honse
Hutchings Mr William, Three households
Lloyd Rev Charles, J.P., Rectory
Morten Richard, esq., Misbourne farm
Mair Mrs Sarah, Nightingale house
Moore Rev Edward, Stone dean
Newlyn Rev Peter
Nisbet Ralph Paterson, esq., Row wood
Palmer Rev Henry, the Stone house
Priestley Mrs Hannah, the Grove
Traders.
Ayres George, blacksmith
Ayres Henry, bricklayer
Bell Thomas, tailor
Blake John, Pheasant
Brooks John, farmer, Loudhams
Bryan E. W., National schoolmaster
Burgess Thomas, farmer
Busby George, Three Sugar Loaves
Busby Sarah (Mrs), draper and grocer
Clark Joseph, boot and shoemaker
Clarke Richard, farmer, Three households
Colemam Daniel, farmer, Rowling's farm
Curtis John, Crown, and butcher
Curtis Mary, White Hart, Three households
Curtis William, baker and beer retailer
Davis _, farmer, Three households
Edwards Thomas, bricklayer
Fenn Rev W. M., gents' preparatory school
Fenner Edward, chairmaker, Three households
Gaymer Mary (.Mrs), National shool mistress
Goodman William, farmer, grocer, & postmaster
Goodman William Cammyer, farmer, Bowstridge farm
Gurney James, farmer, miller, and maltster
Gurney Thomas, farmer, Bottom's farm
Hancox Edward, farmer, Gorelands
Hearne John, wheelwright
Hearne Joseph, carpenter
Hearne William, carpenter and beer retailer
Hitchcock Sarah (Mrs), plumber, glazier and painter
Kirby Joseph, brickmaker, Frogball
Lane Edmund, grocer
Miller John, grocer
Montague Henry, Rose & Crown, Ivy house
Morten Richard, farmer, Misbourne farm
Mortimer Joseph, carpenter and farmer
Mortimer Mary Ann (Mrs), shopkeeper, Three households
Nash William, saddler
Nash William, jun. farmer and butcher
Pierce John, beer retailer and wood and coal dealer
Robertson Robert, farmer, Ashwell farm
Robinson George, farmer, Horwood downs
Rowles James, farmer
Safwell Thomas, shopkeeper and sieve maker, Three households
Stacey James, baker
Stone William, chairmaker, Three households
Tripp Lowing, blacksmith, Three households
Weedon Thomas, farmer, Grove farm
Wetton Alfred, draper, grocer and cheesemonger
Williams Thomas Winn, corn and cattle dealer
Willmott George, barometer cabinet maker
Worley Daniel, chairmaker
Wooster George, farmer, Upper Bottoms farm
Post Office - Mr William Goodman, post master. Letters from Gerrard's cross,
arrive at 8 a.m. and are dispatched at 6 p.m., except Sundays, when they are
dispatched at 11 a.m.
National School - Mr E. W. Bryan, master; Miss Mary Gaymer, mistress
Coach To London. - A coach from Wendover passes through every morning at
half past 8, and returns every evening at half past 6
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