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Post Office Directory 1854

Post Office Directory of Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Huntingdonshire, 1854

SHERINGTON is a small parish and village, on the road from Newport Pagnell to OIney; it it 3 miles from the latter and 9 from the former, 10 from Bedford, and 6 from the Wolverton station on the London and North Western railway. The church, seated on an eminence, is Gothic, with square tower and small spire. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of the Bishop of Oxford, and incumbency of the Rev. Alexander King, M.A., archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford, value £410 per annum. The Mercers' Company of the city of London have property here. A reading society for the working classes is held in the village. Here are chapels for the Independents and Wesleyans. Acres, about 1,760; population, in 1851, 836.

GENTRY.
BeIl John, esq. Manor house
Brooks Mrs. Elizabeth
Bunnet Christopher
Green Miss Ellen, Sherington house
Griggs Mrs. Mary
King Rev. Alex. M.A. [vicar], Vicarage
Knight John, esq
Umney Misses Sarah & Caroline

TRADERS.
Attwood Wllliam, tailor
Bailey John, matting maker
Bass John, farmer
Borton Thomas, jun. farmer
Borton Thomas, sen. farmer
Brown Jane (Mrs.),shopkeeper & post off
Cave Peter, mason &c
Cripps George, beer retailer & brewer
Davison Thomas, baker
Field Frederick John, farmer, maltster & churchwarden
Gregory John, baker & farmer
Groom Joseph, blacksmith & tea dealer
Hewlett Thomas, farmer
Higgs John, grazier
Hill William, shoemaker
James Thomas, schoolmaster
Jefferson Edward, farmer
Joyce James, tea dealer & matting mak
Joyce William, parish clerk
Makeham WilIiam, farmer
Meadows Richard, farmer
Middleton James, Swan inn, & brewer
Oliver Richard, butcher
Rose Abrabam, tailor
Rose Anthony, wheelwright
Simco John, 'White Hart,' & butcher
Simco John, blacksmith
Smeeton Job, farmer
Tandy Richard, grocer & churchwarden
Umney Edwin, shopkeeper
Umney Thomas, matting maker
Underwood John, 'Old Castle,' & brewr
Watts Mary (Mrs.), schoolmistress
Whitworth John, tea dealer

POST OFFICE. - Mrs Jane Brown, receiver. Letters arrive from Newport Pagnell at 6 a.m. & are despatched at 7 p.m

Infant School, Mrs. Mary James, mistress

High Constable for the Hundred of Newport Pagnell & Registrar of Births & Deaths for the Olney District, Samuel Griggs

 

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