Kelly’s Directory 1920

Castle Thorpe 1920

Castle Thorpe is a village and parish separated from Northamptonshire by the river Tove, with a station on the main line of the London and North Western railway, 54½ miles from London, 7 miles west-north-west from Newport Pagnell, 3½ north from Stony Stratford, 11 from Northampton, and 2½ north from Wolverton in, the Buckingham division of the county, hundred petty sessional division, union, county court district of Newport Pagnell, rural deanery of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of Oxford. The church of SS. Simon and Jude stands in an elevated position on the border of the old Castle yard, and is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Transitional and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays and aisles, west porch and a low embattled western tower with pinnacles containing one bell: the font is large and ancient, with two human heads at the two western corners: and there are sedilia and a piscina: in the chancel is a monument to Sir Thomas Tyrrell, knt. a justice of the Common Pleas, who died March,1671 erected by his 3rd wife and widow Dame Bridget (Harrington): there are 180 sittings. The register dates from year 1530. The living is a chapelry, annexed to Hanslope, joint net yearly value £210, including 21 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1892 by the Rev. William Jardine Harkness M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who resides at the vicarage house, Hanslope. An inscription on the monument above mentioned records that Dame Bridget Tyrrell gave £10 yearly to the poor of the place, which has been invested in the purchase of 18 acres of land, producing £36 yearly, and by a scheme of the Charity Commissioners this sum is applied as follows: half for keeping in repair the nave of the church £1 for an annual sermon on March 8th in memory of Sir Thomas Tyrrell, and the remainder in doles for the poor. Here is a Wesleyan chapel restored in 1888.The estate of Castlethorpe, granted by Charles II in 1663 to Sir Thomas Tyrrell, is now held by Mrs. Watts who is lady of the manor. The Marquis of Lincoln K.G. is the principal landowner and the Corporation of Lincoln are the tithe owners The parish was enclosed in 1793 by Act of Parliament . The soil is mixed; subsoil, stone and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 1,360 acres of land and 12 of water; assessable value £9,551
Elementary School, built in 1891, for 140 children; Harry H. Middleton, master; Mrs. Middleton girls' mistress; Miss Annie Gregory, infants' mistress.

Surname Forename Occupation
PRIVATE RESIDENTS

CANNON Lea Mrs.
EVANS Noel rev. (curate of SS Simom & Jude) B.A.
RICHARDSON Edward Sunnyside
WARNER
The Retreat (Miss)
WATTS
Langton House (Miss)
COMMERCIAL

AMOS Farmer farmer
CLARKE Thomas florist
CROSS Aubrey Ernest shopkeeper
GREGORY Susan shopkeeper (Mrs)
HALL John coal merchant
MARKHAM Ellen farmer (Mrs)
MASTERMAN Arthur Carrington Arms P.H.
OSBORNE Thomas assistant overseer & collector of poor rate
POWELL Edward shopkeeper
RAINBOW William George sub-postmaster
WHITING Joseph Evans farmer, Lower Lodge Farm
WILLETT Albert shopkeeper
WILLINGHAM William coal dealer
MIDDLETON Harry H. school master
MIDDLETON
girls' mistress (Mrs)
GREGORY Annie infants' mistress (Miss)
BYWATER Charles station master
Post, M.O. & T. & T. E. D. Office. William George Rainbow, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Stony Stratford Wall Letter Box on Railway bridge
POPULATION 1911 - 514 (as written)