STONE HUNDRED 



HADDENHAM 



rectory, hence his family had presumably owned it 

 without interruption since its purchase in 1655.** 



There is a Baptist chapel at Ford in this parish, 

 built in 1716, with a mission chapel attached to it 

 at Dinton. 



Dame Elizabeth Hoddesden, who 

 CHARITIES died II March 1637, by will left 

 15, the interest to be given yearly 

 on the day of her death to ten or twelve poor old 

 persons by the direction of the minister and church- 

 wardens. The principal sum appears to have been 

 received and spent by the parish, but no mm 

 by way of interest has been distributed for many 

 years. 



Mrs. Matilda Phelps by will, proved in 1867, left 

 100 to be invested and income applied by the 

 vicar of Dinton, and the owner of Dinton Hall, in the 

 distribution of coals to poor and aged widows and 

 spinsters. The legacy is represented by 103 l8/. <)J. 

 India 3 per cent, stock with the official trustees. 

 The dividend, amounting to 3 21. \<L, was in 

 1905-6 distributed in coal to eight widows and 

 two spinsters. 



In 1876 Miss Eliza Goodall by will left 200 

 consols (with the official trustees), the dividends to 

 be applied annually in the month of January for the 



benefit of all or such of the poor as should be then 

 residing in the cottages known as the ' Church 

 Houses,' and in such shares as the owner of the 

 Dinton Hall estate should think well. By a scheme 

 of the Charity Commissioners, 1901, it was provided 

 that so long as there should be no inmates of the 

 Church Houses the income should be applied for the 

 benefit of deserving and necessitous persons in such 

 way as might be considered most conducive to the 

 formation of provident habits. In 1906 coal, articles 

 of clothing, and money were distributed to twenty 

 recipients. 



Mrs. Sarah Maria Clotilda Roper by will 1866, 

 proved in 1 88 1, among other charitable legacies, 

 bequeathed specific sums and share of residue for 

 the benefit of this parish. The estate was administered 

 in the Chancery Division of the High Court, and in 

 the result 89 consols (with the official trustees) and 

 450 \-]s. \d. consols (in court) were assigned for 

 the benefit of the organist ; 89 1 5/. 6J. consols 

 (with the official trustees) for the poor ; 558 3/. $d. 

 consols (in court) for the poor schools; andjco7 l"Ji. $J. 

 consols (in court) for the benefit of the Dinton school- 

 house. The amount applicable for educational pur- 

 poses, about 26 a year, is received by the national 

 schools. 



HADDENHAM 



Nedreham (xi cent.); Hedrehau (xi cent); Heden- 

 ham (xiii cent.). 



The parish of Haddenham lies in the Vale of 

 Aylesbury towards its western limit. Its boundaries 

 are formed on all sides, except the east, by the River 

 Thame and its tributaries, the Dad Brook on the 

 north, the Ford Brook on the south, and the Thame 

 on the west. There are two mineral springs in the 

 parish, one at Dadbrook and the other at Manor 

 Farm. The parish is fairly level, lying at an altitude 

 jf between 250 ft. and 300 ft. above the Ordnance 

 datum ; there is little timber, and the land is in 

 parts bleak and exposed. The subsoil is partly gault 

 and partly Portland beds. 1 There are 1,596^ acres of 

 arable land and 1,214$ acres of permanent pasture.' 



Besides agriculture, the inhabitants are occupied in 

 duck and poultry breeding, and at the Haddenham 

 brick works. Two branches of the road from Thame 

 to Aylesbury pass through the parish, the village of 

 Haddenham lying across the line of the southern 

 branch. There is a station on the Gre.it Central 

 Railway a short distance from the village, and a 

 branch of the Great Western Railway passes through 

 the parish. 



The village is large and straggling, having at its 

 south end, known as Church End, a large green with 

 a pond, and the church on the south side of the 

 green. There are a few good Georgian houses and 

 many thatched cottages. The larger houses in the 

 parish, Scotsgrove House, Grenville Manor House, 

 and the Hall are of no architectural interest. At the 

 north-east angle of the churchyard is an old house, 



which has in its ground-floor rooms some early 17th- 

 century panelling, and the upper story, which partly 

 overhangs, was originally one large room with an open 

 roof. It may have been the church house. Stud 

 partitions have, however, been inserted in the first 

 floor dividing it up into several bedrooms, and the 

 house has, especially to the south, been greatly 

 modernized. 



In the Domesday Survey the manor 

 MANORS of HADDENHAM. appears under the 

 name of ' Nedreham,' and Cuddington 

 was also probably included in it. 1 



It had been held in the time of King Edward by 

 Earl Tostig, but William the Conqueror had given it 

 to Archbishop Lanfranc. It was assessed at 40 hides 

 and valued at .40, and there were said to be eight 

 days' hay (per viii" diet fenum) for the ' ferm ' of the 

 archbishop. 4 



William II gave the manor, at Lanfranc's request,' 

 to the church of St. Andrew, Rochester, the grant 

 being confirmed by the archbishop.* On the latter's 

 death in 1099 a dispute arose between the king and 

 Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, concerning Hadden- 

 ham, the king demanding that 100 should be paid 

 before the grant was confirmed, and the bishop pro- 

 testing that he did not even possess so large a sum. 7 

 It was finally agreed that Gundulf should, at his own 

 cost, fortify the enceinte of Rochester Castle with a 

 stone wall,' in return for which William gave the 

 manor to Rochester Cathedral.' Gundulf introduced 

 the rule of St. Benedict at Rochester, 10 and Hadden- 

 ham appears amongst the lands of the reformed 



*** Feet of F. Bucks. Mich. ] Anne. 

 > V.C.H. Bmckt. i, Geological Map. 

 ' Information from Bd. of Agric. 



. Bttki. i,3i. 

 Ibid. 



Cott. MS. Dom. x, fol. 105. 



Ibid. 107 j Rymer, FeoJtra (Sjrlla- 

 bu.),,. 



28l 



1 Campb. Chart, vii, I } r.C.H. Bttki, 

 i, an. 



Wharton, Anglia Sacra, i, 337. 



Campb. Chart, vii, i. 

 10 Uugdalr, Mm. i, 155. 



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