Current Charities

Created by Friends of the Church on the Hill for a Heritage Open Days Display at St. Mary's Church.

Summary, believed to have been produced by Malcolm Grant when he was vicar:

Charity of George Burghope, founded by deed 28 February 1723. In respect of 12 acres intermixed with the glebe land, the vicar is required to pay to the clerk 3s. 4d. for tolling the bell on St. John's Day and to pay to the poor sums of 6s. 8d. for attending services on certain holy days, and 20s. to poor widows and other poor within ten days after the anniversary of the funeral of the donor. In 1908 the sum of £2 12s. 10d. was so distributed. 

It receives an annual income from the rent of a field in Northall and is an umbrella charity for the Parish Nurse Charity ad the Church Charity. It splits the income between them. The Church Charity pays an annual sum to the parish chuuch (St Marys, Eaton Bray)

Summary, believed to have been produced by Malcolm Grant when he was vicar:

The Town Land of this parish and that of the hamlet of Dagnall and the Edlesborough Church Estate (fn. 278) have been amalgamated. The property now consists of 18 acres or thereabouts, situate in Edlesborough, of the annual rental value of £23 5s., which, under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 17 December 1907, is applicable one-third towards providing a parish nurse for the poor of the parish, including the hamlets of Northall and Dagnall, and two-thirds for church purposes. The official trustees also hold £31 1s. 2d. India 3½ per cent. stock in trust for the parish nurse branch, arising from accumulations of income.