The trustees of the will of the fourth Viscount Clifden have instructed Messrs. Knight, Frank, and Rutley to sell the portions of his estates at Worminghall and Thornley, in the counties of Oxford and Bucks, by auction during the coming season. The property extends to 2037 acres, and includes the village of Worminghall, with its interesting old almhouses, erected in 1675. A curious custom still exists. On Good Friday the thirtythree occupants receive a loaf four times the size of an ordinary loaf and 1/- each, and on leaving the church they drop a penny in the clerk’s hat in order that he may keep the memorial brass clean. The “Feast”—the local fair—is held in the village every year.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 136, 25 May 1911, Page 11
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