KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE - 1895

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. DORCHESTER. 85 tion of the northern nave forming the choir, north choir aisle, south porch and a massive embattled western tower, rebuilt about 1602 and containing a clock and 8 bells, the tenor weighing 18 cwt. and bearing the legend ''Protege Birine quos convoco tu sine fine." It exhibits portions of every ecclesiastical style and of transition~ from one style to another: the exterior, there being no clerestory, appears long and low, but the interior, from the peculiarity of its arrangement, is striking; its proportions are unquestionably fine and the Decorated arcades of the choir are particularly elegant: the north aisle is Transitional Early English, with an east window of the Decorated period and a piscina and aumbries : the presbytery and south nave are of a date somewhat later than the Decorated period, and the latter has a round altar platform, a singular doorway, with enriched triangular headed arch in the south-east angle, and next it a piscina of the same character, with hanging tracery in the head; and here also is an early and curious wall painting of the " Crucifixion," and on an altar tomb is the recumbent effigy of a warrior in chain mail, c. 1250, and south of this another altar tomb, with a draped figure of the 14th century, believed on good authority to represent John de Stonor, chief justice of the Common Pleas, 1329, and with some interruption till his death in 1354; there is aJso a Perpendicular altar tomb bearing a fine recumbent knightly effigy of alabaster, conjectured from the arms upon it to represent a member of the Se grave family, c. 1400; the sides of the tomb are surrounded by many small buttresses, alternating with canopied arches : this part of the church has also a stone incised with a figure of a bishop and an inscription to Roger, prior of Ranton, Staffordshire, a~bbot of Dorchester and suffragan bishop of Lydda, ob. 15ro; beneath is a crypt about II by 8 feet in area : the chancel arch is Transition Norman, dating from n8o, and to this style belong also the north nave wall above the string course (the lower portion being Saxon work) and its western and eastern bays : the east window of the choir, of Transitional Decorated work, has fine reticulated tracery, and is adorned with statuettes and pinnacles; and divided into two portions of three lights each, by a large plain buttress: the Jesse window, on the north side of the choir, also Decorated, is of four lights with imagery on the mullions, which are crossed by foliaged wavmg lines, intended to represent branches, and the whole forms a genealogical tree springing from a figure of Jesse recumbent on the ledge under the centre mullion; the crowning figure of Our Lady, bearing in her arms the infant Jesus, has been unfortunately destroyed: the south window of the choir is Perpendicular, and remarkable as having a transom across the centre of the window with figures in stone representing a procession of ecclesiastics to celebrate the Holy Eucharist ; below ]t are three canopied sedilia and a piscina, also canopied; the sedilia, c. 1350, are pierced at the back and glazed near the top with glass of the 12th century, representing incidents in the life of S. Birinus: the choir stalls are Perpendicular, with poppy heads and panelled ends, one of which bears a scroll with the name of Richard Bewforest, entwining his pastoral staff: the font is a Norman work of lead, with figures of the apootles, and is set on a stone base ; some, however, have supposed the font to be a relic of the old Saxon church: on the north side of the nave is a memorial window to the Rev. W. C. Macfarlane M.A. vicar, r8S6- 86; there are brasses to Sir John Drayton kt. c. 14II, with effigy wearing a collar of SS. and to his wife I sa bella; a shield of arms of the Drayton family, c. 1450; Sir Richard Bewfforeste, abbot, 1510; a lady, c. 1490; William Tanner, Richard Beweforest and his wife Margaret, 1513; one with a wool-merchant's mark, and a slab containing the matrix of a brass to John Sutton, abbot, I34Q: in the south nave is a memorial to Thomas Day, r69-:;, with a. quaint verse; and there are mural monumeuts, with arms, to Mrs. Agnes Clarke, daughter (lf Lord Viscount Wenman, ob. 1661; Charles, son of William Caster, ob. 1668; Anne (Clarke), wife of Edward Carleton, of Penrith, ob. 1669; and to Mary (Port), wife of John Granger, d. 1751: several stone coffins have been disinterred at different times, one of which contained remains wrapped in gilt leather, and a pewter chalice : the whole building was restored under the superintendence of the late Sir Gilbert Scott R.A. ; the work having been begun under the auspices of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society in 1846: there are 578 sittings : the entrnnce to the church is on the south side by a spacious stone porch, with timbered roof, south of which, in the churchyard, is an ancient cross, with a restored head: at the entrance to the churchyard is a good lych gate, ovenhadowed by a very fine chestnut tree. The register of haptisms and burials dates from the year 1638; marriages, 1639. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £IBo, net yearly value [,r6, _including 23 acres of glebe, with residence, in the g1ft of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since r886 by the Rev. Nathaniel Castleton Stephen Poyn.tz M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford, and surrogate. The Catholic church, dedicated to St. Birinus, is an edifice in the Decorated style, built and opened in 1849, at the sole expense of the late John Davey esq. who also devised his house for the use of the resident priest : it consists of chancel and nav~, separated by a carved oak screen, and south porch: the altar is of stone, supported by sculptured figures of the Evangelists; the east and other windows are stained. The Missionary College of SS. Peter and Paul was founded October 30, 1878, through the exertions of the late Rev. W, C. Macfarlane ~I.A. and is intended for the training of students for the mission work of the Church of England in foreign parts ; the course of study, which extends over two or three years, includes the study of the Holy Scriptures in the original languages, classics, history, the careful and practical study of the Prayer Book and of theology, based on Pear son and Hooker; the buildings, consisting in part of converted dwelling houses, are in a· quaint English Domestic style, and besides rooms for students, include a chapel, library, and refectory ; the college is at present available for 13 students; the government is 1in the hands of a committee, with the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford as visitor; the Rev. Darwell Stone M.A. of Merton College, Oxford, principal. The market has long been discontinued, but an annual pleasure fair 1s still held on Easter Tuesday. The Dorchester Cottagers' Horticultural Society was established in 1869, and holds annual shows, at which prizes are offered for competition. Good fishing for barbel, pike, tench and perch may be had from Day's lock and weir as far as Shillingford. Dunch's charity of £33 yearly is for distribution in money, and Sir G. Fettiplace's of £Io for bread. At a short distance from the town are the remains of an ancient Roman camp, called "Dike Hill," consisting of a double intrenchment about three-quarters of a mile long; the banks being in general about 20 yards apart and 20 feet in extreme height, a considerable portion on the west side and a small portion of the east .side have, however, been recently levelled by the plough; at the north-west corner of the village stands a farm house called "Bishop's Court," occupying the site of the ancient palace. On Sinodun Hill, in the neighbourhood on the opposite bank of the Thames, is an ancient British earthwork; and in the town and its vicinity coins of gold, silver and brass, from Julius Cresar (B.C. 45-44) to Heraclius (A.D. 610-41), have been plentifully met with; in 1731 a small inscribed altar was found here, and in 1736 a ring of gold, inscribed with the date of the consecration of St. Birinus, A. D. 636; this hill forms a remarkable land mark from the river. Sir John Christopher Willoughby hart. of Baldon, is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is alluvial; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The entire area of the parish is 3,194 acres, including 38 of water; rateable value, £ ; the population in 1891 was 852. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office.-William Gardner, sub-postma~ter. Letters through Wallingford arrive at 7 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 11.30 a.m. & 7 p.m.; on sunday at 11.30 a.m Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.30 p.m.; sunday, Io.so a.m Schools. National (boys), with an endowment of £w yearly, & holding 8o boys; average attendance, so; this school, founded as a Grammar school in 165 2 by Sir John Fettiplace bart. of Swinbrook, has been converted. with the approval of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. into a National school for boys; William Henry Mackett, master National (girls & infants), built in 1878, for 200 children; average attendance, 101 ; )fiss E. Smith, mist Carrier.-James Greenaway, to Abingdon, mon. & thurs.; to Oxford, sat.; to Wallingford, fri Overy is a hamlet in the parish, half a mile south from the town, on the east of the Thame. The population is returned with Dorchester. BURCOTT is a hamlet in this parish, in the union of Abingdon, a mile and a half north-west from the town, on the river Isis. The area is 679 acres; rateable value, £1,049; the population in 189i was 1.p. The schooi

86 DORCHESTER. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's here, seating So persons, is licensed by the bishop for Hampden the nearest telegraph office. Wall Letter divine service, which is held every Sunday afternoon. Box cleared at 5.30 p.m. ; sundays, 10,50 a.m Letters arrive for Burcotlt through .Abingdon at 8.30 School (mixed), built in I86g, fur 8o children; average a. m. Dorchester is the nearest money order & Olifton attendance, 32; Mrs. Annie Reid, mistress !JORCHESTER. Bullock Edwin, baker & grocer SS. Peter & Paul Missionary Colleg6 Byass William Clutton, surgeon & (Rev. Darwell Stone M. A. principal; PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barry Rev. William D.D. (Catholic) Illackett Edward, Rose cottage Blunt Col. Arthur, Manor house Bosher William Byass William Clutton Cadel George Cook Mrs Harris Miss Holmes Rev. George Edward Wilmot (curate) Jemmett Mrs. Port house I.atham Thomas, Bishops court Lowe Harry Minchin Thomas, Beech house Poyntz Rev. Nathaniel Castleton Stephen M.A. (vicar & surrogate), The Vica.rage Ruck George (tutor Missionary Coil) Smith Mrs. Abbey view Stone Rev. Darwell M.A. (principal of the Missionary College) Sutcliffe Mvs Turrill Mrs "''bitehorn William COMMERCIAL. Bannister Rosa (Mrs.), butcher medical officer & public vaccinator, George Ruck, tutor) Dorchcster dist. W allingford union Tame Thomas, beer retailer · Chambers Frederick, carpenter & The Turner Ameliaj E. (Mrs.), White Hari Old Castle P.H commercial hotel; good accommo• Cobb .Johri, ironmngr. & general smith dation for fishing & boating parties Cobb Vincent, tailor Wheeler George, builder · Fletcher \VilliMU Kay, grocer. Whichelo Rachael (Mrs.), Crown inn Freeman Hy. watch ma.& photographr Willsdon Thomas, wheelwright Gardner William, grocer &c Woodbridge Chas. corn mer. & saddler Green Ann (Mrs.), plumber & glazier · ' Green Edward, grocer Green George, assistant overseer & collector of taxes Green George, shopkeeper Greenaway Jame>s, carrier & shopkpr Hatt Richard, farmer, Queenford mill Hawes Vincent, boot & shoe maker & land measurer Ha-wkins William, The.Plough P.H Holliday Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Holliday William, boot & shoe maker Honeybone Albert, stone mason Howse John, Fleur-de-Lis P.H Jordan Henry, wheelwright Jordan Thomas, George inn Latham Thomas, farmer, Bishops et Palm er John, boot maker BURCOTT. Bishop Miss, Clinchers close Higgins George Randell, Croft house Co-operative Stores (Mrs. Ann J ames, manageress) Co1lett John, farm bailiff to Thomas Latham esq Ody Mary Maria(Mrs.),ChequersP.B Whitehorn William, dairyman OVERY. Davey Robert, Ovary house Jones Henry, farm bailiff to Mrs. Shrubb of Shillingford Turner William, miller (water) DRA YTON (near Banbury) is a parish and village, 2~ '\-Yilliam Greville, eldest son of the preceding, 1440: miles north-west from Banbury station on the Great beneath a recessed arch, near the north door, is 'a stone VVestern railway, and 25 north-west from Oxford, in the sarcophagus, with carved foliage on the lid: the church Northern division of the county, hundred of Bloxham, was restored in I877-8, at a cost of £r,3oo, and affords union and county oourt district of Banbury, Banbury and 150 sittings. The register dates from the 25th July, Bloxham petty sessional division, rural deanery of Ded- I577· The living is a rectory, corn rent £r2r, net dington and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The yearly value £zoo, with residence and 8o acres of glebe, church of St. Peter is a small edifice of stone of the in the gift of the Oxford trustees, and held since 1878 by 14th century, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of the Rev. Percival Walsh Jordan. There are charities, three bays, and aisles, all of good Decorated work, south amounting to upwards of £30, distributed annually. porch and a low western tower of mGdern date, contain- Coins of the later Roman Emperors have been found ing 3 bells: the nave is separated from the aisles by here. The Earl De La Warr, who is lord of the manor, arcades of three plain arches on either side: the font is aml Lord North are the principal landowners. The soil plain and round : the east window of the chancel and the is red loam; subsoil, clay. The crops are general. The east window of the north aisle are both stained: there area is 926 acres; rateable value, £1,538; the populais a piscina in the chancel and two sedilia and a piscina tion in 18gr was 176. in the. sDuth aisle: in the church are various memorials Sexton, Henry Brown. . of tlie Grevilles, who once had a mansion here ; these Letteru through Banbury arrive at 7 a .. m. Banbury is include an altar tQmb, the upper slab of which is incised thb nearest money order & Wroxton the nearest telewith figures of a knight and lady, and the arms of graph offices. Wall Letter Box, near the rech)ry, is Greville impaling Arden; and above these a scroll, with cleared at 5·35 p.m. week days only · · · inscription in LatJn, to Lodovick Greville, 1438, and National School (mixed), for 8o children; average •atMargaret (.Arden ), his wife : in the south aisle is a iendance, 36 ; clhl.efl.y supported by subscriptions; Mrs. similar tomb, with incised figure and inscription to :Mary' Eliza Bailey, mistress Jordan Rev. Percival Walsh, Rectory I Robley Alfred, farmer I Malings Robert, Roebuck P.H · Gardner Peter, farmer Hobley Alfred James, farmer llValker JO'hn, farmer · DRAYTON ST. LEONARD (near Wallingford), so were added, one of which is a memorial to Abraham called to distinguish it from Drayton, near Ban bury, is a De:tne esq. : on the south side is a piscina, and oppositP. ,parish and village, Dn the western bank of the Thame, 2 tD it traces of an aumbry, near which are two mutilated Jiniles from its confluence with the Isis, 3t miles east corbel heads : the chancel arch is quite plain: the north lr6m Culham station -on the Reading and Oxford section and south doorways are Norman, and there is one winof the Great Western railway, 5 miles north from Wal- dow of this date, but the others are either Early English lingford and 7 miles east from Abingdon, in the or Perpendicular, and the font is of the latter period: Southern division of the county, hundred of Dorchester, the church was restored in 185g, under the superinpett~.- sessional division of BullingdDn, .Abingdon union tendence of the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. when the and ~ounty court district, rural deanery of Cuddesdon chcmcel was almost entirely rebuilt, a.t the expense of and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford : the St. Leonard, a small and plain building of stDne in roc1f of the nave was also cleared to the timbers, the mixed styles, consists of chancel, nave, a chapel on the ga'Uery taken away and the high pews replaeed by open north side, south porch and a wooden belfry over the sittings: the church was re-opened 13 Feb. r86o: an western gable, containing a fine peal of 6 bells, corn. account of the mDnuments and arms in this church, prisin~ the 3 old bells, of which the tenm was simply chiefly of the Draytons, is found in Wood's MS. D 14: inscribed "Sancta Katerina ora pro nobis," and two there are IIO sittings besides those in the chancel; 46 others dated respectively 1603 and 1625, all which were are appropriated. The register dates fr·om the year recast in r884 and 3 new bells added, the inseriptions 1568. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge and medallions on the old ibells being carefully repro- £242, gross yearly value [302, net £275, with residenre, duced on the new; the treble bell was presented by Sir in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, J. C. Willoughby bart. of Ilaldon, the sec-ond bell by Oxford, and held since r858 by the Rev . .Arthur James .Abraham Deane esq. and the third bell as a memorial by Williams M . .A. of Christ Church, Oxford, and surrogate, the relatives of the late Henry Bet'teridge esq.: the Charities: Mary Spyer, by will in r697, left a renttower was also at the same time strengthened, the walls 1 ! charge of £5 yearly for apprenticing a boy or girl of covered with oak shingles and a clock introduced : the this parish, bu't the parishioners do not appear to have chancel is Decorated and has an east window of three applied for this charity since 1790; there is also {\ small lights: in one af the north windows is a fragment of 1 estate, of the yearly value of £7, which is devoted to rsth century glas!'l, representing a bishop and said to be j the repairs of the church, church fence and gates of the intended for St. Leonard; in 1894 two stained windows churchyard. Tha rights of fishing in the Thame stream

DlliECTORY.J OXFORDSHIRE. DUCKLINGTON. 87 in this parish are held by Sir John C. Willoughby bart. and H. Deane :Betteridge esq. and Trinity College, Oxford. Sir John Christ<Jpher Willoughby bart. of :Baldon, who is the lord of the manor, the President and fellows of Trinity College, Oxford, H. Deane :Betteridge esq. and the trustees of the Hazeley poor are the principal landowners. The soil is generally friable ; ·subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans and roots. The area is 1,260 acres; ratea,ble value, £ r,822; the population in r8gr was 265. Parish Qerk, Charles Read. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office.- Joseph Polley, sub-postmaster:. Letters through Wallingford arrive at 8 a.m. & 3.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. Stadhampton is the telegraph office National School, built in 1855, for 6o children; average attendance, 45 ; Miss Eleanor Ford, mistress; Miss Bessie Lambeth, assistant mis'tress PRIVATE RESIDE~TS. ::Betteridge Henry Deane, Drayton ho Jlawting Miss COMMERCIAL. Buswell Richard Davenport, farmer, Ball James William, farm bailiff to The Grange Rev. George Moore Polley Joseph, baker, Post office Betteridge Henry Deane, farmer & Townsend Ph<.ebe (Mrs.), Catherine Williams Rev. Arthur James 1-I.A. (rector & surrogate), Rectory landowner Wheel P.ll. & blacksmith Honey Phoobe(Miss),shpkpr.& beer ret Way Thomas Edwmd, farmer 'DUCKLINGTON, with the chapelry of Hardwick, is ,a parish, on the river Windrush, x~ miles south from '\Vitney station on the Oxford and Fairford branch of the Great ·western railway, and 12 west from Oxford, in the Mid divisi-on of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bampton East, union and county ..court district of Witney, rural deanery of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. :Bartholomew is an ancient and fine building of stom, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled western tower, of "Transition Norman and Perpendicular work, containing .a clock and 7 bells : the chancel is Early English, lighted by five lancets with wide splay aRd one three-light east window of Perpendicular date, and has good Early English sedile, piscina and locker ; the nave is divided from the aisles by an arcade of three bays on either side; the south arcade is Transition Norman, with cylindrical piers, and that on the north side very fine De- ·corated; the north aisle has two sepulchral recesses ·with very rich Decorated canopies; above, under the ·cornice of the aisle, is a series of sculptured panels, with 1nutilated figures, representing "the Salutation," "the Nativity" and "the Annunciation," and the tracery of the east window in this aisle displays " the Coronation of the Virgin;" there is also a Norman font; the reredDs, given by the Rev. Thomas Farley, rector from 1836 until 'bis death, 24 Feb. 187o, is of oak, carved in three panels, and represents in the centre "The Last Supper," on the left "Christ before Pilate," and on the right "The Scourging at the Pillar:" in 1872 the church was renovated and reswred at a cost of £6oo, and again in r884, the work in the chancel being carried out at the cost of the present rector: in the chancel is a memorial to ·Mainwaring Hammond D.D. canon and prebendary of Winchester, and rector here from 1695 until his death, 13 June, 1731; and to Phillis his wife d. 1716: he was ~ne of the ejected fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, in the reign of James II. and the first incumbent presented to this living by that society ; a slab in the navtl is inscribed to Matthew Prior, 1718: the church has been reseated with open benches, and affords 220 sittings. The register of baptisms dates imperfectly from the year 1550; marriages, 158r; burials, 158o; it contains one -entry of a supra-centenarian, "old widow Knapp," bur. Ioth March, 1727, aged 105. _An index to the registers, from the beginning to the end of x88o, has been compiled by the rector, and printed in the Transactions of the ·Oxfordshire Archreological Society, 1881. The living is a rectory with the parochial chapelry of Hardwick annexed, gross commuted tithe rent-charge £576, average £441, net yearly value £340, with 38 3/Cres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the President and Fellows of Magdalen Colle~e, Oxford, and held since 1870 by the "Rev William Dunn Macray M.A. of that collem~, _, F.S.A. and assistant sub-librarian of the :Bodleian library. Here is a small Baptist chapel. Mrs. Ann Sammon's charity !or Ducklington consists of the interest on £105 ns. 4d. Reduced Three per Cents. and is distributed in bread :and coal; Lydall's charity for Hardwick amounts to about £r5 yearly, derived from rents of a cottage, garden and allotments, which is distributed in bread on Christmas day, Easter day and Whit Sunday. Clement .Adelbert Cottrell-Dormer esq. of 2 St. James's place, London S.W. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil and subsoil are clay and gravel. The chief cretps are wheat, barley, beans, turnips &c. The population in 1891 was-Ducklington, 439; Hardwick, 101 ; the area is-Ducklington, r,868 acres; rateable value, £r,958; Hardwick, 649 acres; rateable value, £5 86. A detached part of Hard wick, in which there is a farmhouse and 2 cottages, adjoins Y elford. Hardwick is a parochial chapelry, and for civil purposes, a separate parish, r~ miles south-east on the west bank of the river Windrush, and consists of four farm-houses and a few cottages. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, standing. in Cokethorpe Park, a little east of the mansion, is mentioned in early records so far back as 1376, where it is called the little church (ecclesiola) or chapel of Cokethorpe, and is said to have been long annexed to the church of Ducklington: it is a small stone building, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, porch and a small tower at the north-west angle of the nave containing 3 bells: there is a ~orman font and in the porch are three chained books, "Thomas a Kempis's Imitation of Christ," "'fhe vYhole Duty of :.\fan" and "Nelson's Feasts and Fasts;" in r874 the church was restored and enlarged by the addition of a north aisle, at a cost of £6so, and has sittings for roo persons. The President and Fellows of St. John's College, Oxford, who are lords of the manor, and the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College are the princir,al lando\\ners. Area 389 acres, rateable v:1lue, £s86, population in r8gr was so. Cokethorpe House, the property of C. A. CottrellDormer esq. but at present the residence of John Cottrell-Dormer esq. built by Sir Simon Harcourt kt. 1st Viscount Harcourt, and lord chancellor, about 17II, is a fine mansion about 1 mile south-east of Ducklington church, in a park of 170 acres, and was for some time the residence of the poet Gay : it was sold in 1765 to Maximilian Western esq. whose 2nd daughter and coheiress Prances married as his first wife, ·waiter Strickland esq. of Flamborough, Yorks; she died 23 April, 1836, and he married secondly Sarah, relict of Sir Francis Boynton ·bart. and d. 26 Nov. 1839, and on the death of his widow, II Oct. 1877, this estate devolved on C . .A. Cottrell-Dormer esq. The house contains a choice collection of valuable paintings, including the celebrated picture of the family of Sir Thomas More, said to be by Holbein, and a portrait of ·waiter Strickland, ambassadm or agent at the Hague during the Protectorate, and a member of Cromwell's "Other House'~ or "House of Lords," r657-8, under the title of "Lord Strickland," a copy from one by Vandyke at :Boynton, Yorks; the dining-room is lined· with fine oak panelling and has fluted oak pillars with elaborate caps and bases, some of which were given by Queen .Anne ; the park and pleasure grounds are planted with ornamental shrubs and numerous groups of stately forest trees. Parish Clerk, W alter Fisher. Post Office, Ducklington.-John Clarke, sub-postmaster. Letters from 'Yitney arrive wbout 8 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched 12.55 & 6 p.rn. week days only. Witney is the nearest money order & telegraph ()ffi.ce for both places. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid Wall Letter Box, Hardwick, cleared at 5.25 p.m. on week days only Schools. Parochial (boys & girls), erected, with mistress's house, in 1858, for 97 children; average attendance, 88; Miss Sarah \Vallis, mistress; Miss Dawson, assistant mistress ; Miss Luckett, infants' mistress The children at Hardwick als'O attend Ducklington school DUGKLINGTON. PRIVATE :RESIDENTS. Cottrell-Dormer John, Cokethorpe pk Waefelaer Ca-pt. Gerard, Manor house White The Misses :Beaumont Joseph Shepherd, farmer & landowner Clack Charles, farmer, Barley Park fm Clarke .John, wood dealer, Post office Fisher Noble, shopkeeper & carpenter Florey Frank,farmr.Cokethorpe Pk.rm Eeaumont J oseph Shepherd Macray Rev. William Dunn F. S . .A. Rectory M.A. I COMMERCIAL. Barrett .Arthur, blacksmith Castle Alfred, shoe maker

88 Dtl'OKLINGTON'. OXFORDSHIRE. (KILLY'S Holtom George Henry & Sons, farmers & millers (steam & water), Ducklington mill Lock Arthur, plasterer & shopkeeper May Charles, carpenter HARDWlCK. Ayers Alfred, shopkeeper & beer retl:rPhipps John, farmer Bailey Charles, farmer J ohnson J ames, cattle dealer Jolmson James, jun. cattle dealer Jordan William, Bell P.H Strainge Edmund, farmer Eagle Richard, farmer Lester .Alfred, farmer, Claywell farm Townsend Joseph,Strickland ArmsP.II Townsend Wm. farmer, Course Hill fm Wilsdon Caroline (Mrs.), farmer Martin .Toseph, miller (water) 'l'aylor :Edrr,und, farmer Widdl)ws Isaac, cattle dealer DUNS TEW is a parish and pleasant village, 2! mile.s west from Somerton sltation on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway, 2 south from Deddington, a'nd 8 miles north-east-/by-north from Woodstock, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of "\Vootton, W ootton Norlth petty sessional division, union and county eourt district of Woodstock, rural deanery of Woodstock and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The chul'ch of St. Mary Magdalene, beautifully restored in 1862 by Sir Henry W. Dashwood bart. is a plain building of stone, in mixed• styies, and consists of chancel, nave of three 'bays, north aisle, ,sQuth porch and> a low western tower containing a dock and 5 bells: there are 220 sittings. The registeT of baptisms and burials date;; from •the year 1654; marriages, 1656 ; but the register is general~y deficient from 1695 to 1747· The living is a vicarage, gro.ss yearly value •from 180 acres of glebe charities produce £I2, which is distributed annually in coals. Duns Tew Manor House, situated close to the church and the property Q{ Major .Sir G. J. Egertorr Da,shwood bart. is now occupied by Frederick Charles Fanning esq. Major Sir George John Egerton Dashwood bai't. of Kirtlington Park, is lord of the manor and pri'ncipa,l landowner. The .s'oil is clay and sand; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are barley, wheat and roots_ The area is 1,68o acres; rate:11ble value, £2,259; the population in 1891 was 266. Sexton, Benj•amin Castle. Letters from Londo'n & south through Oxford, via Ded-· dington, arrive at 7 a.m.; from north through Banbury, arrive at 2.30 p.m. The nearest money order &. telegraph office is at Deddington. Wall Letter Box. cleared at Io.Io a.m. & 7 p.m £150, net £132, with residence, in the gift of Sir George Nationa.I Sohool (m:xed), built in 1874, for 100 children;:: John Egerton Dashwood bart. and held since 1874 by average attendance, 40; Mis·s Maud Spicer, mistress the Rev. William Best M.A. of Trin~ty College, Oam- Carrier.-EdTWard Jones, through to Banbury, mon_ bridge. The poor's a!llotments of 4a. 3r. with two other thurs. & sat Best Rev. \Villiam M.A. Vicarago French John Henry, shoeing smith & Rogers Joseph, farmer, Daisey hill Canning John, shopkeeper wheelwright Smith Thomas, shopkeeper I•'anning Frcderick Charles, Manor ho Hollier John, farmer Taylor Richard, farmer: COMMERCIAL. l\Iatthews Samuel Charles, faTmer Welsh Geo.White Horse P.H.& shpkpr Fenemore .John, farmer Napp Richard, farmer 1Yestover George, farmer, Lower farm DUNSDEN and EYE form a liberty in Oxfordshire, since 1876 by the Rev. Richard> Hart Hart-Davis. belonging to the pari.sh {)[ Sonning, in Berkshire, and in- M.A. of University College, Oxford. The Rev_ eluding Sonning Eye, Sonning Common and part of Bin- Hell'ry Golding-P&.mer B.A. of Holme Park, Sonning, is field Heath. Dunsden was formed into a separate ec- lord 'Of the manor and principal landowner. 'fhe soil is clesiastical parish, :May 26, 1·8?(), and is 3~ miles nor,th- ~halk with gravel here and there; subsoil, clay and graeast from Reading station, and a'bout the same distance vel. The chief crop's are wheat, barley, oats and peas_ north-west from Twyford junction, both on the Great The area is 3,808 acres; rateable value, £4.372; the We.stern railway, and 5 miles south from Henley, in the population in 1891 was 942 in the liberty, and 578 in Southern division of the county, hundred of Binfield, the ecclesiastical parish. union of HenlEy, p~tty sessiona-l division of Henley, f'iarish Clerk, Oharles Montague. county court district of Reading, rural de•anery of Svn- Post Office.-Charles Montague, sub-postmaster. Letters n:ng, archdeaconry of Berkshire and diocese of Oxford. arrive· from Reading ait 8 a. m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. ; The church of All Saints, built and endowed by the late sundays dispatched 10.40 a.m. Sonning is the nearest Robert Palmer esq. of Holme Park, So'l:ming, in 1842, is money order & telegraph office a structure of grey brick, in the Early English style, WaJl Letter Box, Play Hatch, cleared at 6.20 p.m.; sun~ consisting of chancel, na.ve, north pol'Ch, and a western days, 12 noon turret cont.aining 2 'bells: the church has some g-ood 1Vall Letter Box, Sonning Eye, cleared at ro.ro a.m. &; stained windows, and affmds 220 sittings. The register 6.35 p.m. ; .sundays, 12.15 p.m dates from the year 1876. The living is a vica.rage, aver- National School, built in r88o, & enlarged in 1893, for· age tithe rent-charge £220, net yearly value £321, with 140 children; a.verage attendance, 108; William Hullreside'nce, in the gift of the vicar of Sonning, and held coop, ma.ster DUXSDEN. Ford .wHalt. frmr. Bishop's Land farm Frewm enry, farmer, Bryants' farm Hart-Davis Rev. Richard Hart M.A. Harris John, farmer (vicar) Jemmett Henry Recardus, beer re- ::'\ewman Benedict, Desdemona cottage tailer, Phy Hatch Webb Emma (Mrs.), Binfield heath boor retailer .. Working Men's Club (William Hullcoop, hon. sec) SO~~i.NG EYE. Reading Henry, Dunsden house Langford Thos. dairyman, Common cc.MMERC1AL. Montagne Charles, beer retailer,baker Witheringt{)'Il. Iltid Evans J.P. DunsA'Bear John R farmer, Row Lane fm & post office den lodge .allen Robert, dairyman, Play Hatch Reading John, farmer,Play Hatrh frm Witherington Mrs. Aberlash .Allum John, baker, llinfield heath Rogers John, Flowing Spring P.H COMMERCIAL . .Allwright Parfitt Ford, wheel"Tight Shearfield Charlotte (Mrs.), Bird in Booker James, apartments Ashby Thomas, shoe maker Hand P.H Bromley James, willow dealer Atherton1Ym.blacksmith,Bird in Hand Shorland John, farmer Hadwen 'rum, French Horn hote1 Carter Da"id, brick maker,llinfield hth 1Vatson Thomas Stone, Coach & Hollis Thomas, farmer Cox Charles, farmer & carpenter Horses P.H Talbot William, willow dealer Cox Joseph, buil~r Webb Thos. Crown P.H. Play Hatch Witherington Iltid Evans, miller EASINGTON is a village and parish 3 miles north- The living is a rect<Jry, annexed by Order in Council to: west from Wat.lingto'n. terminal station on a branch of the that of Cuxham, gross yearly value from tithe rentGreat Western railway from Princes RiSborough, 4 south- charge £68, with 12 acres of glelbe, in the gift of Merto'n: west from Tetsworth and 7 south-west from Thame, in College, Oxford, a•nd held since 1893 by the Rev. Ed~ard the Southern divisivn of the county, hundred of Ewelme, Sumner Bicknell Fletche:rM . .A. of that college, who resides at petty ses'sional division of Watlington, union and cou'nty Cuxham rectory. Thoma.s Greenwood esq. of the M-anor couvt district of Thame, rural deanery of Aston .and House, is lord of t'he manor and principal landowner. arc'hdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church O'f St. The soil is loam; subsoil, mar I. The chief crops are Peter, originally Norman, is a. small and plain edifice of wheat, barley, beans and oats. The area is 272a. Il'. sto'ne, consisting of chuncel, nave, south porch and a bell- 3P· ; rateable value, £332; the population in 1891 was 3Ieot at the west end containing z bells: the chancel is Letters throug;h Tet<sworth arrive at 9 a.m.; dispatched DecoratEd, and has an east window of three lights, with 18t 5 p.m. The 'neaTest money order & telegraph office- :flO'Wing tracery and some fragments of ancient g~aS'S: the is at WaMington nave is Norman and has a doorway of the same period: there is also a plain cylindrical Norman font: there are This parish is included in the United School Board Dissittings for 50 person's, but no services are now held at trict of Chalgrove, formed 6 Feb. 1875 this ohurch, the parishioners attending that of Cuxham, The children of this place attend the schools at the adone mile distant. The register dates from the year 1583. joining villages of Cuxham & Chalgrove Greenwood John, Lower house I G-reenwood Thomas, Manor house I Malcolmson Arthur W. The ReGtory

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. ENSTONE. 89' ELSFIELD, in Domesday '' Esefeld," is a parish and village 3! miles 'north-north-east from Oxford, and about the same distance south from lslip station on the Blet<:hley and Oxf<lrd branch of the London and North Western railway, in the Mid divisi-on of the county, hund1·ed! and petty &e~sional division of Bullingd:on, union of Headington, county court district of Oxford, rural dcar•ery of chancel i•s a bra.ss in.wr~bed to Michael Pudsey esq. 1645r with his arms inserted in the middle of an ancient grave- 'stone brought fr<lm Ensham Abbey, r<lund the margin o£ wihich is the following inscription in black letter·s : tHe :facet : J'ratcr : 5obannes : l>e : O:bfltenbam : quon'Oam: :Rbbas : bu]us : loci : cu]us : anime : propttietur : :IDeus : Islip and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. A church John de Ohiltenham was Abbot of Ensham from 1316 to was consecrated here in July, 1273, by Reginald, bishap 1330: there are 138 sittings. The regiSiter dates from. cl Cloyne, acting for tihe bishop O<f Lincoln. 'Ihe church the yea.r 1686. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge· -of St. Thomas a Becket, pleasantly situated <ln a hill, is £r86, average £1<J.1, gross yearly V'alue £2oo, net £188,. a •small building of stone, chiefly in 1he Early English with 4 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift oo Herbert style and was thoroughly restored in 1859: it cm.sists Parsons esq. and held since 1878 'by Rev. Thoma•s Langonly of chancel and nave, south porch and a. Ldl c.Jt en hor'ne M.A. <lf St. John's College Oxford. Brett's charity the western gafble containing 2 bells: the ch·mcel has a of £10 yoorly is for fuel. Herbert Parsons esq. J.P. of Decorated east- window, filled with stained glass as a the Manor House, is lord O<f the manor and chief landmemorial to the late vicar, Rev. Richard GordGn, in owner. The soil is day; subsoil, clay and sand. The 1878 : on either .~ide are three elegant la.nceEs, and on chie,f crops are wherut and beans. The area is 1,230 the south a piscina.: the reredo.s includes a representa- acres; rateable value, £1,379; the population in 1891. tion in mosaics, by Salviati, of "The Last Supper," a.fter wa.s 176. the famous picture by Leonardo da Vinci, and -..~as given Parish Clerk, Tho.mas Basson. 'by Mrs. Parsons, of the Manor House: built- into the . north wall of the nave are two large arches and a smaller Letters through Oxford arnve at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at one, at one time forming the arcade of a now destroyed 5-3-5 p.m. Headington is the nearest money order & aisle: the chancel arch is Transition Norman, with a telegraph office screen of Jacobean da.te: the pulpit is of the same p~riod Wall Letter Box cleared: at 5·35 p.m. & I.35 p.m. sun and retains an hour-glass : the rfont is a plain ~orman Par~hial School, Mrs. J essie Veal, mistress; for 40. work, with a circular !basin, and a simple base: in the ch1ldren; aveTage attendance, 33 Langhorne Rev. Thos. M. A. Vicarage\ Parsons James Henry, land steward to Hatt John, farmer Parsons Herbert J.P. Manor house Herbert ParsonS\ esq. Home farm EMMINGTON (or EmingitoQIJ) is a small parish on the ewst side of the road leading fr·om Tihame to Chinnor and <ln the borders of Bucks, ahout 3 miles west from Bledlow station on the Princes Risboro' and Oxford section of the Great We~ern Tailway, and 1! miles north from Chinnor station on the 1 branch to Watlington, and 3 miles south-east from Thame, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Lewknor, petty sessional divi- ·sion of Wat1ington, union and county court district of Thame, rura.I deanery of Ast·on and archdeaconry and diocese· of Dxford. The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel and nave, and a rudely built tower with sad· dle~back roof, containing 3 bells : the church was restored in 1874, at a cost of £952, and affords u6 sittings. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £196, average £148, net ye2rly Lambert Rev. Graville Henry 1\-I.A. Rectory ENSTONE, on the rive·r Glyme, is an extensive parish and villa.ge, 5 miles south-east from Chipping Norton station on the Ba'n!bury and Cheltenham branch of the Great Western railway and 4 north-east from Charlbury station on the Oxford and Wolverhampton section of the sa.me line, 15 miles north-west from Oxford, and about 70 from London. The parish inculdes the ham1ets olf Church Ens•tone, Neat Enstone, Lidstone, Chalford, Cleveley, Gagingwell and Radford, and is in the Northern division of the county, hundred and petty sesswnal division of Chadlington, union and county court district o1 Ohipping N orton, rur.al deanery of Chipping N orton and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Edward the Confessor (originally dedicated to St. K·enelm) is a very ancient edifice of stone, rebuilt and extensively added to a.>t various times, notably in or about the years II7o, 1280 and in 1320, when it i·s most probable that the re-dedication took place : the church now oonsists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch with parvise owr, and an embattled western tower o:f Perpendicular date (1531-46), containing a clock, presented !by Mrs. Oakley, of Enstone, in I 857, and 6 bells, all recast in 1831 by Taylor of Oxford, and a small bell rehung in 1769: the existing church incloses the site of the more anci<ent church of St. Kenelm, bounded on the ea.st 'by the present church, at the end of which portions of its eastern wall s.till remain: the east window, of three ligmts, is stained and has the date 1637 : the nave is separated from the aisles by arcades <lf f<lur arches on .either side, those on the north side being Early English, on alternate round and octagonal piers, while the south arcade is Transition Norman: the south aisle retains two piscinre, a plain stone altar with reredos, c. 1420, and an effigy of painted stone to Steven Wisdom, d. 23 April, 16:33: the south do'Orway, the oldest portion of the church nQW entire, is fine Norman, with bold moulding: the poroh is vaulted and ha.s in its ea·st wall a wooden bracket, with an iron ring a'nd chain attached to it: the tower is stunted and heavy, being only 53 feet in he1ght: it <>ccupies one entire lbay of the original nave, destroyed in order to acquire the necessary breadth in that direcI value £147, with residence and 2 acres of glelbe, in thegift of Philip J ame-s Digby Wykeham esq. and hdd since 1872 by the Rev. Greville Henry Lambert M . .A. of Magdalen Col:ege, Oxford. P'hilip J amPs Digby Wykeham esq. of Tythrop House, is lord of the manor and tSole landowner. The soil and ~<ubsoil are principally· clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats. The area is 726 acres; rateable value, [981; the popu-- lation in 1891 was 51. Parish Clerk, George Price. Nearest Letter Box at Ch.innor, cleared at 5·5 p.m.; sunclay 10.40 a.m Letters through Tetsworth arrive at 10 a.m. The nearest money order office is at Chinnor, & t.elegr3ph office at Thame The child>re'n of this parish attend the school at Sydenham Follev A.I:red, farmer • tion : in the nave are floor stones inscribed to John. Beckingham S. T.P. vicar, d. 6 Dec. 1686; Daniel Stacy D.D. vicar, 1708, until his death, 20 April, 1721; and Albigail, wife of the Rev. William Wilcockson B.A. curate, 1734: on a corner buttress of the porch is a marble slab to John Naylor B. D. vicar, 1689-1704, d. 29 June, 1704: and in the churchyard is the tomb of the Rev. George Siheppard, vicar, d. "8 ~al'oh, 1784: and Hannah, his wife, 1793 : and there are, or were, many inscribed stones. tO< the Cole, Eyans, and Marshal! rfamili,es : the communion plate includes a cup with cover, 9:; inches in heig'ht, dated 1580: a silver paten, dated 1672: a silver 'flagon given in 1867 by Theolbald, 15th Viscount Dillon and Sarah Augu.sta, his wi"fle, and a pewter flagon with cover : a new lectern was given in 1892 'by the present Viscount Dillon, in memory of his f·ather, Arthur Edmund Denis~ 16th Viscount: the church was carefully restored in 1856 under the direction of ~the late G. E. Stre-et esq. R.A. when the western gallery, erected in 17oo-r, was removed, the south aisle roofed anew, a new stone pulpit and a reading desk introduced, and Qther repairs, includ-· ing toot of the font, €ffected: the chancel was refitted at the same time by the rectors, at a co.st of £so: there f!re soo 'sittings. Some volumes of the old parochial library,. formerly kept in ~the north aisle, are still preserved. The registers date from the y~ar 15'58, but up to the year r6o3 appear to have lbeen transcribed from some earlier record: there are also overseers' a>OCounts from 166o to 1773, and a church book containing the accounts of the charity estates from 1700 .to 1831: besides a valuable collection of parochial charters and other documents,. about so in num'ber, dating frmn A. D. 1295 to A.D. 1588_ The living is a vicara.ge, average tithe rent-charge £224.,. net yearly value £204, induding 27 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Viscount Dillon, and held since r8go by the Rev. John Erasmus Philipps L.Th. of University College, Durham. The impropriate rectory formerly belonging to "\Vinchcombe Abbey, in Gloucestershire, is now the property -of Christ Church, {)xford, who possess the great tithe-s, commuted for an annual rent-charge of £1,244· The vicarage house was erected

90 ENSTONE. OXFORDSHIRE. r KELLY'S ... in 1836 by the !Re:v. Joseph Siibley M . .A. vicar r83o until. has a Baptist chapel, ereded i'n 187r, and an anc:ent his death, 28 April, r84o, on a 1site given by Charles j' :house of the 13th century \belonging ro the churoh iHenry, I4Jth Vi·SICount Dillon (d. r865), who also contri- estate; Radford is 2~ east, and until r624 had a. chapel buted toward·s its erection. Irr iMarshall's lane is a foun- of the Church of England: there is now a Catholic chapel tain, erected! from designs iby the late G. E. Street esq. in this hamlet, oerected in z84o, with an attaohed orphan-' RA. as a. memorial to Eliza Julia, wife of the Rev. Edwd. age.: 'both Qleveley and Radlford are on •the Glyme. Ma.rshall, d. 1856. \The ''Church esta:te," now vested in Gagingwell, 2 miles north-east, contains the remains of feoffees, 'Of 68 3'Cres of land produces, with cottages, an ancient cross, consisting of a portion of the shaft, about £roo yearly lfor the repair of the church: "Mar- raised on three steps: th~ spring, or well, from which ten's," or •• the Beef Estate," pul'Chased with £120 left this hamlet derives its name, is said never to fail even I:Jy Benjamin Marten, 9f IRadford, who died 4 Feb. 1 in -the driest seasons. Lidstone, I~ miles west, has a I'Jl5-I6, consists of 7a. 2r. in Kiddington parish, and• in ' Primitive ~Iiethodist chapel, erected in r874, and in -a the .hamlet of Gagingwell, value £r6 yearly, is for dis- fie:d called' "Roundhill," a.bove the village, is an ancient tribution in bread. The Dean and Chapter of Christ tumulus. Ghalford, 3 miles west, on the Glyme, has Church, Oxford, are the impropriate rectors: the anc5.ent three tumuli, and here also was once a cha.pel. :rectory barn, still standing, bears an almost obliterated Parish 01erk, J oseph Hawtin. inscr!ption in Latin rec~rding its e~ection by Waiter de Post, iM. 0. & T. •0., s. B., Express Delivery & .Annuity lYy'n:lfGrt-on, aib'bot of Wm?~combe, .m 1 382 , at the pet!- & Insurance Office, Nea.t Enstone. (Letters should twn of Robert MaS<On, ·b~l~ff of th1s place. !he Poor s have .S.O. Oxon added).-LJohn .Adams, sub-postmas-ter. Allotment of J4a. Il'. ZP· lS m t~~ ha~,ds of t:u~t;es. Th,~ Letters arrive at 7 a. m. I& 2. ro p.m.; dispatched at Cromlecl~, ·called the Entastan,. or .the G~ant s Sto~e, 11.20 a.m. & .31 .m. Letters from Chalford through fr~ ~hiCh th~ nam~. E~stone 1s denved, 1s an anc1~nt Chipping Noito'n p D~mdica.l ·~e~am, co:n~u>tn~g of three stones, o~a of whiCh Wall Letter Box, Church Enstone, cleared at 10. 50 a.m . .st~ll remanung upnght, 1~ nearlr II . feet high, . 7 feet & 7. 50 p.m. week days only in the summer & 6.50 mde, and about 3 feet 6 mches- m thwkness. VIscount p m in th winter Dillon, who is lord> of the manor, Brasenose, Oriel, and · · e Wadham CoJleges, Oxford, the t&ev. Ed'Ward MarshaL. Schools. iM . .A. vicar of Sandford St. Martin, AJ:bert Bras.sey esq. .of Heythrop and !Mr. Tom Faulkner are the princ~pal landowners. The soil is stD'ne brash; •subsoil, brash :rock. The. chief cro.ps are wheat, barley and roots. The €ntire area Df the parish is 6,180 acres; ratea.ble value, J,6,o3o; the population in 1891 was 1,144· .A School Board of 7 members was formed 8 N~w. 1872, with Spehbury as a contributory parish with two membel's; Thomas ~face, Chipping Norton, clerk to the board ; J esse Bennet·t, attendance officer NEAT EXSTONE, sometimes called Road Enstone, fmm the cil'cumstances of the high road to Birmingham and w.orcester passing through it, is half a mile south from Ohurch Enstone, and obtained its name "::"eat'' Jfrom the herds ill neat cattle that were in ancient times -depastured on its open field·s and commons. Th.-re is a small W esleyan chapel here. Board (boys & girls), Neat Ensto'ne, built in rB75, for II9 ~hildren; average attendall!Ce, 101; Amos Kettle, mast.er Board (infants), Church Enstone, to which a porch was added in t8go, for 6o children; average attendanc(';, 41- 63; Miss Emily Vance, mistress Carriers.~George Eeles, from Neat Enst6ne to Ohipping Norton, wed. ; Baillbury, th11.us.; Oxford, sat.; David Lodge, from Clevoeley ta Chipping Norton, wed. ; Ban- •Chweley is 1 :rillle s·outh·east [rom Church Enstone and bury, thurs ; Oxford·, sat CHURCH ENSTO~E. !larker Rev. 1Villiam Wilfred M. A. ( cura.te) Philipp5 Rev. John Erasmus Vicarage COMMERCV..L. Kuttar L.Th. Draper Thos. & Son, blacksmiths Drinkwater Thomas, farmer Gardner Thomas, tailor Gregory John, miller (water) & frmr ·Gregory John Hiatt, farmer Griffin Edward, saddler Hathaway William, grocer, general dealer & tobacconis·t liawtin Joseph, carpenter Miles Juli3. (Mrs.), blacksmith Pride George, Crown P.H.; good Adams John, stationer & post office Bedwin George, shoe maker Black well John, farrier (agent Pearl Assurance Go. & .Accident Insurance Oo. Lim. & assist. overseer) Boulter Joseph Henry, coal dealer Chaffev Edwin, Lichfield A.rms • Clary .A.rthur, plasterer Eeles George, carrier Griffin Ann (Mrs.),HarrowP.H.& bnrr Harris .Arthur, tailor Hedges Herbert, blacksmith Jeffries William John, saddler J effries, Samuel, tailor Ryman Eliza (~Irs.), Bell P.H •raplin Frederick, baker 'l'rinder J os·~ph, farmer Wells .A.nn (Mrs.), grocer stabling accommodation LIDSTO~E. 'Saunders John, farmer Somerton Charles, shopkeeper . Collett Daniel, baker & miller (water) Gardner Em m a (Mrs.), shopkeeper CH.ALFORD. (Letters are received through Chipping N orton.) Holloway William Thomas Denny James, agent to .A. Brassey esq Flockhart Henry, farmer CLEVELEY. A.kars Thomas, haulier Faulkner Tom, farmer Goddard Thomas, miller (water) Hiatt Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lodge David, farmer & carrier G.AGI:NGWELL. Benfield J ()ISeph Ohristy, & farmer Hickin James, farmer Lester John, farmer Scott John, farmer RA.DFORD. stone mason NEAT ENSTONE. Roper 'fhomas,Shrewsbury .Arms P.H. Sweeney, Rev. Philip (Catholic) & haulier Lester .John (exors·. of), millers (wtr) .Adam& James .Joseph, grocer & drpr Viner Henry Robert, farmer Parsons Jane (Mrs.), farmer :EWELME is a beautifully situated village and parish, on the .slab of Purbeck marble forming the top of the 3~ miles south-west from Watlington terminal station tomb are figures in brass of a knight and his lady with ()U the Princes Risborough and Watlington branch of four shields of the arms of Roet and Burghersh; a the Great Western Tailway, 4 east from Wallingford restored inscription runs round the maxgin and on the and ro north-west from Henley, in the Southern division sides are arranged 20 other shields; the tomb was reui the county, hundred of Ewelme, petty sessional divi- paired and some of the mutilated shields replaced in sion of Wa.tlington, union and county court di,strict of 1843 by John Kidd M.D. sometime Regius Professor of Wallingford, :rural deanery of .Aston and archdeaconry Medicine at. Oxford, and Master of the Ewelme Almsand diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, stand- house.s, which office has been held by the Regius Pr('ling on elevated ground, is a fine battlemented edifice of fessor of l\Iedicine :since 1628 ; there is also a la.rge high stone, flint and brick, of the Perpendicular period, re- tomb of alabaster to Alice, daughter and heiress· of built by William de la Pole, first Duke of Suffolk K.G. Thomas Chaucer, and wife, rst of Sir John in the rsth century, and consists of chancel with south Philip, next of Thomas (d6 Montacute), Ear} >Chapel and north ai·sle and vestry, clerest.oried nave, of Salisbury, killed at OrleanSI in qzB and 3ro aisles, north and south porches, and! a low embattled of William de la Pole, first Duke of Suffolk K.G. western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: the who died at Ewelme 20 May, 1475, the tomb bears a chancel of two bays is separated fro-m the nave by a full-length recumbent effigy of the duchess, coroneted TOOd-screen and has on the .south side the chapel of and wearing the Garter on the left arm ; and around the St. John, with a carved roof of Spanish chestnut; be- sides are canopies inclosing figures of angels bearing tween this chapel and the chancel is a panelled aJtar shields ; within the lower .stage, which is open and filled tomb to the m~mory of Thomas Chancer, son of the with panelled tracery, is an emaciated figure of the poet, M.P. for Oxfordshire, 1400-2 and J405-14, and Duchess, wrapped in a shroud; above rises an elabor3tely Speaker of the Honf'le of Commons, 1408-rs, ob. 1433, carved fiat canopy, divided by four pinnades and adorned and ~!and or Matilda Burghersh, his wife, ob. c. 1437; with nin~ figures of angels and a floriated cresting: ·in

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. EYNSH.AM. 91 the north aisle is a rough slab of Purbeck marble, eaid tl) mark the place of interment of Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk, slain at Agincourt, 25 Oct. 1415 ; :and in the chancel a mutilated inscription to Samuel :Everard M.A. rector of Swyncombe, 1666-88 ; near it is a memorial to William Duke A.M. also rector of Swyncombe, d. 1695 ; in the centre of the nave is a monumental slab to Thomas l3roke esq. sergeant at -arms to Henry VIII. 1518, and Anne (l3ulstrode) his wife, with effigies of both, an inscription and four .ehields o-f arms: there are other brasses to John l3radstane, rector, 1458; Henry Moreoote, rector, 1467; and Willia.m Branwhait, master of the almshouse, 1498, all three with demi-effigies; John Saynysbery, rector, 1454 and first master of the a1mshouse: Simon l3rayle5, chaplain to Alice, Duchess of Suffolk, and: rector of Dhidsey, Somerset, 1469; Thomas V.ernon esq. 1471; Robert Esmund esq. 1474; Henry Lee and Alice his wife, 1497; John Bacheman, 1513 ; Anne, wife of John Froste, 1585, with eight English verses; and Catherine PaJmer, 1599, with children; in the chancel is a monument to Col. Francis Martyn, who resided at Ewelme :Manor during the period of the Civil War, and was instrumental in preserving the church from the violence >Of the Parliamentary soldiers, and forbade any person to enter it except for service on Sunday; the stained east window was ins·erted in 1882 as a memorial to the daughter of the Rev. William Wigan Harvey B. D. rector, r872, until his death 7 May, r883; two old galleries have been removed : the church was restored in 1832, partly at the expense of the Rev. Edward Burton l3.D. Regius Professor of Divinity at OxfDrd and rector, who died here rg Jan. 1836; the church afiords 400 sittings. The r.egister dates from the year 1599 and the 'Churchwardens' books from 1692. The living is a rectory, commutation value £7o8, but charged with an nnnual payment of [30 zs. 6d. to Elsfield vicarage, and with the repayment of two loans to Queen .Anne's :Bounty, gross yearly value £525; net £375, with 3 acres. Df glebe and residence. This living was annexed by James I. to the Regiu;s Professorship of Divinity, Oxford, but wa.s severed from it by .Act of Parliament A.D. 187r, and is now in the gift of the Crown, but must be held by a graduate of Oxford; the Rev. Henry Kingdon Simcox M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford, ha;s been rectDr since 188g. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels ; the former has an endowment founded by deed in 1825. William de la Pole, first Duke and fourth Earl of Suffolk, and Alice his wife, daughter of Thomas Chancer, of this place, by royal license dated July 3, 1437, founded an aJmshouse, with a g-rammar school attached, and endowed! them origiM nally with 100 marks (£66 13s. 4d. ), but afterward's instead thereof with the manors of Marsh Gibbon, in Bucks-; Ramridge, in Rants, :tnd Conock, in Wilts; there are now belonging to this· charity 4,568 acres of land and houses· producing a 'large and increasing income ; the mastership of the almshouse is at present held by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson M. D. as Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford, and there are 13 inmates, the appointment of whom is no-w with the Earl of Macclesfield, as· lord of the manor ; a scheme for the management and regulation of the almshouse under trustees was issued by the Court of Chancery in May, r86o; the buildings, constructed of brick, are gabled, with barge boards, and form a. quadrangle surrounded within by a cloister, from which a flight of steps lead immediately into the tower of the church, the entrance from the street being through a bo-ld gateway with stepped battlements ; there is at present no grammar master, the office not having been filled up since the dea.th of the Rev. G. D. Faithful B. D. 25 Mar. 1866: the school buildings, of brick, with mullioned windows and boldly projecting chimneys, are lent by the t-ru.stees to the parish and used as a parochial school, and the trustees of the almshouse aloo hold the Manor House and certain lands surrounding it, formerly the site of a rDyal palace here, in which Queen Elizabeth occasionally resided, and which were purchased in 1857. Ewelme park,· 3 miles south-east, once a seat of the Earls of Essex, is now a farm, the old mansion serving as the farmhouse. Weedon'.s charity of £r r2s. is given in coal. In the parish is a remarkably fine spring, fOiming" a rapid stream, which empties itself into the Thames. The Earl of Macclesfield is lord of the manor. John Lane Franklin esq. Messrs .. William Newton, H. W. Orpwood, James P. Franklin, I. T. Painter 3Jld G. North are the principal landowners. The soil is chalk and gravel on galt. The chief crops are wheat and other cereals and artificial ~rasses. There is very little pasture or natural grass. The area is 2,495 acres; rateable value, £2,720; the population in 1891 was 521. Parish dlerk, William Delafield. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Robert Howell, sub-postmaster. Letters through Wallingford arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 3 p.m.; dispatched at II a.m. & 6.50 p~m.; arrive on sunday at the same time; dispatched at II a. m. only. Bensington is the nearest telegraph office. Wall Letter Box, by Cowpond, cleared at ro.45 a.m. & 6.45 p.m Parochial School (mixed), for 175 children; av€rage attenda.nce, Bo ; William Herman, master ; Mrs. Ellen Herman, mistress CarrieTs.-George Cherrill, to Abingdon, mon. ; to Oxford, wed. & sat. ; Hills, to W allingford, daily PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Atkinson Mrs COMMERCIAL. How()ll Robert, grocer & draper, Post office :Birkett Edward Herbert, Belaugh ho Franklin l\lrs Cherrill George, carrier Jacob Saml. boot & shoe ma.& drapel' Mander Benj.wheelwright &coach bldr Orpwood Herbert William, farmer Price David, boot maker Franklin Robert Thomas, The Views Hamilton Rev. George Henry Manners Coles Emily (Mrs.), beer retailer Donaldson J. & J. farmers, White House farm B.A. Ivy bank Rampden Mrs. The Old Mansion J ervis Miss·, Manor house Palmer Lester, The Aloes Garlick Ellen (Miss), Greyhound P.H Godden Edwd. blacksmith & cowkeepr Greenwood Hannah (Mrs.), laundress Heath James, grocer & baker Smith Robert, watercress grower Smith Samuel, watercress grower Spyer John Leaver, grocer Tanner William. Thomas, Lamb P.H. Quin Miss, Manor house & provision dealer Simcox Rev. Henry Kingdon 'M.A. (rector), Rectory Higgins Michael, baker Hills -, carrier H umfrey Ed ward, farmer vYaite John, farmer, Cottesn10re Winfield Moses, wheelwright EYNSHAM (A. S. Egonesham) is a: parish and village on the road from Oxford to Witney and Cheltenham, bounded on the east by the river· Evenlode and ,;eparated from. Berkshire by the Isis, over which there are two bridges ; there is a station here on the Oxford, Witney and Lechlade branch of the Great Western railway, the village is. 64 miles from London by road and 70 by rail, 5 east from Witney and 6 north-west from Oxford, and is in the Mid divisi_on of the county, Wootton hundred, Bampton East petty sessional division, union and county court district of Witney, rural deanery of Woodstock and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Leonard is a building of stone in mixed styles, mostly Perpendicular, consisting <Jf chancel, nave of five bays with clerestory, .south aisle, narrow north aisle and porch with parvise, ru1d a western tower of four stages at the end of the north aisle, with embattled parapet and an angle turret, containing a clock and 5 bells: the chancel is Transitional from EaJ"ly English to Decorated: the north aisle is Perpendicular and divided from the nave by an arcade <Jf four arches of the same date, on clustered piers, the fifth or westernmost bay being occupied by the tower: the south aisle is in the Transitional Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with a similar arcade of five arches, but is considerably wider than the north aisle, the east end of the south aisle once formed a chantry, and retains a piscina and two aumbries : the nave is Early Perpendicular, with a clerestory lighted by five two-light windows on either side : the tower is of the same date, and has a stair turret at the north-east ang:e: the font is also of this perio-d : there are a number of mural monuments, three of which are to the Rogers family; in the chancel is a brass to Edward Stanley, 1632, and a slab inscribed to James Stanley, 16II: the gallery was removed and the interior of the church restored in 1894 : opposite the north side cf the church stand the shaft, and ba.se of a fine village cross, with a foliated capital: there are about 460 sitt-ings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1664; marriag-es, 1665; burials, 1653. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £19, gross yearly value j,2r8, net £193, with glebe ({,127) and residence, in the gift of Mrs. W. S. Bricknell,- and held since 1893 by the Rev. William Nash Bricknell M.A. of Merton Colleg", Oxford. The Duka of Marlborough is the lay jmp.ro-

92 EYNSHAM. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S priator. The- Baptist chapel was built in I$15. The choice ~ollection of ornamental .shrubs and a lake of Catholic Apostolic church is an edifice of brick. The about 16 acres; the house, seated on high ground, corn~ Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1884 at a cost of over £7oo, mands a capital view of woodland scenery, and is the is of stone, and will seat about zso persons. There is seat of James Mason esq. J.P. lord of the manor. The also a Primitive Methodist chapel. St. Thomas' charity principal landowners are James Mason esq. the Duke c.f consists of about £85 yearly, which is distributed in Marlborough, Mr. William Arnatt and Corpus Christi food and clothing, under a scheme approved by the and Merton Colleges, Oxford, and there are several Court of Chancery in 1878. In the year 18oo, when smaller owners. The soil is various, gravel, loam and the waste lands of this parish were inclosed under an st11f clay; subsoil, gravel and clay. The crops are the Award, certain land called "Foxley farm" was allotted usual cereals and roots. The area is s,o6o acres; rateto the poor in lieu of the right they previously had of able value, £"g,6ol ; the population in 1891 was 1,998 cutting fuel from the common at certain seasons; this I in the civi} and 1,838 in the ecclesiastical parish. kmd now (1895) produces about £7o yearly, which sum Barnard Gate is a hamlet 2 miles west-north-west on is distributed in coal to the poor at Christmas. John the high road to Witney. Bartholomew in the year IJOO left [350, which has been Parish Clerk, Frank Pimm. increased from time to time by sundry benefactions, for Sexton, James Martin. the purchase of land, the rents of which were applied to Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Expre,ss Delivery & Annuity the education of twelve children and the surplus of the & Insurance Office.-Henry Albert Howe, sub-postannual income in apprenticing boys'; but a:~ the twelve mast-er. Letters from Oxford arrive at 7.48 a.m. & children are now taught in the Board school, the income 12.45 p.m.; dispatched at ro.5o a.m. & 9 p.m. Wall is now applied in apprenticing about twenty boys. The Letter Boxes at Barnard Gate, cleared at 9·45 p.m. Benedictine Abbey formerly existing in thi.s pa1rish, and week days only & Newland street, g.25 a.m. & 6.ssp.m situated near the river Thames, was founded before A.D. Schools. IOOS, by Athelmar, Earl of Devon, a man greatly es- A Schoo1 Board of 7 members was formed 13 Jan. teemed by King Ethelred, and dedicated to SS. Mary 1875; N. J. G. Ravenor, Witney, clerk to the h·ard; and Benedict and All Saints; portions of the buildings, Waiter Wall, Eynsham, attendance officer which included a church with two western towers, Board (mixed), built with master's residence jn 1877, were remaining until 1843, and the site may still be at a cost of [3,950 inclusive of site, purchased for traced in a meadow to the west of the church: at its £250; it will hold 324 children; average attendance, dissolution in 1539 there were r6 monks, and its boys & girls 194, infants 97; Charles Banbery, maSiter; revenues were estimated at ,£441; Anthony Kitchen, Miss Bertha Adelaide Smith, infants' mistre,ss the last Abbot, was Bishop of Llandaff 1545-66. Eyn- Railway Station, Charles Faulks, station master; Wm. sham Hall, about 3 miles. north-west, and near the Payne & Son, agents for goods & parcels boundary, is a large mansion, situated in a park of Carrier.-Thomas Alder, to Oxford, mon. wed. & sat.; over 700 acres, embellished with some :fine timber, a to \Vitney, every thurs PRIVATE RESIDENTS. llrogden Isaac, farm bailiff to James'lleuges .Ann Bowerman (:~Irs.),butcher llricknell Rev. Wm. Nash M . .A.. (vicar), Mason esq. J.P. Salutation farm Hiorns Charles, butcher & coal dealer Cantell Isaac Buckingham George, general dealer Howe Henry .Albert, chemist & staDruce Mis>l Buckingham Samuel, shopkeeper tioner, Post ofiice Druce Mrs. The· Abbey Buckingham Thos. hay & straw uealer H.uts<m Geurge eowkeeper Gibbons Miss .A. R Burden Edward, blacksmith Jefirey Wm.hair dresser & boot mak:tGibbons Miss J Burgin Milo, market gardener & farmr Jessop William, Swan hotel Gibbons Mr&. J. sen Constable Jane (Mrs.), baker & drpr Jug-gins .John, 'falbot P.H Grant William (Catholic Apostolic) 1 Co~ Hann~l~ (Mrs.), baker Laslett 'l'homas Manger, .draper Green \Villiam Cr1pps \VIlham, saddler Lowe Charles, farmer, C1ty farm Hawes Geo.Wm. (Catholic Apo:>tolic) 1 Davey James, saddler & harness ma Marr.iott Jam~;;, cole. & cok~. mer. Holifield Mrs Dean Thos.Jas.frmr. Twelve Acre frm Railway statwn & High st. W1tney Lucas Mrs. Laurel cottage Dore Ja.son, Fountain P.H Phillips Thomas, shopkeeper 1\fas·Jn James J.P. Eynsha1n hall Druce Ernest, farmer P~mm .John Geo. ~racer & ironmongl'r Mason James Francis J.P. Eynsham Eltham Henry, road contractor P1mm Robert, tmlor hall Eynsham Sack Co. (G. W. Shilling- Preston William, Red Lion hotel ::\fay Herbert H. Newland lodge ford, manager) Rusher Isaac, general dealer Pimm Mrs Fire Engine Station (George Wood- Russell Thos. farmer,1Vhitehouse frm Rowland Mrs. l\!ortimer, The Grange war~, captain) . ~avage C~~is~opher, beer retailer Shillingford George William, Acre end ~~anklm Edward, chma & glas;; deale1· :::iawyer. W1lh~m & Sons grocers & Smallhorn 'l'homas, The Shrubbery G~bbons ~ Co. pale ale & porter br~rs clotluers, ~~wland stree~ Stoton Col. Thomas Henry, High st G1bbon.s ~dward James, grocer & wme Shepherd Bess1~ E~I:ma (:\hss), agent S'<\ann Misses & spirit merchant for the Phcemx Fire office Thorlev Mrs Gonld John, chimney sweeper Shillingford George Wm. woolstaplerWarne~ Mrs G-rant Henry William, shopkeeper Smallhorn Thomas L.R.C.P.Edin., Wastie Mrs. Mill street Green A.lbert, basket maker M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, & medical Green Alfred, photographer officer & public vaccinator, Eymham COMMERCIAL Green Frederick, farmer district, Witney union, & certify· Aldridge 'rhomas, lhilway inn Green John, White Hart P.H ing factory surgeon .A.rnatt William, farmer & landowner Hall 'rhomas, shopkeeper State Hannah (.Mrs.), :\Ialtster &, Ayres William, butcher & farmer Hall·Thomas, grocer & baker Shovel P.H Barton Rachael (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hanks Thomas, New land inn Sf;oke,g' Edward, farmer, Little green Barton Robert \1\hs. ), general dealer Harper George, hay & straw dealer Townsend John, corn dlr. & brick ma l3euchamp Joseph, grocer Harris George, plumber & painter Waine Prances Goldsmith (Mrs.),Star Biggcrs Henry, grocer & china dealer' Harris John, relieving & vaccination inn Diggers .John, baker & carpenter officer & registrar of births & deaths 'Yall Albert, shopkeeper Blake & Co. manufrs.of aerated waters for Eynsham .sub-district of 'Vit- Wall John, rick cloth maker Blake .Alfred, farmer, Merton farm ney union \Yall Waiter, painter & gla7.ier Blake George, farmer, The Elms Harris Rowland, blacksmith Wastie Frederick ·william, builder & Breakspear .Edward, Britannia inn, Hawkins Francis, head keeper to Jas. assistant over:seer, Queen street Barnard gate l\Iason esq. J.P. Middle farm Webb Waiter, farmer, Abbey farm Brayne Samuel, grocer & coal mer 1 Ilathaway Samuel, Queen's Head P.H Whitlock James, shoe maker LITTLE FARINGDON is a small village and ecclesiastical parish formed in 1864 from the civil parish of Langford, it stands on the river Leach, which is the boundary of the counties of Oxon and Gloucester and is about a mile north from Lechlade station, on the Oxford and Fairford branch of the Great Western railway, 8 north-west from Faring-don, and 2 south-west from Langford, of which parish it was. formerly a hamlet ; in the Mid division of the county, petty !iessional division of Bampton West, union and county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The parish was formerly in Berkshire, but by the Acts 2 and 3 William IV. cap. 64, and 7 and 8 Vict. cap. 6r, it was annexed to Oxfordshire. The church (dedication uncertain) is a stone building in the Transitional Norman and later styles, and consists of chance,l, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch and a turret at the west ('lld containing 2 bells; on the north side of the chancel is an Easter sepulchre; over the communion table is a niche containing a marble crucifix erected 1890: the font is of :Korman date, and there are some stained windows; the communion plate includes a chalice of the 15th century; the church was restored in 1883 at a cost of £380, and affords 100 sittings. The register dates from 1865, entries anterior to this date being in-

DffiECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. FI~MERE. 93 eluded in the register of Langford, which dates from' 1,123 acres; rateable valne, [.990; the population in 1538. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent- 1891 was 132. - charge £12, net £139, with residence, in the gift of Sexton, George Lewis. the Bishop of Oxford, and held since r864 by the Rev. Letters through Lechlade, which is the nearest money William Fulford Adams M . .A. of Exeter College, Oxford. order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m. Wall Letter Langford House is the residence of Lord De Mauley, Box cleared at 7.40 p.m. week days only who is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil School (mixed), erected in 1847, for 40 children, averis. mixed; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, age attendance, 20; & entirely supported by Lady De barley, oats and beans. The area of the parish is Mauley ; Mrs. Harris, mistress De Ma.uley Lord J.P. Langford house; Deacon Oharle·S, cattle dealer Habbs Wcilliam, head gardener to Lord & Brooks'<s club, London SW Deacon George, cattle deaLer De Mauley .Adams Rev. Wm.Fulford M.A.Vicarge GodfreyGeo.farm bailiff toR.Hobbs esq Lock 'Dhoma,s, miller (water) FIFIELD is a parish situated, on the Evenlode, on ~alue £321, with glebe (£85) and residence, in the the border of Gloucestershire, 4 mile~ west from Ship- gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1883 by th~ ton and 3 south from Chipping Norton junction stations Rev. Samuel York M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxf0rd. on the Oxford and Worcester section of the Great West- The Primitive Methodist chapel is now used by the ~rn railway and 4~ north-west from Burford, in the rector as a parish room. The Countess Talbot's charity Northern division of the county, hundred and petty of £3 yearly is for clothi11g; Bray's charity, left by sessional division of Chadlington, Chipping Norton union Jane Bray, of Great Barrington, Gloucestershire, in 'and county court district, rural deanery of Chipping 1715, provides clothing for two poor people. Mr. Norton, and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Frederick Matthews, who is lord of the manor, and John church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient building of Edmund Frederick Chambers esq. of the Hurst, near stone, chiefly of Early English date, and consists of Alfreton, Derbyshire, are principal landowners. The chancel, nave, south porch and a small octagonal west- Old Manor House was restored and enlarged by the ern tower of Early English date, with a broach spire, owr.er, Mr. F. Ma.tthews, in 18go. The soil is stone and containing 3 bells : the chancel, restored by the brash; subsoil, rock. The chief crops are wheat, barEcclesiastical Commission~rs, is Early English, and has Jey, oats, turnips &c. The area is 1,104 acres; rateable a Decorated east window filled with stained glass by the value, £975; the population in 1891 was 222. present rector: the nave was restored in 1840, and has Parish Clerk, Francis Haynes. one stained window and an Early English bell-cot on Post & M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. the eastern gable, with the sanctus bell in its original -Jossph Burson, sub-postmaster. Letters through position: the font is a Perpendicular work: there are Chipping Norton arrive at 9 a.m. & 7 p.m.; disabout 180 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from patched at 7.20 a.m. & 7 p.m. Shipton railway the year 1714; marriages, 1754; burials, 1712. The station is the nearest telegraph office living is a rectory, with that of Idbury annexed, tithe The children of this parish attend the school at Idbury rent-charge £q6, average £uo, joint gross yearly Carrier to Chipping Norton.-William Burson, wed :Matthews Frederick, Fifield house Burson Joseph, shopkeeper, Post office ~fatnheWis Frederick, farmer, corn York Rev. Samuel M . .A. Rectory Bur.son \Villiam, carrier dealer & seedsman COMMERCIAL. Davis Daniel, carpenter Nunney Mrs. Mary .Ann, shopkeeper .Arthur,s ReUJben, hurdle maker Durham Edwin, thatcher Saunders Frdk.Jsph.painter & glazier Arthurs Richard, hurdle maker Griffin Daniel, cattle dealer & farmer Smith Richard, farmer . FILKINS is a village and ecclesiastical parish formed lege, Oxford. Here are Congregational and Primitive in 185o out •Jf the civil parish of llradwell, on the Methodist chapels. The grounds of Filkins Hall, Gloucestershire border, and on the road from Lechlade burnt down in I 876, are now used as a private lawnto Burford, 2~ miles west from .Alvescot station and about tennis ground. The principal landowners are Capt. 3 from Lechlade terminal station, both on the Oxford James Carter Campbell R.N. of Ardpatrick, .Argyllshire, and Fairford branch of the Great Western railway, 4i and William Henry Fox esq. J.P., D.L. of Bradwell 'south from Bampton and 10 south-west from Witney, Grove, Burford. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, an in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Bampton, inferior oolite. The chief crops are the usual Cf'reals. petty sessional division of Bampton West, union and The area is 3,408 acres; ratable value, £3,512 (includcounty court district of Witney, rural deanery of Wit- ing Bradwell); the population in 1891 was 470. ney, and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. On March Parish Clerk and Sexton, John Holloway. 25, 1887, this parish was for all parochial matters an- Post & :M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. nexed to· Bradwell. The church of St. Peter, built in -George Imms, sub-postmaster. Letters through 1857, from designs by the late G. E. Street esq. II..A. Lechdale S.O. (Glo'stersh. ), arrive at 7·30 a.m.; disi:s a. building of stone, in a modern style of Gothic, and patched at 5_50 p.m. Lechdale is. the nearest teleconsists of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south graph office porch and a. wesltern turret containing 2 bellls ; there are five stained windows: the church affords 230 sit- National School (mixed), erected in 1837, for no chiltings. The register dates from the year 1864. The dren; average attendance, Bo; & endowed with £I5 living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £1go, net yearly derived from money in Consols left by William £175, including 10 acres of glebe and residence, in the Hervey esq.; Henry Lewis, master gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held s:ince 1893 by Carrier.-Farmer, to Faringdon, tues. & to W:itney, the Rev. George Vizard Proctor M . .A. of Worcester Col- thurs.; Burford, sat Burges1s Mrs Cook Oharles William, miller (water) Hope Oharles Frederick, Bull P.H Cla!Ck Frederick, Auburn cottage,s Oook Mark, jobmaster Imrrns Geol'ge, shopkeeper, Post office Davis Mrs. The Y eWis Farmer Elizabeth J ane (Mrs.), fa-rmer Pigott John, grocer Lewis George 1Villiam, .Apsley house Fa.rmer J es,se, carrier Pry or H3lrriet (Mrs.), farmer PrOICtor Rev. George Vizard ~LA. The Farmer John, stone ma.son Re-ading Room (Rev. G. V. Proct{)r Vicarage Farmer N er, stone mason M . .A. sec) COMMERCIAL. Franc~s John, Lamb P.H Smith Frederick, farm bailiff to N. H. Barnes William, Five Al1s P.II Gardiner Riohard, grocer Fox esq. J.P. Downs farm Beaven Charles Watson, farmer, Col- Ga.rne John, farmer Trinder Robert, blacksmith leg.e farm Glover Geo. Wm. farmer, Moat farm Trinder Wm.jun.carpntr.&wheelwrght Cla~k Olivia (1\frs.), coal merchant Hazell Geol'ge, boot maker Willis George, stone mason Clark Jame.s John Cox, baker Rolloway John, blackiSmith Williams Sa.bina (MT<s.), draper - FINMERE (or Finmore) is a parish on the river north aisle, south porch, and a battlemented western Duse, which divides it from Water Stratford, in Buck- tower of the Decorated period containing a clock and inghamshire, 7 miles north-east from Bicester, 4 west 3 bells: the east window and others in the chancel are from Buckingham, and about 1~ south from Fulwell Decorated, but the chancel arch is modern; the font is station on the Banbury and Bletchley section of the cylindrical and has a carved oak cover : there a:re 200 London and North Western railway, in the Jl.lid division sittings, 150 being free. The registe-r dates from the of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of year I566, the earliest volume being a transcript in Ploughley, union and county court district of Brackley, Latin. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £370, rural deanery of Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese with residence, in the gift of and held since 1866 by .of Oxford. The church of St. Michael, which has been the Rev. Seymour .Ashwell M . .A. of Christ Church, partly rebuilt, is a plain edifice of stone, in mixed styles, 1[ 0xford. The charities for distribution amount to consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, £r8 gs. 4d. ye"rly: there are also annual sums of

94. FINMERE • OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S • £z 19s. for education and £4 os. 8d. for apprenticing. Parish Clerk, Emmanuel Horwood. The W:uden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford, Edtward! Slater-Harrison esq. of Shelswell Park, B. Hall esq. and Messrs. T. Painter and .A.. Lepper, are ~he principal landowners. The soil consists of stiff clay, grave-l and stone brash, a small portion only in pasture, the remainder arable. The area is 1,542 acres; rateable value, £1,703; the population in 1891 Post Office.-Mrs. Rachel Pax:ton, sub-postmistres8. was 283. Alshwell Rev. Seymour M . .A.. Rectory Clark Mr&. Finmere house Baine•s Ferde>rick John, farmer Barrett \Vm. farmer, Finmere ground·s Letters through Iluckingham arrive at 8 a.m. & J.l' p.m. ; dispatched at r. 10 & 5.20 p.m. Tingewick is. the nearest money order office & telegrapn office:. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid National School, built in 1824, for 45 children; average· attendance, 39; Miss .A. Hubbard, mistress Beckett Elijah, black.SIIllitll Le;pper Alfred, cattle dealer & farmer Cook Jame,s, shoe maker Painter Thomas, fa;rmer, The Warren. D.ewett Robe:rt· (M!I'ls. ), shopkeepeu- Shaw J ame1s, King's Read P.H Harris William Tlhomas, fa.mner Tredwell Jeoffrey, farmer, Bacon's hoFIN STOCK and FA WLER are townships in the The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £75• civil parish of Charlbury, and in r86o were formed into average £56, with about £76 from the Ecclesiastical an ecclesiastical district. Finstock is on the road from Commissioners, net yearly value £r45, with residence,. Witney to Ilanbury, 2! miles south from Charibury in the gift of St. John's College, Oxford, and held station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the since 1863 by the Rev . .Alfred Redifer M.A. of St. Mary Great Western railway, 5 north from Witney and 6 Hall, Oxford. Lord Churchill is lord of the manor and west from Woodstock, in the Northern division of the principal landowner. In the village is a small Wesleyan. county, hundred of South Ilanbury, petty sessional divi- chapel. There are charities of £3 for educational pursion of Chadlington, union and county court district o£ poses, and £2 for distribution in money. The soil is Chipping Norton, rural deanery of Chipping Norton and stone brash; subsoil, brash rock. The chief crops ar& archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The river Even- wheat, barley and roots. The area of Finstock only is lode flows between Finstock and Fawler, and is here 822 acres; rateable value of Finstock £1,497; th~T crossed by a bridge of one arch. The church of the population (including 172 in Fawler) in r8g1 was 676. Holy Trinity is a small rectangular building of stone, Parish Clerk, Edwin Iles. erected in 1841 on a site given by Francis .Almeric, 1st Post Office.-Edwin Iles, sub-postmaster. Letters Ilaron Churchill, and consists simply of a nave and arrive from Oxford at 7 a.m. & 2 p.m. ; dispatched western turret containing one bell: the interior was at II.IO a.m. & 6. 20 p.m. The nearest money ordermuch improved and beautified in r876, and in 1877 six & telegraph office is at Charlbury. Postal orders arestained windows were erected by the present vicar in issued here, but not paid memory of his mother, who died in Aug. 1874: at National School (mixed), erected in r86o, for n8 chil· the west end are two stained windows placed to corn- dren; average attendance, no; Harry William Powell .. memorate the Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, master; Miss E. F. Austin, assistant mistress June 2oth, 1887: there is also a memorial window to · Francis .A.lmeric, 1 st Ilaron Churchill, d. 10 March, FAWLER is a township, 1! miles north-east, in ther845, and a smaller one on each side to other members civil parish of Charlbury, but united ecclesiastically of that family; the pulpit is a memorial to Frances, with Finstock, 5 miles west from Woodstock and 5~ late Dowager Lady Churchill, d. 7 Jan. r866. Near north from Witney. Lord Churchill is lord of thethe communion table is a brass to Francis Nathaniel, manor, and the Duke of Marlborough is the principal Marquess Conyngham, d. July 17th, 1876, and of Jane, landowner. Here are ironstone mines, not now being Marchioness Conyngham, d. Jan. z8th, 1 876, erected by worked. The area is 1,547 acres; rateable value,. ~heir daughter Jane, Lady Churchill, ~.D. 1377 : there £2,o22; the population in 1891 was 172. is also a brass near the pulpit to Francis George, 2nd Letters through Oxford via Charlbury, arrive at 8. Ilaron Churchill, d. 24 Nov. r886: the church affords a. m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.40 p.m. The: 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1842. nearest money order & telegraph office is at Charlbury FlNlSI'IIOCK. Do re Henry, shopkee-per FA "VVLER. Dore James, wheelwright & C'llrpeniier !lderton J aane<s Dore Thomas, fammer (:Marked thus * receive their letters Redifer Rev. Alfred M.A. Vicarage Wood Franc:iJs ;Henry .A.rllilstTong Edwaxds Walter, shopkeeper through 1-Vo'odstlo:ck.) Harr~s Fred.erid{, carpenter & wheel- *Gla;rk Jolhn, shopke.eper wright Douthwaite William Charle,s (exors_ COMMERCIAL. Holifield Noah, pig killer of), farmel'ls, potato growers, mer-· .A.lderton Frank, farmer Kite· John, haulier chanbs & sale-smen, Manor f3.I'm; &. Bolton Edward, farmer Langford Sltephen, Crown P.R.& shop- at Paddington, London W Bowell JameJS, grocer ke-eper, *Fowler Thos. farmer, Hill Barn fa: m Cla;ridge .Jame,s, grocer Oliver Oharle>s, shopkeeper *Lamb George, farmer, Oaklands Claridge William, market gardener Pratley Lewis, Plough P.H Sheldon Joseph, farmer FOREST HILL with S,HOTOVER is a parish living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £120, with resiformed April 17, 1883, by the addition of Shotover and dence, in the gift of the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln Shotover Hill Place, 1! miles north-west from Wheatley College, ·Oxford, and held since 1894 by the Rev. Edstation on the Oxford and Princes Risborough section round Greaves, of Lincoln College, Oxford. The e·state of the Gt. Western railway, and 4 east from Oxford, and chapel of Forest Hill formed part of the grant of in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty Robert D'Oiley to the church of St. George in Oxford sessional division of Bullingdon, union of Headington, Castle, but was afterwards transferred to the Abbey of county court district of Oxford, rmal deanery of Islip Oseney; the manor house, with a considerable part and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The village of the estate, subsequently became the property of theextends into two parishes, Forest Hill and Stanton St. Rector and Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford, wh(} John. The. church of St. Nicholas, enlarged and re- are now lords of the manor and principal landowners. stored in the year 1847 by the late Sir Gilbert Scott The soil is sandy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are· R.A. is a building of stone chiefly of Transition Norman wheat, barley and beans. The area is 877 acres; ratedate, and consists of chancel and nave under a single able value, £2,863; the population in 1891 was 343, o:f roof, and at the west end a lofty gabled bell-cot, which 133 are in Forest Hill. pierced for 2 bells; this bell-gable appears to be part Parish Clerk, Stephen Soanes. of the original Transition work, but is supported by Post Office.-Alfred Frederick Harris, sub-postmaster. two later buttresses of enormous projection, one ex~ Letters arrive by the Oxford and Wheatley mail car~ tending westward II and the other 14 feet: there is a at 5·55 a.m. & 4.15 p.m.; sundays, 5·55 a. m.; dismodern east window of three lancets and a good Per- patched to Oxford at 9.25 a.m. & 7.50 p.m. ; sundays,. pendicular west window: the outer doorway of the 7 .5o p.m. Wheatley is the nearest money order &; south porch is an elegant example of Transition Nor- telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but man: from its position on the summit of a hill, its not paid ivy-mantled walls and singular bell-cot, the church The children of this parish attend the school at Stanton forms a very picturesque object: it was originally con- St. John secrated 6th July, 1273, by Reginald, Ilishop of Cloyne, Carriers to Oxford.-White, mon. wed. & sat. ; :Manacting for the Eishop of Lincoln: there are 90 sittings. der, sat The register dates from the year 1564, and contains the entry, Jan. 28th, 1625, of the baptism of Mary, daughter of Richard Powell, and afterwards wife, in I645, of the poet Milton; she died in 165r. The • SHOTOVER, the name of which is said to be a pervro-sion of the words "Chateau Vert," was formerly a royal forest and extra-parochlal, and afterwards a

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. FRITWELL. 95 parish, but in 1883 was included in that of Forest Hill. modern times by Goo:rge I. and George II. The area. This place is noticeable as being the spot where Queen is 950 acres. Elizabeth took leave of the authorities of the University Shotover Hill Place, formerly extra-parochial, is and City of Oxford, on the occasion of her visits in :now included with Forest Hill, and is part of Heading· .August, 1566, and September, I592, when she gave an ton Quarry district. extempore Latin :reply to the address of the University. Shotover House, with about 6o acres of grounds, is the Letters through Oxford. Wheatley is the nearest money seat of Lieut.-Col. James MiUer D.L., J.P. who is the order & telegraph office principal landowner; the park consists of rso acres; The children of these places attend the schools at. the mansion was visited by Queen Elizabeth, and in Wheatley, Stanton & Headington Quarry Hall J eil'emia!h. baker Harris Alfred Frederick, S'hopkeeper & baker & Post office (Marked thUJs * receive their letters FOBJEST RILL. SHO'DOVER. Ba.rrett Mrs lliea.ve-s Rev. Edmund ~LA. Maxfield Mris Vicarage M€dcraft Alfred, shoe maker through Hamrilton Quaril'y.) Nevell Edward, farmer Le~s Oharl~s Perey, Shotover lodlge. Norton MI"s. Hill Side cottage Ring Mrs Ray Emily (MI"s.), harness maker Miller Lieut.-C{)l. James D.L., J.P. Soa.nes )lichael, hurdle maker Shotover house Rlobiruson MiSIS Slt{)ne Francis, farmer Baker Waiter, farmer rl'raffo'rd Willi·arm, hurdle maker & Broadfoot James, garden.er COMMERCIAL. faggot maker Oruicillshank Andrew, land steward tO> Auger Thomars, blacksmith Watts Joseph, hurdle maker Lieut. Ool. J. Miller J.P Banting Wm. farm-er & miller (water) Watts Wm. Kin~r's Arms P.H. & fannr *'Leach Jame>s, fa:rmer Ca.rey Frederick, farmer Watt1s W'illia~, jun. carpenter ROISe Williarn, farmer FREELAND is an ecclesiastical parish formed from yearly value from the Ecclesiastical Commission £121, the civi:l parish of Eynsham in 1869 ; it is pleasantly with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held sincesitilated about 2! miles north-west from Eynsham 1888 by the Rev. William Ulyat B.A. of Magdalenestation on the Oxford and Lechlade branch of the Great College, Cambridge. The vicarage house, built in 186g, Western railway, about 2! south-west from Handborough is of stone and adjoins the church. The whole cost of station on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton the church, parsonage and schools, was over £6,ooo. section of the same system, and 5 nort-h-east from Rore is a small Wesleyan chapel, built in 18q. FreeWitney, in the Mid division of the county, petty ses- land Lodge, the property of James Mason esq. was resional division of Bampton East, county court district bnilt of stone in 18go, on the former site. A little of Witney, rural deanery of Woodstock and archdeaconry south of the church is St. Mary's house, a modern and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary the stone mansion in the Gothic style, which commandsVirgin, erected by subscription in I 869 at a cost of goOO. views of the surround~ng country and ~s th& £z,goJ, is a building of stone in the Early English residence of Mrs. Taunton. The soil is various; substyle, and consists of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch soil, clay and pebbles. The chief crops are the usual and a north-eastern tower with saddle-back roof con- cereals. The area is 505 acres; the population in: taining one bell: the chancel, separated from the nave 1891 was 160. by a metal screen, has a stone grained roof, and is lighted by seven stained lancets; the walls are deco- Letters through Woodstock arrive at 9 a.m. & 5·3'> rated with paintings depicting the "Passion;" the p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 10 a. m. & 6 p.m. reredos, of alabaster, is divided into thirteen trefoil- on week days only. Handborough is the nearest money headed compartments or niches filled with sculptured order office, Handborough station the nearest teiJ.e· figures, the central compartment exhibiting "The Cru- graph office cifixion :" the porch hrus a. stone grained ceiling and National School (mixed), built with master's house, in parvise over it: the church affords 150 sittings; there I 871, for about Bo children; average attendance, SI. is a lych-gate, built in 1873. The register dates from This school is in charge of Sisters of Mercy from the year I 86g. The living is a perpetual curacy, net Oxford Taunton Mrs. St. Mary'IS house COMMERCIAL. Smith Ja;mes, fa~ bailiff to .lames Ulyat Re:v. William B.A. (incumbent), Hopkin.s Henry, New inn Mason esq Vicarage Horne Robert, shopkeeper 1 Watbs James Charle,s, farmer FRINGFORD is a parish and village on the Bucks 220 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, border of the county, and on a tributary to the river a;na held! !Since 1894 by the Rev. Charles; Girdwood' Ouse, 4 miles north-east from Bicester station on Thompson: M.A. of St. Edmund's Ran, Oxford. The the Bletchley and Oxford branch of the London charities for distribution amount to £14 ss. yearly. (J{)tand North Western railway, 7 south-west from more House is the seat of William Wemyss Methven Buckingham, and 17 north-east from Oxford, in the Dewar esq. D.L., J.P.; Fringford Lodge is the resi· Mid division of the county, hundred and petty ses- deuce of the Rev. Edward Withington M.A., J.P. Ed· sional division of Ploughley, union and county court ward Slater-Harrison esq. of Shelswell Park, is lord of district of Bicester, rural deanery of Bicester and arch- the manor and chief landowner. The soil is partly clay deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. and partly stone brash, with a portion arable. The Michael and All Angels is a building of stone, ori- chief crops are wheat, beans, peas and barley. The ginally of the I2th or 13th century, but now exhibiting area is I,SBo acres; rateable value, £I,7II; the popuportions of various styles and consisting of chancel, lation in 189I was 403. nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embat- Parish Clerk, Thomas Judd. tled western tower containing a clock and 3 bells: the Post & M. 0. 0., s. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office~ chancel aisles and tower have been wholly rebuilt in -Mrs. Keziah Whitton, sub-postmistress. Letters very good style, and all the chancel windows are through Bicester arrive at s.5 a.m. & I.4o p.m.; stained: the south doorway and two arches of the nave dispatched at u.so a.m. & 4. 45 p.m. Stratton .Andarcades are Norman; the porch is Early English: the ley is the nearest telegraph office font was presented in I88o a.s s. memorial to Mrs. Anne King: there are 200 sittings. The register of baptisms National School, built in r866, for So children; averagedates from the year 15g8; marriages, IS86; burials, attendance, 53; Mi~s Scriven, mistress 1588. The living is a re.ctory, gross yearly value from Carrier. J. H. Grantham, to Banbury, thurs.; Bi· tithe rent-charge £137, average £104, with hou~e, and cester, tues. & fri.; Brackley, wed.; Buckingham, satDewa,r William Wemy~s Methven D.L., Gibbard George, brewer, fa,rmel.' & Price. Matilda (Mrs.), shopkeeper J.P. Cotmme house maltster Roberts -, Butchers' .Arms P.H Greene Genrge Arthur Grantham James Henry, carrier Rogers Jvhn, madhin:ist & carpenter Thompson Rev. Charles'Girdwood M.A. Judd G.eorge, shoe maker SimolliS John, farmer Rec'tory .Tudd Thoma•s, parish clerk Smith John Ward, brick & pipe, mnfr Withington Rev. Edward M.A., J.P. K:ing Henry Thoma.s, farmer, Waterloo Wihitton Keziah (Mrs.), blacksmith &, Fringford lodge fa= farrier, Post office COMMERCIAL. Mamfield :3Iary (M:rs.), shopkeeper Wood Thomas, blacksmith & baker Clark Jarrnes, butcher Price John, plmuber FRITWELL is a parish and village, 2 miles east from Somerton station on the Oxford and Wolverhampton section of the GTeat Western railway, 6 north-west from Eicester, 9 south-east from Banbury, and in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county court district of Bicester, rural deanery of Ricester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Olave is an •

96 FRITWELL. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's ancient edifice of stone, originally Norman, and waii bank Avesditch is supposed to be the remains of an restored in 1864: it consists of chancel, nave of eight old Roman road. The Manor House, erected about bays, aisles, north porch and a western tower of Early 16oo, is now in the occupation of Thomas Garner esq. English date, containing a clock and 3 bells: the chan- The principal landowners are Pembroke College, Oxeel arch and both the doorways are good examples of ford, and the trustees of the late William Hewer. The Norman work, and the south door has some curious soil is stone brash; subsoil, loam. The land is partly and unique sculpture in the head : the chancel walls pasture, partly arable, with a small portion of woodare Early English: the nave is also of this period: land. The area is 1,230 acres ; rateable value, £2,153; fihe font is octagonal, with carving in low relief and is the population in 1891 was 557· a Decorated work: there are 320 sittings: in the church- Parish Clerk, Albert Wmiams. yard are the remains of an ancient cross. The register Post & Telegraph O:ffice.-Mrs. Sarah Ja.ne Fox, subd:~.tes from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, postmistress. Letters through Banbury arrive at net yearly value [173, including 84 acres of glebe d' h d ._ 6 Th "th "d · th "ft f th R R · ld R 8.50 a.m.; 1spatc e at Io.IO a.m. ou p.m. e Wl resi ence, m e gi 0 e ev. egma e- nearest money order office is at Souldern. Postal mington M.A. vicar of Barlings, Lincs. and held since orders are issued here, but not paid 1883 by the Rev. Robert Pickman Norwood B..A. of Oxford University. Here are two Wesleyan Methodist National School, built in 1869, for 18o children; average Chapels. The charities include Hiscock's of £z yearly attendance, 89; John Richard Sharman, master for fuel, and a sum of [20, placed in the Bicester Carrier. John Bennett, to Banbury, mon. & thurs.; to .savings bank in 1859 by an unknown donor. Wattle- Bicester, fri Garner Th·omas, Manor h{)UJSe Blllswell John, shovkeeper Hickman William, farmer Kiilby Robert Butler Joihn, dauyman Hirons 'l'homas, C(Jal merohant Ma~sey Jarnes CleaV'er John, groce.r Roman "'~illiam Wait, farmer May Mi~s Cooling Eliza!bet<h .A.nn(ll'IIrs. ), beer retlr Hunt ThomaJ,., farm-er Norwood Thev. Robert Pickman B..A.. Dale Thomas, grocer & draEer K.ilby Matthew, farme.r Vicarage Dale Thoma~s, farmer Lea Williaml farmer Stuch'bury Miss Dew Frank, gr-ocer & draper :Ma;;,sey WilliMll, farmer Finch Ann (~frs. ), s·hopk~e.per Plull1be J emima. (MiSJs ), €ihoe makLr COMMERCIAL. Gibibard William, beer retailer Scott Henry, butcher & baker .Adams Richard, fa.mneil' Gibbs John, bla.ck,s.mith 'J'ebby Daniel, builder A.rkell William, farmer Griffin William, George & Dragon P .H Tebby Thomas, King's Head P .H Bennett .Ann (Mrs.), Bear P.H Hamlbridge Ernest & H. farme.ns "Whit Joseph, wheelwright .FULBROOK is a parish and village on the road from Rector and others, at a cost of about £6oo: some Burford to Chipping Norton, 1 mile north-east-by-north remains of wall-paintings and other features of interest frcm Burford and 4 south from Shipton station on the have been carefully preserved: the nave and tower were Oxford and Worcester section of the Great Western rail- restored by the parishioners: there are zoo sittings, way, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of 8o being free: in the churchyard is a Perpendicular Chadlington, petty sessional division of Bampton West tomb and a fine yew tree. The register dates from the .and union and county court district of Witney, rural year 1615. The living is a vicarage, united about .A. D. deanery of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of 1215 to the vicarage of Burford, and held since 1871 by @xford. The church of St. James is an ancient edifice the Rev. William .Anthony Cass, who resides at Burford. ~f stone in the Norman, Early English and later styles, Here is a "\'Vesleyan chapel. Sir George Fettiplace, of .and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, with transept Swinbrook, sth and last bart. who died 8 April, 1743, <Or chapel, south porch and a western tower, of Early left £2 yearly for bread, which is paid annually by the Perpendicular date, containing 3 bells, dating from 1662 Bishop of Oxford, and in 1884 Job Lewis left £1 rss. and rehung in 1892, at the cost of the trustees of the yearly for bread, to be given away on Easter Sunday in late Job Lewis: the chancel has a Decorated east win- each year. Robert Martin esq. is lord of the manor. dow of three lights, filled with stained glass, in memory The landowners are Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford of Job Lewis, a benefactor to this parish, who died in esq. C.B., M.P. of Batsford Park, Gloucestershire, Mr. r884: the chancel arch is Transition Norman: on the Thomas Walker, of Shilton, and others. The soil is south side of the nave is a round headed recess: the stone brash; subsoil, rock. The chief crops are wheat, nave is separated from the aisle by five plain semi- barley, oats and turnips. The area is 1,758 acres; circular Transition Norman arches, springing from short rateable value, £1,982; the population in 1891 was 302. massive piers: the south doorway is Norman, but the Parish Clerk, George Clinch. ·porch Early English: the font, also Norman, is a plain cylindrical work on a low base: in the chancel is a fine Letters through Burford R.S.O. the nearest money order mural monument of stone in the Classic style to the & telegraph office, arrive at about 7.15 a.m. Wall family of .Jordan, r637 to 1 672, and a marble tablet to Letter Box cleared at 8 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. week days 'the Thorpe family, r695 to 1701 : the church wa.s re- only paired and new roofed in 1827, and in r892 was corn- National School (mixed), erected in 1874 Dn land given pletely restored under the direction of Messrs. Walker by Mr . .A.braham Stratton, who also gave £roo towards -and Son, architects, of Gloucester: the chancel by the the building, for 120 children; average attendance, :Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Eton College, the Lay 6o ; Miss Ellen Urquhart, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. C0MMERCIAL. Franklin .Tn. & Hy. farmrs.Ca.pps lodge .!Js'ton George, Mwson's Arms P.H. & Franklin John, tithe collector Cheatle Mrs road contracto.r Keelock Thomrus, coal dealer Clark Rev. William (Baptislt) Betts Waiter, shopkeeper Mace Oharles, farmer, We~sthall llill Garne Thomws Behbs William, thatcher Maddox John Fowler, farmer,WaterlQo Houlton Mrs. Bridge house Gambray Wm. farmer & machine ownr Monk John,farm bailiff to Jn.Garne e,sq Newman William Clinch G~ol'ge, shoe maker Nort()n Geo.Rowland,inland rev-en.offc:r Paintin Georg-e, Providence lodge Gmok Daniel, s.tonema;son Pratley Waiter, coal dlr. & woodman Stratton Joseph Crook Henry, road contracor Slmith Edwin .Aall'on, grocer Sylve.ster Paul, Lady Ham cottage Franci's William, carpenter & Gar- Wheeler .Anne (Mm.), farmer Wiggins :Miss, Westhall hill penters' Arms P.H Wiggirus Valentine,i'armer,Westh'a11 h:ll GARSINGTON, in Domesday "Gersedune," is a curved mouldings and is crossed by a rood screen of parish 2~ miles south-west from Wheatley station on rather Late Perpendicular work: the nave is separated the Oxford and Princes Risboro' section of the Great from the aisles by arcades of four arches on clustered Western railway, 4 south-east from Oxford and 48 from piers, these are Transition Norman; but the clerestory London, in the Southern division of the county and petty has circular foliated lights of the Decorated period: the sessional division of Bullingdon, union of Headington, roof is Perpendicular: in the south aisle is a fine Decocounty court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Cud- rated east window and a piscina and doorway of the desdon and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The same period, the timber porch being of the rsth cen- -church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in tury: in the north aisle is an Early English doorway: mixed styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, the font was given by Richard Turrill, clerk of the south porch and a low -western tower of Transition Nor- parish in 1782: there is a brass, with effigies of all, to man date, probably about .A. D. 1200, 42 feet in height, I Thomas Radley gent. 1584; Elizabeth his wife and ro with a plain parapet, and containing a clock and bells, I children, and an ancient stone, bearing a mutilated and has several stained windows: the chancel is Late · cross fleurie and other sculpture, and inscribed "X Decorated and has a low side window on both sides and ' Isabelle de Fortibus gist ici; Dieu de sa aime eit a piscina: the chancel arch is large and lofty, with re- mN·ci," believed to commemorate Isabella, only daughter

- • DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. GORING • 97 of Bald win (de Redvers) 7th Earl of Devon and 2nd wife ' yearly for bread. Frederick Parker Morrell esq. M. A. of William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle, she died I of Oxford, who is lord of the manor, Exeter and Queen's 1292-3: the church was restored in 1848-g, by the Rev. Colleges, Oxford, and Messrs. Drake are the principal James Ingram D.D. rector here, and President of Trinity landowners. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, gravel College, Oxford, 1824, until his death 4 Sept. 185o, when and white limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley the roofs and fittings were renewed and the original and oats. The area is 2,174 acres; rateable value, altar stone, with its five crosses in a perfect stat~. was [2,886; and the population in 1891 was 589. recovered and replaced: there are 350 sittings: on the Parish Clerk, Alfred Woodward. south side of the churchyard is a large yew tree. The Post Office.-George Walne, sub-postmaster. Letters register of baptisms and marriages dates from the year through Oxford arrive at 8 a.m. & 4.40 p.m. ; sunday 1562; burials, 1563. The living is a rectory, tithe rent- 8 a.m.; dispatched at 9.30 a.m. & 6.5 p.m.; sunday charge £678, average £so7, net yearly value [417, with ro.so a.m. The nearest money order office is at residence and 22 acres of glebe, in the gift of Trinity Cuddesdon, & telegraph office at Wheatley. Postal College, Oxford, and held since 1871 by the Rev. David orders are issued here, but not paid Thomas M.A. late fellow of that college. A Wesleyan National School (mixed), erected, with dwelling house chapel was erected here in 1886, at a cost of [225; it for the master & mistress, in 1840-1, on a site given has 200 sittings. In the centre of the village stands the by Thomas Plumer Halsey esq. of Temple Dinsley, at lofty shaft of a cross raised on four steps. This village a cost of aborrt £1,5oo & will hold roB children; averwas the head quarters of Sir Thomas Fairfax, on the age atendance, 106; 1Villiam Muscott, masrer night of May 1, 1646, previous to the siege of Oxford. Carriers to Oxford.-Townsend, wed. fri. & sat. ; Westbrooke and Malbon's charities amount to £3 1os. Yeates, wed. & sat Thom!lls Rev. Da:vid ~LA. R')chJry Cooper Alfred, shopkeeper Smith Henry, Hor&e~shoe.s P.H OOM!t.' ERCIAL. Be1cher \Villiam, farn~er Blay Arthur, farmer Clanfield Alfred, mall"ket gardener Clarke John, be.er retailer CEnkard Alfred, farmer Clinkaii"d Alfr·ed, jun. huntsman Ohrist C'hurdh bea,gle~s Clinkard Tihoma.s, farmer Clinkard William, farmer Durb.ridge Herbert, builder, black- Town.send J os.ep~, ca.rrieil" sm•ith & furnishing unde:r'taker Turrill JOISeph, market gardener Durbridge Jame<s, market gardener Walne GeDrge, baker, Post office Druce GeorgB, blac.kJsmit'h Wheeler William, shopkeeper Druce Ma.ry Ann (."MiiS. ), shopkeeper Wheeler Hail."ry, Red Lion P .H Gale J'sph.fa!Jllr.6.ructioneer & land a1gt White James, market gardener Heritage William, IDJarket gardener Yeate.s James, senior, carrier to Hin'ton Emma (1Mi1ss),market gardener Yeates Jame,s, jun. market gardener J ohnson John, nurseJ."yman Yeates John, market gardener Sturge.s Ge'org-e (~i11s.), cowkeeper & Yeateos J1sph. poultrer.& market grdnr ma;rket gardener Yeate.s Wm.carrier & market gardener GLYMPTON is a parish and village in a valley on which immediately adjoins Glympton park, is beautithe river Glyme, 3~ miles north-west from ·woodstock fully kept. The register dates from the year 1667. terminal station on a branch from \Voodstock road sta- The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge L222, average tion of the Great \Vestern railway, and 5 north-east £191, net income £176, including 53 acres of glebe, from the Charlbury station on the Oxford and 1Vorcester with residence, in the gift of Col. Henry Barnett, and section of the same line, in the Mid division of the held since 1856 by t-he Rev. Charles Williams Marsh county, hundred of Wootton, ~~Jetty sessional division of Bartholomew B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The Wootton South, union and county court district of ancient village stocks are still standing. Glympton Woodstock, rural deanery of Woodstock and archdea- Park is the seat of Col. Henry Barnett D.L., J.P. lord conry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. 1\Iary of the manor and principal landowner; the mansion is is chiefly a modern building of stone in the Early Deco- a square built house, surrounded by a deer park of uo rated style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch acres, traversed by the river Glyme, which, near the and a western tower containing 5 bells: the windows rectory grmmds, makes a pretty waterfall. The soil is are stained : the chancel arch is a fine example of Tran- stone brash ; subsoil, stone brash. The land is chiefly sition Norman work, with nook shafts and cushion caps; arable; there are about 100 acres of woodland. The the tower aroh is of the same date, but the tower itself area is 1,232 acres; rateable value, [1,351 ; the populais Late Perpendicular; the font is Norman: in the floor tion in 1891 was 16o. of the chancel is a brass with effigy and inscription to Parish Clerk, George Laughton. Thomas Tesdale, eo-founder, by will dated 31 May, 1610, Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Unwin, sub-postmistress. of Pembroke College, Oxford, and founder of the usher- Letters through 1Voodstock arrive at 8.20 a.m. & ship at .A.bingdon school, who died at Glympton, 11 June, 3·45 p.m. Wootton is the nearest money order office r6ro; this brass was placed by his wife Maud (Stone), & Middle Barton the nearest ,telegraph office. Pillar a native of Henley, and previously wife of Edward Little Letter Box cleared at 3·45 & 6.30 p.m. ; & sundays, of Abingdon; she died 19 June, 1616: on the north wall, 10.30 a.m above the brass, is a large and fine monument, painted Parish School (mixed), erected in 1848, by Colonel H. and gilt, with life-size figures of both kneeling at a Barnett, & mainly supported by him, for so children; prayer-desk, and above, an achievement of arms: the average attendance, 29; Miss Alice Dyer, mistress church was restored in 1872, when the chancel was re- Carriers.-Jones, to 'Leopold Arms,' Oxford, wed.; built: t.here are about 120 sittings: the churchyard, Humphries passes through sat Barnet;t Ool. Henry D.L., J.P. Glymp- Bartholomew Rev. C'harle~s Williams Turney John,farm bailiff to C-olonel H. ton pa.rk; & 15 West Halkin street, M1arsh B . .A.. Rectory )3arnetlt London W Hunt Joseph, farmer, Hill farm Unwin Elizh.(Mrts. ),shopkpr .P{),st offi{:e GODINGTON is a parish consisting of a few farm- curiously sculptured: there are 70 sittings. The houses and cottages, on the border of Buckinghamshire, register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 2 miles north by foot-path and 3 by road from Marsh 1672; marriages, 1679· The living is a rectory, gro-ss Gibbon and Poundon station on the Oxford and Bletch- yearly value arising from 201 acres of glebe [403, with ley branch of the London and North Western railway, residence, in the gift of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, 5~ north-east from Bicester and about 5 south-west and held since 1878 by the Rev. William Henry Jones, of from Buckingham, in the Mid division of the county, Brasenose College, and M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union The Earl of Effingham is lord of the manor and chief and county court district of Bicester, rural deanery of landed proprietor. The soil is gravel and clay; subsoil Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The clay, and is principally in pasture. The area is 1,030 church of the Holy Trinity is a plain edifice of stone, acres; rateable value, £1,213; the population in 1891 rebuilt (with the exception of the tower) in 1792, and was 72. consisting of nave and a west-ern tow.er containing 2 Letters through Bicester arrive 8.15 a.m. Wall Letter bells, with an entrance on the south side: in the floor Box cleared at 3.30 p.m. Fringford is the nearest of the church are inscribed stones to Theodore Fletcher money order & Stratton Audley the telegraph office B.D. a former rector, 1673-1706, and to his wife Alice, Letter Box at Poundon station (Bucks), cleared every died 168o: the font, of Norman date, is built into the 1 day at 8.55 & sundays, 8.35 p.m south wall: in the south-west corner of the nave is a ·The children of this parish attend the schools at Stratstone, once forming part of the ancient church, and I ton Audley & Twyford Jone•.:; Rev. Wm. Hy. M.A. Rectory I Holt Williarn S't-eveniS, farmer, Hall fm I Nicho1s Jonathan., farmer, Poodle faTm GORING is a village and parish, with a station on the I way, much enlarged and improved in r894, ro miles 'Reading and Oxford section of the Great Western rail- north-west from Reading, r2 from Henley, 6 south from OXON. 7

98 GOBING. OXFORDSHIRE. (ULLY's • Wallingford, 19 south-east from Oxford and 44! by rail- £3 yearly, left by Mrs. Lettice Simmons, is distributed way from London, in the Southern division of thn in .April to the poor. There is also a plot of land of county, hundred of Langtree, petty sessional division of about one acre, left during the last century to the vicar Henley, union of Bradfield, county court district of Wal- of Goring for the time being, on condition of his preachlingford, rural deanery of Henley and archdeaconry and ing a sermon on the evening of Christmas day. In the diocese of Oxford. The village is picturesquely seated fields and gardens about here strong foundations of in one of the most beautiful portions of the Thames ancient structures, Roman coins, vases and pavements valley, and occupies a site on the left bank of the river, have been discovered; the Icknield street, or Ickleton between it and the railway; the stream, flowing through way, a famous British trackway, which traversed the verdant meads, here takes a wide turn to the west and whole breadth of England from north-east to south-west, is overshadowed on that side by a sharply Tising bluff, starting from Icklinham (Iceninham) in Suffolk, the densely wooded; on the opposite bank lies Streatley, country of the Iceni, here crossed the Thames and is reached by a long wooden bridge and shut in by bold still used. Here was anciently a monastery of .Austin and lofty chalk hills, covered with short grass and Canons, founded before the time of Henry Il. and dediclumps of juniper: the village is lighted with gas and cated to St. Mary: on its dissolution the revenues were supplied with water from works at Oleeve, belonging to estimated at £6o: traces of its building may still be the Goring and Streatley Gas and Water Company. seen on the west and south sides of the church; the The church of St. Thomas a Becket, placed almost on blank wall on the south side indicating the position of the bank of the river and originally the church of the the cloisters, and many of the original windows remain. Augustinian priory, is a small and curious Norman build- Philip Lybbe Powys-Lybbe esq. of Holly Copse, Reading of chalk, rubble and flint, consisting of nave, north ing, who i:s lord of the manor, Chal!'les Lawrence Weare aisles, north porch and an embattled western tower, Gardiner esq. and John Foster esq. of Coombe Lodge, containing a fine peal of 6 bells; the oldest was founded Whitchurch, are chief landowners. The Temple, the by Richard of Wymbis, 1290: the arcade of the narrow property of C. L. W. Gardiner esq. is now occupied by north aisle consists of three arches of Transition Nor- Frederick George Banbury esq. The soil is chalk and man date, on massive circular piers; the tower is a gravel; subsoil, clayey. The crops are wheat, barley, very singular example of Norman work, with groined oats and roots. The area is 4,442a. Ir. 2p. ; rateable vaulting and a round stair turret: on the right of the value, £15,106 15s. 6d. ; the population in 1891 was communion table are brasses with male and female 1,487. effigies and others of three sons and five daughteTs; Gatehampton is a place on the banks of the Thames, these are undated, but appear to be of the 16th century ; about r mile south-east from Goring station of the there is also in the floor of the aisle a brass figure of a Great ·western railway, and in this parish; jt is suplady, beneath a canopy, with a mutilated marginal in- posed to have been a place of some consequence about scription to Sister Elizabeth ... , 1401; and between the the 12th century, and the foundations of ancient buildnave and north aisle is another brass inscribed in Nor- ings have been frequently met with. man French, to Henry de .Aldryngton, 1375: the church Parish Clerk, Waiter .Aldridge. was enlarged in 1887 at a cost of £2,082, and has about &; 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 167o, but Post, M. 0. 'r. 0., S. B., Exp~ess Delivery &: Annuity the earlier portion consists of loose imperfect sheets & Insurance Office.-Henry Lacey Smith, sub-postonly. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent- master. Letters arrive from Reading at. 7.15 & 9.20 charge £7, net yearly value [313, with residence, in the a.m. i 12· 1 5 & 5·35 p.m.; dispatched at 8.45 & 9·5° gift of Charles Lawrence Weare GaTdiner esq. and held a.m: & 2 ·45• 6· 15 & 7·~5 p.m.; sundays, arrive 7·15 a.m. & dispatched at 5.40 p.m since 1885 by the Rev. Henry Charles Littlewood M . .A. Wall Letter Box, at Railway station, cleared at of Brasenose College, Oxford. There is a chapel here 9·35 belonging to Lady Huntingdon's Connexion, built in a.m. & 7·15 p.m. ; sundays, 5·2o p.m 1790, and rebuilt in 1893· and now seating about 300. Wall Letter Box, at Cleve, cleared at 7 p.m. week days; The Temperance Hall, erected in 1878, will hold 200 s~ndays, 5 p.m . . persons; and a public recreation ground, which was Natwnal School (mixed), Is now enlarged to hold r6o given by C. L. w. Gardiner esq. The Workmen's Club. I children; average 31ttendance, 125; Robert Ragge, a building of red brick, was opened in Nov. 1888, and master; Miss .Annie Dunn, assistant mistress; Mrs. has a library. There are almshouses for four old men, Ellen Mary Ragge, infants' mistress viz. two of this parish, one of Oheckendon and one of Police Station, Thomas Yates, sergeant Whitchurch, with a weekly provision of ss. 6d. ea~.:h, Railway Station, Edwin Mayo, station master founded and endowed in 1714 by Richard Lybbe esq. of Carriers. Hardwick. The poor's allotment of zo acres produces .Alfred Hazell, to Reading, on tuelil. thurs. & sat.; .Alfred £w yearly; Cresswell's (Whitchurch) charity provides Bacon, to Reading, on tues. & sat. ; & to Wallingford, coats for six aged men of this parish; a sum of about on fri PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .Akers Thomas, Lyndhurst Banbury Frederick Geo. The Temple Brown John, Willow cottage Burns James RobeTt, Heathcote Clutton Herbert Spencer,Mill ho.Oleve Cozens The Misses, Waterloo cottage Deane Mrs. Bryanston Dobson Frederick William, Cleve Dodd James Swallow, Glebe cottage Dunk Rev. William (Congregational) Dunn Nathan Noyes, Glentborne Evans Herbert Lavington l\LB., C.M Emerson John, Battle Francis .Arthur, Long ~Ieadow Goodinge The Misses Greenwell Edwd. Eyre, Parsonage CGt Hallett William B. Streatley view • Hawkes Lt.-Gen. Henry Phillip C.B. The Old Rectory Littlewood Rev. Henry Charles M.A.. The Vicarage Lovatt Henry, Holme Lea Nash William Foster, Battle house Parry Major Gambria, Elm croft Pollard Edward Hutchinson, Oriel Rapkins Alfred Thomas Saunders .Arthur Shield Charles, Manor cottage Shoolbred Frdk. Thos. Thames bank Simpson .Arthur Telford, Icknield Stone Percy G. Nun~s .Acre Tuckey John, The Grange Wade Nugent Weedon George, Fairfield COMMERCIAL. Holliday Frauds, farmer Honey Henry, beer retailer .Tennings Mrs.Carln.QueC~n's Arms P.H Mitchelmore Ernest, Miller of Mansfield hotel .Akers Thomas, corn dealer Pearce Bros. farmers, Gatahampton, .Ake-rs William, assistant overseer & & Battle farm assessor & collector of Queen's Penny Jasper, carpenter & builder taxes, farmer, & agent to the Liver- Pittman .Ann (Miss) lexors. d), pool & London.& Globe Insurance brewers, maltsters & farmers Co. & Ocean .Accidental Co. Goring Pittman John, farmer, Sprmg farm farm Saunders Samuel Edg-ar, boat builder Bacon .Alfred, carrier & miller (water), J:oring mill Bar low Samuel, Sloane hotel Shearer John, farmer, Be:~ch farm Bartholomew George, fisherman Slade George F. clerk to t,he school Burgess Jane B. (Mrs.), apartments board for South Stoke Burridge William, boot maker Smith Henry Lacey,grocer & provision Cocks .Alfd. William, groct~r & draper dealer, & agent for W. & A. Uilbey Colebrook & Co. butchers Lim. wine & spirit mers. Post office Critchfield Wm. beer retlr. & blcksmth Soper Margaret (Mrs.), boarding ho Dodd James Swallow, architect & Temperance Hall (Mrs.CarolineSwain, surveyor, Glebe cottage proprietor), Elm cottage Elderfield J ames, Leather Bottle irm W eedon Brothers, coal w err hants & Evans Herbert Lavington l'ILB., C.M. chemical manure manufacturers & surgeon brick & tile makers; & at WallingFoster Gecrge, police constable ford, Benson, Watlington, Wheatley, Franklin James, fly proprietor Wantage, Upton, Compton, H!lmp~ Goring & Streatley Water & Gas Co. stead Norris, Moulsford & Cholsey (Fredk. Wm. Dobson, man.), C1eve Wells James, hair dresser Gregory William, apartments Wicks Jas. farmer, Ilvendon farm Guttridge Joseph, farmer Woodbridge Jason, harness maker Hazell .Alfred, carrier Workman's Club (Hy. Towerton, sec) Hewitt Thos. Stibbs, grocer & butcher Yates Georgeo, lock keeper Higgs Thomas, builder Yates Thomas, sergeant of police

DIRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. HAILEY. 99 GORING HEATH is a small village in the parish of Foster esq. of Coombe Lodge, Whi_~church. The soil ia Goring, 3~ miles south-east from the Goring station on chalk, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, the Heading and Oxford section of the Great Western barley and oats. railway, and 6 north-west from Reading, in the South- Collins' End, ~ mile south-east, consists of a few ern division of the county, petty sessional division of scattered cottages. Charles I. when staying as a Henley; the once barren heath is now well cultivated. prisoner at Caversham Park, is stated to have played Here are almshouses for twelve poor men of the parishes bowls here, on a green attached to the old public of Goring, South Stoke, Checkendon, Cassington and house; a portrait of the King is hung in the house as a Ipstone (Bucks), founded and endowed with houses and memorial of the occurrence. .A Primitive Methodist land in 1724 by Henry .Allnutt esq. of the Middle Tern- chapel was built here in r886. ple; each almsman has a house, garden, supply of wood, Post Ofiice.-George Harvey Dunn, sub-postmaster. clothing and 7s. 6d. a week and medical assistance; and Letters arrive from Reading at 7·55 a.m. ; dispatched there is a resident nurse: attached is a chapel, in the at 5.20 p.m. The nearest money order office is at .chancel of which are marble monuments to Henry Whitchurch, & telegraph office at Pangbourne .Allnutt, the founder of the charity and Richard Clement, Pillar Letter Box, at Crays Pond, cleared 5·55 p.m. his executor: the chaplaincy, yearly value about £no, week days; 10.25 a. m. sundays has been held since r892 by the Rev. Frederick John Allnutt's Endowed School (boys), founded for 27 boys; Pentycross B. A. of the University of Oxford: there are 18 from Goring, 6 from Checkendon & 3 from South two fields of about 11 acres for the chaplain's use; the Stoke; these are educated & clothed & at the age of income of the charity, increased by a bequest of [2r 14 years, if their parents so desire, are apprenticed yearly from the Rev. John Baker, amounting to £636 with a premium of £2o; John Travis Holmes, masyearly, is subject to a payment of £7o yearly to the ter; the girls' department was added by a scheme, clerk and trustees and miscellaneous expenses; the sanctioned by the Court of Chancery in 1833, for chil- -charity also provides £134 yearly for apprenticing boys dren of the same parishes as above; Mrs. Charlotte of the parishes above named, including .£r4 for their Coventry, mistress; infants' school, established in outfit. 'l'he chief landowners are Philip Lybbe Powys- 1879; Miss Sarah Hiscock, mistress; total number of Lybbe esq. of Holly Copse, Reading, who is lord of the cliildren in attendance, 150: the school was in 1894 manor, Charles Morrison esq. of Basildon Park. C. L. enlal'ged as a mixed school, for 140 children, of wbcro W. Gardiner esq. of The Temple, Goring, and John 56 will be foundationers. Butler William Bush Edwin, beer retailer Hiscock Henry, farm bailiff to John Carter James, Shirvel lodge Butler Alfred, beer retailer Foster esq Pentycross Rev. Frederick John B.A. Carter James, farmer &c Inwards Richard, farmer (chaplain of almshouses) Chapman John, farmer Lee Jacob, chair turner COMMERCIAL. Cox Chas. King Charles' Head P.H Lee Onesipherous, grocer & baker Blandford John, farmer Dunn George Harvey, family grocer, Sawkins Richard, farmer Bristow Francis, farmer, Stapells frm. baker !& post office Whitfield Edwin, farmer,Hyde Ho.frm Cold Harbour Hazel Edward, beer retailer Winkworth Samuel, brick maker GRANDPONT is a part of, and see City of Oxford. GREYS, see Rotherfield Greys . .HAILE Y -CUM-CRA WLEY are scattered villages ' Hailey, and is watered by the river Windrush, over in a township and parish formed from the civil parish which there is a bridge with three elliptical arches. uf Witney in 1854: Hailey proper is a small village on There are two blanket manufactories in the parish, one high ground on the road from Witney to Charlbury, at Hailey and another at Crawley. St. Peter's mission 3~ miles north from Witney station on the Oxford, room, which stands on an eminence here, is a plain Witney and Fairford branch of the Great Western rail- rectangula;r edifice of stone, built in r837 by the rector way, in the Mid division of the county, petty sessiOTJ.'ll of Witney, at a cost of about £250; it was consecrated division of Bampton East, Witney union and county in 1847 and will seat roo persons. At a. spot one conrt district, rural deanery of Witney and archdeaconry mile south of Crawley, wher6 was once a barrow, and diocese of Oxford. The parish comprises the out- human remains and Roman coins have been met with, ~ying hamlets of Delly End, Pofiley End, part of Newyati: and at Wood1ey's copse, eastward, other remains of a and White Oak Green; West End and Wood Green, similar character have been noticed. forming part of Witney town, belong to this parish fer Delly End is 111 quarter of a mile north from Hailey -civil purposes, but to Witney for ecclesiastical mat.ters. village, Pofiley End half a. mile east, White Oak Green The old church of St. John the Baptist was pulled doVJn, I mile north-west and Newyatt about r! miles cast. with the exception of a small portion of the west end, The principal landowners are James Mason esq. of in r868, and the materials used in the erection of a Eynsham Hall, the Duke of Marlborough (lord of the new church, built in 1868-9, at a cost of £2,ooo, on manor), the trustees of Williaro Clinch esq. the :Master .a site given by the Rev. George Crabb Rolfe B.A. vicar and Fellows of University College, Oxford, :1\fiss PickerI858-93. and consecrated in .April, 1869: it is of stone i~g. C. Townsend and H. M. Wynter esqrs. The soil is in the Early French Gothic style, and consists of chancel, clayey on the hills and chisley on the lowlands; subnave, north aisle, south porch, vestry and a circular soil, clay. The crops are cereals-chiefly wheat. 'fhe turret, at the west end of the aisle, containing one area is-Hailey, 2,827 acres; Crawley, r,n6 acres; rate, bell: the stained east window is a memorial to the able value-Hailey, £5,346; Crawley, £923; the popullev. John Hyde M . .A. a perpetual curate here from lation in 1891 was-Hailey, 1,365; Crawley, 198. r8oo, until his death, II Dec. 1838: it will seat 300 For names in Wood Green, see Witney. persons. The register of Hailey, as ~ separa:te paris?-, Sexton, Hailey, Noah Hollaway. dates only from the year 1854; earher entries are m . . the registers of Witney, which begin in 1578. The living Letters arrive from W1tner by foot post about 7·30 a.m. is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £rg2 , average £q4, Wall Letter Boxes-Halley, cleared at 5·45 p.m. on gross yearly value £310, net £2 so, with 90 acres of week days only; Delly End, cleared 8 a.m. & 5.30 glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Ox- p.m.; Crawley, cleared 5·30 p.m. week days o_nly; ford, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Herbert Wilson ~ewyatt, cleared 5·45 p.m. week days only. W1tney M . .A. of Trinity College, Dublin; the rector of Witney Is the nearest money order & telegraph office holds the rectorial tithe and the vicar of Hailey takes Schools. the tithes of Crawley. .At Pofiley End is a Wesleyan National, Hailey (mixed), erected in 1848, & enlarged . · chapel, built in 1853, and at Newyatt a Primitive Metho- in 1893, for 198 children; average attendance, 130; dist chapel. .A. charity, left in 1640 by Joan Smith, the school is in part supported by an endowment provides sums of about £17 .ea.ch yearly for education of about £zo yearly from Smith's charity, mentiooed and apprenticing and ros. for a sermon; the charities above; John Towersey Green, master for distribution amount to about £6 yearly. National, Crawley (mixed), erected 1870 & enlarged i"n Crawley is a very secluded and compa-ctly-built place, I8Jr, at a cost of £5o, for 34 children; average situated in a hollow about :r mile west-south-west {rom attendance, zo; Miss Elizabeth Dyer, mistress HAILEY. Adams Mrs. George, Manor house Wilson Rev. Herbert M . .A. Vicarage COMMERCIAL • .Akers William, fanner, Bury croft Bartlett George, farm bailiff to Mr. Habgood Frederick, farmer, estate William Payne agent & surveyor, Gigley farm Dyer 'Villiam, farmer & grazier Hicks William, carpenter Fowler Alexander, grocer Hodgkins James, Lamb & Flag P.R Fowler John, farmer Jordan William, blacksmith Harris Waiter, Carpenter's .Arms P.R Marriott James, farmer, Middbfiell OXOI(. 7* •

100 HAILEY. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S Morton George, shopkeeper DELLY END. ~ra~ley J oseph, shopkeeper Robinson Thomas, farm bailiff to the Buckingham .A.lfd. threshing machine :::lm1th Wm. beer retailer & saddler exors. of Wm. Clinch esq. of Witnf'y proprietor & farmer Wright Martha CRAWI:E'i. (Mrs.), shopkeeper & Buckingham Jason, sho11keep~r pork butcher Dyer Robert, farmer & grazier COMMERCIAL. POFFLEY END. Nutt Alfred, Roebuck P.H Rogers John, farmer Buckingham Leonard, farmer Cook Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Buckingham Frdk. farmr.College frm Blake Ernest, farmer, Swanhill fuiTn Harris Jonas & John, farmers White William Henry, farmer Little 1Ym.farm bailiff to Wm.Smith WHITE OAK GREEN. Nutting John, beer :retailer Harris Micah (Mrs.), farmer Hicks Charles, shoe maker Harris Frederick, Bird,-in-Hand Pratley Charles, nurseryman P.H Pratley William B. l.amh P.H Smith William & Co. blanket manufacturers (branch) Rowles Matthew H. shopkeeper Turner Thomas, farmer NEWYATT. Smith William, shopkeeper Collier Charles, farmer Townsend Chas.farmer,Chasewond frm HAMPTON GAY is a parish and village on the river Cherwell, 1~ miles north-by-east from Kidlington station on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway, 3 east from Woodstock and 6~ north from Oxford, in the Mid division of the countv, • hundred of Ploughley, petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union and county court district of Woodstock, rural deanery of 'Islip and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The suffix " Gay '' is a perversion of the name " Gait," the manor having been held in II38 by Sir Robert Gait knight, who, in IJ40, gave the church, and subsequently the manor, to the Abbey of Oseney. The church of St. Giles is a small building, consisting of nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 2 bells : on the north wall is a fine alabaster monument with kneeling figures to the Barry and Fenner families, 1665 : the church was rebuilt in the last century and skilfully restored in 1859 in the Early English style, and now affords 100 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1622; marriages, I6S7; burials, 1621. The living is a donative vicarage, gross yearly value £2o, devised by the Rev. T. Hindes HAMPTON POYLE, in Domesday, "Hantone," is a parish and village on the Cherwell, ~~ miles northeast from Kidlington station on the Oxford and 1Yolverhampton section. of the Great Western railway, about the same distance from Islip station, on the :Bletchley and Oxford branch of the London and North Western railway, 4~ east from Woodstock, and 6 north from Oxford, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Ploughley, petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union and county court district of Woodstock, rural deanery of Islip and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stoJne in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a ·turret at the west end containing 2 bells : the east window, of three lights, is a remarkably fine example of the transition from Early English to Decorated and has good geometrical tracery; the chancel arch is of the latter period: the nave is separated from the north aisle by an arcade of two arches, on octagonal pillars, with capitals bearing demi-figures: on the south side are t:wo Decorated arches springing from a flat rier : in the north aisle is a fine Perpendicular recess wil.ih an open crocketed canopy ; and here is a small piscina, formed by a hand supporting a basin : in the north aisle are two monumental effigie~ of a cross legged knight in plate armour, 'temp. Edward I. and perhaps representing Waiter de la Poyle, and of a lady in a long ' in r768, in the gift of Wadham College, Oxford, ancF held since 1S71 by the Rev. Henry William Yule B.D., D. O.L. of that college, who is also rector of and resides: at Shipton-on-Cherwell. The Warden and Fellows ot Wadham College, Oxford, who are lords of the manor, and Viscount Valentia are the principal landowners. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, clay and sand. The land is half arable and half pasture, and is chiefly in the occupation of Mr. Henry Isaac Bartlett, who resides at Greenhill Farm, in the parish of Bletchington. Thearea is 638 acres; rateable value, £I,I35; the fOpula.- tion in 1891 was 30. Parish Clerk, James Walsh, who resides at 'fhrupP', Kidlington. LettPrs through Oxford, via Kidlington, arrive at lJ a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Kidlington Nearest Wail Letter Box, Shipton-on-Cherwell, cleared at 8.15 a.m. & 4·4S p.m.; sundays, 4 p.m The children of this parish attend the school at Bletchington mantle, with her feet on a dlog, conjectured to represent • Catherine, widow of Edmund Rede, and lady of the manor, d. 1489; there is also a brass to John Poyle e~q. d. 31 Oct. 1424, and Elizabeth, his wife: the church was restored in 1870, and has ISO sittings. The register· of baptisms dates from the year 1540; marriages, 1545 ; burials, 1544. The living is a rectory, corn rent £70, net yearly value £ss, including !24 acres of W-ebe, with residence, in the gift of Queen's College, Oxford, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Reginald Francis Dale M.A. and Bac. Mus. of that college, and F.R.A.S. who resid~sat Bletchington. Thomas de la Poyle was vicar herein 1306. Viscount Valentia, who is lord of the manor-. and Capt. Georg~ Knapp are the principal landowners. The soil is mixed ; the land arable and pasture, in parts gravel and in other portions clay. The area is no acres; rateable value, £1,030; the population in 1891 was 106. Parish Clerk, John Giles. Pillar Letter Post cleared at 7.30 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. Letters from Oxford, via Kidlington, arrive at 7.30< a.m. & 4.30 p.m. The nearest money order & tele· graph office is at Kidlington The children of this parish attend the schools at Kidlington & Bletchington Hunt Warwick Haynes J ames, farmer Read John, farmer Wixon William, farmer Young Eliza (Mrs.), Bell Beesley John, farm bailiff to e:xors. of the late - Hedges Hinton Joseph, market gardener Kerwood Thomas, farmer • mn HANDBOROUGH (or Hanborough), called in Domesday "Haneberge," is a village and parish, bounded on the north and east by the river Evenlode., with a station on the Oxford and Worcester line of the Great Western railway, 67 miles from London, 5! north-east from Witney, 4 south-west from Woodstock and 8! northwest from Oxford; the parish is divided into Church Handborongh and Long Handborough, and is in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty sessional division of Wootton South, union and county court district of Witney, rural deanery o{ Wood;,tock and archdeacnry and diocese of Oxford. The church of SS. Peter and Paul, standing on an elevated site, is a fine building of stone, principally of the Perpendicular period, and consists of chancel with north chapel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north and soutli porches and western tower of three stages, with quatrefoiled parapet and ()Ctagonal spire 132 feet in height, a.nd containing a clock and 5 bells : the chancel, originally Early Englh,h, has a circular headed aumbry and a sepulchral recess en the south side p the chancel arch is also Early English, and is filled by a screen, dating from about 1460; theprojecting canopy is panelled with bosses and has an elaborately carved cornice, with a wavy stem of vin~ leaves and grapes ; the whole retains traces of colour and gilding; the nave is Perpendicular and is separated from the aisles by arcades of three arches on ~ach !:'ide, springing from octagonal piers ; the clerestory is light~d by square-headed: windows, three on each side; the· font, of Perpendicular date, is octagonal, with panelle<J sides and has a pedestal of the same shape; the pulpit is of the same period, with elaborate oak tracery; th~ outer walls are Norman and retain their original doorways: the north doorway, richly worked, has somecurious sculptures in the tympanum, including a figure bearing a key on the shoulder, a lion restrained by a hand, and the Holy Lamb with flag : the church con-· tains a brass with recumbent shrouded effigy, four Latin verses and an English verse translation, to Alexander Belsyre B.D. rector her~ 1554-67 and first presirlPnir of St. John's College, Oxford, who died at Handborongh~ 13 July, 1567; and other brasses are recorded to the

DIRECTOllY.J OXFORDSHIRE. H.ARDWICKE • 101 . family of Culpepper, 15Bo-r6r6; Joan, wife of Maurice 'Mericke gent. 1617; Christopher Ford and Jane his -wife, and Thoma.s "\Vhee~er, her first husband: as well -as monuments in the chancel to Marg-ar:>.t, wif~ of 'Humphl'ey Clarke esq. of Woodchurch, Kent, 1542 and 'to Jane, widow of Waiter Culpepper esq_. 1636; the east and west windows are memorials to the only daughter of the Rev. Richard William Higgs D.C.L. rector, 1854-91: there are 300 sittings, mostly free. 1n the north-west corner of the churchyard are the remains of a maus0leum of the Boucher f&mily, dating from the beginning of the last century: there is also -a very good example of a 15th century cruciform headstone, of a pattern now rare. The register of baptisms -and marriages dates from the year 1560; burials, ~561. The livin~ is a rectory, gross yearly value £3oo, with .residence, in the gift of St. John's College, Oxford, and held since 1891 by the Rev. William Wynne Willson J'vLA.. formerly fellow of that colLege. The poor's land of 10 acres, awarded in 1773, produces £u yearly, -which, together with Vallence's charity of £18 yearly, is distributed in money; there are other charities amount- -ing altogether to about £4 a year, which is expended in bread. Handhorough is noted for the mineral called l< Selenite" or "moonstone," which has been found herf! in great abundance. The Duke of Marlborough if> lortl of the manor and principal landowner. The s•Jil is gravel and clay; subsoil, the same. The chief crops .are the usual cereals. The population in 1891 was r,oo2; the area (including Long Handborough) is 2,r5r acres; rateable value, £4,075. Long Handborough, in this parish, on the road from Witney to Woodstock, is about one mile north-west. The church erected here on a site given by the late Duke of Marlborough, at a cost of £goo, defrayed by voluntary contributions, is a building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave, and will seat 200 persons. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Parish C1erk, John Man sell. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Long Handborough.-George Ward, sub-postmaster. Letters through Woodstock arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 4· 10 p.m. ; dispatched at 4.20 & 7 p.m. The Tl.earest telegraph office is at the railway station Post Office, Church Handborough.-James Wailer, subpostmaster. Letters through Woodstock arrive at 8.15 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.45 a. m. & 6.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Eynsham ; te-legraph office at station Schools. National (mixed), for 170 children; average attendance, 102 ; Thomas George Williams, master ; Mrs. J ane Williams, mistress Infants, Long Handborough, erected in t879, for 120 children ; average attendance, 6o; Miss Charlotte E. J. Shekel, mistress; assistant, Miss Ada Roger Railway Station, Luke. Walcroft, collector CHUROH HANDBOROUGH. Lay Clara (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lay Susannah (Miss), Shepherds' LONG HANDBOROUGH. Hill George B. Vine cottage 'Pilliner Mrs Baker William, Park cottage Lay Waiter Hall P_H Maisey James, Bell inn Willson Rev. Wm. Wynne M.A..Rectry Woodward William COMMERCIAL. COMMERCIAL. Martin Henry, coal mer. & farmer Parker William, farmer, Manor farm Jliorns Charles, bake-.;- Payne William, Swan P.H Hopkins Henry, shopkeeper & farmer Lay Frederick, haulier Lay Wm. & Jas. farmrs.College farm Mansell J ames, carpenter Sargant Stanley Montague, farmer, Breakspear & Co. brick makers Horkins Thomas, farmer,Cook's coJm• Hopkins Sarah (Mrs.), iihopk(\eper J oslin John & Samuel, farmers Kingscot Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer rctlr Laitt Waiter, carpenter Phipps Joseph, tailor Pratt & Haynes, millers (water) Pratt Rt. Rowles, farmer Rogers Robert, George & Dragon P.H ·walker Wm.Hy.Three Horsesho·3~P.H Rectory farm ·walker William, blacksmith Wastie Waiter, farmer Weller James, post office Lay Leonard & Michl. bakers k grl>crs Lay 1Villiam & James, quarry {;Wr·.ers, "\Vard George, grocer & baker Wilsdon Thomas, Hand & ShMrs P.H lime burners & farmers Lay Arthur, farmer Wastie Bros. builders W ebb John, wheelwright HANWELL is a village and parish on the borders of Warwickshire, 3 miles north-by-west from Danbury .station an the Great Western railway, and 25 nQrth- :west from Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Bloxham, Banbury and Bloxham petty sessional division, union and county court district of Banbury, rural deanery of Deddington and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. .Peter, a building of stone, is a fine example of the Decorated period, with some portions of Early English, .and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and a. low embattled western tower containing 5 bells : the .chancel has sedilia and piscina of good Decorated work, -and the capitals of the columns in the nave arcades are -ornamenteci with figures elegantly sculptured; the~e large modern altar tomb: the font is Norman: ttere are 300 sittings. The register dates from t1: e year 1586. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £3oO, with residence- (rebuilt in 1862) and 27 acres o1f glebe, in the gift of Earl De La Warr, and held since r86I by the Rev. Vincent Pearse M.A. late Lord Crewe's Ex· hibitioner, of Lincoln College, Oxford. There are no charities except the interest on £13, a charge upon Earl De La Warr's estate, which is distr:buted at Christmas. There are still some- remains of Hanweil Castle, formerly the residence of Sir Anthony Cope, knight and baronet, Vice-Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth, high sheriff of the county, and s•>me time M.P. for Ban bury; the existing portions, now occupied as a farmhouse by Mr. C. French, include a good brick tower of Perpendicular work. Earl De La Warr i,: lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is principally light loam. The crops are general. The area is 1-240 acres; rateable value, £1,739; the population in I8gr was 225. Sexton, Oliver Tallett. arcades each consist of three Decorated arches, but the .clerestory and roof are of the 15th century: at the .east end of the north aisle are the remains of an ancient 'l'eredos with figures under canopies ; the chancel con- <tains a monument with recumbent effigies and inscription in Latin verse to Sir Anthony Cope, knight and baronet, -who died in 1615; this monument, with many <•thE!r JlOrtions of the church, suffered greatly at the hands Letters thraugh Banbury, which is the nearest money of the Puritan fanatics, who are said' to b.ave stabled o:;:der & telegraph office, at 7.30 a.m. ·wall Letter a troop of horse· in this church; the monument was Box cleared at 5·45 p.m. week days only Tepaired about 1813, by Arabella Diana, wife (1790) of A School Board of 5 members was formed n Oct. r872; John Frederick (Sackville), 3rd Duke of Dorset K.G. James L. Baker, 6 South Bar, Banbury, clerk to .and daughter and! co-heireSls of Sir Charles Cope, the board t2nd hart. of Brewerne: the reredos, consisting of five Board School (mixed), built in I 86g, for wo children; -small Decorated niches, with figures, is unusually per· average attendance, 35; Mrs. Kate Page, mistress· feet and has been ~arefully restored by the present Carriers to & from Banbury :- Tector; in the south aisle are. remains of a. piscina with Mrs. Ann Hazlervood, to • Windmill,' mon. wed. thurs. shelf, and two stone coffin lids, one bearing a ~ros·s & sat lleurie andi the other a female figure, and here is a John Watts, to 'Reindeer,' mon. wed. thurs. & sal; 'Pearse Rev. Vincent M.A. Rectory Buller Amos Frederick, farmer ~otter The Misses Buller Henry, farmer COMM:EllCIAL. 'Betts William, sawyer ilorton William, gardener Buller William, farmer,Hanwell fiplds French Charles, farmer, Th~ Castle Hazlewood John, Red Lion P.H. & blacksmith Haynes Reuben, carpenter Hazlewood Ann (Mrs.), carrier Horwood William Davis, farmer Read Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Watts John, carrier Wyatt George, farmer HARDWICXE is a small parish, 5 miles north from l3icester station on the Bletchley and Oxford branch of the Ltmdon and North Western railway, about ro southeast from :Ba.nbury and 5 south from Brackley, in the Mid division of the county. hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county court district of Bicester, rural d~anery of Bicester and archdeaconry and· diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a small

102 BA:&.DWIOKK. OXFORDSHIRE, (KELLY1 8 but ancient edifice of stone, chiefly of the Decorated period, and consists of chancel, nave and south aisle, w-estern turret with one bell, and was restored in 1878-g, at a cost of £2,ooo, by Henry, 2nd Earl of Effingham, who died 5 Feb. r88g, and was here buried: the chancel wind{)ws have good flowing tracery, with some Temains of fine painted glass ; the wes-t window was opened and that and the east window filled with stained glass, and the north door opened at the restoration: on the north side is a Norman doorway: ther~ are 70 sittings. The register of baptisms and marriages dates from the year 175 8 ; burials, 1760. The living is a rectory, annexed with Tusmore to Cottisford, average tithe rent-charge [230, yearly value [92, in the gift of the Earl of Effingham, and held since 1867 by the Rev. CharlPs Sawkins Harrison M.A. of University College, Durba~ who resides at Cottisford. The Earl of Effingham is lord of the manor and sole proprietor of the land. Th& soil is stone brash; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley. The population in 18gr was so; the area (including Tusmore) is ggo acres; l'ateable value, £223. Parish Clerk, Philip Hatwell. Letters through Bicester arrive at ro a.m. ·wall Letter Box cleared at I 1.5 a.m. & 2.20 p.m. Bicester is the nearest money order & telegraph office ~ational School, built in 1873 by the Earl of Effingl1am & maintained by him; it will hold 35 children; aver~ age attend.ance, 24; 1liss Harriet Jane Taylor, mistress Hiorns :Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer • HARPSDEN is a village and parish, bounded on the' reredos was erected and the chancel decorated in r879 by east by the Thames, on the high road from Henley to the Rev. Frederick Bagot D.C.L. rector, 185g-gz, at a Reading, about a mile south from Henley station and the cost of £su; there are 163 sittings. The register of same distance north from Shiplake station on the Henley baptisms dates from the year rs6o; marriages, 1563; branch of the Great Western railway, 2 miles south from burials, 1558. The living is a rectory, commuted tithe Benley town and 7 north-east from Reading, in the £617, average £468, gross yearly value £614, net £484, Southern division of the county, Binfield hundred, with about 34 acres <Jf glebe and residence, in the gift Henley union, petty ~ssional division and county court of All Souls College, Oxford, and held since 1892 by the district and in the rural deanery of Henley and arch- Rev. John William Nutt M.A. formerly fellow of that deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. college. A charity, left by some unknown donor, proMargaret is an ancient edifice of stone and flint, chiefly vides 7s. 6d. a year for bread. Harpsden Court, the of the Decorated period, consisting of chancel, nave, residence of Robert Raikes esq. is an ancient w·ansion north aisle, north porch and a low tower containing 2 adjacent to the church and surrounded by hilly beech bells : the east window is Decorated, the west windDw woods. Bolney Court, on the 'banks of the Thames, is Perpendicular and the chancel arch modern: the north the residence of Henry Hodges esq. J.P. lord of the porch has open timber work of the Decorated period, manor and principal landowner. The soil is mixed, prinwith barge boards, and arcaded sides; in the church is a cipally gravel; subsoil, chalk and gravel. The chief small bmss to a widow, c. 1460, with a mutilated in- crops are wheat, barley, oats and peas. The area is scription; figures of a man in armour, and his wife, c. I,gii acres; rateable va'lue, £2,548; the population in q8o; to Waiter Elmes, rector, I5II; and to Sara, wife 1891 was 244. of John Webb M.A. rector here from r614, and daughter Parish Clerk, George Tamlyn. of Roger and Anne Allanson, Df London, d. r6zo: in a Letters through Henley-on-Thames arrive at 7 a. m.; xecess on the right of the chancel is a recumbent figure dispatched at 7 p.m. Henley-oQn-Thames is the of a knight in a long loose tunic, with legs crossed and nearest money order & telegraph office feet resting on a dog, while the right hand rests upon National School (mixed), 'built in 1858, for 6o children; the sword hilt; the effigy is probably of the 14th cen- average attendance, 28; Mrs. Sarah Cooper, mistress tury; there are some good floor tiles of unusual design: Carriers to Henley & Reading.-Robert & John ·ward, the church was completely Testored in 1854• and a new daily Brakspear Archibald, Belle Hatch Nutt Rev. Jn. William M.A. Rectory Phelan Michael, land steward to Hy. Hodges Henry J.P. Bolney comt Raikes Robert J.P. Harpsden court Hodges esq. Harpsden Court farm Ive~ Henry, Sheephouse Farm house GREAT HASELEY (or Hazeley), with the township of Little Haseley, liberty of Rycote and hamlets of Latchford and Lobb, is a parish in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Ewelme, petty sessional division of Watlington, union and county court district of Thame, rural deanery of Cuddesdon and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Great Haseley is 2 miles south • from Tiddington station on the Oxford and Princes Risborough section of the Great Western railway and s! miles south-west from Thame. The church of St. Peter is an ancient and spacious edifice of stone in various styles, the tower and western part retaining portions of Norman work, part of the south aisle being in the Early English style and the chancel Decorated; the building consists of a spacious chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a lofty embattled western tower, chiefly of the Perpendicular date, containing a clock and 6 bells, dating from r641 to 1710: the east window of five lights, a fine example of geometrical tracery, was restored in 1843 : on the south side are three sedilia and a piscina, of Early Decorated character; adjoining these is a large arch, with trefoiled open feathering, and under it a stone sarcophagus, supposed to be the tomb of the founder of the church, on the lid of which are traces of a large cross : on the north side of the chancel formerly stood a panelled altar tomb, erected to Sir William Barrendyne, thrioe high sheriff of Berks and Oxon, in the reign of Henry VIII. ; the tomb has now (1894) been removed to the east end of the north aisle, and a helmet, gaunHets and an armorial shield of the Barrendyne family have been hung immediately above it by Alfred P. Billson esq.; on this tomb has been placed the figure of a knight which formerly stood in the tower, it consists of a full-Iength effigy, encased in chain mail, over which is a long surcoat; the legs are crossed and rest on a lion and the right hand holds a drawn sword ; the figur-e belongs to the eaTly part of thP 13th century, and has been assigned, with some probability, to William de Magnaville or Mandeville, earl of Essex and Albemarle, who held the manor of Rycote from u66, and died at Rouen in Nov. or Dec. II89: at the east end of the north aisle is a small chantry, with a blocked doorway, piscina and aumbry: in the north wall of the chantry is a sepulchral recess, and at thesouth-east angle a hagioscope: the south aisle has alsO' remains of a small chapel or oratory at the east end, with a Decorated piscina, portions of a reredos and :r canopied niche Dn the south side; along the sido of the aisle are three recessed arches in the main wall, of the early 14th century; in this chantry is the mutilated effigy of another knight, of the reign of Henry III. : on the north side of the chancel and entered by 11 door in the interior is a monumental chapel of the Blackails, once lords of the manor, now the property of Waiter Long esq. ; it contains a memorial to George Blackali esq. 1709: the nave has arcades of four arches on eith-er side on round piers with flat foliaged capitals of late Norman or Transition character: the rood loft and stair~ case remain on the south side : there are brasses in the chancel to Marie, wife of Anthony Huddleston esq. and daughter of Sir Willliam Barrendyne kt. 1581; to Thomas Butler, a former rector, in academical dress, with shields of arms, 1444 ; and to Nicholas Englefield esq. cDntroller of the household to Richard II. 1415 ; and in the aisles to William Leynthall, lord of Lachford, 1497, and Julian, wife of Sir Richard Fowler, of Rycote kt. I 527; thne an~ other memorials to the family of Woolfe, ITJ9-68; Greening and Smith, 1652, and to John ·whistler M. A. clerk, 1636: there are 3 .. ~o sittings. The reg-ister dates from the year 1538. The living is n rectory, tithe rent-charge £8oo, average £609, net yearly value £419, including 90 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the DPan and Oanons of Windsor, and held since 1894 by the Rev. Willi'am Gilbert Edwards M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. Here is a Congregational chapel, built in 1778, with 125 sittings. The Village Institute was built in r8g1, at the cost of the Rev. Canon H. J. Ellison, rector, 1875-94, some of the internal fittings being contributed by M. P. W. Boulton esq. F. Gelderd-Somervell esq. the Bishop of Dover and others ; it is used for entertainments, classes, lectures and the meetings of the Benefit Club and the Cricket Club, and is open during the winter months to members of the Re-ading and Recreation Club ; the institute is supported by subscriptions and the payments of the members of the Reading and Recreation Club, and

DIREGI'ORY.J OXFORDSHIRE. HEADINGTON .. 103 managed by a committee, of which the rector is president. Luke Tayler's charity provides a yearly sum of [280, part of which is assigned to the maintenance of the schools, the remainder being distributed in coals and money, to the aged poor. There are other charities yielding £3 a year for clothing. The celebrated antiquary, John Leland, of Christ's College, Cambridge and All Souls College, Oxford, was r€ctor of this parish from 1542 to 1552; he died 18 April, 1552, and was buried in the church of St. Michael le Queen, London; and Christopher Wren B.D. of St. John's College, Oxford, father of the famous architect of that nam€, held the living from 1639 to 1645 ; he died at Bletchingdon, 29 May, 1658. On pulling dDwn the inside walls of the old parsonage, which were six feet thick, lofty arched windows appeared, and behind a :fireplace form€d in one of them was a number of encaustic tiles of various patterns, probably of the 13th century. Matthew Ernest Boulton esq. of Great Tew, is lDrd of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 3,2n acres; rateable value, [4,884; the population in 1891 of the whole parish was 623. Parish Clerk, John Shrimpton. nave are two large enclosed pews, one on either side ; that on the north is spacious and has an upper storey ; the ornamental wood-work consists of arabesques and. carvings and pierced lattice or trellis-w<Jrk, with arcades of wood running round and paintings in medallions, th~ whole affording an excellent example of the decorative work of the Renaissance period : the south pew is less handsome, but is generally in the same style; it has no upper storey, but is terminated above by a cupola of the ogee form, with crockets running up the curve from each of the four angles, and is surmounted by a figure of the Virgin and Child; it is probably <Jf earlier date than the larger pew, and may have been erected for, or at least used by, the Princess Elizabeth, when detained a prisoner at Rycote during the reign of Queen Mary. The Earl of Abingdon is lord of the manor and sole landowner. Latchford, I mile east-by-south and Lobb, 2 milet north·east, are hamlets. Post Office.-Miss Kezia Slatter, 1mb-postmistress. Letters are received through Tetsworth at 8.10 a.m. & 2.10 p.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Little Milton & the nearest telegraph office at Great Milton · Wall Letter Box, Little Raseley, cleared at 5.15 p.m.; sundays at 11 a.m Schools. Little Haseley is a township ! mile south. Haseley Court, the residence of James Patrick Muirhead esq. D.L. is a mansion chiefly in the Classic style, pleasantly situated in grounds of about 20 acres ; some remains of an older house exist, though much modernized. M. P. Endowed Schools; the endowment, limited to sons of ·watt Boulton esq. is the principal landowner. parishioners, was settled by order of the Court of Chancery from surplus funds under the will of Luke Ryco'te Liberty is r! miles south-east from Tiddington Tayler, who died in the 17th century; there is a station. Rycote Park was formerly· the seat of the house for the master, rent free; the school (mixed), Berties, Earls of Abingdon, and previously belonged to will hold IOO children; average attendance, 6o; Joseph the Quartremaynes; the mansion was partly destroyed Bower, master by :fire in I747· The ancient stone chapel of St. Michael and All Angels, founded average attendance, in 1449 by Richard Quartre- Infants' School, for 40 children; may ne and Sy billa (Englefieid), his wife, was formerly 2 5 ; Miss Mary Smuin, mistress the burying-place of the Norrey and Bertie families, but Carriers.-Luke Auger, to Oxford, from Great Milton, it is now disused and is falling into decay. Between the passes through wed. & sat.; Alfred Silvester, from portion of the chapel which served as a chancel and the ' Crown,' to Thame, tues. & Oxford, wed. & sat GREAT HASELEY. I Gearing George, carman 1 Williams Thomas, wheelwright Billing Gabriel Hurst William, blacksmith ~ · Edwards Rev. William Gilbert :M.A. J armain Thomas M. engineer & iron- LITTLE HAS EL EY. (rector), Rectory founder, Haseley iron works Muirhead Jas. Patrk. D.L.Haseley crt Gelderd-Somervell Frederick M.A. Joyner Joseph Henry, plumber Payne William, beer retailer Haseley manor Lewin Albert, farmer Pratt El:iza beth- (Mrs.), farmer Manby Rev. A. L. (curate) Parsler John, bricklayer CO?IniERC'IAL. Parsler Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper RYCOTE. Cooper Ferdinando, stone mason Shrimpton John, carpenter Chapman John, farmer Cooper Samuel, stone mason Sh1impton Mary (Mrs.), farmer Freeman James, farmer Cooper Varney, shopkeeper Silvester Alfred, carrier Cross Thos. grocer, provision dealer, Silvester Elizabeth (Mrs.), Crown P.H L.ATCHFORD. tea dooler & tobacconist Slatter Alfred, shoe maker Lewin .Albert, farmer Cross William, baker & millel' (wind) Sturch James, Plough l.,.R Cross William E. LOB:S. beer retailer Village Institute (Rev. Wm. Gilbt,rt Gelderd-Somervell Fredk. M.A. school Edwards M . .A. sec) Chown Bros. farmers READINGTON is a parish and village and the head of a union, 1 mile east from Oxford. The part of the civil parish which was added to the municipal and parliamentary limits of the city and county borough of Oxford, as extended by the "City of Oxford Order, I88g," under the "Loc-al Government Act, 1888," has been annexed to St. Clement's parish under the "Local Government Act, 1894." Headington is in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Bullingdon, county court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Islip and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The old Roman road passes towards Headington Quarry pits; the road from Oxford to Headington is broad but very steep and on the nmth side is a lofty terrace walk, bordered with trees and constructed about the middle of the last century, the cost being defrayed by subscription. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient edifice of stone, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and an embattled tflwer at the west end of the south aisle, with a square turret at the south-west angle and containing a clock and 6 bells: the chancel is the oldes't portion of the church, and on the outside of its nmth wall are the remains of a Norman doorway, and near it a semicircular arch of rude stones ; two Perpendicular windows in the south w-all retain fragments of stained glass of earlier date ; there is a sedile, formed by the sill of a window, and a piscina ; the chancel arch is recessed t-owards the west, and ornamenrted with double zig·zag and bold round mDuldings, rising from a shaft on each side, the same work being carried down the joints: the nave and south aisle are Early English, and are divided by an arcade of three arches on massive round pillars with moulded caps and bases; in the south aisle is a piscina, and at the northeast angle are the remains of the rood-loft stairs; on the wall of this aisle a series of curious paintings of saints and scenes from the life of Christ were uncovered some years since : the south door retains its original iron work ; the north aisle is modern, and opens to the nave by three arches cut through the wall; the tower has Early English arches on the north and east opening into the church; the outer walls of the tower are Perpendicular, and one side bears the date 1679: the church was restored in 1881, at a cost of [2,300, and affords 450 sittings : in the churchyard, a little to the south-east of the porch, is a fine Perpendicular cross about 9 feet in height raised on three steps, and consisting of an Dctagonal quatrefoiled base from which rises a ribbe~ shaft of similar form, supporting a heavy square head, with pyramidal capping -and finial. The register dates from the year 1683. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value [2oo, including go acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Rawlinson, and held since 1889 by the Rev. John Holford Scott-Tucker M.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, and chaplain of Headington union. All Saints' chapel, New Headington! erected in 1870, has sittings for 160 penons; divine service is conducted here by the vicar of Headington. There is also a Baptist chapel, built in 1805, and a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1888. A cemetery of about two acres was formed in 1885 at a cost of upwards of [1,6oo i ;the greater part of the ground has been consecrated, but not the mortuary chapel, which is available for all denominations: the cemetery is now under the control of the Parish Council. Wharton's charity of £27 yearly is distributed at the discretion of trustees; the Peat Moor

104 HEADINGTON. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S and Shotover Hill allotments and Rude's charity produce altogether £w a year, which is distributed in coals; the interest of Mrs. Stone's charity of £soo is also distributed in coal on Christmas Eve. The Wingfield ConV'alescent Home here, opened in 1872, is a bui'lding of red brick, chiefly for patients from the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, is available for 4 male and 4 female patients; it is partially endowed, but is mainly supported· by voluntary contributions. In the reign of Ethelred, Headington was the seat of a royal palace, said to have stood in a field now called " Court close," and in part on the route of the present road to Marston. The village was once famous for its bull-baiting, which attracted many spectators from a distance as well as from Oxford. Headington Hill Hall, the residence of G. Herbert Morrell esq. D.L., J.P., B.C.L., M.A. is a mansion of stone, with grounds and a considerable park on the western slope of the hill : the whole is within the extended boundary of the city of Oxford. Headington House, the property of )1rs. W ootten-W ootten, is a square brick mansion, standing in well laid out grounds. The principal landowners are Magdalen College, Oxford, Mr. T. Faulkner, the trustees of the late William Peppercorn, who are lords of the manor, 1\-Ir. and Mrs. G. Herbert Morrell and Mrs. Wootten-Wootten. The soil is sandy; subsoil, clay and stone of the Coralline oolite, which has been much used in Oxford. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area of Readington civil parish is 2,257 acres; rateable value, [11,215; the population in 1891 was 3,342; the population of St. Andrew ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 2,156 (see also Headington Quarry). Part of New Marston is in Headington parish. Barton is a portion of this parish; rateable value, £697· Parish Clerk, William Collins. Wick farm, the property of G. Herbert Morrell esq. contains an interesting well enclosed with a stone canopy of ancient date. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Mary Ann Rudd, sub-postmistress. Letters are received through Oxford· at 6.50 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched 10.20 a.m. & 6 p.m.; sunday, 2.40 p.m Post Office, Highfield, New Headington. Joseph Draper, sub-postmaster. Letters through Oxford arrive at 8 a.m. & 2.30 & 8 p.m. ; dispatched 8 & ro.3o a.m. & 8 p.m.; sundays, arrive 8 a.m. ; dispatched 3 p.m Headington Union. Board day, alternate thursdays at 10 a.m. at the Workhouse, Headington. The union comprises the following places :-Beckley, Chippinghurst, Cowley, Cuddesdon, Denton, Elsfield, Forest Hill with Shotover, Garsington, Headington, Holton, Horsepath, Horton-cum-Studley, Iffiey, Littlemore, Marston, St. Clement (Oxford), St. Giles (Oxford), St. John (Oxford), Stanton St. John, Stowood, Studley, Wheatley, Wood Eaton. The population of the union in 1891 was 34,6rr; area, 29,048; rateable value in 1894, £158,597 Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Thos. W. Mallam M.A. r26 High street, Oxford Treasurer, Francis M. D'avies, London & County Bank, Oxford Collectors to the Guardians of Headington district: Relieving & Vaccination Officers No. r or St. Clement district, John Draper, 101 Cowley road, Oxford; No. 2 or Wheatley district, Richard Henry Life, Wheatley Medical Officers & Public V accina tors, Headington district, George Charles Henry Hitchings, 37 Holywell street, Oxford; Wheatley district, John Gay Barns L.R.C.P.Lond. The Elms, V\'heatley Superintendent Registrar, Thomas W. Mallam M.A. Oxford; deputy, Henry Coles, 126 High street, Oxford Registrars of Births & Deaths, St. Clement's sub-district, John Draper, ror Cowley road, Oxford; deputy, WaltRr Rose, r82 Cowley road, Oxford; Wheatley sub-district, John Hale; deputy, Mrs . .Amy Hale Registrar of Marriages, John Draper, 101 Cowley road, Oxford; d'eputy, Waiter Rose, 182 Cowley rd. Oxford The Workhouse, a plain stone building in Headington Quarry, is available for .22o inmates, & attached to it is an infirmary containing 42 beds ; Gowland Learman, master; Rev. J. Holford Scott-Tucker M. A. chaplain; G. C. H. Hitchings, medical officer; Mrs. Learman, matron School .Attendance Committee. Meets at Workhouse 2nd Board day in month. Clerk, Thomas W. Mallam M . .A.. High street, Oxford Attendance Officers, J. Draper, 101 Cowley road, Oxford ; R. H. Life, Wheatley Rural District Council. Meets at Workhouse on 1st Board day in each month. Clerk, Thomas W. Mallam M . .A.. High street, Oxford Treasurer, Francis M. Davies, London & County Bank, Oxford · Medical Officer of Health, W. Dyson Wood L.R.C.P. Edin. so St. John street, Oxford Inspector of Nuisances, Lee Turner, Harsfield cottage, New Headington Schools. National, endowed with £12 yearly, given by Catherine Mather in 18o5, & holds 94 boys & 110 girls; average attendance, go boys & 100 girls; George Stace, master; Mrs. Bridgwater, mistress; & infant school, Mrs. Crozier New Schools were built in 1894 to accommodate 260 children, at a cost of £2,200 Infants, New Headington, for 100 children; average attendance, 54; Miss Price, mistress Carriers.-Jacobs & Gardner, to Oxford & back, dai1y HEADINGTON. COMMERCIAL. Knowle;~ William, farm bailiff to G. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Adams .A.ndrew, butcher Herbert Morrell esq. Wick farm Lovatt J oseph, shopkeeper Alden Thomas, Ingleside Aldous William, Clifton hou;;e Andrews Mrs. High straet Blackwell Frederick J. Merton lea Boss Miss Chillman Richard Clarke James P. Church street Dockray R. H. Stoke Durran John, Rosslyn house Edgecombe Mrs. Church house Evans Frederick, Headington lodg~ Fowell Leonard, Linden Gibson "\Villiam Sumner, The Rookery Goodfellow Stephen, Courtfield cot Gray Frederick, Stone house Had en John Vale, V arclin house Hough Mrs Hedges Mrs. Barton Hitchings Robert, Hill view Knowles Mrs. The Hermitage Nichol Miss, J esm ond cottage Pegg Thomas Pether Richard Prior Harry Neville, Highfield house Scott-Tucker Rev. John Holford M.A. (vicar of Headington & chaplain of union) Somerfcrd Edwin, South bank Wootten-Wootten Mrs. Headington ho :Baines Thos. hairdrssr.New Headngtn Berrv Mrs. baker • British Workman's Hall Cemetery (E. W. Hazel, Oxford, clerk to the board) Coleman J oseph, higgler Collett William, farmer, Stafford frm Cross William, market gardener Currill George, boot maker Douglas Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper Draper Joseph, baker & grocer, Post office, Highfield Elkerton John, shopkeeper Fisher Peter, chimney sweeper Gibson ·waiter Sumner, preparatory boys' school Gilkes William Samuel, carpenter Goodgame Daniel, carman Grain Thomas, boot maker Harris Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retaile-r Harris Henry, baker Hill Frederick, boot maker Hitchings Robert L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R. C. S. En g. surgeon Hughes Tom Edward, beer retailer & wheelwright Hunt Charles, tailor Jacob Chas. market gardener, Ilarton Jacob George, carrier, Ilarton Jacob Geo. stone mason & shopkeeper Markham Edwin Francis, beer ret.ailr M attack John, .florist Mattock John Robert, .florist Mowle Frederick, market gardener North Sarah (Mrs.), grocer Oxford Co-operative Society Limited (George Church, manager) Packford Charles William, saddler Parker Abraham, faggot dealer Rose Walter, draper Rudd Mary Ann (Mrs. ),grocer,Post eft Ryman Edgar, market gardnr.Barton Sawyer William, wheelwright Simms Richard, market gardener Skidmore Emily (Miss), dress maker Solloway Isaac, butcher & farmer Somerville William, Black Boy P.H Stone Ellen (Mrs.), beer retailer Stow Arthur, blacksmith Stow George, Bell P.H Taylor Chas. Swan P.H. & timber dlr Taylor Charles, jun. carpenter Taylor Waiter James, Brit.annia P.H Thomas Charles F. White Hart P.H Turner Lee, inspector of nuisances, Headington rural district council V allis Thomas, grocer Walker Sarah & Beatrice (Misses), dress makers Wells William, cab proprietor

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. HENLEY UPON ·THAMES. 105 West Samuel, market gardener West Wm. George, market gardener Wheeler Louisa (Mrs.), dairyman Wiggins John, farmer Bates William, Riverview cottage Carter Miss Morris Rev. Charles ~LA. (vi~ar of Mars ton) Willi::ms Joseph, cattle dealer Wingfield Convalescent Home ~W. Child Gilbert William J.P., M.A Davenport Thomas l\Iarriott M.A Eckford Mrs. Sandfield housu Gell Philip Lyttelton M.A Napier Arthur Samson M.A., Ph.D Sivewright Miss, The Rise Tebbutt Mrs. Ellerlie Vines Sydney Howard ~LA., F.R.S Tyrrell Brooks M.B. sec. ; William Watt Ccmmissary Gen. Fitzjamt.s Green, housekeeper) Henderson Rev. Patrick Arkley Wright M.A. Torbrex Edward C.B. Hill top HEADINGTON HILL. (Letters direct from Oxford.) PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Holmes-A'Court Lt.-Col. Hon. Edwd. Willert-Paul Ferdinand M.A.The Croft Alexander (chief constable of Ox- COMMERCIAL. fordshire) Horell William, head gardener to G. Abbott Evelyn M.A Arnall Thomas, Brookside Markby Sir Wm. K.C.I.E., D.C.L.,J.P Morrell G. Herbert M.A.,D.C.L.,D.L., J.P. Headington Hill hall Herbert Morrell esq Trairuing Home for Servants ().lrs. Morrell's) (Miss Drake, matron) .READINGTON QUARRY is chiefly within the of stone, surrounded by well-laid out and extensive civil parish of Headington; it is an ecclesiastical parish grounds; it is available for 100 patients, 50 of each formed Sept. Io, I85o, and contains a part of Head- sex, and is extended for the middle and upper classes. ington with Shotover Hill Place and Bartlemas, which The Headington Workhouse, is also in this ecclesiastical were formerly extra-parochial; it is about r! miles district. The principal landowners are Magdalen Col- ~ast from Oxford, in the l\fid division of the county, lege and :Mr. T. Faulkner. The population of the disBullingdon hundred and petty sessional division, Head- trict in 1881 was 1,174• and in 1ag1, 1307, including ington union, Oxford county court district, rural deanery 74 officers and inmates in Headington workhouse and 115 of !slip, and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The in Warneford Lunatic Asylum, of which that of Shotover church of the Holy Trinity is a building of stone in Hill Place is 231; area, 970 acres. the Early English style, from designs by the late Sir G. Parish Clerk & Sexton, William Morris. Gilbert Scott kt. R.A. consisting of chancel, nave, south Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance 01fice.-- -aisle, south porch and a gable bell-cot at the west end, Mrs. Mary Jacob, sub-postmistress. Letters are re- -containing 2 bells: there are 320 sittings. The register ceived through Oxford at 7.40 a.m. & 2.40 p.m.; dates from the year 1849. The living is a vicarage, dispatched at 5.40 p.m.; sundays, 2.25 p.m. Head· ;net yearly value £I31, with 10 acres of glebe and' resi- ington is the nearest telegraph office deuce, in the gift of the. Bishop of Oxford, and hGld National School (mixed), for ISO children; average -since x8gi by the Rev. Charles Francis Harding Johnston attendance, 135; Alfred Henry Bickley, head master; M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge. The Warneford :Miss Shepherd & Miss Rogers, assistant mistresses Asylum, endowed by the late Dr. G. W. Warneford Infants' School, for roo children; average attendance, and situate in this district, is a handsome building 90; :Miss Higgs, head mistress HEJ.DINGTOX QUARRY. Boulger Thomas, Six Bells P.H Kerry Richard, poulterer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Coleman Henry, grocer Leach Jas. jun. farmer, Monk's farm ~Tohnston Rev. Charles Fra·s. Harding Cooper John, Chequers P.I:E Lee William, Crown & Thistle P.H M. A. Vicarage Coppock J n. frmr.Shotover Hill place Phillips Mrs. Ellen, brick maker Lees C. Percy, Shotover lodge Coppock John Henry, brick maker Phillips Henry John, farmer Maclean Jas. Hardie, Shotover eottage Coppock William, bricklayer Stevens Daniel, beer retailer Neil James M.D. "\Varneford asvlum Coppock William, grocer Stringer & Carter, brick makers Ward John Bywater M.D. Warneford Corby Mrs. 'l'. carpntr. & wheelwrght ·warneford Asylum (Jn. Bywater "\Yard asylum Coster James, baker M.D. res. med. supt. & sec. ; James Goodgame Stephen, shopkeeper NPil M. D. assist. rued. officer; Miss Hunt Job, market gardener E. Stanford, matron) COMMERCIAL. Battens George, beer retailer Jacobs Mrs. Mary, grocer, Post office White Thos. Wm. farmer, "\Vovd farm HENLE,~-U i ~oN-T fl A~lE S . .HENLEY-UPON-THAMES is a municipal borough, -market and union town, and head of a petty sessional division and county court district, at the junction of the. counties of Oxon, Berks and Bucks, in the Southern division of the county of Oxford, hundred of Binfie:d, ~ural deanery of Henley and diocese and archdeaconry o0f Oxford, 35 miles from London by the road through Maidenhead, and 35! to Paddington by the Great Western l'ailway, which has a station here on a branch line odiverging :from the main line at Twyford, 10 north- '€ast from Reading, nl north-west from Maidenhead and 23 south-east from the city of Oxford. The tlown is pleasantly situated on the high road from London to ()xford, on a slight ascent from the banks of the river 'Thames, which here separates the counties of Oxford and Berks, and is almost entirely surrounded by wellwooded heights; since the opening of the railway the town has become a very favourite and fashionable place '()f resort, more ecpecially on account of the annual Tegatta held here every summer, at which the most -accomplished British and foreign oarsmen are wont to compete : below the bridge and on both sides of the Tailway are a number of attractive houses, with brilliant flower beds and trim lawns stretching down to tho "Tiver's edge, and in the upper outskirts, and particularly towards the Fair Mile, the increasing number of hand- 'Some dwellings sufficiently testifies to its continued ]Jopularity. A stone bridge of five arches, uniting the town of Henley with the parish of Remenham, Buk- -shire, was erected in 1786, at an expense of £w,ooo; the keystones of the centre arch, representing by ideal heads the rivers Thames and lsis, were sculptured by the Hon. Mrs. Damer. The town was incorporated by 'Queen Elizabeth, but received a new charter 9 George L (1722), and: a modern one IOth August, I883; the corporation consists of a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors who also act as the Urban Sanitary Authority. The "LocaJ Government Act, r858" (21 and 22 Vict. c. 98), was adopted here October 25th, r864; the town consists principally of four wide streets and is lighted with gas by a company, and supplied with water from works, commenced in November~ r88o, and opened in June, 188z, by the late Right Hon. W. H. Smith l\LP.; they belong to a private company, ar.d the water is obtained from a well sunk in the chalk to a depth of 240 feet, and raised from the Pumping Station at the bottom of Dean Field to a large resen oir at the top of Badgemore Hill, capable of holding a three days' supply; this company was the first in England to adopt the Atkin's Patent for softening and purifying the water. The church of St. Mary, standing near the bridge, is a large and elegant edifice of stone and flint, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, with north aisle, nave of six bays, aisles and a lofty embattled western tower with turrets :1.t the ang·les and containing a clock and 8 bells: at the east end of the north aisle is a Perpendicular window '\\ith curious painted glass, and on the south side some richly Decorated recesses: the space under the tower has been formed into a baptistery: in the baptistery is a monument to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper, a. benefactress to Balliol College, Oxford, and wife first of Robert Doyley, next of Henry Neville and lastly, 3rd wife of Sir William Periam kt. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer; she died in 1621 ; the monument includes her effigy in a semi-recumbent posture, the right hand holding a book; here also is a monumf!nt to William Hayward of Shrewsbury, architect, after whose design the bridge over the Thames here was

' 106 HENLEY-UPON-THAMES. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY's e.rected, and who died in 1782, before it was begun; in the Elmes chapel, formerly used as an o1·gan chamber, is a mural monument to members of that family from 1626 to 1720, and on the south wall a ta:blet to the celebrated French General Charles Franc:;ois Duperier Dumouriez, who died near Henley, 14th MaTch, 1823, and is buried in the aisle : the church has b~n enriched with many beautiful windows, one of which, presented by Colonel William Thomas Makins M.P. is a memorial to John Jackson D.D. Bishop of Lincoln r853-69, and of London, r86g-84, who held his first curacy here from r835, and to James Russell Woodford D.D. Bishop of Ely 1873-86, and a native of Henley, born 30 April, r82o, d. 16 Oct. r885 ; and the other window was erected by Mrs. Makins, in memory of her father; in the ancient lady chapel was formerly a window representing the murder of Thomas a Becket, removed about 1540, as superstitious, at the instance of ~liles Coverdale: the brasses formerly in the church are now lost: in the summer of 1853 a subscription was set e-n foot for the restoration of the church by the Rt. Rev. Thomas Baker Morrell D.D. coadjutor Bishop of Edinburgh, 1863-9. and at that time rector, and the work was subsequently effected at a cost exceeding £7,ooo, under the direction of Mr. Benjamin Ferrey, architect, of London ; the church was re-opened' on Friday, r Dec. 1854, since which a west window and a screen of oak have been erected, and during the period r88o-go, the chancel roof was re-decorated, the. chancel enclosed by screens of light open iron work, new choir stalls erected, and other- improvements effected, at a total cost cf [2,300: there are r,2oo sittings, Boo being fl-ee: in the churchyard is interred Richard Jennings, master builder of St. Paul's cathedral, who resided for some time at Badgemore. The parish register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £48r, average £365, net yearly value £240, with glE-be (£5) and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since r883 by the Rev. John Frederick Maul M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. A library of valuable books, bequeathed to the town by Dr. Henry Aldrich, rector of Henley, who died in 1737, is preserved at the rectory house. Holy Trinity is an ecclesiastical parish formed March 9th, 1849, out of portions of the parishes of Rotherfield Greys, Rotherfield Peppard and Henley-upon-Thames: the church, erected in 1848, on the south side of the town, in the parish of Rotherfield Greys, is a building of flint and stone in the Early English styles, from designs by B. Ferrey esq. architect, enlarged in r8go and now consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north transept, baptistery, organ chamber, north porch, and a western turret containing 3 bells : it was also reseated with open oak benches, and now affords Boo sittings. The register dates from the year _1848. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value, £90, ne.t £7o, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford for the next turn, but afterwards in that of Trinity Colie()'e, Oxford, and held since r88g by the Rev. Frederfck William Young M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. The Catholic chapel, opened in July, r889, will seat about roo persons. The Congregational chapel, Reading road, erected in 1719, and enlarged in 1829, is a plain edifice and will seat 6oo persons. In r662 the Rev. W. Brice, then rector of Henley, was ejected under the Act of Uniformity, and first gathered together a congregation on this spot: the first stated minister wa.s Re...-. John Gyle:;,, 'ljected from the vicarage of Lindridge, Worcestershire, in 1662, by the same Act; he died 26th April, 1683, and a tablet placed over his grave in the chapel was discovered under the pulpit when the building was enlarged, and is now on the walls; the Rev. Humphrey Gainsborough, an ingenious man and brother to Thomas Gainsborough R..A. the distinguished painter, ibecame minister in 1748, and is supposed to have been the discoverer of the separate condenser for steam engines ; in 1776 he constructed a weighing machine for the Corporation, made a road to the town from Remenham hill and constructed locks on the river. Close to the chapel is the minister's house, and at the end of the garden are schoolrooms, erected by public subscription in 1856. The 1Vesleyan chapel, in Duke street, opened in t874, was enlarged in r875, and has an attached schoolroom. The Baptist chapel in the Market place, was built in 1876, and has 300 sittings. The Baptist chapel, Gravel hill, was erected in r873, and will seat 150 persons. Ther~ is a. Meeting House at Northfield End for the Society of Friends, with 90 sittings. The Cemetery, four acres in extent, is at the end of the Fair lVIile, and was opened in 1868; it is under the · control of a Burial Board of 9 members. and has a chapel, in which divine service is held enry Sunday at three o'clock. The Town Hall, standing on an ascent to the west of the Market place, was erected in 1790, by :Mr. William Bradshaw, a member of the corpora-tion, and is in the Classic style, with columns of the Roman-Doric order: the lower portion forms an open piazza, used as a market, and the upper ,story contains a finely proportioned and capacious hall, a council chamber and magistrates' rooms; in the hall are full-length portraits of George I. by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and Thomas Parker, 3rd Earl of Maceles.t-leld, and first High Steward of the town, presented in 1750 by Lady Knellex; the hall wiil huld 150 persons. The Police station is in West street, near the Town Hall. The Salisbury Conservative Club, in Reading rrad. erected m 1893 at a. cost of £I,8oo, is a handsome structure of red brick, and contains billiard, reading and smoking rooms. The Theatre, used for some time as a National School, is now a concert room, and has a small ~tage at one end. The Gymnasium Theatre. in Queen's road will seat 8oo. Henley is the head quarters of the E troop of the Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Yeomanry Cavalry and of the D company of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry. There are branches of the London and County Banking Co. Lim. and J. & C. Simonds & Co.'s (of Reading) Bank. '.rhe market is held on Thursday; and fairs on March 7th, Holy Thursday, the Thursday after Trinity Sunday, and the Thursday after September 21st (a statute hiring fair). The ~Iasonic Hall in the Reading road was erected in 1889-90, from designs by Mr. William Ravenscroft, architect, of Reading, on a site given by W. D. Mackenzie esq. of Fawley Court, the foundation stone being laid 30 Oct. r88g, by the Right Hon. the Earl of .Jer!ley, Provincial Grand Master of Oxfordshire. The chief hotels are the " Red Lion," immediately north of the bridge, a favourite point of view on the regatta day; the "Angel," at the foot of the bridge en the south side; the " Catherine Wheel," Hart strPet, and the " Royal," facing the river near the railwa-y sta,tion. A considerable trade is carried on in corn, flour, malt and beech wood. There are three extensive breweries. In the market place is a drinking fountain with an orramentaJ stone column surmounted by a cross, erected by his family and friends and presented to t·he town June, r885, in memory of the Rev. Greville Phillimore M.A. rector of Henley r867, until his death, 2r Jan. r88+ The Isolation Hospital in the Fair Mile, erected at a cost of £r2,ooo, on a site of 5 acres, given by W. D. Mackenzie esq. J.P. of Fawley Court, consists of four separate blocks, viz. administrative, free and paying wards, and disinfecting and mortuary chambers. 'l'he buildings were commenced by the late Hight Hon. W. H. Smith ~LP. and finished and opened (r8g2) by his son, the Hon. W. F. D. Smith M.P. is available for 14 prutients. Archbishop Laud's charity of £10 yearly is for apprenticing poor boys and for providing marriage portions for poor maids, who are entitled to the benefit of this charity every third year; the Bridge rents produce about £38 yearly, of which about £r2 is applied to ~ducation, £13 to church purposes, and the remainder to the relief of the poor; the remaining charities yield about £so a year for church purposes; £r3o for public uses, chiefly relating to the repair of the bridge, [48 for pensions to blind persons and others, £r73 for distribution in kind and money, and [336 for the general uses of the poor; the last-named being subject to a fee-farm rent of [r3 6s. 8d. on account of Henry Smith's charity to Caius College, Cambridge. There are twenty-six almshouses, situated on the east and west sides of St. Mary's churchyard: ten endowed by Mrs. Humphrey Newberry in r664 with an income of £94 yearly: four by Mrs. Ann Messenger in r666, rebuilt in the Gothic style by the corporation in 1846, with a yearly endowment of £xo; and twelve endowed by John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln (a native of this town and confessor to King Henry VIII.) in 1547; they were rebuilt in 1830 and have an annual income of £r96. Pyrites and a black flint, used in making glass, are found here. Henley is chiefly famous for its annual regatta, held on the wide and beautiful reach of water immediately

, DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. HENLEY-UPON -THAMES. 107 adjoining the town; this regatta, esrtablished in 1839 for amateur oarsmen, is usually held on or about the 21st and 22nd of June, and takes the first place among general amateur aquatic contest.s in England, both in respect of the character and skill of competitors, and of the fashionable assemblage of spectators which it invariably attracts : a course from below the island on the Bucks shore to a point opposite the upper end of Phyllis Court wall is marked out by piles, on either side of which space is left for house-boats and pleasure skiffs : the prizes principally contended for are challenge prizes -i.e. prizes held by the winners from year to year, and include the Grand Challenge Cup and the Thames Challenge Cup for eight oars ; the Stewards' Challenge Cup, and the Wyfold Challenge Cup for fours; the Silver Goblets for pairs, and the Diamond Challenge Sculls for scullers; all these being open races. The Ladies' Challenge Plate for eights and the Visitors' Challenge Cup for fours are limited to the Colleges and Public schools : the regatta is supported by the neighbouring nobility and gentry, many of whom fill the office of steward, and among the competitors will be found the elite of the aquatic world in Oxford, Cambridge, London and Dublin, and in recent years various American and continental oarsmen have appeared as competitors. The Henley Rowing Club was established in 1830, and has its head quarters near the bridge. Henley is also a favourite resort for anglers, but the river now furnishes little else besides roach and chub: a society has, however, been formed for preserving the fish and cultivating the exhausted species. The Chiltern Hills commence from this point and extend to Tring, Herts. The prospects from Henley are in the highest degree picturesque and beautiful, the country around being pleasingly diversified by lofty wooded hills sloping to the Thames. Henley Hill, through the chalky face of which the road is cut., is to the east; at its base are houses intermixed with wooded scenery. On a height is a circle of stones, brought from the Island of Jersey, and popularly known as" The Druid's Temple." The riverThames, seen in many parts to great advantage, considerably heightens the beauty of the prospects. John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln, 1521-47• was born here in 1473, and William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long Parliament, in June, 1591. In 1664, during the Civil War, a C'Onsiderahle Parliamentary force was quartered here under the Earl of Essex, and hhe town was again garrisoned by the Parliament in 1646. The Fair Mile is a fine avenue of trees north of the town, about a mile in length and leading to Assenden. The old manor house of Phy His Court stoDd on the bank of the Thames to the nort-h of the town, but the principal part was pulled down about 1788, and the remainder has been since removed to make room for a handsome modern residence of the same name, erected by Hugh Mair esq. Badgemore, now in the occupation of Richard Ovey esq. is a plain mansion of brick, and corn m ands extensive views of the surrounding country. Friar Park is the residence of Frank Crisp esq. J.P. Henley Park, 73a. rr. np. in extent, the property of W. D. Mackenzie esq. is at present unoccupied: the house, pleasantly seated on an eminence overlooking the Thames Valley, is ancient, but has been much modernized. Edward Mackenzie esq. became lord of the manor of Henley by purchase in 1853; the manor is now held by his son, William Dalziel Mackenzie esq. of Fawley Court, on the Bucks side of the river. Rotherfield Court, the residence of Col. William Thcmas l\Iakins D.L., J.P. is pleasantly seated on an eminence a short distance from the town. The area is 1,737 acres; rateable value, £17,914; the population of the entire parish of Henley in r891 was 3.4r5. The area of the :\Innicipal Borough was extended by Local Government Board Order, No. P. 837 confirmed bv Local Government Board's Provisional Orders • Confirmation, ~o. 6 Act, r8gz, which came irito operation 9 Nov. 1892. The population of the Henley extended Municipal Eorough in 1891 was: Part of the Parish of Henley ............... t3,103 , , , Rotherfield Greys ............... 2,185 --- Total 5,288 tincluding 9 officers and 106 inmates in the Workhouse. The population of St. Mary-the-Virgin ecclesiasticaJ parish in 1891 was 3,265, and of Holy Trinity ecclesiastical parish, 2,409. :Korthfield End is a part of the parish. Parish Clerk, Henry Crocker. OFFICIAL EST.ABLISIDIENTS, LOCAL IXS'l'ITrTIOKS &c. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & .Annuity Darell-Blount John esq. D.L. Mapledurham house. & Insurance Office, Market place.-Benjamin Palmer, Reading postmaster Duff Robert Fraser esq. Checkendon court, Reading Letters arrive by mail cart from l'wyford station on the Forbes Alexander Clark esq. Swanston house, WhitGreat Western Railway at 4.30 a.m. & are delivered church, Reading at 7 a.m. The day mail arrives at 11 a.m. & the Foster John esq. D.L. Coombe park,Wrntchurch, Readingdelivery takes place at 11.30 a.m. The letter box Fraser Alexander Caspar esq. D.L. 1\Iongewell park, closes for the first day mail to London at IO.IS a.m.; Wallingford to Reading 1.30 p.m. ; second day mail 3. IS p.m. to Harrison Robert Hitchens Camden esq. Shiplake court, London & the :North, & 4.20 p.m. to Reading, Abing- Henley-on-Thames don, Oxford, Bath & Bristol; & for the night mail to Hedges John Kirby esq. The Castle, Wallingford .London, Reading, West of England & South \\"ales at llermon-Hodge Robert Trotter esq. M.A. Wyfold court~ 7.50 p.m. but letters for the lat.ter may be posted up near Heading to 7. 50 p.m. The sunday mail arrives at 4-:;o a.m. & Hodges Henry egrt· Eolney court, Henley-on-Thames the delivery takes place at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 7_50 :Mackenzie Wm. Dalziel esq. M.A. Fawley court, Bucks p.m. The office is open on sunday from 8 a.m. to Mackenzie William Roderick Dalziel esq. Soundess house~ Io a.m. for sale of stamps, registration of letters & ~ettlebed, Henley-on-Thames telegraph business 1\Iakins Basil Thomas esq. Rotherfield court, Henley-on- Thames Newtown, p.m Wall Letter Boxes:- cleared at 7.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; sun. 12.30 Makins Col. William Thomas D.L. Rotherfield court Ovey Richard esq. Badgemore, Henley-on-Thames Radcliffe Lieut.-Gen. Robert Parker R.A. Balmore~ Caversham, Reading Saunders Fredk. George esq. Caversham grove, Reading Simonds Henry John esq. M.A. Caversham, Reading 9·55 a.m. 2.50, 4 & 7.20 Vanderstegen Henry :Brigham Douglas esq. Cane End Fairmile, cleared at 9.25 a.m. 2.30, 3·45 & 7.20 p.m. ; sun. 7 p.m Church Street, cleared at p.m.; sun. 7.30 p.m Railway Station, cleared at 9·50 a.m. 2·45• 4-5 & 7·4o house, near Reading p.m. ; sun. 7.40 p.m Cemetery, cleared at II.I5 a.m. Witherington Iltid-Evans esq. Dunsdenhoofe, Sonning Eye, Reading & 7 p.m.; sun. 1 2·3° Wynn Henry Bertie Watkin Williams~ esq. Howbery noon County Magistrates for Henley Petty Sessional Division. Wilson Joseph Henry esq. Marchmont, Redlands, Reading, chairman Camoys Lord D.L. Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames Phillimore Sir Waiter Goorge Frank bart. D. C.L. The Coppice, Shiplake, Henley-on-Thames Stapleton Sir Francis George bart. Greys court, Henleyon-Thames Baskerville Col. John, D.L. Crowsley park, Henley-onThames Crisp Frank esq. Friar park, Henley-on-Thames !Jark, Wallingford Clerks to the Magistrates, John Cooper k. John Fredk_ Cooper, ·west street Petty Sessions are held at the Town Hall every alternate Thursday at 11.30 a.m The places in the division are Bix, Caversham, Checkenden, Crowmarsh Gifford, Eye & Dunsden, Goring. Harpsden, Henley-on-Thames, Ipsden, Mapledurham, Mongewell, Kewnham, :Murren, Korthstoke, Ratherfield Greys, Rotherfield Peppard, Shiplake, Southstoke & Whitchurch

108 HENLEY-CPON -THAMES. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S Borough Magistrates. The mayor & ex-mayor Clements Charles, 41 Market place Coates William Thomas, Caxton terrace Fuller George, Market place Lucey Charles, Surrey lodge Monk Charles, Bell street Simmons Charles, Crowsley, Henley-on-Thames Simpkins William, Bell street Clerk, John Frederick Cooper, West street Pettj Sessions held at Town Hall every Thursday at 10 Corporation. !894·5· Mayor, Alderman Joshua Watts. Deputy Mayor, Alderman George Fuller. tGeorge Fuller tJoshua Watts Aldermen. I ~Charles Clements ,Edmund Chamberlain, jun Councillors. tWilliam Hamilton I iJohn Lidderdale ;f"Fredk. Herbert Holmes Charles Albert Singer tCharles l'II. Roberts I *J. A. Rigge tWilliam Simpkins *Thomas Rigge tAlfred Austin *Thomas Rose .tHenry Cracker *William Anker Simmons Marked thus t retire in 1895. Marked thus ~ retire in 18g6. Marked thus * retire in 1897· Marked thus ~ :retire in 18g8. 13orough Auditors, Alex. Groves & Philip Edward Neighbour _Mayor's Auditor, Councillor Henry Cracker ~lective Auditors, Philip Neighbour & Alexander Groves The ordinary meetings of the Corporation & the Urban Sanitary Authority are held at the Town Hall the znd Tuesday in each month Officers of the Corporation & Urban Sanitary Authority. Town Clerk & Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority, John Cooper, 5 West street Treasurer, John Page, Savings Bank, Duke street Medical Officer of Health, W. Dyson Wood L.R.C.P. Edin. Oxford Borough Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Richard Pratt, 1\Iarket place Collector, William Cooper, Duke street Town Sergeant, Edwin Savage, Town Hall Highway Board. .Meets at the Court House, Caversham, on Saturdays about 6 times a year. Clerk, John Cooper, West street .Surveyor, Charles Harper, College Wood, Cane End, Reading Public Establishments. .Cemetery, Fair mile, Arthur Richard Lloyds, clerk to the Burial Board, Duke street; Wm. Gray, curator County Court, held at the Town Hall every alternate thursday ; His Honor William Ha worth Roll Q. C. judge; John Frederick Cooper, registrar & high bailiff ; office, ·west street (open for business from 10 till 4, except saturdays, when it closes at I o'clock). The following is a list of places within its jurisdiction :-Assenden Lower, Assenden Middle, Assenden Upper, Aston, Batt"s Green, Binfield Heath, Bix, Bow- -sey Hill, Burchett's Green, Cat (The), Cock pole, Cookley, Crocker End, Crazies Hill, Crowsley, Culham, Fawley, Fawley Court, Frieth, Greenfields, Grey's Green, Grey's Hill, Hambledon, Hare Hatch, Harps- -den, Henley-on-Thames, Highmoor, Hurley, Hurley Bottom, Kiln Green, Kingwood, Knowl Hill, Lashbrook, Littlewick (part of), Maidensgrove, Marsh (The), Marsh Mills, May's Green, Medmenham, Mill End, Moor's End, Nettlebed, New Mills, Page's Bottom, Park Corner, Parmoor, Pishill, Pheasants' Hill, ...Remenham, Remenham Hill, Rockall End, Rotherfield 'Greys, Rotherfield Peppard, Russell's Water, Shepherd's Green, Shiplake, Shiplake Bottom, Skirmett, Swyncombe Wargrave, Warren Row, Witheridge Hill, Wood End, Wormondiscombe -por Bankruptcy Jurisdiction this Court is included in that of Reading; Cecil Mercer, official receiver; Herbert Shirtcliffe, assistant official receiver, 95 Temple chambers, Temple avenue, London E C ·Certified Bailiffs appointed under the " Law of Distress Amendment Act," William Anker Simmons, Bell :Street, & John Chambers, jun. Hart street County Police Station, West street, Thomas Jenningst supt. I inspector, 2 sergeants & 14 const.ab}('.s Isolation Hospital, Fair mile, Charles Caundry, sec Masonic Lodge, Thames, No. r8g5, meetings held at the Lodge rooms, Reading road, on the monday nearest full moon in every month excepting June, July & August; secretary, John Weyman St. Mary's Hall, New street, Mr. Savage, proprietor Town Hall & Corn Exchange, Market place, Edwin Savage, keeper • Volunteer Fire Brigade Fire Engine & Escape Station, Market place; the brigade comprises an engineer, 2 foremen & 12 firemen, with three manual engines & one fire escape; Archibald Brakspear esq. president Yeomanry Cavalry. Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hu:ssars) (Henley Detachment, B Squadron , William Dalziel Mackem.ie, hon. major, commanding; Sergt. Stansfield, instructor Volunteers. 2nd Volunteer Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry Regiment (D Co. ), William H. V. Ames, capt. ; Sergt. William McCracken, drill instructor Henley U"nion . Board day, tues. fortnightly, at II a.m. at the Workhouse, Henley-on-Thames. The Union comprises the following places :-:Bix, Brightwell Baldwin, Brightwell Prior, Brightwell Salome, Caversham, Checkendon, Cuxham, Eye & Dunsden, Fawley (Bucks), Hambleden (Bucks), Harpsden, llenley-on-Thames, Ipsden, l\Iedmenham (Bucks), l'\ettlebed, ~u:ffield, Pishill, Pyrton, Remenham (Derks), Rutherfield Greys, Rotherfield Peppard, Shiplake, Swincombe, W atlington. The population of the union in r8gr was 22,532; area, 6I,II3 acres; rateable value in 1894• £n6,o32 Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Arthur Richard Lloyds, Duke st. Henley-on-Thames Treasurer, .T ohn Simonds, Reading Relieving Officers-Caversham district, J oseph Bob in, Caversham; Henley district, George Albert Stone, Bell street, Henley-on-Thames; Watlington district, Benj. Glass, Watlington Vaccination Officers, the same as the Registrars of Births & Deaths Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators Caversham district, Edward Deane L.R.C.P.Lond. Caversham; Greys district, George Smith M.B., C.M. Henley-onThames; Rambleden district, Henry Cecil Low Uorris L.R.C.P.Lond. Ham bled en; Henley district, Egerton Charles Augustus Baines L.R.C.P.Edin. Henley-onThames; Nettlebed district, Oswald Roberts L.R.C.P . Edin. Nettlebed; Watlington district, Waiter Winslow L.R.C.P.Lond. Watlington Superintendent Registrar, A.rthur Richard Lloyds, Duke street, Henley-on-Thames; Deputy, James "White, New street, Henley-on-Thames Registrars of Births & Deaths-Caversham Sub-district, Joseph Bobin, Caversham; deputy, Mrs. Sarah Bobin, Caversham ; Henley sub-district, George Albert Stone, Bell street, Henley-on-Thames; deputy, Albert E. B. Stone, Bell street; Watlington sub-district, Beniamin Glass, Watlington; deputy, William G. L. Spyer, Watlington Registrars of Marriages, Frederick G. Lee, Rearling road; deputy, Fred Johnson, Henley-on-Tharnes; Benjamin Glass, Watlington; deputy, William G. L. Spyer, Watlington The Workhouse, on the ·west hill, is a quadrangular brick building, erected in 1790, & will hold 263 inmates; in 1873 schoolrooms were built with residences attached for the master & mistress, & there are 10 acres of land adjoining appropriated as garden ground; John Martin, master; Rev. William Chapman M.A. chaplain; Egerton Charles Augustus Baines L.R.C.P.Edin. medical officer; Mrs. Sarah Martin, matron; children are sent out to the National schools School Att.e:ndance Committee. Meets at the Workhouse first tues. in the month at 12.30 p.m. Clerk, Arthur Richard Lloyds, Duke street, Henley Attendance Officers. John Littlewood, New street, Henley; Joseph Bobin, Caversham; George S. D. Mattick, Henley; Henry Barksfield, Hambleden

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. HENLEY-UPON -THAMES. 109 Rural District Council. Meets at the Workhouse fortnightly at II a.m. Clerk, Arthur Richard Lloyds, Duke street, Henley-onThames Medical Officer of Health, W. Dyson Wood, Oxford Sanitary Inspector, George Shadrach Daniel Mat tick, N ewtown, Henley \'ublic Officers. Certifying Factory Surgeon, Egerton Charles .A.ugustus Baines L.R.C.P.Edin. Bell street Clerk to the Commissioners of Property, Income & Land Taxes & to the Highway Board, John Cooper, West st Collector of Assessed Taxes, Poor Rates & Assistant Overseer, John Littlewood, New street Inland Revenue Officer, John Lambert, Queen street Superintend~nt of County Police, Thomas J ennings Steward of the Manor of Bensington, John Cooper, West street Newspapers. Henley Advertiser, II Market place, Albert Richard Awbery, printer & publisher; published saturday Henley & South Oxfordshire Standard, James Baldwin Bryant, publisher; published friday Places of Worship, with times of services. St. Mary's Church, Hart street, Rev. John F. Maul M. A. rector; The Rev. Philip Edward Tuckwell M.A. & Collingwood McNeil Rushforth M.A. curates; 8 & 10.45 a.m. & 3.15 & 6.30 p.m.; daily, 8 a.m. & 6 p.m Iron Church, Gravel hill (the clergy of St. Mary's officiating) ; 3 p.m Holy Trinity Church, Greys bill, Rev. Frederick William Young M.A. vicar; Rev. Thomas Leonard Palmer M. A. curate; II a. m. 3 & 6.30 p.m Cemetery Chapel, Fair mile (the clergy of St. Mary's officiating); 3 p.m Catholic Chapel, Station road, Rev. John Northcote Bacchus, pastor; 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; week days, 8 a.m.; holy days of obligation, mass, 8 a.m & Benediction at 7 p.m Friends' Meeting House, Northfield end; 3 & 6.30 p.m Baptist, Gravel hill; II a.m. & 6 p.m. ; thurs. 7 p.m Baptist, Market place (supplies); II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; mon. & thurs. 7.30 p.m Congregational, Reading road, Rev. John Taylor; n a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; mon. 7 p.m Wesleyan, Duke street (Reading Circuit), Rev. Herbert Gorton Edge; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7 p.m S~hools. The Grammar school, at Northfield end, was founded by King .Tames I. in r6o4 for classical & mathematical studies, & re-orga.nized by the Endowed School Commissioners in 1876; the endowment amounts to about £4oo a year; C. E. Chambers, head master; Herbert A. Shaw & Russell Slocombe, assistant masters The Blue Coat (now called the English school) was founded by Lady Elizabeth Periam in the reign of J ames I. for the free education of 20 boys of thetown, & the school was from the time of George Ill. until 1879 united with the Grammar school under one master; since that date it has been administered. under the provisions of a new scheme as a distinct institution, although controlled by the same govHning body; there are still 20 free boys & about 35 others paying a fee of £3 a year. In 1891 this school was incorporated with the Henley GrammarSchool School Attendance Committee for Henley Urban Sani·· tary District. Meets at the Town hall first week in the month at 6 p.m Clerk, John Cooper, West street Treasurer, .John Simonds, Reading Attendance Officer, John Littlewood, Clarence house .. New street Inquiry Officer, George Albert Stone, Bell street National, Gravel hill, opened in 1849 at a cost, including site & houses for the master & mistress, of between [,3,ooo & £4,ooo, raised by subscription; it will hold 500 children; average attendance, 370 ; Frank Rumbold, master; Miss Fanny J ones, mistress Infants' built in 1849 for 215 children; average attendance, q.1 ; Miss Louiea Saxby, mistress British, Reading road, built in r856, for 18o children; average attendance, 156; Frederick Eagle, master Tri~1ity Church Schools, built in 1893, at a cost of [3,000 for 300 chiidren; average attendance, 250 ;._ George Pendle, master; Miss Mary Isaac, mistress ;.; Miss Martha Isaac, infants' mistress Railway Station. Reading road, Henry Mark Terry Carriers to: London & all parts of the Kingdom-Great ·western. Railway Company London-Wickens' waggon, mon. & thurs. to Bell inn .. Warwick lane, returning wed. & sat.; & Sutton & Co. from Bell street, daily (.John Hawkins, agent) Fingest--Amos Prince, from ' Bull,' thurs Caversham-John Ward & Sons, from their house,. Northfield end, daily at 7 a.m Hambleden-Gill, from Market pl. every day except tuesHarpsden-John Ward & Sons, from their house, Northfield end, daily at 7 a.m High ·wycombe-Sworder, from 'Bull,' thurs Lane End-Sworder, from 'Bull,' thurs Marlow-Sworder, from 'Bull,' daily Nettlebed-Bailey, dai:ly Reading-John Ward & Sons, from their house, North-- field end, daily at 8 a. m. returning same night; John Hedges, Market place, daily 8.30 a.m. returning: 3-30 p.m Shiplake-John Ward & Sons, from their house, Northfield end, daily 7 a.m Watlington .Tones, from the 'Bull.' thurs PRIVATE RESIDEKTS. Castle .John, New town Giles John Edward, Westfield .A.:lden George Henry l\LB., C.M. Longlands, Hart1 street .Arrowsmith Mrs. Norman avenue Ashley Charles, Queen 'ltreet Bacchus Rev. John Northcote (Cath.), The Presbytery Bain George, N orthfield end Baines Egertoi!J Cha.s.Augustus,Bell st Bayley William George, 2 Queen's villas, Queen street Benson Mrs. Nut:field ho. Fair ]\file Brakspear Miss, South hill Bramman Arthur John, 1 Laint()n pi. K orthfield end Bremner Alex. Bramble, 6 River ter Brown Mrs. Gravel hill Brown :Mrs. Amatalas, Church stTeet Br~·ant James Baldwin, Holmsdale, Queen street Bncli:ham Mrs. 6 Oxford villaS> Burgis Miss, Myrtle cott. ~ew town Bume Mrs. Church o;treet Bury Charles, Northfield ~:>nd Byles Misses, Queen ~treet Byles N athaniel, Queen sh·eet Bywater Arth. The Ferns, Northfld.end C'amrion .John Todd, Queen stre~t Chr.ll'hrr'ain l~dmund, jnn. Erchfont, Tiefldir.g road Chambers C. E. (head r-taster) Godley George, 2 Hamilton aYPnue Grammar school Guy Jas. 3 Lainton pl. l~.::Jrthfield end Chapman Rev.William :.LA. (chaplain Hall Wm. Ge(). (missioner, S{)ciety of of workhouse), Caxton tr, ... race Friends), II Hamilton avenue Clarke Alfd. Hy. 7 Hamilton avenue Harriman .John, 1\f::trket place Clements Miss, 27 New street Heathfield Misses, Lee J.·lace Coates Wm. Thos. 6 Caxton terrace Hews Miss, 13 Hart street Cobb Mrs. r Hart street Hia Frederick Ghal'les, The Grove Cook Geo. Hy. Southfield ho.H~ading rd Holloway 1\'lrs. St. Andrew's r!oad •. Cooper John, The Croft New town Cooper John Frederick, Leicester ho. Hopkins· Mrs. Rep tan Io. Reading rd. K orthfield end Ho well Miss, 27 J'\ ew s tl'(:et Cooper Wltr.6 Lainton pl.Northfl.d.end Ive Alfred, Hillside, Vicarage road Corbold John, 57 Market place Isaac Mrs. 31 New Rtreet Crawter Ernest Henry, l.'{ew street Jacbon Mrs. Elm ho. Nurthr,eld end" Crisp Frank J.P. Friar park Jefiery Miss, 39 New street Day Charles, 74 Bell stre~ Jeffrrys l\Trs. r Norvhfield rnd Dee Edward Harry, Port~and c.ottage, Jenner Fk. The Homestead,Read.ing rd N orthfield end JEst on Richard1 Pope, Jlell street Dee Mrs. Beulah lo. Northfield £;nd Johnson Miss, Riverside Eagle Frederick, Queen s~reet Jcr.es Miss, So Bell <>traet Edge Rev.Herbert Gordon (Wesleyan), Krelev lVil:iam, Elm <·ott. Fair Mile 6 Hamilton avenue Knight ::\frs. Queen's viis. Queen st Klis Edmund Henry, Windmill end Laih:y Miss. Market piace Eyre Wm. South pl. Reading road Lailey :Migs, Mert(ln house, Ilell l't Farrington John, 4 J~ainton p;ace, Lambert John, Queen street Northfield end Latter ::\fisses, New st;reet Finch Hy. Chas. Cranden gate, Bell st Lidderdale .Jas. Nortbf\~ld End ho Foster Mrs. 2Lainton pl.Northfld'. end Lloyds Arthur Richard, The Acacia,j, Fuller George, Rosebery, QnPen street Elt . .Andrew's road

110 HENLEY•UPON•TB.U.tES, OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLl'S Lloyds Mrs. Church street Peck Herbert, I Cambrian villas Stea.rns .Arthur Edwd. New M.ills cc.t Lcckey Miss, Gravel r-ill Pendle Ge.Jrge, Qneen ~treet S.tParns Edward, Constantine, New Lucey CharleS', Surrey lodge Pt-neston Mrs·. Font till Mills house Lurnmis Mrs. 2 River terrace Pinckney Rev.Wm.Philip M . .A.Sonth hl Steevens John, 3 Hamilton avenue M air Hngh D.L. Phyllis court Pinniger Francis Jamas, 41 New st Steward Capt. John Henry, ·west Hill Makins' Col. William Thomas D.L. F1ther Mrs. 8 Hamilton avenue house, West street J.P. RJtherfield court; r Lowther Plumbe Miss, Duke street Stacker Mrs. Haneburg, Vicarage rd gardens, Prince's gate S ';',Y; r Essex Ponder J ames Richard, I River terrace Stoker MrSI. Queen street court, Temple E C & Carltont & Po>,·ell Mrs. 26 Hart fltreet Street Benjamin, Queen street Wellington clnbs, London Pratt, Edward, Queen ~;treet Tagg Mrs. Northfield end Manners-Smith Mrs. 2 Caxton terrace Prior Chas. Emscote cott. Reading rd Tapps Miss, St. .Andrew's road' :Marsh Frederick, Greys hill Reeves Benjamin, 47 Bell street TaYlor Rev. John (Cong.), The Manse, Maul Rev. John Frederic M . .A. Rigge John .Arthur, New street Reading road (rector), St. Mary's 1ectory Riggs lly. Williamdale, Norman aven Thomas Charles Kains, Ross treavor, I\Iayherd Mrs. Maylands, Bt. Riggs Thomas, Hart street St· . .Andrew's, road, New town Andrew's road Robinson Thomas Horn, Norman aven Townley Miss, 4 Hamilton avenue Mellett Edwd. James, II Hart street Rogers Robert, Friday street TuckwelL Mrs'. 40 Bell street Mercer William, New street Rushforth Rev. Collingwood McNeil Turner George Walton, 4 Caxton ter- ){idd:eton Mrs•. Market place M . .A.. (curat,e of St. Mary's church), race, Railway Station road Miller John Charles, 24 ~lark et place 62 Bell stn•et Turnour Mrs. 5 Oxford villas Niillington Ed. Lewis,ro Hamilton av Saker Mrs. Haroldene, Korman aven Tyndell 1\Irs. Riverside 1\'l:itchell J ames, 93 Bell street Sharp J oseph, Northfieldl end Varley Mrs. r Oxford villas 1.forgan Miss, 72 Bell street Sharp Ml's. 25 New street Vanghan Mrs. Jesamin cott. Greys bill 1\Iorris Edwin Charles, 18 Market pl Shaw Herbert A. assist. master of lValker Jas. Wm. Upton lo. Reading rd }Icth Mrs. Queen street Grammar school, Northfield end Warner Miss, 5 Lainton place, Xorth1\Iott Mrs. 29 New Etreet Sheppard Stephen, Hurstleigh, Read- field end · Mummery :Mrs. 17 New ~t,reet ing roacl' Watts Joshua, Bell street Ne~le Major Charles Waiter, 'l'he Shout Henry Chetwynd, rark >iew, Wells Jas. Thos . .A.lma ho. Bell ~~ Cedars, Reading road Rt-ading road Wells Mrs. Queen street ::Veale Charles Rayrnond, The Cedars, Singer Charles .Albert, Hazeldene, Weyman John, Market place Reading road Reading roadl W eyrnan Miss, Baltic cott. Riverside 1\'icholls Mrs. Northfield end Sleeman Thos. Glairville lo. :Fair mile White James, Que-en's villas, Queen st Ovey Richard J.P. Badgemore Slocombe Russell, assistant master William~ Edwin Medwyn, 2 MountPage John, Hart street Northfield· Grammal' school, ~orth- field villas, Fair mile Balmer Benjamin, I Hamilton avenue field end VElliams Wltr. Chas. 2 Cambrian vils Palmer Rev. Thomas Leonard :M . .A. Smith Rev. Jas. (Baptist), Rearling rd Wright .A.rthur, 35 New street (curate of Holy Trinity), .A.matala.s, Smith Charles: Henry, 4 River terrace Wright George, 56 New street Church street Staines Hrld. Badgemore ho.Fair mile Young Misses, lligh:E.eld 'Partridge Mrs. 2 South pl.Reading rd Standish Joseph, Sunnyside, North- Young Fredk. Wm. M.A. (vicar of Panlin Mrs. Queen ~treet field end! Holy Trinity), The Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Aberdeen James Henry, oil & color man, IS Duke street .Allden George Henry M.B., C.M. surgeon & medical officer, Greys district, Henley union, Longlands,llart st Allden, Lidderdale & Smith, surgeons, Hart street .A.lleway Edward, beer retailer, Greys hill Allum Benjamin, dairyman, Badgemore hill .Ancient Order of Druids' Lodge, The Argyle P.H. IS Market place Appleton Richard, plumber & decorator, drains tested & reported upon, all parts of the country attended, 30 Bell street Austin Alfred, grocer, 54 & 56 Bell street ~~very George, commission agent, Rose cot. Fair mile .A.wberry .Albert Richard, chemist & stationer, 9 & n Market place Ayres Joseph, beer retailer & shopkeeper, 45 Market pl Bailey Charles W. Pack Horse P.H. Northfield end Bailey William, Duke of Cumberland P.H. r6 Bell street Ilaines Egerton Charles .Augustus M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. Edin. medical officer & public vaccina tor, Henley district, Henley union, medical officer to the workhouse & certifying factory surgeon, see Jest on, Baines & Rigge }land of the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars (W. Cleaver, bandmaster), Clair house, Duke street Barnard Thomas, watch maker & jeweller & baby linen warehouse, 2 & 4 Hart street Barnett & Sons, millers & corn merchants ; stores, Waterside Barney Emily .Ann (Mrs.), Old White Horse P.H. N orthfield end Jlatchelor Charles James Henry :M.P.S. chemist & druggist, 41 Bell street 1l3teman Richard, decorator, Reading road Bates Henry, apartments, Queen's villas, Queen street B-1tty James William, plumber, 30 New street Beeson Charles, shopkeeper, 8r Bell street Bennett Charles, apartments, 17 New street Bennett William, grocer, Reading road Bint Francis John, butcher, New Town Blackett John, Union inn, Hart street Booth James, cycle agent, 36 Hart street Bosley Charles, saddler, r2 Hart street & Queen street Bosley Thomas, saddler & harness maker, Hart street & job master, Queen street Brakspear William Henry & Sons, brewers, maltsters, wine & spirit merchants & mineral water manufacturers, Henley brewery, New stTeet Brasher James William, shopkee-per, Greys hill Bratchell Robt. Carp€nter, Red Cross inn, Low.Assenden Bridgman William, The .Argyll P.H. rs Market place Broad John, baker, 6r Bell street Broad Joseph, butcher, 73 Bell £treet Brown W alter Cropley, leather seller, 4 Duke street Buckett Hannah (Mrs.), The Sun P.H. Northfield end Bullock Edwin, butcher. 24 Hart street Bume William, greengrocer, 33 Bell street Bund Herbert, upholsterer & french polisher, Northfield end Burningham Eunice (Mrs.), New Town nursery Burgis Daniel, wholesale grocer, 33 Market place & 8 Bell street; & at Wargrave Burton Frederick James, coffee rooms, 38 Bell street Bush George Gerard Lake, estate agent, Denmark house, N orthfield end Butcher Thomas William, river keeper, Queen street Butler Arthur, tobacconist, 33 Duke street Butler Charles, White Hart inn, Hart street Butler Edward, shopkeeper, Middle .A.ssenden Butler Edward Charles, beer retailer, 43 Duke street Campion John Todd, solicitor, Queen street Carpenter Jesse, chimney sweeper, Friday street Carter .A.rthur George, beer retailer, 5 Bell street Carter John, refreshment house, 49 Duke street Carter William, beer retailer, Greys lane Cartwright .A.rthur, chemist & druggist, 25 Bell street Cemetery (.A.rthur Richard Lloyds, clerk to the burial board; William Gray, curator), Fair mile Chalmers J. Herbert, teacher of music, 2 Hamilton av Chambers John, stone & marble mason, 9I Bell street Chambers John, auctioneer, house & estate agent, & manager for the Gas Co Chambers Mark, apartmentE, 44 Bell street Chandler George, Black Horse P.H. Friday street Chapman Robert, beer retailer, Greys road Chessall William, tobacconist & hair dresser, 52 Bell st Cleaver 1Villiam, wine & spirit merchant, Queen's Head P.H. Duke street Clegg Earl, insurance agent, Grey's hill Clements Charles, builder & contractor, 41 Market place Clinch Caroline (Mrs.), beer retailer, West street Clisby Wm. boat proprtr.Little WhiteHartP .H. River side Coates John Lewis, beer retailer, Gravel hill Coates Henry Whlttingham, linen clr&pilr, sre· ciality, dress goods & dress making, I4 Hart street Cole Rachael (Miss), shopkeeper, River side Colebrook & Co. fishmongers & poulterers, 8 Hart street Coles & Son, veterinaTy shoeing foTge, Bell street Coles Charles, furrier, 3 New street & Bell street Collins & Son, fishmongers & poulterers, 35 Bell street ; & at Reading

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. HENLEY-UPON -THAMES. 111 Cook William, rope & twine maker, 22 Hart street Cooper, Son & Simmons, solicitors, West street Cooper John (firm, Cooper, Son & Simmons), solicitor, town clerk & clerk to the urban sanitary authority & highway board, county magistrates for Henley division & to the commissioners of taxes & school attendance committee, West street Cooper John Frederick (firm, Cooper, Son & Simmon,;;), solicitor, clerk to the borough magistrates, joint clerk to county magistrates & registrar & high bailiff of county court, & Conservative registration agent, West street · Cooper Reuben, coal dealer, Northfield end Cooper Reuben, chimney sweeper, Friday street Cooper William, clothier & collector to the corporation, 22 Duke street County Court (His Honor William Haworth Holl, judge; John Frederick Cooper, registrar & high bailiff), Town hall ; office, West street Cox Frt:Jderick, Anchor inn, Friday street Crawley Mary Jane (Miss), apartments, New street Crawley William Stratton, tailor, Hart street Crawter Ernest Henry, professional brewer, New street Cremer George, confectioner, 15 Bell street Cracker Henry, boot & shoe maker, 55 Bell street Cracker William Hy. boot & shoe maker, 37 Duke street Cracker Samson Ezekiel, shopkeeper, Northfield end Dadley William, shoe maker, Greys road Da.wes James, engineer, water works, Grey's hill Day David, cook & confectioner, 20 & 22 Bell street Dennett Thomas, bill poster, Friday street Deuton George, engineer to sewage works Drewett Thomas Marlow, carriage builder, Northfield end Dunlop George & Son (Frederick G. Lee, manager), coal merchants, Reading road Eady Hy. (man. for R. Toomel'&Co.coal mers.),Queen st Elston William, coffee & dining rooms, 3 Friday street Fahy Mina (Miss), ladies' school, Laurel ho. Gravel hill Foster Joseph, Royal Oak P.H. well appointed open & close carriages, brakes, ponies, traps, waggonettes &c. to let on hire, Greys road Fowler Jas. Godwin, saddler & harness mkr. 12 Duke st Fox Ernest, fruiterer, see Saunders & Fox Franklin Mary Eliza (Mrs.), dress maker, Reading road Freeman, Hardy & Willis Lim. boot makers, 6 Bell st :Froud ..James & Sons, timber merchants, brush, board, cover & veneer cutters & shive manufacturers, builders, wheelwrights, steam plough proprietors & machinists, Steam Saw mills Froud Louis Edward, apartments, 34 Bell street Gill Emma (Miss), baker, 95 Bell street Goodall Frederick, hair dresser & tobacconist, Hart st Gould Martin, apartments, St. Mark's road, New Town Gray John, draper, Greys road Green George, beer retailer, 42 New street Green Herbert William, Wheatsheaf hotel, Reading rd Greenwood William Miller, plumber, Greys road 'Groves Alexander, grocer & wine merchant, 6 Hart st Hales Stephen, baker, confectioner & caterer, refreshment rooms & private tea gardens, The Model bakery, Market place Hamilton Thomas, builder, Queen street Hamilton William, builder, Greys road Harding Joseph, Row Barge P.H. West street Harriman John, professional brewer, Market place Harris Eliza (Mrs.), laundress, 47 Duke street Harris Joseph Henry, shopkeeper, New Town Harvey .lames, boat proprietor & lessee of swimming baths, special terms to picnic parties, River side Hatton John, linen draper, 17 Market place, ,& clothier 27, 29 & 69 Bell street Hawkins John, tobacconist & china dealer, 7 & 9 Bell st Hayes Daniel, dairyman & haulier, Station road Hayward Mary (Miss), apartments, 5 Hamilton avenue Heckman Williarn, engineer, Market place Hedges John, carrier, Market place Henley Advertiser Newspaper (AlbeTt Richard Awbery, printer & publisher; published sat.), II Market pl Henley Dairy (Albert E. Daniells, manager), Market pl Henley-on-Thames Conservative Newspaper Co. Lim. (F. W. Dee, sec.), Market place Henley Cottage Improvement Association Lim. (John Cooper, sec.), West street Henley (Town) Cricket Club (Ernest H. Fox, sec.), Bell street Henley Savings Bank (John Page, actuary, open every tuesday evening from 6 to 8 & the first thursday in every month from 12 to 2), Hart street Henley Swimming Baths (James Harvey, propriet.Jr), Wargrave road Henley Temperance Society (Frank Sheppard, sec.), llell street Henley Rowing Club (Edward Macqueen, sec) Henley & South Oxfordshire Standard (James Baldwin Bryant, publisher; published fridays) Henley-on-Thames Coffee House Co. Limited (William Cooper, sec.), 8 Market place Henley-on-Thames Gas Company umited (John Chambers, sec.) ; office, I5 Hart street Henley-on-Thames Water Co. Limited (A. Groves, sec.); offices, Hart street Rester Henry, boot maker, 54 Albert road Higgins Sidney Herbert, stationer & bookseller & agent for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowldge, 2 Bell street Higgs Thos. Octavius, printer, Railway Station road Hill Frederick, beer retailer, ro Hart street Hinder Emily (Mrs.), aparts. 3 Hamilt<Jn ter. Greys rd Hitchman John .Albert, basket manufr. Market place Hoare Eliza (Mrs.), apartments, 5 River terrace Hobbs .Albert Edward, builder, 28 Hart street Hobbs Benjamin, builder, 30 Hart street Hobbs Henry Edward, The Ship P.H. River side Hobbs Hy. Edwd. & Son, genrl. boat builders, River side Ho:mes & Steward, brewers, wine & s~irit merchants & mineral water mfrs. The Greys. brewery,Friday ilt Hone Lydia (Miss), ladies' boarding school, 42 Bell st Honey Mary (Miss), dress maker, 32 Bell street Hooper Henry, boat proprietor_, River side Hopkins Oliver, coal dealer, Reading road Hopkinson William, baker, Northfield end House R. (Mrs.), apartments, Hart street Hughes Frederick, boot maker, New street Humphries George, insurance agent, 8 Park rd.New twn International Tea Co. 4 Bell street Isolation Hospital (Charles Caundry, sec.), Fairmile Ive Brothers, wine & spirit merchants, brewers & mineral water manufacturers, 19, 2r & 37 Market pl Jackson Sidney D. Feathers P.H. Market place J anes J oseph, tailor, 70 Bell street Jay George, baker & confectioner, I6 Hart street J ennings Thos. supt. of county police & inspector under the Cattle Contagious Diseases Acts & Food & Drugs Act, Police station, West street Jerome Jonathan, beer retailer, Greys road J eston, Baines & Rigge, surgeons, Bell street Johnson Chas.Edmund & Frdk.photgrphrs.25 Duke st J ohnson Mary Ann (Mrs.), infants' school, Sunderland villa, Greys road Jones Harriet (Miss), dairy, 45 New. street Jose William, Three Tuns P.H. 5 Market place Keene Ruth (Mrs.), apartments, Northfield end Keene William, job master; speciality, hacks & hunters, lessons in riding & driving, Bear Inn yard, Bell street. See advertisement Knott Charles, foreman to Mr. J<Jseph Brood, Badgemore farm, Fair mile Lambert John, inland revenue officer, Queen street Lambourn William Thomas, house agent, Gravel hill Lane George, wood turner, I4 New street Lay Thomas, Hope P.H. Northfield end Lester .Alfred Pearce, butcher, I3 Market place Liberal Club (Ernest H. Fox, sec.), Market place Lidderdale James. M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, Northfield ho Little James, butcher & apartments, I Hamilton terrace Littlewo(ld John, rate & assessed tax collector & school attendance officer, Clarence house, New street Lloyds .Arthur Richard, clerk to the guardians, assessment & school attendance committees, superintendent registrar of Henley union, clerk to Rural District Council, the burial board & to the hospital, Duke st London & County Banking Co. Limited (branch) (Edwin Charles Morris, manager) ; banking hours, ID a.m. to 4 p.m. & wed. IO a.m. to I p.m.), 18 Market place; draw on head office, 2I Lombard street, London E C Luck John, grocer & baker, West street Lummis Agnes (Mrs.), lodging house, 2 River terrace Lunnon Charles, greengrocer, Market place Mace Mark, greengrocer, Greys road McBean Brothers, furnishing & general ironmongers, whitesmiths & bellhangers, bar iron, oil & color merchants, near the church, Hart .street McCracken William, sergeant instructor to the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, I Stanley terrace, Reading road Machin Gabriel, butcher & poulterer, Market place & [!rocer, Northfield end McKenzie Donald, watch maker, 35 Duke street Macqueen Henry, plumber & decorator, 84 Bell street Manley Thomas, florist, I7 Hart street Marsh Bros. photographic artists, 29 & 3 I Hart street Marshal! William, photographer, 13ell street Masonic Lodge, Thames No. 1895 (John Weyman, sec.), Reading road

112 HEXLEY-UPON-Tff.AMES. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'~- Mattick George Shadrack Daniel, school board officer & sanitary inspector, Rose cottage, Reading road M;ly George, boot maker, g Park road Mays Charles Lambton, hair dresser, Friday street Mead Stanley .Alfred, hair dresser, Duke street Meads John, shopkeeper, 2I .Albert road Mellett Edward & Son, M.R.C.V.S.L. veterinary surgeons, 32 Hart street Mercer William, solicitor, commissioner for oaths & for taking acknowledgments of married women, New st Messers Limited, timber merchants, Reading road Miller Jn.C.mgr. of Simonds & Co.'s Bank, :2-J.::'d:.nliet, pl Monk Charles, linen & woollen draper, I Bell street Morris Edwin Charles, manager of London & County Bank, I8 Market place Morris William, saddler & harness maker, 24 Duke st Moss Hemy, machinist, Northfield end Moss Henry, shopkeeper, 50 Bell street Mott W. F. & Co. dairymen, 25 Market place Mott & Betts, carriage builders, 6g .Bell street Neale Charles Raymond M.R.C.V.S. veterinary snrgeon, The Cedars, Reading road Neighbour John Edward & Son, grocers, & agents for W. & .A. Gilbey Limited, wine & spirit me1·chants, 29 & 31 Bell street 1'-1 evil:e William, grocer, Gravel hill Norcott William, Saracen's Head P.H. Greys hill Non·is ·waiter, baker & beer retailer, ·west street Oppermann Charles George, antique dealer & auctionr. 6o Bell street Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussar:;) Yeomanry Cavalry (B Squadron, Hon. Major ""\Yilliam Dalziel Mackenzie, commanding; Sergeant Stansfield, drill instructor), Page John, actuary of the Savings Bank, Hart street Palmer Benjamin, postmaster, :Market place Palmer Emily Jane (Miss), shopkeeper, Smith hill Parker Florence (Miss), apartments, 3 River terrace Parrott. .Alfred, boat builder & letter, Reading r<Jad Parsons Stephen, sheep dealer, Lower Assendon Peck Herbert, builder & plumber, r8 Bell street Pengilly .Aibert, tobacconist, r8 Duke street Percy Richard, tailor, 23 Bell street Perrin William, boot maker & leather seller.26Ma:::ket pl Piercy Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper, West street Piercy Richard, horse slaughterer, West street Piggott Samuel, Three Horse Shoes P.H. Reading road Piper George William, plumber, gas & hot water & sa,nitary engineer, sanitary p~umbing a speciality, Bell street Pither .Alfred, baker & pork butcher, 49 Bell ~treet Pither Jeanie (Mis.s), milliner, I Hart street Plumbe Charles, wine & spirit merchant, 38 Hart street Po\rell Sarah (:~Irs.), dress maker, Church street Pratt Henry, boot maker, 48 Albert road Pratt Richard, surveyor & inspector of nuisances to the urban sanitary authority, 35 Market place Puzey Thoma.s, The Red Cross P.H. New street Radford Albert, shopkeeper, Greys road & Greys hill Read John Wiiliam, baker & confectioner, Greys road ReE-ves Benjamin, corn dealer, 39a, & 62 & 43 Bell st Richardson Thomas, sculptor, Market place Riage John Arthur L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. see J eston, Baines & Rigge Ri!!g'S Henry J ames, corn merchant, Duke street Riggs Thomas, maltster, Hart street Rivers Frances (Mrs.), dress ma. & tailoress,24Albert rd Ri:x:on Frederick, shopkeeper, The Gardens, New town Rixon Thomas, beer retailer, New town Rob er ton John, watch maker, 3 Bell street Roberts Charles MiC'hael, Cat.herine Wheel family & commercial hotel, Hart street Robins & Co. milliners, 55 Market place Robins William, beer retailer, New street Rogers Brothers, engineers, millwrights, iron & brass founders, Friday street Rogers Thomas., shopkeepr. Stanley ter. Reading road Rose Thomas, lodging house, i River terrace Rowles & Son, dyers & cleaners, 85 Bell street Royal Family hotel (Frederick Trotman, proprietor), Riv~r side Roval Grammar School of James I. (C. E. ChambPrs, • head master; Herbert .A. Shaw & Russell Slocombe, assistant masters), Northfie:d end Russell Harry, carman & contractor, & beer retailer, Market place St. Mary's Hall (George T. Sava.g-e, propr.), New street Salisbury Conservative Club (W. D. Mackenzie esq. M. A., J.P. president; E. J. Mellett, treasurer; .Alex. Groves, hon. sec.), Reading road Sanders John, fishmonger, Duke street Sargeant .Ann (Mrs.), bricklayer, 2I New street Saunders & Fox, fruiterers, 6 Duke street Savage Edwin, tDwn sergt. & kpr. of 'l'o·wn hall, Duke st Savage George Thomas, cabinet maker, 37 & 39 Bell st Schlothauer Kesiah (Mrs.), shopkpr. I Park rd.New twn Scott James, butcher, 23 Duke street Searle & Sons, boat builders, boats on hire. Station road Seymour Harry William, apiarist, 47 Market place Seymour Thomas, bo-ot mak~r. 40 Hart street Sha.rn Joseph, corn dealer, 2 Northfield end Shepherd Charles Letchford, .Broad Gates P.H. Markt.pl ~hepherd Reuben, apartments, Hamilton vil. Greys rd Shepherd Thomas, Red Lion family hotel & boat builder,. River side Shepherd Thomas Guyer, manager for Messrs. Holmea & Steward, The Greys brewery, Friday street Sheppard Fred, grocer, 47 Duke street Simmonds John, butcher, 7 Duke street Simmons. & Sons, land & estate agents, auctioneers & valuers ; offices, 46 Bell st. ; & at Reading & B'stoke Simmons .Alfred Henry, marine store dlr. Greys road Simmonso J oseph, wheelwright, Greys road Simmons Robert, clerk to Caversham local board (firm, Cooper, Son & Simmons), West street Simonds J. & C. & Co. bankers (branch of Reading Bank) (John Charles Miller, manager), banking hours, 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. wed. till I p.m. 24 Market place; draw on Williams Deacon & Manchester & Salfor<I Ilank Limited, London E C Simons Harry, hair dresser & fly repos. 23 Market pi Simpkins ""\.Yilliam, linen draper & clothier, I], I9 & n Bell street Singer Charles .Albert, grocer, 14 Duke street Sizeland Robert, ironmonger, 63 Bell street Smith C. H. & Sons, paper makers, New mills SmithC.H. & Sons, printers & paper bag mas.Friclay st Smith Thomas & Co. coal & coke merchants, carmen & contractors ; coal supplied direct from the collieries~ boats conveyed any distance at a shilling per mile,. horses kept for towing house boats, furniture removed, carting done at moderate charges, River side Smith .Arthur Benjamin, .Angel hotel, The Bridge Smith George M.B., C.M. surgeon, & medical officer §; -public vaccinator for Greys district, Henley union, New street Society for Promotin;5 Christian Knowledge (Sidney Herbert Higgins, agent), 2 Bell street Spearin~ John Henry, shopkeeper & aparts. River side Spring Thomas Red·shaw, nur1seryman, Northfield end,. & fruiterer, .Bell street Stallwood Henry Bnrnett, boot maker. Gravel hill Sta:Iwood James, boot maker, Gravel hill Stewart Sarah (Mrs. ),apartments,St. Helens, Reading r<I ~tok~r Sidney, carman & contractor, Reading road Stone George· .Albert, relieving- & vaccination officer; Henley district, registrar of births & deaths for Henley sub-district & collector for the Guardians. • 45 Bell street Storey James, watch maker & jeweller, Duke street Street James, watch maker & jeweller, 19 Duke street Tack Amos, boot maker, 7 New street Ta;bot Lydia (Mrs.), dress maker, IO .Albert road Tayler & Co. coal merchants, Railway station Terry Henry Mark, station. master, Queen street Thackara Wm. hair dresser & news agt. I Market place Titcombe William, beer retailer, New town Tomalin John, joiner & und-ertaker, 32 & 48 New street Toomer R. & Co. coal merchants, & agents for the Great Western Railway Co. (Henry Eady, manager), Railwav station • Town Hall & Corn Exchange (Edwin Savage, keeper) .. Market place Towner Cecil, beer retailer, Church street Tranter John Richard, nurseryman, 3 Hart street Tranter Joseph, carpenter, Greys road Tranter Louisa (Mrs.), apartments, Friday strePt Trim Henry James, wheelwright, Northfield end Trotman Frederick, Royal family hotel, River side Tubb Charles, farmer & catt.Je dealer, Marlow road Vennell George, grocer, 4 Friday street Vokins Mary .Ann (Mrs.), Greyhound P.H. Market placeVolunteer Battalion (2nd) Oxfordshire Light Infantry (D' Co. Capt. William Henry .Ames, commandant; Sergt. WiHiam McCracker, drill instructor) Volunteer Fire Brigade (Harry Simons, sec.), Market pi Wakefield William, coal dealer, Queen street Walden & Co. builders, Bell street Walker Jas. Wm. & Wm. Waine, storekprs.22 :Marketpi Walkling- George Thos. oil & color stores, Friday street Ward Frank, ironmonger & gas & hot water fitter~ 27 Bell street

DlRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. LOWER HEY FORD. 113 Ward John & Sons, carriers, Northfield end Watts Thos. Nathaniel, tailor & clothier, 12 & 14 Bell st Webb Thomas, cDnfectioner, I Duke st. & Hart street Webster James Whitson, Angel hotel, facing river & commanding extensive views Weston Wm. C. pianoforte & music wareho. 24 Bell st Weyman John, builder & contractor, 3I Market place "Wheeler Edward, tobacconist, 39 Duke street Wheeler John Charles, King's Arms P.H. 32 Market pi Wheeler John Charles, builder & contractor & patentee -& manufacturer of the patent expanding table, suitable for caterers, hotel proErietors & canteens &c. Market place M'1ieeler Willia.m, beer retailer, 53 Bell street White James, deputy supt. registrar of marriages, births & deaths, New street White Robert, milk seller, 2 New street .HETHE (or Heath) is a parish and village, 4 miles .south-west from Falwell station on the Verney Junction and Banbury branch and 5 north from Bicest~r station on the Bletchley and Oxford branch of the .London and North Western railway, and 17 north from ,Oxford, in the Mid division of the county, hundred .and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county court district. of Bicester, rural deanery of Bicester and a.rchdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The upper part of the village is separated from the lower by a small stream, which flows into the Ouse. The .church of SS. Edmund and George is a small edifice of stone, in mixed styles, but chiefly of the Decorated period, and consists of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and a smaliJ western tower of wood containing a clock and one bell; the font is ancient: the stained east window was erected in memorv of the • Rev. Frederick Salter M.A. rector here from I854 until :his death, 30 June, I88I; in I86o it was thoroughly restored and a north aisle added, at a cost of about £Boo : there are 200 sittings, I6o being free. The register dates from the year 1679 ; marriages, I7I3. The living is a rectory, net yearly value {.Io3, including r67 :acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and held since 1887 by the Rev. Arthur Rolls Price M.A. of Downing College, Cambridge. The Catholic chapel, built in 1832 and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, stands on the outskirts of the village; it con~ tains five stained windows, and is capable of seating 300 persons; the Catholic mission here, however, dates Jrom a much earlier period; the Wesleyan Methodist chapel was erected in 1876. John Mansfield's charity Clark John, farmer White Sarah (Mrs.), laundress, 34 Hart street Whiting William, beer retailer, Duke street Wi~gins Albert, apartments, 15 New street Wigmore Harriett (Mrs.), Bear inn, good accommodation for cyclists & within five minutes of river & ;rail, 77 Bell street W1lkins Henry, marine store dealer, Greys lane Willmott Waiter, beer retailer, Friday street Williams Walter Charles, grocer, tea dealer & provision merchant, 3 Market place Wise Agnes Emily (Miss), tobacconist, No:rthfield end Wise Edwd. whitesmith, shopkeeper & gasfitter,Friday st Wise Lydia. (Mrs.), apartments, 62 Bell street Woodwards James William, baker, 19 Hart street Wright SMah (Mrs.), laundress, Northfield end Yeatman James, beer retailer, Lower Assenden of £3 4s. 4d. bequeathed in 1869, is for distribution in money, and there iSJ £4 yearly for fuel; in 1874 Thomas Mansfield gave £ISO in £3 per Cent. Consols to be divided equally among eight poor persons; and by the will of Mary Waddington £538 ws. 2d. now invested in £2! per Cents. was left to be divided between 30 poor people of the parish. Edward Slater-Harrison esq. of Shelswell Park, is lord of the manor and the Earl of Effingham, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the rector, John Smith Mansfield esq. of Hurstcroft, Ascot, and William Mansfield esq. are chief landowners. The soil is stone brash and gravel ; a .small portion is pasture and the remainder arable. The area. is I,o4ga. or. 18p.; rateable value, £I,773; the population in 189I was 380. Parish Clerk, William Rouse. Post Office.-Joseph Morgan, sub~p<>stmaster. Letters arrive from Bicester at 9 a.m. & 2 p.m. ; dispatched at IL30 a.m. & 4.20 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Fringford & telegraph office at Stratton Audley. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid Schools. National, built in 1852, hol'ding 8o children; average attendance, 52; Mrs. Green, mistress Catholic, built in I87o, for so children; average attendance, ro ; Miss Mary Howes, mistress Carrier.-Edwin Smith, to Bicester, tues. & fri. ; to Buckingham, sat. ; to Brackley, wed .Aspinall Capt. Harry, Hethe house Jlonner Rev. Joseph Jerram (CatJ.I.) Lath bury J ames Henry, Hethe villa Price Rev. Arth. Rolls M.A. Rectory Dagley David, beer retailer Dagley Joseph, baker Fathers Charles, builder Ma.nsfield Alfred, wheelwright Mans-field J dhn Sanders, farmer & landowner, The Green Morgan Joseph, shopkeeper & tailor, COMMERCIAL. Adams Albert, tailor X!arber Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper !lull George, shoe maker Flemons Samuel, grocer & butcher Green John, Whitmore Arms P.H Harris RDbert, farmer, Glebe farm Hitchcock Robt. dealer in tobacco Post office Paxton Edmund, farmer, Woolaston Rouse William, boot maker Smith Edwin, carrier LOWER liEYFORD (or Heyford-at-Bridge), is a parish and village, with a station on the Oxford and BirmiDigham section of the Great We·stern railway, a'nd is 7 miles north-west from Bicester and 6 north-east from W oodstock, 1 I north from Oxford, and 75 from Ldndon, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty ~ssi<mal division of Ploughley, union and county court district of Bicester, l'ural deanery of Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The village is on the "fOOd frl)m Bicester to ·Chipping N orton and on the Cher~ well and close to the Oxford and Birmingham canal, which runs through the parish and is t.he point nearest to Bicester for •the cDnveyance of goods by water. The church of St. Mary, placed Dn rising ground near the railway, is an edifice of stone in mixed •styles and consists of chancel, nave Df four rbays, Gisles, south porch and a plai'n western wwer containing 5 bells : the chancel i·s partly Early English and partly Decorated, but the rest of the building Pe-rpendicular and there is a screen of the latter period: the 'Church was thoroughly restored in 1867, and affords 250 sittings-. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £3oo, with 405 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Corpus Chri,s·ti college, Oxford, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Joseph .Arthur Dodd M.A.. and formerly scholar of that college. There is a United Th1ethodist chapel in the village. The rents cl 32 acres of land, awarded in 1802, and now (1894) producing £24 a year, are given to the poor of the parish in coals. The Pre~ sident and scholars of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, are lords of the manor, and, with the Earl of Jersey and the rector, are the principal landDwners. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, the same. The land is pasture and arable. The .area is 1,689 acres; rateable value, [.3,196; the population in 18gr was srs, o.f which 148 were at Caulcott. Parish Clerk, Thoma.s Parkins. Caulcott (formerly Ca.ldecott) is a hamlet, one mile south-east, and has a Wesleyan chapel. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & An'nuity & Insurance Office.- JDhn William Dew, sub-postmaster. Letters through Banbury arrive at S.rs a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dispatched at 12.25, 6.35 & ·8.5 p.m.; the nearest telegraph office is at Steeple Aston Schools. National (mixed), erected in I867, for about 10o children; average attendance, 63; Mr. Thomas Rose's charity of £55 in Consols, left in 1826, & now producing £1 ros. yearly, provides awards for regular at- •tendance; Mrs. IMary Dew, mistress Infants' (Caulcott), for 35 children; average attendance, zo; supported by the Earl of Jersey; Miss Emily Baggett, mistress [Rajlway Station, John William Bar'ley, rstation master Carrier.-Waltel' Bcxidington, to 'Ca:therine Wheel,' Banbury, mDn. & thurs. : to Bicsster, fri. ; to Oxford. sat. & wed OXON. 8

• 114 LOWER HEYFORD; OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S LOWER HEYFORD. Cheesman Miss Dew Miss Dodd Bev. Jsph. Evans Mrs J ohnson Miss .Arth. M . .A. Rectory Dew George James, re:ieving & nJCcina tion officer for Bletchington district & registrar of births & deaths for Bletchington sub-district of Bicester union, & inspector of canal boats for Bicester Rural District Council Oakes James P. Red Lion P.H Oxford Canal Co. (Fdk. Manger, agt) Pearson John Wesley, baker Thomas William, farmer Wall er Fras. Mark, coal & timber mer C.AULCOTT. COMMERCIAL. Faggetter John, shopkeeper Charter James Waiter, boot maker Golder Henry, shopkeeper Alien William, baker Oollingridge Mary Hannah (Mrs.), Horwood John, miller (water) Bell inn · Burst Henry, blacksmith Auger George, farmer & grazier Auger James Boddington Walter, farmer & carrier· & Cheesman James Stroud, farmer &. grazier, Caldecote farm Dew John Wm. grocer & draper King William Padbury, farmer Dew John William, newsagent, printer, grazier, Manor farm stationer, Post office Manger Fred·erick, coal merchant Oakes Elizh. (Mrs. ),Horse&Groom P.H UPPER HEYFORD (or Heyford Warren), on the river Cherwell, is a .parish a'nd village, one mile northeast ·frQilll Heyford station on the Oxford and Birmingham section af the Great Western railway, 6 north-west from Bicester, and 7 north-east from Woodstock, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county court dist·rict of Bioester, rural deanery of Bice:s·ter and archdeaconry and dioce-se of Oxford. The Oxford and Birmingham canal passes through the parish. The church of St. Mary, rebuilt (except the tower) in r 866, is a. small edifice of stone, consisting of c'hancel with aisle, nave, north aisle and a'n embattled western tower, containing 3 bells: the chancel has a Perpendicular window filled with stained glass, the gift of the Rev. Edward Fox M . .A. r·ector 1'878-88, and a fine tomib with the effigy of a priest under a Decorated arch: the tower is plain Perpendicular, but lofty and well proportioned: on one of the buttresses are carved the arms of William of Wykeham, founder of New College, Ox<ford, and previous to the rebuilding of the church there was an hour glass near the pulpit bearing the date 1618, but now removed: the church affords 26o sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a. rectory, tithe rent-charge commuted at £483, average [387, net yea.rly value £3rg, with 98 a.cr>es of gle1be a'nd residence, in the gift {)f New College, Oxford, and held 1since r888 <by the Rev. Charles Henry Pilkington M.A. formerly fellow of that college. There is a W esleyan chapel here. .Allotments amounting in all to rga.. 3r. 34P· were award·ed in 1842 and produce wbout £30 yearly, the net balance of which, after paying ex- .Austin Caleb Boddington Josiah, French Mrs & ca.rrier pe'nses, is distributed to the poor in coals and clothing the week before Christmas. The upper and eastern parts; of the parish are traversed 'by a fosse and va.Uum, which •. aocording to Camden, were first raised as a boundary between the Mercian and' West Saxon kingdoms and thewhole or part of it was caJled Aves Ditch. The ManorH'DUI§S is now occupied by Mr. L. T. Haynes, and connected with -it is an ancient and curiously constructed barn, erected iby William of Wykeham. The warden and. scholars ()f New College, Oxford, who are lords ()f the manor, the Earl of Jersey P.C., G.C.M.G. and Mrs. Greaves ar:e the principal landowners. The soil and sub-- soil in the upper parts are chiefly stone brash and in th-elower parts are mixed. The land is partly pasture andpartly arable. The area is 1,558 acres; rateable value, £2,138; the population in 18gr was 341. 'Ohurch Keeper, George Hawkins. Post Office.-John Wesley Pearson, sub-postmaster. Let•· ters received through Ban bury; delivered at g. 30 a.m_ & 5.30 p.m.; dispatched at 9.15 a.m. & 5.45 p.m. The nearest money .order office i.,s at Heyford; telegraph office at Steeple Aston. Postal orders are issued here, •but not paid: National School (mixed), erected in 1861, ifJy the late Rev. William Wetherell B.Ch., M.A. rector hoere 186o until his d-eath, 23 Oct. 1864, & the warden & fellows of New College, Oxford, for 88 children, average attendance,7o; John Mills, master Carrier. Josiah :Bodd~ngton, to 'Catherine Wheel,' Ba!nbury, mon. & thurs.; to Bicester, fri.; to Oxford, wed. & sat Barley Mow P.ll Kilby Mary .Ann (Mrs.), Three Horseshoes P.H Pilkington Rev. Chas.Hy.M . .A. Rectory Brain John, boot maker Edmunds William, marine store cealer Greaves Edmund, farmer Malings Urban, frmr. & grazier, LcysMiddleton John, butcher COMMERCIAL. .Allen Julia (Mrs.), miller .Alien J ames, carpenter (water) Haynes Lawrence Taylor, farmer, Manor house Hitchcock J ame.s,iarmer Nelder Jabez, blacksmith Pearson John Wesley,grocer,Post officeWalton Edwin, stone maoon , West Henry, carpenter HEYTHROP, with the hamlet of Dunthrop, is a parish and a brass to John .Asc.hefield esq. 1521 and· his wife· and• village 3 miles east from Chipping Norton station Elenor, with rrour sons and four daughters: aibov>e this on the Banbury and(llielwnham section of the Great West~ is a ·stained: window with effigies of the same persons. ern ~ailway, in the Northern division of the county, hun- The register of baptisms dates from the year 1607; mardred ·of Wootton, petty ses·sio'nal division of Ohadlington, riages and iburials, r6r3. The living is a rectory, tithe nnion and county court district of Chipping Norton, rural rent-chal'ge £r5o, aV'erage £u4, net yearly value £241 deanery of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and dio- with residence, in the gift of Albert Brassey esq. and cese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas, erected in held since 1879 iby the Rev . .Arthur William Beat-y Marr•87g-8o, is an edifice in the Geometrical style from de- shall B..A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Heythrop- ..signs by Sir .A. W. Blomfield! M.A., A.R.A., F.S.A. a'nd House, a spl-endid mansion, destroyed by fire during its was /built partly with the materials of a Catholic church, occupation by the Duke of Beaufort, on the 24th of which formerly st.ood in the park, the other material February, 1831, has been replaced by a -stately and wellbeing stone quarried on the estate : it consists of chan- built mansion of stone in the Italian style, which stands oel with organ chamber on the south sid•e and vestry on amidst ·extensive gardens and pleasure grou'nds, !SUrthe north, <south aisle, nave of four bays and an embattled rounded •by a richly-timlbered park of 300 acres and is tower with crocketed pin'nades, at the we.st e.nd of the the seat of .Allbert Brassey esq. J.P. who is the lord of south aisle and oontaining 3 bells, the lower sta.ge of the the manor and sole landowner. The .soil is stone brash; tower •serving as a porch: the chancel and sanctuary are subsoil, brash rock. rrhe chief crops are wheat, barley paved with richly coloured Italian marble mosaic and the and roots. The area is r,668 acres ; rateable valueeast window is stained: the altar, choir stalls, pulpit and £2,718; the population in 1891 was 254. lecwrn and reading desk are of oak, with carved tracery Dunthrop is a hamlet adjoining Heythrop, o'n the north. in walnut wood, and there is. a. pardose of carved oak :Parish Clerk, Wilfred West. dividing the chanoel and vestry: the entire cost of build- Letters ·received from. Ohipping Norton, arrive at g.3o· ing, amounting to about £12,ooo, was defrayed by Albert a.m. •& 4 p.m. The nearest money order & telegrapb Brassey esq. the patron, who also presented the sites office is at Enstone. Wall Letter Box cleared· at 7·4C> both for the church and rectory: there are 18o sitti'ngs: a. m. & 4 p.m. week-days only the 'nave of the old church was tah!en down and its fine Church of England School, erected in 1873 by Albert Norman south door built into the chancel arch, and the Brassey esq. & entirely supported •by him; it will hold' old chancel is now used· as a mortuary chapel: it con- 150 children; average attendance, 8o; William T. tains several ancient monuments to the Talbot family /Mayo, master _ Brassey Albert B..A., D.L., J.P. & Clowes St. Jolm Legh & The Hon.Mrs Hill Edward, clerk of the works on Hon. Mrs. Heythrop park Ingle Wright,. farmer, Castle farm, the Heythrop estate J\farshall Rev. .Arthur William Beaty Dunthrop B.A. Rectory 1111 G HMOOR is an eoclesiastical parish formed .August I Bix; it is 2 miles north-west ·from Greys church and 4! 3• I·B<io, out of the civil parishes of Rotherfield Greys and north-west from Henley-on-Thames terminal station on a '

• ' DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. HOOK NOR'IO~. 115 branch of the Great Western railway, in the Southern rounded by beautifully laid--out groundS!. Lord Camoys, division of the county, petty sessional division of Henley, who is lmd of the manor, and George Talfourd Inman Henley county court district and in the rural deanery of esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is chalk and Henley and archdeaconry and· diocese of Ox.ford. The gravel; 'subsoil, chalk. The chief cro_Qs are wheat, barchurch of St. Paul is a •sma~l building of st.one and flint in ley and oats. The population in 1891 was 270 ; the area the Ea.rly English style, from designs by Mr. Joseph is included in the parish of Rotherfield Greys. Morris, architect, of !Reading, and consists of chancel and Parish Clerk, Mark Newton Wise. n11-ve, and· a. western turret containing one bell: it w~l!l Post Office, Highmoor Cross.-Oharles Baldwin, receiver. erected, together with the parsonage hDuse, at the SD•t Letters arrive fr0m Heniey-on-Thameos at 8.30 a.m. ; expense of the Rev. r.Joseph Smith B.D. rector of Rather- d~spatched at 6.o p.m. Sunday!~ arrive at 8.30 a.m.; :fidd Greys, 1851-61, and was openoed in 1859: there are dispatched 10.30 a.m, Stoke Row is the nearest money 170 sittings. The register dates from the year 1 86o. order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, The living is a. vicai1'11ge, average tithe rent-charge £38, but rrot paid net yearly value a.bout £75• with residence~ in the gift Pi11ar Letter Box, Witheridge Hill, cleared at 6 p.m. of the rector of Rotherfield Greys, and held since 1894 week days, & 10 a.m. sunday by the Rev. Francis George .Anderson Phillips 1\:I . .A. of National School (mixed), erected in 1862, for 100 chilChrist Church, Oxford. Highmoor Hall, the seat of diren; a.verage attendM~.ce, 58; Mrs. Chal'les Hughes, George Talfourd Inman esq. is a noble mansion, sur- mistress Inman Geo. Talfourd, Highmoor hall Delafield' James, The Sun P.H Page Thomas, Dog & Duck P.H. &; Phillips Rev. Fras. George .Anderson Leader Emma (:Mrs.), beer retailer chairwoodi turner M . .A. The Vicarage Page George, tent peg maker, chair- Reeves William, farmer, Highmoor frm, Bishop Oharles, Green Man P.H wood turner & grocer, Witheridge hl HOLTON is a parish and village, ! mile north from 1633, and contains the entry, June 15, r646, of the mar-- Wheatley station on the Oxford and Wycomlbe section of riage of [Henry Ireto'n, commis·sary-general to Sir Thomas the Great 'Vestern railway, 4i miles east from Oxford Fairfax, to Bridget, daughter of Oliver Oromwell, at a'nd 48 west from London, in the Southern division of the Lady Whorwood's house in Holton. The living is a reoccounty, hundred and petty sessional division Df Bulling- tory, tithe rent-charge £393, average £3r4, net yearly don, union of Readington, county court district of Ox- value £220, with 22! acres of glebe and residence, in the ford, rural deanery of Guddesdon and archdeaconry and gift of Henry S. T. Biscoo esq. and held since 1892 by diocese of Oxfard. The church of St. Bartholomew, the Rev . .Arthur Langdale Smith, of Worcester College, originally Norman, is an ancient cruciform building of Oxford. Holton Park is the seat of Henry Stafford Tynstone, consisting of chancel, nave, trans·epts, 'north porch dale Biscoe esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor and princiand a western tower of Late Perpendicular date, with pal land>Qwner: the park includes about 200 acres. Adplain parapet, and containing 3 bells, one of which is joining the Park is Holton Cottage, the residence of dated 1662, and another is inscribed "Sancta .Anna ora Frank Henry Barnett esq. Various relics and remains of pro nobis:" the nave was remodelled and the tower added the British period, dis<l,overed in the garden on different in the 15th century: the east window, of three lights, is occasio'ns, are now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Decorated, and has good flowing tracery, Md in the south Th€l soil is loam; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief wall is a small piscina; the chancel arch is Transition crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is 1,672 Norman: the south transept, or Brome chapel, is be- acres; rat•eable value, £2,546; the population in 1891 lieved to have been rebuilt and the church otherwise was 224. Ten-ovated: by William Brome, to whom a brass, dated Parish C:erk, Lawrence Messenger. 1461, exists iu this transept: and there are other brasses Letters from Oxford via Wheatley arrive at 7 a.m. WaiT placed in 1892 to the late Mrs. :Siscoe, who died in 1891; Letter Box cleared a.t 6.55 p.m. ; sundays at 11.30 the Rev. Henry .Annesley Tyndale M.A. late rector, a.m. Wheatley is the nearest money order & telegraph 1856-92; and to Mrs. Sea.ry, an old servant of the family: office the 'nav·e has a good Transition Norman north door, with School, built iby Mrs. Biscoe in 186o for 6o children; averzig-zag and tooth ornament and on its eastern gable is age attendance, 30; the school is partly supported by an open. &rehted bell-cote: this chu~h is the burial place the rent of 6 acres of land, in the parish of Brill, of the families of Brome and 1Vho1.'wood: there are 140 amounting to £r2 a year. The school is under govsittings, m<>sitly free. The register dates from the yea!I' ernment inspection. Miss Ellen Franks, mistress BarnetfJ Frank Henry, Holton t•vttage Belcher George, farmer Hawes John, farmer Biscoo Hem-y StaffoTd Tyndale J.P. Cox Edward, baker & mail contractor Knight William, shopkeeper Haltun park Crook J'ohn, farmer Mander William, faggot maker Smith Rev. hthur La.ngdale (re~tor) Gale Frank, farmei' HOL WELL, formerly a chapelry in the civil parish of Bradrwell, is now a .separate ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1850: it is 4~ miles north-west from .AlvescDt station on the Oxford· and 1Fairford branch "f the Great Western railway, 3 south-west-'by-sout.h from Burford and 9 west from Witney, in the 'Mido division of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bamptt:ln West, union and county cDurt district of Witn€y, rural deanery of Witney and axchdeaconry and diocese oo Oxford. The Roman road Akeman Street passes· through a portion of the parish. The church of St. Mary, rebuilt at the sole expense of the late William Hervey esq. in 1842, is a small cruciform vuilding of stone in a debased modern Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, transepts and a .small tower on the 'north side containing one bell, dated r847, and a sa.nctus bell, dated 1856: the east window :i.s of two lights, with cinquefoiled tracery: the pulpit has some ancient oak carving in the panels Rainey Rev. Jas. Bryant M . .A. Vicarage I Cave .Tohn, farm Brunsdon George, shopkeeper 1 Fox esq HOOK NORTON is a parish and village, with a station on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of the Great Western railway, opened 6 .April, r887, and is 5 miles north-east-by-north from Chipping Norton and 7 south-west from Banbury, in the Northern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Chadlington, union and county court district of Banbury, rural deanery of Chipping Norton and archde~onry and diocese of Oxford. The Great Western railway here passes through an open cutting half a mile long, and is carried fo:c some distance on a viaduct 85 feet high. The church of St. Peter, occupying a commanding situation near the centre of the village, and' restored in representing scriptural subjects: there are rso sittingsThe register dates frDm the year r84'i. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £no with residence, in the gift '()f W. H. Fox esq. and held since r884 by the Rev. .Tames Bryant Rainey M.A. of Pemlbroke College, Oxford. William. Henry FDx esq. of Bradwell Grove, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is oolite; sub, soil, rock overlying limestone and clay. The area is 1,045 aJCres; rateable value, £749; the population in r891 was 106. Parish Clerk, Charles Buckingham. Letters from Burford R.S.O. arrive at 8.30 a.m. Bur- - ford is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.25 p.m. week days only Parochial School, endowed with £8 yearly, left by the · late William Hervey esq. & erect-ed about r85r, but since enlarged for 40 children; average attendance, 35; Miss Emma Ea,stoe, mistress bailiff to W. H.jPorter Thos. West, frmr. Manor farm 1845, at a cost of about £2,500, is a spacious and interesting edifice of stone, originally Norman, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch, north transept, and an embattled western tower, with six crocketed pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells, dated :respectively 16oo, 1788, 1797, 1799 and r86g ~ the chancel is Norman, but has modern round-headed windows, inserted at a. higher elevation than the original windows, traces of which still remain ; the Decorated east window was filled with stained glass in 1882 as a memoriaJ to the Rev. John Richard Rushton B.D. 40 years rector here, who died January 26, r88r: near thP. spring of the chancel arch are the remains of late OXON. 8*

,116 HOOK: NOBTON. OXFOHDSHIRE. Norman corbels, and on the south side of the arch is the opening leading to a former rood loft, with the steps perfect : the roof of the nave, which rests on -::urious stone corbels, is Rectilinear in style, as is also the clerestory, which has side lights and a large window at the east end over the chancel arch: the tower arch, a bold a.nd somewhat singular work, is open, but enclosed by a screen, and more or less blocked by an inclined gallery for the school children; the nave· is separated from the aisle by an arcade of four arches : in the rave a.re memorials and floor stones to the family of Lampet, 178r-1858: in the vestry, formed by enclosing. a portion of the transept, is a monument to Anne, wife of Thomas Wi:se, 1703; and there is also here the western half, partly mutilated, of an Elizabethan tomb, with figures and arms, and the date rs6o; the tomb is cut in two by a partition, and the remaining portion appears under and above a flight of wooden stairs leading up into a ,o,mall gallery over the vestry; at the foot of these is a large stone in the floor, with the matrix of an effigy, and an inscription in Lombardic characters to Dame Isabel de Plessi: an inscribed brass formerly in this church to John Bishop, ob. 29 lVIay, 1497, and Isabelle his wife, was some time since in the hands of C. Faulkenor esq. F.S.A. of Deddington: the font is an Early Norman work, of unique character, cylindrical, and surrounded with rude sculptures in relief, of Adam and Eve, Sagittarius, and other zodiacal signs : there are sittings for 700 persons. The register of baptisms dates from the year rs6o; marriages, I729; burials, I643· The living is a rectory, net yearly value £207, including 129 acres of glebe, let for £9o, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1894 by the Rev. Alfred William Russell. The living escaped \he spJliation of 1546, as being the subject of a long. lease, but having been afterwards granted to John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, by Edward VI. was restored to the see of Oxford by Queen Mary, on the attainder of the Duke; it subsequently passed, with the other estates of the bishopric, to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, but tl>.e right of presentation still remains with the bishop. Here is a Baptist chapel, founded in 1644, and a. Primitive Methodist chapeL The Wesleyan chapel is a rectangular structure of local stone, with Bath stone dressings, in the Early English style, from designs by Mr. John Wells, architect, of Derby and Kingsbridge: on either side of the chapel are vestries and schoolrooms, opening into it by movable partitions, so that the ordinary number of sittings·, about 220, can, if necessary, be doubled. At Scotland End is a brewery, and there are several limekilns in the parish. Henry Grey, Dnke of Suffolk, beheaded on Tower Hill 23rd February, 1554, left £140, the interest of which, amounting to 4 guineas a year, is distributed in money to the poor, with ~s. from Calcott's charity; the poor's allotments of 32 aeres produce about £12 yearly for fuel. There are othe:r smaller charities for education and church purpo~es. The manor of Hook Norton was bestowed by William the Conqueror on Robert D'Oily, who at that period of the Domesday Survey held this and 27 other manors in Oxfordshire, besides many in the adjacent counties. The trustees of Baroness Wenman (d. 9 Aug. 1870) ars lords of the manor; the principal landowners are Tom Faulkner esq. Enstone house, Enstone, and Robert Snow Bolton Davis esq. of Swerford Park. There is an abundant supply of spring water in the parish and neighbourhood. The soil in the higher portion of the parish consists. partly of the upper oolite, and in the lower portions of the lower oolite and red loam, under which there is a deposit of ironstone, containing a considerable percentage of iron. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, peas, oats and roots. The area is s,310 acres; rateable value, £7,271 ; the population in 1891 was 1,265. Southrop is a hamlet in this parish on the borders of Warwickshire. Parish Clerk, Dalby Phipps. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. E., Express Delivery & .Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Fanny Harris, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive by rail from Banbury at 7.41 a.m. & 12.30 p.m.; dispatched at 12 noon & 5 p.m Wall Letter Box, East End, cleared 11.40 a.m. & 4·50 p.m National School (mixed & infants), built, with master's • house, in 1855• partly at the cost of :Miss Davis, 1\ho gave the site & contributed £soo to the building fund; it will hold 350 children; average attendance, 128 boys & girls & 69 infants ; J oseph Clarkson, master ; Mis.s .Annie Dowson, mistress ; Mrs. Helen Ma:ry Clarkson, infants' mistress Railway Station, Frank Beechey, station master Carriers. To & from Banbury-J ohn Thomas Bench, to the. ' Wagon & Horses,' mon. thur. & sat. ; Thomas Luckett, to the 'Plough,' mon. wed. & sat To Chipping Norton-John Thomas Bench, every wed PRIVATE RES~DENTS. Colgrave Ralph, farmer, Yew Tree ho Luckett William, sen. carpenter & Alien Rev. Charles Thomas (Baptist) Colgrove Job, miller (water) joiner, East end Alien Benjamin Ooleman T. W. grocer (branch) Mace Edward, farmer, Berry foeld Bennett Miss Collett. Alfred, farmer, Horwo{)d & Merry Thomas, farmer, Park farm BortoJL John Lee Fan well head Minchin Henry, farmer & seedsman Bowl Walter Cook Francis Eva (Misses), mil~iners Osborne John, tailor Oolgrave Mrs Course Frederick, baker Padbury Thomas, farmer, Southrop Gibbs Mrs Cox William, beer retailer Pearce Tho·s. & Wm. bakers & grocers Hall Miss, East end Evans Josias, farmer, High wood Pbillips William Charles, farmer Harris Mrs· Fowler William Henry, farmer Phipps Dalby, tailor Luckett Mrs. East end Ga.rdner Robert, thatcher Phipps George, market garedner Luckett Mrs. The Villa George Alien, mason Phipps .John Richard•, farmer Minchin William, East End house George Hy. Sun inn & jobbing builder Pritchard Thos. Station hotel & farmr Moody Mrs Gibbs Samuel, farmer, Cow pasture Robertson Jumes S. surgeon Randall George Gilkes John, shoe maker Robins .J ames, wheelwright Robertson James S Golding Thomas, farmer Routh Richard Laycock L.R.C.P.Edin. Rowles Mrs Goading- .Albert Herbert,police constble surgeon, & medical officer & public Russell Rev. Alfred William, Rectory Green Edmund, shoe ma. Southrop vaccinator, Swa.lcliffe district, BanSpencer Vfilliam Groves George, grocer & • clothier bury union Wilks Mrs. Scotland end Hall AustiTh Thomas, carpenter Simms William James, farmer COliiMERCIAL. Harrls John, brewer & maltster, Somerton William, beer retailer Beavington 'Villiam, plumber hop merchant & farmer Sumerton George, assistant overseer Beechey Frank, station master Harris Fanny (Mrs.), newsagent, South Wa;Ies & Cannock Chase Coal Bench Thomas, carrier stationtr & gen. dealer, Po~t office & Coke Co. Limited Bennett Pettipher, farmer, Oatley Harris Jas. Wm. timber mer. & frmr Spatcher John Frederick, grocer Bishop Jesse, farmer Herbert Henry, shopkeeper Stearman Robert, farmer Bishop John, farmer, Fant hill Biatt John, farmer, Six Ash farm Stone James, beer retailer Bloxham Leonard, farmer Hia t.t Eliza. (Mrs.), draper Tarplett• Ann (Mrs.), baker Borsberry Henry William, shoe maker Hiatt Richard, farmer, East end Timms Hy. (Mrs.), farmer,Berry field Borsberry Thos. saddler & harne!!s mu Hook Norton Iron Stone Co. Limited Tiros Rosa (Miss), shopkeeper Borsberry Wm. Alfred, blacksmith (C. H. Looker, manager) Tiros Samuel, baker Bull Alban M.R.O.V.S.L. vet. S'lrgn Horwood Samuel, farmer Walden Joseph, Gate inn Bury John, farmer, Manor farm Jacques Israel, farmer, Scotland ho Walford .Arth. Fowler, frmr.Whitehills Busby Benjamin, Clllrpenter, Southrop Jee Daniel, Bell P.H White Jabez, pianoforte tuner Busby Henry, .slater & plasterer & Lightfoot Frk. inland revenue officeT Whitton Edmund Abraham, farmer house decorator Luckett· James, land & estate ::tgent & Wilks Ed'win, butcher Caulcott Owen, Wheatsheaf P.H farmer, The Villa. Williams Alfred, carpenter & coal Ohannell Charles, Red Lion P.H Luckett Thomas, carrier merchant, East end Cole Harry, baker, corn dealer & far- Luckett William, jun. carriage buildr. W Ofllgrove Ann (Mrs.), dress maker mer, East end carpenter & joiner, The Green Wyton George, mason & farmer

• DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. HORSEPATH. 117 KORLEY is a parish aml village on the borderR of Warwickshire, 3~ miles south-west from Cropredy station and 4 miles north-west from Banbury station, both on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway, and about 27 north-west from Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Bloxham, Banbury and Bloxham petty sessional division, union and county court district of Banbury, rural deanery of Deddington and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Ethelreda is a building of stone, principally in the Early English and Decorated styles, with a few vestiges of late Norman; it consists of chancel, low clerestoried nave, sonth porch and an embattled central tower of the Decorated period contaimng a clock and 4 bells : in the chancel, which is of the same date, is a piscina of Early English date, restored in 1877, by the Rev. Robert Joseph Buddicom M.A. vicar of Morton, Lincs. and on the wall of the north aisle a large fresco, representing the legend of St. Christopher; the saint, a colossal figure, with Christ on his shoulders, is fording the river, supporting himself and his burden by a thick staff, which breaks beneath the weight; the saint turns to Christ and says:- four lofty arches on alternately round and octago~l pillars: the Norman tub-shaped font was restored in 1854 and placed at the west end of the nave: there are 26o sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, with Hornton annexed, joint net yearly value .£449• chiefly derived from 245 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Charies Heaven M.A. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and F.R.A.S. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, holding 200 persons. Bray and Saul's charities produce about £r a year for the benefit of the poor. James Stockton esq. of Banbury, who is lord of the manor, and Lieut.-Col. Sir Anthony Cope bart. of Bramshill Park, Rants, are the chief landowners. The soil is red loam; subsoil, brown oolite. The crops are general. The :.uea is 1,141 acres; rateable value, £1,908; the population in 1891 was 277. Parish Clerk, William Henry Catchpool. Post Office.-Jonathan Varney, sub-postmaster. Letters received through Banbury arrive about 8 a.m.; dispatched at 4.30 p.m. Wroxton is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders issued here. " What art thou, and art so yynge? but not paid Bar I never so bevy a thynge." National School, for 100 children; average attendance, Christ replies:- so; it is endowed with a yearly income of [42 & a "Yey, I be hevy, no wunther ys, house, with garden, for the master; William Henry For 1 am the kynge of blys!' Catchpool, master; Mrs. Martha Catchpool, mistress The IWrth side is Early Perpendicular, but all three The endowment of the school is derived from land left doorways ar~ very good examples of Early English : the by Michael Harding in 1627 ; all children born in the arcades dividing the nave and aisles each consist oi parish are educated free Bennett Thomas Bayliss Jn. & Harriet (.Miss), fruiter,)rs Griffin John, shopkeeper Godson Nicholls Stephen Benfield Ann (Mrs.), haulier Gunn 'William Henry, carpenter Heaven Re:v. Charles M.A., F.R . .A.S. Bryant William, Red Lion P.H Hirons Barnes Borton, farmer Vicarage Coleman William, farmer .Matthews James, shopkeeper Maul Major Henry C. Horley house Coleman William Henry, butcher Potter Henry, farmer Coleman Urban, farmer Stamp John, shoe maker COMMERCIAL. Fenemore 'Villiam, beer retailer Sturch Charles James, blacksmith Bagnall Wm. Ohas. farmer, Manor ho Fox Francis, farmer & miller (water) Viggers Samuel, farmer annexed to the vicarage of Horley, joint net yearly value £449, chiefly derived from 245 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Charles Heaven M.A. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and F.R..A.S. who resides at Horley. The Primitive Methodist chapel here was built in 1884, and will seat 200 persons. A good building stone of inferi;r:.- oolite called " Hornton stone " is quarried in this parish. James Stockton esq. of Banbury, is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late John Gibbs-, and ~Iessrs. Richard Reading,William .Roberts, Richard Page, and the trustees of the late Mr. John Wilcox. The soil is red loam; subsoil, brown oolite. The crops are general. The area is 1,412 acres ; rateable value, [2,425; the population in 1891 was 426. Parish Clerk, Richard Gilkes. HORNTON is a village and parish on the borders of Warwickshire, 5 miles south-west from Cropredy station, and S! miles north-west from Banbury statien, both on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway, and 28! north-west from Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, hundrt>d of Bloxham, Banbury and Bloxham petty sessional division, union and county court district of Banbury, rural deanery of Deddington, and archdeaconry and dioce"-e of Oxford. The church of St. John the. Baptist is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Norman, Early English, and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a western tower containing a clock and 5 bells : the chancel is Early English, with some remains of Norman work, and has a Perpendicular east window: the south arcade of the nave is Decorated, and that on the north Transition Norman: the tower is Early Eng~ish and Decorated and has a square turret: a good Post Office.-William Hines, sub-postmaster. Letten Perpendicular parclose screen remains in the south through Banbury at about g a.m.; dispatched at 3·45 aisle, where there was once a chantry: there is a small p.m. The nearest money order office is at Ban bury & brass of the time of Henry VIII. to a yeoman and his telegraph office at Wroxton. Postal orders are son, and on the wall at the east end of the south issued here, but not paid aisle are the remains of a 14th century painting, repre- .A School Board of 5 members was formed 5 July, senting the Virgin and Child, and a kneeling figure 1875; Robert .Andrews, clerk to the board & attendof a bishop, and almost every part of the church bEars ance officer evidence of its having once been highly ornamented in National Endowed School, rebuilt in I881, for 150 colour and gilding: the font is Transition Norman children; average attendance, 66; with a yearly and was also coloured: there are 200 sittings. The income of £23; William Robert Legge, master register of baptisms and burials dates from 1703; the Carriers to & from Banbury.-Thomas Gardener & marriages are in the Horley register. The living is William Gilkes COMMERCIAL. Gilkes Isaae, The Bell P.H Sand-ers .Tames Edward, farmer Andrews Robert, clerk & attendance Gilkes John, &d Lion P.H Stanley Eli, quarry owner officer to the school board Hicks Jane (:Miss), dress maker Tasker John, beer retailer !Berry William, shopkeeper ::\liles Julia (:Miss), dress maker Walden Edward, blacksmith Coleman , John, haulier & beer re- Miles William, carpenter Webb Charles, watch maker tailer, QuaTry Rainbow Robert, grocer &c Webb John, shoe maker Cox Edward, tailor & draper Reading Richard, farmer West Charles, farmer Ga.rdnPr Thomas Henry, grocer Bobbins Richard, farmer West John Henry, farmer Gibbs Joseph, fanner Roberts William, farmer Wheeler James, machine owner HORSEP ATH, in Domesday "Horspadan,'' is a about the end of the 12th century; it consists of parish, 1! miles west from Wheatley station on the chancel, transept, nave with south aisle, porch and an Oxford and Wycombe section of the Great Western embattled western tower with turret at the southrailway, and 3 miles south-east from Oxford, in the east angle and containing 6 bells : the chancel was Southern division of the county, hundred nnd petty rebuilt in 1840, in the Perpendicular style: the nave sessional division of Bullingdon, nnion of Heading-ton, 1 has an arcade of four arches on square pillars : built cou1ty court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Cud- into the western wall of the tower, within the church, desdon and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The are two curious figures, one with upraised hands and church of St. Giles is an ancient cruciform edifice of the other holding a bagpipe; in the nave near the stone, in mixed styles, the nave of which was built pulpit is a small stained window, with the figure of a • •

118 HORSEPATH. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S man holding a boar's head on the point of a spear : th~ font, placed near the western entrance of the nave, is hexagonal and stands on a circular base of two steps : iu the south aisle, near the door, is a unique stoup, consisting of an octagonal cylinder with moulded rim, on a high base of similar shape : the south transept was probably built in the 13th century and has at the south end a singular two-light window; in its east wall is a piscina and near it a bracket, and in a window on the south side of the chancel are figures in stained glass of the 13th century of St. Mary and St. John; in the nave is a slab of Purbeck marble formerly inlaid with a brass, representing a Pastoral staff and surrounded by the inscription ~ HIC SITUS ABBATIS PULVIS P.ATET ESSE JOH.ANNIS in Lombardic characters, much mutilated, and believed to commemorate one of the abbots of Oseney, of the 14th century, A handsome oak screen was erected in the church at the sole expense of Rev. Henry Ramsden Bramley M.A. vicar here r86r-8g : there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year rs6r. The. living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £r45, net £II4, including 48 arres of glebe, in the gift of the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Arthur .Aubert Jackson M . .A. and chaplain. of tbat college. The W esleyan chapel here was built in 187r. There are charities of about £ro a year for distribution in money and fuel. The President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, who are lords of the manor, the widow of the Right Rev. T. B. Morrell D.D. late coadjutor Bishop of Edinburgh (d. 5 Nov. r877), F. P. Morrell esq. M.A. of Oxford, and Corpus Christi college, Oxford, are the chief landowners. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, sand, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is r,r2o acres~ rateable value, £1,584; the population in 1891 was 330. Parish Clerk, William Kimber. Post Office.-Miss Ha.rriet Lee, sub-postmistress. Letters from Oxford, v-ia Wheatley, arrive at 7·5 a.m. & 4.25 p.m.; sundays, arrive 7·5 a.m.; dispatched at 7.40 a.m. & 5·55 p.m. ; sundays, 8.55 p.m. Wheatley is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid National School, built in 1858, for go children; a.veragEl attendance, so Carriers.-Henry Kimber, wed. & sat. to ':Ballo{ln,' Oxford; John Harris, m on. wed. fri. & sat. ; John Edgington, wed. fri. & sat Chillingworth Mrs Harris David, farmer Kimber Henry, Queen's Head P.H Lambert Ths. ChequersP.H.&stonemsn Lee Harriet (Miss), grocer, Post office Morris Mrs. Ellen, laundress Ja.ckson Rev. Arth . .Aubert M . .A.(vicar) Harris Herury, ma.rket gardener Prickard .Arth.Octavius M . .A.Manor h,-, Harris Henry, jun. market gardener Harris• John, carrier COMMERCIAL. Cooper :Michael, market gardener Edgington John, carrier Harris Samuel, market gardener Herman Bernard, farmer Hopkins Henry, grocer &c Silman George, market gardener Surman W illiam, baker Surman Willoughby, market gardener Eeley James, farmer Hunt Robert, blacksmith Tanner Edward, farmer HORTON -CUM-STUDLEY is an ecclesiastical parish on the Bucks border, formed August 3, ·l88o, from the civil parish of Beckley, about 4 miles east from Islip station on the Bletchley and Oxford branch of the London and North Western railway, and 7 miles north-east-by-east from Oxford, in the Mid division of the county, Bullingdon hundred and petty sessional division, Headington union, Oxford county court district, rural deanery of lslip, and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. This parish was formerly in Buckinghamshire, but by the Acts 2 and 3 William IV. cap. 64 (1832) and the "Detached Parts of Counties Act, 1844," (7 and 8 Vict. cap. 6r), it was .annexed to Oxfordshire. The church of St. Barnabaso, erected in r867, is a structure of coloured brick, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a turret containing 2 bells : in the chancel there are two stained windows, that on the north side being a memorial to the late Lady Croke, of Studley Priory, and wife of Sir Alexander Croke LL.D., F.S . .A. who died here 27th December, 1842; in. 1894 a window and memorial brass were placed on the. south side of the church by the present vicar, in memory of his daughter, Katharine Agnes; the same year a brass and two memorial windows were erected t8 the late Rev. George Theophilus Cooke B.D. vicar of B~ckley, 1847-84 : there are 216 sittings. The living is a vicarage, net yearly va~ue [200, with residence, in the gift 'Of the vicar of Beckley, and held since 1884 by the. Rev. Samuel Forbes Frederick .Auchmuty, Theo. .As.soc. K.C.L. Studley Priory was founded in the middle of the reign of Henry II. by Bernard de W alercio or Wallery, in honour of the Virg·in Mary, for nuns d the order of St. Benedict: at the time of its surrender, November g, 1540, there were fifteen nuns, and the revenue amounted to £82 4s. 4d. yearly; it was granted, 31 Henry VIII. to John Croke, a descendant of the. Blounts; the mansion, as now existing, is believed to have been chiefly built by the prioress and convent in the I 5th century; the chapel, forming the north wing, and ascribed to Sir George Croke kt. one of the Justices of the King's Bench, r628-42, appears to have been formed out of the ancient refectory, but was converted to secular uses in 1878; it is a plain oblong building : the memorials in the chapel of the Croke family have been removed and presented by the present owner to John Croke esq. of Uddens, 1Vimborne, Dorset: the principal entrance to the house is. by a porch on the west side, ornamented with Doric and Ionic pilasters, and the shields of Croke, Cave, Unton, Blount and Bennett, with the dates 1587 and 16z21 and an invocatory inscription ; this porch is also believed to have been built by Sir George Croke : the estate and mansion is now the property and residence of Mrs. Henderson, who is lady of the manor, and with the Hon. Francis Leveson Bertie, a principal landowne:t:. The area of Studley is 892; rateable value, £950; the population in r8gr was 79· The total area is 1,285 acres. The rateable value. of Horton-cum-Studley is £1,475; the population in 1891 was 261. , Sexton, John Cox. Wall Letter :Box (opposite the Priory), cleared at 6 p.m., week days & 10.30 a.m. sundays. Brill is the nearest telegraph office, & Forest Hill the nearest Post office National School, built in r867, & enlarged in 1894 for 70 children; average. attendance, 55; Miss, Marian Baker, mistress Auchmuty Rev. Samuel Forbes Fredk. Badger John, farmer Cooper Thomas, farmer ' Th.A.K.C.L. Vicarage Coates Henry, farmer Brooker Mrs Chitty G-eorge, land steward to Mrs. Henderson Mrs. Studley priory Henderson, Home farm C:eaver .Arthur, King's .Arms P.H COMMERCIAL. Allger George, grocer & draper Cox Thes.frmr. Whitcross Green farm Cox William, farmer Green James, farrn€r & briclunaker Higgins iMark, farmer Kirtland John, farmer Pow€11 .Alfred, farmer Stow .Arthur, blacksmith Townsend Oharles Richard, farmer IBSTONE is a parish in Wycombe union, partly in this county, but principally in Buckinghamshire. Full particulars will be found in Kelly's Directory of :Bucks. ICKFORD is a parish in Tname union, partly in this county, but principally in Bucks. Full particulars will be found in Kelly's Directory of the latter county. IDBURY is a parish and village on the bordetrs of St. Nicholas is an ancient edifice of stone, originally Gloucestershire, a.ud is pleasantly seated on a spur Norman, consisting Df chancel, clerest.oried nave, north of the Cotswolds, z~ miles south-west from Chipping aisle, south porch, and ll low embattled western tower No:rton Junction station on the Oxford and Cheltenham of Perpendicular date containing 3 bells! the chailCel branch of the Great Western railway, 5~ north-by-west is late Early English or Transitional from that period :r from Burf.ord, 4! north-west from Shipton, and about the nave and aisle are separated by an a.tcade of three20 north-west from Oxford, in the Northern division arches and on the north side of the latter is a richly of the county, hundred and petty se!!lsional division ot ornamented Norman doorway now blocked up: in th~ Ch.adlington, union and county court district of Chip- chancel arch is a curious passage leadi~g from thet ping Norton, rural deanery of Chipping Norton and chancel to the vestry, above which is 31 doorway, anoo. archdeaec:mry and diocese of- Oxford. ThS" church of communicating with the rood loft : the font is octagonaL '

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. IFFLEY • 119 • and of Perpendicular date, with richly carved panels : soil is oolite, drift and weald clay; subsoil, rock and there are about 200 sittings. In ths churchyard is a clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley, oats memorial cross of Aberdeen granite erected by Sir and turnips. The area is 1,486 acres; rate-able value, Benjamin Baker K.C.M.G., F.R.S. to the memory of his [r,714; the population in r8gr was 219. mother. The register dates from the year 1706. The Parish Clerk, William Soden. living is a rectory, united to that of Fifield, joint tithe Letters through Chipping Norton arrive at a. 15 a.m. rent-charge [r46, average £no, gross yearly value Wall Letter Box cleared at 5. 55 p.m. week days. [321, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since only. Fifield~under- Wychwood is the nearest money 1883 by the Rev. Samuel York M.A. of Brasenose Col- order office & Chipping Norton Junction station is the lege, Oxford, who resides at Fifield. Turville's charity nearest telegraph ()ffice of £.3 2S. 6d. yearly, bequeathed in 1829• is for coal. National School, for roo children; average attendance, 'l'ht> church land produces about £20 a yMr for the 6B ; .Abraham B. J ohnson, master repairs of the fabric. Near the high road from Stowon-the-Wold to Burford are traces of an ancient fortified Bou1d is a hamlet to Idbury, one mile north-east and camp. The trustees of the late Sir Francis Fortescue r~ miles. from Chipping Norton Junction railway station. Turville K.C.M.G. of Bosworth Hall, Rugby (d. r889), Fo:xcott is a hamlet Ii miles north-east and half a. are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The mile south from Chipping Norton Junction station. Ilull Henry Robt. farmer, Boulds farm I Isaac Richard, farmer \Penson J~s: .Albert, farll;ler, Manor ho Clifford Geo. farmer, Laburnum house Penson Frank, farmer, Fo:xcott Soden W1lham, blacksm1th IFFLEY, in Domesday "Givetelei," is a parish on the river Isis, r! mile north-west from Littlemore station, and on the Oxford and Wycombe section of the Great Western railway and ri miles south-south-east from ()xford, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union of Headington, county court district of Oxford, rural deanery of .Cuddesdon and archdeaconrv and diocese of Oxford. In- • gram (Memorials of Oxford) derives the name from .A.nglo-Saxon, giftalega, "fields of gifts," but the termination "ey" or "ea," an island, points, in the opiniGn ·.of the Rev. Canon Isaac Taylor, author of "Words and Places," rather to a period when the river spread its waters more wide~y. and circled around many marshy islands. The lock here is 1i mile from Folly bridge, Dxford, and 2 miles from Sandford lock, the next below; the average fall is 3~ feet. In 1894 a public -ferry was provided on the river here, with a good landing place, and an embanked footpath therefrom leading to Iffiey lane. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of stone, e:x:hibiting some of the purest and most perfect specimens of enriched Norman work extant, and the Norman portion is supposed to have been erected ~ither by Robert de Cheney, Bishop of Lincoln, 1135-47, or by Juliana de S. Remigio, who gave it, between II75-95 to the priory, and whose father, Robert, held ·an estate in Iffiey: the building- consists of chancel and nave, with massive embattled tower in the centre containing 6 bells, of which the two first. date from 1785; the third, cast in 1592, was recast in r869; the fourth is inscribed " Praise ye Lorde ; " the last two were cast in r64z, and there is a priest's bell, dated 1709 : the west front is of three stages, the lowest having a deeply recessed doorway with richly carved chevron and beak mouldings, on either side of which is a blank round- ·headed arch; the second stage contains a circular window, with chevron mouldings, restored by the Rev. T. .A. Warburton LL.D., D.C.L. vicar 1853-76, from a design by Mr. Buckler, architect, of Oxford, prepared in accordance with the traces of the original window remaining in the wall ; above this are three windows in line with shafts and capitals and highly enriched mould- ·ings of similar character, and in the apex of the gable a "Single-light window: the north and south doorways are -also Norman with ornamented piers and capitals; only the two west windows on either side of the nave remain in their original state, but the mouldings of the 'Others remain in the interior : the tower arches spring from piers with cushioned capitals and shafts of black marble in the angles; the arches themselves are recessed and elaborately carved with flowers and zigzag work ; the screen, of Perpendicular date, was removed about -x825 : on the north side of the chancel there was once -an altar-tomb to Arthur Pitts B.C.L. of Eras.enose College, and Fellow of .All Souls College, registrar of the -diocese and archdeaconry, and impropriator of Iffiey, d. 16 May, 1579; this was destroyed during the restoration with the exception of the upper slab, then affixed to the west wall of the eh urch : there is a memorial to lla:t:ton Holyday -or Holliday D.D. archdeacon of Oxford, 1625, and a Translator of Latin classics, he died 2 Oct. 1661, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral; and on the south side of the chancel lies buried the cele- ·brated Saxon scholar, Edward Thwait~s, fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, regius professor of Greek, 1707, and \Vhyte's professor of moral iJhilGsophy 1708, died 12 Dec. I7II; on the exterior north wall is a monument to John Smith, yeoman, 1659, and Alice his wife, 1678, a benefactress to the parish; Stephen Field, also a benefactor, is buried south-east of the chancel; the western gable of the church was rebuilt in 1823 by Mr. Robert Bliss, a bookseller, of Oxford;; and about 1825 the Perpendicular chancel screen was removed: in 1844 more extensive repairs were made by Mr. Hussey, archi· tect, when the western gable was re-constructed, the nave roof raised tG its original height and the stone pulpit steps taken away; the chancel, restored in r858, under the direction of Mr. Ewan Christian, is vaulted with stone and groined, and consists of two bays, the westernmost being Norman and the second Early Eng· lish, added, it is supposed, to the original church by Robert de Efteley, prior of Kenilworth, 1266-76, and a. native of this place ; this has a locker, piscina and sedilia of the same date: the later windows in the chancel are of the 13th century, but in the Norman portion the mouldings of the ancient windows remain : in the tower and nave four good Perpendicular windows have been inserted within the Norman mouldings; these are suppose~ to have been added by John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. 1463-91, and Elizabeth of York, his wife, whose arms appear in the south-western window: the tower has, in the belfry storey, twG Norman windows on each side, and a turret at the north-west corner; in the centre of the north row of battlements is the figure of an ox : the south-east window of the nave has the arms of Fettiplace: a collection of fragments from the old west window have been arranged together in a shield-like form and placed in another window in the nave : the font, a very early and curious example of black marble, is about 3 feet 6 inches square, supported on a short circular stone pedestal with four smaller ones at the angles, three Gf which are twisted; the whole rests on a square base : the communion plate includes a chalice "augmented" by Mr. Newlin and others of his family in r679, a flagon and alms plate given by the Rev. Thomas· West 1773, another alms plate by Mr . .Allin, of Littlemore, in 1773, and a paten given by John Parsons, jun. esq. 1844: tnere are about 250 sittings ~ in the churchyard, on the south side, is a cross, the base and shaft of which are ancient: in r857 it was admirably restored by Mr. Earp. from a drawing furnished by the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. ; near it is a venerable yew tree of considerable size; the east-em portion of the churchyard, an addition, was consecrated 18 April, 187o. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1572; marriages, rS74· The living is under the Act 31 and 3!Z Vict. c. II7, ''for the purpose of style and designation, but not for any other purpose," a vicarage, net yearly value [250, with residence, including 30 acres of glebe, value £95• and officially in the gift of the Archdeacon of Oxford, being the only benefice to which he presents by virtue of his office, and held since x885, by the Rev. Horatio Walmisley M . .A. of Trinity College andl Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. By Order in Council, June 6th, 185g, the rectorial house and garden, a field and orchard near, abutting- on the street, and another field situated about a mile from Oxford, to.gether with the churchyard, were transferred to the perpetual curate, who is now, under the provisions of the Act 31 and 32 Vict. c. II], styled "Vicar;" since this arrangement was made a high wall, separating the churchyard from the rectory garden, has been in part removed, and in 187o an addition was made to the east end of the churchyard as stated. The rectory house which adjoins the church1Ulrd on the north-west, is a building of Late Perpendicular date' the south-east portion is earlier and contains a curious buttery hatch and some good oak panelling. The charities include a sum of £r8o, derived from a benefaction under the will of Alice Smith, widow, of I:ffi.ey, dated 26th November, 1678, of this amount £8o is appropriated yearly in apprentice fees and the residue to the general uses of the poGr of Iffiey, Littlemore and CowIey. Field's charity of about [7 yearly, left by the will

t~o IFFLEY OXFORDSHIR.E. [KELLY'S of Stephen Field, of Littlemore, in 1727, is for bread; the 13th century. The governors of Donnington RosNowell's charity bequeathed by the Rev. Thomas Nowell pital, near Newbury, Ilerks, are the lords of the manor· D.D. principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, (d. 23 Sept. and principal landowners. The ancient manor courts. 18or), by will dated 27th November, 18oo, provides were held at Court Place, now the residence of Major £34 for the schoolmistress and books- for scholars. Frederick J. Nash Ind. The soil is loam and clay; There has been a mill here from a remote period, and subsoil, sand anru gravel. The chief crops are wheat the Iffiey mill of to-day is perhaps more famous than and barley. The area is 410 acres; rateable value, any other spot near Oxford, save North Hinksey church, £2,932; the population in 1891 was 548. for its picturesqueness. and frequency with which it Parish Clerk, Philip Cunnington. has be€n sketched by artists and "taken" by photo- Post Office.-Eden Henwood, sub-postmaster. Letter,s; ~-raphers; it belongs, together with certain rights, to through Oxford arrive at 6.Ig a.m. &; 1. 30 p.m.; disLincoill College and is at present occupied by Mr. Joe patched at rr. 35 a.m. & 6. 29 p.m.; sundays arriveWilson. Tbe village stocks· stood! by the great elm in p.lg a.m.; dispatched 3.19 p.m. Cowley is the nearthe centre of the village, and were existing until be- est money order & telegraph office. Postal orders tween 186o-7o. In the meadows by the river, the are issued here, but not paid ,snake's head frittilary (Fritillaria meleagris) grows pro- fusely; the flowers, tulip-shaped and drooping, are Wall Letter Ilox, at Rose hill, cleared at II.IS a.m. &;, either dull purple spotted with pink or of a creamy 5·10 p.m white colour, but the latter is a less common variety. National School, built in 1828, for 120 children; averOther estates here are held bv Pembroke and Lincoln age attendance, 86; Joe Wilson, master; Mrs.Mason., Colleges. The Knights Templ!irs had property here in mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .All en John, Wootton house .A.rmstrong Mrs. Elm lodge Bickerton Mrs. The !Elms Carter Henry, Rose :bank Desali~ Rudolf Fane, Fairacres Ednmnd H. W. Rougemont English Edwin, River mead Francis Miss Ind· Major Fredk. J. Nash, Court Place Lever Surgeon-Major Reginald Croft, M.B. Denton ib.ouse Kent Miss, The Priory Lingham Charles, Isis bank Marshall Miss, Manor house Meadows George D. Lucerne Owen Charles Mostyn, Wood house Parker Mrs. Freelands· Roberts Rev . .Arthur, Lucia house Shipperley Mrs Townsend Philip, Beechwood Tuckwell Miss, Jungles Turner Edward Henry, Manor house Venables Sidney, Donnington lodge Walmisley Rev. Horatio M . .A. (vicar), The Rectory COMMERCIAL. Beckett Edwin, beer retailer Blay Henry, carpenter Cunnington Philip, carpenter Gillam Harriet. (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lawrie Jn. Thames conservancy inspctr Manders Henry, carpenter Martin J'<lmes, shoe maker Smith Robert, grocer Waiter George, builder West John, dairymn White Thomas, Tree P.H. & butcher Wilson Joe, miller (water) Wixon William, farmer IPSDEN is a parish and picturesque village, close 1 August·, 188s, the east window of the chancel was :filledl to the Chiltern Hills, 3l mn~es east from Cholsey with st~ined glass.: and there is another to the late and Moulsford station, and 3 mileS! south-east from K. E. Symons esq. given by his widow: the church. Wallingford terminal station, both on the Reading afforris 160 sittings. The register of baptisms anG and Oxford section of the Great Western rail- burials dates from the year 1569, marriages, 1695. way, in the Southern division of the county, hun- The living is a vicarage, consolidated with that of North• dred of Langtree, petty sessional division of Henley, Stoke, together with the rectory of Newnham-Murren .. union of Henley, county court district of W a.llingford, a vu-age tithe rent-chaTge £5 72,j oint net yearly value£ 292,. rural deanery of Henley, and archdeaconry and diocese with residence and 23 acres of glebe, in the gift of St. of Oxford. The old Ilritish trackway, called the "Ick- John's College, Cambrid-ge, and held since 1872 by th~J" nield road.'' or "Ickleton way," passes through the Rev. Charles Stanwell M. A. formerly fellow of that col-· parish. The church of St. Mary, originally a chapel of lege. The great tithes of Ipsden and North Stoke bethe mother church of North Stoke, is an edifice of con- long to St. John's College, Cambridge. The llaptist ,siderable antiquity, consisting of chancel, nave, north chapel here, erected at the expense of Mr. Henry Hutt,. chapel, south porch and a western turret containing 2 of Oxford House, Reading, will seat 250 persons. Three bells : the chancel is Early English, rather rud10 in co!tages and 7 acres and more of land, now producingexecution, and has a small and poor chancel arch rest- £14 yearly, were left by the Rev. Richard Headlam in ing on single· polished shafts with fioriated caps : the 1729, the produce to be distributed annually at Christnave is of the same period and originally had a south mas in clothing to poor men of Ipsden and Stoke Row; aisle, with an arcade of five Pointed arches, but this in 1875 W. J. Dodd esq. bequeathed the snm of £4oohas been destroyed and the arches filled up : the nave to be invested in Government securities, the proceeds. roof is Perpendicular, with moulded tie beams arfd a to be annually distributed in flannel and blankets_ battlemented cornice: t:he chapel on the north side Ipsden House is the residence of Major Charles John opens to the nave by two Pointed arches: the walls are Boyle. Herbert Vincent Reade esq. is lord of the manor Early English and Perpendicular, and within, on the and chief landowner. The soil is chalk and gravel; subwest and north, have a stone bench attached: the roof svil, chalk and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and' belongs to the Decorated period: the font is plain and barley. The area is 3,342 acres; rateable value, £3,151;: of rough material: there are brass effigies with in- the population in 189:t wag. 754· scription to "Master Thomas Englysche," and Isbell his Sexton, William George Shail. wife, both of whom died in 1525 ; both figures are Post Office.-George Ridge, sub-postmaster. Letters:- paJ.impsests; the male effigy which is in armour ex- through Wallingford arrive at 8.45 a.m. ; dispatched' hibiting on the reverse side the upper part of a female at 6.20 p.m. Wallingford is the nearest money order figure, c. 1420; and the female effigy part of the Latin & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here,. verse inscription to . . . . t Stapilton, wife of John : but not paid a stained window in memory of Malcolm Reade esq. Wall Letter Box, corner of Wallingford road, cleared at; llengal Civil Service, d. 6 Feb. 1875. and William Win- 6.50 p.m. on week days woode Reade, d. 24 April, 1875, song. of the late W. Parochial School (mixed), built in 1802, for 6o children;- Ba.rrington Reade esq. of Ipsden House, who also died average attendance, 50; Mrs. Edith Mary Ilernardi,. II Dec. r88r, has been placed in the north aisle: and in mistress Iloyle Major Chas. John, Ipsden house Thomas Jane(Mrs.),frmr,Crossway~ fm Shipley CoalCo.(Wm.Medcraft,sen.agt) Page William, Garsons Goddard Philip, plumber Smith William, blacksmith StanweU Rev. Charles M.A. Vicarage Green Charles, carrier Smith & Jones,millers(water)&farmers; Maker Martha & Elizabeth (Misses), Henman Wm . .Albt. farmer,Manor frm Steele ~dward, builder, contractor &: farmers, Stone farm Islip Supply Stores (Faulks, Tubb & farmer Co. proprietors) Tompkins John, horse dealer & farmer .COMMERCIAL. Jarvis Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer Tredwell John Fowle.r, baker Dodd Philip Charles, land surveyor & ~falins John Ilrown, Red Lion P.R Tuffrey William, shopkeeper valuer, Bailey ~edcraft Joseph & Son, boot makers Warla.nd John, carpenter Gibbons Hy. baker & grocer, Bemcote Medcraft W.sen.coal agt.&land· measrer Watson William, shopkeeper Hatt Thomas Panter, farmer Medcraft William, family grocer, but- Webb James, saddler, assistant overKing John Pitman, farmer, Hailey cher & bacon curer, boot & shoe seer & assessor of taxes Lindsay Duncan, farmer maker, Post office Whiteman James, baker Page Wm. farmer & wood merchant ~iles William H. carrier Young Charles George, carpenter ~ Ridge George, grocer, Post office Payne Edwin, Fox & Grapes P.H picture frame maker Street Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Scarsbrook Rachel (Mrs.), Swan P.H

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. KENCOTT. 121 :ISLIP (A. S. Githeslepe, the leap of Githa), is a parish and village, with a station on the Oxford and Bletchley section of the London and North Western railway, and is 56 miles from London, 6~ south-east from Woodstock, 7 north-east fr(}m Oxford and 6~ S(}uthwest from Bicester, in the Mid division (}f the connty, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, Bicester union and county court district, rural deanery of Islip and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, situated on the northern bank of the river Ray neax its confluence with the Cherwell: a good balustraded bridge of four arches crosses the former immediately below the church. The church of St. Nicholas is an edifice of stone chiefly of the 14th century, although the piers and arches on the north side of the nave are Transition Norman, and belong to a period considerably ~rlier than the rest of the building : the church consists of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and a lofty embattled western tower with crocketed pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells : the chancel, destroyed during the civil wars, was rebuilt in x68o by Robert South D.D. rector from 1678 to 1716, as appears from an inscription on one of the beams of the roof, he died 8 July, 1716, and was buried in Westminster Abbey: it contains inscriptions on brass· to John Aglionby D.D. rector, 1607, until his death, 6 Feb. 16og-10, and buried in the church; and to James Horrockes B. A. rector, 1609-25 ; a brass with figures of a man and woman kneeling before a table with nine boys and ten girls, inscribed to Henry Norris esq. 1637; Robert Banks gent. 16o5, and Susanna, successively wife of both, 1634 ; between the figures and below are the quartered arms of Norris; on the south wan are marble tablets to Edward! Dewe gent. 1656, with arms; and Luke Clapham esq. of Gray's inn, 1676, and Susanna his wife, 1669: about 184o some ancient paintings were discovered on the wall of the south aisle, the largest and most conspicuous of which represents the " Adoration of the Magi ; " another exhibits St. Michael weighing a soul, and there are several other paintings on the wall of the north aisle: in the south aisle is a Decorated piscina : the font is octagonal and Perpendicular : in the chancel is a memorial window tq the Rev. William Buckland D.D. canon of Christ Church, Oxford, dean of Westminster, professor of geology and some time rector of this parish, whd died August 15th, 1856, and is here buried: in 186o the church was restored throughout and the chancel entirely rebuilt: there axe 330 sitt.ings. The register dates from May, in the year 1590. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £sn, average £366, net yearly value £310, with residence and 28 acres of glebe, Innes William in t-he gift of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Thomas Welbank FowleM.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. 'The rectory house was built in 1690 by Dr. South and is a conspicuous object, on approaching the village from Oxford. Here is a small Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Dr. South left land valued now at about £150 for the maintenance of a school, theapprenticing of two or three boys annually and for giftS' to poor widows residing in the parish; Litchfield's augmentation to this charity provides about £16 a year foreducational purposes and about £15 yearly for clothing; Dennett's charity of £8 is for apprenticing, and anothergift by Mr. William Augur in 1688, produces £r IIS. 6d. a year, which is expended in bread. Islip was the birthplace about A.D. 1004, of Edward' the Confessor, who is said to have been afterwards nursed and brought up in a palace or mansion at Headington, the site of which is now called " Court Close;" no memorial of the Confessor now remains here, but in the centre of thevillage, there stood until 1Boo portions of very thick walls of early date belonging to a structure used in th~ early 14th century as a Court House, and near it was, a smaller building, used as a barn, but said to have been a royal chapel, and existing in 1720. During the Civil War, Islip was frequently visit·ed by portions of the opposing forces, and in 1644-5 several serious eng-ag-ements took place in and near the village. Th& principal landowners are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are also lords of the manor. The soil is· clay and stone brash ; subsoil, clay, with a mixture of stone brash. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oat& and beans. The area is 1,929 acres; rateable value, L,2,944; the population in 1891 was 587. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity- & Insuranc·e Office.-William Medcraft, sub-postmaster. Letters from Oxford arrive at 7·5 a.m. & 3 p.m.;. dispatched at 7·5 p.m. ; sunday, 5· 19 p.m Schools. Endowed (boys), founded by Dr. South, rector, for 2r boys, S{)me of whom are clothed & apprenticed; a new school was built in 1893, for 70 children; averageattendance, 62; James Elias Chaundy, master Infant, built in r856, for 70 children; average attendance, 50; Mrs. M. Chaundy, mistress Railway Station, Samuel Lovell, station master Carriers to Oxford.-Char~es Green, to 'Chequers," every mon. tues. wed. & sat. ; "\Villiam H. Miles. wed. & sat. to Anchor hotel ; J ames Cooper & J ohlll Busten pass through from Charlton, wed. & sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Nelson James Edwaxd Belcher .Arthur Charles, grocer & provision merchant Blick Graham Thomas Baylis Bull William Edmund Thomas Ooates Mrs Ohapman Mrs. GChapman Mrs. W Cross Miss Fowle Rev. Thos.Welbank M.A.Rect'()ry • Parker Charles J ames Varney James Wilson Rev. James (Methodist) W ruldo Misses Walker Josiah COMMERCIAL, Baker John, butcher Brockliss Edmund Felix, baker Blick Graham Thomas Baylis L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon &r medical officer & public vaccinator !slip district of the Bicester union:. &Ottmoor district, Headington union XELMSCOTT is a chapelry and township belonging sept are traces of wall paintings: the church was reto the parish of Bradwell, on the river Isis and on the stored. in 188g, and affords roo sittings. The registerGloucester and Berks border, 2! miles east from Lech- dates from the year rs6o. The living is a chapelry, lade station on the Oxford and Fairford branch of the annexed to Bradwell vicarage, joint gross yearly value,.. Great Western railway, 4! south-west from Bampton, derived from glebe, £2oo, in the gift of Sir William 4 north-west from Faringdon, and about 9 south-west Henry Smith-Marriott hart. and held since 1870 by thefrom Witney, in the Mid division of the county, hundred Rev. Horace Meeres M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bampton West, who resides at Bradwell. Kelmscott Manor House, a union of Faringdon, county court district of Faringdon, fine Elizabethan mansion, is the property of the trusteesrural deanery of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of the late Charles Hobbs esq. of ~aisey Hampton, of Oxford. The church of St. George is a small and Gloucestershire, and occupied by William Morris esq. ; ancient cruciform building of stone in the Norman and it contains a room entirely hung with tapestry of thelater styles, consisting of chancel, nave, a very narrow 17th century. The trustees of the late Charles Hobbs north aisle, transepts, south porch and an eastern turret esq. who are lords of the manor, and the trustees of thecontaining 2 bells: the nave is separated from the north late George Mill ward esq. of the Manor House, Lechlade, aisle by an arcade of four Late Norman arches: the are the principal landowners. The soil is gravel and south doorway and font, a plain cylindrical work, are black loam; subsoil, gravel. The chie-f crops are barley,. also Norman: in the chancel are floor stones and tablets oats and the usual cereals. The area is 1,oo2 acres; of the 17th and r8th centuries, with Latin inscriptions, rateable value, £r,o62; the population in 18gr was 145- in good preservation, to the Turner family, formerly of Parish Clerk and Sexton, Samuel Dancey. the Manor House: the chancel retains a piscina and has Letters through Swindon arrive at 7 a. m. Lechlade is a sedile formed out of the southern window: some of the nearest money order & telegraph offica its windows are stained: there is a brass to the Good- Wall Letter Box cleared at 7.10 p.m enough family in the south transept, dated 1761, and a National School (mixed), for 40 children; ave-rage atmarble tablet to Edward Dore, 1724: in the north tran- tendance, 16; Miss Goldby, mistress [Mace Mrs. Manor farm Hobbs Robert W. farmer Pool George, coal dealer Morris William, Manor house Mace Alfred, farmer Robins J oseph, beer retailer & grocer Baylis Pally (Miss), dress maker X:ENCOTT is a parish and village, 1~ miles west-by- I branch of the Great Western railway, 4 west from north from Alvescot station on the Oxford and Fairford Bampton and 5 north-east from Lechlade, in the Mid

122 KENCOTT. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'a division of the county, hundred of Bamp.ton, petty ses- late H. Hamersley esq. and held since 1867 by the Rev. sional division of Bampton West, union and county court Robert Henry Ear le M . .A. of St. John's College, Oxford. district. of Witney, rural deanery of Witney and arch- The :Manor House, the residence of Miss Large, is an deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. ancient mansion standing in the centre of the village. George is a small but ancient building of stone in the Albert Large esq. who is lord of the manor, Mrs. FaulkNorman and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, ner, William Henry Fox esq. of Bradwell Grove and the south porch and a west~rn tower containing 3 bells: the rector are the principal landowners. The soil is stone chancel is Early English and retains its piscina ; the brash. The chief crops are the usual cereals. The area .chancel arch is a mi.xture of Norman and Decorated is I,os I acres; rateable value, £ I,os 1 ; the population in work: the south doorway, also of Norman date, has a 1891 was 147. !tympanum filled with flat sculpture, representing a Sexton, John Porter . .centaur shooting an arrow down the throat of a monster, with the word " Sagittarius," cut in the stone: the font Letters through Swindon, via. Lechlade, arrive at 8.30 is dated 1542 : the chancel was redecorated in I886: a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared a.t 5.20 p.m. week day! there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the only. Lechlade is bhe nearest telegraph office year 1584. The living is a rectory, net yearly value Parochiai School (mixed), built for 4S children; aver- .£145• with residence,, in the gift of the trustees of the age attendance, 18; .Miss Mary Barnes, mistress Bowl John Clapham Chas. farmer, Kencott hill Gillett Augustine, farmer, Manor farm Earle Rev. Robt. Henry M.A. Rectory Craddock John Wilfred, farmer Hall Goorge, blacks-mith Kirby James, Kencott cottage Dossett George, baker Taylor William, carpenter Large Miss, Manor house Eustace George, farmer Walker Emma (Mrs.), laundress Cattell Chas. farmer, Kencott house Eustace Richard, farmer XIDDINGTON is a parish consisting of the hamlets , 1886 by the Rev. Charles Lawrence Hawkins M . .A.. of cl Nether Kiddington in Wootton hundred and Over Magdalen College, Oxford. In tJhe "upper town" there Kiddington in Chadlington hundred, both on but remain the shaft and base of an ancient cross ; various separated by the river Glyme, 6 miles west from Hey- British, Roman and Saxon remains have been found ford station, on the Oxford and Birmingham section of here. Kiddington Hall, the property of Capt. Henry the Great Western railway and s north-east from Charl- Brooks Gaskell J.P. lord of the manor and principal bury station, on the Oxford and 'Vorcester section of the landowner, and now occupied by Uharles Thurburn esq. :Same system, and S north-west from Woodstock, in the is a handsome residence, built in 1673, by Sir Henry Mid division of the county, petty sessional division of Browne ISt hart. who died about 168g, and modified 1Vootton South, Woodstock union and county court dis- about 1750; it is surrounded by lawns and a park "trict, rural deanery of Woodstock and archdeaconry and through which flows the river Glyme and forms a lake. ·diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas is an The soil is stone brash; subsoil, stone brash. The land tlncient edifice of stone in mixed styles, with some 1'\or- is chiefly arable; crops, barley and whl:\at. The area man portions, but is chiefly of the Decorated period, and is 1,854 acres; rateable value, £I,9S3; the population >eonsists of chancel, nave, south transept or chapel, ::;outh in 1891 was 21s. porch and a western tower containing 4 bells : the chan- Asterleigh is a civil parish, which consists of one -eel is Norman and Decorated, and has a sedile and farm. Capt. Gaskell is lord of the manor and principal }liscina: the rood-loft stairs remain and part of the landowner. The population in 1891 was 37; area, 28:<~ screen: the font is a hexagon of gaod Decorated work, acres; rateable value, [263. and the south chapel has a plain open-timbered roof of Parish Clerk, William Fifield. t.he same date; there is a brass to Walter Goodere, a Post Office.-Charles Hollis, sub-postmaster. Letters former rector, 1513• and a stained window in the tran- through Woodstock arrive at 8.S5 a.m. & 3·55 p.m. ; sept to the memory of Mrs. Gaskell, who died 27th dispatched at 6 p.m. & 3· IS p.m. ; sunday 10 a. m. -Dece,mber, 1872, and one in the nave to Henry Lomax The nearest money order office is at Wootton, & teleGaskell esq. who died in Nov. 1889: the church was graph office at Enstone restored and decorated in 1879: there are 180 sittings. Wall Letter Box, Nether Kiddington, cleared at 3 & 'The register of baptisms dates from the year 1573; 5·4S p.m. ; sundays 9·45 a.m marriages, 1576; burials, IS7o. The living is a rectory, National School (mixed), erected in rBs6, by the late gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge [323, with H. L. Gaskell esq. for 8o children; average attendresidence, in the gift of Viscount Dillon, and held since ance, 6o; Miss Bessie Mead, mistress NETHER KIDDINGTON. Radford George, farmer, White house Finemore John Henry, shopkeeper Hollis Ohas. blacksmith, & post office Hawkins Rev. Oharles Lawrence M. A. OVER KIDDINGTON. Fane T.Jarm bailiff to H.B. Gaskell esq Rectory Burborough Robert, shoe maker Ivings Nath.aniel, wheelwght.&carpentr Thurburn Charles, Kiddington hall Busby George, shoe maker Sander& Joseph, farmer 'Haynes John, farmer, Home farm Cradd:ock Robert, farmer XIDLINGTON, in Domesd~cty "Chedelintone," is a College: the south window contains various modern large village and parish, on the river Cherwell, i mile shields of arms: the chancel is inclosed with good ~ast f:rom Kidlington station on the Oxford and Birm- Perpendicular screens, and there are ten ancient oak :ingb.am section of the Great Western railway, 2 mile11 stalls with misereres and finely carved panelling and west from lslip station on the Bletchley and Oxford poppyheads: in the soul;h chancel aisle is a Decorated 'branch of the London and North Western railway, S piscina and in the sill of the window a stone bench: the north from Oxford and 4 south-east from Woodstock roof is high and open and the north aisle is similar in and 69 from London, in the Mid division of the county, style to the south, differing only in the tracery of the hundred of Wootton, petty sessional division of Wootton windows: the north transept has a Perpendicular cleresouth, Woodstock union and county court district, rural story and retains an elegant piscina, with canopy and deanery of Woodstock and archdeaconry and diocese of pinnacles: under the east window of the south transept ()xford. The Oxford and Birmingham canal passes are indications of an altar, of which the brackets :tl~rough the parish, which was enclosed 50 Geo. IlL remain; and there is a piscina and a sedile recess: the :x8og-1o. The church of St. Mary is a very spacious nave is lofty and has a Perpendicular clerestory and -and beautiful cruciform edifice of stone, in mixed styles, roof: on the north side is a good Early English doorbut chiefly of the Decorated period, and consisting of way, known as the "Bachelors' door," and a Perpendicchancel with aisles, separated from it by two arches on ular niche: the arcade separating the nave and south 'tlither side, transepts, clerestoried nave, south aisle with aisle consists of five Decorated arches, becoming gradu- -porch and an Early English central tower with pierced ally lower and narrower westward : the east respond -parapet and octagonal ribbed spire, relieved by dormers supports a plain piscina: the south porch has its outer -at the base and near the summit, and about 173 feet in arch richly decorated with t.he ball flower ornament and beight: the tower contajns a clock, originally purchased above it is a niche with rich crocketed canopy and pinin 1 8oS for £5 ss. and 6 bells, dating from 161o to 18oo: nacles: the font, standing near the south door, is a plain the spire was repaired between 17s6-9 at a eost of over round Decorated work, on a concave octagonal moulded £12, but in J8Io it was struck by lightning, and the base: the panelled and carved oak pulpit is Elizabethan: consequent repairs, effected in I8II-Iz, amounted to in the church is a memorial to three children of Sir £go; in 1837 the tower was renovated at a cost of [3o: William Morton, founder of the almshouse, and there the chancel is Decorated and retains a piscina and three are others to John Coant D.C.L. d. 23 Aug. 1723; Perpendicular sedilia: the east window, also of this date, Joseph Smith D. D. provost of Queen's College, 1730, d. :ls filled with fra;.rments of stained glass collected from 23 Nov. 1756; Rev. John Standard D.D. rector of Tackvarious parts of the churoh and arranged in 1828, at a ley, 1613, d. Dec. 1647; and others to the .Almont, Dickcost, including repairs, of £53 16s. defrayed by Exett>r enson, Hudson, May, Phillips, Saunders, Smith an<l • -- .

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. KIDLINGTON. 123 Standard families; the only brass remaining in the Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, on whose death in church is to Humphrey Fitzherbert of Begbroke esq. d. 1545• it .was partitioned. The Duke of Marlborough, 23 June, I6I], and Ursula (Waring) his wife: at the who is lord of the manor, Exeter College, Oxford, and west end is a memorial window, erected in 1858 to the Frederick Parker Morrell esq. M.A. of Oxford, are the Rev. Joseph Loscombe Riohards D.D. rector of Exeter principa1landowners. The soil is gravel and clay; subCollege, Oxford, chaplain to H.R.H. the late Prince I soil gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and Consort, a former vioar, he died 27 Feb. 1854: the beans. The acreage (including the hamlets) is 4,549; western gallery, erected in 1756-9, was removed in 1859: 1 rateable value, £6,o84; the population in 1891 was r.o4o. in 1789 the church was refloored, and numerous brasses Gosford, half a mile, is a hamlet with a population in with effigies and inscriptions were then destroyed; in I 891 of 44; rateable value, £432. r8r4 the roof was repaired at a cost of £r6, and in 1828 Thrupp, r! miles, is a hamlet. Here is a Church the chancel was restored by Exeter College, at a cost 1 mission roa:::n and a small Baptist chapel, built in 1876; nf £zoo; in 1846, further work was carried out in the 1 aereage, 763; rateable value, £r,zoo; the population in .south transept and chancel, for which £z6o was col- I 1891 was 125. leoted by rate; in r88o the nave roof was partially ·water Eaton is a parochial chapelry 4 miles north renewed, and the wall of the south aisle taken down , from Oxford, on the Cherwell. The Manor House, .and rebuilt; during the period 1892-4 the church was erected by the Freres, towards the close of the r6th restored at a cost of about [2,ooo, and now affords 7oo 1 century, and now a farm house, is a picturesquely .sittings. In the churohyard is buried the Rev. John gabled building, with a projecting porch of two storeys. Prideaux Lightfoot D.D. rector here and of Exeter Col- 1 relieved by pilasters, and a fine bay window on the lege, I854· until his death 23 March, r887; also his first principal front; one of the doorways has the date 1585; wife, Anne Eliza, d. 21 Nov. 186o. The register of the interior is chiefly remarkable for the quantity of oak baptisms dates from the year 1570; marriages and panelling it contains and the curious up and down burials, I574· The living is a. vicarage, average tithe arrangement of the rooms; the house originally formed rent-charge £r4, net yearly value £219, with 209 acres one side of a quadrangle, the entrance gate being on the <>f glebe and residence, in the gift of Exeter College, other side, and there were outbuildings on either side ()xford, and held since r887 by the Rev. Albert Corsellis ~at the extreme outer corners; the great gates and Bichard Freeborn :1\>I.A. of Christ Church, Oxford (first 1 broad carriage way have disappeared, as well as the old resident vicar since the Reformation), the living having 1 garden on the south, but the house is an excellent been previously held for over 300 years by the succes- example of its kind, and in 1644 was the residence of 1'live rectors of Exeter College. Among previous vicars John, 2nd baron Lovelace, a devoted Royalist, who died of Kidlington may be mentioned Edmund Croston ~LA. · 25 Nov. r67o, much impoverished, at the gatehouse of principal of Brasenose Hall, 1501-3, d. 27 Jan. rsoJ-8, the manor of Woodstock, and was buried at Hurley: and was buried in St. Mary's church, Oxford, where I the whose estate is now (1895) the property of Edmund there is a curious brass to him; also Laurence Stubbs Sawyer esq. of the Manor House, Little Milton. The D.D. president of Magdalen College, 1525-7, d. before 1 chapel, originally attaohed to the Manor House but now 31 Aug. 1548; the Rt. Rev. Edw. Feild D. D. Bishop of a little to the north of it, is a remarkably good example Newfoundland, 1844-76, was cnl'ate here in 1827. Here 1 of the revived Gothic of the time of James I. and conis a Wesleyan chapel. The hospital or almshouse, near sists of chancel, nave with south doorway, and a bell the church, endowed with £r3 6s. 8d. yearly, arising gable containing one bell: the windows are somewhat in from land now held by the Duke of Marlborough, was imitation of the Decorated style and are very good for erected in 1671 by Sir William Moreton kt. Justice of that period, the east window having five lights: the the King's bench, ob. 1672, in memory of his wife, screen, seats and pulpit are all of Decorated character. daughter and sole heiress of John Smyth, of Kidlington, The population in r8gr was 161; the area is 1,430 acres; the " pious and virtuous Lady Anne Moreton and her rateable value, £2,144. deceased children;" it is a simple cottage-like building, Parish Clerks, Kidlington, John Shirley; Water intended for 3 old men and as many women, and bears Eat.on, Joseph Bowerman. a tablet recording the foundation, above which are the arms and crest of the founder, who with his wife was Post, M. 0. & '1'. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity buried in the Temple church, London: a sum of £5 ss. & Insurance Offioe.-William Soott, sub-postmaster. yearly, arising from several charities is distributed in Letters arrive from Oxford at 6.45 a.m. & I p.m. ; bread, and there is a yearly sum of £3 ros. to the vicar sundays at 6.40 a.m.; dispatched at II a.m. & 6.zo for certain sermons and rss. for the clerk. Exeter Col- p.m.; sundays, 5·55 p.m lege gives yearly £ro to the schools, £ro to the poor National School, built in r87r, fCJr 214 children; average und £4 to the church expenses instead of the old rate. attendance, 67 boys, 63 girls & 74 infants; Arthur The village feast is on the Sunday next after 19 Sept. ; Williams, master ; Miss Margaret Ethel Hancocks, the Club feast is held on the first Thursday in June. mistress; Miss Flora Hilder, infants' mistress 'I'he Manor of Kidlington, anciently held by the D'Oileys, Railway Station, William Thomas Cook, station mao;;t~r but seized by the Crown on the attainder of Edmund de Carriers to Oxford.-George Savins & Harry Brodrick la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, was granted by Hen. VIII. to Belgrove, mon. wed. & sat KIDLINGTON. 1 Scroggs JDhn, Thornbury villa Cox William, blacksmith Shirlev John, Field view Davis Frank, baker PRIVATE RESIDENTg, 1 Trendall Mrs. St. Mary's lodge Fletcher Charles, gadd1er Ansell Percival Tud'denham Misses Franklin Thomas, baker Aries Edward Tunnard J. B. Exeter house Gardner Francis Loder, Railway hotel 13eatson Miss Ward Rev.Geo. Sturton M.A.Grove ho Gibbs John, bricklayer Bellenger Mrs. Francis, Cleveland Wilks ::\irs Harris Joseph, cattle dealer 13ricknell Benjamin "\Vix Miss, Tower hill Haynes Richard, painter 'Burgoyne Richard Wild COMMERCIAL. Heath Elizabeth (':~frs.), 13ritannia P.H 13uttifant William Henry Adams Alfred, grocer, draper, iron- Higginson John, tailor Ohurcher George P. Cherwell croft monger & cycle. agent; agent for Honor Thomas Joseph, painter Cowderoy George Bell, Thornbury ho W. & A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit Hutt Fdk.frmr & miller(water),:Mill ho Emberlin Misses merchants; also for Whitbread's Ives John, tailor Freeborn Rev. Albert Corsellis Richd.! bottled beers & stout, Suffolk house Martin Ernest Herbert, printer M.A. (vicar), Vicarage I Adams William, farmer Martin Henry, 13la.ck Bull P.H Gilbert Henry, Glenalna Bateman & Son, grocers & drapers Mesrer Mary (::\frs.) '&; Varney Isabelle Gomm Herbert William Bateman Wm.jun.farmer&fruit grower (:~iiss), ladies boarding school,Ivy ho Rammond John Ba:tes Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress Newport Abraham Taylor, Six Bells Higgs Philip G. Park house Beatson Miss, school P.H. & wheelwright Hulbert. Lewin Belgrove Harry Brodrick, carrier Osborne Thomas B. builder Rutt Miss, Guernsey cottage Belgrove Lewis, grocer & ironmonger Parry Henry Hitchcock L.R.C.P.Lond. Lambourn: Miss Brain William, jun. farmer surgeon, & med. officer, Kidlington Leach William, Osmond house Branch William Henry, timber district, Woodstock union Littlehales Rev. Alfred )!organ Il.A. merchant & wheelwright, Railway Parsler Thomas, stDne mason (curate), Grendon station & Lime street Payne John, shoe maker Margetts William, Hill house Bricknell Miss, dress maker Pearce George, blacksmith Morris William John M.A Brown Geo. rDad contractor & farmer Reeves John, market gardener Parry Henry Hitchcock Brown William, boot maker Robinson Jn. Red LionP.H.&coa.ldealer Plummer Percy Edwin Oalcutt Albert,grocer&provision dealer Robinson John, jun. baker & shopkpr Preedy Miss & Miss A Calcutt Jane (Mrs.), laundress Rowles William, farmer Prestcott Mrs Carter John, Black Horse P.H Savins Frederick, butcher Rose Thomas Peter Cook Wm. Thos. station master Savins George,carrier & coal merchan~ •

124 KIDLINGTON. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's Scott William, stationer, Post office Watts Sidney, cowkeeper THRUPP. Scroggs William F.S.I. farmer, land agent, auctioneer & valuer, The Rectory, Farm house Shepherd Mrs. Emily, butcher Shepherd J ane (Mrs.), King's .Arms W ebb & Bennett, bellhangers Woodcock Geo, inland revenue office-r Woodford George, butcher & farmer, Manor farm Young Richard, Dog & .Anchor P.H Beames G. Boat inn, & grocer Coggins James,Britannia P.H.&coal dlr Eagle Thos. Blakeman, Manor farm Woodley Wm. Three Horseshoes P.H P.H. & brewer Shir1ey Jn. boot make.r, & parish clerk Smith Mrs. Martha, farmer GOSFORD. WATER EATON. Smith Thomas, farmer Walton James, chimney sweeper Warland Frederick, coal merchant Branch William Henry, farmer East Frederick, King's. Arms P.H Hughes Je.sse, farmer Bulford Henrf, farmer Kerwood Sidney S. farmer Kerwood Thomas, farmer Rose ~ary (Mrs.), farmer, Frize farm sicmers. .At Gallows Tree common is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built 1873. Cane End House, the residence of Henry Brigham Douglas Vanderstegen esq. J.P. is a mansion of very ancient date. Kidmore Grange, in the occupation of Martin John Sutton esq. is a hand .. some building with grounds admirably laid out. The principal landowners are H. B. D. Vanderstegen esq. and Keith R'onald Mackenzie esq. The soil is mixed, principally gravel; subsoil, chalk, gravel and loam. The chief crops are corn and roots. The population in r8gr was 733· Parish Clerk & Sexton, William .Allwright. KIDMORE is a hamlet and ecclesiastical parish, formed Jan. grd, 1854, out of portions of the civil parishes of Shiplake, Sonning and Caversham, and is 5 miles north-east from Pangbourne station and 4~ southwest from Henley-on-Thames termiool station, both on the Great Western railway, and 4 miles north from Reading, in the Southern division of the county, petty sessional division of Henley, union of Henley-on-Thames, county court district of Reading, rural deanery of Henley and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. John the Baptist, built in 1852, is an edifice of flint and stone, in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, north porch, vestry and a turret containing one bell: the windows are .stained and include a Post Office.-William .Allwright, sub-postmaster. Letmemorial window presented to the church by c. M. ters through Reading arrive at 7·45 a.m.; dispatched Worthing1on esq. of Dyson's Wood: there are 280 sit- at 6.I5 p.m. W€ek days; sundays, arrive at 7·45 a.m.; tings. The register dates from the year I854. The dispatched at II.45 a.m. Postal orders are issued living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £112, net here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph income £253, with residence and II acres of glebe, in office is at Caversham. Wall Letter Box, Cane End, the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since I889 by cleared at 5.40 p.m. Wall Letter Box, Gallows Treethe Rev. John Ernest Smith-Masters M.A. of Keble common, cleared at 6 p.m.; sunday, 11 a.m College, Oxford: an additional £IOo a y€ar was added National School (mixed), built in 186o, with master's to the living in May, 1877, by Miss Palmer, of Holme house, for 140 children; average attendance, 102; Park, Sonning, and £so by the Ecclesiastical Commis- Zeph Jones, master • Earle 1Mrs. Cold Norton Beavis .Albert, beer retailer & wheel- Janes George, Hare & Hounds P.H. George James, Sonning Common wright, Gallowstree common Sonning Common Billiard Wm. Gallowstree Common Beavis Geo. beer rtlr. Gallowstree corn Lovejoy Gemge, New inn Manley Goorge Thomas, Hillside Bowles Charles William, blacksmith Pad,dick Albert, builder, wheelwright Smith-"Masters Rev. John Ernest M.A. Carter Thomas, fa.rmer, Vines farm & undertaker, painter & paperhanThe Vicarage Chapman Henry, farmer, Takers Grn ger, Gallowstree Common Rhodes J'llmes, The Old Garth Chown Wm. farmer, Takers Green Russell Henry, farmer Sutton Martin John, Kidmore grange Cox Charle.s, wheelwright & farmer Shirfield Charlotte (Mrs.), Bird-inTaylor Henry, Dysons Wood Frewin John, farm bailiff toW. Fisher Hand P.H Vanderstegen Henry Brig ham Douglas esq. Reddish farm Slade Henry (Mrs.), bricklayer J.P. Cane End house Harper Charles, roado surveyor, Kemp Saunders ·wm.frmr.Bishop's Wood frm COMMERCIAL. Wood Farm home Whitley Wm. The Fox P.H. Cane End Ha.rris Henry, wood turner Willis Anthony, grocer .Allwright Jn. frmr. Gallowstree corn Lailey Thomas & Richard, farmers KINGHAM is a parish and village on the borders of rector in 1688. There is a reading room for the bene:fi~ Gloucestershire, one mile from Chipping Norton June- of the parishioners. .A number of Boys' Homes have tion station on the Oxford and Worcest€r section of the been erected here by Charles Edward Baring Young Great 1Vestern railway, 4~ miles south-west from Chip- esq. and are supported by him; they include a Conping Norton, and in the Northern division of the county, valescent Home, for 40 boys; Clyde House, for 50' hundred and petty sessional division of Chadlington, boys; Durham House, for so boys; Swansea House. union and county court district of Chipping Norton, for so boys, and Sheffield House. There is an allotment rural deanery of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and of 7 acres for the benefit of the poor, and charities of diocese of Oxford. The church of St. .Andrew is an about £42 yearly, left by members of the rector'& edifice of stone, chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicu- family and others, are distributed in coals, bread, lar styles, consisting ()£ chancel, nave of three bays, clothing and blanke-ts to the poor at Christmas. The. aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower of principal landowners are the Earl of Ducie, Charle~ Perpendicular date, with pinnacles at the angles, and Edward Baring Young esq. of Daylesford House, Warcontaining a clock and 6 bells: in the south wall of the cestershire, the Warden and Fellows of New College,. chancel are sedilia and piscina: the east window was Oxford, who are lords of the manor, and the rector. erected in 1843 as a memorial to the daughter of the The soil is stone brash; subsoil, gravel. The chie·f late and sister of the present rector: outside the chancel, crops are wheat, barley, beans, peas, roots and meadm~ on the north side, is a Decorated tomb under a canopy, grass. The area is 1,839 acres; l"ateable value, £, 3,552; attached to a wall, with a stone coffin: the south aisle the population in 1891 was 769. and porch were erected as a memorial to members of Sexton, William Cooper. his family, by the Rev. John William Lockwood M.A. Post & M. 0. 0., s. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office.- rector here from 1836 until his death, 29 Nov. 1879, to Aden Eaton, sub-postmaster. Letters through Chipwhose memory a new organ was placed in the church in ping Norton arrive at 7 a.m. & 3. 25 p.m.; dispatched 1882; all the windows, most of which are memorials, at 10 a. m. & 7 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is are stained, and there is one brass to Catherine James, at Churchill. Wall Letter Box, Railway station,. 1588, with children: the church was thoroughly restored cleared at 9. 44 a.m. & 6. 40 p.m. week days only in 185 3, and affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1646. TI1e living is a reotory, commuted National School, built about 184o, for 140 children; tithe rent-charge £66o, average £502, with net yearly average attendance, 120; William Jackson, master; value £442, including 75 acres of glebe, with residence, 1\lrs. Bebecca Jackson, mistress in the gift of and held since 188o by the Rev. Samuel Carriers.--Brick, to Chipping, wed. & sat. generally; Davis Lockwood B..A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford; the Porter, to Chipping Norton, wed. & sat rectory house was built by an ancestor of the present Assistant Overseer, George Phillips Ba.rrow Col. John, Mount Rosa COMMF.RCI.AL. Boys' Home (James Tuck, ma.ster),. lEvans Capt. Helllcy, Kingham lodge Adams Ge<~rge, draper & grocer Swansea. house Fowler William Ward Boys' Home (Arthur HDmerton, mars- Boys' Home (Thoma.s Benfield, masLockwo'orl Rev. Saml.Davis.B..A.Rctry ter), Durham home- ter). Clyde house Lockwood Edward DO'Wdeswell J.P BoylS' Home (Bhillip Collett, master), Brick Roibert, carrier Noyes Capt. Kennaway, Rosa Dennis Sh'effield house Cook John, farmer •

DIRECTORY. J Convalescent Rome (:::\fl'ls. Burch, OXFORDSHIRE. Hunt J onah, butcher & shopkeeper Hunt Lucy (Miss), shopkeeper Hur1..<;lj:'On Edward, beer retailer Keen Gearge, sen. mruson • LANGFORD • 125 Raper Arthur, haulier SimiDtS Arthur, haulier Siwn1s Th,omas, farmer Taylor Franc~s, nursery-man matron), Plymout·h house Cook Joshua, farmer Cooik."haan J ashua, farmer Cooper William, sexton Eaton Aden, grocer, & agent for W. & A. Gilibey Lim. wine & spirit merchants, Post office Ken.ch William, shoe maker Lainchbury Caleb, machinist Millin Jame.s, black.smit;h Taylor J ulia (MiSts), shopkeepe.r Turton J. George Hough, Plough P.H Venville John, miller (water) & beer Godwin Albeit, farmer Haviland Maugaret (Mrs.), farmer Hunt James, butcher & shopkeeper Peause Rolbert, farmer & saddler Pearne William, carpenter Phillips G.eo.farmr. & a.ssistant ovel'lseer Porter William, carpenter & carrier KINGSEY, see page 314. reta.iler Wilks. Caroline farm (Ml'IS. ), farmer, :Manor KIRTLINGTON is a parish and village on the road vicarage, net yearly value of £190, including 230 acres from Bicester to Woodstock, about a mile and a half of glebe, with residence, in the gift of St. John's College, from Bletchington station on the Oxford and Birming- Oxford, and held !Since 1890 by the Rev. James Deane ham section of the Great Western railway, 6 miles south- M.A. formerly scholar of that college. Here is a Weswest from Bicester, 4 north-east from Woodstock, and leyan chapel. There are two charities, amounting to71 from London, in the Mid division of the county, gether to £75 yearly, for the relief of widows and for hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, the aged poor. A great Synod or Council is said to have union and county court district of Bicester, rural deanery been held here in A.D. 977, at which King Edward the of Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Martyr and St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, The river Cherwell separates the parish from that of were present; Kirtlington was then a frontier town Tackley, and the Oxford and Birmingham canal runs between the Mercian and West Saxon kingdoms and parallel with that river. The church of St. Mary, a much frequented on account of the portway which led building of stone in mixed styles, consists of chancel, through it. Kirtlington Park, the property of Sir clerestoried nave, aisles, a lady chapel or chantry, south George John Egerton Dashwood hart. D.L., J.P. lord of porch and a central tower con.taining a clock and 8 the manor and principal landowner, is at present in the bells, rehung in 1853: the original church consisted occupation of Henry Gaskell Close esq. M.A., J.P.; the simply of a chancel and tower, which has been twice re- house is a noble mansion in the Italian style, erected in built: the present chancel is Norman, with side win- 1746 by Sir James Das>hwood, 2nd hart. M.P. (d. 10 NQv. dows of that date and a Decorated east window filled 1779) ; it stands in a finely-wooded park .of 700 acres with stained glass as a memorial to Marianne Sarah and commands an extensive prospect. The soil is stone (Rowley), widow of the late Sir George Dashwood bart. brash and clay; subsoil, stone brash, clay and gravel. who died 24th March, 1877; three of the arches sup- The land is chiefly arable; chief crop, barley. The area parting the tower are Norman, the fourth Decorated, and is 3,494 acres; rateable value, £3,861; the population in the ceiling is groined : the nave, with both the aisles, 1891 was 733. appears to have been added about the middle of the 14th Northbrook is a hamlet 2 miles north. -century, but the south aisle was rebuilt by Sir Robert Dashwood, 1St. bart. who died in 1734. and the chapel Parish Clerk, Arthur Lambourne assigned by faculty to him and his heirs, about 1720: Sexton, James Simmons, jun. the nave has thr€e Early English arches on each side Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.- .and a Perpendicular clerestory: in the south aisle is a John Hawkes, sub-postmaster. Letters through Oxpiscina with drain on a foliaged corbel, c. 1220: the ford arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 1.45 p.m.; dispatched at church underwent very extensive repairs in -x853, the 5.15 p.m.; sundays, arrive 7.42 a.m.; dispatched tower being rebuilt on the original foundation, the gal~ 4.25 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Bletch1eries removed and the interior fitted with open benches : ington in 1877 the chancel was rebuilt by the late Sir Henry National School (mixed), established in 1834, for r8o William and Lady Dashwood, at a cost of £2,ooo, under children; average attendance, 120; with an endawment the direction of the late Sir G. G. ,scott B.A. and sub- of £40 a year, the rent of four ll'ouses; Arthur Henry .stantially roofed with oak : there are 370 sittings. The Austtin, master ; Miss Lottie Harris, assiSitant mistress register dates from the year 1558. The living is a Carrier to Oxford.-Charles East, wed. & sat 1Jlount GodJirey, Nut1ands Ca.stleman Francis George, farmer, Hopkins WilliMD, beer retaileT Cl01se Henry Gaskell M.A., J.P. Kirt- NortJ1brook Jessett Jl)lhn, boot & shoe maker Iington park Cooper J ohl).. f~rm bailiff to Sir G. J. Kirtland Edward, bla.ck911lith Deane Rev. James M.A. Vicarage E. Daslhwood ba.rt. Park farm Lang Be.njamin, Dashwood Arms P.H Do-dwell Ri.chard, farmer, Vicarage fro Scars brook 'l'hos .. saddler,& coffee tavrn CO:Mllt ERCIAL. Ea:st Ohaxles, b:r_ker & carrier Scott John Oliver, land steward to Sir Ea.st Waiter, beer retailer & butcher G. J. E. Dashwood hart .Allarm ArtJhur John, head gamekeeper Edogint<on CharleJs, farmer, Manor farm Trinder Jo<seph, farmer, Pa.rk farm to Her.ry G. Close esq Enser Rd. miller (water), Flighibs mill Viner Hen.ry R. farmer, Fox TownsEarrett Benjamin, bee;r retailer GeoDge Allbert, boot & shae maker end farm Brackley Henry Thos. draper & grocer Gillam William, shopkeepe.r Wakefield J.am~s. baker Ilunker John, wheelwright Griffin Philip, grocer Walklett Ge011ge, but.cher & farmer Castleman James, fa.rmer, Slade farm Hawke.s John, tailor, Poot office Weller William, butcher LANGFORD is a parish and village, 3 miles north-by- portions of sculptured work, conjectured to belong to an -east from Lechlade and 3 south-west from Alvescot sta- early sun dial: the church was restored in 1868, at a tions on the Oxford and Fairford branch of the· Great cost of £1,300, under the direction of Mr. Ewan Western railway, 6 north-west from Faringdon and about Christian, architect, and affords 400 sittings: in the 4~ west from Bampton, in the Mid division of the county, churchyard are remains of an ancient cross. The rellundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bamp1 gister dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarton West, union and county court district of Faringdon, age, tithe rent-charge £143, average t;"II6, net yearly xural deanery of lritney and archdeaconry and diocese value, £zso, including n6 acres of glebe, with residence, of Oxford. A portion of this parish was formerly in in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1892 Berkshire, bu't by the Acts 2 and 3 William IV. cap. 64, by the Rev. Constantine Griffith Wodehouse, of Exeter and 7 and 8 Vict. cap. 61, it now forms part of Oxford- College, Oxford. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are shire ; the hamlets of Grafton and Radcot are an integral the lay impropriat{)rs. The Congregational chapel, built part of Oxon. The church of St. Matthew is an ancient in 1848 and rebuilt in 1884, will seat 200 persons; and edifice of stone in the Norman and later styles, incor- there ois also a Primitive Meth()dist c:hapeL The Ecp<JI"ating fragments of a much earlier building, and clesiastical Commissioners are also lords of the manor consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles and a and the principal landowners. The soil is clay and tower between the chancel and nave of very Early Nor- gravel; subsoil, the same. The crops are the usual man or possibly Saxon date, with a vaulted lawer storey, cereals and roots. The area is 2,210 acres; rateable -and containing a clock and 5 bells: the chancel is Early value of Langford is £2,151 9s.; the population in 18g:r English and retains a series of six stone aumbries on was 339· the north side, and on the south a canopied priest's door, Parish Clerk, W. J. P. Reading. credence table and piscina: the nave has elegant arches Sexton and Acting Parish Clerk, James Thorne. (If Transitional character, and the south porch, also of Post Oflice.-Charles Cooper, sub-postmaster. Letters this period, has two interesting sculptures of the "C-ru- from Lechlade S.O. (Glos) arrive at 8 a.m.; dis- -cifixion," one on the south face over the entrance 11nd the patched at 6. 15 p.m. Felkins is the nearest money ()ther on the east side, both being inclosed in recessed order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued <:ruciform panels : on the south face of the tower are here, but not paid. •

126 .L.A.NGFOlm. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's National School (mixed), for So children; tend~nce, 56; Joshua Walker, master ; Walker, sewing mistress average atMrs. Marv • Grafton is a small hoam~et i~ the parish of Langrord, from which it is 2 miles south-east. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1870. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, whD are lords of the manor, William May and J. W. Butler esqrs. are th~ principal landowners. The area is 617 acres; rateable value, £758; the population in 1891 was 75· Letters through Faringdon arrive at 7.30 a.m. The ~~arest money order & telegraph office is at Ilampton; the nearest Letter :Box, Clanfield, cleared at I0.5 a.m. & 8.10 p.m south-east. The ancient bridge of three arches here~ which crosses the Isis to Ilerkshire, is supposed to havebeen erected in the 13th century, and was the .scene, 20o Dec. 1387, of an encounter between Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, a favourite of Richard II. and the disaffected nobles under Henry, Earl of Derby (afterw~trds: Henry IV.), and Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, when thetroops of de Vere, numbering albout 5,ooo men, being: surrounded, he secured his personal safety only by divesting himself of his armoll!l" and swimming dowiJt. the river. The area is 43'8 acres; rateable value, £562; the population in 1891 was 33· Letters through Faringdon, which is the nearest moneyorder & telegraph office, arrive at 7.15 a.m. & 2.40> p.m. ; the nearest Letter Box is at Ola.nfield, cleared; Radcot is a hamlet to Langford, from it is 3! miles at 10.5 a.m. & 8.10 p.m L.ANGFORD. Garner Rev. Ja,s. (CO'Ilg.), The ?-.1anse Hobh;; William F. farmer, Lower fairm J10hnson George, beer retailer GRAFTO:N. May William, Spring pool Wodehouse Rev. Con&tantine Oakley Elizabeth (Mrs.), Crown P. H Packer & Cooper, -shopkeepers, Po.st oft Akerman Jn.Rihodets, fa<rmr .:Manor !n:a Burden Joseph, farmer Gri£fith, Parker Richard, carpenter Pawling .Alf.red·, farmer Vicarage Reading William John Pearson,farmer, 'Watts Jame,s, farmer, Dove farm COMMERCIAL. Rectory faiTill \Va.ttts John, fal"'ller Burge John, .saddler · Farmer William, black,smith Frampton Jn. farmer, Laagford downs Gooding J ames, Bell P .Il Robbirus J ames, baker & shopkeeper Wabbs John, jun. fa.rmer Strafforo Hemy, hurdle maker Tayler Kate (Mis,s), shopkeeper & coal dealer ·- R.ADOOT. Greenaway .Arthur, shopkeeper Ha.rrison William, carpenter Tombs Ethel (~is·s ), ladies' school, TreV'o,r cottage Clare George, Swa.u P.H. & wine &;, €pirit merchant; plerusure boat &, fishing prmt proprietor & coal merHa.ll Thom~s, blacksmi bh Tmrubs William (Mrs.), fanner chant,, Rad<cot bridge. See advert LA UNTON is a parish and village on the borders of Ilucks, with a station three quarters of a mile north from the village, on the Oxford and :Bletchley section of the London and North Western railway, and 1! mile east from Bicester, about 13 miles north-east from Oxford, and 64 from London, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county c.ourt diostrict of Jl.icester, rural deanery of Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The chureh of St. Mary is· a building of local sto'ne in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south poroh and a western tower of Early English date, containing 5 bells, fDur of which were cast in 1701 and the fifth in 1712 : there is also a sanctus bell: the chancel is Perpendicular and has two sedilia and a pi·scina : the nave arcades have Transition Norman arches, supporting a. Perpendicular clerestory : t!here is a brass to Sir Matthew Shawe, priest, c. 1520, and the matrix of a cross fl.euree, with inscription, to Richard Glassyer, priest, of the 16th cerutury: two other brasses, mentioned by Dunkin, ate now lost: there are memorials to John Cottisford gent. 1683, and Mary (Hyde) his wife, 1668: and to Mary Duley, 1736 : oppoSiite the porch remains the shaft of a brDken cross, and at the east end is a railed tomlb to the Rev. Lancelot Jackson D.D. rector of Bletchingdon, d. 1750: the whole is fitted with open sittings in oak, the pews having ibeen remfrv.ed in the year 1844: the font is plain Early English : the east window has been filled with stained: glas-s, in commemoration of Robert Skinner D.D. rector here .from 16'31, but sequestered in 1643, ~bishop of Bristol, 1<637-41, and of Oxford, 1641-63: in 1641 he was imprisoned in the Tower, but at the Restoration was restored, and !held the See of Worcester from 16&3 until his death, 14 June, 1670: this window is also a. memorial to Philip Stubbs B.D. the first chaplain of Greenwich Hospital, author of the first report of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1704, arehdeacon of St. Alban's, 1715, and rector here 1719 untiJl his death, 13 Sept. 1738: there are 320 sittings, mostly free. Tlhe register of baptisms dates from the year 1648; marriages, 167I; burials, 168I; but the eaJrlier portion consists of entries recovered by the exertions of the Rev. Philip Stubbs B.D. rector 1719-38, after theearlier registers had· been destroyed by a. fire which broke out in and burnt down a part of the Rectory Housein the yeatr 1714: these he inserted in a new volume, and from 1714. the entries go on regularly. The living is a reotory, tithe rent-charge £52, average £39, gross yearly value £637, wit'.h residence and including 458 acres of gle-be, in the gift .of the BishGp o-f Oxford, and held ,gince r85o by the Rev. Jarnes Charles Blomfield M . .A. of Exeter College, Oxford, and rural dean of Bicester. In therectory garden is a hedge of elm and yew, supposed to be 200 years old. Here is a Congregational chapel, The reading room, in the centre of the village, was opened in 1894, and is supplied with daily and weekly papers an<f magazines. Richard Wootten in 1£66-7 bequeathed £56- yearly for perusions of 14s. a week to four people. The. Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of tihe ma'nor. The principal landowners are F. '3. Browne esq. Algernon Busby esq. the RectOO', and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The s~:lil is clay; subsoil, clay. Tht~ greater portion of the land is pasture, some arable. The area is 3,550 ftcres; rateable value, £4,245; the population in 1891 was 619. Parish Clerk, William Foster. Post Office.-George .Ancil, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 6.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 4.50 p.m. through Bicester, the 'nearest money order & telegraph office National School, built in 1839 & holding 120 children; average attendance, 120; Francis .Aibraham Harrison. master; Miss (\J.rtis, mistres,s; Miss Cart-er, assistant m!istress Railway Station, William Henry Withnall, station master Baker John, I.angleys Illomfield Rev. James Charles M.A. Cole's William, farme.r, New road Collyer Alf,red, farm bailiff to William Marriott William, carman P=ott William, coach & ca,b builder (rector & rural dean), Rectory Bonner J Oihn Harper Ricllard Watts Henry, Launton house COMME:RCUL. Ancil George, shopkeeper, Post office Carter Henry, Bull inn C!llstle Caleb, beer retailer Deeley e,sq. Manor fal"'D Coombes Gabriel, shopkeeper Oub bage Thomrus, blacksmith Fenemore .Alfred, farmer Feneunore Richard,farmer,Field'·s farm Freeman Joseph, butcher Golder William, farmer Hawe's Thomas·, fa.rrner Heritage Silas, beer retailer Rolt J·ohn, farmer & general wheelwright Reading Room (John Ilaker, hon. sec) Sansom Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Sansom William, farmer Savin John (Ml's. ), fa;rmer, HungerHill farm Shoulder Frands, machinist & farme.rSutton William, baker, Willow cottage Tay lor ThomaJs, cowkee,per Young Thomas, farmer I.EAFIELD-CUM-WYCHWOOD is an ecclesia.s- station on the Oxford a'nd Cheltenham branch of thetical parish formed in I86o from the civil parish of Ship- Great Western railway, is a township in the civil parish ton-u'nd'er-Wychwood and the ecclesiastical pari&h of ()f .Shipton-under-Wychwood, 4 noi"th-west-by-north froro Wychwood, 3 miles 'SOuth-east from Asrott station on Witney, and ·8~ south from Chipping Norton. The church the Oxford and Cheltenham branch of tJhe Great Western of St. Michael anl .All Angels, consecrated in 186o, is 81 railway, in the Northern division of the county, hnn- building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of dred and petty sessional division of Chadlingto'n, union chancel, cJ..erestoried nave, e.isle·s, south porch and a cenand county court district of Chipping Norton, rural tral tower, with octagonal spire, containing a clock and o deanery of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and dio- bells, added in 1874: the north and s<Juth arches of the cese of Oxford. Lea.field, 3 miles south-ea.st from Ascott ~wex ~Jpen to- quasi-transepts, that on the north forming

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. NORTH LEIGB. 127 an organ chamber, lbeyo'nd which is the vestry; the The area of the township is 907 .acres; raterubl& value~ ·graceful eastern .and western arches of the tower are £r,447; the population in r8gr was 734· .supported by clustered sh.afts, with rich foliated capita1s: Post, Office. Miss Elizabeth Ferriman, sub-postmistress. the east window of three lights, with a cinque-foi1ed Letters arrive through Witney at 9.50 a.m. ; dis- -wheel window a~bove, is richly stained, and there is a. good patched at 4 p.m. week days only. The nearest money niche with credence table in the north wall o·f the chan- order office is at Wit'ney & telegraph office at .Ascott eel: each of the aisles is divided from the nave by a'n railway station. Postal orders are issued here, but arcade of four arches: there are rubout 450 sittings. not paid. Wall Letter Box near Charl!bury :road,. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1784; cleared· at 3·55 p.m. daily, sundays excepted m·arriage,s, 1'853; 1burials, r831. The living is a vicarage, Wychwood, situated between Burford and CharThury, net yearly value albout £8o, with 22! acres of glebe and is a parish formed out of the old! forest of Wychwood and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held eoolesiastically annexed to Leafield. The Oxford and since 1875 by the (Rev. Thomas William Lee M . .A.. of Cheltenham branch of the Great Western railway passes. Trinity College, Oambr.idge. The Baptist chapel here was a mile north-west of the parish, and ha,s a station at built in 1876. .A. charity of about £2 yearly, left by Sir .A.scott. The former Primitive Methodist chapel is now George Fettiplace, hart. (d. 8 April, 1743), is for bread, used as a pa~rish room. The Crown, which is lord of and there is a charity left by Sir Henry Unton kt. pro- thfr manor, and Lord Churchill are the principal ducing £21 1os. yearly for chul'Ch purposes. In t!J~ landed proprietors. The soil is stone brash, gravel and parish are two barrows, known as the ''High" and limestone' subsoil, rock. The chief crops are wheat._ "Low" bam-ows. Near the church is an ancient cross, 1 barley, oats and turnips. The area i·s 3,692 acres; raterestored in 1873 by the inhabitants of the village as a able value, £2,400; the population in 1891 was 2.12. memorial of their deliverance from the scourge of small Parish Clerk, George Bawel'man. pox. Lord •Churchill, who is lord of the manor, the Crown National S-chool, erected about 1842, for 200 children;:. and P. S. Yapp esq. are the principal landow'ners. The average attendance, 167; George Gordon, master;.. soil is clay and part b.ra-sh; subsoil, clay and gravel. The Mrs. Mary Gordon & MiSis E. .A.. Stephens, mistresse<S;.. chief crops are wheat, beans, barley, oats and turnips. :Miss Grace Wilson. infa!:Lts' mistress LEAFIELD. Ferriman Francis, fa,rmer Willett Robert, Royal Oak P.H. Field. IngramRev.OhristopherAustin(Baptst) Ferriman Richard, farmer A<ssar Lee Rev. 'Dhomas William M.A.(vicar), Ha.dland Charles, beer retailer Young John, farmer Vica.rage Hadland Jo•seph, shopkeerpe;r & bakell" WYCHWOOD. Yapp Peter Samuel, Loughborough h6 Hewett Thoma.s, baker & grocer cmiMERCIAL. Holloway J e•s•se, farmer .A.ddy John M.I.C.E. South Lawn ldge_ (postal addres,s, Burford R.S. 0) Calvertt John Simpso.n, farmer, Fair Spear house (postal address, Ascottunder· Wychwood) .A.shfield Wm. (Mrs. ),shoe maker & drpr Hooper Jam8!s, shopkeeper Baker Richard, Old George P.H Ho-me George, carpenter Ben field J oseph, .shopkeeper Kirtland George, Fox P.H Bowerman Charles, slater Pratt Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Coom'bs Robert, wlheelwright S!ha,yler Frederick, farmer Ea,ton Tth'Oma.s, farmer Taylor Jsph. Geo. watch & clock ma Gregson A.rtilmr Bailey, f131I'm bailiff to the Crown Ferriman ElizUJbeth (Miss),•shopkeeper, Timms Freder:ck, stone mason Howse Wl.lliam, blacksmith Post office Williams Philip, potter William s Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper NORTJH LEIGH is a village and parish a short distance west of the road from Witney to Woodstock, 4 miles north-east from Witney station on the Oxford and Fairford ·branch of the Great Western railway and about 3~ west from Handborough sta•tion on the Oxford, ·worcester and Wolverhampton section of the same JSy-stem, and 5 west~south-west irom Woods·tock, in the :Mid division of the county, hundred· of W(JOtton, petty sessional division of Wootton South, union and county court district of Witney, rural deanery of '\Voodstock and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an interesting edifice of stone, in the Norma:n, Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel and nave, a.isles, continued westward until flush with the west wall of the tower, two chapels, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells, re-cast in 1876 from the previous 5, and re-hung, at a cost of £130, raised by sulbscription: the chancel, chiefly in the Decorated style, is separated fr<Jm the nave by a stone screen of similar character : it retains a piscina and a monument on the south side to R01bert Perrot, 1605, with two figures, male a'nd female, kneeling before a prayer desk, and underneath it figures of his four sons and four daughters, also kneeling : at the base of a sepulchral niche, i'n the north wall of the chancel, is a brass to Thomas Buckingham esq. 14;31, and above the chancel arch, on the west side, is a mural painting of "The Resurrection" a'nd "The Doom:" the nave is divided from the aisles by Transition Norman arcades of two pointed arches on either side with round pillars : on the north ·side of the north aisle is a chapel in the Italian style, built 'by James Perrot, who died in 1724, as is inscribed on his monument in the chapel, where there are also monuments to the Musgrave family: at the east end of this aisle is a chantry chapel, a beautiful specimen of Late Perpendicular, with fan tracery vaulting, and on the south side a piscina with Tudor flowers : an ogee arch opens from this chapel to the chancel and under it is a very fine Perpendicular altar tomb, with recumbent effigies in alaJbaster of Sir William Wylcot, in armour, and his wife, both wearing collars of SS. : over the tomb is a canopy with bold crockets, pinnacles and finial : in the south wall of the chapel is a curious monument to William Lenthale, dated 1628 : this chapel, as appears from the patent rolls of Henry VI. was founded by Elizaibeth, widow of Sir William Wylcot., sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1391-92, and, in 1440-41, wife of Sir John Blackett knt. of Northleigh: the tower, reputed to be in part Saxon, has very massive walls of rubble, with Norman openings of two lights in the 'belfry storey, divided by a baluster: there is an ancient Norman font: the whole fa.bric was oompletely r~tored and the porch rebuilt in 1864, at a cost of upwards of £r,3oo, [2oo of which was given by the parishioners and the rest raised by subscription : there are a.bout 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1573. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value [2oo, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1887 by the Rev. George James Scott, of Ohrist's College, Cambridge_ There is a Wesleyan chapel in the village, and a Primitive Methodist chapel at East End. The parish charities, produce a~bout £so yearly, for distribution in bread, clothing and money; £r6 yearly for apprenticing, £7 15s. for educational purposes and about £z for general relief_ Wilcote, the seat of George H. Dawkins esq. in right o!. his wife, widow of Charles Urban Sartoris esq. (d. 1884), is pleasantly situated partly in this parish and' partly in Finstock, and commands an extensive view over a fine vale of pasture land. The Duke of Marlborough is lord of the manor, and the trustees of the late Charle-s Urban Sartoris esq. (d. 1884), and the Governors of Bridewell Hospital are the chief landowners. The soil is gravel and clay; su,bsoil, principally limestone. The crops are the usual cereals and potatoes of a superior quality. The area is 2,259 acres; rateable value,. £3,788; the population in 1891 was 737· • Osney Hill, or Horse-on-the-Hill, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish containing one farmhouse and one cottage. James Mason esq. of Eynsham Hall, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The area is 208 acres; rateaJble value, £6x; the population iu r8gr was II. Letters through Witney (no delivery). Newyatt is a hamlet three-quarters of a mile west of the village, partly i'n this parish and partly in that of' Hailey. East End is a scattered hamlet of this parish, about r mile north-east and has a Prtimitive Methodist chapeL About the year 1814 a Roman villa was discovered here,. with an interesting tesselated pavement. Post •Offi-ce. Jethro Hicks, slllb-postmaster. Letters arrive from Witney at 8.10 a.m: ; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. week days only. Witney is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but nat paid. Letter Box, East End, cleared at 4.40 p.m. & one at Newyatt cleared at 5·45 p.m National School (mixed), erected in 1838, on a site given by the Duke of Marlborough, & will hold 160 children ; average attendance, 140; the building was enlarged in 1854 & iu 1885 a new infants' room was added by Jas. Mason esq. ; Her'bert Procter Pearson, master; Miss Harriet Cornwall, infants' mistress; Mrs. Charlotte !Pearson, assistant mistress •

128 NOR'l'S: LEIGB:. OXFORDSHIRE. .Dawkiru; George H. Wilcote. (Letters Oox Amos, farmer, East end Long JaJS. & Son, farmers, Village frm. Porter Thos. (Mrs.), frmr. & landownr Pratley George, Leathe.r Bottle P.B • through Oharlbury) .FletcheT Oscar H. Rock vita, East end Lord Mrs Dore Thos.jun. carpente.r & shopkeepe1· FaJkner William, shoe maker Scott Rev. Geo.rge James, Vicarage Turne.r Mrs. East end Grusk Frank, farmer, Bride well farm Green Thomas, coa.l dealer, Ea.st end Harwood Greg-?:ry, farmer Ea•st end Richards Alexandra, farmer,Bolly crt RowlesMartha(Mrs.),shopkpr.East end Hick,s Charles, baker Smith George, farme.r COMMERCIAL .Adam1s George, shoe maker .ohiche.ster Wm. fa.rmer, Lower Riding Clapton Geo·rge, fa,rmer, Osney hill C(}llier Major; farmer, Newyatt <Jollins George, coal dealer & tailor Hicms Jethro, shopkeeper & carpenter, Smith Hy. fa.l"'ner & grazier, Ea.st end Walker Frederick, Mason·s' Arms P.H Willett JD'hn & Son, fa;:rmers, Hill fa.rm. Wilsdon Edwin, farmer, Puddle end Wi1sdon Henry, farmer, Newyatt Wixen Jonathan,beer retailer, East end p{).st office Jloslin John, fa.rmer, Field farm Lardner Stephen, 'Voodman P.H Ma.IIis-ell Ge01rge, Ha,rcoul't .AJ:m.s P .H. & black•smibh SOUTH LEIGH is a small village and parish watered bra:ss to William Secoll, a layman, 1557, and the porch by the Limb brook, with station on the Oxford and Fair- contains the r~mains of a stoup : the font is Perpendicu- .ford branch of the 'Great Western railway, 2! east-south- lar and h·as a panelled ba.sin: in 1872 the church was re- .east from Witney, 8 west-north-w~st from Oxford, and stored at a total cost of [1,134, Co'ningsby Charles Sib72~ from LondDn, in the Mid division of the county, hun. · thorp esq. of Canwick Hall, Lines, being a liberal sub- -dred of Wootton, petty sessional division of Bampton s-crilber: in r88g the- church was again restored and new East, Witney union and county court district, rural roofed, at a oost of [550, and a stained window erected deanery of Witney and! archdeaconry and diocese of Ox- / to the Rev. Gerard Moultrie M. A. vicar r 873 until his .ford. In the Domesday Survey, Lege, or South Leigh, death, 25 April, 1885: there are 200 sittings. The re- .formed part of the grant to Roger D'Ivry. In the reign gister dates from the year r6r2. The living is a vicarage, of Stephen, .A.D. 1147• the chapel of South Leigh was net yearly value £214, including 10 acres of gle-be, with granted by Richard de Oamville to Readli'ng .AJbbey, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held .at the .end of the 16th century it was ma.de over, together since 1885 by the Rev. Arthur East B.A. of Trinity Colwith seven other livings, to the bishopric of Oxford, with lege, Oamlbrid.ge. The vicara-ge house, a large structure, a. view to the re-endowment of that See, which had been with a tow~r upwards of 6o feet !high, is· a good building left vacant by Queen Elizrubeth 11 years, 1589·1603. The of red 1brick with stone dressings, in a modified style of church of St. James, situated at the north end of the Romanesque, erected 1by subscription in 1870, from devillage, is a small building of stone, mostly PerpendicuLar, signs by Mr. John Gibbs, architect, of Oxford, at a COit and C()nsists of chancel with Lady chapel on the north, o·f £I,855· The Wesleyan chapel, built in 1876, will hold .nave, north aisle, south porch and a western tower, with wo perwns. The old manor house, near the church, has .embattled parapet, containing 4 bells : the walls of the a. good Perpendicular fire-pla.ce and some oak panelling. chancel are Norman, and on the south side is a priest's 'Dhe charities, derived from land, amount to aJbout £54 .doorway of this period, with a carved tympanum on the yearly. cra.mes· Mason esq. of Eynsham Hall, Wh() is lord -outside: the chancel also retains a piscina. with aumbry, of the manor, and the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose b()th Transition Norman, and a Norman window, widely Oollege, Oxford, are the principal landowners. The soil .splayed: the rood loft stairs remain: the screens in the is clay and gravel; sUJbsoil, clay. The chief crops are chapel, nave and aisle are Perpendicular and the nave is the usual cereals, and there is much pa.sturage. Th~ -separated from the aisle 'by an arcade of three arches of area is 2,074 acres; rateable value, £2,226; the populathe same date: the e!llst window is ·stained, and the east tion in 1891 was 325. window of the chapel contains a head of St. James: from 1Parish Clerk, James Kea'ne. the pulpit of this church the lRev. John Wesley M.A. Letters through Woitney arrive at 9 a.m. & 5.20 p.m. preached his first sermon, 16 Oct. 1725 : a two manual Wall Letter Box, cleared at 8.40 a.m. & 5.20 p.m. on organ, built by Martin, of Oxford, was placed in 1892: week days only. Witney is the nearest money order &; .during the restoration in 1872 some singnla.r 15th century telegraph office mural paintings were discovered i'n the ohancel and other National School (mixed), erected in 1871, from designs by parts {)f the church: these are five lin number, and repre- Mr. John Gibbs, architect, of Oxford, at a cost of .sent respectively" The Resurrection," "The Weighing of [373, on a. site given by C. C. Si!bthorp esq. of CanSouls" (a very fine painting on the south nave wall), :wick hall, Lines, who also liberally contributed to its "The Gates of Heaven," "The Blessed Virgin" (in the erection; the •school will hold Bo children; average at- -chancel) and "St. Clement of Rome:" when discovered tendance, 57; JDhn Fernley, master; Mrs. Sarah Fern• they were very complete in nearly every detail, though ley, mistress much faded, and were faithfully restored at a cost of £8o Railway Station, James Phipps, sta.tio_n master hy C. Sibthorp esq. : at the west .end of the nave is a Carriers.~1aridge & Stevens, to Witney, thurs. & sat "East Rev . .irthur B..A. Vicarage Elliott Egbert Edwin, farmer Keane Edwin (Mr:s.), s1hopkeeper J3ryan John, sen. farmer Harr.is Charles, shopkeeper Pickett Ja·s. farmer & gratZier, Tar fnn :Bryan John, jun. fa.rmer Harri·s Thos.Masorus'Arms P.H.& fJ·mr Warner William, farmer, Hill houses Claridge William & Son, shopkeepers Hicllis Erne•st, bhcksmith Widdows Willia.m, farmer & carriers LEW, see Bampton Lew. LEWKNOR is a village and parish I mile west from .Aston Rowant station, on the Watlington and Princes ~isborough branch of the Great Western railway, 4 -miles south-east from Tetsworth, 6 south from Thame, 10 north-west from Wycombe and 2~ north-east from Watlington, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Lewknor, petty sessional division of W atlington, unions and county court districts of Thame and Wy- ~ombe, rural deanery of .Aston, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Margaroet is a fine building of flint with stone dressings, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, containing a. clock aad 5 bells : on the north side is the mortuary chapel of the J odrell family: the -chancel is an excellent example of Decorated work, and ha-s an ea.st window, a piscina, 3 sedilia. and a sepulchral canopied recess : the chancel arch is Transition Norman, and the nave partly of this character and partly Decorated, the !'eSt of the church being of the latter period: the font is Early Norman: the church contains a brass to John Aldeburne, priest, c. 138o, with half effigy, the inscription, a part of which remained when the church was restored in 1845, being now lost; there is also a. fine male effigy of stone, bearing shield, charged with bend, and crosses pattee : en the north side of the chancel is a fine monument to Sir Thomas Fleetwood kt. of Missenden, Bucks, and Dorothy his wife; and on the south side a monument to William Deane, of N ethercote, in this parish: there is also in the chancel a mural tablet w Col. Adrian Scrope, the regicide and sometime M.P. for Linlithgow; he signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I., and was afterwards hanged, drawn and quartered, 17 Oct. 166o: during the years 1883-7 the church was embellished with four stained windows, the gift of Lady Jodrell, formerly of Nethercote, who has also placed in the mortuary chapel a very fine effigy in marble, by the late Sir J. E. Boehm bart. R..A.. of the Rev. Sir Edward Repps Jodrell bart. M.A., J.P. who died 12 Nov. 1882: the church was restored during the period 1863-6, at !ll c~st of £720, and affords 241 sittings. The register dates from the year 1666. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge, commuted at £190, present average [r4o, net yearly value £I8o, with residence, including glebe let for £126, in the gift of All Souls College, Oxford, and held since r884 by the Rev. Samuel Wetherfield M.A. of that college. The charities for distribution in bread, clothing and money amount to about £23 yearly. Major White, of Sail Park, Norfolk, holds the manorial rights. The principal landowners are All Souls College, Oxford, Major John Augustns Fane, of Wormsley, Major White, Wenma.n Aubrey Wykeham-Musgrave esq. of Thame

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. LITLLI!:MORE. 129 Park, Miss Young, of Mallard's Court, Stokenchurch, Mrs. Robert Neighbour, the vicar, and some smaller proprietors. The soil is fine loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chi-ef crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats. The area of the parish is 2,58ga. rr. 4P·; rateable value, £2,734; the population in 1891 was 428 in the civil, and 451 in the ecclesiastical parish. Parish Clerk, John Goode. Postcombe is a hamlet 2 miles north. Stutridge and Wellground are detached portions of the parish, ecclesisastically belonging to Lewknor, bnt for poor law purposes attached to Stokenchurch. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. Il., Express Delivery k .Annuity & Insurance O:ffi'ce.-George Vernon, sub-postmaster. Letters from Tetsworth arrive at 6.30 a.m. & 12.42 p.m. ; dispatched at 9·5 a.m. & 6.55 p.m Pillar Letter Box, at Postcombe, cleared at 7·5 p.m Schools. National (mixed), for 6o children; average attendance, 45; W. J. Drew, master National (infants), for 6o children; average attendance, 46; Mrs. Drew, mistress Infants', Postcombe, for 40 children; average attendance, 12; Miss Elizabeth Neighbour, mistress LEWKNOR. Ho.It John, farmer & baker Calcutt Henrv, The Box Tree inn Kimber A.lfd. (:Mrs. ),fa.rmer, Knapp fm Clare Thoma~, farmer, Blep'heim farm K:i.ng Oha.s.wheelwrght.carpntr.& bldr Collett John, The Fea.the.rs P.H Neighbour Renry, farmer, Town farm Oolls Edward, bla.cksmith Austin William., Knapp cottage Fillbee .M:i.s.s, Mo.or Court cottage Knight Oharles, The LaureLs Wethel"field Ibev. Sanmel !\LA. Rectry Barney Oharles, blacksmith Smifh Henry, bee1r retailer Fletcher William, farmeT Vie m on George, grocer & a,s.sistant Fryer J ameiS, farmer Field J Oihn ( exors. of), farmeTs ove.rseer, PO<St oilice J armayne Willia.m, coal dealer POSTCO~IBE. Neighibour Robert (~I:rs. ), farmer & landowner, The Poplars Filbee .A.lgeTnOJ!, farmer, Church farm Filbw Jn. Fra.s.farmer,MoOT Court frm Guy Louisa (Mrs.), Lea:ther Bottle Bull Robert, . shopkeeper Smith J oseph, butcher P.H. & farme-r Butcher Jas. wheelwright & carpentr Whitney Henry, New inn LITTLEMORE is a liberty and village, and an ecclesiastical parish formed July 3oth, 1847, partly from the parishes of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford and Iflley, and is a station on the Oxford and Wycombe section of the Great Western railway, 2 miles south from Oxford and 59 from London: the Parish is in the Southern division of the county, Headington union, county court district of Oxford, Bullingdon hundred and petty sessional division, and rural deanery of Cuddesdon, and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of SS. Mary and Nicholas was erected in 1835 at a cost of over £8oo, during the incumbency of the late Cardinal Newman, whose mother laid the foundation stone, and is a building of stone in the Lancet style, consisting of chancel and nave and an eastern tower, with low pyramidal roof, containing a clock and one bell : all the windows are stained, and were designed by the late Mr. Willement: the church will hold about 300 persons. The register dates from the year 1836. The living is a vicarage, gross year:y value £250, with residence and 2 acres of glebe, in the alternate gift of Oriel College, Oxford, and Charles Walter Scott Crawley esq. and held since 1872 by the Rev. Vernon Thomas Green 1\LA.. of Trinity College, Cambridge. .Among former incumbents may be named the late John Henry, Cardinal Newman Il.D. and sometime fellow and dean of Oriel College, who held this living in conjunction with the vicarage of St. Mary the Virgin, in Oxford, from 1828 to 1843, and in 1842 established here an ascetic community, over which he presided for three years : he died at the Oratory, Edgbaston, Birmingham, in 18go. The Baptist chapel here was erected in 1804. The village club contains a library and reading room. Lawn Upton is the residence of Sir William James Herschel hart. The Oxford Corporation sewage pumping station and fi~tering beds are in this parish; the buildings are of red brick with stone dressings; in 1894 the pumping engines were thoroughly renovated and refitted, and new machine house, engine shed and other buildings erected. There was anciently here a Benedictine priory for nuns, founded by Roger de Sandford in the reign of Henry II. (n54-8g), and dedicated to SS. Mary and Nicholas; in 1524 it was suppressed and granted to Cardinal W olsey as part of the endowment of his college at Oxford, but in 38 Henry VIII. (1546-7) it was granted to William Owen and John Bridges ; on its suppression the revenues were estimated at £33 6s. 8d. The existing remains consist only of a fragment, apparently of the 16th century, now converted into cottages, and called the " Mynchery." The principal landowners are the trustees of the late James Morrell esq. of Headington Hill, the Corporation of Oxford, Lincoln, Corpus Christi and Merton colleges, Oxford, and the trustees of .A.lice Sm1th's charity. Tbe soil is sandy loam; subsoil, yellow sand. The chief crops are barley and wheat. The area is 1,230 3JCres; rateable value, £5,836; the population in 18gr was 1,747, which included 52 officers and 485 inmates in the Oxfordshire .Asylum. Parish Clerk, Francis Stephen Humphries. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office. -MM. Eliza Castle, sub-postmistress. Letters througb. Oxford arrive at 6.40 a.m. & 2.45 p.m.; dispatched at II a.m. & 6.Io p.m.; sundays, arrive at 6.40 a.m. ~ dispatched at 3 & 6 p.m, The nearest telegraph office is at Sandford-on-Thames. The Oxford County Lunatic .Asylum, situated here-, forms an extensive pile, built of stone, in a plain style, and relieved by towers; the asylum includes a chapel, and a house for a resident medical officer, and lying around are pleasant grounds, and kitchen gardens of considerable extent, worked as a sewage farm, and the institution also has its own gas works-. Richard Henry Heurtley Sankey M.R.C.S.Eng. resident medical superintendent; Charles Howard S tewart L. R. C. P. Lond. assistant medical officer ; Rev. Hayman .Alfred James Cummings Th,.A..K.C.L~ chaplain; T. M. Davenport, clerk of committee; William Thompsan, steward & clerk to asylum. Schools. National (mixed), erected in 1838; average attendance,. 100 ; Frederick Hewlett, master Inhnts', average attendance, 6o; Miss Mary Ann Evans, mistress Ra.ilway Station, John Owen Laurence, station master Carriers.-Stroud, every day, thurs. excepted to 'New inn,' Oxford COMMERCIAL. Martin John, farmer & assist. overseerMesser Henry, market gardener Miller .Albert, grocer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .Allin Mrs. R. The Grange Comfort Rev. Charles .Abrabam M.A.. (curate) Crawley Misses Cummings Rev. Hayman Alfred Jas. Th . .A..K.C.L. (chaplain), .Asylum Deacon Joseph, Heyford Hill house Green Rev. Vernon Thomas M.A. Vicarage Rerschel Sir William J ames bart Judge Mrs. Rumley villa Mallam Mrs Mallam Thomas M.A. Sankey Rd. Hy. Heurtley, Asylum Stewart Charles Boward, .Asylum Upton Miss, St. George's Ward Major Charles, The Retreat A.llin Percival, farmer Ashfi.eld Francis, George P.H Beecham Charles, coal merchant Bryant William, laundryman Castle Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper & post office Coppock John, builder Cordrey John, beer retailer Garrett .Alfred, Swan hotel, Kennington island ; good accommodation for camping, boating & fishing parties Gurden Vincent, boot maker Hillier Henry, butcher Rorton J oseph, whitesmith Humphrey John, Golden Ball P.H Humphries Francis Stephen, carpenter & parish clerk Linley Thomas, farmer ~Iaddox Thomas, saddler Oxford Corporation Sewage Pumping Station (James Milne, engineer) Oxford County Lunatic .Asylum (Rd. Hy. Heurtley Sankey, medical supt) Oxford Sanitary Steam Laundry Co. (George. .Ash wood, manager) Petty Charles, builder Phillips William, beer retailer Phipps George, boot maker Sl\eldon Hy. blcksmth. & whlwrght Stroud James, builder Stroud Thomas Moulder, carrier & land measurer Thompson William, clerk of asylum Welch J oseph, gardener West George, baker Whitlock W. Wm. baker & grocer OX0X. 9

• 130 MAPLEDURHAM. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S Eton College, and held since 1883 by the Rev. Francis St. John Thackeray M.A., F.S.A. late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Smallwood and Benwell's charity of 12s. a yea.r is distributed in money. The river hereabouts affords excellent fishing for both pike and perch and for trout in the weir pool. Mapledurham, the property of John Darell-Blount esq. D.L., J.P. but now (1895) in the occupation of the Hon. Algernon Henry Mills·, is a fine Elizabethan mansion situated near the Thames, and approached through a stately avenue of ancient elms nearly a mile in length; the house contains an interesting collection of pictures, among which is a portrait of Martha Blount, youngest daughter of Lister Inou!lt esq. the "Parthenia" of Pope; she died in 1763; during the Civil War this house was fortified in support of the Royal cause by Sir Charles Blount kt. governor of Reading, who was slain at Oxford, I June, 1644; Sir Arthur Aston kt. governor of Oxford, superinte~ded in person the work of f.ortification; being at length subjected to an assault, it was courageously defended, but eventually had to surrender, and was then plundered by the victors. Attached, to the mansion is a domestic (Catholic) chapel, dedicated to St. Michael, which the public are permitted to attend. John Darell-Blount esq. D.L., J.P. is lord of the manors of Mapledurham Gurney and Mapledurham Chancey. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and peas. The area is 2,85r acres; rateable value, £3,310; the population in 1891 was 445· Parish Clerk, George Rush. Wall Letter Box (Vicarage), cleared at 8.ro a.m. & 6.20 p.m. week days & 12 noon sundays. Letters through Reading. The nearest money order & telegraph offices ard Pangbourne & Reading Schools. MAPLEDURHAM is a parish and secluded village 2i miles north-west from Tilehurst station, and 2! south-by-west from Pangbourne station, both on the Reading a.ndl Oxford section of the Great Western railway. 4 north-west from Reading, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Langtree, union of Bradfield, petty sessional division of Henley, county court district of Reading, rural deanery of Henley, archdeaconry and diocese of oxford, bounded on the south by the river Thames and sheltered by a ridge of hills on the north. The road from Caversham to Mapledurbam1 shaded by a row of pines nearly the whole distance, forms a picturesque and agreeable promenade: the nearest bridge up the river is at Whitchurch, about 2! miles; and down, at Caversham, 4 miles: there is a tow-path ferry across the river from the Roebuck Hotel, about a mile below the lock. The church of St. Ma.rgaret is a building of flint and stone, of Late Perpendicular date, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, south chapel and a western tower of brick, raised 24 feet in 1863 and containing 6 bells, and a clock presented by William IV. and bearing the royal initials : the chapel of the Blount family, on the south side, is railed off from the rest of the church, but its style, though Late, is superior to that of the church proper: between the chapel and the nave is a monument, with recumbent figures, to Sir Richard lHount kt. d. 22 Nov. r6rg, and Elizabeth (Moore) his wife, also surrounded by iron railings : here is also a brass to Sir Robert Bardolf, 1395: the nave and south aisle were entirely restored in r863, an organ chamber forme-d, the gallery removed and the tower chamber thrown into the church, three windows were filled with stained glass and a stone porch and two new windows built: the organ was presented in r889 by Charles Day Rose ·esq. of Hardwick House, Whitchurch: the interior, including the chancel, is decorated in polychrome, and affords 130 sittings. The register dates from the year National (Trench Green), enlarged in 1893, for Bo ~627. The living is a vicarage, commuted tithe rent- children; average attendance, 57 ; maintained by ,charge £750, average £5go; net yearly value £420, voluntary subscriptions & grJVernment grant; Miss with 52~ acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Elizabeth Butler, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Thackeray Rev. Francis St. John M.A. Corner Wm. farmer, Blagrave farm .Aitchison Frederick, Cliff house (vicar) Gimblett Thomas, farmer, New farm Gower Thomas Pry, Dunelm Vickery Clliarles Helllry, Green d"ene Hall John, carpenter Mill~ Hon. Algernon Hy. Mapledurham Lascelles Fras. H. frmr. Green dene St. Vincent Dowager Viscountess, The COJ\DfERCIAL. Mapledurham Mill, millers (Charles Chase Albury Alfred J. blacksmith Bevan, manager) Stoker Rev. William (Catholic) Bevan Charles, estate steward to John Morse James, farmer, Park farm Stovell Lt.-Col. Gerald,The Fishery; Darell-Blount esq. D.L., J.P Seville Henry, farmer, Bottom farm & 22 Hyde Park st. W; & Junior Chown Maria (Mrs.), frmr.Chazey frm Squires William, shoe maker United Service club, London SW Collins Jonas, Pack Horse P.H Trinder James, Pack Saddle P.H MARSH :BALDON, see Baldon. MARSTON is a parish and village on the river Cherwell, which forms part of the boundary of the parish and across which there is a ferry to this place in connection with the Banbury road, north of Oxford. The village is one third of a mile north-north-east from Dxford, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union of Headington, county court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Islip, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas is a plain but ancient edifice of stone, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a low embattled western tower containing 5 bells : the chancel is well proportioned and has an east window of three lights, with a· ,-spray of oak foliage carved in the apex of the dripstone: the recess of the first window on the south side is ocarried down and forms a sedile, and eastward of it is a small square piscina; on the same side is a blocked door, wiltl a heavy carved label on the outside: the chancel arch is Transition Norman and near it is a h'tgioscope looking from the south aisle: the nave has arcades of four arches on the north and three on the south side, of the same style as the chancel arch, but not equally early: the clerestoried windows are Late Perpendicular, as are the walls of both aisles and the north door: the tower also partakes of the same features: in the chancel is a mural monument and a brass to Unton Croke esq, M.P. for Oxford, r659, and one of the Commissioners for the ·security of the Protector, serjeant-at-law, ob. r67r, and to Anne, his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Hore esq. of Marston; Croke resided at the Manor House and took a prominent part on the side of the Parliament in the Civil War: the church was restored in 1883 at a cost of [r,4oo, when the chancel was new roofed: there are 200 sittings. The churchyard, considerably enlarged during 1894, formerly contained a cross, but this was taken down in 1830 in order to mend the church wall. The register dates from the year 1654. The living is a vicarage. tithe rent-charge £182, net yearly value £123, in the gift of Mrs. Evans, widow of the Rev. Evan Evans D.D. Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, and held since Nov. 1887, by the Rev. Chas. Morris B.A. Corpus Christi college, Oxford. One hundred acres of land in this parish are let for the benefit of the proprietors of Marston and of the poor ; the portion assigned to the puor is fixed by a committee according to a scale agreed upon; the rent-charge is termed "Forest money." The village cross, distinct from that formerly in the churchyard, stood at a turning on the road at a point now marked by a cross cut in the wall by the roadside; it was taken down about 1830, on the alleged reason that it impeded the traffic, and the materials used for mending the road and making somEl! granary stairs in thl} village. The old Manor house, for the most ,part removed in 1843, was used as a place of meeting in May, 1646, by the Royal and Parliamentary Commissioners during the negociations for the surrender of Oxford: there are still, however, some relics indicating its former importance. The trustees of the late William Peppercorn are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Brasenose and Corpus Christi colleges, Oxford, the University of Oxford, Mrs. John Rippington and Edwin Rippington esq. The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is r,I6o acres; rateable value, £3,822 ; the population in 1891 was 720. Part of New Marston is in the parish of Headington. Parish Clerk, Richard Ward. Post Office.-Alfd. Badger, sub-postmaster. Letters arrin through Oxford at 6.55 a.m. & dispatched at 6 p.m.; dispatched 2 p.m. on sundays. Headington is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issu11d here, but not paid Post Office, New Marston.--J" oseph Collis, sub-pos~ master. Letters arrive 1ihrough Oxford at 6.30 a.m.;

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. MIDDLETO~ STONEY. 131 dispatched at 6.15 p.m.; sundays, arrive at 6.30 1887 .& r894: it will now hold 125 children; average a.m.; dispatched at 2.15 p.m. St. Clements, Oxford, attendance, 90; Charles Ilroad, master; Mrs. Jane is the nearest money order & tel~graph office. Postal Rothwell, mistress orders are issued here, but not paid Carriers.-Willis, to Oxford, daily; Sumner, Green, National School (mixed), erected in 185r, enlarged in Taylor & Somerton, wed. & sat. ; Tipping, fri M.ARSTON Bleay Thomas Frederick, carman Witts George, general dealer · Broughton Hy. frmr. Court Pl. farm Ilroughton Mrs Cotmore Charles, beer retailer NEW M.ARSTO:Y. Cannon Miss Cross George, dairyman COMMERCIAL, Cannon Mrs. Rose villa Evans Alfred, White Hart P.H Bayliss James, dairyman Gordon Miss Gurden Rd. Three Horse Shoes P.H Collis Joseph, grocer, Post office Morris Rev. Charles B.A. (vicar) Haynes Edwin, farmer Cross Joseph, baker O;nond Geo. William Thomson M.A. Haynes George, dairy farmer Davis Joseph, carpeLter :S1meon Edmund Charles, The Lodge Haynes Joseph, shopkeeper Evans George, shopkeeper ,Sims Mrs. Manor house Hills .Alfred Clark, fa.rmer Gillett James, carpenter CO:MMERCH.L. Honour John, steam power joiner's HE:ydon Thomas, wheelwright work & sawing & pl:ming mills Kithro William J. mason Aries J arnes, dairy farmer Lamburn Hichard, tax collector Ray Thomas, harness maker £a.dger Alfred, blacksmith & shopkpr. PG~t office Rippington Edwin, farmer & landownr Sturgess Richard, beer retailer Smith Richard, wheelwright, beer re- Webster Thomas, builder l3iovis Victor, beer retailer tailer & overseer Weller James, coal dealer MERTON is a parish and village, between Ambrosden in 1873, at a cost of £1,2oo, one fourth of which was and Charlton-on-Otmoor, bounded on the south by the given by Exeter College, the remainder having been riv.er Ray, 3 miles south from Ilicester station, and 4 collected by the Rev. )Villiam Monro Wollaston M.A. miles north-west from Islip station, both on the Bletch- vicar, 1863-74; there are 200 sittings, 150 being free: 1ey and Oxford branch of the London and North West- in the churchyard is the octagonal shaft of a cross on -ern railway, and 10 north-east from Oxford, in the Mid a low base. The r.egister of baptisms dates from the -::livision of the county, hundred of Bullingdon, petty ses- year 1636; marriages, 1739; burials, 1635. The living sional division of Ploughley, union and county oourl is a vicarage, gross yearly value £156,, including 39 .district of Bicester, rural deanery of Bicester, archdea- acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Exeter Colconry and diocese of Oxford. A branch of a Roman lege, Oxford, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Robert milit.ary road passes through the parish. The church William Tattersall B.D. of Exeter College, Oxford. Nea.r ·of St. Swithin is an ancient edifice of stone, mainly in the church stands an ancient manor house, erected by the Decorated style, and consists• of chancel, cler.estoried the Doyleys (who obtained a grant of the manor in nave, south aisle with south porch and a western tower 1553, in the time of Queen Mary) and now occupied as with ornamental parapet; it had formerly a spire and a farm house. A causeway, nearly two miles· in length, -vanes at the angles, and 5 bells, but the .spire becoming constructed at a great expense many years since by the dilapidated the first 4 bells were sold in 1796 to defray late Sir Gregory Page Turner hart. joins the villa.ge to the expense of taking it down: the chancel contains that of Ambrosden: some antiquaries regard this place sedilia and piscina. and an arched sepulchral recess, as the scene of the battle of Mertune, between Ethelred ·with a locker on the north side und,er an enriched arch, and the Danes, A.D. 871, a view which the existence of 11.bove which is a mural monument of alabaster, with entrenchments in Merton wood and relics found near effigies of a mallJ in armour, and his wife and four the spot seem to justify. The trustees of the late Sir daughters kneeling beneath a canopy, and inscribed to Edward Henry Page Turner bart. (d. 1874) are the .John Doyley, of Merton, esq. 1693, and .Anne (Barnard) principal landowners. The chief crops are wheat, barhis wife; another mural monument commemorates ley, oats and beans. The soil is clay and stone brash; Elizabeth (Poole), wife of John Huband, 1621, and has subsoil, clay. The area iS' 1,990 acres; rateable value, shields of arms: on the south wall aretabletS'toRichard £1,832; the population in 1891 was I95· Harrington esq. 1712; Margaret (Jane), his wife and four Parish Clerk, James Juffs. -children, and there are various inscribed floor stones to this Letters through Bicester, which is the nearest money family from r66o to 1713: the nave is separated from the order & telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 a. m. Wall aisle by an arcade of four Decorated arches: there was Letter Box cleare-d at 8 a.m. & 4.30 p.m formerly a north aisle, three of the arches of which are Parochial School, built in 1871 & enlarged 1893, for 40 built into the existing north wall : the font is plain and chjldren ; average• attendance. 32, & supported in paxt round; the pulpit is Jacobean: the church was restored by [,w given by Exeter College; Mrs. Wills, mistress "l'a.t.tersall Rev. Rbt. Wm. B.D.Vicarge Crawford Jas. Plough P.H. & shopkpr Harris James, farmer 'Cave George, farmer Dt>eley Samuel, farmer Holiday Fredk. frmr. Manor farm 'Child Richard, farmer, Astley bridge Harris Emma M. (Miss), farmer Knapton Richard, farmer MIDD~_ETON STONEY is a parish and village, at the junction of the roads from Oxford to Brackley and 13icester to Chipping Norton, 3 miles west-by-north from JHoester station, on the Illetchley and Oxford branch of the London and North Western railway, 3! south-east from Heyford station on the Oxford and Birmingham .section of the Great Western railway, and· 12 north-east 'from Oxford, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union -and county court d.istrict of Bicester, rural deanery of 13icester, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The -church of .AU Saints, which stands in Middleton Park, is an ancient building of stone, dating from the latter part of the r2th century, and is supposed to have been erected by one of the Norman lords of this place; it -consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles and an embattled western tower containing clock and 6 bells : " memorial chapel was ad<ied on the north side of the chancel by the late Dowager Countess of Jersey, to <leorge, sth Earl, who d. 3 Oct. I859 ; the chancel is ~hiefl.y Decorated, but has a Transition Norman arch; the north arcade of the nave consists of three Pointed 1trches on round pillars of the s-ame period, and on the south side are two arches of Decorated work; the tower is Early English, with arcading round the upper storey; the south doorway is a rich example of Late Norman, with singular foliage in the head: there are monuments in the church to Elizabeth, wife of John Harman, r6o7; the Lady Ann (Egerton), wife of William, 3rd Earl of J!)_rsey, d. 16 Junt~, 1762; Nicholas Harman esq. 1688, and Judith his wife, 1649: the church was restored in 1879 at a cost of £612, and affords 250 sittings. The registe.r dates from the year 1598. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £271, gross yearly value £384, net £245, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, a.nd held since 1874 by the Rev. William Henry Draper M.A. of Worceste.r College, Oxford . The late Dowager Countess of Jersey (d. z6 Jan. r867), left in 1866 £4,500 £2! per Cent. Consols to provide clothing and board for girls selected from the schools of this parish and those of Chesterton and Somerton, who are trained as domestic servants ; there is also an almshouse charity of £45 yearly, bequeathed. by the same lady, who also repaired and ornamented most of the cottages. The village club room was erected by the present Earl of Jersey. Middleton Park is the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of Jersey P.C., G.C.M.G. lord lieutenant of Oxfordshire; the mansion is an extensive but S()mewhat plain structure of brick, erected on the site of a building destroyed by fire in I753, and has been addled to at different periods ; it consists of a central block with a portico supported by Ionic pillars and two projecting wings; the whole forms three sides of a quadrangle, and standS' in a beautifully-wooded park of 6oo acres. The Earl of J ersev is lord of the manor and • sole proprietor. The soil is chiefly stone brash; subsoil, white marl. The chief crops are wheat, barley, and oatS'. The area is 1,834 acres; rateable value, £,2,027; the population in 1891 was 328. Parish Clerk, Henry Elliott., OXON. 9"'

132 MIDDLETON STONEY. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLT's Post, M. 0., T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity &; Insurance Office.-Miss Sarah Norman, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through Bicester, at 7·5 a.m. &; 1.40 p.m.; dispa.tched at 7·55 a. m. &; 5.25 p.m.; &; on sundays at 8.30 a.m Schools. BoyS", for 6o children; average attendance, 36; John Togwell, master Girls' & Infants', for Bo children; average attendanee. 65 ; Miss Goodyear, mistress; both schools are entir-ely supported by the Earl of Jersey & government.: grant Carriers.-William Boddington Bourton, from· Bicester daily on fri. to Biceste;r ; Jersey Earl of P.C., G.C.M.G., D.L., Free Reading Room (J. Tugwell, hon. Page James William, farmer, MiddleJ.P. Middleton park; &; Carlton & secretary) ton Grounds farm St. Stephen's clubs, London SW Hope Benja.min, head gardener to the Todd Jas. Jersey Arms P.H. &; frmrTraining Home for Servants (Mrs_ Bourne, matron) Draper Rev. Wm. Hy. M.A. Rectory Earl of Jersey coMMERCIAL. Little William Davis, land agent to the Eagles William Wo£·dfield, farmer Earl of Jersey Elliott Henry, tailor & parish clerk Middleton Stoney Co-operative Society Hicks Jn. frm. bailiff to Earl of Jersey Lim. (David Wilkins, sec) Webster George Barrington, clerk ot works to the Earl of Jersey Wilkins David, estate clerk MILCOMBE, formerly a. hamlet of Bloxham, was The preoont register of Milcombe dates only from IBIJseparated .in 1854 and is now an ecclesiastical parish, Th-e ea.rlier registers are included with those o-f Bloxham,. r! miles south-west from Bloxham station on the Ban- which date from 1630. The living is a vicarage, net., bury and Cheltenham branch of the Great Western yearly value £150, with 20 acres of glebe and residence,.. railway, and about 5 miles south-west from Banbury, and held since 1888 by the Rev. James Goodwin M.A. in the Northern division of the county, hundred of of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, the presentation Bloxham, Banbury and Bloxham petty sessional division, is three times with Eton College and every fourth with union and county court district of Ban bury, rural the rector of Wigginton. There is a Baptist chapel here_ deanery of Deddington and archdeaco_nry and diocese of The town lands of 12a. zr. I4P· with eight cottages proOxford. The church of St .. Lawrence is a small building duce £22 xos. which is equally divided for church pur-· of stone, principally of the 13th century, consisting of poses, public uses and the purchase of fuel for the poor:- chancel, nave, separated from the aisle by an Early there is also a fuel allotment. of 16 acres, yielding about English arcade, north aisl-e, n<:!_rth porch and an em- £29 yearly. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church" battled western tower with pinnacles containing 4 bells: Oxford, who ar-e lords of the manor, and New College,. it was restored by the Rev. Philip Hookins B . .A. of Oxford and Eton C-ollege, are theo chief landowners. The Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1830 ), a former vicar: the soil is various, principally red loam; the crops are· chancel is divided from the nave by a rood-screen of general. The population in 1891 was 219; the area is; very good Perpendicular work, which ha& been restored 1,:.55 acres; rateable value, £1,590. according to the ancient design, and illl the course of Sexton, Samuel Brain. the work, a mural paint.ing was found representing the Letters through Banbury, arrive at 8 a.m. The near- .seven deadly sins, the tracery of some oak benches of e11t money order & telegraph office is at Bloxham. The· the same date is also- preserved :in the church : the nave Pillar Letter Box is cleared at 4.50 p.m. week days arcades are plain Early English, but the north aisle is only modern: the stained east window is a memorial to National School (mixed), enlarged in 1883 & again iir Elizabeth C. Holloway; and there is one to Richard 1889, for 70 children; average attendance, 42; Miss Blagden, father of the Rev. Henry Chailes Blagdon M.A. Emma Ja.ne Billson, mistress vicar 1860-75: besides five other stained windows: the Carrier to &; from Banbury.-Thomas Hollier Powell~ f(mt is Perpendicular: the church affords 120 sittings. 'Unicorn,' man. & thurs Goodwin Rev. Jas. M . .A.. Vicarage Colegrave George, jun. farmer Phelps Thomas, mason Harris John, Manor house Coles James, farmer Tibbetts William, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Coles John Samuel, shopkeeper Tu stain Ambrose Octavius, farmer, &. Page John Edwardl, farmer grower of poppies &c. for medica]; Colegrave George, farmer, Milcomba Powell Thomas Hollier,Horse & Groom purposes Hall farm P.H. & carrier Tustain Justin, jun. hay & straw dlr MILTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD is a. township and with the paJrish of Bruern and township of Lyneham, forms an ecclesiastical parish in the N urthern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Chadlington, union of Chipping Nort.on, county court cliistrict of Witney, rural dean.ery of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Milt-on is rl miles west from Shipt-on stat.ion on th-e Oxford and Worcester section of the Great Western railway, and a.bout 7 south-west from Chipping Norton. The church of SS. Simon and Jude, -erected in 1854 by the late James Haughton Langston esq. of Sarsden, M.P. Oxford, d. 19 Oct. 1863, assisted by the Ven. Anthony Huxtable M.A. archdeacon of Sarum, is an edi£ce of stone in the Geometrical Decorated style, and was one of the earliest works of the late G. E. Street esq. R..A.; it consists of chancel, with organ chamber and vestry o-n the north side, south aisle, separated from the chancel by an arcade of two arches, nave with clerestory divided from its aisies by arcades of four arches on the north and three on the south &.ide, and an octagonal turret, with small spire, containing 4 bells : a low stone parclose separates the nave from the chancel: the entrance is on the south-west : the churchyard has a. good lych- ~ate: there are about 480 sittings. The Rev. Darrell Rolled Webb Horlock M . .A. of Wadham College, Oxford, has been curate in sole charge since 1887. There are two Baptist chapels and Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. The Earl of Ducie P.C. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. A bequest of £12 was left by Sir George Fettiplace bart. (d. 8 April, 1743), the interest of which is every two years expended in bread for the poor. There are extensJve quarries here of exceHent stone, of which St. Paul's Cathedral, London, was partly built, and it has also been used fo-r many of the buildings in Oxford and for the neighbour· ing churches. The poor's allotments of about 18 acres are let at 35s. per acre; the fuel allotments assigned to the poor in lieu of their former r.ight t-o cut furze, consist of 19 acres, and these produce about £33 yearly,. which sum is expended in coal for the. poor householders of Milton. The soil is stone. brash ; subsoii,. gravel and rock. The chief crqps are wheat, barley. oats and turnips. The area of Milton township is 2,034 aeres; rateable value, £2,935. The population in r88r was 836; the resident population of the paxish in r8gr was 1,128, but Milton is resorted w by visitors in the. summer. Parish Clerk, Mrs. John Townsend. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B., Annuity & Insurance Office-F Mlilton.~Thomas Venve.Jl, sub-postmaster!. Letter& arrive through Chipping Norton at 8 a.m. & 5.15 p.m.; dispatched at 8.40 a.m. & 6 p.m. week days only. The nearest telegraph office is at Shipton Rail· way station BRUERN is a parish 4! miles north from Burford and' 2! south-west from Chipping Norton Junction station. in the union and county C{)urt district of Chipping Norton. Here was formerly a Cistercian abbey, founded in 1 147 by Nicholas Barrett, and colonised from Garendon here ; the revenues were estimated at the Di·ssolution at £134 10s. wd. yearly. The remaining building~ were utilised until recently for farm purposes, and are now the property of Cecil D'.Aguilar Samuda .esq. J.P. of Bruern .Abbey. The Grange, occupied by JameB Hodges esq. is an ancient structure, and contains many a.ntiquities•. The Earl De La Warr, Edward Rhys Wingfield esq. of Bauington Park and Cecil D' Aguilar Samuda esq. J.P. are the only landowners. The soil is gravel. sand, stone brash and clay; subsoil, various. The crops are barley, wheat, oats and turnips•. The area is1,722 acres, including 187 acres o-f woodland; rateable value, £1,179; the population in 1891 was 38. Letters through Chipping Norton, arrive at about fJ a.m. Milton-under-Wychwood is the nearest money order office & Shipton Railway station the nearest telegraph office

D1RECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. GREAT MILTON. 133 LYNEHAM is a township in the civil parish of Shipton and 2 miles nmth-by-west from Shipton station. Divine service is held in1 a licenced school-room, and there is also a Baptist chapel. The Earl of Ducie P.C. is principal landowner. The area is 1,943 acres; rateable value, £2,293; the population in. 1891 was 192. for the United District of Milton, Lyneham & Bruern; Thomas Mace, Chipping Norton, clerk to the board; Thomaso Costiff, Chipping Norto-n, attendance officer Board (mixed), 1\-lilton, built in 1854, converted into !11 Board School in 1877, & enlarged in r8go, for 140 children ; average. attendance, roo ; Thomas Giblett, master ; infants' scho(}l, for 86 children; average attendance, 6o; Mrs. Emily Bunting, mistress Letters by footpost at about 8 a.m. & 4 p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 9· 15 a.m. & 6. 30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Milton-under-Wych- ·wood & telegraph office Shi"Qton station Board, Lyneham (mixed), built for 6o children; average attendance, 23; Mrs. Maria. Oatherine Salter,mist Schools. A School Board of 5 members was formed 27 July, 1874, Caorriers.-Chipping Norton, Pratley, wed. ; Witney, Pratley, tues. thurs. & sat. via Shipton & Le-afield MILTON. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .Adams Mrs Atchley Cuthbert .1lell Mrs Coulling John Cross Miss :Damant Mrs. Kihima. Davidson Rev. Goorge William B.A. (Baptist) -Gro-ves Sampson, Meadowcroft ,Hensley Miss Hodock Rev. Darrell Rolled Webb M.A. (curate in sole charge), The Parsonage 1'hillips John Reade Mrs ·Steel Miss 'Taylor l\-Irs COMMERCIAL. Atchley Cuthbert, surgeon 'Badger John, farmer '!Jasson Thomas, Quart Pot P.H llaughan Henry, farmer Baughan Leonard (Mrs.), dress make:t- Pratley Henry, carrier Baughan Wm. (Mrs.), farmer Pratley Robert, grocer Bunting Edwin, baker Rawlings Joseph, slater & plasterer Bunting Hy. carpenter & wheelwright Reynolds Edwd. farmer, Spring hi]] Burwell Rowell, grocer & baker Skidmore Al~ert, shopkeeper Butler Ernest, blacksmith Venvell Thos. bakr. & grocr. Post off Butler J ames, blacksmith Wilkes Charles, shoe maker Cat tell John (Mrs.), shopkeeper Woolliams Misses, day school Clack John, shoe maker Dix Mark, coffee tav. & firewood dlr BRUERN. Dore. Richard, hurdle ma. & farmer Samuda Cecil D' Aguilar D.L., J.P. Fairbrother Nimrod, shoe maker Bruern abbey Gilbert Richard, farmer Hodges .Tames, farmer & landowner, Gilbert Richard G. jun. assist. oversr Bruern grange Gomm Jn. frm.bailiff to Mr.A.Groves Gorton Charles, draper Gorton Robert, grocer & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit mers Groves Alfred, builder, contractor, brick maker & potter LYNEHAM. Craddock Frank,farmer, Lyneham frm Edginton Wm. farmer, Merris court May Joseph, farm bailiff to the Rev. W. Barter M.A Groves Brothers, sto-ne masons quarry owners Luckett John, farmer & Pratt Reginald de Mohun, farmer Silman .T ohn, farmer Miles George, machine owner Miles James, hardware-man Parsloe Adolph, Butchers' Arms Smith William, farmer lVatts John, farm bailiff to Lord Mo:o-eton, Fair green P.H West Fredk. farmer & shopkeeper .GREAT MILTON is a parish, township and village, until about 1852, this place was a peculiar of the Bishop z! miles south-west from Tiddington station on the of Linc-oln and furnished two prebends to Lincoln CatheOxford and W-y-combe section of the Great Western dral, one called "Milto-n Ecclesia" and the other "Milrailway, 9 south-east from Oxford and 6 west-south-west ton Mano-r." The Wesleyan chapel here has 100 sittings. from Tharoe, in the Southern division of the county, The Foresters' Court, "Court Ashhurst, 6961," holds its .hundred, uni-on and county court district of Thame, meetings at the Bull P.H. monthly, and has 200 mempetty sessional division of Bullingdon, rural deanery of bers ; J oseph Wils-on, secretary. Kent's charity o-f £64 Cuddesdon, archdeaconry and dioces•e of Oxford. The is now wholly given to the poor in clothing. Here was c1mrch of St. Mary is an ed!ifice of stone, in the Deco- formerly a Benedictine priory, a cell to the abbey of ·rated style, co-nsisting- of chancel, clerestoried nave, Abingdon. The Priory is the residence of Robert R. -aisles, south porch and a west-ern to-wer of Perpendicu- Harvey esq. Lord Wantage K.C.B., V.C. of Loclcinge lar date, containing a clock and 8 bells: this church Park, BPrk:o, Matthew Erne~t Boulton e~q. of Great 1s a valuable example, in the complet-eness if its plan, Tew, who is lord of the manor, Robert R. Harvey -.of the ecclesiastical style of the 14th century: the chan- esq. and C. R. Couling esq. are the principal landowners. eel r-etains sedilia and piscina and some ancient stained The soil is sand ; subsoil, rock. The chief crops are glass: the chancel arch lis Early English, and is spanned wheat, barley and beans. The area of the whole pa:nish 'by a post-Reformation rood screen: the north aisle has is 4,402 acres; rateable value, £7,688; divided as fol- ·some glass, referring probably to the parable of Lazarus: lows :-Great Milton, £zo462; Chilworth, £1,391; Litt-le the south aisle exhibit.s in its windows good examples of Milton, £2,384; Ascott, £8o7; the population of the 'flowing tracery, and both aisles S€ems to have had altars, parish in 1891 was 995, in the following proportions: .the latter also a piscina: the font is circular and plain : 1 Great Milton township, 547; Chilworth, 8o; Little Milin the church is a fine coffin slab of Purbeck marble, ton, 348; Ascott, 20. ·-with a richly floriated cross, rising above the figure of Assi'stant Oversee:r, Alfred Burrows. "the Holy Lamb : there is a brass, with two effigies only, The hamlets of Little Milton and Ascott were formed "t~ fo-ur children of R-obert Eggerler and Kateryn hios ~nto an ecclesiastica~ parish Octo-ber r8, 1844, and are ·-w1fe: at the west end o-f the nave 1s a superb marble D'iven under the heading Little Milton. ·monument, with throo alabaster effigies under a canopy " . . ' . . . suppmted by Corinthian columns• erected in 1618 to Sir . Ch1lworth 1s a hamlet, 1 mile north, Wlth a population 'Michael Dormer kt. ; his wife Durothea and his father, m 1891 of So. :l\mbrose Dormer esq. 1566, and there is also a monu- Pa:nish Olerk and Sexton, John Payne. 111ent to Mrs. Wilkinson, d. r654, wife of Henry Wilkin- Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity ·son D.D. Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 1648-62; & Insurance Office.-Sidney Shepherd, sub-po-stmaster. "he died 13 May, 1690 and was buried at Great Connard, Lett81I'S arrive from Tetsworth at 7·45 a.m. & 1.45 Suffolk: the north doorway is- an excellent specimen. of p.m.; dispatched at s. 30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; sunday, 'Early English: the south porch is groined, with a par- 11.rrive 7·45 a.m. dispatched 11.45 a.m vise above and a stair turret with niche: the church National School (mixed), founded in 1ss 4, for 150 chilwas thoroughly restored in the year IB51, under the dren; average attendance, go; William Mathews, ·supervision of the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A., and master ; Miss Beatrice Gough, infants' mistress affords 420 sittings. The re.gister commences in the Carriers to:- ·year 1550. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £3oo, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Ureat Haseley & Oxford-Luke Auger, wed. & sat. re- 'Oxford, and held since 1877 by the Rev. William James turning same days ""Richardson E.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge: Thame-Luke Auger, tues GREAT MILTON. 'Couling Charles Robey 'liarvey Robert R. Priory Jackman Mrs --:Mackrory Edwin, Vine cottage 'Massingberd Mrs ~olV~ona llrs -Richardson Rev. William James B.A. Betts Charles, Red Lion P.H Vicarage Burrows Alfred, saddler, harness ma. Sheppard Miss, Milton house & rope maker (whips, bits, sponges, COMMERCIAL. Alien J ames, beer retailer Alien William, beer retailer Auger Luke, grocer & carrier brushes & every stable requisite), &; assistant overseer Constable James Surman, builder, decorat-or & mason ; estimates for all branches free

134 GREAT MILTON. OXFORDSHIRE. Dull John, farmer, Monkery farm Rowles Charles Harris, farmer Barris Joshua & Co. grocers Shepherd, Sidney, postmstr.& statnr Burst John, blacksmith Smith William, builder Lawrence John, chimney sweeper Stevens Henry, farmer, Manor farm Lewis William, shoe maker Surman Samuel, farmer Lowe Edward. boot & shoe maker Tanner John, carpenter Williams Job. tinma.n Wilson Joseph, Bull P.H Wood Samuel, farmer (KELLY's CHILWORTH. Phillips George, foreman at Haseley Trindall Samuel, news agent Talbot Major Frank iron works Trindall James, baker, grocer & draper Gale Newlyn (Mrs.), farmer Pocock William, Bell P.H. Turrill John, butcher Orpwood William, farmer LITTLE MILTON iSI a. village and, with the hamlet the principal landowners. The soil is partly sandy,. of Asoott, forms an ecolesiastical parish taken o-ut of partly gravel; subsoil, ;rock. The chief crops are. wheat. Great Milton, October r8, 1844, and is on the road flrom and all kinds of corn; rateable value, £2,384; the are~ Thame to Wal1ingford, 3! miles south-west from Tid- with the hamlet·, is r,gr8 acres; the population in r8g1. dington station on the Oxford and Wycombe section of was 348. the Great Western railway and 7 south-west from Parish Clerk, Henry West. Thame, in the Southern division of the county, hundred Ascott is a. hamlet of Gre-a.t Milton but fO'rms an eccleand petty s81ssio-nal division of Bullingdon, union and siastical parish with Little Milton, from which it is a county court district of Thame, rural deanery of Cuddes- miles south-east, and 6 east from Culham station on the don, arohdeaconry and diocese. of Oxfm·d, about a mile Didcot and Oxford branch of the Great Western railway. south from Grea:t Milton. The church of St. James, Aseott Park manor house waS' burnt down some yearserected in 1844, is a. building of 9t<me in the Early ago, and the terrace is the only portion now remaining. Decorated style, from designs by Mr. Hayward, of The sole landowne.r is Thomas Franklin esq. The popuExeter, and consist·s o-f chancel, nave, sO'uth porch and an lation in 1891 was 20; rateable value, £807. ernhattled west-ern tower, with spirelets, containing a Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- clock and 6 belliS : there are 260 sittings, 200 being free. Mrs. Susa.nnah Cann, sub-postmistress. Letters. The register dates from the year 1844. The living is through Tetswo.rth arrive at 8.30 &; 3.30 p.m.; disa. vicara.ge, gros•s yearly value £245, with residence, in patched at 7.10 a..m. & 5.25 p.m. Great Milton is. thethe gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1874 by nearest telegraph office the Rev. James Pooley B.A. of Christ's College, Cam- Le.tters for Ascott through Wallingford, arrive at 8.30'- bridge. Catherine Grayson's charity of £ro ros. yearly, a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at bequeathed in 1858, is for fuel and clothing, to be dis- Stadhampton tributed amongst twelv-e poor peop1e, six men and six National School, .built in 186o, for go children; average· women; Griffitb?s, of qs. is distributed in money. attendance, 63; Charles Messenger, master; Mrs. MesEdmund C. Sawyer esq. of the Manor House, John Chil- senger, mistress ' · lingworth esq. Matthew Ernest Boulter esq. of Grea.t Tew, Carrier.-George Moody, to Oxford, wed. & sat. ; Tbame,. ood Charles Robey Couling esq. of Great :Milton, are tue'S.; Wallingford, fri.; & Abingdon, mon LITTLE MILTON. Chillingworth John, farmer Ray Ma.ry Ann (Mrs.), saddler Eustace George Bernard, Lamb P.H Rose John, hawker Granger Edgar Bridden Pooley Rev. James B.A. Vicarage Sawyer Edmund C. Manor house Granger Edward iBridden L.R.C.P. Sawyer Edmund C. farmer Land. surgeon, medical officer & Scribbans Samuel John, shopkeeper public vaccinator, Great & Little Shrimpton Hy.carpntr. & wheelwrght Milton dists. Thame union COMMERCIAL. Gregory Charles, Plough P.H ASCOTT. :Ben well Elizabeth (Mrs.), miller Hatt J oseph Ash by, farmer Fl'aillklin Th~ :Misses Betts Francis, beer retailer Hurst Jsph. beer retlr. & blacksmith Franklin & Jones, auctioneers Cann Susannah (Mrs.), grocer&drapr. Matthews Jane (Mrs.), farmer Franklm W. T. & T. estate agents. Post office Moody George, · carrier & dairyman Franklin Thomas :MINSTER LOVELL is a pari:>h and village, on slhield of arms: in the chancel were memorials to Henryeither side o,f a valley through which runs the river Powell, vicar 1791, and Anna. (d. 1616), daughter of Windrush, dividing the parish into two parts, termed Robert Clay D.D. vicar here from r6n, d. 1628, with respectively Great and Little Minster; it is 2} miles arms, and in the south transept a monument to thee west-north-west from Witney station, on the Oxford and family of Wheeler, 1661, as well as three b:rnsses, with. FairfO'rd branch of the Great Western railway, in the scrolls, but theSie have disappeared since the restorationsMid division of the county, hundred of Chadlington, Gf the church, effected in 1868, at a. cost <Jf £1,247:. petty sessional division of Bampton East, Witney unioo there are 126 sittings. The register of baptisms dateS' and county court distriot, rural deanery of Witney and from the year 1765 ; burials, 1762; and marriages, I754- &rcbdea.conry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. The living is a vicarage; commuted tit.he rent-charge,. Ken-elm, anciently that of the Benedictine priory, which £ng; average, £go; net income, [141, with 45 acre& stands oo the south-western declivity of a ihill, is a noble of glebe and residence, in the gift of tib.e Provost and cruciform building of st<Jne in the Late Perpendicular Fellows of Eton College, and held since 1873 by t'he Revstyle, consisting of chancel, with. vestry on the north Horace Charles Ripley M.A. of University College, Durside, nave, transepts, north porch. and a central tower ham. An alien priory of Benedictine monks was founded with grained roof and embattled parapet containing 3 here before 1206, as a cell to the abbey of St. Mary de bells: the chancel retains a piscina, and tlhere are three Ibreio, or Ivry, in Normandy, by Maud Lovel, and dedihagioscopes, one in each transept and one opening from cated to St. Kenelm; on its suppre&sion it was granted the vestry: the reredos, -erected in 1876, in memory of I t<> Eton College: of the conventual buildings, the PerLady Taunton, is of Ctten ·stone in five compartments, pendicular church, now the parish church, and some beautifully sculptured: the pulpit, of stone, is good other port.ions, with the bridge, remain. T'o the southPerpendicular, and the font, octagonal in plan, has a east of the church, near the river Windrush, are thepanelled basin ornamented with quatrefoils ~d foliage, ruins of an ancient mansion, formerly the residence of and supported on a deeply recessed panelled shaft: in the Lovei family: t.he buildings, when perfect, formed !l the south transept is a. fine aJtar tomb to Francis, gth square, the south side being parallel t0' the river ancl baron and rst Viscount Lovel K.G., P.O. and Lord within a few feet of its bank; the whole of the south< Chamberlain of the Household to Richard Ill. for whQm and east sides are now destToyed and the only portions· he fought at Boswortlh Field, 22 Aug. 1485, and from standing are the north side, part of a tower at the south. tbis disastrous battle escaped into Burgundy; he next end of the western side and a low wall atooched to it.-. became a. prurtisan of the impostor Lambert Simnel, and with several fine but now J'IOOfiess and dismantled apartafter the encounter at Stoke, 16 June, 1487, disappeared; ment.s: in 1708, during the rebuilding of a chimney on the death of his paternal grandmother in 1475, he here, a. large -rnult was dli.scO<Vered in which was found thebecame also Lord: Deincourt and Lord Grey de Rotherfield, entire skeleton of a man sitt.ing a.t a table on which weree.s appears from his garter plate in St. Goorge's chapel, writing materials and a book, and it has been asSIUmecf Windsor; the tomb bears a full-length effigy in that Lord Love!, who diSiappeaa-ed after the battle of armour, and the sides are :relieved by cusped panelling Stoke, made his way to his house here, and concealing: a.nd adorned with figure•s of the Holy Virgin, St. Ohris- himself in this vault, was eventually starved. to death;; topher and others, together with shields of arms of Lavel, on his death, his titles, including the baronies of Lovel of Beaumont &o. but has no date or inscription: in the Tichmersh, Holand, Deincourt and: Grey of Rotherfield, west wall of this transept is a. slab, formerly encircled became extinct, and that of Beau m ont fell into abeyance with military trophies sculptured in st.QIIle, to Henry between his sisters, but was called out by writ of sumHeylyn, 1695, and his fathW" and mother, Edward and mons, 16 Oct. 1840, in favour of :Miles Thomas StapleElizabeth Heylyn, with an inscription in Latin and a ton esq. of Carlton, Yorks, one of the co-heirs thereto: