KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF OXFORDSHIRE - 1895

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. B.ANBURY. 35 Patt.erson. Jn. inland revenue officer, xg Marlborough st f Sandell Edward, corn & flour dealer, High street Payne L. (.Mrs.), secondhand bookseller, Fish street I Sanders John, tobacconist, 19 High street & coal mt~r~ Pear~ Edwin, coal merchant, Castle wharf chant, Old wharf Pearce Richard, woollen draper, see Stutterd & Pearce Sansbury Richard, newsagent & tobacconist k parcel agt.. Pelatt Daniel, solicitor, clerk to the peace for the to L. & N. W. R. 9 Horsefair borough, solicitor to the Banbury Gas & Water Corn- Sansbury Wa:ter, baker & shopkpr. 25 South Bar street panies, 35 High street Sansbury Waiter Richard, bookseller, 6o Bridge street Pemberton & Boissier, surgeons & physicians,17H{)rsefair Saul .Joseph, manager to Gillett & Co.'s Bank, Cotnhm Pemberton Clarence Lindon H., M.B. surg. The Green Savings Bank (William Kiss, actuary; open mon. I2 till Penny Bank (open mon. 12), National schoo-l 2; thurs. u till 3 & sat. 7 till 8), so High street Perkins Joseph, ironmonger, see Neale & Perkins Scares1 broo-k Eliz&beth (Mrs.), laundress, 32 Church lane PerrY. Jn. carpenter & bee hive manufacturer 5, & news Scarsbrook \Vi.L:iam, confectioner, 7I Bridge street agent & stationer 16, Bridge street Sconoo !--rthur, greengrocer, 13 Broad street Perry Peter .Tames, nurseryman & seed merchant, The Scott R1chard, carpenter, 12 Castle street east Nurseries, Oxford road & 73 High street Scudder Frederick Reed, pawnbro-ker, clQthier & jeweller, Pettifer Thomas & Co. cattle medicine stores; office & 55 Broad street horse, sheep & cattle medicine stores, Unicorn hotel; Sealy James, tailor, 46 Bridge street ~ . at Eydon . S~ar William, coach builder & 'beer retailer, 24 Castle st Ph1lhps Joseph, statiOner & jeweller, 15 Market place Sedgley Charles, boot i& sho-e maker, 19 Church lane Pitcher Charles, beer retailer, 9 Cherwell street Shakespeare George, tailor, I3 West Bar street Pitcher John Henry, beer retailer, Warwick road Sharpe Sarah (il'bss), plumber, 62 Calthorpe st·reet Plant James, eating house, 66 Fish street Shaw & Brewin, shoeing smiths, Broad street Potter Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher, I8 Church lane Shayler George Martin, house decorator, 26 South Bar sf; Potter John Henry, beer retailer, Church lane Sheasby \Ym. boot & ..shoe ma. & job mastr.35Market pl Putts \Villia.ru, printer, bookseller & stationer & pro- She:ton Edmund, dentist, 35 High street prietor & publisher of the "Banbury Guardian," SI Shepherd Joseph, baker, 54 High street Parsons street. See advertisement Shilson Wiiliam & Sons, woolstaplers, Calthorpe street Powell Samuel, boot maker, 20 Newland place Short Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer ret. Cross Cherwell street l'ranter John, coal merchant, Great Western station Short Frederick, shoe maker, 6 Britannia road Pratt John Henry, farmM, Wykham Simmonds R. & M. (.Misses), dress & mantle makers. 29! Preedy Henry (Mrs.), laundry, 53 Broughton road Parsons street Prentice William, hawk~.r, Townsend, Neithrop Simmvnds Thomas, boot maker, 29! Parsons street Prescott Jas. Wm. insur. agt. & broker, 32 Horsefair Simmons Harry, beer retailer, ·windsor ~Street Preston & Holiday, auctioneers, Broad st.; & a.t Bicester Singer Manufacturing Co. (Hy. Brown, agt.). 69 Bridge st Preston .Albert Henry, Old George inn, 33 Bridge street Skinner Fanny (Mrs.). yeast merchant, 2 Market place Preston Daniel, superintendent of borough police & in- Slade .Alfred Charles, manager of "The Banbury Telespector of weights & measures, explosives, under graph," Market p:ace Petroleum.Acts & ofPublic Lamps,Station ho.Townhall Smith & Puffitt, painters, I Britannia road Prince Kezia (Mrs.),s-ervants' reg. off. 55 North Bar st Smith Tysoe (Misses), ladies' boarding schoo:, The Proctor Mary (Miss), apartments, 3a, Albert street Mount school, Oxford road Prosser William, confectioner, I South Bar street Smith .Anna (Miss), straw hat&bon'net ma. 30 Calthorpe st Puffett Mary (Mrs.), confectioner, I7 South Bar stwet Smith Charles, grocer, I Britannia. road Pullinger John Amos, boot & shoe ma. 2I ParsonS> st Smith Elijah, whee1wright, Newland Pulker Charles, shoe maker, 27 North Bar street Smith Emma .Agnes (Miss), dress maker, 30 Calthorpe st Pulker George, boot maker, 3 Castle street Smith Hy. market gardnr. Blackbury hall, Broughto-n rd Pulker George, sm_ith, Southam road Smith .John, draper, 21 Market place Rail ton E. & Son, boot & shoe makers, 13 High street Smith .John, temperance family & commercial hotel, Rainbow Joseph, hair dresser, 59 Broad street agent for the United Kingdom Temperance & General Rake Wm. supervisQr of inland revenue, 19 Marlboro' rd Life Insul'ance office & registrar of lbirth)> & deaths for Rathbone Frank, butcher, II Butcher's row Cropredy sub-district, Bridge street Raye Jn. Jsph . .Ardavon L.R.C.P. & L.R.C.S.Irel. surgn. Society for Promoting Christian KnQwledge & National capt. & resident medical officer to Banbury Friendly Society (John Henry Comming, manager); d~osiSocieties Medical Association, Newland ho. Broad st tory, High street Redman James, beer retailer, Mill lane Soden .Abraham, chimney sweeper, Pepper alley, Fish st Reed .Abel, wardrobe dealer, 4 & 5 Fish street Soden .Arthur, confectioner, 3 Fish street Reed James, beer retailer, 16 Boxhedge sq. Neithrop Soden William Oliver, hardware delrl.er, I3 Church lane Reed Hannah (Mrs.), beer ret. Io Boxhedge- sq.Neithrop Sole John Niciholas, coach bui.!der, North Bar street & Reynolds Samuel, tailor, 30 Cherwell street 20 Southam road Riley C. W. millwrght. & engnr. 3 Boxhedge sq.Neithrop South Staffordshire Coal Co. (J. Boot, manager), L. Riley Charles, beer retailer, so Bridge street & N. W. railw~y Riley Mary .Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer, SI Warwick road South Thomas, George & Dragon P.H. Ho-Ds-efai:r.:_ Roberts Thomas, shopkeeper, 5 Lower Windsor street Spackman. John .Tames, shoo maker, I6 Windspr street Robeson William H. clothier, xs! & x6 High street Spencer & Co. cattle medicine dlrs. White Hart inn yard Robins George, shopkeeper, 6 Cherwell street Spragg William, shopkeeper, I3 Ob.erwell street Robins Geor.ge John, ironmonger, I6 Market place Stamp & License Office (Ed.ward Jarvis Hartley, distriRobins John,_ confectioner, 45 Parsons street butor), .~7 High street Robinson Francis Thomas, grocer, & agent for W. & A. Stanley Richard & Sons, cabi'net mrurers, 2 High street Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit merchants & sole agent for Stanley Frances Ann (Mrs.), dress maker, 36 Broad st Raggitts nourishing stout, 18 & 19 Market place Stanley Harry B. bookseller, 32 High street Robinson William, Inanual instructor to Banbury Muni- Star Tea Co. 15 High. street cipal School, Castle street west Stevens & Herrieff, grocers, provision dealers, wine, Robinson "\Villiam, cabinet make;r, C::~Stle street west spirit, hop & cigar merchants, & agents for W. & .A. Rogers John, mineral water manufacturer, Castle st Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit merchants, agents for "nitRogers Willia.m, shoe maker, 3 Wes-t Bar street bread, Bass & Co . .Allsopp's, Guinness & Pilse'ner's ales Ross Joseph, reporter, I5 Bath road .& sbouts, 4 High street Rothery .John, hat dealer, 5 Market place Stevens Richard Tomes, com. traveller, 25 Britannia road Rothery Mary Ann (Miss), servts'. reg. off. 20 Parsons st Stevens Thomas, assistant overseer & collector of poor Rowles Wiliam & Son, dyers, 12 North Bar street rates for Neithrop, 62 Warwick road Rowles George, Plough P.H. 27 Cornhill Stevenson Robert, draper, 67 High street Rusher Jane Elizabeth (Miss), bookseller, 3r Market pl Stockton & Sons, solicitors, 38 High street Russel & Son, auctioneers, valuers & estate agents, Stockto-n Arthur, solicit<>r, see Stockton & Sons timber valuers &c. Corn exchange, Market place; Stockton James (firm, Stockton & !Sons), soltcitor, per- & at Brackley petual commissioner & oomsnr. for oaths, 38 High st Russell James, gasfitter, 13 Gatteridge street Stockton Oliver James (firm, Stockton & Sons), solicitor, Rymell John, beer retailer, 23 Broughton road commissioner for oaths, town clerk & clerk to the comSt. .John's Priory (Catholic) Ladies' Boarding School missioners o.f. taxes for Bloxham & Banbury division, (conducted by the Sisters of St. Paul), St. John's rd clerk to the trustees of Adder bury charity & clerk to Samman William .Arthur, tailor, ro High street sCib.ool attendance committee & to the burial bon.rd, 3~ Samuelson & Co. Limited, agricultural & general engi- High street neers, Britannia works I Strange Henry .A draper, 17 High street oxo~. 3*

36 BANBURY. Stone iHenry & Son, manufacturers of patent boxes, GaUerid'ge street Stroud Henry, butcher, 53 Broad street Strilbling E.len (Miss), 'baker & grocer, Queen street Stutt'erd i& Pearce, woollen drapers, 59 High street Sutt{m & Co. carriers (Waiter Bateman, agent), 6 Butcher's l"'W Symington John Weldon, homoeopathic practitioner, 28 West Bar street Symons .Edward William M.A. head master, Banbury Municip-al '8dhool, Marlborough road Taplin J. A. & Sons, printers & furniture d~rs.zgHor.sefair Taylor A. A. B. (\Mi;ss), preparatory school, 12 Marllborough place Taylor George, flor:iJst, 34 Southam road Ta.ylor Jose·ph, wheelwright, Oalthmpe street Taylor William, painter & shopkeeper, 29 Calthorpe st Tayton Jas. Seppings, solicitor & coroner for the borough of Banbury, 22! High street Tearle AmDs, confectioner, 28 Parsons stl'€et Tea.rle Levi, confectioner, 66 Broad stre-ert Temperance f·amily & commercial hotel (John Smith, propr~etor ), Bridge street Th-omas John Cale&s, beer retailer, 31 North Bar street Thomas John Henry, sadldtler, 6 & Dog & Gun P.H. INorth Bar streO!t Thomas Riooard Rymill, collector to local board & assistant overseer & collector of poor rates for Banbury district, Town hall Thomas Wm. Geo. cutller & watcb. ma. 21 Bridge st Thomason John, linen draper, II Market place Thompson William, bicycle agent, 29 & 35 Pars'Ons street Thornett .A. • .A.. wine & spirit merdhant & brewer,s' agent, 29 High street Th.ornto'n Mary Ann (Mrs.), dress ma. 38 Broad street Thorpe John E. assistant master Banbury Municipal school, Bath road Thm<pe Thomas, confectioner, 32 Market place Tierney J oJ:m, commercial traveller, 9 Calthorpe road Tims Thomas O:iver, confectioner, 22 & 66 Bridge street Tobin John, shopkeeper, 38 Calthorrpe street Tonks Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 62 Fish street Tow'n Hall (Frederick Penn, k~per), Bridge street Turbitt Frederick (Mrs.), dress ma. 19 Castle st. west Tur<bitt James, insurance agent, 10 Prospect road Turbitt Jo!hn, florist, Newland road Turner Elizabeth (Mrs.), restaurant, 9 Churcn iane Turner James, bricklayer, 18 Boutham road Turner John Henry, fishmonger, 2 Broad stre,et Upton John Winkles·s, grocer, 13 Bridge street Vk!ary A. A. (Miss), ma.tron of the Union workho. Neithrp Viggers Thomas Charles, Criterion P.H. 67! High street Volunteer Battalion (2nd), Oxfordshire Light Infantry (C 1 0ompany), Oapt. F. 0. Aplin, commandant; Oliver James Stockton & Arthur Stockton, lieuts.; Sergeant .A.. N. Lovick, drill instructor, Armoury, Town hall Wa.ddoups Mary Elizabeth (Miss), confectioner, 72 & 73 Br-idge street Waite J. S. tailor & out-fitter, 94 High street Wakeli'n. William T. coal merchant, Old Wharf & 141'1, Lower Cherwell street Walden Edwin, iron & tinplate wrkr. 3 Warwick road Walding W. .A.. & Bros. bicycle manufacture~s, 16 North Bar street Walfor-d & Cambray, go~dsmiths, watch makers & opticians, 68 High street Walford Edwin Alfred, bookseller, 71 & 72 High street [KELLY1 S · Walford Frederick George, printer & stationer, High si Wallford George, proprietor of the "Ban bury Advertiser," 72 High street Walker James & Son, horse cloth. &c. manufacturers, I? & 18 North Bar street Walker Kizalbeth (Mrs.), farmer, Golden villa, Neithrop Walkley William Henry, corn merchant, 41 Bridge street. WaUer ·Edgar Montague, caJbinet maker, Castle street erust & 9 Compton street Waiter J olhn, beer retailer, 30 Fish street Waiters Bessie (Miss), dress maker, 49 Broad street Warren Thomas, livery stable keeper, Bridge street Water Wmks Co. (William Edward Wood, sec.) ; office .. 27 Horsetfair Waterfield Charles, hatter, 8 'Market place Watkins Thomas Mortimer, gun maker, 75 High street Watson George, wine & spirit merchant, 39 High street Watts George, fishmonger & greengrocer, 2 Horsefair Watts Jesse, beer rebailer, 21 Church lane Watts Job, Windmill i'nn, Nortili Bar street Wearing Caroline (Mrs.), dress maker, 15 South Bar st.- Webb Fred T. C. music se]er, 24 High street Welford William & Sons, coal merchants, Great '\Yestern. Railway coal station We:Is John Septimus, pianoforte warehouse, 53 Parsons stWesleyan Mission·ary Society (R. Edmunds, treasurer), North Bar ·street Wheeler T. R. & E. corn cband'.ers, 52 North Bar street & 30 High street Wheeler John Henry, corn dealer, 70 Warwick road ·wheeler Wm. bookbndr.& picture frame ma.67 Bridge st. Wh.ite Agnes & Edith (:Mi,sses), dress makers & milliners 7 12 South Bar street TIW"'hite Oharles, dairy farmer, 55 Warwick road White Francis, butcher, 12 South Bar street White Thomas, saddler, 6o Warwick road White Wi'liam, shopkeeper, I Townsend, Ne~throp • White William Owen, inspector of nuisances to ruraJ. sanitary authority, Oalthorpe street Whitehorn William Lampet, solicitor, commissioner to. administer oaths in the :supreme court of judicature,. ho'n. sec. Banbury Municipal school & British school. 36 High street Wiggin~ Uement John, rope maker ro, &; baker g .. Butcher'.s row Wilks J'Ohn Matthew, grocer, 49 Pars-ons .street Williams William, butcher, 26 Parsons street Wilson Elizabeth (Mrs.), ·shopkeeper & registry office for servants, 51 Bridge street Wi}son Sarah Ann (Miss), dress maker, 14 Horsefair Wimbush Williarn Butcher, coffee house & dining rooms,. 36 Bridge street Wind'Sor Ohar~es, draper, 6 High •street Wise Robert tStanton M.D. physician & certifying factory surgeon, 1 Horsefair Wodhull E. & E. (Misses), milliner'S & dress makers, 3J Market place Wodthull Willia.m, greengrocer, 62 Broad street Wodhull William, beer retailer &c. 28 Horsefair Wood William Edward, 'land surveyor & manager ot Water works, Hol"lsdair Working Men's Club (Rev. Lawrence E. Arden l\LAr sec.), 2 Paradi.se row Wyatt William, bird stuffer, I Castle street Wyles Charlotte (Miss), dress maker, II Crouch street · Young Women''s 'Christian Association (Miss L. Hill, honr 'Sec.), Temperance hotel, Bridge street GRIMSBURY (OLD & NEW). PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .A.ckennan Reuben, 32 Middleton road Baylis William, 54 Middleton road Beale SeymourH.Carleon,Middleton rd Beckwith John. 39 Middleton road Biggs Thomas, 43 West street Billing ham John, 25 Middleton road Bitcon William, 10 Middleton ro>ld Bonner Mrs. 24 West street Booth Mrs. so Middleton road Duckley Rev. John Saml. (Primitive Methodist), 102 West street Burgess Samuel Edwin, West street lButler Mrs. 10 Merton street Bywater Robert, West street Oarey George, 8 Merton street Cheney John, 56 Middleton road Clark James, 26 West street Coomber Mrs. 55 Middletou road Cunningham Hugh, 61 Middleton Toad. Davis Mrs. 67 Middleto11 road Deverill Mrs. Sarah, 51 Middleton rd Drysdale Bruce, 38 West street Eden William Gibbs, 99 West street Eels Alfred, 17 West street Eldridge William, 69 Middleton road Ellistcn Edwd. Alexr. 8 West street Fairfax Arthur, 7I Middleton road Fie'ld Al£red Benjamin,Grimsbury mill Fish Rev. John William (Primitive Methodist), 18 South street Fisher Edwa:rd Laml-ey, Gu-imsbury ho Gibbard Mrs. 38 Middleton roRd Gi~berJt William Creasey, H '\'.'est st Ginger Emma (Mrs.), 68 Middle\i0n 1 d Groon Mrs. 47 Middleton road Grisold Mrs. 68 West street Ha,wke's Henry, Old Grimshu.ry Hawkins George, 9 .Merton ~treet Rit.chcox Samuel, 4 Middleton road Huckaby William, 57 Middleton road Hu.mphries John, Stoneleigh,Merl-on st l:iuscroft Mrs. 36 Middleton rood Jakeman JI.Irs. 43 Middlerl:on road Jamie John Campbell, 9 West street Jones John Richd. 41 1\Iiddleton road Kend111l Mrs. 20 South street Knutton Fredk. Ohar]e.s, 105 West st Lake Mrs. 63 Middleton road Lees Leonard, ro6 West street Lovell John, 5 Middleton road' Ludditt Mrs. 49 Middleton road Lundie William, 50 Wes't. street McKay 1\ITis. 7 West street Mander John, 107 West street Manwaring Wm. Geo. no West street Mawle John Tayl01·, 65 Middleton road MelleTs John, 74 Middle ton road N eal Mrs. 39 North streect Newell David, 3 Merton stl!eet Nicholson Alexand'er, 66 Middleton rd Orchard S'tephen, I Middlet{)n road. Percy Harry, Ioo We,st sltreet Ph.ropet Ed ward, 20 Middleton road Prescott Mi·~s 58 Middleton road

DIRECTORY.] Prior Charles, 7 South stTeet ltiley John, 2 Middleton road R()binson William, 96 West street "Rowles Miss, 46 West Eh·eet Sanders William, 53 1Lddleton ro3d Sibley Miss, 4 Merton street Slatter Mrs. 40 Middleton road Smit'h Mrs. 22 We,st s-treet Smith George, ro West street Spicer Edward, 11 West street S [range Mrs. 29 West street Stroud Edwin, 73 1vliddleton road .Swain Joseph R. Old Grimsbury Tallett John Henry, 3 Middleton road Taylor George, 42 Middleion road Timms John, 35 Middleton road Turner MiSis, 62 Middleton rood Dnderwood John Bradshaw, 70 Middleton road OXFORDSHIRE. BANBURY. 37 Fa.stn-age Wm. ins. agent, I5 North st :Neal Mary Ann (Mr.'l.), blacksmit'h, Field Alfred Benjamin, miller (s·team r6 W e.st street &; water), Grimsbury mill Orchard Step hen & Son, build· Franklin Riohd. t·ailo-r, 8 l\liddleton rd ers & contr.a.ctor.s, Bridge Bank. Galpin Mary (::\1;rs.), shopkeeper, 23 Steam Joinery work•s, Grimsbury Old Grimsbmy road Orchard Thos. C. assist. master BanGib-bard Jas.daia-yman,Grimsbury grn bury Municipal school, Bridge bank Gi!Jbs Rd. baker & s.hpkpr. 12 North st Overton James Haddlon, assist. mUISter Gile-s David, greengrocer I] Mid- at Municipal school, BaiJJbury, r5 dleton road West sbreett Go1by Hy. bake.r, Old! Grirnsbury rd Pargeter Ernest Albert, corn, hay & Grant John, builder & contractor, straw deo.ler, 13 Middleton road house decorator, timber merchant Partridge Charle.s W. ba.ker & grocer, & undertake.r, 23 Middleton road; & 17 CalllseiWay steam joinery works, East street Pearson John James Richard, Prince Gregory John, oilman &c. 94 West st of Wales P.H. 58 Centre street G1riffin Richard, farmer, Spittal farm Perry Eliz.abeth (:~Ess), dress maker, Grimsbury Conservative & Uniomsts' 66 East street Club (James Timms, sec.), South st Phillips Cathe.rine (Miss),dress maker, , 1VaJ'ner Wm. Thos. 52 Middleton road Wairren Rev.Jo'hn Francis M.A.(curate <Yf Ohrist Ohllll"ch, South anlbury), 46 Middlerton road \Varren Francis, 46 Middleton road -watJs(}n G-eo. Stephen, 22 )lidqleton rd C1rimslb1lll'y Liberal Club (John Lundy, 113 West s<treet see.), rs Middleton road Philli-ps Charles (eXOl'IS. of), chemist, Grimstbury Penny Bank( open monda.ys Post office, 6 Middleton road 4.30 to 5-3op.m.),Christ Church 8chl Powell Frederick, bakeil' & shopkeeper, • -webb Robert, 31 West street \Vheele'l" Mrs. 39 W e•st sbree.t 1Yilks Fredk. Henry, 44 Middleton rd ·wilks John, 59 Middleton road \Vostenholm Rev. Hel1I'y (Wesleyan), 6o Middleton road 1Vyatt David, 30 WeSJt street COMMERCIAL. .Atkins Thos. oilman, I 17 Causeway Atterbury Annie (M'l's. ), shopkeeper, 29 Middleton road J3anbury Gas Ligb..t & Coke Co. (Wro. Robert Cooper, resident manager) Ranbury Industrial Co-operative Society Limited (bra.nch) (Thomas Nelson, managell' ), 19 Middle ton rd 'Banbury NathJ. pot, pan & ornamental fiowm- va,se manufr. 27 Middleton rd .Billingham Rebeoca (Mrs.), dress & mantle maker & milline.r, 25 Middleton road -Bonner Florence (Miss), dll'e·ssmakea-, 95 Causewa.y Boswell Wm. beer retailer, 31 East st Cas·tle John, greengrocer, 30 Middleton road 'Ca<tch Thos. '\-Vard, commercial travelle,r, III \Vest st<reet Chilton Geo. shopkeeper, 28 Causeway Claridge William, builde<r, 32 East st "C'oles Sarah J ane (Mrs.), Oricke·ters' P.H. r6 Middleton road Cooper William Robert, ma.na.geil' to Banbury Gas works 'Cott.erell .Albe<rt Henry, plumber, Old Grim sbury road .Coult'hard Wil!iam Fuller,house agent, 21 West street Cowley Alfred, ins. agent, 26 Centre st Dawson Nathaniel H. borough. surveyor, 108 We.st street Deacon Ja.mes Potter, shopkeeper, 17 Middleton road . _Tiommett James, Wesleyan schoolmaster, 103 Wes't s1·reeb Tirinkwater Wm.shopkpr.41 North st Ilunn Alice(:\frs. ),laundress,82 W eet st. Dunn Wm. dairyman, 83 ·west street _Eaglestone Edward, coal merchant, 7 North street Gwillim John, goods mast-er G.W.R 24 l\liddleton road Grimsbury Plrentice John Vincent, buteher, 34 Hatwell Fredk. tailor, 88 Causeway Middleton road Hawkes Henry, farmer,Old Grim:;bury Pricketb Ben}amin, dtairyman, Old Hayward Sarah Louisa (Mrs.), drr&s- GrimSibury maker, ro6 Causeway Robinson Daniel T. machini,st, :li Herbert Chades, joiner, 6r Causeway Middleton road Hobley Frank, station master, G. W. Robinson Richard, insurance agent, railway, Grimsbury 7 Midmeton road Hood Eliza.beth (~li:;s), dressm.1ker, Rutlidge Joseph, boot ma. 74 We!slt st 37 North street S'anrom Emma. (Mrs.), apartments, Hnmphrey Jn.grocer, 19 Old Grmsbry 26 Middleton road Humphrie<s John, station master, L. J:lijmpeor James, cool mel".dha.nt, se& & N. W. railway, GrimS'bury M()lrley & Simper Hunt Beatrice (Miss), dressmaker, 9l:i Smith Helen (.M.i·ss), apartments, 40 West stree-t West sbreet Jackm·an Ruth (Mirs. ), dressmaker, Somerton Thomas Ernbrey, shop33 West street keeper, 2 South street J ackson Mary (:Mrs.), apartments, 14 Stroud Fdk. cattle dealer, 16 South st West sbreet S•troud Henry,butcheor,I2 Middleton rd Jar-vis Elizabeth (Miss), dressmaker, Stroud William, grocer, 6 Centre st 57 West street Talbot Alice (Mrs.), laundress, 85 Jeques Jo.se:ph, ins. agent, 28 ·west st ·west street J ohnson Henry, beer retlr. I ~ orth st Tasker Elizabeth (Mrs.), lodging h.o. Kench Sarah (Miss), dressmaker, 18 33 Middleton road South street Ta.ylor Ann (Ml's. ), beer retaile•r &; Keys Henory, coal dealer 58 '\-Yest st coal dealer, 47 West street Knight Robt. George,gas meter manu- Timms John, architect & surveyor, factll'I'er, 9 Middleton road 35 ~fiddle-ton road Kilby William, cooper & beer retailer, Towns end! J n. boot maker, 19 South· st 105 The Causeway Turner Joshua, sewing machine IJ.gent, Knuhton Frederick Charles, insurance 6 West sbreet agent, 105 West street ¥Vakelin Edward, haulier & beer reLines Ma.rk, Elephant & Castle P.H. tailer, 92 Middleton road near L. & N. W. railway Wakelin '\-Vm. Thas. coal merchant, Lock Elizabeth (~Irs.), upholsterer, L. & N.W.R. Grim!'>bury 20 New street Waiters '\Vm. Hy. ins. a.gt. 84 West st Lovell Jn. coal mer.Gt.Western raiiwy Walton Thomas, fishmonger, 31 1-IidLowe Thomas, tailor, 19 ·west street. dleton road ::\1\cKeevor William, rag me.rchant, 8o Ward William, tailor, 49 West streeb Middlet{)n road White Benjamin, aso;istant superinMander Oaroline (MTIS. ), straw bonnet tendent Prud. Ins. office,17 South •St make;r, 107 West street White Fll'edk. insurance agt.13 Westsb Mander Florence (Miss), dressmaker, Williams Thos. shopkpr. 72 Causeway 107 West stTeet Williams S~uah (Mrs.), lodging house, Mann John, shopkeeper,67 West street 15 North street ~lead Dvd. H. dairyman,Old GriDltsbry Willis Saml. boot maker, ro Centre st Morolby & Simper, coal merchants, Wood.faTd Jsph. cattle dlr. 16 North st 12 Old· Grimsbury road Wyatt Elizabeth (Miss), dreSIS maker, Moss Samuel,boot mak:er,27 Causeway 12 Centre street Na.Sbey H. Y. chiei' clm-k, Banbury Wyatt John, boot maker, 12 Centre st county court, 7 Merton street Young Philip,frmr.& grazier, Huscote NETHIE:ROOTE. ·xent Thomas, sausage manufacturer I M<Jld Thomas, bee'l"' retlr. Bowling grn I TlllStian Albert, grazie!' BARFORD ST. :MICHAEL and ST. JOHN . 'BARFORD ST. 1\tiiCHAEL (or Great Barford) ;sa parish -and village, on the river Swere, and on the road from 1Juck.ingham to Chipping N orton, 2 miles south from :Bloxham station, on the Banbury and Chipping Norton Junction branch of the Great Western railway, and s! wuth-west from Banbury, in the Northern division of the county, petty sessional division of North Wootton, 'hundred of Wootton, union and county court district of 'Banbury, rural deanery of Deddington, archdeaconry -and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael, $itua.ted on an eminence, is a building of stone, originally of the 12th and 14th centuries, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, north and south porches, and a low embattled tower at the east end of the aisle containing 3 bells; the chancel retains a piscina and there is also a piscina in the south aisle ; the nave, separated from the aisle by an arcade of three arches, is Decorated and has a north doorway of Early Norman date, with beak-head moulding; the font is of the same character; the pulpit is of Hornton stone : there are 200 sitting~. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1592, but is imperfect j marriages, rfiog j burials, 1637•

38 B.ARFORD ST. MICHAEL. OXli'ORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S The living is a vicarage with Barford St. John annexed, gross yearly yalue £rgz, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since r8gr by the Rev. Jacob Mountain M . .A. of Queen's College, Oxford. There are Baptist and W esleyan Methodist chapels. Th~ poor's land of II acres yields £z5 yearly for fuel. Shepherd's charity produces £10 a· year for apprenticing. W. H. Hall esq. is lord of the manor, and the principal landowner. The soil rests on the oolite rock; the land is arable and pasture. The chief crops are barley, wheat and turnips. The area is 1,162 acres; rateable value, £r,86S; the population in r8gr was 295. Parish Clerk, George Enock Letters through Oxford via Deddington, which is the near.est money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7·45 a.m Wall Letter Box cleared at 6 p.m Na.tional School (mixed & infants), built in 1875, for about rso childr~n.; average attendance, 68; Mrs. Fanny Griffin, mistress Carriers to Banbury.-George Enock, 'Bear,' mon. & thurs. ; .Anthony Tustain, 'White Hart,' mon. thurs. & 11at B.ARFORD ST. JOHN, formerly a chapelry, is now, by an Order of Council in 1890, annexed to Barford St. Michael, and is on the river Swere, a tributary of the Cherwell, 5 miles south-west from Banbury and 2 north-west from Deddington. The church of St. John. built as a chapel of ease to Adderbury, is a small and plain edifice in mixed styles, with an octagonal turret at south-west corner containing 2 bells: there is a Norman doorway with zigzag moulding and an Early Norman font : some windows are Decorated: the church . was restored in r864, and affords So sittings. The principal landowners are Sir George John Egerton Dashwood ba.rt. J .P., D.L. of Kirtling_ton Park and the trustees of the late Francis Sellers esq. The area is 726 acres; rateable value, £r,252; the population in r8gr was 102. Letters from London & the South through Oxford arrive at 7· I5 a. m. Bloxham & Deddington are thenearest money ordel" & telegraph offices Nearest Wall Letter Box at Barford St. Michael,. cleared at 6 p.m The children of this place attend the school of Barfor<i St Michael BARFORD ST. MICHAEL. Dyer Jas. Walker,frmr.Iron Down frm Enock George, carrier Tusta.in Anthony, shoe maker Tusta.in William, grocer Harris J oseph, Laurel oottage Mounroin Rev. Jacob M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Nicholls James SouthweU Charles Ta,yror Mvs COMMERCIAL. Bates Thomas, farmer :Beesley Frederick, farmer Biliingham John, cow keeper Castle John, road! contractor Ha.rris John, shoe maker Hunt J ohilll, farmer Murrey William, builder & contractor, house decorator, carpenter & joiner & beer retailer Nelson Thomas, shopkeeper Painter He.nry, farmer, grazier & miner (water), Buttermilk Ha:::J. frm Painter Joseph, farmer & grazier Smith EH en (:;yiiss ), shopkeeper Taylor Thomas, oarpe[lter Tibbetts William, blacksmith U pton Thomas, farmer Wells Nathan, shoe maker vVooJgrove Amos. corn dlr. & farmer· BA.RFORD ST. JO~. Austin J emina (Mrs.), farmer Castle Alfred, road contractor Denchfield "\Villiam, farmer Lovell Frdk. farmer & miller (water} Stanley Frederick A. Crown P.H 1Voo:grove Thos. frmr. )iead farm STEEPLE :BARTON is a parish on the river poor of Steeple Barton ana Westcote Ilarton in equai DGrne, a tribut>a.ry of the Evenlode, 3 miles west from shares; Gould's. charity of £5 yearly is for bread. A. the Hyeford station on the Oxford, Banbury and Bir- temperance hall was built in :Middle Ilarton in r889. mingham .\lection of the Great Western railway, 5 south- Maiden Bower (maidian, strong, and beorg, a fortress), west from Deddington and 7 north from Woodstock, a spot well-known to the fox-hunter, is said to be & in the Northern division of the county, hundred of British earthwork; near to it, in this parish, on the ·w ootton, petty sessional division of 1Vootton North, road to Oxford, is a heap of stones·, the ruins (Jf a union and county court district of Woodstock, rural Druidical altar, called "hoarstone," which remained deanery of 1Voodstock, archdeaconry and diocese of entire till destroyed by the farmer in occupation in. Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone, 1843· Barton Abbey, the ~~eat of Alexander William chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and Hall esq. D.L., J.P. is a handsome mansion pleasantly consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and situated, with la.wns and a lake in front. Charles an embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, Walter Cottrell-Dormer esq. of Middle Bart{)n, is lord containing 5 bells: an arcade of five Decorated arches of the manor of Sesswell Barton, the trustees of Joseph separates the nave and aisle: some of the open benches Painter esq. of that of Middle Barton and A. W. Half are Jaco.bean: in the church are memorials to the esq. of the manor of Steeple Barton. The principal families of Croker r568-r6g6, Sheldon r670·8I, and landowners are ~<\.. W. Hall esq. Viscount Clifden and Gough I706-27, an<_! also to Jane, d. r6II, wife of Law- Miss Painter. There are other smaller landowners. rence Humphrey D.D. president of MagdaJ.en College, The soil is stone brash; subsoil, the same. The land Oxford, and Dean of Winchester, d. r Feb. 1588-9; Sir is chiefly arable. The area is 2,893 acres; rateable:- Philip Constable, of Everingham, Yorks, r664; and value, £3,442; the population in r89r was 814 in the Winefride, widow of Stuart Walker gent. r688 ; a brass civil, aud 798 in the ecclesiastical parish. is recorded to John Boldern M.A. fellow of Magdalen Parish Clerk, William Luing. College, Oxford, and master of the college school, and Sesswell Barton, a quarter of a mile east; Middlesometime vicar here, d. 15 77 ; the monuments of the Barton, half a mile north, are hamlets. Dormers were removed in r8sr to Rousham: the stained east window is a memorial to Henry Hall esq. D.L. d. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity r862, and was erected by his children: the chancel was & Insurance Office, Middle Barton.-William Grimsley, restored in 1879: there are 330 sittings. The register sub-postmaster. Letters through Oxford via Steeple of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1678; Aston arrive at 7.1c a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched marriages', 1695· The living is a vicarage, average tithe at ro.5o a.m. & J.rs p.m. Wall Letter Box at rent-charge £38, gross yearly value £u3, with resi- Steeple Barton cleared at II.IO a.m. & 7-I$ p.m.; dence and 75 acres of glebe, :in the .gift of the Duke of sunday, 10.25 a.m Marlborough, who has two turns and Alexander William National School (mixed), Middle Barton, built jn r866 Hall esq. who has one turn in three, and held since by A. W. Hall esq. D.L., J.P. & supported by him, r889 by the Rev. William James Hermann Newman for rs6 children; average attendance, II2; & for 6oM . .A. of the University of Oxford. Here are Wesleyan infants, average attendance, 6o; John Haydon Whiteand Primitive Methodist chapels. The poor's allotment head, master; Mrs. Howitt, infants' mistress of 29 acres, awarded in 1796, produces about £44 Carrier.-Edwin Humphries, to Chipping Norton, wed.; yearly, which is distributed in clothing and fuel to the to Eanbury, mon. & thurs.; to Oxford, sat STEEPLE BARTON. 1\IIDDLE BARTON. Cleaver Thomas, shopkeeper Cleaver William Thomas, Carpenters,. Hall .Alexander William D.L., Barton Abbey; & Carlton J.P. Gould Miss club, Haynes Miss London SW Newman Rev. William M.A. (vicar) Jas. Hermann Goffe William Garner, farmer Goodg-ame Jn. farm bailiff to A. W. Hall esq Rogers Mrs. Ellen, farmer Waller Walter James, farmer Walton Frederick, fanner COMMERCIAL. Baker George, wheelwright Baker William, carpenter & shopkpr Bannard Frederick Pa.yne, p:umber Bennett Edward, shoe mak€r Brain Annie (Mi~s), shopkeeper Castle ~ro~es, wheelwrjght Chadbon Charles, fanner Chadbon Thomas, farmer .Arms P.R. & farmer Cole Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Constable Jn. Wm. baker & farme-r Ea~lestone Charles, butcher & T.b:reee Horssshoes P.H GrimSiley Wm. builder, Post office Harris Hy. miller (water) & farmel"' Honour "\Valter, farmer Humphries Edwin. carrier , Kirby George, ta:i!.or, outfitter &c. & overseer

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BEGBROK_E. 39 J arvis Thomas, saddler Luing Susannah & Lydia (Misses), drapers Norton Clmrles, stone mason Pratley John, farmer Reeves J. blacksmith Soden Bros. nurserymen, seedsmen & florists, Grove nursery Si m son Samuel, corn dealer Stockford Thomas, shopkeeper Vic.kermant Louisa (Mrs.), fancy repos W oolgrove John, shoe maker WESTCOTE :BARTON is a parish and village on there is also a large memorial cross of Cornish granite the river Dorne, and on the main road from Chipping of the Celtic type. The register dates from the year Norton to Bicester, 3! miles west from Heyford station 1559, but its middle portion, Le., circa 168o to 18oo, on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great is very defective. The living is a rectory, gross yearly Western railway, 5 miles south-west from Deddington value £1Bo, derived from 208 acres of glebe, with resiand 7 north from Woodstock, in the Northern division dence, in the gift of the trusteeS! of the late Rev. John of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty sessional divi- Young Seagrave M . .A.. (d. 1891), and held since :r852 by sion of Wootton North, union and county court district the Rev. Edmund Leopold Lockyer M.A. of Emmanuel of Woodstock, rural deanery of Woodstock and arch- College, Cambridge. The poor's allotment of 29 acres, deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. awarded in 1796, produces about £44 yearly, which i• Edward is an ancient building of stone, in mixed styles, expended in the purchase of fuel, to be equally divided. its earliest portions being Norman: it consists of chan- between this and the adjoining parish of Steeple Bareel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a Perpendicular ton; there is also a. bread charity of £4 tss. arising western tower with pinnacles and containing 3 bells, from the rent of land given by Norwood and others. rung by means of the short piece of wood and half The Rev. J enner Marshall M . .A. who is lord of the wheel used in the 16th century: the chancel retains a manor, and resides at the Manor House, Viscount stone sedile and a small piscina, and on the north side Clifden, Alexander William Hall esq. of Barton Abbey, a credence: the chancel arch is Transitional, early 13th and the rector, are the principal landowners. The soil century and has an ancient screen with doors, probably is mostly limestone brash ; subsoil, clay and white limeof the 13th century, which has been most carefully stone. The land is- arable with a small proportion pasrestored, and the cornice of the rood loft, part of which ture. The area is 933 acres; rateable value, £I,I8I; remained, has been renewed and beautifully painted in the population in 1891 was 215. gold and colours, the original design being as nearly as Parish Clerk, William Brain possible reprodn,ced: two original Norman arches and Letters from Oxford arrive at 7.10 a.m. & 2 • 35 p.m. piers of the aisle arcade remain, but the windows of the Wall Letter Box cleared at 10• 45 a. m. & 7.10 p.m.; aisle are Perpendicular: the font is Norman: the sundays, 9_ 55 a. m. The nearest money order & telechurch was carefully restored in :r856, under the direc- graph office is at Middle Barton tion of the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. and affords 96 sittings. In the churchyard is the base of a cross and Th& children of this parish attend the schools at Sandhalf of a stone coffin, formerly used as a stand for the ford St. Martin or Steeple Barton basin of the Norman font, now placed on a new base: Oarrier.-Wm. Chas. Tal bot, to Ban bury, thurs. & sat Hulls .John Alien Thomas, farmer Pulley Benja.min, shopkeeper Lockyer Rev. Edmund Leopold M.A. Cole Hubert .Ambrose, farmer, Manor Sainsbury George, blacksmith Rectory • farm & shopkeeper Stockford Mark Thomas, Fox Inn Marshal~ Rev . .Jenner M.A. Man.QT ho Hawes Thomas, farmer Talbot William Charles, ca.rTier .Allen John, farmer PrestO'Il William, sa.dd1er BECKLEY is a parish and village, 4 miles south- 250 sittings. The register dates from the y-ear 1703. east from Islip station on the London and North West- The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £148, without ern railway, and 5 miles north-east from Oxford, on residence, in the gift of Mrs. Nina. Cooke, and h~ld the borders of Otmoor, in the Mid division of the since r894 by the Rev. Philip Valentine Doyne M . .A. of county, hundred and petty sessional division of Bulling- Clare College, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. don, uuion of Headington, county court district of Croke's Almshouses were erected in 1636 by Sir George Oxford, rural deanery of Islip and archdeaconry and Croke kt. of Waterstock, one of the Justices of the diocese of Oxford. The ecclesiastical parish of Horton- Court of Common Pleas, for four poor men and as. many cum-Studley was taken out of this parish in r88r. The poor women of this parish and of Waterstock and Roman road from .A.lcester to Dorchester passed through Chilton (Bucks); the yearly income arising from land the parish, and considerable remains of it may still be and money in the funds is about £g6, of which £2o traced, particularly across Otmoor, and in some arable is paid to the minister of Horton-cnm-Studley; from land on the hill and in a direct line from it.. The a charity left in 1764 by Margaret and Stephen Wheatchurch of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone, in land to the parish of Stanton St. John, a yearly sum mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south of about £6 is paid for the education of 10 children ()f porch and a central embattled tower containing a Beckley and Horton. The Hon. Francis Leveson Bertie, clock and 5 bells: the chancel is good Decorated, dating of 18 Grosvenor street, London W., who is lord of the from about 1320, and has an east window of three manor, and Mrs. Oooke are the principal landowners-. lights, with flowing tracery and side windows in the The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, gravel. The chief same style, in the heads of w,hich remain some beauti- crops are wheat; barley, beans and oats. The IIJ'Iea. is ful fragments of 14th century glass; one on the north 3,504 acres; rateable value, £2,738; the population in side filled with stained glass in 1894, is now a memorial 1891 was 345· to the Rev. George Theophilus Cooke B.D. vicar Parish Clerk, Joseph .A.llum. 1847-94; there is a plain piscina: the tower is supported STOWOOD, formerly a distinct parish, is now a hamon plain Mcessed arches and has a parapet and c·ornice let of Beckley under ~he "Divided Parishes Act, 1882 ," of Perpendicular date; the sanctus bell hangs in a c 45 and 46 Vict. c. S8). The Crown, the Earl of small opening with a foliated head: the staircase to the .Abingdott, who is lord of the manor, and Herbert tower is in a round turret, with pyramidal roof and Parsons esq. .J.P. of Elsfield, are the principal landfinial at the north-east angle: the nave is Perpendicular, owners. The area is 537 acres; rateable value, £ 476; of the time of Henry VII. and has two arches only on the population in 1g91 was so. each side, on clustered pillars with moulded caps : the aisles are Decorated and Perpendicular, and the south Post Office.-Mrs. Louisa Whitehead, sub-postmistress. aisle retains image brackets at its eastern end: each Letters through Oxford arrive at 9 a. m.; dispatched aisle has a hagioscope, but both are now built up : at 5 p.m. ; sundays dispatched I p.m. Headington the font is a plain cylinder of stone, placed against the is the nearest money order & telegraph office north-east pillar of the nave, att-ached to which is a Parochial School ior go children; average attendance, small stone desk supported by a. shaft with moulded 70; Henry Tossell, master cap: attached to the south-east pier is a wooden desk, Carriers to Oxford. James. Willis, daily; George Coleand the pulpit retains an hour-glass stand: there are man, sat.; Thomas Snmner, wed. &; .sat Cannon Misses Charlett Dick, farmer Kimble David & Willoughby, farmers Cooke Mrs Coates Henry, farmer Smith Edwin (Mrs.), shopkeeper Doyne Rev. Philip Val~ntine 1\I . .A.. Coieman George, carrier Stewart Wm.BuiT,..!.bingdonArms P.H Vicarage Cooke Saml. Arthr. farmr. Grove frm Sumner Thotnas, carrier Gatz John, hnkf'r Wakelin John, carpenter COMMERCIAL. Gunston .Alfred, farmer, Park farm Whitehead Charles, shoe maker Boult.er John Da.vis, head gamekeeper Hall Edward, farmer Willis James, carrier to H. Parsons esq. Stowood Hurst Henry, farmer Wimg Henry, bootmaker :BEGBROKE is a parish and village on the road from llington station on the Oxford and Birmingham railway, Oxford to WoodstDck, I~ miles south-west from Kid- 2~ south-east from Woodstock and 5 nor.th-north-west

40 DEGBBOKE. OXFORDSHIRE. from Oxford, in the Mid division of the county, hun- John Manning, rector, d. 14 Nov. 168o; Thos. Williams dred of Wootton, petty sessional division of Wootton M. A. rector, 168o, d. 9 July, 1686; Richard Tabor M.A. South, union of ·woodstock, county court district of rector, 1698, d. 24 Mar. 1703-4; Richard Hawkins M.A. Oxford, rural deanery of Woodstock and archdeaconry rector, 1739, d. 21 Nov. 1764, and Thomas Cooke B.D. and diocese of Oxford. The Oxford canal passes· on the rector, d. IJ Feb. 1776: the church was partly reeast. The church of St. Michael is a. small but ancient paired in 1846 and in 1892 was new :roofed and reseated edifice of stone, originally Norman, and consists of and the gallery was :removed at the same time: there chancel and na-ve, with a low saddle-backed western are roo sittings. In the churchyard, near the south tower formerly containing two bells, but now only one: door, is the base and part of the shaft of an ancient the chancel is Norman and has a small modern east cross. The register dates from the year 1664. The window, which, as well as others in the chancel, is living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £155, average sta}ned, one being filled with shields of arms; ano·ther, £n8, net yearly value £170, with residence and 37 on the south of the chancel, was erected to Thomas acres of glebe, in the gift of trustees, who- have three Robinson esq. a former resident in and benefactor to turns, and the principal of Brasenose College, one turn, the parish, d. 1 May, 1848, and to Margaret, his wife, and held since 1877 by the Rev. George Richmond d. 11 Dec. 1835; the chancel arch is also Norman, Downes M.A. of Brasenose College. The rectory house with zigzag and embattled mouldings and ornamented was rebuilt by the Rev. R. Hawkins, about 1740, but shafts and was taken down and carefully re-set in 1845; / has since undergone various alterations. Sir George the nave has a high-pitched open roof and modern 1 John Egerton Dashwood bart. of Kirtlington Park, is square-headed ~indows in the Perpendicular style, put 1 lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil in by Mr. Robinson, in 1828; the Norman south door1 is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barway has zigzag mouldings and recessed shafts : the i ley and beans. The area is 614 acres ; rateable value, north doorway is built up; the tower, originally Nor- j,r,342; the population in 1891 was 79· man, ha.s Decorated windows: the font is octagonal: in Parish Clerk, Thomas Smith the north wall of the chancel is a recess with a carved oak door and ancient lock, the interior has a flue, and Letters from Oxford, via Kidlington, arrive at 8 a.m. was probably intended for a cresset: near the south Wall Letter Box cleared at s.ro p.m.; sundays, 12.30 door is a coped stone coffin, said to have been that of p.m. Kidlington is the nearest money order & tele· the founder : in the chancel are several monuments to graph office t4~ Fitzherberts, 1:636-1804; and inscribed stones to 1 There is no school; the children of this parish attend Vincent Coventrie M.A. rector, 1614, d. 13 Feb. 1659; I the schools at Bladon & Yarnton Downes Rev. George Richmond M.A. co~B£ERCIAL. Hutt Edward & Frank, farmers . Rectory EdgingtoQn John, Sun P.H Tartridge George, farmer Hawkins Edwd. LoTC.:l M . .A.. The E;m~ Hedges Frederick, poultry dealer :BENSINGTON (called Benson) is a large parish and village, pleasantly situated ·On the banks of the 'rhames, which separates it from Berkshire, and on the road from Henley-on-Thames to Oxford, 2 miles north from Wallingford terminal station, on a branch from Cholsey and Moulsford station on the main line of the Great ·western railway, II north-west from Henley-on-'Thames, 12 ~outh-east fr.om Oxford and 14~ north-west from Rea.ding, in the Southern division of the county, partly in the hundred of Ewe::.me and partly in the hundred of Dorchester, petty sessional di-vision of Watlington, and in ·the union and county court district of Wallingford, rural deanery of Cuddesdon, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Bensington was at an early period a. place of importance ; it was taken by the Saxons in 571, al\d here, in 777, King Offa, Qf J\Iercia, defeated the West Saxons. Traces of a primitive embankment called "Medlers bank," were visible on the west of the church within the present century. Nearest bridge up, Shillingford, rt miles; down, Wallingford, same distance. The church of St. Heleru is an edifice of stone in mixed styles, consistin~ Df chancel, with organ chamber and vestry on the north side, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, added iu 1780, with pinnacles at the angles, and containing a clock and 8 bells: the chancel, originally Late Norman, , was rebuilt on the same foundations in r86r, much cf the old work being re-incorporated, and the l)rgan chamber and vestry built: the stained east window is a memorial to the Powell family : the chancel arch :md nave arcades are Early English, and some of the piers, all .of which are circular, have remarkably fine caps: the windows of the aisles, and the south doorway are 14th century Dec01·ated: the nave roof is later, and may be assigned to the reign of Henry VII. : the font is Early English; the oldest of the memorials now existing in the church is a brass, with inscription, to Stephen Smith, of Turner's Court; there is also a mural tablet with a singular antithetical inscription to Ralph Quelch, 1629, and Jane, his wife, r6rg; and the church once had other brasses to 'William Freeman, of Prest.on Crowmarsh; Thomas Freeman, 155o, and to Elizabeth, wife of William Stompe, of Crowmarsh Battell, rsgo: there are 300 sittings. The churchyard is neatly kPpt and enclosed by a stone wall. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year rs65; marriages, rs6g. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £145, average £121, net yearly value £2r5, with 17! acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held' since r88r by the Rev. John Edward Field M . .A.. of Worcester College, Oxford. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels; a Free Church was erected in 1879 by public subscription and will seat 200 p~rsons. Charities: -The church estate of 57 acres, produces £8o yearly; Blacknall's charity, left in 1639, provides £ r~r which is gi-ven yearly in money to the pour on St. Thomas' day; Merryweather's charity, left in 1812, consists of £8 yearly, which is expended m out.lr garments, given to selected poor persons on Christmai day; Thomas Smith's char~ty <>f £5, left in t:8og, is distributed yearly in bread to the poor; R. A. Newton's charity of £6, left in 1879, is distributed' yearly in bread i~ the poor. In the old coaching days, Benson, being 011 the high road from Oxford to umdon, was a regular stQpping place for the coaches on this route, and thus acquired a position of importance and prosperity, the various handicrafts connected with the coaching interest furnishing employment to a ~arge number of the inhabitants; two large hotels, the Crown and White Hart, still remain, and are comfortable and well-conducted hostelries. The representatives of the late Hon. and Rev. Sir Francis Jarvis Stapleton (d. 1874) are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late Robert Aldworth Newton esq. and 1\Ir. W. Newton. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and oats. The area, includ~ng Fyfield, is 2,920 acres; rateable value, £5,304; the population in r8gr was r,I2I. FYFIELD (or Fifield), near Wallingford, in the parish Df Bensington, 2! miles north-east from Wallingford, was formerly a separate hamlet. The. manor house is an ancient building, formerly belonging to some religious house; the walls are of immense thickness, bnt the structure. has been modernized. The trustees of the late Robert Aldworth Newton esq. are lorus of the manor. CROW::\fARSH BATTLE, ! of a mile south, is a small hamlet of Bensington, beautifully seated vn thG banks of the 'Thames, half a mile soui:h. The. representatives of the late Sir Francis Stapleton are lords of the manor. Roke, 1 mile north; Roke Marsh, three-quarters of a mile north; and Littleworth, are other places in the parish. Parish Clerk, Alfred George Field. Post, 1\I. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delive-ry & .Annuity & Insurance Office.-Robert Smith, sub-postma~ter. Letters arrive from 1Yallingford at 6.15 a. m. & 2 p.m. ; dispatched at 12 noon & 7.30 p.m. & on sundays arrive 6 a.m.; dispatched at 12 noon 'Vall Box, Preston Crowmarsh, cleared a.t 12.20 & 8 p.m. ; sundays, 12.20 p.m 1Vall Box, Castle square, cleared at 2.15 & 7·55 p.m.; sundays, 12.15 p.m ·wall Box, Roke, cleared at 6.45 p.m National School (mixed), for 200 children; average attendance, 84; William H. Faulkner, master; Miss Emma Speed, mistress British School (mixed), built in r851, for 207 ~hildr~n; average attendance, 154; Thomas Ball, master; :Mrs.

• .DIRECTORY .J OXFORDSHIRE • BICESTER. 41 Ball, assistant mistress; 'Miss Bertha Saunders, infants' mistress Carriers. .Omnibus leaves the 'Crown,' Bensington, for Wallingford at 9 a.m. & 4.15 p.m. returning at 10.10 a.m. & 5-40 p.m. ; fare, u Henry Palmer, to London, wed. leaving ' Oxford Arms,' Warwick lane, fri Georg8 Oherrell, wed'.& sat. to Oxford, & mon.to Abingdnn BENSINGTON. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. lJadcock John, Churchfield Burgis Mrs. The Laurels Cope Philip, West Thorpe Corsellis Mrs. Colne house Cozens Willillm, The Chestnuts Davies Rev. Gabriel, The Elms Field Rev. Jn. Edwd., M.A. Vicarage .Field George F.R.C.S Frampton John _Franklin John L Franklin Mrs. The Limes Hine Samuel D .Hyde .Alfred, Blenheim house Painter J ames Giles, Brook house . Painter John Thomas, Hale farm . .Pettit William, Thames villa .Pow~ll Miss Ruck-Keene Misses, The Paddock Spiller Miss Williams Rev. Charles (Cong) COMMERCIAL. .Bailey James Edward, grocer .Ball Thomas, assistant overseer, Littleworth .Belcher Wm. Sun inn & blacksmith l3urgis Hannah Maria (Mrs.), grocer, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit mercha-nts .Champion John W. farmer Coop A.lbert, tobacconist W akefield & Co. gr~ers Cross William. beer reta.i~er Weedon Bros. coal mers. & chemical Croxford Emily (Miss), White Hart manure manfrs. Benson whhl'f hotru, ever.y accommodation fOil' West JI1J. !EI. buildr. plmbr. & g:azr visitors & tourists. See advert Whichelo Wait. butcher & beer retlr Grigg & Co. d<rapers (Henry Baker, Williams J6hn H. carpenter manager) Winter Jacab, farmer & overseer Hall J ane (Mrs ), dairy farm Young Goorge, Cast:e inn Hargreaves Henry, draper & tailor, Young Harriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper .colledor & assessor of queen's taxes CROWMARSH BATTLE. Hme Saml. Danl., M.R.C.S.Eng. surg Hinton Thomas, baker Ja.mes Richard, tailor J ennings Richard, beeT retailer Lane Henry, Threa Horseshoes P.H. & blacksmith Lewendon 'Vm. beer retlr. & grocer Lewis William, carpenter MacKay Isaac, agent for the Prudential Assurance Co Munday Henry, saddler Newton 'Vm. farmer. GoU:.d?s grove Paxman Elijah, grocer Pe.ther Richard, Crown (The) family & commerciaa hotel & posting ho . within five minutes' walk of the • r1ver Sellwoodi Edward, shopkeeper Smith Robert, grocer & post o1fice Strainge William, butcher Toovey John. carpenter Toovey William, builder Cooper Henry Reeve, corn commission agent, Brixton lodge Newton William, farmer & landowner FYFIELD. Newton Miss, Fyfield h()use PRESTON CROW:MARSH. Littleboy William J.P. miller (water), Crowmarsih mills Wor~ey Henry, Swan P.H ROKE. Bailey James W~, grocer Pa.Jmer Henry, carrier Parkes William wheelwright Stevens John, beer retailer ROKE MARSH. Ga~e Wif.liam, carpe.nter Hutchings Edward Morris, farmer Lewendon Thomas, beer retailer ·:BERRICK SALOME is a parish and village 4 miles nion table and rails set up, and other work carrieu north-east from Wallingford terminal station on a out, in the progress of which traces of wall painting branch from Ch()lsey and Moulsford station on the main and some ancient floor tiles were discovered; the parish line of the Great Western railway, and 6 west from chest, the old table and the royal arms are now placed Watlington, in the Southern division of the county, in the new vestry: there are 130 sittings. The register hundred of Ewelme, petty sessional division of Wat- dates from the year 15go. The living is a chapelry lington, union and county court district of Wallingford, annexed to the vicarage of Chalgrove, average yearly rural deanery of Aston, and archdeaconry and diocese value of tithe rent-charge £z68, net income £230, inof Oxford. The church .of St. Helen is an a11cient eluding 10~ acres of glebe, with residence, in the. gif\ -edifice of stone in mixed styles, including some remains of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, of Norman work, consisting of chancel, nave, liouth and held since 1885 by the Rev. George Blamire Brmm chapel, south porch and a W()Oden tower at the west M.A. Keble College, Oxford, who resides at Chalgrove. end, with pyramidal roof and containing 6 bells: the There are some small charities amounting to £13 Bs. chancel is Decorated and retains a piscina, which has yearly for distribution in bread and money and £1 i·S. been carefully repaired, but there is no chancel arch; for education; the church land produces £n a year. the nave is partly Norman, and has also portions in The representatives of the late :Michael Charles Blount other styles down to Late Perpendicular with an interest- esq. of Mapledurham (d. 1881) are lords of the manor. mg Jacobean roof, dated 1615, and there is a ;;;outh The principal landowners are Magdalen and Lincoln chapel of the same date, with an Early English window Colleges, Oxford, and John Deane. esq. The chief crops containing some ancient glass, and a bracket under it: are wheat, barley, beans and peas. The land is loamy, the font is Norman and has an interlaced pattern round with gravel substrata. The area is 6oo acres; rateable the basin; the western gallery, erected in 1676, and vaJue, £788; the population in 1891 was 86. m.odified in the late restoration, has a balustraded front Parish Clerk, Richard Roberts. of oak: the church was thoroughly restored in 18go, Lett-ers through Wallingford arrive at 8.15 a. m. The at a cost of about £7oo, under the direction of Mr. nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bensingh'n A. M. Mowbray, architect, of Oxford, when a new Wall Box cleared at 6.45 p.m. week days only vestry was added, the walls partially rebuilt, the roofs The children of this village attend the schools :;..~ . repaired, the chancel fitted with stalls, a new commu- Bensington Glanville Miss Gale Eliza (Mrs.), wheelwright Delcher Benjamin Edward B. farmer, Green Walber, shopkeeper Tanner Emma (Mrs.), beer retailer Well>E"'' Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Ivy House farm Payton Thomas, beer retailer Weller Jonathan (l'\Irs.), farmer • I~ I C E S 'r E l{ . 1HCESTER is an agricultural market and union town, head of a county court district and parish, on the bank of a small scream called the Ray, which falls into the 'Cherwell at Islip, and on the old coach road from Birmingham and Leamington to London, with a station on the Oxford and Bletchley section of the London and North ·western railway, 54~ miles from London, 13 · m.iles north-east from Oxford, 15 south-east from Ban· bury, 17 north-west from Aylesbury, 8 south-west from Buckingham, and 15 north-west from Thame, in the Mid: division uf the. county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, rural deanery of Bicester, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford and includes the -!;ownships of M.arket End and Kings End. Bicester, anciently called '' Bu:rinceastre," is supposed to have been founded in the 7th century. The etymology of its name is uncertain; by many it is conjectured to derive its name from Birinus (Birini Castrum), the Saxon canonized prelate and first bishop of Dorchester (A.D. 625-50), in whose time it had been a frontier garrison and may possibly have been built by his advice from the ruins of Alchester, which was a fortified city and a. Roman station of considerable note under Aulus Plautius the consuL Skinner (Ety:m. Ling. Angl.) conjectures the derivation to be from the Anglo-Saxon " bern,'' a granary, and "ceaster,'' a town. The town consists principally of one long street, on the high road to Banbury; there is also a market place, with an outlet joining it to King's End, on the Yoa.d to W endlebury and Oxford, and two other streets branch-

42 BICESTER. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S ing from these called Chapel street and Crockwell, which latter appears to have been so called from an ancient well, ~:xisting there as far back as I2II, but n<>w built over. The" Local Government Act, 1858 •t (21 and 22 Vict. c. g8), was adopted by Bioester King's End, February 25, 1859, and by Bicester Market End', July 22, 1862; under the provisions of the Act 38 and 39 Vie. cap. x. the King's End district was dissolved and the Market End district enlarged and renamed the Bicester district. The townships of King's End and Ma.rket End: ~lect their own overseers, guardians and churchwardens, but the. townships form one ecclesiastical parish. The town was governed by a Local Boa1'd of 12 members, but under the provisions of the " Local Government Act, 1894.'' the Urban District Council is now the looo.J authority. The town is lighted with gas by a company, and is well supplied with water of remarkable purity, to the use of which is attributed the celebrity the town has obtained for its excellent ale. The church of St. Eadburg is a spacious and handsome edifice of stone, in mixed! styles : it was originally Norman and! cruciform in plan, with a central tower (taken down about q2o) and aisles; but now coliSists of chancel, with north chapel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north porch! and an embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, 75 feet in height, with pinnacles at the angles, panelled and crocketed and containing a clock, 6 bell~ and/ a sanctus bell: the south aisle dates from the 13th, and the north from the 14th century: the north porch is later: the chancel has. ~orman walls and buttresses, with inserted windows o·f the Decorated period and on the north side a Decorated arch of wide span, opening into the chapel; the chancel arch and two others west of it are Early Norman; near these is a small straight-sided arch, with triangular head, supposed to be Saxon: the nave. is separated from th~ south aisle by an arcade of four Early English arches on clustered piers, in the spandrils of two of which are some curious and rude sculptures in 5mall panels let into the wall, representing figures of knights armed with shields and swords under a crocketed arcading; the riorth arcade is composed of three Decorated arches, on octagonal pillars ; the clerestory is Perpendicular and supports a good .open timbered roof of the same date ; in the south aisle is a small piscina of Perpendicular date; the north aisle retains part of a Norman string course, with zig-zag: moulding; the doorway in this aisle is Decorated, but the south door is Early English : there are some fragments of !lcreenwork and a few of the original benches : the font is plain and polygonal,· expanding towards the top and is probably Early English: the church contains monuments to Sir Edward Turner bart. D.O.L. of Ambrosden Park, d. 31st October, 1766, and Oassandra (Leigh) his wife, 1770; Sarah, wife of the Rev. White Kennett B.D. vicar of Am brosden, 1684-94, and Bishop of Peterborough, 1718-28; Robert Carver, 16g8, and Maria, his '' ife, 1722, father and mother of Mrs. Kennett; Thomas .Airson B..A.. 36 years vicar, 1715-52; Thomas Forbes, vicar, 1715, and William, son of Stephen Glynne, of Merton esq.; in the chancel is a singular monument to five children of Samuel Blackwall esq. with a grotesque carving of as many skulls : there also remain brasses to William Staveley esq. "dominus de Bygnell," 1498, and! his wife, Alice (Frances), 1500; Roger Moore esq. gentleman pensioner ta Queen Elizabeth, slain on her Majesty's service in Ireland, 1551, and .Agnes (Husye), his wife, 1584; all three are inscriptions .only: the church has been restored at an expense of L3.soo, when the galleries erected in the last century on the north and south sides and at the west end were removed and the church re-seated': there is a memorial window in the chancel to Sir Gregory Pag~ Turner bart. lord of the manor of Market End, d. 6 March, 1843• presented by Mrs. Fryer, his daughter; and there are two given by the Tnrner family, and others to Major Lewis Coker, lord· of the manor of King's End, acci· dentally drowned in 1858; Captain Style R.N. and family; Thomas Tubb and family; and two presented by Mrs. Rogerson; in May, 1885, a memorial window was inserted to Maj.-Gen. Charles George Gordon R.E., C.B. who fell at Khartoum, January :z6th, 1885, and one in the north aisle to the Rev. John William Watts M.A. vicar 1843-80. Jn, the churchyard, which is beautifully planted with trees and shrubs and carefully tended, is a stone inscribed with the names of Samuel Clarke and many others, who fell victims to the dreadful visitation of cholera in 1832, when more than 70 persons perished : the principa.l entrance is on the. north side, by a wide path, pleasantly shaded with limes and leading to the north porch: there are I, roo sittings. The register dates from the year I593· The living is a. vicarage, rent-charge £25, with 126 acres of glebe, value £3oo, net yearly value £zso, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late Sir E. Page-Turner bart-. (d. 1874) and held since 1894 by the Rev. Gibbs Payne Crawfurdl M . .A.. of Corpus Christi College, Oxford<. The infants' schoolroom in Crockwell is licensed by the Bishop .of Oxford for divine service on Sundays. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel, in Sheep street. erected' in 1841, has 300 sittings. The Congregational chapel, in Chapel street, -t~rected in 1729, on a site purchased after the g.reat fire of 1724, contains, among other memorials, a monument to the Rev. John Trough ton, 1739, and Sarah, his wife, 1736; the chapel will seat 360 persons ; attached il'l a Sunday school, established in 1794, by Mr. James Jones. The United Free Methodist chapel in Sheep street was built in 1863, and will seat 300. The Cemetery, on the south side of .the town and communicating wath the dhurchyard, of which it may be regarded oo an extension, covers an area of 2 aeres 3 poles and was opened in 1861 : it is picturesquely laid out and contains a mortuary chapel for tlhe use of Nohconformi·sts, and is under the control of a Burial :Board of 9 members. The free pub:ic readting-room wa.s opened in 1872 by t:he IibCII"ality of the Earl of Jersey, and! is well supp1ied with the daily and weekly papers &c. In the Market place formerly stood the Town Haii and shamib1es, erected in 1622, but de-stroyed by a riotous assemblage of townspeople in 1826. St. Eadburg's Hall, near the ra.ilway station, erected in 1882 by the exertions of the Rev. John Bl,ackburne Kane M.A. late vicM", on a. site given by Jonas Paxton esq. from designs by Mr. E. G. Bruton, of Oxford, at a cost Oof £r,2oo: the first :stone was laid by the Baroness Schroder, June 14th, 1882, and the hall was opened in Decem'ber foll'{)wing: it -comprises on the- ground floor a large rea.d:ing-room, with a refreshment-room, and on the upper floor an wssembly room 62 by 26 feet, which will hold soo persons. !The .Agricultural andl Horticultur~al Society, established in r8,5g, has been very sUCICe&s!ful and now numbers upwaTdls of 300 members. Two weekly newspapers, the "Bicester Hera~d'' and tlhe '' Bice~st·er .Adverti.ser," are publislhed! here. · The chief businestS of the inhabitants arises from t'he market and cattle fairs. Fair.s are held here on the Friday in Easter week, the first Friday in June and July. August 5th and 6th, tthe Fri<1ay before, and first Friday after, the urt'b. of October and on tlhe .Fl'lday after December nth. The muket is held on Friday and a cattle market O'Il the first and! third' Friday in every month, which is generally well attended. Bicester is the head qual'ters of the F t'l"oop nf the Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Y€()- manry Oavalry . The Visiting Society, the Provident Society and tbe Dflrcas Society (all worked in connection with the parish church) are <for •supplying the poor with articles of cliothing, ,g•oup and coals. The To·wn St(){!k is a. fund arising out of the rents d certain lands and terum1ents left by a will of very ancient date: 1the income, 'now amounting to about £275 yearly. was increa:sed in 1867 by a gift of £r,ooo by George Tubb eosq. banker, BiceSiter, for the relief of deooyed tradesmen and produces £3o yearly: the feoffee's are HTubb esq. John Hurut, George Richard Castle, W. G. Palmer and R. B. Sandiland: the.se cihoarities, as well as Shirley'.s beques•t of about £3 a year, are divided amongst certain pensioners. .A charity CJof about £3o yearly, !eft by W. Walker esq. of Stamford Hill, Middlesex, :for educational purposes, is divided between the Blue Coat School and the Church andJ Congregational Sunday SchooJos: and Oarleton'>s char~ty of £2 is for bread. The Biooster hunt was· e&baib[ished about r82o: the kennels are at Stratton Au<Eey. P. Colville Smith esq. is the master. Bicester, Banbury, Brackley atnd Buckingham are convenient places for hunting visitors. The Priory, the residence <lf Oapt. Albercromby .A.. C. N ehon, is a modern house, ~reoted on the site of the ancient manor house oolloo N~mnes or Nun's Place, in King'.s End. Bignell House, a hands'Oille mansi1 on, standing m it.s own grounds, 81bout a mile and a ha~f from Bicester, is 1he residence Qf Charles Twysden HQoare esq. J.P.

• DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BICESTER. 43 BiceStter wrus formerly thoe. seat of a priory, founded by ! manor and eS>tates wwe thus COIIliSitituted a bai:.iwick, .(]1ilbert Bassett, grandson of the first of .that name, A..D. 1 purchased: for bhe us~ and benefit of those who might n82, for a. prior and eleven can()ns of the order ci St. theroofter Obtain possession of part of the demesne: tha .Augustine, and dedicated to the hdnour of St. Mary and lordship of the manor is sufb.sequently vested in all those St. Eadburg, the holy nun of .Aylesbury. At the Dissolu- persons wh:o beoome purc:furusers under the original lease. tion there were nine canons and revenues ~stlimated: at The 1a.I'ea of the whole parish is 2,580 acres, viz. :- £147· Mrurket End, 1,043 and Kling''s End, 1,540; ratooble value • • Market End is a township and !bailiwick, consisting of £n,390; tihe popul&tion of the pari,sh in 1891 was 3,343: !ffue lordship and manor, belonging in 1596 to William Market End, 3,001 (including 75 officers and inmates in (Stanley) 6th Elllfl of Der1by K.G. :to whom it had passed tJhe workhouse), King's End, 322. from GiLbert Bassett (a younger son of Ralph Basset't, Chief Justice of England), having been granted to him with six other knig'hits' fees in the 12th century : the reversion in fee simple was afterwards conveyed to certain rpersons in trust fur all interested in the lease : the Wretahwick is a hamlet in the township of Bicester :Market End, ood under the control of the Bicester Local Board. • Parish Olerk, James Mor'temore. OFFICIAL ESTABLISH..."\f!EN'.DS, LOCAL L.'~BTITUTmNS &c. Post, :M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & .Annuity & Insurance Office. Wall.t€11" Josepih French, Postmaster Dispatches. Local Country & 1st delivery in Bicester, 4·45 a.m.; London, Bletohley, 9.50 a.m.; Oxford, 10.40 a.m. ; London, Bletchi'.ey, Winsl-ow, Buckingham, Bra.ckley & Ba.nbury, 12.10 & 2.20 p.m. ; Oxford '& 3rd delivery in Bice,ster, 4.40 p.m.; West of England & South Wales, 6.55 p.m. ; North of England, Ireland & Scot.l<a.nd, 1· 15 p.m. ; Lo'ndon & all parts, 8 p.m. ; sundays, all parts, 7 p.m Inward Mails. Delivelfy in Bicester. From London and all parts, 6.45 a.m. ; from London, Bletchley, Oxford and West of Eng~and, 11.35 a.m.; from London and a~l pal'lts, 5·35 p.m.; sunda)~s, only one delivery of letters, 6.45 a.m. Lett.ers posted at Ilioester at 9.50 a.m. are deLivere-d in London between 1 & 3 p.m. & p<>sted ,at Bicester 2.20 p.m. are delivered in London between 6 & 8 p.m County Magistrr-ates for Floughley Petty Sessional Division. Harrison Edwardi Slater- esq. She~swell park, Bicester, chairman Jersey Earl of P.C., G.C.1:NI.G. Midd~eton park, Bices-ter Vlalentia ViS'Count, Ketchington park, Oxford Devereux Major-General Ho'n. George Talbot RA. Heathfield house, Bletchington, Oxford Da.shwood Sir GeOTge John Egerton bal't. D.L. Kirtlington park, Oxfwd Pey;ton Ca;pt. Sir A'gernon Francis !bart. Swift's ho.Bicestr Cott~en~Dormer Capt. Charles Wa1ter, Middle .Aston Dewar William Wemyss Methven esq. D.L. Cotmore ho. [FI'Iingford, Bicester England Lieut.-Col. A.lbert Edward R..A. Manor house, ;S ou'.der111, Banlbury Hoare Charles Twysden e•sq. D.L. Bignell house, Bicester Hunt Joon Wililiam esq. King's End house, Bicester Marsib.am Charles Jacob Bu~lock- e.sq. Caversfield, Bicestr W:iJthington Rev. Edward M . .A. Fr:ingford lodge, Eices.ter Clerk to the Magistrates, John Garden Walsh, Sheep st Petty S•essions are he~d at tlhe Mlagistrate.s' clhamlbers evecy alterna,te friday at II a.m The places included in the petty .ses'sional divisions are : Amlbrosden, Ardley, .ArnootJt, Bicest-er (Markoe.t End), Ricester (King's End), Kackthorn, Bletchingdon, Bucknell, Caversdieild, Charlton-'On-Otmoor, Ohestel'ton, Cot1listford, Fencott & Murcott, Finmere, Fringford, Fritwell, Goddingt.on, HarcLwick, Hetlhe, Heyford (Lower & Upper), Islip, Kirtlington, Launto'n, Mertxm, Middleton Stoney, Mixbury, Newton Purcell, Oddingbon, Piddungton, Shel<swell, SQmer.ton, Soulde:rn, s.toke Lyne, Stratton .Audley, Tusmore, Wend:}e<bury & Weston-onthe-Gr-ee'n URBAN DISTRICT OOUNCIL. O:ffi'Ce,s, Market hill. Day of Meeting, Ist monday in each month at 7 p.m. Clerk, Edward FOISter Tanner, solicitor, Market hill Treasurer, H. Tubb, banker, Market square Mediool Officer of Health, W. Dyson. Wood L.R.C.P.Edin. so St. John street, Oxford Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector,.Alfd.Clements,Launton rd Collector, Ed<ward Fost~r Tanner, Marke-t hill Eurial Board. Uerk, Edward FQster Tanner. Meetings are held at Clerk's office 2nd monday in each month. Highway Board. Meets at the King's .Arms hotel, Bices.fer, on tl1~ znd friday in every month a:t 3 p.m. Uerk, John Gorden W rul.sh, Bicester Surveyor, John Forrester, .Ardley Puvlic Establi,shments. Cemetery, Market end, Edward Foster Tanner, clerk to tlhe bucial board Cou'nty Cour.t, helcL at the Cour<t htouse, Sheep street, ev-ery t•wo months, His Honor Thomas Wil~iam Snagge. judge; John Garden Walsh, registrar & high bailiff; Hem.ry •mark, deputy bailiff. fl'he following is a list of the parishes within its jurisdiction: Ambrosden, .Ardley, .ArniCotJt, Bainton, Eicester (M!arke.t End), Bices~er (King's End), Blackthorn, Eletchington, Boarstall, Ilucknell, Oaversfield, Chariton-upon-Otmoor, Ohest.erton, Cottisfo:rd, Fencot, Fewcott, Fringford, Fritwelll, Goddington, GrendDn Underwood, Hard'wick, Hethe, Heyford (Lower), Heyford; (Upper), !slip, Kirtlington, Launton, Ludgershall, Marsh Gibbon, Merto()n, :r-.fiddleton Stoney, Murcot, Newton Morrell, Newton Purcell, Noke, Oddington, Piddingtion, Shelswell, Somerton, Souldern, Stoke Lyne, Stra~tton .Aud:J.ey, Tusm•or~. \Vend:e.bury & Weston-on-the..1Gree'n For !bankruptcy purposes this court is inc:uded in that of Oxford, Cecil Mercer, acting official receiver Oerbified Bailiffs appointed under the " Law of Distress A.Jmendment .Aot," Frederi.ck Dtean Holiday, William Golble & Henry Clarke, Eicester County Poli-ce St•ation, Church street, Joseph Bowen, 'supt. ; & 8 constables In:_and Revtmue Office, King'·s .Arms hotel, Thomas Ken~ nelly, officer Stamp Office, Po.st office, M·arket p~ace, 'Walter Joseph French, d~&tributor Yeomanry Cavalry. Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) (B Squadron), Capt. Sir .Algernon Francis P<>yton bart. commanding; \V. Conolly, lieut. ; Edwin Frederick Holt, squadron sergeant-major Bicester Unio'n. Board day every alterna.te friday at the Union at 10.30 a.m. The union comprises the following p(aces :-Amlbrosdlen, Ardley, Arncott, EiceSiter (King's End), Eicester (Market End), Blackthorn, Bletchington, Boal"stall (Bucks)~ E'ucknell, Oavers.neld, Ohar:to'n-on-Otmoor, Ches'ter.t-on, Cottislford, F.errcott & Murcott, Fe-wcott, Fringford, rFrit,well, Goodington, BJardwick, Hethe, Islip, Kirtlington, Launton, Lower Heyford, Merton, Middleton St<mey, N ewt<on Purcell, N oke, Od·dington, Piddingto'n, She.~swell, Somerton, Souldern, Stoke Lyn'B, Strn.tton .Audley, Tnsmore, Upper Heyford, Wendlebury & WestOIIl-On-the-Green. The populati()n of the union i'n 18g:r was 13,983; area., 66,o88 acres; rateable value, £gsooo Clerk to the Guardians & ASisessment Committee, John G-ord()n "\V a2.sh, Bice·stler · Treasurer, Henry Tubb, Market squJare, Bicester Relieving & Voocination & School Inquiry Officers, Eicest.er d'istrict, George Rey'Ilolds, King's End, Bicest-er ; Bletchington district, George James Dew, Low. Heyfrd Medical Officers & Public V accinators, Bicester District~ William Drinkwater L.R.C.P.Edin. Bicester; ()Qttis- -ford district, John Farmer M.R.C.S.Eng. Brackley; Fritwell district, Henry Saunders B . .A., M.R.C.S.Eng. Deddington; Heyford dis.trict, Edwa.rd Vavas.our Hemingway, Steeple .AS'ton; Islip district, Graham Thos. llaylis Blick L.R. C.P.Lond. Islip; Piddington district, William James Bond M.B. Brill; Stoke Lyne district. Cecil M. Hendricks M.B. Bicester

44: BICESTER. OXI<"'ORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S .Superintendent Registrar, FredBrick Dean Holiday, Sheep street, Biof'lster; d~uty, Edward Ooggins, Sheep street, Bicester Registrar -of Birthts & Deaths, Bicester distrid, Geol'ge Rey'nold·s, King'·s End, Bicester; Bletchington sub-district, Goorge J am~s Dew, Lower HeyfQrd ; deputy, J. W. Dew, "LOwer Heyford Regi.strar of Ma.rriages, Frederick Dean Holiday, Shee:p 8treet, Bicester; deputy, Ed<ward Coggins, Sheep st. BicBster 'The Workhouse, s~tuated• outside the town, bie:tween tlhe Middleton & Caversfie1d: roads, was opened in Octolber, 1836, & is a largs & 'OOmmodious :building of stone, available for 320 inmates; John Dundas, m<a•ster; Wm. Drinkwatler L.RC.P.Edin. medical officer; Mrs. Louisa Dundras, matron Schodl Attendance Oommittee. Meets at the Board room, Union ·workfu.ouse, on eve-ry alternate m-eeting of the Guardilans, at rr p.m. aerk, J()hn Gordlen Wa-~sh, Bice.ster .Attendance Officers, George Reynolds, King's end, Bicester; George James Dew, Lower Heyd'ord Rural District Oouncil. Meets 13.t the Union rst friday in eaoh month a.t ro a.m. C:erk, John Gorden Walsh, Bioeost€r 'Treasurer, Henry Tubb, Market .square, Bicester Me-dical Officer of Health, W. D. Wood L.R.C.P.Edin. so St. Jolhn street, Oxford l:r1sptedor Qf Nuisances, Ohai"'Ies .A.ugustus Branfmd, Bicester Public Officers. <Ierk to Commissioner.s of Taxes, John Gorden Wa1sh, Bicester Certifying Factory Surgeon, William DrinkwaterL.R.C.P. Edi'n. Sheep street Col1ec-tors of .Assessed! Taxes, William Gi'bbs Palmer, ;:,neep street & Thomas William Panlilll.urst, Market p:ace, for Market end; & Isaa>e George P. Durrant, King's end Superintendent of Po~ice, J oseph Bowten, Church street "J.'own Crier, Edward Dagley, London road Places of Worship, with times of services. .St. Edlburg Church, Market end, Rev. Gibbs Payne Crawfurd M . .A.., T.C.D. vicar; Rev. Cyril John Noble Page R.A.. cumte; I I a. m. & 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. II a. m. & 7 p.m <Jongrretgatio'nal, Clli.apel street; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; tJues. 7.30 :p.m Wesley,an, New buildings, Rev. H. Norman Startup; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; tues. 7 p.m 'Unitled Free Methodists', Sheep street; 10.45 a. m. & 6 p.m. ; mon. & wed. 7 p.m Schools . National (mixed), '€rected with master's house, in 1858, at a cost of nea:rily £2,ooo, & wiY 'hold 400 children; av-erage attendance, r6o boys & 120 girls; ~ith thi:i sclhool is iocorporated the old Blue Coat school, on which foundation 20 boys are· a'nnually elected & edu. cated. at thle expense of the feoffees of wa:.ker's charity, by whom a yearly •sum of £ro is paid to tlhe School Committee; five boys are also clothed from the funds of this charity; William Henry Piggott, master; Miss Brooke, mis·tress National (irnants ), Crock well, for 150 children ; a.wrage attendance, 70; this .s·chool is Iicens~d for Divine service on sundays ; Miss Daniell, mistres·s; Miss Gaskin, assistant mistress Catholic, King's end, built in r883, ior 93 children; avera.ge attendance, go; Mi·ss E. Durham, mistress; Miss Vurbain, assisrbant mistress ; Divine service is held in the schoolroom once a month Newspapers. Bices.ter Advertiser & Mid-Oxon Chronicle, Market p:ace, Thom&s Wi:L:iam P.anklb.urst, publisher; published fri Bicester Herald, Miarket place, John Pa11tes Bough ton, publisher ; pulblished friday Railway. London & Nor.th 1\-1Estern, Wm. Edlbury, station master ()a.rriers, with the places they call at. Banilmry-Bourton, Slb.eep st.reet, thurs B1ackthorn-Ohar:es Heritage, to 'Nag's Head,' tues. & fri Br~ll-Wheeler, from 'iRJed Li'On,' fri Chesterton Bourton, Sheep .street, mo'n. tues. fri. & sat Fencott & l\rurcott Cooper, to 'Red Lion,' tues.& fri Fewoott & Fritwell-J ohn Bennett, to ' Dog,' fri iFrin<gford----Grantham, to 'Red Lion,' tues. & fri Grendon Underwood-<Cannon, to 'Rose & CroWn.,' fl'i He the Grantham, to 'Red Lion,' tues. & fri. ; Bourton, ~rom Bic-ester to the Whitmore Arms inn, Heth~, daily, except sun Launton-Reeves, to 'King's Head,' daily, except sun Launton & Marsh Gibbon-Lambourn, fri.; Henry Justice, to 'King's Head,' tues. fri. & sat Lower Heyford, 1\Iiddleton Stoney & Upper HeyfordBoddington to 'White Hart/ fri Ludgershall-Hillsden to 'King's Head,' fri Merton-Cooper, tues. & fri. ; Nicholls, daily, except sun Middleton Stoney-Boddington, to ' White Hart,' fri Oxford-Bourton, to 'Blue Anchor,' wed. & sat Piddington-Heritage, to 'Nag's Head,' tues. & fri.; Hillsden, from 'King's Head,' fri Stratton .A.udley-Roberts, to 'Wheat Sheaf,' daily Somerton-Pullen, to 'George,' tues Twyford-Hall, to ' Wheatsheaf,' fri Waddesdon-Hillsden, to 'King's Head,' fri Wendlebury-Hick's, 'Rose & Crown,' tues. & fri 'Veston-on-the-Green-Hicks, to 'Rose & Crown,' tues. & fri PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Haylock Mrs. Church terrace Paxton Mrs . .A.lchester house 1J3rocklehurst Ernest .A.rth. The Garth Hendriks Cecil M.B. Station road Phillips Edwd. Clifton vil. King's end Castle Mrs. Sheep st:rreet Hoal'e Charles Twysden J.P. Bignell ho Phillips John, Sb:E"<ep street Coggins Edward, Townend villa llolloway Edward, Sheep street H.oots James, King's end Coleman Mrs. Church villas Runt Jn. Wm. J.P. Kingsend house Sandiland Robert Burgess, Sheep st .Crawfurd Rev. Gibbs Payne M . .A.. Kirby GeOige, Oxford t.errace Sh1llingford Miss, King's end (vicar) Kynaston Mrs. Church terrace ~hillingford Mrs. Bridge house -Croft Mrs. Church terrace Layton George, Sheep street Smith Fredk. Sunnyside, Market sq .I>aniels Miss, Church terrace L:indsey Fredk. Wm. Hy. Rut.land ho Smith FJ'edk. Charles, Market square Drinkwabelf William, Sheep street ~ioore Reginald Clare, St. Edburg vil Smith Mrs. Stow house, King's end Evans Jn."\Voodfield ter.Caversfield rd. Monlden Thomas, London road Stratton Charles John, Market square Fane Capt. Hy. George, :Bicester ho Nelson Capt . .A.bercromby .A.. C. T!w Tanner Edtward Foster, Market hill Goddard Mrs. King's end Priory 1homas Robt. D'Oyley,The :Red honss Grimsley Thomas, Henl~'Y house Page Rev.Cyril Jn.Noble :B..A..(cmat'e') Walsh John Garden, Sheep stred Earris Wi!'liam Thomas, Emlyn house, Palmer Edward, Northampton house Whale Mrs. Sheep street Sheep btreet. Palmer Mrs. Rose cottage, London rd Worrall Robert, Ivy cot. London road COMMERCIAL. Bicester Herald (John Partes Boughton, publisher; pub- "Eaker Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker, London road lished friday), Market place :Baker Thomas, carpenter, London road Bicester Literary Instituta (Thomas William Pankhurst, Bates John, chemist & druggist, Market square sec.), Market place "'Beasley Philip, Nag's Head P.H. London road Bicester Nursing Home "Bennett James, baker, Sheep street Caversfield road (Mrs. .A.nscombe, matron\ I llennett Samuel, grocer & provision dealer, & agent for Blackman J.<~rederick, Angel inn, Sheep street Ind, Coope & Co. & Dunnells' bottled ales & stout, Blencowe Fred, grocer, Sheep street Causeway Bonham Thomas, shopkeeper, London road 'Berry Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress, Causeway Boughton John Partes, printer, stationer, bookseller, Eicester Advertiser & :Mid-Oxon Chronicle (Thomas Wm. bookbinder & newsagent, & publisher of the Bicester Pankhurst, publisher; published friday), Market place Herald, Market place . lhcester Cricket Club (C. J. Stratton, hon. sec.), Mar- Eourton John, carrier, Sheep street ket place Bowden George, chimney sweeper, New buildings lli~ster Gas, Coal & Coke Co. (John Garden Walsh, Bowen Joseph, superintendent of police, Church street; sec.), London road Bowler Sydney Thomas, corn dealer, Market place

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BICESTER. 45 Broad William, furniture dealer, King's end Holland Richard, boot maker, Market squar~ Brooks Thomas, shoe maker, Causeway Hone George, hair dresser, Market square Bryan Waiter, hair dresser, Sheep street Hone Jane (Mrs.), milliner, Market square Buckett .Frank, George hotel Hone Jane (Miss), dress maker, Market square :Buckle Joseph, butcher, Sheep street Horwood Joseph, nurseryman, New buildings Camozzi & Baxter, watch & clock makers & jewellers, Horwood William, farmer, King's End farm Market square Hyde William, dining rooms, Market place Campin John, linen draper, Sheep street Jakeman Edward, farm bailiff to T. C. Hoare esq.Bignell Cannon Geo. Thos. M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgeon, Sheep st Jelfs Mary (Mrs.), dress maker, Chapel street Castle, Son & Booth, auctioneers, land & estate agents, Jones Charles, baker, Sheep street Market hill Kennelly Thomas, inland revenue officer, Causeway Cemetery (Edward Foster Tanner, clerk to the burial Kinch Joseph, farmer, Bignell board), Market hill King & Son, ironmongers, London road Checkley Edward, farmer, King's end King Jesse Martin, tailor, Sheep street Chisholm Alex . .M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgeon, Sheep street Kirby Louisa (Miss), ladies' day school, Oxford terrace: Clark Henry, house agent, Causeway Kirtland Frederick, grocer, New buildings Clements Alfred, surveyor & inspector to the urban Lane & Co. silk mercers, Sheep street district council, Launton road Lane Edward, butcher, Sheep street Clifton Charles, Crosskeys P.H. Market place Lane Lizzie (Miss), milliner, Market hill Clifton Frederick, veterinary surgeon, King's end Lane Richard, butcher, Market hill Clifton Thomas, Six Bells P.H. Church terrace Lapper Jsph. refreshment rooms, & coal mer. Market pl' Coggings George (Mrs.), coal dealer, Buckingham road Layton Jsph. Belsey, upholsterer & china dlr. Market h) Coggins Edward, deputy superintendent registrar of Litten Waiter William, painter, Causeway births, deaths & marriages for Bicester union, Sheep st Long Nimrod, King's Arms family & commercial hotel,. Coleman Emma (Mrs.), grocer, spirit & hop merchant, hunting quarters & posting house; hunters for hire,.. Market place Market hill Coles Thomas, White Hart P.H. Sheep street McKay William, linen draper, Sheep street Cox Thomas "\Yilliam, shopkeeper, Causeway Mansfield Richard (Mrs.), Swan P .H. Church street County Court (His Honor T. W. Snagge, judge; John Martin William J. Star inn, Sheep street Garden Walsh, registrar & high bailiff; Henry Clark, Massey Thomas, shopkeeper, New buildings deputy bailiff), Court house, Sheep street Mortemore James, painter & plumber, Sheep street Dagley Edward, town crier & bill poster, London road Nickols Alfred, shopkeeper & painter, Sheep street Davey William, saddler, Causeway Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) YeoDrinkwater William M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, & medical manry Cavalry (B Squadron) (Sir Algernon J<':·ancisofficer for Bicester district & to the workhouse, & Peyton ba.rt. commanding; W. Conolly, lieut.; Edwi~ certifying factory surgeon, Sheep street Frederick Holt, squadron sergt.-major) Durrant Geo. boarding schl. Cambridge ho. King's end Pallett Ann (Mrs.), furniture broker, Market place Durrant Isaac George P. collector of assessed taxes, Palmer Brothers, ironmongers, Sheep street King's end Palmer Wm. Gibbs, collector of assessed taxes, Sheep stEast Thomas, chimney sweeper, Victoria place Pankhurst Thomas William, bookseller, & publisher ot. Eclipse Mineral Water Co. (Frederick ~?mith, manager), the "Bicester Advertiser & Mid Oxon Chronicle,''" Market place Market place Edbrooke Esau, Red Lion hotel, Market place Parrott George, coach builder, King's end Elborough Richard, Fox P.H. King's end Parsons Aaron, poulterer & game dealer, London road Evans John, grocer, Sheep street Paxton & Holiday, auctioneers, land & estate agents .!£.: Evans John, solicitor, Woodfield surveyors, Sheep street Fine& Thomais Costar, grocer & wine & spirit merchant, Paxton Thomas, farmer & land agent, Langford farm Market hill Philips John, coal dealer & farmer, Sheep street Fleet Alfred, tailor, New buildings Phipps Albert, grocer, Market hill Flemons Samuel, draper, Market place Plant & Freeman, boot & shoe makers, Causeway :Free Reading Rooms (Henry James Mallett, librarian), Plant Wm. china dealer & boot & shoe ma. l\Iarket sq Sheep street Prentice Thomas George, grocer, Sheep street Freeman Catherine (Mrs.) & Son, butchers, Sheep st Prentice William, butcher, New buildings :French Waiter Joseph, bookseller, stationer & stamp dis- Quartermaine Hy. horse dealer & farmer, Palace yarcr tributor, Market place & post office Reading Thomas, Rose & Crown P.H. Market place :Fuller Edgar, solctr. (attends market days), Causeway Reynolds George, relieving & vaccination officer BicesterGeorge Henry, tailor, Market square district, & registrar of births, deaths & marriages for George Walter, tailor, Sheep street Bicester sub-district, King's end Gibbs Brothers, drapers, Sheep street Rose Joseph, Bell inn, Sheep street Gable William & Son, seedsmen & house agts. Market pi St. Eadburg's Hall (W. H. Piggott, hon. sec) Grimsley Thomas & Son, builders, Causeway Sandiland Robert Burgess, pharmaceutical chemist,.. Grimsley J ames William, builder, London road Sheep street Grimsley Thomas, builder & ironmonger, Sheep street Sare Thomas, tobacconist, London road Grimsley William, fishmonger, Sheep street Scarrott Charles, hardware dealer, Sheep street Hadland Waiter, baker, Sheep street Scott John Thomas, butcher, Market place Hadland William Perkins, farmer, Wretchwick Scrivener Richard Arthur, shopkeeper, Sheep street. Hall Sarah Eliza (Mrs.), baker, Causeway Scrivener Thomas Arthur, tailor, Market square Hancock Henry, cooper, Red Lion yard Shepherd John, King's Head P.H. London road Hanley & Co. Limited, brewers & wine & spirit mer-~· Shouler William, farmer, Wretchwick chants, The Brewery Sirett George, smith, Causeway Harris Samuel & J onas, coal & salt mers. Station yard Sirett Thomas, blacksmith, Market square Harris George, watch maker, Sheep street 'Smith Edmund, baker, Church terrace Harris Henry, dairy, Sheep street Smith Edward Henry, baker, Causeway Harris James, butcher, .Market square Smith Emma (Miss), fancy repository, Sheep street Harris J ames, shopkeeper, Sheep street Smith Elizabeth Annie (Mrs.), ladies' school, Market h1 Harris Mary Ann (Mrs.), corn merchant, Sheep street Smith James, builder, King's end Hawtin J esse, 'White Lion P.H. Sheep street ~Smith James, farmer, "\Vretchwick Heath Henry, shopkeeper, Causeway 1 Smith James, naturalist, Crockwell Hedges & Son, dealers in linseed & cotton cakl.'s & 'Smith John Ward, builder & brick maker, Sheep street manures; stores, Sheep street Smith Thomas & Son, plumbers, painters & monumental He.lges John, baker, Market place masons, 2r & 22 Sheep street Hendriks Cecil M.TI. surgeon, & medical officer for Smith William Edmund, baker, Causeway Stoke Lyne district, Station road Smith William Preedv, farmer, King's end Herring Thomas, grocer, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Depot (Thos~ Lim. wine & spirit merchants, London road I William Pankhurst), Market place H;ggins Charles, Crown hotel, Sheep street , Stamp Office (Waiter Joseph French, distributor), Posf Hines John, chimney sweeper, St. John street I office, Market place Holiday Frederick Dean, superintendent registrar of Stanford Thomas, corn chandler, Market place hirt~l!';, deaths & marriages for Bicester union, Sheep st Stevens George & Son, tailors, Market place B'ilt Edwin Frederick, squadron sergt.-ma)or to the Stevens George, butcher, Sheep street R Squadron, Oxford,;hire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Stevens Thomas Richard, linen draper, Market hill Hussars) Yeomanry Cavalry, Buckingham road 1 Stewart John Thomas, photographer, Causeway •

46 BICESTER. OXFORDSHIRE. fKELLY'S Stockley James, Wheatsheaf P.H. Sheep street .Stockley John, shopkeeper, King's end Stockley Robert, hair dresser, Sheep street Stuchfield John, saddler, Market place Sulston Thomas, linen draper, Market square Sutton & Co. carriers (R. Lane, agent), Market place Tanner Edward Foster, solicitor, clerk to the burial board & clerk & collector urban district council, Market hill Taunt Rebecca (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Causeway Taylor Albert E. Bear inn, Sheep street Tenchio Rocco, shopkeeper, Sheep street 'Thomson Fredk. gardener to C. T. Hoare esq. Bignel! Timberlake George Thomas, cooper, Launton road Timms Emma (Mrs.), straw bonnet maker, Sheep street "..'ompkins William John, saddler, Sheep street Townsend Williarn, coach builder, Church street 'Truby James, grocer, Sheep street ... I Tubb & Co. bankers, Market square; draw on London & Westminster Bank Limited, London E C Tubb Henry, maltster, Market square . Turner Charles, corn merchant, Sheep street 'Walsh John Gorden, solicitor, clerk to the magistrates for Ploughley division, to the commissioners of taxes, the guardians, assessment & school attendance committees of Bicester union, to rural district council, highway board, & registrar of county court, secretary to Bicester Gas Co. & clerk to hospital committee, Church terrace Ward Henry Cooper, butcher, Sheep street Webb Thomas, basket chair maker, Sheep street '\tVebb 1\iiliam Henry, farmer, Whitelands Wells Hugh, grocer & wine & spirit mer. Market place Whitney Mary (Mrs.), milliner, Sheep street Working Men's Conservative Club (C. Garrett, hon. sec) Wrapson John, clothier & outfitter, Causeway ':BINSEY, ancient,ly called '' Thornbury," is a parish basin, supported on round moulded shafts and plain and small village on the borders of Berks, within the blocks of stone, resting on a, square b-ase: there are 6o liberty of the city of Oxford, r mile north-west from sittings. The regis-ter dates from the year 1593. The Oxford and is about 1£ miles in length and threBM living is :a. vicarage, gross yeal'ly value £go, net £71, in quarters of a mile in breadth, lying on the western side the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, of Port Meadow, from which it is divided by the river; and held since 1892 by the Rev. Charles Edward Adams the land on both sides of the river lies very low and M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, who in rainy seasons is often flooded ; it is in the :Mid resides at 19 Farnham road, Oxford. The dean and -division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, are lords of the manor sessional division of Bullingdon, county court district of and the principal landowners. The soil is gravel; subM Oxford, union of Abingdon, rural deanery, archdeaconry soil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley; -and diocese of Oxford. The; church of St. Margaret, grass land. The area is 350 acres; rateable value, situated about a quarter of a. mile northMwest of the £789; the population is 73. village, is an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, Parish Clerk, Alfred Mobey. portions of it being probably earlier than the Conquest, Letters from Oxford, which is the nearest money and. consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a gable order office, arrive at 8.45 a.m bell-cot at the east end of the nave, conta.ining 2 bells: Wall Letter Box, cleared at 9.15 a.m. & 5.ro p.m.; the church is about 48 feet long by r8 broad and has sundays, 9.30 a.m a Norman doorway with zig-zag moulding; the chancel The children of this parish attend the schools at Tetains a piscina and ru niche : the font is a cylindrical Oxford 'Dawson Wm. Slatter, farmr. & oversr j Mobey .Alfred, parish clerk Lambourne Jas. farmer, Manor farm Powell 'Thomas Edwin, Perch inn I Pricke-t Hector, carpenter Pricket J ames, carpenter :BIX (formerly two parishes bearing the names of residence, in the gift of the Earl of Maccles:field, and 11yxorand and Byxgwbbyn, but now united into one) held since 1877 by the Rev. the Hon . .Algernon Robert is a parish and straggling village, 3 miles north-west Parker M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. Lord Camoys, from Henley-on-Thames terminal station on a branch who is lord of the manor, Sir Francis George Stapleton of the Great Western Railway, 8 south-east from Wal- bart. of Greys Court and William Dalziel Mackenzie lingford and rr north-east from Reading, in the esq. of Fawley Court, Bucks, are the principal landSouthern division of the county, hundred of Binfield, owners. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. petty sessional division of Henley, union and county The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips &c. -court district of Henley, rural deanery of Henley, arch- The area is 3,075 acres; rateable value, £2,194; tha deaconry and diocese of Oxford; it consists of a few population in 1891 was 387. bouses along the high road from Henley to Oxford, on Middle and Lower Assenden are hamlets, partly in the borders of Bucks. The church of St.. :Michael, this and partly in Henley parish; Upper Assenden is Byxgwbbyn, has been long demolished. The old church in Pyrton parish. <Jf St. James (Bixbrand), the walls of which now alone remain, stands in a field about a mile from the village : Parish Clerk, Charles Young. the new church of St. James, on Bix Common, is an Post Office.-Charles Young, sub-postmaster. Letters -edifice of flint with stone dressings, erected in 1875 at through Henley-on-Thames arrive at 7 a.m. & 2 p.m. ; a cost of about £4,ooo, defrayed by the Earl of dispatched at u a.m. & 6.45 p.m. Nettlebed is the Macc}es,:field, and was coll!Secrated and opened in nearest money order & telegraph office September, 1875 ; it consists of chancel, nave, transept, A School Board of 5 members was formed 4 Feb. 1876; north aisle, south porch and a belfry containing 2 bells : William Persey, clerk to the board there are 135 sittings, half of which are appropriated. Bo~trd School, built in r878, enlarged rBBr, for So The register dates from the year I577· The living is children; average attendance, 57; Miss Margaret a rectory, average yearly value of tithe rent-charge George, mistress £464, net income [370, with 20 acres of glebe and Carrier to Henley.-Hayes, thurs Leathes Capt. H'E'l'bert Grant George, Bottom House. farm Pheasant Farm Lim. (Capt. Herberrt Parker Rev. the Hon . .Algernon Robert Handscomb Jas. Oak frm.Maidens gro Leathes, manager), Benwells & M.A. Rectory Honey Thomas, Horseshoe P.H. Manor farms Watts Mrs Maidens grove Rigg George, farmer, Bromsden frro COMMERCIAL. Lay Thomas, beer retailer Scott James, farmell', Assenden farm Leader Albert, farmer, Rose farm Shirfield Jn. cowkeeper, Maidens gro Francis Frederick George, P.H. & blacksmith Rainbow Lillywhite Hy. farmr.Middle Assenden Summerfield David, farmer, WestM Frond Saml. Golden Ball P.H. Lower Assendeu Longrnan Williarn, Rocky Lane farm wood farm Martin Samuel, Crabtree farm Young Ohas. grocer&; bakr.Post office Perrin Oliver John, Fox P.H BLACK BOURTON, see Bourton. :BLADON is a parish and straggling village, bounded in 1802-4, at the cost of George, 4th Duke of !&.riM '()n the west by the river Glyme, near its junction with borough K.G.; in r8gr-2 it was completely restored the Evenlode and adjoins the grounds of Blenheim, and enlarged at a cost of [2,5oo, under the direction 2 miles east from Randborough station on the Oxford of Sir A. W. Blom:field M.A., A.R.A., F.S.A. when a new and Wolverhampton section of the Great Western chancel was built and two bays added to the nave, railway, 1! south from Woodstock and 7 miles north- and it now consists of chancel, nave and an embattled west from Oxford, in the Mid division of the county, western tower, containing 6 bells, three re-cast from hundred of Wootton, petty sessional division of Wootton the 3 old bells, with 3 new bells added: the clock was South, union and county court district of Woodstock placed in 1887, by public subscription: the church and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church affords 200 sittings. A lych gate, designed by Sir of St. Martin, situated on an acclivity, is a. plain edifice A. Blomfield, has been erected by the pres€nt rectoP~ of stone in .a modern style of Gothic, originally erooted a.s a memoTial to his mother. The Rt. Hon. Lord

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BLENHEIM. 47 is clay and gravel; rurea is 8 34 acres ; lation in r8gr was subsoil, clay and stone brash. The rateable value, £r,287; the popu432· HENSINGTON, once a hamlet, has, under the Local Government Act, 1894.'' been divided into two civil parishes, respectively Hensington, within the borough of Woodstock and Hensington without. The rateable value of Hensington is £1,434; the population in 1891 was 238, including ro8 officers and inmates in the Woodstock workhouse. Parish Clerk, Henry Mulcock. Randolph H. S. Churchill P.C., M.P. who died at so Grosvenor square, London W. 24 January, r8g5, was interred in the churchyard on 28 Jan. following. The register dates from about the year 1545 ; and among other curious entries are these of collections in the parish:-" r663, for Strasburg, in Alsatia, in Germany, rs. 6d.; r68r, for the French Protestants, £z z8s. gd. ; IJOO, for the redemption of captives in the Empire of Fez and Morocco." The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of W oodstock annexed, tithe rent-charge .£336, average £255, joint gross yearly value £389, net £99, including 170 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Duke of Marlborough, and held since 1876 by the Rev . .Arthur Majendrie, Thool. Assoc. K.C.L. rural dean Letters through Woodstock, arrive at 7 a.m. & 5 p.m. of and residing at Woodstock, surrogate, chaplain to Box, cleared at 4·55 & 7.40 p.m . the Woodstock union and domestic chaplain to the ·woodstock is the nearest money order office and DuK:e of Marlborough. There is a Wesleyan chapel, Handborough railway station the nearest telegraph erected in r878, and a Primitive Methodist chapel. Mr. office W. Hopkins' charity of £ 14 4s. Bd. yearly is for National School (mixed), erected, with master's house, apprenticing, and there are charities for distribution in 1858, by the 7th Duke of Marlborough & enlarged in bread and for educational purposes. In the village in 1890 for z6r children; average attendance, 140 ; is a good rsth century house with mullioned windows John T. Sa;ville, master; Mrs. Saville, mistress and two bold round chimneys. Round Castle, an earthwork on Bladon booth, is marked by a clump of trees. Carriers to Oxford.-Frederick Bartlett, through from The Duke of Marlborough is lord of the manor and Stonesfield, wed. & sat. returning same days & owner of nearly all the land in this parish. The soil Joseph Nappin, every wed. & s-at BLADON. Harris William, shoe maker Tolley Hy. Albert, King's Arms P.H. Haynes Percy, farmer & quarry owner, Bladon, Handboro' Adams & Son, bake'I.'SI & grocers J3aker George J osiah, shoe maker "Danbury J oseph, saddler Long George•, blacksmith & Campsfield quarrie<s Maisey Mark, Lamb P.H N a pp in J oseph, carrier HENSINGTON. :Floyd Am elia. (Mrs.), laundress Fryer John, farmer, Manor farm Goodale John Meale, farm bailiff St. Martin's Club (Rev. Arthur Majen. die T.A.K.C.L. rector, president) to Savage Edwin, carpenter Chataway Rev. Thomas Ernest Eagle M.A. (assistant curate) the Duke of Marlborough Griffin Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Savage Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Smith Joshua., haulier Bishop Daniel, Old White House P.H :BLENHEIM, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish adjoining Woodstock on the south, with a terminal .station called Blenheim and Woodstock on a branch from Kidlington on the Oxford, Banbury and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway, in the Mid division 'Of the county, petty sessional division of Wootton South, Woodstock union and county court district. During the Saxon period this place was the residence of King Alfred the Great, who, while here, occupied himself in translating " The Consolation of Philosophy " of Boethius ; and -several statutes were enacted by a Parliament summoned here by Ethelred. The palace was rebuilt by Henry I. who, stocking the park, anciently known as "Woodstock," with deer and other animals, inclosed it with a stone wall, thus making it, according to the historian Rouse, the first inclosed park in England ; it was also the favourite residence of Henry II. who erected a bower in the woods, concealing it by means of a labyrinth, for his mistress, Fair Rosamond, daughter of Waiter Clifford, lord of Clifford Castle, in Herefordshire ; she died in II77 and was buried at Godstow nunnery, near Oxford ; -remains of the bower were, however, still to be seen in 1622, and her name is yet given to a well from which 'flows a copious stream of pure water. Henry VIII. made considerable additions to the palace; and the gatebouse, which contained the room known as "Queen Elizabeth's chamber" (from the circumstance of that princess having been confined there by her sister Queen Mary), had an inscription upon it describing Henry VIII. as its founder. The manor of Woodstock continued in the hands of the Crown until the reign of Queen .A.nne, who granted it, 28 Jan. 1704-5, together with the· hundred of Wotton, in all about 22,000 acres, to John Churchill, the Great Duke of Marlborough K.G. -and his heirs for ever, the terms of the grant being that the duke or his successors shall present to the l'eigning sovereign a standard of France on the 13th of August (2nd O.S.), being the anniversary of the famous -victory which he gained over the French and Bavarians in 1704, at the battle of Hochstet, near the village of J3lenheim or Blindheim, on the banks of the Danube, when Marshal Tallard and upwards of rr,ooo French and llavarians were taken prisoners, and near 2,ooo killed, wounded, or drowned in the river; a flag bearing three fl.eurs-de-lis is accordingly presented every year and deposited in the Guard Room of Windsor Castle. Stratfieldsaye is held by the Duke of Wellington on a similar tenure. This grant was confirmed by Act of Parliament passed qth March, 1705, bestowing on the Duke of Marlborough the sum of £24o,ooo for the erection of the palace, the building of which was begun June r8th, 1705, and had not been concluded on the death of the duke, 16th June, 1722. The present Blenheim Palace, wholly erected from the designs of Sir John Vanbrugh, architect and dramatist, at a total cost, according to Cox, of £3oo,ooo, and considered by many to be his masterpiece, occupies an elevated site, sufficiently raised to display in an admirable manner the varied characteristics of the structure, without either lessening its apparant extent or depriving it of any of its stateliness. The whole fabric is constructed of freestone, and consists of a gtand central block, with wings united t(} it by colonnades, proceeding from mrussive square towers at the extremities of the principal front, thus forming three sides of a great court entered from between the wings by a fine arch : the extreme length of the building is 850 feet, the chief or north front extending 348 feet from wing to wing, and the south front, consisting of five divisions, being also 348 feet in length, while the entire. area of the buildings is not less than 3 acres : the principal front exhibits in a remarkable degree the fertility of design possessed by the architect, the horizontal lines of the elevation being skilfully broken up by an exuberant and sometimes fanciful variety of ornamental features; directly in the centre rises a majestic portico with six pillars of the Corinthian order, supporting a pediment adorned with the armorial insignia of the first duke, surrounded by emblematic accessories, on the apex of which is a statue of Minerva: in rear of the portico extends on either side central portions of the palace, lighted by two ranges of spacious windGws divided by pilasters, supporting a frieze and balustrading, surmounted by statues ; thence the front expands on both sides in a curve, consisting of buildings of two stories, arcaded with Doric pilasters and terminating in the upper stage with a balustrade, and these are flanked in turn by the rusticated towered structures already noticed, and a terrace projecting from each tower connects the lateral divisions of the edifice with the centre: the approach through the triumphal arch at Woodstock is one of great magnificence, displaying the mansion in all its architectural splendour, whilst the lake and the bridge over it combine with the outline of the hills in the background to produce a scene of striking and unrivalled beauty ; this arch was reared by Sarah, rst Duchess of Marlborough, and is a structure of the Corinthian order, containing a porter's lodge, and has on two sides Latin and English inscriptions recording its erection ; an avenue two miles long forms the approach to the grand front from the Ditchley gate; this road passes the Column of Victory, a monumental pillar of the Doric order, 130 feet high, surmounted by a statue of the Duke of Marlborough, habited in classic costume, with a baton in the left hand and an emblem of Victory in the right; on the four sides of the pedestal are irtscriptions detailing his services and the various grants and Acts of Parliament which have been made in his favour: from •

48 JLENBEIM. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'I this column rows of stately trees, first describing an moved here: beside the first duke and duchess, there open square to the east and west, converge towards the were also buried in the same vault William Godolphin, rear and form a prolonged and delightful vista, ter- Marquess of Blandford, d. 24 Aug. 1731 ; Charles, ISt minated by the lake, the grand bridge and the buildings Duke of Marlborough of the Spencer family, d. 20 OcL of the palace : the great hall, entered from the portico 1]5 8, and Lady Elizabeth (Trevor ), his wife, u. 7 Oct .. on the principal front, is 67 feet high, and has a lofty 1761; also George, 2nd duke of that family, d. 29 June,. ceiling, supported by fluted Corinthian columns, and r817, and Lady Caroline (Russell), his wife, d. ::.6 Nov. painted by Sir James Thornhill with a representation r8n; their eldest daughter, Caroline, wife ()f Henry, of Victory pointing to a plan of the battle of Blenheim 2nd Viscount Clifden, d. 23 Nov. r8r3, besides others of and crowning the Duke of Marlborough, who is in the family ; the fine oak pulpit was ·erected by GeorgeRoman costume: the arcades Qn either side of the hall Charles, eighth Duke of Marlborough, who died 9 Nov. are adorned with marble termini, and around are dis- r8g2. Among the former treasures of Blenheim was a posed fine antique and modern statues, with a clock by unique collection of mythological paintings on leather, Des Granges and a wind dial in bronze; the doors are generallY' attributed to Titian, but assigned by other secured by a unique and singular lock, copied from one authorities to .A.lessandro Varotari (Pad()vanino) : after on the former gates of Warsaw; there are also here a remaining on view from 1788 to 1861, the whole series .. number of portraits and various paintings by old masters. together with Rubens' "Rape of Proserpine," a magniThe grand cabinet is a magnificent apartment opening ficent work, 8ft. 8in. in height, was unfortunately desto the east and south, and is enriched with pictures by troyed by fire, February sth, 186r. The gardens, coverRubens, Carlo Dolci, Reynolds, Vandyck, Kneller and ing a space of ro8 acres, are disposed around the south, others; the large drawing-room, now the billiard-room, east and west fronts, descending on the west side to the· has a superb alto-relievo over the chimneypiece, copied lake; and were laid out by Mr. Wise in 1704, and subfrom the antique, and representing the marriage of sequently improved and enlarged by Mr. Lancelot (" CaCupid and Psyche, and the walls of this apartment, as pability ") Brown; they include an Italian garden, with. well as those of the dining-room, are hung with tapestry; an extensive conservatory, private gardens, and a rustic the saloon, occupying the entire breadth of the central temple, a r()sary, and an American garden ; descending portion of th·e palace, forms a parallelogram, and has an hence into the valley, the Grand Cascade is approached, oval ceiling, painted by La. Guerre; the state drawing- the waters of which falling down a rugged declivity are rooms contain tapestry representing the military achieve- discharged into the Evenlode. The lake, designed by ments of the great duke, including the. battles of Dun- Brown, covers a space of 130 acres, and in the centre ha: newert, or Donauwerth, July 3rd, 1704; Lisle, December grand bridge, consisting of one centre arch 101 feet span. 9th, 1708; Malplaquet, September IIth, 1709; Bouthain, and two small side arches, with rusticated abutments,. September 13th, I7II ; and Oudenarde, July nth, 1708, having chambers within, formerly accessible from the and paintings by Ricci and others ; the original vote of park; the lake is formed by the river Glyme, which runs thanks to the duke from the House of Lords and his into the Evenlode, a feeder of the Isis : near the grand famous dispatch to the Queen from the field of Blenbeim, bridge is Queen Elizabeth's Island; at the north end of the· are preserved in the palace. The library, originally in- bridge is the site, marked by a clump of beech tr€es, of the tended for a picture gallery, and occupying the entire ancient palace of "\Voodstock, the scene of many histmic south-west front, is r84 feet in length, with a central events, and in which Queen Elizabeth was once & width of 3Ift. 9in. and contains the busts of Charles, prisoner; in the rock gardens, ruggedly picturesque Earl of Sunderland, and Charles Spencer, Duke of Marl- with their moss-grown boulders and grottoes, are cultiborough, by Rysbrach; at the upper end of the chamber vated many rare Alpine plants; the kitchen gardens ar& is a statue of Queen Anne in her coronation robes, also 12 acres in extent, and there is an armoretum, inclosingby Rysbrach, which cost s,ooo guineas; at the lower a small lake, in which various aquatic plants are grown_ end is a marbl-e- bust of John, Duke of Marlborough, in In the gardens are two temples, dedicated respectively plate armour; a fine telescope, presented to George to Diana and Hygeia; the former, designed by SirSpencer, 3rd duke, by George Ill. is also P,laced here, \Yiiliam Chambers, is of the Ionic order; the latter, and on the walls are portraits by Sir Godfrey Kneller. erected to commemorate the restoration to health ot The palace also contains an extremely fine and valuable George Ill. is Corinthian. South-west of the palace is collection of 1\fSS. including letters and autographs, High Lodge, an ancient battlemented pile, once the resiseveral Royal Charters, documents- Telating to the Civil dence of the ranger of 1Voodstock Park; the notoriou!t War, Hare's MS. journal of the campaigns of the Duke John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, who was ranger in th&- of Marloorough, and an immense collection of letters and reign of Charles II. died here July 26th, 168o, and was-- papers, constituting the transactions of the duke with buried at Spelsbury. The park contains 2,424 acres, its innumerable personages at home and abroad, t()gether entire circuit beng not less than 9 miles; it is divided' with the correspondence of Queen Anne with the duchess, into two portiQns, the Great or High Park and the Home· and many autograph letters to the latter from eminent or Little Park, and is interspersed with much venerable" literary men. The chapel, situated in the west wing, timber; the palace and gardens are open to the publicis approached by a piazza; the most interesting feature on Tuesdays and Fridays (the form-er from 12 till 3 and of its grand interior is the superb marble monument to the latter from II till 3) from May to September, a the Duke of ~arlborough and his two sons, which oc- charg-e of rs. being made for tickets, the proceeds of· cupies nearly the whole of one side of the chapel, and which are given to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. The· was erected by the duche-ss in 1733, who, at her death Duke of Marlborough is lord of the manor and sole landin 1744, was also commemorated upon i't; the monument owner. The soil is. light; subsoil, stone brash. Thaincludes colossal statues of the duke and duchess and land is partly arable, but consists entirely of the magni· their two sons, attended by Fam€ and History; on the ficent park attached to the palace. The area is 2,269 base is a basso-relievo representing the surrender cf acres; rateable value, £1,774; the population in 189r Marshal Tallard at the battle of Blenheim; in the vault I was 5 r. in this chapel are deposited the remains of the duke, I Letters through Woodstock, which is the nearest pos~ who died at Windsor, June r6th, 1722, and was interred I money mder & telegraph office on August gth in Westminster Abbey, but on the death · The children of the parish attend the schools at Woodof the duchess, October 18th, 1744, his body was re- ' stock, Bladon & Combe MarlboroughDuke of,Blenheim palace; r 8 Lownde·s square S\V & Carltrm, White's & Marlborough elubs,Londn CGrbett Thomas,woodman to the Duke Angas Richard Lindsey, '"state agent t.o the Duke, Home lodge Robertson Henry, head gamekeeper tothe Duke Gee-dale John N e<ale, farm bailiff to the Duke, Park farm Whillans Thomas, head gardener at the Palace BLETCHINGTON (or Blechingdon) is a parish and village, with a station at "Gibraltar," about ~~ miles east, ou the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great ·western railway, and is 7 miles north from Oxford and 6£ south-west from Bicester, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county court district of Bicester. rural deanery of Islip, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The river Cherwell and the Oxford canal pass through the parish. The church of St. Giles, situated in Bletchington Park, is a building of stone, mainly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, !'onth porch. and a low western tower with square turret, sur~ounted by a pyramidal ro0f w:th vane and containing 5 bells: the pulpit and open seats are of the time· of James I. and the porch dates from the year 1695; in the chancel are several monuments to the Coghill family, and a memorial to John Mill D.D. rector here from r68r, chaplain in ordinary to Chas. II. and canon of Canterbury, WhQ died June 23, 1707; the stained east window and reredos are memorials to the Rev. Thomas Dand· M.A. rector here, 1846, until his death, 5 Feb. r868; irr the south wall of the nave is a stained window to· the memory of Arthur, 10th Viscount Yalentia, who· died 30 Dec. 1863: in the chancel are memorial wind()WS to Flora Mary (Macdonald), widow of the Hon. Arthur Annesley (d. 27 Oct. 1844), and afterwards wifeof Maj.-Gen. Hon. G. T. Devereux J.P.; she died 5 Nov.

DIRECTORY.] 0 XFORDSHIRE. BLOXIIAM. 49 1884; and to the Hon. Eva (Annesley), widow of the ford and Birmingham canal. Illetchington Park, the late Sir Henry Robinson K.C.B. (d. 1893); she died seat of Viscount Valentia M.P. lord of the manor and July, 1894: the church was restored in I878, at a cos~ chief landowner, includes. a noble stone mansion in the of £r.,6oo, including the erection of a nmth aisle; it Italian style, standing on an eminence in the park, which now affords 250 sittings, 130 being free. The register is about 70 acres in extent, well wooded and commanddates from the year I559· The living is a rectory, tithe ing extensive and agreeable views. The soil is clay, rent-charge £272, average £204, net yearly value £267, stone brash and gravel; subsoil, the same. The crops including 200 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of are barley, wheat, roots and a large portion pasture. the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford, and The area is 2,540 acres; rateable value, £4,007; the held since 1886 by the Rev. Reginald Francis Dale M.A., population in r8gr was 649. B.Mus.. Gf that college, F.R.A.S. and also rector of Parish Clerk, Owen Bullock. Hampton Poyle. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity In r62o Leonard· Power bequeathed £2oo towards the & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Martha Clarke, sub-postmaintenance of four almshouses and a schoolhouse, mistress. Letters through Oxford arrive at 7.15 a.m. formerly built by him in Bletchington; these buildings & I p.m. ; dispatched at 5.32 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at were pulled down on the erection of the present alms- 7.30 a.m.; dispatched 4·45 p.m houses; the income arising from the bequest of Leonard National School (mixed), erected in 1872, for 150 chilPower and the poor's land of 33 acres, together with 12 dren; average attendance, 120; Herbert Thomas Upcottages, is about £6o yearly, of which about [38 is stone, master; Miss Florence Withers & Miss Maude applied to the maintenance of the almshouses and the Leeder, assistant mistresses remainder for distribution in fuel. At Gibraltar, or Bletchington Station, Hy. Edwd. Margetts,station master :Enslow, a mile and a half west, is a wharf on the Ox- Carriei' to Oxford.-George Kirtland, wed. & sat VaJentia. Viscount M.P. Bletchington Bullock Owen, coal merchant & cart- Howe John, gamekeeper to Viscount park; & Carlton, Nimrod, Arthurs', age contractor Valentia M.P Turf, Pratts' & White's clubs, Busby Henry, butcher Kirtland George, carrier Lond( n Camp in J ames, tailor Kirtland Her.ry, blacksmith Chapman Henry Else Clarke Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Kirtland Jas. farmer, College farm Dale Rev. Reginald Francis M.A., Post office Matthews Edmund,shoe ma.& coal dlr B.Mns., F.R.A.S. (rector), Rectory Coates West, Rock of Gibraltar P.H.; Newton Hugh, farmer, Heathfield Devereux Maj.-Gen. Hon. Geo. Talbot every accommodation cyclists, tra- Potter :Marlin,land steward to Viscount R.A., J.P. Heathfield house vellers & picnic parties; horses, Valentia M.P. StQnehouse COMMERCIAL. traps & flys for hire, Bletchington Pratley Richard, Blacks Head inn station Rogers Thomas, farmer Baker Joseph, farmer & butch~Jr Baker Wm. farmer, Newbridge farm Barrett Frank, wheelwright Crawford Joseph, farmer Savin Henry, farmer, Grove farm Higgs Alfred John, farmr.Staplehurs':, Savins Henry, farmer, Diamond farm Hobbs George Francis, Red Lion P.H 1 Taylor Alfred, shopkeeper Bartlett Arthur Hy. farmer & grazier, Home farm Hope -, head gardener to Viscount Taylor Sydney, shopkeeper Valentia M.P Tebby Tirza (Miss), dress maker llartlett Hy. Isaac, farmer, Greenhill; & at Hampton Gay Horwood James S. miller (water & Tuffrey Edward, baker steam), Enslow mill Turner Job, coal & corn merchant, Ilateman Robert, baker Kibble Thomas, grocer Enslow wharf ELOXHAM is a parish and village situated on gently rising ground, and watered by a tributary of the river Oherwell, which divides the village into two parts, and on the road from Banbury to Chipping Norton, with a station on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of the Great ·western railway, completed and opened April 6, 1887, 3 miles south-west from Banbury and 21 northwest 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, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The parish is lighted with gas by a Company. The church of St. Mary, thoroughly restored in r866 under the direction of the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. architect, at a cost of about £6,ooo, is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, transepts, south chapel, north and south porches, and a tower of the 14th century, with tall pinnacles and octagonal spire reaching a height of 195 feet, and containing a clock and 6 bells, and seems to have been founded in the 12th century, as fragments of that date are found reused in it; in the 13th century the nave and aisles, with arcades of four arches, were built and a north transept added, the chancel being at the same time rebuilt ~md the old work introduced into it: there is a richly Decorated west doorway: in the rsth century the clerestory was added and an elaborate chapel with four large Perpendicular windows and an open tiro ber roof built on the south side to the east of the porch : the windows of the chancel, dating from the 14th century, are unique for the singular way in which carved ornament peculiar to the 12th century has been worked up in the mouldings and other details, as is also the case in the doorway of the south porch; this has a grained roof, above which are two rooms, the former dwelling of the parish priest: the north porch is of singular beauty and has a very handsome and curious roof, which, though entirely new, is an exact copy of the original roof, a portion of which was discovered during the restoration; the west door is adorned with a sculptured representation of the Last Judgment, wrought on the wall above and on each side of the door r.rch; in the centre is Onr Lord, on either side the Apostles aad beyond them, on the right of Our Lord, the Resurrection, and on His left the pains of Hell, while on either side are angels holding instruments of ~he Pa&sion; the west window of the north aisle has a large cross introduced in its tracery and on the centre of this is sculptured the head of Our Lord, whilst at the ends of the arms are the four evangelical symbols ; between the north aisle and north transept is a clustered column of the qth century with a singularly sculptured capital, consisting of heads and half-length figures ; the chancel and nave roofs are entirely new and were constructed from Mr_ Street's designs; the aisles and transept roofs are to a great extent repro~ ductions of the roof previously existing; the old roodscreen remains, and has been thoroughly restored and repainted; a new screen separates the south aisle from the Milcombe chapel, which has been fitted up for week-day services and for a choir vestry, and the ancient altar discovered here has been carefully restored ; the font is octagonal with traceried panels, buttresses and pinnacles, and dates from 1530; the reredos of alabaster, marble and stone, includes in the midst a sculpture of the Crucifixion; the piscina and sedilia have been restored from traces of the old work; there are vestiges of wall paintings depicting Hell, St. Christopher, and Our Lord l::efore Pilate; and there also exist a few fragments of old painted glass ; the stall work of the chancel and the nave and aisle benches are of English oak, and the pulpit is of Caen stone, beautifully carved; numerous fragments of ancient tiles we're found, the patterns of which were recovered and have been reproduced in the new flooring; the organ, formerly in the western gallery, was originally erected in r85o by public subscription, at a cost of £3oo; it has been greatly enlarged at an additional cost of £3oo and is now placed in a chamber built on the north of tha chancel : there are 700 sittings, 400 of which are free. The Illoxham registers date from the year 163o, but that of Milcombe, included therein, from 1562. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £165, with residence and 171 acres of glebe, let for £248, in the gift of Eton College, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Richard Freeborn Mallam M.A. of Christ Church Oxford, and surrogate. The vicarage house was rebuilt in 1858 from designs by the late G. E. Street esq. RA. The W esleyan chapel will seat 150 persons ; the Baptist chapel, built in 1859, affords 200 sittings. The charities of Bloxham are very extensive, and include an estate of 13r acres, vested in r6 feoffees, and producing a gross annual income of about £350; after deducting the necessary outlay on the estate and the costs of management, the remainder is divided, by a decree OXON. 4

• ~0 BLOX:SAM. OXFORDSHIRE. [S:ELL'Y'S of the Court of Chancery in z6o4, into three shares, boys, especially intended to give a sound general eduone of which is distributed to the poor, a second cation in the distinctive principles of the English allott~d to the repairs of the parish church and bridges Church & chiefly to boys who go direct from school leading thereto, and the third to the common Town into the business of life: the school buildings, deCharges Fund, for the necessary uses and improvements signed by the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. & erected of the village; the shares vary from £85 to £roo each, at a cost of upwards of £28,ooo, comprise a largtt according to the annual expenditure required on the school room, chapel, class rooms, dining hall, masters~ estate. Bloxham Grove is the residence of the Rev. rooms, matron's department, sick room, bath room &; George Warriner M.A.; in its vicinity a Roman coin of dormitories & will hold about I8o boys: there is "Antoninus Pins," in good preservation, was dug up in also a detached hospital, covered fives court, work· 184o and other Roman remains v:erl.\ discovered some shop with lathes & a carpenter's shop, & immediat,ely years later. Lord Saye and Sele IS lord of the manor. adjoining is a cricket field of five and a half acres in The Rev. George Warriner M.A. and Eton College are extent: the premises were enlarged in 1864 & I86g & the principal landowners. The soil is rich, composed the chapel was built in IB71 : the property was conof red and sandy loam, fine arable and pasture land; veyed in I884 by the Rev. P. R. Egertun, the founder,. the crops of the usual kind. The area of the parish to the trustees, with a view to securing it for its is 3,I42 acres; rateable value, £7,485 ; the €ntire popu· original object, though at present the school is withlation of the parish in 1891 was 1,340. out endowment, beyond the value of the property Parish Clerk, William Bradford. itself. The trustees are the Rev. P. R. Egerton Sexton, Thomas Fawdry. B.C.L., M.A., J. .A.. Shaw Stewart esq. Viscount, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & In· Halifax, Sir W. G. F. Phillimore bart. D.C.L., Q.C. surance & Annuity Office.-Thomas Simpson, sub- H. D. Egerton esq. & E. Wing:field esq. C.B., l\L.A. postmaster. Letters arrive from Banbury at 7 a.m. The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Reading &; & 2.45 & 5.50 p.m. ; dispatched at 11.30 a.m. & Leadley Brown esq. The Rev. P. R. Egerton B.C.L.,. 5. ro p.m. ; no collection on sundays M. A. late fellow of New College, Oxford, warden; Wall Letter Box cleared at n.30 a.m. & 5.15 p.m Rev. Fredk. S. Boissier M.A. head master; Rev. H. Public Officers. Wigan M.A. chaplain; C. J. Wilson l\LA. J. H. A · t 0 Ab J Adk" Goodwin B.A. W. J. Bridger, B. P. Wait M . .A. ssis ant verseer, I ert . ms J. F. Turner B.A. & J. Dickenmann (German & Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Bloxham District, music), assistant masters; w. E. Thomas, ~Ius.Doc. Banbury Union, James Sprent Robertson Oxon, organist & music master Relieving & Vaccination Officer, Bloxham District & National (mixed), for 300 children; average attendance, Registrar of Births & Deaths, Bloxham Sub· District, 240 ; with an endowment of £r6 ss. yearly left by Banbury Union, John Bonner l\Ir. Job Faulkner, for the free education of 28 boys,. Agent for the Feoffees, William Adkins sons of poor persons not being farmers; William Schools. Bradford, master; Miss .Annie M. Lucraft, mistress .All Saints', originally built in 1853 by the Rev. J. lf. Railway Station, William Herbert Baughan, station Hewitt M.A. was purchased in 1859, refounded & master opened in January, r86o, by the Rev. Philip Reginald Carriers to & from Banbury.-John Coleman, 'Coach &; Egerton B.C.L., M . .A. & is a middle·class school for Horses,' twice daily; Henry Woodward, 'Angel,' daily Warriner Rev. Geo. M.A. Bloxham gro Dench:field William, farmer ·white Miss Douglas George Stephen, farme-:-, Adkins Charles Manning Wigan Rev. H., ~LA. (chaplain), All Laurels farm Adkins Mrs s~ii,ts' school Eagles George, farmer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Austin Richard, Cherry cottage Wilson C. J., M.A. (assistant master), Ellis John Edwd. Joiners' <\.1·m~ P.R Barrett John, Humber house .All Saints' school Flint Edmund Griffin, baker & groctr•· Bates 'Urban (assist. master Banbury Fowler Henry Robert, builder, carMunicipal School), Banbury :road COM)IERCIAL. penter, undertaker & wheelwright Bartlett Mrs .Adkins .A.lbert J. ass:LBtant overseer Franklin Fanny (Mrs.), l~amd!·e,;;;,. Beal Henry .Adkins .Arthur, mason Rose cottage [Boissier Rev. Frederick Scobell M.A. Adkins Charles, marble mason French Frederick James, huk!ler (head master), All Saints' school .Adkins William, builder, contractor, Gascoigne John Stowe, blacbm1th Bridger W. J. (assistant master), All stone, marble & monumental mason Gascoigne Samuel, plush m:muf:wt.:- Saints' school All Saints' Middle Class School (Rev. Goodwin George, shopkeeper Cherry Mrs Philip Reginald Egerton R.C.L., Green George Sydney M.R.C.S.J<:r.g .... Colegrave Mrs M.A. warden; Rev. Fredk. Scobell L.R.C.P.Lon. physician & !'nrgeon,. Cowper Mrs Boissier M. A. head master; Rev. & medical officer of All Saints· Davies Capt. Robert Watts R.N H. Wigan M . .A.. chaplain) school, &; Adderbury Jispen,·:-~ry Dickenmann J. (german & drawing Arlidge Rose (Mrs.), shopkeeper Haddon Thomas&; William, farmers master), All Saints' School .Austin Richd. farmer & cattle dealer Hall William, farmer, Eton house Egerton Hubert Decimus (bursar), All Banbury Co·operative Industrial Sa. Hall William, plumber & glazier Saints' School ciety Lim. (branch) (Benjamin Heath Benjamin, baker Egerton Rev. Philip Reginald B.C.L., Jeffs, manager) Heath Jonathan, tailor M.A. (warden), All Saints' school Barrett John, farmer Hemmings George, beer retailer Goodwin J. H., B.A. (assist. master), BarrettWm.Geo.Hawk & Partridgf'P.H Hemmings George (Mrs.), laundry .All Saints' school Bloxham Gas Light & Coke Co. Lim. Horley Job, baker Green George Sydney (Edwd. L.Fisher, of Grimsbury,sec) Horley William Horley, baker Haddon Miss Blea Henry, ·white Lion P.H Irons Thomas, mason Head RichardLyon, The Hermitage Bolton William, boot & shoe maker Jackson Frank Dunning, carpenter Hopkins Miss Banner John, relieving & vaccination L6adbeater .Tames, farmer Hyde John Derby, The Cottag,- officer,Bloxham district, & registrar Lucas Thomas, shopkeeper Hyde Miss, Ivy cottage of births & deaths for No. I Blox- l\Ianning George', plaste-rer Kershaw Mrs. Comberford house ham sub·district, Banbnry union Manning John, farmer Lucas ThDmas Bradford William, organist to parish Manning William, jun. plasterer Lucroft Miss church & collector of taxes for Blox- Mawle Caleb, farmer Maister Maj.·Gen. George R.A ham, Milcombe & Wigginton Mawle Mark, farmer :Mallam Rev. Richd. Freeborn M.A. Bryant Harry, beer retailer Mold Jn. miller (water), Bloxham gro• (vicar & surrogate), Vicarage Butler .James, timber merchant., Morgan William, saddler Ommanney Lieut.-Col. Octavius J.P steam saw mills, & buyer of all Mortimer John, beer retailer Peters Charles Henry good timbers; all carriage timbers Page Samuel, baker Potter Miss specially cut to order; works, mar Palm er William, coal merchant Priestman Mrs Station Pickering John H. baker Randle William Butler John, timber merchant Powers Richard, cooper Summerton Miss Castle Edward, shopkeeper Print John, blacksmith Sutton Thomas Cherry Charles, farmer Pulker James, Red Lion P.H Thomas W.E.,Mus.Doc.Oxon.(organist Cherry George, miller (water), Upper Robertson Jas. Sprent M.R.C.S.Eng-. & music rr,aster), .All Saints' school' Grove mill surgeon, & medical officer & public T1:rner J. F., B.A. (assi~tant master), Clifton Edwin, blacksmith vaccinator, Bloxham district, BanAll Saints' school Coates William, farmer bury union Wait B. P., M.A. assistant mast~.>r), Coleman John, carrier Robinson Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper All Saints' school Dench:field Thomas Daniel, farmer Robinson William, baker & butcher

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. BLACK BO'CRTON. 51 Sabin Hannah (Mrs.), shopkpr.& btchr Townsend Bros. nurserymen, seeds- Warriner Henry .Arthur & William Savage Silas, butcher men, florists & fruit growers, The Henry, farmers, Bloxham grove Simpson Th0mas, chemist, stationer, Nurseries Wise Eli, farmer & maltster tobacconist & .grocer, & agent for Treadwell Thomas, tailor, draper & Wise George, farmer W. & .A.. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit sewing machine agent Wise John, thatcher merchants, & insurance agent, Warr Charles, stone mason Whittlesea Charles, farmer Post .Qffice Warr Thomas, stone mason Woodward Henry, carr-ier Taylor Saml. Elephant & Castle P.H ·welford Wm. & Sons, coal mers,Statn Woodward James, shoe maker BODICOTE is a village, and in I85S was formed into House that of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Caryl Craven Molyan ecclesiastical parish out of the civil parish of .Adder- neux J.P. George. Bliss esq. is lord of the manor. bury, 3 miles from Bloxham station on the Banbury The principal landowners are Holford Cotton Risley, of and Cheltenham section of the Great Western railway, Deddington, Edward Henry Cardwell esq. of Hill side, 2 south from Banbury and 2I north from Oxford, in Horsley, Surrey, and the Warden and Fellows of New the Korthern division of the county, hundred of Blox- College, Oxford. Rhubarb and henbane for medical ham, Banbury and Bloxham petty sessional division, purposes are cultivated here to a large extent: rhubarb union and county court district of Banbury, rural was first introduced into the neighbourhood of Banbury deanery of Deddington, archdeaconry and diocese of about the year I777 by Dr. William Hayward, an Oxford. In I894 a new system of drainage was laid apothecary of that place, who died in 18n, and the down throughout the village, at a cost of over £6oo. plants were then purchased by the late Mr. P. Usher, The village is lighted by gas supplied from Banbury. who in turn left the estate to Mr. Rufus Usher, who The church of St. John the Baptist is a building of died in I88S; the present owner, Mr. Richard Usher, stone, chiefly of the 15th century, with some portion of has greatly increased and improved the business, which Decorated work of th!.' 14th, and consists of chancel, affords employment for a large number of hands. The nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an em- area is I,28I acres of land and IO of water; rateable battled western tower with pinnacles, containing a value, £4,288; the population in I89I was JIS, clock and 6 bells : in the chancel is a memorial window Parish Clerk, Henry W atkins. to George Warriner esq. d. 30 Dec. 184S: the church p M 0 & T 0 S B E D 1· & .An·· · d · d ff d . . ost, . . . . , . . , xpress e 1 very was repaue m I844, an a or s S7° Slttmgs, 208 nuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Mary Rainbow, sub· being free. The churchyard was enlarged in I 893, and postmistre-ss. Letters through Ban bury arrive at 6. 4s & consecrated by the Bishop of Oxford. The register of di h d & & b t . d · d t f h 6 d II.IO a.m. ; spate e at 9.30 a.m. 5.20 J.Io ap 1sms an marriages a es rom t e year I5 3 an d d 1· d" h d b · 1 6 Th 1 . · · · 1 p.m. ; sun ays, e 1very, 7.20 a.m. ; 1spatc e at ur1a s IS 7· e 1vmg 1s a VIcarage, net. year y value [23I, with residence and I2 acres of glebe, in 5·20 p.m the gift of New College, Oxford, and held since 1992 National School (mixed), built in I849, & enlarged in by the Rev. Frederic Dobree Teesdale M . .A. and late r8gz, for ISO children; average attendance, I3I; scholar of New College, Oxford. The Baptist chapel 1Villiam Neville .A.ndrew, master; Mrs. Emma Andrew, was built in I8I8, and there is also a Wesleyan chapel. mistress Bodicote Grange is the residence of Sir Bernhard Carriers to & from Banbury.-William Tyrrell, daily to Samuelson bart. M.P., F.R.S., J.P. ; Bodicote House 'Leathern Bottle,' & Clarke Castle, daily to 'Wagon that of JGhn Frederick Starkey esq. J.P. and Red & Horses,' Banbury PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Tanner Richard, Bodicote cottage Draper Thos. Horse & Jockey P.H .A.ndrew William Neville Teesdale Rev. Frederic Dobree M.A.. Hill Joseph, miller (water) & coal mer .A.plin Frederick Charles Vicarage Leadbetter Thomas, farmer Aplin Miss Tilson Mrs. R. L. The Red Laurels Parbery Thomas, beer retailer Davids Charles Henry, Bodicote lawn Usher Mrs Rainbow Rd. Curtis, assistant over· Edmunds Charles, The Limes Usher Ricb.ard seer & tax collector Gardner Miss Usher Rufus Smith Justin, shopkeeper Gillott Thos. Lambert, Draycote house Walford Thomas Henry, Fairholm Tustain Benj. farmr. & hay & straw cllr Grosby Mrs Tyrrell Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lushington-Tilson Mrs. Redlands COMMERCIAL. Tyrrell William, carrier Molyneux Lieut.-Co1. the Hon. Caryl Bailey George, Plough P.H Usher Richard, grower & preparer Craven J.P. Red house Banbury Industrial Co-operative So- of pharmaceutical extracts, dried Page Mrs. E. The Elms ciety Limited (branch) (Fred Bay- herbs, rhubarb, poppies, roses &c Page Mrs. Ivy cottage lis, manager) Village Reading Room & Library(Fred Pru~ Miss Blake Gabriel, butcher Baylis, sec) Samuelson Sir Bernhard bart. M.P., Bodicote Penny Bank (open on mon- Walford Thomas Henry, farmer F.R.S., .J.P. Bodicote grange; & 56 days, 4-I5 tillS p.m.), School room Walton Maria (Mrs.), shopkeepe"f Prince's gate & Reform club, Clifwn Herbert William, farmer Watkins Henry, wheelwright London SW Colegrave He-nry, farmer Wood Frank, fa,rmer & cattle ·salesSamuelson Ernest J.P. Bodioote grng Crosby Edwin John, farmer man, Bodicote grounds Starkey John Fredk. J.P. Bodicote ho Davis .A.llen, butcher Wootton William, blacksmith BLACK BOURTON (or Burton .Abbots) is a parish figure to Lady Eleanor Hungerford, ob. rsgr, and a and village on the road from Faringdon to Burford, sculptured marble tablet to Col. .Anthony Hungerford, three-quarters of a mile east from .Alvescot station on I703 : the church was completely restored in r866, and the Oxford and Fairford branch of the Great Western affords I6r sittings. The register dates from the year railway, 2 north-west from Ilampton, 7~ south-west r542. The livin.g is a vicarage, gross yearly value £2oo, from Witney, and 73 from London, in the Mid division wit1i rPsidencA, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxf()rd, of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional and held since r874 by the Rev. William Price 1LA. of division of Bampton West, union and county court dis- Christ Church, Oxford, and surrogate. The Primitive trict of Witney, rural deanery of Witney, archdeaconry Methodist chapel here was built in 1861. The Dean and and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, who are lords of ancient building of stone in mixed styles, chiefly Tran- the manor, and the Duke of Marlborough are the prin. . sition Norman, consisting of chancel, with north chapel, cipal landowners. The soil is stone brash and gravel;: nave, north aisle and an embattled western tower of subSIOil, the same. The land is principally arable, pro-· late Perpendicular date, rising from within the south- ducing the usual cereals. The area is 2,379 acres; west angle and containing s bells; the lock and key rateable value, £I,goo; the population in 1891 was 226. of the belfry are Early English: the chancel of the Parish Clerk and Sexton, Joseph Cooper. same period retains a piscina and has three sma.U Post Office.-James Baston, sub-postmaster. Letters stained lancets at the east end; there is also a locker arrive through Faringdon 6 a.m.; same on sundays; and a sedile formed by the sill of a window; beneath dispatched at 7-55 p.m. ; same on sundays. The the communion table is a marble slab to Sir .A.rthur nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bampton Hopton kt. ambassador to the court of Spain in the National School (mixed), erected in I87o, for 50 reign of Charles I. ob. 1649, and in the north chapel are children; average attendance, 33 ; Miss Childs, mismonuments to the Hungerfords of this place and of tress Farley Castle, Somerset, including one with recumbent Police Station, William Grant, constable Cox Robert Akers Henry, farmer, Manor farm Jefferys Thomas White, farmer, Elm Price Rev. William M . .A. (vicar & Baker Charles, farmer, Glebe farm Wood house surrogate), Vicarage Eeles .Ann (Mrs.), Horse & Groom P.B Jefferys Thomas 'White, jun. farmer, Tovey John Taylor John, shoe maker Lower farm oxo-s. 4*

:BOOBTON. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S :BOURTON (GREAT and LITTLE) are small villages constituting an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1873 from the parish of Cropredy, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, union and county court district of Banbury, Banbury and Illoxham petty sessional division, rural deanery of Deddington and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Great Bourton village is r mile south from Cropredy station on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway, 3~ miles north from Banbury and 26~ north from Oxford. .All Saints' church, rebuilt at a cost of about £r,4oo, raised by voluntary contributions, and consecratad rB Nov. r863, is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a bell-cote on the western gable, containing one small b€ll : the chancel of the original church, the only part of it now remaining, retains a simple piscina and locker : the stained east window is a memorial to Mary .Ann Gunn, d. 23 May, r86z: there are 200 sittings: a lych gate was erected in r88z at the western er_!trance to the churchyard. The register dates from the year r 863. The living is a Yicarage, tithe rent-charge £r4, net yearly value £zso, 11ith residence, in the g-ift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1874 by the Rev. .Alfred Highton M . .A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. Here is a Congregational chapel. The principal landowners are the Messrs. Simmons and New College, Oxford. The soil is red loam ; l subsoil, brown oolite. population in 1891 was the area is 1,669 acres able value, £4,848. Sexton, John Pratt. The crops are general. The 449, including Little Bourton; of land and 12 of water ; rateLITTLE BOURTON is a hamlet about r mile south and 2~ miles north from Banbury and near the Oxford canal, and has a 'Vesleyan chapel. Post Office, Great Bourton.-George Cherry, sub-postmaster. Letters through Banbury arrive at 6.50 a.m.; dispatched 5·35 p.m. Wardington is the Learest money order office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid Wall Letter Box, Little Bourton, cleared at 5·45 p.m. week days only Schools. National (mixed), Great Bourton, for t·he parishes of Great & Little Bourton & Cropredy, erected in r854, for r6o children; average attendance, 110; John James Ilonner, master Infants', Great Ilourton, for 40 children ; average attendance, 34; Miss Harriet Terry, mistress. The elder children attend the National school at Cropredy Carriers to & from Banbury.-Tasker, to 'Flying Horse,' mon. wed. thurs. & sat. ; Cherry, to 'Unicorn,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Acock, 'Reindeer,' mon. thurs. & sat GRK::\.T BCJCRTO~. Hadland Richard High ton Rev. .Alfred 1I.A. Yiearage Shore Herbert George - COMMERCIAL. Godson William Decimus, butcher Gcdson 1Yilliam, jun. baker Holloway William, farmer Kimber:ey James, nail maker Mason Thomas, machinist Prestige George, farmer Whit•e Frederick, collector of rates LITTLE BO:URTO~. .Adkin;;; William, Plough P.H .Allitt William & Thomas, carpenters .Archer Richard, farmer .Allitt Charles, s hopk•~<~per .Alii tt Henry, carpenter .Amos 'l'homas, farmer Prickett John, baker C~rpent3r Charles Frederick, farmer, Shirley Edward, farmer Hardwick hill C'berry John, farmer Cherry Goorge, tailor, Post office Cleymore J oseph, Swan inn Clifford J ames, farmer Shore Herbe.rt George M.R.C.S.Eng . surgeon, & medical ofiicer to Cropredy dist. of the Banbury union 1Yebb Ilenjamin, Bell inn FRllmer Dvd. Ba>:·eley, frmr. The Elms Hcokawav Thomas, farmer • SmaJe Edward, farm.er BRADWELL (or Broadwell) is a parish and village, churchyard are the remains of an ancient cross. The 2 miles west from .Alvescot station, on the Oxford, register dates from the year r56o. The living is a Witney and Fairford section of the Great Western rail- vicarage, with the chapelry of Kelmscot annexed, joint way, 4~ north-east from Lechlade, and 9 south-west gross yearly value, derived from glebe, £zoo, with from Witney, in the Mid division of the county, hundred residence, in the gift of Sir William Henry Smithof Bampton, petty sessional division of Bampton ·west, Marriott bart. and held since r87o by the Rev. IIorace union and county court district of 1Vitney, rural deanery Meere.s 1'L.A.. of Exeter College, Oxford. The rent of of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The 6 acres of land is distributed annually in coals to paor church of SS. Peter and Paul is a fine cruciform build- parishioners. Bradwell Grove, the seat of \Yilliam ing of stone, in mixed styles, consisting of chancel with Henry Fox esq. J.P., D.L. who is lord of the manor a chapel on the north side, nave, transepts, south poreh and principal landowner, is a handsome mansion of and a massive western tower with lofty broach spire stone, situated in an extensive park. The soil is stone containing 5 bells: the walls of the chancel are Norman brash; subsoil, an inferior oolite. The chief crops are and its windows Early English, with the exception of the usual cereals. The entire area is 3,559 acres; ratethe east window of three lights, which is Decoratrd: able value, £3,512; the population of Bradwell ecclesiasit contains a small piscina and a locker: the chancel tical parish in r89r was 284, and of the civil parish 687. arch is Early English and a small arch of like character The hamlet of Filkins Howell chapelry and Kelmscot opens into the chapel, which is of the Decorated peri•Jd: township, all in this civil parish, will be found under the south transept retains a good piscina: both the separate headings. south doorway and the porch are excellent examples of Parish Clerk, H. Riches esq. Temple, London; Deputy Transition Norman, with zig-zag and tooth ornament; Clerk and Sexton, George Compton. in its lower stage the tower is Norman, but the uppE:r Letters through Lechlade 8.0. which is the nearest portion, including the spire, is Early English; the font money order & telegraph office, arrive at 8.30 a. m. is good late Norman, consisting of a quatrefoil-shap~d Wall Letter Box cleared 5· 30 p.m. week days only basin on four large shafts: the church was thoroughly National School (mixed), erected in 1847. for 40 chilrestored in r873, and affords Ioo sittings: near the dren; average attendance, r8; Mrs. S. Calverley, mist (Marked thus * receive their letters co.:u:.:u:ERCIAL. G allaway Henry, miller (water) through Burford R.S.O.) Compton Geo. tailr. & dep.parish clrk Lewis George, Five Bells P.R *Fox William H~nry B..A., D.L., J.P. CraO.dock 1Ym. frmr. Bradwell manor Pajnting WilJiam, farmer Brad well gJ ove *Kilbe.:~ 'fhomas Slatter, lite ward to Pumphrey Thos.. farmer, Furzey farm M~eres Rev. Horace M . .A. (>icar), W. H. Fox esq. Esta.t,e. office, Brad- ·wells Georg'e, bo 't maker Vicarage well grove Young Emma (Miss), shopkeeper BRIGHTWELL :BALDWIN (or Baldwyn Brightwell) is a parish and small village, 3 miles west from Watlington terminal station of a branch from Princes Risborough, on the Great "\Vestern railway, 6 northeast from \Vallingford, and 8 south-west from Thame, 1 in the Southern division of the county, hundred oi Ewelme, petty sessional division of Watlington, union of Henley, county court district of Wallingford, rural deanery of .Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Bartholomew is a building of stone chiefly in the Decorated style, and consists of 1 chancel with an original vestry and a mortuary chapel on the north side, nave, aisles, south porch and an embatt~ed western tower with pinnacles partly Per- 1 pendicuiar and containing 3 bells : the chancel has an 1 east window of three lights and an arch and screen of 1 plain Decorated work~ the nave is separated from the aisles by arcades of the same date, with tall octagonal pillars, and the aisle windows retain some good examples of ancient glass: the church contains a fine Norman staircase and several monuments, and there are bra5ses to John Cottesmore, Chief Justice. of the Common Pleas, d. 1439, and his wife .Amice (Harcourt), with 26 Latin hexameters; John Carleton, 1547, who came from Walton-on-Thames, c. 15oo, his wife Joyce and 8 children; Anthony Carleton and .Anne (Perient) his wife, 1562, with 2 children, and an inscription to John the Smith, c. 1370, with 7 English verses : there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year I545· The living is a rectory, corn rent £303, gross yearly value [353, net £zg8, with residence and 44 acres of glebe, in the gift of Roger Fletcher Lowndes-Stone-Norton esq. ar..d held since 1890 by the Rev. Hilgrove Coxe M . .A.. of Corpus Cbristi college, Oxford. The charities for dis-

DIBEOTOBY.] OXFOI~DSHIRE. :SBI~E NOBTO:N, tribution in fuel and money amount io about £12 1 yearly. Brightwell Park, now unoccupied, is the property of Roger Fletcher Earle Lowndes-Stone-Norton esq. who is lord of the manor and sole proprietor; the mansion, which is situated close to the church, stands in a beautifully-wooded park of 50 ,1cres. The hmd is level, with a gravel, loam and marl soil; subsoil, chiefly marl. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and roots. The area is 1,66o acres; rateable value, £2,134; the population in 1891 was 242. Brightwell Upper Town, ! mile south, is a small village in the parish of Brightwell Baldwin. Sexton, George Woodward. Letters through Tetsworth arrive at 9 a.m. & 3.30 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at 'Vatlington. Wall Letter Box cleared at 5 p.m. on week days only A. School Board of 7 members was formed II May, 1878, for the United District of Baldwin Brightwell, Britwell Salome & Britwell Prior; B. Glass, Watlington, is clerk to the board & attendance officer Board School (boys & girls), built in 1879 · at a cost of nearly £1,200, with residence for the master & room for go children; average attendance, 51; Georgt~ 'Velch, master BALDWIN BRIGHi'1YELL. Hawes Thomas, farmer BRIGHT,YELL UPPER TO" N. vVatson James. Bruce Ooxe Rev. Hilgrove M.A. Rectory COMMERCIAL. Joyce John, farmer, Brightwell grove Smith Edward, watercres•s grower Tidmarsh Henry, bh~ksmith Giles \V11liam, grocer Honey Norris, watercreSJs grower Y\"atson John & Sons, lamd agents & "\Vheeler Wm. farmer, Oadwell farm Floyd Jas. Henry, Lord Nelson P.H farmers- :BRITWELL PRIOR is a village 2 miles south-west park of so acres: in the grounds facing the house is from Watlington terminal station, on the Princes Ris- a monument, erected in I764, to a member of the Simeon borough and Watlington branch of the Great Western family: in the early part of the present century the railw·ay, and 6 north-east from Wallingford, in the mansion was the residence of about 25 nuns of the Southern division of the county, civil parish of Newing- order of St. Clare, who took refuge here from the ton, hundred' of Ewelme, petty sessional division c·f Wat- violence of the French revolution. Roger Fletcher Earle lington, union of Henley, county court district of Lowndes-Stone-Norton esq. who is lord of the manor, Wallingford, rural deanery of Aston and archdeaconry Messrs. Paine and Mrs. Smith, are the principal landand diocese of Oxford. The church was taken down owners. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel. The c,hief in the year I865, and the parishioners now attend that crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and roots. The of Britwell Salome, the adjoining parish. The living was area is 699 acres; rateable value, £767; the population formerly a chapelry of the parish of Kewington, but in I89I was 61. by an Order in Council was in I867 annexed to the Letters through Watlington, which is the nearest mor.ey rectory of Britwell Salome. Chibnall's charity of £r 16s. order & telegraph office, arrive at about- 7.30 a.m. a year is distributed in money; the church acre pro- The nearest post office is at Britwell Salome duces ws. yearly. Britwell House, the seat of Mrs. The children of this place attend the school at Brightwell Smith, is very pleasantly situated in a prettily-wooded Baldwin Smith )irs. Britwell house Franklin J ames Prow se, farmer &, I Garlick ..l~fred, farm bailiff to J. P. fitopes' Miss, Garden villa landowner, The Priory Framk:in esq :BRITWELL SALOME (formerly Sallom), is a village and parish ~~ miles south-west from Watlington terminal station of a branch from Princes Risborough on the Great Western railway, and 6 north-east from Wallingford, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Lewknor, petty sessional division of Watlington, union of Henley, county court district of 'Yallingford, rural deanery of Aston and archdeaconry 'and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas, rebuilt in r867 and opened in November of that year, is a building of flint and stone in mixed styles and consi:.ts of a chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and western bell gable with 2 bells : the chancel arch and south doorway are Norman: the church contains several monuments, an ancient font and a brass to John Mores, rector, 1492 : there are sittings for 130 persons. The register dates from the year I574· The living is a rectory with Britwell Prior annexed, average tithe rent-charge £r82, joint net yearly value about £18o, with residence and 18~ acres of glebe, in the gift of the Marquess of Lansdowne K.G. and held since 1892 by the Rev. John Goodhind Deane vYillis M.A. of :Merton College, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Chibnall's charity of £r ros. a year is distributed in money; the church land yields £1 ns. 6d. yearly for repairs. Messrs. Paine, who are lords of the manor, M.rs. Smith, the trustees of the late Rev. William Preston Hulton 11LA. (d. 14 Aug. 187o) and Charles Edmund Ruck-Keene esq. of Swyncombe, are the principal landowners. The soil is gravel and chalk; subsoil, loam. The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans, barley and roots. The area is 871 acres; rateable value, £ r, 138 ; the population in 1891 was 124. Parish Clerk, Samuel Barkuss. Post Office.-Samuel Barkuss, sub-postmaster. Letters from Tetsworth via Watlington, arrive at 7·45 a.m, ; dispatched at S·So p.m.; sundays arrive at 7·45 n.m.; dispatched at 9·45 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Watlington. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid This place is included in the Brightwe11 United District School Board, formed 11 May, 1874; the children attend the Board schGol at Baldwin Brightwell Honey l\hs Cobb John, shoe maker Lott George, engineer & iron & bras.s HuttGn Rev. Samuel (Wesleyan) Stone Miss Willi9 Rev. John Goodhind Deane M.A. Rectory Evans John Owen, shopkeeper Goods.on Jn. Hy. district road survyr Hatton Albert George, pamter, paperfounder &; agricultural implemnt.ma Pou'lton 1Yilliam, bee:r retailer Stevens Frederick, farmer COMMERCIAL. hang,er, house decorator, glazier & sign wri,ter Tin son John, beer retailer Walt.,rs Alfred W. Red Lion P.H. & Barkuss Sm1. wh'eelwright, Post office :'vlonday 1hos. gardener to Mrs. Smith grocer :BRIZE NORTON is a parish and long straggling village along: the road from Bampton to Burford, 4 miles south-east from Burford, 3 north-by-east from Bampton and 4 south-west from Witney, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bampton West, union and county court district Gf vYitney, rural deanery of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Bampton station of the Oxford and Fairford branch of the Great Western railway is in this parish. The church of St. Brize or Brice is an ancient edifice of stone with stone dressings in mixed styles, consisting .of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, and an embattled western tower of Early English date containing 6 bells, re hung in I 88 I : the nave is Earl.y English, the north aisle, the east end of which is used as an organ chamber and vestry, has windows of the Decorated period : the chancel, also of this date, contains three sedilia, an aumbry and an interesting Decorated piscina; an ancient screen, restored in 1881, separates the chancel , ~om the nave: there is a fine Norman south doorway and a font of the same character, with attached shafts: in the north aisle, to which it was removed in r886 from the vestry, is the fine tomb of John Daubigny; the central portion of the t0mb consists of a slightly raised slab, on which are carved in relief the helm, mantling and shield of the knight ; above this in a trefoiled opening appear the head and shoulders of a knightly effigy, and below, in a similar opening, the crossed feet, resting on a lion; around are four shields and a marginal inscription, dated 1340: in th~< chancel is a mural tablet to Eleanor Woodd r664, widow of Basil Woodd, who -was sTain at Preston, in thre Scottish invasion of 1648 : there are also floor stones to the Greenwood family, form~rly of the Manor House: the church was restored in 1868, and in r88r an org~an was introduced : there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1579. The living is a discharged vicarage, gross yearly value £2I9, net £1-48, including 200 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Chri~t Church, Oxford,

:BBIZE WOBTON. OXFOI~DSHIRE. [KELL'Y'S and held since r8go by the Rev. John William Wynch M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. An annuity of £5 was left by Goddard Carter, in 1723, for the education of poor children, but is now expended in prizes ; there is also an annual charity of about gs. for poor widows. '!'he Manor House is occupied by Mr. John Worley. The principal landowners are the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford (who are lords of the manor), Edward Morley esq. Victor .W. B. Van de Weyer esq. of 1Yinkfield, and Thomas Gillett esq. The soil is stone brash and clay; subsoil, soft stone and clay. The chief crops are the usual cereals. The area is 3,265 acres ; rateabl2 value, £2,989; the population in 1891 was 610. Parish Clerk and' Sexton, John Sollis. Post Office (Sub-Office. Letters should have S. 0. Oxc.n Egg le ton J oseph Cox J ames·, grocer added. )-J oseph Timms, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 7· 20 a.m. & 1. 20 p.m. ; dispatched 10.5 a m. & 6-4o p.m. week days only. Bampton is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid Wall Letter Box, Bampton station, cleared 6.55 a.m. & 7·5 p.m. week days only A School Board of 5 members was formed r6 June, 1874· William A.ttwood Rigden, Bampton, clerk to the board Board School (mixed), built in 1876, for 120 children; average attendance, roo; James William Hawkins, master ; Mrs. Sarah Hawkins, sewing mistress Bampton Railway Station, Henry Gunn, station masler · Carrier.-Charles Wilkins, to Witney, thurs. returning same day; Oxford, fri Payne 1Ym. coal mer. Ba.mpton stat-ion Gillett Miss, Fern cottage Drinkwater Amos, Carpt-nters' Powell Frederick Wilham, malts•ter Here Mrs. The1 Cottage Arms P.H Pratt Thomas, Chequers P.H Knight Mns Eustace Richard, farmer, Glebe farm Si:man Elizabeth C:~'liss), shopkeeper 1Yorley John, Manor house Gillett Thomas, farmer & landowner, ;S;ade J olm, haulier ~ynch Rev.Jn.vVm. M.A.The Vicarage Kilkenny farm Smith Henry Arnold, grocer COMMERCIAL. ikers A~bert, draper, outntter, boot & ·shoe warehouse Hollis EJ.,vd. farmr. Up. Haddon farm Ho:tom George, boot mrkoer Stnrch Henry & William, farrcers, The Grange Ho:t-om John, boot maker Taylor Frederick, wheelwright Thatcher William, pig dealer merchant, Timms- Joseph, builder, asistant over- £,eer &; sta.tioner, Post office Towns•end Leonard, blacksmith landowner, 1Vorley Edward, farmer Lott Mark, wheelwright Akers Lucy (Mrs.), beer rtlr .&shopkpr llwger Mary Ann D. (Mrs.), farmer, :'\'[arriott J ames, coal Grove farm ~arnes Ar~hur, baker, grocer & draper :Bright John, farmer, Astrop farm Butler Thoma.s, butcher Bampt-on station Mathews John, grooer Morley Edward, farmer & Marnh Haddon 1Vor:ey John, farmer, Manor farm Packe-r John, wheelwright :BROUGHTON is a parish and village on the Sorbrook, a tributary Df the Cherwell, 2~ miles south-west from Banbury station on the Oxford, Banbury and Birmingham section of the Great ·western railway, and 23 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 Df Banbury, rural deanery of Dedding,ton and archdeaconry and diocese .of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a very interesting building of stone in the Decorated style of the qth century, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, a wide south aisle a1so with clerestory, south porch and a western tower, with broach spire, containing clock and 5 bells, two of which were presented in r884 by Mrs. Morrell, in memory of her husband: the chancel, restored by the late i'iir G. Gilbert Scott kt. R.A. has a fine stained east window, and a memorial window on the south! side t(} the Rev. George Mawson Nelson B.D. d. zo Dec. 1859; it also retains three elegant Decorated sedilia and a piscina ; and westward of these a fine Perpendicular altar tomb, with recumbent alabaster figures of a knight and lady, partially restored; these represent Sir Thomas Wykeham kt. of Broughton, and his wife, great nephew and niece of William of Wykeha.m, bishop of Winchester; their grand-daughter and eventual heiress, Margaret, married William, 2nd Lord Saye and Sele, slain at Barnet, 14 April, 1471, and thus conveyed the lordship of Broughton to the Fiennes family: the lofty panelling of the destroyed canopy is nearly perfect ; between this tomb and the chancel screen is an altar tomb of Derbyshire marble with shields and highly-wrought scroll \vork, to William, rst Viscount Saye. and Sele, d. II April, 1662, an adherent of the Parliament in the Civil War, and Elizabeth (Temple), his wife, d. 1648; the upper slab, of fine black marble, is incised with arms and inscriptions, and on the spandril of the arch above is 1:he shield of Fiennes, with helmet and suspended gauntlets ; there are floor stones to Lawrence, sth Viscount Saye and Sele, d. 1742; Dorothy Oecil, daughter of Edward, Viscount Wimbledon, d. 1652; M1ary, wife of Richard Fiennes esq. d. 1666, with shields and marginal =nscription on brass, with other members of the family to 1733; a very fine stone screen of Decorated work divides the nave from the chancel, the lower portion of 'Vhien is filled in with modern stone diapered ornament : th<;> eagle lectern is a memorial to Col. the Hon. Yvo ae Vesci Edward Fiennes C.B. 9th Lancers, d. 23 Nov. r875, and was given by the officers and men who served under him : the nave, roof and clerestory are an addition (lf the 15th century, raised upon the original walls to a considerable height: there is a Norman font, consisting of a circular basin with cable moulding on a circular pedestal, and a carved stone pulpit, the gift of the late rector; and on the nave floor is a coffin slab with double cross; the south aisle is separated from the nave by four Early Decorated arches and contains some very fine monuments, one of which is that of Sir Thomas De Broughton, the founder of the church and castle, with his effigy, under a rich recessed arch, clad in chain mail; the spandrils of the arch bear shields, repeated in quatrP-foils above : the arch is su-rmount<>d by a battlemented cresting and the whole is highly coloured; near this is a fine canopied and recessed tomb with the quartered arms of Fiennes and a panelled ceiling- with pendants, terminating upwards in a cresting and pinnacles supported by bears holding shields ; above this is a Decorated memorial window to Edward Chapman Morell, Arthur Morell and Sarah Ann Chapman, placed in 1870; opposite is a panelled altar tomb, with the shields of Fiennes, Saye and Wykeham, on which has been placed the effigy of a knight of the Broughton family: at the east end is an extremely fine Decorated window, and: the aisle contains mural monuments to Thomas, roth Baron Saye and Sele, and a Major-General in the army, d. July r, 1788; and Elizabeth (Turner), his wife, d. I April, r8r6; Gregory William, nth Baron Saye and Sele, d. Nov. 13, 1844; William Thomas, rzth Baron Saye and Sele, d. 31 March, 1847; a mural brass to the Hon. Edward Turner Boyd Twisleton M.A. d. 5 Oct. 1874, and memorials to others of the l?iennes family, 1658-66; at the west end is a stained window of Munich glass, erected by Ellen Twisleton in r862 at a cost of £4oo : here also are floor stones to Maria (Eardley), wife of Gregory William, nth Baron Saye and Sele, d. 5 Sept. 1834, and to the family of Herbert, 1791-r8ro, continued in the nave to 1830: in the churchyard is buried the Ven. Frederick Benjamin Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes, 13th Baron Saye and Sele D.C.L., LL.D. archdeacon of Hereford, d. 25 May, rBB7: ihe church was restored in r877-8, at a cost of £4,029, and affords 270 sittings. The register dates from the y(\ar 1683, but is very imperfect. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £575, with residence, in the gift of and held since 1870 by the Rev. Charles Francis Wyatt :'vl.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. Broughton Castle, the property of Lord Saye and Sele· D.L., J.P. is now occupied by Hamilton Fane Gladwin esq. J.P.; its most ancient portions are almost in their original state ; Mr. J. H. Parker remarks: "The greatest peculiarity of this part is the beautiful grained passage which leads in one direction to the chapel and in the other to thl3 principal staircas·e, which, before the present stairw.ses were made, must have been the only means of access to the solar and other principal apartments ; this end, also, having been the. portion of the building appropriated to the state apartments, fully accounts for the ri,~bness of the groined passage; the principal parts, erected in the rsth century (1407, Henry IV.), when the licence to crenellate was obtained, must have been the walls within the moat, which originally surrounded the -;vhole place and of which portions yet remain; the offices adjoin the gate.-house, the embattled part of the building, which now contains the kitchen, the guard room and the windows of the room oyer the chapel; of t.be three different periods to whic'.J. the erection of the

DIRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. BUCKNELL. 55 structure may be assigned, the q.th century ( r301 to 1307) produced the work of the D~ Broughions; the rsth (r4o7), that built by the Wykehams, and the x6th (1554), the portion added by th~ present family of 1Yykeham-Fiennes: seen from the north-west, Eroughton Castle presents the appearance of a fine Elizabethan mansion; it is partly surroundei: by a wide moat, crossed 'by a. bridge of two ~rches, connecting the castl'> with a gateway tower and other buildings of the 15th century, and the whole stands in an .extensive park." The hall, 54 feet in length IJY 26 f~st in Width, has a ceiling with fifteen pendants: the corridor is about go feet in length and ..:lxtends aiong the north fror.t: there are apartments Jpemng upon thi~ gall·~rv with richly ornamented ceilings and chimney pieces, Ulll !there are some good specimens of painted glass in the "council-room," where :\fr. Ham:Jden, Mr. I') m, :Hr. Olivrr St. John, Sir Harry Vane the younge.:r, with the Earl of Bedford, Lord lhooke and 1 thers met ju council to oppose the arbitrary policy d King Charles I. previous to the assembling of the Long Parliament in 1641. The chapel belongs to the oidt>r part, and thongh small and plain, is interesting as a domflstic chapel r•f unusually Early date; it has a Decorated east winrlow and an original stone altar, marked! with consecration crosses. Lord Saye and Sele, who is lord of the manor, Frederick Parker Morrell esq. M . .A.. of Black Hall, Oxford, and the rector, are the principal landowners. 'The soil is chiefly red loam. The crops are wheat, barle:', oats, beans and roots. The area is 975 acres; Tateable value, £r,654; the population in r8g1 was r64. Post Office.-Miss Annie Morby, sub-postmistress. Let· ters arrive from Banbury at 6.35 a.m. ; dispat~;hed at 5· 10 p.m. Ban bury is the nearest money orde1· & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, lmt not paid Carrier.-Edward Watkins, through to Banbury, mon. thurs. & sat NORTH NEWDIGTON is a township in the parish of Broughton, 2~ miles west from Banbury, and has a Congregational chapel. There is a charity of £122 annual value, bequeathed by Viscountess Saye and Sele, of which £47 is for apprenticing two poor boy.s, and £75 for distribution amongst the poor. Lord Saye and Sele, who is lord of the manor, Lord North, David Renton e~q. and thP rector, are the principal landowners. The area is r,ro8 acres; rateable value, £1,796; the popu· lation in r89r was 375· Parish Clerk, George Busby. Pest Office, North Newington.-Frederick Harri~, sub· pu~tmaster. Letters through Baubury arrive about 6.45 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. Banbury is the nearest money order & Wroxton the nearest telegraph oflke Endowed School, North Newington (mixed & infants), erected, with master's r-esidence, in r853, for roo chil· dren; average attendance, 96; it has an endowment of £so yearly, derived from Viscountess Saye & Sele's bequest; Edward Cooper, master; Miss Isabella Cooper, assistant mistress; Miss Ellen Payne, infants' mistress Carrier to & from Banbury, North Newington.-John Busby, to the ' Old George,' man. thurs. & sat BROUGHTON. Prue Richard, farmer Harris Frederick, carpenter, Post office WaltDn 1Valtm·, frmr. Hroughton grnds Herrieff William, farmer Gladwin Hamilton Fane J.P. Brough- Bitchcock Jam~s, l.:'hoe maker ton castle NORTH NEWTXGTON. Hntchings Henry, baker & beer retlr 1\~yatt Rev. Chas. F'ras. M . .A.. Rectory Hutchings Henry, carpenter Bull \Iary (Mrs.), Sa ye & Se le A.shby John, shoe maker ~Ii:ler J nhn, farmer Arms P.ll BcDt Jo~epb., whee:w-right ~icholls FI"ederick, shoe maker .Ccates James, farmer Busby George, builder & parish clerk Page James William, farmer Cottam Charles, org-anist to St. Mary Busby James. Edward, carpenter Page Rchd. artificial ma.nure mnfr church French George, <armer Stanbra PoJ:m, farmer Leadbe.ter Edward, farmer, Erick farm Gaydon Geo~ge, black-smith Welbank Richard 'Villiam, engineer Morby Susan (Mis•s), dyer & fuller Grel'n Edward, stone rr.asDn vVhitmill George, Roebuck P.H' BROUGHTON FOGIS is a small village and parish, year I557· The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge partly in Glvucestershire, on the road from Lechlade to £266, average £2or, gross yearly value £285, with resiBurford, 3 miles north from Lechlade station and 3 west dence and 9 acres of glebe, in the gift of and held since from .A.lvescot station, both on the Oxford and Fairford r867 by the Rev. John .A.vent M . .A.. of Caius College, branch of the Great Western railway, 6 west from Cambridge. Sir William Henry Marling bart. of Stanley Jlampton, ro west-south-west from 1Vitney, in the Mid park, Stroud, Gloucestershire, who is lord of the manor, division of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty ses- and William Henry Fox esq. D.L. of Bradwell grove, sional division of Bampton West, union and county court Burford, are the principal landowners. The soil and district of Witney, rural deanery of Witney and arch- subsoil are gravel. The crops are the usual cereals. deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. The area is 879 acres; nteable value, £686; the popuPeter is a building of stone of mixed character, con- lation in r8gr was 88. sisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a very low Sexton, John Preston. tower at the west end containing one bell: the chancel is Early English, with lancet windows: the nave and Letters through Swindon arrive at 8.15 a.m. Wall Letwalls are Korman and retain one original window, the ter Box cleared at 5·25 p.m. Filkins is the nearest rest being Decorated: the Norman doorways on the money order office & Lechlade the nearest telegraph 11orth and south sides also remain and several of the ofiice windows are stained: the church was restored in 1874, The children of this parish attend the National school at ~nd affords roo sittings. The register dates from the Filkins Btanhope Hon. Fitzroy Willia.m Whit- Avent Rev. John M.A. Rectory I Hiett Rbt. J onah, farmr. Ox L£as81 frm .brPad, Broughton ha11 Booker Ch1rles, shoe makPr Preston .John, tail-or l3UCKNELL is a parish, 4 miles north-west from 1licester station on the Bletchley and Oxford bran!'h of the London and North 1Yestern railway, 6~ from Heyford station on the Oxford and Banbury section of the Great ·western railway, and 14 north-east from Oxford, in the JHid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county court -district of Bicester, rural deanery of Eicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. 'Peter is a building of stone in mixed styles, chiefly of 'the 13th century, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch, and an embattled central tower containing a clock and 3 bells: the chancel is good Early English, with lancet windows, and has a south door; the nave is also Early English, but the clerestory and roof were added in the 15th century; the tower and part of the nave are I>lain Early Norman, with a Perpendicular upper story and a circular turret: the font is octagonal, and the pulpit of carved oak Elizabethan, with pillasters of the Ionic order : in the church are two brasses let into the same stone, one with a shield of arms and inscription to :Edward Ewre esq. 1638, and Frances (Poure), his wife, with six children; and the other to Francis, eldest son Qf the preceding, and J ane (Savage), his wife ; a third brass is recorded to Richard Bennett, forty years parson here, 1591; there are various mural and other monu· ments to the family of Trotman, 1599-1775 ; the windows were formerly filled with stained glass, containing invocatory inscriptions and arms: the church affords 195 sittings. The register dates from the year 1653. The living is a rectory, net yearly value, arising from 363 acres of glebe, £r8o, with residence, in the gift of the 'Varden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, and held since 1892 by the Rev. 1,Yilliam Birch Gascoigne M . .A. of New College, Oxford. The charities consist of the interest of £3oo in the £2! per Cents. bequeathed by Samuel Gauntlet D.D. warden of New College, Oxford, 1794-1822, and received annually from the Charity Commissioners, and also 5os. paid by the proprietor of certain land as the interest of a Trotman bequest of £4o charged on the land; these sums are distributed in clothing and coal. On the south side of the parish stands Bucknell Manor, the property of Col. Frederick Drummond Hibbert J.P. who is the chief landed proprietor and lord of the manor, in right of his wife, daughter and co-heiress of the late Fiennes Trotman esq.; the house is now occupied by Hugh Graham esq. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, stone. The land is chiefly arable. The area is r,85o acres; rateable value, ,£r,361; the population in 1891 was 233.

56 BUCKNELL. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY's Parish Clerk, Henry Coles. telegraph office, arrive at 7·I5 a.m.; dispatched 5·30 p.m Post Office.-Thomas Rolfe, sub-postmaster. Letters Church of England School, built in I865, for 50 chilthrough Bicester, which is the nearest money order & dren; average attendance, 51; Miss Patterscm, mistress Grus.coigne Rev. William Birch M.A. Darretb William, farmer Phillips John, farmer (vicar) EnsOT William Rodnight, farmer Rolfe. Jame•s, farmer Graham Hugh, Bucknell mano!' Finch 'rhoma~ Cost.ar, farmer Rc,lfe Thomas, baker, Post office COMMERCIAL. Golder William, butcher Wyatt Lambert, beer retailer Allev John, b1:tcksmith • BURFORD (A.S. Beorgeorda), "the fortified town the tower, with the exception of the belfry story and ford," is a township, parish and market town at the spire, is rich Late Norman and the interior, or lantern western extremity of the county, on the borders of stages above the main arches, exhibit some fine axcading,. Gloucestershire, 5~ miles south from Shipton station, on pierced with windows on the north and south sides: the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton section of the belfry story is of early rsth century work and has a the Great Western railway, 6 north-west from Bampton square embattled turret at the south-west angle: the station on the Oxford and Fairford branch of the same original Norman walls of the tower on the north and line, 9 north from Lechlade, 7 west from "\Vitney, II south were pierced, and arches built in the Early English north from Faringdon, 22 from Cheltenham, r8 west-by- period, but the existing arches were erected to sustain north from Oxford, 72 from London by the road through the increased pressure caused by the addition of the High Wycombe, and 76 through Henley-on-Thames; it belfry and spire of the 16th century: the chancel, about is in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Bamp- 46 feet long by 21 wide, has a locker and aumbry on tl!e ton, petty sessional division of Bampton West, union north, and a piscina and sedilia on the south side: the and county court district of Witney, ;rural deanery of late Perpendicular east window, presented by T. H_ Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Cheatle esq. is a memorial to T. Cheatle esq. and .A.nn town stands on all ascent facing north from the banks of Elizabeth, his wife, and is flanked by the remains of two. the river Windrush, and consists of three streets, the l<'l'ge canopied niches: on the south side is an arcade of principal being High street, intersected by Sheep street two arches carried on piers with clustered shafts and D.nd Witney street; it is lighted with gas supplied by a opening into the Bartholomew aisle, and on the north Company, and has an excellent supply of spring watel' side a large arch without piers opening to the Tanfield from works at Signet, also the property of a Comp~my. chapel: above the communion table is a fine painting of Fine views of the surrounding country are obtained " the Adoration of the Magi and Shepherds," presented: from the hills which skirt the town. In the parliament by Miss Wailer: the vestry, on the north side, and east of 1306 (34 Edward I.), the borough of Burford was of the Tanfield chapel, is Early Perpendicular, and has represented by Thomas de Lincoln, but on petition the a vaulted roof, an ancient stone altar, and a piscina with. .nhabitants were relieved from any further representa- four holes and shelf: the Tanfield chapel, separated tion; the ancient corporate body, which consisted of two from the chancel and transept by oak screens, retains a bailiffs and ten burgesses, continued to exist until a coloured niche or reliquary, discovered in 1874: at therecent period, but eventually became extinct in Dec. south-east angle is a large hagioscope, and in the centre r85g, when the management of the local charities and of an altar tomb of marble with recumbent effigies to Sir the Grammar school was transferred to the Charity Lawrence Tanfield, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Commissioners; sixteen charters, extending from I r ob. 30 .April, r625, and Elizabeth (Evans) his wife, Edw. III. (r337-8), to I6 Geo. III. (1775-6), have been beneath an arched canopy supported on pillars; thefrom time to time granted to the town, and the originals tomb is also adorned with numerous figures, shields of of these are still preserved. The municipal insignia, arms &c. the whole being richly coloured, and there are comp-rising two maces and the borough seal, are now in inscriptions in Latin and English; his only dangllte:rthe possession of T. H. Cheatle esq. son of tbe late Aid. Elizabeth married Henry Cary, rst Viscount Falkland, Cheatle, who was the last surviving member of th0 whose bust appears on the tomb: here also was buried defunct corporation; the great mace, 2 ft. 9~ inches in "VYilliam Lenthall, Speaker of the House of Commons length, is of silver: the shaft is divided by bands into during the Long Parliament ( r64o-6o ), ob. 3 Sept. r662: three sections, and has a chased foot knop : scrolled separated from the chancel by a fine oak screen on thebrackets support the head, the surface of which is orna- south side is the Bartholomew chapel, containing mented with the national badges : on the fiat top are numerous altar tombs of stone and mural monuments or the royal arms of George II. and surrounding it a marble to the Bartholomew family, mostly of the 17th delicately worked coronet, from which spring depl'esser'l century; it is now used as an organ chamber, and a arches forming the crown and surmounted by an orb new organ was placed there in r886: the tracery of thellnd cross; this mace probably dates from 1742. The west window retains some ancient stained glass collected smaller mace, 13 3-I6 inches in length, is also of silvee, together in I827; the lower portion was filled with and has a plain slender shaft with five double curved stained glass in r889 at the cost. of Mrs. Allen-Faulkner,.. flanges in the centre, and at the end a flat button, like as a memorial to her husband; the west doorway is a a seal; the head is semi-globular, and has a circlet of good example of JS'orman work, and has beakhead and fleurs-de-lis and crosses, and on the top the arms of chevron mouldings and twisted shafts: at the east end France and England quarterly; it probably dates from of the nave, above the western arch of the tower, is a the r6th century. The borough seal, of silver, is an fine life-sized painting of " the Crucifixion," also given extremely interesting example, and da.tes from about by Miss Waller: the font, a Perpendicular work, is. 1250; in shape it is a pointed oval or vesica, and bears cylindrical, and surrounded by an arcading of ogee the figure of a lion rampant to the sinister, and a arches, cusped and crocketed, and containing a repremarginal inscription: the borough had also another seal sentation of " the Crucifixion," with other subjects and' of the same date, but smaller, with the figure of a clerk ilgures: at the west end is a stone bench and an vested in almuce and alb, kneeling under a trefoiled aumbry; here is also a massive mural monument of" arch, above which was a demi-figure of the Virgin and classical design, with effigies and quartered arms t(}. Child. Burford gives the title of Earl ( 16761 to the Edmund Harman esq. ob. r569, his wife .Agnes and r6 Duke of St . .Albans. During the Civil 1Var an encounter children : under the easternmost arch of the north took place here in 1649, between the Royalists and the arcade of the nave is an ancient chapel of the rsth.. Parliamentary forces under Fairfax, in which the former century, surrounded with screen-work and covered in were worsted and lost 1,400 as prisoners. The town with a canopy or tester, supposed by the late G. E. was visited by Queen Elizabeth, August 3rd, 1574; in Street esq. R.A. to have been erected on account of the1645 by Charles I. ; and in the years I68r, 1687, and great distance of the principal altar from the nave and 1695 respective~y, by Charles II.,James II.,and William Ill. 1ts concealment by the narrowness of the tower arches; The church of St. John the Baptist is a fine but at the east end of this chapel, against the tower pier, is singularly arranged cruciform structure, originally Nor- an altar, and above it an illuminated reredos in thre& n:• an, but now chiefly of the Perpendicular period, con- compartments, with niches containing modern figures of sisting of chancel with the Tanfield chapel and vestry on Our Lord, the Blessed Virgin and St. Dorothea ; thethe north and Bartholomew chapel on the south side, screen-work and roof of the chapel are of carved oak,. clerestoried nave of five bays, north transept, or Pin- also coloured, and the former, which is chiefly open, has nock's chapel, south transept, or Leggare's chapel, aisle~ a quatrefoiled cornice, with a rich cresting: the southwith chapels, a fine porch attached to the south aisle, aisle, 70 feet long by IO wide, is open for its entireand a lofty central tower, with a panelled parapet and length to the south porch and the two adjacent chapels: pinnacles, and a graceful octagonal ribbed spire, about St. Thomas a Becket's chapel, between the south porch 200 feet in height; the tower contains a clock and 8 and the south transept, and commonly called tha bells, dating from 1586; the tenor, which weig-hs 25 "Burgesses' Aisle," is separated from the nave aisle by hundredweight, is presumed to be older, but is undated: an arcade of two arches and an oak screen, and :retain$

DIRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. BURFORD. 57 an arcading, a piscina and a handsome bracket ; at the east end is a large blocked arch, and on the west wall a mura.l. tablet, with effigy, to John Harris, a native of this place, and afterwards alderman of Oxford, ob. r674: building of stone, will seat 300 persons, and also has a groined roof; this chapel was restored in r887, at the sole cost of Mrs. Marriott, under the superintendence of J. D. Sedding esq. architect, and has a stained window given in r887 by Mrs. Marriott in memory of her husband, E. J. B. Marriott esq. J.P. of Pershore, d. 8 June, 1882, and formerly a resident in Burford: Mrs. Marriott also restored the adjoining aisle of the nave: the south porch is a lofty and beautiful specimen of the Late Perpendicular style, and has a richly panelled front, inclosing three large niches, with crocketed and pinnaelect canopies containing mutilated figures; the lower stage has a vaulted roof with fan tracery; above are two rooms or parvises, now used as muniment chambers: adjoining the porch on the west and separated from the south aisle (beyond which it extends westward about 30 feet) by an arcade of three arches, is the Silvester chapel, so called from the numerous altar tombs and mural monuments it contains to the Silvester family, dating from the r6th century to the present time; it was built in the 13th century, probably as an entirely detached chapel, but lengthened eastward and united to the church, by the opening of arches in the north wall, in the r5th century; at the south-west angle is a staircase turret leading to the roof : in the chapel is an altar tomb with a shield of arms; there is also a mural monument with brass to John Osbaldeston, gentleman, of Chadlington, r614, and Grace (Ashfield) his wife, r6rr, with children: the south transept, or Burgesses' aisle, called also " Leggare' s chapel," was restored in r887, and has on the east side a remarkable feathered arch, now blocked, within which is a small 11indow and a piscina ; the large window of this transept is Early Perpendicular and has inscribed on its interior arch-" Ora se " ( ? or ate) " pro animabus patris et matris .Tohannis Leggare de Borford per quem ista fenestra decoretur; " and within the chapel is an altar tomb of stone and grey marble to this John Leggare, with niches inclosing kneeling figures of angels bearing shields; but the brasses formerly on the upper slab are now lost; here also is a mural tablet to Christopher Kempster, ob. 1715, who assisted in building the cathedral and dome of St. Paul's, and to his wife and numerous descendants ; the roofs of both this and the north transept are of carved oak, resting on sculptured stone corbels ; the floor is partly composed of grave stones relating to the Pryor family originally placed before the high altar, and one of them bears an inscription to John Pryor, gent. murdered and found hidden in the Priory garden, 3 April, 1697 : on the floor at the east end of the nave is a brass with kneeling effigies, marginal inscription and English verses, to John Spicer, ob. 1437, and Alice his wife: the original oak pulpit, of Perpendicular work, with traceried panels, richly painted and gilt, has been placed on a modern stone base : the brass lectern was given by the Misses Cooper, daughters of the Rev. Edward Philip Cooper B.D. vicar of Burford with Fulbrook from 1836: the church was wainscotted in 1827: the nave, Silvester chapel and chantry chapel were restored in r87o-72, under the superintendence of the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. at a cost of £2,6oo ; tllis work included the restoration of the small Priory chapel in the nave, the altar being replaced and the dossal renewed: in 1877, the chancel, tower and Tanfield chapel were restored, the former by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners at a cost of £781, and the two latter by subscription at a cost of £1,303; other restorations were carried on up to 1887, at a total cost, for the ten years, of £3,173: the church contains 700 sittings, all being free with the exception of the faculty seats of the hamlets ofUpton and Signet :in the churchyard are several altar tombs, one of which, opposite the south porch, has a brass inscribed to John Hunt, r6o3. placed by his sons William and Richard in r6o9 : under the south wall of the churchyard Cornet Thompson and another soldier were shot 17 :May, 1649; a painting depicting the incident is in the possession of T. H. Cheatle esq. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1612; marriages, r6r3. The living is a vicarage with the chapelry of Fulbrook annexed, tithe rent-charge £2, joint net yearly value £r6s, including 200 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1871 by the Rev. "\Yilliam Anthony Cass: the vicarage house bears date 1672. A sum of £120 yearly is paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. for a curate. The Baptist chapel, built in 1700, is in Witney Rtreet: the W_esleyan chapel, in High street, erected in 1849, will hold 350 persons: both chapels have attached" burial grounds. The Friends' Meeting house in Pitt's lane, a large bui1Umg of 1stone, will seat 300 persons, and also has a. buriaJ. ground attached. There are eight almshouses founded by Richar<l Nevill, Earl of Warwick, 1457 and rebuilt in 1828, fourother almshouses, erected by Dr. John Castle in 1726, are now incorporated with these ; there are also various. minor charitable bequests; the total amount fo.:r- distribution in kind and money is about £93 yearly; foreducation, £199; apprenticing, £52; church purposes~ £47; and for other purposes, about £7 yearly; by an order of the Charity Commissioners, dated 1876, th~ charities are distributed by a body of 12 trustees. The· hamletc of Upton and Signet have a poors' allotment rroducing about £7 yearly for fuel. The Cottage Hospital, established in 1868, is in Church street and will hold eight patients. The priory or hospital of St. John the Evangelist he'l"e formerly belonged to the abbey of Keynsham, Somersetshire ; its revenues were va-lued at the Dissolution at £r3 6s. 6d. and the estate was granted in the 35th year of Henry VIII. (1543-4), together with the ma.nor, toEdmund Harman, 11ho erected a mansion on the site of the ancient priory, and on his death Ann, duchess of Somerset, and Henry Lee ( ?) of Ditchley, held portions of the manor; Queen Elizabeth in 1598-9 sold it to Sir John Fortescue, from whom it was purchased by Sir Lawrence Tanfield kt. who rebuilt the mansion, which, descending to his grandson, Lucius Lord Falkland, was· sold by him to William Lenthall, Speaker of the Long Parliament, for £7,ooo; the latter built the curiou~ existing chapel, disused since 1799: the last resident was William John Lenthall esq. who liYed here in 1827,. but alienated the estate in r829 to Charles Greenaway esq. whose niece, Miss Youde, subsequently held it, and was lady of the manor: at her death in 1893, it came into the possession of Robert Henry Hurst esq. of Barrington Grove, Gloucestershire, who is the present owner: the buildings, as now existing, are Elizabethan in style, and include a Ia.rge entrance ha.ll, with a fine' oak balustered staircase and a magnificent ball-room, the plaster ceiling of which is highly enriched with arabesque work and pendent bosses ; the walls ar0" wainscotted and there is a mantel-piece of carved stone: a door at one angle of the room leads to a terrace, connecting it with the chapel, whic-h has many quaint features, but is now rapidly going to decay: in rear of the main front is a range of dilapidated buildings, including a room with an exquisite mantel-piece; thegrounds on the north side slope pleasantly to the river and command a view of Westhall hill, but both these and the carriage drive are overgrown with weeds, and: the fish pond is choked with mud. Among the eminent men connect~d with this place may be mentioned Sir William Beechey, the painter, born here 12th December, 1753, he became a Royal Academician in 1797, wa.s knighted in 1798, and died at Hampstead, 28th Jan. 1839; John Wilmot, the wittybut dissolute Earl of Rochester, born ro April, 1647; d. 26 July, r68o; Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, whose father married the daughter and heiress of SirLawrence Tanfield kt. was born here in or about r6ro, he was sometime M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight, and in r64r Secretary of State, but was slain at the first battle of Newbury, 2oth September, 1643· At the corner of Sheep street stands the ancient Tolsey or Custom house, a gabled building supported on pillars with projecting windows; there are alsoseveral old houses of some interest, one of which, at the corner of Priory lane, has a fine oriel window and was once known as "The Bear Inn;" but in 1890 it wasc converted into Salvation Army barracks; another, mentioned in a deed of r5go, is called " Cob-Hall," which in 1650 was an inn, called the " Swan;" an old house at the foot of the bridge bears an inscription recording its repair in 1576 and gift to the school in 1577 by Simon- \-Visdom, alderman. Beneath London house is a vaulted undercroft in two portions, divided by a thick waU pierced by a wide archway; the larger half has a central octagonal pier, with moulded base and capital frolll which the vaulting springs, the ribs being otherwise supported by corbels on the walls ; the other portion isin two bays, and is similarly grained, with corbels only. In "\Vitney street is a large stone mansion, built about 1690, and known as " The Great House ; " the interior is panelled and decorated with curious paintings, executed. towards the close of the 17th century. About half a mile south-west from Burford were St. Christopher' s or Kitt' s quarries, from which the stone for the columns, mouldings and tracery of St. Paul's:

• ti8 :BURFORD. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S Cathedral was chiefly obtained ; the site is now a favourite spot for pic-nic parties. A market is held every Saturday for corn &c. and fairs are held on the last Saturday in .April, and Sept. 25, for horses, cattle, sheep, cheese and toys. Robert Henry Hurst esq. J.P. of :Barrington Grove, Gloucestershire, is lord of the manor; the principal landowners are l\Irs. Allen-Faulkner, Mr. John Jacobs and the Ecclesiastical. Commissioners. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, gravel and rock The chief crops are wheat, barley, oat.s and turnips. The population in I89I was Burford, 1,346; the hamlets of Upt,on and Signet, 259; the area of the parish is 2,760 acres; rateable value, :Burford, £3,012; L"pton .and Signet, £I ,964. Parish Clerk, David Francis. :llost, M. 0. & '1'. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:fficB (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Oxon added).-Robert D. Foster, postmaster, High street. Letters arrive from Faringdon by mail cart at 6 a.m. London at 2.45 p.m. ; dispatched at 9-45 a.m. & 7 p.m .:County Magistrates for Bampton West Petty Sessional Division. -:'\Iauley Lord De, Langford house, Lechlade, chairman Cheatle Thomas Henry, High street, Burford R.S.O Fox 1Yilliam Henry esq. B.A., D.L. Bradwell grove, Burford R.S.O llurst Robt. Hy. esq. l\I.A. Barrington gro. Gloucester , £3amuda Cecil D' Aguila.r esq. D.L. Bruern Abbey, Chipping Norton Wingfield Edwd. Rhys esq. Barrington pk. Burford R. S. 0 Clerk to the Magistrates, Thomas Brown, Sheep street The following places are included in the Petty Sessional division: -Alvescott, Astball, Blackbourton, Brize 1\" orton, Broad well, Broughton Poggs, Bur ford, Clanfield, Fulbrook, Grafton, Holwell, Kencot, Kelmscot, Langford, Little Faringdon, Radcot, Shilton, Swinbrook, Taynton, L'pton & Signet, Westwell & Widford :Special & Petty Sessions are held at the Police station, :Burford, every alternate Saturday at 12 o'clock I Bampton West Highway Board. 11Ieets at the :Board room on first sat. in each month at 3 p.m. ·Clerk, Thomas :Brown, Sheep street District Surveyor, Jonathan Banbury, High street Public Establishments. Burford Reading Room, Thomas E. Glanville, secretary Cottage Hospital, Church street ; Thomas Henry Cheatle M.R.C.S.Eng. med. officer & sec.; Mrs Tombs, matron <Jaunty Police Station (west division), Job Cooke, inspector & one constable Fire Engine Station, High street, Cilo East, captain Stamp Office, Post office, High street, R. D. Foster Public Officers Assistant Overseer, George Waiter l\Iatthews, High st Clerk to the Grammar School & Charity Trustees, Geo. ·waiter Matthews, High street • Collector of .Assessed & Income Taxes, Jonathan Banbury, High street Inland Revenue Officer, George Rowland Norton, 'Vesthall hill, Burford Inspector of Nuisances, Jasper Taylor, Minster Lovell Inspector of Police, Job Cooke, Police station Inspector of Weights & Measures, Robert D. Doubleday, Oxford )1edical Officer, Public Vaccinator & Registrar of Births & Deaths for :Burford District, Witney Union, Thomas Henry Cheatle, High street Relie-ving & Vaccination Ofticer for Burford District, &, Deputy Registrar of :Births & Deaths, Burford Subdistrict, Witney Union, Thomas Farmer, Church grn Stamp Distributor, Uobert D. Foster, Post office Town Crier, David I•'rancis, Sl1eep street Places of Worship, with times of services. St. John the Baptist Church, Re-v. William Anthony Cass, vicar; Rev. Matthew Scott Lawrence, curate; 8 & II a.m. & 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; week days 10 a.m. & 6 p.m. in summer & 3 p.m. in winter Baptist, Witney street; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m Wesleyan Methodist, High street; II a.m. & 6 p.m.; & alternate mondays, 7 p.m Schools. The Grammar School was founded in 157r by Simon ·wisdom, alderman, who endowed it with the rent of certain lands & several houses in the town, for the maintenance of a master & usher; in 1876 the foundation was remodelled by the Charity Commissioners, under the Endowed Schools .Act, & is now controlled according to the new scheme by a body of eleven governors; the school buildings are of the Late Perpendicular period & chiefly consist of a large rectangular gabled structure, pierced by two rows of square mullioned windows, & a smaller block at rig-ht angles to it; a ne.w class-room was added in 1886, and in r8go a new wing was erected & the old building altered & enlarged:; Henry F. Piggott M. A. head master; Frederick W. Lea B.Sc. William Bryan & Gilbert J. J essop, assistant masters A School Board of 5 members was formed 28 April, 1874, for the United District of Burford & Upton & Signet; ThoiUas Brown, clerk to the board; John :Bond Waiter, attendance officer Board (boys), built in r877, for Ioo children; average attendance, 85 ; Thomas Edwin Glanville, master Board (girls & infants), for r8o children; average attendance, 74 girls & 70 infants; Miss Clara Linnett, mistress; Miss Eleanor Claressa Clee, infants' mis~ tress ; Miss Elizabeth Monk, assistant mistress C-arriers to & from :- :Barrington-Howard, from 'Rose & Crown,' sat Rissington-Howard, from ' Rose & Crown,' sat Sherborne-Akeman, 'Swan,' sat Shipton Railway Station-Matthews, from his residence, daily; & Paintin, from his office. daily. See advt Witney-Paintin, from his office, Burford, daily 9.30; thurs. 12 noon PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Gm·ne "\'ViTiiam, She-ep sheet Ho,., se Mrs. Sheep street Lea Frederick '\V., B.Sc. (assistant mast.er), Grammar school Perrin George, Hill house Perrin Thoma.s, High .street l..llen-Faulkner Mrs. Bury barns Hnnt l\frs. High ~"·treet Ilak"r Mrs. Sydney lodge HnHt Frederick J. High street Brown Thomas, Sheep street Hurt:ton Rev. ~Vi1'.ciam RoMem 13.D. Pig!5'ott Hy. F., M.A. (head master), Bryan "\Villiam (lls•sistant mast.er), The· Great House, 'Vitney street Grammar school Grammar schocl Jacobs John, Mill hous.E, Potter Jabez W.ebb, High &tl eet Reycr:wlds ThomasJ Henry, High view Rose George, Ti••erton villa Simpso:n Mrs. Witney street Thicki:1 s John, Springfield house Wood Henry, Oldi R·ectory house Cas.s R!'v. Wm. Anthony, Vicara2:e Jessop Gilbert J. (assistant mas-ter), Cheatle Thomas' Henry J.P. High st G,·ammar schMl Dunsford• Sydney, Sheep str>eet Lane Frederick Rerbert, High s1treet Garne Arthur, Hig-n straet Lawrence Rev.Mattbew Scott (curate), Garne George, Sheep street Sheep ·str.f'et COMMERCIAL. ..A.ldridge Charles John, hair dresser & china ri-veter, High street A.rthurs Frank, :Bear P.H. & hurdle maker, Priory st Avery Jonah, printer, High street J3anbury Jonathan, assessor & collector of taxes & road surveyor for Bampton West highway district, High st ":Bayliss George .Augustus, basket maker, Sheep street Beckley Richarc;I, sawyer, High street. J3ennett Charles William, Bull hotel, good accommodation for families, commercial gentlemen & cyclists; lol}se boxes, High street Ilird Charles Edward, farmer, Signet :Bond Henry & Son, church bell founders, millwrights & engineers, Sheep street . :Bowerman Percy, linen draper, High street Bowl Thomas, grocer &c. High street Bowles Thomas, Cotswold Arms P.H. High street Brown Thomas, solicitor, commissioner for oaths, clerk to magistrates for the Bampton West division, to Bampton West highway board & to schl. board, Sheep st Brunsdon George, plasterer, Witney street Buckingham .Arthur, dairyman, Upton quarries :Burden James, shopkeeper, "\'Vitney street Burford Cottage Hospital (Thos. Henry Cheatle, medi~ cal officer & sec. ; Mrs. Tombs, matron), Church st Burford Cricket Club (Henry F. Piggott, captain) Burford Gas-Light Coal & Coke Co. Limited (Thomas H. Reyno1ds, sec.), High street Burford Grammar· School (Henry Piggott M . .A. head master; Frederick W. Lea B.Sc. William Bryan & Gilbert J. Jessop, assistant masters) Burford Reading Room (Thomas Edwin Glanville, seci

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CADMORE END. 59 :Burford Tennis Club (Thomas E. Glanville, sec), The Priory grounds 13urford Water Works Co. Limited (Thomas H. Reynolds, sec.), High street "Burton \-Valter George, insurance agent, Witney street -Butler Albert John, butcher & beer retailer, High street -Butler John, Mason's Arms P.H. Witney street Chandler Thomas George, ·draper, High street Cheatle Thomas Henry, surgeon, & medical officer & registrar of births & deaths, Burford district, Witney union & surgeon to Cottage hospital, High street Clarke William Charles, shopkeeper, & postman,High st Cooke Job, inspector of police, Police station, High st Coombes Henry, butcher & shopkeeper, High street Cooper William, Rose & Crown P.H. High street <Jounty of Gloucester Bank Limited (branch of) (Sydney Dunsford, manager), Sheep street; draw on London & Westminster Bank Lim. Lothbury, London E C <Jowley J ane (Mrs.), shopkeeper & baker, High street Tieene Edward, tailor, High street Tirinkwater Frederick, butcher & farmer, High street :East Charles, ironmonger, High street Farmer Thomas, deputy J'egistrar of births & deaths, Burford sub-district, & relieving & vaccination officer for Burford district, Witney union, Church green Fisher Bartholomew Collingwood, furn. dlr. &c. High st Foreshew John, farmer, Bury Barns farm Forest Henry, baker, High street Forest Luke, hawker, Priory street Forest Richard, china dealer, High street Foster Kate Grace (Mrs.), music teacher, High street Foster Robert Dannatt, chemist & postmaster, High st Francis David, town crier, High street Francis Fred, bill poster, IIigh street Garne George & Sons, brewers & maltsters, Sheep st Gerring- Charles, chemist (J. Tucker, manager), High st Glanville Thomas Edwin, drawing master, Grammar school, High street Godfrey John, wardrobe dealer, High street. Gorton Robert, grocer & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine & spirit merchants, High street Griffin Richard, watch maker, High street Hall George Frederick, blacksmith, High street Hambidge George Pratt, bookseller & stationer, Market place & grocer, High street Hanis Eliza, Emma & Elizabeth (Misses), ladies' seminary, Hill house Holland Thomas, ironmonger, High street Hopkins Emanuel, cider merchant, Sheep street Ho1rse Alexander, blacksmith, High street Hunt Ann (Mrs.), who. & ret. wine & spirit mer.High st Ilott Thomas, wheelwright & carpenter, High street Impey Susanna (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Witney street Jacobs & Son, millers, corn & coal merchants, Witney st Jacobs John, farmer & landowner, White Hill farm Jacobs Robert, farmer, Signet hill Jacques Thomas, Royal Oak P.F.. Witney street CADMORE END, with LEWXNOR- UP- ,RILL, is an ecclesiastical parish formed April 2nd, 1852, out of portions of the parishes of Fingest, in the county of Euckingham, and the civil parishes of Lewknor and Stokenchurch, in the county of Oxford, 5 miles south-west fr()m West "\Vycombe station, on the Princes Risborough and Maidenhead section of the Great Western railway, 8~ north-east from Watlington terminal station on a branch of the same line from Princes Risborough, and 6~ north-west" from Great Marlow, in the Southern division of the county, chiefly in the hundred of Lewknor, petty sessional division of Watlington, union and county court district. of Wycombe, rural deanery of Wycombe and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Lewknor-up-Hill is a hamlet of Lewknor parish, partly in Oxon and partly in Bucks; the portion in Oxfordshire forms part of the ·ecclesiastical parish of Cadmore End; the part in Buckinghamshire is called "Ackhampstead," and is given in the "Buckinghamshire Directory" under that head. For pool" law purposes the Oxfordshire portion of Lewknor-up-Hill forms part of Stokenchurch parish. The church of St. Mary-le-Moor, erected in I85I, in place of the little church at Ackhampstead, commonly called " The Moor chapel," then taken down, is a. small building of flint with Bath stone quoins and dressings, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, vestry and a small western turret containing one bell : all the windows are stained, the east wi-ndow being a memorial to Mrs. Elizabeth F. Perry, and the west window to Mrs. Mary Perry ; four on the south sride were erected to the Rev. Frederick Robert Perry M.A. vicar here d. 1 Dec. 1863; Mrs. ~- A. Rosanna Pa.terson, Mr. and Jones James, boot & shoe maker, High street Kibble William, New Inn, High street Lane Frederick Herbert, surgeon, High street Lomas Leonard, butcher, High ,street Lomas Richard, The Swan P .H. High street . . - Marriott George, tailor, High street Matthews George Waiter, assistant overseer, collector of gas & water rates & clerk to the gramma:f school & charity trustees, High street .Matthews 1Villiam Frederick, furniture remover, carrier, 'bus proprietor, & agent for the Great Western Railway Oo. Priory street. See advertisement Moore John Gardner, shopkeeper & tailor, High street K ewman & Son, linen drapers, High street Nunney Angelia (Miss), dress maker, High street Nunney Geol"ge, painter & plumber, High street Packer Geo. printer, stationer & bookseller, High street Packer Hannah (Mrs.), boot & shoe dealer, Witney st Paintin Thos. & Son, grocers & 'bus proprs. Sheep st Pain tin William, baker & grocer, High street Pether Charles, builder, High street Potter James C. corn merchant, High street Powell Walter, farmer, Upton Downs farm Pratley George (Mrs.), baker & shopkeeper, High street Preston Charles E. tailor, High street Robinson Peter, drill sergeant, Grammar school Rose Thomas, millwright, Sheep street Rowels James, chimney sweeper, Priory street Ruck Walter H. baker & confectioner, High street Ruddle Thomas, hair dresser, High street Scarsebrook William, shoe maker, High street Sharp Jn. & Son, furn. & china dlrs. & boot mas, High st Sharpe Leonard, tailor, Potters yard, High street Small Samuel Smith, grocer, provision dealer & wine merchant & beer retailer, High street Smith Arthur Alfred, insurance agent, High street Smith Harry, painter, High street Smith John, chimney sweeper, High street Smith Wm. cabinet ma. toy dlr. & tobacconist, High st Spurrett Robert, p:umber & painter, High street S tayte John, furniture dealer, Witney street Stephens Edward, farmer, Upton Thomas Alfred Harry, draper &c. High street Timms Albert, beer retailer, High street TimJ?l-s Ann Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper, High street Titcomb George-, baker, Sheep street Wall Jabez & Son, rope, twine & tarpaulin manufacturers, brush, sponge & general factrs. High st Waiter Jn. B. watch ma. & school attend. officer, High st Wells John, plumber & glazier, The Hill Wiggins & Co. fellmongers, tanners, glove & !egging manufacturers, Witnev street - Wiggins Samuel, tailor, High street Wirdnam Richard, saddler & shopkeeper, High street Wyatt Charles, farmer, Upton Wyatt Henry, saddler, High street Wyatt John, Lamb P.H. & brewer, Sheep street ' Mrs. Green and' R. Bruce Dickson respectively, and three on the north side to Mrs. Curtis, Mr. Benjamin Gale and Miss Elizabeth A. Perry: the organ was presented by Capt. G. A. Young, at the opening of the church: there are zoo sittings. The churchyard was enlarged on the south side in 1887; the ruins and site of the old church are carefully preserved. The register of baptisms, formerly belonging to Ackhampstead chapel, dates from 1786, the other registers date from the year 1852. The living is a vicarage, average yearly value of tithe rent-charge £117, with 6 acres of glebe, net income £175, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1890 by the Rev. Sidney Charles Saunders M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The manorial rights are held by Mrs. Jodrell. Th~ principal landowners are Charles Alfred Cripps esq. Q.C. of Parm<>Or House, Hambleden, Bucks, and Majo~ John Aug-ustus Fane, of Wormsley, Tetsworth. The soil is flinty and friable sand with chalk ; subwil, gravel, chalk and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The population in 1891 was 246. Parish Clerk, Alfred Ayres, "\Vall Letter Box, cleared at 4.30 p.m. week days only. Letters through High Wycombe arrive at 9 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Lane End, Bucks, I~ miles Kational School (mixed), built in 1854 for a district including Lewknor-up-Hill, Stutridge & Wellground, & enlarged 188g, for 100 childr~m; average attendance, 70; Miss Sarah A. Kimber, mistress

60 CADMORE END. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's Cj.D~IORE EXD. Apes Wm. chair turner & shopkeeper Piercey "\Yilliam, beer retailer Benn.ell Henry, farmr. Gibbon's farm Luke :Z..Iiss, "\Vood~ide CarpentPcr Cha'l. f31Tmr. Richeley frm Saunders Rev. Sidney Charles. M.A. Field John, farmer, Chequers farm Vicarag6 Fortnum Thomas, chair turner Ayres Rchd. Ship P.H. & chair turner Hill Gilb-ert, farmer, Hill farm Ayre's Thomas, chair turoor Hillsden John, blacksmith 4 LEWKNOR-UP-HILL. Lacey Ge0. farmer, ·watercraft farm Peedle David, farmer, Pound farm Plumbridge William, farmer, Dea's· frm West Wm. farmer Ktynshams farm CASSINGTON is a parish and village, bounded on II. ), 1314; in the churchyard is the base of a. Perpenthe south by the Isis, on the weJSt by the Evenlode, dicular cross: the church plate includes an ancient and which here flows into the Isis, 2 miles east-north-east curious paten with embossed figures of .Adam and Eve from Eynsham station on the Oxford, Witney and Fair- within a walled garden, and a scroll bearing a partlyford branch of the Great Western railway, 4~ south rubbed-out legend: the church was restored in r876. from Woodstock and 6 north-west from Oxford, in the at a cost of £1,250, and affords 220 sittings. The Mid division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty register dates from the year r653. The living is a sessional division of Wootton South, union and county vicarage, with 130 acres of glebe, gross yearly valua court district of Woodstock, rural deanery of Woodstock £150, net £70, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and archd.eaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of and held since 1875 by the Rev. Robert Godfrey-Faussett St. Peter is a building of stone in mixed styles, prin- M.A. senior student and treasurer of Christ Church. cipally Norman, consisting of chancel, nave, north and The vicarage house was built in r8go. The charities .south porches and a central tower with spire containing for distribution, partly in fuel now (1894) amount to 6 bells; the chancel has Norman walls and stone quoin-ed about [70, and Allnutt's and Johnson's charities, in vaulting; the east window of two lights is Decorated; the hands of the Goring Heath trustees, produce [30 in the east wall is a double piscina, of the same dat-e, a year for educational purposes. The Duke of J\Iarlwith shelf; the lower part of the tower is Norman, borough, who i.;; lord of the manor, Christ Church. with a door on the north side, and the eastern and Oxford, and Sir G. J. E. Dashwood bart. of Kirtlington western arches are good examples of that style; the Park are the principal landowners. The soil is gravel tower has been raised one stage and has a panelled and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are the usual quatrefoiled parapet from within which rises. an octa- cerea:s. The area is 2,152 acres; rateable value, [3,321; gonal ribbed spire: previous to 1842 the interior walls the population in 1891 was 356. had several curious paintings of the I5th century, "\YORTON is a small hamlet about half a mile northchiefly consisting of emblems of saints, with monograms, but exposure to the air rapidly destroyed them: the east, consisting of a few scattered houses. walls of the nave and three of the original windows Sexton, Alfred Walker. are Norman, the rest being Decorated: the font, also Letters through Oxford, via Eynsham, arrive at 8 a.m. Norman, is cylindrical and plain: there is a mural brass & 5.30 p.m. Pillar Box cleared at 9.15 a.m. & 6.30 with shrouded effigy and eight verses to Thomas Nele p.m. ; sundays 12.45 p.m. The nearest money order B.D. fellow of New College, Regius professor of Hebrew & telegraph o:ffij::e is at Eynsham at Oxford and chaplain to Banner, bishop of London, an able theologian and linguist, ob. 1590, and on the National School (mixed), erected in r852, for Bo chiifloor of the nave a good brass of a cross fieury with dr.en; average attendance, 56; Alfd. Lovegrove, mast inscription to Roger Cheyne, esquire to the king (Edw. Carrier to Oxford.-Mrs. Sarah Ann Putt. wed. & sat Gouhey-Faus·sett R·ev. ltobl•rt M.A. Green John, builder L<•U<'h Thomas, farmer, 'VortDn Yicarage Hale Thomas, Bell P.H P~CITin James, farmer COM"!.iERCIAr,. Hales ,Jam e:-, farmer l'utt J P.mes, blacksmith Be1grove William, carpenter Hedges Andl'EJW (exor~. of), Niller Putt Sarah ~<\nn (.Mrs-.), Red Lion ?.H. Churchill William, farmer (water) & carrie.r Day Mrs'. Diana, farmer Holiday Robert Joseph, whol~sa.:e con- Slatter Stephen, farmer, Jeriehv frm Dnnsby John, thoe malrer fec1ioner, \Vorton Taylor Hicllard. confectioner Gieen Jane pirs.), shopk0eper Lis,t. Charles, farmer, Pnrwell farm \Terey George, ClteqnL'rs· in~1 CA VERSFIELD is a parish adjoining the parish of cealed by a pew; there is also an inscribed slab to MaxiBicester on .the north, ~~ miles from Bicester station on mian Bard esq. 1640: and some memorials to the lHoyle t.he Kletchley and Oxford branch of the London and family: tl1e church affords 150 sittings. The register North Western railway, and 10 miles south-west fnm dates from the year r64o. The living is a vicarage. Buckingham, in the 'Mid division of the county, hundred with that of Stoke Lyne annexed, average tithe rentand petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and charge £77, joint net yearly value £170, including the county court district of Bicester, rural deanery of Bices- Fewcott endowment and 272 acres of glebe, with resiter '<!nd archdeacomy and diocese of Oxford. This parish dence, in the gift of C. J. Bullock l\Iarsham esq. and was forffilerly in Buckinghamshire, but by the Acts z & held since 1892 by the Rev. William Bryant B.A., B.Sc. 3 Wiriam IV. cap. 64 & 7 & 8 Vict. cap. 61 it was an- of the University of London, who resides at the vicarnexed to O:dordshire. The church of St. Lawrence is a age, Stoke Lyne. 'Dhomas Mansfield, of Hethe, in Jan. smalil and ancien,t ed,ifice of stone in mixed r,tyles and 1874, paid to the official trustees of charitable funds the was thoroughly restored in r874, at a cost of [2,2oo, sum of £rso, to be invested in the £3 per Cent. defrayed by thle late R. Bullock-~Iarsham esq. D.C.L. Consols, iu trust to pay the annual dividend to the (d. I 88o ), when north and south aisles were added to the vicar of Caversfield, to be by him equally divided on simpl~ oh~•ong building of which the church previously the first day of February in every year among eight of consisted, an organ cihamber and vestry built and the the oldest and most deserving of the resident poor in whole ibuilding mw roofed: the new south aisle may be the parish of Caversfield. Caversfield House, a. modern regarded as a restoration, the two Early English arches mansion, is the seat of Charles Jacob Bullock Marsham of the 'ancie'nt aisle having been wa~led up in the existing esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor. The principal landnave: the tower, placed at the west end, is plain and owners are the lord of the manor, Mr. Thomas Mansmassive with .a gable roof of supposed Saxon character field and the trustees of the late Jonas Paxton. Theand contains 3 bells, one of which is said to dat~ from soil is stone brash; subsoil, stone. The kmd is partlyA. D. 12oo: the doorway and porch, placed at the north- pasture and partly arable. The area is 1,5oo acres;. west are Late Norman, c. n8o: there is also ? piscina rateable value, £r,8z5 ; the population in r8gr was 6g. of this date, and a Norman font ornamented with Parish Clerk, James' Parker. 1ncaded work of rude character: in the chancel is a high tomb, with richly panelled sides, to John Langston Letters through Bicester, the nearest post, money order esq. 1487, and a brass, consisting of three ~crolls with & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m. texts, proceeding from a heart ·held in a hand, with a The children of this parish attend the schools at Stoke. shield of aTms under it: a second brass has l: t•(•n con- Lyne & Bucknell Burchardt Mr~. Brashfi<lld Louse 1\'atts Robert, The Vicarage house C;::ve Joseph, farmer Mnshum Charles Jacob Rullack J.P. Butler Je,.se, farm bailiH to C. ,T. Coles Thomas, farmer C'aversfield house J3nllcck J\Iarsham esq M:msfield Thomas, farmer, Baintmr CAVERSHAM is a parish and large village, situated amidst picturesque scenery, on the north bank of the Thames, opposite Reading, with which it is connected by an iron bridge, in the Southern division of the county. in Binfield hundred, petty sessional division and union of Henley, Reading county court district, rural deanery of Henley and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. A Local Boa-rd was formed in January. 1891~ but under the pro-visions of the " Local Government Act, 1894," the parish is now governed by an Urban District Council: the district comprises the ecclesiastical portion of the parish of St. Peter's, Caversham~

DIRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. CAVERSHAM. 61 'The parish church of St. Peter, origin.ally Norman, is is 4,772 acres; rateable value, £20,033 IJS. IId.; the an edifice of flint, with stone dressings, consisting of population in 1871 was 2,406; in 1881, 3,583; in 18gr, -chancel with aisle, nave, aisle.s and a western tower the: population of St. Peter's' ecclesia.stical parish was with plain pa["apet, containing 6 bells: it was partially 4,g66 and of the entire parish, 5•441. restored and reseated with open benches in 1857, when Lower Oaversham, ! mile east, Emmer Green, r! a vestry was built, and was further restored in 1879 miles north, and Cane End (in the ecclesiastical parish and the tower rebuilt at a cost of £3,570: the nave ar- of Kidmore End), 4 miles north-west, and are in the .cade, a portion of the original Norman church, con- civil parish of Caversham. The church of St. John the sisting of circular arches, on plain round pillars, has Baptist, Lower Caversham, built in 1888, at a cost of been removed, but there is a Nor?lan south. doorway: £s,ra7, is an edifice o'f flint with stone dressings, in the. chancel arc~de, of .two arches, .Is Perpendicular: the the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, stamed east wmdow _IS a memorml to John Stephens south ais,le and a western turret containing one bell : esq. of Caversham R1se, .a~d there ar~ several others: there are 350 sittings. The public hall at Emmer the church affords 6oo sittmgs, .of which 220 are fr~. I Green, belonging to Martin John Sutton esq. of KidThe. churchyard was closed to mt~rments and a new J more grange, 1s used for concerts, lectures and religious bur.Ial ground at Hemdean opened m Ju~e •. 18~5· T?e services. At Emmer Green is a school chapel, a mile register ~ates from the year 1597. The livmg 1s a VIC- and a half from tfie parish church, enlarged in 1886 ~rage, tithe rent-charge £301.' aver.age £~23, gro.ss and will now hold 114 children (mixed); average atyearly value £346, net £2oo, With residence., m the gift tendance, 102; mistress, Miss .Mary Hall. <lf Christ Churc~ •. Oxford, and held. since r8g4 by the Parish Clerk James Jannawa . Bev. Charles William Herbert Kennck M.A. of Brase- ' Y nose College, Oxford. There is a Free Nonconformist Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity church in the village, built in r872, a Congregational & Insurance O~ce.-Edward G:ale, sub-postmaster. ehapel, built in 1855, a temporary Wesleyan chapel, Letters are received from Readmg at 6.30. & 11.40 €rected in I88I and a Primitive Methodi&t chapel at a.m. s.20 p.m. (on sundays at 6.30 a.m.); dispatched Emmer Green, built in 1883. A Cemetery of 4 acres at g.o a.m. 2.15, 6, 7.30 & 8.30 p.m. Sundays arwas formed in May, 1885, and is under the control of rive 6.30 a.m.; dispatched r.zo p.m the district council. The County Police Station here U b D" t · t Co il wa.s erected in r884, and petty sessions for the Henley r an Is ne unc · division are held fortnightly. For list of Magistrates Meets at the County Police Station, on the znd tuesday tiDd places in the division, see Henley-on-Thames. John of each month at 6.30 p.m. (FitzGerald), 18th Earl of Kildare, who died 9 Nov. Clerk, Robert Simmons, Bridge street 1707, left by his will, dated 19 l\Iarch, 1704-5 to 5 Treasurer, John Simonds .April, 1707, r8 acres of land, the rents, now amounting Medical Officer of Health, Wm. Dyson Wood L.R.C.P. to £17, to be applied to the use of the poor: and his & S. Edin. so St. John street, Oxford widow, Eliza!beth, Countes·s of Kildare, by will, dated 3 Surveyor, William Wing, rr Bridge street Oct. 1748, gave £roo, laid out in the purchase of £ro5 Sanitary Inspector, David Darius Bullpit, I Chester st JS. 6d. Old South Sea Annuities, now represented by Uounty Police Station, Daniel Hope, inspector, & 3 £rr6 15s. zd. £2i per Cent Consols, the dividends of constables; petty sessions, fortnightly which are applied to the apprenticing of poor children : Schools. Mr. J. Stephens left £soo in like Consols, the interest to be spent in providing clothing to be given to the poor in the month of January in each year: Mrs. Burchett's charity of £49 yearly is for the maintenance of .dissenting places of worship : Mrs. Clissold left £ roo, the interest of which is expended in bread, distributed to the poor on the anniversary of her death. Caveri!ham Park Mansion, now occupied by William Thompson Crawshay esq. is a large and handsome residence, .standing in a park of 300 acres. There are many other good houses in this neighbourhood. William Thompson Crawshay esq. and Keith Ronald MacKenzie esq. of Gillotts, Rotherfield Peppard, are the principal land- .owners. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalky. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area The Technical Instruction Committee of the Oxfordshire County Council meet at Caversham once every three months; Robert Simmons, clerk to the committee National (boys, girls & infants), enlarged 1885, for 475 children; average attendance, 470; Samuel Charles Oooke, master; Miss Fanny Poynting, mistress; Miss Mabel Franklin, infants' mistress British School (mixed & infants), for 230 children; average attendance, 170 ; Miss Alice Mould, mistress National (infants), Lower Caversham, built in r8g3, for rso children; average attendance, 100; Miss Ida Bawden, mistress Omnibus to Reading every half hour PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Crowther Mrs. Emmer green Jenkins Mrs. 20 Bridge street .Alder Frt!derick Ernest, Lyndhurst Day William Rawson, Cuthbert house, Johnson :Mrs. 15 Priest hill Armiste:1d Henry, Ashville villa, Caversham Park place Jones Harry, South View avenue CaveDsham Park place Deacon Hichard, Birch vil. Henley Id Kenrick Rev. Charles William Herbert Baker Mrs. Heathcote, Caversham Deane Edwd. jun. :::r Church street M.A. Vicarage, Church road Park place Deane Edward, sen. Brooklyn Kilby Edward F. Fairview vil. CaverBaker Mrs. Grove, cott. Emmer green DPrmuid Feruinand, Fontainebleau sham Park place Barefoot Richard Aaron, r Wyfold viis >illa, Priest hill Kirby Rev. Jas. Barber M. A. (curate), Barrett Harold S. Ilchester villa, Dillon Lieut.-Col. Richard! Henry, Emmer green Priest hill Emmer green Knighton Miss, Hemdean house 13eaumont Mrs. vVychcotes Dormer Frederick W. Priest hill Knox Brownlow D. Ardmillan Bennett :Benjamin W. Highcliffe villa, Egginton Miss, Knockeevan villa, Lane Saml. Robbins, Bridge street Priest hill Prie"t hill Lawes Frederick, Laurel lawn, Lower :Bradshaw Lieut.-Col. John Charles, Gallaway PerC'y F. ~f. Fairleigh villa, Caversham Caversham rise, Emmer green Prie.;;t. bill Lawes Joseph, Hillside house :Brigham George Loftns, Elmcroft vil. Goodenough Frederic, Stratbmore, Lovegrove Miss, The Elms Caversham Park place Caversha:m Park place Luke Alexander, Elmwood villa Ilroad>Yay .Alfred, 13 Priest hill Griffith Samuel, Lansdowne vil.Caver- Maclaren J. Wallace H. Springfield ho Brooking Capt. Arthur, West dene sham Park place Manning Grorge Edward, Florida vil. Broughall Mrs. Burford house, Caver- Gulliver Chas. Arthur, Priest hill Lower Caversham sh:.-.m Park plao3 Gurney Sidney, Thames villa, Lower May George M.B., F.R.C.S., B.A. The 'Carteighe Micha·el, 5 Church street Caversham Warren Case ~ev. Henry S. l\LA. Oxon. Harrison Thomas, The Firs Miller Wm. Galt, Caversham Park pl (Baptist), I Prospec~ sireet Has1am Dryland, vVarren house Moore Wm. 2 Wyfold vils. Prospect st Caye Robert, South VIew. ~ssard Col. Robt. Deey, Grove hill Moulden Charles, Ioo Hemdean road Clulde Percy, Roth~say VIlla, Caver- fffmman Waiter James J.P :Noble Richard Hatt, Caversham hill l'iham Pa:-k pla.<')e Hill Thomas E. The Knoll ~hillips Alfd. Chas.Banksfoot,Chrch.rd Chivers Thoma'l G. Ov3rdale villa, Hissey l\Irs. Warren towers Plunkett The Hon. l\Irs. .A.rthur, Caversham Park plaoe Holmes Miss, Queen Anne's school, Desertlyn Church MisiS, Richmond road Henley road Pountney Wm. Hy. 2 Hemdean road Cockran Christopher Hy. The ~riory Holt Miss, 19 Church street Radcliffe Lieut.-Gen. Robert Parker, Cooper Jamos H. Caversham hii: Hooper Mrs. 9 Priest hill R.A., J.P. Balmore Cuoper Mrs. Caversham hill Hunt Frederick, Parkhurst vil.Caver- Robbins Chas. Juxon, 19 Priest hill Coulton Thomas, 4 Hemdean road sham Park place • Roberts James, 17 Priest hill Crawshay William Thompson, Caver- James Miss, The Limes Russell Rev. Hy. (Cong.),Cavrshm. hi sham park Jardine John, 12 Chester street Ryan Mrs. Ontario road

62 CA VEllSHAM. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's Sillence Gilbert, Woodleigh villa Cockran Christ<>pher Henry L.R.C.P. Kirkpatrick Hosea, beer retailer. Gos~ Simmons Robert, Englethwaite, Caver- Edin. physician & surgeon (firm, brook street sham Park place Cockran & Deane), The Priory Kirkpatrick Jesse, butcher,Emmer grn Simonds Henry John M.A., J.P. The Ccggins Geo. S. baker, 20 Hemdean rd Knight Geo. basket ma. Gosbrook st Rectory Collins Archbld. J. insur. agt.Priest hi Knight Thos.H.carpntr.35 Prospect st Smith Geo. B. Hill view, Priest hill Cooke Samuel Charles, assist. over- Knighton & Dermont, ladies' boarding Standen Edward James C.B. Oakfield, seer & assessor & collector of queen's school, Hemdean house Caversham Park place taxes, Church street Knighton Fras.boardng.schl.Church st Stent Mrs. Piggott's road Cooper, Son & Simmons, solicitors, Lame Robert, farmer, Toot's farm Stransom Waiter, Surley row Bridge street; & at Henley Lane Saml. Robbins, surgn. Bridge st Sutton John, Kidm.ore grange- Cooper Hy. market gardener, Ashcroft Lawes Joseph, miller (water), CaverWalters Joseph, 3 1Yyfold villas Cox David, dairyman, 151 Gosbrk.rd sham mill Watson Charles, 7 Priest hill Crate Jn.millstne. drssr.Southvw.avn Lawrence Wm. carpntr. South street Watson Mrs. Summer lea Creed Rd. greengro. 15 Prospect st La~v Margaret (Miss), dress maker, 16 West Ebenezer, Henley road Day Chas.Wm.boot ma.52 Gosbrook rd Church street Williams 1Ym.Bulli-vant, St. Peter's bl Deacon William & Henry, firewood Leach Jn. Robt. dairyman, Mill laneWiltshire Charles, 4 Sunnyside, Hem- dealers, Ashcroft Lewis Bros.carpenters & wheelwrights~ dean road Dean Waiter, Red Cow P.H. Lower Church street Winder Wm. Pryor, Caversham range Caversham Lewis Thos. stationer, 22 Bridge st Woodley Albert D. Aschcroft road Deane Edward, jun. L.R.C.P. Edin. Lock Cornelius .J. plmbr. 2 Chester st physician & surgn. & medical officer Lock Wm. Edwd. plumber, Bridge st cmiMERCIAL. & public vaccinator, Caversham dist. Mansfield Edwin, painter,8g Queen's rd .Alien John, boot maker, I7 Prospect st Henley union, 21 Church street Mayo Wm. grocer, I King's road .Angell James, tailor, Church road Dix Thomas, grocer, 35 Prospect st Melsome Frdk. J.dairyman,Church st Angliss John :Morg&n, carpenter, 35 Dormer Hy. builder, Gosbrook street Minett Wm. Jas. frmr. Emmer green Henderson road Eynott Fredk. blacksmith, Church rd Moss William, boat builder & tobccnst. Barfield Jas.greengro.1o Hemdean rd Farmer George, Prince of Wales P.H Bridge street Barker Jn. S. draper, 29 Prospect st Fewster Harriett (Mrs.), laun- Mountain Jn. T. chemst.37 Prospect st Barnett Arthur G. corn & coal mer- dress, Emmer green Neate Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 122 chant, 21 Bridge street Fisher Wm. coal dlr. 123 Gosbrook rd Gosbrook road llaylis & Co. grocers & agents for W. Fisher William, timber dealer & wheel- ~orman Francis E. insurance• agent, & A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit mer- wright, Emmer green 27 Chester street chants, Church road Fountain Albert Edward, dairyman, Paxman Jason, farmer, Emmer green Belcher & Son, butchers & fishmongers, Gosbrook road Peppet Thos. chair ma.37 Gosbrook st Church road Francis George, carpenter & wheel- Potter Wallace, hair dresser, 14 Hem- :Bell Richard, apartments, Bridge st wright, Gosbrook st. & Prospect st dean road Bennett Hy. tobccnst. so Prospect st Fraser George, apartments, Priest hl Povey Geo. grocer, Church street Bennett Joseph, grocr. 139 Gosbrook rd Free body & Son, boat builders Queen Anne's School (Miss A. Holmes, Bennett Waiter C. boot maker, ros Fullbrook Gco. dairyman,48 Prspct.st head mistress), Henley road Gosbrook road Fuller Jas. beer ret. Lower Cavershm Rampton Emily (Mrs.), midwife, 1 OxBerry Clara (Mrs.), harness maker, Gale Edward, tailor, & post office ford street 19 Bridge street Gern Alex. butcher, 3 Prospect street Ray Wm. beer retlr. Low. Caversham Best Chas. Griffin P.H. Church road Giles Geo. H. shopkeeper, North st Reading Industrial Co-operative So- :Billimore Arthur, florist,Church street Godwin Edmd. sail ma. I4 Prospect st ciety Lim. 5 Prospect street Bobin Charles, registrar of births & Goode Charles William, photographer, Reading & Cavrshm. Laundry Co.Lim deaths, relieving officer, collector to I9 Gosbrook road Reeves Alfd.greengro.36 Gosbrook rd" the guardians & school attendance Green Jsph. photogrphr. Church road Rigg & Fixter, florists, Southview aven officer for Caversham sub-district, Gutridge, Annie (Miss), dress maker, Rc.gers Frederick J. commercial tra70 Prospect street 64 Prospect street veller, Ontario road Brakspear & Sons, beer stores, 38 Hall Wm. butcher, 19 Prospect street Scriviner Philip, watch maker, 54 Prospect street Hamshar Edwd. grcr.125 Gosbrook rd Prospect street Brewerton & Co. brick, tile & drain Hansom Amelia (Mrs.), dress maker, Simmons Robert (firm, Cooper, Son & pipe manufrs. pottery works & lime 9 Bridge street Simmons), solicitor&clerk to Caver· burners, Emmer green Harrison Jas. beer retlr. Grove hill sham urban district council & to the Britland Marian (Mrs.), dress maker, Heather John Charles, commercial technical instruction committee, Ox143' Queen's road traveller, Hemdean road fordshire County Council,Bridge st Bridgman Alfd. bldr. 24 Prospect st Heather William, Black Horse P.H. Smith & Waiters (Misses), grocers, 37 Broadway Alfd.jobmaster,Gosbrook st Emmer green Hemdean road Brondson Waiter, shoeing smith Henman Waiter James J.P. farmer, Snell Edgar Wm.beer ret.36 King's rd Brown Arth. Thos, baker,15 Bridge st Deane's farm Scuth Oxon Conservative Registration Brown Geo. Rbt. bldr. Hemdean rd Herbert Charles, earthenware dealer, .Association (Jesse Hawkins, agent Brunsdon Chas.plumber, 42 Prospct.st 28 King's road Caversham dist.), 56 Hemdean road Bullpit David D. builder, & sanitary Hill Saml. T. Crown P.H. Bridge st Sparkes Elizabeth A. (Mrs.), grocer, inspector to Ca.versham urban dist. Hobbs Edward Boyer, stationer, 31 I Gosbrook road council, I Chester street Prospect street Stacey Geo. bricklyr. 28 Gosbrook st Bundock Alfd. oilman, 21 Prospect st Hollaway Wm. boot ma. 58 Prospect st Stacey Thos. Jsph.fiorist,Briant's rd Butler Albert, grocer, Piggott's road Holloway Albt. coffee tav. 12 Bridge st Stockwell Geo. bldr. 162 Gosbrook rd Callcott Jsph, boot ma. 83 Gosbrook rd Holmes Marion (Miss), girls' day & Sutton Chas. hair drssr.22 Gosbrook st Cawston Edward, boat proprietor boarding school, 22 Prospect street Taylor Adam,baker&grocr.Emmer grn Caversham Cem~tery (Robert Sim- Holt & Co.draprs.& clothrs. Church st Tegg Hy. chimny. swpr. North street mons, clerk to the burial board) Hope Daniel, police insp. Police statn Terry Frdk. boot ma. 17 Bridge str Caversham Reading Room (Samuel Hunt John, confectnr. 8 Prospect st Turner Chas. baker,28 Prospect street C. Cooke, soc) IIQott Charl,e.s, head gardener to W. T. Turner David, blcksmth.Emmer grn Chapman Hy. beer retlr. Emmet grn Crawsha.y esq. Caversham park Walker Hy. Jn. painter, South street· Choules Sarah (1\frs.), shopkeeper,134 Jennings Walt. grocer, 92 King's road Ward Hy. artist, Richmond road Gosbrook road Johnson Arthur, Clifton Arms P.H. )Varren Geo. shopkpr. 34 Gosbrook stClarke Alfred, oilman & hardware dlr. Gosbrook street vYing William, architect & surveyor t() Church road Keeping William C. horse dlr. Lower Caversham urban district council~ Cockran & Deane, physicians & surgns Caversham II Bridge street CHADLINGTON is a township and village in the corated periods• consisting of chancel, with vestry and parish of Charlbury, bounded on the south by the river organ cba.m ber, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch Evenlode, over which is 31 bridge of 3 arches to Short- and a tall and narrow western tower containing a clock hampton, and is 3 miles north-west from Charlbury and 6 bells dating from 1714 to r84r, and rehung rBBz: station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the the nave is separated from the aisles by arcades of Great Western railway, 4 south from Chipping Norton, four Early English arches on each side, springing from in the Northern division of the county, hundred and circular piers: the stained east window is a memorial petty sessional division of Ohadlington, union and to .A.bram Tyzack Rawlinson, who died in I845, and county court district of Chipping Norton, Chipping Nor- Eliza Eudocia. Albinia, his widow, d. 1863! and there ton rural deanery, and archdeaconry and diocese of are two otherS\ on the north side: the chancel was reOxford. The ancient church of St. Nicholas is an edi- built in the Decorated style about 1850: the cornnee of stone, principally of the Early English and De- munion ta'ble, choir stalls, pulpit and lectern a.re of

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CHALGROVE. 63 carved oak: on the south side of the chancel are a l owners ar.l the Earl of Ducie, who is lord of the manor~ piscina and sedilia: and there is a mural tablet to and St. John's College, Oxford. The soil is stone brash; Joseph Rollinson, with Latin inscription, dated 1699: subsoil, brash rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley the east end of ooch aisle formed a chapel: the piscinre and roots. The area is 3,332 acres; rateable value, remain and at the east end of the north aisle are £3,271; and the popula-tion in 1891 was 685. various ancient mural monuments to the Osbaldeston family: there are 300 sittings. In 1893 the Earl of Ducie gave a piece of ground to enlarge the churchyard. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1561; marriages and buri-als from 11 567. The living is a chapelry annexed to the vicarage of Charlbury, in the gift of St. John's College, Oxford, •and held since 1874 by the Rev. Charles Frederick Cumber West M.A. formerly fellow of -t:h!at oollege, who reside·s at Oharlbury; the Rev. George Fowke Maynard, of King's College, "Windsor, Nova Scotia, ihas been cul'ate-in-oharge since 1893. The Ca.tholic chapel here, built in 1881, is dedicated to St. Cecilia. There is a Baptist chapel, built in 1840, and a Wesleyan charpel, erected in 1887. 'I'he reading rooms for working 'Gpper Court I mile no:rlth-west mile west are i'n this township. Sexton, John Empson. and Lower Court I Post & :M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.- Ciharles Jackson, sub-posrtmaster. Let.ters through Charlbury S.O. -arrive at 8. I5 a. m. & 2.40 p.m.; dispatched at 6.40 p.m. summer; 5· ro p.m. winter; 2nd post through Charlbury, dispatched 11.35 a.m. & arrives 2.30 p.m. Chadbury is the nearest telegraph. office. Wall Letter Box (West End) cleared at mer; 5 p.m. winter (week d'ays only) 6.30 p.m. summen were built by the late James Haughton Langston Schools. esq, M.P., D.C.L. of Sarsden, who died I9 Oct. 1863. National (mixed), -erected in I865, for I4o children; averThe cthurclh estate of 32 acres and Omstable's close &c. age attendance, 78; James Roberts, master produce together about £39 yearly for repairs. Hem- Infant, erected in 1847, for 78 children; average attenming's charity consists of houses and 24 acres at Orsett, dance, s6; Miss Miriam Jackson, mistress Essex, the rent of which was left for that parish and Chadlington in equal parts: the portion assigned to this Carriers.-William Kitchen, t.o Chipping Norton, wed.; township, amounting to about £ 48 yearly, is for a lee- Oxford, sat. Stephen Souch, to Oharlbury, mon. wed. ture and distribution to the poor. Knowle Bury, a & fri.; Chipping Norton, sat mound in Chadlington Fields, is supposed to be the re- Ohadlington Highway Board. mains of an ancient Danish encamrpment. Langston House, built in 1863, by tihe late J. H. Langston esq. Clerk, A.bram Creswick Rawlinson, The Elm M.P. and now the property of the Ear1 of Ducie, and the Treasurer, Thomas Henry Burbidge, Market place residence of Edward Gander esq. is a handsome mansion, District Surveyor, Frederick Forres,ter, Over Norton standing at an elevation of nearly soo feet above sea The meetings are held in the Board room, at the Chiplevel and comma·nding extensive views over the Even- ping Norton Union ·workhouse, on wednesdays, about lode valley and Wychrwood Forest. The principal land- once a month, at 2 p.m :Bliss Edward, The Manor Collett Mark, jobbing carpenter Klitclhen Joshua, market gardener Gander Edward, Langston house Dodd Jesse, Yfalt Shovel P.H Kitchen William, carrier & higgler Maynard Rerv. George Fowke M . .A.. East John, farmer ~agled Frank, rat catcher (curate-in-charge) Edginton Hy.Bryan,farmer, Uppr.court Mayo Emma (Miss), dress maker Parkin Rev. Richard (Baptist) Fletcher Isaac, farmer Souch Steyhen, carrier Smith Paul Flet<Cher Wm. farmer, Rectory farm Southern Richard, wheelwright COM:liERCIAL. Greenshields J ames, relieving & vac- Townsend Alfred, boot maker Abrabam Geo. frmr. Lower Court frm cination & school attendance officer Webb Charles, baker :Senfield, Thomas, mason & r-egistrar of births & deaths, Wells Henry, butcher Betlteridge Ann1 (Mrs.), beer retailer Oharlbury district White Frederick, Sandy's Arms P.Hr :Sevis Ethel (:\Iiss), nurse Harvey Richd.grcr.&a.ssistant overseer wheelwr-ight & carpenter :Bliss Edward, farmer, The Manor Havell Thoma·s, police constable Wilks· Joseph, blacksmith :Burden Luckett Wm. farmeT & haulier Hobbs George, farmer Willis Thomas, saddler Claridge Henry, farmer · Huckin Ann (:Mrs.), beell' retailer Woolcocks John, farmer,Rectory farm Cluff John, black.smith Jackson Chas. boot maker, Post office Woolcocks Wm.farmer,:Blaythorne. frm Oollett Charles, farmer Jeffries. Job, farmer Working Men's Reading Room (James Collett James, builde-r & contractor Keen Lot, mason Roberts, hon. sec) CHALGROVE, anciently "Chalgrave," is a parish and villige, 6 miles south-west from Tetsworth, 5 miles north-west from vVatlington terminal station on the Princes Ris1borough and Watlington ibranch of the Great Western railway, and about 8 miles east from Culham stJa.tion on the Didoot and Oxford< section of the same >System, and Io south-west from Thame, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Ewelme, petty sessional division of Watlington, union and cou'nty court dis· trict of Thame, rura.I deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford·. A stream rurrs through the village and tlurns several mills. The church of St. Mary is a'n ancient edifice of .stone of mixed styles, but chiefly Decora-ted, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells : the clhancel retains three sedilia and a piscina, and on the north side is a very remarkable hagioscope: tihe nave is divided from the aisles by arcades of three Transition Norman .arches on each side : there are some remains of ancient waJ1-pai111ting, several good monuments, and brasses to Reginald Barantyne esq. I44I: Drugo Barantyne esq. ana his wives. Joan, 1437, and Beatrice, 1446: and Thomas, son of 'J:1homas Barantyne ( qth century) : the e>hul'ch was restored in I883, at a cost of £2,roo, under the direction of Messrs. Morris and Stallwood, architects, of Reading: during a violent tempest, 5 Jan. I727, the steeple of the cihuroh was blown down and the bells broken: there are 254 sittings. The register dates from th.e year I538 and includes those of the parish of ·warpsgrove. The living is a vicarage with the chapelry of Berrick Salome annexed, -average titihe rent-charge £268, joint gross yearly value £3oo, net inc-ome £230, with residence and 10! acres of glebe, in the gift of >the Dean and Ohapter of Christ Church, Oxford, a'nd held since r885 by the Rev. George Blamire Brown M.A. of Keble College, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in r86g. The charities for distribution in clotihing, bread and mooney amount; to about [23 a year: there are also yearly sums of about £8o for ohurch purposes and £8 for apprenticing. On Sunday, 18 June, r643, this place was the scene of a ba<ttle 1between the royal army of Charles I. and the Parliamentary forces, in the course of which the celebl'ated John Hampden, then in command ()[ a Buckinghamshire regiment, received his deathwound, as it is supposed, from the iburs,ting of one of his pistols: he was taken to Thame, where lhe died 24 June following, and was afterwards buried at Great Hampden, in Buckinghamshire : a monum~mt in commemoration of the event erected on the spot, chiefly through the instrumentality of Lord Nugent, WillS inaugurated- on the two 'hundredth anniversary of the battle, June r8th, 1843, and bears a medallion portrait of the patriQt, and an inscription. The principal manor belongs to Ma.gdalen College, Oxford, but there are two others which belong to Lincoln Oollege, Oxford, and to the Blount family respectively. The principal landowners are the President and Scholars of Magdalen College • Oxford, the Rector and Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford, J. K. Hedges esq. J.P. of Wallingford Castle, and Charles Hedges esq. of Wallingford, the Rev. C. R. Powys J'>I.A. of Rofford, Wallingford, and the Blount family. The soil is day, gravel and loam; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, b'arley, oats and roots, the land being farmed> on the four-course system. The area is 2,356a. 3r. I6p.; rateable value, £2,793; the population in 189I was 437· Rofford is a. liberty ~ mile south, with a population in 1891 of 20. Parish Clerk, Albert Phelps. Post Office. J oseph Saw, sub-postmaster. Letters received through 1Vallingford at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. sunday excepted. The nearest money Ol'deJ:" & <telegraph office is at Stadhampton. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

64 CHALGROVE. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's A School Board of 5 members wa.s formed 6 Feb. r877, Board Sohool (mixed), erected in r877, for 120 children; for this & the adjoining parishes of Warpsgrove, Eas- avevage attendance, 82; William Harvey, master ington & Rofford; chairman & clerk to the Sohool Carrier.-Thomas Harding, to Oxford, sat. ; to Thame, Board, Rev. C. R. P·owys M . .A. Rofford lmes.; to Wallingford, fri.; returning same days Brown Rev. George Blamire M . .A. Elbrow Thomas, beer retailer Nixey George, farmer (\'icar), Vicarage Franklin Wm. Walt.farmer,Manor frm Phelps .A.rbert, carpente·r Powys Rev. Charle5r Richard M . .A. Fra.nklin W. T. & T.frmrs.Roffordhall Saw Joseph Miller, carpenter&builder, (rector of Yelford, Be·rks), Rofford Gray William, Crown P.H Post office COMMERCIAL. Hall J esse, grocer & baker Smith Esther (Mrs.), grocer & baker Atkins• 'Dhomas, farmer HardJing Thomas, carrier Town William, beer retailer BroW1ll Moses, blacksmith Hatt John, farmer, Man.or farm Weedon John, blacksmith Bus tin Thomas, farmer Hatt John Daniel & .Alexander, frmrs. vVilrite J O·Seph, ib.arne·ss maker & fa.rmeT .Clark William, farm bailiff to the Rev. Home farm Witn.ey Ohar1es, beer retailer C. R. Powys, Rofford J.ohnson Fredtk. fa.rmer, Ohurch farm Woodward•s Thomas, farmer -Croxford ~Iarshall, grocer Marsball :Ed.ward, beer retailer Young William, farmer CHARLBURY is a parish and village on the river Evenlode, with a station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the Great Western railway, 7 miles west from Woodstock, 7 north from Witney, 7 south-east from Chipping Norton and 76 by rail and 69 by road from London, in the Northern division of the county, forming South Banbury hundred, which is attached to Chadlington hundred, petty sessional division of Chadlington, union and county court district of Chipping Norton, rural deanery of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The village is lighted with gas. The church of St. Mary, originally Norman, is an edifice of stone in mixed styles, and was enlarged in the 13th century, when the tower was built, the height being subsequently increased, and in the time of Henry VII. further additions were made to the church; it now consists of chancel with aisles, nave, north transept, aisles, south porch and a lofty embattled western tower of the Early English and Perpendicular periods containing a fine peal of 6 bells and a clock with chimes : the chancel has a Decorated east window of five lights and a good open timbered roof of the same date: the arcades of the chancel are Early English: the north transept has arches of the same date, a singular Decorated north window and a Perpendicular roof: the nave is separated from the north aisle by an arcade of three Norman arches and from the south aisle, which is very wide, by three of Early English character, and has a Perpendic.'ular roof: the church contains m-onuments of the Jenkinson family, ancestors of Charles (Jenkinson), ISt Earl of Liverpool, who possessed property in this parish and a memorial to Elizabeth (:Martin), ISt wife of Price (Devereux), rotl1 Viscount Hereford, ob. 1732; he himself died in 1748; in 1857 the interior of the church underwent complete repair, and in 1874 the chancel 11as rebuilt by John Winston, 7th Duke of Marlborough K.G. who died 5 .July, 1883: there are so6 sittings, 290 being free. The register dates from the year 1559 and records a visitation of the plague, which continued from roth June to November 25th, 1583. The living is a vicarage with the chapelries of Shorthampton and Chadlington annexed, -average tithe rent-charge £45 3, with 360 acres of gle bt>, joint net yearly value £soo with residence, in the gift of St. John's College, Oxford, and held since 1874 by the Rev. Ohar:es Frederick Cumber Wes1i B.D. formerly fellow of that college and surrogate. The W esleyan chapel was built in r823; Baptist in r866; and Primitive Methodist in r853; there is also a Meeting-house of the Society of Friends, built in 1774· A. cemetery Qf one acre and a quarter was formed in r887, and is under the control of a Burial Board of 9 members. There are charities of £4 yearly for apprenticing, other charities of about £r7 for public uses and John Penson's charity of £2 r4s. for bread. The market, granted by King Stephen and now held on Friday, was formerly of considerable importance. .A fair is held on the rst January, and a cattle fair on the first Monday in each month. Near Baywell gate is a portion of the ancient Grimsdyke, which constitutes part of the boundaries of Charlbury and Fawler. Lee Place is the residence of Capt. John Hampden Waller J.P. of H.M. hon. Corps of Gentlemenat-Arms. The manor of Charlbury was founded by the Mercian kings and was given by them to the Bishop of Lincoln, from whom it passed by exchange to the abbots and monks of Eynsham; it remained in possession of that monastery until the Dissolution, and was subsequently purchased by Sir Thomas White the founder of St. John's College, Oxford, to which society it con·· tinned to belong until by exchange it became the property of Lord Churchill. The principal landowners are the Duke of Marlb-orougb, Viscount Dillon, George Morris esq. Frank Bowly esq. with many small owners. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, limestone rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 2,478 acres; rateable value for Charlbury and Walcot is £6,156; the population of this parish (including the township of Walcot) in r891 was r,478. Parish Clerk, Charles Fowler. WA.LCOT is a hamlet in the parish of Charlbury, about half a mile west, and consisting of one farm. Lmd Chnrchill is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The area is 434 acres; the population in 1891 was 19. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Oxon added).-Joseph .Albany Bowl, postmaster. Letters arrive from Oxford at 5.30 & 8.40 a. m.; from Oxford & London at 12.40 p.m. ; dispatched at 12.50 p.m. to Oxford & London; to Oxford at 4.30 p.m. ; & to all parts at 8.10 p.m.; sundays arrive 6.30 a.m.; dispatched 6.45 p.m Wall Letter Box, Dyers Hill, cleared 12.10, 4.40 & 8 p.m. ; sundays, 6.40 p.m Public Officers. Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, No. 3 District, Chipping Norton Union, Frederick Thomas Maisey Sanitary Inspector to Chipping Norton Rural District Council, Richard Cooper Town Crier, Oliver Hobbs Schools. Free Grammar, founded & endowed by Miss .Ann Walker, in 1675, with £4o yearly, arising from rentcharge & this income is increased by a voluntary payment from Brasenose College, Oxford, of £10; the average attendance is 14; Ge-orge Morris, master .A School Board of 5 members was formed 13 Jan. r888; Thomas Mace, clerk, Chipping Norton; F . .A. Bunting, attendance officer Charlbury Board (mixed), erected in 1815, for 140 children; average attt>ndll.nce, 13S ; Henry Edmund Close, master; Mrs. Close, mistress Board (infants'), opened in January 1863, for roo children; average attendance, 75 ; Miss M. S. Fallows,mist Railway Station, Thomas Brookfield, station master Carriers. James Eeles, to Chipping Norton wed.; Witney, thurs.; Oxford, sat Henry Hall, to 'Fox,' Chipping Norton, wed. ; 'Cross Keys,' Witney thurs. ; 'Anchor,' Oxford, sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS . .A.lbrigh t J ohru Marshall, Hazel dean Albright Miss lngles Mis.ses COMMERCIAL. Baker Geo. Edrward, Wyc'hwood hous-e Baskett Miss Bowly Frank J.P Bunting 'Mrs Butler Robert Clary John Ford Percy Golden Misse.s Harris Miss Holloway Walter Henry Benjamin Hollyfi.eld Thomas, Gordon villa. Lay William Hemy .A.lsworth Albert Wm. bnker & grocer Maisey Fredoerick Thomas & agent for W. & .A. Gilbey Lim. Martin Frederick William wine & spirit merchants . :Morris1 GeQ. (master), Grammar scihl .Alien Hemy, tailor & d'l'aper Pulham ii\fiss Barrett! Ebenezer Edward, saddler Pumphrey Mrs Ba.skett H<'mry, plumber Sessions Edward Baughan William Henry, ironmonger, Sturdy ,J.ohn electric bell maker & coal merchant • Sturge John Marshall Bayliss George, farmer • Waller Oapt. Jn. HampdJen J.P. Lee pl Blunt William Cook, watoh maker West Rev. Chas. Fredk. Cumber B.D. Boots J"Oseph, boot maker (vica·r & surrogate), Vicarage Bowl J . .A. & .A. grocers &i mine-ral Wilcox Ernest M.D., O.M.The Poplars water manufacturers, Post office

DlRECTORY.] OX FORDRHIRE. CHARLTON-ON -OTMOOR. 65 Bowen Ernest William, butcher Green Goo.Fredk.beeT retlr.&carpentr ~Ietropolitan Bank(of England&vYales) Brookfield Thomas, station masteT Green Wm. Hy. John, poulterer Lim. (agency) (Thackwell Gillett Brooks Rowland, blacksmith Hadland Frank, baker Smith, agent); draw on head office, Broth~rid.ge George Henry, Rose & Hadland1 Florence (Mrs.), dTess maker 6o Grace-church stre€t, LondJon E C Crown commereial bf)te]. Hall Jl:lhn, baker Mo:xey Charle& L. tailor & draper Brydlen Fredk. agt. to Gt. Western Rly Hall Richard, haulier Pad·bury Thomas, farme·r Bunting Frank .A. china ·& glass• ware- Harris .Alfred, baker Page & Castell Misses, private school house & dTaper & -schl.attndnce ofiicr Harriso Edward, baker Painter .Arthur, corn chandler Burden William, mason & fa-rmer Harris· Ellen (Mis-s), furrier Pail'rott 1:\Jary Jane (MiS'S), shopkeeper Burton· FredeTick J. tailor Harris- Ge·orge, farmer ParrottJ RobeTt, boot ma-ker Charlbury Club & Institute (Frank Harris Goorge, fishmonger Pa.rrott Waiter Lawrence, boot maker Bowly J.P. sec) Harris John, Bull inn & carpenter Pearse M. & Co. draper& & clothiers Clifford Ed:ward, carpenter Ha·rris William Henry, dxaper Peters James, tailor Collett Lewis Edward, butcheT Harris.on Amelia (MisiS), sihopke£per Price Henry, shoe· maker Constable Thos. Bell inn & plumber Harwood: Oaleb, farmer Rawlins.on .Abraiham Creswick,solicitor Coombs Frederick, wheelwright Harwood Charles, farmer Richard! John Walter, farmer, Walcot Cooper Mis.seos, young ladies' school HarwoocL Francis, farmeT Shilson Samuel Gibson, woolstapler Cooper .Arabella (Mis-s), d:res·s maker Harwood Frederick, farmer Smith James, farmer Co-oper Richard, inspector of nuisoan.ces Harwood: John, fa,rmer Smith Thackwell Gillett, grocer, drugfor Chipping Norton Rural District Hobbs Oliver, town crieT gist & farmer Council Hollyfield Thos. landowner & farmer Smith Thomas Hemy, farmer Cowley Franci-s John, tobacconist Horniblow Fredk Thoma•s, seedisman South Wales & Cannock Chase Coal & Cowley Henry Morgan, Royal Oak tern- & stat.ione,r & coal merchant Coke Co.Lim. (Jsph.Pritdhard, agt.) perance hotel Howeg. Harry, beeT retaileT Starrderu William, sadd~er OroSI& Fredle.rick, corn chandleT Jackwn Eliza (Mrs.), cowkeeper Stone Joseph, timbeT merchant Dore Victor Henry, wheelwright Jones Geo. Joshua, baker & confectnr Stone Sarah Sophia (Mrs.), dress & Dyke, Boots & Farmer, glove manufrs Kea.rsey Elizabeth 0Mrs.),frmr.Dustfld mantle maker Eden Jame.s, fa-rmer Kench PeTcival, White Hart P.H Turner Rachel (::)olrs. ), shopkeeper Eeles Jas. sen. haulier & carrier Kerry Francis, boot'& shoe. make·r Volunteer Fire Brigade (Capt. John H. Eeles James William, beer retail€'!" Kibble John, monumental mawn Wailer J.P. captain) Farmer William, hair dre-sser Kilby & ~Iace, sQlicitors; & at Ban- Wells Wm. cattle dealer & farmer Fifield Mark, beer retailerr & baker bury & Ohipping Norton Widd()WS Waiter & Wm. blacksmiths FowneSJ Bros. glove manufacturers Lainchbury Thomas, grocer Widdows Edmund, mawn (.Adolphus E. .Allen, manager) Lowe J()hn, slat.e<r Wiggins Christopher HenTy, butcher Forest George, beer retailer & butcher Luker Benj. boot & shoe warehouse Wilco:x Ernes•t, surgeon M.D., C.:\i. F.ree Grammar School (Geo. Morris, :Maisey Frederick T'lwmas, surgeon, & The Popla.rs masteT) med. off. & public vaccinator, 3rd Young :Men'·s Christian Association (J. Gas Works (W. H. Baughan, le-ssee) district, Chipping Norton union .A. Bowl, sec) Gillett Ge(). John, plumber & painter :Mann vVilliam, fruiterer CHARLTON -ON-OTMOOR is a parish and village, church has been thoroughly repaired and reseated, and 2! miles north-east from the !slip station on the affords 200 sittings: in the churchyard stand the pediBletchley and Oxford branch of the London and North ment and lofty shaft of a plain Early English cross, raised Western railway, 9 north-east from Oxford, and 6 south on three steps :the curfew is still rung here. The register from Bicester, in the Mid division of the county, hun- dates from the year 1577. The living is a rectory, dred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union average tithe rent-charge [450 gross yearly value £421, and county court district of Bicester, rural deanery of including residence and 8o acres of glebe, in the gift of !slip and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. .A small Queen's College, Oxford, and held since 1884 by the Rev. sueam, called the Ray, runs through the parish and George Hayton M . .A. late fellow of that college. There joins the Cherwell at !slip. The church of St. Mary the if' a Baptist chapel at Charlton and a Primitive Methodist Virgin is a building of st{)lle of the 13th and qth chapel at Murcott. The township of Charlton has £3 centuries, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, yearly for the poor and Fencott and Murcott £2 12s. 6d. south porch and a lofty embattled western tower with John Rowland esq. who is lord of the manor of Charlton, crocketed pinnaclei! at the angles, and containing 5 bells and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, who ar~ and a sanctus bell: the chancel, of Late Decorated and lords of the manor of Fencott and Murcott, are the prinPerpendicular character, has sedilia and piscina, and cipal landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; a very little opposite to these, in the north wall, a plain sepulchral of it at Charlton, stone brash. The greater portion of recess near which is a stone slab, with an elegant cross the land is pasture, some arable. The area of the whole ffeurie of the 14th century, to John de Craneford~, rector parish is 1,864 acres; rateable value, [2,8oo; the in 1361 ; by far the most interesting object in the church population in 1891 was, for Charlton, 294 Fencott and is the very fine and perfect rood loft, which forms a Murcott, 183. narrow gallery about three feet wide, projected from a Parish Clerk, James Read. finely-worked screen and supported by intersecting ribs Fencott, i of a mile east-by-north, and Murcott ri elaborately traceried, the whole being finished by a east, are hamlets. cornice: in 1889 the screen was thoroughly restored by Miss Gough, daughter of th~ Rev. Henry Gough M.A. Post Office.-Richard Coat-es, sub-poSitma.ster. Letters rector from 1855 till his death 14 .April, 1862, in tlirough Oxford arrive at 9 a.m. ; dispatched at c; memory of her parents : the work may be taken to date p.m. !slip is the neareSit money order office & telefrom the Early Tudor period, and much of its original graph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not colour and gilding remains ; by immemoxial custom a paid garland strung upon a wooden cross is placed upon the Wall Letter Box, :\Iurcott cleared at 4.25 p.m rood loft every year on May-day, in the place of the Parish tlchool, built, with master's house, in 1866, ancient rood: the nave is separated from the aisles by mainly at the expense of the late rector, for 120 chilarcades of Early English arches on each side: the pulpit dren; class-room added in 1892, at a cost of [250; is of panelled oak and dates from 1 61 6: the font is plain average attendance, 91; David Burnham, master; Mrs. and round and has a singular crested cover: at the end Burnham, mistress of each aisle are remains of altars, with piscina : on the Carriers. floor of the chancel is a brass with effigy, habited in Bustin, to Oxford, wed. & sat cope, to Thomas Key, rector q66-75 canon of Lincoln Cooper, from Murcott to Oxford, wed. & sat. & l3iand chaplain to John Chedworth, bishop of Lincoln: the cester, fri Collett William, carpenter CRARLTON-ON-()TMIOOR. Dod'Well Edmund Brangwin, farmer Freeman Rev.Ernst.Chas.B.A.. (curate) Franklin Henry, George & Dragon P.H Hayton Rev. George M . .A. Rectory Goom Fdk.gun, cartridJg-e & shoe mkr COMMERCIAL. Blake Henry, farmer Bottrell J ame.s, baker Bowler William, baker Bustin John, farmer & carrier Ooates Richard, grocer, Post offioo Harris John, farm bailiff to John Rowland esq Hatwe11 .Arthur Samuel, carpenter Hatwell William, stone mason Haynes William, farmer Jones Robert, carman Kirtlandi John, blacksmith Maycock Henry, fa.rmer Nappen Joseph, boot k shoe maker Powell George, farmer P-owell J ose-ph, farmeT Pullin Francis John, builder, wheelw-rigM. & miller (wind) Ra.dford' Lucy (Mrs.), beer retailer StantonJ .Arth.Jn.Crown P.H. & butcher Stanton William, boot. maker • OXON. 5 ...

66 CHARLTON-ON-OTMOOB. OXFORDSHIRE. Stevens Hy. ~arpenter & wheelwright Taylor Alfl'Eld, blacksmith Hawes St~phen, Black Bull P.H Higgs Tom, farmer Collett George, farmer Haskins George, wheelwright Taylor Alfred, farmer Powell Henry, cowkeeper Honour Mark, farmer Tredwell Jdhn, farmer Tew Mary (Mrs.), farmer M-e<rry Eliza An'IIJ (Mrs.), Nut Tree P.H Ne·well Edward, farmer FENOCY.m'. (}}11-e;tt Thomas, farmer Colle-tt Willia.m, farmer MURCOTT. N ewell William, farmer Bad'~er John, farmer Clarke John, -shopkeeper Savin William, fa.rmer Young Henry, Marlake House P.H and will seat 140 persons. The register dates from 1586. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge [519, average £393, net yearly value [339, with glebe, let for £zo, and residence, in the gift of and held since 1879 by the Rev. Gustavus Alfred! Sneyd M.A. of Trinity Coll€ge, Cambridge. The charities for distribution in bread, clothing and money amount to about [25 annually. Chastleton Barrow, near the "Cross Hands," on the Addlestrop road, is a large circular mound, probably constructed on the occasion of the victory gained here by Edmund Ironside over Canute, A.D. ror6. Ohastleton House, the seat of Miss Whitmore Jones, who is lady of the manor and principal landowner, is a noble embattled mansion, built in the reign of J ames I. by Walter Jones esq. and has bold projecting gables and wide mullioned windows, and includes a large hall, 72 fett in length, with other apartments containing rich oak carving and ancient tapestry as well as valuable oil paintings ; here also is preserved the Bible given by Charles I. to Bishop Juxon immediately before his execution, 30 Jan. 1649: Robert Catesby, one of the conspirators in the "Gunpowder Plot," to whom in 1605 it belonged, is said to have sold the estate of Chastleton to provide funds for carrying out the conspiracy. The soil is strong loam, stone brash and gravel; subsoil, the same. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and roots. The area is I,JIO acres; rateable value, [2,300; the population in r8gr was 203. Parish Clerk, David Lane. CHASTLETON is a parish and village on the Glou~ cestershire border, 4 miles south-east from Moreton-inthe-Marsh station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the Great Western railway and 5 north-west from Chipping Norton station on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of the -same system, in the Northern division of the connty, hundred and petty sessional division of Chadlington, union and county court district of Chipping Norton, rural deanery of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient building of stone in the Norman, Transition and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, a small north c.hapel of Per~ pendicular date and an embattled tower at the west end of the south aisle containing 6 bells, dated respectively r6g6, 1731 (two), 1762, 18n and 1825: the lower stage of the tower forms a porch : the stained east window was erected in 1878, in memory of the late John Henry Whitmore Jones and Dorothy his wife: there is another m the south aisle to their son Walter, who died in 1872: the chancel arch is Early English; the nave and aisle are divided by an arcade of four arches, two being Nor~ man Transition and the others Early English: the font is circular and of the Decorated period : there are a few carved benches and heraldic tiles, and on the floor at the .east end of the nave are brasses inscribed to Catharine (Willington ), wife of Anthony Throkmorton, 1592, with -armorial shields and effigies of a lady with five sons and five daughters; and to Edmund Ansley (.Annesley), gent. -of Trinity College, Oxon, d. 1613, with effigies of himself, wife, seven sons and three daughters; there is also Parish School, erected in 1871, for 35 children; average a mural tablet at the east end of the south aisle to Henry attendance, 30 ; Mrs. Mary Tibbles, mistress Jones D.C.L. (Oxon), chancellor of Bristol, 16<}4, and a Letters through Moreton-in-the-Marsh, which is the brass inscription to William Bankes esq. of Winstanley, nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 Lane, M.P. Wigan, 167g-8r and r68g, in which year he a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 9 a.m. & 4.20 p.m. died; the church was restored during the years r878-8o, week days only Frere Fredk. Rubert, Kite Brook ho Gardner Herbert, farmer & haulier Jone-SJ Mi·ss Whitmore, Chastleton ho Gardner Jesse, &hopkeeper Minchin John Innell, steward to Miss Whitmore J one•s Sney<i Rev. Gustavus ..Alfd.M.A.Rectry Gray Frank, farmer Newman Waiter, mason COMMERCJAT,, Howitb Ebenezer, farmer, Hill farm Toop Richd. Chais. frmr. Brook End ho .Beman William Valentine, farmer Laight George, farmer, The Park Willetb John, farmer, Grove farm coats yearly for two old men of this parish, ss. for distribution in money, and ros. for a sermon, Two poor men of Checkendon parish are provided for in Allnutt's almshouses at G{)ring Heath, and one in Lydd's almshouses at Goring; the latter charity also contributes to the education, apprenticing and outfit of children from this parish. Wyfold Court, the property of the representatives of the late Edward Hermon esq. and now occupied by Robert Trotter Hermon-Hodge esq . M.A., J.P. is about I~ miles from the church, in the direction of Henley. Check end on Court is the residence of Robert Fraser Duff esq. J.P. Brazier& House, the residence of Alfred Charles Arding esq. at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, is surrounded by delightful woodlands. The principal landowners are R. T. Hermon-Hodge esq. Robert Fraser Duff esq. William Charles Dodd esq. and the rector. The soil is chalk and clay ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,063 acres; ratea.ble value, £2,732; the popu· lation in 1891 was 415. Parish Clerk, George Edwards. Post Office.-James Winkworth, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Reading at 8.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 4·45 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Stoke Row. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid The Post town of Wyfold Court is Reading, & that for Braziers & Little Stoke farm is at Wallingford Schools. CHECKENDON is a parish and village upon the Chiltern Hills, 4! miles south-west from Goring station on the Reading and Oxford section of the Great Western railway, 7 west from Henley, 19 south-east from Oxford, 8 north-west from ·Reading and 7 south-east from Wal ... }ingford, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Langtree, petty sessional division of Henley, union of Henley, rural deanery of Henley and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of SS. Peter .and Paul is a building of flint and stone, chiefly of Norman date, and: consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, :South porch and an embattled Perpendicular tower con~ tainiug a clock and 6 bells : the chancel arch is good Nm-m~n, with shafts and sculptured caps; but the window~. doorway and porch are Perpendicular, and the latter retains a ·stoup: there are floor tiles of the same pattern as at Harpsden, and: brasses to John Rede, "servant of the king," 1404, with a triple canopy and marginal inscription ; an inscription only to Cecilia, wife of John Rede, 1428, effigy lost; Waiter, son of Sir 1~-iili~1m Beauchamp, c. 1430, with a figure of a soul, borne by two angels; and Anna, daughter of John Gaynesford, of Crowhurst, Surrey, and his wife Katherine; and to the wife of Richard Bowett esq. 1490: the stained east wind{)W was presented in 1869 by the Rev. Edward Hensley, formerly curate of the parish: on the walls of the apse are some ancient and interesting paintings t the church affords 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1719, but is in bad condition until 1802. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £426, gross yearly value £so4, net £417, with glebe and residence, in the gift of University College, Oxford, and Parish (mixed), built in 1840, for so children; average held since r865 by the Rev. Charles John Abbey M.A. attendance, 24; Miss Martha Sarah Lomas, mistress late fellow and tutor of that college. At Heath End is a Wyfold, erected 1874, for 6o children; average attendchapel, erected in r888, by Mr. Elisha John Hunt, and j ance, 38; Brice Bennett, mistress seating about 120 persons. Paslow's charity provides Carriers to Reading.-James Moss, mon. wed, & sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Duff Robt. Fraser J.P. Gheckendon crt Hunt Elislha John, Heath end Abbey Rev. Chas. John. M.A. Rectory Hermon-Hodge Robert Trotter J.P., Ogg Gordolll Campbell, The Chase Arding Alfred Ohas. J.P. Brazisrs ho M.A. Wyfold court; & Carlton & Palmer Mrs. Hook End house Dodd Wm. Oharles, Little Stoke farm White's clubs, LondQn S w Pickett. Sa.ml, Balla.rd, Che<:ken:don vale

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CHINNOR. 67 COMMHRCIAL. Hall Samuel, shopkeeper 1 Martin Joseph, Four 'Horseshoes P.H HDpe '.Dhos. ironfndr. enginr. & smith, To bit Albt.farm bailiff to trustees of Dodd William Charles, farmer & land- Pickett & Ogg, farmers, Bottom, Jl the late Edwd.Rermon esq.Neal's fm owner, Little Stoke. farm Wheeler's & Hammond's farms GREAT CHESTERTON, with the hamlet of Little ~re brasses to William Maunde, 1612, and Anne his wife, Chesterton, forms a parish on a branch of the river with effigies and shield of arms; and to George Ma:unde, Ray, 2~ miles south-west from Bicester station on the 1628; and mural and other monuments, one of which Bletchley and Oxford branch of the London and North commemorates Richard, son of George Maunde, ll6IS: Western railway and 11 north-east from Oxford, in the there are 250 sittings, 100 of which are free. The reMid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional gister dates from the year 154o. The living is a vicar· division of Ploughley, union and county court district age, gross yearly value, arising from .215 acres of glebe, of Bicester and diocese and archdeaconry of Oxford. £220, with residence, in the gift of the Warden and "The Roman road, "Akeman Street," passes through the Scholars of New College, Oxford, and held since 1889 by parish. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone, the Rev. Oswald Pattisson Sergeant M.A. of Trinity in mixed styles, but chiefly belongs to the Decorated College, Cambridge. Chesterton, a handsome stone period; it was consecrated in 1238, and consists of mansion, erected in 188g-go, is the property of Henry chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a Tubb esq. banker, of Bicester. The Earl of Jersey P.C., western tower, with open quatrefoiled parapet and con- G.C.M.G. who is lord of the manor, Henry Tubb esq. taining 4 bells, and a clock, presented by Miss Drake, of T. C. Hoare esq. and New College. Oxford, are the chief Bignell, and placed in May, 1884; it chimes the quarters landowners. The soil is stony; subsoil, stone. The and strikes the hours upon a bell weighing 14 cwt.: chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 2,850 the chancel retains its piscina and three elegant acres; rateable value, £2,315; the population in 189r 'Sedilia. with detached shafts, and the rood screen was 384. Temains, as well as communion rails of Jacobean date; Parish Clerk, John Renn. the nave is separated from the north aisle by three Post Office.-Charles Oasemore, sub-postmaster. Letters Transition Norman arches, on round pillars ; the through Bicester arrive at 6.50 & 12.50; dispatched at south arcade consists of as many large and lofty 5.30 p.m. Bicester is the nearest money order & tele· -arches of the Decorated period, also carried on cir- graph office cular piers; the font is Norman. plain and cylindrical: at National School, holding 70 children; average attend~ the end of the south aisle are remains of a piscina: there ance, 54; Mrs. Davey, mistress GREA.T OHESTERTON. COMMERCIAL. Renn William, shopkeeper Buckle John, Red Cow P.H Scott Walter, baker Eughes William Bunker -, farmer Tanner Frederick & Henry, farmers )'laling~ Samuel Casemore Oharles,shoe mkr.Post office Timms Jn. gardener to Hy. Tubb esq Paxton. Miss Emberlin Wm. farmer,Ohesterton flds Tredwell James, farmer, Weston park Sergeant Rev. Oswald PattiS>Son M . .A. Kirby Alfred,farm bailiff to H. Tubb esq Vicarage Ren'll John, carpenter, wheelwright & LITTLE CHESr:DERTON. Tubb Henry, Chesterton blacksmith Tredwell Wimam, farmer CHINNOR, in Domesday "Chenore," is a parish and preceding, and his wife Margery, c. 1410; a man and village, with a station on the Princes Risborough and wife of Malyn's family, c. 1390; Reginald Malyns esq. Watlington branch of the Great Western railway, 47 1430; Folke Paffe esq. 1514, and two wives, and an inmiles from London and 4! miles south-east from Thame, scription to John Caistemas, c. qoo; the church was in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Lewk- restored in 1865, and affords 383 sittings in the nave nor, petty sessional division of Watlington, union of and 40 in the chancel. The register of baptisms dates Wycombe, county court district of Thame, rural deanery from 158I, but is irregular and defective; marriages of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The and burials from 1622. The living is a rectory, tithe "Village is picturesquely situated at the base of the· Chil- rent-charge £509, average £387, with II acres of glebe, tern Hills, which rise in the form of an amphitheatre gross yearly value £389, with residence. in the gift of -around it. The White Leaf cross and the Eton cross, on Wenman .Aubrey "\Vykeham-1Ylusgrave esq. and held the scouring of which the tenure of certain land depends, since 1876 by the Rev. Edward James Howman M.A. of are conspicuous objects in the landscape. The church of University College, Oxford, rural dean of Aston, surroSt. Andrew is a building of flint, in the Early Decorated gate and also rector of Crowell. The Congregational style, and consists of spacious chancel, clerestoried nave, chapel here was built in r8o5; and there is a Primi- :aisles, south porch and a western tower, with prDjecting tive Methodist chapel, rebuilt in 1875· The reading pediment and saddle-back roof, containing 6 bells, four ronm and working men's club was erected in 1878. Chair .of which are dated respectively 165r, 1635, 1663 and turning and lace making are carried on both in the vil1620: in the north and south windows of the sacrarium lage and in the neighbourhood. Wenman Aubrey Wykeare some remains of ancient glass, consisting of figures ham-Musgrave esq. of Thame Park, who is lord of the of an archbishop and bishop, a lady and SS. Laurence manor, Magdalen College, Oxford and the trustees of and Alban: the chancel retains a piscina and sedilia, and W. R. Lybbe Powys esq. (d. 1888), with some smaller '()n the north and south walls are brasses to John proprietors, are the principal landowners. The soil is a Hotham, "magister in theologia," with effigy in aca- good arable; subsoil, clay and chalk. The area is z,62o demical dress, 1361 ; Alexander Chelseye, rector 1388, acres, which consists of arable, pasture and considerable and a fioriated cross with the head of a priest in the portion of woodland; rateable value, £4,588; the popu· -centre, c. 1320; the slabs to which these belong, for- lation of the entire parish in 1891 was 1,247. merly in the chancel, are now in the porch: the stained Henton is a liberty, 1 mile north, on the borders of ~ast window was the joint gift of the Rev. Sir William Bucks, and has a mission house, in which services are .Augustus Mnsgrave M.A. 10th bar't. of Barnsley Park, held on Thursday in each week. Gloucestershire, and rector of Chinnor from 1816 until his death, 30 Sept. 1375, and the late Samuel Turner Sprigg's Alley is a hamlet, 1~ miles south, also on oesq. and cost £ 1s2 : the reredos includes a representa- Bucks border, and has also a mission house, in which tion of the "Entombment": on the chancel walls hang services are held on Wednesdays. a series of paintings by Sir James Thornhill kt. of Our Oakley is a hamlet half a mile west. Lord, the Evangelists and Apostles: the oak rood screen Parish Clerk, Thomas Fletcher. is Early Decorated: to the right of the chancel arch, in Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- the nave, is a plain piscina: arcades of five arches sepa- William N ewell, sub-postmaster. Letters through rate the nave and aisles: the south aisle has a piscina I Tetsworth arrive at 8.10 a.m. & 2.20 p.m. ; dispatched :arch with stone shelf; in this aisle there is also a fine sepul- at 5·5 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 8.10 a.m. ; dispatched chral recess, and at the west end of this aisle, now used at II.Io p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at :as a vestry, are the remaining brasses, as follows, of Lewknor which the first three were discovered in r854, during Wall Letter Box cleared 5.30 p.m. daily repairs to the north aisle: John Cray, esquire to Wall Letter Box, Oakley, cleared 5-SO p.m.; sundays, Richard TI. 1392; Reginald :Malyns, with effigy in armour II.25 a. m and two wives, c. 1385 ; Esmoun de Malyns, son of the Schools. preceding, with demi-effigies of himself and wife Isabel, c. 1385; an inscription to Adam Ramseye, c. 1400; 'Robert atte Heelde, with mutilated effigy, and his wife Katherine, c. 1410; 1\'icholas atte Heelde, son of the National (mixed), enlarged 1892, for 26o children; average attendance, 220; George A. Jones, master Great Western Railway Station, Edwin Pasgmore, station master OXON.

68 CHINNOR. OXFORDSHIRE. Carriers to :- London-A. Lacey, thurs. returning sat Marlow-Albert R. Croxford, mon Oxford-Albert R. Croxford, wed. & !la\ Thame-.A. Lacey & Albert R. Croxford, tne~ Wycombe-.Albert R. Croxford, fri CIDNNOR. Brazell Mrs. sen Busby Thomas Fletcher Robert, wheelwright Fletchel" Thos. wheelwright & carpntr Folley Henry, bricklayer Walker William, shoe maker Wall John, chair turner Way Herbert, boot & shoe maker Webster Wm. Thos'. Royal Oak inn .. Cotton Rev. James William (Primitive Methodist) Daviell William Holmes Mrs Fortnam Jane (Mrs.), Black Boy P.H Fortnam Wm. chair turner & beer ref, Gray John, tailor land surveyor &( assistant overseer White J ames, hay dealer & farmer WhiteRobt.farmer & hay dlr.Lower fiDt Williams Eliza (Miss), dress maker Wiltshire William, Red Lion P.H Witney Benjamin, greengrocer Witney Richard, shopkeeper Howm3.n Rev. Edward James ~LA.. (rector, rural dean & surrogate), Rector!y Harding William (Mrs.), grocer Harrison W. H. & Co. millers (wind & steam) Hill Alfred, farmer Mansell Capt. Eustace G Munton Rev. Hy. (Congregational) Saw William Hill Henry, butcher Jaques John Henry, baker Witney Thos. Plough & Harrow P .B. White Robert J arvis John, boot & shoe maker Lacey Absalom, carrier & farmer LarntJr Thomas, beer retailer HENTON. Baverstock Williarn, farmer F ally John, farmer COMMERCIAL. :Batten George, baker Biggs John, farmer Blake John, beer retailer Ling David Richard, linen draper Little Alfred, chair turner Ludlow Samuel, beer retailer S tevens Heden, farmer ThompsonSimeon,farmer; res. Prince*' - Loveday Richa1 d, beer retailer Blake William, beer retailer Brazen Herbert S. grocer May Henry John, police constable Neighbour Arth.beer ret.& harness ma Newell William, linen draper & grocer, Risborough Welch Beniamin, farmer White - John, farmer Britnell Henry, draper &c Post office :Brownsill Robert, Crown P.H :Busby John, carriage painter Cocks John, harness maker North John, farmer & landowner Passmore Edwin, f!tation master Pitcher James, cattle dealer O.AKLEY. Healey Isaac, higgler He.ybourn John, farmer Copus George, boot & shoe maker Crook George, King's Head P.H Croxford .Albt. Richd. grocer & carrier Croxford George, grocer & baker Croxford Henry, grocer Reading Room & Working Men's Club (Henry E. Eggleston, hon. sec. ; Herbert Brazell, hon. treasurer) Saunders John Henry, bailiff to W . .A. Holland John, mason & bricklayer Howlett Mark, chair turner Larner Thoma,s, Wheatsheaf P.ff SPRIGGS .ALLEY. Dodwell Ebenezer .A. butcher Wykeham-Musgrave esq.l\fanor frm Saw Thomas, butcher Devening William, farmer Gillett William, beer retailer Stone Robert, farmer Dodwell Henry William, grocer Eggleton Hy. David, farmer, Hill frm Stevenson John William, engineer &c Turner Thomas, blacksmith CHIPPING NORTON is a parish and municipal borough, market and union town and head of a county court district, with a station on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of the Great Western railway. The town is in the north-west part of the county, on the borJers of Worcestershire, 77~ miles from London through Oxford, from which city it is 19 north-west, 13 south-west from Banbury and 8 south-east from Moreton-in-Marsh; it is in the Northern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Chadlington, rural deanery of its own name and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The town, which stands on an eminence, consists principally of one long street. King John granted a charter for a yearly fair about A.D. 1200. The borough returned two members to the parliaments of 1302 and 1304-5 in the reign of Edward I. but the inhabit1nts were subsequently relieved of the liability on their own petition: the town was incorporated in 16o6, by charter of James I. and this charter remained in force until the passing of the "Municipal Corporations Act, 1835.'' by which the municipal body was remodelled, and the corporation now consists of a mayor, four aldermen and twelve common councillors, who act as the Urban Sanitary .Authority. The common adjoining the town, 198 acres in extent, was given by Lord Arundel for the benefit of the householders. The town is lighted with gas by a company, and well supplied with water on the constant supply system, from springs at Glyme farm; the reservoir supplying the pump and mains leading to the tanks, completed in 1878 at a cost of about £6,ooo, and the property of the Corporation, is on the south-east side of the town, and will hold 4oo,ooo gallons. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, situated on the edge of a valley, on the north side of the town, is a large and fine building of stone in mixed styles, chiefly Perpendicular, and occupies the site of a previous church existing in 1293: it consists of chancel with north aisle, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, an outer north aisle, south porch and a lofty embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 8 bells, dated 1825, and a sanctus bell of the 16th century: the clerestory is lighted by large and fine squaTe-headed windows of Perpendicular character, and at the east end of the nave, over the chancel arch, is a large stained window with elaborate tracery : the cha.ncel aisle, apparently a chapel, is in part divided from the chancel by a low parclose of stone ; it has a hagioscope, somewhat unusually placed, underneath which is a piscina, and adjoining it, in the chancel arch, are the door and steps to the rood loft; on each side of the east front of this arch is a sculptured niche with pedestal and canopy ; and beneath that on the north side are three similar niches, with exquisitely carved canopies : the chancel retains three canopied sedilia, and there. is a stone altar, with piscina, in the vestry::- the south porch is hexagonal, and has a fine vaulted roof with grotesque heads at the intersection of th& groins; above it is a room approached by a door from within the nave: the stained east window was ereded at Easter, 1875, and there are three other stained windows: at the west end of the inner north aisle is an altar tomb with recumbent effigies, to Thomas Rickards gent. and Elizabeth, his wife, 1579: in the chancel aisle i!; another altar tomb with effigies of Richard Croft esq .. lord of the manor, 1502, and Agnes, his wife, 1509: the remaining monuments include one to Henry Cornish., son of the founder of the almshouses in Church street,. and brasses to Isabella, wife of Robert Stokys, 1458 ; Thomas Grene, merchant, 1465 ; and .Agnes, wife o~ William Tanner, and previously of William Dyer, o' Abingdon, 1563 ; many other brasses of the 15th and 16th centuries are stoTM away in the room over th!)- porch: on the north side of the church is the mausoleum of the Dawkins family, of Over Norton, covered: with ancient and modern tablets and brasses: th~ church was restored and partly rebuilt and the towe:r.- re-erected in 1823-7 at a cost of about £3,ooo, and otheT alterations took place in 1841: a further restora· tion has been effected in and since 1873, at a cost or £4,036: there are 743 sittings, over 550 being free. The register dates from the year 1563. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £3oo, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester, amf held since 1886 by the Rev. Godfrey .Armytage Littledale M.A. of :Brasenose College, Oxford, and surrogate. The Catholic church at Rock hill, erected in 1836 at a cost of £s,ooo, chiefly through the munificence of MaryBowdon, and dedicated to the Holy Trinity, consistsof chancel, nave and ante-chapel : in the latter are preserved the :11ltar and reredos of the church of St.. Mary, erected in Heythrop park in 1826 by Charles~ 15th Earl of Shrewsbury, and removed in 1879; and in 1882 the bodies of its founder, who died 6th .April, r827, and of the Rev. Patrick Heffernan, its first ana only priest, were transferred from Heythrop and placed in a vault under the sanctuary of this church: a new chapel on the south side, dedicated to the Sacred Heart, was opened in 1888, for the celebration of tha jubnee of the church, which took place on November 27th of that year; the church was also re-floored, reseated and the western gallery partly reconstructed and lowered, and at the same time a second sacristy and a new organ gallery were added at a cost of £r,rso: the church will seat about 300 persons. The Baptist chapel in New street, founded in 1662, will seat 300; the Wesleyan chapel, in West street, founded in 1796, affords 350 sittings; the Primitive Methodist chapel in Diston's iane, purchased from the Wesleyan~r

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CHIPPING NORTON. 69 in 1865, seats 200; and there is a Meeting House for the Society ttf Friends, in New street. The Cemetery, consisting of 3~ acres, given by the late ·w. :Bliss esq. for the joint use of Chipping Norton and Over Norton, -was opened in 1882: it contains one mortuary chapel -and is under the management of ths Urban Sanitary .Authority, acting as the :Burial :Board. The Town Hall 'is a building of stone in the Classic style, with a JlOrtico, and contains a well-furnished reading room and -a library. On the reform of the Corporation, in 1835, 'the two maces formerly carried before the two bailiffs "Of the old Corporation, were sold, and one of these, an '<lbject of much interest, is now in the possession of ·.Mr. William :Bliss, of Chipping Norton; it wa~ originally made in 16o6, on the incorporation of the town, and is of s1lver-gilt, and 31 inches in length; the shaft, "Once divided by bands into four sections, retains one ;c.ex"\gonal band, and portions of the shaft are engraved with tiers or rows of arches, each enclosing a columbine; slender brackets support the head, which was ·altered to a non-regal design during the Commonwealth period; it still retains the curious reflexed 'feather ilrches which replaced the original crown; but at the Restoration in 166o it was re-converted into a -royal mace, the motto placed round the head by the Puritans erased, and the whole surmounted by an orb -and cross. The borough seal, which dates from about the same period, is circular, and bears an embattled -arch flanked by two round towers, encircling which is a marginal legend. The factories of Messrs. :Bliss and 'Son, for woollen goods, employ about 6oo hands of both sexes. Leather gloves are made here, and there is a brewery. The town is situated in an agricultural 'district and largely depends on the landed interest. A ·market is held on Wednesdays, chiefly for grain. Fairs -are held on the first Wednesday in each month; cattle -and sheep in large numbers are brought here for sale, and the fairs are usually well attended by farmers and -dealers: there are also statute fairs on the "Wednesday 'before and after October 10th, for the hiring of servants. The E company of the 2nd Volunteer :Battalion, "Oxfordshire Light Infantry Regiment has its head -quarters here. The :Bowyer Lodge of Freemasons, No. ~.o36, holds its meetings at the Masonic Hall, .A.lbion 11treet, on the Tuesday nearest the full moon ( exc~pt "in the months of June, July, August and September). 'There are almshouses in Church street, founded about --..r649 by Henry Cornish, for 8 widows, with an endowment of zos. yearly for repairs, and 2s. per week in bread; Leach and West's charity of about £4 a year is for decayed tradesmen; and there are several charities for distribution in kind and money, amounting to about £42, including a charity of £3 19s. 1od. a year for apprenticing poor boys. The mayor, aldermen and burgesses are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are the trustees of John Ward esq. W. :Bliss, F. T. K. Guy and T. Keck esqrs. Albert :Brassey esq. J.P. of Heythrop, W. G. DawkinJS esq. of Over Norton, Lieut.-Col. Robert :Bridges :Bellers, of Rainbow hill, Worcester, Miss Thomasine Gibbs, the Co-operative Society, Alfred .A.dolphus Webb esq. J.P. W. C. Phillips esq. and the trustees of the Long Marston school. The area is 2,287 acres; rateable value, £n,62J IOS.; and the population in 1Bgr was 4,222, including 115 officers and inmates in the workhouse. Sexton, John Hughes. OVER NORTQN is a hamlet of Chipping Norton, from which it is three-quarters of a mile north. A handsome drinking fountain with polished marble pillars has been erected to the memory of Col. Henry Dawkins M.P. (d. 1864), and Emma his wifs, by their four children. The poors allotments of so acres, awarded in 1770, produce £so yearly for clothes, linen, bedding, fuel, tools, medical or other aid in sickness, food or other articles in kind, and other charitable purposes; Wright's charity of £3 12s. is for bread. Over Norton House, the seat of William G. Dawkins esq. is a mansion in the Tudor style, rebuilt in r879, and standing in a well-wooded park of about go acres. William G. Dawkins esq. is lord of the manor. The area is 2,227 acres; rateable value, £z,42S 18s.; the population in r8gr was 342. Wall Letter :Box cleared at 11.25 a.m. & 7.40 p.m. week days only Church School (mixed), built about I87o, for 6o children; average attendance, 42; William Mackness, master Overseers, Ernest Jeffries & Alfred John East St. Cold Norton was once an Augustinian priory, founded by William Fitzalan in the reign of Henry II. and dedicated to SS. Mary the Virgin, John the Evangelist and S. Giles. In the reign of Henry VII. it was escheated to the Crown, and subsequently purchased by William Smith, bishop of Lincoln ( qg6- I5I4), by whom it was given to :Brasenose College, Oxford, of which he was, in 1590, eo-founder. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL lXSTITUTI ONS &c. 'Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. :B., Express Delivery & Annuity k Insurance Office, Market place.-Miss Zillah llenrietta Stephan, postmistress. Week days, 7 a.m. to 8.30 p.m.; sundays, 8 to ro a.m. ; money orders & postal orders, 7 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. ; telegraph, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; sundays, 8 to ro a.m ])eliveries.-From London, Oxford &; all parts, 6.30 a.m.; :Birmingham & North, 9 a.m.; London &; Oxford 2 p.m.; all parts, 5.30 p.m <One delivery, sundays.-London, Oxford & all parts, 7.30 a.m.; letters given out to callers at the counter, 8 to 10 a.m 'Delivery of Parcels.-On week days, 7.30 & 9 a.m. 2, & 5.30 p.m. No parcels delivered on sunday .llispatches.-Oxford & all parts, 10.25 a .. m.; London, Oxford & all parts, 11.55 a.m. ; Oxford l.; all parts, 2.40 p.m .. ; Shipston-on-Stour & Long Compton, 4.15 p.m. (3.40 p.m. on sunday); Worces~er & North, .5 ·45 p.m. ; Oxford & all parts, 7.40 p.m. ; Birmingham, London &; Exeter T.P.O. ea.>t, London & .Exeter T.P.O. west (via Gloucester & Bristol), Gloucester (via Cheltenham), 8.20 p.m.; Oxford &; all parts by road (pair-horse mail), box closes ~t 8.45 p.m. Sundays.-North, Shipston-on-Stour & Long Compton, 3.40 p.m.; Oxford & all parts, 8.45 p.n1 "!>!~.reel Dispatches.-Oxford & all parts. 10.25 a.m.; :Birmingham, for the North & West, 4 p.m; Oxford & the South, 7.30 p.m.; :Birmingham, North & West, .8.20 p.m. ; Oxford & all parts, 8.45 p.nl1 :Post Of:JiCe Letter :Box cleared at *5· 30, \*8.4S & 11.55 a.m.; *1.45, 2.40, 4·I5, 5·45• 7·4o, 8. 20 .& 8.45 p.m Local Posts. Wall Letter Boxes. \ ·west End, cleared at 11.40 a.m. & 5.30 &.: 7·5S week days only Eorsefair, elea:red at u.4o a.m. & 5.30 & \:..ss waek uys only \ \ p.m. p.m. 'fhe Common, cleared at u.25 a.m. & 3.25 & 7·45 p.m. week days only Railway Station Platform, cleared at 11.35 a.m. :z.zo, 3·5• 6.5 & 8 p.m. week days only Burford Road, clea-red at 8.45 a.m. & 7.30 p.m. week days only County Magistrates for the Chadlington & Chipping Norton Petty Sessional Divisions. Harris Rev. Thomas B.D. Rectory, Swerford, Enstone, chairman Moreton Lord, Sarsden house, Chipping Norton Bowen James Benjamin esq. High street, Chipping Norton Bowly Frank esq. Charlbury S.O Brassey Albe.rt esq. B.A. Heythrop park, Chipping Norton Burbidge Thomas Hy. esq. The :Bank, Chipping Norton Carter Rev. Canon William Edward Dickson M.A. Rec· tory, Sarsden, Chipping Norton Davis Robert Snow Bolton esq. Swerford park, Enstone Hall Alexander Nelson esq. Cornwell manor, Chipping Norton Lockwood Edward Dowdeswell esq. Kingham, Chipping Norton Maddox John Fowler esq. Shipton-under-Wychwood Wailer Capt. John Hampden, Lee Place, Charlbury S.O Webb Alfred Adolphus esq. Market place, Chipping Norton Clerk to t:be Magistrates, Abram Creswicke Rawlinson, The Elm Petty Sessions are held at the Police station· every alternate Wednesday, at 12 noon. The following places are included in the Petty Sessional Division:- Ascott, :Bruern, Charlbury, Cornwell, Chadlington, Churchill, Chastleton, Enstone, Fifi.eld, Finstock, Fawler, Hook-Norton, Heythrop, Idbury, Kingham, Langle-y, Leafi.eld, Lyneham, Jltfilton, Over Norton, Rollright Great, Rollright Little, Sarsden, Sbipton,

70 • CHIPPING NORTON. OX:FORDSHIR.E • [KELLY's Salford, Shortha.rnpton, Spelsbury, Swerford, Whichwood, Cornbury Park Borough Magistrates_ The Mayor & ex-Mayor Clerk, Thomas Mace, Market place Borough petty sessions are held at the Town hall every friday, at II a.m Corporation. 1894"95· Mayor, Councillor Abram Creswicke Rawlinson Ex-Mayor, Councillor George Wright HutchisDn M.D. .Aldermen. ~Charles Price Simms I tFredk, Thomas Keck Guy ~Alfred Adolphus Webb tThomas Keck Councillors. ~Alfred Burden *William Youn~ Paul ~Geo. Wright Hutchison :M.D *Joseph Reader ~Thomas Prestidge tJames Benjamin Bowen ,-wm. Clarke Shrimpton tAbram CreswickeRawlinson 1tBenjamin Catlow fMatthew Henry Nicholls *Sidney Lewis tJ ohn Stayt Marked thus ~ retire in 1895· Marked thus * retire in 1896. Marked thus t retire in 1897· Marked thus t retire in 1898. Mayor's Auditor, Councillor William Young Paul Elective Auditors, Joseph Pink & Frederick A. Wheeler The ordinary meetings of the Corporation are held at the Council chamber, Town hall, 2nd friday in the month, at 7 p.m Officers of the Corporation & Urban Sanitary Authority. Town Clerk & Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority & Burial Board & School A~tendance Committee, Thomas Mace, Market place Treasurer, Thomas Henry Burbidge, Metropolitan Bank (of England & Wales) Lim. Market place :!\fedi!.'al Officer of Health, William Dyson vVood L.R.C.P.Edin. 50 St. John street, Oxford Borough Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, George Frederick Mace, High street Sexton at Cemetery, John Hughes School Attendance Officer for the Borough, Sergeant Henry John Summersby, Rockhill Public Establishments. Gemetery, Thomas Mace, clerk to the burial board; John Hughes, sexton County Court, held at the Town hall every alternate month; His Honor Robert Wood Ingham, judge; Thomas Mace, registrar &; high bailiff; Tom Stanley, sub-bailiff, Registrar's office, Market place. The county court jurisdiction includes the following places :-Ascott-under-Wychwood, Ba.rton-on-the-Heath (Warwick), Bould, Bruern, Chadlington, Chalford, Charlbury (including Lees Rest), Chastleton (including Brook End), Chilson, Churchill, Churchill Heath, Clevely, Compton Little (Warwick), Compton Long (Warwick), Cornwell, Dean, Ditchley, Dunthrop, Enstone, Fawler, Fifield, Finstock, Fordwells, Foscott, Gagingwell, Heythrop, Idbury, Kingham, Langley, Leafield, Leafield-Assarts, Lidstone, Lyneham, Milton, Norton Chipping, Norton Over, Pudlicott, Radford, Rollright Great, Rollright Little, Salford, Sarsden, Shipton-under-Wychwood, South Lawn (Wychwood), Spelsbury, Swerford, Shorthampton, Tangley, Taston, Tew Great, TewLittle, Woodford For Bankruptcy purposes this court is included in that of Oxford, Cecil Mercer, acting official receiver Certified Bailiffs appointed under the "Law of Distress Amendment Act," George Frederick Mace, High street, Chipping Norton; Tom Stanley, Horsefair, Chipping Norton; & Frederick A.ugustus Wheeler, Ohipping Norton - County Police Station, London road, Stephan Hall Sutton, superintendent & 3 constables Inland Revenue Office, White Hart hotel, Thomas Shillington, supervisor; Patrick James O'Connor, officer Town Hall, Richard Hall, hall keeper Volunteer Fire Brigade, engine house, Burford road ; fire bell, Town hall; A. E. Mace, captain; E. Coom bs, lieutenant ; Charles Henry Mealin, engineer ; S. Pryer, treasurer; & Thomas Mace, hon. sec. & 16 men Volunteers. 2nd Volunteer Battalion Oxfordshire Light Infantry (E Company); drill hall, Albion street; Capt. P. G. Saunders, commandant; Sergt. A. Rat-~::Iiffe, drill instructor Chipping Norton Union, B:Jard day, every alternate wednesday at 12 noon at the Board room, Workhouse. The union comprises the following places :-.Ascottnnder-Wychwood, Barton-on-the·Heath (Warwick). Bruern, Chadlington, Charlbury, Chastlet-on, Chipping Norton, Chilson, Churchill, Cornbury Park, Cornwell. Enstone, Fawler, :Fifield, Finstock, Great Rollright~ Great Tew, Heythrop & Dunthrop, Idbury, Kingham,. Langley, Leafield, Little Compton (Warwick), LittleRollright, Little Tew, Long Compton (Warwick). Lyneham, Milton, Over Norton, Salford, Sarsden~ Shipton-under-Wychwood, Spelsbury, Swerford, Wych. wood. The population of the union in 1891 was I8,1o3; area, 72,512 acres; rateable value in 1894, [92,200 Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee,. .Abram Creswicke Rawlinson, The Elm, Chipping Norton Treasurer, Thomas Henry Burbidge, Chipping Norton Collector to the Guardians & Relieving, Vaccination &. School Inquiry Officers, Charlbury district, James Greenshields, Chadlington; Chipping Norton district,. Henry Hartley, London road, Chipping Norton Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. I district. George Wright Hutchinson M. D., C. M. Market place,. Chipping Norton; No. 2 district, Thomas O'KellyM.D. High street, Chipping Norton; No. 3 district, Frederick Thomas Maisey, Charlbury; No. 4 district, E. G. C. F. Atchley L.R.C.P.Lond. Milton Superintendent Registrar, Abram Creswicke Rawlinson, The Elm, Chipping Norton; deputy, Matthew F. Charlton, London road, Chipping Norton Registrars of Birth & Deaths, Charlbury sub-district, James Greenshields, Chadlington; deputy, Richard: Harvey, Chadlington ; Chipping N orton sub-district~ Henry Hartley, London road, Chipping Norton; dep. Wm. Corbett Hayes, Market pi. Chipping Norton Registrar of Marriages, Henry Hartley, London road,. Chipping Norton; deputy, William Corbett Hayes,. Market place, Chipping Norton The Workhouse, on the Banbury road, is a large building of stone, having an hexagonal' centre with four wings diverging from it & outbuildings connecting the ends of the wings & forming a square, & will hold 210 inmates; Rev. Godfrey Armytage Littledale M. A. chaplain; George Wright Hutchison M. D., C. M. medical officer; William Webb, master; Mrs. Sophia Webb, matron; Miss Jane Garland, schoolmistress School Attendance Committee. Meets at the Union once a month, on a wed. at 2 p.m. Clerk, Abram Creswicke Rawlinson, The Elm, Chipping Norton Attendance Officers, J ames Greenshields, Chadlington ;. Richard Cooper, Charlbury Rural District Council. Meets at the Board room at the Union Workhouse, on wednesday, once a month, at 1.30 p.m. Clerk, Abram Creswic"ke Rawlinson, The Elm, Chipping Norton Treasurer, T. H. Burbidge, Chipping Norton :Medical Officer of Health, W. D. Wood L.R.C.P.Edin. so St. J ohn's· street, Oxford Inspector of Nuisances, Richard Cooper, Charlbury Surveyor, Frederick Forrester, Elmsfield, Over Norton < Public Officers. Assistant Overseer, William Corbett Hayes, Market pl Certifying Factory Surgeon, George Wright Hutchison: M.D. Market place Clerk, ComiX)issioner of Taxes & Steward of Charlbury Manor, Ab1.·am Creswick Rawlinson, The Elm Distributor of Stamps, George B. Smith, High street Road Surveyor, George Frederick Mace, High street Superintendent of Police, Stephan Hall Sutton,London rd Town Crier, .Samuel Brand, West end . Places of Worship, with times of se:rvices. • St. Mary the Virgin Church, Rev. Godfrey Armytag~ LittledaJe M.A. vicar; Rev. Charles Spenser Rowland M. A. cura,te ; I I a.m. & 6 p.m. ; daily, 9 a. m. &. 6.30 p.m. ·except thurs. 7.30 p.m Society of ' Friends' Meeting House, New st~et; u a.m. & 3 p.m Holy TriPity (Catholic), London I"oad, Rev. Samuel Hevdon Sole, priest; holy communion, 8.30 a.m. &;. high IQ.ass at Io.go a.m.; rosary & children's service, 2.30; vespers & benediction at 6 p.m.; holy day:t, 9

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CHIPPING NORTON. 71 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; daily, 7.30 a.m. & 7.30 p.m. except mon. 8. IS a. m. & tues 6.30 a. m Baptist, New str-eet, Rev. Thomas Bentley; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; mon. 7.30 p.m Wesleyan, West s.treet, Rev. John Harries, Rev. Wm. Charles Poles & Rev. Joseph Birkbeck; 10.30 a.m, & 6 p.m.; thurs. 7·I5 p.m Primitive Methodist, Diston's lane, Rev. William C. Tanks; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Salvation Army, Spring street; 10.30 a.m. ~. 30 & 6 p.m.; daily, 7.30 p.m Schools. National, Church street, built in IB59, for no boys, average attendance, 106 ; with an endowment of about £I7 yearly, arising from a grant originally made by Edward VI. on his re-founding the ancient Grammar Schoor, & from a bequest of £3oo, in 1762, by Mr. Francis Barnes, for the support of a master; Samuel Evans Smith, master; 99 girls, average attendance, 100 ; Miss Sarah Rosetta Macey Treby, mistress; & I29 infants, average attendance, I05 ; Miss Elizabeth Coleman, infants' mistress British, built in I854, for ISO boys, average attendance, 125; John Roles, master; & I30 girls, average attendance, 105 ; Miss Sophia Scanes, mistress; no infants, av·erage attendance, 99; Miss Emily Turner, mistress Catholic (mixed), built in 1836 & in 1883 rebuilt & enlarged, for 150 children, average attendance, 100 ; Miss Margaret G. Quinn, mistress Railway Station, Thomas Henry Hunt, station master Carriers to:- Ascott-Hunt, .J King's Arms,' wed Banbury-Franklin, mon. thurs. & ~a~ Barton-Humphries, 'Fox,' wed Bledington-Bolter, 'Fox,' wed Chadlington-Kikhen, Temperance hotel, wed. ; Grafton, ' Chequers,' wed Chaxlbury-Hall, 'Fox;' Eeles, 'Unicorn,' wed Chilson-Robinson, 'King's Arms,' wed~ Churchil~-Pearce, 'King's Arms,' wed. & sat Enstone Pride, 'Unicorn,' wed Fifield-Burson, 'King's Arms,' wed Finstock-Claridge, 'Fox,' wed Foscott-Wright, 'Chequers,' wed Hook Norton-Bench, 'Blue Anchor,' wed Kingham-Porter, 'Fox,' wed Little Compton-Walker, 'Unicorn,' wed Long Compton-Walton, 'Blue Anchor,' wed. & eat. ; Salm{)n, 'Unicorn,' wed Milton-Silman, 'Unicorn,' wed. ; Prattley, 'Fox,' wed Oddington-Kempson, ' Fox,' wed Rollright Great Tidmarsh, ' Oxford house,' wed Rollright Little-Far brother, Temperance hotel, wed Sargrove-Cox, 'King's Arms,' wed Shipton-Townsend, 'Fox.' wed Sutton-Jones, 'King's Arms,' wed Taston-Kitchen, 'King's Arms,' wed· Tew (Great)-Lindsey, 'Blue Boar,' wed Tew (Little)-Warr, 'Blue Boar,' wed Witney-Eeles, 'Unicorn,' wed Wychwood-Moss, 'Blue Boar,' wed. ; Sturch, 'Unicorn,' wed CHIPPING NORTON. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Andrews Mrs. Sunny bank Andrews Miss, New street Bailey Miss, Sunny bank Baines Rev. Albert Charles (rector of Little Rollright), The Leys Baker Miss, 2 Blenheim terrace Barlow John Faulks, Church street Belcher Mrs. Market street Bentley Rev. Thos. (Baptist),New st Biggerstafi Mrs. Middle row Bliss William, New street Bound Rev. Ambrose, Sunny bank Bowen James Benj. J.P. High street Burbidge Thos. Hy. J.P. The Bank Burden Alfred, Sunny bank Burnham Mrs. West end Carter Markham, The Mount Castle Mrs. New street Charlton Matthew Foster, London rd Cooper John, The Hollies, Ilurford rd Donnelly Thomas, High street Edwards Mrs. West street Epps Waiter Henry, Manor ho.West st Fawdry Mrs. New street Gardner Alan, Axle house, London rd Gardner George Edward, London road COMMERCIAL. Gardner Mrs. London road Giles Richard, West end Grace Miss, Spring street Guy Misses, New street Hardiman Henry, West street Harries Rev. John (Wesleyan), Wesley house, Church street Harr:is Henry George, Spring street Harris Misses, West end Hawkins Waiter, The Leys Hill Mrs. The Common Hood William, Rock Hill house Hopgood Mrs. Sunny bank Hughes. Mrs. The Leys Hunston Samuel Frank, Fairholme Hutchison Geo.Wright M.D.Market pi Ireson Charles Herbert, Illenheim ter Keck Thomas, Ivy Dene Lawton Robert, Lower Mill house Littleda.Ie Rev. Godfrey A.rmytage M.A. (vicar & surrogate), Vicarage Lloyd Hugh, New street Mace George Frederick, High street Mace Mrs. The Leys Mace Thomas, Monksdene Margetts Mrs. West street N as on Edward, Sunny bank N eale Alfred C. London road Nicholls Mrs. Spring street O'Kelly Thomas M.D. High street Owen Albert John, Mus.Bac. New si Packer Miss, West street Penyston Mrs. Hill lodge Pryer Samuel, Lee holt, Horsefa.ir Rawlinson Abram Creswicke, 'l'he Elm Reader J oseph, West street Rowell William, Hill view,London road Rowland Rev. Charles Spencer {curate of St. Mary), High street Saunders Mrs. Hill lawn, New street Shillington Thomas, Fern villa Sim:ns Chas. Price, Northville, New st Simms Miss, High street Sole Rev. Samuel Heydon (Catholic Missionary rector), London road Stanbridge Mi,ss, London road Timms Miss, Middle row Tanks Rev. William C. (Primitive Methodist), Sunny bank Toy vVilliam, London I"Qad Treble Miss, West street Turle .A.rthur M.R.C.S.Lon. New st Williams Miss, 5 Blenheim terrace WincDtt J oseph, New street Young Charles, W e;st street Absalom John, assist. supt. Prudential Assurance Co. Burden Henry & Charles, builders, Albion stl'eet Burden John & Co. engineers, West street Burlingham H. & Co. coal merchants, Railway station Burman Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodging house, West end Burtonshaw Thos. mangr. of gas works, The Common Busby John, farmer, London rood Limited, The Leys Adcock George, gunsmith, West end Alien Thomas, boot maker, Spring street Batts William, boot & shoe maker, West street Bayliss Annie Maria (Mrs.), dress maker, Horsefair Beechey Alfred John, coach builder, West end Benfield John, cab proprietor, Albion street Bevercombe Johu, Unicorn P.H Biggerst:aff Ann B. (Mrs.) (Thomas Herbert, manager), wine & spirit merchant, MiddLe row Bishop Edward, confectioner, Middle row Bliss William & Son, woollen manufacturers i London office, 5 Golden square 'V Bolwel1 Mary Jane (Mrs.), complete house furnisher, draper & milliner, High street Bowen Benjamin & Son, tanners· & leather dressers, glove & legging manufacturers, High street Brand Samuel, town crier, West end Brookes John Benj amin, chimney sweeper, Albion street Browning Benjamin, castrator, Bell piece Browning Clara (Mrs.), laundress, Ban bury r-oad Bryon John, tripe dresser, New street Bunting Robert, plumber & glazier, Horsefair Burbidge Edwin & Sons, slaters & plas-terers, Spring st Burbidge Thomas Henry, manager Metropolitan Bank (of England & Wales) Limited & treasurer to the borough, union & rural distri~t eouncil, M~rket place Bushrod Annie (Miss), costumier, New street Buy Thomas, blacksmith, Albion street Carey Michael George, fishmonger, New street Cemetery (Thomas Mace, clerk to the burial board; John Hughes, sexton) Chapman Henry, draper, Church street Charlett John, grocer, New street Charlton Matthew F. deputy supt. registrar,London rd Chipping Norton Gas & Coke Co. Limited (William Toy, sec·.), High street Chipping Norton Literary Institute (William C. Bayes & Austin Webb, joint hon. secs.), Town hall Chipping Norton Temperance Hotel & Restaurant Co. Limited (Thomas Ma.ce, sec. ; Mis-s Ellen Herbert, manageress), High street Collegiate School (boarding & dGy) (Hugh Lloyd C. M. E. D. principal), New street Colston George Joseph, grocer, tea dealer & provision mNchant, New street Compton George, carpenter, Churchill road Compton James, builder, Burford road Conservative Association (Percival George Saunders, agent), New street •

72 · CHIPPING NORTON, OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S Constitutional Club (Abram C. Rawlinson, hon. sec.), Maxket place Constable George, fishmonger, fruiterer & poulterer, New street Coombs Edwin, hair dresser & bird stuffer, Middle row Co-operative Society Lim. (:Benj. Catlow, sec.), High st County Court (His Honor Robert Wood Ingham esq. judge; Thomas Mace, registrar & high bailiff) Cross George, grocer, tea & provision dealer & beer retailer, Churchill terrace, West end. See advert Cull Lizzie (Miss), tobacconist & news agent, New st Cummings Frederick, Blue Anchor P.H. High street Davis John, butcher, Market place Davis John, Chequers P,H. Spring street Dawes Alfred, watch maker & jeweller, Horsefair Dixon Benjamin, chimney sweeper, Spring st.reet Dixon Eleanor (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Market street Donnelly Thos. mangr. Gillett & Co. bankers, High st Dyson & Sons, music warehouse, New street Eden Caleb, Ship & Anchor P.H. Spring street Eden John, shopkeeper, West street Eskell L. E. & H. dentists, HiQ"h street Fisher Louisa (Mrs.), boot maker, Market street Fowler Thomas, grocer & baker, High street Franklin Frederick, carrier, West street Franklin Henry Chaz'les, grocer, Middle row Freeman John Wm. hair dr·esser & umbrella maker, Middle row Gardner Alan, carriage builder, London road Giles James, smith, Horsefair Giles William, baker, West street Gillett & Go. bankers (Thomas Donnelly, manager; open 10 a.m. tia 4 p.m.; wed. 5.30 p.m. & sat. I p.m. ), Hig-h street; draw on Glyn, Mills & Co. London E C Glanfield WaHer, tail m•, High street Goddard Alfred John, saddler, West street Guy Frederick Thomas Keck, farmer, ·west street Hall Robert, Wagon & Horses P.H. London road Ha.mblett. Richard, Fox P.H. Market place Hands Edwin, cattle ointment manufacturer, Laburnham house, Church street Hannis Charles, shopkeeper, l\Iiddle row Hannis Chas. Wm. tailor & woollen draper, Market pl Harris. Harriett (Mrs.), beer retailer, Albion street Harris William Herbert. boot maker, Market street Hartley Henry, relieving & vaccination officer & collector to the guardians & registrar of births & deaths for Chipping Norton district & marriages for Chipping Norton union, London road Harwood George, furniture dealer, Horsefair Hawkins George Walter, King's Arms P.H. ·west street Hawkins Mary Ann & Annie (Misses), dress mas. West st Hayes William Corbett, printer, stationer, bookseller & publisher of the "Oxfordshire Weekly News," & rleputy registrar of births, deaths & marriages for Chipping Norton sub-district & assistant overseer, ~Iarket place Haynes Robert, beer retailer, Albion street Hayward George Claridge, King William P.H. New st Herbert Thomas, manager for Mrs. Ann B. :Biggerstaff, wine & spirit merchant, Albion street Bern Henry, cabinet maker, Spring street Heythrop Hounds (A. Brassey esq. master; Richard Storin, huntsman; Willia.m Adcock, first whip), The Kennells Hieatt Charles, sla.ter & plasterer, Horsefair Hi:ton's :Booteries (Charles Kingham, manager), manufacturing boot & shoe retailers, High street Hitchman & Co. Limited, brewers, maltsters, wine &::; ~pirit merchants & mineral water manufa.cturers; ag-encies, Worcester, Stratford- on- Avon, Evesham, '\Y arwick & Oxford · Hoare Lewis, boot maker, Church street Hobbs William Joseph, builder & stone mason, West end Bodgkins John, butcher, Market place Hood GeorgeJ family draper, .general outfitter, funeral furnisher & trade valuer, Market place Hopkins George, blacksmith, Guildhall place Horwood William (Mrs.), coal dealer, Leys Howard William Ralph, George P.H. New street Howes Frederick John, cycle agent, Market street Howitt Charles A.rthur, photographer, High street Hughes Edwin, shopkeeper, Spring street Hunt Henry William, tailor, New street Hunt Thomas Henry, station master, Railway station Hutchison George Wright M.D., M.R.C.P.Edin. physician & medical officer & public vaccinator No. 1 district & medicaJ officer workhouse & certifying factory sur~eon, Market place Insall Joseph, boot repairer, Diston's lane Inland Revenue Office (Thomas Shillington, supervisor), White Hart hotel Ireson Charles Herbert, solicitor, Blenheim terrace Irving Peter M.R.C.V.S.L. veterinary surgeon, Hill side Jarvis Edwin Henry, chimney sweeper, Rock hill Jeffries Joseph William, saddler & harness maker & boot & shoe maker, High street Jonas Sablna (Mrs.)1 wholesale & retail confectioner, New street Jones George Joshua, confectioner, High street Joyne& Albt.Jsph.tea dealer, grocer & prov. mer. West st J oynes John, provision dealer, West street Keck Thomas, rope maker, High street Keitley George Parker, cabinet maker, West street Kibble Brothers, clothiers (branch), Middle row Kilby & l\Iace, solicitor.s, Market place; & at Banbury, Charlbury & Shipston-on-Stour Knight William James, grocer, Hors·efair Leaver Joseph, boot maker, Middl'B row Lewis Sidney, builder, Market street Liberal Association (Thomas Mace, sec.), Market p:acs Liddiard Charlotte (Mis.s), fancy repository, Market pl Lloyd Hugh C.M.E.D. principal of collegiate (boarding & day) school, New street Lodge Charles, apartments, New street Ludlow John, Blue Lion P.H. New street Lyne Philip Henry, commission agent, West street Mace Alfred, woollen merchant, High street Mace George Frederick, road surveyor, sanitary inspector & collector of general district rates & water inspector, certified bailiff, also auctioneer, valuer & estate agent, High street ~lace Thomas (firm, Kilby & Mace), solicitor, town clerk & clerk to the urban sanitary authority, clerk to the bc>rough justice,g. & county court reg-istrar & clerk to the school boards· of Enstone; Milton-under-Wychwood; Charlbury & Oxhill (Warwickshire), Market pl .Ma:ins Henry Wells, cabinet & picture frame maker, upholsterer & french polisher, West st. See advert Malins John Rouse, sanitary plumber, glazier & decorator, china, earthenware & glass dealer &c. West st. See advertisement ~Iargetts Harry, butcher, New street Margetts J esse, shopkeeper, The Common ~Iasonic Lodge (The Bowyer, r,o36) (Albert Ernest l\Iace, sec.), Masonic hall, A.lbion street Matthews Charles J ames, cooper, Guildhall place ~Iealin Thomas, blacksmith, :Burford road l\Iealin Chas. Hy. millwright & machinist, Burford road Metropolitan Bank (of England & Wales) Lim. (Thomas Henry :Burbidge, manager; open. 10 a.m. till 4 p.m. wednesday 5.30 p.m. & saturday I p.m.), Market place; draw on head office, 6o Gracechurch street. London E C l\Iicklewright & Mason, seedsmen, High street Minchin' Richard Edwin, sen. saddler, Middle row Morris Frank & James, hauliers, West street Neale Alfred C. clerk to registrar of county court, London road Newman Henry, Horse & Groom P.H. Goddard's lane Nicholls Matthew Henry, Crown & Cushion family & commercial hotel & posting house, High st. See advt Nunney Jas. Lindsey, seedsman & Parrot P.H.Middle rw :Xurden John, coal dealer, West end O'Connor Patrick James, inland revenue officer, Glenvista, The Lays O'Kelly Thomas, M.D., L.R.C.S.E. & L.M.Edin, & Rotunda, Dublin, surgeon, & medical officer & public vaccinator No. 2 district, Chipping Norton union, medical examiner army recruits, High street Osman William Henry Thomas, tinman, West street Owen Albert John Mus.Bac. teacher of music, New st Owen Richard, sawyer, Spring street Oxfordshire Weekly News (Win. Corbdt Hayes, publisher; published wednesdays ), Market place Packer Joseph, grocer, Horsefair Packer Thomas, boot & shoe dealer, West street Pad bury George ( ex,ors. of), general & furnishing ironmongers, High street Padley J oseph, mason, Rock hill Page John Henry, lodging house, London road Parson Ad a Ann (Mrs.), Blue Boar hotel, Horsefair Parsons & Co. drapers, Market place Patrick William, boot maker, Horsefair Payne W. & Co. carting agents for Great Western railway, Railway station Paxton & Holiday, auctioneers, valuers & estate agents, High street Pearman William, greengrocer, West street Pearson Martin Knight, draper, High street Phipps John, beer retailer, Horsefair

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CHURCHILL • 73 • Pettipher Thomas Keck, grocer, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit merchants, West street Pink Joseph, dealer in birmingham goods, Middle row Pouncett vYilliarn, Fox & Hounds P.H. The Comm:m Pointer Elizh. Ann (Mrs.), White Hart hotel, High st Pratt William, shopkeeper, Horsefair Prestidge Thomas, farmer, Meads Rawlinson Abram Creswicke, solicitor, clerk to the magistrates of Chadlington division, to Chadlington highway board, to commissioners of taxes, to the guardians, to the school attendance & assessment committees, & superintendent registrar of Chipping Norton union, clerk to Chipping Norton Rural District Council, steward of Charlbury manor, The Elm Reading Room & Library (Bliss & Son) (George Llewellyn .Adey, librarian), New street Rogers Edward, beer retailer, West street Rose Francis William, chemist, High street Rowell Robert & Sons, ironmongers, engineers & i!·cJU & brass founders, High street Saunders Percival George, solicitor, New street Savage Henry, tinman, Guildhall place Sharman William, farrier, Albion street Sherret J ames, clothier, High street Sherwood M. surgeon-dentist, High street Shillington Thomas, supervisor of inland re\ enue, Fern villa, London road Shrimpton William Clarke, grocer & baker, & ag('nt Sutton & Co. carriers, Market place Simms Daniel Rutter, watch maker, High street Simms Fanny (Mrs.), nm brella maker, New street Smith George Bloomfield & Co. stationer, bookseller, printer & distributor of stamps, High ~treet Smith Henry & Son, watch maker &c. Market place Smith Richard, drapers, Market place Smith Samuel Evans, teacher of shorthand, Church st Smith 'Valter, beer retailer, West end South Wales & Cannock Chase Coal Co. Lim. (Fredk. A. 1-Yheeler, agent) • Stanley Hy. Three Tuns P.H. & livery stables, Horsefair Stanley 'l'om, bailiff to county court &c. Horsefair Stayt John & David, leather glove makers, West l'nd Stedman Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Spring street Stephan Miss Zillah Henrietta, postmistress Stephan Willlam 1Henry, qualified chemist & druggist, next door to Post Office, Market place Stovin Richard, huntsman Heythrop hounds, The Kennels Summersby Sergt. Henry John, school board attemlance officer for the borough, Rock hill Summerton George, beer retailer, Market place Summerton John, beer retailer, New street Sutton Stephen Hall, superintendent of police, London rd Swann Charles, stocking knitter, West street Taylor Jas. Otho, butcher & market gardener, West end Timms Henry, shopkeeper, Horsefair Tompkins Henry, beer retailer, Southcombe common Town Hall (Richard Hall, hall keeper) Toy William, solicitor, & secretary to the Chipping N orton Gas & Coke Go. Lim. see Wilkins & Toy Treble Elizabeth (Miss), ladies' school, West end Turle Arthur M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond. surgn. Xew st Turnock Charles, beer retailer, Horsefair Volunteer Battalion (2nd), Oxfordshire Light Infantry (E Company, Capt. P. G. Saunders, commandant: Sergt.A.Ratcliffe, drill instructor), Drill hall, Albion st Watts Alfred, basket maker, Market street Watts Edmund, basket maker, Goddard's lane Weaving J esse, Prudential agent, The Common Webb & Son, drprs. clothiers & ho. furnishers, Market pl Wharton Katharine (Miss), milliner, New street ·wheeler Frederick Augustus, auctioneer & valuer, coal merchant, & certified bailiff, Middle row White Edmund, furniture dealer, Church street Wilkins Caleb, beer retailer, Burford road Wilkins & Toy, solicitors, High street Williams Henry Austin, photographer, Albion street Williams Harriet (Mrs.), grocer & clothier, \Vest street OVER NORTON. Jlirkbeck Rev. Joseph (Wesleyan) Dawkins William G. Over Norton ho Jeffries George Ernest, King's house Schofield Frederick, Chapel house Brain Charles, shopkeeper Busby .Albert, farmer East Alfred, farmer Paintin Kathan, estate carpenter Salmon Hy.miller (water),Priory mill Smith John, .shopkeeper East John, farmer COMMERCIAL, Alien Thomas, hide & skin dealer Baughan .Albert Henry, farmer Eowen George, leather glove maker Fawdry William, farmer, Choice hill Forrester' Frederick, district. surveyor Watkins Henry, farmer, Hull farm W alford Wilmot, farmer vVebb Edward, farmer, Ilull fr.rm Webb William, road rep!!irer WorvilL William, road repairer to Rural District Council, Elmsfield Hult Henry, farmer CHISELHAMPTON, commonly called "Chiselton," hampton. The living is a vicarage, consolidated with is a parish and' small village about 5t miles south-east that of Stadhampton, gross annual value £16o, including from Oxford on the river Thame, over which is an four Oxford Canal shares, bequeathed to the cons·Jliancient bridge, 4! miles south from Wheatley station dated benefice by the late Charles Peers esq. D.C.L. on the Didcot and Oxford section of the Great We;;tern with residence, in the gift of the Rev. W. H. Peen railway, 4! south-west from Littlemore station on the M.A. vicar of Harrow-Weald:, Middlesex, and held since D:dm·d and Princes Risboro' section of the same system, 1881 by the Rev. George Barrow Pennell M.A., T.C.D. and' 7 from Abingdon, in the Southern division of the who resides at Stadhampton. Chiselhampton House, the .county, hundred of Dorchester, petty sessional division of residence of Mrs. Parke, is a noble mansion with fine Bullingdon, union of Abingdon, county court district of grounds. The Rev. William Henry Peers M.A. is lord Abingdon, rural deanery of Cuddesdon and archdeac·mry of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is clay; and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Kathe1·ine, subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats erected in 1762, by Charles Peers esq. in place of the and beans. The area is 897 acres; rateable value, :ancient church of St Mary then removed, was come- £1,450; and the population in 189r was rr4. crated 22 Aug. q63, and is a small edifice of stone, Pari8h Clerk, David Bowden. consisting of chancel and nave, and a turret containing Letters through Wallingford arrive at 8.30 a.m. ; dis3 bells: there are several mural monuments to the patched at 5.40 p.m. The nearest money order & Peers family: the church was thoroughly renovated telegraph office is at Stadhampton during 1894 at a cost of £165, and affords 368 sitting.s. Wall Letter Box, cleared 5.30 p.m.; sundays, ro a.m The regist~r dates from the year 1556, but ail entries This place is included' in ·the united school board disprevious tu q62 were made· in the register of Etad- trict of Stadhampton, formed in r876 Parke Lieut.-Col. Roger,Chiselhamptn Poehin Mrs. Chiselhampton house Fuller William, farmer house Burton William, Coach & Horses P .H. Ha we~ Alfred Gilbert, farmer Parke "Mrs. Chiselhampton house i & butcher Turner James Williams, farmer CHURCHILL is a parish and village on the river Evenlode, I! miles north-east from G"'hipping Norton Junction on the Oxford and' Worcester section, and 3 south-west-by-west from Chipping J\"orton station, on the Chipping Norton Junction and King's Sutton branch of the Great Western railway, in the Northern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Chadlington, union and county court district of Chipping Norton, rural deanery of Chipping Norton, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of All Saints, an .edifice of stone, erected in 1826 on an eminence in the village, at the sole expense of James Haughton Langston esq. M.P. from designs by Mr. John Plcwman, 2-rchitect, of Oxford, is a good example of modern Perpendicular work, consisting of chancel and nave and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells, five of which, dated 163o, were removed: from the old church; one is inscribed, '' Our mournful sound doth warning give," the couplet being finished on the tenor.,. "That man cannot heare all wayes live ; " the tower is an exact replica, reduced one-third, of that of Magdalen College, Oxford, :md the base forms a porch : the roof of the nave and chancel, copied from that of the hall of Christ Church, Oxford, is of open timber work supported on angel corbels : the pulpit, of Caen stone, is decorated with arcading: the stained east window, erected July 22, 1866, is a memorial to J. H. Langston esq. M.P. d. 19 Oct. 1863, and was presented by his tenantry: the stone work of the reredos is richly illuminated ; the tracery of all

74 CHVRCHILL. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S the windows in the nave is copied from various examples Easter. In the village is a fountain, erected in 1870P of the Perpendicular style in Oxford, and one of thl'se by Henry John, 3rd Earl of Ducie and .Tulia., his wile, is a. memorial to Elizabeth Catherjne (Langston), widow daughter of the late James H. Ls.ngston esq. M.P. in of the Rev. Charles Barter M.A. rector: the chancel memory of James Haughton Langshm esq. M.P. of of the old church, about half-a-mile to the east, has Sart<den, who died 19 Oct. 1863, and Julia. Frances, hia been retained as a mortuary chapel, and was restored wife, daughter of Thomas, ISt Earl of Ducie, wh() in 186g and fitted with pine seats: the stained ~ast died 25th June, 186g. At the north end of the parish window is a memorial to the Rev. Charles Barter M.A. is a stone monument erected in 1Bg1 by the Earl of rector of Sarsden-with-Churchill, from 1817 until his Ducie, in memory of William Smith LL.D. Dublin, death, 24 June, 1868: the communion table of oak was "father of Britisru Geology," who was born at Churchill, given by Mrs. Barter: the remaining memorials include 23 March, 1769, and died' at Northampton, 28 Aug. a brass to John Gostwick, 1618, and monuments to 1839. The Earl of Ducie is lord of the manor and Sir John Waiter bart. M.P. of Sarsden House, clrrk principal landowner. The soil is stone brash and clay; controller of -the green cloth to Queen Anne, and M.P. subsoil, clay and light marl. The chief crops are wheat, for Oxford from 1706; d. nth June, 1722; Lady Mary barley, beaus, peas and' roots. The area is 2,773 acres; Tufton, daughter of John, 2nd Earl of Thanet and 11econd rateable value, [3,570; the population in 1891 was 548. wife of Sir Willia.mr Waiter bart. of Sarsden; and to Parish Clerk, Job Alder. Sarah, wife of John Langston esq. of Sarsden House, p t M 0 & T 0 s B E D 1' & A os , . . . ., . ., xpress e 1very n· 18oo: the interior of the church was thoroughly re- nuity & Insurance Office.-.Alfred Stuart Epps, substored in December, 1884, at a cost of £1,176: there postmaster. Letters from Chipping Norton arrive at. are 330 sittings. The register dates from the year 6 & d. t h d • .. . 30 a. m. 2.50 p.m.; 1spa c e au 10.40 a.m. "" 1630 and contains the following entry on December 15th, 7_ 30 p.m 1731, H Warren, son of the Rev. Mr. Penniston Hastings, was baptized.'' The house in which he was born still Endowed School, for the parishes of Sarsden & Churchill, h · T · · · · h d · founded by Dame W alter, a former owner of the stands in t e pansh. he hvmg IS a disc arge viCar- Sarsden estate and endowed with about 22 acres ot age, yearly value £177, annexed to the rectory of Sarsden, in the gift of the Earl of Ducie, and hl:'ld land·, producing £56 a year, built for 200 children; since 1868 by the Rev. William Edward Dickson Carter averag~ attendance, 125; George .Arthur Leake, M.A. of New College, Oxford, hon. Canon of Christ master; Miss Louis Williams, mistress; Miss Martha Church, official principal of the archdeaconry of Oxford, Stringer, infants! mistress rural dean of Chipping Norton and surrogate, who re- Overseers.-Thomas Algernon Taylor & George Pantin sides at Sarsden. The charities for distribution in Railway Station (Chipping Nor ton junction), John Breakmoney amount to about £r3, which is distributed at nell, station master Edwards Richard Epps .Alfred Stuart, Post office, draper, Pearse Francis, shopkeeper Hastings Re-v. Warren M.A. (curate) gr~cer & tea dealer Powell Thomas Henry Thomas,farmer, Sargent John William Griffin James, farmer Churchill grounds Taylor James William, Warren Hast- Hawker Waiter Henry, Langston Arms Rose Urban, farmer, Heath farm ings house P.H. Junction Sweet Edwin, police constable COMMERCIAL. Rill Wm. Arth. farmer, Cundict farm Taylor Thomas Algernon, baker A.lden William, blacksmith HJnour Edwin, farmer Treweeke Wm . .Alfd. farmer,Ryne hill Churchill Reading Room & Institute Leake George Arthur, schoolmaster Watkins James, haulier (William Matthew, sec) Matthews William, carpenter Williams Edward William, miller Cornish Thomas, farmer, Mount farm Orford George, assistant overseer (water & stea.m) Edwards Ernest, farmer, Churchill fm Pantin George, Chequers P.H. & btchr Williams William, farmer CLANFIELD is a parish and village bounded on the ~outh by the river Isis, 2 miles south-east from .Alvescot station on the Oxford and Fairford branch of the Great \Vestern rail11>ay, 2 west-by-south from Bampton, 8 south-west from 1Vhitney and 4 north from Faringdon, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bampton West, union of Witney, county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of Witney and· archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Stephen is an ancient edifice of stone chiefly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel with north aisle, nave of three bays, north aisle, south! porch and an embattled western tower of the Decorated period, surmounted by pinnacles and containing 5 bells : the chancel and chancel arch are Early English; the former retains a piscina d that date, and three graduated sedilia formed in the sill of a window: the arcade between the north aisle and the nave. is Norman, and the south doorway is uf similar character: the font is octagonal and panelled: on the tower is a figure of St. Stephen with a book in one hand and stones in the other, symbolic of his testimony and death: th~ church was thoroughly re~ stored in 1870, and affords 221 sittings, no being free. The register dates from about the year 1615 ; the early portion, however, is only an imperfect fragment. The living is a vicarage, average tithe lentcharge £38, net yearly value £65, with 23 acres of glebe and residence, in the joint gift of Christ Church~ Oxon, and G. H. E1liot esq. lW!d held since r876 by ·the Rev. Edward Dix B.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Th~J Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1844, and there is also a "\Vesleyan chapel. The charities, amounting in all to £5 15s. 6d. yearly, are distributed to the poorin sums of gd. Wilmott's of £z rss. on Good Friday,. and Clarke's of £2 r2s. 6d. on St. Thomas' day. The manorial rights are extinct. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, are the chief landowners. Ther soil is principally red gravel; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are the. usual cereals. The area is 1,763 acres; rateable value, £2,6n; the population in 1891 was 429. Parish Clerk and Sexton, Charles Stevens. Post Offi.ce.-Thomas Keen, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive. through Faringdon, deliveries commence at 7 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. ; sundays, 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 9.50 a.m. & B.ro p.m.; sundays, 8.10 p.m. Bampton is the nearest money order & telegraph office Parochial School (mixed), rebuilt in 1873, & suppol'ted by voluntary subscription for 105 children; averaga attendance, 75 ; - Sargent, master .AkeTman Mrs. South lawn Clack Mrs Clare Waiter, grocer, butcher, draper & hardware dealer Keen Thomas, shoe maker, Post office Keylock Chas. Wm. frmr. Friars crt Mills Ohas. pig dealer, Little Clanfield Nelmes Edwd. Plough P.H. & farmer Parrott Waiter, assci.stant overseer Radburn Alfred, marine store dealer Reason Jn.Kilmaster,frmr.Chureh frm Rymes David, baker & beer retailer Smith J Ghn, farmm-, Bushy farm Stevens Ohas.wattle ma.&pa.rish clerk Stevens Mary (Mrs.), dress maker Townsend John, wheelwright Olowser George Page, The Firs Dix Rev. Edward RA. Vicarage Faulks Henry, Rose villa Hewer Miss Malyon Mrs White Mrs COMMElWIAL. .Adams Richard, farmer Beckinsale- Thomas, baker Clack Thomas Morris, boot maker Olack WalteT, horse oollar maker Clare Thos. farmer, Little Olanfield Clare Willlam Tuckwe11, farmer, cattle dealer, miller (water) corn & offal merchant & sack contractor; large quantitieSJ for hire Clarke James, grocer & draper Cripps Thomas, Masons' ..!.rms P.H Farmer William, mason Hoddinott Simon, frmr. Higrh Ho.frm Knapp L. R. & Co. patentees <& manufacturers of agricultural implements, & agents; engineers, machinists &c White John, fa.rmer Yeatman Thomas, blacksmith CLATTERCOTE, formerly extra-parochial, is DC!W a county court district of Banbury and Banbury and Bloxparish, 2 miles north from Cropredy station, on the ham petty sessional division, on -the borders of NorOxford and Banbury section of the Great Western rail- thamptonshire and' Warwickshire; it contains but one way, and about 6 miles north from Ilanbury, in the ancient and extensive dwelling-house. Here was anciently Northern division of the county, hundred, union and a. Gilbertine priory, founded in the reign of King John,.

• DffiBCTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CLIFTON HAMPDEN. 75 and dedicated to St. Leonard, of which some remainli !ttill ~:xist. Willia~ ClornwaUis Cartwright esq. of .Aynho, Northants, is lord of the manor and sole- landowner. The soil is partly heavy and partly light; subsoil, red stone and' clay. The chief crops are the usual cereals with some amount of pasture. The area. is 325 acres of land' and I3 of water; rateable value, £892; the population in 1891 was g. Letters from Leamington arrive at ro a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Wardington Nearest Post Office is at Claydon; cleared at 4· ro on week days only This place is included! in the united school board district of Claydon &;. Clattercote, formed 22 March, 1875; the board school is at Claydon Hadland Spencer, farmer CLA YDON is a chapelry and ecclesiastical parish formed in 185r out of the civil parish of Cropredy, on the borders of Warwickshire and Northamptonshire; it is 3 miles north from Cropredy station, on the O::dord and Banbury section of the Great Western railway, 6! north from Banbury and 29 north from Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, Banbury and Bloxham petty sessional division, hundred, union and county court district of Banbury, rural deanery of Deddington and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Oxford and Birmingham canal (1769-90) passes through. The church of St. James is an ancient and curiously built edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a western tower with saddle-back roof, containing 3 bells: an arcade of three Norman arches divides the nave and aisle, and the capitals of two of the piers show that the mouldings were cut before the figuring was carved : the reredos is of coloured alabaster and the sedilia of Caen stone ; and there is a piscina on the north side : three of the chancel windows are stained: the church was thoroughly restored in r86o and affords 150 sittings : the churchyard has been considerably enlarged by the addition of land given by the Rev. George William Palmer, vicar r864-91. The register dates from the year 1569. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £m, net yearly value [209, with 58 acres of glebe and residence, erected in 1867, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since r8gr by the Rev. Samuel Ray Standage. Here is a small Primitive Methodist chapel. The poor's land produces about £r2 yearly, which is distributed to the poor in fuel. Freckleton's oharity of about £r3 yearly, is. usually applied by the vicar to the support of the Sunday school and the clothing club; Calcott's, of £r r6s. is for education. The principal landowners are the Rev. James Aubrey Gould B.C.L. vicar of Newton St. Cyres~ Devon, and the Ven. Charles William Holbech M.A. vicar of Farnborough, W arw, and archdeacon of Coventry. The soil is principally clay; subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat and beans, with larger proportion of pasture than arable. The area is r,ng acres; rateable value, [2,791; the population in r8gr was 239· Sexton, William Saunders. Post Office. John Parriett, sub-postmaster. Letters through Banbury, arrive at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at. 4· ro p.m. on week days only. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Farnborough. Postal orders issued here, but not paid .A School Board of 5 members was formed 22 March,_ 1875, for the United District of Claydon & Clattercote; George Astell, clerk to the board & attendance officer • Board School (mixed), erected in r8JJ, for both parishes: & holding 8o children; average attendance, 43; ~Iiss Lucy Sargent, mistress Carrier to & from Banbury.-William Berry, to the 'Unicorn,' mon. & thurs Anderton John Elkington Thomas &;, John, fa.rmers, Langford William, farmer Mold John, blacksmith Nioho1s J osiah. farmer Owen Thomas, shoe maker S tanley George, farmer Stanley Henry, farmer Williams Richard, farmer Standage Rev. Sarnl. Ray, Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Astell George, farmexAstell Joihn, farmer Bates George, beer retailer Claydon Hay farm Garrett Richard, carpenter Goode George, farmer GoUJgh J esse, Rising Sun P.H Harris Percy, farmer Lambert John, farmer CLIFTON HAMPDEN is a parish and village on date, and at its eastern end is a small Decorated chapel,. the road from Wallingford to Abingdon, r! miles east with Transition Norman piscina: at the west end are from Culham station, on the Oxford and Birmingham two lancet windows, and between them rises a tall section of the Great Western railway and 3~ east-south- buttress carrying the bell-turret; a good porch, in thet east from Abingdon, in the Southern division of the Decorated style, has been added on the south side, and t·ounty, Dorchester hundred, Bullingdon petty sessional a vestry entrance at the east end of the north aisle, and division, Abingdon union and county court district, rural at the entrance to the churchyard is a substantial opendeanery of Cuddesdon and archdeaconry and diocese of timbered lych-gate of carved oak: notes of arms and Oxford. The parish is bounded on the south by the monuments in this church, taken in r66o, are contained river Isis, here crossed by a substantial brick bridge of in Harl. MS. 4170: there are 170 sittings. The register six pointed arches, with grained recesses, erected by H. dates from the year 1572. The living is a vicarage,_ H. Gibbs esq. in place of the old ferry. The church of tithe rent-charge £roo, net yearly value [329, including St. Michael and All Angels, beautifully situated on a 8 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Henry cliff at the bend of the river, is a small edifice of stone, Rucks Gibbs esq. and held since r88g by the Rev. James in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south Liggins Cotton ~LA. of Trinity College, Cambridge. porch and an elegant open turret on the western gable Noye's charity, bequeathed in r83r, consists of £r,ooo in with a slender spire and containing 5 bells: the church Consols, the interest of which is distributed annually at was restored in 1844, under the direction of the late Si:r Christmas in coal. Henry Rucks Gibbs esq. F.S.A .• Gilbert Scott R.A. by Henry Rucks Gibbs esq. F.S.A., F.R.G.S. of St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park NW and F.R.G.S. of Aldenham, Herts, in accordance with the Aldenham, Herts, is lord of the manor and principal wishes of the late patron, George Henry Gibbs esq. who landowner. The soil is gravel; subsoil, light gravel. died at Venice, 21 Aug. r842, and to whom a fine tomb The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats. ThB with a recumbent portrait effigy has been placed in the area is 1,228 acres of land and 17 of water; rateabl~ chancel, which also retains two sedilia and a piscina, and value, [1,554; the population in 1891 was 302. is separated from the nave by an elaborately worked Parish Clerk, Richard Casey. brass screen, with figures in bronze, designed by the Post &:; Telegraph Office.-lVilliam Franklin, sub-postlate Sir G. G. Scott R.A. and erected on the addition master. Letters through Abingdon, arrive at 7. 30 of the new aisle: the reredos is of mosaic work and h · · . d S a.m. & r p.m. ; dispatched at r & 6 p.m. The represents t e mstitutwn of the Blesse acrament: the nearest money order office is at Dorchester. Postal roof of the nave, continued over the chancel, is a re- Orders are issued here, but not paid storation of the old Decorated roof, but with additional ornaments int-roduced: the north aisle, a later edition, National School (mixed), built in 1847, for 100 children; is separated from the nave by three Decorated arches, average attendance, 62 ; William Thomas Cresswell, with plain mouldings, continuous to the bases ; the master south arcade has three arches of Transition Norman Carrier.-William Franklin, to Oxford every sat Bros James J.P Ball William, blacksmith Franklin Wm.shpkpr.butchr.&post off Cotton Rev. James Liggins M.A. Casey Richard, builder Horwood John Thomas Keen, farmer. (vicar), Vicara~ Clifton Hampden Co-opaative Stmes Low farm Freebmn Henry Spenoer Richard Lim. (Edwin Bargus, manager) Hickman Jesse Brant, boot & shoe ma M. B. Red house ConvaJescent Home & MotheDs' Rest Paxman N oah,farmer & steam ploughWeston Maj. Ohas. Saml. The Cottage (Mrs. Caroline Harrison, matron) ing & threshing machine owner, Freeborn Henry Spencer Richard M.B., Upper Town farm COMMERCIAL. O.M.Edin. surgeon, & medical Stephenson Stphn. farmr. Home farm A.llnutt Ernest, frmr. Fullamoor farm officer, 6t:h dist. .A.bingdon union

'76 COGGES. OXFORDSHIRE, (KELLY'S •COGGES (or Coggs) iil a parish," ! mile north from 1 representations of the Evangelistic symbols: there is Witney station, on the Oxford and Fairford branch of also a monument to the Blake family, one to Henry the Great Western railway. Newland, belonging to this l White, dated 1677• and other mural monuments: the ~,:ivil parish, consists of one long street diverging from carved cornice of the roof, with corbels of animals Bridge street, Witney, a~ong the high road to playing on musical instruments is very grotesque and Oxford, and forms part of the town of Witney with j effective: the church was restored in 1883, at a cost of -which the names are given. High Cogges is a hamlet '£soo, and affords 200 sittings. The register of bap- {)f this parish, 1 mile south-east, and Cogges proper tisms and burials dates from 1653; marriages, 1697. (where the church is situate): the old Manor house, now 'l'he living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £35• gross used as a farmhouse, is approoched from Witney by a 1 yearly value £140, with 8~ acres of glebe and residence, -passage extending to the river Windrush, which here in the gift of and held since 1884 by the Rev. Edward ·separates Cogges from Witney and is crossed by foot j James TJndy Pay ne T.A.K. C.L. Here was an alien .bridges over each of its two arms; the parish is in the 1 priory of the Benedictine order, founded in 1103 by one Mid division of the county, Wootton hundred, petty ses· De Arsic, and attached to the abbey of the Holy Trinity, ..sioml division of Bampton East, Witney union and at Fescamp, in Normandy: the kitchen and study of the county court district, rural deanery of Witney, and vicarage house, situated close to the church, are the .archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. only remains of the priory now existing. The charities J\~Ia:ry is an ancient edifice of stone, in mixed styles, con- 1 for distribution in bread and clothing and for church and :sisting of chancel with north chapel of the Decorated 1 educational purposes amount to about £no yearly . . period, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch and a Aubrey Harcourt esq. of Nuneham Park, is lord of the ,singular Decorated tower, placed diagonally at the west I manor and the principal landowner. The soil is clay ~nd of the north aisle, square in the lower stage but 1 and gravel; there is much pasture land; subsoil, clay ; .octagonal above, with a conical roof and containing 3 i the crops are the usual cereals. The area is 2,218 bells: the chancel opens to its chapel by two arches of acres; rateable value. £3,055; the population in I8gr the qth century, and there is a canopied piscina on the was 782. ~amh of one of these: the east window is Decorated and Sexton, Joseph Smith. Letters arrive through Witney which is the nearest money order & telegraph office, & Newland the nearest post office -retains its original tracery: the nave is divided from the aisles by an arcade of two Transition Norman arches .(Ill the south side, and on the north by an arcade of three arches of later date : the font and the inner doorway of the porch are also Transition Norman: the clere- Endowed Schools (mixed):- -story is lighted on one side only by three quatrefoil · Cogges, for 150 children; average attendance, xoo; :Mrs . .()penings in a sqnare panel: within the western arch, Sarah Cantwell, mistress opening from the chancel to the chapel, stands a large High Cogges (infants); Mrs. White, mistress altar tomb, with recumbent effigy : the sides are re- I The schools are both under the management of the 1ieved by deeply recessed square panels, containing bold trustees of Blake's charity OOGGES. IDGH OOGGES. Hollis & Son, wheelwrights, agricul- tural implement manufacturers & agents; speciality, drills & winnowing machines 'Payne Rev.Edwd.J as. UndyT . .A..K. O.L. (vicar), St. M.ary's priory Cantwell William, builder :Ma.wle Joseph, :Manor farm Bury John D. farmef' Harris Charles, farmer Harris William, shopkeeper Hollis Henry, farmer Honour John, farmer The register dates from the year 1646. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £so, average £37, net yearly value £255, in the gift of the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and held since 1891 by the Rev. Stephen Spencer Pearce M.A. late of that College. The rectory house, occupied by Mrs. Brooke, is in part coeval with, if not prior to, the date of the foundation of Lincoln College, and was embattled towards the east and west; the south front was built by recent incumbents: the style generally is that of the 15th century. There are Wesleyan and F1ee Methodist chapels. A temperance reading and coffee roJm was erected in 1890 by volun· ta.ry contributions. The charities for distribution in bread and fuel amount to £6 yearly; the church land and cottages produces £19 yearly. The Duke of Marlborough is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is mostly stone brash and deep loam; subsoil. clay. The land is chiefly pasture and arable. The area is 1,339 acres; rateable value, £2,626; the population in r8gr was 527. Parish Clerk, Enoch Stoker. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & .A.nnnity & Insurance Oflice.-'Mrs. Emma Phipps, sub-postmistress. Letters through Woodstock arrive at 7· 30 a.m. & 2.10 p.m.; dispatched at 3.25 & 6.10 p.m Endowed School (mixed), founded in 1843 by Mrs . Tatham, widow of the late Dr. Tatham, rector of Lincoln College, & endowed with £7 Ios. yearly; it. was considerably enlarged during 1892-3, & now holds 130 scholars; average attendance, I 10 ; Thomas Hughes, master; Miss Mary Ann Whitley, assistant mistress; Mrs. M. J. Hughes, infants' mistress COM:BE (or Long Combe) is a village and parish, ·bounded on the south by the river Evenlode, with Blenheim park on the east, and is 2~ north-west from Handborough station on the Oxford and Wolverhampton .section of the Great ·western railway, 6 north~east from ·'\;Vitney, 3 west from Woodstock, 10 north-west from .()xford and 66 from London, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty sessional division of 1Vootton South, union and county court district of Wood- .stock, rural deanery of W oodstock and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The ancient church stood in a deep .adjoining valley. The present church of St. Laurence the Martyr, situated on elevated ground, above the winding Evenlode, is a good Perpendicular building of .stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south ;porches and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells : the chancel has an Past window of five lights, retaining, in its Perpendicular 'tracery, some fragments of old glass: canopied sedilia, .and a piscina with drain and basin very perfect : there is a plain chancel arch, on the north side of which the stairs to the rood loft remain, with both doors : on the :south side is a Decorated niche : on the north side of the nave, under the easternmost window, is a hexagonal panelled stone pulpit, with rich tracery, crocketed pinnacles and a battlemented cornice: the font is similar: . two ancient paintings have been discovered, one in the nave, representing the " Crucifixion," and another over the chancel arch, of the twelve apostles with their -respective symbols. The chancel was restored by the 'Rector and Fellows of Lincoln College in 1887: the church affords 220 sittings : in the churchyard is an altar tomb, with quatrefoiled sides: on May q, 1823. lthe sexton, while digging a grave, met with some coins Carriers to :- of Queen Elizabeth and a fine ring of gold, set with a Oxford-John Bishop, wed. & sat large ruby and weighing nearly a quarter of an ounce. Witney-J ohn Bishop, thurs 'Brooke Mrs. Rectory house Davis Philip., farmeT Ph.ipps James, Royal Oak P.H Pearce Rev. Stephen Spencer M.A. Daw Hannah (Mrs.), laundress Phipps Emma (Mrs.), baker & grocer, (vicar) Hayward John, Cock inn Post office Honour Caleb & Sons, fa.rmers Smith John, Marlborouv;h Arms P .H COMMERCI.AL. Huckins Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Tlmperance Reading & Coffee Room JosJ!in John, farmer Walker Thomas, bacon curer 1Jishop John, carrier Nash Edwa:rd, c1erk of the works to Woodward Edward, farmer 'Busby WaJter, shopkeeper & baker Duke of Marlborough Woodward John, shoe maker CORN:BURY PARK (called also Blandford and Western railway and 7 west from Woodstock, in the 1Vychwood Park) and formerly extra-parochial, is now ~orthern division of the county, hundred and petty ses- .a ~rish, abaut r mile south from Charlbury station on sional division of Chadlington, union and county court the Oxford and ·Wolverhampton section of the Great district of Chipping Norton. The mansion here, belong- -

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. COWLEY. '11 ing to Lord Churchill, and at pre~ent the residence of forest, once consisting of 6. 720 acres, was for long !J. Llewelyn l\Ialcolm Wynne esq. D.L., J.P. stands on the wild tract of land, woods and coppices, intersected with banks of the river Evenlode and is surrounded by a winding paths and roads, but in 1862 was disa:fforested spacious deer park and beautifully wooded grounds ; it and sold to different persons ; a large portion is, howis a handsome building of stone, on the front of which ever, still woodland and forms part of the park at Cornappears the inscription " Dens nobis haec otia fecit," a bury. The area of the park, excluding forest land, is quotation from Virgil, probably placed there by Lord 615 acres; rateable value, £7oo; the population in 1891 Chancellor Clarendon, on his obtaining possession of the was 44· estate. The manor belonged in the reign of Queen Letters through Oxford, via Charlbury arrive at 6.¥J' Elizabeth to the famous Robert Dndley, Earl of Leices- a.m. & 1.40 p.m. Charlbury is the nearest money: ter K.G. who died here 4th September, 1588, when on & telegraph office his journey to Kenilworth Castle. Lord Churchill is Letters are placed in Charlbury letter box to be dislord of the manor and sole landowner. ·wychwood patched Wynne Llewelyn Malcolm D.L., J.P.; & 34 Berkeley square, London W CORNWELL :.s a parish and village on the borders ch:1rged rectory, net yearly value £6o, derived from 100 of Glouce-stershire and ·Worcestershire, 2! miles west from acres of glebe land, with residence, in the gift of the:- Chipping Norton station on the Chipping Junction and Lord Chancellor, and held since 1889 by the Rev. WilKing's S~<tton branch of the Great Western railway, in Iiam Collingwood Carter M.A. of Christ Church, Oxthe Nol'thern division of the county, hundred and petty ford, and surrogate. Cornwell Manor, the seat of sessi0nal division of Chadlington, union and county Alexander Nelson Hall esq. J.P. is a good stone mansiow ~ourt district of Chipping Norton, r-:.~ral de.anery of standing in a well-wooded park of 6o acres. The trusChipping Norton and archdeaconry and diocese of Ox- tees of the late John Francis Penyston esq. (d. 1892) ford. The church (dedication unknown) which stands are the principal landowners. The soil is chiefly limein the grounds of Cornwell House, is a plain building of stone brash; subsoil, brash rock. The chief crops are< stone in the NormRn and later styles, consisting of wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 798 acres; chancel, nave, south porch and a central turret con- rateable value, [930; the population in 1891 was 86. taming one small bell: the chancel arch is Transition Parish Clerk, Charles Alley. Norman and the doorway plain Norman: the stained Letters through Chipping Norton, which is the nearesteast window was erected in 1876 in memory of the money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 late Miss Penyston: the church was partly rebuilt in 1830, and in 1882 was thoroughly restored by the late Letter Box, outside Glebe Farm, cLeared at 7·15 p.m~ John F. Penyston esq. at a cost of £8so: there are in summer & 7 p.m. in winter, week days only sittings for 70. The register dates from the year 1662, Parochial School, erected in 1877, for 30 children;. but is in many parts impeTfect. The living is a dis- average attendance, 22 ; Miss Annie Allin, mistress Carter Rev. William Coiling-wood M.A. Ha.:l Alex. Nelson J.P.Cornwell manor,Bowles George, farmer, Glebe farm (rector & surrogate), Rect-ory Ba.rnes John, dairyman Fawdry George, farmer, Park farm COTTISFORD is a parish on the borders of Northamptonshire, 4 miles south from Brackley station on the Bletchley and Banbury branch of the London and North Western railway, and 6 north from Bicester, in the Mid division of t-he county, hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and county court district of Bicester, rural deanery of Bicester and arch deaconry and dioces-e of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a belfry containing 3 bells : in the church is a stone coffin and a brass, with the effigies of a man in armour and his wife, both kneeling, and figures of eight sons and five daughters, c. 15oo: the church was restored in 186r, and affords 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 165r, and the earliest volume is bound in oak. 'rhe living is a rectory, held conjointly with the rectories of Hardwick and Tusmore, (both of which are in the gift of the Earl of Effingham), tithe rent-charge £302, average £230, joint net yearly Harrison Rev. Charles Sawkins M.A.I Rous by Edwa.rdes Rectory Cot-tisford house value [277, including 82 acres of glebe and residence-,., in the gift of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College~ and held since 1853 by the Rev. Charles Sawkins Harrison M.A. of University College, Durham, and formerly co:•.duct of Eton College. John Mansfield, in r86g, bequeathed £roo New £3 per Cents. the interest of which is distributed among the poor. Cottisford House is the' seat of Edwardes Richard Kendall Rousby esq. Twothirds of the land belong to Eton College and the remainder to the Earl of Effingham. The; common land, of about 440 acres, was inclosed about 1854· The soil is gravelly; subsoil, stone. The chief crops are wheat •. barley and oats. The area is 1,48ra. 31'. 2op. ; rateablevalue, £1,145; the population in 189r was 222. Parish Clerk, Thomas Mansfield. Letters through Brackley arrive at 8.30 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 3·45 p.m. Brackley is thenearest money order & telegraph office National School, built in 1870, for so children; averageattendance, 34; Miss Davis, mistress Riohard' Kendall, Rousby Mrs. Cottisford house Harris John, Fox P.H MIDDLE, TEMPLE and CHURCH COW LEY. COWLEY is a parish, part of which is within the muni- yearly value £I6r, with residence: it is in the gift of cipal and parliamentary limits of Oxford, extending the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and from Oxford for 2f miles south-south-east and is one held since 1875 by the Rev. George Moore M.A. of mile north from Littlemore station on the Oxford and Jesus College, Oxfol'd. There is a free reading room Wycombe section of the Great Western railway, in with a library of 200 volumes. Here are the barrackg. the Southern division of the county, hundred and petty of the Oxford Military depot and Industrial schools; sessional division of Bullingdon, union of Headington, There is a bread charity of £m yearly value, derived county court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Cud- from 10 acres of land. In the parish of Cowley, about desdon and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The half a mile from Magdalen bridge, is the desecrated church of St. James is an ancient building of stone, chapel of St. Bartholomew, a building of Transition chaoriginally of the Late Norman period, but now in mixed racter from Decorated to Perpendicular, belonging styles, consisting of chancel with north aisle, nave of originally to a hospital for lepers, founded by Henry I. four bays, north aisle, south porch and a low embattled who enrlowed it with £23 yearly; in 1328 Adam de western tower of Perpendicular date, containing 6 bells : Brome, founder of Oriel College, obtained a grant of the chancel is Early English, the east end being lighted the hospital from Edward Ill. for his society, proby a triplet of stained lancet windows ; on the north mising to maintain 8 lepers and a chaplain: during the and south sides are niches and the latter retains a plague of 1643 the hospital was used as a pest-house, piscina: the tower has a good Perpendicular west win- I and, being destroyed in the siege, was rebuilt by the dow: the windows of the nave are Decorated and there College in 1649; in 1833 the buildings were refitted are memorial windows to Mr. Richard Greening and i and adapted to the purposes of a cholera hospital: the Miss Cholmely: there is a plain font and some benches, 1 chapel is a simple parallelogram, with good t-raceried dated 1632; and upon the walls are extensive traces windows, and contains a rood-scr~n, dated 165I; of ancient paintings of the Holy Virgin and Child, Our eight pensioners, "the almsmen of St. Barty," and Lord in Glory, and dedication crosses, some portions I elected by the freemen of the city, receive a smali of which have been restored ; the church was restored ! annual pittance from Oriel College. A preceptory of and enlarged in 1865 under the direction of the late the Knights Templars, from which Temple Cowley G. E. Street esq. R.A. and affords soo sittings. The deriv~s its prefix, was founded here in the 13th century, register dates from the year I6i8. The living is a i but about 1274 was removed to Sandford, wher~ there vicarage, tithe rent-charge £no, average £99• net are still some remains: the manor of Temple Covele

78 COWLEY. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S W3S giv-en to the Knights Templars by Maud or Matilda, the queen of King Stephen. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The soil is clay and gravel. The area is 940 ac:oos; rateable value, £34,555; the population with Cowley St. John, in 18gr, was 10,339, including 134 in the workhouse industrial school, 258 in the military barracks, and 52 in the Hospital for Incurables. The population of Cowley St James ecclesiastical parish in 189r was 2,065, and the population in Oxford municipal and parliamentary borough, 152. Rose Hill is a portion of the parish near Iffiey. Here is a Free Methodist chapel. Cowley St. John is a suburb of Oxford, under which the names of the residents will be found. · At Church Cowley is a burial ground belonging to the Oxford Corporation. Oxford Military College. The Oxiord Military College, which stands on the main road of Temple Cowley, was founded under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge K.G. <Jommander-in-chief, and opened 7th Sept. 1876: the buildings comprise an old mansion, said to have been -a manor house, and dating from the Early part of the 17th century, and a chapel in the Dec'lrated style, erected in 1870 from designs by M:r. E. G. Bruton, architect, of Oxford, for the former Diocesan School, the buildings of which, with additions, now form part 'Of the college: its objects are to provide education for -sons of officers, who have the preference for admission and may prepare for any profession or business ; to prepare any candidates, whether sons of officers or not, for commissions in the military s&vice, and to enable the senior pupils to enter the University as unattached 'Students, and to proceed to degrees ; instruction in infantry dril:l, lance, sword, carbine drill, swimming and gymnastics is given. There are three terms and the vacations are together about 13 weeks ; candidates for military commissions should enter not later than the age of 13. The institution is proprietary and owners of 5 to 10 shares have the right of nominating a student :at a lower rate than others. • Board of Management. The Marquess of Hertford ; Col. F. E. B. Loraine ; L. W. Burnand esq. M.A. ; G. W. Robinson esq. M.A. ; H. Le Blanc Lightfoot esq. Secreiary-J. W. Garnett Staff. Second Master-Rev. E. W. Jones M.A. Head of the Junior Department & Chaplain-The E. W. Jones :M.A Rev. Senior :Mathematical Master-J. H. Chapman esq. M . .A. Assistant Masters-W. R. Thomas B.A.; S. B. Slack M.A. ; C. F. Baranowski esq. B. es L. University of France; F. D. McMurray esq. ; W. G. Collett B.A Medical Officer-Surgeon-Major Lever M.B.Lond Organist & Music Master-W. R. Thomas B.A Certificated Instructor in Gymnastics & SwimmingSergt. J. Horrill Military. Regimental District No. 43, The Oxfordshire Light Infantry (rst battalion 43rd Foot & 2nd battalion 52nd), Depot, The Barracks Commanding Regimental District, Col. William Livesay 4th Battalion, Oxford Militia, Head quarters, The Barracks ; Hon. Col. C. R. Bulkeley, commandant ; Capt. F. E. Withington, instructor of musketry; Capt. E. A. E. Lethbridge, adjutant; Hon. Capt. G. A. Hirst, quarter master Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Charlotte Parkinson, sub-postmistress. Letters through Oxford arrive at 6.50 a.m. & 2 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays at 6.50 a.m.; dispatched at 11.5 a. m. 6.10 & 8 p.m. ; sundays at 3 p.m Wall Letter Boxes at Military College, cleared at II a.m. & 5 &; 8.5 p.m. ; at Military Barracks, cleared at 5.40 & 8.20 p.m. & at Rose hill, cleared at n.rs a.m .. & 5·10 p.m.; at Temple road, cleared at Io.ss a.m. & 5.20 & 8.30 p.m Schools. Poor Law Industrial Training (mixed), built in 1854, for z2o children; in 1894 new works were carried out for the improvement of the water supply, from plans by Mr. W. H. Castle, surveyor, of Oxford; these include the erection of a water tower with two tanks, containing together 8,ooo gallons of water, pumped from wells on the premises, and distributed by gravitation; J. H. Bell, master; Mrs. Bell, matron National, built in 1834, for uo children; the girls' school was a gift to the parish, erected at a cost, with site, of £8oo; Jam es Cowan, master; Miss Hewlett, mistress Head Master-G. Beardoe Grundy College, Oxford esq. B.A. Brasenose Infants', erected in 1884 at a cost of £7oo; Miss RobinTEMPLE OOWLEY. Residents in the Military College. Chapman J. H., M.A G:lllett W. G., B.A McMurray F. G., B.A Slack S. B., M.A Thomas W. R., B. A PRIVATE RESIDENTS. son, infants' mistress Browning W. P. & Son, blacksmiths Baker George, blacksmith Carter William, gardener Harris Jarne~ farmer Gross William, ,shopkeeper Robarts John, beer retailer Deacon Isaac, carman Thompson Arthur, King of Prussia Fields William, market gardener P.H. Rose hill Gibbons Ohas. beer ret. & shopkeeper Gibbons Richard, beer retailer Gurney Thomas, market gardener Hedges Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher Holloway Ambrose, farmer MIDDLE OOWLEY. Oowley Co-operative & Industrial Society Lim. (William Scivyer, local 13ateman Henry, Allhallows manager) Earanowski Ohas.Fras.B.esL. Carter William Elm vil Honour Harry, baker & grocer Davis .Tames, sacristan Greening Edward, farmer G-rundy G. Bea.rdoe B.A. (headmaster, Oxford! :Military College) Rurst Miss, R-ock hO'Ilse J"ones Rev. E. W., M.A. (chaplain to Oxford Military Coli.), Villa.ge house Lindsay Lieut.-Col. Waiter James, Elmthorpe Mare Rev. Henry B.A. (prindpal, St. Kenelm's school) Moore ReiV. George M.A. (vicar & chaplain to the Oxford Military Depot Barracks), The Vicarage Webb Rev. J. Howard M.A. (second master, St.Kenelm's school & curate of Cowley) COMMERCIAL. Allum Arthur, boot maker Bancalari Vincent, carpenter Batem.an Henry, market gardener Eoffin Thos. genl. dlr. Cowley marsh Horton Jemima (Mrs.), shopkeeper J ohnson J o'hn, farmer Lee Richard, Exeter Hall P.H. Cowley marsh Morris Lawrenoe, tailor Simmons Samuel, shopkeeper Skinner Oharles,Bullingdon Arms P.H. C-owley marsh Smith Andrew, market ga-rdener Somers Mrs. Esther, shopkeeper Trinder Henry, beer retailer Turner Silas, grocer Warnock Thomas, Original Swan P.H White John, fa.rmer OHUROH COWLEY. Hunt Ephraim, market gardener Jana.wa.y .Tosiaih, wheelwright Johnson Benjamin, market gardener .J ohnSIOn J sph. btchr.BOO"ween Towns rd J ohnson Mrs. S. fruiterer King Arthur, Carpenters' Arms P.H Lakin J oseph, florist Oakley Walter Richard, blacksmith 0 x 'f o r d s h I r e (The) Steam Ploughing eo. (J. Alien, manager), engineers, steam plougbing, thra,shing &; haulage cont.ractors,implement & machinery agents,boilers, engines, thmshers & rolling machinery of aill kinds repaired & reCobb Edward George, Rose hill newed Harper James, Rose hill Polley William, builder Telfer Miss, Prospect villa, Rose hill Phipps Frederick, beer retailer TitheTington Mrs. Rose hill Sa,mbels Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Young Mrs. Rose hill Wyatt Edward, baker CROPREDY, in Domesday, " Cropelie," is a parish, <m the river Cherwell near the borders of Northampton- "Bhire and Warwickshire, with a station on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway, 4 miles north-north-east from Banbury, 27 north from Oxford and 89! from London, in the Northern division Qf the county, hundred, union and county court district of Banbury, Banbury and Blo:x:ham petty sessional division, rural deanery of Deddington and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Oxford and Birmingham canal (r769-90) passes through the parish. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, situated on a slight eminence about 30 feet above the river, is a fine edifice of stone. chiefly in the Decorated style of the Early 14th century,

DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CROWELL. 79 having been rebuilt about 1320, and consists of chancel, duce together £,19 a year for educational purposes, th~ nave of four bays with clerestory, aisles, south porch Bell-Land endowment and a small gift from land at and a massive embattled western tower containing a North End are in the disposal of the vicar. On June clock and 6 bells and dated 168g and a priest's bell cast 29th, 1644, a furious battle was fought at Cropredy in 1701 : the chancel retains a double piscina and on Bridge, between the royal army commanded by Charles the north side a recess, with traces of carving: on the I. in person and the parliamentary troops, which tarnorth pier of the chancel arch is another piscina, with minated in the defeat of the latter: an old breast and canopy and pinnacles : the north aisle is Perpendicular : back piece with a pot helmet hang in the vicarage, the nave arcades consist of four ~ofty arches on each and cannon shot, buttons, broken swords and rusted side with continuous moulding (a rare feature in Eng- weapons are disinterred from time to time in the lish churches) ; the western or tower arch is also very meadows by the river side ; some relics of interest are fine: there are some remains of a rood screen, as well also in the possession of the Loveday family, and more as a screen of the 15th century inclosing a chantry than one gravestone in the churchyard records that he chapel in the south aisle: on the east wall is an ancient who lies beneath was " a faithful soldier of King Charles painting of the "Doom," discovered during the restora- ye First:" the bridge, first built in 1312, remains, but tion; the eagle lectern of pre-Reformation date is very considerable repairs and alterations, made in 1619 and handsome, -and the pulpit dates from r6rg: in the again about the year 1780, as well as an increase in north chapel is an ancient chest, probably of the 13th width lately effected have taken away somewhat of its century: the stained east window was the gift of the primitive character; the base and shaft of a cross vicar and churchwardens in 1877: there are also memo- remain in a field on the left of the road to Claydon. rial windows to J. Loveday esq. Mr. T. Andrews, Williamscote House is the property of John Edward Miss E. Allitt and Mrs. Allitt: the font, presented in Taylor Loveday esq. J.P. and the residence of Edgar 1853 by Harriet, widow of John Henry Tonge, in Thornton esq. A farm house with a moat, connected memory of her husband, has an octagonal basin, with with the canal, is all that now remains of the Manor panelled sides, enclosing shields; there are brasses in House, once the residence of the Danvers family. The the church to Priscilla Plant, d. 1637, and one with arms manorial rights belong to Brasenose College, Oxford. to John Danvers esq. d. 1721: on the north side of the The principal landowners are Brasenose College, Oxford, church is a large marble monument with inscription to Lieut.-Col. Sir Anthony Cope bart. of Bramshill Park, the same person: the communion plate includes an Rants, and J. E. T. Loveday esq. The date of the Elizabethan chalice of silver and a paten and stoup of inclosure award is May 27th, 1775. The soil is genep pewter, given by Mr. Hollowaie in 1666; the fabric was rally heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are barley, carefully restored in 1876-7, at a cost of £,1,758, under wheat and oats, with a larger proportion of pasture. the direction of Mr. Ewan Christian, architect, when a The area of the parish is 1,905 acres of land and 21 of triptych painting of the "Crucifixion" was erected as water; :rateable value, £,5,304; the population in 189! an altar piece, in memory of Lieut.-Col. Robert Moor- was 476. som, Scots Guards, by• members of his family: there Prescote, a lordship in the parish of Cropredy, is on are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year the borders of Northamptonshire, 41 miles north-east 1538, and another t654-1717 was rcovered to the parish from Banbury. The area is 555 acres ; rateable value, after having been long missing in 1877. The living is £85o; the population in 1891 was 25. a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £,78, net yearly value £225, with residence and 65 acres of glebe, in the Parish Clerk, Thomas Lambert. gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1870 by the Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- Rev. William Wood D.D. late fellow of Trinity College, John Smith, sub-postmaster. Letters from LeamingOxford, hon. canon of Christ Church, and rural dean ton at 8 a.m. & 3 p.m.; dispatched at 7·5 p.m. The <lf Deddington. The Wesleyan chapel, with Sunday nearest telegraph office is at Wardington -school, was built in 188r. The poor's allotments of 5 Great Western Railway Station, William Ward, st.aacres produce about £21 yearly for fuel. Under the tion master will of the late Miss Tomson, £27 1os. a year is dis- Carriers to & from Banbury.-Edmund Tasker, to the tributed to twelve of the aged poor by the vicar and ' Flying Horse,' mon. wed. thurs. & sat. ; George churchwardens. Calcott's and Jo:rdan's charities pro- Cherry to the 'Unicorn,' mon. thurs. & sat .Amos George Thomas, Bridge house Banbury Co-operative Industrial So· Golby William, relieving & vaccinaGolby John, The Green · ciety Limited (branch) tion officer for Oropredy district Griffin George J Bliss John, faTmer Griffin William, horse dealer Jay Wilson Nevill Bonham James William, saddler Hadland & Son,millers(water & steam) Slack Major James (late 63rd Regt.) Boote Jonah, Brazen Nose P.H & farmers, Cropredy mill Thornton Edgar, Williamscote house Borton Edward, farmer Lambert James, builder (letters through Banbury), Borton William, farrier La.mbert Thomas, Red Lion inn Wood Rev. William D.D. (vicar, rural Cave Frederick Isaac, shopkeeper Lam.lbert William Jame.s, coal merdean of Dedliington, & bon. canon Oherry & Co. coal merchants chant & farmer of Christ Church), Vicarage Cherry Thomas, mason Lamprey & Son, coal me:rohants COMMERCIAL. Cherry William, farmer Pargeter George, shoe maker Ohesterman Richard Austin, farmer, Pa11g-eter James, blacksmHh Adkins George (Mrs.), farmer, Hill Cropredy lawn Smith Alfred,builder & timber mercht farm (letters through Banbury) Allitt John, butcher & baker Cooknell 'Dhomas, sen. coal dealer Smith George, stone mason Cooknell Thomas, jun. shoe maker Smith John, shoe maker, Post office Amos T. & Son, coal mers. & farmeTs Anker William, grazier Gowley John, jobbing gardener Toms Mary (Mis<S), farmer :Berry James, ba•sket maker Gardner Jn. Frdk.plumber & painter Wayte Edward, farmer, Manor house, Griffin George J. farmer Pmscote CROWELL is a. parish at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, and I mile south-west from Chinnor station on the Princes Risborough and Watlington branch of the Great Western railway, about S! south from Thame, and 4 north-west from Tetsworth, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Lewknor, petty sessional division of Watlington, union and county court district of Tha.me, rural deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Thoe church of St. Mary, rebuilt in 1877-8, is a small building of flint, lined inside with chalk, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a modern stone bell-cot containing one bell: the chancel, which is Decorated and appears to have been shortened at an early period, retains two· sedilia: the doorways are N onnan : there is a brass to Sir John Payne, parson, 1469, with a demi-effigy and 8 English verses : the church was restored in 1878, at a cost of £1,300, and affords 102 sittings. The register dates from the year I594· The living is a rectory, net yearly value horn tithe rent-charge £,160, average £,1oo, but subject to deduction, with residence and 9 acres of glebe, in the ift of Wenman A. Wykeham Musgrave esq. of Thame Park, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Edward James Howman M.A. of University College, Oxford, rural dean of Aston, surrogate, and also rector of Chinnor, where he resides. The principal landowners a.r~ Jos~ph Hill esq. of Kingston, who is lord of the manor, Wenman Aubrey Wykeham Musgrave esq., the trustees of the late Rev. Canon H. W. Burrows B.D. (d. 1892) H1•nry Clerke Brown esq. of Kingston Blount, and Mr. T. Champion. The soil is chalk and loam ; subsoil, chiefly soft stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, peas, seeds and oats ; the area is 1,053 acres, some portion of which is woodland; rateable value, £1,056 ; the population in 1891 was 102. Parish Olerk, George Sewell. The children of this place attend Chinnor & Aston Rowant schools Letters through Tetsworth arrive at 8 a.m. Chinnor is the nearest money order office & Lew1mor the nearest telegraph office Wall Letter Box cleared/ at 5·55 p.m.; sunday at II.3o a..m

80 CBOWELL. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY1 S Beck ~frs. Rectory Phitips Charles, Crowell bill Cooper George, blacksmith Saunders Abel, Catherine 1\'lleel P.H Smith John, assist. over~ee.r, Ro·se cot Turner Richard, bailiff to Joseph Hill esq. Manor fa·rm CROWMARSH GIFFORD is a. parish and villag~, separated from Berkshire by the river Thames, over which is a fine stone bridge of fifteen arches, connecting this place with Wallingford, on the opposite bank; it is ~ mile west from W allingford terminal station on a branch from Cholsey and Moulsford station, on the Great Western railway, 16 north-west from Reading and I4 south-east from Oxford and on the road from Henleyon-Thames to Wallingford·, 11 north-west from Henley, in the Southern division of the county, petty sessional division of Henley, Wallingford union and county court district, Langtree hundred, rural deanery of HenlPy and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Lhurch of St. Mary Magdalen, originally erected between II35 and 1154, is a small but very interesting building of rubble with stone dressings, consisting of chancel, nave, a small north transept of later date, r-nd a western belfry containing 2 bells : the west end, with its small round windows and Norman doorway, is perhaps unique: the latter was blocked up till 1843, when the south porch was removed and this entrance reopened ; all the other .sides have been altered by the addition of windows: in the chancel is an elegant Norman piscina consisting of a recessed moulded arch with a projecting circular basin, ribbed on the nnder side; the massive door, formerly at the west end, and still bearing the marks of bullet holes, made, it is said, during the siege of Wallingford at the time of the Civil War, has been removed to the vestry; thPre is a brass with mutilated effigy to William Hyldesley, gent. ob. August 30, 1576, his wife Margaret and 13 surviving children: in the chancel is a mural monument of marble to Bridget, wife of Philip Parsons M.A. ob. Sept. 1645: the whole fabric was restored in 1869, and in 1894 the east end was rebuilt and altered, the oak timbered roof being left open, and the. walls decorated: the rents of certain lands in the parish, of between church: there are 210 sittings. The register or baptisms dates from the year 1575; marriages, 1618; burials, 1576. The living is a rectory, ·tithes corn~ muted at £247, average £183, net income £150, with residence, in the gift of Viscount Barrington, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Albert Ennor. .A. horse fair is held here annually on August 2nd. Howbery l'ark is the seat of Henry Bertie Watkin-Williams-Wynn esq. J.P. ; the mansion, a handsome structure, commanding a fair view of the surrounding country, was rebuilt about 1845, after its destruction by fire; Col d'.A.rbres is the residence of Alfred De Mornay esq. Charles Hedges eEq. of Newnham Murren, who is lord of the manor, .Alfred De Mornay esq. and H. B. Watkin-Williams-Wynn esq. are the principal landowners. The soil, which IS ex~ ceedingly fertile, belongs to the upper green sand formation and a considerable portion is rich in phosphate ol lime in the form of coprolites, which are found di8tributed through the soil and extend beyond the parish of Crowmarsh Gifford into the neighbouring hamlet of Preston Crowmarsh; the land bears heavy cereal crops, and both the wheat and barley are of the finest quality; it is particularly adapted to the growth o} pea.s and beans, an~ bears heavy crops of saintfoin and other fodder plants and potatoes. The area js 66:1 acres; rateable value, £r,5r4 7s.; the population in r8gr was 300. Sexton, Henry Wadley. Post Office.-George John DearlQve, sub-postm:J.ster. Letters through Wallingford arrive at 5·45 a.m. &i 1.45 p.m.; dispatched at 12.~ & 8 p.m. Wallingfonl is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid National School (mixed), for go children; average attendance, 77; for the parishes of Crowmarsh & 1':\ewnham Murren; Miss Elizabeth Dust, mistress one and two acres, are applied to th~ repairs of the Assistant Overseer, James Guttridge PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Wynn Henry Bertie Watkin-Williams- Guttrid,ge Ja.mes, p''J.otographer .!llnatt Edwin D.L., J.P. Howbery park Lovegmve TJ!omas, beer retailer De .Mornay A:fred, Col d' Arbre, Jo'hns Samuel Couch C.E. architect &. Ennor Rev. Albert, Rectory COMMERCIAL. surveyor, sanitary inspector for Johns Samuel Couch Blissett Char:es, bt~r retailer Wallingford rural div.iJsion Lewis ~irs Bowden Henry, coach builder, wheel- ~ios~ George, grocer Owen Miss wright & buildeT Phillips Jsph. cabinet ma. ll;;; undertakrStevens John Pinfold Dear love George John, baker & grocer, Waiters Elizh.~(Mrs. ),Bell inn,&; gro~er Tizard Samuel Post office Wilder ·waiter, iron & bra.ss founder CUDDESDON is a parish and village on the rivu Thame r! miles south from Wheatley station on the Wycombe, Thame and Oxford branch of the Great Western railway and 5! south-east from Oxford, in the Southern division of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union of Headington, county court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Cuddesdon and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The ~hurch of All Saints is a fine cruciform building of stone in the Norman and later styles, consisting of chancel, olerestoried nav6, a.i~lCJS, south a.nd west porches, transepts and an embattled central tower with pinnacles and a. l0w rectangular turret at the noxthwest angle, containing 6 bells, three of which are dated 1617 and the others respectively 1677, 1709, and 1795, and there is a sanctus bell dated I748: the. church appears to have been originally built about 1180, to which date belongs the piers supporting the west doorway, a very good example of the latest Norman work, the south doorway, the north transept walls and one clerestory window, with other portions : the aisles were added about 1240, and have arcades of three arches on either side ; about 1350 the low side walls were raiiled, Decorated windows inserted, and a south porch erected: the chancel is Late Perpendicular, c. 15oo, and has a very good stained east window of four lights by Mr. C. E. Kempe : the remaining windows display the emblazoned arms of various bishops of Oxford : on the .south side are two rude openings, with point-ed arches: the upper part of the tower, together with the nave roof and some of the internal fittings, belongs to the reign of J ame~ I. ; the font is plain and round, on a modern base: there, are 250 sittings: a lofty cross with a base of five steps stands in the churchyard. The register dates from the year 1541. The living is a vicarage, annexed since th~ Reformation to the bishopric of Oxford, from which it was separated by Order in Council in 1852; average tithe rent-charge £225, net yearly value £212, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1895 by the Rev. John Octavius Johnstoro M. A. of Keble College, Oxford. The W esleyan cl:apt>l here was built in 1887 by the Wesleyans of Oxfor.-l. Cuddesdon Theological College, founded by the lateSamuel Wilberforce D.D. Bishop of Oxford, 1846-6g, for the training of candidates for holy orders, and opened June 15, 1854, is a building in the Decorated stylefrom designs by the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. an<l contains a. dining-hall and rooms for about 22 students .. to which a chapel, hall and other buildings were acded in 1874 as a mem<Jrial to Bishop Wilberforce (d. 19 July. 1873); students must have been members of one of theuniversities and have taken their degree; in 1877 a cottage house for 4 students was built near the church gate. The reading and recreation room, erected by publicsubscription, for the working men of Cuddesdon am} Denton, stands on a piece ()f ground rented' from the Earl of Macclesfield·. Cuddesdon Palace, the episcop~ residence of the Bishop of Oxford, is a fine and commodious mansion surrounded by a small park : th0 attached chapel, erected by Bishop Wilberforce in 1846, is in the Decorated style; all the windows are stained; the original pala.ce was built in r635 by Bishop Bancron. but was burned in 1644 by order of Colonel William Legge, then governor of Oxford, lest it should afford shelter to the Parliamentary forces; in 1675-6 it ,~as rebuilt by Bishop Fell, and finally completed Ly the same prelate in 168o. The Earl of Macclesfield, who is lord of the manor, and Queen's College, Oxford, are the principal landowners. The soil is sand and loam; subsoil, clay, gravel and sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 847 acres; rateable valu11, £I,8g8; the population in 1891 was 295 in the ch·il, and 505 in the ecclesiastical parish. Chippinghurst is a hamlet. The population in tBgr was I6. The area is 3II acres; rateable value, £-528. DENTON is a chapelry in the parish of Cudde:;don, a. quarter of a mile south-west. Deuton House is the

' DIRECTORY.] OXFORDSHIRE. CUTTESLOWE. 81 :residence of Sir Edward Loughlin O'Malley M.A., J.P. The population in 1891 was 146; the area is 5z4 acres; rateable value, £826. Parish Clerk, Charles Mortimer. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insura.nce Office, -Charles Peasley, sub-postmaster. Letters through .Oxford arrive at 7·5 a.m. & 3·55 p.m.; dispatched at ro.s a.m. & 6.35 p.m. Wheatley is the nearest telegraph office National School (mixed), established in 1841, for no children ; average, attendance, 8o ; Thomas Martin Martin, head master Carriers to Oxford.-William Dover, mon. wed. & sat.; Miss Jane Howard, mon. wed. & sat CUDDESDON. COMMERCIAL. DEN~ON. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Oxford Right Rev.Lord Bi,shop of D. D. (William Stubbs) (chancellor of the most Noble Order of the Garter), The Palace ; & Athenrenm club,London SW Burgess Matthew, builder Chillingworth John, farmer Dover William, carrier Gale John, farmer O'Malley Sir Edward Loughlin J.P., M. A. Deuton house; & Athenreum, Brooks'•s & Reform clubs, Lond. S \V Buswell Richard, farmer Ryman William, farmer & overseer for Denton Howardl Miss J ane, carrier Barfovd Rev. Bernard Weig;ht (curate of All Saints') J ohnston Rev. JDhn Octavi'llls M.A. (vicar), The Vi>earage :Niortimer Charl~s, shopkeeper Peasley Charle-s, stationer, Post office Warner Robt. miller (water & steam) Wheeler Wm. Three Compasses P.H Wing Alfd. Ba.t & Ball P.H. baker &c Sellar Thomas Richard, farmer Turner Edward, bla.crosmith CHTPPINGHURST. Chilingworth J o.hn, farmer in Consols, the interest of which is distributed in fuel. Good fishing may be had in SuttDn Mill pool, and for pike, below Culham lock. Culham House, a substantial brick mansiDn, with extensive grounds, is the seat of Mrs. Phillips, who is owner of the rectorial property, including glebe of about r6o acres. George Herbert Morrell esq. M.A., J.P., D.L. of Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, who is lord of the manor, and Mrs. Phillips, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, sand and clay. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,972 acres in Oxford and go in Barks; rateable value, £4,954; the population in r89r was 474· Parish Clerk, George Phipps. Letters through .A.bingdon arrive at 7 a..m. Wa.ll Letter Box cleared at 7· ro p.m. ; sundays, 12 noon. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Abingdon Wall Letter Box, Culham station, cleared at 6.20 p.m. ; sundays, 11.20 a.m Culham Training College for schoolmasters for the dioceses of Oxford & Gloucester, standing in an elevated position about three-quarters of a mile west from the Culham station, is a structure chiefly of local stone in the Decorated style, erected in 1852 by the late Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, 1846-69, from designs by J. Clarke esq. at a cost of £zo,ooo, of which £r2,ooo was raised by private subscription; the building, opened in 1853, is intended to contain roo students, and has at present go; it embraces, besides the students' apartments, a hall, chapel and principal's residence, & attached to the college is a middle-class school, which serves as a practising scb.ool for the students; seventy-five per cent. of the expenditure is defrayed by a Government grant; Rev. William S. F. Long M . .A.. principal; Rev. George H. Fathers M. A. vice-principal; Albert J. Mockridge B.A. Evan Evans B.A. & Frederick C. Pheasant, tutors Schools. CULHAM: is a parish and village, bounded on the north, south and west by the river Thames, which separates it from Berks, and has a station on the Didcot and Oxford section of the Great Western railway, 1! miles east of the village, ri south-south-east from Abingdon, and so from London. The parish is partly in Berkshire, but principally in the. Southern division of the county of Oxford, Dorchester hundred, Bullingdon petty sessional division, Abingdon union and county court district, rural deanery of Cuddesdon, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Culham Bridge, which crosse~ the river Thames about half-a-mile north of the village, at a point where its ancient and modern channels unite, connects the parish with Abingdon; it is substantially built of stone, and was originally constructed by the Guild of the Holy Cross in Abingdon, ur.der letters patent of Henry V. dated at ·Westminster, 23 June, 1416, in place of the previously used, but dangerous ferry; the fabric still bears marks of the attempt made by General Gage to break it down, when Abingdon was held for the Parliament by Colonel Brown. The church uf St. Paul, anciently dedicated to St. Andrew, wa.s partially rebuilt in r852 in the Early English style, and is an edifi-ce of stone consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south transept, south porch and a Perpendicular embattled western tower, erected i.n 1710 and containing 3 bells : the chancel was rebuilt in 1872, at the cost of the late John Shaw Phillips esq. (d. 1893), and contajns a small trefoil-headed recess and a monument to Thomas Bury, a member of a, family of that name, of Bury Hall, Lancaster, d. r624: the arches of the south arcade, five in number, are Early English, with continuous mouldings: the north window, filled with shields of arms of the 17th century, is singularly made to form part of a monument to Sir Edmund Cary knt. d. r637, son of Henry Cary, first Baron Hunsdon K.G.: there are 200 sittings. The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year r638; marriages, 1639, and contains an entry, under date Oct. ro, r666, of a sum of £r 3s. Bd. collected in College Middle Olass, built in 1852, for roo boys; averaid of the sufferers by the Great Fire of London. The age attendance, 70; Arthur R. Cole, master living is a discharged vicarage, gross yearly value £ 240, Parochial, built in r85o, for So children; average attendnet £234, including 6o acres of glebe, with residence, ance, 76; Frederick Mitchell, master in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry (G 1.886 by the Rev. Francis Capper Clutter buck M. A. of Co.); Rev. H. Lewis M. A. captain Trinity College, Oxford. The poor's allotment has been Police Station, Joseph Parker, constable sold and the proceeds amounting to over £2,ooo invested Railway Station, William Bartlett, station master Clutterbuck Rev. F. C.,M.A. Vi-carage Culham Training College for School- Mundy Amelia Ann Adelaide & Emma Cole Arvhur R. (master of the College masters (Rev. William S. F. Long (~sses), farmers, Manor farm middle-class school) M.A. principal; Rev. George H. Porter William, bricklayer Evans Eva.n B.A. Training college Fathers M.A. vice-principal) Prior George, lock keeper Fathel's Rev. George H., M.A. (vice- Dipper Lydlia (Mrs.), steam thrashing Pusey William Wallace, carpenter principal of college) machine owner Reynolds John Richard, Railway hotel Long Rev. WilliJam S. F.,M . .A.. (prin-ci- Harris Edrward, farmer, Zouch farm & posting house. good accommodapal of college) Harris Milton, farmer, Warren farm tion for excursionists, Morrell's Mockridge Albt. J., B.A. Training coli Rays Waiter, farmer, Rye farm genuine ales &c. & coal meTcha.nt Pheasant Frederick C. Training collge Hobrow Francis, farm bailiff to the Strange Jesse, blacksmith Phillips Mrs. Culham house Misses Mundy Tinson Thomas, farmer COMMERCIAL. Lewington George, Sow & Pigs P.H oodley Joseph, Wagon & Horses P.H Gibbs Elizbth. (MT·s. ), baker & grocer Mouldey William, brick manufacturer CUTTESLOWE, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish 3 miles north-north-west from Oxford, in tbe Mid division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union of W oodstock, and county court district of Oxford. It has no church ; the inhabitants attend the church at Wolvercote. In this parish is one of the new cemeteries formed by the Corporation of Oxford: the site, purchased in r889 by the late Oxford Local Board, for a sum of £z,6oo, besides £48 for legal charges, comprises 13ac. u. 34P· and has been well laid out and a mortuary chapel and lodge erected at a further cost of about £5,800; it i,; m1der the control of a committee of the Corporation. The principal landowners are Christ Church, Oxford, and Miss Gregory. The soil is clay and loam; subsoil, gravel and sand. The chief crops are wheat, hurler: oxox. 6

82 ClUTT .ESLOWI, OXFORDSHIRE. • [KELLY'S und beans; the area is 295 acres; rateable value, £427; the population in 1891 was 22. The children of this pl:ace. attend the schools at Wolvercote Middle ton Henry (Mrs.), farmer Letters through Oxford arrive about 9 a.m.; Pillar Box cleared at 5.30 p.m. Oxford is the nearest money order & telegraph office I Williams .Alfred, farm~r marriages, 1577; burials, 1588. The living is a rect')ry,. annexed by Order in Council to that of Easington, join1i gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £265, average £Igo, with 32 acres of glebe and residence, in. the gift of Merton College, Oxford, and held since 1893 by th& Rev. Edward Sumner Bicknell Fletcher M.A. of that college. The Warden and Fellows of Merton Colle-geare lords of the manor and own most of the land, but there. are some smaller owners. The soil is good loam;. subsoil, rubble. The chief crops are wheat, beans, l'OOts. and barley. The area is 477a. 14P· ; rateable v~lue,.. £849; the population in 1891 was 135. Sexton, John N ewell. CUXHAM is a. village and parish 1! miles west from Watlington terminal .station on the, Princes Risborough and Watlington branch of the Great Western railway, 4 south-west from Tetsworth and 6i north-east from Wal· lingford, in the. Southern division of the county, hundred of Ewelme, petty sessional division of Watlington, county court district of Wallingford, union of Henl~y, rural deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. A stream passes through this parish, which turns several mills. The church of the Holy Rood is an ancient edifice of stone, apparently rebuilt of old materials at the beginning of the. 18th century, and consists of chancel, nave, western porch and a western tower containing 3 small bells: a Norman doorway with twisted shafts and sculptured capitals remains, and there Post Oflice.-Mrs. J·ane Tappin, sub-postmistress. Letis a plain round font of the same date, and <on the ters from Tetswmth arrivt} at 8.5 a.m. & 3·5 p.m. ; north side some good Perpendicular windows; a few dispatched at 5·2 5 p.m. ; no post on sunday. The good: open oak benches remain, and there is a stone nearest money order & telegraph office is at Watlington coffin on the south side: the church contains several This parish contribut~s on~ member to the Wat1ington tablets and a brass to John Gregory, 15o6, and his School Board wives Petronilla and Agnes, with four children; the Day School (infants), for 35 children; average attendchurch was restored in 185o, and affords 130 sitting;;. ance, 12; Mrs. Dimmock, mistress. The elder chilThe register of baptisms dates from the year 1578; dren attend the Board School at Watlington 13urton Mrs CO:MMERCIAL. Hicks Thomas Owen, farmer & miller :Fletcher Rev. Edward Sumner Brick- Carey John, farmer, College farm (water & steam) neil M.A. Rectory Gale Robt. wheelwright & ca1penter Neal Thomas Bris.tow, Half :Moon P.H Hickis Thomas, Ivy cottage Hicks Edwin, farmer & cattle d~aler, Newell John, blacksmith Towerton Ricllard Cutt mill Tappin J ane --(~Irs. ), beeNeller & farViney Jo'hn, Rose cottage Moffat Wm . .Alex. farmer, Manor farm mer, Past office DEDDINGTON, the "Town of the Dredings," formerly a market town, is a parish and small town situated at the intersection of the high road from Oxford to Banbury with that from Buckingham to Chipping Norton, sepa:rated from Northamptonshire on the east by the river Cherwell and bounded on the north by the Swere brook, it is 2 miles west from Aynho station on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the Great Western railway and zi miles south-east from Adderbury station on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of the same system, completed in April, 1887, 5~ south from Banbury, 9~ north-east from Woodstock, 16 from Banbury and 70 from London, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Wootton, North Wootton petty sessional division, county court district and union of Woodstock, rural deanery of Deddington, and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The place is lighted with gas by a company formed in 1855 : the only supply of water is from wells. The church of SS. Peter and Paul, originally of the Decorated period, is now a building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, north and south porches and a western tower surmounted by pinnacles and containing a clock and 7 bells, 6 of which were cast in 179r, and the small bell in 1869 : in the chancel are three sedilia. and a piscina, and in an arched recess on the south side of the chancel, is a small square-headed low window, with a seat below it: an oak screen separates the chancel from the nave, which has arcades· of four arches: the aisles are chiefly of the 14th century and in each remain steps formerly leading to the rood lofts of two chantry chapels: underneath the east end of the south aisle is a small low crypt, with groined roof, reached by steps from the outside, where also are two recessed stone arches, and on the inside, but in a different part of the wall, two similar arches, in one of which is a mutilated recumbent figure : there are also some remains of a stairway once conducting to a parvise over the south porch : a piscina and statue niche remain in the north aisle, the porch of which, of the 15th century, has fan tracery in the roof: the tower fell in March, 1635, occasioning an estimated damage of £8,zso, and letters patent were issued authorizing general collections for its restoration: the font as appears from the registers, wa~ placed in the church in 1663. Vaxious altera;tions were begun in the church during the vicariate of the late Rev. William Ootton Risley M.A. vicar, 1836-48, and a continuance of the work was sanctioned by the vestry in 1858, but it was not completed until 1865, when the vestry, south porch and or.ga.n chamber were. built and repairs effected at a cost of [2,6oo, under the direction of the late G. E. Street esq. B.A.: the stained east window was placed there in 1888 by subscription. There are brasses in the church to a civilian, with half-effigy, c. 1370; John Higgins gent. 1641, and a brass inscription mutilated and lying loosein the church chest with several others, to 1Yilliam Byllyng, merchant of the staple of Calais, 1533, and·. Elizabeth, his wife, 1522; this inscription, with effigies now lost, belongs to an altar tomb in the north aisle; there are memorials to the families Df Appletree, Cary,. Churchill, Faulkner, Harris, Walden and many others: the tower and bells were restored in 1893, as also the weather vanes, at a cost of £274: there are 6oo sittings. The churchyard was enlarged in 1874. The register· dates from the year 1631, and contains entries ot marriages effected under the Act of 1656. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £zgo, in the gift of the Dean and Canons· of Windsor, and held since1878 by the Rev. Thomas Boniface M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge, and surrogate. The Ecclesiasticai Commissioners allow £120 for the curate. The Congregational chapel, in New street, opened May, 188I, is a building of simple Early Gothic charader, with a gabled central doorway and an octagonal turret above· it, rising to a height of 6o feet: there are sittings forabout 300. There is also a W esleyan Reform chapel. built in 1849. Sir Thomas Pope kt. founder of Trinity· College, Oxford, wa.s. born here in 15o8, and Sir William Scroggs kt. Lord Chief Jnstic~ of the King's Bench-. (r678-81), in 1623: Ethelmar or Audomar de Vl'llence,.. half-brother to Henry Ill. was instituted vicar of Deddington in 1247; in 1260 he became Bishop of Winches-· ter, but dying in the following year at Paris, his body was there buried in the church of Ste. Genevieve, but; his heart, at his own ~quest, was immured at Winchester Cathedral on the north side of the choir, where-· there is· an inscription with the date 126r. The market formerly held on Tuesday, has become obsolete; fairs were once held on the last Tuesday in every month and on the 21st of August, the day following Old Michaelmas day, but the only one now existing is held on the22nd of November. There are almshouses for four men and four women, with an endowment of £72 yearly,. derived from the feoffees' lands of 43 acres, which produce about £85 yearly. Cartwright's charity of £& yearly is for bread. This place and Hempton are mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, as amongst the possessions of Odo, BiSJhop of Bayeux, under thenames of "Dadintone," and ".Hantone." The ancient rectory house (or great house), built in the 16th century, the Plough Inn, in New street, together with ahouse on the Clifton l"'ad, bearing the date 1647, and the Hermitage, situated in Market .square, and now the residence of W. Kinch esq. have each some interesting portions of old work. The site of the ancient castle is indicated by a rampart of earth, which remains complete ; the fosse, which can also be traced, is the boundary of the present enclosure commonly known as " the Castle Ground," which is used by the

DIRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. DEDDINGTON. 83 Deddington and District Lawn Tennis Club and by the local football club. The Dean and Canons of Windsor, Christ Church, Oxford, and William Cornwallis Cartwright esq. of .Aynho, are lords of the manors. The principal landowners are Christ Church and New College, Oxford, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The land is arable and pasture; soil, light red land. The entire area. of the pari,sh is 4,232 acres of land and water; rateable value, £8,607; the entire population of the parish in 1891 w~s 1,777. HEMPTON is a small hamlet in the parish of Deddington, a mile and a quarter west from the village, on the road to Chipping Norton. The school chapel here, built at the cost of the late Rev. William Wilson D.D. of Over Worton, consists Df nave with north aisle (used as a school) and a bell-cote containing one bell: the building is the property of trustees,. and is licensed but unconsecrated: it is served from Deddington: there are roo sittings. The poor's land of 7 acres, awarded in r8o8, produces £2o yearly for fuel. The area is 970 acres; rateable value, £r,2r5; the population in rBgr was r66. Wall Letter :Box, cleared at 6.15 p.m Carrier to Banbury.-James .Archer Dixon, to 'Whit-e Hart,' thurs. & sat CLIFTON is· a chapelry and hamlet of ])eddingtvn, on the road from Buckingham to Chipping Norton and about a· mile and a. half east on the Northants border, skirted by the river Cherwell, the Oxford and Birminge h<a.m canal and! the Great Western railw8ly. The church Df St. James, consecrated June roth, 1853, is a plain building of stone, consisting Df nave, with south porch and a western turret containing ~ bells, and was built chiefly at the expense of the late Rev. W. C. Risley M.A. vicar of Deddingrou, 1836-48; t.he clergy of Deddington officiate. The principal landowners are Christ Church, Oxford, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and' W. C. Cartwright esq. of .Aynho. The area is 670. acres; rateable value, £1,684; the population in 189:r. was 211. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 9 a.m. & 12.55 & 7.15 p.m. _ Letters arrive 9 a.m OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. :Post, M. 0. & T. 0. S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office. -John Whetton, sub-postmaster. Open on week days at 7 a.m. ; closed at 9 p.m. ; open on sunday from 8 till ro a.m. Delivery commences at 6.30 a.m. 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Morning delivery only on sunday. Letter Box closes for dispatch for the north at 5·45, 8.25 &; 9 p.m. & for London & the south & west at 11.55 a.m. & 8.25 p.m. Money ordel'S· are issued & paid from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. except Dn sunday, when no money order business is transacted. Except on sunclay, letter carriers are dispatched at 6 a.m. &; 2 p.m. for the villages of Dunstew, North .A.ston & Clifton, & at 6 a.m. for Dunstew, North .Aston, Hempton, Barford St. John & Barford St. MichaeL Lett.ars from Londuu & south through Oxford ; from north through Baribury County Magistrates for Woottou North :Petty Sessional Division. Risley Holford C~tton esq. Deddington, chairman Bradshaw Vice-Admiral Riehard C.B. The Grange, Steeple .A.ston, Oxford Cartwright William Cornwllllis esq. D.L. .Aynho park, Ban bury 'Cottrell-D01mer Oapt. Charles Waiter, Middle .Aston,O:xfd Foster-Melliar Wllliam Melliar esq. North .Aston hall, Deddington Hall .Alex. William esq. Bartou .Abbey, Steeple Astou Ogle Bertram Saville esq. B . .A. Hill house, Steeple .A.ston, Oxford Clerk to the Magistrates, George Coggius, Hudson st Petty Sessions are held on alternate fridays. The foll(}wing places are in the petty sessional division: North .Aston, Steeple .A.ston, Middle .A.ston, Steeple Barwn, Westcott Barton, Great Barford, Deddington, Duns Tew, Rousham, Sandford Saint Martin, South Newington, Great Tew, Little Tew, Over Worton & Nether Wortou Public Establishments. InlanclJ Rev>enue Office, Market place, Da.vies, officer Joseph Edwin Constabulary Station, Inspector John Wright & I constable Volunteers. 2nd Volunteer Battalion Oxfordshire (detachment of C company) Light Infantry - Public Officers. Coroner for Northern District of Oxfordshire, George Coggins, Hudson street; deputy coroner, Charles Fortescue, Woodlands, Banbury Clerk & Receiver to the Charity Est.ates, William Kinch Collector of Income, Land & .Assessed Taxes & Sub-distribut{)r of Stamps, John Whetton, Market place High Bailiff, Lt.-Col. William Hewens .Austin, New st Inland Revenue Officer, Joseph Edwin Davies, Market pl Medical Officer & :Public Vaccinator, No. I District, Woodstoclr union,Hy.Sa.unders M.R.C.S., L.S . .A..Lond Stewards to the Manors, of Deddington, Georg.e Coggins (Duchy), W. Kinch (Windsor manor), & C. Upperton {Christ Church manor) Town Crier, John Knibbs, Church lane Schools. Schools controlled by the Deddington National Society, fil'lst formed July 26, 1814. ScLoof National, built in 1853 &; opened January 6, rB54, for about 300 children; average attendance, 94 boys, 57 girls &; 65 infants ; Thomas .A. Manchip, ma~ster; Miss E. Ives, mistress; Miss E. lnnell, infants' mistres<J National (Hempton), built in r85o, for 6o children; average attendance, r8; Miss Clara French, mistress National (Clifton), established in r87o, for 70 children; average attendance, 31; MI's. Susannah H[lrris, mi,:,t Carriers to Banbury.-Thomas H. Deeley, '.Angel,' man. thurs. &; sat. ; Samuel Callow, mon. wed. thurs. & sat. to ' White Hart ; ' John Boddington, from Lower Heyford, through, mon. & thurs.; John Weston, from Steeple .Aston, through, mDn. & thurs. ; Edwd. Jones, from Sandford, through, mon. & thurs.; Jonathan Hounslow, from Barton, through, mon.&thurs Receiving house for goods & parcels for the Great W«:>stern Railway for London, the north & all parts of th~ 'f Kingdom, the Unicorn hotel, Market place DEDDISGTON. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hainsse1in Sydney, lay reader Mahany Edward Charles, High street All<stin Lt.-Col. '\Ym. Hewerus, New st Ha.U Mrs. Bull ring Manchip Thomas .Alexander Bennet Thomas, Castle street Hands .Alfred Page William Boniface Rev. Thos. M . .A. Vicarage Hands Janws, New street Page William, jun. New street. Brookes Henry Lang'ham, New street Harris Miss, Market place Parker The Misses, Bull ring Coggins George, The Laurels Hill Rev. John M . .A. (Congregationa:), R1sley Holford Ootton J.P Coggins John, The Green New street Sa.unders Henry M.R.C.S.Eng Franklin Henry Robert Hopcraft Joseph Smith Th(}mas Gulley Rev. H. F.James B.A. (curate), Jones Geo.Horatio L.S . .A..Loud.High st Thrussell Jahn William Castle street Kiuch William, The Hermitage Turner Mrs. The Poplal's Gulliver Fre~rick, New street McNair Mrs. High street Ward Mrs. High street COMMERCIAL. Bolton Frederick Thos. grocer & provision dlr. Chapel sq Baker Levnard, plasterer, Philcot street Brookes Hy. Langham, solicitor (firm, Kinch & Brookes) Banbury Co-operative Industrial Society Lim. (branch) Bun Richard Page, M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon Market place Busby Joseph, carpenter & pump maker Banes J ames, boot & shoe maker, &; temperance coffee Callow Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper rooms, good accommodation for cyclists, Chapel sq Canning Joseph, coal dealer, Chapel square Bennett Charles, farmer & builder, Market square Chislett James, draper, tailor & furnishing warehouse Bennett John, Red Lion P.H. & builder, Market square & insurance agent, Market square Bennett Thomas, solicitor, Castle street J Churchill Ben, blacksmith, High street Bliss Charles, pork butcher, Philcot street ChurchiU .Arthur &; Benjamin, black~Smiths, Chapel sq OXON. 6*

84 DEDDINO.TON • OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S Churchill Wm. grocer, wine & spirit mer. Market square Clarke J oseph, farmer & butcher, New street Coggins George, solicitor, perpetual commissioner, & commissioner for oaths, co-roner for northern district of Oxfordshire, clerk to the justices of the North ·w ootton division, & steward to the duchy manor, Hudson street Constitutional Club (Geo. Coggins, hon. sec. ),Market pl Cotter ell Herbert, bird s-tuffer &c. New street Course Waiter, miller (water), Deddington mill Daman Mrs. coal merchant, Castle street Davies Joseph Edwin, inland revenue officer, Market pi Deddington Ga.s Light & Coke Co. Lim.(E.F.Tucker,sec) Deddington, Heyford & Aston Permanent Building Society (George Coggins, solicitor & sec) Deeley Thomas H. carrier Dodwell William Heber, butcher & baker, Fowler William, sign writer, The Stile Fowler William Willet, baker Market plac'€ Franklin Henry Robert, builder & contractor Freeman Joseph, watch & clock maker, 2 New street French John, farmer, Castle street French William Joseph, farmer, New street Gardner J ames, thatcher, Clifton road Gibbs Joshua, ·shoe maker & shopkeeper, New street Gibbs Martha Jane (~Irs. ), shopkeeper, New street Great Western Railway Goods & Parcels Office, Unicorn hotel, Market place Gulliver Frederick, farmer & grazier, New street Hands James, miller (water), New street Hawkes William, farmer & grazier, Earl's farm Heritage William, patten & clog maker, Philcot street Hobley Charles, printer & bookbinder, High street Holiday John Arthur, ironmonger & agricultural implement agent, High street Holiand "\-Villiam, beer retailer, New street Hopcraft George, shopkeeper, Philcot street Ropcraft John, carpenter Hopcraft Joseph, builder & contractor & brick maker & drain pipe maker & monumental mason, New street J olley John, tailor, New street Jom~s George, Crown & Tuns P.H. New street Jones George Horatio L.S.A.Lond. surgeon, High st Kinch & Brookes, solicitors, commissioners for oaths & perpetual' commissioners Knibbs John, wwn crier, Church lane Lewis Henry, grocer & insurance agent, High street Lewis James, herbalist, Satin lane Longworth Harry, King's Arms P.H. Horsefair Mason S. & Co. patent axletree makers, New street Mason Herbert, beer retailer Matthews Mrs. grocer, New street Morse George, shoe maker, Philcot street Mullis Henry, saddler, Market place Oxfordshire Archreological Society (Rev. W. D. Macray, & Geo. Loveday esq. secs.; Wm. Kinch esq. treas) Paxton & Holiday, auctioneers, High street Petty Thoma.s, chemist, Market place Power William, cooper, New street Roddis Thomas, farmer Rogers William, saddler & boot maker, Hudson street Saunders Henry, M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.Lond. surgeon, & medical officer & public vaccinator No. I district, \Yoodstock union, & Fritwell district, Bicester union Smith George, horse slaughterer, Philcot street Smith James Lee, plumber & glazier, High street Smith Mary Ann (Miss), dress maker, Market place Smith William H. Plough P.H. New street Stnrch Alfred, plumber, glazier & house decorator, Castle street Taylor Henry, Exhibition P.H. Bull ring Townsend William, shopkeeper, New street Tucker Elisha Frederick, grocer, Market place Turner Misses, private school Volunteer Battalion (2nd) Oxfordshire Light Infantry (detachment of 0 company) Warren Henry, Unicorn P.H "\-Veils Thomas Henry, draper, New street Whet ton Arthur, ·stationer & photographer, Market pl Whetton John, postmaster, stamp distributor & collector Hore Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker, Horsefair llott Richard, carpenter & shopkeeper, Hudson J arrett William, shopkeeper of income, land & ass-essed taxes,Post office,Market pl street Woolgrove Jonathan, seedsman, High street Wright 'John, inspector of police Jennings Miss, ladies' school, Market place Johnson George, tailor, Castle street I Yerbury Alfred, chimney sweeper, Market place CLIFTON. CO:IL\1ERCI.-I.L. Harris Henry, baker Hone Thoma-s, carrier Keen John, Duke of Cumberland P.H Taylor William, shoe maker Boffin Jmhua, ba.sket maker Elston Vfilliam, farmer Fowler John, farmer Garrett Francis Beesley, fa,rmer Harris Hanna'h P,frs. ), grocer Howe Richard & Son.s, Great Wes•tern Arms hotel & goods agents to the Grea.t Western Railway Company, coal, hay & straw merchants, conveyances meet all trains,Aynho statn Vincent William, miller (water) Welford' lYm. & Sons, colliery s,gents & hay & straw mers. Aynho ~ation Woolgrove Wm. A.crpntr. &>>heelwrgh t V\'right Thomas, farmer HE:MTTO~. Churchill J o:hn, farmer 1 Hollier J o1ln, dairyman Dixon Jas.Archer,Piough inn & carrier P&rish JamBs, farmer, Ilbury farm Shirley Richard, farmer Smith Edward, hurdle maker French Charlt'As, farmer \Parish Joseph, farmer Town-send Brothers, nurserymen Riicks Berkeley \Yilliam, farmer 1 Pratt Willia.m, baker DORCHESTER is a parish and village which gives name to a hundred, and is 4 miles east-by-south from .Culham station on the Didcot and Oxford branch of the Great "\-Vestern railway, S south-east-by-south from Ox- .ford and 6 east from Abingdon, in the Southern division ..of the county, petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union and county court district of Wallingford, rural deanery of Cuddesdon and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The village is on the western bank of the Thame, over which there is here a handsome stone bridge of thre~ arches, built in 1813; a few hundred yards below the bridge the rivers Thame and Isis unite and form the Thames, which separates this county from Berkshire; the nearest bridge up the river is at Clifton Hampden, 2~ miles distant, and down at Shillingford, 2 miles. S. "Birinus, the apostle of the West Saxons, here baptized Cynegils, king of the West Saxons, A.D. 63o, to whom St. Oswald, king of Korthumbria, was godfather; these -two kings gave the bishop this city in order that it mi~ht become the head of an episcopal see, and he built and consecrated in the immediate neighbourhood various churches, and subsequently baptized king Cuthred and king Cwichelm, the son of Cynegils : S. :Birinus died A.D. 650, and was buried at Dorchester, but his remains were afterwards removed to Winchester. This see, after four hundred and sixty years' continuance, first as a West Saxon and afterwards as a Mercian bishopric, in- -cluding from o65 the sees of Lindsey and Leicester, was translated to Lincoln by Remigius, 23rd bishop, in the time of William the Conqueror, A.D. 1086, at which time, says William of Malmesbury (who flourished in that age), "Dorchester was a small and unfrequented town; yet the beauty and state of its churches were very remarkable, as well for the ancient work as the present care taken of them." The great road to London, which lay through this place, being turned in another direction, so weakened and impoverished the town that from the middle of the 12th century it began rapidly to decay, and from its former grandeur it is now reduced to a humble agricultural village. It derives its name from the Welsh "dwr," water, and was ca1led by the Romans " Durocina · " Bede terms it " Civitas Dorcinia · " and Leland ' ' named it "Hydropolis," the town of water. The village has of late years grown into favour as a summer resort on account of its rural attractiveness, splendid abbey church and the delightful scenery about the river, which also affords good boating and fishing. The abbey is supposed to have been first founded by S. Birinus in 635 for secular canons, who worked as parish priests, but on the reconstitution of the abbey by Alexander, bishop of Lincoln, in I140, these were replaced by canons of the Augustinian order ; of the cloisters, which stood north of the church, the chapter house and domestic buildings there are now no remains: on its suppression the revenues of the abbey were estimated at £rgo. The Abbey church of SS. Peter and Paul, purchased by Richard Bewforrest at the Dissolution for £r4o, lmd presented by him to the parish in 1554, is a spacious and highly interesting edifice of stone, 300 feet in length and 40 feet high, singular and irregular in all its feature~. and consisting of two collateral naves, the eastern por- •