BERKSHIRE - 1899

DIRECTORY.] :BERKSHIRE. 85EAST BENDRED.

HARWELL is a parish 8 miles west from Walling- now (1899) been closed to interments. The register dates
ford, 6~ east-by-north from Wa.Tttage and 2~ south-west from the year 1562. The living is a vicarage, net yearly
from the Didcot station of the Great ·western railway, value £210, including So acres of glebe, with residence,
in the Northern division of the county, hundred oi in the gift of and held since I856 by the Rev. Samuel
Moreton, petty sessional division, union and county court Mountjoy Smith, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
district of Wantage, rural deanery of Wantage, arch- Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. The parish ceme-
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church tery is situated near the late National school. Here are
of ·St. Matthew is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Tran- almshouses for six poor widows and other charities
sitional and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, amounting to about £100 a year. Messrs Paine and
nave, aisles, transepts, south porch and an embattled Brettell, of Chertsey, are lords of the manor and the
'Western tower with corbelled parapet, containing 6 bells President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, and
and a clock: in the chancel are double sedilia, and an Mr. John Lay are the principal landowners. The soil is
elegant double piscina of Early English date, with a pro- loam and chalk; subsoil, chiefly chalk. The chief crops
jecting drain: in the church are several monuments to are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 2,521
the families of Smith, Sayer, Hopkins, Tyrrell, Eaton, acres; rateable value, £6,387; tne population in 1891
Newton, Elderfield and King, and a brass with effigies to
John Jennens, 1599, and Margaret his wife, with six sons was 729.
and six daughters ; some portions of fine 15th century
stained glass, including a number of quarries bearing Parish Clerk and Sexton. Isaac Hitchman.

lions passant and fleur-de-lis, and a shield of arms, re- Post & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Post,
moved from one of the windows during repairs, are now
in private bands; the shield, which has been muWated, is S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office. Miss Eliza ..!.nn
Hutchings, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from
that of Richard Plantagenet, younger son of King John, Steventon R.S.O. at 7 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dispatched at
Earl of Cornwall and Poitou, and king of the Romans, to 12 noon & 6.35 p.m
'Vall Letter Box, hours of collection, 8 a.m. & 6.30
whom the manor of Harwell belonged, and bears arg. a p.m.; sundays, 10.30 a.m
lion ramp. gu. crowned or. within a bordure sable Fire Brigade, Thomas Hughes, captain & 4 men
bezantee: at the apex of the east window there still re- .1 School Board of 5 members was formed June 30, 1893;

mains a shield of arms of P:ers de Gavt>ston, the hapless E. B. Ormond, clerk to the board
favourite of Edwd. II. who conferred on him the Earldom
of Cornwall, which had become extinct on the death of Board School (mixed), erected in 1895, for 150 children;
Edrnund Plantagenet in I 3oo; these arms are vert. six average attendance, 125 ; Charles Fuller, master; Miss
eagles displayed or. 3, 2, and 1 : the church was restored Gertrude Hatcher, assistant mistress; Miss Beatrice

in I867 at the expense of the late John Hopkins esq. of Collins, infants' mistress
Carriers.-James King, to .Abingdon, daily; Isaac Jef-
Tidmarsh: there are 375 sittings: the churchyard has
ferson, to .Abingdon, Wallingford & Wantage

Bacon John Henry Fredk. Pillar ho Day Catherine (~Irs.) & Harriett Lay John, fal"'ller & landowner

Barnes W illiam ()lrs. ), farmers & maltsters Perry Annie (Miss), dress maker

·Bell Rev. Edwin (Wesleyan) Day Isaac, Chequers inn & farmer Perry George, farmer

Bobart Mrs Day Joseph, corn dealer Pryor John Thomas & Son, groce-rs

Lay Benjamin H. Lower Manor farm Frond Eland, boot maker Rice Richard M.R.C.S.Eng.• L.S.A.

Lay John Gardener George, butcher, dairyman surgeon, medical officer &:; public

Perry Mrs & general dealer vaccinator for Blewbury district,

Rice Richard Hanson Wil!iam, veterinary surgeon Wantage union

Smith Rev. Samuel Mountjoy (vicar), HaJTis John, bricklayer Richens Sarab (Mrs.), farmer, King's

Vicarage Hitchman Isaac, ca-rpenter farm

Thomas Dennis Hughes Thomas. b:acksmith Saunders Francis, cattle dealer

CQ.:IIMERCIAL. Hutchings Eliza .Ann cmss), grocer &. Sims Harriet (Mrs.), beer retailer

Bacon John Hy. Fredk. artist,Pillar bo dra.per, Post office Tame Jonathan, farmPr

Bosley Mark, butoher Hutchings Thomas, farmer Thomas .Alfred, White Hart P.H

Bosley William Joseph, coal merchant .Tames John, baker & grooer Thomas Francis, dairyman

Clark William, Crown inn Jordan Henry, grocer Tilby James. carpenter

C001per Edward, builder, Fo:ly farm Keat Esther ()Irs.), grocer & b£ker Tyrrell Henry, baker &:; farmer

Day Fras. Benj. frmr.Winterbrook ho Keat Wi:Iiam, farmer White \Yiiliam, sadd:er & harm•ss ma

Day George, brewer Lay Benj. H. farmer,Lower Manor frm Wilkinson John, Crispin inn

HATFORD is a village and parish 3~ miles south- Chaucer, a son of the poet, who also held the manor;
1
east-by-east from Faring-don, "lt north-east from example oi
the the south doorway of the nave is a fine

Challow station on the Great ·western railway, 6 south I1 Norman work. The register dates from the year 1538.

from Bampton and 7 north-west from 'Vantage, in the i The living is a rectory, net yearly value £175, including •
Northern division of the county, Ganfield hundred, 52 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Simeon·s

Faringdon petty sessional division, union and county j trustees, and held since 1897 by the Rev. David .Alfred

court district, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, • Doudney M ..A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Sidney Edwd.

archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The 1 Bouverie Bouverie-Pusey esq. of Pusey, is lord of the

church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1873-4, at a cost manor and principal landowner. The soil is principally

of £.3, 700, by the Rev. Samuel Paynter M..A.. of Nice, a coral rag; subsoil, clay, sand, gravel and stone. The

then patron, and consecrated May 7, 1874, is an edifice , chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is

of stone in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal 1 999 acres; assessable value, £570; the population in

chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled tower at 1891 was uo.

the south-west angle containing a clock and 4 bells; Sexton, Charles Eldridge.

there are 120 sittings. The ancient church of St. Letters from Faringdon by foot post arrive at 8 a.m.

George, a structure of the Norman period, and still The nearest money order office & telegraph office is

standing, contains a tomb supposed to be that of Sir at Stanford-in-the-Vale, about 1 mile distant. 'Yall

Robert de Hatford. the reputed founder of the church, Letter Box cleared at 5·4.5 p.m

who was lord of the manor in the reign of Henry IlL; National School (mixed), erected 1862, for 40 children;

others, however, believe it to be the tomb of Thos. average attendance, 18

Doudney Rev. David .Alfred M.A I Ful:er Jas. beer retailer & shopkeeper t Lee Richard, fa.rmer, Manor Ho. farm

EAST HENDRED is a parish on the road from brasses to Henry Eldysley and his brother Roger ElJy-
'Vantage to Reading, 2 miles north from Ste>enton sta- sley, both merchants, 1439, with one effigy; to John
tion on the Great Western railway, 4 east from '"Tan- Eyston, 1589, with his effigy in armour, Jane (Burington
tage, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, or Burton) his wife, and 5 children and an inscription
petty !;'essional division, union and county court district of 10 verses; and one with inscription only to William
of \V::mtage and in the rural deanery of Wantage, arch- Whitwey, clothier and woolman, 1479; the church was
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church enlarged and restored in 1861 and affords 405 sittings.

of St. .Augustine of Canterbury is a building of stone, The register dates from the year 1537. The living is
consisting of chancel, nave of eight bays, aisles and an a rectory, net income £:Ho, including 50 acres
€mbattled western tower, with open quatrefoiled parapet of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop
and pinnacles, containing 6 very fine bells, rehung in of Oxford, and held since 1890 by the Rev.
I889• and a clock dated 1527; a remarkable feature oi Henry Lewis B..A. of the rniversity of London.
the interior is an arcade of slender piers without arches St. Mary's Catholic church, erected in 1865, is a build-

separating the two south aisles, of which the eastern- ing of stone in the Decorated style and will seat about
most nier is original ; there is also a canopied rood loft 200 persons. There is also a Primitive Methor::st

and a lectern of the 15th century; in the church are chapel. This village was once a populoua ...~.c1 lillri7"..>t"

85 EAST HENDRED. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY's

market town and one of the seats of the cloth manu- Eyston esq. J.P. the Warden and Fellows of New College,

facture, and by a. charter of Henry VI. enjoyed various Oxford, Lord Wantage and William .Alexander Hall esq.

privileges. The stewardship of the King's Manor in are the respective lords. Lord Wantage & J. J. Eyston

this parish is a nominal office, in the gift of the Chan· esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is

cellar of the Exchequer, and is one of the offices which chalk and loam ; subsoil, pr~ncipally chalk. The chief

may be accepted for the purpose of vacating a seat crops are the usual cereals and roots. Too area is 3,196

in the House of Commons. Here are the remains of an acres; rateable value, £3.348; the population in 1Bgt

ancient chapel, now converted into a granary. From an was 8o2 in the civil and 788 in the ecclesiastical parish.

entry in the Churchwardens' book, dated 22nd .April, By Local Government Board Order 20,690, dated

I682, it appears that Catherine Spicer had delivered into March 24, r887, Rowstock Farm was transferred from

the hands of one of the churchwardens for that year Sutton Courtney, in .Abingdon union, to East Hendred.
£6, to be received to the world's end, for the preach-
ment of a sermon; and £6 to the poor of this parish, Sexton, Joseph Besley.

to be given in bread by the churchwardens to the poor Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

present after the sermon is ended, upon Holy Thursday, Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office. John Theo-

to remain to the world's end; th£:re are other charities bald, sub-postmaster. Letters received through Steven-

amounting to nearly £1oo. Hendred House, the seat ton R.S.O. ,arrive at 7 a.m. & 3.20 p.m. & dispatched

_of John Joseph Eyston esq. J.P. is pleasantly situated 10.20 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ; sun. 10.20 a.m. & open on

near the centre of the village ; attached to the mansion sun. from 8 to 10 a.m. for telegrams

is an ancient chapel, dedicated to St. Amand, the ex- Schools.
istence of which can be traced back to 1256 and which
probably existed at an even earlier date; it is the Church (mixed), built in r862, for 200 children; average
private chapel of the Eyston family, and previous to attendaluce, ns; George1 Rabert Stevens, master;
the building of the Catholic church was used for public Miss Amelia Burge, assistant mistress
services. Hendred Down House, the property of
Lord Wantage K.C.B. and now (r899) unoccupied, Catholic (mixed), built about 1862, for go children;
average attendance, 39; Miss M. Fearon, mistress

is a modern mansion surrounded by a park of about 90 Carrier. Frank West, to .Abingdon, mon. & fri.; to

acres. There are four manors, of which John Joseph Wantage, wed. & sat

PRIV.!TE RESIDENTS. Wells Mrs. Park cottage Hunt Oha.rles, shopkeeper

. Whiter Mrs Martin Ernest Robert, draper

Beesley Charles, Tames house COMMERCIAL. Moulder Joseph, beer retailer

Belcher Misse.w Besley Richard, wheelwright & carpntr Mulford Gharles, farmer

Belcher Albert Besley J oseph, engineer PriOT Isa~w. fi&hmonger

Billyeald .Arthur, King's manor Besley Isabella(Mrs.),Eyston .ArmsP.H Roberts Shadrach, haulier

Cowdery Mrs BTadfield Robt. miller (water & steam) Smith Frederick Adolphus, farmer,

Eyston John Joseph J.P. Hendred ho Ca.st:e .John, farmer, Hill farm Home farm

Gravatt Robert, St. Amands C2stle Jabez Caleb, shopkeeper Sowdon Harry Wilson,farmr.Manor ho

Hazel Comm. James R.N., J.P. Row- Chasney Harry, Plough P.H Stibbs Richard, bricklayer

stock house Denniss Walter, baker & confectioner Theobald John, grocer, Post office

Lewis Rev. Hy., B..A. (rector),Rectory Denniss William, grocer Vincent John, stud groom to John

Luck Very Rev. Canon Thomas (R.C) Freed Francis, head gardener to John Joseph Eyston esq

Martin Mrs Joseph Eyston esq West Frank,•coo.l dealer & carrier

Phillips Frederick William, Orchard ho Goddard Joseph, boot maker West Warner, farmer, Broads farm

Styles Joseph, Wood's farm Hobbs George, farmer, Harfield farm WOO<:Ley William, blacksmith

WEST HENDRED is a parish, intersected by a small Wesleyan chapel. Hayward's charity of {,2 14s. is

stream which falls into the Thames near Monkey Island, for fuel. The President and Fellows of Corpus Christi
about 3~ miles east from Wantage and 3 south from College, Oxford, who are owners of the u.anor, and Lord

Ste'"enton station on the Great Western main line, in Wantage L.L. are the principal landowners. The soil is

the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty ses- clay, chalk and loam; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief

sional division, union and county court district of Wan- crops are the usual cereals and roots. The area is 1,997

tage, rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks acres of land and 5 of water; n.teable value, £4,162; thtt

and diocese of Oxford. The church of Holy Trinity is a population in 1891 was 344·

very ancient building, some portions of which are of East Ginge is a hamlet belonging to this parish, a

Norman date; it consists of chancel, restored in 1881, mile south, consisting of two farms. Lord Wantage is

nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and a western lord of the manor and principal landowner.

tower containing 6 bells; the font is octagonal and Parish ClE.>rk and Sexton, Stephen :Bartholomew.
bears date r63o; there ard two stained windows to
the Reeves family and the church has 250 sittings, 210 Post Office.-1Ym. Hearn, sub-postmaster. Leters through
being free. The registers date from the year 1578, and Steventon R.S.O. arriv:e at 8 a.m. & 4· 15 p.m.; dis·

contaih several instances of collections made for the patched at 9·55 a.m. & 6.r5 p.m. & 9·55 a.m. sunday.

Protestants in Poland and elsewhere, for the redem p- The nearest money order &; telegraph office is at

tion of captives taken by the Turks, and for the suf- East Hendred, 2 miles distant
ferers by the Great Fire of London in I666. The living School (mixed), erected with teacher's residence in

is a vicarage, net yearly value £2 6o, with residence, in 1853, for So children; average attendance, 70; Mrs.

the gift of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and held since Annie Austin, mistress
1873 by tht) Rev. Charles Frederick Hayden M.A. and late C:trrier.--Chasney, to Abingdon, mon. & to Wanta~-e,
fellow of that college and surrogate. There is also a wed. & sat. returning same day

Hayden R~v. Charles Frederick M.A. Chasney Wm. Jas. shopkpr. &; ca.rrieT Kimber John, farmer, Coliege farm

(vicar), Vicarage Cleaver Wm. Thos. farmer, Tames frm Pinnell Mark, fa,rmer, Moors faa-m

Howell Bennett Rees, Manor house Day Edwin, miller (water) & farmer, Puzey Edwin, The Ha.re P.H

Alder .A:bert, wat€rcress grower Spa.rsholt court Saund\:rs 'Thoma.s, beer retailer

Aldworth Frederick, watercress growr Dixon Alfred, farmer, Hill farm Watson James, corn dealer

Butler Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hearn William, baker, Post office Watts Sarah & Sons, shopkeepers

.HEBMITAGE is a civil parish formed in r·852 by the Rev. Philip .Alexander Longmore M.A. of
Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Here is a Primitive
and an ecclesiastical parish formed .Aug. 7th, 1840, out of Methodist chapel. Lord Wantage K.CB., V.C. and
the parish of Hampstead Norris, comprising the hamlets William George Palmer esq. M.P. of Marlston, Newbury,
of Well House and Little Hungerford, with st.ation on the are the p:rincipal landowners. The soil is flint, gravel and
sand; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley
Didcot, Newbury and Winchester railway, and is 4 miles
north-east from Newbury and 3 south-west from Hamp- and oats. The area is 1,55o acres; rateable value [,r, roo;
stead NOOTis, in the Southern division of the county, the popu~ation in 1891 was 355·
hundred of Faircross, union of Wantage, petty sessional
division and county court district of Newbury, rural Paris'h Clerk, Hemy Keep.
deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and dio·
Post Office.-Walter Boshier, sub-postmaster. Letters
cese of Oxford. The church of the Bo:y Trinity, built in arrive from Newbury at 7·5 a.m. & n.3o p.m. &; are
dispatched at 10.25 a.m. &; 6.35 p.m. week days; sun-
1835. is an -edifice of brick, consisting of chance!, nave, days, arrive, 7·5 a.m.; dispatched, 12.ro p.m. Postal
south porch and a western turret containing one bell : orders are issued here, but not paid. Chieveley is the
there are r2o sittings. The register of baptisms and nearest money order office; the telegraph officQ is at tha
marriages dates from 1839; burials, 184r. The living is railway station
a vicarage, net yearly value [,x2o, with residence, in
the gif~ of Lionel Dewe Lows:ey esq. and he~d since

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DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 87

Parochial School, erected in 184t, for 120 children ; aver- Hermitage Station, Sidney ~aylor, station master
age attendance, 84; Edward Hoare, master; Mrs. Carrier.-William Fisher, to Newbury on tues. thurs. &I

Emily Hoare, mistress sat

:PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Maquire James, Fox &; Hounds P.H.

Child Mrs Burgess Eli James, brick maker Well house

Cook William, Glenholme Burgess Jas. beer ret. Lit. Hungerford Marriner Wil~iam, Fox PH

Floyd •.rhomas, "Temple villa Burgess Matt.carpentr.Lit.Hungerford Mruritt Charles, butcher

Hamblin Arthur Henry, Fir Tree lodge Candy W. frmr. Fyfield farm,Well ho Munday Jn. farmer, Hermitage farm

Hulbert William, The Firs Cook George & S<m, coffee rooms & Rivers William, blacksmith

Kimball A. J . .Hermitage house cab proprietors Rust Dorcas(Mrs.),baker,Lit.Hungrfrcl

Longmore Rev. Phillip Alexander M ..A. Cook Edwin, farmer, Lit. Hungerford Smith Jas. shopkeeper, Well hous~

(vicar), Vicarage Flitter Alberli, coal dealer Spiers Thomas, White Horse P.H

Mackenzie Major K Larkcom Henry, shopkeeper

.NORTH or FERRY HINKSEY (anciently tc Hen- the conduit, formerly standing at Carfax, in Oxford, and
gestesige," from the mythical chieftain Hengist) with now in Nuneham park; it is a buttressed edifice

the ham:et of Botley, form a parish on the western bank of stone, about 18ft. square, and bears a shield

()£the lsis, in the Northern division of the county, hundr£d of the Tudors. The ground at the back of the church,

o0f Hormer, petty sessional division and union of Abingdon, at 'first a farmyard, rises rapidly into a park-like

county court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Oxford, eminence, thickly wooded with fine elms, on emerging

archdeaconry of Berks, and diooese of Oxford. The from which and gaining the open ground on the top of

village of North Hinksey is one mi.:e west from Oxford the hill, an exceedingly good view is obtained of Oxford

.and s! miles north from Abingdon. The church of St. and its south-western suburbs; the village is connected

Lawrence, situated on an eminence at the north end of with South Hinksey by a pleasant path across the fields,

the vil:age and formerly a. chapel of ease to Cumnor, is and a ferry across a small feeder of the Isis unites it to

a plain building of stone in mixed sty:es, and consists of a causeway ~eading through the meadows into the Botley

chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower of Early road. Aubrey Harcourt esq. of Nuneham park, who is

:Norman date, with a ryr,:midal roof and containing 4 bells: lord of the manor, and Brasenose Coll~ge, Oxford, are

the south doorway is a fine specimen of Early Norman, the principal landowners. The soil is chiefly stone bra~h,

an4 on the south side of the chancel is a low side window clay, gravel, peat and loam; subsoil on the hills is lime-

of the same date; on the north side of the chancel is an stone, in the valley peat and clay. The crops are the
.arched recess, with zigzag mou:ding, probably a b:ocked usual cereals; the low lands are chiefly meadow. The
hagioscope ; in the church is a. memorial to Thomas parish comprises 797 acres; rateable value, £1,369; the
Willis (fatJ1er of the ce:ebrated Dr. Wihlis and ancestor popu:ation in 1891 was 245, a portion comprising 287 in-
<>f Browne Willis, the antiquary), who died in the Roya habitant.s having been transferred to St. A!date, Oxford,

cause at the siege of Oxford, Aug. 4• 1643 ; an inscrip- March 25, r885, by Local Government Board Order IB,IJB.

tion on the monument of William Finmore, fel:ow of St Parish C:erk, Charles Annetts•
.John's College, Oxford, who died in 1647, begins thus: BOTLEY is a hamlet three-quarters of a mile north from
~,Reader, look at thy feet; honest and loyal men are Hinksey church partly in this parish and partly in Cum•

~leeping under them !" there are other memorials tc nor. Botley Bridge, crossing a tributary of the Isis,

the same family; in the churchyard near the porch is ~ stands on the extended boundary westward of the city

fine old yew and at th~ east end the steps and shaft of r of Oxford.

cross; this o:d church, with its. rustic surroundings, i. A new cemetery, under the control of the Corporation
one of the most picturesque in the neighbourhood ol of the city of Oxford, of the extent of 8 acres 3 roods,

Oxford, and has been repeatedly sketched by Mr. Rusl;, was opened on 12th March, 1894· It contains one mortuary
and other artists; there are 100 sittings. The n gist· chapel.
dates from the year 1703. The living is a vicarage. Post Office, Botley.-George Parker, sub-postmaster.

net yearly value from 64 acres of glebe £78, with resi- Letters arrive through Oxford at 6.40 a.m. & 1.25 p.m. ;·
dence, in the gift of the Earl of Abingdon and Edward W. sundays 6.40 a.m. ; dispatched at 1.30, 6.20 & 9 p.m.;

Harcourt esq. alternately, and held since 1890 by the Rev. suudays, IO a.m. & 9 p.m. The box closes at 9 p.m.

Edward Theophilus Boileau Harrison B.A. of Wadham Postal orders are issued here, but not paid, The

College, Oxford, who resides in Oxford. The vi:lage con· nearest money order office is at Osney & telegraph
tains one or two ancient houses, and on the road to office at Oxford, 2 miles distant

Botley are some others, one of which retains a mantel- Wall Letter Box, l\orth Hinksey, cleared at 6.5 p.m.;

piece of the 16th century, and another a ceiling of Earlv sumlays, 10.5 a.m

'Tuilor date; near these, in the road, are the remains of National School, founded in 1867, and enlarged 1894, for

a cross; eastward of the village a pathway leads up the I 100 children; average attendance, 72; Mrs. A. B. Bas•

bill to a conduit, constructed by Otto Nichclson, to supply combe. mistress

NORTH IDNKSEY. Hayman Charles, Old Botley Hart-well Sarah (Mrs. ),BlackHOorse P.H

HaTrison Rev. Edwa.rd Theophilus Hedges Andrew, Broadclyst house Hemmings William Isaac, market gar·

Boileau B.A. (vicar), Vicarage Plummer William, Willowdene dener, O:d Bot:ey

Lewis Henry, The Priory Read Joseph Barn~s Hunt William, miller (water) &; baker,

Greening William, farmer COMMERC!AL. Old Botley

Hedges (exors. of A.),frmrs.M:anor fm Bars0on Thomas, grocer Shaw S:dney, baker & flour dealer

Hedges William, butcher Botley Cemetery (OxfQofd Corporaticm) Simmonds Emanuel, frmr. The E:ms

West George, Fishes inn (William White, supt) Stevens Charles Edwa.rd, Carpenters'

BOTLEY. Burborough Edwin, farmer,Davis' frm Arms P.H
Curtis John, millwright &; engineer Swadling Mrs.laundress,Botley Pound
Charlton Alfred John, Harmsworth Daniels Fredk. George inn, Old Botley Tilby William Francis, certified bailiff
Curtis John, No:rth lodge
Hedderly Fredrick William, farmer, Trinder Sarah (Mrs.), laundress

Curtis William Tilbury Stud farm Webb Jeremiah. farmer

SOUTH HINKSEY is a parish 1 mi:e south from piscina, and there is one memorial window; the church
affords 120 sittings; in the churchyard are the remains
Oxford and 5~ miles north from Abingdon, and is in the of a cross, presumably of the 15th century. The register
Northern division of the county, hundred of Harmer, dates from the year 166g, the pages re:ating to buria:s
oeounty court district of Oxford, petty sessional division up to the year 1693 being missing-. 'l'he living is a.
vicarage, net yearly value £83, with I6ac. of glebe
and union of Abingdon, rural deanery of Oxford, arch- and residence, in the gift of the Earl of Abingdon,
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The Great and held since 1891 by the Rev. William Dixon
Western railway passes on the border of the parish. The Blachford Curry M ..1. of Exeter College, Oxford,
church of St. Lawrence is a bui:ding of stone partly of who resides at New Hinksey. The living originally
the 13th and partly of the 14th century, consisting of belonged to the .1bbey of Abingdon, after\\ ards
chancel, nave, north porch and a western tower, with it became a chapelry of Cnmnor, from which it was
plain parapet, containing 3 bells, two of which are separated about 1750, and was subsequently annexed,
cracked; on the smallest is the inscription "Vox Augus- until 1885, to the vicarage of Wootton. A new vicarage
tini sonet in aure Dei," on the second, " Sancta Margareta house was built in 1888, at a cost of £2,o55. from designs
(}ra pro nobis :" the nave has a good plain open-timbered by Mr. H. W. Moore, architect., of Oxford, on a site
roof; the chancel is divided from the nave by a small
given by the Earl of Abingdon and the Corporation of
and low arch, not more than 6ft. sin. in width, and there Oxford. The vil:age retains some houses of the 16th

are traces of a. rood :oft, the stairs to which still remain ;. century, and John Piers, .1rchbishop of York (x589-95)

the chancel windows were a~tered and enlarged ear:y in

the 18th century; in the south wall is a curious double

88 SOUTH HINESEY. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S

is said to have been born here. The Earl of .Abingdon, of Oxford, and is within Oxford city as extended in 18&9;
it will be found given with Oxford.
who is lord of the manor and lay rector, owning the lands
formerly belonging to the .Abbey, is the chief landowner. By Local Government Board OrJpr r8, 177, Engrov&
'fhe soil is clay,gravel and loam; subsoil, stone brash. The Farm was transferred from Radley, by Order 18,180, Iffl.ey
Lock House was transferred from Iffiey, and by Order
crops are the ordinary cereals. The area is 791 acres o1
18,177• the Isis Tavern was added from Wootton to South
land and 6 of water; rateable value, £3,925; and the Hinksey parish, March 25, 1885.
population of the whole parish in r8gr was 1,r8r, which in-
cludes New Hinksey, I,ou, now transferred to the county Parish Clerk, Charles Keen.

Gillman Charles, Bagley croft Davis George William,Cross Keys P.H Parker George, assistant overseer
Parrott James, Wood view
Hughes Jn. Lamburn, frmr. Pin farm Simmons F:redk. General Elliott E.H
COMMERCIAL.
Langston William, carman Welborne Watson, Hinksey p13pe:c mill
Cotton Charles, Isis tavem P.H m.Morton Harry, frmr. Hinksey frm

HINTON W ALDRIST is a village and parish, and th.e Great Seal, to Sir Henry Marten, judge of the Prero-

was formerly a market town; it is separated from Oxford- gative Court, of the High Court of .Arches· and of the-

shire by the river Isis, and is about 6 miles north-east .AdmiraHy ; Colonel Henry Marten, son of Sir Henry~

from Faringdon, 9 west from .Abingdon and II south-west joined the Parliamentary army, and testified his gratitude-

from Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, Gan- to his father's· bellJefactor by signing his death wanau±;

f..e:d hundred, petty sessionaJ. division, union and county he died a prisoner in Chepstow Castle; the manor passed

court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of Vale of in r658 to John Loder esq. of Balston park, Berks, whoHY"

\Vhite Horse, arcl:deaconry of Berks and diocese of great granddaughter married in 1797 Robert Symonds.
Oxford. The church of St. Margaret is a cruciform The Loder family were in the reign of Elizabeth lords of

building of local stone and ooHtic limestone, in the Eal'ly the manor of Princes Harwell, in which parish they

English and Late Decorated 1>tyles, consisting of chancel, founded several charities. Remains of a small Romau

nave, transepts, south porch, c'lock, and an embatt:ed camp, known as "Hadchester," exist upon the estate;
western tower containing 6 bells ; the whole of the this was probably an outp()st of the neighbouring cam;J
windows, except three, are stained ; in the south porch at Cherbury und guarded the road t•) the ford. Cayt•.
is a stoup ; the reredos is of marb:e, and includes a re- Frederick Ueave Loder-Symonds is lord of the manor andi
presentation of " The Lord's Supper :" there are 209 sole landowner. The soil is various, but principally sand..
sittings, 168 being free. The register dates from the loam and clay; subsoil, Lhe ~ame, with portions of rock;

year I559· The living is a rectory, net yearly value £275, and there is a quarry of f:xcellent stone. The chief crops-

with residence, in the gift of Capt. F. C. Lod-er-Symonds, are a succession of grain. The area is 2,005 acres oi

and held since 188o by the Rev. Frederick Harper M.A. land and 12 of water; rateable value, £1,842; the popu-
of Queen's College, Oxford. Hinton Manor, the property lation in r8gr was 301.
of Capt. Fredk. Cleave Loder-Symonds J.P. is at present
Duxford is a hamlet, I mile north, in this parish; here
tl1e Iesidence of Wm. Giil Busk esq. : the house is near the
is a ferry over the Isis.
church and has a v.iew of the Cot-swold hil:s and Oxford-
l§hire downs on the north and of the White Horse range Parish Clerk, 1-Yilliam Prior.

on the south; the house is of considerable antiquity, Post Office.-Mrs. Elizh. Smith, sub-po:;tmistress. Letter~Po

and occupies the site of a Norman "domus defensabilis," through Faringdon, arrive at 8.15 a. m. & 3 p.m. ; dis-·

which commanded the ford over the river Isis at Dux- patched at g.3o a.m. & 4·45 p.m. Postal orders are-

ford, a hamlet of Hinton; the only ancient remains now issued here, but not paid. Longworth is the nearest·

existing are the moat and the ],eep; in Norman time.g money order office; telegraph office at Buckland, 3'

the manor belonged to tl;e family of St. Wa1ery, whence miles distant

it was called Hinton Walerys, now corrupted into "Wa:d- Vil[age School (boys, girls & infants), erected in r85o, &

rist": Henry Ill. granted a charter to Hugh de St enlarged in 1870, for 101 children; average attendance,

Walery, permitting him to establish a weekly market and 6o

to pass all produce into Oxford ton free; the manor after- uarriers to Wantage George Batts, wed. ; Faringdon,

wards lapsed to the Crown and was· granted by King tues. & fri. ; Oxford, wed. & -sat. ; .Abingdon, mon. &

Charles I. in the third year of his reign, by patent under thurs. ; Smith, .Abingdon, mon. ; Oxford, wed. & sat>

Busk William Gill, Hinton manor Batts George, carrier Smith Harry, carrier

Harper Rev. Frederick M.A. Rectory Batts JO<seph, carrier & farmer Smith Elizh. (~Irs.), shopkpr. Post off

Ayris Frederick, blacksmith Chandler Henry C. farmer, Manor frm Tucket·t Charles, farmer, Glebe farD

H U N G E R F 0 1{ J).

HUNGERFORD is a market and union town and head of 1 until recently, lighted with gas b~- a company formedi
a county court district, with a station on the Reading and in October 1845, but for economical reasons oil is now·

Tiath section of the Great Western railway, 23 miles west- i used in the public lamps, although most of the shops..

by-south from Reading and 64 from London (by rail 61 ), I are illuminated with gas.
27 north-east from Salisbury, 26 south-west from Oxford, The parish church of St. Lawrence, l'rected in 1816, on•
24 east from Devizes, 16 south from Wantage, 8! west the site of the old church, is a building of st<tne in a:
from Newbury, 18 south-east from Swindon, and is in , Debased Perpendicular style, and consists of apsidaY
the Southern division of the county, Kintbury-Eagle 1 chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch~
hundred, Hungerford petty sessional division, rural and an embattled western tower with pinnacles and CNJ.-
ueanery of Kewbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese taining 6 bells : thPre are eight stained windows : the-
of Oxford. Hungerford is situated: on the western border pulpit, presented by Elizabeth Pearce Lidderdale-
of the county and a part of the town (Charnham street) ~d Eleanora Lidderdale, in 1891, to the me-
was formerly in W~lts, but under the provisions of the mory of their parents, is of stone, with an ala-

"Local Government Act, 1894" (56 & 57 V1et. c. 73), baster cornice and other enrichments: affixed to·

by Local Government Boards Provisional Orders Confirma- the east wall of the nave is a small tablet of yellow marble-~.
tion (No. 12) Act, 1895, it has been transferred to Berks. fo:r:merly a portion of the tomb of Sir Robert de Hunger-
At the same time the Berks portion of Chilton Foliatt ford kt. who died in 1354 and was buried in a chaper
parish was added to Hungerford. The Kennet and Avon on the south side of the old church; the effigy, in stone,.
eanal affords communication by water with different parts of an armed knight, cross-legged, and supposed to re-
of the country. The river Kennet and the small stream present him~ is now placed on the floor immediately
Dun, which pass through the town, are celebrated for the beneath: there are also monuments to Henry Hungerford,.
fineness of their trout; the fishery extends for some miles, of Standen (ob. 1673), third son of Sir .Anthony Hunger~
.and is strictly preserved. The tgwu has had very im- ford, of Blackborton, Oxon ; to Mrs. Helina Mm-gan (olh.
portant rights conferred upon it at various periods; 1716) and to Charl-otte, wife of John Wines, of Hunger-
and such inhabitants as are occupiers of certain ancient ford Park (ob. 1807); there are also many mural table~
tenements, have the right of depasturing cattle on some to the Willes, Michell and White1ock families: in 188o-r
valuable marsh and down land. The government the church was thoroughly renovated, re-seated and a
is vested in a constable, who is elected annually, and new organ added at a total cost of £3,300: there are 7{)(]1
feoffees who (with rare exceptions) have borne the office sittings, 370 being free. The register dates from the-
-of constable; the constable for the time being is coroner year J559· The living is a vicarage, net yearly valu&
by charter for the liberty of Hungerford. The town was, £2oo, with residence, in the gift of the Dean an.dl Canoll.~

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. HUN GF:RFORD. 89

of Windsor, and held since 1894 by the Rev. William expenses of receiving, £I7 Igs. 6d. two-thirds of the

· .Arthur Gordon Gray M.A. of ()lare College, Cambridge. amount for educating an equal number of boys and girls

St. Saviour's Church, at EDDING-TON, erected on a site and the other third in bread or clothes.

given by William Honywood esq. late of Chilton Lodge, Under the provisions of the "Local Government .Act,

at a cost of about £2,ooo, is an edifice of red and white 1894•" some of the above charities were declared to be non-

brick, with stone dressings, in the Early English style, eccles~astical and axe now administered by the parish

from designs by Sir A. W. Blomfield M.A. architect, councll.

and consists of chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, The hunting in the neighbourhood is good and well

south porch and a western turret containing one bell: supported; the kennels of the Craven hounds are at

the stained east window is a memorial to the. Rev. Thomas l\--alcot; William Hew Dunn esq. J.P. of Wallingtons, is-

Hungerford Michell, vicar of Histon, Cambs.; the the master. urTy haenpda~cIkahrlubnotrsotuhgrheea times a week · Hun()'er-
stained windows in the chancel were also gifts, and there ford, N ewb re convenient 'places"' foi"

are also two large and twelve small stained windows in hunting visitors.

the nave: the pulpit, of carved stone, was given by Jesse The Eddington flour mills, on the river Kennet, carried

Hillier esq.: there are sittings for 250 persons. on by Mr. R. N. Hofland, are driven by two powerful

The school church of St. Mary the Virgin, at NEW- turbines, and a complete roller system very successfully

TOl\~, in connection with the parish church, is a small treats, on the Hungarian principle, the fine qualities of

and plain building consisting of quasi-apsidal chancel, wheat grown in the district: Mr. Robert Cole also hav&

nave, south porch and bell turret containing one bell : in flour mills here.

the apse are five lancets, the Cilntre one being stained: Chilton Lodge, the seat of Sir William George Pearce-

the building will seat about l5o persons. hart. M.A., LL.B., J.P. was held for about 700 years by

The "\Yesleyan chapel, in Charnham Street, erected in the "\Yhitelocke family, one of whom, Bulstrode White-

I869, at a cost, including site, of upwards of £3,000, is locke, a distinguished character of the Civil war and Cc·m-

of grey local brick, with red bands and arches and Bath monwealth period, died here, 28 Jan. 1676. The estate-

stone dressings in the Gothic style, and consists of a was afterwards sold to John Zephaniah Holwell, one oi

nave with shallow transepts and an apse at one end ; from the sufferers in the " Black Hole " of Calcutta, and subse-

t he roof rises a lantern with spirelet; there are seven quently governor, and, at the beginning of this century;

stained windows; including the gallery there are sittings became the property of John Pearse esq. M:P. who de-

for about 360 persons. The Congregational chapel, molished the old mansion and built another from the de-

t-rected in 184o, is of brick, and will seat 300 personiS. signs of Pilkington; this has been enlarged and almcst;

The Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1866, and entirely reconstructed by the present owner, who pur-

has 250 sittings. chased the estate in 1890: the work was ('arried out

The Town Hall and Corn Exchange, situated in the ur:der tl:.e superintendence of Sir Arthur Blomfield kt.

High street, and erected in 1870 at a cost of about £4,ooo, A.R.A. and completed in I892; the house, built of stone,.

is a building of red and grey brick, with Bath stone i'3 now a fine example of tho Georgian style, and has a

dressings, and comprises a magistrates' room, an upper handsome portico supported on Corinthian columns :

hall and a large and convenient exchange hall, which is it stands in an undulating and well-timbered park and

also available for concerts and other entertainments, overlooks the valley of the Kennet; attached are large-

and will hold about 300 persons ; in front is a colonnade, gardens and a model farm.

above which rises Ill square tower, with a four-dial illu- Hungerford Park, at the western extremity of the-

minated clock. tuvn, was forrrh!rly the residence of the family of Hunger-

The Market day is Wednesday, and a pitched market ford, Barons Hungerford of Hungerford and Heytesbury,.

is established in the Corn Exchange. j Wilts ; the present mansi·Jn is a building in the Italiaa

The Literary and Scientific Institution, estabil.shed in style and occupies the site of the old house, built by

I865, has a reading room supplied with the daily London Queen Elizabeth and given to Robert Devereux, Earl

and provincial newspapers, magazines and periodicals. of Essex; it is now the property of Humphrey Jeffrey

The Police Station for the Hungerford division is in "\Yalmesley esq. J.P. of Inglewood House, Kintbury and!

Park street, near the railway station. is in the occupation of John "\Valter Morr:ce esq. D.L., J.P.

A Savings Bank was established in J8I8; the trustee• The manor of Hungerford, with the appurtenances of

meet every Wednesday. common and fishery, was formerly held under the Crown,.

Two statute or hiring fairs are annually held in the and being granted by Edward I. in 1297, to Edmund..

Market place, one on the Wednesday before and the other Earl of Lancaster, it descended to John of G-aunt, Duke-

on the Wednesday after old Michaelmas day; there are of Lancaster, who granted the inhabitants large rights:

also fairs held the last Wednesday in April for cattle, of fishing in the Kennet; the manor is now vested iu

the last week in June for wool and August I7th for sheep. the _constable and feoffees on behalf of certain of the in-

The charities include John Hamblin's gift, viz. the rent hab1tants of the town, the constable, as lord of the manor,.

of a close land called Chantry Mead, now £I5, which holds a court at Hocktide (the fust Tuesday after Easter

is applied as follows-£4 to the master of the Tuesday); the court. is summoned by the blowing of :.
efaocuhrin·gboyfsoutrheboywse, ekandbef£or4e
Free School for t to buy brass bugle, bearing the date 1634; the original hc-rn
clothing for the Easter, 1 given by John of G-aunt, is also preserved here, and kept.

the surplus to be spent in clothincr -and education: with various curious old charters in the town chest. Mis!'.-
the rent of a close of ground of ~'bout 3 acres in Michell, J. T. Coxe esq. "\Yilliam Hew Dunn esq. Francis-

J<:ast Field, producing £3 3s. applied as follows- 1 William Leyborne Popham esq. of Littlecote Park, Wilts,.

vicar IOS., singers 6s. each, clerk 2s. and sexton 2s.: Col. G. S. Willes, of The Firs, Sir William George Pearcs-

Lawrence's bequest, being a rent-charge payable from a hart. of Chilton Lodge, Edward Robert Portal esq.

copyhold estate at Medstead, Rants, gi~en by the will Rowland ~- Bennett esq. and Major Gaisford, are ths-
o(f16£245),4sa.
of Ezekiel Lawrence, producing a net rental principal landowners.
for apprenticing one poor boy: Hobbe's gift The land around is famous for the growth of barley and
rr.oiety of a rent-charge of £5 4s. payable from land at ' the water meadows are highly productive and valuable.
Enborne, distributed in clothing: Sir Vincent Smith's '.rhe parish is divided into four tithings, viz. Hunger~

charity (I626), £2 annually for apprenticing two boys: ford, Sanden Fee, and Eddington and Charnham Street.

Field's gift ( r_6~6), £I. annually _fo_r appren~i~ing one boy: Th.e total P?Pulation in I899 was 3,063, i_ncluding officer~t­

:Mrs. Cummm s charity: the. diVIdends ar1smg from the and mmates m the workhouse· the area 1s 7,581 acres of-

sum of £6gg 14s. 6d. ':f?ree per Cent. Annuities (forme!·ly land a_nd 78 of water; rateabl; value, £I2,792.
Old South Sea AnnUities), net amount, after deductmg Parish Clerk and Sexton, Thomas Fruen, High street.

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHME~TS, LOCAL I~STITUTI ONS &c.

Post, 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Second delivery from London, Reading & Newbury at

Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance & Inland Revenue I.IO p.m
Office, High street. Joseph Matthews, postmaster
.A. mail cart leaves at 5·45 a.m. for Chilton & Ramsbury
Dispatch & Arrival of Bags.
l\Iessengers for Froxfield, Bedwin, Inkpen, Clapton, Fos-
London & all parts, 8.40 a.m.; ChiJton & Ramsbury S.O. bury, Kintbury, Ham, Coombe, Vernham & Shalbou:m
leave at 6 a.m.; return at 7.15 p.m
I p.m.; Kintbury, London & Newbury, I-30 p.m.;
Money orders are granted & paid at this office from 81
London & Reading, 4·55 p.m. ; Marlborough, 5·45 p.m.;
a.m. to 8 p.m
London & all parts, 7·45 p.m. (extra stamp) 7·55 p.m.;
Wall Boxes at Hungerford New town, are cleared at 6. r.;.
London, 9 p.m
p.m. on week days & 11.45 a.m. sundays; Charnhan»
Letters arrive at 4.50 a. m.; I & 6.20 p.m
street clear~d at 8.40 a.m. & 7 p.m. ; sundays I2.40
First deliveTy from London, Reading, West of England, p.m. ; Eddmgton 8.20 a.m., 2 & 7 p. m.; sundays,

Salisbury, Portsmouth, "\Vinchester &c. commences at
7 a.m

90 HUNG ERf ORD. BERKSHIRE.

12.35 p.m.; R!lilway station, 8.30 a.m., 12.30, 6 p.m. & Volunteer Fire Brigade. Charnham street, George Cot,.
8.40 p.m.; sundays, 7.30 p.m.; The Croft, 7·45 a.m., terell, captain; G. E. P~att, lieutenant; J. Beard,

12.40 & 6.45 p.m. ; sundays, 7.20 p.m sergeant; W. Spearing &i W. J. Rosier, engineers;

LOCAL GOVER.NME~T. one steam engine · .
Constable & Coroner, George Edward Platt.
HUNGERFORD & RXMSBURY UNIOY•
The surviving Feoffees are H. P. Major, Henry John
Beard, John Adnams, Thomas Alexander, John Platt, Board day, wednesday, fortnightly. '
Reynolds Richard Earle, Alfred Buckeridge, George
Wren, John Holmes W-Qoldridge, George Thomas The Hungerford Union comprise111 the following parishes:
Philips & Dr. Richard H. T. Barker-the full number -.Aldbourn (Wilts), Avington (Berks), Baydon (lVilts),
being twelve Buttermere (Wilts), Chi1ton Foliatt (Wi1ts), Coombe.
(Berks), East Garston, East She:fford (Berks), Frox-
Town Clerk, Henry D'Oyley Wolvey Astley, Bridge villa field (Wilts), Grafton (Wilts), Great Bedwyn (Wilts),
Ham (Wilts), Hungerfor<;l (Berks), Inkpen, Kintbury,
Lambourn (Berks), Little Bedwyn (Wilts), Ramsbury

HUNGERFORD RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. (Wilts), Shalbourn (Wilts), Tidcombe & Fosbury
(Wilts), West Shefford & West Woodhay (Berks). The
Meets at the Workhouse on wednesdays, fortnightly, population of the union in 1891 was 17,01]; acreaga
a:ter the Union business.
93,132 acres; rateable value in 18gg, £77,089

Clerk, Henry D'Oyley Wolvey Astley, Bridge villa, Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Henry
D'Oyley Wolvey Astley, Bridge villa, Hungerford
Hungerford
Treasurer, Waiter Cockell,London & County Bank,High st Treasurer, lValter Cockell, London & County Bank,
Medical Officer of Health, "\Villiam Thomas Garrett Wood· Hungerford
Relieving & Vaccination Officers, Great. Bedwyn district,
forde M.D. Oak Bank, Spencer's Wood, Reading
Edward Chapman, Great Bedwyn; Hungerford dis-
Surveyor, Charles Calvert, Walton cottage, Eddington
trict, Chas. 'l'hos. Woodham, Park street, Hungerford;
Sanitary Inspector, Joseph Pinniger, Ramsbury
Lamborne district, Francis Wm. Attewell, Lamborne

, COL'~TY MAGISTRATES. Relieving Officer for Tramps, Louis Legg, Park street,
Hungerford
Usually attending the Hungerford Petty Sessional
division. Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Great Bedwyn
district, Robert Charles Garde Durdin L.R.C.P.
Dunn William Hew esq. D.L. 'Wallingtons, Hungerford,
chairman Irel. Great Bedwyn; Hungerford district, Harry Pik6
Major M.D., J.P. Hungerford; Kintbury district, Ed·
Brudenell-Bruce Lord Charles Frederick, Everton grange, mund Spencer Hemsted L.R.C.P.Lond. Kintbury, medi~
Lymington, Rants
cal officer, & Harry Pike Major M.D. High street.
Dawson Hon. Anthony Lucius, Forberry grove, Kintbury Hungerford, public vaccinator; Lambourn district,
Pearce Sir William GeorgB bart. M ..1., LL.B. Chilton David Kennard M.R.C.S.Eng. Lambourn; Ramsbury
lodge, Hungerford
district, James Wilkie Burman M.D. Ramsbury
Aldridge Major John, Inholmes, Hungerford
Superintendent Registrar, William James Phelps, Rams-
Eennett Rowland Nevitt esq. Hidden cottage, Hungerford bury, Wilts; deputy, William .Ayers, Ramsbury, Wilts
Cherry-Garrard Major-General Apsley B.A. Lamer park, Registrars t.f Births & Deaths, Great Bedwyn sub~
Wheathampstead, St. Albans, Herts
Dunn Edwd. Thos. William esq. Childrey manor, Wantage district, Edward Chapman, Bedwyn; deputy, Roberb
Major Harry Pike M.D. High street, Hungerford Pole, Ramsbury, Wilts; Kintbury sub-district, Job
Buckeridge, Kintbury; deputy, Mrs. E. P. Buckeridge,
Portal Edward Robert esq. Eddington house, Hungerford Kintbury; Lambourn sub-district, David Kennard,Lam-
Powel Hugh Powell esq. "\Yormstall, Kintbury, Hungerford bourn; deputy, Francis William Attewell, Lambourn
Walmesley Humphrey Jeffrey esq. Inglewood house, Registrar of Marriages, George Hidden, Charnha:m Street,
Hungerford
Hungerford ; deputy-registrar, George Thomas Phelps,
Willes Col. George Shippen, The Firg, Charnham Street, Bridge street ; Hungerford
Hungerford
Workhouse, Park street, stands on an elevated & healthy

The chairman, for the time being, of the Hungerford site; it was built in I 840 to hold 344 inmates; Rev.

. Rural District Council, is an ex-officio magistrate John Frederick Denning M. A. chaplain; Harry Pike

Clerk to the Magistmtes, Morse Goulter, Church street Major M.D., J .P. medical officer; Isaac Fowler, master;

Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall fortnightly on . Mrs. Ellen Fowler, matron

wednesday at 2.30 p.m School Attendance Committee.

The places in the division are :-Avington, Coombe, Hun- l\~eets at the Workhouse the rst Board Meeting in the
gerford, Inkpen, Kinbbury & West Woodhay month, after Union business.

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Clerk, Henry D'Oyley Wolvey Astley, Bridge villa,

County Court, held at the Town Hall every two months Hungerford
on tuesday; His Honor Vernon Lushington Q. C. Attendance & Inquiry Officers, Great Bedwyn district,
judge; Morse Goulter, registrar & high bailiff; John
G. Bell, bailiff; D. G. Lewis, registrars' clerk. The Edward Chapman, Great Bedwyn; Hungerford dis·
district comprises the following places in Berks :- trict, Charles Thomas Woodham, Park street, Hunger-
Avington, Barracks, Bagshot, Bockhampton, Chilton, ford; Lambourn district, Francis William Attewell,
Lambourn

Foliatt, Clapton, Denford, Eastbury, Eddington, Elcot, PUBLIC OFFICERS.

Garstou E,lst, Hungerford, Inkpen, Kintbury, Lam· Ass:stant Overseer & Collector of Poor's Rates, William
borne, Lantborne \Vo.Jdlands, Lamborne l!pper, Lever~ Henry Chisell, High street

ton, l'iewt•Jwn Hnngcl'ford, Oxenwood, Sanham Green, Collector of Assessed & Income Taxes, Job Buckeridge,

Sev<>n Barrow!'l, Shalbourn, Shefford East & "\Yest, Kintbury

Shdiord Woodlands, Titcombe, Witcha & Woodhay Clerk of the Market, Edward Bushnell, High street

West; following in Rants : Coombe & Eastwick ; and Inspector of Police, Louis Legg, Park street

the following in Wilts: .Aldbourn, .Axford, Baydon, Bed- Overseers of the Hun~erford Port Down, H. J. Beard

wyn Little, Bedwyn Great, Buttermere, Chilton Foliatt, & George Thomas Phelps

Chisbury, Crofton, Eastridge, Fosbury, Froxfield, Graf· Town Crier & Beadle, Edward Bushnell, High street

ton East, Grafton West, Ham, Hippenscombe, Littlecott,
Lower Upham, Marridge Hill, Marten, Membury, Oak- PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services.

hill, Preston, Ramsbury, Ramsbury Kewtown, Rudge, St. Lawrence's Church, Rev. William Arthur Gordon

Shalb<.tun, Soley, Tidcombe, Upper Upham, Wex- Gray M.A. vicar; Rev. John Milton lYilliams & Rev.

comhe, Whittonditch, Wilton & lVoodsend Waiter Boldero, curates; 8.30 & II a.m. 3 & 6.30 p.m.;

This Court for bankruptcy purposes is included in that of daily, 8.30 a.m. & 6 p.m

Newbury, George Mallam, 1 St. Aldate street, Oxford, St. Mary's, Newtown, 3 p.m. every sunday, & 6.30 p.m.

official receiver every other sunday; Holy Communion, 9 a. m. on 4th

Certified Bailiffs appointed under the "Law of Distress sunday in month

Amendment Act," Arthur 'Vebb .Keate, Hungerford & St. Saviour's, Eddington, vicar & curates of the parish

Newbury church; 8 & II a.m. & 6.30 p.m

County Police Station, Park street, Louis L~gg, inspector, Congregational, Rev. Harry Roderick Parnell i 10.3()

sergeant & 5 constables a.m. & 6 p.m.; tues. 7.30 p.m

Inland Revenue Office, Park street, Edward Stanhope Primitive Methodist, Rev. Philip T~ Yarker; 10.30 a.m. &i

Homersham, officer 6 p.m. ; tues. 7-30 p.m
Town Hall & Corn Exchange, High street, Edward Bush·~ Wesleyan, Rev. Richard Harper & Rev. Frederick W~

nell, keeper Hall; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; monday, 7 p.m

DffiECTORY.] BERK~HIRE. HUNGBRFORD. 91

SCHOOLS. Flys from the ' Three Swans,' the ' Bear 7 & 'Railway
Hotel' meet every train at the station

National (Church) (mixe4 & in:'ants), High street, ·'. CARRIERS.

erected in 1814 & subsequently enlarged for 320 Aldbourn.-Martin, daily

.children ; average attendance, 200 boys & girls &; 8o Fosbury.-Albert Dopson, mon. wed. & sat

infants; Rev. W. A. G. Gray M ..A. secretary; M.. Goul- Fro:xfield.-C. Holmes, daily ' ·

ter esq. treasurer; James :Xewhook, master; Mrs. Grafton & Wilton.-Frederick Bevis, wed. & sat

Newhook, infants' mistress . Lambourn.-George Stacey, wed. & fri

Infant, Hungerford Newtown, erected about 187o, for 35 Marlb"orough.-Edwin Buxcey, tues. & sat

children; average attendance, 24; Miss Rigby, mistres~ ~ewburv.-Leonard Ro s i e r , tues. thurs. fri. &; sat.;
rs
Infant, Eddington, for 100 children; average attendance, Edwin• Buxcey, th u

26 ; Miss ·winser, mistress Ramsbury.-Richard Chamberlain, daily

Wesleyan (mixeu & infants), originalfy the old chapel, Shalbourn.-.Alfred Levy, wed. & sat

erected in r8o7, will hold 150 children; average at- Tidcombe.-Daniel Bullock, wed. ; passing through Great

tendance being II5 ; Caleb Camburn, master Bedwyn

Railways. Vernham.-Sidney Chandle::.", wed.

Great Western, to Newbury, Reading, Slough &; Londor Water Conveyance.-Kennet & Avon Canal (Great Wes•

& Berks & Rants Extension, to Devizes, Bath & Bristol; tern Railway Co. owners); John Holmes Wooldridge,
· agent
Arthur Edward Murphy, station master
Sutton &; Co.-Samuel H&wkes, agent, High street

PRIV.!.TE RESIDEKTS. Denning Rev. John Frederick Charles Pearce Sir William G. bart. M..A.••

Adnams John, High street ~LA.. (vicar of Denford), Westfield LL.B., J.P. Chilton lodge; & 1 Hyde

.Adnams John 0. Park street house, Churd~ street Park gardens, London W

.Alexander J oseph, Hill View house Edmonds John, 2 Atherton villas, Phe:ps George, High street

Alexander Mrs. 3 Elm view,The Croft Oharnham Street Platt George, Manor house, High st

.Alexander Mrs. Ann, Wilton house Faulknor William, .Bridge street Platt John, Wil:ow lodge, Bridge st

Alexander Thomas, Church street Froome Mrs. Co]ege house, High st Portal Edwd.Robt.,J.P. Eddington ho

Alexander William George, High st Gibbons Henry, Charnham Street Purton Mrs. Linden cottage, Eddingtn

Allen Edward M. Church street Goulter Morse, The Priory Richens Mrs. Lancaster villa

Andrews Mrs. Bridge street Grantham Emest Frederick, High st Richens Osmond, The Yews,Church st

A.stley Hy. D'Oyley Wolvey,Bridge vil Gray Rev. William .Arthur Gordon Rose Sydney Durrant, The Laurels,

Barker Richard Henry, High street M..A. The Vicarage Eddington

Beard Louis, High street Harper Rev. Richard (Wesleyan), 3 Royds Mrs. Standen manor
Bennett Rowland Nevitt J.P. Hidden Atherton villas, Charnham Street ~perring William, Church street
Heritage Thomas~ The Croft,Church st Symonds Ca.J.eb, Fair view, Park st
cottage, Newtown
Hofland Robert Newton, Eddington Taylor George, Church street
Biddis Mrs. Charnham street

Boldero Rev. Waiter (curate), High st Hopkins 0. Russell, Avenue house Tourney Miss, Church street

Buck Gillbee, Lancaster vil.Church st Kii..iick Thomas Homer, High street Willes Col. George Shippen J.P. The

Cal:away Mrs. High street 1\IcKerlie John, .High street Firs, Charnham Street

Church 1\frs. Park street Major Harry nke M.D., J.P. High st Williams Rev. John Milton (curate),

(J(}ttrell Geo. The Hermitage, Eddingtn Matthew Mrs. High street Linden cottalfe

Cox Waiter, High street Morrice John Waiter D.L., J.P. Hun- Winchcombe 1Yallace, Park street

Ooxe Jas. Thring,Newtown lo. Xewtwn gerford park Wooldridge John Holmes, Bridge st

Cundell .Albert A.. Rectory farm Neate. Mrs. Church street Wylde William Thomas, Faulknor sq.

Oundell Leonard, The Orchard Parnell R.ev. Harry Roderick (Congre- Charnham Street

Davidson William Henry, High street gational), 1 Atherton villas, Cbarn- Yarker Rev.Philip T.(PrimitiveMetho·

Dredge.Jsph.Faulknor sq.Charnham St ham Street · dist), Bridge street

COMMERCUL. Bull William, chimney sweeper, Church street

Adnams .John & Son, seed merchants &c. High street Bungay George, miller, Dunn mill

Alexander Bros. corn & coal merchants, High street Bushnell Edward, bill poster, town hall keeper, clerk to

Alexander Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments, Eddington the market & town crier & coffee tavern, High street

.Alexander Thomas, grocer, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey Buxcey Edw.in, carrier, H:gh street

Lim. wine & spirit merchants, High street Bu:xcey J ane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Charnham Street

.Allen Edward M., F ...LA.I. accountant, Church street Calvert Charles, highway surveyor, "\Valton cot. Eddington

Allright Alfred Edward, draper & shoe warehouse,High st ' Cannings James, baker, High street

Annetts Henry, furniture dealer, Charnham Street Capital & Counties Bank L:mited (branch) (Ernest Fredk.

Annetts John, Lancaster Arms P.H. & brewer, Bridge st Grantham, manager), High street; draw on head

.Astley Henry D'Oyley ·wolvey, solicitor & commissioner office, 39 Threadneedle street, London EO

for oaths, clerk to the union, rural district council & Chamberlain Richard, farmer, Hidden farm

school attendance committee & town clerk, Bridge vil Champ & Son, mineral water manufacturer!', High street

BaiLey George, butcher, see Huxable & Bailey Chidwick George, upholsterer & undertaker, High street

Bailey 1Villiam, electric bell fitter, Charnham Street Chisell "\Villiam Henry, draper & assistant overseer &

'Bartholomew Alfred, cabinet maker, High street collector of poor rates, High street

. Barnard Ernest, complete house furnisher, tobacconist, Church Francis Waldron, The Three Swans family &;

stationer, fruiterer, fishmonger, butcher & provision commercial hotel & posting house, High street

dealer, High street Clements William, boot & shoe maker, High street

"Batchelor Charles, refreshment rooms, Charnham Street Clifford Arthur, Lamb P.H. & mineral water manufac-

Bates Frederick, carpenter, Xewtown turer, Charnharn Street

Batt Francis, hair dresser, & Barley )low P.H. Bridge st Clifford Stephen, boot & shoe mak€r, High street

Batt George, baker, High street Cliftord Waiter George, florist, High street

Batt Lovelace, farm bailiff to Sir "'\Yilliam George Pearce j Cockell Walter, manager to London & County Banking Co.

hart. Old Hayward farm 1 Limited & treasurer of the Hungerford union & rural

Beard Henry John, farmer & coal merchant, Bridge district council, High street

street & Hills farm, Woodlands St. Mary Cole Robert, niller (water), Town mills

Bell Henry John, coach builder, Charnham Street; & Cooke Louis, baker, Charnham Street

at Lambourn Cooke ~frs. .Alice, dress maker, Chamham Street

Bell John Georg-e, county court bailiff, Church strE-et Cottrell, Rose & Co. Limited, engineers, Eddington works

Blake Thomas & Son, saddlers & harness mas. Bridge st County Court (His Honor Vernon Lushington Q.C.
judge; Morse Goulter, reg~st):"ar & h'gh bailiff),
Bodman Charles, linen & -woollen draper, High street

Bodman James Timothy, leather gaiter manufacturer, Town hall
Prospect cottage, Church street
Cundell Albert A. auctioneer, valuer & estate

Bowden & Co. grocers, High street agent, Rectory farm

Bowsher Anthony, plumber, High street Curnick Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Standen Russey farm
Bowsher Joseph, carpenter, Church street Davidson & McKerlie Ms.R.C.V.~.Glas. veterinary sur-

Brown Harry, shopkeeper, High street geons, High street

Brown John, farmer, Sanham green Denning Rev. John Frederick Charles M.A. preparatory

Brown Joseph Swayne, farm bailiff to Sir William George boarding school for boys, Westfield house

Pearce bart. North Hidden farm Earle Reynolds Richard, ironmonger, High street

Buckerldge Alfred, registered R.C.V.S.Lor.d. veter- Ford George, cowkeeper, High street

inary surgeon & shoeing forge, High stree~

92 BU.NG.ERFOID, BE!~KSHIRE. (IILL'Y'B

Freeman Brothers, tobacconists, fishing tackle & fancy Matthews Joseph, postmaster, High street

dealers, Bridge street May Joseph Henry, draper, High street

Froome Mary (Mrs.), boarding schl. College ho. High st Middleton James, carpenter, Buckland house, Eddingtoa

Froude Thomas, Craven .Arms P.H. High street Middleton Richard, carpenter, Eddington

Froude William .A.lbert, blacksmith, Eddington Murphy .Arthur Edward, ·statn. master, Railway station

Fruen & Son, china. & glass dealers & undertakers, Nash James, baker & mealman, Newtown

High street Neale Joseph, decorator, High street & Park street

Gibbom Henry & Son, ironfounders, Kennet works Neate Arthur Webb, land agent, auctioneer & surveyor

Giles William, Railway hotel, Station road High street; & at Newbury •

Goodmg John, carpenter, High street New .Alfred Wittern, printer & bookseller, Bridge street

Gordon William, estate agent to s:r William George New Stephen Owen, tailor, High street

Pearce hart. ~ew Hayward Newhook James, schoolmaster, High street

Goulter Morse, solicitor, perpetual commissioner & com- Oakes Charles, blacksmith, High street

missioner for oaths & registrar & high bailiff of the Osmond Edith M. (Mrs.), Bear hotel, Charnham St.;

County court, clerk to the county magistrates,Church st posting in all branches ; one of the largest hotels between

Grantham Ernest Frederick, manager to the Capital & London & Bath

Counties Bank, High street ParslDe Vincent, farmer, High Close farm

Haines Robert, farmer & cattle dealer, Park farm Phelps George Thomas, grocer & baker & deputy registrar

Harding .Ann (Mrs.), Salisbury .Arms P.H. High street of marriages, Bridge street

Harris William, shopkeeper, High street Philo Ernest .Alfred, watch & clock maker, Bridge street

Hatfield Emily (Miss), dressmaker, Church street · Pope Henry, Bell P.H. High street

Hawkes Samuel, hair dresser & photographer, & agent Prior Henry James, gamekeeper to Sir William George

for Sutton & Co. carriers, High street Pearce hart. Chilton Lodge kennels,Hayward bottom

Hawkins John, confectioner, High street Reading Room & Institute (John Adnams, sec. & trea-

!Hidden George, insurance agent & registrar of marriages surer), High street

for Hungerford district, Charnham Street Richens Osmond, farmer, Hopgrass

Hidden William Capern, hosier & hatter, Bridge street Rolfe George, carpenter, Church street

Higgs .Arthur, grocer, High street Rosier Frederick, carpenter, Church street

Higgs Joseph Stuart, draper, High street Rosier John, cowkeeper, High street

Hissey .Alfred, farmer, North Standen farm Rumball Ernest J. butcher, Bridge dreet

Hoare William, shopkeeper, High street aussell Edwin Henry, farmer, Little Hidden farm

Hobbs Mary .Ann (Miss), beer & wine retailer, High street Savings Bank (John Holmes Woo~dridge, actuary; open

Hofland Robert Newton, miller (water) & com- on wednesdays from I to 3 p.m.), High street

mission agent, Eddington Roller Mills 3hepherd l\lary (Miss), stationer, Hi!rh street

Homersham Edwd. Stanhope,inland revenue offcr.Park st Sheppard l\lary (Miss), shopkeeper, Park street

Hopkins C. Russell, solicitor, Church street Skinner George, Central News corresp'Jndent, 2 Elm view,

Borne John Wailer, Plough P.H. & carman, High street The Croft

Hoskings Richd. Hy. builder & contractor, Charnham St · 't'. h Arthur, tailor, High street; & at Newbury

Humphries Hy. beer reUr. baker & &hopkpr. Church si Smith Stephen, boot maker, Church street

Hungerford Gas & Coke Co. Limited (John Holmes Smith Thomas, shoe maker, Eddington

Wooldridge, sec.), Charnham Street South Berks Brewery Co. Lirn. (George E. Platt..

Hutchins Sarah (Mrs.), butcher, High street district manag'3r), brewers & wine & spirit merchants,.

Ruxa.ble & Bailey, butchers, Bridge street High street ; & at Newbury

International Tea Co.'s Stores Limited, Bridge street Stevens 'Villiam Thomas, upholsterer, Cha.rnham Street

J essett .Anna (Mrs.), beer retai1er, Park street Sut.ton & Co. parcels carriers (Samqel :Hawkes, agent),.

Jessett Francis William, Sun P.H. Charnham Street High street

Jesset Frederick, baker & grocer, Eddington Taylor Stephen, carpenter, Church .street

Joyce William, smith & machinist, Bridge street Taylor William Gee, chemist, Bridge street

Kennet & .Avon Canal Office (John Holmes Wooldridge, Tidbury :VIark, insurance agent, Eddington

agent), Bridge street Town Hall & Corn Exchange (Edward Bushnell, keeper),.

Killick .Art.hur, grocer, High street High street

Kimber Willi-am, farmer, Undys farm Trotman Cornelius, insurance agent, High street

King John, farmer, F'olley farm \Yaddington John William, chemist & dentist, High st

Kingstone Charles, shoe maker, Park street Weaver lVilliam, Plume hotel, High street

Lamhourne Charles, boot maker, Charnham Street Westfield House Preparatory School for Iloys (Rev.

Lambourne William, boot & shoe maker, Church street John Frederick Charles Denning :\LA. principal), 'Vest-

Legg Louis, inspector of pDlice & relieving officer for field house

tramps, Park street \'\nite William, insurance agent, Paulton cot. Church sfl.

London & County Banking Co. Lim. (branch) (Waiter Wiggins Thomas, bricklayer, Church street

Cockell, manager), High street; draw on head office, \Vin{'hcombe :Frank, carpenter, High street

21 Lombard street, London E C Winchcombe James Alpheus, Oxford Arms P.H. Newtowa

Love Eli8ha & Son, Crown brewery, High street \Vinkworth Frank, jobmaster, Brdge street

Low FrederiCk, plumber & glazier, Bridge street Winkworth Emily (.Miss), sho~keeper, Eddington

:M:cKerlie John M.R.C.V.S.Glas. veterinary surgeon, see Winkworth William, shopkeeper, ~ew town

Davidson & McKerlie Withers Mary Ellen (Mrs.), Red Lion P.H. Charnham Si

l\Iacklin Frederick, shopkeeper, High street Woodham Charles Thomas, relieving & vaccination officer

Major Harry Pike M.D, M.R.C.S.Eng., J.P. surg-eon & for Hungerford district & attendance & inquiry officer,

medical officer & public vaccinator Hung-erford district Park street

& public vaccinator Kintbury district, High street Wooldridge & Son, builders, Canal wharf, Bridge street

l\Iapson William, watch maker, High street Wren George, saddler & ironmonger, High street

HURLEY, anciently '' Hurstelega," is a ·beautiful King Edward the Confessor, wa.s also buried here;.
village and parish situat.ed in a valley on the bank two of the Norman windows on th€! north side of tlie-
of t.he river Thames, surrounded by an amphitheatre L'f nave were filled with stained glass in December, 1876,
richly-cultivated woodlamd hills, 4 miles north-east ~s memorials to the Rev. Florence James \Vethered, &i~

from Henley, 4! norih-west from :Maidenlu:ad and 12 years cura.te and twenty-nine years v:car of Hurley,.
nc·rth-east frGm Reading, in the Eastern division of and to Mrs. Wharton, late of the ~lalt House, Hurle.y;
the county, hundtred of Beynhurst, MajdenLead petty the church affords 248 sittings; the churchyard is

sessional division and union, Henley-on-Thames county neatly kept and! has se'Veral handwme marble and
court district, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry g~ranite crosoos. The register dates from the year I56.o.

of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £xffo, a;ad

anciently attached to the priory, is a structure of flint and I acre of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held
chalk, par~ly in the Norman style ; it was rededicated since 1868 by the Rev. Florence Thomas Wethered M..A.
about I086 by Osmund the Good, Bishop of Sarum and of Christ Church, Oxford, and surrogate. The vicarage

Chancellor of England, and consists of chancel, nave, and house was enlarged and remod<>lled in 185o. Four
a turret containing 3 bells; it was restored in 1852 at cottages, built on land given by Hurley priory in 1494,

a cost of [1,493• when t.he original windows on the north produce [2r yearly, for repairs of the church. Sir

side, formerly closed, were re-opened, those on the south Richard Lovelace kt. and first Baron Lovelace, of Hurley,
side restored and a vestry added : the chancel retains a left the value of ten quarters of rye for the poor ;
Decorated window of the 14th cent. ; there are several Kempenfelt's, Benwell's, Micklem"s and S. Bradley's
monuments in the church and chancel, inc~uding one charities are distributed amongst the poor of the ci11il
to the Lovelace family, of Hurley; Editha, sister to parish in clothing kc. and, together with Love~ace's

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DIRECTORY.) .BERKSHIRE. BURST. 93

charity, amounted in :r8gf to £39 13s. 7~d. Here was esq. and Robert William Hudson esq. of Danesfield House,
a cell of Benedictine monks, given to. ·Westminster Medmenham. The soil is light· gravel and chalk; subsoil,
Abbey by Geoffrey de Magna Vill.a or Mande.ville in chalk. The area of the civil parish.i.s 4,no acres of land
the reign of William the Conqueror, and dedicated to and 49 of water; rateable value, £6,752; the population
St. Mary the Virgin; its reve.nues at the Dissolution in 1891 was 550, exclusive of Knowl Hill portion of Hurley
about 1535 were estimated at £121; the Lovelace family civil parish, which was 530.

built out of the ruins of the monastery a stately mansion Birchets Green, a hamlet partly in this parish, will be
and called it "Lady Place." The house was for some found under a separate head.
time the residence of the brother of the ill-fated .Admiral
Richard Kempenfelt, drowned on the sinking of the "Royal Parish Clerk, Dennis HigneJl Wargent.
George," at Spithead, 29 .Aug. 1782, and was eventually
pulled down in :r837· Hurley Manor, including Hurley Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Great Wood, was granted in exchange by H'enry VIII.
Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office.-George
to 1Yestminster Abbey. The principal landowners are Sir Gough, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Marlow,
Gilbert .Augustus Clayton-Ea.st bart. J.P. of Hall Place, at 7·35 a.m. & 1·30 p.m.; dispatched at 10.5 a.m. &
6.35 p.m.; sundays at 9·35 a.m
who is lord of the manor, Lieut.-General Owen Lewis Pn.rochial School (mixed), for 8 I children; ave.rage
Cope Williams, of Temple House, Bisham, Henry Micklem attendance, 24; l\lrs. George Smith, mistress

(Marked thus * receive their letters *Carter Charles, The Old Hatch Gate *Hussey Walter, bailiff to E. Gardner

through Henley-on-Thames.) P.H. Cockpole esq. .Pudders farm

Boyle Cecil William, Lady place Cox Robert, farm bailiff to Mark Keene Robert Henry, farm bailiff to

"*Donaldson Lady, Rosehill house Knowles esq. Hall Place farm (let· R. W. Hudson esq. Frogmill farm

Dowell Mrs. The Copse ters through Maidenhead) Leaver James & Son, builders, con-

*Gardner Henry, Dean place Cranmore Geo. Fredk. Black Boy inn tractors & undertakers; estimates

Hoare Hugh E. Hurley house Deacon Elizh. (Mrs.), East Arms hotl given for general repairs

Lyon Edward, Malt house *Gardner Hy. farmer, Dean Place farm Rodwell James, Old Bell hotel

Phillimore Mrs. Manor house *Golder's Farm Convalescent Home *Silver Helena (Mrs.), Four Horse

Wethered Rev. Florence Thos. M.A. (Miss Eliza Welbank, matron), Shoes P.H. Cockpole

(vicar), Vicarage Cockpo1e Street Thomas, miller (water)

COMMERCIAL. GougL. George, grocer & beer retailer,

*Burchall William, gardener,Cockpole Post office

XURST (or St. :Kicholas Burst) is a parish about 7 parish are the following: Mr. Richard Bigg, formerly

miles long, and consists of the liberties of Broad Hinton, fellow of New College, Oxford, who in 1677 left three

Whi.stley-in-Hurst, Winnersh and Newland; the latter freehold houses and a warehouse in London, now pro-

liberty, with a great part of Winnersh, has bqen formed ducing £220 y-early; Lady Dorothy Harrison, whose

into the ecclesiastical district of St. Oatherine, Bear- charity yields £22 yearly; Lady l<'ranceos Wiuchcomb;

wood, and the hamlet of Twyford with an adjacent William Barman 01sq. who by his will left th& interest

district was formed into a separate ecclesias- ()f £soo to be annually distributed in ooal among

tical parish .April 4th, 1876, and a civil parish the poor of the liberty of Winnersh, the amount being

June 23rd, 1895· lVhistley-in-Hurst is 6 miles east now about £18; Mrs. Sarah Glasspool, who left J.,2oo,

from Reading, 2 south from the Great Western railway the interest of which, now £6 a year, is expended in

station at Twyford, 7! south from Henley, 4 north from flannels and blankets fOT the poor of the liberty of

Wokingham and ro from Maidenhead, in thE!j Eastern Whistley ; and Alice .Allright, who left £8 a. year for

division ()If the county, hundred of Cha.rlton, pe-tty ses- th~ poor of N ewland liberty. The fuel wllQtments of

sional division and union of Wokingham, county court the libeTty of N ewland have been sold and the purchase

ci.strict of Reading, !'ural deanery of Sonning, arch- money, £3go, invested; the interest is yearly distri-

d(aconry of Berks and diocese. of Oxford. 'l'he church buted in fuel. There is also the Hooten and PO"O'ley

of St. Nicholas is a building of stone in the Transitional bequf:1st of £44 yearly, for the benefit of the inmates

and lat<er styles, consisting of chancel, with ~>onth aisle of Barker's a.Jmshouses; and two other charities, founded

(added in 1876), nave. and a south porch, aisles and by George William Barker esq. for educational pur-

:an embattled w-estern tower, rebuilt in r6r2, and COdl- poses and for the purehas{'J of coals for the poor, and

taining a clock aud 6 bells : the chancel is separated amounting together to £19 yearly; besides which

horn the nave and aisle by a screen of elaborately there are some smaller bequests. The charities are now

carved oak, surmounted by th~ Royal arms and Prince administered under a scheme of the Charity Com-

of Wales's plume, richly gilt; five large pillars with missioners, the total income being about {,530. Lord

arches of various dates, from the 12th century down- Braybrootk:e is lord of the manor. The prmcipal land-

wards, fiJII"ID the arcade to the north aisle, and thre,e owners are the trustees of the late John Edward Leveson-

:arches in the l\Iiddle-Pointed style s-eparate the south Gower esq. of Bill Hill, Wokingham (d. 1892), and Thomas

:aisl~ from the nave ; the pulpit is of carved oak in Colleton Garth esq. of Broad Hinton. The soil is mostly

the Jacobean style, and there is a splendid marble loam and gravel; subsoil, gravel and clay, 'l'he chie{

monument, of the 17th century, to Lady Margaret, crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area of the entire

widow of Sir Henry Savil~ kt. provost of Eton and parish is 6,8oi acres of land and 97 of water; rateable

founder of the Savilian professorships of astronomy and value, £21,959; the population in 1891 was 1,333·
geometry at Oxford; it has six marble figures in the
attitude of prayer, under a canopy with drapCll'y, BROAD HINTO~ is a liberty, formerly in Wiltshire,
supported on each side by an angel, the whole of ex- but by the .Acts 2 and: 3 William IV. cap. 64 and 7 and
<quisite workmanship; there is also a brass to Richard 8 Vie. cap. 6:r it was annexed to Berkshire. A small
\Vaude, "aulae proquestor" to Henry VIII., Edward portion of a farm called "Old Warren House," in the

VI., and Que.ens :Mary and Elizabeth, ob. 1574; his parish m Wokingham, is in the county of 'Vilts, the
wife, C<llubra, and 17 children, with effigie.s and 14 remainder teing in Broad Hinton, to which liberty it is

vers-es ; and another brass to Alice, eldest daughte'I" of rated ; Stanlake Park is partly in this parish and part in

Richard Ward esq. "coofeil'CJI'" to Queen Elizabeth, and Ruscombe. Haines Hill, a large mansion, standing in a park

wife of Thomas Harrison esq. ob. c, r6oo; this brass of :r3o acres, is the seat of Thoma1s Colleton Garth esq.

has her effigy in a bed, she having died in childbed ; D.L., J.P. who is proprietor and master of a pack oi

in 1876 and r885 the whole church was restored at the fox-hounds meeting four times a week. Reading, Wok-

-expense of Miss Palmer, of Sonning, at a cost of ingham and Basingstoke are convenient places for hunting

£4,000; in the south aisle is a memorial window pre- visitors. The population in r881 was 643; area, :r,734

sented! by th~ family of the late T. R. Barman esq. acres of land and 14 of water; rateable value, £5,646.

()f Sindlesham ; the stained ea.st window is a memorial WRISTLEY-IN-HURST is a liberty, with an area of
to the Rev. Archibald Alien Cameron M.A. vicar 1832- 1,919 acres of land and 16 of water; rateable value,
8o, and in 1893. a memorial window was erected to
1\-lrs. Cameron: there are 400 sittings. The register £9,622; the population, including Broad Htinton, was :r,go6
dates from the year :r583. The living is a vicarage, in 1881. Hurst Lodge, a commodious red brick building,
net yearly valu& £276, with residence, in the gift of in ground.JS of 30 acres, occupied by C. Featherstonhaugh.
the Bishop of Oxford, and he;l.d since r88o by the Rev. esq. Hurst Grove, a pleasant residence standing within
Edmund Broome M..A. of Exeter College, Oxford. its own grounds, is the seat of Mrs. Finch.

There is a Baptist chapel at Broad Hinton, with sittings WINNERSH is a liberty and comprises Sindleshaza.
for 70 persons. There are almshouses, founded in :r682 The population in I88r was 685; area, 2,034 acres of

hy William Barker esq. of Hurst, for eight poor land and II of water; rateable value, £4,328.
peop1e, with a donation to them and their successors
for ever of 7s. 6d. weekly, besides a new coa.t or gown Newland is a liberty. Th~ names will be found under
erery second year. The other ch:ef benefactors to the Arborfield.

94 BURST. BERKSHIRE. [lUlLLT'I!I

'.rhe names belonging to Twyford will be found under Post Ollice, King Street.-Geo. tVithers, sub-postmaster,

that heading, and those of the Bearwood district under Letters arrive from 'Vokingham at 7.10 a.m.; dis-
that heading or that of Arborfield. patched at 12.5 & 6.10 p.m.; sunday delivery, 7.2o

Parish Cle:rk, Alf:red William White. a.m.; dispatched II-55 a. m. Postal orders is·sued here,
Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.
but not paid. ~he nearest money order & telegraph
-John W. S. Chalker, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive office, Wokingham, 3 miles distant
Pillar B(_l.x at Hurst Church cleared at 6.50 p.m.;
through Twyford R.S 0. at 6.50 a.m. & 12 noon;
sundays at xo.so a.m. & Wall Box at Broad Hinton,
dispatched at 10.10 a.m. & 7.10 p.m. & on sundays cleared at 3.25 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays at r1.30 a.m
National Schools (boys, girls & infants); the boys' school
delivery at 7 a.m.; dispatched II.Io a.m. The nearest was erected in 1881; the schools will unitedly bold 290
children; average attendance, 7.'1 boys, 72 girls & 76
telegraph office is at Twyford, 3 miles distant infants; Francis E. Child, master; Miss Edith Winny,
mistress; 1\frs. Amy Record, infants' mistress
Post Office, Davis Street.-J. Chalker, ~ub-postmaster. Carriers to Reading.-East, tues. thurs. & sat. & William
Letters received through Twyford R.S.O.; arrive at Wicks, man. wed. & sat. returning the same days

8.10 a.m.; dispatched at 6.20 p.m.; sundays 8.30 a.m.
The nearest money order office is at Hurst and the tele-
graph office is at King Street, Wokingham, I~ miles

distant

WHISTL"EY-IN-HURST. Webb Robert, veterinary surgeon Mayers William, beer retailer

Andrew J sph. George, Oakley cottage White Alfred William, blacksmith Priest John, farmer

Broome Rev. Edmund M.A. (vicar) Wilson Thomas, beer :retailer Skates Simeon, shopkeepe:r

Castell George Thomas BROAD IDNTOX. \\alden Ernest, builder & contractor.
Cobham Albert Gray Beauchamp Miss cart, van & carriage builder, Vic-
Featherstonhaugh C. Hurst lodge taria works
Garth Thomas Colleton D.L., J.P. Wallace Thomas, farmer
Finch Mrs. Hurst grove Haines hill

Jones Char:es, Frogmore \Vhite Charles, beer retailer
Mackey Archibald J. Burst house Heydemann Mrs
Roupell Capt. George, Hurst cottage Wicks Wm. Green Man P.H. & ca:rrier

Melior J ames, The Woodlands Skrine Duncan WI~NERSH.

Webb Miss Soundy Edwin

COMMERCIAL. (Letters through King street, Wok-
Blaxland Hy. Wheelwrights Arms P.H Whitaker Miss, Hinton lodge
ingham.)

Blea Thomas, Castle P.H COMMERCIAL, Finch tYalter, Kilbourne lodge

Bowyer Henry, farmer Adey George, farmer, Broad common Morshead Col. High Chimneys

Brown Jas. Elephant & Castle P.ll Beeson George Thomas, beer retailer Stuart Mrs. Tontley hall
Bullock George, baker & beer retailer Brackley Charles, huntsman

Candy J ames, farmer Brown William, farmer & rod mer COlrMERCIAL.

Chalker John W. S. baker & grocer & Chalker John W. S. grocer & drape.r, Blake Isaac, farmer, Loddon bridge

post office Post office Bowyer Wm. farmer, Murrell green

Day Charles George, farmer Clarke William, beer retailer Ford Joseph George, steam threshing

Ford Ernest G. farmer Coulston Frank, baker & sawing machine & steam roller

Ford George, farmer Cox Arthnr, blacksmith proprietor, brick & tile manufactr.

Gammon George, farmer Dunn William, land steward to T. C. & farmer, ·winnersh farm

King Oliver (Mrs.), farmer Garth esq.D.L.,J.P.Haines Hill frm Hope John, Pheasant P.H. King st

Knapp John, painter Garraway Joseph, jun. farmer Medcalf Wm. farmer, Murrell green

Lewis Harry & J osiah, bUilders King Charles, grocer Uphill & Son, nurserymen

EAST ILSLEY (or Market ns:ey, ancient:y Hildes- were traditionally removed to a square enclosure now

l.ey) is a small market town and parish, and head of a planted and called " The 1\arren " ; the markets com-

petty sessional division, 9 miles north from Newbury, 10 mence on the Wednesday fortnight before Easter and

from Wantage, 11 south from Abingdon, 2 miles north-west sometimes earlier, and continue every a:ternate Wednes-

from Compton station on the Didcot & Winchester railway, day till July; cattle, sheep and lamb fairs are held

in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Comp- from Easter till November, on Wednesday in Easter week

ton, union and county court district of \Vantage, rural for sheep, 1Vednesday in Whitsun week for sheep, the

deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese o.f 1st of August for sheep and lambs, 26th August for

Oxford; it is situated on the side of a hill, surrounded by sheep and lambs (this is the largest fair in the year and

a ridge of downs, which extend for some miles, a part oi as many as so,ooo sheep and lambs have been brought

which is cultivated and the remainder used as sheep for sa:e on this day). Wednesday after the 19th Septem-
walks. The church of St. Mary is a sma:l building of ber for sheep and lambs, Oct()ber 13th for hiring servants

stone and rubble in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, and pleasure, known as ''Runaway Fair," Wednesday

nave of three bays, aisles, north porch and low embattled aft.er October 17th for sheep, and Wednesday after 12th
western tower of the Decorated period, containing 5 bells, November (Hallow-tide fair) for sheep; dealers and

dateJ. 1412-1625, and a clock; the south arcade of the graziers come from all parts of the country to these fairs

nave has Transition Norman arches, but the south aisle to purchase stock to be sent into the grazing districts.

is Early Eng:ish, the north being modern; the door- There are several establishments here for training race

way in the nave is Decorated and has the ball flower horses, the light and springy turf of the downs being
ornament; the church was enlarged and re-pewed in well adapted for that pnrpose. Lord Wantage L.L.,K.C.E..
1845, and in 1881-2 the south aisle was restored and the V.C. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil
fine old :roof disclosed ; the entrance to the rood loft is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk and flint. The crops
and a piscina were also discovered; the gallery in front are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and seed hay. The area
of the west window was :removed, a Norman font, which
was found under the pulpit, restored and piaced in the is 3,017 acres; rateable value, £2,463; the population in
centre oi the basement of the tower, the chancel re-deco- 1891 was 519.

rated and a stained window inserted at the east end : in the Parish C:erk, William Welch.
chancel is a marble sU.ab, with arms, inscribed to the Rev.
Joseph Barnes A.M. rector, d. 1753, and to his wife, d. PGst, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Expres& Delivery, Parcel
r721 ; in the aisle is a brass, with arms, placed by their
daughter Kathe:rine, to the wife of 1Villiam Hildeslea, ob. Post, S. B. &·Annuity & Insurance Office.-Edwin Thos.
January, 1606, having survived him 30 years; the Taylor, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Newbury
churchyard contains memorials to the Rev. Thomas
at 7.25 a.m. & 12.40 p.m. for callers only; clispatched at

5.25 p.m. Sundays arrive 7.25 a.m. ; dispatched 4·45
p.m

Loveday, 34 years rector, d. 1873, and his wife, d. 1845; COUNTY J.\IAGISTRA.TES FOR THE ILSLEY
four stained windows were presented, in 18g6-7, by the DIVISION.

late J ames Grey esq. ; there are 250 sittings, r5o being

free. The :register dates from November, 1653. The ' Bowles Col. Thomas John, Streatley, Reading

living is a rectory, net income £4oo, with 63 acres of Carter Col. J. Colebrooke, Arciington, Wantage

glebe and resitlence, in the gift of Magdalen College, ('.()tesworth "\Villiam esq. Chaddleworth house, Wantage

Oxford, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Thomas Robert Denis-de Vitre Henry esq. Charlton house, Wantage

Terry M.A. and late fellow and tutor of that college. The Hazel Capt. J. Rowstock, Steventon R.S.O

poor of this parish have the right of cutting furze upon Loyd Archie Kirkman esq. M.P., Q.C. Hodcott house,.

several downs. Tisley has long been noted for its sheep West llsley, ~ewbury

markets and fairs, a grant for the holding of which was Martin-Atkins Ernest Edwin esq. Doy;nend house, Chieve-

obtained by Sir Francis Moore, from James I. in r62o; ley, Kewbury

previous to this time, fairs were held at Cuckhams:ey Wroughton Philip esq. ].\LA., D.L. Woolley park, Wantage

Hill (Cwichelmes hlrewe), but on the is~ue of the grant 1 Clerk to the Magistrates, E. B. Ormond, "\Vantage

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. IXKPEN. 95

Petty sessions are he:d at the Police station the first Lowe esq. chairman & James H. Robinson, clerk to the

friday in each month, at 12 o'clock l3oard; attilndance officer, William Welch

The following places are within the division :-.Aldworth, Board School, erectod 1832 as a National school & con-
verted into a Board school in 1872; it will ho:d zoo
Catmore, Chilton, Compton, Farnborough, Lsley (East), children; average attendance, 89; James Cockburne
I '5 1~y (W t) Williams, master; Mrs. .Ada "\Villiams, mistress

" es Carrier.-Ernest Barlow passes through from West llsley

G£Orge Wheeler, sergeant of police to Newbury, tues. & thurs

.A School Board of S members was formed in I8]2; Joseph

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. East James, trainer of l'acehorses Ralph Joseph Stanmore, Crown &

Bennett Lawrence Henry M..A., M.B. Field George, blacksmith Horns P.H
The Hall Goddard James Minchi.n, shoe maker Robinson James Humfrey, road sur-

Josey Rev. Benjamin John (Baptist) & draper veyor to the Wantage rural district

Lowe Joseph, Kennett house Green Edwin, draper & furn. dealer council & clerk to the East Ilsley

Taylor Mrs. Filbert house Hamm .Annie (Mrs.), grocer & baker school board

Terry Rev. Thomas Robert M..A. Harwood Henry, general dealer SSomervilFle Sa:.;rmefl, Whi.te&Horse inn
F·R. · As ( t) Horsman .Alfred, coal agent & agent tevens ranc1s, armer sheep pen
· for the National Deposit Friendly proprietor & deputy registrar of
· rec or

COiUMERCI.A.L. Society births & deaths for Ilsley sub-dis-

.Allen John Kingston, tailor Jeffery Edmund, see Swan Hotel trict, Wantage union, Manor farm

Bartholomew Matilda (Mrs.), sheep Judd Richard, grocer & baker Stoker .Arthur Olifford, WhiteHartP.H
dip~r
Kersley Frank, tea dealer Swan ,Hotel (under distinguished

Bennett Lawrance Henry M..A., M.B., Lambourn Marina (Miss), dress ma patronage), good accommodation

B.Ch., M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon & Lamb Hotel; first class accom- for private parties, stabling for

medical officer & public vaccinator, modation, good stabling, Henry so horses; Edmund Jeffery~

Wantage union, The Hall Albert Pickard, proprietor & proprietor & wine & snirit merchant

Booker J sph. relieving & vaccmation wine & spirit merchant Taplin Charles, draper

officer No. 3, 4, 5 & 6 districts & Lowe Joseph, trainer of racehorses Taylo~ Edwin Thomas, builder &;

registrar of births & deaths for & farrr.er stationer, Post office

Ilsley sub-district, Wantage union Lukie Henry, trainer of racehorses, Tyrrell James, Wheatsheaf P.H. &

& registrar of marriages for ·want- Hillhurst land measurer; sacks let on hire

age district Marriott Thos. Young (Mrs.), farmer Ward Jn. farmer, Lower Church frm

Darling Wm. Hy.painter & insur.agnt McKie "\Villiam .Alexander, trainer of Ward Thomas, farmer, Church farm

Davis James, Sun P.H. & butcher racehOTses Webb Annie (Miss), dress maker

Deacon William, stone mason Pearce James, saddler 'Yells )lark, butcher & farmer &

Dover James, trainer of racehorses Pickard Hy. .Albert, see Lamb hotel assistant overseer

WEST ILSLEY is a small village and parish II miles I who died sth .April, 188o, and a tomb of granite, in-

north from Newbury and 4 north-west from O:lmpton sta- scribed to George Bowes Morland of .Abingdon, d. June I,

tion on the Didcot and Winchester railway, in the Southern I878. The register dates from the year 1S58. The

division of the county, hundred of Compton, llsley petty living is a rectory, net yearly value £7S• with residence,
sesosional division, union and county court district of in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held

Wantage, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of since r899 by the Rev. Edward .Alexander McConnell M.A.

l3erks and diocese cf Oxford; it is pleasantly situated in a of St. John"s College, Oxford. There is a Baptist chapel

deep valley in the centre of the Downs, and the traveller, here, erected in 1887. Oalibut Downing, of Oriel College~
in passing along the road, does not perceive it till he Oxford, in 1623, a divine of some eminence in the reigns

comes to the brow of a hill at the ent-rance to the of Charles I. and II. was rector here. Sir George Downing

villagil. The church of All Saints is an ancient fabric of bart. M.P. an envoy to Holland during the Protectorate,
flint with stone facings, in the Early English style, con- hitherto regarded as his eldest son, was in fact the son of
tsisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, north porch and a J<:mmanuel Do~ming, of St. Michael, Cornhill, and of

western turret containing one bell; the north aisle was Salem, Mass. U.S.A. as appears from records preserved in
added in I876; on the south side of the chancel is a the Court House at Salem. There are charities consisting
marbLe slab ins-cribed to John Head, of Hodcott, d. 1803; of£2 a year and 10 loads of wood to five poor men annually.
and there is a tablet to John Head, d. 1746, and hi~ The Rev. Edward Moore, a former rector, bequeathed £so,
wife, d. 17S6; there are other memorials to "William the interest to be given annually to the poor. Hodcott

1\Iorland, d. 1838; Margaret, wife of Thomas Gale, d. House is the residence of .Archie Kirkman Loyd esq. Q.C.,
February 7th, 1784; and a brass to Marianne Morland, M.P., J.P. Lord Wantage K.C.B., V. C. is lord of the
d. April 10th, 1877, to whose memory the stained east manor ani chief landowner. The soil is chalk; subsoil,
window was a.ls•o erected; and in the nave is a memorial chalk, and in some places, clay. The crops• are oats, wheat

window to George Morland esq. placed by Lord and Lady and barley. The area is 3,036 acres; rateable value,
Wantage in I879; on the north side of the chancel is a £1,626; the population in 1891 was 316.
brass recording the opening of a new north aisle August Sexton, Thomas Howell.

gth, I876; and of the chancel July 2oth, 1878 (when a Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

dedication stone was laid by H.R.H. Princess Christian of Post, S. I!. & .Annuity &; Insurance Office.-Mrs. Sarab

Schleswig Holstein); the restoration of the church, corn- Eagles, sub-postmistress. Letters through :N"ewbury
pleted in I881, was carried out under the superintendence arrive at 8.10 a.m. & 4.50 p.m. for callers only; dis-
of Mr. Edwin Dolby, architect, of Abingdon; in 1894 the patched at 4-So p.m.; sundays, arrive 8.10 a.m.; dis-
chmcel was partially restored and re-floored, the south aisle patched 10 a. m

has also been re-floored, at a total cost of about £wo; 1'\ational School (boys & girls), erected in 1870, for 93

there are now sittings for 230 persons. On the north side children; average attendance, so; Miss Perring, mist
of the churchyard is a memorial to Thomas Wise, for many Carrier.-Ernest Barlow, 1'\ewbury, tues. & thurs.; .Ab-

years verger of St. George's Chapel, in Windsor Cast:e, ingdon, mon. ; Wantage, sat

Bell Capt. Hrbt. Cartwright,Rowles ho McConnell Rev. Edward .Alexander Huzzey Edwin, Harrow inn

Loyd .Archie Kirkman M.P., Q.C., J.P. M..A. (rector), Rectory Stevens Jas. shopkeeper & blacksmith

Hodcott house; & 6oa, Cadogan Morland Mrs. West Ilsley house Wells Robt. carpenter & beer retailer

square SW & Carlton & Windham Barlow Ernest, carrier Wilson Hy. sheep dealer & farmer

clubs SW & Union club WC Lndn Eagles Joseph, grocer

INKPEN is a parish on the borders of Wiltshire, 4 which several old oak pews with the Brickenden arms
carved at,the end of each seat still remain; there are
miles south-east-by-south from Hungerford and 3 south also memorials to the Butlers, including one to Capt.
from Kintbury station, on the R~ading and Hungerford Thomas Butler R.N. lost on board the '' Scarborough"
branch of the Great Western railway, in the Southe-rn during a hurricane in the ·west Indies, in I]8o; the
division of the county, hundred of Kintbury-Eagle, petty church was extensively repaired and restored in 18g6,
sessional division and county court district of Hunger- under the direction of Mr. C. C. Rolfe, architect, of Ox-
ford, Hungerford & Ramsbury union, rural deanery of ford, when an oak chancel screen with rood was erected
Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. and an alt'lr table of carved and gilded oak presented :
The church of St. Michael is a small but ancient structure the porch is a memorial to the Rev. John Butler M.A.
of :flint and stone in the Early English and Perpendicular rector, t850-g5 and has a carving in low relief of "The
styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a low
we~tern tower carried on four piers of oak and containing Entombment," from a picture by Taddeo Gaddi; there are
3 bells: it contains tablets to the family of :Brick- ISO sittings. The Tegister dates from the year I57o.
The living is a rectory, net yearly value £336, with 12
enden, who built the rectory and restored the church, in

96 INKPE~. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY's

aOl'es of glebe, with residen::e, in the gift of and held who is lord of the manor and Humpbrey Je:ffrey Walmesley

since 1895 by the Rev. Henry Dobree Butler M.A. of esq. J.P. of Inglewood House, Kintbury, are tha princi·

Trinity College, Oxford. There is a Primitive Methodist pal landowners. The soil is mixed, light and heavy; sub.

chapel, built in 186o, and a Wesleyan chapel with a soil, clay and loam. The chief crops are wheat, barley,

Sunday school. The interest on Easter's charity of £2oo oats and turnips. The area is 2,855 acres; rateable

is distributed yearly at Christmas, amongst the aged value, [2,286; the population in 1891 was 667.

poor and most industrious inhabitants of Inkpen in such Parish Clerk, J ames Rolfe. •

proportion as the trustees think proper. Mrs. Harriet Post Office, Upper Green.-Miss Matilda Goodfellow

Butler's charity consists of the interest upon [3oo, to be Froom, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Hunger~

sp-ent in the purchase of bread, to be given to the poor ford at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5-5 p.m.; sundays, 11

of the parish of Inkpen. In this parish rises the river a.m. Wall Letter Box at Lower Green cleared at 4·45

Auborn, which runs in an eastward direction till it p.m.; on sundays at 10.15 a.m. Postal orders are

reaches Hide End, in Brimpton parish, then, bending issued here, but not paid. Kintbury is the nearest

northward, takes an oblique line between Brimpton nnd money order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant

Wasing and falls into the Kennet a little below Wasing, A School Board of 5 members was formed for this parish

forming, through its course of about 17 miles, the in 1875 ; William Thomas Homer, clerk to the school

houndary between this county and Hampshire. Walbury board & school attendance officer

Camp, the highest point of which is just outside thE'l Board School (mixed), built in 1877, for 127 children;

parish boundary of lnkpen, is the highest point of the average attendance, II3; Levi Starr, master; Miss

ochalk range in the south of England, being 959 feet high. Kate Miller, infants' mistress

Kirby House, the property of the Butler family, is occupied Carriers to-
by Harold Leach esq. : it belonged at one time to Thomas

Brickenden, who was Reader of Gray's Inn, and Judge Newbury-Mrs. Pole, thurs.; .Alfred Levy, from Shal-

<>f the Lord Mayor's court, and died in 1664: about 1779 bourn, passes through on mon. & thurs.; :Mrs. John

it passed by purchase to the Frankland Russells, and sub- May, thurs

~equently to its present owners. The Earl· of Craven, Hunge.rford-Mrs. John May, wed. & sat

Backer1dge Elias Buckeridge David, fa1mer & potter Homer William Thomas, grocer &

Butler Rev. Henry Dobree M..A.Rctry Butler Geo. Jn. farmer, Rolfe farm draper, & clerk to school board &

Cross J. Neville, Totterdown Ca1vert Roger, farmer, Saddler's frm school attend. officer, Unoer green

Hunt Mrs. Sarah Ann, Percy house Collins Anthony, Craven Arms P.H Killick Willia.rn, grocer & draper,

Leach Harold, Kirby house Cooling Thomas, farmer, Ham spray Great Common

Osborne Mrs. West court Oreighton James, farmer, Lower grn Lawrence Richd. farmer, Manor farm

J>arker George, Upper green Dowling Charles, farm bailiff to the Little Job, higgler

Scott Mrs. Fox Hill cottage Rev. Henry Dobree Butler,Kirby fm May Emma. (Mrs.), carrier

Sermon William, The Folly Dymond Mary Jane (Mrs.), farmer Palmer Charles, blacksmith

Stratton Mrs. Lower green Edwards James, carpenter & farmer Preston. Hy. pond ma. Gt. Common

COl\fMERCIA.L. Faulknor Arthur, nurseryman Rogers Charles John, beer retailer

Fox William, bricklayer & cowkeeper, Rolfe Henry, shopkeeper & basket

Abraham Charles, shoe maker Lower green maker, Lower green

.Alexander Henry, beer retailer Froom Matilda Goodfellow (Miss,, Starr Levi, schoolmaster

.Annetts Charles, farmer post office, Upper green Stroud George, shopkeeper

13ance Robert, farmer Froom Francis, farmer Taylor Edwin &; William, cattle dlrs.

Jllack Amos, horse dealer Froome John, farmer, North Croft Vine cottage

Bridgeman Walt. horse dlr. Rcse cot Hercomb Chas. Swan P.H. Lower grn Watts Hy. carpenter,Great Common

KENNINGTON is a small village, and was formed University, who resides at 19 St. Margaret's road, Oxford.
into an ecclesiastical parish 16 Feb. 1866, out of the Colonel Edgar John Disney, of Ingatestone, Essex, is lord
parishes of Radley and Sunningwell; it is separated from of the manor and chief landowner. Egrove house, the
()xfordshire by the river Isis and is on the high road residence of Mrs. Alden is about a mile north-west
of the village, and commands a magnificent view of
from Oxford to Abingdon, 2 miles south from the former, Oxford and the surrounding- country; the celebrated
picture of Oxford, by J. M. W. Turner R.A. is supposed
4 north from Abingdon and 2 miles north from Radley to have been taken from this spot. The soil is principally
station on the Birmingham and Oxford branch of the stone brash, resting on the limestone. The crops are
Great Western railway, in the Northern division of the grain in succession. The area is 430 acreg.; the popula-
tion in 1891 was 159.
.county, hundred of Harmer, petty sessional division, union
and county court district of Abingdon and in the rural Parish Clerk, Frank East
ueanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese
of Oxford; the Thame branch of the Great Western rail- Letters arrive throug-h Oxford, 8.15 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.
way crosses the river here over a bridge of three arches. which is the nearest money order & telegraph office
The church of St. Swithin, built and consecrated in 1828,
is a small edifice of stone in the Norman style, consisting Wall Letter Box is cleared at 10.25 a. m. & 6.10 p.m. &
()£ nave and a western bell-cot containing one bell;

there are 8o sittings. The r.egister dates from the year sundays at 9· 10 a.m

1:82g. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value [130, National School, built in 1876, and rebuilt in 1890, at a

in the gift of .All Souls College, Oxford, and held since cost of over [2oo, for 50 children; average attendance,

1876 by the Rev. George Charles llliss ~LA. of Oxford . 30; Mrs. King, certificated mistress

~Uden Mrs. Egrove house Alden Leonard, farmer & butcher /Mundy Job, farmr.Manor House frm
Arnold George, River view Alien Thomas, grocer & baker Walker Alfred, The Tandem P.H

'KINGSTON :BAGPUZE is a parish extending value, including 24 acres of glebe, [230, with residence, •
northwards to the Isis, which separates it from Oxford in the gift of the President and Fellows of St. John's
-!'.hire, and is on the road from Abingdon to Faringdon, College, Oxford, and held since 1891 by the Rev. John
6 miles west from .Abingdon, 9 miles from Oxford, and Howard Sweet-Esoott M.A. formerly scholar at that
5 miles from Wantagt. Road station on the Great West- college. The poor's land of 8 acres produces [12 yearly,
·ern t·aHway, in the Northern division of the county, bun~ and money in the funds produces £17 yearly: both sums
ured of Ock, petty sessional division, union and county are distributed in goods, at the discretion of the recipients.
court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of Abingdon, The kennels of the Old Berkshire Hunt are in this parish,
archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, and Edward W. T. Dunn esq. J.P. of Childrey Manor,

derives its name from the land having been bestowed Wantage, master; Abingdon, Faringdon and Wantage

by William the Norman on Sir Richard Bagpuze, one oi are convenient placee for hunting visitors. At New

his followers. The church of St. John the Baptist, Bridge, in this parish (which derives its name from the

rebuilt in 1799, is a small edifice of stone in the Italian bridge there over the Isis), the Parliamentary army was
·style, consisting of chancel and nave, west porch and a repulsed by the King's forces whilst attempting to cross,

western turret containing 2 bells : the interior was on the 27th May, r644 The manor was held from 1542
-entirely remodelled in 1882, the galleries and high pews to about 1670 by the Lattons, previously of Upton and

Temoved, the interior reseated with oak benches, new Chilton, but in or about the latter year John Latton, of
floors laid, and a proper chancel formed, furnished with Kingston, who had married Lretitia, daughter of Sir
a communion table and oak choir stalls, and in 1883 the Robert Pye, of Faringdon, knight, sold the K~gsron
walls were decorated in colour; all the work was exe- e3t1te and removed to Esher, in Surrey. Kmgston

cuted under the direction of Mr. Edwin Dolby, architect, House, the property of John Blandy-Jenkins esq. J.P. of
of Abingdon: there are 120 sittings. The register dates Queen Anne's Mansions, London S.W. lord of the manor
frQm the year 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly and chief landowner, is a mansion of red brick, said to

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DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. KINTB"CRY. 97

have been deo;;igned by Inigo Jones, with an avenue of p.m.; sundays, 11 a.m. Postal orders are issued here,

trees leading to the principal flntrance. The soil is stone but not paid. The nearest money order offices are ut

brash, black loam, !>andy and clay; subsoil, sand and Longworth & Marcham
limestone. The chief crops are clover and a succession Nati.Jnal School (mixed), endowed in 1738, & subse-
of grain. The area is r,109 acres; rateable value, £r,o8o;
and the population in 1891 was 208. quPntly, by John Blandy e.;q. & his son, John Blandy.
Post & telegraph & Express Delivery Office. J ames jun. esq. with an income of about £so yearly; the
school will hold r6o children; average attendance, 85;
Jefferies, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Abing- John Hezikiab Edgar Fisher, master

don at 8.30 a.m. & 2 p.m.; dispatched at 2.20 & b

Daly Nolan Faulkner Thomas, Maybush P.H. New Russell Louis Ilishop, registrar of

Sweet-Escott Rev. John Howard :\~LA. bridge bil'ths & deaths for Fyfield sub-dis-

(rector), Rectory Graham Guy, farmer, Race farm trict & relie>Lg officer, 3rd district,

Treadwell Mrs Jefferies James, post office Fyfield, .A.bin~don union & scboul

COliMERCIAL. Kimber James Ethelbert, farmer attendance officer

Noddings Richard (exors. of), farmers, Smith George, stud groom to Old

Ballard Martha (Mrs.), blacksmith South Moor Bel'kshire foxhounds

Daly Nolan M.R.O.S.Eng., L.R.C.P. Press John, huntsman, Old Berkshire Taylor J ames; baker & farmer

Lond. surgeon & medical officer & foxhounds Webb David Randolph, farmer

public vaccinator No. 3 district, Ricketts Geo. carpenter & wheelwright Wigmore .Alfred, Hinds Head P.H

.Abingdon union Ricketts William, carpenter Woodbridge William, saddler

KINGSTON LISLE is a township and cbapelry Thomas, Lord Berkeley, whose only daughter and heiress

with the hamlet of Fawler, in the parish of Sparsholt, married Richard Beauchamp, sth earl of Warwick, and

2~ rr:iles sm,th-east from Uffington Junction station on their eldest daughter Margaret was the second wife oi

the main line of the Great Western railway, 6 south John Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury, whose eldest son

from Faringdon and 6 west from Wantage, in the .John was, in 1444, created Baron Lisle, and in 1452

Northern division of the county, Shrivenham hundred, Viscount Lisle; on the death of Thomas, 2nd viscount,

Faringdon petty sessional division, union and county 2oth March, 1469, without issue, these titles fell into

court district, rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry abeyance between his two sisters, Margaret, wife of Sir

of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The Wilts and Ilerks George Vere kt. and Elizabeth, "~Vife of Sir Edward Grey

canal pas8es on the north. The chapel of St. John is kt. who on the death of Lady Vere was created, 15

an ~.ncient and interesting edifice of stone, consisting Edward IV. (1475-6) baron, and subsequently (28th

of chancel, nave, north porch and a western bell cote June, 1483) Viscount Lisle; their. daughter Elizabeth

containing 2 bells: the walls are Norman with later was the wife of Edmund Dudley, whose son John was

insertions, the east window and others in the chancel in turn created, about 1528, Viscount Lisle and after-

being Decorated, but one Norman window · still remains wards Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland;

as well as a Norman doorway, with very curious iron- this nobleman sold the manor to William Hyde, oi

work on the door: the chapel was restored in 1883, at Denchworth; Sir George Hyde K.Il. of Denchworth,

a cost of £948, when the interior was refitted with removed here in 1617, and dying in 1625 was buried

finely carved oak benches and a handsome bell cote in Sparsholt church; his descendant, John Hyde,

erected ; several perfect frescoes containing eleven about the middle of the 18th century, sold the manor to

figures were discovered and preserved, and many coins, Abraham Atkins esq. Kingston Lisle Park. the seat oi

tiles &c. were found: there are 100 sittings. The the Martin-Atkins family, is at present occupied by

register dates from the year 1559; entries of burials Charles A. Prioleau esq. : the mansion is a large build-

up to 1883 are in the register of Sparsholt. The living ing, standing in a well-wooded and undulating park,

is attached to the vicarage of Sparsbolt, and under the extending over an area of 120 acres. The Earl of Cra-

impropriation of Queen's College, Oxford; joint net in- ven, who is lord of the manor and Miss Martin-Atkins,

come [310, with 43 acres of glebe and residence, in the are the principal landowners. The soil is chalk and

gift of Queen's College, Oxford, and held since 1898 by the green sand ; subsoil, clay and green sand. The chief crops

Rev. Francis Archibald Pattullo Shirreff M.A. of that col- are wheat, beans, oats and grass. The area is 2,034

lege, who resides at Sparsholt. Here is a Baptist chapel, acres of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £2,444; and

with an endowment of about [40 a year, left by the late the population in 1891 was, of Kingston Lisle with Fawler.,

.Abraham Atkins esq. and at Fawler is a Primitive Metho- 225 ; Old Field farm and cottages, with 24 inhabitants,

dist chapel. Half a mile from the village, in a hollow of the were transferred to Baulking, March 24, r888, by Local

Downs, and beside an old oak tree, is the famous "Blow- Government Board Order 21,438.

ing Stone," a large Sarsden or Sarsen of quartzose sand- Post Office.-Charles Hugh Hughes, sub-postmaster.
stone, brought from the adjoining hills ; it is about a
yard square and half a yard in thickness, and is per- Letters through Wantage arrive at 8.10 a.m. & for

forated with several holes, one of which, if lustily blown callers at 2.25 p.m.; dispatched at 3·35 & 5·35 p.m.;
sundays, 10.5 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but
into, emits a sound audible at a distance of 5 or 6 not paid. The nearest money order office is at Uffing-
miles. The manor at the time of the Domesday Sur- ton & telegraph office at Sparsholt, 2 miles distant
vey was held by the King, but was subsequently given
by Henry I. to the Fitzgeralds, the heiress of which National School (mixed), established in 1874, for 65
family in the reign of Henry II. married William de children ; average attendance, 55 ; Mrs. Mary Wicks,
Insula, or de Lisle, and Alice de Lisle bad licence from mistress

Richard II. in 1366 to enclose a park here. Margaret, Carrier to Wantage.-C. H. Hughes, 'Blue Boar,' wed. &

only daughter of Warine, 2nd baron de Lisle, married sat. ; to Faringdon, tues ·

Percy Edward Joslin, KingstonWarren Deane Frederick William, farmer, Hale Rebheck Jonathan, farmer, Home frm

Price Charles H. The Grove, Fawler farm (postal address, Faringdon) Sherman William, farmer, Manor

Prioleau Charles A. (late East York Hughes Charles Hugh, shopkeeper & farm, Fawler

Regt.), Kingston Lisle park carrier, Post office Simpson Thomas, shopkeeper •

Rickman Lleut.-Col. Albert Divett, Palmer Ellen Louisa (Mrs.), The Smith Charles Collins, farmel'

Thornhill house Plough P.H Smith Waiter Charles & Frank, far-

Pearce Emma (Mrs.), dress maker mers, Kingston common

COMMERCIAL. Raisin John Thomas, racehol'se trainer, Wbitfield Henry, fal'mer, Fawler frm

Coles James, blacksmith Kingston WarTen

XINTBURY, anciently "Cheneteberie," is a large Early English and Decorated styl-es, consisting of cihancel,

parish, situated on the river· Kenne·t and intersected by nave, transepts, south porch and a western tower of Late
·. tihe Kennet and Avon canal, with a station on the Great Norman and PerpendiC'ular date, with a plain parapet,

Western railway, 3 miles. east-by-south from Hungerford and containing- a clock and 6 bells; the chanCfll is
lnd 58! from London, in the Southern divis.ion of the divided from the nftve by a massive Norman arch, and
county, hundred of Kintbury-Eagle, petty sessional divi- bras a piscina formed in the sill of a windQW; the reredos
sion and county court district of Hungerford, Hunger- is of wood and alaba9ter, carved and illuminated, and has
ford and Ramsbury union, rural deanery of Newbury, in the centre a sculptured representation of the "Cruci-

archdeaconry of Ilerks and diocese of Oxford. It was fixion "; in the church are several ancient monuments to

anciently a market town and had two annual fairs. Lhe families of the present and former lords of the maoor,

The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient including- Sir William Darell hart. of West Woodhay, ob:

structure of flint, stone and brick, in the Late Norman, 1625; Sir Jemmett Raymond and Sir Jonathan Ray-..

BERKS. 7

98 KI~TBVRY. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

mond, both: by Saheemaker, and to the Shaws; on the by the late Mrs. Dunn, of Inglewood, at a cost of nearly

south side of the chancel is a curious brass with effigies £4,ooo, which have now been converted into a laundry

to John Gunter, buried 2 J·an. 1624, and to Alice, his for the teaching of young g:rls. At 1Yawcott are the

wife, buried a-t Oirences·te.r, 18 Maroh, 1626~' erected by kennels of the Craven hunt, of which W. H. Dunn esq.

his son.,in-1aw, Joseph Plat; and in the north transept are of Wallingtons, is master; Rungerford, Newbury and

some fine monnment·s with pol"trait busts to the Jem- Marlborough are convenient places for hunting visitors.

mett family, and a memorial window to the late F. H. Elcot Park, the property of Sir Richard Sutton hart. is

A.ppach esq. of Elcot. Park, and members of his family: the residence of Lieut.-Col. Gerrard Paul Townshend;

in the chancel is another to Philip J emmett, alder- Barton Court, also the property of Sir Richard

man of London, 1678; and in the nave a tablet Sutton bart. is the residence of Benjamin Winthrop J.P.;

to the Hon. Charles Dundas, of Barton Court, created Wallingtons is the seat of William Hew Dunn esq.

(Ioth May, I832) baron A.mesbury of Kintbury, J.P., D.L. and Inglewood House of Humphrey Jeffrey

a. member of the House of ('ommons for more than half vValmesley esq. J.P. The manor of Kintbury .Ames-

a. cenrtury and represenba.tive of this county during ten bury belonged to the nuns of Amesbury or .Ambres·

&uoce.ssive Parliaments; the barony, on his death, 30 bury, having been given to them at the first foundation

June, 1832, booame extinct; his daug-hter Janet married of their monastery by Queen Elfrida; in 1542 it was

her ccmsin, the late Ada:nirnl Sir James Whitley-Deans granted to John Cheyne; not long afterwards it came

Dundas G.C.B., M.P. of Barton (}}uxt, who died 30 Oot. to the Darrells, from whom it passed in marriage in

IB62, and to whom there is a memvriaJ. window in the 1617 (with the daughter and heiress of Sir John Darrell)

church; there is aloo a brass to the Rev. James Whitley- to Sir John Elwes, who sold it to Philip Jemmett esq.

Doons Dundas, and other stained window.s to J<Jhn Lidder- alderman of London; his daughter brought it in mar-

dale M. D. t;o whom there is also a brass. ooble~ end to riage to Sir Jonathan Raymond; it afterwards, through

Capt. Thomas Dunn, of IngleWlOod; in the south transept marriage with the heiress of the Raymond family, be-

is an inscribed tablet to Willmm Shaw, of Inglewo<Jd, d. came the property of the Hon. Charles Dundas, one of

x6th November, 1874; a mural monument, with figure, the knights of the shire, who resided on this estate at

to Margaret, widow of Miaj. Gen. Dunn R.A. of Inglewood, Barton Court, and was created in 1832 Baron Amesbury,

d. x8go, and a mural monument to the late Mrs. Dunn, of of Kintbury Amesbury and Barton Court in Berks, and

Inglewood; the massive brass lectern was presented by his of .Aston Hall, county of Flint. Sir Richard V. Sutton

widow, mother and children, in memory of C. A. W. bart. of Benham Park, Speen, Newbury, is the present

Dunda.s ; the stalls were put in a.s a memorial to the late lord of the manor of Kintbury .Amesbury. The manor

vicar, the Rev. Wil:liarrn Fraser Oampbell; a. new organ of Kintbury Eaton was given to the nuns of Eaton, in

was provided in 1889; the church was res.twed in I859 Warwickshire, by their founder, Robert Bossu, Earl of

at a cos.t of about £8oo, and again in 1884-5, a.t a cost Leicester; it is now th~ property of the Earl of Craven.

of £x,4oo, when the interior was reseated and a new Holt tithing belongs to the Earl of Craven and that of

vestry built; there are 280 sittings, of which 8o are Barton to Sir R. V. Sutton bart. The Earl of Craven,

free. In the churchylllrd is a monument of stone, sur- Sir R. V. Sutton hart. Major-General .Apsley Cherry-

mounted by a cross, to the Rev. F. C. Alderman, d. July, Garrard, W. H. Dunn esq. the Hon. .A. L. Dawson J.P.

x875, one of .Aberdeen granite to the Rev, William Fraser and H. J. "V\'almesley esq. are the principal landowners.

Campbell, vicar 1873·86, and a third of red granite to The soil is chalk and clay; subsoil, clay. Whiting is

the Rev. W. Fraser Campbell, late vicar. The register made from the soft upper chalk, which is ground into a

dates from the year 1559. The living is a vicarage, pulp with water and allowed to settle in tanks; bricks

net yearly value £429, with x! acres of glebe and resi- are also made here. The chief crops are wheat, barley,

dence, in the gift of the representatives of the late Mrs. oats &c. The area of the civil parish is 7,719 acres of

Catherine Ford Oliver, of Heacham, Norfolk, and held land and 59 of water; rateable value, £10,624; the

since 1886 by the Rev. .Arthur William Henry population in 189r was 1,655 in the civil, and 1,533 in the

·Edwards M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. A. short 1 ecclesiastical parish.

distance east of the church is an ancient cemetery, Denford, a hamlet in this civil parish, has been formed

discovered and carefully examined by Mr. Walter into an ecclesiastical parish and will be found under a

.Money F.S.A. of Newbury, and assumed to be the separate beading.

"holy place" alluded to in the will of W!alfgar, a Saxon Elcot, 2 miles north; Wormstall, 3 north; Holt, 1

tha.ne of Inkpen, to whom, in 93 r, A.thelstan had granted south-east; Inglewood, I west; Templeton, 2 west; and

lands at Hamme; Saxon skeletons are numerous on this Barton, I north-west, are places in this parish.

-spot, and a number of Saxon coins wero found here in Sexton, Joseph White.

1762. Ohrist Ohurch. a chapel of ease to St. Mary's Post, M. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

t.nd situated at the southe-rn end of the parish, on land Post, S. B. & .Annuity &; Insurance Office.-Mrs. Emma
given by the rote Earl of Craven, wa.s consecrated in Page, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Hunger-

June, 1867, and is an edifice of red brick with dressings of ford at 7 a.m. & 2.15 p.m.; dispatched at II·55 a.m.
& 6.30 p.m. & 12.1:0 p.m. sunday. WallLe.tte:r Boxes.-
Bath Sltone in the Decorated style, from designs by Mr. Mount Pleasant, cleared at 5.25 p.m.; sunday, 10.50
Talbut Bury, architect, and consists of chancel, nave, a.m. ; & Halfway house, cleared at 5·45 p.m. ; sunday,

ve.stry, oand a we.s.tern tower with spire containing o.ne 10.35 a.m
· bell ; the chancel is fitted Wtith carved benches, and t.he
. ~ast and west windows with six others are stained; the

reredos exhibits an excellent ca.I'ving of the Last Supper, Schools.

.and there is a marble font, presented by Mrs. Dunell in St. Mary's (mixed), built in r84o, for 200 children;
memory Gf her two children; the pulpit is of Caen
average attendance, 170 ; Samuel Argyle, master
S'tone, with carved pa.ne1s separ9.1ted by marble shafts, Christ Church (mixed & infants), built in r866, fo:r 88

and was given by H. J. Dunell esq. of Barton Court; the children ; average attendance, 52 ; Mrs. Caroline
church was ereoted at a cost of ,(3,650, chiefly con- Leonard, mistress
tribUited by the Rev. J. W. D. Dundas M..A. who also County Police, Francis John Cross, constable
. ga,ve the s·tained windows, with the exeeption of two
. p-r-esented by the architect; the church affords 250 sit- Railway Station, George Britton, station master

. tings, 125 being free. There are We!>Ieyan Methodist and Carriers to Newbury.-Francis Dopson, from his own

Primitive Methodist chapels here. Spacious public baths house, thurs. & sat. ; Leonard Rosier, through from
ft~d washhouses were built;. for the use of the parishioners Hungerford, tues. & fri

PRIVATE :nEsiDENTS. Hayward Misses, Mount Pleasant Woolfryes Surg.-Gen. John Andrew

Dauce Fredk. Robert, Mill house Hemsted Edmund Spencer C.B., C.M.G., M.D. Barton grove

Bea.les Mrs Lidderdale Mrs COMMERCIAL.

Biggs Russel Hugh, Barrymores Morewood Palmer, Kintbury lodge Abrabam Maria (Mrs.), bake:r

Butler James, Holt lodge Owen Mrs Argyle Samuel, schoolmaster &

Oasbourne Mrs. Newbury street Paynter Hugb Haweis, Winding wood' organist, Laurel cottage

Clark Mrs. White lodge Ponsonby Mrs. Louis, Templeton Arnold Charles, carpenter & baker

Dawson Hon. Anthony Lucius J.P. Powel Hugh Powell J.P. Wormstall Bance Ann 0. (Mrs.), baker

Forbury grove Streeter Mrs. Fair View villa Bance John Smoker, builder

Donisthory~ Wordswortb, The Willows Townshend Lieut.-Col. Gerrard Paul, Batt Philip, beer retailer

Dunn Wilham Hew D.L., J.P. Wal- Elcot park Bishop Thomas, farmer, Inlease farm

lingtons Walmesley Humphrey Jeffrey (late Blundy Laurence, pictme frame ma

Edwards Rev. A.rthur Wm. Henry Major Lancs. Hussars Y.C.; J.P. Bowles William, shopkeeper

• M.A. (vicar), Vicarage eo's. Lancs. & Berks), Inglewood ho Broad Frederick, cattle dealer

Faithfull Mrs. The Green IWinthrop Benjamin J.P. Barton et. 1 Bronsdon John, bui:der
Gilbert William B. Holly mount Barton Bronsdon Thos.carpenter, Newbury si

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. LAMBOURN. 99

Bronsdon & Bance, millers Gi'bby William Hy. grocer & baker North lVilliam, saddler

(water), corn, hay, straw, oil cake, Goddard Hy.farmr.Waterman·s fa.Mrm"' Osborne John, head gardener to Lt.-

manure & coal merchants, Kint- Hamhlin .] a;;on, beer retailer Col. Townshend

bury mill Harbour Charlotte (Mrs.), Blue Page Emma (Mrs.), stationer, &

:Brook Robert, farm steward to Hugh Ball P.H post office

Powell Powel e8q Heath John, farmer, Bolt Manor frm Page John Barlow, hair dresser &

Brown John, farmer, Clapton farm Hemsted Edmund Spencer M.R.C.S. boot maker

Euckeridge Job, collector of rates & Eng., L.R.oO.P.Lond. medical Phillips Wm.Mark,frmr.Wawcott fm

taxes for Kintbury, also collector of officer for Kintbury dis.rict, Hun- Radhourne Edward, blacksmith &

taxes for Hungerford & registrar of gerford union hcrseshoer
births & deaths for Kintbury sub- Honey J oseph, beer retailer Rose Elisha, farmer, Hampstead Holt

district, The Firs Killiek Josiah & Sons, drapers & grcrs farm, Holt

Carwell Henry George, blacksmith . Killick George 'l'homa,s, brick maker Sampson George, blacksmith, Ekot

Chislett Harry,draper & grcr.High st & whiting manufacturer Sawyer Joseph, shopkpr. Station rd

Clark The Misses, ladies' boarding Kintbury Laundry for the teaching Shaw Isaac, gro-cer
of young girls (Miss I. K. Scoltt, Sheldrake Edward,saddler,High st
school, White lodge

Clarke Charles Michael, head gardener matron) Skir.ner Alfred Henry, tailor, High st

to William Hew Dunn esq l..awrence Arthur 'Villiam, seed mer- Snook Frederick, farmer, Holt

Clarke William, head gardener to chant & farmer, High street Taylor Elizh. (Mrs.), beer ret-ailer

Humphrey Jeffrey 'Valmesley esq Lawrence Benjamin, beer retailer Taylor John, farmer, Holt farm

Cumne-r John, bricklayer Lea Al1red, farmer, Orpenham farm Tuttle Frederick John, brick maker

Dodd Harvey, farmer, Halt Maekrill HP.nl'ly William, g"l"OCer & & whiting manufacturer

])odd Henry, butcher baker, High street White Ellen (Mrs.), butcher

Dopson Edward, blaeksmith Mealin Thomas, Dundas Arms P.H.; White J sph. blacksmith & beer retlr

Dopson Francis, carrier posting in all branches Witt Tom, farmer

Elms George, watch & clock maker Mills John, farmer, Burgess farm Working Men's Club & Reading

Franks ErnestAlbert,plumber & glazier Moore Charles Hy. farmer, Elcot frm Rooms (Albert Hopkins, manager)

XNOWL HILL is a scattered village and eccle- Augustus Clayton-East hart. of Hall Place, who is lord of

siastical parish, formed in · 1842 out of the the manor; Herberl D. L. Clarke esq. John Whitehead

parishes of Hurley and 1Vargrave, on the Bath road, esq. J.P. and J. Dunn esq. are the principal landowners.

8 miles north-east from Reading, 4! west from Maiden- The soil is various; subsoil, chalk, clay and sand.

head, 5 south-east from Henley and 3! north-east from The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips &e.

Twyford station on the Great Western railway, in the The population in 1891 was 712, which includes 182 in

Eastern division of the county, Maidenhead petty ses- the parish of Wargrave and 530 in the parish of Hurley.

sional division, unions of Wokingham and Maidenhead, Littlewick Green is partly in Knowl Hill and partly in

Reading county court district, rural deanery of Maiden- White Waltham.

head, archdeaconry of Berks. and diocese of Oxford. Parish Clerk, John .A.rnold Castle.

The chur~h of ~t. Peter, built in. r84o, is a plain e~ifice j Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office.-
~Ith anstdo.nceonsi~r~~tsmsgmgso.f,
of red bnc_k almost entirely Miss Eliza .A.very, sub-postmistress. Letters through
covered With 1vy ?h_ancel and nave) Twyford R.S.O. delivered at 8.35 a.m. &; 12.45 p.m.;
and a western t?wer w1t~ s~:nre, contammg 2 ?ells : the
dispatched at 1. 15 & 7•IS p .m. ; sundays, 10. 3o a.m.
chancel, added m 187r, IS 1~ the Early Enghsh ~tyle; Kiln Green is the nearest telegraph office, r mile distant
the fine organ was erect~d m 1875• as ~ memorial to National School (mixed), built in 1846 by the late Rev.
~he Rev. J. E . .A.u~ten ~e1gh, a former. ~Icar: the cl~ck J. E. Austen Leigh, the first incumbent, for 160

"In the tower was given m memory of MaJOr Court: w1th children. average attendance 123 · John Arnold Castle
two exceptions all the windows are stained: there are master ' '' '

400 sittings. The register dates fro'll the year r84o. Carriers.

The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £ ns, net

£rr2, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and Emmett, from Maidenhead to Reading, calls on tues.

held since r884 by the Rev. Frederic Campbell Barham thurs. & sat

M..A.. of Caius College, Cambridge. Sir Gilbert ,Smith, from Marlow to Reading, calls on wed. & sat

l'RIV.A.TR RESIDENTS. ) COMMERCIAL, Nutt Joseph, farmer, Hell COrner

Allwright Miss Allwright Smannah (Mrs.), plumbex Oliver Reuben, contractor

Earham Rev. Frederic Ca.mpbell M..A.. .A.very Eliza (Miss), shopkpr. Post off Silvey George, beer ret. Pudding hill

(vicar), Vicaa-age Ba.tes John Jas. farmer, Bartletts fro Spindlo Charles, baker & grocer

Eates James Brunsden Charles, boot & shoe make.r Tombs Henry, Bell & Bottle P.H

Boyd Mrs. The Elms Burgess Thomas, brick maker Tomlinson Wm. frmr. Mitchell's farm

Ilrown William, Quebec house Collins James, beer retailer Vaisey George, beer retailer

Elliott Geo. Saml. Chalk Pit house Cox John, farm bailiff to Frederick Wallis George, beer retailer

Gibson Mrs. Hill cottage Headington, Kn.owl Hill farm Warner & elements, brick & tile

Pittman Mrs. The Priory Dulley William, builder makers & whiting manufacturers

Poole William A. Sandhills Godley George, Seven Stars P.H We.bster Richard William, poultry

Wells Mrs. Thornwood lodge Headington Frederick, brick maker breeder, Hillside

Whitehead John J.P. Ch.osele.y house. McGill Patrick, New inn Wheeler James, beer retailer

LAM:BOURN (or Chipping Lambourn) is a parish and Mary's chapel, and eastward of it is a window, the sill
small town, and the head of a petty sessional division, of which forms sedilia; on the north side two Perpen-
with a terminal station on the Lambourn Valley railway dicular arches open to an aisle orf that date : at the east
from Newbury, constr!lcted in 1895-8; it is about 7 miles end is a mural monument o-f late Elizabethan or
sou.th from Uffington station and 7 SOUith-east from Jacobean date to Thomas Garrard a'nd .A.gnes (Wa:dwyne)

Shrivenham station, both on the Great Western rail- his wife; and in the south wall a slab of black marble,
way, 8 miles north from Hungerford, 12 miles north· with .effigies in brass of his son, Thomas Garrard, gent.
west from Newbury and 10 south from Wantage, in r6rg, Anne (Jntt) his wife, 16ro, and 'Dhomas, their-
the Southern division of the cou'nty, hundred of J,am- son: the tower arches are good Norman, almost Early
bonrn, union and county court district of Hungerford, English: the transepts have chiefly Decorated and Per-
rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and pendicular windows, but one lancet •survives in the

diocese Df Oxford; the Lambourn river takes its rise north transept, which has a Transition Norman arch on
near here and flows through the tDwn to the Ken'net, the west side: the chapel of St. Mary,. east of bhe south
near Newbury. The town is lighted with gas by transept, belongs to the Decorated period, and was built
a company. The church of St. Michael is an ancient by John de Estbury about 1360: he died Oct. 25, 1375,
and spacious cruciform building of stone and shingle and his tomb with that of his son is in the chapel: the
in the Norman, Early English and Perpendicular sumptuous marble monument, to the Garrard family of
styles, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, three Bockhampto'n, a.~so formerly in this chapel, now remains
chapels, south porch and a central embattled tower, only in fragments, which record the names of Ro~er
with four octagonal turrets and containing 8 bells Garrard and E:izabeth (Violett) his wife; south of St.
and clo-ck : the chancel is of Early English date, Mary's chapel, and opening into it. is the chapel of the
and has a fine Perpendicular east window of five lights Holy Trinity, a Late. Perpendicular structure, in the
and a small Decorated pisci'na: on th& south side an centre of which is an altar tomb, with an effigy in

arch of the same period opens into an aisle called St. copper of John Es!bury, 14&5, in a surcoat of his arm~

BERKS. 7"'

100 LJ.MBOURN. BERKSHIRE.

and a marginal inscript~on: his son, also John Estbury, Trinity College, Cambridge. 'There· are WEl'sleyan and

was the founder of the almshouse or hospital, situated Primitive l\Iethodist chapels. On the 'north side of the

near the churchyard, for ten poor men, who, during church is the Hospital, consisting of houses for t€n

divine service, w-e wont to kneel round the t<>mb of brethren, founded by John, the son of John Estbury or

the founder's father, about which new ooken stalls Isbury, in 1·5o2, and endowed with 400 acres, incem&

were placed, in 1888, by trustees at a cost of £45 for £719; each inmate has ros weekly and a 'house rent

that purpose: there is also a brass, with half-effigies, :to free: the almsmen attend dai:y morning prayers in the

John de Estbury, c. 1400, and Agnes, his wife: the Estbury or Trinity Ohape~, kneeling around the af>eve-

Essex chapel, north of the church, occupies the site of mentioned tomb, and also attend the daily morning ser-

the older chantry, founded by the De Bathes or the vice of the church : Mrs. Templar Down and the

Bohuns, but was extended eastward nearly two cen- Warden of New College, Oxford, are the hereditary

turies later to its present dimensions, and most probab:y supervisors of the charity, the management of which is

by Sir Thomas Essex kt. whose very fine a'.abr<ster now in .the hands of seven trustees appointed by the-

monument is placed in this chapel; this tomb bears Charity Commissioners : on an ancient brass plate in-

life-size recumbent figures of Sir Thomas Essex, who serted in ·the brickwork near the entrance, are som~

died 29 Aug. 1558, and of dame Margaret, his vrife, Latin verses, referring to the foundation of the hospital.

fourth daughter of William, first baron Sandys of the A John de Estbury was representative in Par~iament for

Vine, w1th a marginal inscription: around are many Berks in the years 1368, 1376 and 1377. Near the

memorials of the Seymours, who for nearly three cen- church are also five small almshouses, called Hardrett's-

turies resided at Inho.mes, in this parish, on ontl of or Place A·mshouses, for five aged labourers, who have

which, that of Edward Seymour esq. (ob. 1798),are some rs. weekly and a house rent free: this charity is under
verses by Henry James Pye esq. M.P., D.C.L. and Poet the management of trustees. The charities for the general

Laureate in 1790; here also rests Charles Fettiplace, a poor amount to about £3o yearly, for distribution in money
benefactor to the local charities : this chapel was for a and £16 5s. for clothing: there are also charities of £4r.>
long time used as a house for the parish fire engine, but a year left t(} the Wesleyan body for educational pur-
was rebui:t from the foundations a;bout 185o, and is poses. Joshua ISylvester, the poet, called by Southey the-
now used as a choir vestry. The nave is the o:dest part " silver-tongued Sylvester," was a retainer of the E~sex:
of the church, and dates from the nth century (1085): family at Lambourn, where he was patronized by Mis-
it has four bays, with Late Norman arches and massive tress Essex, wife of William Essex esq. He died at;
pillars, and a clerestory : at the west end are traces of Middleburgh, in Holland, in I6r8. A fair was grante<f
its original Norman windows, with an existing circula1 by King Henry Ill. in 1227, to be held in February, on
window in the gable: the staircase to the rood-loft, di- the festival of St. Matthew, but has for many years been
verted from its original course, is now connected with discontinued: the Charter for a market was renewed in
the tower, but the entrance is from the exterior: on the reign of Henry VI. but this was discontinued in the-
the wa], formerly crossed by the rood-loft, is a piscina • last century: two fairs were a'so granted to the Dean
the ais.les were originally much lower and lighted by and Ohapter of St. Paul's which are still held (though
small Norman windows: but the existing south ais:e the days appear to have been changed) on October 2nd
seems to be Decorated and that on the north side Per- and December 4th, for sheep, horses and cattle. In th&
pendicular : the OILY remains of the old roofing are to be market place is a fine Perpendicular cross, consisting of a
folUld in the south aisle, elsewhere it was -entirely re- tall plain shaft, with canopied head, raised on octagona}
newed, with the exception of the tie beams, in 1849-50: steps : the canopy one contained figures, which had been
the :tower, erected some 6o or 70 years later than the much defaced, but now (r899) restored by the Rev_
nave, is a perfect square of about 20 feet, and an ex- Robert Vaughan-Hughes M.A. of Chepstow, lay rector~
cellent example, as far as the top of the c:ock, of Tran- the steps are comparatively modern, and appear to have-
sitio'n Norman; the upper portion is Perpendicular: been patched : it is said that there was formerly another
about 1770 it was bound round on the exterior with iron- cross here, on the spot now occupied by the weighing-
work, and an independent !bell-frame erected within: in
machine, and known as St. Antho:in's cross. Lambourn
r892 the tower was thoroughly restored, refaced with Place, the property of Col. Charles Grove Edwards J.P:
stone, and the be~;s re-hung upon a 'n~w iron frame: a
but now occupied by Herbert Ward esq. is a fin&
new vaulted oak ceiling beneath the tower was also Elizabethan mansion, erected in r843, on the sit&
erected: the south porch is Decorated, with Perpendicu-
lar additions; above it is a parvis~ or priest's room, of the ancient residence of the Hippisley family,
itself traditionally built on the site of a Saxon palace-
which used to be reached by a stone staircase from the belonging to King Alfred the Great; until 1893,
outside, but now by a spiral iron stair within the porch; the ball contained a collection of armour, said tr.>
a corresponding porch on the north side was removed in be the largest private collection in the country; one-
r85o: the ancient Norman font, after having stood in the of the suits former:y belonged to Sir Willia:m Tem:2le
chureh for 750 years, has been removed and sold, and and subsequently to Lord Palmersto'n : there were alfi(}
is now (1899) at Barton, near Marlborough, Wilts: the
portraits of Charles I. Wiclif, and ·Sir Thomas Horde, a-
stained windows in the Trinity cha·pel are memorials, in- Parliamentarian, pictures by Gainsborough and Sir-
serted by H. Hippisley esq. of Lambourn Place : :the east Joshua Reyno~ds, and an old wassail bowl, formerly
window, representing "The Last Judgment," was erected belonging to the Earls of Huntingdon, and reputed to be-
of the time of Robi'n Hood, n89-99, besides many other
in 1876 in memory of Robert Milman, bishop of Calcutta
(r867-76), wh<> died 15 March 1876, and was former:y rare curiosities : the whole collection was sold in 1893"
vicar of Lambourn: there is a:so a memorial window in for upwards of [4,000. On the downs, 6! mi:es north of
the chancel to the Rev. John Murray, a former vicar: a Lambourn, are Wayland .Smith's Cave, White Horse hill,
stained window has been inserted in the nave to the and U:ffington Camp, descriptions o-f whi0h are given
memory of Miss Twynam by Col. Twynam C.B. : the
<>rgan, restored in r8go at a cost of £157, was erected under the headings of Uffington a'nd Wantage. Near
in :r862: the rest<>ration, carried out in I892 at a total here are also the "Seven Barrows," so called, a group of
cost of £3,300, in<:luded, in addition to the work already tumuli on the downs about two miles north of Lam-
mentioned, the erection of new oak choir stalls, th-e re- bourn, some 20 in number, which have been proved,
pair of the north doorway, new heating apparatus : the from excavations made ·by Dr. WLSOn and Mr. E. Martin-
~ost of restoring the chancel was oorne by the lay im- Atkins, in r85o, to be the sepulchres of ancient Britons;
propriators, and that of Holy Trinity chapel by tihe one of these, standing apart from the rest, with a height
trustees of the almshouses of John Estibury : the lych of 10 feet and a circumference of 360 feet, contained a.
gate, erected at the same time at a cost of £130, is a large number of British urns arranged round the sides,.
memorial to Charles William Jousiffe of Seven Barrows: one of which measured 13 inches in height: the other
some relics, found six feet beneath the tower, during barrows examined afforded insta'noes both of cremation
the recent restoration, are now iu the Essex chapel: and ordinary burial, bodies in the latter case being in-
fragments of a valuable pre-reformation .stained window, terred with the knees drawn up to the chin. Membury-
purchased in a sale for a nominal sum, have been pre- Fort, a Celtic earthwork, with a single vallum, now over-
sented to the church by p<>li<:e-sergeant Frederick Smith grown with trees, is situated on the borders of Wilts.
of Lambourn and are 'now in a window of the Ho~y and Berks, being partly i'n Lambourn and partly in.

Trinity chapel: there are 6oo sittings. The church and Ramsbury parish, and has been thought by Dr. Guest

churchyard were closed against further interments March and others to indicate the site of an ancient town,

2, I88o, except at the western side of the churchyard foundations of ancient buildings having bee'n met with on-

where some years ago a piece of ground was added and this spot. Letcombe Camp, also called "Sagbury ~' er

~onsecrated. The register dates from the year 1560, " Sackborough," is a circular earthwork of about :::<>

and is in excellent preservation. The livi'ng is.a vicarage, acres in extent, situated on the brow of the chalk ES-
net yearly value £rso, including 42 acres of glebe, with carpment over-looking the vale to the north, 900 fl•llt
:rt:>sidence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held above the sea-level, and about two miles south-<xtst of
~ince 1896 by the Rev. Reginald Bagnall M.A. of Want-age ; skeletons have recently been found on Stan-

(HRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. LAMBOURN. 101

combe Down, near Lambourn, and in a ploughed field at Hadley is a tithing 2 miles south-west. The Earl of

:Madd~e Farm, about two mi:es distant from the tl1wn. Craven is lord of the manor. The principal landowners

'l'he manor of Lambourn was given by Alfred the Great are Col. Blagrave, Major William Henry Hippisley J.P.

to his wife Ealhswitha, daughter of Ethelred, a Mercian of Sparsholt and the Rev. James Francis.

thane, and she survived him four years, dyiug .A.D. Eastbury and '\Voodlands St. Mary are ecc:esia.stical

904: at the time of the Domesday survey it belonged to parishes formed from Lambourn civil parish, and will
the Crown; it was subsequent:y he~d by Sir 'l':uomas be found under separate headings.

Grandison, 4th baron Grandison, who in 1361 conveyed Post, M. ~ T. 0., T .. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
i.t to Sir John Peche kt. who died in 1376, and the manor Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Lambourn

afterwards came again to the Crown ; it appears also (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R. S. 0. Berks
that th.is manor, together with that of Upper Lambourn, added).-Charles James Maberly, sub-postmaster.

had at some time been granted by Henry Ill. to Henry Letters arrive at 4·40 a.m. & 4.20 p.m.; box closes
c{--e Bathe, Justiciar of England, who died in 1252, and is I I. SO a.m. for letters & u.4o a.m. for parcels; 7·45
buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and thence p.m. for letters & 7·30 for parcels; sundays, arrive at

t>y a female heir to the Bohuns; in 1543 both manors 4· 40 a. m. ; dispatched at 7·45 p.m
were granted by Henry VIII. to Sir William Essex kt.

ef Lambourn, and his son Thomas, afterwards Sir COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR LAMBOURN PETTY

Thomas Essex kt. whose tomb is in the church : in r6og SESSIONAL DIVISION.

an Act of Parliament was passed, e'nab~ing the repre- Aldridge Major John, Inholmes, Hungerford, acting
sentatives of the Essex fami:y to dispose of these chairman
estates and soon after they became the property of Sir
William Craven kt. ancestor of the present owner. The Butler William Joseph esq. Woolstone lodge, Faringdon
l}ad Qf Craven, who is lord of the manor, Sir Francis Craven Hon. Osbert William, .A.shdown park, Shriven.
Burdett hart. of Ramsbury Manor, Col. Charles Grove
Edwards and Major John Aldridge of Inholmes, are the ham R.S.O
vrincipal landowners. The parish comprises the town ot Edwards Col. Charles Grove, Wicklesham, Faringdon
Chipping Lambourn and the tithings of Upper Lambourn, Hippisley Major William Henry, Spa.rsholt ho. Wantag~
Eastbury and Bockhampton, Blagrave and Hadley. The Portal Edward Robert esq. Eddington house, Hungerford

Clerk to the Magistrates, Reginald Longmore Barnes,

entire area is 14,863 acres of land, a large portion of which Newbury street

are downs on which race-horses are trained, and 10 of TIH~ Petty Sessions are held ~::.t the Magistrates' room at>

T:a.ter; rateable value, £9,336; the population of the the Pdice Station, the last fr1day in every month

<"ivil parish, including the Woodlands and Eastbury, in at 12 noon

J:8gx was 2,238 and of the ecclesiastical, I•57I. The places in the petty sessional division are :-Eastbury,

Parish Clerk, Thomas Clement Martin. East fiarston, Lambourn, Upper Lambourn & Wood-

Upper Lambourn is a tithing 1 mile north-west. The lands St. :M:ary

-church of St. Luke, built and consecrated here, with a Police Station, l''rederick Smith, resident sergeant; &
'!Jurial ground, in November, 11868, by the !ate Bishop 2 constables
rVilberforce, is a small edif!.ce of red brick, in the
Railway Station, William Brain, station master
'Ear:y English style, consisting of chancel and nave, the
ochancel only being consecrated: there are 100 sittings. PUBLIC OFFICERS.

:Here is also a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1859· Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes & to the Charity

'Wall Box cleared week days 6 p.m. ; sunday, 8 a.m Trustees, Reginald Longmore Barnes, Newbury street

Bockhampton is a tithing 1 mile east. This manor was Assistant Overseer, Henry J ames Maberly, Oxford st

:anciently held by the tenure of Grand Serjeanty, the Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Lambourn District,

lM-d having to maintain a. pack of harriers for the royal Hungerford Union,David Kennard M.R.C.S.Eng.High st

'hunt at the King's charge; it was for some time in the Registrar of Births & Deaths for Lambourn Sub-district,

!families of De Bathe and Teyes, and in 1468 Margaret Hungerford Union, David Kennard, High street

(Beauchamp), w1fe of Sir John Talbot K.G. 1st Earl of Relieving & Vaccination Officer & Deputy Registrar of

'Shrewsbury, died seized of it: it was subsequently in the Births & Deaths, Lambourn district, Hungerford union,

(i-arrard family, and at the beginning of the present Francis William Attewell

century was held by Henry Richard (Fox), 3rd Baron Schools.
Holland. The Earl of Craven is now lord of this manor.
The principal landowners are Sir Herbert Barnard, of soNational (Church), Lambourn, erected in r85o for So
boys, 64 girls and 64 infants ; average attendance,
·Shere, Surrey and William Palmer esq. boys, 6o girls & 45 infants ; Abraham Forryan, master;
Blagrave is a tithing 2! miles south. The Earl of Miss Nellie Pavier, assistant mistress

'(;raven is lord of the manor, anciently held by the Carriers.
"families of De Bathe and Teyes. The principal land- Hungerford----James Stacey, mon. wed. & sat
•owners are Major John Aldridge J.P. of Inholmes, and Newbury-William Dowling, mon. thurs. & sat

-~;r Francis Burdett bart·.

LAMBOURN. Alien Jacob, baker, Market p:ace Oartwright W~. f~rmer, Stancombe

PRIVATE RESIDEXTS. Attewe1l Chas.John, tailor,Newbury st Castle Joseph, JObbmg gardener, New-
Attewell Francis William, relieving & bury street
l':agnall Rev. Reginald M.A. Vicarage vaccination officer & deputy regis- Chandler James, trainer of racehorses
-Earnes John O'Neale, North lodge
trar of births & deaths to the Lam- Collins Alfred, farmer, Parsonage frm.
Darnes Miss, North lodge
bourn district, Hungerford union Newbury street .
'llarnes Reginald Longmore, Ivy house Bames Reginald Longmore, solicitor Cox J-asper Jesse, beer ret.Newbury sl;
Castle Mrs. High street
& clerk to the magistrates, to the C"Oxhead John, farmer, Farncombe
.Child Orlando Francis, The Cnesnuts CJmmissioners of taxes & to the Crew Frank .A.lbert, schoolmaster,
:Dixon Rev. Thomas H., B.A. (curate), charitv trustees, Newbury street
Trabb's house Sunnyside, Baydon road

:.Dunningham Stephen, High street Bates Henry D. trainer of racehorses, Day Miss Elizh.dress ma. &c.Oxfrd.st

·.Redden Mrs. Baydon road Stork house Dowling William, carrier

IKennard David, High street Beard Francis, White Horse P.H. Ox- EmbJ.ngEdwin,grocer & baker,High st

ford street Forryan Abraham, schoolmstr.High st
Kennard Th(')mas Atherton M.R.C.S. Bedwell Frank, butch-er, Oxford street Francome Albert, Hind's Head P.H.
Eng.,L.S.A...Lond.College ho.High st Bedwell Emilv (Miss), confectioner, High street
lJ(ent John Thomas, Hil?'h street
Oxford street Gibbs James, coal merchant
-Martin Thomas, Brook house
Bell Henry .John, coach builder; & Gosling George, sen. farmer
"l.Ioore Garrett, Seven Barrows
at Hungerford Gosling Geo. jun. corn dlr. High st
•Owen Mrs. Margaret, High street
.'Fartridge Robert, The Laburnam s Bel:enger ThO<IIla.s Edwa.rd, Sawyer's Griffin James Stokes, upho:sterer &

Peaoe. James Foreshawe, '\Yindsor cot .Arms P.H. High street ironmonger, Oxford street

'Roberts Miss, North cottage Bluring Charles, machinists, Millbrook Gwynne Thomzs, brick1ayer
·~ell James Edward, Trabb's house
Booker By. jun. bla.cksmith,Oxford st Hearne Arthur, boot maker, Oxford ;,t

Booth William, George commercial Redden Orchard, farmer, High street.

W aldron Miss, Oxford street hotel & posting house, High street Redden Thomas, sack proprietor &
Ward Herbert, Lambourn place Bowsher George, shopkeeper, High st farmer, Riverside
'Wilkins Mrs. Oxford street Bowsher Henry, farmer, Weatherdmvu Kennard David M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.

COMMERCIAl,. Bowsher Thos.dairyman,Brook cottage surgeon, & medical officer & public-

~dams Robert1 builder & wheel- Bracey James, farmer, Francis farm, vaccinator & registrar of births &-
deaths for Lambourn district, Run-
wright, High street High street

..:A.aams William Tom, builder, lngle.- Brain William, station master gerford union, High street ·

nook, High street Bye Daniel, turf reporter, Baydon rd Kent John Thos. farmer, High street

102 LAN:BOLlBNI BERKSHIRE. (KELLt'a

•

Knapp Arthur, insurance agent, Par- Philo Ernest, watch & clock maker, 'LPPER L.A.:\IBOURN.

sonage road High street Keable Mrs. Church farm

Knapp E;izabeth (Mrs.), greengrocer, Pottinger Albert, bricklayer

Newbury sheet Reeves William (Mrs.), apartments, CO:UMERCIAL

Lambourn Gas & Coke Company Lim. Crowell road

(William Maberly, sec) Rhoades J ames, trainer of racehorses, Barrett Richd. beer Tet. & shopkeepl'

Lewis Mary (Mrs.), grocer & agent Newbury street Bowsher Thomas, farmer

for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine Rhodes Watson, news agent & tobac- Bracey John, farmer
Elliott Edward, trainer of racehorses,.
& spirit merchants, Market place conist, High street

I Maberly Charles James, draper, sta- Richens Henry, farmer, College farm The Limes
tioner & postmaster, High street Rolph Walter, jobbing gaTdener, Bay- Gray William, trainer of racehorses,.
Park farm
Maberly Henry Jam-es, land surveyor don road

& assistant overs~r & rate collector, Scott Arth. shopkeeper, Newbury st Harris Henry Thomas, Malt Shonll
Smith Henry, veterinary surgeon & P.H. & confectioner ·
Oxford street
Hobbs Edwd. Jn. trainer of racehorses
Maberly William, draper, High st-reet drug store, Oxford street
Marsh Edward Robert, news agt. Smith Henry, tailor, Newbury street Jannaway John, farmer, Vogenham

& tobacconist, Newbury street Smoker Charles, boot maker, High st Keable Emerson, farmer, Maddle farm

Marsh Mary (Mrs.), confectioner & re- Sneath James, hair dresser, Oxford st. Mildenhall William, farmer
freshment rooms, Newbury street Spence Thomas, farmer, Collingridge New~ands John, turf reporter
Stacey James, carrier, High street Smith Charles, b:acksmith
Martin Thomas, insurance agent
Mildenhall Geo. builder, Oxford street Stroud Danl. plumber, High street Spackman Edward George, farmer~
Palmer Thoma.s, beer ret.. Oxford st Tanner Wm. b!acksmith, Newbury st The Laurels

Panting George Albert,grocer & baker, Thatcher Jn. baker & grocer, High st Worton Thomas,trainer of racehorses,
Thatcher Richd. machinist, Oxford st Waltham house
High street

Parsloe Henry, farmer, Home fa.rm, Warra.ck James, farmer, Mile end BOOKHA~fPTON.

Newbury street Wells William, family butcher, New-

Pavier Richard, ~addler, Oxford street bury street Denly John, farmer,Lower Bockhamp-

Peace James Foreshawe, trainer of Wicks Ezra, boot maker, Kewbury st ton farm

racehOTses, Windsor cottage Wilkins Sarah Ann (:~fiss), grocer & Somerton John (exors. of), farmer

Penfold .John East, Red Lion hotel draper, Newbury street Wilkins George, farm bailiff to Herbt.

(billiards), Market place Willis Henry Jas. farmer, P:ace fa.rm May esq. Middle Bockhampton farm

Pettit Jane (Mrs.), baker, Oxford st Willis Wm. Robt. farmer, North frm

LECKHAMPSTEAD is a village and civil parish, £105, with 12 acres of glebe, in the gift of the vicar of
formed Dec. 29, 1882, out of Chieveley parish, 7 miles Chieveley, and held since 1883 by the lwv. John Newby, of
north from Newbury, 3 miles north from Bopford station St. Bees. There is a Wesleyan chapel here, built in 186o,
on the Lambourn Valley railway, via Newbury, and 3 north- and a Primitive Methodist chapel at Thicket, erected
about 1830 and rebuilt in 1874. Leckhampstead Manor
west from Chieveley, in the Southern division of the county, is the residence of Donald Kennedy esq. The principal

hundred of Faircross, petty sessional division, union and landowners are Messrs. R. H. Noble, J. K. '\Yard, Donald
county court district of Newbury, rural deanery of New-
bury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The Kennedy and Moses Butcher. The soil is sandy loam ;
church of St. James, built in I86o, by the Rev. J. E. subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and
Robinson M.A. vicar of Chieveley, 1837-72, late incum- oats. The area is 1,777 acres; assessable value, £r,7o6;
the population in r8g1 was 302.
bent, at a cost of £1,745, and situated in the centre of
Thicket, r! miles north-west, and Hill Green, 1 north,
the village, is an edifice of brick and flint, with stone
mullioned windows, in the Gothic style, from designs are places within this parish.
by Mr. S. S. Teulon, architect, of London, consisting of
chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and Letters are received through \Vantage. Letter Eox cleared
at 4 p.m. ; sundays at 10 a.m. Chieveley is the nearest
a central turret containing one bell: the east window is money order office and Brightwaltham, about 2 mile&
distant, the nearest telegraph office
stained: some woodwork at the east end of the nave and
A School Board of 5 members was formed in 1876; G. R.
the south porch are mainly composed of portions of the
Hill, Lhieveley, clerk to the board
ancient oak screen of the former church, which stood a
mile from the villflge: the ancient font has been re- School, built in 1875, for about 6o children; average at-

tained: there are 250 sittings: attached to the church tendance, 42 ; Henry Bannister, master
is a burial ground. The living is a vicarage, net income

Butcher Mrs. Hill Green farm Beckett Ezra, builder Smith J osiah, grocer & baker

Deacon John, Thicket Blundy John, blacksmith & farmer Stevens Thomas, Stag inn

Gibbons 1\Iisses, Hill green Bristol Isaac, carpenter & wheelwright Thomas Jehu Kent, tailor, Thicket

Kennedy Donald, Leckhampstead mnr Butcher Moses, Stud farm, Hill green Thomas Willi2m Kent, carrier k
King Mrs. Hill Gr~n cottage
· Hill Richard, boot & shoe maker fa.rmer, Thicket

Newby Rev. John (vicar) .Jennaway Richard, farmer Wa.rd John Kingham, farm bailiff to

Quelch Miss, Egypt house Masters Frank, farmer,Oak Ash farm, Moses Butcher

CO:\IMERCIAL. Thicket wa.rd Thomas I. farmer, Chapel farm

Allen Frederick, farmer, Hill house Smith Hedley James, upholsterer

LETCOMBE BASSET is a parish about 2~ miles ~ectory, net yearly value £wo, including 300 acres of
south-west-by-south from Wantage and 4~ miles from .;lebe, with residence, in the gift of Corpus Christi College,

'\Vantage Road, the nearest railway station, in thr Oxford, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Robert Twiddy

Northern division of the county, hundred of Kintbury- Bakhelor. Here is a Wesleyan :Methodist chapeL Th&

Eagle, petty sessional division, union and county courf poor's land of about 8 acres has hitherto been producing

district of Wantage, rural deanery of Wantage. arch- £3 yearly; the land is freehold. The principal landowners

deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of are the Provost and fellows of Queen's• College, Oxford,

St. Michael, erected about A.D. noo, is a building of Stephen William Silver esq. William Oliver esq. theo

stone and flints, in the Norman style: it was lengthened rector, and Frogley's trustees. The soil is principally

and a tower added at the west end about 1260; the chalk ; subsoil, chalk and. rock. The chief crops are wheat.

latter is of brick, with stone quoins and dressings to the beans, barley and turnips. The area is 1,631 acres; rate-

windows and a stringcourse, and the whole appears to able value, £992; the population in IBgi was 191.

be clearly the work of the 13th century: in r862 the l'arish Clerk and Sexton, John C. G!ass.

church was thoroughly repaired and a south aaiiss~lee. added, Lettflrs through Wantage arrive at 8 a.m. Letcombe<
and it now consists of chancel, nave, south north

porch, and an embattled western tower, rest{)red in Regis is the nearest money order & telegraph office,
about 1! miles distant. Wall Letter ~ox cleared at 7
1 ss4 and containing 3 bells: a Norman font, probab:y p.m. week days summe<r, 6.30 p.m. wmter & 12 noon

coeval with the original building, is still in use: in 18oo

two memorial windows were put in to the Ja'e Rev. W. on sundays

Firth B.D. a former rector: there are 140 sittings. The National School (mixed), erected in 1858, fm _r:;o chii-

register dates fmm the year 1564. The living 1s a I dren; average attendance, 35; Mrs. Mary Smith, mis~

Batchelor Rev.R'obert Twiddy,Rectory Emblin~ William, shopkeeper "Richens J O'hn, farmer, College farm

Cartwright Miss, The Ivies Glass John C. boot maker '3immons Lewis, farmer

Halls Thos. Lyster, Old Manor house Hopkins Henry, Yew Tree P.H Simmons Thomas, farmer & water-

Robson Bertie, Spanswick house Robson Edward, racehorse trainer & cress grower, White's farm

Droad James, miller (watel') farmer, Downs house ; & at Wantage Waiter Thomas, carpenter

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. LITTLEWICK GREEN. 103

LETCOM::BE REGIS is a township and parish inter- ·copying the site of what is supposed by some to have

sected by a feeder of the river Ock, about a mile and a been a royal hunting box in the days of King John.

half south-west from Wantage and 3! south-west from The honour and manor of Letcombe Regis, which corn-
Wantage Road station on the main line of the Great prises also the hamlet of East Challow, is believed to

Western railway, in the Northern division of the county, have belonged to fung Alfred, and had an extensive civil

hmtdred of Kintbury-Eagle, petty sessional division, and criminal jurisdiction; it afterwards became the

union and county court district of Wantage, and in the property of the Dean ai}d Chapter of Westminster, from

rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and whom it passed, in 1869 to the Ecclesiastical Corn-

diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Andrew is a missioners; it was for centuries granted out on leases,

small building consisting of chancel, nave, :wuth porch the !essees being styled "Lord Farmers," but in 1885

and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells and tht~ copyholds were enfranchised and the freehold of the

a clock striking the hours: the chancel is Early English manor, as well as the picturesque water mill and tTout

and has on the north side a blocked Norman doorway: stream, became the property of Stephen William Silver

the chancel arch is of the same date : the windows in esq. who is the present lord, and resides on the estate; the

the nave are variously Decorated and Perpendicular, and court rolls are among the most ancient in the kingdom and

the north and south doorways are Early English, to some of the wooden tallies used on the occasion of

which period the tower and font may also be referred: holding the courts in the r~ign of Henry Ill. (circa

there are 187 sittings: the churchyard was closed 1216-1272), are still in perfect preservation and may be

against interments Aug. 3, 188o, and another burial seen, as well as the Court Rolls of the same reign, in

ground has since been consecrated on land given by S. the Public Record Office, London. The land is freehold:

W. Silver esq. The register dates from the year 15 36, the great tithes belong to the Ecclesiastical Commis-

the earliest book, extending from this date to 1697, sioners. The principal landowners are Stephen William

and long lost, having been discovered some years since in Silver esq. Oharles Mills esq. and Silvesters trustees. The

private bands. The living is a vicarage net yearly value soil is chalk and clay; subsoil, chalk and rock. The chief

£195, including 21 acres of glebe, with residence, in the crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 2,160

gift of Corpus Christi College, Oxfortl, and held since 1898 acres; ratea.ble value, £2,197; the popultion in 1891 was

by the Rev. John Mere Latham M.A. of that college. 407.

Hel'e is a Wesleyan chapel. There are charities of £8 By Local Government Board Order 20,689, dated March

yearly for educational purposes and about. £8 for distribu- 24, 1887, Warman's Cottages were transferred from Let-

tion in money and kind. In this parish are two objects of combe Regis to East Challow, and by the same Order,

interest to antiquaries; one of these is Letcombe and at the same date, Letcombe Field was added to

Castle, so called, its ancient and proper name being Childrey.

"Sagbury" (A.S. ·secge, a. soldier); this is a large East and West Challow townships, in this civil parish,

wand nearly circular Roman encampment . of about have been formed into an ecclesiastical parish and will
".26 acres, from which the hill the south of be found under a separate head.

the villageo h~s received the n~me of ~astle Hill; Parish Clerk and Sexton, William Stanley.
the camp, s1tuated on the highest pomt. of the
Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
ridge, goo feet above the sea level, is on the right hand, Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. Thomas,
Alder, sub-postmaster. Letters through Wantage arrivf}
shortly after crossing the road from Wantage tt> Hunger-
at 6.50 a.m. & 12.55 p.m. & dispatched at 1.5 & 7 p.m.
ford, and near an old inn called the "Red House ; " it is in winter, & 7.30 p.m. in summer

stated to have been defended by a double ramrart or
ditch, with one entrance only on the east, the entrench-
ments and ditch covering about 8~ acres more; the ~ational School (mixed), erected in 1856 & enlarged.

other object of interest is the curious moat which sur- 1890, with teacher's residence, for So children; aver..

rounds the Moat House, a modern structure now oc- age attendance, 51; :Miss Alice Jupp, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Booker Mary Viner (l\>Irs. ), beer retlr. Hill John Vivian, miller (watei') & far-

Croker Richard, The Moat house & blacksmith mer, Ashbrook mill

Garrett J oseph, The Hollies Brown Richard, beer retailer Letcombe Regis Reading Room (Rev..

Go!ding Miss Bunce Frank, carrier J. M. Latham M.A. treasurer)

Gregory Mrs. The Cottage Burson George, baker Luke Henry, racehorse trainer

Latham Rev. John Mere M.A.Vicarage Gardiner Matthew, grocer & baker Morse Isa.ac, carrier
Garrett Thomas, land steward to S. Morton Charles, racehorse trainer,The
Palmer J ames

Sibary William, The Manor farm William Silver esq. Warborough Manor farm

Silver Stephen Wm. Letcombe manor Gibbg.. Jas. sen. coal mer. The Chalet Sansum Ada (Mrs.), Greyhound P.H
Gibbs James, jun. assistant overseer, Simpson Thomas Herbert, shopkeeper
COMMERCIAL. Thorp Albert, watercress grower
The Chalet

Alder Thomas, shopkeeper, Post office HornsbY. John, racehorse trainer

ILITTLEWICK GREEN, a village situated in a gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1894 by th&-
highly cultivated and picturesque country on the border Rev. Thomas Henry Wrenford, of St. Bees. There is a.

of the Great Bath road and 3~ miles west from Maiden- Wesle-yan chapel, with sitJtings for 120 persons. Sir G.

head, was fOTmed into an ecclesiastical pariS'h in A. Clayton-East hart. is lord ()f the manor of Ffiennes.

1894 out of the civil parish of White W3ltham: it .
is. in the Eastern division of tJhe county, Beynhurst Woolley Green ~s a small h~ml~t on t~e bord~r of ~h&
hundred, Maidenhead petty sessional division, Maidenhead 1 Great Bath roa~, m the ecclesiastl_cal par1sh of ~lttlewiCk

union, Windsor county court district, rural deanery of G,reen, and 3 m1Ie_s west from Ma1denhead st_atwn on th&
Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Ox- G:rea.t ~estern rrulway. The populat10n ass1gned to the-

ford. The church of St. John the Evangelist, erected in d1str1ct lS 500.

1893 from designs by Mr. E. J. Shrewsbury A.R.I.B.A. Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.-Albert
of Maidenhead, is a cruciform building of blue Pennant Robbins, ·sub-postmaster. Letters through Maidenhead,
arrive at 8.15 a.m. & 12.15 noon; dispatched at 9 a.m.
stone, with Bath stone dressings, consisting of chancel, 12 noon & 6.50 p.m.; sundays at 10.50 a.m

nave, transepts, vestries, west porch and a turret con, Pillar Letter Box, near Coach & Horses inn, cleared at
taining two bells; and was erected and endowed by Miss g.10 a.m. 12.10 & 7 p.m.; sundays, 11 a.m
Frances Elizabeth Ellis, of White Waltham Place, in
memory of her mother, Mrs. Catherine Ellis, as appear~

by the inscription on a brass on the west wall : the east

window is stained and there are 225 sittings. The living Church of England School (mixed), built in 1875, for go

is a vicarage, with residence, net yearly value £246, in the children; average attendance, 6o; Miss Harrup, mist

LITI'I .EWICK GREEN. COMMEUCIAL, WOOLLEY' GREEN.

Arrowsmith Henry, Littlewick lodge Beesley Henry, fruiterer & baker Chambers Jabez R'ubey, Bath cottage
Houg!hton Boydell (barrister), Little- Dickens Edmund Hy. Woolley Firs
Deac0111 James, beer retailer
wick house Doncaster William Henry, Hill cottage
Gardner Joseph, farmer, Ffiennes farm Dunn George, W oolley Hall
Gildin~ Edward, blacksmith

COMMEUCIAT•• Hill Richard, fruit-erer le Poer Trench PowerM.Woolley grnge

Hume Lionel, Ffiennes farm Langley Th()omas, Wheatsheaf P.H Thompson Mrs. Caton, Flint house

Lee Mrs. Monro lodge Lowe Charles, cuwkeeper Webster Richard, Hera.thside

Munday Luttier, Vine cottage Raymooo Alfred, poultry farmer Bonney .AlbPrt, farmer, Lane farni

WTenford Rev. Thomas Henry Robbins Albt. grcr. & drpr. Post office Bucher William, Coach & Horses P.H

(vicar), Vicarage Watkins William James, baker Hughes Hugh, laundry

10-!" LITTLEWORTH. BERKSHIRE. [.KELLY's

LITTLEWORTH is a small village, with the hamlets ro~d from Faringdon to Abingdon. Wadley Hou11e, the-

of Thrupp and Wadley, formed into an ecclesiastical residence of Geo. Adams esq. is an ancient mansion of

parish in 1843, in the Northern division of the county, stone, in tJhe cen~re o1 a fine domain, once the pro-

hundred, union, petfy sessional division, civil parish and perty of the Abbey of Stanley lmperatricis, Wiltshire,

county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the so called irom its foundress, the Empress Maud; the

Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese estate passed in the reign of Henry VI. into the hands

of Oxford. Littleworth is to the north of the road from of Oriel College, Oxford: at the period of the Reforma-

Faringdon t-o Abingdon, 2 miles north-east from Faring- tion the house was occupied by Sir Thomas Unton kt.

don and 12! west from Abingdon, The church of the whose descendants resided here till the commencement

Ascension is a small and plain modern building in the of the seventeenth century ; Queen Elizabeth visited i~

Early English style, consisting of chancel (added in in 1574 and King James in 1603. Adjoining the mansion

1876, at a cost of £1,450 ), nave, west porch and a turret is the Royal Prize farm, an establishment for the training

(ln the western gable containing one bell: the east win- of young gentlemen in farming pursuits, and noted for

dow is stained: there are 200 sittings. The register the breeding of Shire horses, short-horn cattle and Oxford

. dates from the year 1839. The living is a vicarage, Down sheep.

· .net income £r42, with residence, in the gift of the Provost Thrupp hamlet is 2 miles north-west on the banks of

and scholars of Oriel College, Oxford, and held since r876 the Isis, which here divides the county from Oxfordshire.

~y <the Rev. Edward Thorp B.A. of Hertford College, Ox- Parish Clerk, Charles King.

ford. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected :in Post Office.-George Tilling, sub-postmaster. Letters

•r28I. The Provost and Fell<)ws of Oriel College, Oxford, through Faringdon, which is the nearest money order

are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The soil & telegraph office, arrive at 6.40 a.m. & 1.45 p.m.;

is a rich loam; subsoil, clay, sanrl and gravel. The crops dispatched at 10.35 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; snndays,

. are the usual cereals. 'fhe area is 2,547 acres; rateable 12.4-0 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but n~5 paid

value included with Faringdon; the population in 1891 National School (mixed), erecled about 1860 & enlarged

-was 396. in 18go, for So children ; averag3 attendance, 47; Mrs.

Wadley is a hamlet, one mile south on the south of the L. Cyphus, mistnss

Adams George, 1Yadiley house Church George, fa,rmer, :Brixton farm Fricker Oharlt~·sy Fox & Hounds P.H

Jervis Mrs. Harewood O:ack James, farmer, Puclerty farm Goddard Boaz, cowkeeper, Thrrrpp

Maokeonzie Mrs. Wadley lodge Cyphus Jesse, organist & master of Hazell Charles, shopkeeper

Thorp Rev. Edward B.A. Vicarage night school Ridrillgs Williarn, farmer, Thrupp

COMMERCIAL. Dyer Thomas, farm bailiff to George Rixm John, farmer, Manor farm

Adams Ge-orge, stock breeder & farmr. Adams esq. Thrupp farm Smart J'ames, shl'llpkeeper

Royal Prize farm, Wadley Fox Thomas, farm bailiff to George Tanner John, fanner, Park fa:rm

Brooks David, gardener, Wadley house Adams e-sq. Haremore farm Tilling George, bhtcksmith, Post offioo

EAST LOCKINGE is a parish about 2 miles east- handsome- mansion of red brick with sione dressings, ill!
,§outh-east from Wantage and 3 south-east from Wantage
Road station on the main line of the Great W!>stern mixed styles, standing in beautiful grounds which have-
railway, which passes through a portion of the parish ; been very skilfully laid out~ The bOII'l's-e contains a fine·
collection of pictures by old and modern masters, and
it is in the Northern division of the county, hundred, other works of art. The ·soil is clay, chalk and loam;
subsoil, bloor sand, chalk 3nd cfralk nrln"f. The crops ar6'
_petty sessional division, union and county court district the usual cereals. The parish, whicn includes the
•Of Wantage, and in the rural deanery of Wantage, arch-
tithing of B~terton, comprises 2,072 acres m land and II
·deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church
• of All Saints is an edifice of stone in mixed styles, con- of water; meable value, £2,652; the- population in r88I

-sisting of chancel nave of seven bays, north aisle, north was 330 and in 1891 was ~I in tile rim al'ld 325 in the
:and south porches, with a fine Norman doorway, and an
ecclesiastical parish.
embattled western tower containing 4- bells; the church
was restored and enlarged in 1886, at a cost of £3,000 by By Local Government, Board Order 211rrMff, dated March
L~rd '\Vantage, when an organ was provided; there are
280 siUings. The register dates from the year 1546. The E24a,st1sLso7c, ktiqnegenatmo lAetrdoifngWtoens.t G:Lnge wa:!- kmsferred from
living is a rectory, net yearly value £320, with residence,
Deputy Pmsh Clerk and Sexton, .Jo:h:n Turner.

in the gift of Lord Wantage K.G.B. and held since 1893 by Post O:flice.'-Richard Qt;rartermaiine-, sub-postmast~r.
Letters 1..rrive from '\Vantage; deliveries commence at 7
the Rev. James George Cornish M.A. of Hertford College, a.m. & 2 p.m.; sun. 7 s.m.; dispatdled a.t 10.20 a.m..
& 7 p.m. ; sun. II a.m- J'ostal onle-rs are issued here,.
Oxford. Snerd1s charity of [15 yearly is for the school; but. not paid. The nea:re.<>t money order & telegraph
office is at Ardingt{)n, Y mile distant
Aldworth's, of £6 provides £4 for the deserving poor, and
National School (mixed), ereeted in 186t, & enlarged in
£2 for the parish clerk; there is also poor's land of 7 r8g8, for roo children; average ai;;endance, 63; Bertie.
acreS. In 1882 Lord Wantage erected a subscription read- Sydney E. Gibbs, master
. ing room for the inhabitants. Lockinge House, the seat

of Col. Lord Wantage V.C., K.O.B. lord lieut. of the

county, lord of ths manor and sole landowner, is a very

Wantage Col. Lord V. C., K.C.B. (lord Whittle Matthew Fyfe Wm. head grdnr.to Lord Wanta~

1ient.), Lockinge house; & 2 Carl· COMMERCIAL. Gibbs Iler.tie Sydney E. ovgan.ist

ton gardens & Oarlton, Travellers', Bushell James, head gamekeeper to Haliam John. stnd groom

.St. Stephen's, Guards', Athemeum Lord Wantage "Ealilt Lockinge Club Room (He-mry
& Grosvenor clubs, London S ·w Cooper Jn.house stevrard,Lockinge ho Prior, caretaker)

· C,ornish Rev. Jas. Geo. M.A. (rector), Eady Charles Henry, as•si~hmt agent Prior James, ~rocer

Rectory & 'farm stewa.rd to Lord Wantage Quartermaine Rd. blacksmith,Post oft

-wEST LOCKINGE is a hamlet 2 miles east from The crops are wheat. barley and beans. The area is
'Wantage, in the Northern division of the county, hnn-
, dred, parish, union, petty sessional division and county 837 acres; ratooble value, £1,151; the population in 1881
· court district of Wantage: it consists of one farm and was 8o and in I8gi, was 75·
·a few cottages. Lord Wantage is the principal landowner. Lett~rs by foot post from Wantage arrive at 7 a.m. &
·The soil is clay, blue sand and loam; subsoil, blue sand.
2.30 p.m. Ardington is the nearest post, money order
& telegraph office, about 1} miles distant

Brown John, fatmer

"LONGCOT is a township of Shrivenham, and was with of chancel, nave, D()rth porch, and a massive western
Fernham township formed into an ecclesiastical parish in
1846, pleasantly situated in the Vale of White Horse, 4 tower, in the Renaissance style, erected in 1722 and con-
miles west-south-west from Faringdon, 10 north-west taining 6 bells: in the chan-cel is a memorial window
from Wantage and 3! miles west-by-north from "Gffington and inscr~bed brass to Caroline Loui~n Har~nc.
station on the Great Western railwhy, in the Northern
division of the county, hundred of Shrivenha.m, petty sister of the Rev. Edward Harenc, incumbent of
sessional division, union and county court distrif't of this church, who died in 1853: the churchyard af-
F'aringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, fords a magnificent ·view of White Horse Bill,
archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. There is and contains• memorials to the families of Bo-wles,
a branch of the Wilts and Berks canal to a wharf near
the village, and a small tributary of the river Ock, rising 166g-1858; Williams, 1766-18oo and Fereman; to Anne
in Little Coxwell, bounds the parish on the south and
west. The church of St. Mary, an edifice of stone, is Combe, x68o; Anne Archand, 1693; and Richard Heavens,
a good example of the Early English style, and consists
40 years clerk, and 36 years schoolmaster of the parish,
• 18_.,5; the church was thoroughly restored in 1897, and
affords 200 sittings. The register dates from the year
167o. The living is a vicarage, united with Femham,
joint net yearly value £ x8o, with residence, in the gift of

DIRECTORY.] EERKSHIRE. LO.NGWORTH. 105

the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Parish Clerk, Joseph Lawrence.
..Robert Thompson, of St. Aidan's. Here is a Wesleyan
o<-hapel. Viscount l3arrington is lord of the manor and Post Office.-Charles Lawrence, sub-postmaster. Letters
_principal landowner. The soil is strong clay, stone brash through Faringdon arrive at 7·45 a.m. ; dispatched at
.and good pasture land; subsoil, clay. The chief crops 5·45 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.
The nearest money order & telegraph office is at
are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 1,894 Shrivenham R.S.O. 3 miles distant

acres; ·rateable value, £2,267; the population in 1891 wall Longcot & Fernham Church of England School, built in
_300. 1872, for ISO children; average attendance, so; Miss
Mary :Hnnnah Hughes, mistress
Fernham is a township and will be found under a
separate heading.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS, Chatterton JeS'Se, farmer, Longcot ho Harris Edmund, farmer, Field farm

l3rown John, farmer Coffee Room (Wm. Jefferies, mangr) Hicks Sarah (.Mrs.), beer retailer
Hughes Miss, Longcot house 1Hughes ~Iary A. (Mis<S),grocer&draper
Coster John, carrier

Tbompson Rev. Robert, Vicarage Cox Albert E. farmer, Longcot farm J efferies JQhn, ca.rpenter

Cox Hephzibah (Mrs.) exors.of),frmrs. Lawrence Charles,baker & grcr.Post off

COlfMERCUL. Scarborough farm Richens Eli, farme.r, Nutfmd lodge

.Baxter Chas. thrashing machine owner Cox Harry (Mrs.), farmer, Lower 'Dhatcher Henry, pig dealer

.Berks Beekeepers' Association (Charles Church farm Thatcher Rober.t, fa.rmer & haulier

William Chatterton, dist. hon. sec) Cox Hemy John, farmer, Hill view Thatcher Wm. (Mrs.), market gardnr
jCox Sophia (Mrs.), farmer, Ivy house Wilson James, farmer & de.aler, Field
llrittain Joseph, shoe maker

Butler John, timber dealer Geol'lge Jas. farmer, Cleveland! farm & Stone farms

Chatterton Charles, farmer Griffin Frederick, King & Queen P.H

LONGWORTH is an extensive village and parish, 7 5! Mrth-west from Wantage Road station on the Great
miles east from Faringdon, 8 west from Abingdon and 10
Western railway, on the nver Ock. The chapel of St.
.from Oxford. The Isis separates this county from Ox·
iordshire and forms the northern boundary to the parish, Peter is &n ancient edifice of stone of the Norman period,
which is in the Xorthern division of the county, hundred
consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and
of Ganfield, petty sessional division, union and county
oourt district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of a Jacobean double bell-cot of stone containing 2 bells:
\Vhite Horse, archdeaconry of l3erks and diocese of Ox-
ford. The church of St. Mary, an edifice of stone, is the east window is Perpendicular; both doorways are
partly early ~orman and partly of the succeeding Transi-
Norman, that on the north side having a richly-carved
tjon Norman and Decorated styles, and consists of chan-
eel, nave with clerestory, separated from the aisles by tympanum, representing a. robed figure between two gro-

.arcades of Transition Norman and Early English arches, tesque animals, apparently griffins. within a border of

tthree on either side, a small chapel north of the ehancel, addorsed scroll-work: the south doorway has a kind of
used as a vestry, south porch and an embattle1l western
tower containing S bells and a clock; some of the winuol-\s cusped border, supporting rudely-carved heads, all
are Decorate--!, others Perpendicular: the tower appears
within a cable moulding: the chancel arch is also Nor-
.to1 have been added early in the latter style, the east,
man: the nave has a. Perpendicular roof of low pitch and
north and south piers being inside the chureh: the sane-
Transition Decorated windows : the font is plain Early
tuary rails &nd reredos exhibit good oak carving of the
same period: both aisles are Decorated: the font is English and there is a Perpendicular wooden pulpit:
Early English and circular: <•n the south Early English
IJGrch is a sun dial, dated 162r : in the chancel are brasses there are roo sittings. The registers of this chapel have
to John Hinde, a former rector, ob. 1422, with half-length
oefligy; Richard Yate, ob. 1498, and Johanna, his wife, entries of baptisms and burials from 1700 to 1812; and of

I()b. ISOO, with effigies; and Eleanor Godolphin, oh. r s65, marriages from 1754 to I8II, previous to which entrie.;;
:also with effigy: in the chapel or Marten's aisle is a mural
monument to Sir Henry Marten knt. LL.D. judge of the were made in the Longworth registers. The Manor
High Court of Admiralty and of the Prerogative Court
•of. Canterbury and Dean of Arches, ob. 1641: there are House, an ancient building, is at present unoccupied.

:200 sittings. 'l'he register dates from the year 1558, and The area is 1,200 acres; rateable value is• £999; the

·contains the following entry of the baptism of John J:o'ell, population in 1891 was 202.
-dean of Christ Church and l3ishop of Oxford, 1676-86:
-l' John, son of the right worshipful Samuel Fell, rector DRA.YCOT MOOR is a township in this parish, on the
of Longworth, baptized July 16, 1625." The living is a
rectory, with the chapelry of Charney l3asset annexed, north-east, in the union of Abingdon and hundred of Ock.

net yearly valne £540, with residence, in the gift of the Here is a lVes~eyan chapel. The President and Fellows
l'rincipal and Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford, and held
"£ince 1883 by the Rev. John Richardson lllingworth M.A. of St. J <rhn's College, Oxford, are lords of the manor and
late Fellow of that college. Here are Congregational and
'Primitive Methodist chapels. There are several charities, principal landowners. The a.rea is 1,059 acres; rateable

among which is the interest of £630 in the £2! per Cent. value £859; the population in 1891 was 201.
'Consols, bequeathed by H. Fludyer esq. and annually
Parish Clerk, 'William Guest Riv~rs.
divided among twentv poor people; a sum of £2oo in the
Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
'Xew £3 per Cents. producing £5 yearly, left by Mr. John
Charles Webb, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive throug-h
'Carter, farmer, for the education of poor children; and a
Faringdon at 8.45 a.m. & 4·45 p.m.; dispatched at g. 15
'bequest by J. Dewe, of £108 Consols, in support of a
a. m. & +30 p.m.; sundays, dispatched at 10.45 a.m.
"Sunday s<>hool; Davis' charity is a field of 8 acres, pro-
Kingston l3agpuze is the nearest telegraph offica, 2
-ducing about £8, distributed in bread and clothing.
miles distant. Letters for Draycot Moor through
Sidney Edward Bouverie-Pusey esq. of Pusey, who is
10Td of the manor, John B:a.ndy-Jenkins esq. of Abingdon arrive at 8.15 a.m. Kingst.on l3agpuze i& the
.Kingston Bagpuise, and William Dewe and John Edwail"d
Church esqrs. are the principal landowners. The soil nearest telegraph office, about I mile distant
"'throughout the parish is mixed and ranks among the best
l~nd in Berkshire; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are Post Office, Charney Basset. sub-
-whpat, barley, beans and turnips. The area is 2,282
·acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, £2,249; postmaster. Letters through Wantage arrive at ;

'the nonulation in 18or was 554· box cleared at 6.10 p.m. week days only. Postal orders
OHlARNEY BASSET is a chape~'ry annexed to this
are issued here, but not paid. Stanford-in-the-Vale i:J
-parish, about 3! miles south from Longworth village and
the nearest money order office & East Hanney, 3 miles

distant, the nearest telegraph office

Wall Lett!'r l3ox, Draycot Moor, cleared 5·45 p.m.; sun-

days, 10.45 a.m

Police station, William Farmer, constable

Schools.

British (Longworth), erected in J8So, for 120 children;
average attendance, 85 ; ThomaS' Oldfield, master

National (Charney J3a.sset), erected in 1871, & is sup-
ported by S. E. l3ouverie Pusey esq. J.P. for 85 chil-

dren; average attendance, 50; Mrs. Alice Atkinso:n,
mistress

Carriers from-

Longworth-Ernest Richings, to Abingdon, dai:y, except
tues. & fri

Charney Basset J oseph l3ond, to Abingdon, mon. ; to

Wantag-e, wed. & sat.; & Oxford, fri

Draycot Moor-George Stone, to Oxford, wed. & sat

LONGWORTH. Powell Edg-ar Oliver, Roadside farm Church John Edwd. farmer,Rome frm
Trollope Gerard R Dean J ames, beer retailer
Dewe William, farmer
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Webb Jesse Drew Jas. grocer & aoSISistant over~eer
Edmonds Chas.&Jn. frmrs. Lodg"1l farm
IDandy-Jenkins John, jun. J.P.New ho COMMERCIAL,
l3rooks Mrs Godfrey George. bake.r & bPer retailer
Gr~n Elizbth.(Mrs.),baker&beer retlr
Floyd Mrs Besley James, farmer
Lay Israel, frmr.ShePphouse Field frm
lllingwc:rtlt Rev. JDhn R!chardson )1..1. Brooks A. Henry, blacksmith

'(rector) Broughton Jesse, shopkee.per

106 LONGWORTH. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Neale A'braham,Waggon & Horses P.H Webb Enoch, draper & grocer & agent 'l'ha.tcher Matthew, market gardener

Painton Bart, carpenter for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine & Toon George, g-rocer

Painton Owen, Blue Boar P.R spirit merchants OIIA.RNEY ll:A.SSET.

Powell Edgar Oliver, Roadside !arm Bat!h Rev. William Henry :M..A.
Prince A. & E. nurserymen DRAYCOT MOOR.

Ran.t & Coy, grocers Church Richard, farmer, Heath house, (cur!llte-in-charge)

Richings Ernest, carrier & farmer · South moor Maslen Mrs

Ritchin.s Philip, st<>ne mason. Edmon<lls Olas.W.frmr.Draycott farm Bond Joseph, carrier

Sims William, market gardener Gibbens Joseph, saddler Boucher Thomas, Chequers P.H

Simmons Wm. Rich d. Lam1b&Flag P.H Godfrey Frank, grocer Craddock Thom11s Willia.m, farmer
Stephens Charles,farmer,Newhouse fm Godfrey Samson, whee~wright &c Kerridge Goorge Douglas, blacksmith

Tayl(lr Edwin, shoe make.r Hobbs Thomas, farmer Kin.g Isaac, beer retailer

Weaving John Walker, frmr.Manor fm Stone George, farmer & carrier. Woolfor<t Rdbert, horse dealer

LYFORD isr a civil parish formed July u, 1845, out of this parish from 1032 till the Dissolution, when. a portion
the parish of Hanney; it is on the river Ock, 5 miles north thereof passed to John Yate, of Charney, gent. merchant
from Wantage, 4 north from the Wantage Road station of of the stap:e, and some time of Lyford; this family was
the Great Western railway, and 8 west from Abingdon, in afterwards of Buckland, and recorded their pedigree at

the Northern division of the county, hundred of Ock, the Visitation of Berks in rs66 and r664; in I765 the
petty sessional division, union and county court district estate was purchased of the Greenaways by the trustees
of Abingdon, rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of of Mrs. Sarah Eaton and in 1775 was conveyed by them
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mar) to Worcester College, Oxford. Here are 20 almshouses,
is a small edifice of stone of the Early English period, founded in r6u by Oliver Ashcombe, a native of Lyford,
consisting of chancel and nave, north porch and a wooden for the poor of East and "\Vest Hanney and Lyford; these
be:I-cot at the w-est end, on a good Early frame work form a quadrangle, attractive in appea.rance, with a
of four chamfered posts, with braces, forming alternate chapel on the west side: the revenue of this charity
ogee and Pointed arches and containing 3 bells; there amounts to £300 a year; and four shillings per week is al-
are low side windows on both sides of the chancel, which lotted to each inmate; divine service is conducted every
has an Early English piscina and stone shelf: in the north day by the chaplain, who receives £3o yearly. The prin-
wall is a locker: the chancel arch, some time since cipallandowners are the Provost and Fellows of Worcester
destroyed, has now been restored; in the north jamb of College, Oxford, who are lords of the manor, and Sidney
the arch are the remains of a hagioscope: the font of EdwaJ"d Bouverie-Pusey esq. The soil is heavy clay and
plain Early English work is octagonal: the church was loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and
restored in 1875 at a cost of £r,wo: there are 100 beans. T'he area is 772 acres; rateable value, [827; and
sittings. The register dates from the year 1845. The the population in 1891 was 147·
living is a vicarage, net yearly value (including the chap- Letters through Wantage (delivered 8 a.m. summer, 8.30

laincy of the almshouse.s) £gs, in the gift of Worcester a. m. wiriter), the nearest money order office; Easi
College, Oxford, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Frederick Hanney is the nearest telegraph office, about I~ miles
Hill Currie M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. The distant
Wall Box, hours of collection, 6.25 p.m
earliest notice of this place is in 944, when King Edmun.d The chilrlren of this parish attend the school at Charney
Basset
gave land here to £lfeg, between the river OcJr and
Childrey brook; the abbey of Abingdon had also l&nd in

Currie Rev. Fredk. Hill 1\I.A.Vicarage Pike Robert, farmer, Manor fa.rm /Rickards Charles, farmer
Pike John, shopkeeper & farmer

l\1 A 1 DE N H E A I>.

:MAIDENHE.A.D (formerly Maiden-hythe), " the midway Bucks side, is surpassingly delightful and its popularity
not l~ss constarut than deserved.
wharf," between Marlow and Windsor, is a corporate
borough and market and union town., and head of a petty In the reign of Richard II. this place was the scene-
Sf:ssional division; it is within the parishes of Bray and of an encounter between the adherent& of the king, who
he:d the bridge, under the command of Edmund (Hol-
Cookham, but on Oct. 15, 1894, it was made a distinct land), Duke of Surrey K.G. and the followers of Henry,.
duke of Lancaster. At the Revolution the town was
civil parish ; :.t is on the right bank of the Thames, which garrisoned with Irish troops, but the townsfolk declaring
is here crossed by a stone bridge of seven a.rches, erected for William of Orange, the defen.der.s fled, leaving behind
in 1772 at a co~t of £2o,ooo from plans by Sir Robert their guns and ammunition.
Taylor, architect, and connecting this pla.ce with Taplow,
in Buckinghamshire: the town stands on the old Bat.h St. Andrew and St. Mary Magdalene is an ecclesiastical
road, 26 miles from London (by road) ~md 24 by rail, 13 parish, formed July 3oth, r87o, out of the parishes of
north-east from Reading, 9 east.-by-south from Henley Bray and Cookham. The church was originally a
and 6 north-west from Windsor in the Eastern chantry, founded in 1270 by Margaret of France, second
division of the county, hundred of :Bray, county consort of Edward I. when the first building, of which a
court district of Windsor, rural deanery Df Maidenhead, full account is given in Nichols' "Collectanea Topo""
archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. Ther-e is a graphica," vol. 6, was erected in the oentre of High street;
station here on the Great Western railway, which crosses
it was rebuilt on the same site in 1724, and in 1825-6 was
the river on a brick bridge of two arches, designed by s; taken down and the present building erected at the east
end of High street : it is an edifT...ce of brick. in mixed
Isambard :Brunei, the distinguished engineer, and re- styles, consistjng of Decorated chancea, nave·, organ

markable as exhibiting the greatest span ever yet ac- chamber, and an embattled weste·rn tower, 6o feet in
complished in brick. height, containing a clock and 2 bells: the church was

The Corporation consists of a high steward, mayor, enlarged and improved in I877-8, at a cost of £2,67o, when
four a1dermen and twelve councillors; two aldermen
retire every three yeal"s, and four councillors every the chancel was built, an organ chamber provided, the
year. The borough has a commission of the Peace; the organ re-constructed, and in 1882 a pulpit of Caen stone
town is controlled by the county police. and oak and a wrought iron lectern were erected and t'he
clock renovated; in 1893-4 the church was repaired and re-
The town is lighted with gas by a company, from works decorated throughout, at a cost of about £22o : there
on the Buckinghamshire side of the river, and supplied are 630 sittings, half being free. The register dates
with water by the Maidenhead Waterworks Company,
whose reservoir at Boyne Hill will bold 6oo,ooo gallons, from the year 1862. The living, formerly in the pat-
and that at Cookham Dene 2oo,ooo gallons ; the ronage of the Corporation of Maidenhead, who so1d it
water is drawn from a. chalk well at Castle Hill: in
the outskirts are many good houses, particularly a:ong under the :Municipal Reform Act, is a vicarag-e, net annual
the bank of the river. .The view from the brid~e on
eith~r side, but particularly towards the town, is charm- value £2go, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of
ing in the extreme ; between the bridge and Boulter's
Harrowby and other trustees, and held since 1893 by thEJ
lock new suburbs have sprung up caaed "Ray Park" and Rev. Charles Hewitson Nash M.A. of Durham University.
"Maidenhead Court." The country about Maidenhead, The population in I8gr was 3,167.
and more especially that of and about the woods of Olive-
den and Hedsor, a short distance up the riv-er on the St. Luke's is an ecclesiastical parish formed March I,
1867, entirely out of Cookham -parish; the church is
a building of freestone, in the Gothic style, con-

DIRECTORY.] :BERKSHIRE. MAIDENHEAD. 107

sisting of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, south porch, lished here on Wednesdays, and the "Maidenhead Times,',.

and a tow.er at the south-ea·st angle, 8o feet published at High Wycombe on Saturdays, circulates in

in height, with spire, and containing a clock and 2 bel:s : the town.

the spue was added in I894 at a cost of about £I,soo, and The Volunteer Fire Brigade, established in 1866 and

the total height is now I 50 feet; the rered.os was the gift supported entirely by voluntary contributions, has two

of the Rev. G. H. Hodson M.A. vicar of Enfield; the manual engines, with the usual appliances and a fire

choir seats were carved at the expense of the late Rev. escape and hose reel. The station was erected in 1893

\V. B. Hole ~LA. vicar of Bray; in the chancel is a !arg<: by the corporation, in Park street, adjoining the borough

stained window, erected by subscription, and in the aisles police station, and has a club room attached. The brigade

are eight memorial windows ; the church was enlarged in consists of a captain, deputy captain, 4 lieutenants, I

I86g and is capable of seating 850 persons, ha:f of th engineer, 18 pioneers and a secretary.

sittings being free. The register dates from the yea1 The G Company of theISt Volunteer Battalion Princess

1866. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £375; Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) has its

net £320, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of head quarters in York road.

Oxford, and held since I89o by the Rev. Henry George The Riverside Club, established in 1889, as a social

Jephson Meara M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge and and non-political club for gentlemen. is pleasantly situ-

Surrogate. The population in I89I was 5•473· ated in its own grounds on the river bank near the

St. Peter's, in the Marlow road, near the Furze Platt, bridge; the club house has every convenience, and in

a chapel of ease to St. Luke's, is a building of stone, con- addition to boarding facilities the members can be sup-

sisting at present r.nly of a chancel and a port.ion of the plied with boats of every description and an electric

nave, consecrated in 18gB, and seating I70 persons. launch; there is also stabling for horses,

St. Paul's Church, in the High Town road, a chapel of The Maidenhead Constitutional Club, in Queen street,

ease to the church of All Saints, Boyne Hilu, was erected was opened in 1893 for Conservatives and Unionists;

in 1887-9• from the designs of Mr. E. J. Shrewsbury the building contains reading, smoking, billiard, card,

A.R.I.B.A. : and is an edifice of red brick, in the Early luncheon and secretary's rooms and apartments for the

English style, consisting of chancel and lofty nave under steward: there are now (1899) about zoo members.

one continuous roof, vestries, constructed be:ow the The Conservative Working Men's Club, in broadway,

chancel, and a turret containing I bell ; the chancel is established in 1894, contains reading, billiard and card

separated from the nave by a screen, above which is a rooms and refreshment bar and has about 256 members.

massive rood beam bearing a large and richly decorated The Working Men's Club and Institute, in Norfolk road,

cross: at the east end is a rose windQw filled with is well supplied with periodicals and has a circulating

stained glass : the services h~re are conducted by the library of over I,~oo volumes.

clergy <Jf All Saints, Boyne Hi:[: there are 350 sittings. The Maidenhead Yield Club and Thames Valley Anti·

The church of St. Mark, erected in I873, for the inmates qt.arian Society was established in 1883 for the purpose

of the Cookham (now Maidenhead) Union, at a cost of of collecting and publishing information on the antiqui-

£2,ooo, by John Hibbert esq. of Braywick Lodge, is a ties of the neighbourhood of Maidenhead and the Thame&

cruciform building of stone, cons-isting of chance-l, nave, Valley and kindred subjects.

transepts and a western turret containing one bell : the In October, I885, the remains of a. Roman villa were
stained east window placed in 1878, and the east window, in discovered at Folly Hill, near here, o-n land occupied by

1886, are memorials·: there are sittings for 230 persons. Mr. R. Silver and Mr. S. Bird. Excavations made, under

The Catholic Church, in the Cookham road, dedicated the direction of Mr. J. Rutland, led to the conclusion
to St. Joseph, is a building of flint, with red brick and that the villa was a building of considerable extent, and

stone dressings, in the Early English style; it has 200 had been previously explored : portions of many vessels

sittings. of Samian ware, square flue pipes, roof tiles, some frag-

The Baptist chapel, Marlow road, erected in 1872, will ments of mural paintings, a bronze pin, an iron knife

seat 250 persons. The Strict Baptist chapel, York road, and two brass coins of Tetricus the elder and Tetricus
erected in 1864, has 100 sittings.
the younger, A.D. 267-73, were found, as well as a quern~
The Congregational chapel, West street, erected in or hand mill.
I787, will scat soo persons. The Primitive Methodist 1'he Cottage Hospital, in St. Luke's road, Norfolk Park~
chapel, Queen street, erected in 1882, has 300 sittings. was founded in x88o; it contains 1:2 beds and is supported
The Wesleyan chapel, Castle hill, erected in 1859, has in part by the patients, but principally by voluntary con-
65o sittings.
tributions ; during the year 1898 II3 patients were ad~
A Cemetery, at Boyne Hill, g acres in extent, was esta- mitted.
blished in 1888 by a Company.
Spoore's charity provides £127 Ios. yearly for edu·
The Town Hall, High street, is a structure of red brick, cational purposes and apprenticing four boys; Poole's
with stone dressings, in the Renaissance style, and was charity provides £3o yearly in clothing for the poor of

almost entirely rebuilt in 1879 at a cost of nearly £6,ooo; the parish of Maidenhead; Ring's bequest of £79 is
it now contains a borough police court, large market hall, distributed in clothing; Rixman's of £58 is for apprentic-
public offices on the ground floor and above a large hall ing and clothing children in the parish of Bray once in

76 feet by 30 feet, which will hold soo persons; m a three years; and :Merry's of £5 is for education.
separate building in the rear are police cells and offices An almshouse for eight poor men and their wives was

for t.he county police force: the borough magistrates founded and endowed by James Smyth esq. a member

hold their meetings here, and a corn market is held of the Salters' Company, of London, in 1659, and has a
every Wednesday. The county police station is in present income of about £257 yearly.
Broadway·.
Lady Pocock left in 1816 £5o yearly to be distributed in

The Grand Hall, in Market street, built in 1876, is money among the poor on the 18th January, and also

fitted with a stage, scenery &c. and fully licensed for six penny loaves to be given every Saturday for ever to

theatrical performances ; the hall will seat I,ooo persons : twenty poor persons; she also bequeathed £too to be

attached is an open air swimming bath, 40 yards in distributed biennially, in sums of £IO each, to ten female

length, 40 feet wide and from three to eight feet in depth unmarried servants who should have lived in the same

and has a capacity of 200,000 gallons. situation in Maidenhead or its vicinity for the term of

The Oddfellows' Hall, in South street, is a plain seven years; she also founded a Sunday school, known as

building of brick, and will seat 200 persons. Lady Pocock's school, for thirty girlst and she further

The Maidenhead, Cookham and Bray Thames Angling left a gift of bread, meat and coals to be distributed at·

Association was formed for the improvement and pre- Christmas in each year to Ioo poor families. There are

servation of the fishing from the Shrubbery to Monkey also the following charities: Shapland's, the interest of

Island, this being the unpreserved water between the £1,099 19s. 4d. £z! per Cent. Bank Stock, distributed

limits of the Marlow and Windsor Associations, and this in cl.othing; Whitfield's, of £6, for poor widows of Cook-

part of the river, by the exertions of the Association, has ham and Bray; Davis's, of about £70, for distribution

been stocked with a J~uge quantity of fish, chiefly trout. among the poor; Wyvill's, the interest of £400, is distri-

The Maidenhead Corporat:ou Technical School was buted at the discretion of the vicar and churchwardens

erected and opened in t8g6 in the Marlow road, at a cost, of St. Mary's, who are the trustees ; Seymour's, of £2o

ineluding site, of £6,.soo. a year, is for the education of six poor f!irls, and Ralph

Boulter's or Ray Mill Lock is a. stone lock, about half Poole's, a rent charge of about £IO, which is distributed

a mile above the bridge, the weir water working a large to the poor of Maidenhead in bread.

corn mill. In 1889 William Henry Grenfell esq. of Taplow Court,

Two regattas are held here annually in the months of presented to the town a park or recreation ground, about

July and August, one being promoted by the watermen 14 acres in extent, situated on the Grenfell road, and well

and the other by the Maidenhead Rowing Club. There furnished with timber and ornamental trees ; numerou~

al'e four extensive breweries and a cycle manufactory. walks have been made, seats placed and swings for the

A newspaper, "The Maidenhead Advertiser," is pub- amusement of children erected; a keeper·s lodge has

108 BERKSHIRE. [KELL'Y'S

been built and the grounds inclosed in an iron fence, trustees for the purpose of promoting the intellectual,
~t the sole expense of Richard Stuchbery esq. of Castle moral and physical improvement of the people.

Hill; in the year 1893 a drinking fountain was erected The population of the borough in r871 was 6,173, in
il!l the park. r88r it wa.s 8,219 and in r8gr 10,607; the rateable area
of the parish is r822 acres.
Kidwells• Park, about r2 acres in extent, :in the centre
Qf the town, between Market street and Marlow road, The rateable value of the borough in r8gg was £72,170,
was presented in r8go by James Daniel Morling Pearce
esq. of Craufurd Hall, then mayor; thiS' contains some viz., North ward, £34,722; South ward, £37•448.
Parish Clerk of St. Luke's. Wm. Edward Harper,
tlne trees and the property has been vested in twenty
Norfolk road

OFFICIAL EST.ABLISH~IEXTS, LOCAL I~STITUTIONS &c.

Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel The Mayor of the borough of Maidenhead & the Chairman
Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office, High street. of Cookham Rural District Council, for the time being,
~Joseph Louis Winkup, postmaster are ex-officio magistrates
Clerk to the Magistrates, Chas.Ruffe Thomas,Broadway
Hours of Business.-For sale of stamps & issue of money
Petty Sessions are held at the County 'Police Court,
orders & postal orders, 7 a.m. to ro p.m.; telegraph Broadway, on the 2nd & 4th tues. in each month at II
a.m
business, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. ; sundays, 8 to ro a.m. ;
May to Sept. inclusive, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m The division comprises the parishes of Bisham, Bray,
l.lispatch of Mails.-London, 8.45 a.m. ; London & Read- Cookham, Hurley, Remenham, Shottesbrook, White
ing, 10.45 a.m. ; London & Windsor, 12.45 p.m. ; Waltham & Winkfield
Reading, 1 & 4 p.m. ; London, 3·45 p.m. ; London &
Slough, 4.20 p.m.; London, 8 p.m.; Reading & West BOROUGH MAGISTRATES.
of England, 8.40 p.m. ; London & all parts, 9·35 p.m. ;
London & Cookham & local, 11.30 p.m.; Slough,Staines Budgen John, Shirley, Castle hill
& Windsor, n.so p.m. ; Reading, r.so a.ro.; London, Burrows Henry Russell, Elm house, North Town
2.30 a. m.; High Wycombe & Marlow, 2 a.m Cox Charles William, The Orchards, Boyne hill
l'arcel Mails.-To London, 10.45 a.m. r, 31·45 & 9·35 p.m. ; Durrant Henry Hodgson, Manor house, Marlow road
Reading, 1, 6 & 9 p.m.; Bourne End, Cookham & :Mar- Gardner Ernest, Spencers Cookham
Lovegrove Edward Richard, Clarence villa, Castle hill
low, 5 p.m Mackie Edward William, High street
Playne .Alfred M.B. Boyne avenue
Arrival of Mails.-From London & all parts, 7 & 10.30 Silver Richard, Etruria, Castle hill
Simpson J ames Ferguson, 9 High street
a.m. 3.15 & 6.15 p.m 'fruscott John, York lodge (mayor, 1898-9)
Parcels.-Same as letters Walker John Wesley, 4 Craufurd rise

On sundays there is one delivery only, commencing Clerk to the Magistrates, Chas. Ruffe Thomas,Broadway

at 7 a.m Sittings of the Mag:_strates are held at the Borough Police
Court, Town hall, daily at 10.30 a.m.
Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
CORPORATION.
Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office, Thames
hotel.-Branch of head office. Box cleared at 7·45 & 1-898-1899•
9·55 a.m.; 12.15, 3.15 & 8.ro p.m.; sun. 8.r5 p.m High Steward, Wm. Henry Grenfell esq. B..A.., D.L., J.P.

Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Mayor, Councillor John TruscoU.
Office, Bridge road.-A. F. Sleath, sub-postmaster. Deputy-Mayor, Councillor William Ferguson Good.
Letter Box cleared at 8.25 & 10.10 a.m. & 12.30, 3.25,
7.4o, 8.25 & 11.4) p.m.; sundays, 8.25 & II.45 p.m .Aldermen.

"Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Retire in November 1901. Retire in November 1904.
Office, Norfolk park. J. Knibbs, sub-postmaster. Box Charles William Cox William Nicholson

cleared at 8.30 & 10.5 a.m. 12.15, 4, 7·35• 8.35 & 10.50 Edward William Mackie Richard Sih·er

p.m.; sundays, 6.35 & 10.50 p.m Councillors.

'Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Retire in November 18gg. Retire in November 1900.
• James Mecks William Ferguson Good
Office, King street.-Thomas Dixon, sub-postmaster. James Edward Pearce
B<tx cleared at 8.15 & ro.5 a.m. 12.10, 3.30, 6.40, 8.20 Hubert Douglas Tilly Edwin Bewitt
& rr.w p.m.; sundays. 8 & 11.10 p.m David Wilton
IWilliam Tripp
'Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance John 'l'ruscott
Office, St. Mark's road, Wellington road.-George Bar·
dell, sub-postmaster. Box cleared at 7.50 a.m. 12.30,

3·45" & 8 p.m.; sundays, 7·35 p.m

!l'ost Office, Furze Platt. Fredk. Newell, sub-postmaster.
Box cleared at 12.25 & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 12.15 p.m.
Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Maiden-
bead, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order &
telegraph offi'ce

C{)UNTY :MAGISTRATES FOR MAIDENHEAD PETTY Retire in November 1901.
ISESSIONAL DIVISION.
Edward Butler William Grierson

!Husse:I Earl, Amberley cott'!ge, Maidenhead Ernest Gardner Arthur Upson

l.'ratt Lt. -Col. Lord George Murray, Meadow Bank, 'Wink- Days of Meeting: The Arst monday in each month except
field, Windsor
.April, when the meeting will be held on the following
li':ast Sir Gilbert .Augustus Clayton- bart. Hall Place, monday & except in August, when there will be no
near Maidenhead
meeting
11itzmaurice Captain the Hon. James Terence R.N. Fern- Quarterly Meetings: monday the 6th day of February,
ley, Maidenhead
monday, the ISt day of May, & monday, the 4th day
Palmer Lieut.-Gen. Sir Roger William Henry hart. Glen of September
Island, Maidenhead

Young Sir George bart. M ..A. Formosa pl. Cookham S.O Elective .Auditors, Theophilus Hewitt, 46 High street k

Adams Henry esq. Canon hill, Maidenhead
Bhlnoe Capt. Gilbert Gordon, Foliejon park, Winkfield, Richard W ebster

Windsor Officers of the Corporation & Urban District Council.
ClaytDn Lt.-Col. Fitz Roy, Fyfield house, Maidenhead
Yerard Charles .A.gace esq. M..A.. The Manor farm, Ascot Town Clerk, Clerk to the Urban District Council & Clerk
to the School Attendance Committee, John Kick, Town
cGardner Ernest esq. Spencers, Maidenhead
Hall
tGold Henry esq. D.L. Hedsor, Taplow, Maidenhead
Kohler John David esq. Barton lodge, Windsor Forest Treasurer, Hy. Jn. Mount, Stephens, Blandy & Co.'s Bank

Lambert Francis Devereux esq. Moor hall, Cookham S.O Medical Officer of Health, W. T. G. Woodforde M.D.

lRicardo Albert esq. Raymead cottage, Maidenhead Oakb11nk, near Reading

:Silver Richard esq. Etruria, Maidenhead 1 Borough SurveyDr, Percy Johns A..M.I.C.E. Town Hall

'TJiJ.ompson Lt.-Gen. Arnold RA. Northfld. Maidenhead Sanitary Inspector, Joseph Hedges Barford, Town Hall

Yan de Weyer Col. Victor William Bates, New lodge, Borough Collector, Joseph Bryan Markham, Marlow road

'Vindsor Forest Receiver of Corporate Rents,William Earl Beal,Town Hall

Yansitt&rt-Neale Henry James esq. C.B. Bisham Abbey, School Attendance Officer,Herbt.Glover, St.Luke's rd.nth
Serg-eant-at-Mac-e, Hall Ke'.:lper & Town Crier, l\lark.
near Marlow

~·hiteheatl lohn esq. Choseley ho. Knowl hill, Twyford James Taylor, York road

JDIRECTORY. BERK~HIRE. MAI.DENH RAD. 109

COOKHAM RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes & Inhabited House

Meets at the Board room on alternate wednesdays after Duty for Maidenhead District, Charles Ruffe Thoma~~
the meeting of the Guardians of the Maidenhead union.
Broadw ao•vf Petroleum & Explosives, T.Dorrell, Police stn
Clerk, William Weed, Queen street Inspector
Treasurer, Frederick John Blandy, banker, Reading
Deputy Steward of the Manor of Cookham, Francis.

J oseph Charles Forss, r6 High street
Medical Officer of Health, William Thoma-s Garrett Wood- Inspector of Weights & Measures, Thomas Dorrel1,
forde M.D. Oak bank, Spencer's Wood, near Reading County Police station, for the Maidenhead division of
Surveyor, Frank Laurens A.M.I.C.E. Chester vil.Norflk.rd Berks
Sanitary Inspector, George .A.ugustus Millin, Cookham Steward of tlie Manors of Bray, Taplow & Lowhrooks~
road, Maidennead
Edward Lodge, Taplow court

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Trustees of the Maidenhead Charities, Rev. C. A. Ray-
mond, vicar of Bray; Rev. W. G. Sawyer, vicar of Tap~
Maidenhead Police Station, Town Hall; inspector,Edmd.
Holding; 2 sergeants & I 2 constables low; J. W. Walker esq.; Alfred Playne esq.; John
Fuller esq.; Richard Silver esq.; Rev. H. G. J. Meara,
Cottage Hospital, St. Luke's road, Norfolk park; William
Arnold Urquhart Thomson F.R.C.S.I., G. E. Moore vicar of St. Luke's, Maidenhead; E. W. Mackie esq. ;-
M.B., .A.rthur James Edge M.B., S. T. Plumbe M.D., James L. Simpson esq.; James F. Good esq.; E.
E. C. Montgomery L.R.C.S.I. & D. J. Mason M.D. Hewitt esq. ; D. Wilton esq. ; the Mayor in Qffice; clerk~
medical officers; .A. Pallant L.D. S.R. C. S.Irel. dental Charles Ruffe Thomas, Broadway

surgeon; Major-Gen. Davies, house secretary & trea- PLACES OF WOR'SHIP, with times of Service.

surer; H. C. Bulkeley, corresponding & minute sec. ; Church of St. Andrew & St. Mary Magdalene, Higa

Hon. Maria Eden, hon. sec. of ladies' committee; Miss street, Rev. Charles Hewitson Nash M.A. vicar; Rev.
T. Revell, matron Ebenezer Brown Hill M.A. curate; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.
County Police Station, Broadway, Thomas Dorrell, deputy & 2nd sunday in each month for children & baptisms at
chief constable, & r sergeant & II constables
Grand Hall, Market st. Miss Gladys Evelyn, proprietress 3 p.m.; wednesday, 7 p.m
Inland Revenue Office, Broadway; John Flint, super- St. Luke's Church, Rev. Henry George Jephson Mear11
visor ; William Robson .A.rrowsmith, officer
M.A. vicar; Rev. Arthur Browning B.A., Rev. Edward
Oddfellows' Hall, South street, Herbert Glover, sec Aldous Lane B.A., Rev. Geoffrey Pearson & Rev.Victor-
Stamp Office, 73 High street, Ralph Walton, distributor
1'own Hall, High street, Mark James Taylnr, keeper Lorenzo Whitechurch, curates; 8 & II a.m. 3· IS & 6.30.
VolunteE-r l?ire Brigade, head quarters, Park street ; p.m.; wednesday, II a.m. ; friday, II a.m. & 7 p.m.;.
daily, 8 a.m. & 5.30 p.m
Henry H. Durrant, president; David Wilton, captain ; St. Paul's Church, High To,."W"'Il road, Rev. A. H. Drum-
J. K. Bolton, sec. ; Edwin Hewitt, collector & treasurer
mond M.A. ; 8 & rr a.m. & 7 p.m
St. Peter's, Furze Platt, Marlow road; sunday, 7 p.m. ;.

VOLUNTEER'S. II a. m. bi-monthly; thurs. 7.30 p.m
St. Joseph's Catholic, Market street, Rev. John Watson,
ISt Volunteer Battalion Princel!s Charlotte of 'Vales's
(Royal Berkshire Regiment) (G Co. ), head quarters, priest; mass, 8.30 & n a.m. ; sermon & benediction,.
I York villas, York road; Lionel Hanbury, capt. com-
manding; David Ja.mes Mason & Frederick George .Ad- 6.30 p.m. ; daily mass, 8 a.m. ; friday, rosary & bene-
cock, lieuts. ; Thomas Perkins, sergt. instructor diction, 7 p.m. ; holidays of obligation, mass, 8 a.m.
& 10 a.m. ; rosary & benediction, 7 p.m
Congregational, ·west street, Rev. Thomas F. Lewis;

MAIDENHEAD (FORMERLY COOKH.A.M) UNION. n a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wednesday, 7.30 p.m
llaptist, Marlow road, II a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; thurs. 7 p.m:
lloard day, every alternate wednesday, in the lloard Baptist (strict), York road; II a.m. & 6 p.m
room at the Workhouse, at 10 a.m.
Primitive Methodist, Maidenhead circuit, Rev. George

The Union comprises the following places :-Bisham, Collinson Normandale, Lansdown lodge, Norfolk road:
Bray, Cookham, Hurley, lVIaid.enhood, Sho.J:tesbrook, Maidenhead (Queen street), II a.m.& 6.30 p.m. ;thurs.
7.30 p.m.: Cookham Dean, n & 6 p.m.; tues. 7 p.m.:
WaltJham St. LaW're.nce & White Waltham. The popu- Cox Green, II a.m. & 6 p.m.; monday, 7 p.m.:
lation of the union in I891 was 20,468; area, 29,926
Great Marlow, II a.m. & 6 p.m.; wednesday, 7 p.m.:
acres; rateable value in r8gg, £161,477·
.Assessor to the Assessment Committee, J ames Herbert Eton Wick, II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; tuesday, 7 p.m
Wesleyan, Castle hill (Windsor circuit), Rev. James Pyle
Humfrey, 28 Queen street, Maidenhead

Clerk to the Guardians,William Weed,Queen st.Maidenhd & Rev. Arthur H. Male; n a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; wed.

'Treasurer, Frederick John Blandy, banker, Reading 7·30 p.m

Collector to the Guardians, Relieving & Vaccination Salvation .Army Barracks, Bridge street

Officer, Jam.es Skinner, Grenfell road, Maidenhead

Collector of Poor Rates, Geo. .A.ugustus Millin, Cookham SCHOOLS.
road, Maidonhead
Medical Officers .& Public Vaccinators, Bisham nistrict, Technical Instruction Committe-e of llorough Council,
John Dunbar Dickson M.D. Great Marl<>w; Bray & Joseph Markham, sec

Hurley district, William .A.rnold Thomson F.R.C.S.Irel. National, East street, founded in r863, for 6oo children

The Laurels, Castle hill, Maidenhead; Cookham dis- & since enlarged for 750; average attendance 250 boys,

trict, Edwin Cuthbert Montgomery L.R.C.S.I. go High 200 girls & 197 infants; John Absolum, master; Miss

street, Maidenhead; Waltham St. Lawrence district, .A. Garratt, girls' mistress; Miss H. Joad, infants?

Frederic Charles Young B..A.. & M.ll.Cantab. Twyford mistress

Superintendent Registrar, William Weed, Queen street, National, North town, founded in I859, for 120 ehildren ~

Maidenhead; deputy, G. J. Beere, High st.Maidenhead average attendance, 85; Mrs. Healy, mistress

Registrars of Births & Deathro: Bray sub-district, Wm. British (mixed), West street, founded 1863, for 250

Newstead Fernie, Queen street, Maidenhead; deputy, children; average attendance, 16o boys & girls .& 8<>

George Fernie, The Crescent, Maidenhead ; Cookham infants ; .A. C. H uckle, master; Miss Dennison, mist

sub-district, John Yates, Bisham; deputy, Miss .A.gnes St. Paul's Infants', .A.lbert street, founded 1871, for r2a.

E. Yates, :Bisfiam children; average attendance, 70 ; Miss Paskins, mist

Registrar of Marriages, John Truscott, 24 Queen street, Catholic (mixed & infants), founded 1875, in Bridg~
Maidenhead ; deputy, Henry J enkins, Queen street, street & rebuilt, in I8g2, in Cookham road, for 230

Maidenhead children; average attendance, 8o boys & girls & 94 in-

Maidenhead Union Workhouse, Cookham, a building of fants; Miss Jane Dearn, mistress; Miss .A.gn.es Cun-
brick, built in r836, to hold ~20 inmates ; H. E. R. ningham, infants' mistress
Sinkins, master; Rev. Henry Geo. J ephson Meara M..A.. Wesleyan, King street, founded in I855, & rebuilt in.

chaplain; Edwin Cuthbert Montgomery L.R.C.S.I. 1898,for 257 boys & girls & 300 infants; average attend-
ance, 267 boys & girls & 140 infants; Edwin F. Thorne,..
medical officer; Mrs. E. K. Sinkins, matron
master; Miss A. E. Coward, mistress
School .A.tte!ldance Committee.

Meet'! at the Bo~rd ro.Jm on Wednesdays monthly. Newspaper.
Clerk, W. Weed, Queen street, Maidenhead

Attendance Officer, George Fowler, Furze Platt Maidenhead .Advertiser, llroadway; Frederick George

PUBLIC OFFICERS. Baylis, publisher & proprietor; pub. wed

Assessor & Collector of Queen's Taxes for llray & Cook- CONVEYANCE.

ham, George Fernie, The Crescent, Maidenhead G.W. Railway Station, King st. Henry Mager, station
master; goods station, Grenfell road, Jeayes. Kasnu
Certifying Factory Surgeon, David James Mason M.D.

Cookham road •

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110 MAIDENHEAD. :BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S

& Co. King street, goods agents; Radbourne & Son, CARRIERS.
20 Queen street, parcel agents
London-Newman, Webb & Co. from Bridge road, mon.
Sutton & Co.'s Parcel Office, George Beckett, agent, & thurs. at 3 for Bell inn, West Smithfield, returning
54 Bridge stroot tues. & fri. · at 12 noon, calling at the 'Lamb 1 o:tllce,
Old Bailey
Globe Parcel Office, James Bosher, agent, 19 Park street
Reading-William Emmett, from his house, North town,
Omnibus.-William Gray, from Nag's Head, -Grenfell tues. thurs. & sat. ; & Windsor, mon. & fri. returning
road, to Windsor daily at 9.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. re- same days ,
turning at 12 noon & 5.30 p.m.; sundays at 2.30 p.m.;
leaving Windsor 6.30 p.m Oookham-George Beckett, from Bridge street, twice
daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bushell Mrs. Villanette, Ray park Ford George, Holmdene, Furze platt

.A.kers Hubert, Castle Hill house Butler Albert, Cowley, Ray park Forss Francis Joseph Chas. 16 High st

Allfield Capt. Christopher, Seaforth Cail Mrs. Lamesley ho.High Town rd Foulston John, Riverden, Ray Park av

lodge, Ray park Cary-{\falins Miss, Rivers}d-e, Maiden- Fox Miss, 2 JeS'amine vils.The Orscnt

Andrews Miss, I Park viis. King street head court Fox Mrs. Porchester ho. The Crescent

Aplin William Robert, I Carlton viis. Carr Theodore, Oaklands, Castle hill Frampton Albert Frederick, Lawnfield,

Grenfell road Chapman Rev.William(Baptist),Stone- Castle hill

.A.rbuthnot Keith, Riverholm, Maiden- leigh, Cookham road Francis Fredk. Highlands, College avn

head court Cbarlton Miss, Vyrview, .All Saints' av Franklin Mrs.2 Church vils.Norfolk rd

Armitaga Mrs. Ramiesfield, Boyne Ch.a.rman John Saunders, Beaulieu, Freeman Henry Gascoigne, New1ands,

Hill avenue High Town road1 Maidenhead thicket

.Arnold Mrs. The RosHy, Oookham rd Cheesman Wa1ter, Clayton lo. King st French William, Moorside, North Twn

Arrowsmith Mr5. Glenlochie, Furze Chester Col. Heneage Bagot, Zetland Fuller Frank, Ray Mill cottage,Ray pk

platt . !house, Ray park Fulle1r .Tn. E:Eng-ton ho. C<Jokham rd

.A.rundell Edwd.Hildesheim Col:f·g-~ av Ohetwynd Wltr, The Cedars, Bridge ~t Fuller Joseph, Hilsborough, Marlow rd

.Attlee Mrs. Rose Dene, Castle hill Clamp Edwd, The Ho:lies, Furze platt Gabb Ridhd. Rose lawn, College aven

llanks Thos. Thanet vil. Castle hill Clark Latimer F.R.S. Little Halt Gemmel Geo. Artan,Ghefoo,C<Jllege av

llarker Hy. Gratton,The Pagoda,Raypk Clarke-Jervoise Lady, Little Idsworth, Ghrimes Samuel, Belmont

Barley Jas.. Ocklynge, College avenue Ray park Gibbons Miss, Woodside, College aven

Barry Thos . S. Southview,tiighTJwn rd Clay :Mis.s, The Limes, College avenue Gibbons Stphn.Powney rd.Castle hill

Basset David, Highfield, Oashle hill Clover Miss, Trevenna, Furze platt Gibbs Miss, I St. Luke's close

Bastick Archibald, 2 St. Luke's close Cobb Mrs. Boyn Leigh, Castle hill Gilbert Mrs. R'edcliffe cot.Maidnhd.crt

llates Mrs. Balcaskie lodge, Hay park Cole Mrs.White ldg.Maidenhead court Gilroy Danl. Worthing cot. The Cres

llattcock Ge.o, Arth. 3 Crau.furd rise Colston Mrs. Denham, Furze piatt Gold .Argo Goorge, St. Ives

Batting Char:es, 12 St. Luke's close Cook Samuel, Ivydene, Castle hill Good William Ferguson, Glen Cairn,

llayliss Frederick George, Belmont lo. Cooper Henry, Castle hill Market street

Belmont road Cope :M:IJs.. Henlow, Kidwe:l's pat k Goodden Miss,Oompton cot. College rd

Ileal William Earl, 5 High street Coppen Jn. Maurice,Bela-Vista,Maid- Goolden Mrs. The Wilderness, Oook-

Becher CoL Arthur, The Midget, Ray enhead court ' ham road

Park av~nue Cox Ma].-Gen. Francis Edward, Led- Goolden Richard Edward, Horton

l3eckett Mrs. Boyne bank, Castle hill well, Boyne Hill avenue grange, Ray park

lleckett Mrs. The Den, Ray Park aven CoxheadEdwin,Warwick vl.TheCrescnt Goulden il\frs. Hilltop, Castle hill

llehrend Alfred, Henwiek, Ray park Cubitt George Robert, Summersley, Gray James William,Heathfield,Maid-

13ennett Store,r, Sheephouse farm, Castle hill enhead thicket

Maidenhead court Currie Mrs. Charter Chantry, R>yne Grazebrook Mrs. Chepstow villa,Maid-

l3erger .Arthur Jn. Elm gro. Castle hill Hill avenue enhead court

Biddell Cruthbert, Oak villa, Castle hill Curry Ernest, The Bungalow,Ray Lea Green Mrs. Grove villa, Norfolk road

Ilidmead David, Kendrick ho.Castle hi Cutforth Samuel, 2 Craufurd villas, Grierson Wm. Raleigh house, King st

J3ir<!h Mrs. Laurel cotta~e, Furze platt Kidwells park Grunwald S. Metcalf, Bridge cottage

Bird Stephen, Verona, Castle hill Darby Geo. Barrow, WynbPrg,R:Jy JHk Gude George, Glen-y-:fford,Cookhm.rd

Blowfield Wm.Jn.Combe bnk.The Ores Davies Major-Gen. James Snow, Le- Gut·hry Robt. Woodview, Maidenhd.ct

Bolton Miss,Amberley vil. TheCrescent wood, Ca.stle bill Gyngell Mrs. Elmhur.st, Castle hill

llolton Mrs. 4 Kidwell park Davies Mrs. Cromer cot.High Town rrl Haig Tbos. Ashingdon, Boyne Hill avn

Bonberry Alfred Edward, 3 High street •Davis Alfd.Edwd.Herewa:rds,Ray l'k.av Harn!blett J\1lrs. Ca.st:le view,Castle hill

l3outcher Harold, Esstudio, Ray park Davis Miss, I Hope villas, Marlow rd Hamilton Mrs. De Oourcey, Huntley,

Boutcber Wm. Elbury, Ray Park aven Davy Rolbert Clift<>n, The Ohestnuts, Castle bill

13ower Mrs. de Courcy, The Fishery, All Saints avenue Hannaford Mrs. 7 Craufurd rise

Riverside Dawson Capt. Henry Hill, Upton ldg. Hannan Miss, I Clifton viis . Castle hill

IJoxall Lieut.-Col. Charles Jervaise, Castle bill Harpwood Edwn.Chs. Firvw. Castle hl

Battlemead, Maidenhead court d<e Lissa Saml.The Crt.iMaidenhPad crt Harrison Mrs. Sunnybank,St.Luke's rd

llowra Frederick, Addenbrooke, Or- Deane Charles Court-enay, Biseley ldg. Hatfield Herbert, Pennyrhiw, Boyne

miston, The Lodge, Ray park Castle bill · Hill avenue

Brett Reynold, Little Croft, Bridge rd Douthwaite John, Grasm.ere, High Hawker John, Norfolk road

Bromley Mrs. Asbby, St. Luke's road Town road Headington Mrs. Highway house,

llrown Charles S. S. Laggan ho. Cook- Dulake Alfred John, Castle Hill lodge, Maidenhead thicket

ham road St. Mark's road Hearn Mrs.. 2 Clifton viis. Castle hill

Brown Ebenezer, Ivy cot. Norfolk rd Duncan James Wm. The Firs, Castle hl Heath Geo. F. Strathallan, Ray park

llrown Herbert Daniel, Laurel cottage, Duncan Ml'ls. Abbots leigh, Cookhm.rd Herring Ge<>rge, Bridge house

King street Durrant Henry Hodgson,'Manor ib.ouse, Hewitt Theophilus, 3 Orchard villas,

llrown Miss, 6 St. Luke's close Marlow road Castle bill

l3rown Wm.Foreman,g St.Luke's close Durrant Mrs. Manor house,Marlow rd Higgin Miss,Beaconsfield cot.Norflk.rd

Erowne Rev.. Francis Deshon B.A. Eagleston Mrs. ro Park villas, King st Higgin MTs.. Intheray, Ray park

Eicknoller, Marlow road Earle Tbos. The Retreat, Castle hill Higgs ·Miss, Hillho:m, Castle hill

Erowning Rev. Arthur B..A.. (curate of Edge Arth. Jas. Tudor ho." King street Hill Arthur, II St. Luke's close

St. Luke's), 5 Oraufurd terrace, Edwards Henry John Edmund,Olifton- Hill Rev.Ebenezer Brown M . A. (curate

Cookham road ville, Norfolk road of St. Andrew & Mary), Churchill

llnckmaster Henry Septimus, St. Ellis-Carr Laurence Stafford, I Crau- villa, King street

Laurence, Ray Park aevnue furd terrace, Cookham road Hill CharlesJohnstone,Algona.Castle hl

Budgen John, Shirley, Castle hill Fairman Frank B..A.. High Town road Hill Claudius, Walton cot. Marlow rd

llulke:ey Hy.Ohs. Stanlow,HighTwn.rd Fardell Mrs. Avon cottage, Castle hill Hobbs Bedo, Brewery house, High st

'Bulkeley Miss, Oak croft, Castle hill Fardon Ernest, North Town house Hobbs George, Hillside, Castle hill

l3ull Thomas Henry, Denmark house, Farndon LeviM.D.Bellevue ho.Queen s1 Holmes Mrs. Silchester, Bay park

Hargrave road Farrer Mrs. Bridgewater lodge Hope Ricbd. Rosebourne, Castle hill

llurbidge Mrs. Upton lod·ge, Castle hill Fawsett Miss, Pinehurst, Castle bill Horley .Alfred, 4 Park villas, King st

llurnett Fassett Charles, Raymead Fenemore Hy. Lansdown vil.NQirfolk rd Howey Miss, Beadnell, Boyne Hill aven

llurnett :Misses, Braemar lo.Norfolk rd F1tcb Herbt. Trevercli,Maidenhd.court Huckvale Mrs. 3 St. Luke's terrace,

Burnham Jas. Le Grey vil. The Ores Fitzmaurice Lady Emily, The Hollies, NO'rfolk road

Burrows Hy. R. Elm house, North twn Castle hill . Humfrey John Herbert, Blewbury,

Burrows James Waiter, Clare villa, Fitzmaurice Capt. T'he Hon. James College avenue

Norfolk road Terence R.N., J.P. Fernley Hunt Rev. Ohas. William ll..A.. Cord-

Bury ~Irs. Oalder lodge, Marlow road Flint John, St. Jam,es' vil. The Cresnt walles, Marlow road

DIRECTORY] BERKSHIRE. MAIDENHEAD. lll

llughes Saml.Strathclyde, College avn Mott Mrs. 2 Craufurd ter.Cookham rd Schultz Ma;x, Glenside, Noofo:k road

Ibbotson James Hy. Aenon, Marlow rd Mount Henry John, 45 Hig'h street Shackle Miss, St. Michael's,Marlow rd

Inglis Andrew Mil:ar, Maidenhead col- Mudie Misses,Sunnybank,College aven Shave Wm. 6 Oraufurd rise

le.ge, Castle hill Myall Jn. Brisbanevil. Maidenhead crt Shelton Miss, North view,The Crescnt

Iremonger Mrs. Milton lodge, York rd Nash Rev. Oharles Hewitson M.A. Shrewsbury Edward James, Orchard

Iremonger Thos. Llanthony,College av (vicar of St. Andrew & St. Mary cottage, All Saints' avenue

Isaac A!bert Edward, 6 South road Magdalene), St. Mary's vicarage Shuttleworth Mrs. Radley cottage,

Ive-ry Jn.Rt.NDrmanihurst,Hig"lhTwn.rd Nash Thos. Hayes cot. Penystone rd Bridge road

Jackson Geo. Charles, I Craufurd rise Naylar Wm. Swallow's nest,Norfolk rd Silver Richd, J.P. Etruria, Castle hill
Simmonds Mrs. L. A. 26 King street
Jacob Charles Mark, 3 Carlton villa, Neild Mrs-. 5 Craufurd rise
INicbolls Henry, The Firs, Cookham rd Simpson Jas. Ferguson, 20 High st
Grenfell road

Johns Percy, Thorncroft, Furze platt Nicholson Fdk.W., The Elms,Castle hill Slade Lewis, Hamilton cottage, West

Jollands Cbas.Edwd.Feldlberg,Castle bl Nicholson Mws,2 Orchard vi1s.Castle hl road, Castle hill

Jordan Mrs. Rowanhurst, College aven Nicholson Robert, Grosvenor house Smart E.Kneller,Ellerslie,St.Mark's rd

Kick John, Pennyston road Nicholson William, Haydon lodge, Smith Mrs. J .. M. Gle;ngar:iff, All

King Obadiah, Isis cottage, Ray park Boyne Hill avenue Saints' avenue .

King-Peirce Mrs. Raylands, Ray park Nicoll Miss, Edington, Furze platt Smith Mrs. William,Brazilian cottage,

Kirk John L. Furzedale, Furze platt NDrkett Edward, Irwell cottage, .All North Town

Lambart Hon. Mrs. Meadowside,Maid- Saints'· avenue Smith Wm. 2 Carlton vils.Grenfell rd

enhead court Normandale Rev. George Collinson Spearing Owen, Holmwd.St.Mark's rd

Lane Rev. Edward Aldous B.A.(curate (Prim.Meth.),Lansdown lo.Norflk.rd Stacpoole Richard George, Curtisfield,

of St. Luke's), Cornwall house, St. Norris Mrs. llerne viEa, Cast:e hill Bridge street .

Luke's road Oates Mrs. Fylton, Furze platt Starling Alfred, Clebane, Cookham rd

Langley Mrs. Kimberley, Furze platt Page Mrs. Killarney, The Crescent Steam Jos-eph Philip, Ray l\fill house

Langton Philip Sidney, NoTth lod~e Paling Joseph, Summerleaze, Maiden- Strode Mrs. Lincoln ville, Grenfell rd

Lassen Edward Samuel, Shanta.J.lagh, head court Stuchbery Misses, Berry vil. Ca&tle hl

Cookham road Pallant Arthur, Altmore, Maidenhead Stuchbery Thomas William, 2 Ris-

Laurens Frank A.M.I.C.E.Chester vil. thicket borough villas, St. Luke's road

Norfolk road Palmer Dowag€r Lady, 2 Kidwell park Sumne.r Henry, 3 Craufurd terrace

Lawrence A:rthur,Heath court,il.\faiden- Palmer Lieut.-Gen. Sir Roger William Surtees Mrs. Somersham, Ray park

head thicket Henry bart. J.P. Glen is:and Sweny Col. John Alfred R.M.L.I. Kid-

Lee Mrs. Jn. I Orchard vils.Castle hill Pankhurst Thomas Henry, Penshurst well Park house

Lee Richard Dale, Higl1 street lodge, Castle hill Symmons Charles,Park house,York rd

Lemon Wm.Pay>t()n,Bri1;tol vl.NO'l':flk.rd Parkman Mrs. Linden cot. Oldfield rd Taylor Alfred Thomas, .I Jessamjne

Le Moth~e Mrs. 6 Craufurd terrace, Pearce Mrs. Craufurd hall, Raymead villas, The Crescent

Cookham road Pearse Mrs. Elmfield, Cookham road Taylor Frank, Riverside club

Lewis Rev. ThDmas F. (Congrega- Pearson Rev. Geoffry (curate of St. Thomas Charles , Ruffe, San Remo,

tional), Greenfield, Marlow road Luke's), 2 St. Luke's terrace Ray Park avenue

Lewis Miss, Stretton,West rd.Castle hl Pedder John, Eastfield, Furze platt Thompson Lieut.-General Arnold Bun-

Lewis Miss, Woodside, Maidenhead et Peel Mrs. Heath ldg.Maidnhd.tbicket bury R.A., J.P. Northfield

Lewis Saml. Woodside cot. Raymead Phillips Miss, 5 St. Luke's close Thompson Mrs. Hollydene, Castle hill

Lincoln Wm. Rosthwaite, Furze platt Phillips Mrs. Cuba villa, Castle hill Thompson Philip, ro St. Luke's close

Little Col. J.A. Heymis,College avenue Pinn-Ruff Mrs. Garfield, Norfolk road Thomson William Arnold,The Laurels,

Lloyd Lt.-Col. Albert, Lattimore ho. Playne Alfred M.B. Lynhames, Boyne Castle hill

North Town Hill avenue Thornhill Col. Brian,ro Craufurd rise

Long Chas.r St. Luke's vils.Norfolk rd Plumbe Sl. Thomson M.D. 88 High st Tillv Hubert Douglas, Hildesheim,

Lovegrove Edward Richard, Clarence Plumrner Mrs. Carlton ldg. Marlow rd High Town road

villa, Castle hill P~ummer Roberl Edwin, King street Timber1a.ke Hy.Maisonnette,Ma.rlow rd

Lynn William, Northside, Korth Town Pole Rev. Watson Bul:er Van Notten Todd Mrs. Auckland villa, Castle hill

McGouin George,Croft bank, College rd B.A. Ambler house, Marlow rood Travers Mrs. Southover, Castle hill

McLaughlinVivian,Brimfield, Marlw.rd Port{lr Francis William, 4 The Dell Trigg Howard, Hill crest, Castle hill

Mahaffy Mrs. Hawelee, High Town ll.'d Poulton Mrs. Richard, Oldfield house Truscott John (mayor), York lodge,

Male Rev. Arthnr (Wesleyan), Glou- Pratt Cecil de Montmorency Caulfield, York road .
Tuck Mrs. 7 S~. Luke's close
cester villa, Marlow road Briarwood, College avenue

Manlove Mrs. 2 Craufurd rise Preece Albert E. Cressett tower Turnbull Mrs.Somerlea,Maidenhead et

Mann John P. Ingleside, The Crescent Preece Mrs. Cres·set.t tower Va.rdy Oharle.s Alfd. Craufurd rise

Markham Joseph Brian, Alkyris, Mar- Proctor Capt.F.W. Downfield,Castle hl Varley Fleetwood E. Glen cobtage,

low road Quare Mrs. Bath villa, Castle bill Boulter's lock ·,

Marsh Tom, Oreekholme, Ray park Radbourne Alfred, Old Manor house, Verrail Georg-e C. .9 C:raufurd rise

Martin Miss, The Pentref, College avn Marlow road Vidler Mrs. The Castle, Castle hill

Mason David James M.D. Rasemont Randall Edwd. Ennisdene, College a.vn Volklein Franz,. Felix cob. Raymead

Ma.ttheW!s Georg€, Oldfield :road R'awstorne Robert Edward, 4 Craufurd Wadley Goo. Sunnyside, Castle hill
J\'Iatthews Jn. Westcoign, Ray park terrace, Cookham road Wagg Edwd. The Islet,Maidenhead crt
Matthews Mrs.Riversdale,Cookham rd Reade-RevellMrs.Devonshire lo.Ray pk Walker John We~ley, 4 Oraufurd rise

Matthey Cyril, Boyne Hill avenue Reyn_olds Charles James, Wallcots, Ward Mrs. Seth, Castle hill

Meara Rev. Henry Geo. Jephson M.A. The Crescent Warner Wm. Thos. 8 St. Luke's close

(vicar of St. Luke's & c'haplain of Rhodes Mrs. Farley lodge, Ray park Wastell Miss, Fern. villa, Castle hill
Cookham workhous~), St. Luke's Ricardo Albert J.P. Raym.ead cottage Watson Rev. John (R. C.), The Pres-

vicarage, St. Luke's road Ricks Charles Henry, Grqve house, bytery, Cookham road
Men_day Thomas? Rose cottage,Park ~t .Cookham road ·
Webb Donald, Trinafour, Furze platt

MentDn Mrs. Hill cottage, Castle h1l1 R1ppon Abraham Crofton, Mable- Webb Mrs. The Redan, College aven

Metcalf George Joseph, The Knowle, thorpe, Norfolk road Webber James Courtis,8 Craufurd rise

Ray Park avenue Roberts Charles Hamilton, Fair view, Webster Frederick Charles, Woodbine,

Miller Mrs. Rosendale cottage, .A.].; Castle hill . College road ,

Saints' avenue Roberts Mrs. Plevna, Norfolk road Weed William, Rosebank, Castle hill

Miller Richard Frank,Egerton cottage, Roberts Robt. The Val€, St. Luke's rd West James, Rose cottage,The Cres<:nt

Furze platt Rogers Miss, I Belle vue, The Crescnt W€st Wm. Alma villa, The Crescent

Mills MiSis, Onshor, Norfolk road! Rose Hy.Joseph, Langton ho.Bridge rd Western Wm.Thas.The Cot. North Tn

Mitchell Jas. G. Cromwell ho.Castle bl Royalminns Miss, Leon ho. College rd Wethered Geo. Rayfield ho. Ray park

MitcheH Mlis9, I Ora.ufurd villa;s, Rule Capt. John R'.N. Sunnymead, White Arthur Wm. 24 Queen street

Kidwell's park Ray Mill lane Whitechurch ·Rev. Vict-or Lorenzo

Mitchell William Pierrepont, Paddock, Russell Earl J.P. Amberley cottage; (curate of St. Luke's), Ashton vils.

Boyne Hill avenue & National Liberal, Royal Societies, Norfolk road

Mole Miss, The Retreat, Castle hill Reform &Whitehall clubs,LondonSW Whitmore John, Alvescot, Grenfell rd

Montgomery Edwin Cuthbert, Clare- Samuelson Henry Bernhard, Wynford, Wiggins Mrs. 38 Queen street

m-ont, Castle hill Ray park Wigram Gerard, Jersey lo. Castle hill

Mwre George Edrward M.B. Red croft, Samuelson Llewellyn, Brookwood,Ray Wild Thomas, The Eyrie, Furze platt

Castle hill park Wilkinson Miss, Elms;ie, Castle hill

Moore Hinton, Widbrook cottage, Sawyer Maj. Edmd.7 St. Luke's close Wilkinson Hy.The Weir ho.Maidnhd.ct

Maidenhead court Sawyer Rev. George Wm. Castle mnt Willard Mrs. 3 Kidwell park

1\foore Ja.mes, 33 High street Sawyer Miss, Elder ldg. Cookham rd Willis Wm. Ol.eve:and vil. Marlaw rd

M organ Lloyd, Linden vil.TheCrescent

112 • MAli INEE..AD• BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Wilson James, Park cottage, Park st Wood John, Woodhurst, Ra.ymead vYyatt Thos. Geo. Ivyside, Conkhm.rd

Wilson Mrs. Garlands, Ray Park aven Wood Mrs. Rosendale, Castle hill Wygram Mrs. Redrif, Boyne Hill avn

Wilson Mrs. Sellon house, York road WoQ'tton John Cardy, Boyne grove Young Henry, Elgin bo.Cookham road

Winkup Joseph Lewis, Churchill villa, W orsley Col. Henry Robert BrownC.B. Young Miss, Cosham cot. Furze platt

King street Gatcombe, Ray Park avenue

COMMERCIAL. Budgen & Co.Lim.grocers & wine & ·spirit mers.53 High sh;

Ad-a John Fletcher, linen draper, 6 Queen street Burdlett John, nurseryman & seedsman, Bridge road

Adams Emma. (Mrs.), boot & shoe dealer, 82 High s~ Burfoot James, whee·lwright, Furze platt

Adcock William, watch & clock repairer, 17 Bridge street Burnham John, paperhanger, 10 Grove ro'<l.d

Alcock Solomon, beer retailer, gr High street Burnham Lucy (Ml'S. ), dress maker, 17 ·west street

.Aldridge Sarah Ann (Mrs.), fancy repository & sta- Burnham William, stationer, 81 High street

tioner, 2 Queen street & 29 High ·street Burnham 1Villiam Edward, music warehouse,11 Bridge st

Alien Richard Henry, Angel P.H. & carman, Castle hill Burningham Frederick, beer retailer, Oldfield road

Alien Thomas, cycle repairer, 21 West street Burridge Maria (Mrs.), tobacconist, 3a, ::\;Iarket street

AJ.I.en William, camera manufacturer, York road Burrows William Waiter, shopkeeper, 38 .A.lbert street

Anderson George, corn dealer, North town Bush William, beer retailer, Moffatt street

.A.ndrew Jesse, saddler & harness maker, 4 Queen st Bushell Alfred, greengrocer, Market street

Andrews E. & Son, boat bldrs. Riverside & Oldfield rd Butcher Thomas, Windsor Castle P.H. Castle hill

Andrews Elizh. (Mrs.), dress ma. 3 Elm ter. Broadway Butler Edward Charles, beer retailer, Park street

Andrews Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 23 Ray Park cots Butler C. & Sons, drapel'IS & house furnishers, 13, 13~

Arnqld Edmund, Saracen's Head hotel, 58 High street 17, 26 & 28 High street

Arnold Henry, watch maker, 34 King street Butler Richard, upholste~er, 6 Gloucester ter.Broadway

Arrowsmith William Robson, inland revenue officer, 5 Carter Fre!lerick George, oilman, 5 Grenfell road

Elm terrace, Broadway Carter George, saddle & harness maker, 102 High sli

Arundell Edward Henry, plumber, 12 Market street Carter John G. carman, 11 Cordwalles road

Badcock William, painter & grainer, Castle hill Carte;r Robe<rt, shoe maker, 9 Ray Park cottages

Baker Edward, athletic goods dealer, 25 Bridge ·Street Carter Waiter Roadnight, butcher, 8o High street

Banwoll Charles Sil L.A.M. teacher of music, Bath Cash Eliza (Miss), dress maker, Park street

villa, Norfolk rmd Castell John, carman, North town

Bardell George, baker, Post office, Wellington road Catliff William, china dealer, 12 Park street

Barford J. H. & Co. art metal workers, casement makers Chamberlain Charles Thomas, hair dresser, 79 High st

in wrouht iron & gun metal, gasfitters, coppersmiths :Jhapman Joseph, tobacconist &c. 15 Bridge street

& smiths, King street; & at Bray Wick Jharman James Spicer, Red Lion P.H. 34 High street

Ilarford Joseph Hedges, sanitary inspector to the corpo- :Jhase Henry, grocer, see Brooker & Chase

ration, Town ball Jhedzey William, Hand & Flower P.H. 8 Queen street

Barnes Charles,mattress maker,Bath rd.Maidenhd.thicket Choules Thomas Russell, tailor & confectnr. 22 High st

Basset David, corn merchant & maltster, Bell street Jlayton Emily (Miss), dress maker & registry office for

Bates Lily (Mrs.), dress maker, 19 lligh Town road servants, Castle bill

Baths (}lrs. N. C. Tbompson, proprietress), East street Clayton Isaac, hair dresser & naturalist, 5 Market st

Batting Charles. iron & brass founder, engineer & Cleme.nts Genrge William, grocer, Park street

mill furnisher, ironmonger, smith, plumber & agricul- Clivedon Temperance Hotel (Mrs. Willison, manageress)r

tural implement & machine maker & agent ; office, Queen street

High street·; foundry & stores, Marlow rd. See advert Olout Thomas, carpenter, I Gippsland, All Saints' aven

Eawden Richard, wardrobe dealer, 20 Market street Coleman John, boot maker, White Hart street

Baylis & Co. grocers, 25 High street Colliass Wm. Richd. furniture dealer, 6o & 62 Bridge s~

Baylis Fredk. Goo. publisher & proprietor of the Collyer J obn, carpenter, 22 Albert stree.t

" Maidenhead Advertiser," Broadway Conservative Working Men's Club (J. Gibson, hon. sec.).

Beal William Earl, collector of corporate rents, Town hall Broadway

Beanham Frank, superintendent Pearl Insurance Co. Bel- Cook Fanny (Mrs.), shopkeeper, North Town

mont road Cooper John Kinghorn & Sons, brick, tile & lime manu-

Beckett Geo. agt. for Sutton's Parcel Office, 54 Bridge st facturers & builders' merchants. Castle. hill

:Beckley Alfred, boot maker, 21 Bridge street Cornish Enoch, upholsterer, Park street

Beckley Charles, boot maker, St. Luke's road north Cottage Hospital (.A.. W. U. Thomson. F.R.C.S.I., G. E.

Eeere George, tobacconist, 42 High street Moore M.B., .A.rthur James Edge M.B., S. T. Plumb&

Jleere G. J. deputy superintendent registrar, High street M.D., E. C. Montgomery L.R.C.S.I. & D. J. Mason

Berken .A.dolphus, tailor, Bridge road M.D. medical officers; A. Pallant L.D.S., R.C.S.L

Berks & Eucks Permanent Mutual Een~fit Building dental surgeon; Maj.-Gen. Da.vies, house sec.& treas.;

Society (F. J. C. Forss, solicitor; William James H. C. Bulkeley, corresponding & minute sec.; Hon_

Elliott, sec.) ; offices, 16 High street Maria Eden, hon.sec. of ladies' committee; Miss Revellr

Ee.tts Waterman, cab proprietor, Hartwell cot. Riverside matron), St. Luke's road

Bidmead David, groeer, 85 High street Oottingham J oseph John, chemist. Castle hill
Biggs Edward Thos. watch ma. & jeweller, ~ High st Cotton James Thomas, Moor tavern P.H. 66 Bridge st-

Bishop Charles, Criterion P.H. 120 High street County Boot & Shoe Co. 48 High street

Blackford & Co. sewing machine wareho. 30 Queen street Cove Thomas, Sun P.H. Castle bill

Blanchford Eliza (Mrs.), ·shopkeeper, 65 Bridge street Cowey Rose (Miss), apartments, 4 St.Luke's ter.Norflk.rd'

Eloomfield Francis Joseph, decorator, Powney rd. Castle Cox C. W. & Son, builders, Bridge road

hill & Queen street Coxhead & Son, antique furniture dealers, 100 High st

Illoomfield Mary (Mrs.), grocer, Powney road Craufurd College (James L. Polaok, principal), Marlow nl

Bloomfield William V. watch maker, 34 Queen street C.·effield Thomas, cO!W!h painter, South street

Elowfield William & Sons, blacksmiths, tinplate workers Cuming Walter, carriage builder, King street

& wbitesmiths, sanitary ph:tmbers, locksmiths & bell- DarviH George Herbert, baker, za, Market street

hangers, West street & 12& High street Darvill Richard, hair dresser, 16 & 18 Bridge street

lllumfield William, tailor, 78 High street Davies .Albert Orlando (firm, Moore & Davies), solicitor-r

Bolton John Keahler, plumber, 74 High street 33 High street

Eonberry Alfred Edward, manager of the Metropolitan Davies .A.rthur Ernest, grocer, see Fuller & Davies

Bank (of England & Wales) Limited, 3 High street Davis .A.deline (Miss), toy dealer, 4 High street

Eosher J ames, dairyman, & agent for the Globe Parcels Davy & Salter, architects & surveyrs, 86 High street

Express, 19 Park street Davy Robert Olifton M.S..A. architect & surveyor, see

Eoura et Fils, dyers & cleaners, 37 Queen street Davy & Salter

Eradley John, bicycle maker, Grenfell road Day & Co. greengrocers, 22 King street

Briginshaw William, confectioner, 30 Eridge street Deacon Selina (Miss), apartmts.St. Margaret's, Bridge rdl

:Bristow Edward .Alfred, hosier & hatter, 36 King street Deadman .A.rthur John, beer retailer, Ray street

Eritish Domestic Boiler Insurance Co. Limited (.A.. C. De-La.-Hay Hugh, tailor, Queen street

Hewitt, managing director), :I Park street Dell Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer, 21 Moffatt street

:Britten Thomas (Mrs.), dairy, 9 Queen street Denham .Abraha.m, fly proprietor, R'oseville, Bridge road'

Eromley ..A.rtbur Ashby,baker & corn dlr.4o & 42 Bridge st Dixon James, ooot maker, 45 King street

Brooker & Chase,grocers & wine & spirit dlrs. 21 High st Dixon Thomas, tobacconist & post office, King street

Broughton William, nurseryman, Norfolk road Dorrell Thomas, deputy chief constable & inspector of

Brown .Anni& (Miss), dre·ss maker, 8 High Town road weights & measures & inspector of petroleum & explo-

Buckland Fredk. Ja.s. apartmnts. Shirley cot. Bridge rd siv~s for the Maidenhead division of Berks, .Coun\y

Budgen John & Co. ironmoogers, 49 & 5:1 High street police station, Broadway

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Dorsett Thomas, Golden Harp inn, Furze platt IGray William, Nag's Head hotel, fly & carriage proprietor
& jobmaster, Grenf.ell road
Drake Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 20 Park street Great Western Railway Co. (Alfredl Radbourne & Son,

Druce Charles, cooper, 23 Queen street parcel agents); receiving office, 20 Queen street;

Durrant Henry Hodgson & Son, butchers, 83 High st (Jeayes, Kasner & Co. goods agents); office, King sli

East Mary (Mrs.), provision dealer, Hrenfell road
Eastman Philip Melancthon, photographer, Cookham road Green Edwin, baker, Bridge road
Ed~e Arthur James M.B.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, Green Thomas, shopkeeper, Broadway
Green William, fruiterer, 15 Queen street
Tudor house, King street
Gregory Reuben, greengrocer, 6'1 Bridge street
Edm.onds Sidney, tailor, 14 Grove road

Edmunds Thomas, confection& & toy dealer, 8 King st Grierson James, travelling draper, York road

Edwards & Co. tailors, 33 Queen street Grierson William, linen & woollen draper, {)lothier & out-

Edwards Fredk. Wm. bldr. & contractor, Queen street fitter, Raleigh house, King street

Edwards Henry, tent & marquee manufacturer & ball Griffin Raymond, grocer & butcher, r26 High street

furnisher, Craufurd mill, Marlow rood Grinsted Charles, fishmonger & fruiterer, 2 & 4 King st

.Eggleton Benj. M.R.C.V.S. pharmaceutical chemist & Graver George, dairyman, 24 Bridge street

veterinary surgeon, Queen stroot Gude George, photographer &c. 7 High street

Eggleton Frank Abel, baker, 14 West street Gurney William, plumber, 25 West street

Eggleton Francis Dell, baker & confectioner, 19 High sb Gyngell Henry, cattle dealer, Oldfield farm, Oldfield rd

Embling Thomas Henry, beer retailer, West street Hall Henry, fly proprietor, 36 Moffatt street & West st

Emmett William, beer retailer & carrier, North town Hand Frederick Charles, dairyman, 35 King street

Fairman Frank B.A. boys' school, High Town road Harding Alice (Miss), dress maker, 7 Risborough road

Farndon Levi M.D.N.Y., L.R.C.P.I., L.S.A. physician & Hare William, baker, 64 Bridge street
Harman Richard, grocer, King street
surgeon, Bellevue house, Queen street

Fernie George, insurance agent,deputy registrar of births Harmer Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bridge road
& deaths, Bray sub-district & assessor & tax collector for Harmsworth Charles, metal worker, "V\-'hite Hart street

Bray & Cookham, Sutherland house, The Crescent Harper Wm. Edwd. parish clerk of St. Luke's, Norfolk rd

Fernie William Newst.ead, insurance agent, music seller Harris Sarah (Mrs.), umbrella maker, 12 King street
& registrar of births & deaths for Bray sub-district, Harris William, builder, Holmanleaze, East street
Harrison E. M. & M. R. (Misses), high school for
Queen street

Fletcner W. & R. Lim. meat purveyors (Alfred Gabb, girls, Cookham road

manager), 43 High street Harrow James, baker, 12 Cordwalles road

Flint John, supervisor of inland revenue, 5 Elm terrace, Hawker Fredk. baker, grocer & butcher, King sheet

Broadway, The Crescent Hawkins Tom, job. grdnr. 5 Blenheim vil. Grenfell rd

Fordham Frank, butcher, Powney road Haynes Sarah & Annie (Misses), private mixed school,

Forss Francis Joseph Charles, solicitor, commissioner for King street, Broadway

oaths, & solicitor to the Berks & Bucks Permanent Hayward Arthur, boot maker, Risborough road

Mutual Benefit Building Society, & sec. to Maidenhead Hayward Arthur, painter, 9 Bridge street

& District Conservative & Unionist Association, deputy Hayward Henry, plumber, Gloucester terrace, Broadway

steward of the manor of Cookham, & agent to the .Atlas Hayward Wm. boot mkr. Denmark ter, Cordwalles rd

Fire & Life Insurance Co. 16 High street Headington Frederick (Mrs.), farmer, Highway house,

Fossick Alfred,solicitor & commissioner for oaths & so- Maidenhead thicket

licitor to Maidenhead Permanent Building Society, r Hearman George William, bak£>r, w6 Queen street

Park street Heaver John, shopkeeper, Castle hill

Fowler George, school attendance officer, Furze platt Hedges George, baker, King street

Fowlie Hngh, butcher, 19 Queen street; 3 Market street Henley William, nurseryman, Marlow road

& 48 Bridge street Henry William Ralph, fruiterer, King street

Fox Ernest, shopkeeper, 15 Risborough road Her6ert John, fly proprietor, Morl!~y vil. Grenfell road

Francis Frederick, insurance agent, 23 Queen street Hewltt Edwln & Alfred Charles, tailors, hatters,

Franklin John Edward, cabinet maker, Queen street hosiers & general outfitters, 54 k 56 High street

Franks Nelson, marine store dealer, Moffatt street Hewitt Theo. (Mrs.), milliner, 68 High street

Free Thomas & Sons, stone merchants, quarry O""W.n..ers, Hewitt Theophilus, draper &; boot dlr. 46 High street

monumental & building masons, Grenfell road Hews James, ironmonger, 69 High street

Frewing Joseph, builder & grocer, All Saints' avenue Heybourne A. W. & Co. cycle makers & agts. 62 High st

Fry Elizbth. (Miss), dress maker,2 Queen'.s ter.Qneen st Heybourne Louisa (Miss), artists' depot, 25 Queen strert,
Fry Wm. Joseph, fly proprietr. 2 Queen's ter. Queen st Heybourne Wm. Fredk. china & glass dlr. 62 High st.

Fullf'r & Davies, grocers, 40 High street Higgs John, baker, 27 Queen street

Fuller John & Co. brewers & wine&spirit. mers. King st Right John, engineer, Ray street

Fuller Joseph & Son, millers (water), Ray mills; office & Hill Albert· J oseph, grocer, I B Queen street

stores, Market street Hill Henry, contractor, 3 Park villas, King street

Gardner Samuel William, nurseryman & florist, Selwood Hine Thomas, butcher, 34 Bridge street

villa, All Saints' avenue Hinson Sarah Ann (Miss), dress maker, r Westbourno

GGiabrbraownsa•vStJeophhne,.n,slatantdionsrevry, 1a, Market street rsWe;o.t st terrace, Victoria street
r.& tchr. of music, Hinton & Hinton, dairymen, 17 Queen street

Giddy & Giddy, estate agents, auctioneers, valuers k Holland George, musical instrument dealer, 18 Park st

surveyors ; & at Sunningdale & Spring Grove ; chief Hollis Elizbth. (Mrs.), dress mkr. Holmsdale vil.York rd

cffices, 4 Waterloo place, Pall mall, London SW Holloway Wm. fishmonger &; greengrocer,4 &;, 7 Market st

Gillham Frederick, oil d:ealer, Furze platt Holt William Alfred, confectioner, II King street

Gillham William Waiter, jobbing gardener, North town Home & Colonial Limit-ed, 71 High street

Gih"Oy Jas. oil wareho. &; china. dlr. 130 & 132 High st Hooper Elizabeth (Mrs.),apartments, Lake end,Broadway

Gilroy William, builder, Queen street Hopper Edwin, confectioner, 99 High street

Glass Hugh, travelling draper, 22 Queen street Horley '&i Son, public house broker, King street

Globe Express Delivery Lim.(Ja.s.llo11her. agt.),rg Park st Howard Ernest, coal &;, coke merchant, North town

Glover Hrbt. school attendance officer,St.Luke'~ rd.nrth Humfrey James Herbert, auctioneer, valuer & house

Godman William, beer retailer, Marlow road agent ·& assessor to the assessment committee, aS

Goebel Conrad, confectioner, 8 Market street Queen street

Goldsmith & &m, pianofom warebo. & tuners,3o High st Hunt Benjamin Samuel, job master, Castle hill

Goldsmith Fredk. Charles, pianoforte tuner, Norfolk rd Hunt Rev. Charles 1Villiam B.A. boys' preparatory

Goldsmith John William, stationer, 29 Queen street & school, Cordwalles, Marlow road

76a, High street Hunter Elizabeth (Mrs.), The Reform P.H. Bridge road

Goldsmith Waiter, artist, North Town Hurd .John, Two Brewers inn, 136 High street

'Golesworthy Emily k Sarah (Misses), dress makers, 1 Hnssey & Son, upholsterers, 103 &; 122 High street

York terrace., Qu~en street Hyde Charles, White Horse P.H. 105 High street

'Gomm .Alfred, sawyer, North town lnglis Andrew Millar. boys' school, Maidenhead college,

'Gosling George, potato salesman, Mossy hill Castle hill

Graham Thomas .Tames, tobacconist, Queen street Inland Revenue O:ffilce (.John Flint, supervisor; W. R.

Grand Hall (Miss Gladys Evelyn, proprietress),Market st Arrowsmith, officer), Broadway

Grand Hall Swimming Baths (Mi»s Gladys Evelyn, pro- International Tea Co's. Stores Limited, 68 High street

prietress), Market street Isaac: Albert Edward, sec. to Maidenhead Rowing club,

Grant James, Gardeners' .Al'lrtn'TIS P.H. Bridge street 6 South road

Gray Frederick, draper, 108 High street Ives Sydney, tobacconist, 67 Bridge street

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114 MAIDENHEAD. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY's

Jackson John Stonewall, butcher, 23 High street Maidtmhead Constitutional Club (Ernest Gardner esq•.

Jackson Lawrence, butcher, 9- Market street president; Francis J. C. Forss, sec.), Queen street

Jackson Phillip William, grocer, Risborough road Maidenhead Gas Co. (William Earl Beal, sec. & col· .

Jay Emily Laura. (Miss), girls' school, Craufurd house, lector), 5 High street

Craufurd rise Maidenhead Licensed VictuaJler:s' Protection Society (W.

Jay William, apartments, I St. Luke's ter. Norfolk rd A. Thomps<>n, sec.), 6 Grenfell place, Grenfell road

Jeayes, Kasner & Co. coal merchants & goods agent.11 Maidenhead Model Lodging House Co. Lim. (A. W.

for the Great Western Railway, King street White, sec.), Queen street

Jeffries Alfred Loud, auctioneer, 48 King street Maidenhead Permanent Benefit Building Society (.Alfred .

Jelly Edwin, plumber, King street !<'ossick, solicitor; Charles Henry Ricks, sec.), Queen st

J enkins Henry, grocer, & deputy registrar of marriages, Maidenhead Rowing Club (A. E. Isaacs & A. G. Aldridge,

7 Queen street bon. secs.), Queen street

Johannsen Christian, watch maker, 16 Queen street Maidenhead Steam Laundry Co. (Edward Rogers, .

Johns Percy A.M.I.C.E. borough surv\lyor, Town hall manager), Mossy hill, Marlow road

Jones Arthur Edward, apartments, Westeria, Bridge road Maidenhead Technical School (Joseph Markham, sec.),.

Jones Frank, chemist, 38 King street Marlow road

Jones Henry John, boot maker, 17a, King street Maidenhead Waterworks Co. (Charles .A. Vardy, sec. & .

Jones William, confectioner, 120 High st. & Station road collector), Queen street; reservoirs, Boyne hill & Cook-

Keeley Hy. Jas. beer retailer & greengrocer, 41 King st ham Dene; pumping station, Castle hill

Keevill James, Portland Arms P.H. West street Mallard William Wallis, grocer, North town

Keyte Joseph, house decorator, St. Luke's road Mallows William, Crown P.H. Bridge street

Kick John, town clerk, clerk to the urban district council Marchan Cha.rles, beer retaiJ.e.r, Tyrrell's buildings

authority, to the school attendance commit-tee & to the Markham J oseph Bryan, collector of borough rates, Mar..

Maidenhea-d bridge trustees, Town hall low r<>ad

Kinchington J ames, Vine P.H. Market street Marr David Lennis, tailor, 12 Queen street

King Eliza (Mrs.), registry office for servants, 4 Elm Marsh Walter Henry, stationer, 55 High street

terrace, Broadway Martin Richard. draper, 47 High street

King John, jobbing gardener, I North place, Market st Mason David James M.D., C.M., L.R.C.S.Edin. surgeon,

Kirby Robert, refreshment rooms, Queen street & certifying factory surgeon (firm, Moon~ & Mason),

Kirby William, confectioner, King street 3r High street

Kirk John L., M.S.A. architect & surveyor, 13 Queen's Matthews William George, baker, NDrth town

terrace, Queen street Mattingley George, corn & seed merchant, King street

Kitchen Kate & Esther (Misses), ladies' outfitters, 7 Mayers William, writer & grainer, :2-8 Bridge street
Kjng street
Mead John, builder, :r Park terrace, York road

Knibbs James, plumber, & post office, St. Luke's rd. nth Meade Joseph, job master, I Cordwalles road

Knibbs William Joseph, boot maker, Cordwalles road Meeks James, Greyhound P.H. & fly & carriage pro--

Lake William, blacksmith, Bridge street prietor, King street

Lamb George Spencer, builder & stone mason,Brock lane Messers Limited, timber, cement, slate &;c. merchants,.

Langton Philip Sidney, brewer, maltster & wholesale Queen street

wine & spirit merchant, Market street Metropolitan Bank (of England & Wales) Lim. (branch)

Langton Robert, Queen's .Arms hotel, Queen street (Alfred Edward Ilonberry, manager), 3 High street;

Laurens Frank A.M.I.C.E. civil engineer & surveyor to draw on head office, 6o Gracechurch street, London E C
Cookham Rural Council, Chester villa, ~orfolk road
Miller R. F. & Co. auctioneers, estate agents & valuers,

Leaver James, painter, High Town road Station yard

Lee David, artist, Hogarth house, St. Luke's road Miller J enner (Mrs.), private mixed school, 1 Alban

Lee Richard Dale, manager of the London & County place, King street

bank, High street ::\1illin George Augustus, sanitary inspechrr to the Cook--

Lepper John, grocer, rr Market street ham Rural District; O:nmcil & culleotor of poor rates,

Lepper Mary .Ann F. (Mrs.), grocer J<; beer retailer, 9 Cookham road

Cordwa.Iles road Montgomery & Plumbe, surgeons & medical officers to.

Lever Mary (Mrs.), boot maker, Queen street the post office &c. go High street

Lewis & Son, cabinet makers, 40 King street & High l\Iontgom~ry Edwin Cuthbert L.R.C.S.I. surgeon & medi-

Town road cal officer & public vaccinator for tbe Cookham district ,

Lipscombe Mary Ann (Miss), apartments, Grenfell road & medical officer to the workhouse, go High street

Lipton Limited, provision merchants, 72 High street ~1oore & Davies, solicitors, 33 High street; & 4 Ne"\V

Littleton G. builder, Bay villa, St. Luke's :road square, Lincoln's inn, London WC

Lodge (The) Temperance inn (Herbert George Tasker, Moore & Mason, surgeons, 3r High street

manager), w & rz Bridge street Moo:re George Edward M.B., M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, see ·

Lodge Francis H. furniture dealer, 13 Queen street Moore & Mason

London Artificial Tooth Supply Co. (L. Watson, man- Moore George (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, Broadway

ager), :25 Queen street :Moore James (firm, l\Ioore & Davies), solicitor & com·-

London & County Banking Co. Limited (branch of) missioner for oaths, S3 High street

(Richard Dale Lee, manager), High street; draw on Moores James, tailor & draper, 12 High street

head office, 21 Lombard street, London E C Morgan S. & Son, carmen, I East street

London Central Meat Co. Limited, butchers, Market st Morris William, Star P.H. Broadway

Looker Edwin, refreshment rooms, King street ~Im·ton Reuben William, dairyman, Queen street

Loosley Richard, printer, 29 High street Mount Henry John. mlmager of Stephens, Blandy, Bar~

Lovegrove Thomas James, furniture dealer & ironmonger, nett, Butler & Co's. Bank, & borough treas. 45 High sb-

13 & 15 King street Moyse .Alfred, insurance agent, Leopold ho. Grenfell road ·

Lunnon John, shoe maker, Park street Nash Frederick, market gardener, Furze platt

Lyne .Agnes (Miss), kindergarten school, 4 Queen's Nash James, painter, 30 King street

terrace, Queen street National Telephone Co. Limited (exchange office) (F. W...

Lvne Thomas, boot & shoe maker, 10 Queen street Taylor, d1strict manager). r8 High street

Mcllroy Brothers, drapers 87 & 8g, & boot warehouse 94, Neighbour George, fly proprietor, Castle hill

High street Neighbour John, beer l'etailer, 20 Bridge street

McPhunn John, fruiterer, Castle hill Neighbour ThQmas, Jolly Farmer P.H. North town

Mac"kie Edwd. Wm. saddler & harness ma. 9 High st N-etherc:ift Henry James, carpenter, Castle hill

Maidenhead .Advertiser (Frederick George Baylis, pub- Neve .Alfl'ed Hovenden, linen draper 57, 59, & outfitter 6:rt .

lisher & proprie.tor) (published wed.), Broadway High street

Maidenhead Amateur Histrionic Club (Donald Webb,hon. N ewell Frederick, baker, Post office, Furze platt

sec.), Queen street Newman John, baker, Grenfell raad

Maidenhead Amateur Swimming Club (Waiter Gilroy, Nicholls William, jobbing gardener, Hope oot.Castle hill"

hon. sec.; C. W. Richardson, swimming instructor); Nicholson & Sons, brewers, lrl.altsters, wine & spirit

hea,d quarters, Maidenhead Rowing Club boathouse merchants, aerated water manufacturers & agents for -

Maidenhead Cemetery Co. Lim. (Charles Alfred Vardy, .Allsopp's &; Bass's ales & Guinness's Dublin stout, 75 &

sec.), Queen Street chambers; cemetery, Boyne hill 77 High street & King st. ; stores, Reading & U:x:bridge

Maidenhead Coffee Palace Co. Limited (.A. H. Neve, Nightingale Thomas, tea agent, Market streeb

managing director; .Alfred Thomas Taylor, sec.), The North Mary (:Miss), apartments, Claude viis. Grenfell rd-

Cliveden, Queen street Nott William Thomas, dinillg rooms, 7 Bridge street

Maidenhead, Cookham & Dray Thames .Angling Asso- Nowell George (Mrs.),dress ma.6 Grenfell vils.Grenfell rd. ·

ciation (Alfred Fossick, solicitor; Charles Henry Ricks, Oakley Charles Henry, taxidermist & picture frame ma..

aec.), r Park \treeii King street

DlREOTOBY.] BERKSHIRE. M'.AIDEISJUD. IllS

Oddfellows' Hall (Herbert Glover, sec.), South street Shrimpton Thos. Kirby,Bell hotel & livery stables.Jilllg st

O'L&acy Geocge, bak.e.r, 4 Victoria street Silver & Sons Limited, builders, West street; m.-onumen-

O'Lea;ry Belena (Miss). apartments, I Sydenham. villas, tal masons, All Saints' avenue; works, Titt1e row

Broadway Silver Heleu (Miss),girls' school,Westholme.The Creseeat

Oram J oseph, greengrocell", Cordwalles road Simmous J u. Gillett,whitesmith & toba·occmist_,;q.Bridge st

Owen Robert, nurserymlill k, florist, Castle hill Simpson Henry, wardrobe dealer, 79 Bridge street

Pag.et Robert, bird dealer, ii9 King .street Simps<ln James Fergu.son F.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeoR,

Pallant Arthur L.D.S.R.C.S.I. dental surgeon1 Orchard 20 High street
house, Castle hill Simpson Percy James M.R.C.V.S. vet.eri.Iaary- surgoon. 20

Parish Edwin Albert, Pond &use P.H. Castle hill High street

Parker Thomas, beer l'etailer & shopkeeper, .Bebnont rise Sim11 Edwin, Rose hotel, King street

Partlo William Leaver, bu.ilder, North t{)wn Singer M.anufacturmg Co. 323. High t#treet

Pasrnooo Elimbeth (Miss)~ La.ncy r€pository, Queen street Singer James, apartments. Corsley house, The Crescent

Pearce Sidney .A.lbert, Green Dragon P.H. Bridge xoad Skinner Jarnes, relieving & vaccination officer &; oolleoi:OT

Pearce Hy. Wm. fnrn. brokr. 2 Devonport cot. Queen. st to the guardians, Grenfell road

Pearoe Susan (Miss), draper, ro Marked; street Sleath Albert Frewm, draper & post <Oflice, Bridge .streeit

Pearl Waiter" stonemason, High Town .-oad Smith Alfred, blacksmith, Denmark te.r. Oordwallei mad

Peadrill Brothers, fishmongers, Queen skeet Smith Ann (Miss), apartments, 74 Bridge street

Penn William Henry, stationer, 47 Kin.g street Smith Oharles,ap&rtments, 2 St.Luke's te~rrace,Norlmlk rd

Perkins Thomas, llergeant-imstrnetor G. Oo. ISt Vol. Batt. Smith Charles, greengro-cer. 4a, Market street

Prineess Oharlo'tte of Wales (Royal Berks Regiment), 1 . Smith Edwin Chas. oil & gen• .stores. 13 Coil'<Ciwalles rd

York villas. York r-Gad Smith George, baker, 96 High street

Perry Alfred, greengrocer, 39 King street Sm~th Jo~n. Calw~, printer & st~tioner. 2 Gre.nfell road

Perry Joshua, Railway tavern & livery stables, Queen st Snuth W1lham, h1cyc.le agent. Kmg street

Pilot Cycle Co. (The), cycle manufacturers, Queem. s.t Smith William, shoo makm-, I West street

Plum Alfred, house decorator, 2 Alban -place, King JJtreet SneJ.l J"ohn, bricklayer., St. Luke's road norlh
Plum Sarah (Miss), watch. maker~ 98 High street
Soundy .Brothers;. wheelwrights, High. Towa road
Plumbe Swmuel Thomrc·n M.D.~ M.R.C.S.Eng. surg-eon, Spindler Edwin, baker & confectioner, 6o High stred

see Mont~omery & Plumhe Stafford Henry George, shopkeeper, P.owney l'Oad

"Plumbe W:illiam, pho:tog:raphe11.' & :;photographic material!. Stamp Office (Ralph Walbon, distributor), 73 High street

dealer, 76 High .street 1 Starling Alfred, dental surgeon, Clebane, Oookham road

IPlummer Robt. Edwin. coal mer, see W<ebster & Plnmtnf:1' Stephens., Elandy, Barnett, Butler & Cc. (braneh),hallk'enl
:I'Gllringllorn .John,. keepet" of Kidwe:I's park, Market s.t. (Henry John !Mo.u~t,_ m.anagE'JI'), 45 lligh ~tree.t; draw

Pollard James, P:rmce of Wal:es P.H. King street {}D Lloyds Bank Lnruted, 72 Lomba:rd .stTeet,Londan .E C

P<md Chas. Montague, sewing machine agt. 34 Moff.att st Stevens Christopher Henry. :grocer, JtO Bridge .street

Pontl Lo.uisa {Mrs.), dress maloor, 34 Moffa.tt street Stinton Henry Kffinedy, Boor bO'I:el, High .streel;

Pope Mary (Mrs.), -dress maker, .r Queen's '!:ex. Queen st Street John, market gardener, Furz.e platt

Pope Thomas, fly proprietlilr, Furze pla.tt Stuchbery Thomas William., .solicitor & rommissillner f-or

Pound James, carman, Court House rood oaths, 3 Queen street

Prashner Alfred, picture frame maker, 17 King street , Such & Co. costumieTS, King s.treet

Pratt John, beer retailer, w King street Such Ei:'ic Fred.erick F.R.H.S. nurseryman, Brarwick

Preee~ JQh-a, gracer, 95 High st-reet road & dairy, Bridge street

Price Owen, hair dresser, King street .Sutton & Oo.'s Parcels Office (Goorge Beckett, ngent). 54

Prince John Narracott, hala- dresser, "14 Queen st.r.eet Bridge street

Purser E. & .A.. butchers, I4 Market street 1 Swains William, cannan, High Town road

Pymm Frederick Genrge, builder & contractor, under- Symmons Charles, .auctioneer, 27 High 'Street

taker, painter & h0111se decO!"ator, Hjgh Town works, Targett Emest, hoor~Se dealer, King street

Hig-h Town road l 'l'aylor Albert, shopkooper, Gard.e.n. cottages

Queen's Club (Capt. C. H. S. Pretyman R.N. hon. sec.), Taylor Eliza (Mrs.), laundress, I9 West street

1 Higbl. street Ta;ylor Frederick, beer l"etail-er, Weslt fdrm

Radlxmrne Alfred & Son, :agents to the Great WesterD Taylor Henry, Fa1con P.H. 92 High street

Railway Co. 20 Queen "Street Taylor Franc-es (Miss), schooi, York villa, Ynrli: :road

Rake Mary Jane (Miss), refreshment rooms, Queen street Taylor Mark Jas.bill poster&town crier,Gordon vil.York rd

Ra1!ldall Georgoe, Swan P.H. 44 High street. Taylor William, basket maker, Queen street

Ray Mead Hotel, Boulter's Jock. Telegrams, "Stops, Taylor William, builder, Norfolk Paxk cottages

Maidenhead.'' The electric launch "Ray Mead" for Thames Hotel (Henry Woodhouse, proprietor'; RiV~er-

hire ; also smaller launches & pleasure boats side; high-.clas.s cuisine ; moderate cha~rg.es; excellent

Rea.dy Maney Tea Co. grocers &c. IOI High street stabling; steam launches, boats, punts &c. buil~

Reddv Margt. (Mrs.),dress ma. 2 Sydenham vils.Broadway housed, varnished "" repaired. T-elegrams, '" Woori-
Reversion Purchase Co. Limited (Alfred Fossick, agent), house-_, Maidenhend"; post & telegraph t~ffice in the

Park street hotel; boat houses. Maidenhead court .&; at .Bray

Richa'l'dson .John Wm. apartments., Dak villa, Park sil:reet Thomas Charles Ruffe, solicitor, clerk btJ the oounty &

Ridgeley Daniel, boot maker, 21 Princess street borough magistrates, tax eommissio11.ecs & the Ma.id-

Rippon Abraham Crofton, tobacconist, 41 High street enhead municipal charity trustees, commissioner for

Riverside Club {J. T. Gardner, acting sec) <aaths & perpetual eommissioner, Broooway

Rivette Mary .J. (Miss), costumier, nB High street Thomas William,shopkeeper,8 Denmark ter.Oordwalles m

Riviera Hotel Co. Limited, Riverside Timberlake Hho-mas & Co. bicycle & bricydtt manufac-

Rixon George, sewing machine de:pot, 35 Queen street turers & limelight lantem exhibitors & lecturers~

Rohbins Elias, boot maker, Castle bill chants 65 & &j, High street

Robbins Samuel, toba.cconist, 9 King street Thompson & "\>Valton, p-harmaceutical chemists, Y3 High. st

Robinson Jas. Wm. livery stable kpr.Red Lion yd.High st Thomson William .A.rnold F.R.C.S.Irel., L.R..C.P.Irel.

Robiruon Waiter, butcher, 36 High JJtreet physician & surg8'6m.., medical officer & pub-lie vaocina-

Rolfe William, dairyman, ]\;larlow xoad tor for Bray & Hurley district, The Laurels, Castle hill

Rose Harry, boat builder, Ray .street &; River side Tilly Hubert Do.ugla~, auctioneer, surveym-, val.rer. house

Russell .A.nnie (Mrs..)~ dress maker, St. Luke's ro.ad &; esta;te agent~ 50 High st. ; & at £0'1lrne EIHI & LnndoB

Sable George, beer retailer, Market street Timberlake Thomas & Co. bicycle & tricycle 1Il111llnfar.-

Sales Henry, keeper of the Grenfell Recreartion ground, turel's & limelight 'l:antera exhibitocs Au l.<ecturer-8~

Grenfell road Queen street

Salter Stephen F.R.I.B.A. (firm, Davy .& Salter), archi- Tinkler Samuel, plumber & tobacconist, 24 High -s.ireet

tect & surveyor, 86 High street Todd .l oim, :greengrooex, Court House road

·Sanders John, beer retailer, z6 Bridge street T{)lrokins John. Robert, draper, 70 Bigh street

Saunders Alcey (Mrs.), furn.iture broker, I 3 Market st Town Ha~' (Mark .James Taylor, keeper). High street

Stl.unders Thomas, butcher, 21: King iltreet Trickett Frank, uairyman, 4 West street
Savage Phmbe (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer~ King street
Tripp W. & Co. coach builders .k smiths, QueeD. st.ree1;

SchuH:z Max, professor of music ~ languages. Glenside, 'l'l'l'l:scott John, eoal, coke & salt merchant, furniture re-

Norfolk road moved & warehoused, shipping ageAt for Canada & tb.B

Scott John, fly proprietor, 1 King street United States, agent to the London & Lancashire Fir&

ISheffield Matilda (Mrs.), apartmts. The Shanty,Bridge rd & Life & Railway l'assengers' Accidental hsunac&
Cos. registrar of marriages; offices, Queen street;.
Shrewsbury Edward James, architect & surveyor, Queen
Street chamber& wharf & siding, Great Western Railway stati>()tl

s•BERKS.

116 !rU.IDINSEADI BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'8

Truseott John, corn & forage merchant, The ~Iart, Queen Weed William, solicitor & commissioner for oaths, derk

street & Station road to the guardians k school attendance & assessment

Tubb George, baker, 106 High street committees & superintendent registrar of births, deaths

Tubb William, baker, 2 Market street & maiTiages of ::\Iaidenhead union & clerk to the Cook-

Tuck William, whitesmith, 6 Park street ham rural district oouncil, Queen Street <:hambers

Turner Alexander, beer retailer, Park street 1 Wellington Mary (Miss), news agent, 21 Queen street

Turner William, lock keeper, Boulter's lock j Wells Henry, financier, 2 Hurs:ey vil:as, Gre'nfell road

Tutt .Francis John, Grapes inn, Market street West Brothers, builders, 7 & 9 .Albert street

Upson Arthur, chemist, 35 High street · Westcott Henry, grocer, 14 King street

Vardy Chas.Alfred,architect & surveyor,Queen St.rhmbrs I Wethered Thomas & Sons Limited, brewers (agents, D.

Venables Francis Thomas, farrier, Red Lion yd. High st Bidmead, 85 High street & E. A. Parish, Pond housa)

Venables Harry, french polisher, 31 West street Wheeler Frank, baker, 4 Grenfell road

Vevers W. H. & Sons, painters & decorators, King street \Vheeler Thomas Jordan, blacksmith, II .Albert street

Vickers & Harris, dyers, 2 Market street Whitelock Charles, shopkeeper, Furze platt

Vickery George (Mrs.), toy dealtr, King street Whiteman Thomas, ironmonger, r6 Market street

Volunteer Battalion (1st Princess Charlotte of Wales's Whltmore & Son, curriers· & leather sellers & leather

Royal Berkshire Regiment) (G Co. Capt. L. H. Han- belting, leather goods, saddlers & harness makers &i

bury, commanding; Thomas Perkins, sergeant in- boot & shoe manufacturers, 104 High street & facing

structor), head quarters, r York viJas, York roe.d Railway station

Volunteer Fire Brigade (David Wilton, captain; J. K. Wickens William, furniture remover, Marlow road

Bolton, sec.; Edwin Hewitt, collector & treas.), Park st Wilder Henry & Son, boat builders-,Bridge rd.&River sid~

Waggett Halph Henry, boot maker, Market street Wilkinson Maria .Annie (~iss), ladies' school, Elmslie,

Waizeneker .Alfred 'l'heodore, watch & clock ma.6 High st Castle hill

'Yaizeneker Julius, watch & clock maker, 5 King street Willett William, sbtioner, 40 King street

Wair.eneker Julius Edward,watch & clock ma.26 Queen st Williams Kate (Miss), tobacconist, Station road

Walker Samuel Augustus, hair dresser, Queen street Wilson Henry, tailor, 56 Bridge street

Wallace Frederick William, baker, 5 Queen street Wilson Herbert, chimney sweep, Ray street, Ray park

Waiters Waiter, baker, Cordwalles road Wilson James, chimney sweeper, 2 E:m tar. Broadway

Walton Ralph, pharmaceutical chemist & stamp dis- Wilton David, fishmonger, poulterer & frurtr.93 High si

tributor, see. 'l'hompson & Walton Winn ~(~eorge, fisherman, Rose cottage, Oldfield road

Walton Sarah (Mrs.) Prince .Albert P.H. King street Wise Alfred, shopkeeper, 43 Moffatt street

Ward Charles Harry, George P.H. Bridge street Withnall Wm. hosier & boot d~r. II2, 114 & u6 High st

Wardle James, chemist & druggist, 97 High street Wood Edward, cutler & umbrella repairer, Bridge street.

Warne Sidney Herbert, Ray Mead hotel, Boulters lock Wood John, greengrocer, 19 Bridge street

Warner Brothers, carriage builders, Oldfield rd.& King st Woodbridge Charlt>s, builder & contl"3ctor, King street

Watkins & Son, saddlers & harness makers, Market st. Woodbridge Edward James, beer retailer, East street

& 33a, Queen's road Woodham William, insurance agent, Wellington road

Watkins Frederick, apartments, r6 Park street & job- l\Toodhouse Henry, proprietor of the Thames hotel,

master, Marlow road River side, & boat builder, Bridge road; & at Bray k

Watson Godfrey, oil & color wareho.painter &c.38 High st above Boulters Jock

Watts .Annie Keith (Mrs.), midwife, 3 Sydenham villa&, Woodhouse Henry Edward, grocer, 43 Bridge streeh

Broadway Wooldridge Henry, Norfolk Arms P.H. Broadway

Webb & Oo. carriers to London & carmen, Bridge road Wootten George, boot maker, 5 Grove road

Webb .Alfred, engraver, Elm villa, Broadway Working Men's Club & Institute (William Naylar & Wm.

w·ebber J ames Courtis, draper, 64 High street Edward Harper, hon. secs.), Norfolk road

Webster & Plummer, coal, coke & salt merchants & World's Tea Company, 38 High street

hay, corn, seed, straw &i general forage factors, Station Wyatt Thomas George, tailor, 52 High street

road & 124 High street & r Queen street Young James, shopkeeper, Furze platt

MARCHAM, with the chape1ry of Garford and the the addition of a north aisle, at a cost of £r,295, is an

t.ownship of Frilford, is a parish in the Northern division edifice of stone in the Early English style, from desigu

of the county, hundred of Ock, petty sessional division, by l\Ir. Edwin Dolby, architect, of Abingdon, consisting

union and county court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of chancel, nave of four bays, north ai&:e and south porch:

of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of the interesting old oak screen has been restored: Miss

Oxford. 'fhe river Ock bounds the parish on the south. E. H. Aldworth, of Frilford, worked and presented a
beautiful frontal for the communion table: many of the
Marcham is z! miles west from Abingdon. The church

of .All Saints, rebuilt in 1837 and opened on Easter day, windows are memorials. 'fhe President and Fellows of
1838, is a. spacious edifice of stone in the Perpendicular St. John's College, Oxford, who are lords of the manor,
style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a and Lord ·wantage K.C.B., V.C. are the principal land·
western Early English tower containing a clock and 6 owners.
bells: there are 400 sittings, 200 being free. 'fhe

register, including Garford, dates from the year 1658. FRILFORD is a township r mile north-west.. Here is a
The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Garford Wesleyan Methodist chapel. In r883 remains of a
annexed, joint net yearly value £I8o, including 120 acres Roman viila were discovered here. The President and
of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Fellows of St..John's CoHege, Oxford, who are lords of

Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1895 the manor, and Messrs. Hayward .Aldworth, Philip .Aid-

by the Rev. Thomas Digby Raikes M.A. of Oriel College, worth and Thomas Floyd are the principal landowners.

Oxon. Here is a small Baptist chapel. A cemetery of one The hamlet of Cothill: has been severed from this

scre was consecrated 4th February, 1899, and is under parish and ecclesiastically annexed to Dry Sandford, under

the control of a joint co~nmittee, consisting of 6 members which place particulars will be found.

of the parish council and three members from Frilford. Parish c:erk, George Handy.

The charities are of the annual value of about £57• £2o Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
of which is for clothing t.he poor children in the parish.
Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office.-G-eorga
Shee.pstead House, one mile north, the property of
Benjamin Henryt Morland esq. J.P. is now occupied Handy, mb·postmaster. !..etters arrive from .Abing-
by John 'Villiam Davis esq. and Miss DaviS'. l\Iar-
cham Park, the property of Charles .John Edwin Duffield don at 7 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; dispatched at I, 3·35 & 1
esq. .T.P. is a stone mansion in the Classic style, standing
in a small, well-wooded park of 40 acres. Oakley House p.m.; sunduy, 12. Io p.m
is the residence of Augustus Campbell esq. The principal
landowners are Cbarles John Edwin Duffield esq. who is WaH Letter Box, Garford, cleared at 5.50 p.m.; sunday~.

9·35 p.m
Wall Letter Bo:x, Frilford, cleared at 3 & 6.40 p.m.;

sundays, II.So p.m

lord of the manor, and Benjamin Henry Morland esq. who Schools.

holds the impropriate glebe. The soil is sand and stone National, for 120 children; average attendance, 90; J.

brash; subsoil, rock. The population, including the town- Richards, master; Mrs. Richa.rds, mistress

ship of Frilford and chapelry of Garford, in 1891 was National, Garford, built in 1870 & enlarged r895, for 74
1,024, viz. : Marcham, 707; Garford, 167; Frilford, 150. children; aver::tge attendance, 49; Robert C. Harris,
The area of the parish is 2,417 acres of land and 7 of master; Mrs. C. Harris, mistress
water; the chapelry of Garford, r,oss ; and of Frilford,
Carriers to-
1,238; rateable value of Marcham £3,oo8, Frilford, £842,
and Garford, £r,or4. Abingdon-.John Higgins, to the 'Blu~ Boar,' mon. tues.

GARFORD, a. chapclry, is 2 miles west-by-south. The thurs. & fri

ancient chapel of St. Luke, entire:y rebuilt in x88o, with Oxford-John Higgins, wed. & sat

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. MILTON. 117

MAR CRAM. Ayris .A.lbert, quarry ow-ner Rant George & Oo. grocers

PRIVATE :RESIDENTS. Barrett Albert, Dog Hou>e P.H Stone .Ambrose, assistant overseer

Bradfield ·wm. baker, grocer & farmr West .Asher, engineer

CampLell .A.ugustus M. Oakley house Camden Emily (Mrs.), baker White Elizabeth (Mrs.) & Son,frmrs

C'-<\stle Mrs Dyer Edwin, carpenter Winter George. Noah's Ark P.H

Davis John William, Sheepstead house Dyer Martha. (Mrs.), beer retailer FRILFORD.

Davis Miss, Sheepstead house Dyer Sawyer, carpenter

Deane Mrs Fairbrother Thomas, boot maker & Aldworth Wm. Hayward, Heat>h house

Dillon Rev. Constantine Francis clerk to Joint Burial Committee .Aldworth Philip, farmer & landowner

Arthur B.A. Upwood Gall Waiter, farmer, & assistant over- .Aldworrh Wm. Hayward,frmr.&Indwnr

Duffield Charles John Edwin J.P seer for Radley "\Yootton &c. Priory .A.ubertin Lieut. John DunnR.N

Du:ffield George rfarm Kidner John 'Champion, farmer

Morland Benjamin Henry J.P Harris Sarah (Mrs.), White Hart P.H G.ARFORD.

Raikes Rev. Thomas Digby M ..A.. The Higgins Edward, fly proprietor Hammans James, fanner

Vicarage Higgins John, carrier

Shipley Rev. George Deacon (Baptist) Marcham & Fril.ford Cemetery (Thos. Hatton Peter, baker & grocer
Long William, farmer
Stone Mrs. William Wrighlt Fairbrother, clerk)
Powell William Nicholas, farmer
Midwinter James, farmer
COMMERCIAL.
Pointer George, Old Crown P.H "\Vest .A.sher, engineer

.!.very Albert, Black Horse P.H Pointer Hen:ry, job master West Winiam Weste~l, farmer & over-

.A.very ,Sarah Elizh. (Mrs.), laundry Pullen Richard, baker seer, Ven mill

MIDGHAM, formerly a chape:ry in the civil parish of clared a vicarage May 17. 1868, net yearly value about
Thatcham, was formed into an ecclesiastic3Jl parish in £I06, with residence, in the gift of Benjamin Buck Greene

1857; it is on the northern bank of the river Kennet, 6 1 esq. and held since 1867 by the Rev. John Launcelot Tur·
miles east from :Kewbury and II South-west from Reading, butt M..A.. of Brasenose College, Oxford. Midgham House
and the Great 1Yestern railway st.ation at Woolhampton, 1 is the seat of Benjamin Buck Greene esq. J.P. lord of
1~ miles south, called Midgham station, is 47 miles from ' the manor and chief landowner. The soil is various, but
London, in the Southern division of the county, hundred mostly clay to a great depth. The chief crops are wheat,

of :Faircross, petty sessional division, union and county 1 barley and oats. The area is 1,414 acres of land and 22
court district of 1'\ewbury, and in the rur&l deanery of 1 of water; assessable value, £2,587; the population in
Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. 1801 was 287.

The old church of St. Matthew, which stood close to Parish Clerk, William Millson.
:Midgham House, was taken down in April, 1868; the Letters through Reading, via Woolhampton, arrive at
present church of St. Matthew was erected in 1869 on 7-45 a.m. &; noon. The nearest money order & te:e-
higher ground and more in the centre of the parish, at graph office is at Woolhampton, about one mile distant
the expense of BenjaminJ Buck Greene esq. J.P. and is an
edifice of flint in the Decorated style, consisting of Wall Letter Box cleared at 7·45 a.m. & 6.45 p.m. ; sun·
chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an embattled days at 10 a.m
western tower with pinnacles and lofty spire, containing National School, built & mainly supported by E. B.
5 bells : there are two stained windows : the church affords Greene esq. J.P. in 1867, for 93 children; average at-
about 200 sittings, of which 104 are appropriated. The tendance, 59 ; William Muthews, master; Miss Florence
register dates from the year 1622. The living was de· Rogers, assistant mistress

Acland Reginald Brodie Dyke, Midg- OOlULERCIAL. Harman Jn. jun. farmer, Bird's farm

ham cottage Harman J onathan, frmr.HallCourt fm

Greene Benj. Buck J.P. Midgham ho Bette-ridge Alfred, farmer, King-·s frm James Tom, wheelwright & carpenter

Turbutt Rev. John Launcelot M ..A.. Cox Hannah(Mrs.), frmr.WestEnd fm Sharps Thomas Richard. farmer, lien-

(vicar), Vicarage Dew Edward, Coach & Horses P.H net Holme farw

MILTON is a parish 4 miles south-by-west from of the several parishes. Milton House, the residence of
Abingdon and 2; north-east by road and I mile by foot- Major Charles Newton Chichester, is a handsome mansion

Jlath fr-om Steveuton station, on the main line of the Great in the Jacobean style, built from designs by Inigo Jones;
Western railway, in the :Northern division of the county, in the house is a Catholic chapel. Milton Hill House, the

hundred of Ock, petty sessional division, union and property of Thomas John Bowles esq. and now the resi-
county court district of Abingdon, .rural deanery of .A.bing- dence of Charles Morrell esq. J.P. is a mansion standing
don, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The in a beautifully wooded park of 70 acres. Louis Arthur

church of St. Blaise is a small building of stone in the Barrett esq. who is lord of the manor, and Thomas John

Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, Bow:es esq. are the principal landowners. The soi! is
north ai::.le, south porch, and an embattled western tower strong clay and gravel; subsoil, clay and gravel. The
of the Early Decorated· period, containing 5 llells· and a chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and turnips. The

clock; the church was restored throughout, with the area is 1,463 acres; rateable value, £5,7418; the popula-

excaption of the tower, in 1851 : there are two memorial tion in 1891 was 420.

windows to members of the Bowles fami:y, with an east Parish C:erk and Sexton, Jame.s Grove.

and two other stained windows given by the late Ven. Post Office.-Willia.m A:dworth, sub-postmaster. Letters

Charles Carr Clerke D.D. Archdeacon and Canon of arrive through Steventon R.S.O. at 6.35 a.m. & 2 p.m.;

Oxford, who was 39 years rector here, and died 24th sundays, 6.35 a.m. ; dispatched at I p.m. and 7 p.m. ;
December, 1877; the stone pulpit and a brass plate in no sunday dispatch. The nearMt money order &

the chancel are also memorials to the Archdeacon, and telegraph office is at Steventon. Postal orders are
there is a brass to the Rev. Canon George Marshall M.A. issued, but not cashed
rect{)r here 1875-97: the church affords 250 sittings. Wall Letter Box, Milton hill, cleared 12.25 & 7.1o p.m.;

The earliest date of the register is 1654. The living is a sunday n.:w a.m

l'ectory, net value about £320, with residence and 1l Church School, founded in 1796, & endowed by the Rev.

acres of glebe, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1897 George Warner, late rector, with a sum yielding nearly
by the Rev. Harry Hamilton Jackson M. A. of Christ £6o yearly; average attendar.ce, 63; .A.rthur J. Pearce,
Church, Oxford. There are charities of about £85 yearly master

value, left by the Rev. M. Eaton, for the poor of Milton, Carriers to Abingdon. William Wilkins, mon, wed. fri.

Ragbourne and Harwell, and distributed by the incumbents k sat

Louis .Arthur, The Rallies Betteridge Richard llopkins, fa.rmer & Grove James, parish clerk & smith

Betteridoge Riohd. Hopkins, Milton hill landowner, Milton hill Hayward Harold, fanner

Bond Ernest Waiter Bradfield John Richard, fa.rmer & King George, builder k C{)ntractor,

Bowles Mrs. Milton C()ttage miller (steam & water) house decorator, ca.rpentea-, joiner~

Chichester Major Charles Newton, Bradfield William Edward, farmer, undertaker

Milton house miller & corn & seed merchant & Martin George, bak.er k gN)Cer

lioldsworth Fred, The Yews landowner, Hospital farm Pottinger William, farmer, Holme fm

Jackson Rev. Harrv Hamilton M.A. BrOIWn Benjamin, builder Tyrrell Edward, manager to Mr. Wm.

'•(!rector), Recto·ry Cannon George, farmer Tyrrell, Milton farm

Morrell Charles J.P. Milton Hill house Cooper Humphrey Reuben,stone masn Webb James, farm bailiff to Charles

TyrreJ.l The Mis.ses, Fern rottage Da.vies Frank ·wm. Red Lion P.H Morrell esq

Wall Mrs. Exwick Gerring Richard Jeosse, wheelwright, White Richard, Old Pack Horse P.H.

.Aldworth William, assistant overseer timber merchant & st.oom thrashing Milton hill

& rate collector, Post office machine proprietor Wilkins William, carrier

118 NORTH MORETON. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY's

.

NORTH MORETON is a parish and v-illage, 4 miles propriator of the great tithes, amounting to £r8o 6s.

west from Wallingford, 3 miles east bom Didcot Junction Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The only charity is

station on the Great Western railway, and 7~ miles that of Mrs . .Ann Noyes, of £2 r5s. a year, to be applied

north-west from Abingdon, in the Northern division of the to the purchase of bread, co.als o:r clothes for the poor, at

county, hundred of Moreton, petty sessional division, the dis-creti!)n of the vicar and churchwardens. Th&

union and county court. district of Wallingford, rural principal landowners are (.,'harles :Monison esq. o.f Basildon.

deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese Park, Percy Edward Crutchley esq. of Sunninghill Lodge,

of Oxford. The church of All Saints is a structure of and John Kirby Hedges esq. of Wallingford Castle. The

ftint with none dressings, in the later Early English soil and subsoil are chiefly green sandstone. The chi~

style, consisting of chance!, nave of four bays·. aisles, crops are wheat, barley and roots. Thi! area is :r,oS7

south porch and a. western tower, 56 feet high, containing acres; rateable valu~ [1,332; the population in rS'g:r

5 bells ; at the south-east angl~ is a handsome chapel was 276.

called "Stapl·eton•s Cha.ntry," with a window retaining . Parish Clerk, William Wing.
some ancient stain~d gl~ and a. piscina formed· i~ a r Post O:ffiae.-Mrs. Martha Wing, sub-postmistress. Let-
SJ?l~y of the _e3;5t wmdG~ • a.. deed of Edward I~I. eXIsts ters through Wallingford arrive at 7 a.m. &. 3 p.m.;
giVIng permlSSlOn tu Sn• M1l~s Staple~on to ahenate 25 .
acres ()f l1_1n~ for use of th~ pnest of this chantry; there dispatched at 10 a.m. & 7 :p.m. Postal o;rders am
issued here, but not paid. Brightwell is the nearest
are 200 lnttmgs. Th~ reg1ster dates from the year 1558.
money order & telegraph office 3 miles distant
The liv-ing is. a vicarage, net income [,rso, with residence . . "'. .
.
Eanedrks3,g. acres of glebe. in the gift of the Archdeacon of , National School (mixed), erected m 1&67, for 90 clnldren,
and held since r873 by the Rev. William Henry
average ~ttendance, 57.; John Barr, master; Mrs. EDen

Young M ..A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. The Rev. Barr, mistress

.John Spea:rman Wasey M.A. of Compton, Berks, is im- Carrier.-Jas_ Butcher, tues. & fri. to Wal.li.ngford

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Holloway Arthur, blacksmith

:Barr John, School house- Banister & HM1!, farmers, Park end Leaoh Alfred, beer retaLer
Hyde Miss, St. Peters
White. William, The Filberts Bidmead John, grocer Stickly Saraih Ann (Mrs.), beer retailr
Young Bev. Wiiliam :Henry emChild John Joseph, farmer, Park
Stickly Thomas, beer retailer
(vieaT), Vicarage
Ciargo William, Bear inn Waters J ames, farmeT

M.A. Gegg John Pooseley, farmer Working Men's Club (Rev. William

Hart Charles, farmer Henry Young M..A. president)

SOUTH MORETON is a village and parish, 3! miles families, and at the ·east end is a yew tree. The
south-west from Wallingford, 3 miles oouth-ea.st from re,gister date.s from the year I599· The living i& a
Didcot Junction station on the Great. Western ra.ilway rectory, net yearly value £rzr, including 94 acres of

and 4 miles nort.h-ea.st from Upton station on the Didcot glebe, with residence, in the gift of the University of

and N~wbury railway, in the Northern division of the Oxford, on the nomination of the PrincpiaJ of Hertford
College, and held since r8gr by the Rev. William John
county, h1sndred of Mor!'ton, Wallingford petty sessional Betts B.A. of Queens• College, Oamhridge. Here is a
d~vision, unioo and county court distric~ rmal de..-mery Baptist chapel. The charities include the interest of £m,
of Wallingfard, archdeaconry .00 Bsrks and diocese of
Oxford. A. brook, fringed with willows, flows ihrougl.t which is given in money to the poor; and a gift of £ r,ooo
tlu~ parish clos{!j by the churchyard. The church of St.
JohDJ the Baptist, situated west of the village, is a by the late Edward Sherman esq. a native of the paris~
stone edifice· in th-3 Early English style and consists
the inter,,st to be applied for the. benefit of the poo!"
of two parallel aisles, ve.stry, open timbered! south
at the discretion of trustees. John Kirby Hedges esq.of
perch a.nd a double bell cote on the western gable ()f Wallingford Castle, is lord of the manor. The principal
landowne·rs are Cha.rle& Morrison esq. of Bas.ildon Park
the south aisle; the- oo.st end of one aisle forms the
and John Kirby esq. The land: is principally arable-;
chancel; tw.l' of the Early English windows remain on
the wuth side, the others having. been re.pla.ced by the wil is a light gravel; and the crops are wheat,

lle.oorated and Perpendicular windows; an axcade of barley and roots. The. area, inclusive of the I:Jamlet of

five arches divides the two portions of the chmch ; Fulscot, is :r,35o acres; rateable value, £ :ro,5o8; the
the church has open timbered roofs and a good north
population in r8gr was 356.
doorway of the Decorated period. now walled up; Sexton, Joseph Warwick.

there is a stone pulpit, entered by an 6rchway in the Post Office.-Janson Martin, sub-postmaster. Letters

wall; at the west end of the church is a slab of black arriv·::l from W ,1llingford at 7· 35 a. m. & 3.20 p.m. &
marble, inscribed to Margare.t, seoood: daughter of dispatched at 9·40 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; ~undays, 7·415
a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.
Willia.m Tipping, of Draycott, ob. May g, r6s6~ and in
the south aisle is a mural monument to John Kirby Aston Tirrold, z mile" distant is the nearest money
order & telegraph office
esq. r839; in the year 1849 the east wall was rebuilt,
the old wooden tower pulled do\\n and two bells were .A School lloar.l of five members was formed July 19>
1894; G. F. Slade, Market place, Wallingford, clerk to
hung in the present bell cote, the interior l'eseate.d.,
the board
and a stone pulpit and font provided; there are 200
sittings, half appropriated; the churchyard contains Board school (mixed), ereded in r8g6, for 8o children;
memorials to the Kirby, Sa.dgrove, Field and Taylor average attendance, 6o ; Edwin T. Owen, master; Mrs.
.Alice Owen, mistress. Ther3 is a school hause attached

Betts Rev-. William John B.A. (rector), 1 COMMERCIAL. Martin Jason, shoe ma. & sub-post off

Rectory Dix James, baker & grocer Reeves John, grocer & harness maker

Blnnsden Mrs Finoh Fred, blacksmith Turner Isaac. Orown inn

Kirby John Hall George, farmer Wigley Thomas, .Anchor inn

Watson W. Farnell, Mill house Maggs Felix Henry, farmer, Fulscott ·winter Richard, fanner, Manor house

MOULSFORD is a pictu:resque village. and compact daughter, M. A. Morrell, d. June 24, 188o. The register

parish, on the. London road, ri miles from the new dates from the year 1773; marriages ooly, from I754·
Owlsey and Moulsford station on the Great Western The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £5o. with resi-
railway. 47 miles from London, 3! miles south from dence, in the gi:t of H. B. Morrell es-q. a:nd held since-

Wallingford and n: miles north-west from Reading, 1897 by the Rev-. Sanders Etheridge M.A.of Caiug College.

in the No-rthel'n drivision of the county, hundred of Cambridge. Samboume's charity of 3 acres produces £6

Moreton, Wallingford petty sessianal divis1on, union and yearly, which is distributed in money. Mrs.. Sally Hall
mcounty court district, rural deanery
Wallingford, Bradshaw in r88o left £I,~ the interest to be distributed

archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The amongst the poor of the. parish ~nnually on Al:lcension

railway srtatio.n fmmerly here ha.s been entirely abolished. day_ The County Lunatic Asylum, called the "Mou1s-

The church of St. John the Baptist is a small buildingof f(trd Asylum," is locaJ1y within the parish of Cbolsey,

~ne and flint of the- qth century, charmingly situated under which headimg it is described. 'This village is the

on the right bank of thB :river Thame~ and! consists of resort of very many artists, anglers and boating men,. to

chancel and nave~ with a small north aisle, added in whom the "The Beetle and Wedge" hotel a a weH-Jrnmm
xB-.7~ ronth porch anct a lOw western belfry of wood. and. much v-alued hostelry of long standing; excellent

with shrot. spire, cootaining 3 bells; in the west end pe:reh fishing can be bad between the islands near the

are moouments- to the Gifford family; William Gifford, bridge. The splendid stretch O'f water which the- rive-r

wba died in :r~, was the first preiiident; of Fort St. here affords )s Ttmally chosen for the race of the Oxford
G~ in Africa; the church was restored. by the late trial eights for the annmll inter-university boat race. The

SU G. Gilbert Scott R.A. :in 1841, and hes- 120 sittings scene-ry (wood and down) at the baek of the village il-

'ln the- chnrchya.rd is aa memorial cr()S!S of white marble. very beautiful. The manor was given by Hen:ry I. f()
inscribed to Ul.~ Re-v. Goorge Kidd Monell D.C.L. Girald'ns Fitzearu und McrllisfoTd, but how it afterwards

vi<:a.r here I!t.f&-77, who died April z8~ zBBr, and to his descended previous to ihe r]fh eentury is not known; a$

·DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. •

NEWBURY. 119

; this period 1t belonged to the Sambournes : Sir Henry Parish Clerk, James Whybard.
. Sambourne, of Moulsford, was sheriff of the county in
Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Swadling, sub-postmistres!l-
1631: it was subsequently in the possession of the Giffords Letters through Wallingford arrive at 8 a.m.; dis-
. and the Bakers. Hopewell Baker Morrell esq. of The patched at 10 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. Postal orders are
issued here, but not paid. South Stoke, r mile distant,
Retreat, Reading, is lord of the man()"!" and sole landowner. is the nearest money order & telegraph office

'I'he soil is chalk and loam; subsoil, chiefly chalk. The Parish School (mixed), built in IBSO, for so children;
, cJ c-ps axe wheat, barley and. turnips. The paxish con-
average atendance, 28; Miss Emma Swadling, mistress
tains goo acr..s of arable landJ and the downs comprise
_400 acres, total r,3oo, and I3 of water; rateable value,
_£1,88o; the population in r8gr was ISO.

Etheridge Rev. Sanders M ..A. (vicar), Henman W alter J ames ' Swadlin.g Mary (Mrs.), ~hopkee.p,er,
Post office
Vicarage COMMERCIAL.
Waldron John, farmer
. ~orrester William Offiey,Moulsford ho Cox Frank, Beetle & Wedge hotel

NE\VBURY SPEENHA~ILAND.

. ~EWBURY is a. municipal borough, market and! union vestry), cleoresto!l'ioo n'l!.ve, aisles, north, and south
. town, and gives its name to the Southem or Newbury porches and a western tower of throo stages, with a.
battlemented parapeit andl octagonal turrets at th~
. Parliamentary Division of the county, under the " Re-
distribution O'f Seats Act, 1885." It is the head of a angles; these nav-e pyramidal summits with vanes and
petty se-ssional division and county court district, in are surrounded by crocketedl pinnacles ; the. tower con-

the hundred of Faircross, and in the rural deanery of tains 8 bells andj a clock; the chancel is lined with
. its own name, archdieaconry of Berks and! diocese of
Derbyshire alabaster on flat panelling and opens to the
. Oxford. The town is on the river Kennet and inter-
ancient chapels by wide. depressed arches; the reredD<s
sected by the Kennet and Avon canal, over which is
has seven panels and cracketed heads a.nd a gilt back-
. a stone bridge; it is near the Hampshire border, 56 miles
ground bearing the sacred monogram and figures;
by road and 53 by rail from London, 17 south-west there are thre-e sedilia &nd! a. piscina, all with trian-
from Re.adring, 9 ea.st from Hungerford, 19 south-west gular crockded canopies : th~ nave, s-eparated from the

from Wa.llingford. The Great Western railway has a chanceJ by a low panP-lled screen with gilt ir()n gate<',

station here on the branch from Re.adjng to Hungerford is of five bays and has arcades of four arches on

and Devizes. The Newbuxy section of the Didcot, New- clustered columns ; it opens to the tower by a lofty

bury and Winchester railway, opening communication arch : the e•ast and west windows, twelve windows in
with the chief manufacturing~ centres of the north and the aisles, fc.u:r in the clerestory, four in the chancel :md
two in tho3 south chapel, are stained, 80me of these
'With the port of Southampton, was opened for traffic being memorials to Bishop Wilbe!'force ; the Rev, J am€18
between Didcot and Newbury in April, 1882. The
Leslie RandaU M.A. rector ()f Newbury 1857-78, and his
, southern portion of the line. between Newbury and Win- daughter, Rebe R{l..ndall; Edmund: Arbuthnot, of .r-.;e,w-

. chester wa.s opened in May, 1885. .A junction with the town House, Rants, 1873, and Elizabeth his wife, 1866;
and to the Rev. W. H. Majendie M.A. vicar of Spe€1l
main line of the London and, South Western Railway from 1819, and rural dean; th61 font is mO<dern and has
a lofty and elaborately carved pyramidal cover with
'Comrany at Shawford, near 'Vincheste-r, in accorrdance figures of the ap::>stles under ca'OOpies, suspended from
·with the Didcot, Newbury andl Scmthampton Railway a bracket of wrought iron w01rk; the Jacobean pulpit

...Act, 1888, was opaned in October, 1891. The Lambourn is also richly carved in two rows of panels ; it is painted
Valley Railway, a single line connecting Lambourn with a dark green relieved with gold and stands on a stone

.:Xewbury, was opened April 2nd, 1898. base; there is a. brass eagle lectern: on the walls <Jf
The town is of very ancient origin. .Antoninus makes
the toweil" are brasses to John Smalwode, alias Winch-
.mention in his " Itinerary" of the, station of Spinre, and
~ewbury, as its name implies. arose and hadl its be- cornbe, mentioned above, ob. I5th Feb. 1519, and Alice
;ginning out of the ruins of Spinal, and therelfore, says
Camden, '• N ewburie1 must acknow~edge Speen as 1ts his wife; to Mr. Hugh Shepley, a native of Prescot,

:mother.'' In Sa.xon. time.s there wa!l here. a. town of 51 Lancs. 1526, and rector here, ob. 1596; Francis Tren-
houses, belonging to a Thane nruned Ulward, which in
chard, of Korma.nton, Wilts, esq. Db. I635; and to
Domesda,y th~ Normans called "Uluritone." Gaorge Widlery, ''Mr. of .Arts and minister of God's

Newbnr.v <ent two members to Parliament in the '\Vcrd," ob. 23 Sept. 1641; there is a mural monument
to Elizabeth Cathe.rine Maria. Sheldon, and in the south
reign of Edward I. and in the reign of Edward Ill.
being then a place of commeil'cial impo:rtance, it sent chancel aisle a memorial to John Hinton A. M. above
40 years rector, 1720, and, Joan hi511 wife, 1712; also a.
three representatives to a great council at Westminster. monument to Johu Kimber, alderman, who erected

The town was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth in 1596, almshouses andl bequeathed! variO'Us charities to the

.and James I. Charles I. and Charles II. granted! it town, 1793; O'll the exteil'ior south wall of the chancel
is a. :nonument with a double canopy supported on
additional privileges. It is now governed by a corpOI·a.-
Ionic pillars, within ·which is a. large kneeling figure
tion, r:onsisting of a mayor, six aldermen and eighteen
of a man case.dl inl half-a;rmour and wearing a. ruff;
•c<mncillors. The borough has a commission of the peace
and nn the other sidEl! three ff.males, a~ so kneeling;
and a separate court of quarter sessions. An Act bdow thes·~ are eleven children; on the frieze is in-

·was obtained in the year 1825 fo:r the improvement, scribed "Griffinus Curteyes, Nov. 3, r587," and <iliov9
it is a shield bearing the arms and cre.st of Curtcys;
lighting and paving~ of the town. The borough a1·ea on the east chancel wall is a large impaled shield with
cwst and mantling; dicocter, ell'm. on a chief, 5 roundles;
was extended by .Act of Parliament, 41 andl 42 sinister, 7 garbs, 4• 2 and I; the church was thoroughly
·vict. (1878), and now embraces Speenba.mland, part of
restored in 1867, undler the direction of Mr. '\.Yoodyer,
·Greenh:J.m and other outlying poriio11rs of the town.
"The gas undertaking was also transferred to the Cor- architect, at a. cost of nearly £1s,ooo, and re-ope.ned

·poration under the provisions of the Borough Exten- Oct. 8, I867, by the late Bishop Wilbe-rforce, and during
sion Act. 'Ihe town is supplied with water by a corn~
the period 1875-91 other repairs were effected at a
J>any whose W()rks are situated at the weste.rn boundary
.of th~ bol'(lugh, near NO!rlhcroft, from a. well sunk cost of £2,444; in 1893 the waHs of the south chapel
-:through the vallc~ alluvium (pea.t on gravel) into the were decorz.ted, a. finEl! ook screen, the gift Oof Aid.
ochalk; it is 14ft. deep from thl' ~urfa.ce, with a. 7ft.
W. G. Adey, erected. a.nd a re-table of Sienna marble,
brick cylinder; the yield is from ~o,ooo to 34,000 gallons
with medallions of lapis lazuli and jasper, wa.s placed
·per hour; from the well the water is raised to a
abov6 the communion table; there a.re sittings for
reservoir at Speen, about half a mile to the north-
about 1,Ioo; some of these are appropriated, but the
·-west, and at a height of 110 feet above the surface church is entirely froo to all parishioners five minutes
before the hour of commencing each service. The
·of the well, the capacity of the resel'V'Oir being about
registers date from the year 1538. The living is a
·uo,ooo gallons. The town was thoroughly drained in
rectory, net yearly value £530, with residence, in the
11894· gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1878 by
the Rev. Edward Imber Gardiner M.A. of Hertford
The church of St. Nichola.s is a. spa.cious edifice of
College, Oxford, rural dean of Newbury and surrogate.
·st<me in the Late Perpendicular style, built in the
·latter part of the reign of Henry VII. or the beginning The ecclesiastical parish of St. John th& Evangelisl

·of the reign of Henry VIII. chiefly by the munificence was formed Oct. 25, 1859, 6Ut of portions of the parishes

·of John Smalwood, alias Winchcombe, a clothier, com- gf N~wl:mry and Greenham. The church, erected by
~monJy known as "Jack of Newbury," whose monogram

.J. S. occurs very frequently on the ancient bosses of

·the roof of the nave; it consiSit.s of chancel with side
.chapel-s (one of which is med as t\11 Qrg-aQo ~~m}]er ?-nil

120 NBWBURY. BERKSHIRE. f (K.ELLY'I

Miss Hubbard in memory of her parents, from the Newbury (still existing, but 'now divided into varioU!t

designs of Mr. W. :Butterfield, architect, and consecrated tenements), and that the King offered him the 'honoul-

in r86o, is a structure of brick in the Decorated sty:e, of knighthood, which he declined : he was a munificent

consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, soubb porch and contributor to the repair and adornment of the parish.

a western turret containing 2 bells: the east and west church, in which, agreea,bly to his desire, he was buried,

windows and five others are stained: there are soo sit- together with .Alice his wife; Henry Winchcombe, ot

tings. The register dates from the year 186o. The Bucklebury, his descendant, was created a baronet in

living is a vicarage, net yearly value £3oo, with residence, 1661, and married Frances, daughter of Thomas

in the gift of the :Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1888 by (Howard), Earl of Berkshire, but the tit:e became

the Rev. Robert Dunn :B.A. of the University of London. ext~nct at the death of his son, Sir Henry Winchcombe,

The population in 1881 was 2,398. in Nov. 1705; the estates devolved on Frances, first wife-

The Catholic Church, dedicated to St.. Joseph, is a of Henry St. John, the celebrated Viscount Bolingbroke,

!'lmall building of red brick, erected in 1864 and has 198 but she leaving no issue, the property passed by her

~ittings. younger sister to the Packer family, and was devised br

The :Baptist C'hapel, N orthbrook street, erected in 1859, Henry Packer, the last male heir, to his sister's son,

will seat 500 persons. The Christadelphian Meeting Winchcombe Henry Hart:ey esq. which family is now

Room, Wharf road, formerly a :Baptist chapel, was erected represented by the co-heiresses of the late "\'V. H. H.

in 1864 and has 150 sittings. The Congregational chapel, Hartley esq.

Northbrook street, will hold 700 persons. The Primitive There is a church estate ·which produces about £258

Methodist chapel in Bartholomew street, erected in 1878, yearly for the repairs of the church and maintenance of

will seat 430 persons, the other at Stroud green, of red services. The remaining charities amount in gross t<I

brick, erected in 1874, has 126 sittings. The Unitarian £3,208 yearly, of which £572 is applied to ooucational

chapel, originally Presbyterian, Northbrook street, erected purposes, £II3 to apprenticing, £36 to t1he clergy,.

in 1697, is of red brick, and affords 6oo sittings. £3,500 (including money from the church and alms

The W esleyan chapel, N orthbrook street, was erected house estate) to the support of almshouses, while £103

in 1837-8, and hall sittings for Boo persons. is distributed in mohey and £79 in kind. 'l'here are-

The Brethren's Meeting room, Northcroft -:ane, formerly upwards of 6o almshouses, of va.rious foundations, in

the old Baptist chapel, will hold 300 persons. different parts of the town.

The Cemetery, on the Newtown road, is about 6 acres The municipal charities consist, of St. Bartholomew's

in extent, with two mortuary chapels, and is managed almshouses, Raymond"s, St. Mary's and Kendrick's.

by a company. Cowslade's: for the educat.jon, clothing andi ap-

The Municipal buildings, occupying an important posi- prenticeship of 10 poor boys. Kimber's compris-

tion -on the west side of the ::\Iarket p:ace, adjoining the ing six almshouses for men and six for women, in the

o:d Town hall, and· erected> during 1876 and I 87J, form Market place, also provides for the education of 25 boytt

part of a scheme for an entire rebuilding of the public and includes out-pensions and other gifts. Robinson's

offices a'nd town hall: the principal feature of the front charity is for poor weavers; Crosse's charity dispenses

e:evation is a lofty tower, with i[uminated clock, the gifts of clothing to poor women. The Church almshouses,

lower stage of which forms the principal entrance, in the Newtown road, comprise six for men anrl six for

opening into a spacious vestibule, from which a broad women. Child's almshouses are for four men. Coxedd's

staircas~ conducts to the principal floor. 'I'he Municipal and Pearce's charity, now administered under one scheme,

insignia inc;ude two fine. maces of silver-gilt, one of has four almshouses for men in Enborne road, it also

which dates from ·the Stuart period, the other bei'ng distributes weekly out-pensions and educational grantiJ.

somewhat later. The Old Town hall has been consider- Hunt's consists of three almshouses for women at West

ably enlarged and improved to meet the immediate re- mill. There is also Dangerfield's benefaction and Miss-

quirements of the town. Smith's Greenham charity.

The Oorn Exchange, standing on the east side of the The Dispensary, in West street, was established in-

Market place, was erected in 1861-2, at a cost of about 1835 and is supported by subscription. The number of

£6,ooo, and' opened on the 4th of Ju'ne, 1862: it is a patients attended to yearly is about 2,ooo.

building of stone in the c;assic ·style, the front elevation Newbury District Hospital, in the Wash road, erected

being relieved by four pi:asters of the Oorinthian order, in 1885, is for the treatment of non-infectious cases of

supporting a pediment. sickness or accident, and has 12 beds and 3 cots.

Olose by the church is the parish room, a red brick Newbury is one of the few places possessing the right
building, erected in 1884, partly by public subscription, of electing boys and ·girls to Christ's Hospital (the Blue-

a'nd including a. verger's house, strong room, lavatory Coat school) in London, the privilege being mjoyedl

and tvro rooms for meetings, 40 ft. long by 18 broad; u'nder t·he wi:I of :Mr. John West·, an opulent clothier of

the foundation stone was laid on July Qth, 18 84. his time and Master of the Clothworkers' Company in

The E Co. 1st Volunteer Battalion, Princess Charlotte 1707, whG was connected with this town: in the election

of Wale~;ls (Royal Berkshire Regiment), has its head preference is given to founders' kin : all householders are-

quarters in the town. entitled to vote.

.A very important wool market was established here on The town is historically important as the scene of two

the 3oth June, 1.862, o'n which occasion there was important batt:es between the royal army of King

deposited 2,300 tons of wool; it is he:d annually on the Charles I. and the Parliamentary forces. Th~ first

first Wednesday in July. action was fought on the Wash and En.borne Heath, to-

'llle Market.day is Thursday. the south of the town, 20 Sept. 1643, and resu~ted un-

The fairs are on Ho:y Thursday, July 5th, September favourably for the king, who commanded ibis army in

4th, November 8th; the September fair is held in a person; between five and six thousand men wer€ slaill'

small meadow on the south of the town, near which, in on both sides, including the chivalrous and patrioti~

another field, the horse and cow fairs are he:d : besides Lord Falkland ; the tumuli where many of the dead were

these fairs there is a. large hiring market held in the buried still exist on Wash Common. A memorial obelisk

Market place, on the first Thursday after O~d Michael- has been erected to Lord Falkland on the battlefie:d, by

rnas day. public subscription, on a site give'n by Mr. Waiter Money

There is an iron clock tower in the Broadway, 30 feet F.S ..A. hon. sec. to the committee, who ih.as published a

in ht>ight, with four i[uminated dials, four ornamental full and detai:ed account of the two engagements, andt

bracket lamps and two drinking fountains, erected at a also an exhaustive history of the borough of Newbury.

cost of £278 ss. subscribed by the townspeople. .A The memorial, which also commemorates Robert (Dor-

Russian gun also stands in the Broadway. mer), Earl of Carnarvon, Henry ~Spencer), Earl of Sun-

'llle Hospital of St. Bartholomew, an ancient founda- derland, and other Royalist officers who fell in this

tion, to which a charter was granted by King John, has battle, was inaugurated by the late Earl of Carnarvon in

an income of £ I,o58 a year and supports 24 almshouses Sept. 1878. The second battle was fought on the north

and St. Bartholomew's Grammar School. side of the town, 27 Oct. 1644, at which the king and'

Here is a. chapel called "The Litten," in which the Prince of "\Vales (af·:erwards Char~es II.) were•

prayers were formerly said one a week for the benefit present. Cromwell also he~d a command on the Parlia-

of the almspeople: at this chapel the famous "Jack of mentary side : no decided> advantage was gained by

Newbury" is said to have bi>e'n married. Furer, in his either party, but the quarrel between the Earl of Man-

''Worthies of England," describes him as "the most che9ter and Cromwe~l, resulting from this action, in-

considerable clothier (without fancy or fiction) Eng~and directly led to the death of the king and the advance-

ever beheld;" he kept roo looms at work in his own ment of Cromwe:I to the Protectorship.

house, and in iihe expedition ag-ainst James IV. of Scot- . The streets of Newbury exhibit a number of good speci-

land he is said to have equipped a continge'nt of 100 men mens of ancient houses. The remains of the house-

for the king's service " as we:I armed and better clothed occupied by Jack of Newbury near the "Jack" hotel,

than any;" tradition re~ates that he feasted Henry VIII. Northbrook street, appear to date from a. period earlier

and Queen Catherine of .Arragon at his own house in than that of Henry VII. and belong most probably to-

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. NEWBURY. 121

the middle of the 15th century. A gabled house, also "for faithful services in her dangers." By purchase~
in Northbrook street, where the pilasters and mouldings Hampstead Marshall and Benham-Valence became the-
with egg and tongue ornament, are most skilfully property of Sir William Craven kt. Lord Mayor of Lon-
rendered, is particularly noticeable. The house in which don in r6rr, and ancestl)r of the noble family of Craven,
Lord Falkland was quartered before the first battle of in whose possession it still remains.
Newbury is yet standing in Cheap street, and the room
in which he partook of the Sacrament very early on the The area is 1,242 acres; assessable value, £38,6o5; the-
morning of the fight is still in existence, at the rear of population in 18gr was 7,ro2, including 241 officers and.
the premises, in Faikland court. The most interesting inmates in the workhouse.
srecimen of old buiUing;; that connect the town of New-
Lury witJ1 the palmy days of the clothing trade is the Verger, John Edgar Stillman.
Jacobean Cloth Hall, near the Market place: the upper
part is suppmted by oak columns or piers, the interven- Apparitor, St. John the Evangelist, George Green.
ing Sfaces being closed up with brickwork splayed on S.PEE~HA~!LA:SD forms part of the municipal
either side of the pillars, and above is a bold cornice on borough of Newbury on the north; it is a separate and
large projecting brackets richly carved with grotesque ecclesiastical parish, formed Sept. 14th, 1844, from the
heads. civil parish of Speen. The church of St. Mary, erected
in r 83o, is an edifice of stone in the Decorated style,
The soil on the banks of the Kennet forms water consisting o: chancel, nave, and north and south porches
meadows in which beds of peat occur from 5 to 15 feet and a turret containing 2 bells: it was enlarged iu I 879

thick; and when burnt the ashes form a valuable fer- by the addition of a new chancel, designed by the late-
G. E. Street esq. R.A. and the remainder of the building
tiliser: in these peat beds very many natural and arti-
has been partly remodelled, at a total cost of £7,ooo; a
ficial antiquities have been discovered, a very complete
peculiarity of this church is that it stands due north and.
account of which is given in the " Transactions of the
Newbury District Field Club," vol. I872-5. south, and is said to have been the first church in the
diocese of Oxford built on a new site since the Reforma-
The manor, on the accession of the Normans, fell to
the Earl of Perche, whose successor, Thomas, was slain tion: there are 789 sittings, 200 being free. The register-
at the battle of :Lincoln in I2I7. The Bishop of Chalons, dates from the year 183I. The living is a vicarage, net
his heir, sold it to William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. yearly value £3oo, with residence, in the gift of the
Queen Elizabeth gave it with Benham-Valence to John Bishop of Oxtord, and held since I875 by the Rev-
Joseph Games Gibbs M.A. of Trinity College, Cam-
Baptiste Castillion, a Piedmontese of her Privy Chamber,
bridge and surrogate. The population in I89I was z,ogs ..
Church caretaker, Mr. Langton.

OFFICIAL EST.ABLISH-'IE~TS, LOCAL I~STITUTIOXS &c.

Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel sundays, 10 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but

Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Cheap street. not paid

-William Henry Edwards, postmaster. Open daily, Pillar Letter Boxes at Station road, Bartholomew street,.

except sundays, from 7 a.m. till 9 p.m.; sundays, for London road, Donnington square, Enborne road, The

stamps & telegraph business only, from 8 a.m. till Bridge, Northbrook street & lVhite House (London road}

10 a.m & Stroud Green & Eastfields, lVestfields

Dispatch. COUNTY MAGISTR_iTES FOR NE\YBURY PETTY
Letters for Newbury & neighbourhood posted till 5·50
SESSIOXiL DIVISION.
a.m. for rural posts & 6.40 a. m. for town; London & Tull .Albert Richard esq. D.L. Crookham house, Newbury,.
t.own beyond, Reading & West of England, 8.55 a.m. ;
Bath, Bristol & West of England, Reading, London & chairman
London forward & Thatcham, second post, I I a.m. ;
East & "\Vest Ilsley, Compton Hermitage & Hampstead Jeune Right Hon. Sir Francis Henry K.C.n., M.A., D.C.L.
Norris, second post, ro. 15 a.m. ; Hungerford & Marl- ~-\.rlington manor, Kewbury
boro', 11.45 a.m. ; London & towns in the north-east &
south-east divisions of the county, 1.55 p.m. ; (letters Scott Sir Francis David Sibbald bart. The Firs, Newbury
posted before 11 a.m. are delivered in Henler, Slough Archer-Houblon Col. George B. Hallingbury Place,_
& Southall the same evening ; Reading as late as 5· ro
p.m. delivered same evening) ; also for Hungerford Bishop's Stortford
& Reading, north-western counties, Scotland & Ireland, Baxendale Lloyd Harry esq. Greenham lodge, Newbury
for delivery by first post in morning, 5. ro p.m. ; Michel- Best Marmaduke Head esq. Donnington grove, Newbury
dever Station & south & south-west of England, 7· ro Bingham Alfred John esq. Salder Hill ho. Speen, Newbury
p.m. ; Birmingham, Midland & Northern counties & for Eyre Henry John Andrews esq. Hall Dene, Guildford

Greene Benjamin Buck esq. Midgham house, Reading
Martin-Atkins Ernest Edwin esq. Down End, Chieveley,

Newbury
Matthews Stephen esq. M ..i. Hill house, Newbury
third town delivery, 4· ro p.m. ; London, Basingstoke, Mount William George esq. M.P., D.L., M.A. \Yasing
Hungerford, Abingdon, Oxford &c. & "\Vest of England Place, Reading
& South Wales (all parts), 8 p.m.; London & towns Mount William Arthur esq. \Yasing Place, Reading
beyond; also Reading, Henley, Windsor, Maidenhead, Ricardo Lieut.-Col. Gerald Craven, Donnington, Newbury
Slough & Southall, 9.30 p.m.; 4th town delivery 6.10 St. John Lieut.-Col. Edward John. Slinfold, Horsbam
p.m. & letters posted till 6.50 p.m. are delivered same Slocock Charles Samuel esq. M.A. United University-
night in Oxford. Sundays-Letters for Newbury & club, London SW
neighbourhood posted till 5·50 a.m.; Hungerford & Southby Arthur esq. Aldem Bridge house, Newbury
\Vest of England & South Wales; Micheldever Station Valpy Robert Harris esq. Enborne lodge, Newbury
& south & south-west of England; London & towns The Mayor of Newbury & the chairman, for the time-
beyond; also Reading, Abingdon, Maidenhead, Walling- being, of the Newbury Rural District Council, are e:x-
ford, Aylesbury &c. 6.30 p.m. all parts
ofllcio magistrates

Delivery. Clerk, F. Quekett Louch, Market place

London & cross posts, 7 a.m.; London, Reading, Hunger- Assistant Uerk, 1Yilliam Robert Pettifer, Market place

ford & north & north-western counties, II.30 a.m.; Meet at the Municipal buildings, at 12 o'clock every-
London & Reading, 4.15 p.m.; London, Reading, Bath,
thursday.
Bristol, Devizes & Marlborough, 6.15 p.m. The office The places in the ~ewbury division are :-Beedon, Box-
is closed on sundays from IO a.m. Sunday delivery, ford, Brimpton, Bucklebury, Bright-Waltham, Chie-
7 a.m
Telegraph Office is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. ; sundays, veley, Cold Ash, Enborne, Frilsham, Greenham, Hamp-
stead Marshall, Hampstead ~orris,Leckhampstead,Midg­
8 a.m. to Io p.m ham, Peasemore,Sandleford,Shaw-cum-Donningtcn,S.hef-
ford East, Sheffcrd West, Speen, Stanford Dingley,_
Town Sub Post & M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity• & Insurance Thatcham, 1Vasing, "\Velford, "\Vinterbonrne, Wool-
hampton, Yattendon
Office, Broadway, Speenhamland.-T. J. Freeman, sub·
BOROUGH MAGISTRATES.
postmaster. Bo:x closes at 5· IS, 8.25 & 10.35 a.m.

12.55• 3.30, 5·35• 6.30, 6.40, 8.2o & 8.50 p.m.; sundays,
5·35 p.m. Telegrams can be only handed in at this
office & telegraph money orders are issued, but not paid The Mayor & Recorder
Town Sub Post Office, Shaw road.-Tom Rester, sub- Coldicutt Frederick J. Welldale, Newtown road
postmaster. Box cleared 7·40 a.m., 12.10, 6.50 & 8.5 Dolton Henry, Kendrick house
Elliott Josepb, Northbrook street
p.m. ; sundays, 5·15 p.m
Town Sub Post, M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Hanington Harman Skinner, Northbrook street
Office, St. John's, Derby road.-Arthur Floyd, sub- Hemsted S. Newbury

postmaster. :&Jx closes at 8.15 & 10.30 a.m., r.15, H()pson Joseph, Northbrook street

3.4o, 5.30, 6.30, 7· 5 & 8. IO p.m. ; sundays, 5.20 p.m Jackson James Porteus, Lindum villas, St. John's road!

Town Sub Post Office, Wash Common.-Ellis John Ed- Jackson A. Market place

wards, sub-postmaster. Collections 12.45 & 6. 15 p.m. ; Knight Stephen, Holland house, Newbury

122 NEWBURY. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY7S

Long Robert, Bartholomew street NEWBlJRY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.
Mason John H. Donnington road.
Midwinter Henry Jordan, "\'Valtair villa, .Adam & Eve rd Meets at the Workhouse every alternate tuesday
Rankin John, Cheap street at 10.30 a.m.
Watson Henry M.D. 73 Korthbrook street
The ex-Mayor Clerk, Stanley Vickers Pinniger, Market place, Newbnry
'The Judge of the County Court holden at Newbury Treasurer, .Albert Edward Pike, Newbury
Medical Officer of Health, W. T. G. Woodforde M.D.
Clerk, William Robert Pettifer, Market place Reading
Highway Surveyor, Herbert Sprey Talbot, Cold Ash
.Sittings held fridays at 10.30 a.m. at the Police court, Sanitary Inspector & Surveyor, Waiter Church, 9 South.
Municipal buildings, Market place.
ampton terrace, Newbury

CORPORATION. PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.

18~8·99· 6 Cemetery, New To-wn roo.d, J01hn Stoodley, sexton
Corn Exchange, Market place, He:riry Pratt, manager
lligh Steward, The Earl of Carnarvon County & Borough Police Station, Speenhamland, Oliver
Mayor, Councillor William Edmonds
Deputy-Mayor, Councillor Robert !..ong J.P Robotham, superintendent; 1 inspector, r sergeant &
Recorder, Frederick Michael Coleridge Mackarness, 8 constables

Crown Office row, Temple, London EO County Court, Town Hall, His Honor Vernon Lushington

.Aldermen. • :r.Q.C. judge; James Cockbnrn Pinniger, registrar &

high bailiff; W. H. Kemp, bailiff. The court is

§Henry Dolton tWilliam Hall held monthly, but subject to alterations by the judge
§James Henry Lucas tJoseph Hopson
§Thomas Fidler tJames Porteus Jackson The district comprises the following places in 'Berk-
shire :-.Ashmore Green, .Aldermaston, 'Beedon, Bot-
Councillors. hampstead, 13oxford, Brimpton, Bucklebury, Bagnor,
Chieveley, Cold Ash, Courage, Crookham, Down End,
Korth Ward.
Presiding Alderman at ·ward Elections, Joseph Hopson. Donnington, Easton, Enborne, Frilsham, Greenham,
Hampstead Marshall, Hampstead Norris, Henwick,
*H. J. Davis ' !Richard Ravenor Hermitage, Hoe Benham, Hunts Green, Little Hunger-
*Josepll Eliott §F. H. Adnams ford, Leckhampstead, Marsh :Benham, Migham, New-
*H. S. Hanington §W. E. Lewendon bury, Oare, Peasemore, Sandleford, Shaw, Stanmore,
tWilliam Edmonds Stanford Dingley, Stockcross Strand Green, Snels-
tErnest Harris 1 §J. Stradling more, Speen, Speenhamland, Thatcham, Wasing, Wel-
ford, Wellhouse, Westbrook, Weston, Wickham, Win·
I terbourne, East Woodspeen, \Vorld's End, Woollump-
ton & Yattendon; & the following in Hants :-Adbury,
South '\Yard. Ashmansworth, Baughnrst, Burghclere, Crux Easton,
Headley, Highclere, Itchnipwell, Kingsc1ere, Knights-
IPresiding Alderman at Ward Elections, William Hall bridge, Litcheld, Newtown, Penclose, Penwood, Sid-
*Robert Long !H. J. Midwinter monton, Whitway,Woodcot, EaSit Woodhay & Wolverton

*Charles Lucas §James N. Day The Hungerford County Court district is attached to

*J. Rankin §H. T. Harding the Newbury court for bankruptcy jurisdiction; George
Mallam, solicitor, St. .Adates, O:xf9rd, official receiver
tAlfred Jackson §llenjamin Smith in bankruptcy
Certified Bailiffs, appointed under the " Law of Distress
!Stephen Knight Amendment Act" Dreweatt & 1Vatson, Market place,
A. W. Neate, Oxford street & Joseph N. Day, Market pl
Marked thus * retire in Xovember, 18gg. Dispensary, West street, Sir Francis S. Scott, hart. hon.
sec.; William Thomas Parker Douglas B.A., M.B.
Marked thus t retire in November, I<JOO. consulting physician; Robert Birch L.R.C.P.Lond.
Richard Hickman M.R.C.S.Eng. W. Jenner Clarke
Marked thus § retire in November, 1901. M.R.C.S.Eng. & Robert Gill Wyllie M.B. medical

Marked thus t retire in November, 1904.

The Town Council aJso act as the Urban District
Council

The ordinary meeting of the Corporation is he'ld

monthly on the third tuesday at 10.30 a.m
Mayor's .Auditor, Councillor Benjamin Smith
Elective .Audifors, John Mason & W. H. Belcher

Officers of the Corporation & Urban District Council. officers ; Henry Kimber, dispenser & acting sec. ; at-
tendance every day from 10 to r2.30 a.m
Town Clerk & Clerk to the Urban District Council & District Hospital, Andover road, Henry Watson M.D., R.
Hickman M.R.C. S.Eng., John '\Vatson M. D., R. J.
Borough School Attendance Committee, F. Quekett Kerby M.D. & W. J. Olark M.R.C.S.Eng. medical
Louch, Northbrook street officers; Lieut.-Col. 1-V. H. C'unliffe, hon. sec
Assistant Town Clerk, Wm. Robert Pettifer, Market place Inland Revenue Office & Corn Return Office, Market
P.orough Treasurer, .Albert Edward Pike, Capital & place; James Heffernan, supervisor; Nathaniel Burgess
Counties Bank & 'William Henry Kenney, officers
Clerk of the Peace, James Cockburn Pinniger, :Market pl Literary & Scientific Institute, Northbrook street, W. A.
Coroner, Henry Watson M.D. 61 Northbrook street Ranshaw, librarian
Medical Officer of Health, W. T. G. 'Voodforde M.D. Newbury District Hospital, Wash road
Reading Stamp, License & Legacy Duty Office, Market place, Geo.
Public Analyst, Jas. Brierley, 12 Brunswick sq. Southmptn John Cosburn, distributor
l3orough Accountant, Wm. Robert Pett.ifer, Market place Town Hall & Municipal Buildings, Market place, Charles
Superintendent of Police, Oliver Robotham, Speenhamland Mundy, keeper
Borough Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector & Inspector of Temperance Hall, Northcroft lane,'\Vm. E. Lewenden, sec
Common Lodging Houses, Samuel Joseph Lee-Vincent Volunteer Fire Brigade Station, The Wharf, .A. Church,
C.E. Craven street capt. ; H. S. IHanington, 2nd officer; John Hassell,
.Assistant Borough Surveyor, Fleetwood Haswell Pollard, engineer; John )Vatson M.D. hon. surgeon; H. S.
Bartholomew street, Greenham Hanington, hon. sec. ; William Harrison, sen. sergt. ;
Inspector of Weights & Measures, Henry Pratt, "\\'-est mills Henry Booth, hon. treasurer, & 13 men
Veterinary Inspector for Newbury & North Rants, under
the Contagious Diseases (Animals) .Act, Edward Curtis YEOMANRY CAVALRY.
Howard M.R.C.V.S

Collector of District Rates & Borough Rents, George Berkshire, 2nd Squadron, C Troop, H. M. Jessel M.P.
Ashdown; office, Northbrook street commanding; J. Platt, quartermaster-sergt. ; Squadron
Sergeant-Major F. Smith R.E. instructor
School Attendance Officer, Thomas S. Guyer, Kennet road
Town Hall Keeper & Town Sergeant, Charles Munday VOLUN'l'EERS.
Town Crier & Bill Distributor, Francis Robert A.ndrews,
rst Volunteer Battalion (Princess Charlotte of Wales's)
13erkeley road Royal Berkshire Regiment (E Co. ), r4o Bartholomew

Commissioners for the Income, Land & Property Tax for street; Capt. Dennis de Vitre, commanding; Sergt.
Thomas J ames Flinder, drill sergeant & armourer
the Borough, John Mason, J. H. Mason, J. P. Jack-
son, John Flint, R. Birch, S. Knight & .A. Jackson .
Commissioners for the Property, Land &; Income Tax for
NEWBURY U~ION.
the Division of Newbury, W. G. Mount M.P. chairman;
Board day, tuesday, at 10 a.m. at the Workhouse.
A. R. Tull, W. H. Dunn, Col. G. B. Arcber-Houblon,
M. H. Best, Major .Aldridge, Major-Gen. Cherry-Gar- The union comprises the following places :-Boxford,
Brimpton, Chieveley, CQld Ash, Enborne, Greenham,
Tard, E. E. Martin-.Atkins, A. Southby & S. Matthews Hampstead Marshall, Leckhampstead, Midgham, New·
Clerk to Commissioners, F. Quekett Louch, solicitor bury, Sandleford, Shaw-cum-Donnington, Speen,

tDIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. ~EWBURY. 123

Thatcham, Wasing, "\Yelford, Winterbourne & ·wool- lfesleyan, Northbrook street, Re"·s. George Bolderston &
hampton. The population of the union in 18gr was Robert H. Killip; :ro.3o a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m
21,456; area, 43•457 acres; assessable value in 1898,
\'lesleyan 3Iethodist, The City, 3 p.m. & 6.30 p.m
.£89•440
SCHOOLS.
•Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Stan-
ley Vickers Pinniger, Market place, Newbury St. Bartholomew's Grammar. Enborne road, reconsti·
tuted under the Endowed School Commission & now
·Treasurer, Albert Edward Pike, Newbury under the control of & board of governors ; there are
!Relieving & Vaccination Officers, No. r district, Alfred
75 scholars paying fees varying from 5 guineas to ro
Joseph Rawlins, Kennet road, Newbury; No. 2 district, guineas yearly; the Rev. John Atkins M.A.., LL.B. of
William Tapsfield, Donnington road, Speenbamland; Trinity College, Dublin, head master
No. 3 district, William Draper, Thatcham
Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. r district, St. 1Iary's National (boys & girls), Speenha.mland, built
Richard Hickman M.R.C.S.Eng. 121 Eartholomew st. in 1835 & enlarged in r88o ~ endowed by the late Col.
Newbury; No. 2 district, Montagu Humphrey Courtenay Page, of Speen; for 8o boys & 8o girls ; average attend-
Palmer L.R.C.P.Lond. Manor house, Speenhamland;
No. 3 district, Percy Lambert L.R.C.P.Lond. Thatcham ance, 76 boys & 76 girls; Arthur Alfred Herring,
Superintendent Registrar, Stanley Vickers Pinniger, master; Miss Agnes Hannah Woodley, mistress
St. Mary's National (infants), Backway, Speenhamland.
Market place, Newbury; deputy, W. J. Moss
built in 1874, for rzo children; average attendance,
,Registrars of Births & Deaths, Newbury sub-district,
.Alfred Joseph Rawlins, Kennet road, Newbury; deputy, 75; Miss Emily Harriet Hood, mistress
John Wilson Westacott, Priory road; Speen sub-district,
William Tapsfield, Donnington road, Speenhamland ; St. Nicholas National, Enborne road, built in 1859, for
deputy, Mrs. Tapsfield, Speenhamland; Thatcham sub- 278 boys; average attendance, 259; & 278 girls ; aver-
district, William Draper, Thatcham; deputy, Ed"W-in age atendance, 220; "\Yilliam Alma Ranshaw, master;
Head, Thatcham
Miss Hannah Todd, mistress
'Registrars of Marriages, Francis R. Bravant, 33 West st. St. Nicholas' .Kational (infants), West street, built in

Newbury; depu~y. Harry Hayton, Fern Lea villas, 1872, for 200 children; average attendance, 164; lvliss
Queen's road; William Draper, Thatcham; deputy,
E. Head, Thatcham Clementina Calise, mistress
"The ·workhouse, Newtown road, is a structure of red
St. John's :Kational (infants), Newtown road, built in
briek & will hold 263 inmates; Rev. John Atkins M.A.,
1874• for 215 children; average attendance, 163; Miss
LL.B. chaplain; Robert Birch L.R.C.P.Lond. medical
officer; \'Villi am Hawkes, master; Mrs. Lucy Hawkes, Ethel Luckett. mistress
matron
St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic), Speenhamhmd, built in

r864> for 100 boys & girls; Miss Catherine Scully,mistrss

British, Newtown road, built in 1839, for 200 boys; aver-

age attendance, 200; John Currie Slight, master; &;

girls, average attendance, no; Miss Elizabeth Pascoe,.

mistress .

School Attendance Committee. Wesleyan (mixed), Nortbbrook street, for 290 children;

'Meets at the Workhouse every alternate tuesda•v at average attendance, 255; Wm. ·wise Bowring, master
ro.3o a.m.
NEWSPAPERS.
Clerk, Stanlev Vickers Pinniger, Market place
Berkshire Chronicle. Market place, J. W. H. Kemp,
.Attendance Officers, William Tapsfield, Speenha.mland;
agent, published sat
William Draper, Thatcham
Newbnry Express, ·w. Hall, Broadway, proprietor; pub-
PUBLIC OFFICERS.
lished thu:rs
Assessor' & Collector of Land & Income Taxes & House Newbury lVeekly News, 34 Northbrook street; Blacket
Duty, G. J. Cosburn, Market plaC1l
& Turner, publishers; published thur9
Assistant Overseer, Benson Fletche-r Freeman, Market pl Ht-ading Mercury .t Berks County Paper, Market place;
J3ailiffs to Levy Distress under the Agricultural Holdings
F. "\Y. & H. A. Cowslade, Reading, publishers; G. J.
.'A.ct, r883, Dreweatt & Watson, Market place & Joseph Cosbum, agent & reporter; published sat. See adverl
·N. ·Day, Market place
•Certifying Factory Surgeon, Henry Watson M.D. 61 Great Western Railway Station.
Northbro1k street
•Collector of Queen's Taxes, Charles Edmonds, jun. 41 Omnibuses to meet all trains leave Speenhamland; John
Northbrook street Humphries, proprietor
1CorGner ·for 'the Ne.wbury District of the County. James
Cockburn Pinniger, Market place Railway Carriers.

"Treasurer to the Newbury Municipal Charities, F. Quekett Picliord & Co.; office at the Queen's Hotel yd. Markt. pl
Sutton & Co. Parcels agency; Edward Gould, Cheap st
Loueh, Market plaee
CARRIERS, with the Inns they go from & days of
PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of Services. departure.

:St. Nicholas' Church, Bartholomew stre~t. Rev. Edward Aldhourne Stacey, 'Jack' tap, thurs. 2.30
Aldermaston-Merrick, 'Catherineo Wheel,' thnrs.at 3.30
Jmber Gardiner M.A. rector &- rural dean; holy com- Aldworth-Cook, 'Bricklayers' Arms/ thurs. at 4;
·munion, 7 it 8 a.m. & r2.3o noon; rr a.m. 2.30 &
'6.30 p.m.; wed. &; fri. litany at rr a.m.;. matins at J effrey, 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. & thurs. at 4
A.lresford see Basingstoke
9 a.m. daily & evensong at 6 p.m. daily Andover-Brown~ ' Bricklayers' Arms,' mon.. & thn:rs. at
·St. John's Chur~h, New Town road, R~v. Robert Dnnn
3· 30; Briant, 'Globe,' mon. tues. & sat at 3; Cook,
B.J\.. vicar; Rev. Marsh Kirkby M.A. curate; 8 & 'Carna.rvon Arms/ thurs. at 3

'li a..m. 3 & 6.30 p.m. & ro a.m. & 6 p.m. daily except Anstey-Mitchell, 'Black Bear,' thurs. at 4
Ashampstead-Fisher, 'Catherine Wheel/ thnrs. at 3;
wed. & fri.; wed. & fri. u a.m. & 7-30 p.m
Ilsley, 'Waggon & Horses/ thurs. at 3
·St. ::'lfary's, Speenhamla1d1 Rev. .Joseph G. Gibbs M.A. Ashford Hill--Green, ' Admn & Eve,' thurs. at 3

vicar; 8 & 11 a. m. & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; wed & fri. rr a.m Ashmansworth--Briant, ' Globe,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3

:St. Joseph's, Catholic, London road, Rev. Henry Kelly, Ashmore Green-Major, '"\Vhite Hart,' thurs. at 3
Ashridge Reid, 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. thurs. &
priest; holy communion 9 a.m. mass, 11 a.m. vespers
.& benediction, 6.30 p.m.; holy days, same as sundays; sat. at 3
week days, mass, 8.30 a.m Bagnor-Thomas, 'Chequers,' daily at 3·45
Basildon-llsley, ' Waggon & Horses,' thurs. at 3
!taptist, Northbrook street, Rev. George J. Knight, 10.45 Basingstoke Pearce, 'Black Bear.~ mon. wed. thurs. fri.

a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; m'Jn. &; wed. 7·~"5 p.m & sat. at 3; Brown, 'Bricklayers~ Arms,' mon. & thurs.

Eref hren's Meeting Room, Northcroft lane, r r a.m. & at 3-30; .A.yres, 'KingCharles,'mon. &; thurs. at 3

6.30 p.m.; fri. &i mon. 7.30 p.m :Baughurst--Ayres, 'King Charles,' mon. & thurs. at 3;
Christadelphian Meeting Roo1I4 Wharf road, 6.30 p.m Mrs. Bunbury~ 'Weavers~ .Arms,' thurs. at 2.3o; Wicks,
Christian ~fission Temperance Hail, N orthcroft lane, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs_ at 3

6.45 p.m Beedon-Rea<4 ~waggon & Horses,' tues. thurs. & sat.
at 3; Sawyer, 'Chequers,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 2.30;
Congregational, Northbrook street, Rev. Edward H. Titch-
marsb M.A. :w.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7-IS p.m Stacey~ ' .Jack ' tap, thurs. at 2. 30 ; .Teffrey, ' Waggon &

Primitive Methodist, Bartholomew street, :w.30 a.m. & Horses,' tues. & thurs. at 3

6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Bonrne St. Mary--Cook. ' Carnarron .Arms," thurs. at 3; ·
'Primitive Methodist, Strand Green, 2.30 & 6.30 p.m.;
Cully, 'White Hart/ thlll'l!. & sat. at 2.30
thurs. 7· 15 p.m
Bo:dord--Uzrel, ' The Jack/ mon_ tnes. thurs. & sat. at;
Salvation .AJ:my Barracks, Northcroft lar.e, 7 &; II a.m
2.3o; Thomas,' Chequers,' daily at 3·45
& 3 &; 6.30 p.m. sundays; &; every week evening at 8
Bradfield-Mit<:hell, 'Black Bear,' thn.u. at 4
Unitarian, Northbrook street, Rev. T. Johnson Stewart,
u a.m. &; 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m

124 N.EWBUBY•• BERKSHIRE.

:Brightwaltham-Thomas, 'Chequers,' daily at 3·45 Lambourn Woodlands-Shuff, 'Waggon & Horses,' mon.

Brimpton-Merrick, ' Catherine Wheel,' thurs. at 2.30; thurs. & sat. at 3

Wicks, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs. at 3; Ayres, Leckhampstead-see Boxford

'King Charles,' mon. & thurs. at 3 Leckhampstead Thicket Thomas, 'Chequers,' daily..

Bucklebury-Mitchell, 'Black Bear,' thurs. at 4 at 3·45

Burghclere Brown, 'Bricklayers' Arms,' mon. & thurs. Long Lane Eastwell, 'Monument,' tues. thurs. & sat..

at 3.30; Mercer, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs. at 4 at 3

llurnt Hill-Rumble Bros. 'Waggon & Horses,' tues & Marlborough-Buxey, 'Bricklayers' Arms,' thurs. at 3;;

thurs. at 3 Denton, 'Black Bear,' thurs. at 3

Chaddleworth-see Boxford Marsh Benham-W. T. Pearce, 'Bacon Arms,' daily at 4

Chieveley-Hewkin, 'Jack' tap, mon. thurs. & sat. at Mortimer-Merrick, 'Catherine Wheel,' thurs. at 2.30

2.30; Jacobs, 'Sun hotel,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 2.30; North Heath-Thomas, ' Chequers,' daily at 3·45

Reid, 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 2.30 Old Benham-Perris, 'Fighting Cocks,' tues. thurs. &

Chilton, Hungfd.-Denton, 'Black Bear,' thurs. at 3.30 sat. at 4

Cold Ash-Sharp, 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. thurs. & Padworth-Merrick, 'Gatherine Wheel,' thurs. & sat.

S~.~3 ~2.30
Compton -Jeffrey, 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. thurs. Peasemore Hewkin, 'Jack' tap, mon. thurs. & sat. a~

& sat. at 3; King, 'Jack' tap, thurs. at I 2.30; Jacobs, 'Sun hotel,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 2.30

Coombe Annetts, 'Dolphin,' mon. & thurs. at 3 Ram&bury-Denton, 'Black BeaT,' thnrs. at 3

Crookham-Wicks, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs. at 3 Reading-Mitchell, 'Black Bear,' thurs. at 4; llsley,

Crux Easton-Cully, 'White Hart,' thurs. & sat. at 2.30 '"\Vaggon & Horses,' thurs. at 3; Cooper, 'Black. Bear,'

Curridge-Eatwell 'Monument,' tues. thnrs. & sat. at 2 sat. at 3; Rumble Bros. 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. &

Eastbury-Dowling, ' Queen's,' mon. thurs. & sat. at thurs. at 3

3.30 Shalbourne-Levy, 'Globe,' mon. & thurs. at 3·30

Eastgarston-Dowling, 'Queens,' mon. thurs. & sat.at 3.30 Shefford-Dowling, 'Queen's,' mon. thurs. & sat. at

Easton-Hamblin, 'Black Bear,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 3.30; Hamblin, 'Black Bear,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 3;

3; Smallbone, 'Rising Sun,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3·30 Perris, 'Monument,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3; Harris,

Ecchinswell-Pearce, 'Black Bear,' mon. & thurs. at 3; 'Waggon & Horses,' thurs. at 3

Trigg, 'King Charles,' mon. wed. thurs. & sat. at 3 Shefford Woodlands-Shuff, 'Waggon & Horses,,' mon.

Frilsham-Rumble Bros. 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. & thurs. & sat. at 3

thurs. at 3; Ilsley, 'Waggon & Horses,' thurs. at 3 Silchester-Wicks, 'Catherine ·wheel,' mon. & thurs. at 3

Ham-Levy, 'Globe,' mon. & thurs. at 3.30 Stanford Dingley-Mitchell, 'Black Bear,' thurs. at 3

Hampstead Marshall-Levy, ' Globe,' mon. & thurs. at Stockcross-Pearce, 'Bricklayers' Arms,' daily, except

3.30; Miles, 'Bricklayers' .Arms, tues. thurs. & sat. wednesday,at 3 ;. W'. T. Pearce, 'Bacon Arms,' daily at 4

at 3-30 Symonton-Trigg, 'King Charles,' mon. wed. thurs. &

Hampstead Norris Fulker, 'Carnarvon .Arms,' tues. sat. at 3

thurs. & sat. at 3; Jeffrey, 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. Tadle:v-Mrs. ¥Vest, 'Monument,' mon. at 2 & thurs. at 4

& thurs. at 3 Thatcham-Maslin, 'vVaggon & Horses,' daily at 12.30 &

Hermitage Cook, 'Bricklayers' Arms,' thurs. at 4; 4.3o; wed. 12.30 only; thurs. & sat. 4.30 & S-30

Fisher, '·waggon & Horses,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 3; vVantage-Uzzell, 'Jack,' tues. at 2.30; Thomas,

Burgess, 'Catherine Wheel,' thurs. & sat. at 4.30; 'Chequers,' tues. at 3· 45

Rumble Bros. 'vVaggon & Horses,' tues. & thurs. at vVelford-Dowling, 'Queen's,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3.30;

4; Ilsley, '"'Waggon & Horses,' thurs. at 3 Perris, 'Monument,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3 ; Hamblin,

Highclere Briant, 'Globe,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3; 'Black Bear,' mon. tues. thurs. & sat. at 3; Small-

Culley, 'White Hart,' thurs. & sat. at 2.30 bone 'Rising Sun,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3.30

Hoe Benham-Pearce, 'Bricklayers' Arms,' daily, except ·weston-Hamblin, ':Black Bear,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 3;

wed. at 3; W. T. Pearce, 'Bacon Arms,' daily, at 4 Perris, 'Monum~nt,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3 ; Small.
Hungerford-L. Rosier, 'Queen's,' tues. thurs. fri. & I bone, 'Rising Sun,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3.30

sat. at 2.30; Shuff, 'Waggon & Horses,' mon. thurs. Whitchurch-Brown, 'Bricklayers' .Arms,' mon. & thurs.

& sat. at 4; Buxey, 'Bricklayers' .Arms', thurs. a.t 3; at 3.30

Denton, 'Black Bear,' thurs. at 3; Bowsher, 'Waggon 1Vickham-Shuff, 'Waggon & Horses,' mon. thurs. & sat.

& Horses,' thurs. 3 at 3; Pearce, 'Bricklayers' .Arms,' daily, except wed.

Hungerford Newtown-Shuff, '"\Vaggon & Horses,' mon. at 3

thurs. & sat. ab 3 Wickham Heath-W. T. Pearce, 'Bacon .Arms,' daily at 4;

Hurstbourne-Levy, 'Globe,' mon. & thurs. at 3; Culley, Perris, 'Fig-hting Coch,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 4

'White Hart,' thurs. & sat. at 2.30 \Vinchester-Brown, 'Bricklayers' .A.rms,' tues. & thurs.

Ilsley (East & West)-Barlow, 'Waggon & Horses,' tues. at 3.30

& thurs. 2.30 Winterbourne-Thoroas, 'Chequers,' daily at 3-45

Inhurst-Wicks, 'Catherine Wheel,' mon. & thurs. at 3 Woodcote-Culley, 'White Hart,' thurs. & sat. at 2.30

Inkpen-Rolfe, 'White Hart,' thurs. at 3.30; Levy, "\Yoodhay-Taylor, 'Westcombs' tap, daily, except wed.

'Globe,' mon. & thurs, at 3.30; Pole, 'Bricklayers' at 1; Edward8, 'Dolphin,' mon. thurs. & sat. at 3

Arms,' thurs. at 2.30 Woodhay East--Paice, 'Globe,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 3;

Kingsclere :Wickens, 'Oatherine Wheel,' daily, except Adey, 'Dolphin,' tues. 1hurs. & sat. at 3; Holmes,

wed. at 4; Pearce, 'Black Bear,' mon. & thurs. at 4 & 'Tiger,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 3

wed. fri. & sat. at 3; Carter, 'White Hart,' thurs. at Woodhay (East & West)-Edwards, 'Dolphin,' mon.

4; .A.yres, 'King C'harles,' mon. & thurs. at 3 thurs. & sat. at 3

Kingsclere Woodlands-Cooper, 'Black Bear,' thurs.at 2 Woolton Hill-Paice, 'Globe,' tues. thurs. & sat. at 3

Kintbury-Dopson, 'Catherine Wheel,' thurs. & sat. at Yattendon-Ilsley, 'Waggon & Horses,' thurs. at 3;

· 12; Hosier 'Queen's,' tues. & fri. at 2.30 Rumble Bros. 'Waggon & Horses,' thurs. at 3

Lambourn-Dowling, 'Queen's,' mon. thurs. & sat. at

3.30; Bowsher, 'Wagg0n & Horses,' thurs. at 2

P:RIVATE :RESIDENTS. Atkins Joseph, Northcroft villa, Bance .Tohn, The B.etreat, Berkley rd

Absalom Miss, I St. Mary villas, Northcro-ft lane Bance Misses, The Limes, London rei

London road Attewell Arth.Boscombe vil.Craven st Banwell Geo.3 Kingsley vils.East fieldi4

Adams Alfred M.D. 12 Northbrook st Attewell Charles, Mavwood,Craven st Barnes Miss, 2 Malvern vils.Craven st

Adey JGsepih, West mills Attewell Miss,Bosconibe vil.Craven st Barrington Miss, 8 Salisbury terrace,

Adey Miss, 3 Edinburgh le1·. West mls .Attwell A. C. Maywood, Craven st Craven st-reet

Adey Mrs. 4 Pyle Hill vils.Stroud gm Austin George, 2 Queen .Anne villas, Barton :Mrs. 7 Donnington square

Adey Rupert John, 3 Edinburgh ter- Queen's road Bartons Rev. George (curate of En-

race, West mills Ba.iley Edwd. Winton ho. Newtown rd borne), 2 Enborne villas,Enborne rd

Adnams Frank Ravel, Ilroadway roan Bailev ChaTles Thos. 16 Craven street Batt Miss, 6 :Berkley ter. Berkley rd
.Adnams Jas. Tidcombe, London Bailey Henry Jn.Avondale,East fields Beams Wm. H. Craven ho.West mila

Alien Mrs. King's road Bailey Waiter William, 4 Carlisle ter- Becker Karl, 4 St. .Ann's, Craven st

.Alien William, 6 Shaw cres-~e:J.t race., lllenheim road Beddington William Harper, The Nest,

Andrew;;, Mrs. 8 Cheap street Baker Miss,The Chesnuts,Speen'hamlnd Queen's road

Anthony Mrs. Milton ho. London rd Balding Miss, 3 Salisbury tenace, Beechey Miss, High ho-use, Speen hill

.ltkins Rev. John M.A., LL.B. (head Craven street Bell John, Acacias, Craven street

mast. of St.Bartholomew'sGrammar Balding Willia.m, Cheap street Bentall Mrs. 20 Donnington squa:re <

school) Bamford Rbt. 28 Shaw ores. Shaw rd Bevan Miss, 6 Craven street

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. NEWBURY. 125

'l3ew l\liss, The Poplars, London road, Davis George, 20 Carnarvon terrace, Gamble vVilliam, 12 Carnarvon ter~

Speenharnland vVest street race, West street

'lleynon Richard, Cheriton, Stroud gn D'1avis John "White, Glenholm, .An- Gardiner Miss, 26 Donnington square

:Birch Robert,The Litten, NeWtt<Jwn rd dover road Garland Alfred Thomas, I Montague

'Elacket 1'ralter J a.mes, 6 Porcheste.r Davis Joseph,q Berkley ter.Berkley rd terrace, Newtown road

villas, Newtown road Davis Mrs. Westleigh, Craven street Gaskoin ~sses, Breadisholme,London

:Bland Alfred Brice, 5 Southampton Day Joseph Napoleon, Gleadlands, road

terrace, Newtown Toad Newtown road Gibbons Fredk. John, I Gloucester

":Bolderston Rev. George (Wesleyan), 1 Dike William George, 7 Madeira pi. villas, Gloucester road, Westfield

Upland villas, Newtown road Newt<Jwn road Gibbs Rev. Jsph.Games M.A.(vicar),

'llolton George,3 Southampton terrace, Dolton Charles Hy.I3 Donnington sq St.Mary's vicarage, Donnington rd

Newtown road Dolton Henry, Wharf honse Giles James Leighton, The Silver

13olton John Edward, I Rose villas, Dopson G~orge, 18 Craven street Birch, Stroud green

G-l.:mcester road Dorrington George Thomas, I Gran- Gile~ Jn.5 Granville ter.Glo'ster road

Dowden George, The Newlands, ville terrace, Gloucester road Gill Miss,Speenhamland ho.London rd

Andover road Drayton ·william John, II Madeira pl. Girling Mrs. BurtQn terrace,Russell rd

"Bravant Mrs. 9 Beaconsfield terr~, Newtown road Glover Mrs.6 Pyle Hill vils.Strour gn

London road Dukesell Heber, 5 Madeira place, Goddard Ernest William, The Chest-

.Brind Thomas Farmer, I Oakridge Newtown road nuts, Andover road

villas, Gloucester road Dunn Rev. Roberb B.A. (vicar of St. Goddard Miss, Old Rectory house,

":Brothers William John, Greenham vil. John's), St. John's vicarage, New- Northbrook street

Queen's road town road Goddard Misses, 2I Donnington sq

"Drown Edward, 2 Melrose villas, Dyer Mrs. I St. Mary's pl. London rd Gadding James Henry, Ellerslie,

Gloucester road Dyson Miss, 3 Donnington villas, Don- London road

"Brown G-oorge, I Waterloo terrace, ningt<Jn road Godfrey Mrs. Ja.mes, 5 "\'Vestfield viis.

London road East Samuel, 7 Southampton terrace, Gloucester road

'llrown Thomas, Northbrook house, Newtown road Gordon William, 4 Salisbury terrace,

Oxforli street Eaton Mrs. 2 Southampton terrace, Craven street

:Bruxner Miss, Oak lo. Andover road Newtown road Gore Mrs. 3 Donnington square

llryant Mrs. I Melrose villas, Glou- Eatwell James, 2 St. Mary's villas, Gore ·wm. Hy. 3 Donnington square

cester road, West fields Speenhamland Green Geo. 9 Maderia pl. Newtown pl

Jlulpit Edwd. 5 Craven ter.Berkley rd Edmonds :Miss, 24 Shaw crescent Gregory George, 8 Carlisle terrace,

"Bunney Misses, I Dorurington square Edwards Mrs.Highfield ho.Andover rd Blenheim road

Burgess Wm.9 Carnarvon ter.West st Edwards William H. 2 Porchester viis. Griffin George, Rosebank, Stroud gn

":Burke-Godwin Mrs. I "Waterloo villas, Newtown road Haldane James Frederick, 7 Montague

Craven street Edwards William Henry, Belle view, terrace, Newt<Jwn road

Burrough Misses, II Donningt<Jn sq Craven street Hall l\irs. Pyle hill, Stroud green

llurton Arthur Parry, I3 Carnarvon Edwell Henry E. 3 W estfield villas, Hallen John Charles R. 4 Donnington

terrace, West street G!Quce-ster rood! villas, Donnington road

Burton Fredk. 3 West vils. West st Elliott; Albert S. II Beaconsfield ter- Hamblin George, 2 Carnarvon Tillas.

"Butcher Frederick Geo. Gordon road race, London road Gloucester road

llutler Edwin, Widcoonbe. villa, New- Elliott Samuel, The Limes, North- Hancock Miss, 9 Craven street

town road brook street Harding Rev.Daniel (Primitive Metho-

:Butler William, 7 ·Carnarvon terrace, Embro Jas. 4 Sunnyside,Glo'ster rd dist), I7 Berkley terrace, Berkley rd

vVest street Emery Charles, 8 Porchester villas, Harding Hedley, II Berkley terrace,

Butt JsP'h.2 Woodspen ter. L<Jndon rd Newtown road Berkley road

Canning Mrs. Cravendale, Craven st Ettv :Miss, I Belvedere vils.NewtQwn rd Hardy Mrs. 3 Belvedere villas, New-

Cnrter George, 3 Church View villas, Ferris Simon, Myrtle vil. Wash com town road

Blenheim road Fidle!!' Thomas, 5 Pyle Hill villas, Harfi.eld Mrs. Io Madeira place

Catleugh William Thomas, Rose cot- Stroud green Harle Charles, I4 Berkley terrace,

tage, Donnington road Fielder Miss, Brighton vil. Craven st Berkley road

Chnpman Rev. Fredk. John (curate), Fielder Mrs. I Rosland vil. Craven st Harrison Mrs. 8 Craven street

vVoodspeen house, London road Finch Joseph, 53 Bartholomew st Harrold Frederic:K, Kiu-Kiang hous~

()hapman Tlwmas,Northbrook,Speen hl Finn Herbt. Jn. 50 Bartholomew st St. John's road

Chard Mrs. 2 Norbiton vils. Craven st Flint Edwin F. I Sherwood villa,The Hattatt James C. IS Carnarvon ter-

·Clark John Thomas, Higherton, Glou- Folly, Stroud green, Greenham race, West street

cester road Flint John, 9 Donnington square Hawker Charles Adrian, Swiss cot-

'Clarke William Jenner, Oxford street, Flint Mrs. 7 Porchester villas, Ne-w:- tage, West street

Spe~nhamland town road Hawkins Thomas, 3 Lynmouth villas,

'Clayton Lewarn, 2 Pyle hill,Stroud gn Flower William F. 3 Portland place, Enborne road
Rawkins William, I3 Berkley ta--
Clifton Mrs. Ashton villa, Andover rd London road

Coldicnt Fredk. ·welldale,Newi:own rd Floyd A. Fairlight, Andover road race, Berkley road

Coles James Albert, Halford villas, Folkard Herbert Chapman, I Norbiton Haydon Lewis, 52 Bartholomew street

Glon<'ester road villas, Craven street Hayes Fras.2 Highgate vils.Queen's rd

Coles Rd. 5 Beaconsfield ter.London rd Forster Edward John, 8 Southampton Hayton Herbert John, I3 Maderia pl.

Collier Mrs. 8 Madeira pl. N ewtown rd terrace, Newt.own road Newtown road

Collier Mrs. The Laurels,Andover rd Fortington Miss, 6 Donnington villas, Hayton William, 3 Granville terra.ces.

Collins Mi~s, London road Donningt<Jn road Gloucester road

Comyns Miss, 5 M-ontague te.rrace, Foster Mrs. I Prospect villas, Glou. Heath Sydney William, I Sunnyside,

Newtown road cester road Gloucester road

'Comyns Mrs. 6 Montague ten-.1~2, Fox Edwin H. I Woodspeen terrace, Redden John,c; Carnarvon ter.Wes\ st

Newtown road London road Hedges Erle, Ivanhoe, York road

·Cooks Herbt,. Southwood,Newtown rd Frampton Frank Edwd. 2I Craven st Hedges H. Staunton,27 Northbrook st

Cooke Mrs.Woodbine vil.Greenham rd Frampton Mrs. 2I Craven street Hemstead Stephen, London road

Corden Victor, 3 Beaconsfield terrace, Frampton Mrs. 3 Pyle Hill villas, Herbert John, Leighton vil.Andover rd

London road Stroud green Irickman Frederick, Erleigh house,

Cosburn Geo. John, Market place Franklin Goorge, 20 West streeia Andover road

Cowper Miss, 24 Donnington square Freebody Mrs. 4 Southampton terrace, Hickman Richd. I2I Bartholomew st

Cox Hnrry, 66 Cheap street Newtown road Higgs Mrs. 3 Craven ter. Berkley rd

Cramp Alfre:d J ames, 2 Sunnyside, Freeman Francis James, 3 Carnarvon Higgs 'fhomas Farr, 24 Craven street

Gloucester road terrace, West street Higgs William Harry,x Woodbine vils.

<Jronk Percy,TheChantrey,West mills Freeman Miss, I Maderia. place, New- Greenham road

Cunliffe Lieut.-Col. Waiter H., J.P. town road Hill Hannibal, Laudrivick, Craven lit

The Shrubbery, Donnington road FreemanReuben,BrentKnoll,Queen's rd Hill Mrs. I Berkley ter. Berkley rd

Cur1vood Mrs. 9 Sha.w crescent Freeman Wm.IBrent Knoll,Queen's rd Hiscock James, IO Salisbury terrace,

Davidson William, 3 Highgate villas, Furtado Montagu 0. 6 Beaconsfield Craven street

Queen's road terrace, London road Hiscock Miss, 2 Ashley villas, Wash

Davies Phillip Edward, Lyncroft, Gale William, I2 Donnington square common

Craven street Gallantry Mrs. I St. Ann's,Craven st HodgettSI Mrs. 2 Upland rulas, New-

navies \Valter, Rosecroft, Speen Gardiner Rev. Edward Imber M.A. t<Jwn road

Davis Charles Owen, Brynaford, (rector of St. Nichola.s'), Rectory, Hodgkinson Joseph, x Westfield. villas.

Kennet road Enborne road Gloucester road

126 NEWBURY. BERKSHIRE. . lKELLY'S

Hogg Waiter, 36a, Northbrook street Mason Mrs. Wentworth Io. Craven st Pitman Warren H. '5 Donnington sq

Hood Mrs. 4 Daisy vil. Gloucester rd May Alfred, I Carnarvon villas, Poffiey George, I6 Carnarvon terrace,_

Hooper Mrs. I Compton vils.London rd Gloucester road West street

Hopson John, II Salisbury terrace, ~by !\11ss, 4 Sunnyside, Gloucester rd Pope William Edwin,Clyth,Queen's Td'

Craven street ::\fayers Edward George Pellew, 7 PorterMrs. 1Rosemo:re vils.Enborne xd'

Huneychurch Mrs. Pahn vil.Priory rd Beaconsfield terrace, London road Portsmouth J ames, 7 :Berkley terrace,.

Hunt John, 3 Sunnyside, Glo'ster rd :Medlock Robert William, Halford Berkley road

Hussey John, 2 The Willows,Craven st villas, Gloucester road Pounds Mrs. 12 :Beaconsfield terrace,.

Huzzey James Westbrook, Beaumont Metcalfe Benjamin, Lindum villas, St. London road

villa, Andover road John's road Povev Frdk. l\f•vrtle cot. London rd.
•
Ingham Rev. Jabez (Wesleyan), 4 Midwinter Charles, Poplar house, Powell Mrs. 4 Donnington sqnaTe

Bea.0onsfield terrace, London road Stroud green Pratr. Christopher, 17 Carnarvon ter--

Jackson Alfd. Ingleside, St. John's rd Midwinter Henry Jordan, Waltair, race, VVest street

Jackson Jas. Porteus, Lindum villas, Queen's road Pratt Henry, Edinburgh terrace,

St. John's road Miles Geo. 5 Carlisle ter. :Blenheim rd West mills

Jackson Mrs. Mapledene, Enborne rd }Iiller Miss, I St. John's villas, Pratt J ames Edward, 6 ·Carlisle ter-

James Edward, 2 Lynmouth villas, Newtown road race, Blenheim road

Enl1orne road Miller Mrs. 3 St. Mary's pl.London rd Price Mrs. Westmead, Newtown road.

James Edward Charles, Palm \illa, Mo-ndy William, 8 Berkley terrace, Ranger Miss, Brooksbank, Craven st

Priory road Berkley road Ranshaw William Alma, Hinton cot-

James Edward Charles, jun. Rose- Money James Henry, Broadway tage, Enborne road

more house, Enborne road Money Miss, York ho. Speenhamland Redman Wm. 'l'he Limes,Andover rd
James Mrs.Hampton house,Berkley rd :Morgan Alfd. 20 Shaw cres. Shaw rd Reid Mrs. 2 WesiJield vils.Ulo'ster rd

James Mrs. I Stratford vils.Andover rd Morris Amherst H. G. Westwood Reynolds William, 17 Craven street
.1:1-lley John, 7 .Montague terrace,
J ee\Tes Arthur, 2 Granville terrace, lodge, Newto wn lodge

Gloucester road Morrison Robt. GlendaJ.e, Wa.sh corn Newtown road

Joachim Richard Henry, 10 lleacons- Morton Frederick, Hurstleigh, Glou- Riley Very Rev. Canon Ferdinand

field terrace, London road cester road Eustace (Catholic), Park villas,

Johnson Miss, 3 Malford villas, Boun· ~vio~s William Joseph, 2 Prospect vils. London road

dary road Gloucester r-oad Robinson Frederick, 2 Lynton villas,

Jones David R. St. John's villa,Green- :Keate Arthur Webb, Albion house, Craven street

ham road Speenhamland Roche Miss, 6 Salisbury ter.Craven rd

Jones Francis, I Church View villas, :Nelson Mrs. Wash common Ro~ers Mrs. Cedar cot. Greenham rd

Blenheim road Neville Rev. John (Primitive Metho- Rolfe Mrs. The Laurels, Stanley road

Joyce Mrs.Rectory cottage,Enborne l'd dist), The Manse, Bartholomew st Rosling Jn. William, 2 Madeira. place,..

Keep William, 75 Bartholomew street New Mrs. 6 Southampton terrace, Newtown road

Kelly Rev. Hy. (Catholic), London rd Newtown road Rush Thomas, 6 Madeira place..

Kendrick Alfred, 4 Granville terrace, Newby Charles Frederick, 2 Myrtle N ewto wn road

Gloucester road villas, Priory Toad Russell Jesse, 2 Carlisle terrace.

Kerby R. J., M.D. Ivy ho. London rd Newell Mrs. I Edinburgh terrace, Blenheim road
iK)idd Robert, ~!arlborough house, "'\Yest Mills
Ryott Mrs. Hill View cot. Stroud gm

Donnington road Xewton Mrs. 3 Milton vils.London rd Ryott 'Mrs. F. E. 16 Northbrook st

Killip Rev. Robert Rasell (Wesleyan), Nias Thos. M. Cravenhurst,Craven st Salter Fredk. Oak cot. Andover road'

29 Donnington square Nickson Joseph, 19 Craven street Salway Edwd. Nascott, St. John's rd'

Kimber Ernest Gilbert, Bartholomew Nixon Jn. 19 Carnarvon ter. West st Salway John, 2 The Uplands, New-

house, Enborne road Norrington Bartholomew, The Ferns, town road

Rlimber Henry, Dispensa.ry, 'West st King's road Sanford Timothy, I Southampton

King Mrs. Beedon house, Cheap st North Stphn. Cli£ton vil. Priory -road terrace, Newtown road

Kirkby Rev. Marsh M. A. (curate of Oliver Henry, I Carnarvon ter.West st Sargent Benj. The Willows,Craven st

St. John's), Hillside,Ne"\\-town Toad Osborne Henry H. I Beaconsfield tar- Sargent Mrs. 8 Carna:rvon ter.West st-

Knight Rev. George J. (Baptist), race, London road Saward Miss, 2 Donnington square

Claremont, Queen's road Osgood John, I04 Northbrook street Scott Sir Francis David Sibbald bart.

KnightMrs.1Denbigh vils.Boundary rd Osmond Mrs. II Carnarvon ter.West st J.P. The Firs, Wash common

Knight Mrs. 25 Donnington square Paine •Charles, ·Clifton house, Scott Mrs. 7 Carlisle ter.Blenheim ro·

Knight Mrs.2 Rose vils.Glouc~ster rd Gloucester road Selwyn William, 2 'Beaconsfield ter-

Knight Stphn. Holland ho.Stroud grn Palmer James, 2 :Belvedere villas, race, London road

Knowle!i Ebe:rt, Hethlon, Craven st Newtown road Seward Charles, 2 Sherwood villas,

Lang Edward, 2 Milton vils.London rd Palmer Montagne Henry Campbell, The Folly, Greenham

Langdon William Stroud, 2 Oakridge Manor house, London road Seymour Mrs. Tidlcombe villa, I Lon--

villas, Gloucester road Pahner Mrs. 2 Salisbury tenace, don road, Speenhamland

Langley William Thomas, Hamilton Craven street Shail Samuel, I4 Carnarvon terrace,

cottage, Greenham road Parfitt Edmund, I Mount villas, West street
Slhaw Mrs. B'rooklyn villa, Priory l"()adt!
Langton Charles, Priory road Newtown road

Laugharne Miss, 16 Shaw crescent Paris Mrs. Emily, I Cheap street Shelley Mrs. IO Craven street

Leney Mrs. Springhurst, Stroud green Parker Horace, Palm vil.Gloucester rd Sheppard Miss Caroline, Craven villa,
Leonard Ernest, 3 St. Andrew's vils. Parker Walter Griffiths, 5 St. Mary's Craven street
Simm\lnds Mrs. :r Porcbeswr villas,_
Queen's road place, London road

Lewis Wm. Chedworth, Gloucester rd Parr Wm. II Shaw cres. Shaw road Newtown road

Liddle Jn. S. 2 Carna:rvon ter.West st Parsloe William Alex. Highclose Skinner Frederick, 4 Carna-rvon ter--

Lockeyear Waiter Charles, Derwent villa, Queen's road race, \Vest street

villa, Stanley road Pascoe Miss, Gloucester vil. Priory rd Skinner Miss, 2 Denbigh villas,

Lockhart Major Thomas, The Monnt1 Pavier Fredk. George, I Priory road Boundary road
Pearse Mrs. 3 Porchester villas, New- Skurry Mrs. 3 Stanley vils.East fields
Newtown road

Lockyer Mrs. 14 London road town road Slight John Cnrrie, 4 ~Iad~ira place,

Lord Miss, Belle View vil.Newtown rd Pearson Alfred, 2 Chellow Dene, Newtown road

Louch .John, 30 Donnington square Gloucester road Slocock Rev. Oliver Edmund M.A.

Lovelock Richard, Shaw :Bridge ho. Pemberton Jas. Eaton vils.Berkley rd Goldwell, S:pilen hill

Shaw road Penford William, 6 Donnington square Smale Misses, 10 Donnington square

Lucas H. J. Litten house, A.rgyle rd Percy George, 64 Cheap street Smart MI-s.3Montague ter.Newtowu rd:

Mackerell Mrs. 2 Church View villas, Pettifer William Robert, I Surbiton Smith Arthur, Brierwood, Wash com

Blenheim road, Westfields villas, Craven street Smith Jsph. 3 Denbigh vils.East fields

Maitland Capt. Alexander ·Fuller, Philips Fras.3 Madeira pl.Newtown rd Smith Mrs. 9 Salisbury ter. Craven st

Battledene, Wash common Pike Arthur E. 27 Donnington square Smith Mrs. 2 Surbiton vil. Craven st

Mallett Gilbert, 28 :Bartholomew st Pile Th)mas Philip, 7 Salisbury ter- Smith Sidney, 4 Church View villas,

Mansbridge Thomas, 4 Berkley ter- race, Craven street Blenheim road

race, Berkley road Pink Mrs. 4 Milton vils.. London road Smith William J ackson, Edin'bnrgh

Martin Robert, 7 Craven street Pinniger James Cockburn,The Limes, house, Priory rood

Mason Geo.Woodbine cot.Wash commn Bartholomew street Somersett Mrs. Greenham 'house,

Mason Jn. H. The Firs,Donnington rd Pinniger Stanley Vickers,s Porchest.er Greenham road

Mason John, Hall, Market place villas, Newtown road Southby Edwin Francis, I Donnington.

Mathews Thomas, x The Uplands, Plank Alfred Ernest, The Laburnnms, villas, Donninglion road:

Newtown road ' Andover road

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Stacey Mrs. 3 Berkley terrace, Berk-~ Tranter Mi:;s, 6 Donnington villas, r Wel:Jib John, 1 Milton viis. London rd

ley road Donnington rood, SpeenharnJand JWebb Thomas, I Portland place, Lon-

Stanwell John Samuel, 18 Berkley ter- Tremellen Mrs. Shaw, 2 Mount villas, don road, Speenihamland

race, Berkley road Newtown road Wenman Mrs. 5 Goswell place.

Staples Mis,s, Albert villas, W~st st Turner Thomas Wheeldon, Grosvenor Speenhamland

Staples Mrs. Auckland ho. Craven st lawn, Craven street Wentw-orth :Mrs.Westfield ho.Craven st

Stevens Chs. 12Berk1ey ter.Berkley rd Twiss<ell Thomas Henry, I :Malvern West Mrs. London road

Stevens Miss, 1 Lynton vils.Craven st villas, Craven street ·west Mrs. The Chestnuts, London rd

Stevens Mrs. South End lodge, Twitchin Hy. Kennet hiJuse,London rd West Wm. 4 Craven ter. Berkley rd

Newtown road Underwood Isaac, Oak vils.East fields Westcombe Mrs. I Pyle Hill villas,

Stillman James, 4 Craven street Vickers Harry,Orosscliffe,Andover rd Strand grN!n

Streat Frederic;k, 2 Gloucester villas, Waite Thos. Rosedale, Priory road 'White J(lseph, 4 Shaw cres. Shaw rd

Gloucester road "\'YalfOTd. Mlrs. 4 Pord.b.e.ste·r villas, White Mr.s. 2 Donnington villas, Don-

Surrey Mrs. 5 Donnington villas, Newtown road nington road

Donnington road Walker Hy.2 Edinburgh ter.West mlls Whitney Jas.20Jmpton viis.London rd

Sutton Henry, 18 Carnarvon terrace WaJker Joseph, I Highgate 'Villas, Wickens James, Haven vil. York Toad

Taplin Thos. 3 Elm viis. East fields Queen's road Wild'er Hy. 2 Berkley ter. Berkley rd.

Taylor Frederick George, Dalkeith, Ward Mrs. 51 Bartholomew street Williams Amos, Priory road

Enborne road Wareham Jas. Nestlea, King's road Williams Miss, 4 Elm viis. East fields.

Taylo-r Mrs. 2 Charlton villas, Marsh Waters Thomas, 5 Berkley terrace, Wilson Richard, 3 Shaw cres. Shaw rd

Taylor l\Irs. Lyndhurst, Kennet road Berkley road Wilson Willia.m, I Marsh terrace

Taylor Mrs. 5 Salisbury ter.Craven st Watson Henry M.D. 73 Northbrook st Windrsor William James, Braydon Oak

TayloT Richard~ 2 Waterloo terrace, Watson J. 27 Northbrook street Craven street

Lond-on rood Watson Malcolm, Rose vil. Cheap st Witto Miss, 2 St. Ma-ry's :place, Lon-

Taylor Thbt..A.9Carlisle te;r.Bleniheim rd Watts Frederick Sprawkling, Bourne don road

Taylor Wm.Hy.Went-worth ho.Strd.grn villa, Priory road 1Yoodiham Miss, 12 Madeira place

Thorn William, l .Chellow dene, Watts Miss,9 Beaconsfid.ter.London rd Woods Mrs. Falkland lo.Wash commoa

'Gloucester road Wat's Miss, 3 Park villas, London rd Wootten Mrs. Ashleigh, Craven st

Thornwell .Arthur, 23 Craven street Watts Ml'"S. 61 Oheap street Wride Miss, Woodcote,Donnington r-d:

Tilchener Geo. Carey villa, Wash corn Watts Mrs. Stanley road Wyllie Robt. Gill, 92 Northbrook 9t

Titchmarsh Rev. Ed. Harper (Congre- Watts Mrs.3 Woodispeen ter.Lond(Jn rod Wyse John, Fern lea, Queen's -road

gational), I Lynmouth villas, Watts William Henry, Park house, Yates Wltr. Hope- cot.Old Newtown rd

Enborne road Wash common Young Jona,than, Tentfieldl lodge,

Townsend Joseph Edward, 4 St. Weaver .Albert,Cokethorpe,Queen's rd Wash common

Mary's place, London road

Adams Alfred, physician & surgeon, 12 Northbrook street Benham Daniel, shopkeeper, I04 Bartholomew !>tree~

Adams William, beer retailer, 73 Cheap street Benn Samuel Henry, confectioner, Church lane

Adey Brothers, coal, salt, slate, cement, hay, straw &;, Bennett Frank, carpenter. Pembroke road

corn merchants & brick & tile manufactrs. West mills Berks (South) Club (.Arthur E. Pike, hon. sec.),The Brdg-

Adey Charles William, builder & contractor, West mills Berks (South) Conser'Vative Registration Association(Alb.

.Adnams J ames & Son, brewers, Speenhamland brewery R. Tull, chrmn.; J. Olckburn Pinniger, regish-tn. agt}

.Allder Tom, poulter~r & game dealer, 53 Northbrook st Berkshire Chronicle (branch office) (J. W. H. Kemp..

.Aidridge John, dairyman, Stanley road · agent & reporter; published sat.), Market place

• Allder Ralph, naturalist, 3 Bartholom~w street Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry (2nd Squadron, C Troop)

Allee Brothers, marine stote dealers, Wharf road & Speen~ (H. M. C. Jessel M.P. commanding squadron & troop;

hamland J. Platt, quartermaster-sergeant; Squadron Sergeant-

Allee Ernest Charles, jobmaster, Gordon toad Major F. Smith R.E. instructor)

_<\.Hen .Alfred, painter, r West street Berry James, beer retailer, 54 George street

_o\.llen Frederick, shopkeeper, London road Bevestock John, bricklayer, 1 Kingsley villas, East fields

.Alien Mary (Mrs.), confectioner, 71 Northbrook street Beynon Richard, draper & clothier, Market place

.Andrews .Arthur, wheelwright, Northcroft lane Bickerton J ane (Mrs.), berlin wool house & registry

Andrews Charles Henry, hair dresser, 57 Cheap street office for servants, 99 Northbrook street

.Andrews Francis Robert, town crier & bill poster, I Eaton Biddis Henry Herbert, plumber, 1 Florence viis. West st

villas, Berkley road Birch Robert L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon & medical officer to

Antheney Charles, Pigeons P.H. 5 Cheap street workhouse, The Litten, Newtown road

.Applegate Philip, hair dresser, Broadway Bishop .A.braham C. cycle manufr. 35 Bartholomew street-

Appleton William, nurseryman, Donnington sq. gardens Bishop .Ann (:Mrs.), refreshment rooms, 72 Cheap street ·

Archer Henry Albert, confectioner, 6 Broadway Blacket & Turner, publishers of the "Newbury Weekly·

.Archer Phcebe (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Marsh road News," 34 Northbrook street

Ashdown George, brush maker, & collector of district Blacket Waiter James, bookseller, stationer & printer, 34'-

rates & borou~h rents, & secretary to the Newbury Per- Northbrook street
Blundy Edward, confectioner & tailor, 86 Bartholomew st
manent Building Society, 35 Northbrook street
Bolton Jsph. jobbing gardener, 1 Wilton cot.Andover rd'
.Attewell Samuel, pork butcher, 13 & 14 Cheap street
Bailey Ann (::\Ir~. ), dress maker, 126 Bartholomew street Bolton Sarah Ann (Mrs.), baker, Derby road, City

Baker John, jobbing- g-ardener, r Rose villas, Greenham Bosley Joseph, beer retailer, London road

Ball John, basket maker, 104 Bartholomew street Bowden & Co. wholesale grocers, 143, 144 & 145 Bar-

Banning- Isaac, baker, 22 Bartholomew strN!t tholornevv street

Bannister J ames 1Yilliam, tailor, 2 Craven street Boyer George & Sons, decorators & sanitary engi-

Barclay Henry, Coopers' ~<\.rms P.H. 39 Bartholomew st neers (established 70 years), 93 Northbrook street

Barlow Benj amin, blacbmith, Star Inn yard, London rd Boylan John, coffee house, Broadway
Bradfield Janet (Miss), dress maker, Coombe view, Buck~
Barns Charles, f8rmer, Stroud green, Greenham

Barrett Henrv. boot maker, 4 Pri{)ry road ingham road

Bartholomew Charles, baker, London road Hravant FrancisRichens,registrar of marriages,33 West st

Basin~ & Mathews, saddlers, Market place & Broadway, Brazier Alfred, builder, Enborne road
Brid~eman Frederick, builder, Hornsey house, Queen's rd
Speenhamland
llastin Sidney, Old Dog P.H. & builder, Shaw bridge, Bridwell Henry, shopkeeper, r Coniston ter. London rd
Brig-ham Rd. & Son, tobacco manufrs. 07 Northbrook st
Shaw road
Brind Elizabeth (Mrs.', florist, 54 Northbrook street
Baverstock .John, general dealer, Old Newtown road
Bazett & Pitman, solicitors & commissioners for oaths, 41 Brindley James, fish curer, Gordon road & Hampton road
Brindley Joseph, shopkeeper, 57 Bartholomew street
Che~p street
Brown Joseph Philip, tobacconist, 23 Cheap street
Beale & Leete, dr<~p~>rs, r4 Bartholomew street
Beanch1mp ETiznbeth (Miss), shopkeeper, 3 Beauchamp's Budd H. & L. E. baker & grocer, 12 Shaw crescent
Bull Henrv, chimney sweeper, Wharf road
cott~g-e~, York road
RelcbPr Wm. H. solicitor & comm. for oaths, Market pl Bullock Henry, shopkeeper, ror Bartholomew street
Bune James Isaac, dairyman, Russell road
Reil Robert & Ron, clothiers, 31 Chean street
Bell Harry Peel, managPr to the Newbury Sanitary Bur~e Richmond, insur. agt. Olrner ho. Gloucester rd
Burn James, jeweller, 152 Bartholomew street
Laundry Co. Limited, Elm villas, East fields

Rell W~lter Henrv, architect & surveyor, Market pTace Bnrningham James, plumber, Marsh road

Bendy Harry Thomas, oil & color merchant & ironmongr. Burningham John, painter, 8 Coniston ter. London road
rs Bartholomew street
tBurnsAlexander{Mrs. ),tailor &; outfittr. 16Bartholomew si;

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Burrow& Georgo H. tailor ~ breeches maker, 77 North- Curry Theophilus, photographer, Goswell pl. London road

brook street DaleObedOldfield,pawnbroker & jeweller,r3Bartholomew st

Burton Samuel GPaeror.v• b, leather cu tter, roo Northbrook st t Darling Alfred, shopkeeper, Derby road
llutcher Fredk. lacksmi th, Bea r lane, Cheap stree Davies J. J. & Son, glass & china dealers (John Nutley,

llutler Albert, dairyman, 96 Northbrook street manager), 23 Bartholomew st. & 63 Northbrook street

llutler John, boot maker, 7 Coniston terrace, London road Davies Henry, hair dresser, Oxford street

llutler John, boot&; shoe maker, Northcroft lane Davis Emma (Miss), dress maker, 4 South view, King's rd

Callis Edwin, news agent, 6o Bartholomew street Davis Hy. Jn. chemist & oilman, 36 & 37 Northbrook st

Cambridge Francis James, permanent way inspector to the Davis John, butcher, Queen's road

Great Western Railway Co. Glevum, Queen's road Davis Thomas, boot maker, 54 Bartholomew street

Camp Alfred, draper & clothier, 6, 7, 8 & 9 Northbrook st Day Emma (Mrs.), dress maker, Kennet road

Capital (The) & Counties Bank Limited (branch) (A.rthur Day Jsph. Napoleon, auctioneer & estate agent, Market pl
E. Pike, manager), Newbury Old Bank, The Bridge; Deacon Charles, The Wellington .Arms P.H. & grocer,

draw on head office, 30 Threadneedle street, London E C Andover road
Cary Alphonse, pianoforte & music warehouse, 47 & 48 Deacon Elizabeth (Miss), fancy repository, Broadway

~orthbrook street Deacon James, grocer, 55 Northbrook street

Cemetery (F. Queckett Louch, sec.; John Stoodley, sex- Deacon Wm. Carter, saddler & harness ma. Broadway

ton), Newtown road Deane George (Mrs.), Tiger inn, 24 Bartholomew street

Challis Daniel, London Apprentice P.H. Newtown roai Dell E. & Son, boot & shoe makers, 74 Cheap street

•Challi~ Henry, bookbinder, 28 West street Dell Edwin, boot maker, 98 Northbrook street

Chamberlain John, farmer, Warren farm, Andover road Denner Emily (Mrs.), butcher, 43 Northbrook street

Chandler Elizh. (Mrs.), tailoress, 18 Shaw cres. Shaw rd Dew James, Newmarket inn, 21 Cheap street

Chapman Thomas, carpenter, Backway, Speenhamland Dew Thomas,Bricklayers' Arms P.H.137a,Bartholomew st

Chapman Thomas, carpenter, London road Dewe William, grocer, r Carlisle terrace, Blenheim road

Cherrill Ann (Mrs.), fruiterer & fishmngr. 3oNorthbrook st Dispensary (William Thomas Parker Douglas B.A., M.B.

Chippett Harriet (Mrs.), dress maker, 2 Shaw road consulting physician; Robert Birch L.R.C.P.Lond.

Chivers A.rthur J. builder & contractor, 63 Cheap street Richard Hickman, lVilliam Jenner Clarke &4 Robert

& Gloucester road Gill Wyllie M. B. medical officel's; Sir Francis S. Scott

Chivers Charles, carman, East fields bart. ban. sec. ;· H. Kimber, dispenser & acting sec.),

\hivers Frederick, pork butcher, I06 Bartholomew street West street

Chivers George, beer seller, 57 Northbook steet Dolton Henry & Son, corn & seed merchants, Corn wharf

Christian Mission (G. H. Burrows, hon. sec.), Temper- Dove Jane (Mrs.), dress maker, 6 Carnarvon ter. West st

ance hall, Northcroft lane Draper Sarah (Mrs.), carrier for G. W. R. goods sta-

<::hurch & Booth, miller (water) & corn merchant, Town tion; res. Lincoln house, Queen's road

mill &: r Bartholomew street Dreweatt & Watson, auctioneer, valuer & estate agent,

•Church Brothers, grocers & provision merchants & Market place

a~ents for W. & .A.. Gilbey Limited, wine & spirit mer- Duck Martha (Mrs.), butcher, I05 Bartholomew street

chants, The Bridge &:. Bartholomew house Dyer John, provision dealer, 83 Northbrook street

•Church Waiter, builder & contractor & sanitary inspector Easteleine Co. (The), baking powder manufacturers {A.lfd.

to rural district council,gSouthampton ter.Newtown rd J. Pullen, manager), 72 Bartholomew street

'Clark William, boot maker, London road Eastmans Limited, butchers (Joseph Hodgkinson, mana-

Clarke William Jenuer, surgeon, Oxford st. Speenhamland ger), 29 Cheap street

Clee-ves Lawrence, draper, 2 Bartholomew street Eatwell Robert, furniture dealer, 20 Cheap street

Clinch Chas. Wm. greengrcr. &; poulterer,38 Northbrook st Edmonds & Son, cabinet makers, 39 Northbrook street

Clinch ~iary (Mrs.), butcher, 62 Cheap street Edmonds Charles, grocer & wine & spirit merchant,

Coburn Henry, butcher, 88 Bartholomew street 4r Northbrook street

Coldicutt William Henry, butcher, poulterer & dealer in Edmonds Chas. J. coll. o.f Queen's taxes, 41 Northbrook sb

game, 85 Northbrook street Edwards & Gadding, iron merchants, wholesale general

C'ole Thomas, hardware dlr. 117 &; n8 Bartholomew st furnishing ironmongers, Market place

Collins Lucy T. & Mary A. (~iisses), farmers, London rd Edwards Ellis John, sec. to the Working Men's Club,

Cook Geo. Wm. Old Waggon & Horses P.H. Market place Post office, Wash common

Cooke Bros. painters &:. plumbers, 20 Xorthbrook str~et Edwards William, grocer, roo Bartholomew street

Cooper .Alfd. shoeing & general smith, go Bartholomew st Edwell ·waiter Kossuth, ironmonger, 20 Bartholomew st

Cooper Martha (Mrs.), beer retailer, 6r Bartholomew st Eggleton Isaac, beer retailer, Donnington road

Copas .Albet, coal merchant, Railway station & Wharf rd Elliott Henry & Son, builders, .A.rgyle road

Corden Victor, art studio, 3 Beaconsfield ter. London rd Elliott Joseph, boot maker, 33 Northbrook street

Corn Exchange (Henry Pratt, manager), Market place Elliotts' Moulding & Joinery Co. Limited (Wm. Wallace,

Corporation Gas Works ('iYilliam Richard Davey, engineer sec.), joiners

&; manager; Harry Hayton, collector & inspector); Elms George &; Son, builders &; contractors, 2 Rosemore

office & works, King's road villas, Enborne road

Corporation Public Baths (Samuel""\Yheeler, supt.), North- Embling James, baker & insur. agt. 43 Bartholomew st

croft lane Emery Chas. Brewer & Diamond Tap P.H. 28 Cheap st

Cosburn Frank, builder & wheelwright, 46 Bartholomew Empson Richard, dining rooms, ro Ilartholomew street

street & Black Boys P.H. Bartholomew street Evans Francis, Sun inn, 68 Cheap street

'Cosburn George John, printer, reporter & district agent Fabrey James, greengrocer, 22 Cheap street

for "Reading Mercury" & "::Xewbury Herald," &; pub- Fabry Waiter, fruiterer, Market place

li s her of th e "New bu rsv•t Dist ri ct Dire ctory" & ass essor Fergusson John, travelling draper, 15 Craven street
coll ector of taxes amp le gacy d i s t• r i b or, Mar- Ferris A. & Co. coach builders, London road
& &. & ut

ket place Fidler Catherine (Mrs.), preparatory school (private), 59

Count Henry Charles, hosier &:c. The Bridge Bartholomew street

'County Court (His Honor Vernon Lushington Q.C. Fielder & Co. grocers, wine & spirit merchants &i

judge; James Cockburn Pinniger, registrar & high chemists, 2 & 3 Northbrook street

bailiff), Town hall Finn Herbert John, brewer, 50 Bartholomew street

Cox Edward & Son, aerated water manufacturers, seed Fitch William Edward, musical instrument agent, 38

merchant-s & firewood dealers, 59 Cheap street; & at Bartholomew street
Fleck Henry, gardener to C. ':Midwinter esq. Hope cot~
Beading

Cox A.aron, coachsmith, Xorthcroft lane tage, Queen's road ,
'Cox .Alfred, greengrocer, uo Bartholomew street
Fletcher w. & R. Limited, butchers, Market place

Cox Daniel, gun maker, 92 Jlartholomew street Flint Ernest Reginald, solicitor, 26 Bartholomew street

Cox Emily (Mrs.), drt-ss maker, Stanley road Flint John, coal merchant, Canal wharf

C'_,ox George Thomas, The Gun inn, Andover road Flower William Francis, brewer's agent, 3 Portland pi.

Cox Horace, assistant overseer & collector of London road

Cox Horace George, assistant overseer & collector of rates Flower William Francis (Mrs.), milliner, 3 Portland pl.

for Speen &; Newtown, assessor & collector of Queen's London road

taxes for Highclere, Burghclere, Litchfield & N ewtown, Floyd ""\Villiam & Son, grocers, Post office, Derby road

accountant to Shaw Kilns Co. Lim. & agent for the Foskett Charles Joseph, manager to the Newbu-ry branch

Xational Deposit Friendly Society, Market place of the Reading Industrial Co-operative Society Limited,

f'ox Oliver, grocer & bakt-r, Stanley road 38 Cheap street

Cravl"n Hounds (William H. Dunn J.P., C.C. master) Frampton Fanny &i Maria (Misses), dress makers, 74

Croxford Robert, wine & spirit merchant, Broadway Bartholomew street

Crnndon Harold Frank, King's Arms hotel, 1\'laket place Fret-man Brothers, tobacconists, Market place; & Post

Cullum Henry, builder & contractor, Northcroft lane office, Broadway, Speenhamland

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Freebody & Co. butchers, rB Bartholomew street Hassell Samuel John, painter, 40 Bartholomew stree~

Freeman, Hardy & Willis Limited (branch stores), boot Hawker Charles, photographer, 84 Northbrook stree'

& shoe makers, 81 Northbrook street & 43 Cheap street Hawkins Thomas, printer, bookseller & stationer, 105

Freeman Benjamin, pattern maker, r CJifton cottages, Northbrook street

Jubilee road, Greenham Hayton Harry, collector & inspector to the Corporation

Freeman Benson Fletcher, assistant overseer of Ne""bury Gas ·works & deputy registrar of marriages for the

& Greenham, collector to the Newbury District \Vater borough, Fernlea villas, Queen's road

\Vorks Co. & as~istant actuary of Newbury Savings Heath .Alexander George, boot & shoe ma. ro Market st

Bank, Mai"ket place Heath Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer, Bartholomew farm,

Freeman Charles Ernest, fishmonger & dealer in game, .Andover road

30 Cheap street Heath Frederick, shopkeeper, Enborne road

Freeman Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper, 4 Cheap street Hedderley .Annie (Miss), dress maker, 8 Enborne road

Freeman Theophilus J. tobacconist & post office, Broadway Hedge .Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Railway road

Frost William, greengrocer & fruiterer, Broadway Hedges H. W. Staunton, manager to the Newbury Brewery

Fullbrook Francis William, carpenter, London road Co. Limited, 26 Northbrook street

Furtado Montague C. surveyor of taxes, Market place Rester Libby (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Shaw road

Gale Charles, common lodging house, Pembroke road Hefferman James, supervisor of inland revenue, Market pl

Garland Alice (Miss), dress ma. Stratford vils.Andover rd Hewett John, Black Bear inn, Market place

Garlick Thomas, watch maker, 46 Northbrook street Hickman & Metcalf, chemists & druggists, Market place

Gawthorne Benjamin, permanent way inspector to the Hickman Richard M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, medical office:r

G. W. R. Co. Ham Marsh road of health & public vaccinator, No. r district, Newbury

Geater Rose (Miss), dress maker, 27a, Bartholomew st union, 121 Bartholomew street

George & Co. Limited, confectioners, 21 Northbrook st Higgs & Sons, hardware dealers, 33 Cheap street
Gibbons FKrieldliecrki,ckw, incoenf&ecstipoinreitr,m3e4rcChhaenatps, street Higgs Frederick Henry, grocers, York road
Gibbs & Broadway Higgs Henry, watch maker, 87 Bartholomew street

Gibbs Charles, blacksmith, Marsh road Higgs Joseph, pork butcher, 25 Bartholomew street

Gibbs William, mop handle & rake maker, 1 Laburnham Hig-hley Henry, saddler, 55 Bartholomew street

villas, Stroud green, Greenham Hill & Rowney, picture frame makers, 69 Northbrook s\

Gibson Frederick William, watch maker, Church lane Hill Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 76 Northbrook street

Gilbert James, butcher, 119 Bartholomew street Hill Hannibal, hosier, 95 Northbrook street

Giles James Leighton, baker, 3PCruhdeeanptisatlre.eAtssurance Co. Hill Joseph, beer retailer, Oxford street
Gillett John, agent for the Hilton & Sons, boot & shoe makers, 91 Northbrook stree~

Greenham road 5a Cheap Hinds Lucy (Mrs.), shopkeeper, North Croft lane

Goddard George, coal & coke merchant, street Hiorns William, butcher, 18 Oxford street
& Railway wharf Hodgetts Mary Emma (Miss), private school, 2
Upland

Gadding James Hy. iron mer. &c. see Edwards & Gadding villas, Ne-wtow11 road
Hollands Brothers, corn merchants, Broadway
Golding Sarah (Mrs.), m(midewssiefen,g5erHs)er(eHfoenrdrypHl.Nureswt,tomwannrad- Hollifield James Wm. paperhanger, 17 Sha-w cres.Shaw rd
Gordon Boys' Brigade Holmes Joseph, beer retailer, Shaw bridge, Shaw road

ger), Cheap street Holt Florence Kate (Miss), dress maker, 4 Enborne road
Hopaon Joseph & Sons, cabinet makers, upholsterers,
Gosling John, beer retailer, Pembroke road
decorators, appraisers & house ngents, 28, 6-t- & 65
Gould John & Son, g&ropcreorvs,is3io7nBmaretrh.ol3o6mBewartshtorleoemt ew st Northbrook st. & 89 to 92 West street
Gould Brice, grocer Horler Frank, superintendent Prudential Assurance Co.

Gould Edward, grocer, & agent to Sutton & Co. carriers, I Park villas, London road
53 Cheap street Howard Edward Curtis M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon &
Gould Stephen, tailor, 2 South view, King's road
Gray James, boot maker, ·wash common veterinary inspector under the Contagious Diseases
(Animals) .Act for Newbnry & North Hants, London
Green Eliza (Mrs.), dress maker, 13 Marsh street road, Speenhamland
Green Eliza .Ann (Mrs.), tinplate & zinc worker, Bar-
tholomew street · 48 Hughes Samuel, Eight Bells P.H. 103 Bartholomew street
Hughes Wm. baker & confectioner, 103 Northbrook s1
Green Georgiana (Mrs.), dress ma.Fairleigh cots. York rd Humphries Charles, beer retailer, 1Vest street
Humphries John, Cross Keys P.H. London road
Green Joseph, general dealer, 1 .Adys bulgs. York road
Huson George H. tailor, 5 Broadway
Green Samuel Ernest, Castle P.H. 25 Northbrook street
Ing James Mark, Railway commercial hotel, Greenham rd
Greenfield Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, III Bartholomew st

Gregg Esther (Miss), matron of the Servants' Training
Home, Kennet road

Gregory Thomas (Mrs.), corn dlr. & coal mer. London rd Inland Revenue Office & Corn Return Office (Nathaniel
Burgess & William Henry Kenney, officers), Market pl
GGrriefyfinJoGhenorHgeer, bperotr,kbbauktecrh, e7r9, Bartholomew street
The Bridge International Tea Co.'s Stores Limited, 8 Bartbolomew si

Griffin Louisa (Miss), shopkeeper, Derby road, City Jack, first-class family & commercial hotel; situated in

Griffiths Caleb, coachsmith & greengrocer, 131 Ear· the most central part of the town; private bed &
tholomew street sitting rooms (William Scott Veitch, proprietor); also

Guildhall Club (Edwin John Forster & C. .Adrian treasurer to the Newbury & District Angling Associa-

Hawker, secs.), Ilartholomew street tion, Northbrook street

Guyer Thomas Sanderson, school attendance officer for Jackson .Alfd. draper & milliner, Market pl. & Church la
James Edward Charles, builder, Enborne road
H the borough of Newbury, Hollis house, Kennet road James James, fishmonger, 40 Northbrook street

all Waiter, builder, .Adelaide villa, Boundary road Jarvis Richd. Hy. antique furntr. dlr.93 Bartholomew st

Hall William, bookseller & printer & proprietor of the Jenkins Archibald, hair dresser, 29 Bartholomew ..street

"Newbury Express," q & 12 Broadway, Speenhamland Jenkins George Percy, tobacconist, 29 Bartholomew t>t

Hamblin Martha Ann (1\frs. ), tailoress, 56 Northb:rook st Jenkins John Joseph, hair dresser, 125 Bartholomew sli

Hamblin Richard, chimney sweeper, Enborne road Jennings Susan (Miss), shopkeeper, ·Shaw rd. London rd

Hamlen John (Mrs.), Queen's family & commercial hotel Johnson Frederick, beer retailer, London road

& posting house, Market place Johnson John, baker & grocer, 25 .& 26 ·Cheap street

Hancock Waiter, watch & clock repairer, King's rood Joines & Co. builders, Enborne road

Hanington Edward, draper & undertaker, funeral Jones Harriet & Mary (Misses), dress makers, West st

director & funeral carriage proprietor, 19 Northbrook st Jones Henry John, insurance agent, 3 Westbourne ter-

Hannam James, tailor, 102 Northbrook street race, Speenhamland

Hans<_m Geo. Hy. chemist & druggist, 73 Bartholomew st Keen Moses, wheelwright. ""Stroud Green, Greenham

Hardmg Hedley Thomas, bookseller, 35 Bartholomew st Keep Frederick, baker, Broadway

Harris Ernest, general ironmonger, 3 & 4 Broadway Keep Luke, greengrocer, 27 Cheap street

&; Speenhamland Kennet & .Avon Canal (Great Western Railway Co. pro-

Harris Ernest Waiter, chimney sweeper, 3 Beauchamp prietors; George White, agent), Canal wharf

cottages, York road Kenney William, inland revenue officer, 3 St. Ann's,

Rarris Esther (Mrs.), dress maker, 29 Marsh street (;'raven street

llarris .Joseph, boot & shoe m'lker, 29 Marsh street Kel'by & Douglas (Robert .Tohn Kerby M.D. & Wm. Thos.

Harris Samuel B. saddler, 72 Northbrook street Parker Dougla<J Il.A., 1\f.Il.), physicians&; surgeons, Ivy

Rarrison William, builder, 94a, Bartholomew street house, London road '

Hart Ernest, painter & decorator, Northcroft lane Kimber Thomas, dairy, Backway, Speenhamland

Harvey .Tames, confectioner, 140 Bartholomew street JKimber Waiter, shopkeeper, Northcroft lane

Rassell Fredk. H. & Co. pork butchers, 41 Barlholomew st King George, Queen's Hotel Tap P.H. Wharf Toad 0

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Knight ·Stephen, ironmonger, 46 Cheap street New Edmund, Two Brewers P.H. West mills

Knight Thomas, Nag's Head P.H. gr Bartholomew street Newbold Thomas, beer retailer, Hampton road, City

Knight William, shopkeeper, II2 Bartholomew street Newbury Additional Curates' Society (Rev. R. Bagnall

Knight William Stanley, auctioneers, 132 Bartholomew st M.A. Vicarage, Lambourne & M. F. Everett, Netherton

Lambourne Albert, Anchor P.H. 101 Northbrook street house, Andover, hon. secs)

Lane Annie (Mrs.), hair dresser, Market place Newbury Amateur Orchestral Union (Miss Florence Fidler

Langford & Son, grocers, Broadway, Speenhamland L.R.A.M. hon. sec.; J. S. Liddle Mus.Bac. conductor),

Langford Henry, draper, I53 Bartholomew street Lecture hall, Northbrook street
Langford Naomi (Mi~s), sec. to the YDung Women's Newbury Bowling Green (James Hiscock, sec.), Backway,

Christian .Association, Northbrook street Speenhamland

Langton Thomas, corn salesman, Corn wharf Newbury Brewery Co. Limited (The), 27 Northbrook st

Langton William, wardrobe dealer, 18 Cheap street Newbury Building Society (George Ashdown, sec.);

Larbalestier John H., L.D.S. dental surgeon, 105 North- offices, 62 Northbrook street

· brook street Newbury Cemetery Co. (John Stoodley, sexton)

La:room Alfred Albert, Phoonix Bar P.H. London road Newbury Choral Society (E. L. Staples, treasurer; A. E.

Lea Prudence &:, Elizabeth (Misses), basket makers, 74 0. Slocock, hon. sec.), Lecture hall, Northbrook street

' Northbrook street Newbury & District Angling Association (Lt.-Col. Waiter

Lea Prudence (Miss), servants' registry office, 74 H. Cunliffe, chairman; Broome Pinniger, jun. hon.sec.;

Northirrook street William Scott Veitch, treasurer; William Canning,

Leach James, beer retailer, Northcroft lane I water bailiff); head quarters, Jack hotel, Northbrook st

Leader George G. solicitor & commissioner for oaths, I :Kewbury District Hospital (Lt.-Col. W. H. Cunliffe, hon.

Northbrook street sec.), Andover road

LeB>-Tlncent Samuel Joseph C.E. borough :mrveyor & Newbury District Water Co. Limited (J. C. Pinniger,

sanit'ary inspector & inspector of common lodging sec.; John Bance, manager); offices, Market place

holi9eS., Kenilworth, Craven street Newbury Express (W. Hall, proprietor; published thurs.),

Lrmm A:nn (Mrs.), Lamb P.H. Enborne road Broadway
Leonard Jhhn, eoal merchant & grocer, Queen's road ~ewbury Gymnastic Society (E. P. Plenty, •sec.), Corn

Lewenden Wuliam E. family grocer & dealer in antiques, , Exchange .
57 & 58' \Drlo:rd street
:Kewbury Horse Show Society (Lt.-Col. G. C. Ricardo,

Lewis Sarali• ~Mrs.), dress ma.Smith's bldgs.Stroud grn hon. sec.); Speenhamland .

Liddiard Nafhaniel, butcher, I Northbrook street J\'ewbury L1beral Club (John C. Shght, hon. sec.), 6x
Liddle Jn. s:. professor of music, 2 Carnarvon ter.West st Northbrook street

Lipscomb .A:lfTed, chair maker & beer retlr. West mills Newbury Penny Savings Bank (John Hall Mason, hon.

Lipscombe· Edwin, cycle agent, Broadway sec.), Market place

Lipscombe Edwill, tinman & gasfitter, Speenhamland Newbury Permanent Benefit Building 'Society (George
Literary & S'cientific Institution (Waiter James Blacket & 1 .Ashdown, sec.), 62 Northbrook street

Harman Sloim.ne:r Harrin~ton, hon. secs.; "\Y. .A. Ran- 1 Newbury Public Coffee House Co. Limited (Joseph

' silaw, lion. librarian), Northbrook street Elliott, managing director; Mrs. Stevens, manageress),

London & Gounty Banking Co. Limited (.Alex. M1tchell, Guildhall Coffee house, Market place

manageT), Market place; draw on head office, Lombard Newbury Sanitary Steam Laundry Co. Limited (Harry

street, Londolll E 0 Peel Bell, manager), York road

Long- FredK:.. Hy. china & glass wareho. 82 Northbrook st N ewburY' Weekly News (Blacket & Turner, publishers;

Long Robert, ironmonger, 138 Bartholomew street published thursday), 34 Northbrook street

Louch Francis Quekett, solicitor, commissioner for oath~ Newbury Working Men's Club (:Samuel Quinton, sec.),

l/i town clerk, clerk to the county magistrates, New bury London road

division, Market place Newbury Working Men's Conservative Club (William Han-

Loveridge J oseph, working cutler, 1 Pembroke !'.:>ad nington, sec.), The Bridge

Lucas Charles, solicitor, commissioner for Daths & per- Newman Joseph, fly proprietor, King's road

petual commissioner, II4 Bartholomew street Newman Mary (Miss), draper, 49 Northbrook street

Lynch Henry Edward, Rokeby Arms P.H. Newtown road :Newport Frederick, dairyman, 21 Bartholomew street

Mcllroy & Rankin, drapers ·& outfitters, 42 Cheap street Noakes Wm. boot & shoe ma. Oxford st. Speenhamland

McNfven Alexander, Bacon .Arms family & commer- Norrington Kate (Mrs.), milliner, I Mansion House st

cial hotel; good accommodation for cyclists; quarters North George Kenerrick, station master, 2 Cheap street

for C.T.C. Speenhamland Odd Fellows' Hall (Jas. Tennant, hall keeper), Craven st

,Mallet Gilbert, dentist, 28 Bartholomew street Oliver Henry, printer & stationer, 45 Northbroolr street

Manners Harold John, .Adam & Eve inn, Greenham road Painter Maria (Miss), shopkeeper, Old Newtown road

Marshall George, jobbing gardener, Wash common Palmer Harry, general dealer, 146 & 147 Bartholomew st

Marshall Hy. Jas. baker & confectioner,44Northbrook st Palmer Montague Henry Campbell, surgeon, public vac-

Martin R. & Son, cycle manufacturers & motor car cinator, No. 2 district & medical officer, Manor house,

agents, 48 Cheap street London road

Martin John, .china & ear~henware dealer, Oxford street l'ark Frederick, tailor, 2 Coniston terrace, London road

Martin RobeTt, saddler, Market phce Parker & Son, grocers & wine & spirit merchants, n

·M11son Jn. H. & Son, grocers & provision dlrs. Market pl Bartholomew street

Matthews Henry, Rose & Thistle P.H. 90 Nortbbrook st Parsons Wm. & Sons, chimney sweepers, Bartholomew st

Mees Richard:, Chequers family & commercial hotel, Pass Henry, coach builder, 6o Northbrook street

Speenhamland Paulin George, Star inn, London road

Messen~ Lim. timber & cement mers. Greenham wharf Payne Henry, Falkland .Arms P.H. 124 Bartholomew st

Metcalf Benjamin, chemist, see Hickman & Metcalf Payne William,pianoforte tuner,rYew villas,Queen Ann rd

Michell Henry Charles, cart & van builder, Cheap street Pea.chey James, Weavers' Arms P.H. 17 Cheap street

Midwinter Charles & Son, .corn & seed mers. 7 Cheap st Peachey Sarah Harriet (Mrs.), apartments, 8 Rosebery

_Miles Hy. jobbing gardener, 3 Montague pi. Newtown rd place, Greenham road

Miller Joseph, paperhanger, I Charlton villas, Marsh Pearce Charles, boot ma. 59 Oxford st. Speenbamland

Milsom John, hor10e dealer, Wharf road Pearce James, boot maker, 44 Bartholomew street

Mitchell Alexander, manager to the London & County Pearce Wm. tailor .& shopkeeper,Backway, Westbourne ter

Banking >Co. Limited, Market place Pearce William, watch maker, 66 Northbroolr street

Mitchell James, beer retailer, 15 Cheap street Penford & Son, drapers, 13 & 14 Northbrook street

·Money James Henry, architect & surveyor, Broadway Percy Harold, leather seller, 29 Cheap street

Mortimer Philip Henry, baker, 141 Bartholomew road Perry Frederick, eoal merchant, St. John's road

Morton R. & Son, plumbers, 6 Falkland ter. Andover rd Pettifer Wm. Robert, assistant town clerk & asst. clerk

Morton Mary (Miss), dress maker, Farleigh cottage,Buck- to the county magistrates for the Newbury division

ingham road & to the borough magistrates & borough accountant,

·Mosdell John, boot & shoe maker, 5 Shaw road Market place

Mosdell Laura (Miss), dress maker, 5 Shaw road Pibworth Charles, dairy, .Andover road

.Moulsford Frederick, timber merchant, King's road Pickford & Co. railway carriers, Queen's Hotel yard, Ma.r-

Munday Richard, wheelwright, Wharf road ket place

Mundy Cha!!. t{)wn hall kpr. & town sergeant, Market pl Pinniger Broome (firm, Pinning-er Il. & J. C.), solicitor

Nash John T. stationer, 94 Northbrook street & commissioner for oaths, Market place
Neat!' Arthur Webb, auctioneer & surveyor, .Albion house Pinni~er James Cockburn (firm, Pinniger B. & J. C.),
New William George & Frederick Bobson, bakers & corn solicitor, clerk of the peace for the borough, refP~t~

dealers, 27 &; I2o Bartholomew st.&Ham mills, Thatcham of the county court, coroner for the N ewbury diVISion

N~>wbery Arthur Limited, house furnishers, 23 & 24 of the county, & supt. registrar of Bradfield union, &

Northbrook street secretary to the Newbury District Water Co. Market pl

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Pinniger B. & J. G. wlicitors, Market plaoo Smith Arthur, tailor, 88 :!1\orthbrook !!treet

J>inni.ger Stanley Vickers, solicitor & cltwk to the guardians Smith Benjamin, corn dealer, •8I Bartholomew street

& assessment k school attendance committees, & supt. Smith Edward, coach painter, 3I Marsh st. & Marsh rd

registrar of the Newbury union & cl~rk to Newbury Smith Henry, saddler, I35 & I36 Bartholomew street

rural district council, Market place Smith .John, shopkeeper, London road

Pinsent Gilbert, farmer, Falkland farm, Wash common Smith Thomas, baker, 105 :Bartholomew atreet

Pittard F. C. & Co. clothiers, 8o Northbrook street Smith William, coach & carriage builder, 57a, Cheap st

Player "\1\'"illiam, boot & shoe maker, Pelican terrace South Berks Brewery Co. Limited (Messrs. Bawkins &

Plenty & Son, engineers, 32 Cheap street Parfitt), brewers, maltsters & wine & spirit merchant.

Plumb Thomas, builder, r Myrtle cots. Gree.nham road (Edmund Parfitt, manager), I7 Bartholomew street &

Pocock Francis, hairdresser, 67 Cheap street West mills, Newbury & Hungerford

Pocock George, hay binder, Wash common South Berks Club (.Arthur E. Pike, hon. sec.), Bridge

Pocock Thomas, George & Dragon P.'II. 52 Nort·hbrook st Spackman .John, shopkeeper, King's road

Pollard Fleetwood Haswell, assistant borough surveyor, Spanswick John, farrier, Warf road
Bartholomew street
Spragg Charles, agent to the Prudential .Assurance Co.
Poole .A.lbert, baker, Smith's buildings, Stroud green, Limited, I Queen Ann villas, Queen's road
Greenham
Stamp License & Legacy Office (G. .J. Cosburn, distribu-
Porter Ellen (Miss), jobmaster, 65 Cheap street
tor), Market place
Porter George, shopkeeper, 70 Northbrook street
Staples Edmund Lea, ironmonger, Bridge street
Poulton .Annie (Mrs.), dress maker, I27 Bartholomew st Staples John, confectioner, 32 Northbrook street
Poulton Walford, butcher, 7 Bartholomew street
Star Tea Co. Limited, tea dealers, 87 Northbrook street
Pound .John & Co. stone .& marble mason, Speenhamland Stephens Fredk. shopkeeper & insur. agent, Northcroft la
Pratt Henry, inspector of weights & measures & man. Steptoe John, hair dresser, 55 Oxford st. Speenha.mla.nli
Corn exchange, Market place
Stevens .Annie (Mrs.), greengrocer, 9 Cheap street
Pratt Thomas Henry, chemist, I54 Bartholomew street Stillman Frank, reporter to the N ewbary Weeklyf News,
Pullen .Alfred .John, manager of The Easteleine Co. 72 20 Craven street
Bartholomew street
Stillman John Edgar, verger, West mills
Pullen Frederick (Mrs.), dress maker, 114 Bartholomsw st Stillma.n Thomas Hedges, grocer, I33 Bartholomew 11treei
Purdue Arthur Wellington, oorn dealer, Market place
Stillwell Emily (Mrs.), Dolphin inn, Bartholomew street
Randall Thomas, butcher, Broadway
Stoodley .John, sexton to the Newbury Cemetery Co.
Ravenor Richard, plumber, Speenhamland
Oxford street
Ra.wlins Alfred Joseph, registrar of births k deaths, re- Stradling & Sons, watch & clock makers & jewellers, 78
lieving & vaccination officer for Newbury No. I sub. Northbrook street
district, 2 East Lynn villas, Kennet road
Stradling James, cycle dealer & agent, 79 Northbrook si
l&eading Industrial Co-operativ-e Society Lim. (branch Stransom & Son, hosiers, Mansion House atreet; & Mar•
No. 4) (Chas. Joseph Foskett, man.), 38 Cheap street ket place, Reading
Reading Mercury & Berh County Paper (F. W. & H. A. Stroud Benjamin, shopkeeper, Shaw road

Cow$lade, Reading, publishers; G. J. Cosburn, agent Sturgess Dl. hair dresser. I .Tones' cots. Greenbam .road
&; reporter ; pub. sat.) Market place. See advert
Sturgess Frederick, beer retailer, Andover road
.Reed \Joseph (Mrs.), dress maker &i tailoress. 'IS Berkeley Summersby Mary E. -(Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, I08 :Bar·
terrace, Berkeley road
tholomew street
J1eid Jane (Miss), boarding school for girls, 63 Bartholo· Swaite Wm. J ames, boot maker, 49 Bartholomew •tree$
mew street
Tapsfield William, relieving &iJ vaccination -officer No. z
::Rendall Robert .John, beer retailer, 8o Bartholomew 't district, registrar of births & deaths for Speeu t:ub-

:Rice 'Mary .Ann (Mrs.), picture frame maker, Cheap st district, school attendance officer & collector to the guar-

RichaTds Sarah (Mrs.), dress maker, 23 Marsh road dians, Uonnington road, ·Speenhamland
Righton .John William, photographer, 42 Northbrook st Tarrant Joseph, bee:r retailer, Wharf road
"Roberts George, saddler & harness ma. 6o Cheap street
Taylor Eliza, Elizh. .& Eva (Misses),dress mas.West mill;,
Robinson Oharws, Globe P.H. Bartholomew street Taylor .Albert Victor, hairdresser, 44 Ba.rtholomew street
Robinson Geo. Robt,. baker & grocer,Sarum ho.Enborne rd Taylor Ohas. jobbing gardener, Higbnam viis. East fieldl!l
Taylor David, firewood dealer, Old Newtown road
"Rebotham Oliver, superintendent of policB, Speenhamland Taylor Georg.e, shopkeeper, Pembroke road
Roche Annie Parks (Miss), parish nurse, 6 Salisbury Taylor Henry Daniel, market gardener, Wentworth houae.

terrace, Craven street Stroud greel.ll
Rodgerlil William Sydney,corn & flour dealers, so Cheap st Taylor Henry Farmer, Blue Ball P.H. Greenham road
~ffe Adele & Cecile (Misses), ladies' school, 3 & 4 Water-
Taylor William, Car.narvon .Arms P.H. Market place
lo() terrace, London road
Technical Institute(W. H. :Belcher,hon.sec.),Nortbbrook at
Rogers Charles, baker, I9 Cheap street Temperance Hall (\Ym. E. Lewt>nden, !lee.), ~orthcroft la.
Rolfe Henry, dairyman, Hope cottage, York road & Green· Thatcher William. blacksmith, Star ln!l yard, London rd
Thompson Fredk. tchr. of mus. 2 Clifton cots. Jubilee rd
ham road, Stroud green Thorn .Augustine, shoe makar, Merton villa., Glouceste'l"

Rolfe John, clothiers & outfitters, SI & 52 Cheap street roz.d, vVes.tfields
::Rowles David J'08iah, dyer, 45 Cheap street Thorn Frederick, painter, 1Vash corr.mon

Royal Berks Friendly Society (George J. Cosburn, sec.), Thorn James, boot maker, I28 & I29 Bartholomew !!tree\

Market place Thorn Thomas, monumental mason, Newtown road
Sainsbury Charles, shopkeeper, Russell road

St. Bartholomew's Grammar School (Rev. John Atkins

M ..A., LL.B. head master), Enborne road Titoombe William, tailor, I5 Shaw crescent, Shaw road

Salmon 'W. T. & Son, outfitters, 9 :Bartholomew street
Salter .Arthur(Mrs. ),dress maker, 10 South view,King's rd Tombs Edwin, ~rocer, Oxford street
Tonge Gilhert .A.ugustus, see International Tea Co
Sa.ltma.rsh W. H. & Co. draper~, 51 Northbrook street
Tuomer X~wil Maskelyne, ironmonger, 4 Northbrook .stree~
Sambells .John, Queen's Arms P.H. Broadway
Sa.muels Charles, tailor, I St. .A.ndrew's viis. Queen's road Town Hall (Charles Mundy, keeper), Market place
Samuels HarryWalter,carpenter, Falkland ho. Andover rd 'fowmend J sph. bldr. & contrctr.Oxford st. Speenhamland
Sargent Edward, bricklayer & builder, I Northcroft ter Townsin Richard, refreshment rooms, 49 Cheap street
Savings Bank (John Barnes, actuary; open mon. & thnrs. Trinder Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer, I Jubilee road
Trinder Thomas James, sergeant-i.nstuctor E Co. ISt Vol-
II a.m. to I p.m.); :Bartholomew street
unteer Battalion Princess of Wales' Royal Berks Regi-
Scott Ephraim, Bakers' Anns P.H. 15 Northbrook street
ment, I East View villas, York road
Sellwood Joshua, tailor, 32 West street
Servants' Training Home & Girls' Friendly Society Lodge Try Hy. market grdnr. Victoria cot. Frog lane, Marsh
Tufnail James, news agent, tobacconist, fancy stationer &
(~fiss Esther Gregg, marton), Kennet road
Seward Charles, shopkeeper, 8 Belvedere ter. Queen's road bookseller, 149 Bartholomew street & Church street
Seward Samuel, baker, Market place & grocer & provision Turk & Son, iron founders, 55 Cheap street
Turner Thomas & Sons, gun&; cartridge makers,86 North-
merchant, 99 Bartholomew street
ShackelJosepb(Mrs.),registry office for servants,London ra brook street; & 8 Butter market, Reading. See advert
Shilling Robert George, Oatheri.ne Wheel inn, 35 Cheap st Turner Fannie (Mrs.). dress maker, IO Carnarvon terrace,
West str:Jet
Sims James, brush maker, I42 Bartholomew stre~
Singer (The) Manufacturing Co. sewing machine manu· Turner Thomas, tailor, York road
iacturers (Henry A. Dennis, manager), 29 Northbrook st Turner Thomas, wheelwright, Hampton road, City

Skeats Jesse, builder, Ham 1\larsh road Turner 'Villiam, painter, The: Folly, Greenham

Skinner William, maltster, King's road Valentine Charles, beer retailer, Wash common

I:Smart & Sons, coopers & basket makers, 44 Cheap street Veitch William Scott, Jack hotel, Northbrook street
Smart William, cycle agent, 47 Cheap stree• Vemon Sydney, White Hart; hotel, Market place

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Volunteer Battalion (rst Princess Qf Wales' Royal l3erk· Wheeler David, Rose & Crown P.H. & builder,Northcroft la

shire Regiment) (E Co. Capt. Dennis de Vitre, com· Wherrell William, beer retailer, King's road, Cheap street

manding; Sergeant Thomas James Trind~r, drill sergt. Whiley William N. hair dresser, 3 Mansion Houseo stree\

& armourer)), qo Bartholomew street & 89 N orthbrook street

Volunteer Fire Brigade (.Albert Church, capt.; H. S. Han- White George, Kennet & AYon canal agent, Corn wharf

ington, sec.), Station, The Wharf White Louisa (Miss), dress maker, 2 Daisy vils.Glo'ster rd

Wade .Anne (Mrs.). grocer, 4 & 5 Gloucester terrace, Whitington & Son, fruiterers, 150 Bartholomew street

Gloucester road Whitington .Alfred Thos. insur. agent, 150 l3artholomew st

Wakefield Emma (Miss), shopkeeper, 56 Cheap street Wigmore J ames, grocer & tobacconis"t, Oxford street.

Walker James William & William W. grocers &c. 12 Speenhamland

Bartholomew street Wilder Joseph, beer retailer, Wharf road

Walker Frank Emsdoff, gunsmith, 11 Cheap street "'ilkins Thomas, chimney sweep, Hampton road, City

Walker Joseph, boot maker, 24 Cheap street Williams .Arnos, dairyman, Enborne road

Walker Richard, greengrocer, 76 Bartholomew street Williams J ames L. tailor, 94 Bartholomew street

Wallis George, miller (water) & farmer, West mills Willis 'l'homas, boot maker, 134 Bartholomew street

Waiter Samuel, cooper & basket maker, 68 Northbrook st Wilson John Henry M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgn. Broad-

Wash Common Friendly Society (Arthur Floyd, agent), way, Speenhamland

Andover road Wilson Richard, butcher & game dealer, Broadway

Watson Henry M.D. surgeon & certifying factory surgeon Windsor William James, furniture dealer, Broadway &

& coroner for the borough, 73 Northbrook street 109 Bartholomew street

Watson John David M.D., F.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, 27 lVinter Rd. watch ma. Pyle hill, Stroud grn. Greenham

Northbrook street Wintle George, linen draper, IO & II Northbrook street

Watts .Albert James, beer retailer, IOia, Northbrook st Wise Frederick, butcher, }larket place

Watts George J. house agent, 75 Northbmok street Withers George, grocer & wine & spirit merchant, 5 & 83

Webb Jn. & Sons, grocers, 50 Northbrook st. & Shaw rd Northbrook street

Webb Elizabeth (Miss), ladies' day & boarding school, Withers George, pro,·ision dealer, 83 Northbrook street

2 Portland place, London road Withers Henry, White Hart P.H. London road

Webb Joseph, cabinet maker, Milton et. Northbrook st Woodger Jonathan Edmondson, grocer, 31 Northbrook st

Webb Thomas, professor of music, Portland pl. London Woodley George, beer retailer, The Folly, Stroud green

road, Speenhamland Woodspeen Reading Room (William Norris, sec.),Shaw rd

Webber .Anthony, Rising Sun P.H. Donnington road, Woodward Francis, confectioner, 12 Cheap street

Speenhamland Woodward Francis, oilman, Queen's road

Webber George, beer retailer, 67 Northbrook street Woolley George, carriage & wagon examiner to G. W. R.

Wells Job & Son, beer, wine & spirit mers. l\Iarket place Co. 3 .Alpha cottages, Jubilee road

Wells William, shopkeeper, Oxford street Working Men's Club (Ellis Jn. Edwards, sec.), lVash com

W estacott John Wilson,deputy registrar of births & deaths, World's Tea Co. (The), tea dealers, 17 Northbrook street
s•Newbury sub-district, I Myrtle villas, Priory road
Wyllie Robert Gill l\l.B., C.~I. surgeon, 92 Northbrook

Westcombe & Son,brwrs.& maltsters,na,Bartholomew st Yalden William, coffee house, 45 Bartholomew street

Weston Helen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 109 Bartholomew street Young Women's Christian .Association (Mrs. Naomi Lang·

Whale Richard, beer retailer & shopkeeper, Shaw road ford, sec.), :Xorthbrook street

PADWOBTH is a parish on the Kennet, I mile held since 1888 by the Rev. "\Yilliam Osbert Clinton M.A.

eouth-east of Aldermaston station on the Hungerford of Trinity College, Cambridge. There are charities of

branch of the Great Western railway and B! south-west £10 yearly value for clothing and fuel. Padworth House,

from Reading, in the Southern division of the county, a handsome mansion standing on an eminence in fine
hundred of Theale, union of Bradfield, petty sessional
park-like grounds facing the Bath road, is the residence
division and county court district of Reading, rural
deanery of Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Capt. Christopher "\Yilliam Darby-Griffith J.P. Capt.
of Oxford. The church of St. John the Baptist is a
very ancient building of flint and rubble of Norman C. W. Darby-Griffith, ·who is lord of the manor, and'
date, consisting of apsidal cha.ncel, nave, south porch
James Herbert Benyon esq. of Englefield, are the prin-
and a. wooden tower over the western gable containing
cipal landowners. The soil is gravel; subsoil, clay. Th&
5 bells, dated respectively 1654, z66o, 1816 and 1597;
chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area
the third is simply inscribed· "S.A~CT.A+MARIA+
is 1,166 acres of land and 22 of water; gross rateable
OR.A+PRO+NOHIS"; the walls are all of Norman
work, with inserted Perpendicular windows, and the value, £2,206; the population in 1891 was 277.
Norman chancel arch has sculptured caps: the north
and south doorways are recessed and have ornamented Parish Clerk, Edward Hobbs.
arches: the church was restored in I8go, at a cost of
£I,2oo, the chancel by the rector, and the nave by Mrs. Beenham Post, i\I. &: T. 0., T. :M. 0., Express Delivery~
Darby-Griffith: there are 100 sittings, 6o being free.
The register dates from the year 1607. The living is Parcel Post, S.B. &; .Annuitv & Insurance Office.-Mrs.
a rectory, net yearly value [176, with residence and 27 •
acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and Hannah Matthew~. Letters through
sub-postmistrass.

Reading arrive at 6.50 a.m. & 12 noon; dispatched at

9.25 a.m. & 2.25, 6.35 & 8 p.m.; sunday arrive at 6._so

a.m; dispatched 6.25 p.m. "\Vall Box, near the rectory.

cleared at 8.50 a.m. & 1.30 p.m.; sundays, 8.50 p.m

Carrier to Reading.-"~illiam Aldridge, wed. & sat

National School, erected in 1874, for 8o children;

average attendance, 40; )Iiss Edith E. Yorke, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDBXTS. COlrMERCIAL. Ford Albert George, inland revenue

Clinton Rev. William Osbert M.A. Balding Francis, rod & coal merchant. officer

Rectory Buckland .Arthur, Round Oak P. H Scutt ~-trrh. Edwd. frmr. Lodg-e farm

Darby-Griffith Capt. Chris~opher Wm. Bucknell John Pring, farmer, Old frm Smith A.1fred J. miller (water), Pad-

J.P. Padworth ,house Burton Thomas, sihopkeepeT worth mill

Day James, Minton house Devonish J ames, corn dealer & cwkpr Soper Henry, blacksmith

Froude Miss, The Croft Faulkner Mary (Mrs.), grocer, Round Stroud _-tustin, land surveyor

Strange William Draper, Bridge house oak

PANGBOUBNE is a parish and large village beaut:i- living is a rectory, net yearly value £350, with 4 acres
fully situate on the banks of the Thames, with a sta-
tion on the Great Western railway, 4r! miles by rail of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. l3reedon and
H. M. Breedon esq. and held since 1895 by the Rev.
and 45 by road from London, 5! west-north-west from Joseph Henry ::\files M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin.
Here are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels
Reading and II south from Wallingford, in the Southern and a Friends' :Meeting House. Breedon's charity ot
division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division
£5 2s. 6d. and: Don-ning's of £4 xss. 6d. for coals are
and county court district of Reading, Bradfield union,
rural deanery of Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks and distributed yearly. Rere Court, the property and resi-
diocese of Oxford. The village is lighted with gas dence of Reginald De la Bere esq. is situated in a
from works erected in r863. The church of St. James picturesque and retired spot: in 1230 it was given by
the Less is an edifice of flint and stone in the Deco- Robert de Bingham, Bishop of Salisbury, to the abbot
rated style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, and monastery of Reading, and on the dissolution of
south porch and an embattled western tower containing that house, Sir John Davis acquired it by purchase, and
a clock and 6 bells: in the church is a curious monu· it afterwards, in 1671, came into the possession of the
ment with effigy to Sir John Davis, ob. 1625, who was late John Breedon esq. Bowden Green is the property
knighted at th~ taking of Cales, in Spain: the pulpit is
a beautiful specimen of carved oak in the .Arabesque and residence of Sir Benjamin Baker K. C.M. G. West
style: there are 300 sittings; all in the north aisle are End Grove is the residence of the Misses Hopkins..
free. The register dates from the year 1556. The
Maidenbatch is the property and residence of Waiter

Thornton esq. and The Tower of John Donaldson esq.

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. PVRLEY. 133-

Rude implements of flint, together with the bones of s.rs p.m.; Sundays, 7 a.m.; dispatched at xo a.m. 3-IS •
mammals have been found in the gravel pib here.
& 7 p.m. ; sundays, 7 p.m
During the summer months the place is much frequented A School Board of 5 members was formed May 17, 1895•
by tourists and lDlglers and every accommodation may
Charles West, clerk to the board

be found at the George hotel. Reginald De la Bere esq. Board School (mixed & infants), erected in 1895-6 for

who is lord of the manor, Waiter Tbornton esq. John 268 children; average attendance, 176; Richard Varley,
J)onaldson esq. and Herbert 1Yatney M.A., M.D. F.R.C.P. master

Land. of Bradbourne, are the principal landowners. The Breedon's Endowed School, rebuilt in 1863, is endowed

soil is gravel; subsoil, gravel and chalk. The chief crops with [25 yearly for the master i& [15 for apprenticing

are wheat, oats and barley. The area is I,932 acres ol boys; thl}re is now (1899) a scheme before the Eccle-

land and 8 of water; grosli rateable value, £I I ,320 ; the siastical Commis~tioners for the future administration

JlOpulation in x8g1 was 885. of this charity

Post, ~I. &; T. 0., T. ~I. 0., Ex press Delivery, Parcel Railway Station, Henry William Tidbury, station master
.Post, S. B. & Insurance &; Annuity Office.-Edward
Carriers.-Sargeant, daily; Prouten, tues. thurs. & sat. ;
Clifford, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Reading Giles, tues. thurs. &; sat. ; Baston, tues. tlmrs & sat. ;
Rumball, wed. & sat.; Ilsley, wed. & sat.; Jeffery,
· & are delivered at 7 &; g.r5 a.m. (callers only), 12.30 &
aat

PRIVATE BESIDENTS. IBarnes Eleanor ~<\nn (Miss), laundress Lamb George, farm bailiff to John

llaker Sir Benjamin K.C.M.G., F.R.S., Bateman, Evans & Hawes, surgeons Donaldson esq

LL.D., Bowden Green Berry Clara CYrs.), harness maker Lane Charles, highway surveyor t1>

.Bowly Mrs Boxall Thomas & Son, builders Bradfield rural district council

Boxall George Brind Thomas, butcher Lever Harry, beer retailer

.Boxall Thomas Brown John, harness maker Matrhews William, boot maker
Bremet Mark, Rosemar•v villa
Coulter John Coulter, Courtlands Butler .A:. & Co. coal merchants Metropolitan Bank (of England &

But~er .Albert, assistant overseer, Wales) Limited (agency) (Herbert

'Daniels Miss, Bankside assessor & collector of Queen's taxes, S. Adams, agent) ; draw on head

De la Bere Reginald, Bere court secretary to gas company & clerk office, 6o Gracechurch st.LondonEO
Donaldson John, The Tower
}~vans Dan Harries, Shooter's hi~l to parish council . 1\fortimore Ralph, grocer

Hamlin Miss, Reading road Butler Willjam, baker & grocer Pangbourne Gas Co. Albert But.ler,soo

Car:er Enos, builder Pangbourne New Hall (Robert Bassil.

Hawes Godfrey Charles B Champ Oharles, laundry caretaker)

Jiopkins 'l'he Misses, West End grove Childs & Son, plumbers Pangbourne Working Men's Club & In·

Howlett Thomas John Ellctt, Read- Colebrooke & Co. Limited, butchers stitute (Percy Stone, sec)

ing road C-oombs George, Cross Keys P.H Petty Joseph, dairyman, Bear Leys

Manning Mrs Coventry Edward, boot maker Reynolds Wm. Jordan, Elephant hotel

Miles Rev. Joseph Henry M..A. Rectry O:Jx Ohar:es, blacksmilili Routh Marjn, farm bailiff to Walter

Parfett .Arthur James Cox Edward Blake, farm bailiff to H. 'l'hornton esq. Maidenhatch

:Petrocokino .Ambrose 'l'. Thames cot '\Yatney esq. M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S Sargeant Charles, carrier

Shaw Albert George, Avon lodge Cox Harry, carpenter Saunders Brothers, butchers

Thomas J ames, Rose lawn Donaldson Coffee Tavern (William Sellwood Henry, grocer & draper &

Thornton Waiter, Maidenhatch Johnson, manager) agent for W. & A. Gilbey Limited,
wine & spirit merchants
Thring Major ~Ym. P. (late R..A.) Fordl Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker

'Tyte Mrs Gorin Annie (Mrs.), apartments Skilton William, grocer

Waddington 1'<Iajor.-Gen. Thomas, The I Gould Charles, apartments Stone Robert, miller (water)

Ohestnuts Grist William, fly proprietor Thames Valley Electric Launch Co.

Wadley John Henry, Thames avenue Gulliver John Ernest, dairyman, Limited

Webb Frederick pork butcher & cartage contractor Warner Ben. bricklayer

West Mrs Guy Jas. farmer, Upper Bowden farm Webb Arthur, saddler

COMMERCIAL. Harper Thomas, dairyman West Char:es, corn dealer, far~r &;

Adams Herbert Samuel, chemist & Holmes John, blacksmith landowner & clerk to school board

druggis·t Hope Henry, apartments Wickens .Arthur, agricultural machnst

Ashley Edward Thos. coal merchant HuU William, George hotel & posting Wi1son Caleb, baker

& boat builder, boats built-,repaired<& house; private fishing Wlnkworth Samuel Henry.

varniffied, steam launches &c.housecl Ireton Edward, apartments cycle manufacturer & repairer
jKeightley & Thomas, antique furni- Worraker William John, fruiterer
.A.sohley George, Swan P.H

.A~;bery Charles, insurance agent I ture dealers Young Wm. John, plnmber &; painter

Ba.rnes Caroline (1Mr.s.),chimney swpr

PEASEMORE is a village and parish 7 miles· north- ford. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. There is
west from Newbury and 6 east from Hampstead Norris a charity of £r 6s. yearly. The principal landowners ar~
station on the Didcot and Newbury branch of the Great Col. George Bramston Archer-Houblon, of Hallingbury
W~stern railway, in the Southern division of the county, Place, Essex, who is lord of the manor, and the
bundred of Faircross, union of 'Vantage, petty sessional Marque~s of Downshire. The soil is day; subsoil,
division and county court district of Newbury, rural cha:k. The chief crops are barley, wheat, oats &c. Th6
are~ is 2,049 acres; rateable value, £r,r6o; the popula.-
deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese tion in 1891 was· 263.
of Oxford. 'l'he church of St. Barnabas, rebuilt, with the
-exception of the tower, in 1842, is a structure of brick Parish Clerk, Gideon Lindsay.

with stone dressings in the Decorated style, consisting of Post Office.-Miss Florence .A.llitt, sub-postmistress.
chancel, nave, north porch and a western embattled Letters through Newbury arrive at 8.20 a.m.; dis-

iower, with pinnaclE.>s and lofty spire, containing 5 bells; patched at 4-40 p.m.; sundays, II a.m. Postal orders
are i~sue:l here, but not paid. Chieveley is the nearest
'the communion table is of beautifully carved oak: there money order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant
are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1535. National School (mixed), erect-ed for 100 chi!dren, on
'The living is a rectory, net yearly value £430, including
books, 8o ; average attendance, 67; Arthur Drew, mstr
70 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Col. Carriers.-Jacobs, to Newbury, tues. thurs. & sat•. &
George Bramston Archer-Houblon, and held since 1881
by the Rev. John Swire B..A.. of ~lagdalen College, Ox- Hewkin-s, to Newbury, mon. thurs. & sat

Swire Rev. John B ..A. lB.ectory Goodohild' Augustline, blacksmith Pounds George, beer ret. & carpenter
Wa1dron Waiter B. Peasemore house
Butcher Moses, farmer Hedges George, wood dealer Pounds William '1Th.'omas, farm bailiff
Clarke Charles, farmer
Jacobs Eliza (Mrs.), harness maker & to W. B. Waldron esq. Princes farm

shopkeeper

PUltLEY is a village and parish in a pleasant position English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle,
on the banks of the Thames, 3~ miles west-'north-west south porch and a small embattled wes.tern tower of
'from Reading and nearly 2 east from Pangbourne station, brick, with pinnacles, and containing 6 bells : the church,
on the Great We~tern railway, in the Southern division
of the county, hundred of Theale, Bradfield union, petty with the exception of the tower, was rebui:t in 1870:
~e:>sional division and county court district of Reading, there is a good Norman arch, originally forming the
-rural deanery of Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks and entranoe to the chancel, but now between the chancel
and the organ chamber, built illl 1877; there is also J'
•diooese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, bPautifully
good Norman font: the arms of the Bolingbroke family,
situated on the banks of t.he Thames, half-a-mile from who formerly had property in this- parish, are affixed

the village, is a building of flint and stone, in the Early to the south front of the tower: ther.e is a lych gate of

114 P'ORLEY. BERKSHIRE.

• oa.k at the entrance to the churchyard : and there are esq. The soil is. loom and gravel; subsoil, gravel. The-

170 sittings, 63 being fvee. The register dates from the chief crops are oats, barley and beans. The area is 872.

year 166o. The living is a rectory, net yearly value acres; gross rateable value, [9,282; the population in.

£350, including 17 acres of glebe, with residence, in the 1891 was 180.

gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since- 1881 by the Sexton, Joseph Waiter Moule.

Rev. Matthew Powley M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford. Post Office.-William Pocock, sub-postmaster. Letters.

Purlev Hall, a handsome mansion of brick, erected in through Reading arrive at 6 a.m. & 6 p.m.; dispatciled.
1609, • and pleasantly situated in fine park-like gTOUnds,
at 7.30 p.m.; sunday, arrive at 6 a.m. ; dispatched

is the seat of Frederick Wilder esq. J.P. l\Iajor Anthony 7.30 p.m. Pangbourne is the nearest money order·

Morris Storer J .P. who is lord of the manor, resides at & telegraph office, 2 miles distant

Purley Park, the mansion is a large building of Portland School, built in 1873• by the Rev. Richard Palmer, late·

stone, :in the Italian style, situated on the banks of the rector, & supported by voluntary contributions, for 55

river Thame1., within an inclosed park. The principal children; average attendance, 32 ; Mrs. Rebecca Moule,.

landowners are Ma•'or A. M. Storer and Frederick Wilder mistress

Baker Miss, Purley lodge Sykes Lady, Westfie.ld Lee Wm. Hy. farmer, Westbury farm.

Powley Rev. Matthew M.A. Re-ctory Wilder Frederick J.P. Purley hall Pocock Th'Omas, shopkeeper

Starer Major Anthony Morris J.P. Boulton William Baker, farmer Saunders Bros. farmers, Scarces frm.

Purley park Cox John, blacksm~th

PUSEY is a village and parish in the Vale of White ancient manor of Pusey is said to have been held by the-

Horse, 5 miles eas·t from Faringdon and 9 west from Puseys from a period anterior to the Conque&t, by the-
form of tenure called "cornage" or horn service, anti
Abingdon, in the Northern division <>f the county, Ganfield
hundred, petty sessional division, union and county court traditionally undPr a. grant from Canute ; the horn pre-

district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White served at Pusey House is 24~ inches long and 12 in cir-
Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The cumference, a rich brown colour, and is mounted with
church of All Saints is a cruciform building of stone in
th~ Renaissance style, and consists· of chancel, nave, silver gilt, the middle band having two small feet ancf
transepts, west porch and a. western bell gable containing
2 bells: it was rebuilt solely at the expense of Mr. John bearing this inscription:-

Allin Pusey, who died in 1753: in the south window is a ''I Kyng Knowde yeue Uyllyam Pecote
memorial window to the Hon.Philip Bouverie Pusey, who
died 14th April, 1828, and to others of the family; and thys horne to holde by thy lond."
there are two other stained windows; in the north The family of Pusey became extinct in the male lin~ on
transept is an incised slab to Henry Doggett and his wife, the death of Charles Pusey in 1710; his nephew, Joh111
dated q8o; and there is a fine marble monument with Alien, to whom the esta-te was bequeathed, thereupon
portrait effigies by Scheemaker to Jane (Bouverie), wife
of John .A.I:in Pusey esq. who died in 1742, besides memo~ assumed the name of Pusey, but on his death without.
rials to the Dunches vf Little Wittenham and Pusey: in
the churchyard is a tomb bearing an inscribed brass to issue the property descended to his sisters and nieces,.
and was eventually settled on the Hon. Philip Bouverie~
Richard Pusey or Pesey, ob. 2nd August, 1655, and
Maria his widow, ob. 3oth June, 1656; and one to the nephew of l\irs. A.llin Pusey, and son of Sir Jacob·
Thomas family of Wantage; on the exterior wall of the
chancel is a quaint inscription to William White, ob. Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone. Sidney Eclwar!l
10th May, 1655: there are go sittings, 50 being free.
The register dates from the year 1661. The living is a Bouverie-Pusey esq. is lord of the manor and sole land-
rectory, net yearly value £J48, with I~ acres of glebe, owner. Pusey House, the property of S. E. Bouverie-
Pusey esq. and the re,:;idenre of Sir William Reyn~ll
and residence, in the gift of the Ilishop 0'£ Ox-
ford, and held since 188g by the Rev. Frederic Anson bart. D.C.L. Warden of All Souls' College,
Philip Green-de-Freville I!.A. of St. John's College, Cam. Oxford, is a plain mansion of stone, having a front
bridge. Cherbury camp, traditionally the site of a with two bays, and was erected in 1753 under the
palace of Cnut or Canute the Dane, stands a mile and a
half eastward, in Longwortib. parish, and is an oval earth- direction of Mr. John Wood, architect, of Bath. The·
work, about 310 yards in length, with three mounds and soil is loam; subsoil, various-coral rag, sand and!

three moats surrounding it still clearly marked. The gravel. The chief crops are the usual cereals and roots.
The area is 1,040 acres ; rateable value, £707; the popu~­
lation in I891 was 127.

Sexton, Henry Eldridge.
Letters through Faringdon office arrive at 8.30 a.m~

Buckland is the nearest money order k nearest tele-
graph ofiice, about ~~ miles distant

Wall Letter Box.-Cleared 5. IS p.m.; sun. 1r.4o a. m

The children attend the school at Buckland

Anson Sir Wm. Reynell bart. D.C.L., COMMEll.CIAL. Willis• William, farm bailiff to Henry;

J.P. J;:usey house Edmonds William, farm baili:l'l' to C. Chandler esq

Green-de-Freville Rev. Frederic Philip Charles Rickards esq

B.A. Rootory

RADLEY is a. parish on the west bank of the Isis, are 150 sittings. The register dates from 1599, and con-·
ta.ins several entries of the burials of soldiers 1vho servecf
which separates it from Oxfordshire, with a station on in the Parliamentary and Royalist armies. The living
'the Great Western railway and junction of 1he branch
is a donative vicarage, net yearly value [42, with resi-
line to Abingdon, 58 miles from London, 2! north-east
from Abingdon and 4! from Oxford, in the Northern dence, in the gift of the Council of Radley College, an&
division of the county, hundred of Hormer, petty sessional
division, union and county court district of Abingdon, held since 1898 by the Rev. Charles Boxall Longland
rural deanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. Davis' charity o{

diocese of Oxford ; it includes the liberty of Thrupp and £3 3s. yearly is for clothing, and Bristow's of £3 18s.
Wick and part of the township of Kennington. Tha for blankets. ·wick Hall, the residence of Mrs. Docka.r-

church of St. James is a building of stone, wholly in the Drysdale, was considerably enlarged and improved in
188g-go, and again in ISgs-6, two new wings being
Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three added; a large and ancient brick building, formerly

bays, south transept, south aisle, modern south porch used as a granary, has been moved bodily for a distance

of wood and an embattled western tower containing 6 of go feet and placed on a new site so as to serve as
bells : the south aisle and chancel are both embattled ;
the latt~r is covered with ivy and has two pinnacles: the a oilliard-room, and handsome entrance gates erected.
The manor belonged to th~ abbot and convent of Abing·
church has been restored by subscription when the roofs
were opened, the transept partially rebuilt and the in- don, and after the Dissolution was purchased by George
Stonehonse esq. of the Board of Green Cloth in the
terior reseated: against the south wall of the chancel is reign of Elizabeth : in 1792 the manor passed by will to
Captain~ afterwards Admiral BDwyer, brother of Sir
a handsome monument to Sir William Stonhouse bart.
William Bowyer bart. of Denham, Bucks, and created a
who died sth February, I63I, and Elizabeth (Powell), baronet 8th Sept. 1794, during the lifetime of his
his- wife, with effigies of both, carved in alabaster and
coloured, smaller effigies of their children being placed brother, as Sir Goorge Bowyer, of Radley. Berks, for
at the sides; the Latin inscription was written by his gallantry in the victory achieved by Lord Howe on
Alexander Gill D.D. bead master of St. Paul's school, the 1st June, 1794, when he commanded a.s rear-admiral,
and lost a leg; he eventually succeeded to his brother's
London, the tutor and frienJ of the poet Milton ; a baronetcy in April~ 1799, and died 6th December, 1799;
Norman font, discovered on a neighbouring farm, was his son, Sir Georgo Bowyer, 6th hart. of Radley and 2nd
re-stored to the church in r84o: an avenue of limes leads of Denham, succeeded, and the property neX:t descended

to the west doorway in the tower; the churchyard con- to his son, the late Sir George Bowyer hart. D.C.L. on

tains some good altar tombs, and a large yew tree on the whose death (7th June, r883) both baronetcies passed to
north side: the late Sir George Bowyer bart. who died
his next brother, Sir William Ilowyer hart. of Brighton,.
7f.h June, r883, is buried in a vault in the church: there

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