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BERKSHIRE - 1899

Kelly's Directory of Berkshire - 1899

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. READING. 185

13enwell Harry, shopkeeper, 3I Charles street Boulton James, Fisherman's Cottage P.H. Kennet side
Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Staff: Hon. Col. the Hon. Bourton William, builder, I03 Watlington street
Bowden Edward, undertaker, funeral furnisher & monu-
0. W. Craven; Hon. Lieut.-Col. G. C. Ricardo, major;
mental mason, I35 London road
Capt. F. F. Colvin, 9th Lancers, brigade adjutant; Bowden Ethel (Miss), teacher of music, 16 Wokingham rd
Major W. Waring, assistant adjutant; Giles Ayres, act- Bowden Henry Thomas, tobacconist, I36 Friar street
ing quartermaster; Surg.-Capt. John Henry Waters Bowden Thomas Daniel, carpenter, IS New road
M.D. medical officer; Rev. C. F. Trower 1\-LA. hon. Bowden \'fm. Saml. shopkeeper, 47 De Eeauvoir road
ehaplain; S. Bradley, regimental sergeant-major; ISt Bowen John, borough engineer & surveyor, Town hall,
Squadron (A & B Troops), Capt. E. P. Stern, com-
manding; Capt. H. C. Simonds, second in command; Elagrave street
Squadron Sergeant-Major Michael Roach, instrnctor;
(B Troop), H. C. Simons, captain; A. Roberts, lieut.; Bowerman Edith A. (Miss), dress maker, 40 Oxford road
H. E. Cottrell, quartermaster-sergeant); head quar- Bowery James Wm. Thames avenue, Caversham road
ters, I3 George street Bowle William, Rising Sun P.H. North Forbury road
Eernard & Co. grocers, 30 Cholmeley road Bowler Arthur, builder, I2 Howard street
llernard Thomas, shopkeeper, 68 Rupert street Bowley JQhn, shopkeeper, 45 Rupert street
llernard Waiter Henry, boot repairer, 8 Somers town Bowman William, watch maker, 69 Oxford road
llerry Albert J ames, grocer, see Bragg & Berry Bowman-Smith Alfred, chemist, 46 Erleigh road

Eest Hannah & Catherine (Misses), fancy feather dressers, Bowsher Fred, beer retailer, 6o Southampton street
I83 London road Bowsher Richard, clerk, 8a, Hill street
Boyd & Murley, plumbers, 87 London street
lletteridge James, beer retailer & coal dlr. 85 Bedford rd Bozier Thomas, sawyer, 172 Southampton street
Betts Benjamin, baker & corn dealer, Hosier street Bozons Limited, cycle manfrs. St. George's road & 83a,
Eibby Ellen (Mrs.), apartments, 34 Waylen street
Eiddles William Byron, veterinary surgeon, 245 Oxford Broad street
Bracher & Sydenham, manufacturing jewellers, sil-
road & I Valpy street
versmiths & watch makers, 56, 57, 58 & 59 Minster st
Billett George Henry, live bird dealer, I9 Cross street Bradbury Bros. saddlers, B Cross street
Bilson 'William, apartments, 40 George street Braden John George M.R.C.S., L.S.A., L.M.Lond. sur-

l!infield & Co. pianoforte dealers, IS9 Friar street geon, Encombe lodge, King's road
Bradford Henry, grocer, I71 Southampton street
lling William, Shades P.H. IS Gun street Bradley & Bliss manufacturing pharmaceutical chemists
llirch George Henry, clerk, 127 Caversham road
llird Henry, brewer, I7 Caversham road & wholesale druggists; dealers in genuine oils, lead,
lErd Thomas Henry, grocer, I05 Cumberland road colors & varnishes, lubricating oils & -english glass,
Bishop & Aldridge (Misses), milliners, 9 Arcade, Friar st King's road
llishop Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 39 Cardigan road Bradley & Son, steam printers, bookbinders .& sta-
Bishop William Jas. greengrocer, 23 Southampton street tioners &c. 4 Forbury
Blackford Harry, butcher, 72 Leopold road Brain & Brain. solicitors & comrs. for oaths, 156 Friar st
IHackiston Alfred Frederick W. Blagrave Amts P.H. Bradley Charles, pharmaceutical chemist, 46 Market pi

35 Blagrave street Bradley William, shopkeeper, 5 Boarded lane
,.Illackmore Francis Ernest, engineer, 55 Queen's road
Blackwell & Gutch, printers, 20 London street Bradnam & Boar, grocers, 6 Howard street
Blackwell Alfred, hair dresser, Wokingham road Bragg & Berry, grocers, 20 Cross street
Blackwell Alfred, plasterer, I59 London road Bragg James, bookseller, I05 & 106 Broad street
Elackwell Charles, blacksmith, Globe yard, Bridge street Brain & Brain, solicitors & somrs. for oaths, IS6 Friar st
lllackwell Edward J. insurance agent, 20 London street
Blake Albert E. boot maker, Ba, Queen's road Brain John Alfred, boot & shoe manufacturer, II4 & II5
Blake Emily (Mrs.), milliner, Ba, Queen's road
lllake Thomas H. joiner, 18 East street Broad street. See advert
lllake William, boot repairer, I47 Orts road Brain Sydney, solicitor, see Brain & Brain
Elake's Lock (Patrick Lee, keeper), Kennet side Brain Waiter John, solicitor, see Brain & Brain
Bland Sarah Ann (Miss), milliner, 85 Castle street Brant Thomas, grocer, go Great Knollys street
Blandford John Robert,drainage inspector,Hillside,Elm rd Brant Thomas, shopkeeper, sB Carnarvon road
Blandy & Blandy, solicitors, I Friar street Breadmore James, shopkeeper, 59 Waterloo road
J3landy, Hawkins & Co. brewers & wine & spirit mers. Breccini Alexander, shopkeeper, 3.'> St. Mary's butts
Bren George, working cutler, 35 Howard street
Castle brewery, 16 Bridge street; & maltsters, Little Bren Jane (Mrs.). apartments, 43 Waylen street
Crown yard Brett George, drug stores, 435 Oxford road
lllandy Col Adam, chief constable of Berks, .Abbey street Brewer Georges, teacher of music, 31 Culver road
:Blandy William Charles M.A. solicitor (firm, Blandy & Briant Francis Richard, apartments, I26 Chatham street
Blandy) Bridgman Henry, market gardener, Little Coley
Bridgman Henry Jn. market gardener, Berkeley aven. ea
Elandy William Frank M.A. (firm, Blandy & Blandy), soli- Bridle William Albert, cGal merchant, 67 Castle street
citor, under sheriff of Berks & clerk to the trustees of Brigham Richard & Son, tobacco manufacturers, 94 Lon-
Reading municipal charities & to the borough magis-
trates, I Friar street don street; tobacconists, 107 Broad st. & 4 Duke st
Bright Emma (Mrs.), grocer & baker, 64 Bedford road
lllaxill \Villiam Charles, clerk, 5 Waverley road Bright Samuel, boat proprietor, 6o Elgar road
Bright William Henry, apartments, 7 George street
Elay Hannah (Mrs.), apartments, I54 Oxford road Brill Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 38 Chatham street
'Blazey Alfred, tailor, 57 London street Brill Annie (Mrs.), dress maker, 23 Elm Park road
Elazey Henry, tailor, 9 Russell street Brill William Alfred, painter, 23 Elm Park road •
Elomfield Frank, hardware & toy dealer, 2I King street Brind George, shopkeeper, 12 Filehurst road
lHoomfield & Brown, corn dealers, Mill lane Brinkworth Harry, fruiterer, 2.'> Oxford road
llloomfield Henry, baker, 6o Amity road Brinn William J ames Justins, brewer & beer retailer, 44•
'Blows Thomas, apartments, 25 Vachel road
Elunden Abijah, dining rooms, 14 Cross street 46 & 48 Castle street
Elunsdon Ellen (Mrs.), apartments, 32 Zinzan street Bristow George, milk seller, I Grovelands road west
lloar Beniamin Horatio, grocer, see Bradnam & Boar British Dairy Institute (Miles Benson, manager), West

"Bodle William Stokes, New Inn P.H. 404 Oxford road Forbury road
Eoggis Frederick, foreman painter, 43 Zinzan street Britton George, boGt maker, 36 Watlingoon street
Eohn Charles, foreman, 2n Southampton street Britton William, fruiterer, 6o St. Mary's butts
'Bolton Barnet, dairyman, 24 Prince of Wales avenue Broadbear Brothers, wholesale tinware manufactrs.
llolton Emest John, tobacconist, 58 Southampton street
'Bona .Antonio G. Caversham hotel, Caversham road Providence iron works, Katesgrove lane. TeL No. 389
'llond Priscilla (Mrs.), midwife, 369 Oxford road Broadbear Samuel, apartments, 36 Addington road
Eonner Helen Gertrude (Miss), apartments,I I Sackville st Broadway .Alfred, Ship hotel, Duke street
'Bonney William Charles, beer retailer, 9 & n Mount st Brook John, shopkeeper, 20 Albert road
"Bonny & King, grocers, & post office, I39 & I4I Oxford st Brooker William John, greengrocer, I2I Chatham street
Eorelli Gaetano, watch maker, 25 Broad street
Eorough of Reading Steam Laundry Co. Lim.Liverpool rd Brookes John Marshall, insurance agent, rs London road
Boseley William D. teacher of music,Earley vil.Church rd
'Botly & Lewle. jewellers, watch makers & opticians, Brooks W. H. & Sons, oilmen & hardware dealers, 143
London road
·2.'> Kin~ street
Brooks Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Q Manchester road
Bottrill John & Son, builders, sB & I36 King's road & I Brook~by George, tobacconist, 99 Friar street
Broughton John, fried fish dealer, 57 Mill lane
Blenheim road Broughton John, shopkeeper, 73 Mount Pleasant
Boult Francis John, brewers' agent, 4 Snring gardens Brow-n James Dymore & Son, brewers & wine &
'Boulton Brothers, sign writers, 263 London road
spirit merchants, brewers by special appointment to

the Royal Berks Hospital & under the immediate pat-

ronage of the Queen, Royal A.lbert brewery, Queen's rd

186 RE.ADI:'iG. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY's

Brown & Davies,china & glass merchants,32 Market pl Casbu:i'n Charles, London Tavern P .H. 2 Broad street

Brown & Vile, dining rooms, 88 Friar street Castle .Thomas, shopkeeper, 70 Essex street

Brown Eliza (Mrs.), apartments, 87 Caversham road Catley James, builder, see Collier & Catley

Brown John, general shop, 47 Silver street Cattle Market (F. Pottinger, toll coli.), 18 Gt. Knollys s~

Brown John T. cycle maker, sa, St. Mary's butts Cave Emily (Miss), apartments, 48 Zinzan street

Brown Joseph, travelling draper, 243 Oxford road Cave Waiter F. apartments, 33 Christ Church road

Brown May (Miss), dress maker, 146 Chatham st Cawdell Selina (Mrs.), dress maker, 9 Caversham road

Brown Sarah Ann (Miss), greengrocer, 6 Mount Pleasant Cawston Edward Joseph, tobacconist, 206 Caversbam rd

Brown Sidney, corn dealer, see Bloomfield & Brown Cessford Thos. Hy. Royal Berkshire hotel, 67 London rd

Brown William, coal dealer, ng Sherwood st Chamberlain Uriah & Miriam (Mrs.), boot warehouse,

Brown William, coal merchant, 212 King's rd 8S King's road Augustus, shopkeeper, so Alpine et
Brown William, shopkeeper, 191 Orts road Chamberlain Arthur

Brunsden Edward, chemist, 4 & 6 London street Chamberlain Louisa (Miss), dress ma.nDonnington gdns

Brunsdon Frederick G. beer retailer, 34 Soho street Chamberlain William Hy. pork butcher, 26 Thorn street •

Brunsdon Henry, clerk, 188 Oxford road Champ Charles, assurance agent, 32 Donnington gardens

Bryan Frederick, hair dresser, 49 Soutqampton street Champion William Charles, boot repairer, 53 Albany road

Bryant Robert, clerk, 9 Argyle street Chandler R. & Son, bakers, 73 Oxford road

Bryant Theodore, apartments, 6 George street Chandler David, painter, I49 Orts road

Buck Thomas J. collector of revenue, 13 to 16 Market pl Chandler David, potter, 734 Oxford road
Bull A. H. Limited, general drapers, outfitters, tailors Chandler Fredk. Wm. bricklayer, Waylen cot.Waverley rd
& clothiers & wholesale & retail warehousemen & com- Chandler George E. shopkeeper, 7 Silver street

plete house furnishers, 47. 48, 52, 53. 54· 55, 56 & 59 Chandler George Ernest, builder, 39 George street
Broad st. & n8 & II9 Friar st. TA "Enterprise"; Chandler Geo.Patk.Brewery tavern, 19 & 21 Caversham rd
T N 288. See adv-ert. facing inside front cover
Chandler Harry Edgar, carpenter, Rose cot. Waverley rd
Bull Henry' Reuben, apartme-nts, u Greyfriars road
Chaplin & Co. cartage agents to London & South Western
Bullock Harriet (Mrs.), apartments, 25 Sackville street
Bundock Albert, oilman, 3 Whitley street Railway Co. 49 Market pl
Chapman Annie (Mrs.), tobacconist, 25 & 26 Market pl
Bungalow (The), high class tea rooms, IO Cross street. Chapman Charles, greengrocer, 9 Silver street
See advert
Bunting George, coffee house, 10 Southampton street Chapman George, commercial traveller, III Caversham rd
Burberry Thomas, draper, 59, 61, 63 & 65 London street Chapman George H. beer retailer, 8 & ro Spring gdns
Burgess Frances (Mrs.), apartments, 24 Zinzan street Chapman Henry Charles, plumber, 45 Howard street
Burgess George Edward, beer retailer, 84 Castle street Chapman John, general shop, 29 Coley place
llurgis Margaret (Miss), preparatory school for girls, Chapman Thos. carpentr. II4, & beer ret. n6 King's rd
Chappell & Son, dairymen, 21 Prince of Wales avenue
Silverdale, Ale:xandra road
Chappell Polly (Mrs.), apartments, 10 Greyfriars road
Burl Emma & Florence (Misses),dress mas.36 llelmont rd Chard Thomas P. oil & colour stores, 30 St. Mary's butts
llurling James, gymnastic & drill instructor, 16 .Ad- Chart Frederick William, beer retailer, 57 Hosier street
dington road
Cheney .John William, corn dealer, see Stransom & Cheney
Burnell Harriett (Mrs.), apartments, 150 Castle street
Burness Joseph William, tailor, 12 Chatham street Cheste1man Charles, market gardener, llasingstoke road
Burnham Frederick, saddler, 41 King's road Chesterman Jane (Miss), apartments, 36 Zinzan street
Burnham James, insurance manager, 146 Oxford rd Cheyney Frank Robert, clothiers' manager, 15 Zinzan st
Bnrrett James Dnrrant, clerk, 63 Southampton street Child Herbert, surgeon, IOI Oxford road
Bu[I"ett William Henry, painter, 22 Foxhill road Childs & Son, plumbers, 66 London street
Ilurt Annie (Mrs.), dress maker, 7 Cranbury road Childs Harry, glass stainer, 47 London street
llurtenshaw & Son, j.ob masters, 77 Castle street Chinese Tea Co.· (J. Rees, propr.), tea dlrs. 45 Broad sl
Burton Wm. Henry, bricklayer & shopkeeper, 2 Garnet st Chipp Annie (Mrs.), greengrocer, 129 Queen's road
Bushell Ethel (Miss), day school, 343 Oxford road Cholton Sarah (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 70 Silver st
Bushell Kate (Mrs.), apartments, 8 Church street Chorley Fred Owen, grocer, 27 Greyfriars road
Bushnell Harry, baker, 21 Essex street Christ Church Institute (Joseph J. Richardson, sec.),
Buswell Sarah Betsy (Mrs.), apartments, 124 Chatham st
Butcher Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer, 92 Great Knollys st Mount street
Christian John Griffi.th, surgeon, Beaufort bo. Castle st
Christie Thomas Frederick, dairyman, ra, Watlington st
Butcher M. .A. (Miss), teacher oB music, 127 Castle hill Church of England Young Men's Christian Association
Butcher William, dairyman, 55 Watlington street
(F. Winter & W. A. Maslen, hon.secs.),8St.Mary's butts
Butler George Russell & Son, auctioneers, valuers, land Church Henry, baker, I32 Friar street
agents & surveyors, 6 Market place
Church Samuel, beer retailer, 40 London st
Butler & Sons, beer, spirits & wine dealers & retailers,
Church Schools Company Limited (Miss L. E. Haigh,
Bs, ·87 & 89 Chatham street head mistress), 121 London road

Butler William & Co. hosiers, 5 Broad street Clacy William, beer retailer, 19 Hosier street

Butler Benjamin Herridge, chemist, 129 London road Claridge Charles, greengrocer, 23 Derby street

Butler Charles Atkinson, draper, II3 London street Clark's Lead Works Co. lead mers. 15, 17 & 19 Queen's rd

Butler Ernest George, harness maker, 5 Great Knollys st Clark Ann (Mrs.), grocer, 22 Waylen street
Butler Frank, wine & spirit merchant, 3 London street Clark Clara (Mrs.), pie maker, 2 Union street
Butler Harry, fitter, 39 Greyfriars road
Clark David, railway inspector, 8 Waylen street
Butler Thomas, tailor, 94 Castle street
Clark Frederick, beer retlr. & shopkpr. 19 Chatham s~
Butler William, beer retailer, 18 Bridge st
Clark Gabriel, baker, 35 Foxhill road
Cafe Victoria, refreshment rooms, 12 Broad st. See advert Clark George, baker, 182 Southampton street
Caister Mary A. & Cordelia (Misses), milliners, 2 Gun st Clark John Wilkins, architect, IOI Caversham road
Caister frank Clark, clerk, Stansted, Elm road
Clark Samuel, market gardener, 450 Oxford road
Callas ·Alfred, ironmonger, 70 to 76 Oxford road
Clark William, horticultural builder, North Forbury rd
Callas Cons¥tnce (Miss), dress maker, 36 Soho street
Clark William Robert, clerk, 15 Queen's road
Callcut & Bevisr birm. & sheffld. wareho. 8o Broad st Clarke Donald, dairyman, 395 Oxford road
Calvert & Tilley, drapers, 64 St. Mary's butts
Clarke Ernest, shopkeeper, 88 Whykeham road
Calvert J ana (Mrs.), coffee rooms, 38 Minster street
Clarke Geo. chimney sweep, r Hereford cots. Erleigh rd
Camm & Cornish,. drapers, 59 Watlington st
Clarke George, chimney sweep, 88 Kennet side
Campbell Archibald, furniture broker, 82 London street Clarke George Thomas, stationer, 3 & 4 "\rest street
Cnmpion Arthur, boc;Jt maker, 452 Oxford road
Clarke Joseph, inland revenue officer, 26 Zinzan street
Cane Thomas, dining, rooms, 2 & 3 Butter market
Clarke Rupert Lewis, dental surgeon, 8 Forbury
Canning Emma (Mrs.), dress maker, 34 Cholmeley rd Ularke Sarah (Mrs.), restaurant, Vastern road
Cant Frederick James, greengrocer, 2a, Southampton st Clarke William Albert, tailor's cutter, 47 Zinzan street
Cape! Charles, shopkeeper, 179 Great Knollys street
Clarke William John, florist, Connaught road
Capital & Counties Bank Limited (The) (George H. Clayton Louisa (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 53 Erleigh road
Stubington, manager),- 24 & 25 Broad street; draw on Clements George, milk seller, r6 Hatherley road
head office, 39 Threadneedle street, London E C
Clifford John, grocer, 2 Wolseley street
Capon Henry Robert, shopkeeper, 585 Oxford rd
Clifford Sydney, Queen's Arms P.H. 43 Hosier street
Cardwell Ernest, pharmaceutical chemist, 8 King street Clinch Emma (Mrs.), dress maker, 14 Donnington gdns
Carini Luigi, The Castle P.H. 28 Castle street
Clowes Norton Burroughs M.R.C.S. & L.R.C.P.Lond. (of
Carter George T. & Co. seedsmen, Market Place cham- Phillips-Conn & Clowes),physician & snrgn.45London rd
bers, Market place '·
Coale Roger, tailor, 392 Oxford road
Carler George Charles T. working jeweller, I Merchant's Coates .Alfred D. White Hart P.H. I & 3 Oxford road
place & Hamilton road
Coates James, clerk, n :Norfolk road
Carler Nellie (Miss), teacher of music, 62 Blenheim road Coates Robert Silvanus, painter, 53 Bedford road




DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. READlNG. lb7

Coath Louisa (Mrs.), registry for servants, 26 King's rd Oorrie Samuel, travelling clraper, 105 Castle street
Oosell Charles, apartments 44 Greyfriars road
Cockbill Edwin, carpenter, I Sherman road Cotterell Edna (Mrs.), bakr. &..grocer, 107 Southampton s•
Cotterell Francis, general shop, Brighton road
Cocks & Co. pickle & sauce manufacturers, 25 King's rd Cottrell, Simmons & Goodchild, auctnrs. 20 Blagrave s•
Cottrell Harry Edward, fanner, Southcote farm, South·
soCocks Charles, beer retailer, 12 Rupert street
cote lane & at Sonning
Coe Charles, hair dresser, King's road County Court (His Honor Vernon Lushington Q.C. judge;

Coggs George, hair dresser, 132 London street Henry Collins, registrar ; Charles Collins, dep. regis-
trar; ,V, H. Shepherd, registrar's clerk; .Arthur Mas·
Cohen Percy, wholesale cigar merchant, 17 len, high bailiff) ; office, 172 Friar street
County Police (Col. Adam Blandy, chief constable; In-
Market place spector Alfred Hedg3s, chief clerk to county police ;
James Davis, supt.); st:1tion, Abbey street
Cole .Arthur E. outfitter, 105 King's road County Restaurant (Rendell & Co. proprietors), 45 Mkt. pl
Cove vVm. Hy. farmer, Whitle Lower farm,Basingstoke rd
Cole Esther Mary (Mrs.), Rose & Thistle P .H. 5 Argyle rd
Cowdry Henry, teacher of music, 35 Zinzan street
Cole John, greengrocer, 87 Southampton street
Cowmeadow Charles, artificial teeth manufr. 38 Friar s\
Colebrooke & Co. Limited, butchers, 120 Broad st. & 81 Co:x E. & Sons, mineral water manufrs. II7 Caversham rd
Cox Ada (Miss), dress maker, 35 Letcombe street
London st. ; fishmongers, 120 Broad st. &; 2 Duke st Cox Edward, fishing tackle warehouse, see Perry & Cox
Co:x Frederick Alfred, butcher, I 17 King's road
Coleman Jeremiah, apartments, 2 Sackville street Cox George S. ironmonger, 9 Gun street
Cox James, jobmaster, 2 vYhitley street
Coleman Maurice vV., M.B.surgeon,see Hurry & Coleman Co:x John, umbrella maker, 33 Friar street
Cox vYilliam, laundry, Belmont road
Coles .Annie (Mrs.), grocer & beer ret. 466 Oxford road Coxhead Henry, fruiterer, 10 & II Union street
Coxhead \Villiam, inspector under the Petroleums Act &
Coles Samuel John, dentist, 15 Cross street
the Sales of Gas Act, East street
Coling Joseph, boot maker, 12 Soho street Craft James & Son, chemists, 24 London street
Craft John .A., M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgn. 214 King's road
Collett Ann (Miss), apartments, 8 Russell street Crane James, apartments, 142 Caversham road
Crapp Joseph, clerk to St. Mary's parish, 20 Baker stree\
Collier & Catley, builders, drainage & road contrac- Cray Alfred, french polisher, 4 .!.nstey road
Creed Henry, solicitor, 160 Friar street
tors & sanitary specialists, St. Mary's butts & Vastern Crescendo Arthur, photographer, 15 Arcade, Friar street

road; telephone No. 93 Crimble Thomas, commercial traveller, 97 Caversham rd
Cripps John, baker, 21 Whitley street
Collier S. & E. brick & tile mas. Grovelands, Tilehurst rd Croft Thomas, beer retailer, 4 ·willow street
Crook Ellen Matilda (Mrs.), beer ret. 31 Weldale street
Collings Elizabeth M. (Mrs.), boot maker, 6 King street Crook J ane (Mrs.), apartments, 15 Sackville street

Collings Frank Waiter, carver & gilder, 2I Cross street & Crook Thomas E. clerk, 5 Waylen street

59 Castle crescent Crook \Yilliam, apartments, 27 Sackville street
Cropp Thomas, bricklayer, 19 & 21 Abbey wall
Collins H. & C. solicitors, 172 Friar street Crosbie William, travelling draper, 63 Erleigh road

Collins & Son, dyers, II & 12 Gun street Cross John & Co. chemists, 38 Oxford road

Collins & Son, fishmongers, 43, & butchers 45, King's rd Cross Street Hall (George Farmer, sec.), Cross street
Crouch .Alfred Daniel, watch maker, 127 Queen's road
Collins Archibald, corn dealer, us Caversham road Crow Annie (Miss), dress maker, 20 Hamilton road
Crowe Sarah Ann (Mrs.), confectioner, 140 Friar street
Collins Benjamin, oilman, 6o2 Oxford road Cruikshank Mary Helen (Miss) L.R.C.P. & S., 1\i.D.

Collins Charles, shopkeeper, 34 Mason street physician & surgeon, 28 London road & 45 Crown st
Crust Frederick Jas. inland rev. officer, 232 King's road
Collins Charles (firm, R. & U. Collins), solicitor & deput]
Cuff's Enamelled Glazing Starch Co. I Valpy street
registrar of county court, 172 Friar street Culham Harry, grocer, r Church road
Cullimore William, dining room, 59 Southampton street
Collins George, fitter, 4I Baker street Cullimore William T. dining rooms, 42a, King's road
Cullum John, shopkeeper, 1a, Little street
Collins George, Vastern Temperance hotel, Blagrave st Culyer Fredk. corn. traveller, Norfolk cot. London road •
Cundell Matt. Hy. farmer, Coley Park farm, Coley aven
Collins Henry, soliqitor· & registrar of county court & Cunningham Rev. Albert Hy. B.A. private tutor, Somer-

registrar district registry High Court of Justice & set house, London road
Curl George, beer retailer, 2 Mason street
county treasurer for Berks (firm, H. & C. Collins), 172 Curl George, shopkeeper, rg Blenheim road
Curtis Henry, apartments, 21 1Vaylen street
Friar street ·· Curtis Robert, builder, Upper Redlands road

Collins Henry John, solicitor, see H. & C. Collins Curtis Waiter George, baker, 21 Cholmeley road

Collins J osiah William, oilman & shopkpr. 64 Foxhill rd Cusden James & CO. printers, Upper Redlands road

Collins L<Juisa (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 754 Oxford road Cusden Edward, farmer, Home farm, Basingstoke road

Collins Samuel, shopkeeper, 127 Cumberland road Cusden Lucy (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 19 Abbey street
Cutler Thomas :Kathaniel, tailor, 7a, Hill street
Collins Waiter Rowland, clerk, 21 Norfolk road Dakin Hannah (Mrs.), Duke's Head P.H. 41 Broad street
Dale Sidney Jonathan, confectioner, 35a, King's road
Collinson Thomas, apartments, 170 Southampton street Daniels William, apartments, 52 Watlington street

Colridge Aaron, shopkeeper, 181 London road Dann F. H. & Co.photographrs.35 Broad st.&7440xford r.J

Colton Richard, turncock, 10 Hosier street Darch William, Horn Inn P.H. 2 Castle street
Davey David, shopkeeper, 51 Vastern road
Commins William, painter, 140 Southampton street Davey John, beer retailer, Grape passage
Davey 1Valter Henry, collector of borough rates, Town
Connett Thomas, engine :fitter, 6o Queen's road
hall, Blagrave street & 51 Donnington road
Cook Albert G. shoe maker, 95 London street Davies Ellen (Miss), dress maker, Liverpool road
Davies Richard Wiltshire, Royal Oak P.H. 14 Broad street
Cook Charles, carpenter, 131 Oxford road Davies Waiter Jn. china & glass mer. see Brown &; Davies-
Davies William, grocer, 4 Orts road
Cook David J olm, basket warehouse, I I High street Davis Hy. (Mrs.) & Son, musical inst. wareho. JoKing's rd
Davis Elizabeth C~irs. ), beer retailer, 144 Friar street
Cook Edward, apartments, 125 Castle hill Davis Herbert, fruiterer, 403 Oxford road
Davis James, carpenter, 121 Queen's road
Cook Eliza Lilian (Mrs.), greengrocer, 71 Southampton st
Davis J ames, ironmonger, 54 Castle street
Cook George, furniture dealer, 30 Southampton street
Davis James, supt. of county police, A.bbey street
Cook J ames Richard, shopkeeper, 23 Elgar road
Davis Lily (Miss), teacher of music, 12 George street
Cook Sarah (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 32 Southampton st
Davis Sarah Jane (Miss), dress maker, r2 Fatherson road
Cooke Thomas, jun. & Sons, wholesale clothiers, Mill la

Cooke Alfred, baker & grocer, 23 George street
Cooksey Frank, auctioneer, house & estate agent & valuer,

17 Market place

Coombes & Cooper, basket makers, 13 Castle st

Coombs .Alice (Miss), milliner, 6 Cross street

Cooper Hy. & Sons, building &; quantity survyrs. 17Friar st

Cooper & Howell, architects, 17 Blagrave street

Cooper J. Omer & Son, auctioneers, 17 Blagrave street

Cooper Alfred, teacher of music, 77 Kensington road

Cooper Ann (Mrs.), apartments, 12 Carey street

Cooper Arth. S. importer of wines & spirits, 29 Market st

Cooper Edward, beer retailer, 24 Great Knollys street

Cooper Fanny (Mrs.), furniture dealer, 427 Oxford road

Cooper Henry, basket maker, see Coombes & Cooper

Cooper Sarah Ann (Mrs.), wardrbe. dlr.35 De Beauvoir rd

Cooper Sydney Morris, banker (firm, Ashurst, Martyn,

Cooper, Thorpe & Co)

Cooper William, Bear Inn P.H. 22 Bridge st

Corbett Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 57 Weldale street

Cordery Henry, fruiterer, 120 King's road

Cordingly Annie (Mrs.), apartments, 49 Erleigh road

Cordrey Emily (Mrs.), girls' school, Felstead, Tilehurst rd

Corn Exchange & General Market (John Smith, toll col·

lector), 8 Broad street & Market place

Cornish Rose (Miss), draper, see Camm & Cornish

Corp Georgina (Mrs.), apartments, 8 J esse terrace

Corporation Fire Brigade St~tion (Frederick Lewis Pon·

tin, chief officer; John Riddles, engnr.),St.Mary's butts

Corporation of Reading Sewage Farm (Thomas Chettle,

steward), Manor farm, Basingstoke road

Corporation Weigh Bridge (Waiter Flint, collector), St.

Mary's butts

Corps Maria (Mrs.), apartments, 4I Waylen street



188 READING. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Davis Thomas, carpenter, 21 Chester street coal merchants, G. W. Railway coal depot, Caversham

Da,vis William, accountant, Arcade chambers, Friar street road; & at Henley-on-Thames

Davis William, beer retailer & shopkeeper, 9 George st Dunn & Co. bookbinders, 105 Friar street

Davis William, dairyman, 9 Salisbury road Dunn Emma (Mrs.), dress maker, 6I Bedford road

Davis William, shopkeeper, 4 Brunswick street Dunn John, clerk, Tenbury, Elm road

Dawbney John Wesley, Kennet Arms P.H. 2 Pell street Dunster Henry Frank, boot maker, 56 Oxford road

Dawson Alfred, greengrocer, 59 Mill lane Dunston Joseph Newman, oil & color man, 13 London rd

Day's Metropolitan Drug Co. Lim. chemists, 6 Broad st Dunton & Sons, wheelwrights, Crane wharf, King's road

l>ay Arthur Adey, confectioner, I6 Orts road Durham Louis, assist. school att~mdance off. Blagrave st

Day Arthur George, news agent, 48 Donnington gardens Durkin Alfred, apartments, 19 Sackville street

Day Clara (Mrs.), dress maker, I2 Cranbury road Durran & Son, watch makers, 4 Oxford road&; II Arcade,

l)ay Clara (Mrs.), registrar of births & deaths for St. Friar street

Mary's subdistrict, 84 Oxford road Dyer & Short, wholesale grocers, 21 St. Mary's butts

Day Elizabeth (Mrs.), pork butcher, 37 King's road Dyer Benjamin, apartments, 7 Waylen street

Day Henry, town clerk & clerk to the urban sanitary Dyer John, dairyman, 36 Mason street

authority & Reading school trustees, Town hall, Bla· Dyke William, draper, 57 & 58 Broad street

grave street Eades & Eccleston, tobacconists, 26 Friar street

Day Jemima (Mrs.), Duke of Edinburgh P.H. 65 Caver· Eades George, athletic outfitter, 405 Oxford road

sham road Eagles Edward James, boot maker, 12 Hatherley road

Day Walter, butcher, 28 Chain street Eagles Frederick, boot repairer, 48 Crescent road

'Day William, clerk, so Zinzan streGt Eames Charles J. draper, 9 Jesse terrace

Deacon William Jacob, bricklayer, Hermitage,Waverley rd Earl Edward George, insurance agent, 12 Wokingham rd

Deal .Arthur, tailor, 27 Lynemouth road Earles Charles, hair dresser, 6c; Lower Thorn street

Dean EdwardArthur,school attendance officer,23Norfolk rd Earles J ames, apartments, 52 Bedford road

1Jean George, confectioner, 55 Hosier street Earles James Adolphus, chair caner, 71 Lower Thorn st

'l>eane, Son & West, auctioneers, estate agents, valuers Earles William Henry, beer retlr. & shopkpr.I C.aroline st

.& land surveyors, I6 Friar street Earley William, baker, 133 Orts road

'Ileane Arthur William, music warehouse, 3 Queen's road Early John, apartments, I67 King's ftlad

Tieane Elizh. (Mrs.), teacher of music, n Vachel road Earthy Charles J. stained glass dealer, 8o London street

Thane Harry James, groc~r & beer retailer, I7St.John's rd East Berks Conservative Association (Henry Creed, sec.),

Deane William Thos. F. auctioneer, see Deane, Son & West I 6o Friar street

'Dearing Edwin, beer retailer, 84 Queen's road East's Boat Building Co. Lim. boat builders, Caversham

Dearlove Joseph, baker & shopkeeper, 2 Spring gardens lock & Kennet's mouth

Death James, baker & confectioner, I8 West street Eastmans Lim. butchers, 2 Oxford road & I Broad street

Deaves Arthur John, The Premier P.H. 40 Caversham rd Eaton & Wing, carpenters, 25 London road

• 'Delaford Sarah (Mrs.), coffee rooms, SI8 Oxford road Eaton John, resident dispenser, Dispensary, Chain street

'Dennis Thos. inspector of borough highways, 5 Zinzan st Ebden James Bailey, painter, 7 Alfred street
Ecclest~:m Thomas, tobaccnst. see Eades & Eccleston
I>enton Albert, painter, 2I Southampton street
Eckett Caleb, basket maker, 16 Northfi.eld road
Thnton James, carman, 34 Hosier street
DentDn James William, coal merchant, 13 \Veston street Edgar David, tailor, 48 Queen's road
Edgington Thomas, boot maker, n7 Cumberland road
Denton John, blacksmith, Enley road
Edginton Edward, general shop, 65 Silver street
Venton John, shopkeeper, 649 Oxford road
Edmeades Maud (Miss), school, see Balch & Edmeades
1Jenton Rice, bricklayer, II Waverley road
Edmunds J effery, grocer, 14 Wykeham road
1Denton Samuel, tobacconist, I So Oxford road Edmunds J oseph, boot maker, 33 Castle street
Dickens James William, boot maker, I Waterloo road Edwards Alfred John, fishmongers' assistant, 4 King's
'Diegan Martha (Mrs.), laundry, 54 Mount Pleasant
Meadow road
Dix George &i Son, bakers, 29 St. Mary's butt.s Edwards Godfrey William, tobacconist, 7a, West street
Dixon Arthur, insurance agent, 20 Brunswick street
Eeles Fanny (Mrs.), baker, 26 West street
Tiixon George, builder, 9 Lorne street Eeles John, baker, 35 Hosier street
IDi"Kon Oliver, horse dealer, Crescent road
Dockerill Benjamin, gardener to G. W. Palmer esq. M.P. Egby Henry, shopkeeper, 30 Weston street
Egginton & Son F.S.I. auctioneers, surveyors, land agts.
Shinfield road
& valuers, I50 Friar street. See advert
l:>odd, Son & Rawstorne, solicitors, r6 Friar street
'Dodd Chas. Haffenden, solr. see Dodd, Son & Rawstorne Eggleton Joseph, shopkeeper, 62 Henry street
Eggleton Richard, hair dresser, 13 King street
Dodd James Swallow, architect, 38 Friar street Eggleton William, confectioner, 17 Orts road
"Dodd John Thomas, S<llic:tor & commissioner for oaths & Ehrenberg Israel, wholesale clothier, 120 Chatham street
Eighteen George, fishmonger, 19 West street
clerk to commissioners of assessed, land & incDme
taxes & to the county magistrates (firm, Dodd, Son & Eighteen John, fish curer & horse dealer, 7 Arthur road

Rawstorne), 16 Friar street Eley Caroline (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 2 Foxhill road

Dodding-ton Thomas, Blue Lion P.H. Wolseley street
Dolby Henry William, fishmonger, 37 De Beauvoir road Elliott Annie (Mrs.), dress maker, 171 Caversham road
Uormain Edward John & John Richardson, butchers, ISO Elliott Thomas, tailor, 2 Body road
King's road; 20 De Beauvoir road & 33 Southampton st Ellis Henry E. clothier, 8 Greyfriars road
Dormer Frederick W. assistant clerk to the county magis· Ellis John, mechanical engineer, 28 George street
Elmes John Thomas, shopkeeper, I45 Amity road
trates, Assize courts, Forbury
Elsbury Charles, printer, Mill lane
"Dowding & Sons, fruiterers, I 12 King's road

l)owling & Son, chemists, I4 King's road Emberton Frederick Charles, chemist, ::19 Friar street

l)ownham George, grocer, 3I Minster street Embery James & John, dairymen, I4 Christ Church road

Downing Daniel, tobacconist, 9 Oxford road Emery Benj. wheelwright, I Whitley cots. Ba.singstoke rd

Downing Henry, ironmonger, 429 Oxford road Emery William, clerk, 252 King's road

])owns Ambrose, baker, 397 Oxford road Emmens Jessie (Mrs.),ladies' outfitter, I7 Arcade,Friar st

~owsett Bros. family brewers, ale & stout bottlers, Emmett Frances (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 26 Essex street

Bass's ales & Guinness' stout, 46 Broad street Ennew Joseph William, beer retailer, 373 Oxford road

Dowson Henry Pendlebury, maltster, Northfield road Esbuis John, shopkeeper, 67 Silver street

& Tudor road Euerby John Forest, grocer, 62 & 63 St. Mary's butts

:Dracup Ernest, clerk, 15a, Argyle street Euerby Mark, grocer, I2 Arthur road

Drake Samuel, watch maker, 11 & I2 Chain street Eustace Alfred J. photographer, g8 Oxford road

Draper Thomas, beer retailer, 119 Great Knollys street Eustace Geo. bookseller & news agent, 6 & 7 Union st

·nrewett George, fishmonger, 11 Upper Crown street Evans Albert John, grocer, 44 Addington road

'Drewitt William, shopkeeper, 37 Coley place Evans George, decorator, 63 Orts road

T>ruce & Co. accountants, 11 Cross street Evans Harry, hair dresser, 34 Oxford road

T>ryland, Son & Thorowgood, S<llicitors, r6) Friar street Ewins Peter, apartments, 21 Sackville street

Dryland Harry Coster, solicitor, see Dryland, Son & Eyles Frank F. pawnbroker, 123 London street
Eyre Arthur, Lion P.H. 2I Great Knollys street
Thorowgood
'Dryland Robert Coster, solicitor, see Dryland, Son & Fabry William, apartments, 12 Waylen street
Falla Ada (Mrs.), stationer, 38 Castle street
Thorowgood

Duce David, fried fish dealer, 161 Southampton street Farmer Edgar Ralph, confectnr. 76 Prince of Wales aven
Farrar Eliza J ane (Mrs.), apartments, 5 Sackville street
l)uck~tt Thomas, ~reengrocer, 13 Baker street

"Duguid Charles, The Bee Hive P.H. II Broad street Farrer & Sons, stationers & news agents, 39 Broad streeio

I>unbar William, draper, 40 Queen's road & 131 London road

Dnnlop George & Son, coal, coke, salt, corn, hay, stra'W Fearn Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker, 175 London road
'& forage merchants, 95, 97 & 99 & 7B Oxford road & Fellows Henry, ironmonger, 58 Caversham road

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Fereday & Pocock, window blind makers, 84 London st Fullbrook Sydney, coffee rooms, Wokingham road

Ferguson & Sons, brewers & wine & spirit merchants & Fuller ·George Frederick, baker, 66 Caversham roa,l

innkeepers, :n6 & :n7 Ilroad street Fuller George Frederick, confectioner, I39 London road:

Fewster .f<'rederick William, clerk, I5 Castle street Fuller John Henry, oilman, 51 & 52 Minster street

Fidler & Sons, seed growers & seed merchants, 107 to Gale Annie (Mrs), apartments, I Victoria vils. Queen's rd

no Friar street & Io Arcade, Friar street; telegrams, Gale George H. tailor, 70 Watlington street

"Fidler"; telephone No. 38 Gale Joseph John, auctioneer (firm, Franklin, Gale &

Fidler Isaac, coffee rooms, I30 King's road Newton) wardrobe dealer, ss Silver strHlt
Field Charles, grocer, 417 Oxford road Galperson David,

Field Charles Gyningham, solicitor & deputy coroner for Gait George S. tailor, I74 Friar street

East Ilerks, 12 Forbnry Gamble John, detective supt. County police, Abbey stree~

Fielding George & Frederick,George hotel,n & I2 King st Gammon Edwin .Alfred, grocer, 32 Hosier street

Fieldings' Lim. loan offices, 2 Greyfriars road Gammon Sydney, corn factor, 28 & 30 London street

Finch Aldred, greengrocer, I Mount Pleasant Gant Henry, fruiterer, 6o Caversham road

Finey George, The Crown P.H. 23 Crown street Gardener Thomas, Brunswick Arms P.H. SI Brunswick s-b

Fireside (The) Mission & Workmen's Club (Wm. Gar- Gardenner & Tregaskis, ladies' outfitters, 43 Market place

dener, caretaker), 6I Silver street Gardiner Stephen Henry, watch maker, 73 Broad street

Firley George Ernest, confectioner, 407 Oxford road Gardner Eliza (Mrs.), tailoress, I43 Oxford road & ~

Fish Edgar Joseph, coffee house, 59I Oxford road Russell street

Fisher Frances Elizabeth (Mrs.), midwife, 6 Cholmeley rd Gardner Emily (Mrs.), Royal Albion P.H. 642 Oxford road

Fisher Thomas, jobbing gardener, 49 Mount Pleasant Gardner J ames, tailor, 46 & 48 King's road

Fitchett Alfred, shopkeeper, 165 Chatham street Gardner Wm. John, insurance agent, I97 Caversham rcl

Fitt McCarthy Edward, builder & contractor, house Gare John Charles, draper, I4 London street

decorator & monumental mason, 135 London road & Garrett Rosina (Mrs.), tinmare maker, 16 Castle street

Vastern road Garrett William, outfitter, I3 \Vest street

Fitzgerald Christr.boot tree & last ma.13I Southamptn.st Gash Florence Louisa (Miss), teacher of music, 149 Elm

Flanagan Wm. Geo. Gt. Western htl. & htl. tap,Statn. rd Park road

Fleming, Reid & Co. Lim. hosiers, I3 Duke street Gash William Stanley, manager, 54 Queen's road

Fleming Robert & William, coach builders, 2 Friar st Gater .Albert, dairyman, 2 Bulmershe road

Fletcher W. & R. Limited, butchers, 17 Ilroad street & Gatfield Noah, newsagent, 130 Caversham road

39 & 4I5 Oxford road General Post Office (Samuel Wilson, postmaster), 97 &.

Fletcher Edwd. M., M.A. prep.schl.for boys,1n Castle hi g8 Broad street

Fletcher Stephen, cycle maker, see Hall, Fletcher & Co George Agnes & Elsie ('Misses), florists, I2 Arcade,Friar st
George & Co. Limited, caterers, cooks, confectioners-
Flint Oscar, beer retailer, 61 Friar street

Flood Charles, builder, 64 Cholmeley road & wine & spirit merchants, 22 & 23 King street & I3 The-

Flood Thos. A. dlr. in bee appliances, 6 Donnington rd Arcade, Friar street; & 21 Northbrook street, Newbury
Germain John Daniel, grocer, 71 Katesgrove lane
Fludder George, clerk, 2 Waverley road
Foot Thomas, shopkeeper, 6 Northfield road Germain William, coal dealer, ss Katesgrove lane

Ford & Miller, pharmaceutical chemists, SI Market pi Gerosa Enrico, confectioner, 248 King's road
Gibbons W. H. & Son, corn merchants, Valpy street
Ford Carrie (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 33 Kensington road
Gibbons George Henry, clerk, Ia, Hill street
Ford John Thomas, artist, 26 Queen's road
Fordham Fanny (Mrs.), apartments, 88 Addington road Gibbs James W. divisional superintendent, Great Western
Railway Co. Station road
Foresters' Hall (W. Lane, hall keeper\ Bridge street
Fortescue Bros. domestic machinery agents, I West st Gibbs John, insurance agent, 39 Cholmeley road
Fosbery William Hubert Sale M.A., M.D. physician & Gibbs William, boot repairer, 671 Oxford road

surgeon, Fremington, Western Elms avenue Gibbs William James, grocer, 34 Amity street

Fossett Elizabeth (Mrs.),tripe dresser,35 St.Mary's butts Gibson & Sons, marine store dealers, Kennet side
Gibson Waiter, shopkeeper, 98 .Adelington mad
Foster Henry, french polisher, 20 Battle street

Foster Wm. James L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon, 104 Oxford rd Gilbert Ellen (Miss), dress maker, 4 Junction road
Giles Archibald, farmer, Whitley Park lane
Fowler Albert, baker, 4I Oxford road
Giles William John, gilder, 68 London street
Fowler Ernest, gas inspector, 70 Edinburgh road

Fox George, blacksmith, Wokingham road Gilford Hastings F.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, 19S King's road

Fox George, shopkeeper, 6o Alma street Gilkes Joseph Charles, toy dealer, 92 & 93 Broad street &

Foxell George, tailor & parish clerk for St. Lawrence, 4 engraver, I30 Friar street
Gilkes William, cycle agent, see Major & Gilkes
Wiston terrace

Foxell Harry George, tailor, 52 Friar street Gill Edwin, rent & debt collector, 36 Ilaker street

Frame W. & Co. wholesale clothiers, Greyfriars road Gin James Dermis, pattern maker, Japonica cot. Elm road

Francis Ilrothers, butchers, 57 Watlington street Gill Wm. beer retailer & grocer, I 52 Great Knollys street

Francis Eli G. shopkeeper, 40I Oxford road Gillard Hy. saw & tool maker, see Taylor & Gillard

Francis Ernest, accountant & clerk to the b"overnors of Gillham Charles, confectioner, 94 Wokingham road

the Kendrick schools, r.72 Frie.r street Girdler James A. coach builder, Vastern road

Francis Joseph, baker, 106 Southampton street Girling Thomas Edwin, greengrocer, I29 Oxford road

Franklin & .Alien, coal dealers, IS Crown street Girls' Friendly Society & Servants' Training Institut&

Franklin, Gale & Newton, auctioneers, 13 Friar street (Mrs. Elizabeth Coventry, supt. ), IO Church street

Franklin Alfred Wm. Rudolph, Fox P.H. 22 & 23 West st Girls' Training School (Miss Christina Craig, mistress),.

Franklin Charles, boot maker, 24 Castle street I69 & 171 Orts road

Fraser George, manager, 37 Vastern road Gladden Edgar Mansfield, house decorator, 28 Eastern av

Frazer George & Son, clothiers, 9 Castle street Gladden Frederick, sign writer, 20 Howard street

Freeman, Hardy & Willis Limited, boot makers, 121 & Glade Fanny (Mrs.), dining rooms, I3 Ilroad street

122 Broad street Glan:field Frank, tailor, I36 Chatham street

Freeman & Co. stationers & toy dealers, 2 West street Glazier George .Arthur, confectioner, 5 Union street

Freeman Albert E. hairdresser, 35a, St. Mary's butts Glenister Arthur, butcher, 42I Oxford road

Freeman J ames, grocer, 6 & 8 Castle street Goadby A.llan Lindsay L.D.S. dental surgeon, ISidmouta

Freeman J ames, shopkeeper, 32 Belmont road house east, 43 London road

Freeman Mary Ann (Mrs.), general shop, I Willow street Goddard .Albert, butcher, 17 Silver street

Freeman William Thomas L.R.C.P.Lond., F.R.C.S.Eng., Goddard Charles, carman, 54 De Beauvoir road

physician & surgeon, 4I London road Goddard Daniel, builders' foreman, 142 Southampton sll
French Hannah (Miss), apartments, 40 Zinzan street
Goddard George, butcher, sx Southampton street

French William, confectioner, I2 Cholmeley road Hoddard George Henry, clerk, 7 Norfolk road

Fretwell John Buxton, farrier, Bridge street Goddard Henry, coal dealer, 2'6 Prince of Wales avenu~

Freyer Edward, tailor, x6o Southampton street Goddard Henry, Red Lion P.H. 34 Southampton street

Friendly Societies' .Assembly Rooms (William Lane, care- Goddard J ames, butcher, 62 Bedford rd. & 22 Castle st
Goddard Jane (Mrs.), beer retailer, 26 Castle street
taker), 19 Bridge street
Goddard John, antique furniture dealer, 5 St. Mary's par
Frost Willia.m, boiler maker, The Oracle, Gun street
Goddard Martha (Mrs.), apartments, 38 George street
Fry Albert Edward, manager, 3 Waverley road

Fry William Haynes, apartments, 33 Zinzan street Godden Samuel, shoeing smith, 10 .Amity mad

Fuce John Thomas, beer retailer, 169 Southampton street Godfrey .Albert Edward, clerk, 15 Norfolk road
Godwin Henry, apartments, 64 .Addington road
Fulker James Henry, dairyman, 44 George street

Fulker Reginald Thomas, shopkeeper, 43 Mason street Godwin B.obert, beer retailer, 96 Rnpert street

Fulker Thomas, beer retailer, ~ George strPet Goff Harry, shopkeeper, u3 Orts road

Fulker William Thomas, carpenter, 139 Southampton st Goff Mark, greengrocer, 62 Castle street .. .

Fullbrook Edward, shopkeeper, 69 Hosier street Goldby Willia.m, watch maker, r8 Argyle street •

Fullbrook Frederick, baker, 62 Friar street Golder James, bookseller, 48 Market place

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Golding Frederick, bookseller, 3 St. Mary's parade Grover Fanny (Mrs.), midwife, 44 Carnarvon road

Golding Jane (Mrs.), midwife, g6 De Beauvoir road Groves Frederick, greengrocer, 26 London street

Goldman Isaac, tailor, 42 Friar street Groves Levi William, boot maker, 21 Broad street

Gomm Elizabeth (Mrs.), upholstress, 65 De Beauvoir rd Guilding Lansdown M., M..A., M.B., B.Ch. surgeon, &;

Gomm Frederick, basket maker, 3 St. Mary's butts medical officer to the workhouse (firm, Maurice, Mau~

Goodacrer James, pawnbroker, xo St. Mary's butts ri"e & Guilding), Sidmouth street

Goodall Maria {~rs.), Jack of Newbury P.H. 44 Bridge st Guppy Mary J. (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 8 Watlington street

Goodall Samuel, sanitary engineer, see Sisley & Goodall Gntch Sydney George, printer, see Blackwell & Gutch

Goodchild Char~es James, builder, 32 & 34 Weldale street Gntch Thomas G. accountant, 20 Jllagrave street

Goodchild J oseph, auctioneer, see Cottrell, Simmons & Gutteridge Albert, boot repairer, 13 Caversham road

Goodchild Gwilliam & Son, brick makers, Basingstoke road

Goodenough Frdc. corn, cake & manure mer. Station rd Gwilliam Frederick Arthur, tobacconist, 23 King's road

Goodey William C. beer retailer, 195 Orts road Gwilliam Samuel, brick maker, Whitley road

Goading Frederick, Black Horse P.ll. 15 London street Gyngell Samuel Whiting, boat builder, see Adams, Gyn-

Goodman J. Hugh, architect, Town Hall chambers, Bla- gell & Co

grave street Habgood Richard, Star & Garter P.H. 133 Friar street

Goodman John, shopkeeper, .~3 Connaught road H::tdley Bert, hair dresser, 38 Southampton street

Goodwin, Foster & Brown Limited, buttermen,67 Broad st Hadley Charles, apartments, 13 Greyfriars road

Goodwin George "\Vm. insurance supt. 15 Blagrave street Hadley Charles, sweets seller, 48 Southampton street

Goodyer Stephen, greengrocer, 88 London street Hadley Harry, Globe P.H. 5 Bridge street

Gordon & Levett, loan & financial agents, Arcade Haigh & Hopping, house decorators, 75 Friar street

chambers, Friar street Hale George, apartments, 16 Vachel road

Gore Frank Herbert, Roebuck P.H. go Hosier street Hall, Fletcher & Co. cycle makers, 133 Queen's road

Goring Thomas Mills, butcher, 96 Castle street & 24 Hall .Amos, boot maker, 62 Essex street
Caversham road
Hall Charles, beer retailer, 38 & 40 Rupert street
Gosling William Kingsley, solicitor, see Sarjeant &: Gosling Hall Edwin Ernest, beer retailer, 59 Hosier street
Goswell Caroline (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 73 Amity road
Hall Robert, brass founder, I Katesgrove lane
Goswell Harriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 33 Foxhill road Hall Thomas, beer retailer, ga Rupert street

Goswell William, carpenter, 6 East street Hall "\Valter \-Villiam P. insur. agent, 37 Battle street

Gough James, potato dealer, 68 East street Halle James, photographer, 162 King's road

Gough Jane (Mrs.), confectioner, 52 London street Hallett John, beer retailer, 45 & 47 Hosier street

Gould John Harrison, jun. auctioneer, 164a, Friar street Halliday Arthur Henry, assistant, 31 Vastern road
Gover William, dairyman, Basingstoke road
Hallock Charles, apartments, rso Caversham road
Government Science & Art Classes & School of Painting Hamblin Charles Edward, shopkeeper, 16 Coley street
(H. Dawson Barkas A..R. C.A. head master; H. T. Pugh, Hamblin Geo. chimney swpr. & greengrcr.7 Coley passage
hon. sec.), Castle street
Gowland Thomas, confectioner, 18 Duke street Hamblin Lucy (Mrs.), mid wife, I2 Kensington road
Hamblin WilEam, carman, 25 Howard street
Grace Frank E. estate agent, 17 J esse terrace
Hambling William G. A. 1 F.I.A.S. architect, sur-

Grace Henry Edward, grist & forage mills, Abbey square veyor & sanitary engineer, assessor for

Graham Louisa (Mrs.), Red Cow P.H. Crown street dilapidations, Forest house, Queen's rd. See advt

Graham William, tailor, 84 Kennet side Rambling William John A. bird stuffer, 55 Howard st

Grant Lewis William, dairyman, Battle farm, Oxford rd Hamilton Bragatha (Miss), midwife, I7 School terrace
Granville Agnes (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 2a, Watlington st Hamilton Robert William, sanitary inspector & of nuis-
Gray Henry, greengrocer, 3 Union street ances to Wokingham union rural sanitary authority, so

Gray Joshua, apartments, 3 St. Giles' close, Church st Hamilton road
Gray Thomas, french polisher, ro; Queen's road
Hamley Emma (Miss), ladies' boarding & day school,
Gray Thomas Alfred, french polisher, ro Silver street .
Summerbrook, Redlands road
Great Western Coal Co. (T. E. Hill. man.), II CToss st HarnEn Hy. dairy, ro Fair View ter. Basingstoke road
Great Western Railway Co. forwarding agents, 44 to 48 Hamlin Henry, shopkeeper, 6 Amity road
Friar street
Hammond .Arthur James, insur. agt. IOO De lleauvoir rd
Great Western Railway Coffee Tavern Company Limited Hammond Ernest Geo. insur. agent, 67 Carnarvon road
(Mrs. Emily Barrett, manageress), Oaversham road Hands Charles Edward, apartments, 32 George street

Great Western Railwav Goods Station (T. G. Perrett, Hannam J ames, tailor, r6 West street

goods agent), Caversham road &i Vastern road Hanwell J ames, modeller, Sydney house, Elm road

Great Western Railway Receiving Office (C, & G. Ayres, Harbor Frederick, apartments, 125 Caversham road

agents), I3 High street · Harding Eliza (Mrs.), apartments, 3 Vachel road

Great Western Railway Signal Engineering Works (Alfd. Hal'ding William Butler, grocer, 24 Addington road

Thomas lllackhall, manager), Caversham road , Harper Clara (Miss). greengrocer, 25 Boarded lane

Green Charles, boot repairer, I2I Wolseley street Harper Francis John, plumber, 6 Stanshawe road

Green Daniel, apartments, I8 Vachel road Harrington Frederick, confectioner, 3 London road

Green Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments, 120 .'"W'"'hitley street Harris Harry & Son, tailors, 3, 4 & 5 Minster street

Green George, collector of borough rates, Town hall, IHa- Harris Arthur, confectioner, I02 Broad street

grave street & I<; Si\imouth street Harris Edward, cabinet maker, 7 Greyfriars road

Green Henry, apartments, I44 Chatham street ' Harris Elizabeth (Mrs.), fancy goods dlr. 419 Oxford rd
Harris Frederick John, baker, 49 Albert road
Green J ames, news agent, 4 Cross street

Green Joseph, apartments, r Sackville street Harris Henry, beer retailer, 81 Lower Thorn street

Green Luke Percy, tailor, 86 Erleigh road '• . Harris Kathleen (Miss), teacher of music, 23 Body road
Green William, tailor. 28 Howard street Harris Mary Ann (Mrs.), sweets seller, 7 Greyfriars road

Greenaway Ellen (Mrs.), CQffee rooms, 71. King-'s road Harris William R. apartments, 78 Erleigh road
Greenaway George James~ Wellington .Arms P.H. 19 & Harrison George William, chemist, 22 Cross street

21 Howard street . Rarrison John, beer retailer, Shinfield road

Greenaway Joseph, architect & surveyor. 19 Duke street Hurison John, engine driver, 2 King's Meadow road

Greenaway J ane (Mrs.), greengrocer, 52 Spring gardens H·urison Richard, butcher, 33 Wolseley street

Greenhough William H., F.R.H.S. chief librarian & supt. . Harrison Thomas, clerk, 138 Southampton street

of museums, Free Library, :Blagrave street Hart & Scns. jronmongers, 13 & 14 Gun street

Greenslade & Co. printers, So King's mad H11rt Mary Ann (Mrs.). midwife, 68 Whitley street

Gregory, Love & Co. grocers. 175 Friar street & 4 Ar- Harvey Edvvin, artificial teeth manufr. 38 Friar street

cade, Friar street Harvey George, confectioner, 128 King's road

Gregory Edward, shopkeeper, 71 Wolseley street Rasker William, baker & grocer, 7 London road

Gregor<y George John, boot maker, 42 Belmont road Haslam & Son, auctioneerS~, 156 Friar st. See advert

Grey Edith (Mrs.), herbalist, 102 Southampton stree~ Hastings Hy. Gao. beer retlr. Crane wharf, King's road

Grey Henry George, corn merchant, 21 King's road Hathaway Albert Eli, carman, ro6 Wolseley street

Griffin Edward William, foreman french polisher, 39 Hawken John, shopkeeper, 74 Sherman road

Zinzan street Hawkes Geo. & Sons, furnishing & general ironmongers,

Griffin William, 'l'he Merry Maidens P.H. Shinfield rd 7 High street. See advert

Griffis Chas. Wm. M.R.C.V.S. vet. sur~eon,I35 Oxford rd Hawkes Joseph, printer, Station road

Griffith Samuel, enQ'ineer & ironfonnder, Vastern road Hawkins Frederick George & Co. grocers, 151 London rd

Griffiths Hachael (Mrs.), upholsterer, 98 a, Castle street Hawkins Charles, beer retailer, 16 & I8 Hosier street

Grindley G-eorg-e, boot maker, 5 King's Meadow road Hawkins Francis Henry M.B., C.M.Edin. physician, 73
Grove Alfred Owen, boot maker, 46 & 4B Caversham road London street

Crover Robert, builder,house decorator & paperhanger, Hawkins George, basket maker, 29 Southampton street·

138 Chatham street & 63 Great Knollys street Hawkins Hugh, brewer &c. (firm, Blandy, Hawkins & Co)

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Hawkins John, furniture dealer, 48 London street Hill Fredk. .Adolphus, surgeon, The Elms, Basingstoke rd

Hawkins Richard, Railway tavern P.H. 33 Greyfriars rd Hill George, butcher, I49 London road

Hawkins Samuel, shopkeeper, 28 Weston street Hill James, beer retailer, 2 Bedford road

Hawkins Thomas, fishmonger, 57 Whykeham road Hill Philip, grocer, z Southampton street

Hawkins William, builder, Erleigh road & I Junction rd Hine Charles, chimney sweep, 36 Chatham street

Hawkins William, fishmonger, 27 Coley street Hine John Ernest, baker, 39 Baker street

Hawley Frances (Mrs.), confectioner, 166 Friar street Hiscock Edwin, dairyman, 207 Oxford road

Hawley Frank William, builder, 77 Caversham road Hoare & ·wheeler, architects, 17 Friar street

Hawthorn Edmund Browning, tarpaulin manufacturer, Hobbs .Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 20 Mount Pleasant

see Potter, Hawthorn & Co Hobbs Edward Boyer, bookseller, 8 St. Mary's butts

Hayden George, beer retailer, 50 & 52 :Mount street Hobbs Hy. Jas. oollctr. of pOQr rates for St. Lawrence,

Hayes Richard John, tobacconist, 32 St. Mary's butts ro London road

Haynes Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker, 22 Chatham street Hobbs Joseph William, cattle dealer, 17 Russell street

Haynes William, ironmonger, 19 Duke street & High Hobbs Mary D. (Mrs.), milk seller, 21 Soho street

Bridge wharf, King's road Hobbs Thomas Charles, carpenter, see White & Hobbs

Hayter Robert Charles, plumber, 96 & 98 London street Hodges Alfred, printer, I Katesgrove lane

Hayward Charles Edward, engineer, 13 Norfolk road Hodges Edith Jane (Miss), milliner, I2 Gro-velands rd. ea

Hayward George Bevan, watch maker, 26 Regent street Hodgson John Frederick, manager, 47 Vastern road

Hayward Giles Long, dairyman, 155 Caversham road Holden George Herbert Rose M.A., M.D., B.Ch.Camb.,

Hayward Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shopkpr. 205 London road L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. physician & surgeon, 168

Hazel! George, grocer & pork butcher, 70 & 71 Broad st Castle hill

Heap Richard, shopkeeper, I2 Willow street Holden William, fruiterer, I38 Caversh>~m road

Hearmon Charles, coach builder, Ia, Chester street Holder & Son, nurserymen, London road & Hamilton road

Heath Benjamin, dairyman, IOI London street Holder Charles, foreman, I I .Argyle street

Heath Emily (Mrs.), dress maker, 8 George street Holder J ane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, I4 Boarded lane

Heath Thomas, insurance agent, 1.4- W eston street Holdway Henry, :fishing tackle maker, 12 Union street

Hedderly James, tobacconist, 54 Oxford road Holland John, shopkeeper, I4 Church street

Hedgcock Edwin, draper, 89 to 93 King's road Holloway Charles Edward, Grenadier P.H. Basingstoke rd

Hedges .Alfred J. inspect<>r & clerk to County Police, Holloway Enos, shoeing smith, I3 South street

.Abbey street Holloway Fanny (Mrs.), apartments, 33 Caversham road

Hedges Edwin, shopkeeper, 3 Orchard street Holloway Francis Charles, greengrocer & dairyman, I9 &

Hedges Arthur Henry, shopkeeper, 81 Blenheim gardens 2I Greyfriars road

Heelas, Sons & Co. Limited, drapers, outfitters & com- Holloway Frederick, shopkeeper, I5 Hope street

plete house furnishers, I09, no, III & II2 Broad street Holloway William, boot maker, 43 Vastern road

& 24, 2.), 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30 Minster street; furniture Holloway William, boys' school, 57 South street

removers & depository, 32 & 33 Minster street; & at Holloway William H. carpen~er, 30 Soho street

Wokingham Holmes James & Co. wholesale grocers, II Duke street

Hefferman Jas. supervisor of inland rev.13 to I6 Market pl Holmes & Son, cabinet makers, 7 St. Mary's butts

Helena (The) Nursing Home for Permanent &; Helpless Holmes John William, fried fish dealer, 45 Oxford road

Invalid Ladies (Miss F. E. Ransome, lady-in-charge), Holt Henry, beer retailer, 229 Southampton street

Brownlow road Holton ·william, girls' school, 22 Bulmershe road

Henderson Capt. John Seaton, chief constable of borough Holy Trinity Parish Room (Mrs. Elizabeth S. Turner,

police & inspector of common lodging houses, High- caretaker), 77 Bedford road

bridge, London road Holyoak Charles, saddler, 39 Charles street

Henwood Thomas Edwd. factory foreman, 16 Hamilton rd Home Brothers, cycle agents, 43 Friar street

Henwood William, beer retailer, 75 Silver street Home & Colonial Stores Limited, tea dealers, 27 Cross st

Her Majesty's Prison (Major James Osmond Nelson, go- Hookham George, furniture warehouse, 6, 7 & 8 Chain st
vernor; Rev. Martin Thomas Friend ~LA. chaplain), Hooper Francis Henry, beer retailer, 148 Chatham street

North Forbury road Hope Henry Ferdinand, dealer in antiquities, I8 Union st

Herbert .Albert Henry, grocer, 82 & 84 '\\nitley street Hope John Edward, carpent!Jr, 130 Southampton street

Herbert Elizabeth (Mrs.), servants' registry, 31 Castle st Hope Joseph, undertaker, 67 Mill lane

Herbert George, stationer, 53 Oxford road Hope William, egg & butter merchant, 43 Watlington st

Herbert James Knight, borough rate collector of poor's Hopkins Charles, boot maker, SS Albert road

rates for St. Giles parish, assessor & collector of Hopkins George, blacksmith, Merchant's place

Queen's taxes for St. Giles' parish, Epworth house, Hopkins George, chimney sweeper, 62 Silver street

Sidmouth street Hopping William, house decorator, see Haigh & Hopping

Herbert .John James, boot maker, 40 Minster street Horlington George, drapers' assistant, 12 Waverley road

Herbert Nellie (Mrs.), milliner, 71 Oxford road Horne Alfred, railway guard, !12 Caversham road

Hern Johnson E. refreshment rooms, 689 & 691 Oxford rd Horton Edward, shopkeeper,. II St. John's road
Herren Frank, shopkeeper, 4I Cumberland road • .. Horwood William, shopkeeper, 71 Mount Pleasant
Herring Harriet (Mrs.), beer retailer, 9 SouthamptQn st Hoskins William Henry, tailor;.' 103, Southampton street

Herrington William, relieving officer & collector to the Houghton Anthony, picture frame maker, 126 Friar st

guardians, deputy superintendent registrar, 72 Friar st House Frederick Arthur, law stationer, 20 Blagrave street

Hewett Charles Ernest, solicitor, r65. Friar street . House John, dairyman, 40 $oho street

Hewitt Mary (Mrs.), apartments, 14 Vachel road House Waiter, solicitors' clerk, 4 .Argyle street

Hews William Joseph, milk seller, 23 Sackville street. Howard John, boot maker, 99 Chcilmeley road

Hey William Henry, manager, 3 Vastern ter. ,Vastern rd Howell William Rowland, architect, see Cooper & Howell

Hickle &. Hickie, pianoforte dealers, roo & 101 Broad st Howes John, cabinet maker, 53 Queen's road
Hickman Thomas, boot maker, 15 Union street . Howlett Thomas J. E. clerj( to t)le Board of Managers

Hickmott William J. grocer, Hosier street of the Reading & Wokinghari:t ·districP school, assistant

Hicks George, cattle dealer, 75 Caversham road overseer for St. Giles'-with~Whitley, St. Lawrence &

Hicki Stuart, builders' foreman, 235 London road St. Mary-with-Southcot, Reading, 78 London street

Hicks Waiter G. baker, 8 Oxford road · · Howse Percy William Macdowall F.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon
Higgins Peter, confectiOner, 74 Friar street
(:firm, Roberts & Howse), u Castle street
Higgs & Sons, builders, Queen's road
Hubbard Mary Elizabeth (Mrs·.), aparts.. .29 Vachel road

Higgs .Albert T. The Berkshire P.H. 216 King's road Huckson Robert, apartments, go Oxford road

Higgs Samuel H. G. brewer & beer retailer, ~ Castle st Hudson .Arthur Waiter, butc~er, 589 Oxford road

Hill "· &. Co. waterproofers & india rubber merchants, Huggins Philip, baker, 38 & 40 Crown street

engineers' rubber stores, garden. hose & gutta percha Huggins Thomas, baker, 106 .Queen's road

merchants, asbestos merchants, waterproof sporting Hughes A. & Co.tobacconists,1o Queen's rd.&2a,London st

requisites, cycling, boating, lawn tennis & football re- Hughes .Arthur, Bricklayers' Arms P.H. 25 Coley street

quisites, rubber surgical appliances, ladies', gentle- Hughes James (Mrs.), midwife, 34 Cranbury road

men's & children's waterproofs, 52 Market place & IO Hughes John, foreman baker, 46 Watlington street

High street. Telephone 162 Hummel John, watch maker, 44 Howard street

Hill & Sherwin, advertising agents, Station road Humphrey William, general shop, 2I Blenheim road

Hill Cecil, ladies' tailor, 37 Blagrave street. See advert Humphries Charles, boot maker, 31 George street

Hill Ebenezer, leather merchant, leather bag, trunk Hurnphries Ernest C. carpenter, 5 St. John's hill

& dress-basket manufacturer & baby carriage depot, Humphries John, temperance hotel, I58 King's road &

38 Broad street coffee house, 147 London road

Hill Edward John, Queen's Head P.H. r8 Christ Church rd Humphries Richard, shopkeeper, 29 Vastern road

Hill G. J. organizing sec. to the Berks County Council Hunt Brothers, wholesale grocers, 17 Duke street

Technical Education Committee, 30 Forbury Hunt Elisha John &; Co. timber mers. Caversham road

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Hunt Edward, shopkeeper, 10 Alpine street .Tohnson Henry, tailor, 7 Merchant's place

Hunt Elizh. N. (Miss), dress maker, 146 Southampton st Johnson Henry Martin, shopkeeper, 73 Lower Tho:r11 s'

Hunt Henry Lionel, chemist, 107 London street Johnson "\Yilliam, clerk, 12 .Argyle street

Hunt 'Hephzibah C~lrs.) mkt. grdnr. 146 Southampton st Johnson William, grocer, 41 Addington road

Hunt John, baker, 31 :Broad street Johnston David Richmond L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. physician

Hunt Thomas, beer retailer, 44 Tilehurst road & surgeon, 95 London road

Hunt Waiter Charles, corn dealer, 15 & 16 Broad street Johnstone David, travelling draper, 47 Castle street

Hunt William, hoot repairer, 92 Prince of )Vales avenue Jones Brothers, mineral water manufactrs. Brigham road

Hunt William, general dealer, 157 Southampton street Jones Emily ·& Marie (Misses),ladies school,33Russell st

Hunt William, slater, 87 Blenheim road Jones Alfred A, deputy registrar of births, deaths &

Hunt William John, shoe maker, 12 Sherman road marriages for St. Giles' sub-district, Penrhyn villa.

Huntley, Boorne & Stevens, biscuit tins manufacturers & Bulmershe road

general ironmongers, 122 to 128 London street Jones Charles Clement, Vine P.H. 74 Broad street

Huntley & Palmers Limited, wholesale biscuit manu- Jones Elizabeth F. (Mrs.), draper, 34 Erleigh road

facturers, King's road Jones Henry, boot maker, 76 Mount Pleasant

Hurlock Waiter William,tobacconist, see Powell & Hurlock J ones Henry W. organist, 38 Addington road

Hurn Henry, french polisher, 19 Letcombe street Jones Herbert William M.A. head master, Leighton Park

Hurry & Coleman, surgeons, 45 Castle street school, Shinfield road

Hurry Jamieson Boyd M.A., M.D. surgeon, see Hurry & Jones John, chemist, 209 Oxford road

Coleman Jones Rd. Arth. The Old Britannia P.H.52 Caversham rd

Burst Thomas, beer retailer, 46 Loopold road Jones 'Thomas, baker & confectioner, Wokingham road

Burst Thomas, tobacconist, 18 Arcade, Friar street Jones William, beer retailer, r8 Coley street

Hutchins David, lath render, 74 Chatham street Jones William, stone mason, 33 Bedford road

Hutchinson Alexander Gifford, horse dealer, Southcote rd Jones William Ernest, cycle agents, 72 King's road.

Hutley Georgina (Mrs.), midwife, 441 Oxford road Jordan Waiter, boot maker, 71 Foxhill road
Hyde Eliza (Mrs.), general shop, 64 Blenheim gardens
Joy Charles Francis, boot maker, s London road

Hyde Esther (Mrs.), coffee room, 19 Crown street Joy Henry George, apartments, 7 Vachel road

Hyde William, fishmonger, poulterer & Ice Joyce Brothers, gasfitters, 36 Friar street

merchant, 22 Minster street. See advert Joyce Samuel, well sinker, 218 Southampton street

Hyde William Henry, butcher, 9 Union street & dining Judge Ellen (Mrs.), beer retailer, 14 East street
rooms, ns Friar street
Kate James, beer retailer, 32 Coley street

Ibbetson Elizabeth (Mrs.), dining room, 43 Oxford road Kearl Anne (Mrs.), Barley Mow inn, 55 London street
Ind, Coope & Co. Limited, wine & spirit merchants, 54 · Kedge Stephen, draper, 40 Castle street
Caversham road & brewery stores, 26 King's road I Keeble Arthur, teacher of music, n6 Caversham road

Inland Revenue Office (Thomas J. Buck, collector; Geo. Keep George, farmer, Lea farm, Basingstoke road

\V. Phillipson, surveyor of taxes; John Turner & James Keep Henry Waiter, grocer, 23 Victoria street

He:fferman, supervisors; William E. White, principal Keeping Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs.), servants' registry office,

clerk; George Taylor, inspector of corn returns; R. C. 7 Oxford road

Pittman, F. J. Crust & Wm. H. Rowe, clerks; J. Keeping William Charles, horse dealer, 10 & 12 Vachel

Clarke, T. Richards, G. Taylor & F. J. Edwards, :E.rst road & 4 Garrard street

class officers; J. T. O'Hara, second class officer), 13 Kedge James, verger of Holy Trinity church, 14 Battle si
to 16 Market place Kelf Simon Edward, foreman, 189 Southampton street
Insell James, raih~ay wo~ks foreman, 154 Caversham road Kell Jane (Yrs.), baker, ro Coley street

Iremonger Fredenck, chimney sweeper, 22 Little Johns la Kemp Anme (Mrs.), laundress, 4 Boults walk
Iremonger James, shopkeeper, 528 Oxford road Kench Mary Ann (Mrs.), furniture dealer, 25 & 29 West

IIIsrrweamaicnonMJgaamerrieasJ,a(ncMeoilsl(asM)r,rdsar.ep)s,asrdetrrme, se4sn6tms,Oaxk1fegorr,Jde5sr3so6eadOtexrfroarcde road street & 6o & 62 Oxford road
Kendal Frances (Mrs.), carman, 18 Radstock road

Kendall Edith & Gertrude (Misses), milliners,62Minster st
Isaac Mary Priscilla (Miss), servants' registry, 4 Cross st Kendrick .Girls' School. (Miss Gertrude C~roline Rundell,

Isaacs Henry J. apartments, 2 8 Addington road head mistress), Wa!hngton house, Watlmgton street
Jack Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retlr. 98 Southampton street
Kennedy Donald, pubhc accountant, 18 Forbury; & Leck-
hampstead manor, New~ury.
Jackman Robert, temperance hKoitnegl,'s3r2o&ad3&3 "\Vest street .
Jackson Edward, outfitter, 1 6 High st.;
boot & shoe warehouse, s High street & stationer, 1 Kennet & Avon Canal NavigatiOn (Chas. W1thers, agent)p
7 I~ower Brook street & 7 Fobney street
Duke street Kent Charles G. Borough Arms P.H. 138 King's road

Jackson George Richard, general merchant, 66 Oxford rd Kent Charlotte (Miss), shopkeeper, 30 Letcombe stree_t

Jackson Henry, btuaticlohre,r,45478KiOnxgf'os rdroaroda Kent Douglas Joseph, agent for Sutton & Co. carnersp
Jackson Ralph, II Southampton stre~t
d .
Kent Henty, bo~t repai!er, 61 De B~auvmr road
Jackson William Henry, manager, 11757GOrexyfforridarrsoraodad Kent John Morns, statwner, 131 Frn~r street
J ago .Agnes (Mrs.), apartments,

James Edwin, Kennet P.H. 71 Castle street Kent Mary (Mrs.), apartments, 17 Zmzan street

James Elizabeth (Mrs.), general shop, 11 Silver street Kernutt Er;nest, butcher, 100 London street
James John, insurance agent, 52 George street Kernutt W1lfred, watch maker, 89 Lon~on street
Kerr Thomas Jame~, boot maker, 96 Kmg's road
JJJaaammneeessWoWnililRlilaioambmeraJt,orcchahnbi,teoccwltenrek1r7, &4MfWarurkaitveeetrreplrel,ayzc&ero4aWdokingham rd Kersley Th?~as, fned fish shop, 3 Caversham road
Jannaway Joh'n carman', 15 :Blenheim road
Kersley Wilham, shopkeeper, 61 Lower Thorn street &;
Ki1d9gepllrm.Frcaencoif~WJoa1hens,
JJaarrvreisttGEelolergne,(Mjorbs.m), asshteorp,ke1e6pCerh, r2is4t :Brunswick street avenue of Queen's taxes & poor
Church road collector

Jay George, Albion P.H. 17 & 19 Alfred street :ates for pansh of St. Mary, 2.5 Friar st;eet
K1ft Ch~rles, clerk to th.e guardia_ns & umon assessment

Jefferies SI. Thos. fa•rmer, Norris farm, Basingstoke road comm1ttee & supt. registrar, Umon offices, Thorn :>t

Jefferis George, miller, 7 King's Meadow road Killford William Thomas, verger of St. Mark's church,.

Jell Edwin, beer retailer, 67 Hosier street 48 Prince of Wales avenue

Jelley John, confectioner, 54 Friar street Kimber Thomas, tobacconist, 26 Oxford road

J elley Richard, surgeon, 73 London road Kinchin Frank T. corn merchant, 22 King's road

Jennings Henry, milk seller, 23 Cambridge street King & Co. ironmongers, 75 King's road

Jennings Thomas Pye, greengrocer, 94 Prince of Wales av King Charles, boot repairer, 3 Highgrove street

Jennings William Davison, butcher, 18 Oxford road King Emma (Mrs.), apartments, 9 Zinzan street

Jennings Joseph, beer retailer, 21 George street King Fredk. Church, commercial traveller, 36 London rd

Jerome Robert Henry, shopkeeper, 93 Katesgrove lane King Henry, coachman, 35 Vastern road
Jesse Edward J. carpenter, Belmont road
King .John Kemp (James H. Millard, manager), seed

Jesse Edwin John ·Springbett, brick maker, Norfolk road merchant, 6 Blagrave street •

Jew Edward Tyler, dealer in antiques, 9 London road King William, apartments, 128 Chatham street

Jobbins Catherine (Mrs.), midwife, 47 Bedford road King William, beer retailer, 21 Abbey street

Johns Jonathan G. baker, 510 Oxford road Kingett John C. district goods manager, Great Western

Johns William Richard, baker, 52 De Beauvoir road Railway Co. Station road

Johnson H. &; Co. greengrocers, 32 Oxford road Kingham William & Sons, wholesale grocers, High :Bridg&

Johnson Arthur, baker, 91 Elm Park road wharf, King's road

Johnson Charles, shopkeeper, 54 Waldeck ·street Kingston Harry James, tobacconist, 13 London 11treet

Johnson Elizh. (Mrs.), dress maker, 32 Watlington st Kingston Saml. coal merchant, 127 & 129 Southampton st

Johnson Emest Frederick, collector of borough rates, Kirby George, hair dresser, 23 King's road

Town hall, Blagrave street & Gresham vil. Waverley rd

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Kirby Joseph, tailor, I33 Southampton street Lewington Sarah A. (Mrs.), coach bldr.The Oracle,Gun st

Kirby Joseph Henry, grocer, 8 Waldeck street Lewis Geo. Skelton & Brother, builders, 65 Castle street

Kirby Linda Horton (Mrs.), apartments,I36 Caversham rd Lewis .Arthur, photographer, 39 Minster street

Kirby William, watch maker, 2, 3 & 4 Chain street Lewis Edwin John, jeweller, see Hotly & Lewis

Kirk, Latimer & Co. scale makers, 90 London street Lewis George, timber merchant, 82 Caversham road

Kirk Henry, boot maker, 34 Friar street Lewis Henry, engineer (mechanical), agricultural ma-

Kirk James, shopkeeper, 74 .Albany road chinery merchant, leather belting manufacturer &c.

Kirkham Henry B. insurance agent, I02 Queen's road Thames Bank iron works, Vastern road

Kistruck John Edwd. commrcl. travllr. I20 Caversham rd Lewis Mary (Miss), dress maker, SI De Beauvoir road

Kleiser .Anthony &; Co. watch makers, 55 Oxford road Lewis Vincent Kirby, apartments, 30 Zinzan street

'KI.eiser Louisa &; Mary (Misses), dress mas. 17 Waylen st Lewis Waiter, shopkeeper, I6 Chatham street

Klerk .Alfred, music seller, 5 .Arcade, Friar street Lewis William John, Queen's hotel & posting house;

Knapp George Thomas, beer retailer, so Caversham road loose boxes, 7• 8, 9 &; 10 Friar street

Knight Thos. & Son, house decorators,z8Wokingham rd Lewton William George, architect, 6 Forbury

Knight Edward, upholsterer, 461 Oxford road Lickfield Edward, carpenter, 5 Norfolk road

Knight George, buyer, Larkwhistle, Elm road Liles Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 7 Tuns Hill cottages,

Knight Harriet (Mrs.), lock keeper, Caversham lock Wokingham road

Knight Henry, insurance agent, I40 Cholmeley road Lilly Sarah .Ann (Mrs.),dining rooms,I39 Caversham road

Knight Joseph Henry, boot & shoe dealer, 39 Erleigh rd. Line John & Sons, paperhanging warehouse, 30 Broad st

& 6 .Arcade, Friar street Line W. E. & Co. mineral water manufrs. St. John's hill

Knight Mary ..A. (Mrs.), dress maker, 23 Donnington road Liney Charles William, Weldale .Arms P.H. 68 Weldale st

Knight William George, beer retailer, 83 Broad street Lipscombe .Alfred, apartments, 38 Zinzan street

Knill & Sons, stationers, 2 St. Mary's parade Lipscombe Charles, house decorator, I Howard street

Knott Frederick, brush maker, 35 Southampton street Lipscombe George Emanuel, beer retailer,3o Northfield rd

Knott John, brush maker, 53 Hosier street Lipton Limited, provision & tea mers. 89a, Broad street

Knott William Chas. beer retailer, 22 Wolseley street LHtle Henry Selby, surgeon & medical officer St. Giles'.

Knowles Vernon L.D. S., R.C.S.Eng. dental surgeon, 39 district of the Reading union, 1o6 London street

London road Littlechild Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments, 10 Lorne street

Korbetov Woolfe, beer retailer, 21 London road Lloyd Harriett (Mrs.). dress maker, 2 Connaught road

Lacey Henry Joseph, beer retailer, 137 Friar street Lloyd Richard, buildings inspector to Corporation. 190

Lacey Millicent (Mrs.), dress maker, St.Bartholomew's rd 1 Oxford road

Lady Warwick Hotel (Miss Edith Bradley,warden),Bath rd Lloyd Thomas George. beer retailer, 17 & 19 Chesterman

Lake .Alfred. beer retailer, g8 King's road street & painter. 70 Southampton street

'Lake Carolina (Mrs.), laundress, 54 1Southampton street Loader Waiter George, grocer, 70 York road

Lake George (Mrs.), school, 349 Oxford road Lcbb William, collector of Queen's taxes for parish of

Lamacraft Louisa (Mrs.), beer retailer, 90 King's road St. Lawrence, 25 Friar street

Lamb Charlotte E. (Miss), apartments, 170 Oxford road Lock .Abraham, commercial traveller, 45 .Addington road

Lamb James, luggage porter, II7 Chatham street Lock Edwd. beer retlr. & horse slaughtr. 20 & 22 Coley pl

Lambden .Arthnr, plumber, 2 Grove terrace, The Grove Lock Rosina (Mrs.), coffee rooms, I34 London street

Lampe Charles, pork butcher, 7 West street Lock Thomas, horse dealer. 11 St. Mary's butts

Lamport Waiter, baker, I9 Norfolk road Lockyear Edith (Miss), stay & corset ma. 13 Zinzan st

lJancello .Anton, pianoforte tuner, 385 Oxford road London Central Meat Co. Lim. 54 King's road; 18 Lon-

Langford Mabel & ..Alice (Misses), dining rooms, 79 don street; 351 Oxford road; 48 Orts road & 66 St.

Caversham road Mary's butts

Langford Waiter, tailor, see Rush & Langford London & County Banking Co. Limited (Edwin Charles

Langley James, coal dealer, 9 Hatherley road Morris, manager), I3, 14, IS & 16 Market place; draw

Langston Ernest, outfitter, 93, 94 &; 95 Friar street & xa, on head office, 2I Lombard street, London E C

West street London & South Western Railway Station, Station road

Larkan Henry, insurance broker, 241 Oxford road London (The) & West of England Yeast Co. Limited, The

La Touche-..Aston John Edward, insurance agent, Market Oracle, Gun street

Place chambers, Market place Long, Son & Everard, drapers, silk mercers,

Laughton William, shopkeeper, 67 Weldale street costumiers, milliners, ladies' outfitters, importers of

Lavington Jas. boot ma. & grindery dealer, 39 Bridge st foreign manufactures & undertakers, 25, 27, 29 & 31

Lawes Ben, working jeweller, 14 Sackville street London street; telephone No. 46. See advert

Lawrance John, shopkeeper, 32 Soho stre9t Long Waiter, grocer, 51 Oxford road

Lawrence Henry, house decorator, 34 Carey street Long W alter William, shopkeeper, 39 Albany road

Lawr,mce John, shopkee~r, 70 Hosier street Long William, lath render, 2 Great Knollys street

Lawr'lnce John J ames, 8<1- Fell street Long Will iam C. bookseller, stationer & house agent,

Lawl·ence Jonathan, shopkeeper, 84 Cardigan road The Southern Counties Library•37 & 39 London st

Lawrence Richd. general shop, 46 Prince of Wales avenue See advert

Lay George. ..Albing, shopkeeper, 54 Mount street Longhurst William &; Son, butchers, 117 London street

Leaver .Arthur Stuart, boot maker, 24 Orts road Looker .Alfred E. clerk, I26 Caversham road

Le:lVer John Henry, beer retailer, I Derby street Loos .Anna (Mrs.), grocer, 72 Hosier street

Leaver Henry, hair dresser, 55 Friar street Love Charles, grocer, see Gregory, Love & Co

Leavey Mary ..A. (Mrs.), shopkeeper, I Norfolk road Love George William, plumber, I53 London road

Lee James G. draper, 146 King's road Love Henry William, fried fish dealer, IOI Orts road

Lee's Vale Qf .Aylesbury Dairy Limited, 36 & 38 London Lovegrove John & Sons, taxidermists, 47 Crown street

street & 135 Friar street Lovegrove .Albert Edward, gasfitter, 57 Sherman road

Lees Frank C. nurseryman, Connaught road Lovegrove Albert Thomas, painter, 34 & 36 Crown street

Lees Harret (Miss), dress maker, 207 Oxford road Lovegrove ..Alexandra (Mrs.), Rainbow P.H. 27 Chain st

Lefcooitch Israel, tailor, 15 Vastern road Lovegrove Charles, undertaker, u6 Friar street

Legg Esther (Mrs.), greengrocer, 79 Bedford road Lovegrove Frederick, gasfitter, 49 Friar street

Legg J ames, shopkeeper, 3 Mount street Lovegrove Frederick, house decorator, 104 Whykeham rd

Le~g Thomas, shopkeeper, 62 Elm Park road Lovegrove Julia (Mrs.), boarding house, 142 Oxford road

Leighton Park School (Herbert William Jones M.A. Lovegrove Miriam (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 59 Brunswick st

King's College, Cambridge, head master); boarding Lovegrove William, painter, I54 King's road

school (young gentlemen), Leighton park, Shinfield Lovegrove William James, painter, Brighton road

road; healthy position; two miles south of the rail- Lovejoy J ames William, clerk, 33 Norfolk road

way stations LGveland William J. commercial traveller, 41 Vastern rd

Le Marchon Edith & Gertrude (Misses), art needle- Lovelock Charles, dairyman, 87 Cumberland road

workers, I7 Cross street Lovelock George, Boar's Head P.H. 26 Friar street

Leslie Fred W. architect, 387 Oxford road Lovelock William, butcher, I Spring gardens

Leslie John Gordon M.B., C.M.Edin. physician & sur- Loveridge & Co. ironmongers, I &; 2 King street

geon, 144a, Castle hill Lowe J . ..A. & Co. musical instrument dlrs. 6o London st

Lever James T. apartments, 22 Zinzan street Lowe John, temperance hotel, 35 & 37 Greyfriars road

Levett Edmund Studley, loan & financial agent, see Gor- Lowe William, fruiterer, 26 Caversham road

don & Levett Lowsley & Major, surgeons, 9 Eldon square

Levy Richard, beer retailer, 31 Thorn street Lowsley Oded M.R.C.S.Eng. srgn. & pub. vaccinator for

ILewendon James, waiter, Ivydene, Elm road Reading (firm, Lowsley & Major), 9 Eldon)!quare
Lucas Waiter, shopkeeper, 22 Chester street
Lewington Ruth (Mrs.), dress maker, 30 Gower street
Luck Herbert James, confectioner, ~o Castle street
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194 :BIADI!'G, BEBXSHIBE.

Ludford Frederick, shopkeeper, 2B Rupert street Martin William Thoma.s, butcher, go Whitley street

Ludford Robert, shopkeeper, 26 Hosier strP.et Martyn Philip Richard Stanley, banker, see Ashurst, Mar-

Ludlow Wm. Henry, signal inspr. G. W.R. 20 George st tyn, Cooper, Thorpe & Co

Luffman Charles, Old Friars P.H. 63 Friar street Maskell James, shopkeeper, 2 Hill street

Lumb John, beer retailer, 4I Albert road Maskell Joseph, boot & shoe warehouse, 7 Whitley street.

Lumb John, beer retailer, Kennet side Maskelyne James, apartments, 114 Caversham road

Lund Henry, borough accountant, Town hall, Blagrave st Maslen .Alfred, jobbing gardener, 29 William street

Lundy Edward, hair dresser, 22 Tudor road Maslen Arthur, insurance agent, Erleigh road

Lusty Frederick, shopkeeper, 11 Crown street Mason Thomas, fishmJn;~er, 86 King's road

Lyford Simeon, boot maker, 108 Castle street & 96 Prince Masonic Hall (J. F. Stevens, caretaker; B. Rnddock,
sec. Union lodge; A. H. Bull, sec. Greyfriars lodge), 12:
of Wales avenue

Lyon Henry, marine store dealer, 61 Hosier street Greyfriars road

Lyons Margaret (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 19 Union street Masters William, apartments, 34 Greyfriars road
:McCorkindale Alex. insurance agent, 32 George street Matthews & Matthews, auctioneers, 38 Friar street
McDonough Eliza (Mrs.), news agent, 25 Chatham street Matthews .Alfred George, shopkeeper, 629 Oxford road
Matthews Harold Hamilton, auctioneer, see Matthews &
Mace Charlotte (Mrs.), midwife, 31 Cardigan road
McEwan Jn, survyr. d highways, Lothian vil. Milman rd Matthews
Matthews Henry, confectioner, 52 Hosier street
Machin J ames, poulterer, 50 London street
Mcllroy Bros. drapers 30 to 41, clothiers 24, & dining Matthews Percy, auctioneer, see Matthews & Matthews
rooms 46, ·west street; house furnishers, 10 to 16 Matthews William, shopkeeper, 18 Cranbury road
Oxford road & boot & shoe dealers, so Ilroad street Maud John, watch maker, 28 Broad street

Mack Frederick, hair dresser, 7 Caversham road Maule John Fox, beer retailer, Back road

Mackay David, clerk, 3 Argyle street Maundrell John & Co. grocers, 75 Orts road

Mackay John Hutchison, wholesale druggist, see Mays & Maurice, Maurice & Guilding, surgeons, 77 London street
Maurice Oliver Calley M.R.C.S. surgeon & medical officer-
Mackay
Mackenzie John, surgeon & medical officer to Reading of police force (firm, Maurice, Maurice & Guilding), 77
London street
Amalgamated Friendly Societies, 84 Southampton st
Maurice William James L.R.C.P. physician & surgeon
Mackie John & Co. engineers, Lower Erook street
Mackies Limited, engineers, patentees & manufac- (firm, Maurice, Maurice & Guilding), Brooklyn villa,.
t1uers of pulleys & driving gear for machinery & shaft- Kendrick road

irrg manufacturers, Caversham road Maxey Charles, builder, see Badcock & l\Iaxey

1\Iackrill Thomas,coach maker, 17 & 30 East st.& South st Maxwell Charles, commercial traveller, 85 Crescent road
May .Alfred Henry, clerk, 6 Waverley road
.M.cLean William, tobacconist, 399 Oxford road

Maggs George, coal & coke merchant, Bridge street May Edmnd.solicitor & commissioner for oaths,22 Forbury

Major & Gilkes, cycle agenttl, zg Broad street May Emma (Mrs.), apartments, 22 Erleigh road

:Major Arthur Cundell L.R.O.P.Lond., M.R.O.S.Lond.sur- May Henry, beer retailer, 41 Coley place
geon (fi"m, Lowsley & Major), Clulow villa, London rd May Hubert, solicitor, 22 Forbury
May James, beer retailer, 56 Spring gardens
Makebam Joseph, watch maker, 44 L<:mdon !>treet
May J ames E. dining rooms, 10 Chain street
Mallaband William Henry, chemist, 161 King's road
May Mary Ann (Mrs.), dress maker, 226 Kings road
Malpas Edward, fruiterer, I Whitley street
May Oliver, shopkeeper, 45I Oxford road
Ma~der Edwin Samuel, grocer, 75 Essex street
May Thomas, fruiterer, 27 Chatham street
Mander Fanny (Mrs.), dress maker, 19 Milman road
Manu Emily (Mrs.), dress maker, g6 .Addington road May Wm. Hy. saddler & harness maker, ro Gun street
Mayhead William Henry, Wheatsheaf inn, 3 & 4 Friar st;
Mann George, insurance agent, 96 Addington road
Mann William, grocer, wine & spirit merchant, manufac- Maypole Dairy Co. Lim. butter & tea mers. 19 Broad st
turer of " Evan's Reading Sauce, gained honors, Lon- Mays & Mackay, wholesale druggists, 5 & 6 Gun stree~
Mays Frank Webb, chemist, 8g Friar street
don, 1895," II7 Friar street
Mannary James, picture frame maker, 43 Caversham rd Mazzoleni Peter, confectioner, 151 Friar street
Meaby Harry, baker, 82 Queen's road
Manning .Albert John, greengrocer, 42 Alpine street
Manning Eliza (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 24 Chain street Meaby's Triticumina Co. millers, Queen's road
Manning Frederick Geo. painter, Rose cot. Cranbury rd Meads John .Andrew, clerk, 45 Vastern road
Mearing John, cowkeeper, Argyle street
Manning George, hair dresser, 10 West street
Meeks Florence (Miss), dress maker, 198 King's road
Manning John Henry, tobacconigt, 425 Oxford road
Manns Edgar, business transfer agent, 40 Greyfriars road Mens & Co. grocers, 44 Caversharn road
Mens Richard, grocer, go Castle street
Manwell Alfred, shopkeeper, 423 Oxford road
l\Iarch Edward Gerald M.D., F.R.C.S..Edin. physician, MPssers Limited, timber merchants, Queen's road
Metropolitan Bank (of England & Wales) Limited (.Alex-
Camden house, Castle hill
ander McNeil, manager), r8 Friar street; draw on head
M:archant William & Francis, bakers, 86 & 88 Castle st
Margetts John Henry, builder, 61 to 65 Brunswick street office, 6o Gracechurch street, London EO
l\Iargrett Edward, artesian well borer, hydraulic & sani- Middle Class School (Rev. Edgar Priestley B.A. head
tary engineer, High Bridge works, Duke st. ; tel. 341 master), Queen's road
Miles Amelia Jane (Mrs.), apartments, '53 Caversham road
Marie Madame & Cie, milliners, 31 Blagrave street
Markinkpress Mark, insurance agent, 53 Manchester rd Miles George, clerk, 1 Argyle street
Miles James, carpenter, 418 Oxford road
:\larks Edwin, boot repairer, 18 Mundesley street
Marriott Charles William M.D., M.R.C.P.Lond., J.P. Miles Mary A. (Mrs.), dress maker, 327 Oxford road
Miles William, insurance agent, 449 Oxford road
physician, Aubrey house, Bath road Milford George Thomas, engineer, 35 Norfolk road
Millar &. Nasmyth, architects, Arcade chambers, Friar st
.Marsh H. S.& Co.engineers,boiler makers & brass founders, Millard Charles Edward, grocer, 603 Oxford road
brick & tile machinery, horizontal & vertical engines,
~team, deep well, gear, hand or water pumps, well Millard Jane (Mrs.), dress maker, 86 London road
Linking, boring & driving, Kennet iron works, De Bohun
Millard William H. herbalist, I78 Oxford road
rc::td, Vaster!l road; telephone Ko. 472
:\tiller Nellie & Annie Wakley (Misses), dress makers,
Marsh John, saddler, 8 Queen's road
94 Oxford road
Marsh Kate (Mrs.), tobacconist, 40 Broad street Miller Robert, butcher, 74 Hosier street
Marshall David, beer retailer, 15 King's road Miller Robert Parsons, pharmctl. chmst.see Ford & Miller
l\Iarshall Edwin Denny, beer retailer, 79 Brunswick street Millington Herbert Ashlin, solicitor, deputy town clerk &
Marshall Emily (Miss), ticket writer, 141 Friar street
Marshall Emma (Miss), apartments, II Carey street solicitor to the corporation & sanitary authority, Town
Marshall Henry, beer retailer, 8 Coley street hall, Blagrave street
Marshall Henry, shopkeeper, 6oa, East street Mills Henry T. hairdresser, 9 Wolseley street
l\Iarshall John T. butcher, 23 & 25 Rupert street Milne William, railway canvasser, g Norfolk road

Martin .Abijah, tailor, zo Broad street Milsom J. & Sons, builders' merchants, Portland wharf,

Martin Caroline (Mrs. ),shopkpr. & post off. I Brunswick st King's road; Britannia wharf, Caversham road, & corn
~fartin Cecil Edward, insurance agent, 413 Oxford road stores, 94 King's road
Milsom Emma (Mrs.), tailoress, 26 Howard street
Martin Charles T. baker, II9 Chatham street
Milward & Sons Limited, boot makers, 34 Broad st. &
Martin Edward, shopkeeper, 6 Watlington street
Martin Frederick William, solicitor, sea Ileale & Martin r55 London road
Minchin George E. baker, I27 Oxford road
Martin Henry, scale maker, 47 Minster street
Minns Luke, greengrocer, 576 Oxford road
Martin John Wessley, solicitor, see Beale & Martin
Martin Ma,iilda (Miss), dress maker, 53 Watlin~on street Mitchell Clara (Mrs.), dress maker, 45 Upper Crown st
Martin Waiter, carpenter & verger St. Bartholomew's Mitchell Joseph, boot maker, 38 Greyfriars road
Mitson John James, draper, 431 Oxford road
church, I Manchester road
Mobbs Aaron, insurance agent, 20 Erleigh road
Martin William Thomas, butcher, 44 Erleigh road

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Mo:ffatt Charles Willia.m & Son, house decorators, I43 · Neal Thomas William,grocer & beer retailer,64o Oxford rd

Friar street Neale Alfred James, baker, 8 Mount Pleasant

Moncrieff Robel't, drapers' manager, 9 Vastern road Neale James, proprietor Berkshire Chronicle, Valpy st

Monger William Samuel, waiter, 155 Oxford road Neighbour ·walter, apartments, 209 London road

Monk Henry, grocer, gB Castle street Nelson Robert & Co. domestic machinery depot, 10 & :r2

Monnery John, apartments, 253 London road Duke street

Monod Alexis, confectioner, 125 Broad street Nelson .A.rthur, beer retailer, 18 Caversham road

Montague & Son, grocers, 91 Oxford road New Royal County Theatre (Milton Bode, lessee & mana-

Montague Joseph, jobbing gardener, 3 Sackville street ger), Friar street

Moody Francis, coal dealer, 31 Baker street Newberry Francis, builder, 254 King's road

Moon Edward, loan office, 81 Friar street Newbery .A.rth. Lim. house furnishers, :r46 & 147 Friar st

Moore Edwin & Sons, tailors, 9 King st. & 63 Minster st Newbery William, tobacconist, 155 Friar street

Moore .A.dam James M.R.C.S. surgeon, & medical officer Newbery Wm. Geo. pawnbroker, 106 & III Friar street

St. Lawrence's & :St. Mary's districts, 52 Zinzan street Newey Geo. Edward, lithographic artist, 3 Norfolk road

Moore Frederick G. Six Bells P.H. Kennet side Newman Esther (Miss), dress maker, 91 Queen's road

Moore George, gardener, 17 :Norfolk road Newman George, greengrocer, 20 Coley street

Moore George, surgeon, 82 Oxford road Newman Lizzie (Miss), girls' day school, 19 ·waylen street

Moore Samuel, coach buldr. see Smart, Moore & Saunders Newman Richard Mayor, stationer, 27 Friar street

Moore William, beer retailer, 117 Southampton street Newmark L. & Co. dealers in cutlery & musical instru-

Moore William Henry, hardware dealer, I Union street ments, 97 & 98 Friar street
Morgan Arthur Henry, grocer &c. 8 Wokingham road Newton Samuel, tailor, 57 Caversham road

Morgan Henry, shopkeeper, Bo Ilelmont road Newton vVilliam, auctioneer, see Franklin, Gale & Newton.

Morgan Thos. boot maker & shopkeeper, 73 Queen's road Nicholas Williarn R. & eo. auctioneers, valuers, land

Morgan Willia.m, plasterer, 01 Addington road & estate agents & surveyors, Blagrave street; & at 6o.
Moring Frank Edwin, confectioner, 20 Caversham road
Pall mall, London S vV. See advert

Morland & Son, solicitors, 30 Forbury; & at 33 :Bath st. Nicholas .A.rthur, photographer, 40 Friar street

.A.bingdon Nichols William Thomas, cashier, Norfolk cottage, Elm rd

Morland Francis John (firm, Morland & Son), solicitor Nicholson & Sons, wine & spirit merchants, 20 & Ye.

& deputy clerk of peace & deputy clerk of county Lower Ship P.H. 22 Duke street
council & of the standing joint committee, 30 Forbury Nickolay Frank Frederick, cycle agent, 38 Watlington st~

Morland Henry, beer retailer, 21 Brunswick street Nicolle Eliza J. (Mrs.), cutler, 86 Broad street

Morland John Thornhill M...!. (firm, Morland & Son), Noake Frank, clerk, 29 Norfolk road
solicitor, clerk of the peace & clerk of the :Berkshire Noakes Charles James, boot maker, 196 Southampton st•.

cpunty council, & of the standing joint committee & the No&ak5esOExmfomrdar oad ), shopkeeper, 7 Granby gardens
Berkshire asylum visitors, 30 Forbury (Mrs.

Modey Henry Thomas, printer, 24c, Kings road Nobes Francis, engine driver, 1 King's Meadow road

Morris & Davis, tailors, II & 12 Market place Noble Frederick E. furniture dealer, 33 Ilridge street

Morris E. & Co. corn dealers, 27 Castle street Noble Frederick E. tailor, 3 Bridge street

Morris Edward & eo. Lirn, court dress makers, Noble Henry C. greengrocer, II3 King's road

wholesale & retail furriers, ladies' tailors, drapers & Norris .A.ndrew Albert, baker & shopkeeper, III Great

funeral furnishers, 3, 4 & 5 Market pi. Telegrams, Knollys street

"Morris, Reading"; Telephone No. I67 Norris Robert .Alfred, chemist, 35 King's road

Morris Joseph & Son, architects, 156 Friar street North Harry, insurance agent, 6g Coventry road

:Morris Edwin Charles, manager of the London & County North Henry, carpenter, I Princes street
Bank, 13• 14• 15 & I6 Market place
North Thomas, bricklayer, 209 Southampton street
Morris Emily (Miss), girls' prep. schl.2 Prince of Wales av
North William Henry, carpenter, 2 Filey road
Morris Francis, painter, 43 Southampton street Nott Jane (Mrs.), dress maker, s1t5r2eeKt ing's road
Morris Francis Edward, architect,see Morris Joseph & Son Nott John, confectioner, 5 Chain
Morris George, painter, 8 Sherman road
Morris Henry, boot maker, IIS Queen's road Noyce William .A.. plumber, Weston cottage, South street

Morris JJHooehsnenrp,ybh,u, tmccohauennra,tg3yoesr,&ur1v34e58y3oSOro, xuIft5ohr6admFrrpoitaaodrns&strt6er2eeetGt eorge st Nugent Charles, wardrobe dealer, 6 St. Mary's butts
Morris Nunn Richd. David, carpenter, Crookston, Ilerkeley av. ea.
Morris Nutley Alfred, boot maker, I36 King's road

Morris Mark Richard, .Anchor P.H. 1 London road Nutley Henry Albert, blacksmith, Bridge street
Morris Thomas, hairdresser, 1sa, London street
Nutley Matthew, boot maker, 85 London street & 410
Oxford road b ·b
Morris Willi am, boot maker, 14 We st i1sgthresettr e e t Nutley William, oot maker, 47 Letcom e street
Morris Willi am Shewell, solic itor, 10 H

Morse Levi Lapper, clothier, 25 Cross street Nutt Olara, Louisa & .A.lice (Misses), ladies' outfitters.

Mortimer George Frederick, grocer, 599 Oxford road 45 West street
Mortimer James, commercial traveller, 122 Caversham rd Oliver Alfred, tobacconist, 15 Cross street

Morton G. & W. boot mas. 2D4uKkeinsgtrsete. & 6$ & 66 Broad st Oliver Alfred Edward, butcher, 68 Oxford road
Mosdell Joseph, tailor, 14 Oliver Charles Francis, inn keeper, 34 Minster street
t

Moss .A.rthur W. professor of music, 89 London road O•Malley Mary (Mrs.), laundress, 3 The Vinery

Moss William, boat builder, Brigham road Oppermann C..has. Geo. dealer in antiquities, I Butter mkt

Matt Joseph, beer retailer, 145 Friar street Ormiston Alice (Miss), berlin wool warehouse, see Bavin
Moule & Sons, tailors, mc4o2ankf&eerc4,t3i2o3nMeCrin,us7mtsebreCsrultarmenbedet rrolaandd
Mount Alfred Waiter, road & Ormiston
Mountford John, boot Osborn William Henry, shopkeeper, 35 Illenheim gardens
Overson Orask, coal dealer, 76 King's road

Munday Francis, Dove P.H. ng Orts road Overy Alfred Thomas, grocer, Elm road

Munt .Arthur W. grocer, 6I5 Oxford road Packer George, fruiterer, 52 King's road

Murchison Beatrice (Miss), teacher of music, 17 Cross st Packer Henry James, oilman, 14 Rupert street

Murdoch Richd. B. dlr. in antiquities, 5 De Ileauvoir rd Packer James Joseph, grocer & baker, 10 & :rz Whitley st.

Murfin William, foreman, I68 Oxford road Packer James S. The Bell P.H. 18 & 20 Church street

Murley William J. M. plumber, see Boyd & Murley Page Frank, pawnbroker, 79 King's road

Murrell George Frederick M.Il.Lond. physician & surgeon, Paice & Oo. confectioners, 6o Broad street

Eldon cottagE', Craven road Paice William, jobmaster, 195 Oxford road

Mussell Harry, decorator, Woodfalls, Elm road Palmer .Andrew, shopkeeper, School place

Mustoe Arthur William, beer retailer, Rennet side Palroer David, foreman, Emline, Waverley road

Naish George, dining room, 22 London street Parfett Arthur James, barge builder, :r78a, Caversham rd'

Nance Waiter, solicitor, 6 Cross street Parf.tt Arthur James, shopkeeper, 34 Wolseley street

Naomi Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 25 Coley street Parfitt John Broadribb L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., L.D.S. dental

Napper Eliza (Mrs.), apartments, 137 Oxford Toad surgeon, 179 King's road
Nash & Wilson, coach builders, Sun street Parker .Arthur Edward, apartments, 17 Vachel road

Nash William Joseph, fruiterer &c. 30 Erleigh road Parker Frederick, milk seller, 17 Weldale street

Nasmyth William James, architect, see Millar & Nasmyth Parker Robert, Three Tuns P.H. Wokingham road

National Publishing &Supply .Assoc. Lim.printrs.Bridge st Parker Willie Sydney, beer retailer, Prince of Wales aven

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- Parkinson Wm. Joseph, boot repairer, III Katesgrove la

dren (Herbert Colston Levers, inspector), 29 Whitley st Parr Elvina (Mrs.),. dress maker, 23 Vastern road

jNational Telephone Oo.Lim.(F.W.Taylor, mgr.),18Cross st Parry Theodore, hair dresser, 85 Castle street
Naxton George, apartments, 3 George street Parsons Alfred Henry, shopkeeper, 29 Garnet street

N{'al Mary (Miss), dress maker, 53 Waylen street Parsons .A.lice (Miss), dress maker, 45 South stree-1!

· IlERK~. 13*

196 B!l.&DING, BERKSHIRE. [KILL'Y1S

Parsons Qeo. A.. ~orticultural b~dr. &c. 21] Oxford rd Pocock Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker, 66 Hosier street

Parsons George Wilham, beer retmler, 19 Gt. Knollys st Pocock George, fruiterer, 9 West street
Parsons Walter, corn, cake, hay & straw mer. Dlagrave st 1 Pocock George, milk seller, 125 Southampton street

Parso~s William James, ~pholsterer,. 46 George street Poc·)i:!k Hy. Jas. window blind ma. see Fereday & Pocock

Partndge John, beer retailer, 120 Frmr street Pocock James, grocer, 33 Prince of Wales avenue

Partr~dge Jo?~ Marshall, carver & gilder,_ 29 London rd Pocock Joseph William, butcher, 4 Castle street

Partridge \VIlham H. watch maker, 28 Kmg's road Pocock Joseph Wm. confectioner, 35 Prince of Wales av

Pascall Emma Mari~ (Mrs.), aparts. II9 Caversham rd Pocock Thomas, baker, 23 .Addillgton road

Pascall 'Y~· soap holler & shopkpr. 41, 43 & 45 Thorn st Pocock William, butcher, 10I Great Knollys street

Pat~y William, shopkeeper, 58 Sherwood street Pocock William, jobmaster, 6o East street

Patience. John & Son, builders, 4 Stanshawe road & Poffley William, builder, 52 Queen's road

Greyfnars road Pole William, travelling draper, 30 Russell street

Paul James George, carriage builder, r8 Dattle street Polienta Manufacturing Co, horse & cattle oil manufac-

Pavey Charles, beer retailer, 3 Coley passage turers (.A. Clement Jordan, manager), 93 Oxford road

Paxman Francis \Villiam, dairyman, 17 Oxford road; 6 Pollard William James, insurance agt. 62 Cholmeley rd

\Yokingham road & 16 .Arcade, Friar street Polley George T. ironmonger, 9 Duke street

Payne Wm. Henry, commission agent, 48 Watlington st Pompey Robert, greengrocer, 91 London street

Payton George Charles, baker, 30 Chatham street Poole Brothers, wholesale slate, brick, tile, cement & lime

Pearce Charles, wire worker &c. 220 King's road merchants, sanitary goods factors, lath & joinery im-

Pearce George, coffee house, 27 St. Mary's butts porters, 18 Dlagrave street

Pearce Hy. L. china & earthenware dlr. 13 & 14 Union st Poole Thomas, grocer, 44 Iledford road

Pearce Richard, railway guard, r82 Caversham road Poole Wm. beer retlr. & shopkeeper, 8 Lavender street

Pearson Thomas, shopkeeper, 83 Lower Thorn street Poole William, carpenter, 158 Southampton street

Pearson William, greengrocer, 61 York road Pope Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments, 174 Caversham road

Pearton Emma (Mrs.) & Son, dyers, I7 Minster street Pope Emily (Mrs.), servants' registry, 2 & 4 Bridge st

Pecover Edward, tailor, 164 Oxford road Pope William, commercial traveller, 19 Vastern road

( Penney John Henry, grocer, 2 & 4 Chatham street Porter Charles, beer retailer, 3'8 Lower Thorn street

Penny John, fruiterer &c. 48 Erleigh road Potter, Hawthorn & Co.tarpaulin mnfrs.zi &23London rd

Penton Louisa (Mrs.), beer retailer, 19 Mill lane Potter Samuel, signalman, 7 Vastern road

People's Investment Co.Lim. (D.Kennedy,mgr. ),I8Forbury Poulter Henry Charles, insurance agent, 94 Cardigan road

Pepler Eli, baker & shopkeeper, 2 EdO'ehill street Poulton & ·Son, brick & terra cotta manfctrs. Elgar road
Percy George William, greengrocer, I~I Southampton st Poulton Fredk.china & earthenware dlr.1o3 & w4Broad st

Permain Edwin, draper, n3a, Broad street Pountney William Henry, auctioneer, estate & insurance

Perrett Thomas Giddings, goods agent Great Western agent, valuer & surveyor; illuminated addresses execu-

Railway, Vastern road ted, 6 :Forbury ; & at Caversham

Perrin Charles Gilbert, shopkeeper, 2 Crescent road Povry Sidney, shopkeeper, 27 Coley place
Powell & Hurlock, t~bacconists, IIS London street
Perris George & Herbert John, house agents, 77 Oxford rd Powell & S~n, chemists, 59 St. Mary's butts
Perrott Alexander, hair dresser, 134 Friar street

Perry & Cox, fishing tackle wareho. 6 St. Mary's parade Powell EdW:m, stone mason, 165 London road

Peters Matthew Henry, carpenter, 14 Cambridge street Poynder Ellzabeth (Mrs.), bookseller, II3 Broad street
Poynde~_G_eorge Andrew, second?and bookseller,23Gross st
Petherbridge George, apartments, 91 Caversham road

Pett Mary (Mrs.), private hotel, 73a, Caversham road Pratt "W 1ll1am J ames, beer retailer, 35 & 37 Vachel road

Petty & Sons Limited, printers & lithographers Kates- Pratten Brothers, outfitters, 82 King's road

grove lane. Telephone No. 29g ' Pratten Bessie (Mrs.), apart_ments, 57 Queen's road

Philbrick Charles & George, tanners, Katesgrove lane Preece Charles G. commercml traveller, 153 Oxford road
Precey Edmund, a~artments, I37 So~tbampton street
Philips Frank John, shopkeeper, St. Peter's road Prent~ce Joseph, hau dresser, 109 Kmg's road
Prent1s Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 22 A.rthur road
Phillips & Son, millwrights, 29 King's road Prestoe Thomas, grocer, 133 Caversham road
Phillips & Sons Limited, brewery offices, 70 Friar street
Phillips Owen, builder, I Upper Redlands road Pr~ston Samuel, clerk to th~ school board, Blagrave st

Phillips Owen, joiller, 27 Highgrove street Pr~ce Charles, The Moderatwn P.H. Caversham road
Phillips WOWwiSillelelinieaa,mmaj,udGnvto.eaorirttlco"or'bre,a' cIcc3yo2cnlieSstom, u9athk\aeVmrhp&ittloeanyr""ressnttrrt'eeee4tt5 Pr~ce Jo~~ .Alfred Parry B..A., M.D. surgeon,I24Castle hl
Phillips Crown PriCe Wilham Stephen, butcher, 58 & 6o Castle .street
Primavesi George, watch maker, 53 Friar street
Phillips
street

PhiHips--Conn & Clowes, physicians & surgeons, Earlham Pr!mmer Henry, engine driver, 8 Waverley road
villa Kendrick road Prmce .Alfred, shopkeeper, 2 Sherwood street
Phillip~-Conn Henry Heygate M..A., M.D.Dub., D.P.H. Pr~ce 'Yilliam, upholsterer, I Rupert street
Pr~or Ehza CMrs. ), apartme!lts, 135 Southampton street
physician & surgeon, see Phillips-Conn & Clowes
Phillipson George 1-V. surveyor of taxes, inland revenue Pr~or Frank, grocer, I Card1ff road .
office, 1S3ontso, 16 Market place Pri~hard A.lbert Edwd.teacher of mus1C,167Caversham rd
Philp & stationers, 21 Minster street Publ~c Il~nefit Boot Co. boot makers, 27 & go Bro~d st:reet
Pu~lic L1brary&Musenm (Wm.HJ:.Greenho~h,<:h1ef libra-
Phippen Qeorge F.R.H.S. florist, nurseryman, seeds- n~; Dr. ~· Sf:evens,hon.consultmg curator), Blagrave ~t
Public _Vaocmatw~ Office (Oded Lowsley M.R.C.S. public
man & bulb merchant, 10g Ilroad street; nurseries,
Oxford road & Sherwood street

Phipps Benj. beer ret. 69, & baker & grocer 7I, Weldale st vaccmator), Ialgnedng~eGs~torbeeet Parcels
Phipps Emma (Mrs.), apartments, o4f2ficWer,ayDlelangsratrveeetstreet Pudge Waiter, Express, 95 Castle st
Phipps George, school attendance Pugh Henry T. boys middle ~lass school, 81 London road
Pullen Ge?r~e, gro?er, 87 Fnar street
Phipps William James, boot warehouse, 105 London st Purdue 'Yilham, ha~r dresser, 88 Rupert street
Pickford & Co. carriers, IS King street

Pier William, shopkeeper, St. Peter's road Pursey Pwarcy,_ frmterer, Ia, Duke street & market gar·

Pierce Waiter, plumber, w8 Queen's road Pudretomn;r,A.Kn_~mnedn(Mcl~ssr)o~address maker, I67 Orts road
Pierrepoint Henry, milk dealer, I Grovelands road east

Pig-gott Hv. & Co. whol. & ret. grcrs. ro1 & 102 Friar st Pyke & RlCha;rds, da1rymen, 23 Castle street
Pike Frederick William, greengrocer, II Cardigan road Py~e James, ~nsurance agent, 4C: Wolseley street
Pyke Jason R1~hard, _grocer, I5 'Southampton street
Pike James, beer ret ailer, Sio9u St. John' s road Pyke Jo~eph, JOurnalist, 8 .Argyle street'
Pike John, engineer, 22I thampton street Pyne Willl~m, w:a~ch make~, 6 St.. Mary s butts

Pike Thomas, apartments, 41 Greyfriars road
Pike William, grindery dealer, 67 Southampton street Quartern;tam~ Wilh~m, shoemg st;rnth, 29 .Oxford road .
. Queen V1CtO~l3 Instltute fo~ Nursmg the -81Ck (The) (MlsS
Pilgrim Richard, furniture remover, 3 Castle street
Pilgrim Thomas, builder, 8 Cromwell cots. Garnet street .Agn~s Whlte, lady supermtendent), 16 Forbury
Finder Emily & Lucy (Misses), berlin wool warehouse Queens ~all & As.sembly Rooms (trustees of the late R.
~ompkm~, _Propnetors), ~alpy street .
& registry office for servants, 4I Minster street

Pinfold wiiliam, cycle agent, Erleigh road Qu_Igley William, beer retailer, 84 Wokingham road .
Pinker John, monumental mason, 69 London road Rambow Henry G. general shop, 74 Leopold rd. & chm~
lJJ;a,eomhr~nee,sf,ab•pgears~ertetomnc~ger:nordtcosek,re,6r13, 5C1Wa7viFellrons.wharasm·tsrterereoteat
'Pitney Minnie (Miss), miliiner, 63 Waylen street R tea d
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PPPilltetamtsaadnnceJa&mWesa, rbfnoer,etmh aa·inr,kd1r3e6sseSros,uhtIh2aahm, pBtIoangrsatvreeesttreet Ramsey James, beer retailer, I24 & 126 King's road

es e. ueorge, oo ma er, 14 C at am street

Plumndge George, shopkeeper, I Letcombe street Rand John, clerk, 88 Oxford road
Pocock Bros. boot ~ shoe makers, 88 ~road street Randall Alfred, confectioner, II3 Southampton street

Pocock Charles, tailor, 45 De Beauvmr road Randall Edward, beer retailer, 56 St. Mary's butts
Pocock Charles John, grocer, I 2I Orts road Randall Frank, engine dr:.ver, 30 George street

DIRECTOllY.] BERKS:IIR E. READ It; G. 197

Randall George, carpenter, 25 Norfolk road Reading Public Halls Co. (DonaldKennedy,sec. ),18Forbury

Randall Mary Ann (Mrs.), apartments, 18 George street Reading Rowing Club, Queen's hotel (Geo. Lovegrove,

Randle Sarah Elizabeth (Miss), milliner, 6 Forbury hon. sec.), Friar street

Ra'le & Oo. S'Cale makers, 42 LondDn street Reading Savings Bank (John Egginton, sec. & actuary),

Ransom Charles, Four Horse Shoes P.H. Basingstoke road 72 London street; open on mon. & sat. from II a.m.

Ratcliffe Frederick James, solicitor, 13 Friar street till I p.m. ; open wed. 12 to 1 p.m. & sat. evenings 7

Ravenscroft William, architect, 22 Forbury to 8 p.m

Rawlings Alfred, stationer, 19 & 20 Arcade, Friar street Reading 'School (Rev. William Charles Eppstein M.A.

Rawstorne Robert Edward, solicitor, see Dodd, Son & head master)-for remainder of masters see Schools,

Rawstorne p. I44-Erleigh road

Rayment George, The Marquis of Granby P.H.London rd Reading School (Miss Ethel Griffiths, head mistress of

Read James, beer retailer, 97 Weldale street preparatory boys school), Erleigh road

Read James, paperhanger, 6 Whitley street Reading Standard Newspaper (William Hall, publisher;

Read John, printer, 18 King's road published fri. ), 24 Friar street

Reading Amalgamated Friendly Societies' Medical As- Reading Temperance Council (D. W. Bishop Ackerman,

sociation (Frederi.c "\-Vilson Stansfield M.B., D.P.H. & hon. sec.), 131 King's road

John Mackenzie, medical officers ; Samuel Griffin, sec.), Reading Temperance & General Philanthropic Society (D.

82 Southampton street W. Bishop Ackerman, sec.), 131 King's road

Reading Athletic Club (George Talbot, hon. sec), Queen's Reading Temperance Society (Charles Moss, sec.), ,.Vest

hotel, Friar street Street hall, 43 West street

Reading Band of Hope Union (D. W. Bishop Ackerman, Reading (Third) Starr-Bowkett Building Society (Frank

hon. sec.), 131 King's road CDoksey, sec.), 17 Market place

Reading Blind Works Co. (Sidney W. Long, mana- Reading Tramway Co. Lim. (Frederic Groves, manager),

ger), window blind manufactrs. 2 Arcade, Friar st Oxford road

Reading Blue Coat School (James Mumford, head Reading Turkish Baths (Henry H. Russell, manager),

master), Brunswick house, Bath road Greyfriars road

Reading Bowling Club (Arthur Beeson, sec.), Queen's rd Reading Union Board Room & Offices (Charles Kift,

Reading Brick Co. (Donald Kennedy, sec.), brick makers, clerk & superintendent registrar of births, marriages &

18 Forbury & Tilehurst road deaths), Thorn street

Reading Cattle Market Co.(Wm.Cave,clerk),qBlagrave st Reading Union Dispensary (H. Selby Little & .A.. J.

Reading Cemetery (.Alfred Gibbs, supt. ), London road Moore, medical officers; Chas. "\V. Smith, dispenser),

Reading ·Central Aid Association -& Messenger Brigade 72 Friar street

(Waiter Wright, sec.), Abbey gateway, Forbury Reading Union Relief Office ('Yilliam Herrington, re-

Reading Central Conservative Association (Frank Cooksey, lieving officer, deputy superintendent registrar & col-

sec.), 17 Market place lector to the guardians), 72 Friar street

Reading Charity Organisation (D. W. :Bishop Ackerman, Reading Vegetarian Society (D. lV. Bishop Ackerman,

sec.), I3I King's road hon. sec.), 13 I King's road

Reading College (H. P. Mackinder M.A.principal),Valpy st Reading Working Girl's Club (Miss Mary Gibbons, hon.

Reading Corporation Public .Slaughterhouses (William By. ~ec. ), Friar street

Roberton, inspector), Abbatoirs road Reading Workmen's Coal Union (Henry Tarr, sec.),

Reading Corporation Public 'Swimming :Baths (William S. E. R. Goods station, North Forbury road

R. Horsley, attendant), King's Meadow road Reading Young Men's Christian Association (Frederick

Reading CDrporation Yard (John Bowen, surveyor; Thos. Hunt, hon. sec.), 30 Friar street

Dennis, road inspector), Abbatoirs road Reading Francis John, tailor, 20 Oxford road

Reading & County Permanent Benefit Building Society Reed & SDn, Dntfitters, 99 Broad street ; 7 & 8 Arcade,

(Blake P. Allnatt, sec.), 2 Forbury Friar street & 30 Chain street

Reading Dispensary (Erleigh branch) (William Aldridge, Reed Alfred W. shopkeeper, 62 Batherley road

sec.), Eastern avenue Reed George, shopkeeper, Little Crown yard

Reading & District Mutual Plate Glass Insurance Co. Reeves Charles, baker, 4 Southampton street

Limited (Waiter Wilson, sec.), 27 & 28 Market place Reeves Fred, rustic wood worker, ror; Caversham road

Reading Electric Supply Oo. Limited (Arthur 'r. Cooper, Reeves Henry, brick maker, 7 Waverley road

manager), I72 Friar street; works, V astern road Reeves James, cabinet maker, ;::r George street

Reading Female Rescue Home (Miss Bune, supt. ), 2 & Reeves John, baker, 79 Lower Thorn street

4 New road Reeves William, carman, 69 Elm Park road

Reading Football Club Limited (James Sharp, sec. & Reeves William, earthenware & hardware dlr. 8 West st

manager), 14 Bridge street Reeves William, fruiterer, 85 Oxford road

Reading Gas Works CDmpany (Edward Baker C.E. man- Reeves William J. beer retailer, 17 Rupert street

ager & engineer; .Arthur Higgs Cane, sec.), King's rd. ; Rendell Alfred, dealer in antiquities, r Castle street

offices, 7 King street Rendell John Walrond, solicitor, 44 Market place

Reading Green Girls' Industrial Training School (Miss Rentle Philip, coach maker, 37 Baker street

Rose Bunce, mistress & matron), 38 Russell street Rex Harry, beer retailer, n & 12 West street

Reading Home for Boys (Church of England Waifs & Reynolds Brothers, insurance brokers, district agents for

Strays Society) (Miss ~s. E. Vaughan, matron), 307 Blickensderfer Typewriter Co. 62 London street

Oxford road Reynolds .Sylvanus Arthur,chartered acctnt.62 London st

Reading Industrial Co-operative Society Limited (Waiter Rhodes _\Ifred, teacher of music, 27 Norfolk road

T. Carter, sec.), 6 to 16 1Caversham road; 75 & 77 Rhodes Arthur, boot maker, 64 London street

Southampton street; 32 Orts road & 103 Friar street Richards Charles, accountant, 15 Broad street

Reading Liberal Association (.1lfred E. Hickmott, sec.), Richards Charles, commercial traveller, 26 Addington rd

26 Broad street Richards Charles, dairyman, see Pyke & Richards

Reading Liberal Club (George Farmer, sec.), 26 Broad st Richards Frederick, oilman, I26 Southampton street

Reading Liberal Unionist Association (John Edward La Richardson Frances ().Irs. ), shopkeeper, 121 Katesgrove la

Touche-Aston, sec.), Market Pla.ce chambers. Market pl Riches Charles Gibbs, grocer, So Addington road

Reading Mercury & Berks County Paper (F. W. & H. A. Richmond Charles, chimney sweeper, 44 Hosier street

Oowslade, proprietors & publishers; published sat.), Rider Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker, 38 Cholmeley road

publishing & advertising offices, 7 Market place. Ridgers Lawrence, apartments, 46 Milman road

See advertisement Ridley- WilliaiL & Sons, timber, slate, tile, lime & cement

Reading- Observer (Charles Slaughter, proprietor & pub- merchants, sawing, planin~ & moulding mills, Abbey

lisher; published thurs. & sat.), I9 & 21 Blagrave st. wharf, King's road ; & at Staines

See advertisement Rifle Range (Thomas Ryan, sergeant-instructor <>f the

Reading Paint Co. Limited, paint manufacturers, 34 Berkshire Volunteers), 12Q Wolseley street

Kennet side Risin~ Sun Coffee House (William .Allwood, manager), 30

Reading Pnper Co. Limited (The), 22 Mundesley street Silver street

Reading Provident Medical Dispensary (C. W. Marriott Ritson Robert M. .A..Camb., L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng.

M. D. hon. consulting physician; H. H. Phillips-Conns, Blandford, Hamilton road

hon. consulting surgeon; J. G. Christian, Lansdown Rivers George, french polisher, 26 Chain street

M. Guilding M.:B., B.Ch. Arthur Roberts, Richard Roach Sergeant-Major Michael, drill instructor R-oyal

Jellev, A. C. Major, W. T. Freeman, G. H. R. Holden, Berkshire Yeomanry, I Vastern terrace, Vastern road

H. T. S. Little, Norton B. Clowes, G. S . .Abram. C. A. Robbins Charlotte (Miss), apartments, 2 Lorne street

P. Truman, G. M. Wilcockson, W. J. Foster, H. Child & Roberton William H. inspector of nni~ances & canal

H. Fosbery, surgeons; William Aldridge, sec.; John boats, Town hall, Illagrave street & 1 Sidmouth street

Eaton, resident dispenser), Chain street Rol>erts Arthur F.R.C.S.Edin. (firm, Roberts & Howse'.

Reading Refu!!'e & Laundry Home for GhJs (Miss Jane surgeon, 7 4 & 76 London street
Messenger, matron), 59 & 61 Castle street
Roberts & Howse, surgeons, 74 & 76 London street

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Roberts Charles, The Sun inn, 14 Castle street Salmon Limited, wholesale & retail tea & coffee mer-

Roberts Charles, tobacconist, I5 Chain street chants, agents for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine &;
Roberts Henry, painter, 103 Caversham road
RGbertson Daniel, beer retailer, 8 Southampt<On street spirit importers & distillers, 33 & 34 Market place, &
Rohey Eleanor (Mrs.), fishmonger, 6 Silver street
paper bag manufacturers & printers, King's road
Robey William, fishmonger, 34a, Oxford road
Robey William J. bricklayer, 46 Clarendon road Salmon W. & Co. photographers, 24 London street
Robinson & Son, painters, 19 Mason street
Robinson Annie (Miss), dress maker, 89 Castle hill Salmon Edward Henry, butcher, Br & 82 Broad street
Robinson Edwin, tailor, 68 & 6g Broad street
Robinson Henry, clerk, 14 Argyle street Sal.'Ilon George, oilman, 21 Castle street
Robinson William Henry, hair dresser, 203 London road
Rogers Charles George, confectioner, 24a, King's road Sa!mon Thomas, cabinet maker, 5 London street & furni.
Rogers George Edward Boulderson, solicitor, 9 Cross st
· Rogers Stanley, house agent, 14 Friar street ture dealer, sa, Queen's road
Rogers William Henry, pianoforte tuner, 49 Vastern road
Rolfe Henry, boot repairer, 5 Gr'(rvelands road west Salt Caleb, greengrocer, 79 Queen's road
Rolls W alter Samuel, draper, 4 Vastern ter. Vastern rd
Rose Bros. chimney sweepers, I I Foxhill road Salt Edwin, apartments, 25 Caversham road
Rose George & Son, chimney sweepers, 8 Silver street
Rose John & Son, pawnbrokers, 9 & ro Broad street Salt Ernest Waiter, fruiterer, 102 Castle street
Rose William & Charles, chimney sweepers, 22 Silver st
Rose James, Coach & Horses P.H. I Silver street Salt Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer, I5 & I7 Eldon ter
Rose James (Mrs.), chimney sweeper, I45 Southamptn.st
Rose Mary A. (Mrs.), registered lodging house,I4 Silver st Salt Sydney Arthur, shopkeeper, 30 Highgrove street
Rose William, Oxford Arms P.H. I6 Silver street
Rosen Israel, tailor, 2 George street Sandford Sarah (Mrs.), dress maker, 454 Oxford road
ltosier Thomas, Post Office tavern P .H. 96 Broad street
Ross & Warner (Misses), dress makers, I73 London road Sarjeant & Gosling, solicitors, I I Cross street
Round Alice (Mrs.), midwife, 6 Whykeham road
Round Charles Frederick, upholsterer, gr Watlington st Sarjeant Fredk. Arthur, solicitor, see Sarjeant & Goslin~
Round Henry James, upholsterer, 64 Chatham street
Rourke Charles Conor, insurance agent, 4 Howard street Sarjent William. cutler & english & american tool
Rous John G. commercial traveller, 4 Eldon road
Rouse William, boot maker, 36 King's road merchant, 44 West street

Rowe Charles, baker, 48 Coley place Sarney Brothers, grocers, 33 Oxford road
Rowe Emma (Mrs.), general shop, .'lo Soho street
Rowe William Arthur, May Dnke P.H. 8r Great Knollys st Satchell Charles Edward, clerk, go Oxford road
Rowell John Childs, chemist & druggist, 3 Duke street
Royal Berkshire Hospital (Richard Charles Shettle M.D. Saunders Fred, shopkeeper, 37 Great Knollys street

consulting physician; Charles W. Marriott M.D. & Saunders Robert, coach builder, see Smart, Moore &
Francis Henry Hawkins M.B. physicians; George May
Saunder:J
M.B., F.R.C.S.Eng. consulting surgeon; Oliver Callev
Maurice, James Hopkins Waiters & William Jame~ Savage Elizabeth (Mrs.), milliner, 202 Oxford road
Maurice L.R.C.P. surgeons; John Alfred Parry Price
B.A., M.D. Lansdown Murray Gnilding M.A., l'II.B., Savage George, dispenser, 21 Queen's road
B.Ch. & Arthur Roberts, assis.tant surgeons; Matthew
Sayers L.R.C.P.Lond. house physician; Oswin Shields Savory Daniel, wardrobe dealer, 7 Gun street
L.R.C.S. house surgeon; Rev. Martin Thomas Friend
M.A. chaplain; George E. Hopwood, sec.house steward Sawtell John Hartley, commercial travllr. 8 Hamilton rd
& general superintendent; Miss Easton, matron &
superintendent nursing department), London road S:twyer & Sawyer, wholesale confectioners, 138 & 139

Royal Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry (A Squadron) (E. D. Friar street & retail confectioners, 17 West street & 37
Stern, squadron commander; Sergt.-Major Michael
Roach, drill instructor), r Vastern terrace, Vastern rd Oxford road

Royal Berkshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Col. Hon. 0. W. Sawyer Edward, hair dresser, 134 King's road
Craven, commanding; ~apt. F. F. Colvin, adjutant 1st
Yeomanry Cavalry B:ngade; Surgeon-Captain J. H. Sawyer Edwin, stationer, 142 King's road
Waters, medical officer ; Giles Ayres, regimental quar-
termaster; S. Bradley, regimental sergeant-major); Sayer Waiter George, baker, 6 King's Meadow road
head quarters, 13 George street
Sayers Matthew L.R.C.P. house physician Royal Berks
Rudland William, fruiterer, 91 Broad street
Ruffell Edward, modeller, I52 Oxford road Hospital, Lonion road ·
Rumming Emily (Mrs.), apartments, 20 Zinzan street
Ruoff Louis, professor of languages, 46 Russell street Scearce John, The Greyhound P.H. & genel'al smith, 2
Rush & Langford, tailors, 6 West street
Rush Mary J. (Mrs.), apartments, 28 Zinzan street & 4 Mount Pleasant
Rushbridge Fredk. Cheal, house decorator, I44 Oxford rd
Russell Geo. Ernest, board schoolmaster, Perran, Ber- Schneider Carl, pork butcher, 55 LeopoM. road

keley avenue east Schofield Mary (Mrs.), draper, 97 London street
Ryder Albert, clerk, I Waverley road
SchDfield Robert, butcher, 59 Goorge street
Ryder Emma (Miss), apartments, 28 Milman road
Sadgrove Edward, ironmonger, 15 West street School of Science & Art, see Reading College
Sadler Garoline (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 26 Spring gal'dens
Sadler Thomas, engine driver, 13I Caversham road Searing Sarah (.Mrs.), beer retailer, 88 Watlington street
Sadler William, national schoolmaster, 36 Hamilton road
Sainsbury Lavinia (Mrs.), dress maker, 5 Elgar road Searle Elizabeth (Mrs.), girls' day school, Stockwell
Sainsbury Mary J ane (Miss).shopkeeper, 128 Cavershm. rd
St. Giles' Club (William H. Hussey, sec.), 8 Crown street house, College road
St. Giles' Hall (Jas. H. Smart, hon. sec.), n2 London st
St. Giles' Mission House (Sister Carolina, in charge), 6 Searle Henry William, builder & contractor, 32 & 34

Crown street King-'s road & Crane wharf
St. Mary's Home for Friendless Girls (Rev. William
Self Philip, boot warehouse, o King's road
Neville, chaplain; Miss Louisa Latreille, lady supt. ),
Serpell 0. H. & Co. biscuit manufacturers, South street
53 & 55 Baker street
St. Mary's Working Men's Club & Institute for Young Servants' Home & Boarding House (Miss Bella McLen-

Men (George William Bowsher, hon. sec.), 7 Castle st nan, lady superintendent), 130 London street
Sairey Frederick, bricklayer, 13 Howard pi. Hosier street
Salisbury Club (W. Hugh Full, sec.), Sydenham house, Settle Emma (Mrs.), dress maker, 20 Culver road

King's road Sewage Pumping Station (res. foreman, George Platt),
Salman Arthur H. draper, 37a, King's road
Salmon & Gluckstein Lim. tobacconists, II9 Broad street King's road

Sewrey James R. 0. boot maker, 39 Market place

Seymour Edward, saddler, I St. Mary's parade

Shackel Edward, apartments, 6 Waylen street

Shackleford John & Son, tinplate workers, 103 London st

Shackleford Samuel, clerk, Fairlight, Elm road

~hackleford Thomas, dining rooms, & plumber, 23

Caversham road

Sharp Arthur, hair dresser, 1ooa, Blenheim road

Sharp Edward Pearson, clerk, 132 Chatham street

Sharpe Thomas, warehouseman, 5 Howard street

Shattock Alfred Robert, butcher, 92 Caversham road

Shaw Charles Garibaldi, solicitor, Arcade chmbrs.Friar st

Shaw Joseph, The Fountain P.H. 83 London street

Shaw Thomas Harry, tailor, 2I "\'Vest street

Shaws,Bryant & Co. Lim. grocers & tea dlrs.28 Erleigh rd

Shears George, clerk of works, 40 Addington road

Shepherd Charles, greengrocer, 52a, Oxford road

Shepherd Francis, greengrocer, I73 Southampton street

Shepherd George, baker, 62 Addington road

Shepherd Henry James, corn. trav. no Gaversham rd

Shepherd John, outfitter, 5 & 7 King's road

Shepherd Priscilla (Mrs.), apartments, I Zinzan street

Sheppard Blanche (Miss), dress maker, 7 Russell street

Sheppard .Toseph, foreman of Reading Water works, 50

Whitley street

Sherval & Sons, dining rooms, 140 & 13 King's road; 3:1

Friar street & Abbey square & confectioners, 123 & 125

Queen's road

Sherval Frank, Warwick Arms P.H. 77 King's road

Sherwood Henry, stonemason, Wokingham road

Sherwood Joseph, appraiser, 24 Waylen street

Sherwood J oseph, furniture broker, 20 King's road

Sherwood William, solicitor & clerk of the peace for the

borough, I65 Friar street

Sheurin Ruth (Miss), apartments, rr7 Castle hill

Shields Oswin L.R.C.S. house surgeon, Royal Berks hos•

pital, London road

Shillington Averell, dyer, 33 & 35 London street

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Shirley Wm. assist. school attendance officer,Blagrave st Solomons Henry, tailor, 20 Queen's road

Short George, wholesale grocer, see Dyer & Short Sopp George, Nag's Head P.H. 5 Russell street

Shorter Charles, tailor, 6o Friar street · Soundy S. M. & Son, millers (steam), Abbey square

Shorter George, builder, Glenthorne, West hill South Berkshire Conservative Association (Reading dis•

.Shorter George Daniel, shopkeeper, I St. George's road trict) (Henry Creed, agent), I6o Friar street

.Shorter William, Pond House P.H. 738 Oxford road South Eastern Railway Goods Station (J. W. Trowbridge,

Shuff Eliza (Mrs.), apartments, 45 Waylen street goods agent), North Forbury road; receiving office

:Silver James & Son, art furniture mkrs. IS Duke street (Thomas Norris, agent), I3 King street

.Silver Edwin Pickett, hosier, I] & I8 King street South Western Railway Goods Station (Edmund Harry

.Silver J ames, apartments, 55 Caversham road Truner, goods supt.), North Forbury road

.Simmonds John & Co. butchers, I28 Southampton street Southern nmnties Traders' Association (Donald Kennedy,

.Simmonds Alfred Brown, grocer, 87 Great Knollys street manager), r 8 Forbury

.Simmonds Daniel, general shop, 98 Kennet side Soutter Joseph, district manager, Mutual Life Insurance

.Simmonds Francis, grocer, 49 Swansea road Co. of New York, 13 Friar s·treet

.Simmonds Rose Hannah(Mrs.),aptmnts. 39 Caversham rd Sparkes Henry, shopkeeper, 61 Great Knollys street

.Simmons & Sons, auctioneers, surveyors, land & es- Sparks Frederick, hair dresser, 66 Weldale street

tate agents & valuers, 39 Blagrave street Sparks Thomas 0. grocer 83 King's road

.Simmons T. & Son, coal, coke & salt merchants, 7 Queen's Sparrow Frederick Harley & .Jamea, cabinet

road & G. W. Railway wharf,Vastern rd. Telephone I4I makers, upholsterers, bedding manufacturers & carpet

.Simmons Charles F.S.I. surveyor, see Simmons & Sons warehousemen & window blind manufacturers, I28 &

Simmons Chas. Franklin F.S.I. survyr.see Simmons&Sons IZ9 Friar street. Telephone, ros

.Simmons Ernest Henry, auctioneer, see Cottrell, Sim- Speedwell Electrical Motor Car & Cycle Co,

mons & Goodchild (The) (.J. W. H. Dew & A. J. Dew, proprietors), 83

.SimmoOns Wm. Anker F.S.I. survyr. see Simmons & Sons Oxford road

.simonds H. & G. Limited, brewers & wine & spirit Spencer Jacob James, agent for Foster's Parcels Express,

merchants & bottlers, The Brewery, Bridge st. ; malt- 23 Letcombe street

sters, Fobney street; London stores, 32 York road, Spencer Jarnes T. ironmonger, 27 London road

Lambeth SE Spencer John, Saracen's Head P.H. 3 King's road

:Simonds J. & C. & Co. bankers ; head office, 3, 4 & 5 Sperring Waiter, tobacconist & newsagent, I3 Whitley st;

King street; draw on Williams Deacon & Manchester Spong George, beer retailer, 49 Katesgrove lane

& Salford Bank Limited, London E C Spyer John Jason, grocer, 54 Wat1ington street

:Simpson ·Charles, market gardener, The Cottage, Wes- Spyer Samuel Thomas, grocer, I Elgar road

tern Elms: avenue & Little John's lane Spyer Thomas, grocer, 6o & 62 Manchester road

Sims & Co. fishmongers, 24 Market place Squire Robert, carpenter, 8o Erleigh road

:Sims David Alfd. dealer in antiquities, 2I & 23 Chatham st Stainton & Thompson, veterinary surgeons, 12 Queen's rd

.Sims Ernest, fruiterer, 23 Chatham street Stallwood Spencer Slingsby, architect, 27 Market place

Sims Harry, Eagle P.H. 19 Baker street Standen .Aug. 'Wm. teacher of shorthand, 30 Queen's road

Sims William Jacob, butcher, 56 Prince of Wales avenue Staniforth & Son, fishmongers, 24 King's road

:Singer (The) Manufacturing Co. 19 & 20 King street Staniford Samuel James, apartments, 46 \Vaylen street

Sisley & Coodall, sanitary engineers, plumbers & Stansfield Frederic Wilson M.B. (Vie.), D.P.H. (Camb.),

house decorators, St. Mary's butts. •relepbone No. BI physician & surgeon & medical officer to the Reading

Sladden Isaac Thomas, confectioner, 83 .Amity road .Amalgamated Friendly Societies' Medical .Association,

Slatter Lucy (Mrs.), midwife, 25 Orta road 8o Southampton street

Slaughter Charles, "Reading Observer" office, 19 & 21 Stansfield Pattie (Mrs.), professor of music, Upper Red.

Blagrave street lands road

'Slaughter Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments, 35 Duke street Star Newspaper Co. Lim. (The) (Ernest Hy. Wise, agt.),

Sloper Jane (Mrs.), apartments, 23 Zinzan street Forbury

'Sluce John William, hairdresser, 31 Southampton street Star Tea Co. Limited, 32 Broad street

Smart, Moore & Saunders, coach bldrs. 68 Friar street Stark J emima (Mrs, ), chiropodist, r Valpy street ..

Smart George, waiter, Worksop cottage, Elm road Starkey Frederick William, bookseller, I9 Oxford road
'Smart John Hy. national schoolmaster, 34 Milman road Stebbings & Co. clothiers, ro King's road

Smart Reuben, coach bldr. see Smart, Moore & Saunders Steed •George, grocer, 46 London street

Smith Charles & Son, architects, 164 Friar street Steer Edward & Son, grocers, 24 Southampton street

Smith Jennie & Gurtrude (Misses), ladies' preparatory Stelling Charles Julius, tailor, 37 Bridge street

school, 76 Friar street Stephen William, confectioner, 68 Silver street

Smith John & Son, hairdressers, 47 Market place Stephens, Blandy, Barnett, Butler & Co. bankers; bead

Smith W. H. & Son, bookstall, G. W. Railway station office, I Market place (John Robert Cook, manager);

Smith Alfred Henry, baker, 29 Mount Pleasant draw on Lloyds Bank Limited, London E 0

Smith Arthur, shopkeeper, 104 Castle street Stephens Edward Augustus, beer retailer, 19 Eldon ter

'Smith Charles W. dispenser, 5 Argyle street Stevens H. G. & Co. timber merchants, Bridge street

Smith Christopher, umbrella repairer, II London road Stevens ·George, beer retailer, 109 Southampton street

'Smith ·Frederick White, boot maker, I9 Brunswick street Stevens Jabez, tailor, 31 Connaught road

Smith George, boot maker, 540 Oxford road Stevens John, carpenter, 91 Blenheim road

Smith George, butcher's manager, 123 Caversham road Stevens John Edwin, corn merchant, I5 & I7 Bridge st

'Smith George, dining rooms, 28 Caversham road Stevens Joseph, boot maker, 604 Oxford road
Stevens Natbaniel Henry, cabinet maker, 17 London st
Smith George, printers' foreman, :w Vastern road

'Smith George Charles, Plough P.H. 20 Minster street Stevens Samuel Beaven, biscuit box manufacturer, see

Smith George John, apartments, 30 Greyfriars road Hunt~ev, Boorne & Stevens

Smith George R. stationer, 42 King's road Stevens Sidney, grocer, 33 Broad street & 79 Castle street

'Smith Henry, boot maker, 27 Bridge street Stevens Thomas, confectioner, 141 Caversham road

Smith Henry 0. marine store dealer, 12 Bridg-e street Stevens Wm. Prince Albert P.H. 28 Spring gardens

'Smith Henry Reginald, butcher, I] & I9 Southampton st Stevenson :Bertha (Miss), ladies' school, I4 Russell street

Smith James, coffee house, 23 Coley street Stimson Annie (Miss), confectioner, 44 Oxford road

Smith James, dairyman, 70 Brunswick street Stockwell J obn, grocer, 29 Castle street & 13 Chain st

Smith .Tames, shopkeeper, 5 Blenheim road Stokes Julia Ann (Mrs.), midwife, 15 Cbolmeley road

'Smith John, assist. school attendance officer, Blagrave st Stokes William, builder, 27 Queen's road

Smith .John, dairyman, 48 Crown street Stopes Job, apartments, 8 Sackville street

Smith John Thomas, baker, :1 King's Meadow road Stow John (Mrs.), confectioner, 88 King's road

'Smith Phrebe (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 14 Mnt. Pleasant Stra.nsom & Cheney, corn dealers, 89 Broad street

Smith Reuben, shopkeeper, 9I Sherwood street Stransom A Son, tailors, drapers, hosiers & hatters,

'Smith Robert, grocer, 31 Mount Pleasant 40 to 42 Market place

'Smith •Samuel, apartments, 89 Caversham road Streak William, shopkeeper, Manchester road

Smith Sophia (Mrs.), midwife, 27 Bridge street Streek John, gasfitter, 14 Willow street

'Smith Thomas Edwin, apartments, 13 Sackville street Strec>k Sidney, shopkeeper, 61 Mill lane

Smith William, bookseller, ro9 & III London street Street Thomas, taxidermist, 665 Oxford road

Smith Wm. boot & shoe warehouse, r3a, Oxford road Street Thomas R. bedding cleaner, I6g London road

Smith William Clayden, coal dealer & van proprietor, IS Streeter John; grocer, I44 King's road

Caversham road & 6o Lower Thorn street Strickland Wm. Hy. prof. of music, 40 Russell street

Smither Samuel, saddler, 23 London road Strong Brothers, builrlers, 28 St. Mary's b'1tts

'Smullen James, beer retailer, 67 London street Strong Christy, fly paper manufacturer, IU

Snarey William, apartments, 31 Vachel road Oxford road

Snell George Joel, outfitter, q & II London street Strong John George, shopkeeper, 59 Edgehill street

Soane George James, Bedford Arms P.H. 28 Bedford rd Stroud Elizabeth (Miss), apartments, 55 Waylen street

!WO READING. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY's

£troud Thomas, apartments, 23 Vachel road Thornley Henry Wm. chimney swoop, 25 Elm Park roacl

Stubbles Thomas, boot repairer, 88 Weldale street Thornton Wm. Sowry, mechanical engineer, 68 King's rd.

Stubbs' Limited, mercantile offices (Frank. Cooksey, Thorowgood Frederic John, solicitor, see Dryland, So.n &.

agent), 17 Market place Thorowgood

Stubington George H. manager, Capital & Counties Bank Thorp Dorothy (Miss), teacher of music, H>9 Queen's rd.

Limited, 24 & 25 Broad street Thorp Thomas, bookseller, I7 King's 14'oad

Sturgeon & Co. cigar merchants, 83a, Broad street Thorp Thomas, jun. second-hand bookseller, 4 Broad st.

Sturgess Alfred, public baths, 179 Orts l'oad Thorp William, ginger beer maker, 28 Coley street

Sturgis John, shopkeeper, 24 Whitley street Thorpe William, baker, 56 Southampton street

Styles Samuel Henry, painter, 47 Radstock road Thorpe William Stephen Leveson, banker, sec .A.shur.st,..

Sudul William, hatter & hosier, 13 Cross street Martyn, Cooper, Thorpe & Co

Summers Hannah (Mrs.), beer retailer, South street Tibo1e Frederick, grocer, I4 Cholmeley road

Sumpster Edith (Miss), dress maker, I54 Southampton st Tidy & Tidy, solicitors, 14 Blagrave street

Sutton & Sons, seed growers & merchants, seedsmen by Tidy Thomas Alfred, solicitor, see Tidy & Tidy

Royal Warrants to H.M. the Queen & H.R.H. the Prince Tillier E. & Son, furniture dealers, 52 Castle street

of Wales ; offices & warehouses, Market place & For- Tilley Ada (Miss), teacher of music, 10 Jnnction roadl

bury ; florists' flower seed houses & grounds, Portland Tilley George Henry, draper, see Calvert & Tilley

place ; trial grounds, London road. See advert Tillin Albert, signal inspector, 166 Oxford road

Sutton Artbur Warwick,seed merchant,see Sutton & Sons Tiros Richard, painter, 37 Waterloo road

Sutton Charles, hair dresser, 147 Caversham road Titchener Frederick Wm.Anglers' Arms P.H. so .Albert rd!

Sutton Leonard Goodhart, seed mer. see Sutton & Sons Titcombe Alice (Miss), dress maker, 35 Crown street

Sutton Martin Hubert F. seed mer. see Sutton & Sons Toase .Anna (Mrs.), apartments, 13 J esse terrace

Sutton Martin John, seed merchant, see Sutton & Sons Tobitt Percy, commercial traveller, r6o Caversham l'Oad-

Sutton William A. builder, 675 Oxford road Tomkies .Agnes Margaret (Mrs.) apartments, 34 George str

Swain Alice & Annie (Misses), dress mas. 47 Baker st Tomkins 1ViHiam, milk seller, II Chesterman street

Swain John & Son, brush makers, 16 Minster street Tomlin Laurence, carpenter, Leamington, Elm road

Swain James, tobacconist, 16 Union street Tomline William, grocer, 130 Great Knollys street

Swaite Frederick James, grocer, 45 London street Tompkin's Horse & Carriage Repository Llm.

Swan Sidney, confectioner, 146 Cholmeley road (.A. E. Pountney, sec.), horse dealers, auctioneers .t.

Swift Frank Cook, ironmonger, 24b, King's road job masters, 25 Friar street

Sydenham John, blacksmith, 52 & 54 Greyfriars road Tompkins George, dairyman, 748 Oxford :road

Sydenham Joseph, jeweller, Eee Bracher & Sydenham Toms William, apartments, 5 Vachel road

Symmonds Clara (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 64 Cal'digan road Toogood Agnes (Mrs.), fancy repository, I76 Oxford roa<l!

Tabor Edwin John, auctioneer, brewery & estate agent & Toogood Harry, confectioner I82, & gi"ocer 184, Oxford rd'

valuer, 17 Friar street Toomer R. & Co. Limited, coal, hay & straw merchants..

Talbot G. W. & Son, coal merchants 64, & G.W.R. coal Merchants place

wharf, Caversham road Toomer Wm. & Sons, hay & straw salesmen, I49 Friar st;-

Talbot James & Son, carmen, I97 Great Knollys street Toovey Reuben, baker & grocer, I4 Tilehurst road

Talbot Charles J. barge builder, De Montfort road Topp George A. hair dresser, 19 London street

Talbot Frederick, road contractor, I86 Caversham l'oad Towlesend William, cattle inspector, South Eastern rail-

Talbot George, Jack of Both Sides P.H. I25 London road way, 2 Vastern terrace, Vas·~ern road

Talmage Kate Maria (Miss), beer ret. I & 3 Chatham st Town Hall (Cornelius W. Brooker, hall keeper)',Blagrave st

Tame Albert, provision dealer, III "Whitley street Town Hall Chambers (Jas. Couling, caretkr. ),Biagrave st:

Tame Augusta (Miss), apartments, 3 Zinzan street Tozer Henry, ·white Horse P.H. 74 Caversbam road

Tame William, shopkeeper, I Rhinefield ter.Basingstoke rd Treble John Thomas, shopkaeper, 36 Edgehill street

Tanner Edwin Somerset, jeweller, 14 King street Tregaskis Eliza (Miss), ladies' outEtter, see Gardenner

Targett John Charles, jobmaster, 6 & 8 London road & Tregaskis

Tarrant John Frederick, watch maker, 56 Castle street Trevis Adam, tobacconist, 122 King's road

Taylor & Gillard, saw & tool makers, 13 Bridge street Trinder Ernest Henry, dairyman, II3 Queen's road

Taylor Alfred, Boar's Head P.H. 124 Broad street Trowbridge Julius Wm. station master S.E.& L.& S.W.R

Taylor Allan Ralph, pork butcher, roo Friar street Truman Claude Ambrose Philip L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon,..

Taylor Charles, beer retailer, I63 & r65 Southampton st 258 King's road

Taylor Charles Henry, apartments, Myra cot. Elm road Tubb Edwin Frederick, beer retailer & wheelwright, 3:r.

Taylor David, builder, I South street Great Knollys street

Taylor Frederick, builder, 2 Carey street Tubbs Charles Richard, plumber, 363 Oxford road

Taylor George, general shop, .Jubilee road Tucker George Hy. builder & plumber, 7I Caversham rcl"

Taylor George, inland revenue officer & inspector of corn Tucker Mary (Mrs.), apartments, 9 Sackville street

returns, 51 Erleigh road Tull David, herbalist, 9 Chain street

Taylor Henry, milk seller, II7 Waldeck street Tull Herbert, tailor, 194 Caversham road

Taylor Herbert Edward B.A., M.D. physician & sur- Tull Joshua, Bee Hive inn, IS St. John's road

geon, 299 Oxford road Tull William, greengrocer, 142 Cumberland road

Taylor Matilda (Mrs.), apartments, 15 Vachel road Tunbridge & Co. mineral water manufrs. 32 Castle st:.

Taylor Samuel, boot maker, 13 Little street Tunbridge Frederick, chemist, 32 & 39 Castle street &;,

Taylor Sarah Jane (Mrs.), dress maker, 25 Blagrave street 84 Broad street

Taylor Thomas, hau dresser, Br Southampton street Turner .A. H. & Co. auctioneers, IS Blagrave street

Taylor William, boot maker, 9 Pangbonrne street Turner Bros. booksellers, printers, stationers, artists'"

Taylor William, boot repairer, 554 Oxford road colormen & photographic dealers, 26 & 28 Crosiil street"

Taylor William, builder, St. Bartholomew's road Turner Thomas & Sons, gun & cartridge makers,.

Taylor William, taxidermist, 78 Frial' street 8 Butter mkt. & 86 Northbrook st. Newbury. See advt.

Teal William, hair dresser, 5 Oxford road Turner F..dmund Harry, goods agent, L.& S.W. Railway

Tee William James, Forbury temperance hotel & cafe & station, Station road

Cyclist Touring Club, Blagrave street Turner Hubert Cairns, bookseller, go & 3I Market place

Telling George, tailor, 13 Body road Turner Jane (Mrs.), milliner, 43 Crown street

Tennant Albert, confectioner, 12 King's road Turner John, supervisor of inland rev. 13 to r6 Market pl.

Thackway Charles Henry, teacher of music, 44 Zinzan st Turner Robert, scale maker, 49a, Friar street

Thake Frank, sign writer, 52 Oxford road Turner William, hair dresser, I84 Southampton street

Theobald Job, butcher, ug Southampton street Turvey Albt.World Turned Upside Down P.H.Basngstke.r~

Theobald Mary (Miss), ladies' outfitter, Bg Oxford road Twose Francis J. butcher, 32 Erleigh road
Underwood Thomas, writer & grainer, 25 Abbey square
Thick Charles, apartments, 59 Caversham road

Thomas Emma (Mrs.), apartments, 24 Greyfriars road Universal Photographic Co. (Ernest William Boxwell,.

Thomas James, furniture broker, so Hosier street manager), 34 London street

~homas Richard, tobacconi<>t, Io6 Castle street Universal Tea Company, tea dealers, 3 Broad street

Thomas William, hair dresser, go Cross street Upstone Edward, grocer, 31 Cumberland road

Thompson Frederick William M.R.C.V.S. veterinary sur- Usher & Co. loan office, 54 Queen's road
Utley Robert, tobacconist, I3I London :road
geon, see Stainton & 'fhompson
Thompson Rbt.prov.dlr. 3I St.Mary's bntts & 58 Broad st Uzzell George, beer retailer, 8 St. John st:reet
Thompson Sarah (Mrs.), chinJ. dealer, 53 Mount Pleasant Vandycke Vernon E. photographer, 81 Oxford road..
Vass Arthur G. carriage proprietor, 10 :Baker street
Thompson Simon Maurice, grocer, 263 Oxford road

Thomson Walt.hair dresser, 12 High st.& 68St.Mary's btts Vass Arthur G. fruiterer, 35 Castle street

Thorn William, printer, 23 Oxford road Veale .Albert, laundry, 409 Oxford road

Thornbery Hy. Hartley, insur. agent, I64 Southampton st Venn Mary (Mrs.), apartments, I22 Chatham street<·
Vicars William, butcher, 20 ·west street
Thorne Alfred, hair dresser, 2 Illenheim gardens

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 2 0 1Rl£.ADI~G.

Venner M. & Sons, grocers & bacon curers, 97 & 99 \Yebb Charles, bottle merchant, Beecham road

Southampton street W~bb Edwin, shopkeeper, 175 Chatham street

Victoria Hall (Jn. Shackleford, manager), Fatherson rd Webb George, butcher, 57 Oxford road

Vile John, dining rooms, see Brown & Vile Webb George, hail" dresser, 32 Friar street

Vincent Waiter, confectioner, 84 King's road Webb Geo. Wm. F.R.I.B.A. architect, Market PI. chmbrs

Vincent William, coach builder, 76 Castle street Webb Harry, grocer, 119 & 121 London st.& 35 Minster s•

Viuden Saml. J. frnitr. 61 Minster st. & I57 London rd Webb James, boot maker, 87 Oxford road

Vine Willi11m, baker, 12 Broad street Webb Richard James, hair dresser 34, & tobacconist 3~

Vize Elizal-Jeth (:Miss), dress maker, 104 Southampton st Caversham road

Volunteer Battalion (rst) Princess Charlotte of Wales's Webb William, boot maker, 23 Watlington street

(Royal Berkshire Regiment) (Col. A. F. Waiters V.D. Webber & Sons, news agents, 95 Orts road

commandant; Major 0. Pea;rce-Serocold, second in com- Webber Robert, beer retailer, 95a, Orts road

mand; Capt. E. Feetham, adjutant); head quartel'S, Weeden John, tailor, 88 Cholmeley road

St. Mary's butts Weedon William, solicitor, & coroner for oorol!lgh of

Voss Martha (Mrs.), apartments, r.o7 Caversham road Reading & for East Berks, 164a, Friar street

Wagnell Archibald Brown, boot maker, 4 Edgehill street Weeks Edward, boot maker, 148 King's road

Wagnell Emily (Mrs.), apartments, I9 Vachel r{,ad Wright Martin, engineer, Short street

Waight Alfred, saddler, 29 Leopold road \Veinstein M{)rris, shopkeeper, 2 Derby street

Waite Ellen (Miss), dress maker, 84 Brighton road Wellard Edward, fruiterer, 105 Southampton street

Warte Thomas, pianoforte & organ dealer, 5 & 7 Duke st. Weller Charles, furniture dealer, III King's road &

See advert 15 & 16 King street

Waldron Tom, Mitre P.H. 47 West street Wellington -club (Jas. Neale, hon. se-c.), Station road
Walker A. B. & Go-. stone masons & undertakers, 49, 51 Wellman E. & Son, beer, spirit & wine merchants, z

& 53 Crown street Minster street & 26 King's road

Walker J ames W. & William W. grocers, 8 King's road Wells Anne (Miss), apartments, 32 Waylen street

Walker Alexander T. manager of the Corporation water Wells Charlotte (Mrs.), greengrocer, 8o Friar street

works, Town hall, Blagrave street & Bath road Wells Emma (Mrs.), apartments, 61 Waylen street

Walker Alfred John, music warehouse, 15 Oxford road Wells Ernest E. plumber, I6 Junction road

Walker Edwin, commission agent, 217 Southampton st Wells John N. seed merchant, see Wallis, Son & Wells

Walker Horace Edwin, clerk, 215 Southampton street Wells Mary (Mrs.), toy dealer, 73 Southampton street

Walker James Henry, apartments, 33 Vachel road Wells Nelson Lees, beer retailer, 29 Kennet street

Walker William Launcelot, registrar of marriages & of Wells Samuel, grocer & branch post office, 127 London

births & deaths & vaccination officer for St. Giles' sub- road & Auckland road

district, I 19 Quee11's road Wells William, banjo maker, 73 Southampton street

Wallis, ~on & Wells, seed mers. Victoria whf. King's rd W ellsteed, Son & Co. drapers, silk mercers, milliners~
costumiers & ladies' outfitters, 126, I27, 128, 129, 13~
Walsh Neville, dentist, 27 Blagrave street

Waiters George N. painter, 1 Highgrove street 131, 132 & I33 Broad street & Minster street

Waiters James Hopkins F.R.M.S. surgeon & certifying Welman W. & Son, drapers, 27 & 28 West street

factory surgeon, IO Castle street; res. I5 Friar street Wernham George, builder, II7 Queen's road

Waiters William Henry, shopkeeper, 159 Southampton st Wernham Henry, shopkeeper, 22 Alfred street

Waltham Brothers Limited, brewery stores, 54 Hosier st Wernham James Nelson, Peacock P.H. & omnibus pro·

Walton Alice (Miss), dress maker, 181 Caversham road prietor, 51 Broad street

Ward, Sturt & Sharp, warehousemen (W. C. Farrant, Werni G. & Son, watch makers, 27 Oxford road

agent), 17 Market place Werrell William, Osborne Arms P.H. o Greyfriars road'

Ward Charles, greengrocer, 33 Charles street West London Dairy Co. Limited, no Whitley street

Ward Clara (Miss), apartments, 13 Waylen street West Alfred, auctioneer, see Deane, Son & West

Ward Lorraine, photographer, 43 London street West George, coal dealer, Victoria road

Ward Thomas, shopkeeper, Wokingham road West John, beer retailer, rga, Orts road

"Ward William, insurance supt. 56 Greyfriars road Westall Francis, shopkeeper, 37 Coley street

Warman Eliza (Mrs.), saddler, go Friar street Westbrook John Thomas, clerk, 20 Argyle street

Warman Thomas, insurance agent, 41 Blenheim road Weston George, beer retailer, 9 & 11 Abbey wall

Warmsley & eo. builders' merchants, Bangor wharf, Wethered Thomas & Sons Lim. brewers, 7 St. Mary'~

King's road & G. W. R. wharf, Vastern road parade (agents, George Rayment,London road & Georg8'

Warne Arthur, hair dresser, see Pleasance & Warne Ayr·es, Queen's road

Warren Selina (Mrs.), dress ma. 19 Christ Church road Weyman Rebecca Jane (Miss), typewriter, Town HaD

Warren William, Ancient Forester P. H. 3 I Oxford road chambers, Blagrave street

Warrick John & eo. manufacturers of the celebrated Whatley Brothers, coal merchants, 191 London road &:i

Monarch carrier tricycles, 34 St. Mary's Butt.s; works, G. W. R. wharf, Vastern road

Caversham rd. ; London show rooms, 374 Edgware rd. W Whatson Warren, house decorator, I Lorne street
Wheatley Albert F.R.C.V.S. vet. surgn. so & SI Friar s~
Warrick Frederick, boot maker, 10 Watlington street

Warwick Brothers, timber & slate merchants, steam Wheatley .Ann (Mrs.), confectioner, 27 Wolseley street

sawing, planing, moulding & joinery works, wholesale Wheatley Charles Sidney, clerk, 21 Prospect street

& retail stores for every description of building Wheeler Brothers, builders, 42 & 69 Caversham road

materials, firewood manufacturers, 47 Oxford road Wheeler D. & Sons, cart & wagon bldrs. 2 Mill lane

Water Wmks (Corporation) (Alexander T. Walker, man.), Wheeler H. & Go. printers, Bath court, Mill lane

Bath road; office, Town hall Wheeler Edwin, boot repairer, 105 De Beauvoir road

Waters Richard Abberley, boot maker, 148 Amity road ·wheeler Henry J ames, grocer, 92 King's road

Waters Thomas W. hair dresser, 37 Hosier street Wheeler James, tailor, 5 Castle street

Waters William, greengrocer, 20 Bridge street Wheeler John, apartments, 24 George street

Waters William, insurance agent, Southcote lane Wheeler John, grocer, 323 Oxford road

Waters William, shopkeeper, 41 Hosier street Wheeler John Daniel, coach builder, 82 Southampton.

Watkins Charlotte (Mrs.),dress maker, 30 De Beauvoir rd street (& firm, D. Wheeler & Sons)

Watson Brothers, china, glass & earthenware dealers, 13, Wheeler Montague, architect, see Hoare & Wheeler

14 & 15 Minster street "'beeler Samuel, outfitter, 102 London street

Watson Charlotte (Miss), corset & belt ma. 92 Castle st Wheeler Thomas Frederick, beer retailer, 38 Bridge st

Watson William, insurance agent, 28 Cumberland road Wheeler William Henry, blacksmith, 6 Weldale street

Watson William Shewring, wood turner, 32 William street Wheeler William Henry, tailor, 35 Oxford road

Watts Fr2derick, cycle agent, 32 Caversham road Wheelwright George W. grocer & branch post & telegraph

Watts George, apartments, 27 Zinzan street office, 530 Oxford road

Watts Henry, boot maker, 2 Cannon street Whiley Daniel T. insurance agent, _r:,7 Donnington road

Watts John, boot repairer, 31 Kennet street White Henry & Son, carpenters, Stanley street

Waugh Samuel, blacksmith, Vachel road White & Hobbs, carpentel"s, 4 Baker street

Weaver Emma (Mrs.), confectioner, 88 Wokingham road White Victor & Co. photographers, 23 & 25 Blagrave st

Weaver George, boot repairer, 92 Wokingham road White Albert Ernest, commrcl. travllr. 134 Caversham rd

Weaver Henry, station master, Great Western Railway White Anna (Mrs.), beer retailer, 62 Caversbam road

station, Station road & 4 Bath terrace, Russell street White Bessie (Mrs.), apartments, JI Zinzan street

Weaver Thomas, boot repairer, 77 Katesgrove lane White Charles, boot repairer, 59 Howard street

Weaver Thomas, mineral water manufactr. 19 Princes st White Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker, Thames avenue~

Weaving Ellen (Miss), dress maker, 21 Vachel road Caver~ham road

W€bb C. & Son, coal dealers, I Rose cot. Wokingham rd ...,Wmhite Frederick John, tobacconist, 72 Broad street

Webb Alfred, Elephant P.H. r8 & 19 Market place White Marion (Miss), girls' preparatory school, Wilton.

Webb Arthur Wm.Alfd. Tudor Arms P.H.53Greyfriars rd house, Parkside road

:ao.a BERKSHIBE. [EILLY'B

White James, jobmaster, IIO Castle street Wiltshire Frederick John, pianoforte tuner, sa .s-outh st

White Martha Margt. (Mrs.), coffee tavern, 7 London st Wiltshire Louisa (Mrs.), dress maker, 12 Body road

White Phoobe (Mrs.), apartments, 31 Sackville street Winch William Henry, watch maker, 23 Friar street .

White Theodore H. B.A. boys' preparatory schl.Ilaker st Winchester George, corn dealer, 107 King's road

White William, boot repairer, 8 Katesgrove lane Wing John, carpenter, see Eaton & Wing

w·hite William James, beer retailer, 36 Mount Pleasant Winslet John, Broad Face P.H. 9 High street

White William John, tobacconist, 5I4 Oxford road Winter John V. tailor, 79 Oxford road

Whitfield George, shopkeeper, 49 Elm Park road Wise Brothers, shopkeepers, St. Peter's road

"Whiting Thomas F. undertaker, II The Grove Wise Emma (Mrs.), certified midwife, 36 Tilehurst road

Whittingdale Joseph, grocer, 57 Cumberland road Wise Henry, boot maker, 36 Tilehurst road

Wickens Albert, steam haulier, 556 Oxford road Witcomb Edith Carolina (Mrs.), confectioner, 57 & 58

Wickens Charles, beer retailer & dairyman, Auckland rd St. Mary's butts

'\<Vicks James, builder, 223 Southampton 8treet Witcomb Waiter Sidney, insurance agent, 57 & 58 St.

Wicks John, general shop, 6g Silver street Mary's butts

Wicks Mary Ann (Mrs.), laundress, I Crown pi. London rd Witherington Duncan Henry, solicitor & commissioner for

Wiggins Elizabeth (Mrs.), boot wareho. I32 King's road oaths & hon. sec. Ilerks, Bucks & Oxon Incorporated

'h"iggins George, shopkeeper, IO Flint street Law Society, Arcade chambers, Friar street

Wiggins Jessie (Mrs.), dress maker, 27 Radstock road Withers T. C. & Son, corn merchants, nB & I20 London st

Wiggins Joseph, hair dresser, 33 Cumberland road & g8 Withers Hannah (Mrs.), apartments, 27 Caversham road

Wokingham road Withers John William, apartments, 4I Caversham road

Wiggins Richard, boot repairer, ro .Albert road Withers Michael John, insurance agt. Exton, Erleigh rd

Wiggins William, hair dresser, 10 Arthur road Withers Roland Thomas, corn dealer, 42 Erleigh road

Wigley William Geo. grocer, & post office, 94 Whitley st Withers Thomas John, forage merchant, South street

Wigmore William Henry, carpenter, 8 Zinzan street Withers William, shopkeeper, 6 .Southampton street

Wilcockson George Morton L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. physician Witbnall Edward J. T. saddler, I2 & I4 Blagrave street

& surgeon, f83 Southampton street Woobery John, draper, I4r London road

Wild & Co. ironmongers, IS Whitley street Wood Harry, engraver, 27 Vastern road

Wild George Robert, confectioner, JI London street Wood John, carpenter, 35 Caversbam road

Wild Heorge Robert, cycle agent, 49 London street Wood Mary (Mrs.), confectioner, 5 St. Mary's butts

ll'ilde & Oo. Limited, grocers, 21 Oxford road; 22 & 72 Wood Mary M. (Miss), stay maker, 104 London street

Caversham road & 95 & 97 King's road Woodin Charles, boot maker, 22 De Beauvoir road

Wilder Frank L. electrical engineer, Arcade chambers, Woodland Henry James, writer & grainer, SI Castle street

Friar street Woodley William, shopkeeper, 59 Silver street

Wilder John, agricultural, electrical, horticultural & me- Woodruff Thomas Richard, corn. travllr. 59 Pell street

chanical engineer, brass & iron founder, Yield Hall lane, Woods Mary Ann (Mrs.), baker, I6 London street

Minster street Woodward James, signalman, so Waylen street

Wilkins Edmond, ginger beer manfctr. 49 Southampton st Woolf Agnes (Mrs.), llhopkeeper, 21 Orchard street

Wilkins George William, clerk, II Salisbury road Woolmer Charles Hy. oil & color man, 6I Southampton st

Wilkins John, hair dresser, 25 Chain street Worman Samuel, tailor's cutter, 25 Zinzan street

Wilkins William, coal dealer, 65 & 67 Oxford road Wren Henry Blandy, farmer, Whitley Wood farm, Bas-

1Villan Robert, insurance agent, 39 Donnington road ingstoke road & Grovelands farm, Shinfield

Williams T. C. & Son, iron & brass founders, 8 & IO Wren Maria (Mrs.), midwife, 64 Alpine street

London street Wren Thomas, tailor, 38 Kennet side

'\Yilliams Edith (Miss), dress maker), 97 'Yatlington st Wright Ann (Mrs.), apartments, I74 Oxford road

Williams Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments, I27 Castle hill Wright Emest, accoun<tant & registrar of marriages for

Williams Frederick, Bull hotel, 23 Broad street St. Mary's sub-district, 36 Castle street

Williams James, milk seller, 63 Orchard street Wright Henry, inspector of weights & measures for the

1Villiams James, shopkeeper, I8 Crown street borough of Reading, 88 Southampton st. & 24 East st

Williams Owen, tailor, 34 Zinzan street Wright James Leywood, grocer, 93 London street

Williams Samuel, beer retailer, 2 Waterloo road Wrigbt Waiter, deputy registrar of marriages for St.

W"illiams William, dairyman, 64 Hosier street Mary's sub-dis·trict, 88 Southampton street

Willis Brothers, bookbinders, 3 Gun street Wright William, The Jolly Brewer P.H. 26 Tileburst rd

Willis .Alfred, confectioner, 63 Spring gardens Wright William H. furniture dealer, 70 London street

Willis Frederick, boot repairer, 4 Thorn street Wyatt Jessie (Mrs.), dress maker, 78 Wokingham road

'Willison James, insurance agent, 267 Oxford road Wyatt John M. woollen merchant, 18 & I9 Minster street

Willmott Sarah E. (Mrs.), midwife, I2 Eldon place Wyeth Mary (Mrs.), midwife, 53 Mill lane

Wilmott John, shopkeeper, 2I Silver street Wyles John, coal dealer, I9 Weston street

Wilson Brothers, butchers, 3 Silver street Wyles Joseph, photographer, I5 Kingsgate street

vVilson & Son, butchers, I37 London road Wyles.Walter S. (Mrs.),photogrphr.IOI & 103 King's rd

Wilson Edwin, insurance agent, 44 Coventry road Yarlett Mary A. (Mrs.), dress maker, 38 Waylen street

Wilson Francis Harry, coach builder, see :Kash & Wilson Yates George, boot repairer, 20 Connaught road

1Vilson George Henry, grocer, I3I Queen's road Young Women's Christian Association (Miss Gertrude

vVilson Harry, hair dresser, 623 Oxford road Oakley, hon. sec.), I9 Castle street

'Wilson James, Horse & Jockey P.H. 120 Castle street Young Georgina (Mrs.), midwife, I56 Southampton street

Wilson Waiter, auctioneer, land, house & estate agent, Young Joseph, general smith, 774 Oxford road

surveyor & valuer, 27 & 28 1\Iarket place & 75 Oxford Young Matthew, business transfer agent, 38 Market pl

road; & 27 Charles st. St. James's, London S W. See Young Robert, boot maker, 4 Butter market

advert Young Samnel Harris, beer retailer, 92 Kennet side

Wiltshire E. & Son, coopers, Sun street Yoxall Mary (Mrs.), apartments, 36 Waylen street

REMENHAM is a parish 9 miles north-east from I sittings. The lych-gate, at the entrance to the church-

Reading, one mile north-ea,sJt from Henley railway station yard, was erected in 1886 by the late John Noble esq.

~md ro miles north-west from ~Iaidenhead, in the Eastern 1 The register dates from the year 1697· The living is a

division of tihe county, Beynhurs.t hundred, Wokingham rectory, net income £387, with residence, in the gift of
petty sessional division, He'n~ey union and county court Jesus College, Oxford, and held since 1890 by the Rev.
district, rural deanery of Sonning, archdeaconry of Ilerks John Rougier Cohu M.A. and ~ate fellow of that college.

and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas, Tickells' and Batting's charities, together £10 yearly, are

complete:y restored in 1870, is an <Edifice of cut flint with for bread. The Hon. W. F. D. Smith M.P. of Greenlands,

stone dressings, in the Early Engli~h style, and consists Hambleden, who is lord of the manor, Wilson Noble esq.

of apsidal chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle, M.A. the trustees of the late William Vidler esq. and
south porch and an embattled wes ~ern tower with pin- Mrs. Ames are the principal landowners. The soil is

hac:es, oontaining 3 bells: the choir seats and altar rails loam; subsoil, gravel and chalk. The chief crops are

a.nd the wrought-iron gates on the south side Q{ the wheat, barley and oats. The area is I,503 acres of land
~hancel were the gift of the late John Nob:e esq.: on and 70 of water; rateable value £5,828; the population

the w~st wall, under the tower, i-. a bra.ss with effigy in 189I was 546.

and sh1eld of arms, to Thomas l\Iaryet, of Remmham esq.
ob. 22 Dec. IS 91 ; and another bra ss to John N ewman, REMENH.AM HILL is a long and !highly picturesque
pastor, ob. I622, with effigy in ruff collm and preaching vi:lage in the parish of Remenham, surrounded by highly
gow'n: a new vestry and sacristy were added in I892, at cultivated woodland scenery; it is separated from Ox-
a cost of £450, and in I893 a stained window wa.s pre- fordshire by the river Thames, over which is a handsome
sented by Mrs. Nob~e, at a cost of £350, and a pulpit stone bridge of fiv;e arches, leading to Henley. The
erected as a memorial to the late John Noble esq. by Grea't Western railway station at Henley is about a mile
his children, at a cost of £93: the church affords ISO and· a half west. Park Place, the seat of Mrs. Noble,

DIRECTORY. j BERKSHIRE. SANDHURST. 203

was for near~y twenty years the residence of His Royal Letters arrive from Hen1ey-on-Thames at 7 a.m. & r2.30

Highness Frederick Prince of Wales, father of George p.m.; dispatched 12.30 & 7 p.m. ; sundays, arrive 7
Ill.; the mansion, rebuilt by the ~ate J. Noble e·sq. in
a.m.; dispatched, noon. Henley-on-Thames, 2 miles
the French Italian style, is situated on the brow of a
ra'nge of hills, 300 feet above the level of 'the river diSitant, is the nearest telegraph office
Thames and in the centre of a well-wooded park of about Wall Letter :Box, Remenham Church, cleared at 6.20
900 acres, which is entered by s-even lodges: Park P~ace
a.m. & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 6.20 a.m. :Bridge Wall
is especially a.ttraotive on account of its picturesque Box, Remenham, cleared week days at 9.25 & II.Io a.m.
scenery, which is saarcely to be equal1ed for t,he beauti-
ful and varied prospects which lit affords; to the east of 2.40, 3·35· 7.40 & 9· 15 p.m.; sundays at 6.50 p.m.
the mansion is a mag'nificent cedar planJted by his MajeS'I:y Aston Wall Box, cleared at 7 a.m. & 7 p.m. week days;
George Ill. sundays, at 7 p.m

Parish Clerk, Henry Woods. School (mixed), built in 1858, for 70 children; average
Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, attendance, 68; William Baker, master

Remenham Hill.-Frederick Sargeant, sub-postmaster. Infants' School, 'l'zywer loQdge, on Park Place estate, for 30
chrildren; average al:ltendance, 22; Mis·s Fanny Tom.-
lin, mistress

REMENH.A.M. attached ; good accommodation for E:deT Tlhoma,s Edward, Yew Gate

PRIVATE BESIDENTS. boating & fishing parties, close to Hope Ma.jor-Gen.Jn.Edwd.R.A.Batlh lo

Bradford Misses, .A.ston rise Hambledon lock & .A.ston ferry Hunter Curling, Ivy gate

Broome Mrs. Remenham lodge Holloway Collin P. farm bailiff to the Noble Mrs. Park Place

Caldicott Thos.Parker, Wilminster cott Hon. W. F. D. Smith M.P Paorker .A.rthur John

Dohu Rev.Jn.RougierM..A..The Rectry Leander Club (R. G. Gridl6y, hon.sec) Simmons William Anker, Wedmore lo

Edwards-Moss Sir Jn. bart. Thamesfld Pigden Sarah .Ann (Miss), Carpenters' Wood Charles William Goldsworthy,

Eveleigh Chas. John Davy, Wilmin· .Arms P.H Sunnyside

ster pa.rk; & ro Park square west, Rogers John, engineer COMMERCIAL.

Regent's park, London NW Vidler William (exors. of), millers,

Frewin Miss, Thamesmead Marsh water mill Cawdle Thomas Harry, Five Horse

Gordon Capt. Wm.Cleathe>r,.Aiston hall Warn.& John, locffismith 'Shoes hotel; good accommodation

Hunt Henry .Arthur, Bird place Williams Joseph Hy. Two Brewers P.H for families, boating parties &
R"""'"""""TH A..... HILL
Leaf Edward .A.rthur, The Nook _.,_,.w:..L'- m_ • cyclists
Rawlins James .Armstrong, Woodlands Dudley Isaac, baker

&larle Miss, Hridge cottage AmElts Mrs. Underw:ood Everard Rev. Robt. Bagot Chester

Wallis George, The Cottage, .A.ston .Ansell Re~ginald M.A. Re~nham Place school (boys)

COMMERCIAL. Bell Herbert Booth, Remenham house Harrison .A.ndrew, builder & assistant

Butler Edgar, .Angel P.H Davies Sidney, The Elms overseer

Good'C'hild John Aston, Flower Pot Ever.a.rd Rev. Robt. :Bagot Chester Sargeant Fredk. builder & Post office

hotel & bungalow of six rooms M.A. Remenham Place Stanton Geoil'ge, bailiff to Mrs. No·ble

RUSCOMBE is a village a.nd parish, one mile from the: Bishop of Oxford, and held slince 1864 by the Rev. JO'hn
Great Western railway station at Twyford, 6 miles east Henly M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Ruscombe South-
from Reading, 5 south from Henley a'nd 6~ west from bury is a pN'bend in Salis.bury Clathedral. A portion of
Ma.id~nhead, in the Eastern diviSiion 0of the county, un~on the mansion and grounds of Stanlake Park, the property
and petty sessional division of W<Jkingham, hundred of of Frederick Barker esq. of Hook, Winchfield, and occupied
Sonni'ng, county court district of Reading, rural deanery by Mrs. Heydemann, is in this parish and part in
uf Sonllling, archdeaconry off Berks and diocese of Oxford. the parish ofl Hurst. Thomas Oollet<Jn Garth esq. of
The church of St. James, repail'ed and restored in 1859 1 Haines Hill, Broad Hinton, is the chief landowner. The
and 186o and again thoroughly restored in 1879 and' soil is mostly gravel; subsoil, gravel and clay. The
t88o, at a c<Jst of £1,322, is an ed-ifice of flint and brick, chief crops are wheat. barley and oats. The area is
consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an emibat- 1,249 acres; rateable value, £8,127; the population in

tied western tow€r containing 2 bells : the chancel ap- 1891 was 349·
pears to be of the early 12th century: the nave and Deputy Parish Clerk, Jonathan Thorpe.
tower were rebuilt in 1639: the in:~erior is plain and Letters from Twyford R.S.O. arrive at 6.30 & II.30 a.m.
conto.ins monuments to several members of the :Bray- Pillar Letter Box cleared at 2.45 & 7·40 p.m. ; sundays,
brooke family: there are 150 sittings. The register 11.40 a.m. Twyford is the nearest money order & tela-

dates from the year I$90. The living is a vicarage, net graph office, I mile distant
yearly value £rss, with residence, in the gift of the 1 The chi~dren of this parish attend the ~hool at Twyford

Boshier James Lunn )Irs Johnson Goo. Waiter, Royal Oak P.H

Henly Rev. Prebendary John M.A. 'Clarke Thomas, hurdle maker Knapp Edwin, builder

(vicar), Yicarage Cottrell Rbt.Lowden,frmr.&brick mkr Plhillips George, farmer

Heydemann Mrs. Stanlake park Exce.:l Benjamin, rod merchant

ST. 1IELEN WITHOUT is a civil parish formed by St. Nicholas, outside the municipal area of .A.bingdon.
the County of Berks (Abingdon) Confirmation Order, 1894, The names of the residents are given with that t<Jwn.
from those portions of the old parishes of St. Helen and

SANDHURST is a village and parish, separated from rent of £rso, net value £8o, were vested in the incumbent
Hampshire by the river Blackwater, a mile and a quar- April 25, r851. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in
ter from the Wellington OoHege station on the Reading r867, with sittings for 220; and a Baptist chapel, erected
and Reigate branch of the South Eastern railway, 4~ in r88o, and seating 140. In the parish are two hills,
south-east from Wokingham, n~ from Reading and 40 called respectively .A.mbarrow and Edgebarrow. Am-
from London, in the Eastern division of the county, hun- barrow, a large and well-built house, is the residence of
dred o.f Sonning, pet'ty sesslional divisrion of Wokingham, Lieut.-Col. George Sheppard Harvey R.A., J.P. Long-
union of Easthampstead, county court district of Read- down Lodge is the seat of Thomas Mills esq. Sandhurst
ing, ruml deanery of Sonning, archdeaoonry of Berks and Lodge, now in the occupation of Sir William James Farrer
diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael is a 1 M.A., J.P., F.R.G.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. is the property of
building of stone in the Early English style, restored Arthur Fraser Waiter esq. J.P. of Bear Wood, who is lord
in 1864 at an expense of £1,3oo, and consists of of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is sandy;
chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, north porch and subsoil, sand and gravel. The chief crops are barley and
a western tower with spire containing 6 bells and a oats. The area of the old parish was 4,5o6 acres of land
clock: the finely-carved font was executed by one of the and 30 of water; and the population in rBgr was 4•J48,
daughters of the Rev. Henry Parsons, late rector: there including the Royal Military College. Sandhurst (apart
is a brass to Richard Geale, ob. 16o8, his wife Eliza- from Crowthorn, which has since 1894 been made a civil
be!th, four sons and five daughters, with effigies of all: parish), had in 1891 a population of 1,894, and the rate-

there are 250 sitt:ings. The register dates from the able value £7,759·
year 1603. The living was declared a rectory Dec. 18, Parish Clerk, Herbert "·atts.
r866; net income {,131, including residence and 34 acres Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Offic.-John Harper,
since r88o by the Rev. the Hon. Randal Parsons M.A. ol sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Camberley at 7.20
Trinity College, Dublin. The Mission church of St. Mary, & II a. m.; dispatched at 9.25 a.m.• 1.45, 6.5 & 8.15
at Little Sandhurst, built in 1889 by the rector, at a cost p.m.; sunday delivery, 7.15 a.m.; dispatch, 4.25 p.m
of £8oo, is an edif!.ce of red brick consisting of chancel, Pillar Box, CrO'Wthorne road, cleared at 9.30 a.m. 1.55 &

nave, south porch and bell cote containing one bell; there 6.10 p.m.; sundays, 4·35 p.m
are lSO sittings. The churchyard and commuted tithe Wall Boxes.-Near the Weil.lington Arms, cleared at ro

t

204 SANDHURST. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY's

a.m. & 5 p.m.; sundays, 9.30 a.m. Little Sandhurst, Instructors in Military Topography, Capt. ll. W. S. Van
c~eared at 8.5 & n.2o a.m. & 5.20 p.m
Straubenzee, S. Wales Borderers; Major .A. F. Mockler-

County Police, Charles Goddard, sergeant Ferryman, Oxford L.I.; Capt. T. R. R. Ward, West

School (mixed & infants), erooted by the lord of the Yorks Regiment; Capt. L. Conway-Gordon R.M..A..;
manor in the year I862, & enlarged in 1882, for 222
children; average attendance, I50; the infants' school, Capt. L . .A. H. Hamilton, Yorks L.I. ; Major N. W.
added in 1897,will hold I30 children; average attendance,
70; Jn. S. Gregory, master; Miss Ilurt, infants' mistrss Cuthbertson, R. Highlanders; Capt. C. Il. FitzHenry,

Wesleyan Day School (mixed), erooted in 1874, to ac- 7th Hus. ; Capt. .A. Foster, .Arg. & Suth. Highlanders
commodate 140; average attendance, 8o; George F.
Wilkin. master Profe<ssror of Tactics, Military .Adminstratl:ion & Law.

Bt. -Col. J. .A. Fergusson ·

Instructors in Taotics, Milrtary Adminstration & Law~

Capt. P. Wildman-Lushington, King's Own Scottish

Bordrs.; Capt. B. R..Tames, East Surrey Reg.; Capt.

ROYAL MILITAR:Y COLLEGE. S. T. Banning, Royal Mun. Fus. ; Capt. J. S. Knox,

East Yorks Regiment; Capt. C. M. De Grnyther, Suff.

Postal address, Cam'berley, Surrey. Telegrams, Reg.; Major J. E. Caunter, 1Yelsh Regiment
York Town.
Professor of French, Mons. Deshumbert
Instructor in French, Prof. B. L. O'Donnell; Mons. L.

Sandhurst Military Oollege, first estab'.ished at High Lassimoune & Mons. E. de Tuetey

Wycombe in 1799, transferred in r8o2 to Marl10w, & Professor of Ge~man, Dr. H. 0. Sommer

finally sebtled here in I8I2, is a•lxmt 2 miles from the Instructor in German, J . .A. Leibmann
church, in •beautifuil park-like grounds; the bui~dings
Staff Oo1lege (locally at York Town, Surrey).
comprise a central block, with a portico of the Doric

order & two wings ; the chapel contains a'n organ & Postal ad<lress, Camberley, Surrey.

some m€morial tablets to former governors & others & The Royal Staff CoFege is a handsome building of yellow
br.ick with stone facings, & was first occupied in I862;
there is a well-furnished library, with portraits of it is desigm~d to ho:d 40 officers, eaclh of whom may
George Ill. & Queen Char:otte & of past governors : remain for 2 ye-ars fur instrud:ion in the scientific
branches of military education, with the view of qua1i-
there are now (1899) 360 gentlemen cadets, who are fying themselves for staff appolintments : candidates
admitted by open competition between the ages of 17 for admission are required to pass a prelimimuy ex-
& Ig, & rooeive instruction in mill!itary subj€cts exclu- amination: rtlhe •building COilltains a library, mess room,
besides ha~ls of study; the establishment consist.s o-f
sively, for o'ne and a half years prior to undergoing a a commandant & 7 professors, & the course of study
qualifying examinati{)n for commissions in the army oomprises Staff Duties ~ .Adminiso~ration & Law, Mili-
tary History, Fortifiootion, Military Drawing, Survey-
President, The Commander in Chief ing & Reconnaissance, French & German

Governor & Commandant, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Edwin Mark- Commandant, Col. H. S. G. Miles M.V.O

ham K.O.B., R.A Professo·r.s.

Assistant Commandant & Sec. Lieut.-Col. J. S. Talbot

Quartermaster, Capt. T. K. Bunting (acting supply &
ordnance store officer)

Riding Master, Major H. E. Elliott
Surgeon, Brigade-Sn<rgeon Lt.....Co~. A. F. S. Clarke M.D

Assistant Surgeon, Brigade-Surgeon F. Gillespie M.D Military Art & History, Lieut.Col. G. F. R. Henderson~

Charp[ain, Rev. A. J. Townend B.A York & Lane. Re.gimenlt

Mess Secretary, Major R. E. Goold-Adams Fortification & .Artillery, Lieut. -Col. H. C. C. Walker R.A

Military Professors & Instructors. Military Topography, Bt.·Col. R. C. B. Lawrence
Staff Duties & Military .Administration, Lieut.-Col. E.
Professor of Fortification, Major W. Huskisson R.E
Instructors in Fortification, Capt. W. N. Bolton, Wilts W. Fleming R..A
French, Monsieur M. De•shumibert
Regiment; Capt. F. W. D. Quintan R.A.; Capt. J. L.
Armitage, Royal Innis.Fus.; Capt. C. Moore, Berks German, Dr. H. 0. Somm-er
Regiment ; Capt. Sir C. Cuyler hart. Oxford L.l. ;
Capt. W. H. P. Plomer, Irish Fus Honorary Professor Military Law, J. C. O'Dowd C.Il. (Dep.
Professor of Military Topography, Lieut.-Col. W. W. C. Judge .Adv. Gen)

Instructor.

Verner P.S.C Military Topography, Capt. E. S. Heard, Northumb. Fu&

Residents at the Royal Military College Verner Col. Willoughby, I3 The Ter Williams Rev. Charles (Wesleyan)

.Armitage Capt. Leathley, 10 The Ward Capt. T. R. R COMMERCIA.L.

Terrace Wildman-Lushington Capt. Percival, ~4.ngel Thvmas, tailor

Banning Capt. Stephen Thomas, I I 5 The Terrace Ballard Joihn, White Swan P.H

The Terrace · .
Bolton Capt. Wilfred Nash, 2 TheTer Resident at the Staff College. Bannister George, cab proprietor
Miles Col. H. S. G. (commandant), Barefoot John, Bird in Hand P.H
Bunting Oapt. T. K. Square Child John, Duke's Head P.H

Caunter Major Jas. E. 6 The Terrace Staff ·College house Colquhoun William Brooks L.R.C.P'.

Clarke Brig.-Surg. Lieut.-Col. .Alfred Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon,.

Frederick Strafford M.D. Medical PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Officel'ls' house Bashford Lt.-Col. William, Hart's leap Rivermead

Conway-Gordon Capt. Lewis, 9 The Beauchamp Mrs. Uplands Cooper Robert, grocer & coal dealer

Terrace Breton Miss, Forest end Cornish Edwin, shoe maker

Cuthbertson Major N. W. Square Colquhoun Wm. Brooks, Rivermead Oox Josiah, farmer

Cuyler Capt. Sir Charles bart. 4 The Farrer Sir Wm. Jas. M..A., F.RG.S., Fou:kes Stephen, Jolly Farmers P.B

Terrace F.S..A.., F.G.S., J.P. Sandhurst lodge Frauds Richarrd, black·smith

De Gruyther Capt. C. M. Square Harris Charles Edward, Rose villa Giblett Robert, farmer
Elliott Major H. E. Square Ha.rvey Lieut.-Col. George Sheppard Goddard Charles, sergeant of polioo

Fergusson Brevet-Col. J. A. Squa:re R.A., J.P. Amlbarrow Gough Henry, greengrocer

Foster Capt. .A. Square Hawkins MI"S. Gothic villa Greenaway George, beer retailer

Fitz-Henry Capt. Claude Ilrittain, 2 King-King Major J. G. St. Kilda Groves James George (Mrs.), Am-

The Terrace Lewes Major-General Henry Cole- barrow hill

Gillespie Lieut...Col. F., M.D. Square brooke R.A. (retd. ), Broadway Harper John, stationer, Post office

Goold-Adams Major Richard E. 7 Majendie The Misses, The Warren Harris Chas. Edwd. bldr. & contractor

The Terrace Malan Rev. Arthur Noel D.D., F.G.S. Hawkins Fanny Rose (Mrs.), Rose &:..

Hamilton Capt. L. A. H Eagle House school Crown P.H
Hawkins Sidney, fishmonger
Huskisson Major Wm. I The Terrace Mills Thomas, Longdown lodge

Jlfl.mes Capt. Il. R. Square Mitchell Rev. Henry Cliff (curate), St. .Tames George, builder

Knox Capt. J. S Mlichael's cottage James JMeph, butcher

Markham Lieut.-Gen. Sir E., K.C.B. Ors1born Mrs. Sunny rest J ames William, grocer

Government house Over Mrs Miaddis<ln George, fruit grower

Mockler-FeTryman Capt. .A. F. Oak Parsons Rev. the Hon. Randal M.A. Malan Rev. .>\.rhur Noel D.D. pre-

GTove house (rootor), RectoTy paratory whool, Eagle House school

Moore Capt. 0 Pigg William, Beechey Martin Maria (Mrs.), New inn

Plomer Capt. Wm. 8 The Terrace RoEe Rev. James :Mellon Frederick, sc:ll()ol attendance-
Quinton Capt. F. W. D officer & insuran~e agent
Rothwell MTs. Rw cottalle

Talbot Lieut.-'Col. J. S Russell James M.D., M.B., C.M Mills Quartermaster-Sergeant EdwiiJo

Townend Rev. .A. J., B. .A. (chaplain) S-affOTd Patrick Walter,Brook;;ide Hll John, gymnastic instructor, Royal

Van Straubenzee Capt. B. W. S Turner Capt. Hamilton H.F. }lernia Military college

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. SHAW-CUM- DONNINGTON. 205

!Morgan Charles Frede-rick, draper Russell James M.D., M.B., C.M., Regiment) (H. Co.) (Capt. Rorace

Moss .Arthur, blacksmith M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon & medical Manders)

Napper Vincent Wm. baker & grocer officer & public vaccinator, Sand- Watts HeTbert, poor rate collector,

Nicholls Mary (Mrs.), •butcher burst district, Easthampstead union aSISeSisor&collector of taxes&registrar

Nicholls Samuel George, poultry frmr Sandhurst Working Men's C~ub (H. of births & deaths fOT Sandhurst

Pearson Francis, baker & .slhopkeeper P'rior, sec) sub-district & Easthampstead union

Pigg William Beechey, baker, Smart William, shopkeeper Wetherall Alfred, shopkeeper

grocer & miller (steam) Steer Harriet (Mrs.), laundre·ss White John, !lull & Ilutcher P.H

Purvey William, Wellington .Arms P.B Taylor William, coal dealer Williams William, shopkeeper

Reynold'S Elijah, Fox & Hounds P.H Vo~unteer Ilattalion (ISt) Princess Wil•SIOn Frances (MI"s.), dairy

Rogers Edward, Prince of Wales P.B Charlotte ofWales's(Royal Berkshire

SANDLEFORD, formerly extra-parochial, is now a by pal~ent under the Great Seal of England and by an

parish on a small stream called the .Auburn, which here ancient Bull of Pope Gregory VI. in the yea;r II39; the

·divides the counties of Berks and Rants, I! mi~es south Earl of Perch was one of the Norman barons who came

from Newbury, in the Southern division of the county, in with William thP. Conqueror, who gave to hi.m the

Faircross hundred, Newibury petty sessional division, town and manor of Newbury; the priory was annexed in

union and county court district. 'l"he inhabitants atltend the reign of Edwoard IV. to t.he King's Free Chapel of

the church at Newbury. By a decree obtained by Sir St. George, Windsor. The present mansion, ~lied San·

Fra'ncis 1\fl()l()re hart. of Fawley, in the CXlurt of Exche- dleford Priory, ino~udes a portion of the monast[c build-

quer, in the reign of James I. Sandleford was declared to ing, the ancient chapel now forming a dining room. In

be "no part of the parish of Newbury, nor so to be re- I730 it was purchased by Edward Montagu £'Sq. of Den-

puted," and instead of the tithes and other ecclesiastical ton Hall, Northumberland, grandson of the first Earl of

dues, wh~ch had been theretofore paid to the parson of Sandwich, and was for many years tihe residence of his

Newbury, a modus or charge of £8 yearly was substi- widO'W, the celeJbrated Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, who

tuted, whiclh £8 yearly is Still paid to the rector of founded about I?()o and enterta.ined here a literary

Newbury. Like many other extra-parochial places, San- soci!llty, ca:led "The B[ue Stocking Club;" the Priory is

dleford formerly belonged to a religious foundation; the now the property of .Alpin Macgregor esq. J.P. who is

priory of Sandleford wa.s founded before 1205 by Geoffrey, lord of the manor and principal landowner, and the resi-

Earl of Perch, Earl Marshal of England, and Maud his dence of Mrs. Myers. The soil is gravelly clay; subsoil,

wife, for canons of the .Augustinian order, and the church clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The

of Sandleford, being then the clhurch of Sit. John the area is 5I5 acres of land and 5 of water; assessable value,

Baptist, with the lands of Sandlefurd, was by them £5 I3 ; the population in I 8gi was 30.

"assigned and given to the perpetual service of Uo<i and :r

of the Blessed Virgin Mary and .All Saints, to hold in Letters through Newbury, the .nearest money order office,
t~e n~ares~ telegraph office IS Newtown (Rants), about
Ifree alms as by the deed of the same foundation and gift 14 miles distant

now shewn forth appeareth," Which gift was confirmed

G:Jy King Henry III. in theJ seventeenth year of his reign The children of this place attend the school at Newtown

Asprey Mrs. Sandleford grove Myers Mrs. Sandleford priory Butcher Robert Henry, gardener to
Mrs. Myers
Montgomerie The Hon. Mrs. Seton, COMMERCIAL.

Sandleford lodge Butler .Albert Henry, farmer

SEACOURT is a parish 7 miles north from .Abingdon loam ; subsoil, various, but principally limestone. The
crops are a succession of grain. The area is 814 acres ;
and I! from Oxford, in the Northern division of the
county, hundred of Harmer and union and county court rateable value, £I,o63; the population in 1891 was 23.
district of Abingdon ; it is united for ecclesiastical pur-
poses with the parish of Wytham, but is separate as to Letters from Oxford by foot post arrive between 8 & 9
the maintenance of its poor and other civil purposes. a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is
There is no church; the inhabitants attend that of North at Oxford, It miles distant
Hinksey. The Earl of .Abingdon is lord of the manor and
principal landowner. The soil is stone brash, sand and Wall Letter Box, at Botley, cleared at 6.35 p.m.; sundays,
10.I5 a.m

Turner .Albert, farmer

SHALBOURN is a parish, a part of which, known as firmation (No. I2) Act," which came into operation Sep-
Oxenwood and Bagshot was formerly in Berks, but by tember 30, 1895, these places were transferred to Wilts
'the '' Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Con- and the parish is now wholly in that county.

SHAW-r.um-DONNINGTON is a parish and vil- ing, 27th October, 1644, the Parliamentary forces, coming

lage, on the northern bank of the river Lambourn, which down Clay Hill, passed the river by Shaw and forced the

separates it from the borough of Newbury, in the guard near the house, but were thereupon attacked and

:Southern division of the. county, hundred of Faircross, routed by Sir Ilernard .Astley: subsequently the Earl of

petty sessional division, union and county court district Manchester, with a large force, came down upon the

.of Newbury, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of house, then defended by Lieut.-Col. Page, but with the

llerks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary, help of Sir John Brown and Col. Thelwall, the enemy

rebuilt in I84o, is an edifice of stone, in the Norman and was beaten "quite out of the field, leaving two drakes,

'Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, with organ some colours, and many dead bodies behind them ; '•

chamber and vestry, added in 1878 at a cost of [,2,ooo, a number of cannon balls, found about the grounds, may

nave, south porch and a western tower, containing 4 bells: I be seen in the entrance hall, and in the oak wainscot of

in the chancel are memorial windows to H. R. Eyre esq. the east bow-window in the drawing-room is a hole, said

the Rev. G. F. Everett, late rector, and others: in I8]8, to have been made by a shot aimed at the king while

during the levelling of the ground on the north side of standing near the window; opposite the spot is a brass

the churchyard, an ancient British cinerary urn, IB inches plate with a likeness of Charles I. and the inscription

high and I6 wide, was discovered, ornamented with zig- following:-

.zag lines, produce~ ~y means of s~me pointed instrum~t: "T.ANTIS NIQVIDQV.AM EREPTE PERICLIS
there are 377 s1ttmgs, 204 bemg free. The reg1ste:r

dates from the year I65o. The living is a rectory, "BANC IVXT.A FENESTR.AM

net yearly value £z6o, including 27a. 2r. I4P· of REX CAROLVS PRIMVS

glebe, with . residence, in the gift of Mrs. Eyre, INSTANTE OBSIDIONE
and held smce 1872 by the Rev. the Hon. John SCLOPPO PETR£ ICTV T.ANTVM NON
Horatio Nelson M..A. of Trinity College, Cambridge.

'There are several charities, amounting together to about TR.AIECTVS FVIT

£7I yearly, which is distributed during the year :in food, DIE OCTOB. XXVII. MDOXLIV.''

'Clothing &c. Shaw House, the property of Mrs. Eyre, but Mrs. Eyre is lady of the manor of Shaw and principal
landowner. The soil is clay, loam and gravel; subsoil,
at present occupied by William P. Elackburne-Maze
~sq. was built in I58I by Thomas Dolman, clothier, chalk, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, bar-
of Newbury, and is a stately mansion in the character-
istic style of that period, with a central fa~tade of three ley, oats, beans and turnips. The area is x,g84 acres ot
gables, and porch, and is lighted by numerous large
land and I2 of water; assessable value, £3•571; the
mullioned windows and flanked by deeply projecting
population in IBgi was 694.
wings : the chief interest of Shaw House arises from its
Parish Clerk, George Bishop.

intimate connection with the second battle of ~ewbury, Letters through Newbury, which is the nearest money

when it was garrisoned for the king; on Sunday morn- order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m

i08 • BERKSHIRE. [¥ELL'Y'S

&BAW·Otliii:•:DO%UU:NOTON

National School (mixed), erected in 1876, for 170 chil- ehester and General Wailer; Col. Boys was knighted by
dren; average attendance, 150; Miss Rachael Bridge, the king at Redheath, 22nd October, 1644, for his brave
mistress conduct, and only surrendered the castle in obedience to
instructions from head-quarters, April I, 1646; these
DONNINGTO~ is a tithing I mile north-west. Donning- "loyal ruins" are now the property of the co-heiresse~
ton Castle, now in ruins, is beautifully situated on a hill of the late W. H. H. Hartley esq. Donnington hospital
surrounded by trees, about a mile north of Newbury; consists of twelve almshouses and was originally founded
the existing portion consists only of the gateway, flanked by Richard de Abberbury in the reign of Richard II. ;
by tall circular towers, partly overgrown with ivy; the after the Dissolution its estates continued in the Crown
castle was first erected by Richard de Abberbury, guar- till about 1570, when, on the petition of Charles, Earl of
dian of Richard II. during his minority, and formed Nottingham, Lord .Admiral, and owner of Donnington
nearly a square, its walls fronting the four cardinal Castle, they were restored to the hospital, which was
points and being defended by round towers at the angles ; then probably rebuilt at the earl's expense; the founda-
the western end terminated in a semi-hexagon and on tion consists of a master and twelve poor brethren, with
the east front was the present stone gate house, 40 feet an allowance of 15s. per week each; the yearly income
long, with its flanking towers and portcullis; its length is £348; George James Watts is master. Dollnington
east and west, reckoning the thickness of the walls, was Grove, the seat of Marmaduke Head Best esq. J.P. is a
12oft. and its breadth, including the towers, 85ft. : tradi- modern structure. Donnington Halt is the residence of
tion, converted into history by successive writers, has as- William Walton esq. ; Donnington Lodge is the residenc&
sociated Donnington Castle with the name of Geoffrey of Col. Leonard Downes and Shaw House of William P.
Chancer, who it has been said owned the estate, the actual Blackburne Maze esq.
fact being that not the poet, but Thomas Chancer, his
reputed son, and chief butler to Richard IL did purchase Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office, Donnington.-
this castle and manor, with other manors in 1414-1415, Miss Mary Jane Coles, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive
from Richard de Abberbury and his wife tor x,ooo marks from Newbury at 6. IS a.m. & 12.25 p.m.; dispatched
in silver: during the year 1644 the castle was held for at 12.30 & 6.50 p.m. ; sundays, arrive 6.15 a.m.; dis-
tbe king with the greatest gallantry and intrepidity by patched 6 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but
Col. John Boys, who suecessfully repulsed the attacks of not paid. The nearest money order office is at Speen-
Lieut.-Gen. Middleton, Col. Horton, the Earl of Man- hamland

SHAW. DONNINGTON. Vinee11t Miss, The Dean

Blackburne-Maze Wm.Peter,Shaw ho PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Walton 1Villiam, Donnington no:t

Davis Alexander, Highwood villa Ball Lt.-Col. Edwd. Arth. Riverside 'Watts GP.orge James
Nelson Rev. The Hon. John Horatio Benne~t George ·webb Harry

M.A. Rectory Best Marmaduke Head J.P. Donning- COMMERCIAL.
Young George H. Shaw Dean
ton grnve Adams Thomas, farmer, Grange farm

Dillon Frederick, Eversleigh Coles Mary Jane (~'liss), Castle inn,

COMMERCIAL. Downes Col. Leonard (late Royal grocer & post office

Adams Thomas, farmer, Grange farm Artillery), Donnington lodge Coombs George, miller (steam &;

Bailey Thomas, builder Fellowes Mrs. The Priory water), Donnington mills

J3udd Geo. farmer, Mousefield farm Hazell Mrs F1ack William, plasterer

Cooper George John, millers (water), King Mrs. The Cedars Goddard John, farmer, Castle frrm

Shaw mill Louch Frank Quekett, The Hayes Hedges John (Mrs.), dress wake!'

Edge William, farm bailiff to W. P. Maskell Mrs Houghton Arthur Henry, bUil<:l.er k

Blackburne-Maze esq ~1oney Miss, The Dean contractor

Lake George, farmer, Red farm Ricardo Lt.-Col. Gerald Craven J.P. Xailor Edmund, beer rtlr. &; blcksmtb

Rowles Thomas, farmer, Leage farm The Elms Palmer Ernest Edward, brewer

"\Yernham Richard,frmr.Whitefield fm. Spurling Mrs. Donnington Castle ho &i maltster

GREAT or WEST SHEFFORD is a parish on the in the church are two ancient metal flagons and a

south-western bank of the river Lambourn, 4! miles paten with foot, giYen 31 March, r62r, by 'Ihoma&

north-north-east from Hungerford, 7 north-west from Harvye, and ornamented with shields of arms and various

Newbury and 4 south-east from Lambourn, in the devices, and on the margin the legend:-

Southern division of the county, hundred of Kintbury-
Eagle, Newbury petty sessional division, union and WHAT HAVE WE THAT WE HAVE KOT RECEIVED

county court district of Hungerford, rural deanery of OF THE LORD+ r6r6.

Xewbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. There are 200 sittings. An ancient cross, found in \he

The Lambourn Valley Railway from Newbury to Lambourn churchyard in 187o, now stands near the church on the

passes through this parish and has a station here. The south side : it consists of a plain stone shaft on an

church of St. Mary, approached through a fine avenue ot octagonal pedestal, with rude sculptured heads at the

lime trees, is an edifice of flint stone, affording a very ad- angles. The register of baptisms dates from the year

mirable specimen of a church of the time of Henry III. ; it 1571; marriages and burials from 1599: the registers

consists of quasi-chancel, nave, south porch and a circular aho record that the font was removed out of the church

western tower containing 6 bells : also a clock which and the clergyman dispossessed of his liV'ing during the

strikes, but is without a face : the lower part of the tower, Great Rebellion. The living is a rectory, net yearly value

which has massive walls, partly built of flint, is Late Nor- £557• with residence and 100 acres of glebe (£8o), in
man; the upper portion is octagonal and of Perpendicular the gift of the Principal and Fellows of Brasenose College~

date; the tower arch is Transition Norman: the fine Oxford, and held since 1896 by the Rev. Isaac Gregory

south doorway is of the same date as well as the font, Smith M. A. and late fellow of that College, and hon

which has a cylindrical basin, richly carved with scrolls LL.D. of Edinburgh University. There is a \Yesleyaa

of foliage, in four bands, the lowermost having an in- Methodist chapel in the village and one at "\Yoodlands~

vected border and pendent leafage: the east and west and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The charities are:-

windows are stained: the former, a Perpendicular in- Mrs. ~Jary Linton's, of £2o, the interest to be given to the-

sertion, is a memorial to Miss Lucy Menzies, sister of poor at Easter; Mr. Gabriel Fulbrook's and Mr. Thomas

the Rev. Canon F. Menzies M.A. rector here 1866- Fulbrook's of £5 each, the intere~t to be giYen to the

87 ; on the east wall are paintings of the Virgin Mary and poor at Easter; and Mrs. Mary Fos·~er's of £2o, the-

Gabriel; in the chancel are brasses to the Rev. Thomas interest to be given away at Christmas; Mr. Thomas

Ashley, d. 185r, and the Rev. Thomas Townson Churton Fulbrook also left by will £ wo, the interest to be given

~LA. d. 1865, both former rectors; also tablets to various yearly; and Mr. Anthony Barrett bequeathed £roo, the

members of the Browne family, including one to Sir interest to be given yearly. The whole of these have

George Browne kt. ob. 1673; there is a piscina in the been invested in Consols, the interest, amounting t<;

south w'lll of the nave; the lectern, presented in 1871 about £8 yearly is distnbuted by the xector and church-

by Edward Stewart Jones esq. is of oak and marble with wardens. The principal landowners are the Marquess of

brass mounts: the church was effectively but carefully Downshire, who is lord of the manor, James Thring Coxe-

restored in 1870 at a cost of upwards of £r,soo, under esq. of Newtown Lodge, Hungerford, Stephen \Valdron esq~

th3 direction of the late Mr. J. West Hugall, of Oxford: and Queen's Colleg-e, Oxford. The soil is clay and chalk;

an organ chamber was erected, and the font, which had subsoil, chalk. The chief cr::>ps are wheat, barley, oats

been resting, without a base, in a pew on the north side and turnips. The area IS 2,238 acres of land and 5 of

of the church, was repaired and set UI>On a new base ; water; rateable value, £1,849; the population in 18911

the space beneath the tower is now utilized as a bap- was 499·
tistery and vestry: during the restoration the plaster on Parish Clerk, John Heater.

the exterior of the east wall was removed and the out- Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

lines of a series of Transition N OI'lllan windows disclosed ; Mrs. Martha Tull, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive

DIRECTORY.j BERKSHIRE. SHELLINGFORD. 207

from Lambourn R.S.O. at 8.10 a.m.; dispatched at Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1872, for 135 chil-
dren; average attendance, 90; Robert Wing, master;
6 p.m.; sunday, 11 a.m. Chaddleworth is the nearest Miss Dunn, mistress
telegraph office, 3 miles distant
}'ost Office, Woodlands.-Mrs. .Alma Shuff, sub-post- Carriers.

mistress. Letters arrive from Hungerford at 7.30 Newbury-Francis Hamblin, tues. thurs. & sat. ; .Albed
a. m.; dispatched at 5·45 p.m.; sunday, arrive at 7.30 Perris, man. thurs. & sat. ; Edward Shuff, mon. thurs.
a.m. ; dispatched u a.m. Postal orders are issued & sat. starting from Woodlands
here, but not paid. The nearest money order office is
at Great Shefford & tel:Jgraph office at Hungerford The carriers between N ewbury&Lambourn pass through

SHEFFORD. Hamblin Francis, carrier WOODL.AXDS.
Parrott George, Henley farm Hamblin Hannah (Mrs.), baker &:

Smith Rev. Isaac Gregory M.A. Hon. grocer Garden Yrs

LL.D. The Rectory H::mblin Waiter, bricklayer Waldron Stephen, The Woodlands

Waldl'On George H':lmblin William, miller (water) .Alexander George, blacksmith

. COMMERCIAL. Heater John, land surveyor, assistant Allen Thomas, beer retailer

Blair Archibald, Swan P.H overseer, Northfield house Banks Frank, farm bailiff to exors. of

Brittain Mary Ann (Mrs.), baker&:grcr Poffiey John, carpenter & wheelwrght William Vidler esq. Wickfield farm

Brown Alfred, cattle dealer Prater .Aaron, beer retailer Brown J ames, farm bailiff to the Mar-

Butcher Thos. farmer, Manor farm Simmons Henry, watercress grower quis of Downshire, Hidden farm

Cripps Frederick, blacksmith Spanswick William, shoe mak~r Killick William C. baker & grocer

Gilbert William, carpenter Tull George, coal dealer & carrier, Langford Hy. farmer, Templars frm

Hamblin Elizabeth (Mrs.), draper Post office Shuff Edward, carrier, Post office

LITTLE or EAST SHEFFORD is a parish on the mere K.G.: on the north side of the chancel is a very

north-eastern bank of the river Lambourn, 7~ miles north- fine Purbeck marble tomb with brass effigies to John

west from Newbury and 5~ north-east from Hungerford Fettiplace esq. ob. Oct. II, 1524, and Dorathye his wife;

station on the Great Western railway, in the Southern in the chancel, and secured by a locked chain, is a helmet.

adivision of the county, hundred of Kintbury-Eagle, New- or "bascinet baviere," supposed to have belonged to
bury petty sessional division, union and county court one of the Fettiplaces: the stone font is Norman and has

district of Hungerford, rural deanery of Newbury, arch- a round stem, perforated to act as a drain; the remains

deaconry of Eerks and diocese of Oxford. The Lambourn of binges and a staple for fastening the cover as required

Valley railway from Newbury to Lambourn passes through by the constitution of Edmund, Archbishop of Canter-

this parish and has a station at Great or West bury (A.. D. 1236), still remain; a consecration cross is

Shefford. The church of the Holy Innocents, built in incised in the stone work of the north pier of the chancel

1868-70, at a cost of £1,700, chiefly at the cost of a former arch. There are 120 sittings.

rect~r, is a structure of flint with Bath stone dressings, The register of baptisms and marriages dates from the

in the Early English style, and consists of large chancel, year 1603; burials, from 1614. The living is a

nave, west porch and a western turret containing one rectory, gross yearly value £255, net £210, with resi-

bell : there are five stained windows: the pulpit, lectern dence and 17 acres of glebe, in the gift of the

and other fittings were presented by various dpnors: Rev. Willoughby Eryan-Erown M..A. and held since

there are 120 sittings. 1897 by the Rev. James Nunn. Until a few years since

The old church, situated on the north-east side of the the great hall of the old moated Manor house existed

river Lambourn and now only used as a mortuary chapel, as a barn; a shield upon it bore the arms of Besils

is a perfect specimen of the Late Perpendicular style, quartering Leigh, supposed to have been built by Riehard

having been rebuilt in the reign of Henry VIII. and was Fettiplace, grandson of the above-named Sir Thomas

originally the private chapel of the Manor House of the Fettiplace, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress
Fettiplace family: it consists of chancel, nave and south j of William Besils of Besils Leigh, and was the father of

porch and, in 1887, was repaired and reseated and the John Fettiplace above mentioned. The manor at an early

monuments cleaned: during the construction of a drain period belonged to the family of Fettiplace. The soil is

round the church an interesting stone coffin lid was gravel and chalk ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are

found, and is supposed to have covered the remains of wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 1,065 acres;

Prior Lawrence. of the monastery of Barnwell, Cam- rateable value £688; the population in 18gr was gr.

bridge, who, in 1223, bought the advowson of Little Letters via Great Shefford, delivered (by foot messenger

Shefford: it now lies in the nave; the stone staircase from Lambourn R.S.O.) at 9.30 a.m. & dispatched at

leading to the rood loft, lighted by an Early English 5.30 p.m. Great Shefford is the nearest money order

window, was discovered at the same time: within the office & Chaddleworth nearest telegraph office

building is an alabaster monument, with the figures of a The children at this place attend the school at Great or

man in armour and a lady, believed to represent Sir "\Vest Shefford

Thomas Fettiplace, of Childrey, and Beatrice, his wife, Carriers between Newbury & Lambourn pass through 4

widow of Sir Gilbert Talbot, 5th Baron Talbot of Elake- I days in the week

N1mn Rev. James, Rectory lBennett Wm. farmer, :M:t. Pleasant Perris .Albert J ames, carrier

Rayliss George, East Shefford f<>rm

SHELLINGFORD is a vieage and parish, 2~ mi!£-5 and a marble cross to Susan Du Pre, d. April 23rd,

north-east from Uffington junction on the GrPat We~ tern 1874; there are rso sittings. The register daltes from

railway, 3 sowth-east from Faringdon, 7 east from High- the year 1558. The living is a rectory, net yearly value

worth and 12 from Swindon, in the Northern division of £220, including 24 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift

the county, hundred of Ganfield, petty sessional division, of Alexander Henderson esq. M.P., J.P. and held since

union and county CQurt district of Faringd'On, rural 1887 by the Rev. .Alfred Herbert M.A. of St. Catharine's

deanery of the Vale of Wbilte Horse, archdeaconry of College, Cambridge. There is a small Congregational

Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Faith, chapel in the village. Kitemore, a handsome mansion in

rebuilt in 1652 and incorporating portions of an ancient the French Gothic style, situated between Faringdon and

structure of Norman date, consists of chancel, nave, Shellingford, and commanding a fine view of White Horse

south porch and an embattled western tower with hill 3Jld scenery in the vicinity, is the property of

spire and containing 4 bells: the reredos is of Alexander Henderson esq. M.P., of Euscot Park, who is

oak, handsomely carved: m the south wall of the chan· 1lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is sandy

eel i~ a piscina and a tablet inseribed to John Packer, loam, stone brash and clay; subsoil, clay, sand and

o.b. r68z: on the north side is a fine monument to Robert gravel. The crops are the usual cereals. The area is

Packer, d. 4th April, 1731, and Maria, his wife: in the 1,7I8 acres; rateable value, £r,gS6: the population in

nave is a brass to Mary Knapp, ob. 23rd Sept. r62r, and I8gr was 241.

a splendid monument of marble with bust, t{) Sir Parish Clerk Henry Pill.

Edward Hannes kt. physician to Queen Anne: another, '
with arms, is inscribed to William Flower, znd Viscou'nt Post Office.-Mrs. Fanny Roberts, · sub-postmistress.

Ashbrook, who died at the Manor house goth .August, Letters through Faringdon, arrive at 7.15 a.m, & 6.30

I78o; and to William, grd Viscount, who died 6th Jan. p.m.; dispatched 7 p.m.; sunday, 12.I5 p.m. Postal

18oz; there are six stained windows, inc-:uding one pre- orders are jssued here, but not p6id. Stanford-in-

sented mion~h1earg,o by Thomas L. Goodlake. esq. in memory the-Vale is the nearest money order & telegraph office,
of his who died in churchyard are 2 miles distant
r88g: m the

memorials t{) Dorothy Clayton, ob. grd October, r658; Natnonal School (mix-ed), erected in 1874, for too C'hil-

.A.lic!l, wife of Richard Clayton, ob. sth September, I643; dren; average attendance, 40; Miss c. M. Wright, mist

208 SHELLINGFORD. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY7S

Herbert Rev. Alfred M.A. Rectory 'Calvert Thomas, farmer, Little New- Rider William, blacksmith

Large Miss, Home Farm house bury farm Roberts John, beer retailer

Sharpe Harvey, Home Farm house Maidment Waiter Norris, farmPr, Sharpe Dennis, farmer, Home farm

Carter John, farmer, Sands farm Church farm Wells George William, estate carpntr

SHINFIELD is a village and parish, 3! miles south T.hT"ee ML.e Cross is a hamlet I! miles west of the

from Reading, in bhe Southern divi'Sion of the county, village.

partly in the hundred of Theale and partly in the hun- By Local Government Board Order 23,869, dated March

dred of Ohar[ton, union of Wokingham, peltity sessional 24, 188g, that part of Shinfield in Reading municipal

division and county coul't distt.riot of Reading, rural borough was added to St. Giles', Reading, civil parish.

deanery of Reading, arohdeaconry of Berks and diocese Parish Clerk, Henry Goddard.

of OXJford. The river Loddon :fioWIS on tlhe south-east. Post Office, School Green.-William T . .A.ttawell, sub-

'Th.e churclh of Sot. Mary is an ancient edifice of Hint and postmaster. Lltters arrive from Reading at 8.10 a.m.

brick, in the Early English s!tyle, consisting of chall(!el, & I. 15 p.m. ; dispatched at I. 15 & 6. 10 p.m. ; sun-

nave, south aisle, north poreh and low embattled wesltern days, arrive at 8. IO a.m.; dispatched at 11.55 a.m.

tower containing 6 bells : in the ohm-eh are severail monu- Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Earley is

ments : the seats are of oak and the pulpit of carved the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2 miles

oak: the east window 1s stained: the clhurc'h was com- distant

plOOely restored in 1857, at a cost oi £1,6oo: there a.re Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,

400 ·sit't.ings. Tihe register dlate·s from the year 1649· Three Mile Cross.-George Bailey, sub-postmaster.

The living is a vicarage, net income £95• with 26 acres of Letters arrive from Reading at 5.15 & 11.40 a.m. & 2.35

glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter p.m.; dispatched at 2.2o & 7.30 p.m. ; sundays, arrive

of Hereford, and held since 1890 by the Rev. Morris at 5.15 a.m.; dispatched at 7 p.m. Swallowfield is the

Williams B..A.. of Durham University. There is a Wes- nearest telegraph office, 3 miles distant

leyan Met'hodist chapel at Three Mile Cross, and at "\V\:1.11 Lelt·ter Box, Hyde End. Let>ters collected at 6.40

Spencer's Wood a Oongrega;tional chapel. rr:he charities p.m.; sunday, 5.30 p.m

amvu'nt to about £8 yearly and! are fOil' clotlhing. £ex· Wall Letter Box, Manor Hious:e.-Letters cleared, 5.30

ander Cobham Cobham esq. of Shinfield Grange, who is p.m.; sunday, 11.30 a.m

lord of the manor, and James Herbert Benyon esq. of Free School, School Green, built in 1707, enlarged in

Englefield, are the principal landowners. The soil is 186o by pulblic subscription, and again eocarged in
gravel and clay ; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are
1892 at a cost of £ 6oo, for 300 children; a~rage at-

wheat, oats and barley. The entire area is 4,290 acres of t"endance, II5; it is endowed with £xoo yearly, lefrt by

land and 24 of water; rateable value, £8,265; the popu- Mr. Wi1liam Piggott, a citizen of London, for 13 boys

lation in 1891, inclusive of Hartley Dummer Liberty, in and 13 girls, who have new suits ()f clothing on the

Grazeley ecclesiastical parish, was r,493· 3oth May annually: there is a lrouse for the masd:er,

The population attached to the parish church in 189r who receives £ xoo a year; William Goorge Saunders,

was 959· master; Mrs. Mary A. Saunders, infants' mistress

SHINFIELD. Beesley Thos. grocer, Spencers Wood Snell Charles, Red Lion P.H

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bridgwater George, coal dealer Stevens Waiter, farmer, Parrott frm

Ashby Thomas, Wa.rrengate Chase William, Black Boy P.H Stiff John, beer retailer, School Green

Cane George, Hyde end Cuthbert Wltr. boot ma.Spencers Wd Thomas Benj. beer retlr.SpencersWd

'Chapman Ernest, Wyvern Double Chas. blacksmith,Spen~ers Wd Wicks David, carpenter, School Green

Cobham Alexander Cobham J.P. Embery Ernest Charles, beer retailer 'fHREE MILE CROSS.
& shopkeeper, School Green
Shinfield grange
Goddard Charles, John & Henry, Adams George
Deacon Simeon, Hyde end
.farmers, Church End
De Vallantin James, Hyde end Grover Wm. carpntr. Spencers Wood COMMEBCIAL.
Garrett Charles, Sussex lodge
Hamblin Jsph. beer ret.Spencers Wd Bailey George, saddler, Post office
Hargraves Mrs. Manor house
Hawkins Wm. farmer, Spencers Wood Bromley Jsph. Geo. baker & overseer
Hulme Miss, Shinfield grove
Idenden Jn. carpenter, Spencers Wd Crocker Robert, butcher
Mayne John Dawson, Goodrest
Middleton Robert, Spencers Wood Johnson Richd. farm bailiff to .A.. W. Elliott George, boor retailer
Millett Charles Frederic)r., The Crofts Cobham esq. Church Lane farm Hamblin .A.lbert Edward, grocer
Portsmouth Miss, Warbrook, Spencers Lucas Geo. D. farmer, Lane End fnn Herd Alexander, shoe maker
Luckwell Joseph, dairyman, Grovelnds Hernaman Hercules Caleb, blacksmth
Wood
Thompson Mrs. Shinfield lodge Middleton Robt. grocer,Spencers Wd Jennings Francis,George & DragonP.H

Wheeler Mrs. Hyde end New George, beer retailer Mitford Hall (Henry Charles Eggle-
Williams Rev. Morris B..A.. Vicarage
Pither Thomas, butcher, Spencers Wd ton, caretaker)

Purnell James, Magpie & Parrot P.H Reid John, beer retailer

COMMERCIAL. Rutland John, beer ret.SpencersWood Riggs Thomas, Swan P.H

Bailey Willia.m Isaac, blacksmith Saunders William George, parish TamG Henry, wheelwright

Barrett George, farmer, Hyde end council clerk & assistant overseer, Wyeth Waiter, baker

Beard Hy. woodman, School Green School Green

SHIPPON is a hamlet and ecclesiastical parish formed Miiddleham, Durham, d. 17 April, 1874. The register
May Igth, 1865, out of the parish of St. Helen, .A.bingdon, dates from the year 1855. The living is a. vicarage,

:r mile north-west from .A.bingdon, in the Northern division net yearly value £97• with residence, in the gift of the
of the county, hundred of Hormer, petty sessional division, Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Henry
union and county court district of .A.bingdon, rural William McCreery B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who is
deanery of .A.bingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and I also vicar of Dry Sandford-with-Cothill. The manor and

diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary Mag- the whole o-f the land belong to the Duchy of Cornwall.

"<ialene is a building of stone in the Decorated style, The soil is various; subsoil, stone brash and limestone.
from designs by ttihe late Sir G. Gilberrt Soott R.A.: it The crops are grain in succession. The area is 570 acres;

was consecrated DecembeT", 1855, and consists of chancel, the population in 18gr was 173.
nave, north porch and a. western turret with crocket~d Parish Clerk, Edward Sreptoe.

spire oontMning one bell: there aoo 183 sitbings. In tftle Lel:!ters through .A.bingdon, Wlhich is the nearest money
churchyard, at tihe east end, i'll an altar tomb with op1)n order & telegraph office, arrive at 6.30 a.m. Pillal"

aroading, to the Rev. William AldeT" Strange D.D. first Letter Box cleared at 11.45 a.m. & 7 p.m.; sunday, 12

Bod.en San&!rit schoLar at Oxford Univel'lsaty, head IlllllS.'ter noon; letters delivered at 6.30 a.m. & 12 noon
of .A.bingdon .school, r84o-68, & somettime vioor of Bishop The children of this place attend the schools! at .A.bingdon

Donkin Henry Abdy George, beer retailer manufacturers to Her Majesty &

McCroory Rev. Henry William B..A.. British Berkshire Society (Heber manufacturers of the celebrated
prize Suffolk drills; also agents for
Vicarage Humphrey, sec) all the leading implement manu·
facturers
Ald!winokle Yeopl!an: John, farmer, Gilbert William & Son, agricultural

Shippon manor implement manufacturers ; drill

'SHOTTE S::BROOKE is a. parish silh:m.ted .south of the court cListrtict of Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead,
arohdeaconry of Berks and diooese oi Oxford. The church
great Bath road and adjoinling Whiite Waltba:m, 4! miles of St. John the Ba-ptist, formerly collegiate, is a struc-
ture of Hint with srtone dressings, and for symmetry and
south-west from the Great Western railway station alt
Ma.idenhead, 10 east from Reading, 7 south-east from, beauty has few equals a:mong English churches, being
especially remarkab~e for the unjformity of its design,
Henley, and 8 north-east from Windsor, in the Eastern
division of the county, hundred of Beynhurst, Maiden- even down to the minor porf:io'ns : it is a cruciform build-

head petty sessional division, union of Maidenhead, county

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DIRECTORY.. ] BERKSHIRE. SHRIVENHAM. 209

ing in the DecOTaJted style, consisting O<f chancel, nave, much injury by fire, it was deserted by the e111tire e.Sitab-

tl'ansept, .south porch and central tower, with a light li·shment except John Bradfurd, the warden, who obtained

and elegunt ociagonal spire of grace.ful proportions and a licence in 1380 to impTopria,te it to the church of Bat-

conoo.injng 5 bells: the interivr was restored in 1852 tlesden; the result was a considerable increase of re-

under the superci.ntendence of the late G. E. Street esq. venue: the remains have been converted into a dairy:

R.A. architect: the founder's tomb, m the nortth tran- in 1664 this place was ·the residence of Sir Richard

sept, a truly beautiful specimen O<f Early Gothic, has re- Pawle K.B. Shottesbrooke Park is the property and resi-

snmed its ancii.ent form: during the progreSIS of the re- dence of Basil Guy Oswald Smith esq. lord of the manor

storaltion fragments of Norman mouldings and arches and principal landowner: the mansion is a fine building
were discovered: there are 195 sittin~ : near tthe churdh of red brick, in a park which, with the surrounding
ii! a venerable yew tree, measuring 20 feet in girth. T'he land, comprises about 300 acres. The soil is light and

register dates f:rom the year 1566, on the firslb page of gravel; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat,

which is a complete list of the rectors of the parish barley and oats. The area is 1,395 acres; rateable value,

from the year 1548. The living is a rectory, with the £5,826; the population in 1891 was 184.

vicarage of White Waltham annexed, joint net yearly value By Local Government Board Order 7,057• dated Oct. 9•
.{,360 and re~sidence, in the gift of Basil Guy Oswald 1877, a detached part ()f White Waltham parish was added

Smith esq. and held .since 1878 by the Rev. Hardwicke to Shottesbrooke.

Mills Dyffi' M.A. of Oriel College, Ox.ford, who resides Depwty Parish Olerk and Sexton, Henry Charlto'n.

at White Walt'ham. In 1337 Sir William TruS'sell Leltrt:ers through Maidenhead arrive 8.o a.m. & 1.30
(ounded here a .small religious house, consisting of a p.m. ; the nearest post, money order & telegraph office

I(!O~lege and chantry, dedicated tv St. John the Baptist, is at White Waltham, about 2 miles distant

tor a warden and five priests; this CO<llege he endowed The children of this place a·btend the sclhool at Whi1te

with the church of Shottesbrooke, but after sust•aining Walltham

'Smith Basil Guy Oswald, Shottes- )Day Chas. farmer, Pond Wood farm Horwood Rd. farmer, Smewings farm

brooke park Horn Thos. Cox, frmr.Chambers frm

SHRIVENHAM is a. pretty viLlage and parish, on the rural dean of the Vale of White Horse. Here is a Wes-

\border·s of Wi~tshire, fvom which it is separalted by the leyan chapel. N"rr. Richard Garrard's charity consists of

lfiver Oole, with a station one m5le south from the village an endowment of £w a year arising from rent of a certain
.oo. tb& Great Western railway, 7I! m.diles from London field and is for apprenticing lads residing in this parish:

and s! sout!h-west from Faringdon, containing several Sir H. Martin left ten a.lmshouses and endowed them with

nands-ome villa residences, in the Nvrthern division of £7o yearly, the rent of 40 acres: an annual sum of £14

the county, Shrivenham hundred, petty sessional divi- is also paid by Viscount Barrington. Beckett House, the

sion, union and counll.y court district of Faringdon, rural property of Viscount Barringt()n, is a beautiful mansion

deanery of the Vale of Whirte Horse, archdeaconry of of stone in the Eliza.bethan style, delightfully situated in

Eerks and diocese of Oxford. rrhe Berks and Wilts canal the fertile valley of ths White 'Horse: the grounds extend

passes in the vicinity. The church of S1t. Andrew is of over an area of 150 acres : a chain of hills in

"Stone of the Jacobean period, consisting O<f chanceJ, nave the distance, extending into Wiltshire, bounds the

oOf four bays, aisles, south porch a'nd an embattled central view from the front: the grounds in the rear

Perpendicular tower containing 6 beli·s and a clock: at are of a more pie'turesque chiaracter, and contain a fine

~he east .end is a monument of marble to J ob.n Wildman sheet of water, many stately trers and several avenues;

.esq. d. I710, who inherited the Beckett estate from his tthere is likewise a small stream running through the

liather, Sir John Wildman kt. aildenn•an of London and grounds. E~m Tree House, an ancient structure near

poSitmas·ter-genera•l, d. 1693, and a similar monument to tlhe church, is occupied by Lieut.-Col. Frederick C.

:his adopted heir, John Shute, afterwards Ist Viscounlt MO"rgan R.A. The principal landow'ners are Viscount

Barrington, who died Dec. 14, 1734; in t·he chancel is Barrington, who is lord of the manor, and Amariah

also buried William, 2nd Viscount, who died Feb. I, W~lli'llm Fairthorne esq. '.Dhe soil is sandy and stone

1793; anotiher monument in the nave commemorates brash; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, bar-

tfue Hon. Samuel Barringiton, Admiral O!f the White, d. ley, turnips and green crops O<f every kind. The area of

.Aug. 16, 18oo; and near tihe family pew is hung a large Shrivenham tow!!ship, including Beckett tithing is 2,669

white st'llndard, captured by this officer from the " St. acres of land and 26 of water; rateable value, £8,395 ;

Florentine," when in oommand of the "Achilles" in 1759: the pO<pula•tion in 1891 was 625. The area o-f tlhe enltire

there is a fine brass to William Keppel, 6th Viscount, pa:cislh including Bourwn, Fernham and LongcD't is 6,805

d. Feb. g, I 867: and another brass to Charlotte Maria, acres; the populaJt.ion in 1891 was 1,351, and of Shriven-

Oountess of s,:rathmore (d. Nov. 3. I854), and to Ade- ham o'nly, 635.

la.ide, wife oo Charles Ballfour esq. (d. Feb. 23, I86z), Beckett is a 'tibhing of this parish adjoining Shriven-
h:am. Vi.SICOunrt Barrington is lord of the man<Jr and
the eldest and youngest daughters of the 6th Viscount;
pr<incipal landowner.
:and a memorial to Francis Lyon Barmngton (d. Jan. 15,
Longcot, Fernham and Bourton are townships and will
1877) : the Church also con1a.ins a marble monumentt to
George St. Vincent N. T. Murray, on~y son of Admiral be found under sepamte headings.
1Se:x~ton, Thomas Hill.
:Sir George Murray; and a handsome memorial brass,
-erected by tlhe lat·e (71th) V~scoun>t Barringto'n to the lru~e
Earl of Beaconsfield, wlho died April I9, 1881 : in the Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
oehurdhyard, at the west end of the church, lies a muti- Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office (Railway Sub-

la•t-ed recumbent effigy of stone, and there are memorials Office. Letters shoilld have R.S.O. Berks added).-

1io Anne, wife of WillJiam Nai.sh, ob. Marclh 8, 1678, and George Butler, postmaster. Letters arrive at 2.40 a.m.

to John Naislh, Gb. Sep·t. 20, 1675• and s·everal large & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 9.50 p.m
tom'bs to the Colton family: a brass to the Jfth Viscount Police Statioo, Oharles Sparkes, constab~e
Ilarringto'n and IS't Baron Shute, who died 1886 and in Na.tional Sclhool, eree'ted on a Slite granted by Viscount

'Whose memury the church has been re-seated with oak Barringtl:()n, for 170 boys & girls, & opened in August.

'by his widow and daughiters: there are soo stitmngs. I863, by the Bishop of Oxford; there is an endowmenlt

The reg1ster OOtesfrom aboutfl:ihe year I$80. The living is a of £4 for tJhe boys' school; the average attendance is

vicarage, with W atchfield annexed, joint net yearly value 126; Henry Olmrles Ea~ton Olliver, master; Mrs. A. J.

£170, including II8 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Olliver, mi·stress

-gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 18go by the Raillwa.y Sttation, George Edward Windsor Eagle, sta-

Bev. Edward FJ'ank Hill M.A. of New College, Oxford, and ·tion master

PRIVATE :RESIDENTS. Wils;Ju Miss, Park view Eagle Geo. Edward Windsor, station

EAd.lnlaewya•vJ Mrs . Yew Tree house COMMERCIAL. master, Hill view
ohn Foresters' Hall (John Wheeler, branch

Fairthorne Amariah Wm. Manor ho Baseley John Selley, relieving & vac- sec)

Hill Rev. Edward Frank M.A. (vicar cination officer & registrar of births Ford Elizabeth (Miss), dress maker

& rural dean), Vicarage & deaths, Shrivenham sub-district, Fuller Thomas, baker

Levien Frederick G Faringdon union Hall Henry Clifford, land steward to

Lewis The Misses, The Cottage Butler George, bookseller, Post office Viscount Barrington

Milligan Miss, Shrivenham house Chivers Alice (Mrs.), shopkeeper Haynes Martha Jane (Miss), dress ma.

Morgan Lt.-Col. Frederick C., R.A. Cooper "\Villiam, grocer & draper Holyoak Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper

EJm Tree house Cross Thomas, shoe maker Hutt Hy. farmer, Shrivenham farm

Nixon George Eccles Priestley, Nor- Day Jn. Geo.farmer, Stainswick farm Jefferies Walt.farmer, Pennyhooks frm

manby cottage Day Geo. V. farmer, Broad Leaze frm Kent Bees, cabinet m a. & upholsterer

BERKS. 14

210 SBBIVE..."iHAM. EERKSHIRE. [KELLY's

Knapp Frank, stonemason registrar of births &deaths forShriv- iTaylor Thomas, blacksmith

Knapp Henry & Son, builders enham sub-district, Faringdon union 'roomer John & Sons, coal &c. mer-

Lawrence Jas. farmer, Stall Pits frm Phipps Thomas, Victoria P.H. & liar- chants, Railway station

Lee Thos. whitesmith & ironmonger rington Arms P.H Tovey Goorge, shoe maker

Lucas Joseph, tailor Pound Robert, baker & grocer Tucker Albert Victor, cattle dealer

Millard Hy. farmer, Home Leaze farm Pound Stephen, watch maker West of England Sack Hiring Co•.

Nixon G-eo.Eccles Priestley L.R.C.S.I. Reason George, jobbing gardener Limited (T. R. Stephens, agent)

surgeon, public vaccinator & medi- Richens Henry, horse dealer Westall Edward i& Peter, farmers,.

cal officer for Shrivenham district, Bowland William, beer ret.ailer Friar's fa.rm.

Faringdon union & medical referee Selfe Reas, beer retailer Willi3 Cornelius, draper & grocer

to t·he Prudential Assurance Co.Nor- Snook John, farmer, Sandhill farm Wilson James, farmer, Cowleaze farm

manby cottage Spittall John, farmer, Galleyurns Woodbridge George, saddler
Olliver Hy. Charles Eaton, organist & Stephens Thomas Robert, coal mer- Yeates Geo. Saunders, cabinet maker·

Inati·mal schoolmaster & deputy chant & carrier Yeates Thomas William, butcher

SONNING is a picturesque village a'nd parish on the George and Dame An'n Ohwte, r627: in the norlh aisle

banks of the Thames, over which is an ancierut bridge of is a fine t-omb to .Auna, wife of Sir John Clarke bart. of

II ardhes connee~ting the Berks wiJth the Oxfordshire por- Salfurd, Warwick, 1654: and there are also memorials t().

tion of t!he parish; it is 3 miles nortlh-east from Reading Willriam (Sooltt), fir·st and only Baron Stowell, who died.

and 2 north-west from Twyford (Great Western railway) Jan. 28, 1836: to Viscount Sidmouth and to E. Golding-

staltion and having a station rut Earley, in tib.ti.s parish, on e1sq. : there are memorial windows to Hugh Henry a'nd.

the Reading and Reigate branch of the South Eas:tern Oaroline Poorson, and one, inserted in 1893, to William

railway, 34 mHes from London. The London and South Gregory, late organist: the font is of Oaen stone with a.

Western rrui.lway has a1so a service of trains from Wok- lorfty canopy of oak: in a niche over bhe door of the nortb-

ingham, over .the same line. The parish consists of the porch is a figure of St. .Andrew, the patron saint: the·

libe:rities (){ Sonning Town and Woodley and Sandford, in church was oompletely reSitored in 1853, and further

the Eastern division of the county of Berks, hundred of restorab:ions were effected during the period 1879·90, at-

Sonning and tlhe liberty of Earley, in the hundred of a oos·t of £goo: there are 8oo sittings. The register

Charlton, all in the petty sessional d~vision and union of dates from the year 1592. The living is a rectory, neT.

Wokingham, ooui111:y court dis-trict of Reading and county income £750, including 3 acres of glebe, with residence,

of Berks ; and also comprises the liberty of Eye and in the gift. of the llishop of Oxford, and held since I1iff2'

Dunsd!on in Oxfordshire, within the hund'red of llinfield by the Ven. .Alfred Po.tt ll.D. archdeaoon of llerks, for-

and Longtree, union of Henley-on-Tiha.mes, all in the merly fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, hon. canon of

rural deanery of So'nning, archdeaoonry of llerks and dio- Christ Church and Surrogate. There are charities fo:r

cese of Oxford. The Cihurch of St. .Andrew is a large apprenticing and clothing, besides charities for educational

edifice of flinJt and stone, dating from the 13th cen'tury, and for church purposes. Here is a Congregational

and consists of a spacious ohancel wit!h aisles, clerestoried chapel. Near the village of Sonning is· Holme Park, the-

nave af five bays, aisles, north and south porch and an seat of Fairfax Blomfield Wade-Palmer esq. J.P. and Mrs.

embattled western tower containing 8 bells and a clock: Wade-Palmer: the house is well situated on an eminence-

the arches on the south side of the chancel are elliptical; commanding a fine view of the valley of the Thames:

those on the north s:de are pointed, on clustered piers, the park and grounds are extensive. Fairfax :Blom:field

and tihe e•asternmost arch is richly sculptured with Wade-Palmer esq. J.P. is the principal landowner. Th&

figuTes in Sltone represer..ting on one side Our Lord bless- area of Sonning only is r,203 acres of land and 43 of

ing the Apostles: on the Olther, figures of kings and water; rateable value, £4,045; the population in r8gr was:
quee'ns, w.iJtJh tlhe Virgin and Child as a keystone, and I 515 in Berks.

serves as a canopy to a n:onument erected to the memory i Earley arud Woodley are ec!.'lesiastical parishes and wilJ

of the Rev. Hugh Pearson, canon of Windsor and Vticar, be found under separate headings.

of Sonning, 1841-82: in the south ais~e is a modern Parish Clerk, Elijah South.

s.marble ;monument with brasses to various members ?f Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parce)

the ~am1ly of Palmer, of Holme Park: an.d here also. 1s Post, B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Miss Mary
a paa'lllted Ill:'onument of marbl~ to Katherme, Lady L1d- Anne Henwood, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from
cott, 1630, Wlth her effigy ~nee~g at a desk: a mortuary
chapel, se~arated from tfu.1s aiSile. by an ~ak sc~een, 1s Reading at m7,. 10 a. m. & 12, 15 p&.m4..15Spun.mda.y; s,diasprraitvceheadt
almos1t ent1rely ~Dotted to memorials of this family: and at 10.20 a. &2 & 7. 10
the belfry colli1:am~ a ponderous monument of black mar- • 20
ble ~ Thomas R~Cih, alderman of .Glouc~s-ter, 1613, and
to Srr Thomas R1clh bart. of Sonn.mg, his son, ob. Oc!t. 7.ro a.m.; dispatched 12•30 p.m
Wall Letter Box, 'near the church, cleared at 1o.2o a.m.
& 6.55 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 p.m

15, 1667: in the wrul.l by tfu.e vestry door are two curious Schools.

tab:ets, dated respectively 1533 and 1605 : in the vestry, Endowed, erected, with mas-ter's re·s.idence, in 1859• for

norlth of the chancel, is a mural inscription to Robert So boys, by the lalte Robert Palmer esq. of Holme Park

Wrigh't S.T.P.Oxon, and others: below to Robert (1533) & his family & supported by Fairfax Blomfield Wade-

and Agnes (1579), probably children, with a shield of Palmer esq. aided by subscriptions & an endowment left

arms: on the floor of the nave are brasses to Laurence by Sir Thomas Rich; average attendance, 6o; Georgf1

Fyto'n esq. bailiff of Sonning, 1434: William llarker, Herbert Wa.tson .A. C.P. master

steward of the lOTdship of Sonning, 1549, and Anne his Girls' & llllfanJts', builtt in 1835, for 8o childxen; average-

wife; William Barker esq. 1575, and Anne (Stoughton) attendance, 74; & chiefly supponted by the Rev. H.

his wife; Anne (Barker), wife •of WL.liam S ~averton, of Oak- Golding Pa1mer; Mrs. Agnes Murphy, mistress; Mis~

ing'ham, geDJt. 1589: and Elizabeth, dauglhiter of Sir Minnie Norman, infants' mistress

(Marked thus* receive letters through Pott Yen. .Arc'hdeacon .Alfred B.D. Cox Edward, coach builder

Twyford R.S.O.) (rector & surrogate), Rectory Dempsey Thomas, confectioner

PRIVATE RESIDENTS, Shackle William *Gard Wm. farmer, East Park farm

Brooks Bransby Wade - Palmer Fairfax Blomfield Hobbs Edmund, farmer,Sonning farm

llrowning Walter Frederick F.R.I.B.A., J.P. Holme park May William (Mrs.), butcher

Cunliffe-Owen Edward, Manor house Wade-Palmer Mrs. Holme park Reeve William, farm bailiff to Fairfax

Dashwood Misses, The Elms COMMERCIAL. lllomfield Wade-Palmer esq. J.P.

Deare Fredk. Dnrant, Grove cottage .Allnatt Edward, grocer & baker Holme Park farm

Eden Paget, The Deanery Angell Francis, tailor Robinson George, builder

*Field Waiter, Borough marsh Attwall James George, boot maker Russell Thomas, builder

*Gard William H. East park llrooks Bransby L.R.C.P.Lond., Sonning Dispensary (Bransby Brooks

Knox Henry M..A., J.P. Sonning grove M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, & medical L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon)

Knyvett Misses officer & public vaccinator, Sonning Stephens John, White Hart P.H

Lucas l''rancis .Alfred, The Cottage district, Wokingham union Wadhams John, blacksmith

Mathews Edmund Farrington, The Bright John, Bull inn *Wiggins Waiter John, farmer, Char·

Holli.es Cottrell Harry Edward, farmer; & at vills farm

Nares Wm. Owen B..A. The Old house Reading Working Men's Club (Chas.Jones,sec)

SOTWELL is a village and parish I! miles north-west Oxford. The church of St. James, erected in the year
1884 on the site of the old church, is a building of stone.
from Wallingford terminal station on a branch of the in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave,

Great Western railway, in the Northern division of the south porch and a western belfry, with shingled spire,
containing 2 bells: several fragments of an earlier stl'llC-
county, :Moreton hundred, Wallingford petty sessional ture were found among the rubble of which the lat~
division, union and county court district, rural deanery
of Wall:ingford, e.rchdeaconry of Berks and diocese of

:DIBICTOBYI] BERKSHIBE. IPBBN. ill

church was built, including the greater portion of an pal landowners are Mrs. John Hazel, who is lady of the

Early window and the stones of a doorway, now built manor, Edwd. Wells' esq. ofWallingford, Edwd. Fairthorne
into the north wall: there is a memorial window to Mr. esq. of Brightwell, W. J. Howard Wells esq. and Frank
and Mrs. Roberts, erected in 1884, and one to the Rev. Saunders esq. The soil is black mould; subsoil, chiefly clay.

John Langley M.A. rector of St. Mary's and St. Leo- The crops are wheat, barley and beans. The land is very
nard's, Wallingford, from 1829: there are about xoo sit- good arable, with a small portion of meadow. The area is

tings, about half of which are appropriated. The register 708 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value, £1,405;
dates from the year 1684. The living is a chapelry, the population in 1891 was 192.
formerly belonging to St. Leonard's, Wallingford, but Letters arrive at 6.50 a.m. through Wallingford, the
now consolidated with Brightwell, joint net yearly value nearest money ordo:Jr & telegraph office

£soo, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since Wall Letter Box cleared at 10.45 a. m. & 7.25 p.m. ; sun-

1899 by the Rev. Fredk. Grave Kiddle M.A. of St. John's days, 10.40 a.m
College, Cambridge, who resides at Brightwell. The princi- The children of this place attend the school at Brightwell

Allaway Mrs Roberts William Holloway Arthur, organist

Brooksbank J obn, Croft house Townsend William Harris, Croft villa Lay Richard :B. surveyor

Druce Randall, South cottage Wells Alfred Dodd, Sinodun Morphew Allan L. farmer, Style acre

Edmondson William, Paddock Wells Henry Watkins, Sotwell hill Pratt Charles, boot & shoe maker

Hazel Mrs.Sarah,Home & Manor frms Wells Wm. John Howard, Elmleigh Saunders Frank, farmer & landowner,

Holloway Mrs. Grape villa Williams Capt. Leonard, Woodlands Sotwell farm

Moir John M COMMERCIAL. Wells Alfred Dodd, farmer, Sinodun

Morphew Allan L. Style acre Heaxmon Charles, Bell inn

SPABSHOLT is a. parish in the Northern division of church was restored in 1891 at a cost of £1,500; two.·
stained windows and other gifts were presented in 1897-.8 '
the county, consisting of the township of Sparsholt and by Major Hippisley; the church affords 200 ,sittings. The
Westcot hamlet, which is in the hundred of Eastmanton, register dates from the year 1558 and includes entries
petty sessbnal division, union and county court district from Kingstone Lisle. The living is a vicarage,with the
of Wantage, and of Kingstone Lisle township and Fawler chapelry of Kingston Lisle annexed, joint net income
hamlet, which are in Faringdon hundred, petty sessional £3I<>, with 43 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift ot ·

division, union and county court district, in the rural the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford, and
held since 1898 by the Rev. Francis .Archibald Pattullo
deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese Shirreff M.A. of that college. The charities are about
of Oxford. The Wilts and Barks canal passes through £2o yearly, of which £3 is for education, £6 for appren-
this parish, which is 4 miles west from Wantage and 3 ticing, £6 for distribution and £3 for church purroses.
south from the Challow station on the Great Western There are three manors within the parish. Major
railway. 'fhe church of the Holy Cross, one of the most William Henry Hippisley J.P. who is lord of the manors,
ancient churches in the county, existed before 963, and
was rebuilt in II87, the whole l;eing enlarged and the the trustees of Miss Atkins, Lord Wantage, Queen's Col-
pre~ent chancel being built in 1327: it is now chiefly of lege, Oxford, and the Dean and Chapter of Winchester
the Decorated period, and consists of chancel, nave, south are the principal landowners. The chief crops are wheat,
transept, north porch, vestry and a western tower with barley and oats. The soil is what is called greensand
wooden shingled spire, erected in 1796 and containing 4 and consists of chalk; subsoil, clay and chalk. The entire
bells, two of which date from 1578 ; the tenor was cast
in 1603 and the fourth is a pre-Refcrmation bell dedi- area of the parish is 5,413 acres; of Sparsholt towr.ship,
cated to St. Catherine: the east window is modern, but 3,324 of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £5,172; the
the side windows of the chancel are lofty and of good population of the township of Sparsholt in I88I was 440,
Decorated work: the sedilia, piscina and a sepulchral and in 1891 was 447·
recess have feathered arches, with crockets, pinnacles
Westcot is a hamlet in this parish! mile west and has
and finials: on t.he north side of the chancel is an ogee-
arched recess, similarly ornamented and probably an a Wesleyan chapel.
Easter sepulchre: the nave has good windows of two Kingstone Lisle, with the hamlet of Fawler, will be
lights and an open-timbered Decorated roof; the north
dvorway is Early English, with a semi-circular arch and found under a separate heading.
By Local Government Board Order 20,649, dated March
shafts with foliaged caps; on the south side is a similar
doorway now blocked; in the south transept, which forms 24, 1887. a detached part of Sparsholt was transferred to

part of the Sparsholt manor house estate, the property of West Challow.
Sexton, William Hicks,
Major W. H. Hippisley, are two recesses very richly
omamented with ogee arches, beneath which are two altar Post & T. 0., Telegraph & Express Delivery Oflice.-
tombs, with female effigies of wood, wearing veils and
wimples, supposed to represent two wives of Robert William Ayres, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through
Achard: in the transept is the -wooden effigy of a W'antage at 7.25 a.m. & for callers at 1.25 p.m.; dis-
patched, 4· 15 & 6.15 p.m. ; sundays, 10.45 a.m. Postal
knight, believed to represent either Lord Talbot or pos- orders are issued here, but not paid. Childrey is the
sibly Robert Achard: the transept screen dates from nearest money order office

1350: in the church is a monument to Sir George Hyde Wall Letter Box, Westcott, cleared at 6 p.m.; sundays;
10.30 a.m
K.B. of Denchworth and Kingstone Lisle, ob. 1625; the
National School (mixed), established in 1872 for 105 chil-
dren; average attendance, 65; Emmanl. Honey, mastr ·

SPARSHOLT. Brooks Frank, farmer, North Field frm Smallbone Jn.P. StarP.H. &; whlwright

* Clapp Robert, beer retailer & grocer Whiting Thos.farmer,Oross Bargain :fun

(Marked thus letters should be ad- Clement George ATgyle, farmer, East-
dressed Faringdon.)
manton farm WESTCOT
Colling'born Jo-hn, farmer, South farm •
Clement Alfred, The Old vicarage
Hippisley Major William Henry (Royal Frogley Aaron, farmer Vincent William

ScotsGreys)J.P.Sparsholt Manor ho Hyde Joseph Jn. farmer, Rectory frm I
Shirreff Rev. Francis Archibald Pat- Packer John, blacksmith
COJ\IMERCIAL,
tulle M.A. The Vicarage
Pocock James Richd, baker, butcher & Day Henry, boot maker & shopkeeper

farmer Frogley Walter J ames, farmer
COMMERCIAL, Pocock Joshua, farmer, Broad Leaze IHicks John, shopkeeper

Ayres William, haulier, Post office & George's Green farms J ohnson John, shopkeeper

SPEEN, the Roman "Spinre," is a village and large J aisle and chancel, almost entirely rebuilt in r86o at the
parish, comprising the tithings of Church and Wood expense of the Rev. H. W. Majendie M.A. vicar from 1819,
Speen, Bagnor, Marsh Benham, Speenhamland and Stock and the tower was rebuilt in 1871 as a memorial to bim:
Cross, with a station on the Lambourn Valley railway; the present church is a structure of flint in the Decorated
it is in the !'Outhem division of the county and partly style, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, north
in the hundred of Faircross and partly in the hundred of and south porches and a western tower containing 8
Kintbury-Eagle, petty sessional division, union and bells : th~re are several stained windows: in the north
county court district of Newbury, rural deanery of New- aisle is an altar tomb, with effigy in armour, to John
bury, archdeaconry of Barks and diocese of Oxford; Baptiste Castillion, a Piedmontese, who died in 1597,

Church Speen is bounded on the south by the 'and a monument to Dame Elizabeth Castillion, wife ot

river Kennet and the Kennet and Avon canal his son, Sir Fra.ncis Castillion kt. v.ho died in 1603; she
1

about a mile and a half west-north-west from is represented habited in a farthingale and flowered gown

Newbury. The mother church of St. Mary, situated I and veil, almost covering the body; there are also manu-

in a valley, was, with the exception of the ancient north ments to the Craven family, including one by Canova to

BEUKS 14•

212 SPEEN. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Eliza.be~h, Baroness Craven and Margravine of Anspacb, lation in x8gx was, without Speenhamland, r,-427; the
who died in January, 1828: there are 350 sittings. The population attached to the parish church in 1891 was 6gz,
register dates from the year 1629. The living is a vicar·
age, net yearly value £550, including 25 acres of glebil, Bagnor, one mile north, and Wood Speen, north-west,
with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and are hamlets.

held since r87o by the Rev. Reginald Campbell Edwards Speenhamland forms part of the town of Newbury and
M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. There are almshouses will be found fully described under that town.
for two widows in Speenhamland, also [30 yearly from
several charities. .A Convalescent Home was established Stock Cross, x! miles north-west, and Marsh Benham,
in 1869 and contains 6 beds, it is supported by subscrip· 2 west, have been formed into an ecclesiastical parish
tions. Bmham Park covers about 2oo acres, including and will be found under a separate heading.
wood, with a lake; the house, designed in the Italian
style, but at present (r899) unoccupied, is the property of Parish Clerk, Thomas Benham.
the trustees of Sir Richard Vincent Sutton bart. a minor.
Marmaduke Head Best esq. of Donnington, lord of the Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

manor of Bagnor, the Earl of Craven, lord of the manor of Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office, Speen.-Wm.
Wood Speen, and the trustees of Sir Richard Vincent Eliel Lewenden, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from
Sutton bart. ( a minor), lords of the manor of Benham Newbury 6.35 a.m. & 12 noon (callers only); dispatched
Valence, are the principal landowners. The soil at 7 a.m. 12.40 & 6 p.m
is principally gravel, except the Kennet valley, which is Wall Letter Box, Bagnor, is clea.red at 5.40 p.m. week
chiefly water meadows; subsoil, chalk and clay, with peat days only
and bog in the valley. The chief crops are wheat, barley, Wall Letter Box, Speen hill, cleared at 8.15 a.m. 12.55,
6. ro & 8.35 p.m. ; sundays, 5.30 p.m
oats and some roots. 'The entire area is ?;.797 acres ot
Schools.
land and 65 of water; assessable value, £6,848; the popu- Infant, Speen; Mrs. Elizabeth Tapsfield, mistress
The elder children attend the schools at Stock Cross or

Speenhamland

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Godwin Miss, The Lawn, Speen hill Young Geo. Henry, Wyforne house
Gordon Rev. William M.A. (curate of Woodspeen. (Letten thro'Newbury)

Barrett Misse·s, Speen hill St. Mary's, Speen), Bath cottage COMMERCIAL.

Bazett Mrs. Thornhills Hine Mrs. Bath cottage Andrews Alfred, cab proprietor

BeJ.cher Wm. Henry, 2 Castle houses Hopson Jo.seph, The Croft Benham Thomas, carpenter & builder

Beevor Major Waiter M.B., R.A.M.C. Labalestier John Henry, The Laurels Bla.ckwell Wm. beer retlr. Bagnor

(Scots Guards),The Lee,Woodspeen Liddiard Nathaniel, Craven lodge Chaplin Matthew, plumber

Bingham Alfred Jn.J.P.Nalder Hill ho Low Misses, The Limes, Speen hi:il Convalescent Home (Jn. Watson M. D.

Caine Mrs. Deanwood Ma.jendie Miss, Speen hill medical officer; consulting physi-

Camp Alfred, Rosecroft Nash Rev. N. Lindenhurst cian, H. Watson M.D.; Rev. R. C.

Casbourne Sylvanus, Marsh Be.nham Newton 'flhomas, Wood Speen lodge• Edwards M. A. manager; Miss Mary
Lewis, matron & nurse)
Ohalk Miss, Church View villa Risley S. N. Elmore house

Ohaplin Mrs. Chilton lodge Rudge Mrs. Fairholme Corneby Arthur, Five Bells P .H

Gomyns Mrs. Malta p!ace Sannders Mrs. Hillcot Gould Edward, beer retailer, Bagnor

Dreweatt :Mrs. Vicarage cot. Speen hill Smith Hy. Montague villa, Speen hill Kimber Geo. cattle dlr. Rectory farm

Dreweatt Thomas, Norfolk lodge Tacbot Misses Leader John Rus,han, dairy farmer

Dougla.s William Thomas Parker B.A. Ternan Mrs. Battle LewendenWilliam Eliel,grocer,Post off

M.B. Holmbv Thatche·r Alan, Leighton lo. Speen hill Miller Wm. nurseryman, Speen hill

Edwards Rev.Reginald Campbell M. A. Thatcher Mrs. Leighton lo. Speen hill Pepler Geo'l'ge Henry, farm bailiff to

Vicarage Thurlow Lieut. -Col. Hugh H. Church M. H. Best esq. Bagnor Mill farm

Edwards Miss, Maisonette Speen lodge Stroud Hannah (Mrs.), laundress,

Ferrers Augusta Countess of,Foley ldg W alsh Capt. FrederickHenry .& Ferrers Bagnor

Flithm William, Marsh Benha.m Augusta. Countess of, Foley lodge Warner Harry, Hare & Hounds P.H

Fort Mrs. Speen Elms Waldo Misses, Bagnor manor Watts William, Sportsman's Hall P.H

Francklyn Miss, Speen Hill lodge Wasey Rev. John Spearman M..A. Wells William, gardener to Nathaniel

Froobody Mrs. Craven cottage Speen Hill house Liddiard esq

Gibbs Rev.Jn. Lomax M.A.Speen ho Wells Edward, r Castle houses Wise Moses, baker & grocer

STANFORD DINGLEY is a parish and village 4 parts of which are still in good preservation: amongst
miles north from Aldermaston and Midgham stations on other details, the scene of the Last Judgment is repre-
the Great Western railway, xo north-west from Reading sented; there is also the figure of a royal personage,
and 8 north-east from Newbury, in the Southern division crowned and holding in his hand a heart, transfixed by
of the county, hundred of Faircross, union of Bradfield, three arrows ; some of the patterns are extremely beauti-
petty sessional division and county court district of New- ful: the church was restored in 1870 and has 150 sittings.
bury, rural deanery of Br::tdfield, archdeaconry of Berks The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a
and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Denis is an rectory, net yearly value £r6o, with residence and .23
ancient and most interesting structure of flint and rubble, acres of glebe, in the gift of Herbert Watney M.D. of
consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a Buckhold., Bradfield, and held since r864 by the Rev.
wooden belfry at the west end, probably of Perpendicular Antony Bird Valpy. The co-heiresses of the late W. H.
date, supported on wooden framework, rising from within H. Hartlev esq. are ladies of the manor and principal land-
the nave and containing 4 bells: the chancel was rebuilt owners. The soil is loam and gravel; subsoil, chalk.
of brick about 1768 and has a Pointed arch of Transition The chief crops are wheat, barley and oa.ts. The area is
Norman period: the arches of the nave arcades are of the g6z acres; gross rateable value, £687; the population in
same date, with the exception of the two easternmost, 1891 was I44·
which are plain Norman: the south doorway displays an
unusual design, its inner head being trefoiled within Parish Clerk, Albert Chapman.
Post Office.-Albert Chapman, sub-postmaster. Letters
a moulded Pointed arch: there is a brass, dated 1444,
to Margaret, wife of William Dyneley, esquire to Henry through Reading arrive at 9·5 a. m. & 4.50 p.m.; dis-
VT.; another to John Lyford, citizen and merchant patched at 4·55 p.m. Southend is the nearest money
tailor of London, a native of Stanford, ob. I6IO, and a order & Bradfield the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles
third to a civilian, with kneeling effigy: some highly distant
glazed and richly designed bricks of an early date have School (mixed), enlarged in 1865 & now holding 56 chil·
been discovered and placed in the chancel wall; the walls dren; average attendance, 20; Miss Lucas, mistress
of the church were originally covered with paintings, Carrier. William Mitchell, Reading, on wed. & sat. ;
Newbury, thurs

Newton Robert, The Willows Butler Waiter Alien, relieving, school Herbert Jesse, boot & shoe maker

Valpy Rev. Antony Bird, Rectory attendance & vaccination o:ffilcer for Mitchell Harriett (Mrs.), Bull inn

COMMERCIAL. the Bradfield union, Brookside Osmond Miohael Kingham, farmer,

Ball CharLes, carpenter Chapman .Albert, grocer, Post office Manor farm

Berg J. C. E. & Sons,mineral wtr.mfrs Grace Edward, farmer, Field farm Wyatt Daniel, farmer

STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE is a village and district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White
Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford.
parish pleasantly situated in the Vale of White Horse and This was a market town from 1230 down to the Reforma•
tion. The church of St. Denis is a building of stone,
on the river Ock, about 2! miles north-west from Challow furnishing good examples of the Early English and De·
corated styles, and consists of chancel, nave of four
station, 3 north-east from Uffington junction on the Great bays, aisles, south porch and a fine Early English western
Western railway and 4 east-south-east from Faringdon,
in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Gan-
field, petty sessional division, union and county court

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. bTEVENTON. 213

tower with additions in the Perpendicular style, Bo feet pair of a tomb: the church land produces £4 r8s. 9d.
annually, which is expended in the maintenance of the
high, containing 6 bells and a clock : the church was church. There is a reading room with a library contain-
ing about 200 volumes. Chinham Farm, in this parish,
built about 128o, to commemorate, it is said, the marri-
age of Richard Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard is said to be the site of the Roman station, " J ulianum ; "
Ill. with Lady Anne Nevill, and so much altered and many coins have been found here and not far off are Cold
Harbour and Bedlam farms, both of which derive their
added to about 1350, as to be nearly rebuilt; in 1851 £soo names from the proximity of a Roman station, " Cold-
was spent in its repair and restoration, and during the harbours " being originally the remains of Roman villas,
period 1883-5 the church was further restored at a cost
of £62o: the chancel, 40 feet in height, is Decorated; used in the Middle Ages as refuges for the destitute and
asylums for lunatics. Stanford Place, the residence of
the windows, relrieved by a. geometrical tracery, contain George Basil Eyston esq. is one mile from Faringdon
soma original glass ; it has a pla.in open tim~red and commands a capital view of the Vale of White Horse

roof, a curiously fine piscina with semi-octagonal taber- and the Berkshire hills. At the Norman survey the
manor of Stanford was granted to Henry de Ferrers, the
nacle above and a small oblong opening to it, probably a greatest lay proprietor in the county, and father
reliquary, and on the north side a double locker; in the of Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby; and was
centre of the chancel is a large brass with demi-effigy
to Roger Campdene, priest 1379; a hagioscope and stairs held by that family until 1206, when for re-
to the rood loft also remain: the nave has three wide bellion, their estates were confiscated; it afterwards

arches on the north side, on octagonal piers without caps : passed to the Fettiplaces and thence to the family of
Knollys, Earls of Banbury, one member of which family.
beneath the aisle roof are the original Early English in 1618, built the present Manor House, several of the
clerestory windows, now blocked : the south door and rooms in which still contain some good old tapestry and
porch are of the same date: there is a Decorated vestry ; singular panel-paintings. The principal landowners are
the oaken font, with canopy and pulpit, are Elizabethan: Sidney Edward Bouverie-Pusey esq. of Pusey, Charles
Morrison esq. of Basildon Park, Goorge Basil Eyston esq.
five of the windows are stained: in the nave is a mural John Perry, Albert Whitfield and Joseph Cowderoy
monument, restored in 1840, to Capt. Francis Knollys,
commandant of the trained bands of the Abingdon Divi- Richards esq. of Appleton, who is lord of the manor.
sion, ob. 4th August, 164o, and in the chancel a memorial
to John Heigham esq. Marshal of the Hall to James I. The Stanford stone pits, in the neighbourhood, from which

and Charles I. and son of John Heigham esq. of Giffords, a great many fossils are dug, produce an inferior soft
stone, principally used in the repairs of the roads. The
Suffolk, ob. 2oth May, 1632; there is also an inscribed
tablet to the Rev. George Henry Proctor M.A. 4 years soil is rich loam and clay; subsoil, clay and stone. A
curate of this parish, who died at Scutari, near Con- great portion of this parish is rich pasture land. The
stantinople, xoth March, 1856: in the churchyard is a entire area is 2,919 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable

coffin slab of the 13th century, and many tombstones to value, £4,309; the entire population in 1891 was 1,054•
the Whitefield family : there are 400 sittings, two-thirds and of Stanford 894. Goosey is a chapelry in this civil
being free. The register dates from the year 1558. The parish, and will be found under a separate he~ding.

living is a vicarage, with that of Goosey :mnexed, net Parish Clerk, Henry Spinage.
Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Deliv€ry, Parcel
yearly value £r90, including 14 acres of glebe, with resi-
dence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of West- Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-George
minster, and held since r892 by the Rev. Henry Aldrich Williams, sub-postmaster. Letters received from Far-
Cotton M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, and priest in ingdon ab 7.ro a.m.; dispatched at 5·35 p.m
ordinary to the Queen. The late Right Rev. Christopher Wall Letter Box cleared at 5·35 p.m.; sundays, n.20 a.m
Wordsworth D.D. Bishop of Lincoln, was vicar here, Police Station, John Harrnsworth, constable
xBso-69. There are small Congregational and Primitive National School, rebuilt in 1872 & opened Sept. 25th,
Methodist chapels in the village. Shilton's charity,
four-sevenths of which is appropriated to a school and 1873, for 200 children; average attendancf', x6o; &
supported in part by an annual endowment of £12;
three-sevenths expended in the distribution of bread, atJ
present realizes the annual sum of £r6; Fawkner's Waiter Rush, master; Miss Ellen Honey, assistant
mistress ; Miss Mary Shaw, infants' mistress
charity, of £2 3s. 9d. yearly, called the "Poor Maid's Carrier.-James Howse, to Abingdon, mon.; Faringdon,
tues. ; Wantage, wed. & sat
Gift," is for marriage portions; and Heigham's, called

the" Poor's Gift," of £35 yearly, is distributed in money:

the Hatch Trust, founded by deed, 1823, includes the re-

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cox Henry, outfitter Keene Moses, grocer k draper

:Bosley Mrs Durbridge Frederick, shopkeeper Knapp Martha (Mrs.), Horse & Jockey

Chamberlayne Mrs. The Cottage Egg-leton George, saddler P.H

Cobt()n Rev. Henry Aldrich M.A. The Egg-leton George (Mrs.), draper Lee Geor~e A. farmer, Cox h2ll

Vicarage Embling Edwin, baker "!\~Iaundrell Henry Wm. miller (water)

Craddock Thomas Myers, Mill house Gile.s Frederick, haulier Pendell Wlilliam, stone mason

Day Mn Godrfrey James, wheelwright Purbeck Richard, beer retailer

Eyston George Basil, Stanford Place Godwin William, farm bailiff to Geo. Puzey John W. brick, t1ie & drain

Fowles George, S.taruford house Ba>sil Eyston esq.Bowling Green frm pipe manufacturer, lime burner &

Hawkins Cartwright Goulding Rasetta (Miss), boarding- & farmer ; & at. Ohildre:y

Hedges Miss day school for young ladies, The Reading Room & Li-brary ; Geol'ge

Hunter Miss Rectory school Willis, jun. hon. sec

Newton Miss Gray Chail'"les, beer retaile·r Robinson Chas. blacksmith, Anchor inn

Pike Mis.s Hawkins Richard, farmer, Manor farm Selwood William, beer retailer

Puzey Francis Frederick Borne Robert, blacksmith Sharpe Dennis, farmer, Clinham house

Walter Mrs. West villa Howse J ames, carrier Smart Joseph, haulier

Whitfield Miss HughM Joseph, shoe maker "'l:titfield .Albt. mille.r(water) & farmer

wallt.field Mrs Hunt Frances (Mrs.),farmer, Park frm Whitfield Hungerford, thatcher

COMMERCIAL. Huruter Alexander, farmer Williams Geo. baker&grocer, Post office

Andrews John, farmer, Priors farm James Wm.beer retlr. k horse breaker Wil'lis Geo. & Sons, grocers & bake.rs

Brooks John, farmer, Eastfield farm Keene Giles, ironmonger Yates J oseph, grocer

STEVENTON is a parish on the road from Abingdon south wall: the font is also Perpendicular : the easi

to Newbury, with a station on the Great Western rail- window is stained, and there are two memorial windows

way. 56~ miles from London and 4 miles south-south- on the oorth side of the chancel to the Rev. Will:iam
Harley M.A. ten years vicar of this parish, who died
wes~ from Abingdon by road, n! by rail, in the
Ma.y nth., 1870, and to two former members of the
Northern division of the county, hundred of Ock, petty
l!e&sional division, union and county court distnict of choir : there are about 400 sittings. In the churchya;rd
Abingdon, rural deanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael is a. stone cross, restored in 1836. The earliest regis-
and All Angels, is a building of stone in the Early Eng- ter in possession of the parish dates from the year 1558
lish and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south
aisle tmd an embattled tower on the wuth -side <mly, but thero is an earlier register, dating from 1553
containing 6 bells: on the south side of the nave are
two arches of unequal span, one Early English, the t-o 1559, now in the British Museum, and forming No.
other Decorated; the rower arches are good Decorated,
witih richly moulded imposts and curious and rich carv- 2,395 in the Harleian collect1on of MSS. The living is

ing; the wind<m's· are chiefly DEliCorated and Perpendi- a. vicarage, net income £280, with 3l acres of glebe and
cular : there is an unusually ornamented piscina in the
residence, in the gift of the Dean andChapter of West-
chancel of the latter period, and stone sedilia in the
minster, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Augustine Lem-
priere Foulkes M.A. Qf Queen's College, Oxford, and

rural dean of .A.bingdon. The Wesleyan Methodist

chapel is a small structure of brick, with stone dress-

ings in the Gothic style, and wu bWlt in 1861. A

. 214 STEVENTON. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Volunteer Fire Brigade was established in 1831 and is soil is rich loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops a' 're
wheat, barley, beans and turnips. The area is 21394
supported by voluntary contribubions. In this parish
acres of land and 7 of water; rateable value, [9,96~; the
was once a Benedictine priory, founded by Henry I. and
dependent on the abbey of Bee, in Normandy, to which population in 1891 was 878.
house the king had given the manor. Th~re i.s an
· ancient caus-eway running thl'IO'Ughout the entire length Parish Clerk, Richard Gerring.

. of .the village, planted with trees on both sides, and Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

kept in repair by a trust fund bequeathed for that Post, S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office (Railway Sub-

purpose. The charities belonging w the parish amount Office. Letters should have R.S.O. :Berks added).-

to a.bout £go yearly, of which the Causeway charity Alfred Dunsden, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive- by rail

producing about £4o yearly, is expended on maintaining at 2.45 a.m. & 1.15 p.m.; dispatched at 1.30 p.m. &
and lighting the causeway ; under a scheme of the
8 p.m
Cha.rity Commissioners in 1892, nine trustees are ap-
Wall Letter :Box cleared 11t 6.50 p.m. week days only
pointed; £10 is applied for educational purposes by
National School (mixed & infants), established in 1864,
granting prizes or paying sums not exceeding £3 each
enlarged 1871, for 170 children; average attendance,
.ror encouraging attendance at school ; the remaining
r8o ;· the building was designed by the late G. E•
income is to be expended in temporary relief in food,
Street esq. R.A. ; Waiter Rooberts, master; Mrs. L.
clothes or money at the discretion of the trustees. The
Roberts, assistant mistress ·
Smallbones, an ancient family, resided here for some
time and recorded their pedigree in the visitation of Railway Station, George Abrey Beck, station· master

1664-6. The principal landowners are the Ecclesiastical ' Carriers to:-
' Commissioners, who are lords of the manor, Messrs.
Abingdon-Tyrrell, daily
William Tyrrell and Richard Hopkins :Betteridge. The Oxford-Webb, wed. & sat

Booker Lewis Bette'l'idge Richd.H.farmer&landowner Langford & Sons, corn & coal mers

Booker Reginald Booker Lewis, corn merchant Langford Robert Smith, farmer

Oox Mrs. Blenheim cottage Brewer Joseph, farmer Lyford Beloher, baker ,

Davis M'rls · Cox Edwin, beer retailer & blacksmith Margetts John Alfu-ed, grocer & draper

Foulkes Rev. Augustine Lempriere Elliott Albert, steam saw mill Matthews James, builder

M.A.. (vicar & rural dean of Abing- Fletcher Edward, teacher of music Money Albert W. King's .A.rms P.H

don), Vicarage Gerring Annie (Mrs.), wheelwl'ight Monk William, miller (water)

Goodwin Miss, Stone cottage Goodey Thos.saddler&rope.&twine mkr Rant George & Co. grocers

Harris .Alfred, The Firs Gosling Edgar, fishmonger Smith & Sons, engineers & boiler ~rs

Herd Mrs J ames Thomas, butcher Stevens Harry, The Fox inn

Langford Ml"s. Tinsbury villa Kimber John, boot maker Stimpson Thomas,R'ailway Elouse P.H

.Langford Robert Smith, The Priory Kimber Seymour, iron & brass faun- Tyrrell Mary Ann (Ml'ls.), carrier

Latham Thomas, Manor house ders, agricultural engineers & agents T,YTreil William, farmer & landowner

Pu[llen John, The Rookery for all the leading makers at their Volunteer Fire Brigade(William Monk,

Stevens Miss, Stocks Lan~ house prices; spring carts of all kinds captain)

COMMERCIAL. made & repaired; drawings & esti- Webb Ernest, butcher & carrier

Baker MatthewWillison,grocer & drapr mates for gates& fencing of all kinds Webb Jane (Mrs.), farmer

Betteridge JonathanHy.frmr.Hill farm King Charles, boot maker Winders William, baker

STOCKCROSS is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Sep- vicarage, net yearly value £315, with residence, in the

tember q, r844, out of the civil parish of Speen; it has gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since r877 by the
a station called Stockcross and Bagn•>r, on the Lambourn Rev. Theodore Francis M.A.. of Christ's College, Cam-
Valley railway, and is one mile north-west from Speen and bridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel here, erected in 1833.
3 north-west from Newbury, and includes the hamlet of The trustees of Sir Richard Vincent Sutton bart. (a
Marsh Benham, in the Southern division of the county, minor), are the principal landowners. The area is r,Brs
petty sessional division, union and county court district acres; the population in rBgr was 736.
of Newbury, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The chu'l'ch of St. John, Parish Clerk, Henry Lawrence Clarke.
standing on an eminence, and erected about the end of the Post Office.-Mrs. Eliza Brooker, sub-postmistress. Let-
year r839, is a structure of brick, consisting of chancel,
ters arrive from Newbury at 7.15 a.m.; dU.Spatched
naye, south porch and an embattled western tower, with 7.15 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here,
pinnacles, containing 2 bells and a clock: the stained east but not paid. Speen is the nearest money order &
telegraph office, 2 miles distant
window is a memorial to Godfrey Ra.ymond Bosanquet, Wall Letter Box, Benham, is cleared at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m.
week d~ys only
who died in rBsB : the pulpit was erected in 1878 by Schood: (boys & girls-), built in 1830, for 250 children;
.some friends in memory of the Rev. J. Adams•, late averag~ attendance, 180; Henry Lawrence Clarke, mas-
ter; Mrs. Dorcas Nailor, infants' mistress
vicar: the organ was presented by the late Sir Richard
Suttori bart.: there are 250 Slittings, rso being free. Police Sergeant, Thomas Orpwood

The regist-er dates from the year 1839. The living is a

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. accommodation for private families

.. Bacon Aloort, bee'l' 'l'etailer & grocer, & cyclists; z! miles from Newbury

:Barker Miss, Coombe view Mar>sh Benham Haddrell Gf'o. wood dlr. Marsh Benhm

Butler Charles, Elm villa Buckeridge Charles, general deaJ.cr Mitchell Wil!iam, boot maker

Francis Rev. Theodore M.A. Vicarage Bm·ton Daniel, blacksmith Strand Francis William, bee'l' retailer

Hedges Mrs. The Bungalow Elms George, builder & contractor, Wick>s Art'hur Cooke, beer retailer

Je·rvoise Misses, Furze hill Marsh :Benham Woodger Jonathan Edmondson, baker

King Stephen, North view Greener sarah (Mrs.), Nag's Head & grocer

Worthin.gton Capt. Yorke, :Benham lo jnn ; delightfully situated, good

.

STRATFIELD MORTIMER is a .scattered village vicar of the parish, who died April 28th, 188o: in the

and extensive parish, partly in Hampshire, with a station chancel there is an ancient Saxon slab, found below the

called Mortimer on the Great Western railway, 43~ chancel of the former church, and commemorating

miles from London and 6f south-south-west from Read- CEdelward, supposed to be the Ealdorman of Hampshire;

ing, in the Southern divisWn. orf the county, hundred of the probable date is about 1020: the organ was given by

Theale, union of :Bradfield, petty sessional division and Mrs. Dobson: there are 550 sittings, all free, except

county court district of Reading, rural deanery of Read- those in the chancel aisle, which were allotted by faculty

ing, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The to the owner of Wokefield Park. The register dates from

ohurch of St. Mary the Virgin, rebuilt in r869 at the the year 168r. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value;

cost of the late Richard Benyon esq. J.P. of Englefield £213, with 14 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of

House, and completed in June r8g6, is an edifice of stone Eton College, and held since r88o by the Rev. Charles

in the Gothic style,consisting of chancel with aisle, cleres- John Leslie Lovett-Cameron M.A.. of Merton College,

toried nave of four bays, aisles, north and south porches, Oxford. The church of St. John, erected in r881-2, at

vestry, and a western tower wj,th spire, together 16o feet a cost of £8,ooo, wholly defrayed by the late Richard

high, and now containing 8 bells; the 6 bells of 1700 Benyon esq. of Englefield, and opened in Feb. r88z, was

having been recast and 2 new bells added; th61 cost of considerably enlarged in r8g6, and is an edifice of red

the whole was £17,ooo: in the church are some ancient brick with stone dressings, consisting of chancel, nave,

monuments and brasses to Richard Trevet, alias Hasyl- south aisle, baptistery, organ chambe'l', and a western

wade, 1441, with effigy in armour, and Johanna. his wife: tower containing 6 bells and a chiming apparatus; the

a brass, in the chancel, was placed by the parishioners 'l'eredos is a large folding triptych, with paintings by Mr.

in memory of the Rev. Robert John Gould, 20 years N. H. J. Westlake, of scenes from the life of Christ; the

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. STRATFIELD MORTIMER. 215

stained east window was the gift of J. H. Benyon esq. Mortimer West End was a tithing in this parish, but

and there is a memorial window to the vicar's brother, has been constituted a separate civil and ecclesiastical
Captain Ve.rney Lovett-Cameron R.N., C.B.; in the
south aisle, formerly the nave, is another altar with a parish, and transferred to Hampshire; for pa.rticulars see
separate :pa.inted reredos. Here is a Primitive Methodist
chapel with So slittings. The Working Men's Club, Kelly's Directory of Hants.
4:\rected in I892 at the sole expense of the late Richard Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Benyon esq. is a structure of brick, comprising a large
billiard room, reading and ante rooms, bar •&c. ; there are Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. (R.S.O.
about IOO members. A \Volunteer Fire Brigade has been Letters should be addressed Mortimer R.S.O. Berks).
formed here, and has an engine and various apparatus. -William Edwin Coggins, sub-postmaster. Delivery
'The Dispensary is supported by donations and the sub- 6.20 a.m. & I2.20 & 5.40 p.m.; dispatched at u.3o
scriptions of members, of whom there were in I899, 207. a.m. 6.40 & 8.25 p.m. ; sundays, delivery 6.20 a.m. ;
'The charities amount to a\)out £220 yearly, and include dispatched 7.Io p.m
Mrs. Alicia Clarke's gift and Mrs. Harriet Brocas's or the
()Id Almshouse Charity, from which three widows receive Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,
·xos. each quarterly. There is a distribution of bread
Mortimer Common. Edwin Jackson, sub-postmaster.
;yearly on St. Thomas' day, to the amount of £6. Fairs Letters arrive from Mortimer R.S.O. at 6.45 a.m.; &
are held here on the 27th of April and o~ the 6th day of at 1.30 & 6.30 p.m. for callers; dispatched II a. m. &
November for cattle. Warrennes Wood is the seat of Sir 6.45 p.m.; sundays, arrive 6.45 a.m. ; dispatched II.30
Robt. Gray Cornish Mowbray bart. M.A., J.P.; Mortimer a.m. Mortimer, I mile distant, is the nearest tele•
Hill, the residence of the Dowager Lady Hunter;
Mortimer House, of Major William Peel Nash; and graph office
:Mortimer. Lodge, of Mrs. Mackenzie ; W oke:field House,
-theo property and residence of Herbert Cyril Allfrey esq. Wall Box (near Vicarage gate), cleared 11.20 a.m. & 7
is a fine mansion standing in a park of 2IO acres.
.James Herbert Benyon esq. J.P. of Engle:field, is lord of p.m. ; sundays, 6,. IS p.m
the manor and principal landowner. The soil is gravelly; Police Station, Thomas Drewett, sergeant, & I constable
.subsoil, clay. The crops are chiefly on the four-course National School, St. Mary's (mixed), built in I869, with
-system. The area, including commons and waste land,
is 3,032 acres, of which only 2,337 is rateable; rateable a square tower containing a clock with 3 dials; it
value, £6,7I2; the population of the parish in I89I was will hold zoo children, and is partly supported by
1:,236.
Mrs. Clarke's charity; average attendance, 140; Walter
Woke:field, I mile north, is a tithing ; the area is 664 Harry Scott, master

acres; rateable value, £I,oo8; the population in I89I Infants' School, St. Mary'S', built in I87J, for 72 chil·
was I26. H. C. Allfrey esq. is lord of the manor. dren ; a,verage attendance, 46; Mrs. J ane Elizabeth
Scott, mistress

Infants' School, St. John's, Mortimer Common, built in

1889, for I Io children; a,verage attendance, 79; Miss
Carolina Mead, mistress
Railway Station, Ewen Paul, station master
Carriers to Reading.-Hounsell, mon. tues. thurs. fri. &
sat.; Merrick, wed. & sat. ; Mulford, tues. thurs. &
sat. ; Whitburn, tues. thurs. & sat. ; Pembroke, wed.

& sat

PBIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMEBCI.AL. Mosdell Caleb, builder, contractor,
brick maker, plumber & sanitary
Attwater George, shoe maker

A.llfrey Herbert Cyril, Woke:field park Ba·refoot Phillip, tailor engineer; special attention given to

Ba.ines Rev.Arth.B.A. (curate),Pitt fm Bowman George, wood dea:er sanitary work
~ulford Frederick William, corn dlr
Eurnham George, Highfield house Brown Frederick, plumber

Caswall :Misses, Oaklands Burson Henry G. machinist Pocock John, carpenter

Ohambers Arthur, Briar lea, Clinch Walt.farm bailiff to J.H.Benyon Pring James, farmer, Perrins farm

Collins Sidney, Tursley house esq. Butler's-lands farm Punter James, shoe maker

Davis Miis·s, Hea,thfield Convalescent Cottage Hospital (Miss Roalfe-Cox Waiter Jn. L.R.C.P.Lond.t

Dobson Mrs. The Elms Susannah Heathern,matron),Wokefld M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon & medical

Edwards Arthur, Hill side Cowdery William, Queen's Head P.H officer & public vaccinator for No. 4

Floyer Fredk. Anthony B..A., M.B Davis Arthur, blacksmith district,Brad:field union & certifying

Gould John Harrison, Sunnybank Davis Cha·rles butcher, King street factory surgeon, The Laurels

Graeme Misses, Mortimer cottage Davis David, 'blacksmith Simrpkins William, draper
Spra,tley J~mes, coal dealer
Hackett Mrs. Headlands Davis Ra.ohel (Mrs.), apartments

Harper Mrs. Clint.on villa Deacon Edward King, organist, Beet- S·teel Lew1s, shoe maker

Hunter Dowager Lady, Mortimer hill hoven house Stewart John R. draper &c

..Jones Misses, The Rise Elliott A~fred, farmer, Sheep's grove Stratfield Mortimer Dispensary (W!!.lt.

Kemble Mrs. H. Stratfield house Fewtre.ll J<l'hn, temperance hotel Roalfe-Cox L.R'.C.P.Lond. medical

Lingen Mrs. Knoll lodge Floyer Frederick Anthony B.A., M.B., officer)
Stratford Th~mas, butcher
Lovett-Cameron Rev. Charles John M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon

Leslie M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Froom William Thomas, farmer Sweetzer Damel, shopkeeper & carpntr

Lovett-Cameron Mrs. Philip,Knoll cot Goddard Thomas,Horse & Groom P.H Taylo·r Alfred, mop, broom rake &

Lyddiard Miss, Woodbine cottage Griggs David, City of Silc'hester P.H prol'lig handle manufacturer, timber

Mackenzie Mrs. Mortimer lodge Halfacre Charles R. news agent & & underwood dealer

Mowbray Sir Robert Gray Cornish chimney sweeper Taylor James, beer retailer

hart. M.A., J.P. Warrennes Wood; Harris Herbert, grocer Thorp Harriett (Mrs.), grocer

10 Little Stanhope street, Mayfair W Jackson Edwin, shopkeeper, Post office Tyley John, insurance agt. Poplars

& Carlton & Oxford & Cambridge Johnson Helen Elizabeth (Miss), pri- Waight Allfred, saddler

clubs, London SW vate school, Chichester house Warwick George T. watch maker

'Nash Major William Peel,Mortimer ho Keep Charles, boot repairer Whitburn Charles, carrier

'Roalfe-Cox Wa1tQJ.' John, The Laurels King Arthur Michael, grocer Watlington Brewery Co. Limited (Hy.

'Taylor William Henry, Garth house Long Richard, saddler Barnard, district manager)

Withers James Leatch, Lennox ~vell Thomas, fly proprieotor Whiw & Co. shopkeepers

Woolrych Rev. Bertram B., M.A. Lovelock .A:bert, builder Wilkins Edmund, farmer, The Grange

(curate), St. John's house Lovelock John, beer retailer Wise William Edwin, coal dealer

Wyl<L Mrs. Knot mead Martin Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Working Men's Club (William Henry

Wyld Miss, Knot mead M3.S'On Ellen (Mrs.), Railway hotel Scott, sec.; Wm. Castle, caretaker)

May George, fly proprietor

STREATLEY is a. beautiful and picturesque village. .Abbey of Abingdon, which recittes a gift of land at
"Stretlea," by Ina, King of Wessex, A.D. 687. The
a•;d parish, on a bend of the river Thames, at the foot church of St. Mary is an ancient fabric of flint with
-of the chalk hills which rise boldly on the south and stone dressings, in the Anglo-Norman or Transitional
west; it is 10 mih:s north-west from Reading and 6 style, consisting of chancel, nave of eight bays, aisle.s,
south from Wallingford terminal station of a branch south porch and an embattled western tower of flint
containing 6 bells and a clock; in the south aisle is a
of the Great Western railway, in the NO'l"thern division memoria,! window. to Robert Barclay, who died January
of the county, hundred: of Moreton, union of Bradfield, 25th, I88r; in the north aisle are thTee memorial.
Wallingford petty sessional division, county court dis- windows to the Todd family, J ames Henry Todd, d.
April 9th, I886, Catherine Todd and Mary, daughters
trict and rural deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry
of Berks a.nd diocese of Oxford; the Thames divides of I. H. Todd, d. March 16th, 1881; the. church contains
some good brasses, including one at the end of the north
at this spot into twin streams and is crossed by a double aisi.e to Elizabeth Osborn, I440, and another to Thomat

bridge to the village of Goring in Oxfordshire, wherf'

there is a. station on the Great Western railway. The

earliest notice of ibe place is in the cartularJ l}f the

216 STREATLEY. BERKSHIRE.

Duriton, ob. 2oth July, 1603, Joan (Weir), his wife manor and principal landowner. The sgil is chalk a.n~
loam; subsoil, chalk. The crops are wheat and barley.
and 17 children; there are also memorials in the church The area was 1,5oo acres, but by inclosures it is now
3,634 acres o{ land and 22 of water; rateable value.
to William Stone esq, of Streatley, d. 3oth January, £3,858; the population in 1891 was 6o7.

1845, and Mary, his wife, and to William Henry Stone Sexton, William Hawkins.

M. A. d. 2oth June, 1863; and a monument to the Right Southbridge is a hamlet, I~ miles south-west; here

Hon. Sir Samuel She;pard kt. P.C. Attorney-General was formerly a school with an endowment of [,2 ss.

and Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, who died left by Mr. Richard Tull, now amalgamated witili the
National school.
in 184o, and is buried in the churchyard: the bells have
Westridga is also a hamlet of this parish t! miles
been re.pa.ired at a cost of about £150, towards which
south-west, closely adjoining the village of Aldworth;
Mrs. Stone subscribed £,1oo. In 1893 a fine reredos was the children of this place attend the school at .Aldworth.

erected in memorry of the late Mrs. Stone ; it is 10 feet Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
wide- afnrodm9 in height, and consists of a richly panelled
base, which rise four buttresses, with niches and Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.-James.
Lawrence, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Read-
canopies containing statuettes: there are 300 sittings. ing at 6.40 a.. m. & 12.45 & 6.30 p.m.; dispatched a~
9·35 a.m. 2 & 6.20 p.m
The register dates from the year 1679. The living is a Wall Letter Box:. cleared at 9.20 a.m.& 1.55 & 6.15 p.m.;.
sundays, 6. 15 p.m
vicarage, gross yearly value £260, net £,245, with resi- Wall Letter :Box, Westridge, cleared 5· 15 p.m.; sun..
days, 10.45 a..m
dence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since Parochial School (mixed), e.rected in 1872• :for 9G·
children; average attendance, 55; Miss Evelyn Maude"
1892 by the Rev. John Robert Izat M.A. of St. John's Maisey, mistress; Miss Clara Maisey,assistant mistres,.

College, OxfGrd. The charities, amounting to £75 yearly,

are for distribution; there is also a small endowment for

the repairs of the church. In the neighbourhood are

many handsome residences, some of which are delightfully

situated on the banks of the Thames, and the surrounding

scenery is beautiful and romantic; the. village and neigh-

bourhood are much frequented by artists. Col Thomas

John Bowles, of Streatley Wood House, is' lord of the

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Morrell Georg-e Herbert M.P., V.D., Burbidge James, fM"mer, Strea.tley f!lll

Baker Mrs. The Coombe M.A., B.C.L., D.L., J.P. Streatley Burridge John, shoe maker

Bennett Marsland A. CinChona house; & Carlton, Junior Carlton & Gardner Horace Joseph, Bull inn

:Beswick Frank New University clubs, London SW Goddard William, shoe maker

Bowles Col. Thomas Jn. J.P. Streatley Roscoe Henry W. N. Illsley cottage Hayward John, farm bailiff to Cot.

Wood house ' Reiss Charles .A.. Hill house Thomas John Bowles, Westridge

Breach James, Soutihridge Simmonds Mrs. Walnut Tree cottage Hohbs Ohas.miller(water),Streatly.ml:'

Clowes William Sturt William N. Thatch cottage Holder George, gardener

Evershcd Sydney Sykes Mrs. Rostgarth Holder John, gardener

Foote Mrs. The Beeches Tomkins Fred, The Poplars Lawrence Jas.shopkpr. & ba:tn-.Post off

Freeman Delemark, Townsend farm Tuckey John, Landscape villa. Lay Thomas, farmer, Westridge

Gould John, Rose cottage Verey Miss, The Hollies Ottoway William, police constable

Ha.rcourt Col. Alfred, F.lm lodge Vignoles Ernest Blacker Piff George, farm bailiff to Ernes\

Hastings George M.D., F.R.M.S.Rec- Vignoles Mrs. Tween ways Gardner esq. Woods farm

tory Farm house Williams Frank • Saunders Annie (Mrs.), Swan inn &:.

Hedges Killingworth Richard, Thurle Wilson Samuel, The Hawthorne boat builder

Down cottage COMMERCIAL. Saunders Frank, assistant overseer

Hemp Archer Claud, La Burnham cot Beswick Frank, artist Saunders Henry, corn dealer

Ingr3m Sir William James hart Bettridge William, brmer, Place frm Smallbone Jas. builder & wheelwright-

Izat Riev. John Robert M.A. Vicarage Breach Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Wells Mary Ann (Mrs.),grocer, draper

Mills Mrs. Primrose cottage Southridge farm & baker

STUBBINGS is an ecclesiastical parish formed Aug. Messrs. Silver and Son, of Maidenhead: there are 170.
29, 1856, from the parishes of Cookham and Ilisham, sittings. The register dates from the year 1852. 'l.'hE>

and is 3 miles west of Maidenhead and 4 from Great living is a vicarage, net yearly value [16o, with :residenCfl•

Marlow, in the Eastern division of the county, Cook- and 9 acres of glebe, in the gift of Henry Duncan Shine-
ham hundred and unio'l., Ma,ide-nhead petty sessional esq. of Claverton Manor, Somersetshire, and held since.
1882 by the R'ev. George Samuel Hodges E..A.. of Jesu~
division, Windsor county court district, rural deanery College, Cambridge. The principal landowneu are Henry-
of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Barks and diocese of Duncan Skrine esq. and Henry James Vansittart-Neale-
Oxford. The church of St. James the Less, built at
esq. C. B., J.P. of Bisham .Abbey. The area is gJO acres;:
the expense oi the late. Henry Skrine esq. of Stub- the population in 1891 was 3II.

bings, and consecrated! in 185o, is an edifice of cut Sexton and Parish Clerk, Stubbings, John Penny.
flints with. stone dressings in the Early Decorated Letters through Maidenhead. Tittle Row is the nearest"
styls, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north
money order & telegraph office, about 1 mile distant
aisle, added in 1854• and south porch and a western National School, built in 185o, by the late H_
turret containing one bell; there are seven stained
windows presented by members of the Skrine family, soSkrine esq. & enlarged by his widow & now holds
children; a.verage attendance, 40 ; Miss E. A. Leach,..
one by Colonel Dyson Laurie and a circular stained mistress
window in the west gable was given by the contractors,

Ho~s Rev. George Samuel B.A. The Vicara-ge I Tyser William Haviside, Stubbings house

SULHAM is a picturesque village and parish, com- carved with various emblems of the Blessed Bedeeme:r
manding beautiful views of the surrounding country, 2 and the Holy Trinity: there are 120 sittings. The-
miles south from the Pangboume railway station, 2~ register dates from the year 1730. The living is a
north from Theale station, both on the Great Western rectory, net yearly value £153, including la4 acres or·
glebe, with residence, in the gift of Frede:rick Wilder esq.
railway, and 5 west from Reading,in the Southern division J.P. of Purley Hall,and held since 1892 by the Rev. Henry-
.o{ the county, hundred of 'l'heale, union of Bradfield,petty Beaufoy Wilder M.A. of Balliol College. Oxforrd. Sniham
sessional division and county court district of Reading, Hc.use, the seat •lf Mrs. John Wilder, is a handsome·
rural deanery of Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks and dio- rl'!-idence -with extemive grounds, commanding fine•
cese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas, rebuilt in views of woodland scenery. Frederick Wilder esq. of
Purley Hall, is l'()ll'd {)f the manor a111d principl\1 land-
183'8, chiefly at the expense of the late Rev. John Wilder owner, The soil is sand and loam; subsoil, clay and"
M.A. rector 1836-g2, is an edifice of stone and flint in the gravel. The chief crops are wheat, 'barley and roots•
Early English style, consisting of chancel, separated from The area is 715 acres; rateable value, [927; the popu-
the nave by an oak screen with brass railing, nave, organ lation in 1891 was 149·

.chamher, north porch and a western tower with pinnacles Parish Clerk, .Joseph Lambden.
and a lofty spire, containing 6 bells, the gift of the late
rector in 1879; the windows are all 11tained: the church Post Offic>e.-.A.lfrtdl William Dnckett, sub-postmast£>r.;..
contains several marble tablets to members of the Wilder Letters from Reading arrive at 7·45 a.m. & 6.10 p.m.;.
family; the marble font was presented by Jolm Wilder dispatched at 8 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. Pangbonrne is the·
nearest money {lrder & telegraph office, 3 miles distantr
esq. in 1733; in the year 1845 it was inclosed in new
stone work, with four marble columns, given by the School established by the late rector in 1837 & rebniUr
in 1892 at his expense, for so children; a\"ern.ger
Rev. J. W. Eden, and placed in the present baptistery: attendance, 42 ; Miss Emily Banns, mistress

the churchyard is planted with shrubs and evergreens,
a.nd in the centre is a beautiful cross of Portland stone,

about 14 feet high, the gift of the late rector, richly

DIRECTORY.] Booufoy BERKSHIRE. SUNl'HNGDALE.

Wilder Rev. Henry M. A., Wilder Mrs. John, Sulham house IPalmer Martha (Mrs.), fal'mer, Nun-
. '(rector), Rectory East Arthur, farmer, Sulham farm hide farm

SULHAMSTEAD-ABBOTS is a parish and Here is a Congregational chapel, built in 1881. Sulham-
Tilla.ge 2 miles south from Theale. station on the Great stead House, standing in a park of 72 acres, near th0-
Western railway, joining Sulhamstead-Bannister and 6! river Kennet, is the residence of Major William Richard
south-west from Reading, in the Southern division o-f the Mortimer Thoyts S.C.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor;
county, hundred of Reading, BradfieM union, Re.ailing Major Thoyts and William Jefferys Strange esq. are ths
principal landowners. The soil is loam and clay ; subsoil..
.petty sessional division and county court dis·trict, and in gravel. The chie.f crops are wheat, barley and oats.
the rural deanery of Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks and The area is 1,400 acres of land and 17 of water ; rate-
diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an edifice able value, [2,329; the population in 1891 was 290.
of flint with stone dressings, in the Early English style,
consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western Post Office..-Fre.derick William Faulkner, sub-post-
master. Letters arrive from Reading at 6.20 a.m. ~
tower of wood containing 3 bells ; there is a stained 1 p.m. ; dispatched at 1.25 & 6.35 p.m. ; sunday
window in memory of the Rev. William Whitelock, also arrive at 6.30 a.m. ; dispatched 6.25 p.m. Postal
one to the Rev. Robert S. Falcon-Steward M.A. rector, orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearesi
1868-87, and a brass to Ralph Eyer, rector, 1521 : the money order & telegraph office is at Theale
church was restored in 1878-9, at a cost of £1,IOO, and
affords zoo sittings. The register dates from the year Wall Letter Box at Abbots, near church, cleared at 5·S5
1602. The living is a rectocy, consolidated with• Sul- p.m. ; sundays at 8.30 a.m

hamstead-Bannister, joint net yearly value [315, with 22 The children of this place attend the school a~ Sul-
hamstead-Bannister
acres of glebe, in the gift of the Provost and Fellows of
Queen's College, Oxford, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Carriers to Reading.-Mrs. Jane Wise, wed. & sat.;
Alfred John Parkman Shepherd M.A. and formerly fellow William Aldridge, tues. & sat
of that college, who resides at Sulhamstead-Bannister.

PRIVA.TE RESIDENTS. Th()yts Major Wm. Richd. Mortimer Faulkner Fk. Wm. grocer & post oB

S.C.L., J.P. Sulhamstead house Fenn Robert, farmer, Cottage farm

Cooke Annesley, Abbots COMMERCIAL. Hawkins James Smith, land stewar<l

Fairclough Rev.William Robt.(curate) to Ma:or William Richd. ~Iortime:r

Hawley Major-Gen. William Hanbury, Bidd:e Elizh. (Miss),beer ret.&coa! dlr Thoyts, Abbots farm

The Firs Burr Emest. Three King's Jacks' Smith Thomas Langfard, mill•

J enkins Mrs. The Cottage Boath P.H (wate<r) & corn mer. Tyle mill

Smith Thomas Langford Bnss Henry, beer retailer Wells George, blacksmith

SULHAMSTEAD-BANNISTER is a parish and college. Oakfield is the residence of George Waiter Tyser·
village 2 miles south from Theale station on the Great esq. J.P. Major W. R. Mortimer Thoyts, who is-
lord of the manor, and William J. Strange esq. are the
Western railway and! 6 south-west from Reading, in principal landowners. The soil is loam and clay; sub-
the Southern division of the county, Theale hundred, soil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and
Bradfield! union, Reading petty sessional division and oats. The area of Sulhamstead-Bannister, Lower End,
county court district, rural deanery of Bradfteld, arch-
is 575 acres; rateable value, £743; the area of Sulbam-
deaconry of Berks and diocese od: Oxford. 'rhe Ke.nnet stead-Bannister, Upper End, is 550 acres; rateable value,
river passes through the parish on the north-west. The
[919; the population in 1891 was 312, of which number
church of St. Michaelis an edifice of shingle, consisting of rro were in the Lower End and 202 in the Uppe:r
chancel, with aisle, nave, west porch and a westem tower
End division of the parish.
of wood, containing 2 bells: in 1897, the church was re- Letters through Reading arrive at 6.20 a.m. & I p.m_
seated with open benches, and now affords 220 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1654,but there are earlier The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Thealep
transcripts in the Diocesan Registry at Salisbury. The liv- 2 miles distant
ing is a rectory, consolidated with Sulhamstead-Abbots, Church of England School (mixed), rebuilt in 1873• fa-.
joint net yearly value[315,with 22 acres of glebe and resi- 110 children; average attendance, 68; Robert John
dence, in the gift of the Provost and FeJlows of Queen's Parker, master; Mrs. Parker, infants' mistress
College, Oxford, and held since 1887 by the Rev. .Alfred Carriers to Reading. Mrs. Jane Wise, wed. & sat.; Wm.

John Parkman Shepherd M.A. and formerly fellow of that Aldridge, tues. & sat

Marked thus t receive their letters tTyser George Waiter J.P. Oakfield Nash Brothers, farmers. (Letters.

through Mortimer R.S.O. COMMERCIAL. through BurghfiPld, Reading)

Pocock Edward Adams Edwin, wheelwright tPrice James, blacksmith

tRobson Mrs "tGibbons Robert, Three Fir Trees P.H tSmith Ebenezer, farm bailiff to H.

Shepherd Rev. Alfred John Parkman Grendon James, farmer, Meales farm C. Allfrey esq. Bloomfield Hatch fm.

M..A.. (rector), Rectory Kinge George, farm bailiff to W. J. tWise Hency George, shopkeeper

Strange William Jefferys, Mile house Strange Psq

SUNNINGDALE was formed into a civil parish in in the district. St. Bruno is the residence of Lord Col-

March, 1894, from the parish of Old Windsor; the village chester J.P., F.S.A. Virginia Water occupies part of
is situated on the Bath and Reading roads, with a station this parish. Lord Stanley ~LP. is the principal land-
on the Reading and Staines branch of the South ·western owner. The soil is gravelly and sand; subsoil, various•.

railway, 26 miles from London, 7 miles south from The area is 1,310 acres; rateable value, [9,061; the-

lVindsor, 5 south-west from Old Windsor, in the Eastern population in 1891 was 1,701, of which 396 are in Surrey.
division of the county, Windsor petty sessional division, Parish Clerk, Joseph Finch.
county court district of Chertsey, rural deanery of Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. Miss Rose-

The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1841. The church Hodder, sub-postmistress. Letters are received from

of the Holy Trinity, partially rebuilt in 1887-8, at a cost the Ascot offiCe at 6.30 & g.5o a.m. & 5·35 p.m.; dis-
of about £7,347, is an edifice of brick and Bath stone in patched at 9·50 a.m. & 2.50, 6-45 & 7·55 p.m.; sunday,..
the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave of arrive at 6.30 a.m. & dispatched at 6 p.m. The office-
five bays, aisles, transepts, north porch and central tower is open on sundays from 8 to ro a.m. for telegraph.

containing one bell: it affords 500 sittings, of which 350 business
are free. The register dates from the year 1841. The Wall Letter Box, Railway station, cleared at 7·45 a.m-

living is a vicarage, net yearly value £165, with 3 acres 1.30, 6.15 & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 5.20 p.m
of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel"
. and held since 1884 by the Rev. John Adams Cree B.D. Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, The Rise.-
of Magdalen College, Oxford. There are Congregational Mrs. Annie Cobley, sub-postmistress. Letters are-
and Baptist chapels and a Working Men's Institute and not delivered from this office. :Box cleared at 8.45 a.m•.
Reading Rooms. Coworth Park is the seat of Lord 2, 6 & 7·38 p.m.; sundays, 5.30 p.m. The office iS'
Stanley M.P.; the house is an ancient building,standing in open on sunday from 8 a. m. to 10 a.m. for telegraph
a densely wooded park. Sunningdale park contains a business

modern mansion, with some well laid-out pleasure National School (mi:x:ed), built in 1842 & since enlarged.,

grounds, and is the residence of Major William James now accommodating 270 children; average attendance,.

Joicey J.P., V.D.; :Broomfield Hall is the seat of James l 192 boys & girls; George William Gray, master; in-
Reiss esq.; Lynwood, of George Rodie Thompson esq. fants', built 1882, for 100 children; average attendance,.
D.L., J.P. ; Shrubbs Hill Place is the seat <Jf George · 97; Miss Eliza Wakelin, mistress

Waimsley esq.: there are also several other mansions , Railway Station, Frederick Clarke, station master

2~8 SUNNINGDALE. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Walmsley George, Shrubbs Hill place Godda:rd! Ohas. haulier &c. The Rise

.A.cworth Rev. Robert M.A. (curate), Welch Capt. D. N. Virginia Water Goddard David, dairyman

The Firs Westmacott Percy, Rise mount (postal Halfpenny Alfred, fly proprietor

A.li Hon. Justice Ameer O.I.E., M.A. address, Sunninghill) Harrison Ohas. t-obacconist,Cowarth rd

Davlesford Wood Charles, Park lodge Hedges Arthur, Red Lion P.Hl

llelclier Miss, Spring grove Hodder Rose (Miss), stationer, Post ofr

Bourne-May James William Seaburne, COMMERCIAL. Holland Edward, jobbing gardener

Shrubb Hill house Ashby & Co. (branch), bankers; open Holland Hannah (Mrs.), laundress,

Cohen 1\Iiss, Whitmore cottage mondays & thursdays 10 till 12; The Rise

Colchester Lord D.L., J.P., F.S.A., draw on Williams, Deacon & Man- Johnson .AlbeTt, blacksmith

F.R.G.S. St. Bruno; & Carlton & chester & Salford Bank Limited, Kington Wm. Edwn. grocer (branch)

Athenreum clubs, London W London E 0 Leggatt James, baker

Corube Mrs. Shrublands Bwrnes .Albert Henry, fly proprietor Littleton Richd. plumber, The Rise

Cree Rev. John Adams B.D. Vicarage Bigg Lionel, dairyman London & Provincial Ban}t Limited

Eggleton Mrs. Maple cottage Butler David, butcher (agency) (F. N. Tomkins, manager),

Ferriday Arthur Leonard,MossVale cot Chancellor & Sons, auctioneers & open mon. thurs. & sat. from 9 to

Frith Waiter Basted, The Cottage estate agents, surveyors & valuers; 12; draw on head office, 7 Bank

Garvey John, Roseley & at Ascot bui:dings, Lothbury & Glyn, Mills,

Girdlestone Theophilius William M.A., Ch.apman Ja.mes, draper &i grocer Ourrie & Co. London E C

F.L.S Clarke Fdk.station master,Railway stn Marks Ebenezer, baker

Grover Mrs. Wilburv Clifhm Thos. greengrooer, Cowarth rd Martin Julius Robert, draper

Hadden Charles, Inglesiae Cotton Geo.Chequers P.H..tblacksmith Miller Alfred George, hair dresser,

Hamilton Miss, Charters Cox John E. boot maker, The Rise Station road

Hancock Thomas Francis, Broomhall Divall Thomas, t.ailor, Station road Monday Alfred, boot maker

.Tohnstone Hon. Gilbert, Mount cott Donaldson George, Station hotel Newman Emma. Maria (Mrs.), dress

Joicey Major William James J.P.,V.D. Drake & Mount Limited, forage maker, Oowarth road

Sunningd:ale park contract{)rs, oorn, hay, straw, coal Nicholson Fredk. Jas. Prudential agent

Kemp-Welch Charles DurantD.L.,J.P. & building goods merchants; & a.t Norris Joseph & Sons, builders

Broadlands Ascot, Bracknell, Sunninghill, Wo- Noyes Mary (Miss), milliner,The Rise

King Samuel Richard, Studlands kingham, Virginia Water & Pack Edwin James Venner, builder,

Keirle Robert, Clarefield Camberley Parkside

Kitt Charles, Ash lodge Ellis John, blacksmith Packer Henry & Sons, shopkeepers &

Le Hunt George Rutter, Bromlea End William, carver & gilder carmen

Locke Misses, Burridge Fear Brothers, corn & coal merchants, Pearce Mark, baker, The Rise

Maudsley Mrs. Haistwell Railway station Pike Edwin,grocer & beer rtlr.Tbe Rise

Montague Capt. Oecil Edgar,Lulworth Febery Mark, Nag's Head P.H Rawlinson Frances (Mrs.), grocer,

Moth Albert, Scotswood Finch Joseph, grocer Shrub's hill

Norris Harry, Firdene Forsyhh Waiter & Sons, butchers Roge.rs James, shopkeeper, The Rise

Norris Joseph, Dagwell house Galloway Frederick, baker & beer rtlr Smith W. H. & Son, news agents,

()Jiver Vere Langford, Whitmore lodge Giddy & Giddy, estate agents, auc- Railway station

()llivant Sir Edward Charles Kayall tioneers & valuers, adjoining the Spofforth Jn. L.R.C.P.Edin.,M.R.C.S.

K.C.I.E. Littleridge station (Arthur Leonard Ferriday, Eng. surgeon, Cranleigh

Reiss James, Broomfield hall manager); & at Maidenhead; chief Stephenson Edwin, organist to parish

Robinson Andrew, Burnham house office, 4 Waterloo place, Pall mall, church & teacher of music, Church

Round William Charles, Thorndean London W cotta.ge

Schneider The Misses, Dale lodge Gigg & Sons,fly proprietors &i delivery Stock Edward, draper

Scott Harry, Oak lodge a.gents to L. & S. W. Railway, Sunningdale CyclingClub (F.Clements,

Spofforth John, Cranleigh Cowarth road see)

Stanley Lord 1\-I.P., D.L., J.P.Coworth Gigg Cla.ra. (Mrs.), fancy repository, Tedder John, earthenware dealer

park; 36 Great Cumberland place Cowarth road Wa!dron Joseph, beer retailer

\<V; Turf club W & Carlton & Gigg Harry, coach builder & farrier, Wellbelove John, boot & shoe maker

Guards' clubs SW, London Cowarth road Wickens Austin, shopkeeper

Stevens Mrs. Laburnum villa Girdlestone T. W., M.A., F.L.S. Working Men's Institute & Reading

Thompson Geo.Rodie D.L.,J.P.Lynwd gentlemen's boarding school Room (Rev. R. W. H.Acworth M.A.

Villiers Emest, Pine acre 'Glass Ernest, fly proprietor hon. sec)

SUNNINGHILL is a straggling and extensive parish, Wells" is a chalybeate spring, formerly much frequented.

on the Bath and Reading road, and extending on one side Sunninghill Park, in this parish, is the seat of Percy

to Windsor park, about 1 mile east from Ascot .fleath Edward Crutchley esq. J.P.; the mansion, an ancient

railway station on the South Western railway, 24 miles house, is situated in a densely wooded park. Silwood Park

from London, 6 south-west from Windsor and 6 south- is the seat of Thomas Cordes esq. J.P.; the old mansion

~y-west from Egham, in the Eastern division of the has been taken down and rep~aced by a handsome modern

<:ounty, hundred of Cookham, petty sessional division structure of brick with stone dressings in the Gothic

and union of "Windsor, county court districts of Chertsey style, standing in a well-wooded deer park of 250 acres;

-and Maidenhead, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdea- Titness Park is the property of Capt. Sir Reginald Archi·
conry of Berks and diocese of O• xford. The church of St. bald Edward Cathcart hart. ; the mansion is also

Michael .and .All .Angels, originally built in 1807 and 1826, in the Gothic style, and is situated on an eminence in a

was partially rebuilt in 1888-9, when a chancel, vestry and small undulating park; Buckhurst Park is the seat of

:a chapel of stone, in the Perpendicular style, were added Sir Joseph Savory bart. M.P., D.L., J.P.; the mansion is

at a cost of £4,ooo: there are also nave, aisles and an em- I a modern building, standing on an eminence in a. pic-
"battled western tower with 3 bells and north porch: there turesque park of 127 acres; Harewood Lodge, the seat

are sittings for 700, 400 of which are free and unappro- of Col. the Hon. Charles Rowley Hay J.P. is a handsome

priated: the new: chancel cost £2,5oo, which was raised residence standing in its own grounds; Tittenhurst

"by subscriptions. In the churchyard is a yew tree Lodge, the seat of Miss Driver, situated on a declivity

supposed to be I,ooo years old. The register dates from in a park, has tastefully laid-out pleasure grounds and

the year 1561. The living is a vicarage, net income £312, terraces; Tetworth Park, the property of Lord Harlech,

with 18 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of St. is now occupied by Patrick Grant esq.; the mansion

John's College, Cambridge, and held since 18 84 by the stands in a park of 24 acres near Ascot Heath racecourse;

Rev. James Snowdon M.A. and formerly fellow of that other good residences in this parish are Ashurst Lodge,

-college. St. Alban's chapel of ease is an iron buildin~ of Col. Henry Blundell-Hollinshead-Elundell C.B., M.P.,

with a thatched roof, and will seat 200 persons. There is D L. ; Beechwood, Farmwood, Frognal, Pembroke Lodge

-a Wesleyan chapel at Cheapside, a reading and recreation : and Broadlands. Her Majesty the Queen, Percy Edward

Toom, with library of about 1,5oo volumes, in Sunninghill 1 Crutchley esq. Thomas Cordes esq. J.P. (who is lord of

village, also a free library and readin~ room with over the manor), Col. H. Blnndell-Hollinshead-Blundell C.B.,

3,000 volumes called the Doming Library, given and M.P. Capt. Sir Reginald Archibald Edward Cathcart hart.

maintained at the so:e expense of Miss Durning-Smith, Lord Harlech, Miss Driver and William Quilter esq. are

and also a Public Hall which can be hired for enter- the chief landowners. The soil is gravel and sand; sub-

taimnents. The charities of th1s parish were consoli- soil, gravel, sand and clay. The area is 3,094 acres,

dated in 1894 by a scheme sanctioned by the Charity principally gentlemen's parks and heath, and 41 of water;

Commissioners, under the name of the "Sunninghill rateable value, £35,033; the population in 1891 wa.s 3·939•
l'arochial Charities;" the gross income is derived from of which 2,510 are attached to the parish church.

about £goo, invested in Consols. .At a place called "the

DIRECTORY] BERKSHIRE. SUNNINGBILL. 219

Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery&; Annuity & the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as "Les Dames
Anglaises," whose mother house is at Munich, in
Insurance Office.-Alfred Wm. Elcock, sub-postmaster. Bavaria, was opened in September, 1885, & has a school

Letters arrive through Ascot at 6.30 & 9.50 a.m. & attached for 40 boarders. The building is of red brick
faced with stone, in the Queen Anne style, & stands in
5·IS p.m.; sun. 6.30 p.m.; dispatched at 9.50 a.m. & grounds of about 31 acres ;Mrs.l\fary Edwards,superiorss
2.50, 6.50 & 8 p.m.; sun. 6 p.m
Post, 1\L 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery&; Annuity & Near the convent there is a Franciscan priory, erected at
Jnsnrance Office., Sunninghill Village.-Miss Fanny the cost of Charles .Toseph Stonar esq.; the fathers of
.Abbey, postmistress. Letters arrive through Ascot
this house have charge of the mission
at 6.10 & 9.40 a.m. & s.xo p.m.; sun. 6.30 a.m.; dis-
Schools.
patched at xo.Io a.m. 3, 6.5s & 8.25 p.m.; sunday, 6 National, with an endowment of £34• for 450 children;
p.m
Post, M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, average attendance, boys & girls, 260 & infants, 93;
Cheapside.-Herbert Cubitt, sub-postmaster. Letters Waiter Wix, master; Mrs. Elizabeth Wix, mistress;
arrive through As cot 8. IS & II.15 a. m. & 6.10 p.m.; Miss May Mclver, infants' Inistress
sun. 8.15 a. m. ; dispatched 8. IS a.m. 2-S5 & 6.10 p.m.; National, Cheapside, erected in 1874• for 100 children;
sunday, 5.30 p.m average attendance, 85; Miss Winifred Bizley,mistress

The Catholic Convent here, belonging to the Institute of Carrier to Reading -Frederick Tripp, sat

PRIVATE RESmENTS. Snowdon Rev. Jas. M.A. The Vicarage Kington William Edwin, grocer .

Bald Col. Reinhold B. Claverhouse Tollemache Mrs. Coombe grange Kyte Charles, Seven Stars P.H. Black

Barnes Thomas, Hazeldene Trotter William .T.P. King's beeches Nest

Blacketb Haro~d, Pinewood Walker Mrs. Coombe meadows Lacy Alex. Gairdner L.R.C.P.Lond.,

Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell Col. Hy. Walshe Edward Frederick Devenish M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, & medical

C.B., M.P., D.L. Ashurst lodge & J.P. The Glebe officer & public vaccinator, 3rd dist.

ro Stratton street W & Carlton, Watkins George, Hill house Windsor union

Guards', United Service &; Army & COMMERCIAL. Ley Marie (Miss), milliner

Navy clubs, London SW Abbey Fanny (Miss), stationer, Post Lloyd Thos. carman, One Mile cottage

Brigginshaw William, Coombe lodge office, Sunninghill village Lumber William, ironmonger, Sun-

Cathca.rt Capt. Sir Reginald Archibald Abbey William, baker lllinghill village

Ed.ward hart. D.L. Titness park Aggiss James, butcher Miller Albert, Hedley, draper
Chichester Col. Cornwallis Henry, Ambrose George, Rising Sun hotel, ~litchell .Tohn, boot & shoe maker,

West mains Black nest Sunuinghill village

Cla.rke Charles Oarlos, Woodlands Ascot .District Gas Co. (William J. Moore Edward, draper

Ola.rke Ernest Henry Carlos, Brook ho Hicks, manager) Mor·ton William & Edwa.rd, smiths

Clementi-Smith Rev.Algernon Eldrick Ascot Telephone Exchange (Herbert Norwood Chas.coach builder,Cheapside

M.A. Fir grove Crook, operator in charge), Sun- Paice William, corn merchant by Royal

Conyngham Jane, Marchioneils of, The ninghill village Warrant to Her Majesty the Queen

Mount Ball William Benj. chemist & druggist & special appointment to H.R.H.

Cordes Thomas J.P. Silwood park Bawden Mary (Mrs.), baker Prince of Wales, Cheapside

Crutchley Percy Ed.ward :T.P.Sunning- Binnie Wilham, clothier &c Parsley William, White Hart P.H

hill park Bookham John, whitesmith, Sunning- Peters Edward, chimney sweep

Davy Rev. Thos. Gibson Assoc.K.C.L. hill village Pizzey Frank,bldr. decorator &undrtkr

(curate of St. Alban's,Chapel of Ease) Braisher Raymo11a, saddler Porter Alfred George, grocer

Driver Miss, Tittenhurst lodge Bristor Mary Olive (Mrs.), laundry, Reading Room (John Barnett, sec)

Dyer Lady, The Knoll Erookside Roach William, Old Tun inn

Eales Mrs.The White house,Cheapside Burke James, upholsterer & undertk:r Robinson George Webb, butcher,

Entwisle Mrs. The Oaks Chapman James,coach builder &farrier Cheapside

Frankland Lady, Thirkleby house Clark Robert Henry, butcher Rose William, watchmaker
Gibbons Frederick, The Hatch Co~le:t Annie (Miss), dress maker Sampson Chas. tailor, Sunninghill

Grant Patrick, Tetworth park Collins Eliza (Miss), dress maker, Sun· village

Hardyman Miss, Sillwood cottage ninghill village Sandwith <lli Clayton, chemists

Hay Col. The Hon. Charles Rowley Cooper Charles, florist &c. Sunning- Saunders Samuel, beer retailer

J.P. Harewood lodge hill village Searle Charles, carman & contractor

Hichens John K. J. Be~h grove Cubitt Herbert, grocer & butcher,Post & dealer in British & foreign cigars,

Hahler Frederick Scott, Brook lodge office, Cheapside Snnninghill village

Howard Thomas, Mona lodge Drake & Mount Limited, forage Searle Charles William, pianoforte dlr.

Hudson Georg-e, Newby contractor!!, corn, hay, straw, coal & tuner, Sunninghill village

.Tameson Col.Henry W. Titness cottage & building goods merchants ; & at Searle John, grocer

Lacy Alex. Gairdner, Saumarez .\.scot, Bracknell, Sunningdale, Simmonds Henry,Carpenters ArmsP.H

Lister Sir Villiers K.C.M.G., D.L. Wokingham, Virginia Water & Cam- Spai•velll:dward, baker & corn dealer

.A.rin itage hill berley Streater & Co. drapers, The Village

Martin-Holloway Lady, Tittenhurst Elcock Alfred William, sub-postmastr Todd James, tobacconist, Sunninghill

Morrison Frank, Farmwood Falahee John, boot maker village

Palmer Waiter J.P. King's walk Firman :Florence (Miss), dress maker Toms Hichard, shoe maker, Cheapside

Peel Willia.rn Chal'les, F'airview Francis George, assistant overseer & Turner Elsie (Mrs.), stationer

Pott Edward, The Cedars collector of taxes Underwood Charles, confectioner,

Rosling Mrs. Furze bank Francklow Richard Henry, draper Sunninghill village

Savory Alderman Sir Jsph. hart. M.P., Goddard & Sons, jobbing gardeners Wade Edwd. Thatch tavern,Cheapside

D.L., J.P. Buckhurs£ park; & 33 Godwin Mary Agnes (Mrs.), day & Wake William, fly proprietor, Bogside

Upper Brook st. W & Carlton & boarding school Walker George, builder

National clubs, London SW Halfpenny Alfd. shopkpr. & hairdressr Walker James, Cannon inn

Seagrave Mrs. Oakhurst Hicks George, hair dresser Watkins George, upholsterer

Sillem Herbert Oscar, White Heather Hobbs J osiah, beer retailer Wellbelove William, oil & colorman,

Smith Rev. Sidney Herbert 1\'i.A. Houlton John, shoe maker, Cheapside Sunning-hill village

(curate), Mount cottage Hudson Robert, grocer West Wm. grocer,Sunninghill village

Smith William, .Albany cottage Hunt Charles P. house decorator Woodham Thomas, New inn

Stanhope The Hon. Lincoln Edwin, King .Tames, basket maker,Cheapside Woollatt William, baker & grocer

Pemberton lodge King William, grocer \Vyard Henry, Wells inn

SUNNINGWELL is a parish bounded on the east an addition in the Elizabethan style, was erected by John
Jewel D.D. who was rector here about 1551, and Bishop
by the Thames, 2l miles north-west from the Radley of Salisbury 1559·71 ; his famous "Apology for the
Church of England" and "Defence" of the "Apolo2'f,"
station on the Great Western railway and 3 north from copies of which were placed in many English churches
Abingdon, in the Northern division of the county, hun- for the common use of the parishioners, are still to be
dred of Harmer, petty sessional division, union and county found in some Berkshire churches. There is also a
monument to Hannibal Easkerville esq. who died in 1688;
court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of Abingdon, and other memorials to the learned Dr. Samuel Fell,
archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The town- Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1638, and formerly
ship of Kennington, which is partly in this parish and rector of this parish, who is said to have died of grief
partly in the parish of Radley, was constituted a separate 1st February, 1649, on hearing of the execution of Charles
ecclesiastical parish February 16, 1866. The church of I. ; and to :Margaret his wife, who survived him : tlut

St. Leonard is a building of stone, consisting of chancel,
nave, west porch and an embattled tower with four pin-

nacles and containing 5 bells : the semi-octagonal porch,

220 SU~NINGWELL. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY's

handsome communion table was given by Bishop Jewel: in England in 1677-8, are now in the Harleian collection a\
the church was restored by subscription in 1.877 at a
cost of £I,2oo, and has 165 sittings. The register dates the British Museum,

from the year I543• The living is a rectory, net yearly By Local Government Board Order I8,177, dated March
value £240, with residence and 14 acres of glebe, in the
25, 1885, two detached parts of Sunningwell parish,
gift of A. 0. Whittington esq. and held since 1898 by the
known as the Isle of Wight and Kennington Village, wen~
Rev. Benjamin George Collett Whittington, of St. Ed-
mund Hall, Oxford, and Assoc.K.C.L. There is added to Radley, and Great and Little Ducklings and Bay-
a charity of the yearly value of about £43- arising partly
from land and partly from money in the funds, called worth have been transferred from Abingdon St. Nicholas
"Poor's Land Charity," the proceeds of which are de-
voted to the support of the poor. Colonel Disney's trus- to Sunningwell, under the provisions of the "Divided
tees are the lords of the manor and chief landowners.
The soil is cla.y, sand and limestone; subsoil, gravel. Parishes Act." ..._
The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and turnips.
Parish Clerk, Rev. H. C. Adams M.A.
The population in 1891 wa.s 243; the parish comprises
1,331 acres; rateable value, £1,578. Deputy Clerk and Sexton, James Honey.

Bayworth is a hamlet half a mile north. Here resided Post Office.-Charles Thompson, sub-postmaster. Lette:rs

Thomas Baskerville, son of Hannibal Baskerville esq. a from Abingdon by messenger, arriving at 7 a.m. &
topographical writer whose MS. journals of his travels
12.30 p.m.; dispatched at 10 a.m. & 6.45 p.m. Th&

nearest money order office is at .Abingdon & telegraph

offices, .Abingdon & Radley

National School (mixed), erected in 1871, for 65 chil-

dren, with teacher's house adjoining; average attend-

anr:e, 59; Charles Thompson, master; Mrs. Elizabeth

Ann Thompson, sewing mistress

PRIVATE BESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Lanning Thos. Rogers,frmr.Bayworta

Deane Dennis, farmer Silvester Frank, blacksmith & groc&l"

lladcock Richard Gerring John, farmer Stanbridge Matilda & Son, farmers-.

Galpm Henry Frank, Glenfield Badcock Richard (R. & W. Badcock), Church farm

Green Ernest Henry, Brumcombe auctioneer, valuer, house & estate Thompson Charles, land surveyor.

Goold James agent & farmer, Manor farm Post office

Whittington Rev. Benjamin George Godfrey Charles, shopkeeper Wicks Thomas, builder & fatmer

Collett .Assoc.K.C.L. Rectory Greening William, farmer

BUTTON COURTENAY (or Sutton Courtney) is a By Local Government Board Order, 2o,6go, dated March
parish bounded on the north by the Thames, which 24, 1887, Rowstock Farm was transferred from SuttoD
separates it from Oxfmdshire, 2 miles south from Cui- Courtney to East Hendred.
ham station on the Didcot and Oxford branch of the
Great Western railway and 2! miles south-south-east Parish Clerk, Charles James Whiting.
from Abingdon, in the Northern division of the county,
hundred of Ock, petty sessional division, union and SUTTON WICK is a. township 2 miles west, near thB
county court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of Ab- river Ock, and is partly within the borough of Abingdon;
ingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. it comprises Upper and Lower Wick and Ody Hill. Abou"'
The church of All Saints is a building of stone in the half a mile from Abingdon is the old race cours~ where-
Norman and Gothic styles, consisting of chancel, nave of the Berks and Oxon Hunt steeplechases are held yearly.
four bays, aisles, north and south porches, and a western under National Hunt rules. The area of the township is
tower containing 6 bells and a clock : there are 200 sit- 1,286 acres of land and 20 of water; rateable value,
tings, the majority of which are free. The register dates £1,848; the population in 1891 was 345·
from the year 1539· The living is a vicarage, with the
chapelry of Appleford annexed, joint net yearly value Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
£290, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons
of Windsor, and held since 1856 by the Rev. Richard Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. Frederic'fi
John Howard Rice M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There Burson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Abing-
are Baptist and Congregational chapels. Almshouses for don at 7 a.m. & I p.m. ; dispatched at 4·30 & 6.45
six poor widows were founded and endowed in 1818, with p.m.: sundays, n.25 a.m
about 30s. per year each, by F. Elderfield esq.: the poor
have also about £35 yearly from several other charities. Wall Letter Box, Mill, cleared 10.45 a.m. & 4.30 & 6.55
The ".Abbey.'' occupied by Mrs. Theobald Theobald, was
formerly attached to the Abbey of Abingdon, being then p.m. ; sunday, 11.35 a.m. ; & near Plough P.H. cleared
used as a hospital. Lord Wantage K.C.B., V. C. is owner 6.30 p.m. ; sundays, 8.30 a.m.; Sutton Wick, cleared
of the manor house. The principal landowners are the 2 & 7.25 p.m. ; sundays, 4.20 p.m
trustees of the late Edward Pullen esq. Louis Arthur
Barrett esq. of Milton House, and William wuch esq. A School Board of 5 members was formed 20 .Aug. 1874;
The soil is clay, gravel and loam; subsoil, gravel. The Frank Turner, clerk to the board; Charles Jo-hn Whit.
crops are wheat, barley and meado-w grass. The ing, Sutton Courtenay, attendance officer

area is 2,145 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable National School, built in 1875, for 18o children; averag&
value, [3,687; the population in r8gr was 843. attendance, 125; Thomas Yeates, master; Miss G.
]4oss, mistress

Carriers to :-
Abingdon & Culham-Charles Peckham, 'Broad Face/

daily; George Hedges, 'Old Bell,' daily

· SUTTON COURTENAY. Carter John, boot maker R~ynolds .Alfred, beer retailer

D'Almaine Han-y George William,The Carter William, bricklayer ~ismrtn Robertl, grccer & draper

Gables Day Charles, builder, contractor, Tinson Benjamin, beer retailer & fal."I6

Lee Cecil, Walton house wheelwright, blacksmith, timber bailiff to Lord Wantage

Lindsay Henry E. Manor house merchant & undertaker Turner Frank, farmer
Louch Willia.m, The Laurels Hall Gains, grocer Whitehe~d John Samuel, Fish inn

'1\J:ilne John A. The Croft Hanks 'fhomas, coal merchant Whiting Francis William, blacksmith
Nunney Mrs Hedges George, Swan P.H Witts Priscilla (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Rice Rev. Bich::lrd John Howard M.A. Herring George, sexton SUTTON WICK.
Vicarage Lambert Charle.<t Frederick, ·whole-

Rice Edward, Elmbrook sale herbalist Badcock l3enjamm
Theobald Captain F.Cambrid e Sutton Lambert Waiter Robert, coal merchant Cheer Wm.miller (~ater),Newcut mlJ
Ct h g ' Lock Jsph. Plough P.H. & stonemason Cook Theodore, artist
Th ~br l~n~ 0T~e obald 'fhe .Abb Looker Sarah (Mrs.),Queen'sHead P.H Dewe Tom William, farmer, Stone hl
e a rs. e • ey Mouldey Carolina (Mrs.), George & Race Course (Berks & Oxon Hunt.

COMMEBCIAL. Dragon P.H Steeplechases), Pratt & Co. clerks
Sadler Elise (Mrs.), young ladies?'
.Alien Moses, farmer & miller (water) Peckham Charles, carrier
school, Sutton Wick college
Burson Fredk. grocer, & post office. Pullen Tom, farmer

SWALLOWFIELD is a pleasant Tillage and parish I diocese of Oxford. .A portion of this parish, formerly in.

on the rivers Loddon and Blackwater, which form a junc- Wiltshire, was transferred to Berkshire under the Acts
tion in the parish, 4! miles east from Mortimer station 2 and 3 William IV. cap. 64 and 7 and 8 Vict. cap. 61.
on the Reading and Basingstoke branch of the Great 'I'he church of All Saints is a structure of flint, built in

Western railway, 5! south-west from Wokingham, si 1256 by John le Despencer, then Baron of Swallowfield',.

south-east from Reading and 10 north-east from Basing- and was restored in 1862-70 by the late Sir Charles

stoke, in the Eastern division of the county, hundreds of Russell bart.: it consists of chancel, nave, s<Juth porch

Cbarlton and Reading, Reading petty sessi<Jnal division, and a western tower with wooden belfry containing S
union of Wokingham, county court district of Beading, bells; the tower is supported on wooden piers fixed in
rural deanery of Reading, archdeaconry of Berks and the floor, fr<Jm which the bells are rung: in the ch.urcb.

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. SWALLOWFIELO. 221

are several monuments and brasses; Sir John le Des- Russell hart. Mrs. Gray, Mrs. W. H. Martin-Atkins, of
pencer died in 1274 and was buried here; on restoring Farley Castle, and No-rton Aylmer Roupell esq. of Evers-
the church his· remains were found halfway between the ley, Hants, are the principal landowners. The soil is
south door and the chancel screen in a stone coffin sur- mostly of sand and gravel; subsoil, clay. The chief crops
mounted by a stone cross : there are 300 sittings, 250 are wheat, barley and oats. The area of East Swallowfield
being fl'ee. The register dates from the year 1539. is 1,500 acres of land and 22 of water; rateable value,
The living is a vicarage, net value £233, in the gift of the £2,470; West Swallowfield has an area of 2,211 acres of
Desu and Chapter of Hereford, and held since 1881 by the land and 12 of water; rateable value, £4,497; the popu-
Rev. Maunsell.Tohn Bacon M.A. of Sidn~y Sussex College, lation in 1891 was, of the former 363, and of the latter
Cambridge. A mission room, duly licensed by the Bishop, 1,142.
w&s also erected by Col. William Gray, of Farley Hill Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Place, for the Rislev district. There are Primitive
Methodist and Bapti~t chapels here. The charities for Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Thomas B.
Pither, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Reading
the poor amount to £9 yearly. Near the village is Swal- at 6.15 a.m. & 12.30 p.m.; dispatched at 1.30 & 6.35
p.m.; sunday, arrive 6.1~ a.m.; dispatched at 4·35 p.m
lowfield Park, the seat of Sir George Arthur Charles Post Office, Spencer's Wood. John Lowe, sub-post-
Russell hart.; at the time of the Norman Conquest,Swal- master. Letters arrive from Reading at 7 a.m. & 12

l~wfield was a royal domain; in the reign of Henry III. noon; dispatched at I-55 & 7.10 p.m. Three Mile Cross

it appertained to the Earl of Warwick; in that of Edward is the nearest money order office & Swallowfield, 2
miles distant, the nearest telegraph office
II. it belonged to John le Despencer, then passed to the Wall Letter Box, Riseley common, cleared 5.20 p.m.;
sundays, 9.50 a.m
De la Beches and next to John (Plantagenet), Duke of
Bedford K.G. 3rd son of King Henry IV. who died siesed Schools.

of it in 1435 ; by his will it went to Henry VI. who National School, Riseley common, built in 1855, for 250
children; average attendance, 130; Arthur J. H.Wright,
granted it to John Penicoke: about r6oo it was possessed
master
by the Backhouse family, from whom, by his marriage Sir Charles Russell's School (mixed), for 150 children;

with the widow of Sir William Backhouse, it passed to average attendance, 136; John T. Russell, master
Henry (Hyde), second Earl of Clarendon; in 1719 it was Omnibuses to Reading from 'Bull inn,' Swallowfield to

sold to Thomas Pitt M.P. the celebrated governor of Fort 'Broa.d Face,' Reading, tues. thurs. & sat.from 'George

St. George, and ancestor of the great Lord Chatham; and & Dragon' to 'Peacock,' mon. & fri
was subsequently purchased by the Right Hon. Sir
Henry Russell bart. P.O. and some time Chief Justice of Carriers to Reading.-Edwards, to 'Duke's Head'; Haw-
Eengal, and is now the seat of Sir George Russell hart.: kins, to ' Peacock' ; Wynn, to ' Black Horse' ; Withers,

the mansion, as now existing, was built in 1678 by Henry, to 'Peacock' & Hanson, to 'Peacock,' daily
second Earl of Clarendon, and is a quadrangular edifice,

relieved in the centre of the principal front by four Ionic
columns supporting a pediment: the arms and cyphers

<lf the Clarendons still form part of the fragments of the FARLEY HILL IS a hamlet in this parish. The chapel of
<lld ceiling of the oval vestibule, and a rich cornice of
the same age, wrought in fruit and foliage, adorns the ease of St. John the Evangelist, built in r8gr by the late

breakfast room: here Sir Edward Hyde, the rst Earl c! Col. Gray, at a cost of £2,ooo, and also endowed by him,

Clare:ridon, Lord High Chancellor in the reign of Charles was consecrated in 1892. Farley Hill Place, a substantial
brick mansion standing in a park of about 8o acres, is
!IT. resided with his son upon his retirement from public
the seat of Mrs. Gray; in the entrance hall is a fine
life, and here he is said to have written the greater part,
if not the whole, of his "History of the Rebellion:" two painted ceiling by Lancret. Farley Castle is the residence
wings at the rear of the mansion forming a quadrangular of Mrs. W. H. Martin-At.kins. Farley Court, a very
courtyard, are of much older date. Loddon Court, the
seat of Mrs. Roupell, is a modern house standing on high pleasant residence, is the seat of Mrs. Brooks.
ground, overlooking the valley of the Loddon river, in a
richly timbered park of about roo acres, the oak trees in Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
which are especially very fine and of great age; this Mrs. Mary H. Deane, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive
property, the ancient name of which was Kingsbridge,
appears in Domesday book as part of the Royal Windsor from Reading at 7.20 a.m. & 1.20 p.m. ; dispatched at
Forest domain. Henry Lannoy Hunter esq. J.P. of
12.5 & 6.10 p.m.; sunday, arrive 7.20 a.m. ; dispatched
Eeech Hill, is part lord of the manor. Sir G. A. C.
4.ro p.m. Swallowfield, 2 miles distant, is the nearest

telegraph office
Wall Letter Boxes.-Near Fox & Hounds P.H. cleared

5.5o p.m.; sunday, ·3.50 p.m.; Church, cleared n.so

a.m. & 6 p.m.; sunday, 4 p.m

SW.A.LLOWFIELD. King .Tohn. farmer Rrooks "Mrs. Farley court

Lanaway William, fly proprietor Edmondstone Mrs. The Cottage

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Leadbetter Alfred John, ca1"penter G-ray Mrs. Farlev Hill Place

Bacon Rev. Maunsell John ~LA. The Lee John, beer retailer ~rartin-At.ltins Mrs. W. H. Farley

Vicarage May Charles, Sun P.H castle

Bye George, The Firs , Maynard Alfd. John, baker & grocer Simonds William, Woodbury

<lane Mrs. Rose villas Moss George, Bird-in-Hand P.H Allen Joseph, Fox & Hounds P.H

'Clode S. Risley lodge Moody Charles, baker & grocer Cordery William, farmer

Cooper Thomas Terry, Bridge house Nai>:h Henry, butcher Cusden William, shopkeeper

Kennedy Anthony Street, Oakley ho North George, Five Bells P.H Goddard Samuel, gardener to Mrs.

Leighton John, The Island Pither Thos. Ballard, butcher, J>!ost off Gray

Roupell Harvey, Loddon court Rampton Edward, chimney sweeper Holt Pri'lcilla (Miss), farmer

Roupell Mrs. Loddon court Robinson Edwd.Frmr.Sheepbridge fm l saacs Francis George, fanner

Russell Sir George Arthur Charles Simmonds "\Valter, wheelwright Pratt Charles, fanner

hart. Swallowfield park Spencer Daniel, Bull P .H
w·alker J ames Frede-rick, Elm lodge Stacey Thomas, beer retailer
SPENCEH'S WOOD.

Waterer Ralph E. 1-Vyvols court aStevenson Frederick, farmer "d ·
Welch David, High grove WaJker J ames F'reU;lul1..., L:R· ·p · & S · LDlaov1vdsoMn rJs ames, Rose villa

COMMERCIAL. Ipr~ebll.icsurvgae.cocni.na&torm, ed.Sihcianlfioefldficedris&- Oakley MMr~"~ s
Smith
Eowyer Henry, Crown P.H tr1ct, "\Vokmgham uruon, Ehn lodge The Chestnuts

COMMERCIAL.

Bye J oel, farmer 'Vebb Arthur Lawrence, draper . A.dams William, boot maker

Bye Jvel, jun. miller (water), Stan- Webb Roberb, cattle dealer Allen John, grocer
fcrd encl
Wheatley James, blacksmith Balb.rd Charles, draper
<::ooper Thomas Terry, miller (water) Withers Edwa.rd, George & Dragon Clemenh Henry, baker
& farmer, Swallowfield mill ~ P.H. & earner
. Hillier William, farmer
'Cordery Ernest, coal merchant 1: eo Thoma;;, farrne!, ass1stant over- Lowe John, coal merchant

Dowse Benjamin, grocer seer & agent to Su George Arthur Moxey Henry William, coach builder
(~irdler Bro!'l. painters & plumbers • Charl.es. Russe~
Grey Albert V. grocer . Snell William, Red Lion P.H
I eo Wilbam, bwlder & beer retailer Webb Alhert, l!addler & harness ma
Hewett John, farmer
Holloway George, blacksmith F.A.RLEY E ILL. Wheeler Edwin, builder & brick maker

Isaac Jonas, farmer Biddle Rev. Alexander Boss B..A.. (For remainder of the names see Shin-

Keeping William C. farmer (curate) field & Grazeley.)

THATCHAM is a parish intersected by the river Ken- village, on thll Great Western railway, so miles from

net and the Kennet and Avon can11, and is bounded on the London, 3 miles east from N ewbury and 14 south-west

south by the river Auburn, which separates this county from Reading, in the Southern division of the county,

from Rants, with a statioiL 1 mile south-east from the hundred of Reading, petty sessional division, union and

222 THATCHAM. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S

county court district of Newbury, and in the rural some edifice of red brick, beautifully situated, with fine

de8.nery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and dio- views of the distant Hampshire hills : Stone House is the

cese of Oxford. The village is lighted with gas and is residence of Capt. Edward John J ohnston; and Thatcham

!SUpplied with water from wells, and it has been drained House, of Richard Samuel Chattock esq. William

at a cost of between £3,ooo and £4,ooo, out of the George Mount esq. M.P. of Wasing Place, Albt. Richd.

l'ates. The church of St. Mary is a very fine structure Tull esq. Lloyd Harry llaxendale esq. of Greenham Lodge.

in mixed .styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, Edward Fidler esq. and Henry John Andrews Eyre esq.

south porch and an embattled western tower with pinna- are the principal landowners. W. G. Mount esq. M.P.

cles, containing 6 bells and a clock: about 1852 it was is lord of the manor of Thatcham and Albert Richard

restored throughout: adjoining the chancel is a chantry Tull esq. the lord of Crookham manor. The soil is

chapel, called the Fuller chapel, containing a monument gravel and clay; subsoil, gravel, clay and peat. The

of the Fuller family, of Chamber House, 1620, as well chief crops are barley, wheat and roots. The entire area

as memorials to Sir Archer Croft, 3rd bart. of Croft of the old parish was 7,786 acres of land, not including

Castle, Herefordshire, who died 3oth Nov. 1792, and to the commons &c. which are about soo acres, and 79 of
Frances, his mother, wife of Sir Archer Croft, 2nd bart. water; assessa~ble value of the new parish £g,666;

M.P. who died in 1767; there is also an altar tomb to population in I 8g1, 2,900, including 792 in Cold Ash,

Sir William Danvers, one of the judges of the Common which at t1hat time formed part of the civil parish of

Pleas and a "Knight of the Sworde,'' made at the Thatcham, and will be found under a separate heading.

marriage of Prince Arthur, 17th Nov. rsor, who died in Awbury Street is a tithing.

1504; and floor stones of the Tull family, to whom the Crookham, I mile south-east; Henwick, x! west;
chantry now belongs: there are several stained windows Colthrop, r! east; and Parsonage, about 3! north, are

and an extremely fine Norman doorway in the porch: places in this parish.

the chancel arch is also in the Norman style, but is Sexton, Thomas Dig-gens.

modern: the tower has a Decorated doorway and win- Post, M. & T. 0., T_ M. 0., Express Delivery, Parr.f>1
dows of the same date : there are 6oo sittings, mostly Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Henry

appropriated. The register dates from the year 1561. Charles Brooks, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £295, with resi- Newbury at 7 a.m. & 12 noon; dispatched at 1.55 a.m.

dence and 12 a~res of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Kenrick, 6.10 & 8.15 p.m. There is also a telegraph office at the

of Keevil, Wilts, and held since 1889 by the Rev. David railway station

Peirce B.A. of St. David's College, Lampeter. Here are Wall Letter Box, Thatcham Station, cleared at II.3o a.m.

Congregational and W esleyan chapels. The endowed & 7.25 p.m. No collection on sundays

charities include Lady Whitcomb's lllue Coat School for Schools.
40 boys, who are clothed and taught reading and writing, Blue Coat (or Lady Winchcomb's charity), Edwin Head,.
the parents also receiving assistance towards their appren-
ticeship to some trade; the income of the charity is £210; master
National, Clappers green, built in 1844, on ground given
the remaining charities include a SlJID of £71 yearly for
the repair of houses left for charity, the .mrplus going by William George Mount esq. of Wasing, for 161>
children ; average attendance, 70 ; George White~
towards the church repairs; £97 for the support of mast!¥'; Miss Edith Pratt, mistress
British School (mixed), built in 1846, for 18o childrep;
almshouses; £6 I5S. for distribution in bread, and average attendance, 125 ; Horatio Barton Skillman, mast
~ational (infants'), Broad street, built in 1879, for 150
£6 I$S. to three of the oldest men in the village, children; average attendance, 6o; Mrs. Goddard, mist
St. Barnabas' (mixed), Crookham common, enlarged in
Thatcham had anciently a market, confirmed to the 1884, for 100 children; average attendance, 78; John
Abbey of Reading by Henry II. but it has long since been S. Cole, master; Mrs. Elizabeth D. Cole, mistress
discontinued. Crookham Heath is in the southern portion
of the parish. Crookham House, the seat of Albert Railway Station, George Fyfield, station master
Richard Tull esq. D.L., J.P. is a modern mansion of stone,
delightfully situated on an eminence commanding ex-
tensive views of the surrounding country. Little Park

House, the residence of James Shuter esq. is a hand- Carriers. Johnson, to Newbury, daily, & Maslin daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Peirce Rev. David B.A. Field house Child William, carpenter

Allen John, Station road Pink James, Brook villa Childs Benjamin, coach builder

.Arbuthnot Mrs. The Ham Pinnock Stephen, Station road Collins Albt. Jesse, boot & shoe ma

Bailey .A.lbert Preston John Cook Charles, King·s Head P.H

lhiley Miss, Park lane Pullen Miss, Broad street Cruse Frances E. baker & beer retlr

llaker Surgn.-Lieut.-Col. Thos. Young Sawbridge Mrs Dowling Mark, pork btchr.Crookham

M.R.C.S.Eng. Dunstan lodge Shuter Jas. Little Park ho.Crookh:'lm Draper William, relieving & vaccina-

Daker Major Thc.s. Crookham manor Stroud Miss, Marlboro' villa tion officer, ~o. 3 district & regis-

Bait Mrs. The Elms Sheppard Stephen, Hurstleigh trar of births & deaths for the sub-

Brent Algernon, Hambridge lodge Stroud Thomas, Park lane district of Thatcham & for mar-

Drooks Bernard, Combe villa Tomlin Mrs. Sydney lodge riages for the Newbury union

Carter AJ.berl, Newt.own Tull Albert Richard M.A., D.L., J.P. Durbridge John (Mrs.), mop & broom

Carter .Tohn (vice chairman of Quarter Sessions), turner, Ur·Jokham common

Chattock Richd. Saml. Thatcham ho Crookham house Fidler Edwd. brick maker & farmer..

Clark John Woodbridge John Red Field house

Cousens Thomas, Crowfield cottages COMMERCIAL. French John, boot & shoe maker

Cruse Francis E Alien Richard, Plough inn Fry John, baker, Crookham common

Day Mr~. Crowfield cottages Bailey Albert, builder & contractor Fyfield George James A.R.C.O. mana-

Dyke Col. Hart Baker Sarah & Charlotte (Misses), of Gas Works, rate collector & sec.

Fairlhorne Mrs. Sonthcote milliners for the Charity Trustees & teacher

l<'idler Edwd. Redfield ho. London rd Barlow Martha (Mrs.), Lamb inn of music

Fowler Mrs. Crookham End house Baxter ·wm. E. Swan inn, Ham brdg Goodman Henry, New inn

Fry Miss, Church lane Binns Thomas, farm bailiff to .A. Gunter Susan (Miss), frmr.Crookhm

Goddard Mrs. Park lane R. Tull esq. D.L., J.P Gunter Thos. farmer, Waterside farm

Griffith Mrs. Park lane Dolton Chas. Swan P.H. Longbridge Harrison Richard, beer & wine retaill'

Hanks William, Marsh house Boulton Tom, beer retailer Hawkins George, Horse & Jockey

Heard Henry Charles, Vicarage Brooks Bernard James, baker P.H. & grocer, Crookham

Henry John, Colthrop house Brooks Henry Charles, grocer & wine Hawkins Henry, farmer,Rajnsford fl'Ill

Herbert Mrs. London road merchant, Post office Head Edwin, deputy registrar of

Hobbs Joseph, The Rookery, Henwick Brown Jn. & Sons, brush handle trnrs births, deaths & marriages for

Horsman William, The Cedars llrown Charles George, watchmaker, Thatcham. sub-district & master of

Jenkins William, Holly bank The Broadway Blue Coat school

Jchnston Capt. Edward John, Stone Brown Arth. insur. agnt. Wetherdene Henry John & Co. paper manuiac-

house, Crookham Bull George, gamekeeper to A. R. turel"s, Colthrop mills

Lay James, The Poplars 'full esq. D.L., J.P. Park lodge, Hills Henry, farmer, llurnell's fariD,.

Lambert Percy Crookham Crookh3m

Lcveloek Miss, Clay hill Butler Benjamin G. farmr. Henwick Hobbs Ann (Mrs.), Wheatsheaf P.H.

Mecey Edward Candy Benjamin, farmer, Lower way & harness maker

Mecey Mrs Carter & Son, rick & waggon cloth Hobbs Joseph, farmer, The. Rookery

Newnham Capt.Geo.Frdk.The Priory manufacturers Hyde Fred, beer retailer

Nightingale Mrs Carter Gilbert, carrier Hyde Hannah (Miss), laundress

Padbury George William. Carter Henry, fancy turner King Thomas, hair dresser

DIRECTORY..] BERKSHIRE. T&EALE. 223

Lake Geo. chimney sweepr. Chapel st Pierce Kate (~iss), dress maker Smith Martha. (Miss), fancy reposi-

Lambert Percy L.R.C.P.Lond., Pike James, blacksmith tory, Park lane

M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon & medical Pinnock Edmund (Mrs.), coal mer. & Thatcham Conservative Club (Bernar<l

officer & public vaccinator 3rd dis- agent to the Great Weste1'n railway Brooks, treasurer; George James

trict, Newbury union Pinnock Frank, fly proprietor Fyfield, sec)

Lawrence Geo. cowkeeper, Crookham Pinnock Maria (Mrs.),baker,Broadwy Thatcham Gas Co. Limited (Edwar<l

Lay James, farmer, Sieigecross farm Pinnock Matthew, wheelwright Mecey, sec.; George Jas. Fy:field,.

Lay William Golding, baker & grocer Pinnock Stephen, saw mills & turnery manager)

Maccabee James, jobbing gardener, works Townsend Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer rei

St. Luke's cottage Prior Albert, boot & shoe maker Tucker Robert Richmond, draper

Marks John, butcher Prior Waiter, clothier Vallis Clara (Miss), dress maker

Marks George, butcher Ranee James, manager to the Shaw Vickers John & Son, builders, Wesi

Maslin Frederick, carrier Kilns Co. Limited End villa

:Maslin George, coach builder Randall Charles, coffee tavern Waite George, organist

Mayers Hy. Daniel, picture frame ma Randall James, beer retailer Wallin Charles, market gardener k

:Mecey & Son, solicitors & commis- Randall John Mayor, chemist wood merchant

sioners for oaths Redding Richard, dairyman Wallir; Geo. farmer, Thatcham farm

:Mecey Edward, solicitor, see Mecey Reynolds Frederick & Son, painters & & Henwick

& Son glaziers Warren John, butcher

Milsom George, Volunteer P.H. Reynolds Fredk. John, ironmonger Wheeler Charles, blacksmith

•Crookham common Rickarby Richard, draper & clothier Wheeler Edward, whitesmith

Munday William, blcksmth,Crookhm Rippon Jane Harriet (Mrs.), grocer Wheeler George, whitesmith

Nailer .Alex. James, grocer & saddler Rogers Thomas, seedsman White Richard, newsagent

Nailer Harry, grocer & baker Rolfe Chas. farmer, Ham Bridge farm Wickens Job, cowkeeper, Crookham

National Deposit Friendly Society Rosier John, baker & grocer Williams Henry George Martin, White

(branch), (Geo. Jas. Fyfield, sec) Shaw Kilns Co. Lim. (James Ranee, Hart P.H

Neal Joseph Jas. beer retlr. & baker manager), brick makers Wise Jane (Mrs.), pork butcher

New William George & Frederick Bob- Scriven William, farmer, Crown st Witts Charles, boot & shoe maker

son, millers, Ham mill & Bartholo- Shepherd John, farmer, Park farm Woodbridge John, brick, tile & pipe

mew street, Newbury Sheppard Jsph. .Algar,tailor&insur.agt maker, wood merchant & farmer

Penford George, farm bailiff to .A. R. Smith Henry, miller (water), Cham- Wood James & Co. timber merchants-

Tull esq. D.L., J·.P. Chamber House berhouse mill Wyatt Robert, butcher & grocer.,

farm Stroud Jas. jun. farmer, Whitelands Chapel street

Phillips Thomas, boot & shoe maker

THEALE, a parish formed ecclesiastically in 1832, out of Magdalen College, Oxford, and held since 1887 by

of the parish of Tilehurst, and for civil purposes since the Rev. Stuart Cecil Frank .Angel-Smith :M.L\. of Hert-

.April 18, 1894, with a station on the Great Western rail- ford College, Oxford. Here are Congregational and Pri-

way, 44 miles from London and 5 west from Reading, mitive Methodist chapels. The kennels of the South

in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Theale, Berks Fox Hounds are at World's End, on the :Bath road:

union of Bradfield, petty sessional division and county Seymour J. Dubourg esq. is the master. Reading, Wok-

court district of Reading, rural deanery of lhad- ingham, Newbury and Henley are convenient places for

fi.eld, archdeaconry of :Berks and diocese of Ox- hunting visitors. Henry :Barry Blagrave esq. of Calcot

ford; the main portion of the village forms one Park, 'rilehurst, is lord of the manor and principal land-

street along the road from Reading to Newbury, owner. The soil is light; subsoil, gravel and clay. The-

and is lighted by gas. The river Kennet bounds the chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,595

parish on the south. The church of the Holy Trinity, acres; rateable value, £G,gi6; the population in 1891 wa.;;o.

erected in 1832, at the sole expense of the late 1\irs. gog.

Sheppard, of Amport, Hants, under the direction of her Parish Clerk, Edward Goswell.
brother, Dr. Routh, the late venerable president of

Magdalen College, Oxford, is a building of freestone in O.ALCOT is a hamlet partly in this parish, about 2~

the Early English style, from the designs of the late miles on the high road from Reading, and about the same-

Mr. E. W. Garbett, and consists of apsidal chancel, distance from the village.

nave and a fine south-eastern tower, with pinnacles, con. Post, :M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
taining a clock and 6 bells : the chancel was added in 1892
at a cost of nearly £2,ooo, by Mrs. :Butler, in memory Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office. William
of her husband, the Rev. Thomas Butler :B.D. rector Joseph Sly, sub-postmaster. Letters through Reading

1845-87: the west front is a much reduced copy of are delivered at 7 (10.30 for callers only) & u.45 a. m.;
that of Salisbury cathedral, and the tower is to some dispatched at 9.30 a.m. 2.30 & 7· IO p.m.; sunday de-
extent reproduced from the old bell tower formerly in livery, 7 a.m.; dispatched at 7 p.m
Salisbury Close: the interior is lofty, the roof being Wall Box, near the church, cleared at g. 15 a. m. & 7.10
grained, and delicately coloured : an ancient chantry of p.m.; sundays, 7 p.m

Perpendicular date, removed from Magdalen College Wall Box, North street, cleared at 7 a.m. & 6.25 p.m.;
Chapel, Oxford, has been re-erected on the north side _iil~nday, 7 a.m .
. , ..
of the chancel, and two doorways from the same build- National .School (mlxed & ~ants),, built m I833 & en-
ing have also been inserted in the walls: on the south j larged m x8g3, for 200 children: 1t has an endowment

side of the chancel is a low canopied tomb, in of £2o, from the late Mrs. Sheppard; average atten-
memory of Dr. Martin Routh, a modern copy ~ance, I42_; George Cro~t Rudd, ~aster

of an abbot's tomb of the 13th century in Tewkes- Railway StatiOn, James• Pamt.er, stat10n master
bury .Abbey: many of the windows are stained: there Carriers t? Reading. Pearce, sa~.; .Aldridge, tues. &;

are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year sat.; W1se, wed. & sat.; Pontm, mon. wed. & sat.;

1832. The living is a. rectory, net yearly value, includ- Turner, tues. tburs. & sat.; Johnson, wed. & sat.;

ing 15 acres of glebe, £.477• with residence, in the gift .Anstey, mon. wed. & sat

THE.ALE. COMMERCIAL. district Bradfield union & medical

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Alien Eli, tinplate worker officer to workhouse

Angel-Smith Rev. Stuart Cecil Frank Black Mary (Mrs.), sweetfil seller Cox Robert David L.S..A. surgeon

H ..A. (Diocesan inspector of Blatch Frank (exors. of), brewers, Cumber William, butcher

schools), Rectory wine & spirit merchants & farmers Davies DaTid Maxwell, coal merchant

Blatch Herbert Bl'adley Richard, blacksmith Davis David, blacksmith

Brown Edward, The Chestnuts Brodrick Frank, coffee rooms Duckett Wm. Henry, coal merchant

Coles Samuel John Cheney SaraJh (Miss), confectioner Dnffin Wm. Henry, grocer & draper

Cox Richard M.D., F.S.A Chivers George, wheelwright Fidler Rachel (Mrs.), butcher

Cox Robert Daniel Coles Samuel John, dental surgeon Fisher John, insurance agent

Deacon Mrs. North street Colyer Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailr Fisher Samuel, nnderwood dealer,.

Dredge James Cooper George, Bull P.H hurdle & broom maker, beer re-

Holmden Frank Cop"' Thomas, boot & shoe maker taller & shopkeeper, North street

Kidd Ge'lrge, North street Corderoy Horace, draper Flower William, grocer & baker

Rimer John Cotterel David, beer retailer Forrester John, highway surveyor,.

Snelling Thomas, Blossom's End Cox Richard M.D., St. And., M.R.C. S. Bradfi.eld district

Todd Richard Eng. physician & surgeon, & medi- Fowle Charles, shopkeeper

Young John, Pirs cal officer & public vaccinator, No. I Gilby William James, tailor

224 THEALE. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Goswell Emma Amelia (Mrs.), girls' Taylor William, bricklayer, North st Young Jn. Matt. chemist & stationer

boarding & day school Taylor William, mop, broom, rake IOA'LCOT.
Goswell William, wheelwright & prong handle manufacturer &

Harrison & Co. saddlers & rope mas beer retailer (Postal address, Calcot, near Readng.)

Hedges .A'braham, osier grower Theale Gas Light & Coke Co. Lim. Dewe Frederick William

Huband David, chimney sweeper (Miss Sarah Bunce, soo) Dubourg Seymour JamM, The Ken-

Jupp Matilda. (Mrs.), beer retailer Todd Richard, land stewaxd to J. H. nels, World's End

Mosdell George, dairyman Benyon esq. J.P., D.L Robinson George Wharton M.A.. The

Mountford Emma. (Mrs.), Crown P.H Turton John Iredale, grocer & agent Filberts

Nailer Frank, boot maker for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine Swettenham Major-Gen. Thomas E.

()liver William, plumber & painter & spirit merchants Calcot place

l'arrott William & Sons, fa1m.ers Walford Waiter Thos. frmr. North st Wharton Philip T. The Bungalow

Pocock William, boot maker White William, greengrocer Whitehurst Thos.Teece, Calcot grange

:Roberts Harry Goo. Railway ArmsP.R Wigmore James, builder Davies Jenkin Wiltshire, mrkt. grdnr

Simmonds Ellen (Mrs.), Castle P.H Windle Thomas, sanitary inspector & Dewe Frederick William, miller

Sly Wm. Jsph. butcher & Post office surveyor for theo Bradfield rural (water), Calcot mill

Sparvell Henry Herbert, baker district council, North street Fidler Joseph Charles, nurseryman,

Sulman Geo. Effindell, Falcon .P.H Wooderson Jas. pig killer, North st World's End

TIDMARSH is :1. village and parish 1 mile south- Chief Justice in ISOI: the church was restored in I897
i!Jouth-west from Pangbourne station on the Great West- at a cost of £goo, and affords 130 sittings. The re-
ern railway and 7 miles west from Reading, in the gister of baptisms and burials dates from the year
Southern division of the county, hundred of Theale, I730; marriages, 173I. The living is a rectory, net yearly
Bradfield union, petty sessional division and county court value £I56, with glebe (£30) and residence, in the J!'ift of
district of Reading, rural deanery of Bradfield, arch- Edric John IM. Hopkins esq. and held since I894 by the
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church Rev. .Alexander Henry Hopkins M.A. of Balliol College,
of St. Lawrence is a small building of flint and stone in Oxford. There are charities of £18 yearly, for distribu-
the Early English style, and consists of apsidal chancel, tion in fuel, clothing and money. Tidmal'sh Grange
n!:Lve and south porch and a western belfry of wood, is the residence of Roger Walker esq. Tidmarsh Manor
with spire, containing 3 bells: the chancel and nave is the seat of Edric .Tohn M. Hopkins esq. who
is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is peat ;
appear to date from about I 230, the former having a subsoil, chalk and gravel. The chief crops are wheat,
barley, oats and roots. The area is 777 acres of land and
,semi-octagonal apse with a small lancet window in each
face; the vaulting is a modern restoration, carefully 6 of water; rat<>...,able value, £1,475; the population in
executed: the Norman doorway belongs to a period fifty
years earlier than the rest of the west of the church, I891 was 196.

-and is richly carved with bands of chevron ornament, Parish Clerk, Thomas Tegg.
iiRterlaced work and scrolls of foliage; on either side
-aad at the top is a flat semi-circular projection, the Letters from Reading viA Pangbourne arrive by foot
la.tter bearing a rude carving of a human face: the
post at 6.30 a.m. & 4·I5 p.m.; sundays, 7 a.m.
\)~culiar feature of the church is its octagonal apse, a
Pangbourne is the nearest money order & telegraph
very rare, perhaps unique, example in England: the office, I mile distant
triple I3th century west window is also a remarkable Wall Letter Box cleared at 9·5 a.m. & 6.35 p.m.; sun-

and unfrequent design: the font appears to be of the days, 8.55 a.m
same date as the church: the pulpit is of the 1sth
<:entury: there are brasses of a knight in armour, c. Free School (mixed), built in 1856, for 45 children; &
0:530, and of Margaret, wife of Thomas Wode, appointed supported by Robert John Hopkins esq. M.A., J.P.;
average attendance, 30; Miss Louisa Burslam, mistress
Qlle of the Justices of the King's Bench in 1499 and
Carrier to Reading.-Charles Sargeant, daily

Clark Surg.-Majqr Sir Jas. Richardson Hopkins Rev. Alexander Henry M.A. Hand Thomas Marley, farmer

Andrew hart. F.R.C.S.Edin., D.P.H. (rector,), Rectory Nightingale James, blacksmith

Camb, J.P. The Rectory & Consti- Walker Roger, Tidmaxsh grange Pullen James, Greyhound P.H

tutional club, London SW Stone Robert, miller (water)

Hapkins Edric John Murray, Tidmarsh COMMERCIAL. Wright Frederick, baker & grocer

manor Haines George, farmer

'TILEHURST is- a village and parisih on the river three being elected from each parish. The poor's land of

Kennert, and lbolllllded on the north by the river Thames, 30 acres produces £29 yearly. Near the Bath road is

ll~ miles north from Tilehurst station on the Great Calcot Park, the property of Henry Barry Blagrave esq.

Western roil-w1ay, and 2~ west from Reading, in the who is lord of the manor and the principal landowner;

SouJt.hern division of the county, hundred of Reading, it is now (1899) occupied by the Hon. .Algernon Henry

Brodfield union, pebty .sessional divislion and county court Mills ; the park is well stocked with deer. The soil is

distriot of Reading, rnral. deanery of Bradfield, arch- light loam and gravel; subsoil, gravel. The crops are

doooonTy of Berms nnd diooese of Oxford. The church of various. The area of the entire parish is 4,916 acres of
St. Miclmel, almost entirely ~buil't in 1856, is a build- land and 14 water; rateruble value, £r9,356; the popu-

ing of £~tone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, lation in r89r was ecclesiastically 2,275, and civilly 3, r84.

nave, aisles, .south poreh and •a western tower with pin- Under t.he provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act," by

nacles e·nd spire, containing 8 bells and a clock; there is Local Government Board Order 23,869, dated March 24,

an nlabaster reredos and carved oak stalls, and ·several 1889, 2,157 persons were transferred from this parish to

of the windows are stained; the south aisle and the base St. Mary civil parish and the borough of Reading

of the tower are the only remains of the old building ; CALCOT is a hrunlet, partly in this parish, about 2

t.h.ere are 400 •sibtings, 300 being free. The register dates miles west from Reading, a portion being in Theale and

from the year I559· The living is a rectory and vicar-
age, net yearly value £8os, including 150 acres of glebe, divided from the remainder by the Bath road.
with residence, in the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford, Parish Clerk, Thomas Walker.

and held since 1855 by the Rev. John William Routh M.A. Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., ExpresSI Delivery, Parcel

df that college, and surrogate. The rectory house was Post & Annuity & Insurance Office, Tilehurst. Joseph

completely destroyed by fire in April, 1887, and re- Lewendon, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Read-

built in I889. Here are Congregational and We&leyan ing at 7 a.m. & 12 noon; dispatched at 10.25 a. m. &

chapels. The Villag-e Hall, built in 1893, is a structure 7 p.m. ; snndays, arrive 7 a.m. ; dispatched 7 p.m

af brick and will seat 350 persons. The "Roebuck," an Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,

excellent hotel, was erected in r882 on the banks of the Calcot Row.--Mrs. Clara Sarah Annie Wise, sub-post-
'Thames for the accommodation of boating parties and mistress. Letters through Reading delivered at 6.30
families visitin~ this delightful neighburhood. Box-Grove a.m. & I p.m.; dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 7·4D p.m.
Convalescent Home, for women and children, beautifully Sunday delivery, 6.30 a.m. ; dispatched 7.30 p.m. The
nearest telegraph office is at Tilehurst, 2 miles distant
situated on the brow of a hill, in a very healthy locality,
Wall Lehter Box (west side o.f Church), cleared 8 a.m. &
was established in 1864 by the late Mrs. Wildeii, of
Plllley Hall, and is now being carried on by Mrs. John 7·5 p.m
Wilder of Sulham House, and Frederick Wilder esq. J.P.
Wall Leilter Box (Rornoostle !inn), cleared at 9·55 a.m. &
of Purley Hall. There are almshouses, endowed in I85I
~Y the lateo Mrs. Mary Lyne, of Burghfield, for six poor 7.50 p.m. ; !Sundays 7.40 p.m

widows or single women, ·born in the parishes of Burgh- A School :Board of 5 meanbell's 'Was formed 4 Dec. 1878 ;

field and Tilehurst, and who shall have attained the age of Herbert Mny, Forbury, Reading, clerk to the boord;

sixty, and are communicants of the Church of England, Charles Smith, attendance officer

DffiECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. TWYFORD. 225

Schools. Calcot Infants', for so children; average attendance, 20;

Board (Tilehurst) School, built in 18go, for 300 children; supported by Henry Barry Blagrave esq.; Miss Ellen

average attendance, 220; Edwin Jones, master Cox, mistress

National, built in :r8Ig, by the late Mrs. Sheppard, of Railway Station, Henry Grimmall, station master
Amport, Rants, for 210 children; average attendance,
181; £so yearly is paid by Magdalen College, Oxford; Carriers to Reading. Ilsley & Hunt (all daily)
an infant school has been added; Skelton C. Saxby, Bus twice daily to & from Reading; on sats. three times

master •

TILEHURST. Clark Thomas, builder Smith Ohas. school attendance officer

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cockbill William, wheelwright Smith Henry, blacksmith

Ball Albert. Cox Fanny (Mrs.), haberdasher Smith Isaac, beer retailer
Barningham William, Calcot rise Crocker J ames, bricklayer Sparks Tracy, shopkeeper

Beeson Arthur, Church End Cracker Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer Stacy Bernard,farmr.Hall Place !arm
Bond J oseph, Rock villa
Dohson George, Plough P.H Staniford Charles Edward, land

Clarke Thomas Drew John, oilman steward to Henry :Barry Blagrove
esq. Pincents farm (postal address~
Clifford Wm. George, Armour lodge Fourd William, shopkee.per

Collins Charles, Stoneham house Fidler J sph. Chas. frmr. Prospect frm Theale)

Cox Mrs. The Lodge Fry John George, grocer Stroud. Stephen, White Hart P.H.

Dormer James, Kentwood cottage Gascoine Samuel C. dairyman (postal address, Theale)
Downing Mrs. Frillsha.m villa Grace Albert Ernest, plumber Tilehurst Club & Reading Room~

Giles Joseph, Westwood Grace Ambrose, farmer, Westwood fm (Charles Smith, hon. sec)

Giles Miss, Westwood Hannington Jane (Miss), haberdasher Tilehurst Nursery (James Muuay

Heath Frederick James, School road Hawkins Thomas C. shopkeeper Reed, proprietor)

Hende·rson John Higgs & Sons, brick makers, West- Tilehurst, Sulham & Purley HOI'ti--

Latham Robert, The~ Laurels wood Kiln cultural Society (.Albert Ball, bon_

Lenny John, Queen Ann's villa Hissey Hy. Childs, farmer & brick ma sec)

Lewington Mrs. Highclere villa Huggins Edward John ·Calvert Ward, Tilehurst Village Hall (Frederick

Liebenrood Major Eaglebert, Prospect deputy registrar o-f births & deaths Lewis, hon. sec)

Hill park for the sub-district of St. Mary's, Tubb William, carpenter

May Edmund, Priory Reading, Myrtle grove Wheeler & Co. brick & tile makers

Miller James, :Broomfields Hunt Charles, carrier Whitsed James Longland L.R.C.P_

Moyniham Harry T. Lewdhams Hunt John, beer retailer, Oommon Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. physcn.&srgn,

Nicholls Robert Carson, Glenmore Ilsley Alfred, carrier Wickins Frederick, blacksmith

Osborne Miss Kidd Louis, laundry Wilkins William, dairym.an

Pither Misses, :Belmont Lewendon Joseph, tailor, Post office Wing George, shopkeeper

Routh Rev. John William M.A. (rec- Lewis Bros. builders, plumbers,house \Voodeson Alfred, farmer

tor & o;urrogate), Rectory de~orators & sanitary engineers, W oodeson Thomas,assistant overseer,.

Simonds Arthur, Prospect cottage hardware, paint & oil dealers I Cedar villas

Tarsey George, 2 Cedar villas Lyon Edward S. grocer Young Wm. B. farmer, Oaktree farm,

Tottie William H. Westwood house Mlay John J. shopkeeper CALOOT.

W\heeler Frederick, Kewhurst May Daniel, farmer, Kentwood farm

Whitsed John Longland Minchin William Coles, farmer 1 The greater portion of this hamlet
Wright The>mas R. Rostelle Moore Frederick, boot maker has been traillsferred to Theale·

COMMERCIAL. Munt Arthur W. grocer parish.

Abery William Thomas, nurseryman, Nicholls Robert Carson L.R.C.P. Mills Hon. Algernon Henry, Calcot pk

Grafha.m nursery Irel. physician, Glenmore Bosher David, beer retailer

Aldridge Henry, nurseryman Noakes Charles, bootmaker Chivers John Charles, beer retailer

.Armstrong Richd. Bird-in-Hand P.H Noyes Annie (Mrs.), Roebuck family Davies William W.auctioneer,Park im.

Ashby Fredk. coffee tavern, Common hotel; three minutes' walk from the Downing William George, Traveller'S;.

Bezant Charles H. hairdresser station; good boating, fishing &c Friend P.H

Boswell Frederick J. butcher Palfrey Alfred, shopkeeper Gover Thomas, Horncastle inn

Box-Grove Convalescent Home (Mrs. Pitt George, beer retailer Joel Isaac Edward, blacksmith

John Wilder, sec) Reed James. Murray, nurseryman, Keene J ames, dairyman

Bunce Edward, registrar of births, Tilehurst nursery Perrin Phillip, carpenter

marriages & deaths for the sub- Richardson Thomas, bricklayer Perrin Susan (Mrs.), grocer

district of Tilehurst,Bradfield union Se•vmour William, boot stores Shorney Hy. & Edgar Thorpe,farmer~'
Burgess William, builder Sharp Caleb, brick maker Toovey William, beer retailer
(postal

Cambridge Robert,farmr. Turnham fm address, Theale) Tull Eli, fish dealers

Chapman Charles, carpenter Sherwood Henry, poulterer Wise Clara Sarah Annie (Mrs.), shop-

Chapman Prances M. (Mrs.), shopkpr Siz.er Robert, dairyman keeper, Post office

TUBNEY i,s a parish on the road from Abing-don to situated in a park of 45 acres, in the residence of John .
Faringdon, 4 miles west-by-north from .A.bingdon, in Parsons esq. The manor and most of the land belong to .
the Northern divi<Srion of the county, hundred of Ock, Magdalen C<>llege, Oxford. The soil is sand, on the old
petty sessional division, union and county court district oolite. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, peas and
of .&bingdon, rural deanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of root crops and turnips. The area is I,ISI acres; rate-

Barks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Law- able value, £863; the population in :r8g1 was 175.
rence, erected in 1848 in place, but not on the site, of the Parish Clerk, Charles Day.
old church, which had long fallen into decay, is a small
building of !Stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chan- Letters through Abingdon arrive at 7.30 a.m. Marcham
is the nearest money order office, & telegraph cffice at .
eel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing 2
bells ; there are go sittings. The register dates from the Kingston :Bagpuze, about t! mileS~ distant. Wa.ll Letter ·

year 1848. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £79• Box cleared at 12. so p.m. & 6. to p.m. ; sundays ai •

in the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford, and heB since n. :ro a.m
National School (mixed),erected in I'857, for 40 children;
1898 by the Rev. Constantine Francis Arthur Dillon B. A.
of New and Hertford Colleges, Oxford. Tubney House, average att.endance, 26; Miss Mary Chesterman, mid,
Carrier to Abingdon. Robert Bunce, mon. thurs. & sat

Dillon Rev. Constantine Francis Arth. Bunce Robt. beer retailer & grocer Latham Harold, farmer, Manor farm

RA. (rector), Tubney Warren Edmondson Arthur, farmer, Tubney Robins J. E. gamekeeper

Parsons John M.A. Tubney house Warren farm Temple Thomas, farmer, Tnbney farm.-

Winter A. Warrenside

T W X' FORD, constituted a. civil parish 23 June, IBg5, is Henley-on-Thames and 34 from London, and is in the·
Eastern division of the county, petty ·ses.sional division. and"
on the banks of the Loddon water, and is an ecclesiastical union of Wokingham, county court. district of Reading,
parish, formed April :r4. 1876, out of the hamlet of T'wy- rural deanery of Sonning-, archdeaconry of Berks and dio-
ford, in the liberties of Broad Hintcn and Whistley, nnder cese of Oxford. The village is well lighted with gas, and'
the Benefice Act, 1838 (1 and 2 Vie. c. 1o6); it has a supplied with water from TJrivate wells. The church
station on the Great Western ranway, which is also the
junction of the line to Henley. and is 5 miles east from of St. Mary is a building of flint in the Early

Reading, 7! south-west from Maidenhead, 4 south from English style, consisting of four bays, aisles, north

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porch and a small western turret containin!!' 2 Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

belli!; it was built in 1846, chiefly at the cost of Post, S. B. &; Annuity & Insurance Office (Railway Sub.

the late Rev. .A. .A. Cameron, vicar of Hurst, and Miss Oflice. Letters should have R.S.O. Berks added.-

Currey; a new north aisle was added in 1883 at a .Alfred Ilr:9oker, sub-postmaster. Letters from all parts

oost of [1,993; there are 360 ,sittings. The register dates arrive at 5 & 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; dispatched at 9 & n.2o

from the year 1847· The living is a vicarage, net yearly a.m. 3·45. 4.30 & 8.20 p.m.; sunday delivery, 7 a.m. &

value [300, with residence, in the ~ft of the B-ishop of dispatch, 8.10 p.m. Wall Box at Railway station cleared

Oxford, and held since 1876 by the Rev. Edward Gloodow at 10.35 a.m. & 7.50 p.m.; sundays, 11.50 a.m
1

Wilkins(}n M.A. of St. John's Oollege, Cambridge. There Endowed School, for the parishes of Twyfurd & Rusco.mbe,

is a Reformed Wesleyan chapel, -erected in 1853, and a founded by Edward Polehampt.on esq. A.D. 1721 &
Congregational chapel, with 100 sittings. Tht Fire Bri- endowed for the free education & clothing of 10 poor
gade oonsists of 8 members, and has a steam fire eitgine. boys of the village ; New Schools. were erected in 1888,
from the funds of the charity, which amount to abou\
The Twyford club was established in 18gB and has a
£ 350 yearly, the advantages of the school having, by
reading-room &c. Here are almshouses, founded by Sir
an ordnr of ih() High C.Ourt (Ch3lloery Division), Decem·
Richard Harrison kt. and endowed in 1707 by Lady

Frances, daughter of Thomas (Howard), 3rd Earl of ber 1st, 188S, been largely extendEd; these .scihool.s will

Berkshire, and wife of Sir Henry Winchcombe bart.. now hold 120 boys, 100 girls and 120 infants; average
of Bucklebury, for six poor persons of the liberties of attendance, 90 boye, s7t7erg; irlMs iasns dM7a7r infants; Thomas
James Hewlett, ma y Jane Pading,
Whi~tley and Hinton in the parish of Hurst, each of whom

rece1ves 7"'· 6d. weekly, and a new gown every second mistress. Miss J Batten infants' mistress
year. The other charities are those of Ge;Jrge William . '. · ' .
Barker e»q. for the benefit of the inmates of the alms· I Railway Station, • station master

houses; two founded bv the Rev. Richard Ebenezer Leach Carriers to Reading.-Emmett (from Maidenhead), tues.

and one by AbTaham Spoore, for the benefit of the poor thurs. & sat.; Smith (from Marlow), mons. weds. &

>Of the district. Lord Braybrooke is lord of the manor. sat.; George 1\'ullis (from St. Lawrence Waltham),

'The principal landowners are Thomcts C.Olleton Garth esq. wed. &; sat,.; & Charles Coke, from his house, daily.

of Haines 1Hall, and Frederick Barker esq. of Hook, Winch- From Henley.-Hedges, daily, but wed.; all returning

1field, Hants. The population in x8g1 was 1,262. same days.

• PRIVATE RESIDENTS• Brooker Alfd. Wm. chemist & sta.tionr Morris Oliver Kelso, saddler &; furni-

_Alexander William, Grove hall Bryant Edwin, baker & grocer ture dealer

Brett Mrs. White house Burton William, blacksmith Mortimer George Philip, grocer

,Coleridge Captain Francis George, Carpenter Thomas, chimney sweep Moss William James, gr(}Cer, & agent

Hermitage Coke Annie (Miss), dress maker for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine &

·navis Mrs Coke Charles, shopkeeper & carrier spirit merchants

Flight Mrs. Station road Collett George E. White Horse P.H Nash Moses & Co. coal merchants,

Franklin Henry Collier Charles, shopkeeper, Staticm rd Railway station

Gumey Edgar, Station road Collyer George, blacksmith Norman Wm. Jas. coal & corn mer

Hedges Mrs. Apsley house Cook John, assistant overseer k news Peaceful Miss, girls' sclhoo1

Hicks The Misses, Kent lodge agent & clerk to the parish council, Pocock James, Waggon & Horses P.H

.Taggard William, Station road London road Priest Annie (Mrs.), shopkeeper

.Jarvis Mrs. The Cedars Cross R. & Son, coal mers. Station rd Prior & Brimicombe, coffee tavern

Jarvis Matthew Jervoise, The Haw- Cross -, farmer Searle Frederick, Royal Oak P.H

thorns Davis Lawrence (Mrs.), miller (water Sheppard Oha.s. Edwd.draper & hosier

'Kile John Joseph, Station road & steam) Simmonds John, butcher, Station rd

'King Richard Henry, Thornbury Dax E. Stanley, King's Arms hotel'& Simonds J. &; 0. & Co. (brnch.); open

Lock Miss posting house tues. & fri. II.30 a.m. to 3 p.m

MacGregor Stoddart Martin Waite-r, Eaton James, Rose & Crown P.H Rveider Louis, hair dresser

Station road Fenn George, insurance agent Stone Lawrence John, baker & grocer

Massey William Henry, The Poplars Foster William Thomas, plumber Tayler & Co. eoal mers. Railway statn

Norris .Mrs Franklin Henry, corn & coal dealer Tull Ge<~rge, Bull P.H

Peaceful Jabez Gile-s William, basket maker Twyford Club (Henry Maynard, sec)

Pig~ott Mrs. Ivy lodge Golding Hy. greengrocer & fishmngr Varndell Thomas, baker

Radcliffe Charles, Ordshall Gowchild William, builder Wadhams Michael Carter, painter &

Simmons The Misses, Sunnyside Halfacre .Alfred Th(}s. boot & shoe ma plumber

Stables William Gordon M.D., R.N Harding .Albert, shopkeeper Waiter Annie (Mrs.), Duke of Welling-

Treacher John, Summercroft Hillier George, china &c. dealer ton P.H. &; harness maker

Verey Henry William J.P. Bridge ho Hopwood Henry, boot & shoe maker Waiters Charles, harness maker

Wilkinson Rev. Edward Gleadow M..A. Hopwood William, greengrocer Webb Willia.m., baker & grocer

(vicar), Vicarage Hughes Mary (Mrs.), Red House P.H West & Son, watch makers

Wilmot-Butler Mrs. White house Jarvis Matthew Jervoise, solicitor & West Oharles Sidney William, watch

-Young Fr_ederick Charles B.A., M.B. commissioner for oaths & steward maker,- Station road

Stat.ion road (}( the King's Manor in East Hen· Widdows Charles, collector to guar·

Young Miss, Meadowsida dred, Ilerks dians & relieving officer, North dis-

COMMERCIAL. Kile John, Royal Station hotel trict, regiiltrar of births, marriages

Baldwin Louis Napoleon, engineer & Kile John Joseph, jobmaster &; deaths &; school attendwce officer

cycle maker King Richard Henry L.R.O.P.Lond, for Wargrave sub·district, Woking-

Bazeley William, nurseryman M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon & certifying ham rmi(}n

'Barks Consumers' Gas Co. Limited factory surgeon, Thornbury Wigmore Joseph Robert, builder

(Henry Franklin, sec) Lapper George, Bell P.H Young Frederic Charles B.A., M.B.,

Bolton William Henry, tailor Larkin Henry, corn factor C.M. surgeon & medical officer,

-Brooks Bransby L.R.O.P.Lond., Maynard Henry, insurance agent Twyford district, Wokingham union

M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon & medical Moore Charlotte (Mrs.), confectioner, & Waltham St. Lawrence district,

officer & public vaccinator Sonning Station road Maidenhead union, Station road

dist. Wokingham union, London rd Milsom J. & Sons, builders' merchanh

UFFINGTON is a village and parish I mile south of spacious chancel, nave., trans:epts, south porch. and
from Uffington junction on the Great Western railway central octagonal embattled tower with pinnacles and
of the line to Faringdon, 66 miles from Lo.ndon, 4
south-east from Faringdon and 7 north-west from contalining 5 bells and an ingenious clock, the work of
Wantage, in the Northern diviskm of the county, hun-
dred of Shrivenham, petty sessional division, union and a former village blacksmith: ther& was originally a
county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of spire, destrlolyed by lightning Dec. 2nd, r740: all the
th& Vale of White Horse, archdeaoonry of Ilerks and windows of the chancel, except a Decorated insertion
diocese of Oxford. The place gives the title of viscount on the south, are triple an.d double lancets 'Wiith excel-
to the eldest Eon of the Earl of Craven. The Berks
and Wilts canal passes north of the village. The church lent shafts and mouldings, and there is a. sedile and
rf St. Mary is known to have been in course of erection
piscina : the east window is stained : on the east side
in the time of Fabricius, 19th abb(}t of Abingdon, nos, of each transept IU'e recesses, two projec~ing from the
to which monastery ilt was an appendage, but the present north and ooe from the south transept; these were
rdifice is a cruciform structure of stone in the Early orti.ginally small chapels and have gable l'oofs and an-
F.nglish style, with beautiful interio-r details, consisting
gular-headed lancet windows, unique and evidentl1
coeval with the rest of the edifice; each also contains
a piscina: the south porch has a grained vaulted roof
and a panise, and its o:rllginal ook door exhibits excel-

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. UFTON NERVET. 227

lent Early English iron scroll work: there is also a "Uffington Cast:e," an ancient Roman or perhaps
Celtic encampment, 700 feet long from east to west by
small eastern porch to the south transept and an.other soo wide, with a double vallum oT rampart and a deep
on the south side of the chancel: in the nave is a good fosse; the ruo:es in the cha.!k in which the stockading
six-foiled circlliar window : in the north transept is a
eanopied monument to Edward .Archer esq. ob. 1603, was fixed still remaining. .A. little to the west of the
()Ver which is a beautiful triple lancet stained window:
in the south transept is a recessed monument with White Horse is a deep and broad ravine, locally called
recumbent effigy to John Saunders esq. of Woolstone "The Manger," and eastward is a bold tumulus, called
.T.P. founder of the school, ob. 29 April, 1638, and to
1vlargaret (Evelyn) his wife; beneath is a brass to J,ohn " Dragon's Hill," partly artificial, and probably the
:and Ann Saunders, ob. 26 December, 1599: on the north burial place of a " Pendragon" or Celtic chieftain; one
and a ha:;;£ miles west beyond Uffington Castle, is the
wall is a marble tab:et recording the repair of the
cr.omlech known as "'Vayland Smith's Cave," sur-
church, " liong-ruined," by Richard Saunders and Thomas rounded by beech and fir trees, and a growth of under-
Locky, churchwardens, in 1678; and there are mem{)rials
in the north aisle, with armso, to John Saunders of wood; White Horse Hill and the surrounding scenery
is more fully described under Wantage; from the base
Woolstone, gent. ob. 26 January, 1674, and Martha and of the Uffington hills stretches the fine and fertile valley
Ann, his wives, and to others of this faiDJily; the
of White Horse, extending from Swindon, bearing a
church also contains vari!ous memorials to the Warren,
Garrard, l\Iundy, Chamberlain and Watts families : the little north-east to the parish of Ma.rcham. This spot
churchyard has some fine yew trees, and includes a was the site in r89o of a military camp, for the cavalry
memorial to John Briscoe, 40 years parish clerk, who manoeuvres of that year. The Earl of Craven is lord
died 14 January, 1863: there are 500 sittings, 200 being of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is
free. The register dates fl'om the year 1664. The liv-
ing is a vicarage, net yearly value £230, with 132 acres of loamy, stone brash and chalk; subsoil, clay and chalk.
glebe, and residence, 1n the gift of C. Eyre esq. and held The chief crops. are the usual cereals, seeds and roots.
s[nce 1855 by the Rev. Henry Peter Gurney M.A. of St. The area i~ 2,9r 8 acres of land and 11 of water; rateable

John's College, Cambridge. Here are small Baptist and value, £7,482; the population in IB9I was 557 m the civil
Congregational chapels and a public reading-room, for-
merly the schJool house. There is an endowment of the and 555 in the ecclesiastical parish.
By Local Government Board Order 21,438, dated March
annual value of about £2o, arising from 17 acres of
land and two cottages and gardens, for educational pur- 24, 1888, Hardwell Farm was transferred from Compton
poses, and nQw applied in support of a public elementary Beauchamp parish to Uffington, and a detached part of
school for girls, boys and infants. ·white Horse Hill, Woolstone was also added at the date.
situated in this parish, one and a half mi:e south of
Parish Clerk, Job Wakefield.
the village, bears on its summit, facing the Thames val-
Post, M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
ley, the famous figure of a. galloping white horse
!'udely cut two or three feet deep through the turf to Thomas Emerton Inwood, sub-postmaster. Letters ar-
the chalky subS!O'il, dn trenches some 10 feet broad; it rive from Faringdon at 8.20 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30
is 374 feet in length and extends nearly over an acre of p.m. ; sundays dispatched at 11.15 a.m. The telegraph
ground; though traditionat.y the work of .Alfred, in office is at Uffiington Junction railway ~tation, 2 miles
commemoration of the victory of .iEscesdune or Ash- distant
down in the year 871, it is lllilre probably the work of
the Bl'litons, whose coins frequently exhibit the impress Police Stati":m, George Benning, sergeant
National School, erected in 1857 & enlarged 1872, for
()f a similar figure: on the summit of the hill is
qo children; average attendance, 130; Joseph Wm.
Yates, master; Miss Edith Wakefield, assistant mistres~
Rai:way Station, Uffington Junction, Cornelius Crook,
station master
Carrier.-William Johnson, to Faringdon, tues. & to
Wantage, wed. & sat

Bye Mrs Dudgeon .A.ndrew, resident agent to Matthews John, estate sawye.r

Cook Joseph tho Ewrl orf Craven, Manor house Money Caleb, shoe maker

Gurney Rev. Hy. Peter M.A. Vicarage Goodenough Jesse, farmer, SourHl.fm Packer John, blacksmith

Ellis Edmund Viner Goodman John Martin, farrier Packer William, wheelwright

Thatcher Mrs Hanks Samuel, Graven Arms P.H Public Reading Room (Ca.Ieb Money,

Wheeler Isaac Hollifield Robert, plumber caretaker)

Hopkins ,John, farmer,TheGrounds fm Ridley David, farmer
Hughes Edwin, grocer & draper
CO!>UJERCllL. Smith Henry, shoe maker

Beckett Joseph, beer retailer lnwood Thoma:; Emerton, grocer & Toomer & Sons, coal &c. merchants

Clack James, assistant agent to the shopkeeper, Post office Tuck Henry, White Horse P.H

Earl of Craven Jannaway Henry, baker & shopkeeper Wakefield Job, estate carpenter &i

O>ok Robert, estate carpenter Jefferies Charles, farmer, Fox farm parish clerk

Cook William Henry, fa1"lller, Moor Jenkins Jn. frmr. & haulier,TheWharf Watts Thomas, butcher & farmer

1\lill & Bridgecombe farms · Jenkins Stephen, blaoksmith Wheeler John, farmer, Common farm

Dainty Frederick, beer retailer J ohnson William, carrier

"UFTON NERVE'!' is a village and parish 2~ miles 12~ yards of calico or :flannel; which are distributed
south-south-west from Theale station on the Great
yearly. The fuel allotment of 31 acresr produces £10
Western railway and si south-south-west fr{)m Reading,
year:y. The Right Rev. James Fraser D.D. late Bi!~ihop
in the Southe.rn division of the. oounty, hundred of ()f Manchester, and rector here from 186o to 1870, left
Theale, union of Bradfield. petty sessional divis.ion and a bequest of £2o per annum, invested in L. and N. W.
<:aunty court dJistrict of Reading, rural deanery of Brad- railway debenture stock, to be expended in warm cloth-
ing for 20 poor and respectable persons, who are to be
field, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The chosen by the rector. Ufton Court, an old Elizabethan
mansion, the property of James Herbert Benyon esq. J.P.
church of St. Peter is a building of stone in a. late style and at present the re-sidence of Capt. Cyril Sharp, was

of Perpendicular, and consists of chancel, nave, north built in 1534 by the Catholic family of Parkins,
aisle, south porch and a western tower with wooden O!lle of whom, Francis Perkins esq. married Arabella
Fermor, the "Behlnda" of Pope's "Rape of the Lock;"
spire contai:nJing 4 bells.: it was entirely rebuilt in I 862
by the late Ri'!hard Benyon esq. (d. 1897): in the church the house stands "on the brow of a hill which slopes
are monuments of the Perkins family, jncluding that of abruptly from the broad terrace that surround~ two
sides of the mansion, and overhangs an old-fashioned
I<'rancis Perkins esq. 1635, and his wife, with their effi- garden, slroping down int{) a deep valley," at the foot of
which a stream creeps along~and is an extensive and
gies, beneath a.n arch: here also is buried .Arabella picturesque structure, with projecting wings, curoously
twisted chimneys, and a series of seventeen continuous
(Fermor), wife of Francis Perkins esq. 1738: there are gables, overhanging the lower storey, each gable having
1200 sittings. There were once two churches here : the a. caS>ement filled with small diamond-shaped panes,
remains of Ufton Greyshall church, consisting now only whi:e in the centr~ is a large projecting porch, with
of the fragment of a wall, may be seen just below the seats l()n either side, and over it a cba.mber lighted by
three windorws; the heavy leaden spouting bears the
village, about. a. mile from the existing church, within initials F.P. and the date 1664; the walls of the chamber~
are pierced by concealed passages, leading to a shaft in
an inclosure, formerly a cemetery, and adjoining the the cellar, from whence exit oould be obtained from
Kennet. The register dates fr()m the year 1636. The
another passage under the terrace into the garden, and
living is a rectory, net yearly value £285, with 6o
B~RKS. 15 ::Jl:
acres of glebe and residence, i:n the gift of Oriel Col-
lege, Oxford, and held since 1878 by the Rev. Thomas
Brooking OOirnish M. A. late fellow of that college, and
hon. canon of Chester. The Marvin charity, charged
on the Ufton Court estate, consists of 10 bushels of

wheat, made int-o x64 loaves, also 12! ells of canvas and



VFTO:N ~EBVIT, BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'a

subsequently into the adjo:ining woods: about 1830 a large on the decease of Mr. John Perkins, upon Mr. Joha
chamber waSJ discovered, entered by a trap-doo[", from Jones, of L:anarth: in 1802 it was purchased by Mr.
which depended a narrow ladder, and in this gloomy William Con.greve, of Aldermasllon, and wa& subseq,uent.11
refuge were found two petronels and a crucifix, now in transferred to the late Richard Benyon esq. of Englefield;
possession of James Herbert Benyo.1 esq. of Englefield James Herbert Benyon esq. J.P. is the principal land-
House: a shelving apartment in the roof of the building, owner. The soil is sand and gravel; subsoil, clay. The-
skilfully fitted with secret deposioories for the preservation chief crops are wheat, oats and root·s. The area is 2,172:.
of plate. and vestments, was used as a chapel, and near it acres of land and 17 of water; rateable value, £I>33P ~
is a depository of triangular :shape, believed to have the population in 1891 was 304.
been used for the concealment of vestments and service
Parish Clerk, William Bryant.
plate, and closed by a massive wooden door :in the xear of Letters through Reading arrive at 7.50 a.m. The nearesi

the house may be seen a succession of fish-ponds, originally money order & telegraph office is at Theale, about J

seven in number, disposed on the sloping grounds one miles distant
below the other. Wail Letter Box, near the church, cleared at 5·45 p.m.;.

In 1316 the manor of Ufton Greys Hall was part of sundays, 9 a.m
the endowment of Reading Abbey, but after the Refor- School, built in x862, at the sole expense of the Righi
mation it was oonsolidated with the manor ·of Ufton
N&rvet into one property, owned in the 17th century by Rev. James J.<'raser D.D. Bp. of Manchester 187o-86, and
rector here x86o-7o, for 6o children; average atten..-
Sir Edward Norreys kt. on whose death, in 1603, the
dance, 40; in part maintained by an endowment of
estate descended to Francis, 2nd Baron Norreys, ol
j,I,ooo, £2 ISS>. l)er Cent. Consols, bestowed by th~
Rycote, and 1st Earl of Berkshire 100 that family: soon Rev. W. BiShop, f01rmerly rector here; Miss Eva.ngelinll'

after the property was sold to the Perkins fami~y, and Wicks, mistress
Carrier to Reading.-Wise, wed. & sat
remained in their hands till 1769, when it was entailed,

Cornish Rev. Thomas Brooking M.A. Sharp Captain Cyril, Ufton court Pearce Hy. insur. agent, Ufton cour'

(reotor & hon. canon of Chester), Sharp Miss, Ufton court Webber John, farmer, Ufton common

Rectory Bucknell Tom, farmer, Middle farm White Robert, farm bailiff to J. Et

Langford Major William John R.M. Goddard John, frmr. Ufton Green frm Benyon esq

The Lambdens (postal address, Hannaford Henry, farmer, The Glebe Wise Hannah (Mrs.), D-og & Part-

Theale, Reading) Love William James, carpenter ridge P.H

IUP TON, in Domesday "Optone," was held at the railway from Didc()t to Newbury. The earliest Uptoa

time of the great survey by Turstinus, son of Rolf: it register embraceS! the period 1588-172I; from 1721 t~
was formerly a chapelry attached 1lo Blewbury, but was 1861 the registers remain at Blewbury; the modern

formed into a separate parish, together with Aston register of Upton begins with 1861. The living was-

Upthmpe, in 1862. Upton is on the road ff()m Read- dec:ared a vicarage April 3rd, 1866, with Aston Uptho:rp&-

ing to Wantage with a station on the Didcot, Newbury annexed, under the title of Upton and Aston Upthorpe~

and Winchester rn:ilway, opened April, 1883, 16 miles by Order in Council, 7 June, 1862; joint net yearly-

north-west from Reading and 8 east from Wantage, in the value £210, with x acre of glebe and residence here,.

Northern division of the county, hundred of Moreton, erected in 1864 at a cost of £t,8oo, from designs by

Wallingford petty sessional division, Wantage union Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, architect; in the gift of th&-

and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Johm

Wallingford, archdeaOOIIlry of Berks and diocese of Henry Moore Thoo.Assoc.K.C.L. The tithes of Uptom

Oxford. The church of St. Mary, given to the Cluniac anciently belonged to the convent of Bermondsey, too

Abbey of Bermonds,ey in 1092, is a small but exceedingly whom they were given in 1092 by Wynebald de IlaalWI.

interesting building of rubble faoed with Hint, of very The Eccle&iastical Commissioners, by deed dat-ed 100

Early Norman or even Saxon date, consisting only of Feb. 1870, Slllrre,ldro-ed the whole of the recto:ria[

chancel and nave and an open shingled turret over the tithes of Upton and a portion of those of .Aston Upthorpe-

western gable containing one bell: the chancel, almost to the vicar. Here is a. small Wesleyan chapel. Upton

unique in its diminutiveness, [s lighted on the north and Lodge, the residence of Nathaniel Humfrey esq. situ-

south sides by small round-headed windows deeply ated upon the bill side south of the villa.ge, is a moder:n

splayed, and also on the south side by a small window gabled mansion of brick with stone dressings, in the-

of the Early Decorated period, discovered built into the Domestic Gothic style, commanding an extensive view

wall during the recent restmation: th-e chancel arch, Olf the surrounding country. In the village is a pie-

which is extremely low, is round-beaded with a. flat turesque farmhouse of Jacobean date, with ornamental"

iOffit, the impo,sts hearing a kind of star ornament : tiled gables and a porch, the property of N. Humfrey esq.

the south doorway, also round-headed, is ornarnented on and now the residence of Joseph F. Fry esq. There were-

its exterior face with zigzag moulding, and one window anciently two manors here, Upton Moels and Upton

displays similar treatment: in the north side is a now Russells; the former, on the death of John de Moels,

blocked square-headed dOOO"way, believed to be Saxon: 4th Baron Moels, in 1337, passed by the marriage-

the font, a perfectly plain cylindrical basin of sandstone, of his daughter Ioo,bti with William de Botreaux,

probably of the same date as the church, has been care- Baron Botreaux, int.o that family, subsequently t{)

fully repaired and reset on a new circular basin, relieved William Kervers andl John Asshe and afterwards to ths-

by dwarf shafts of freeSitone; its cover appears to be Kidwellys, of Little Wittenham : the manor of Uptolll

Jaoobean: in 1885 the church was thoroughly and beau- Russells, held by that family in 1297, was afterwards suc-

tifully restored, the chancel by the Ecclesiastical Oom- cessively in the families of de Chelrey or Childrey,.

misSJioners at a cost of £300, under the superintendence Bekyngham, Windsor and White; there was eventually-

,of their architect, the late Mr. Ewan Christian; and only one manor, held for mccessive generations by the-

the rest of the building by subscription, under the direc- ancient family of Latton, originally of Latoon, in Wilts,

tion of Mr. Slings.by Stallwood F.S.A. architect, of but claiming descent from the Norman family of

Reading, at a oost, including fittings and books, Olf Estoteville or Stutville; William Latton, of Upton,

about £85o ; the Commissioners, in repairing the chan- fourth in descent frollll Roger de Latton, settled'

(!e1, inserted at the east end a triplet of tall and deeply here in 1325 and married Joan, daughter and sole·

splayed lancets in place of the window previously ex- heir of Waiter de Percy, descended from a younger

isting, and fixed an. entirely new roof of solid oak : the branch of the great house of that name: the I..at-

timber-framed na.ve roof, previously ceiled in, has been tons continued to reside here until the beginning of

()pened and thoroughly renovated wtith the best oak: the 16th century, when they removed to Chiltonr

the rubble walls, 4 feet in thickness, were partially re- Anne, daughter of John Latton, of Ohiloon, but then liv-

built and faced with cut and rough flint: in recon- ing at Hendred, gave by will, dated 6th Nov. 1584, the-

structing the north wall a large fragment of rubble sum of 2os. fol'l repairing Upton church. The Lattons

was found above the north doorway, built 18 inches .into appear oo have held 26 manors in Berkshire alone,

the fabric, and rudely carved on one side with several beSJides property in many other southern counties. There-

crosses: the nave has been substantially seated with oak are now, apparently, no manorial rights. NathanieJ

benches, and the chancel with stalls, neatly carved : Humfrey esq. of Upton Lodge, is the principal landowner,

there is a plain oak chest and oornmtmion plate dating other landowners are Messrs. Thomas and Joseph Hum-

from 1576: the church affords sittings for Ioo persons: frey, and Mr. John Edward Church, of Longworth. The-

the churchyard wa.s consecrated by the late Bishop wil is chiefly loam ; subsoil, upper greensand. The

Wilberforce, May 9th, 1862, and contains memorials to chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The a:ee

the Humfreys, a fa.mHy of oonsiderable antiquity in is 1,418 acres; rateable value, £1,990; the populatiOn

this neighbourhood, to the Rev. Richard Hooper M.A. in 1891 was 245.

rector, x862-95, and some others to labourers ac-

(:identally killed during the formation of the branch Sexton, Edward Elliott. -.. -

{)'!RECTORY.) BERKSHIRE. WALLINGFORD. 22!)

Letters thro11gh Didc.ot R..!S.O. which is the nearest vicar, & opened June rsth, r86J, for 6o children;

money order office, arrive at 8 a.m. Chilton is the average attendance, 35 ; Miss Mary Ann Targett, mis-
nearest telegraph office, about 2 miles distant
tress. Miss Alice Godfrey, infants' assistant mistress.
".all Letter Box, cleared at 6.45 p.m. ; sun. 10.20 p.m Bye Laws were framed by the School Attendance Com-

.:Kational School (mixed), erected in 1862·3, by the late mittee April 8th, r88I
Railway Station, ·~nry Holloway, station master

Fry Joseph F. Upton house Bellamy Richard, blacksmith & grocer Griffin George, farm bailiff to John

.Grant Oharles Seymour, Prospect ho Butler Annie (Mrs.), George & E. Ohnrch esq

Humfrey Nathaniel, Upton lodge Dragon P.H Keep Thomas, grocer & overseer

l\Ioore Rev. John Henry 'l'heo. Assoc. Caudwell Eli, farmer, Prospect farm Weedon Brothers, coal merchants &;

K. C.L. Vicarage Gardener J oseph, farmer chemical manure manufacture.rs

WALLINGFORD is an ancient municipal borough, The church of St. Mary, called "St. Mary the More,"

.market and union town and the head of a petty sessional occupies the south side of the market place and appears
.division and county court district, with a terminal st.a- from Dugdale (Monastieon) to have been in existence
.tion of a branch line of the Great Western railway from shortly after the Conquest: it is a structure of flint
Cholsey and Moulsford station, rs miles north-west from with stone dressings, and consists of chancel, nave of six
Reading, r6 north-east from 1\ewbury, 20 north-west bays, aisles and an embattled western tower of Perpen-
.from Maidenhead, u north-we::.t from Henley and 46 dicular date, with oc>tagonal turrets at the angles, sur-
from London, in the Northern division of the county, mounted by tall panelled and crocketed pinnacles, each
hundred of .Moreton, rural deanery of Wallingford, arch- terminating in a crown, above which rises a vane; it is
.deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The town is probable that the tower was built and the fabric re-
.attractively situated on the banks of the river Thames, paired about r653 with the materials of the castle, which
over which is a good bridge of 14 arches, now toll free. had been demolished in the previous year, and the
'fhere was a bridge here in the time uf King Stephen, crowned pinnacles are supposed to mark the era of the
.afterwards replaced by a more substantial structure of Re::;toration: the tower contains an illuminated clock,
,stone and flint: in 1809 the Corporation, under an Act fixed in 1868 at a cost of about {,230, and a peal of 8
.of Parliament, removed the decayed piers and &but- bells, hung on a massive timber frame of oak or Spanish
ments. and replaced them by three new arches of Bath chestnut, which, from its ornamental mouldings, may
.au.d Headington stone, the total length, with the 11iers, also have been brought from the castle; over the
.being thus 140 feet; the old east end was at the same staging appears the upper part of a piscina, built into
time widened 7 feet, at a cost, including the erection of the western wall of the belfry: the bells are highly
.a temporary bridge, of £7,ooo: since 1842 the bridge, finished and were cast in 1738: the chancel is debased
with the approaches, toll house and estate have been Perpendicular, the nave arcades are Decorated, the
wrested in the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the arches springing from octagonal pillars with moulded

borough. The town, incorporated by J am('s I. is caps : the south doorway and porch are Early English:
,governed by a Corporation comprising a mayor, alder- on the north side of the tower, at a considerable
men and twelve councillors, who also act as the Urban height from the ground and now obscured from view by
.Sanitary Authority. The borough has a Commission of the south aisle, is a stone slab fixed in the wall, with
the Peace. The town is well paved and lighted with the figure, in low relief, of a knight on horseback, in
,gas by a company formed in 1836, and is supplied with complete armour, with an escutcheon on his breast, in
water from works situated near the railway station, the the act of fording a tempestuous river: the church con-
,property of the corporation, acting as the Sanitary tains several mural monuments, among which on the
.Authority; the supply is derived from an artesian well. north wall of the chancel is one of grey marble to
"!'he borough, which sent representatives to Parliament 1'homas Rendal esq. of Wallingford Castle, several times
in the reign of Edward I. returned two members until :VI.P. for Wallingford, d. 1722; near it is a marble
lthe passing of the" Reform Act, 1832" (2 & 3 Wm. IV. monument to John Cottingham esq. d. 1746, and Eliza-
oe. 45), by which the representation was reduced to one beth, his wife; and at the west end of the church is a
member, and by the "Redistribution of Seats Act, monument to Waiter Bigg esq. alderman of London, a

1885" (48 & 49 Vict. c. 23), it was disfranchised as a benefactor to the town, ob. 1659; on the north wall is
!borough, and the representation merged in that of the a marble tablet to Henry Stampe, ob. r6rg, and thsre
-county. This place has given the title of Viscount to is also a memorial to the Rev. Thomas Pentycross, 34

the Knollys family, Earls of Banbury, of Rotherfield years rector of St. Mary's, d. 1808; the marble pulpit

Greys, Oxon. Including the sinecure of All Hallows. in with panels in bronze, designed by Mr. E. Onslow :Ford

-w1ich there is no church, the town has now four R.A. is a mem()rial to Mr. W. R. Lybbe Powys Lybbe,
i[larishes. The church of St. Leonard, near the river and late mayor of Wallingford: the church was repaired
the lower wharf, at the !!Outh-east end of the and enlarged in r854, under a faculty dated 3rd
'town in a street formerly called Little Fish September, 1853, at a cost of {,2,484, and contains sit-
!Street, but now St. Leonard's Church lane, is a tings for 564 persons, of which 64 are assigned to the
~mall and plain building of rubble flint, probably rector. The register of baptisms dates from the year
oerected in the eleventh century, and consists of apsidal 1638; marriages, 1653; burials, 1671 ; there are also
-chancel, nave of three bays, south aisle and a western records of marriages solemnised at St. Leonard's church
tower containing one bell: two arches in the chancel in r6go, r6gr and 1695, and of marriages at Sotwell
exhibit some interesting and perhaps unique Norman chapelry in 1692. The living is a rectory, net yearly
work; there is a Norman doorway on the north side of value £r88, with glebe C£12) and residence, built in
t;he nave, and in the chancel an ancient priest's door: 1882, at a cost of £2,ooo, in the ~ift of the Bishop of
<during the siege of Wallingford the church was con- Oxford, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Alfred Wranius
~erted into barracks and greatly injured, the south aisle Newport Deacon Theol.Assoc.K.C.L. and surrogate.
and original apse were, it is said, destroyed hy fire: There is a church estate producing £75 yearly. The
:after remaining for years in a dilapidated state, it was parish of All Hallows. including the liberty of Clapcot,

ll'estored and re-opened at Michaelmas 1704. previous now a separate parish, is partly within and partly
w·epairs and re-pewing having been effected in r685, without the borough, adjoining the >Castle, and is a
'1695 and 1700: in 1~50 the structure was enlarged and sinecure belonging to Pembroke College, O:xford;
JPartially restored and re-pewed, the apse and south the tithes, great and small, and the glebe lands,
:aisle rebuilt and the tower added, the churchyard being gnmted to the C'ollege in the early part of the

at the same time extended; this work was effected at reign of Charles I. yield about £375 a year. The
:.a cost of abont £x,roo, defrayed by voluntary contribu- Parish has been annexed to St. Mary's. and the rector

"tions: the churchyard is bounded on the east bJ a receives from Pembroke College tithe rent-charges
"brook, which once formed part of the circumvallation of amounting to £3o ss. 6d. a vear. The church was
'the town: there are 260 sittings. The register dates destroyed in 1643, during the siege, but the use of the
lfrom the year 171 I, but marriages solemnised here in graveyard was maintained up to 18_.,8: it contains a

-the yea.n~ 1090, x69x and 1695 are found in the register stone monument. erected in 1839 by the trustees of t.be

~f St. Mary·s. The living is a rectory, net yearly value public charities of the t.own, to Sir Thomas Bennett kt.

..£16o, with l acre of glebe and residence, in the gift of the citizen and alderman of London, and his father, Thomas

'Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1893 by the Bennet.t esq. of Clapcot. St. Peter's church in Thames
·Rev. Edward Bruce Mackay M.A. of Worcester street, near the bridge, was rebuilt in 1769, the original

•College, Oxford. Previously to May 14th, 1868, struC'ture having been laid in ruins during the siege by

the chapelry of Sotwell was annend to this living, the Parliamentary forces in 1642 or r643• and it was re-
out by an order in Council of that date it was opened on 29th June, 1769, being St. Peter's day: it
'transfeued to Brightwell, a portion of the tithes of [ C'nnsi>~ts of nave onlv. without aisles, with four large
D!arwell being transferred to St. Leonard's in exchange. circular-headed windows on either side, and a westera

230 WALLI.XGFORD. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

tower, with lofty spire, rising from an open octangular body of twelve directors : the armoury of the local

base, and containing one bell, with a clock, formerly in volunteers is now situated in the building: previous to

the Horse Guards tower, Whitehall, and presented by its erection the corn market was held in' the open svace

Sir William Blackstone : the lower stage serves for a beneath the town hall, first as a sample and in 1817 as

porch and the total height to the top of the vane is II8 a pitched market. The market day is Friday, at 12.30

feet : in a vault beneath the chancel is buried Sir p.m. for corn (weekly) and cattle (fortnightly). There

William Blackstone kt. the distinguished judge and is on the 29th of September a fair for pleasure and

author of the Comment,ary, who died 14th :Feb. 1780; hiring of senants. There are two banks-the old bank

a black marble slab at the foot of the chancel steps, of Messrs. Hedges, Wells, Morrell and Co. and a branch

hearing his crest, but without inscription, marks the of the London and County Banking Co. Lim. The

spot; there are memorials at the west end to Mrs. Ann Temperance Hall in St. Mary's street was erected in

Orouche, widow, ob. 162o, and Mrs. Eleanor Crouche: 1887, James Gutteridge, hon. sec. A Police Station for

the old chureh contained monuments to Sir Michael the division of Wallingford, in St. Mary's street, erected

Matins, ob. I6IS, and Elizabeth, Lady Matins, ob. 1622, in 1857, at a cost of £1,150, is of blue brick with ston&

members of a family who had a seat at Clapcote, in All dressings. The M. Company, Ist Volunteer Battalion

Saints' parish; and to the ancient family of James, who Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regi-

represented this borough in Parliament in the reign oi ment) has its head quarters at the Lamb hotel. The Free-

Edward Ill.: the communion plate includes a chalice. Library and Literary Institute, erected in 1871 on the·

paten and plate of silver, double gilt, and presented in north side of St. Leonard's square, is available fol"

1769 by Mr. Justice Blackstone, who resided at Castle concerts, and dramatic and other entertainments. An

Priory, on the banks of the Thames, within this parish: admirable stage has recently been erected by subscrip-

there are about 220 sittings. The register of baptisms tion, a drop scene, representing ·wallingford bridge in

and burials dates from the year I7Il; marriages, 1769. medireval times, has a:so been presented to the-

The living is a rectory, net yearly value £8o, including Dramatic club by Mr. G. D. Leslie esq. R.A. ; adjoining

15 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Bishop is a subscribers' room. The large reading room is open

of Oxford, and held since 1894 by the Rev. Alfred Babing- to the public five hours daily ; and the library now con-

ton. The Wesleyan chapel, St. Leonard's square, is an tains about 3,ooo volumes. A newspaper, called th&

edifice of brick, erected in 187o, and has 250 sittings. " Berks and Oxon .Advertiser," is published here on

The Baptist chapel, Thames street, erected in 1793, is of Fridays ; there is also an agency here for the '' Reading:

stone, and has 350 sittings. Jireh Particular Baptist :Mercury" and the "Oxford Times." The Royal llerk-

chapel, Wood street, is a building of flint and stone, with shire Horticult upraatlroSnoacgieet"ovf was established in the .vea:r
I6o sittings. 'Ihe Primitive Methodist chapel, St. Mary's 1831 under the the
Queen and his late Roya)

street, erected in 1888, is a structure of red brick with Highness t.he Prince Consort ; a show is held annually in

stone dressings, and will seat 200 persons. 'l'he Brethren the autumn. The Cottage Hospital, in the Reading

have a meetmg room in Castle street. The General road, on a site given by Henry Hawkins esq.

Cemetery, opened for all the parishes in common, com- mayor of Wallingford, o·wes its origin to the-

prises 2k acres, well laid out and planted with trees and late Miss Mary Morrell, of White Cross, wh()

shrubs; it has two mortuary chapels, and is under the died in June, 188o; it has space for eight beds~

control of the town t~ouncil, acting as a burial board. with apartments for the matron, and is supported by

'l'he Town Hall, which stands on the south side of the voluntary contributions: a sum of £I,ooo towards the-

market place, was built in 1670 and repaired in 1822 building fund was contributed by Mr. and ~frs. Herbert

and the interior restored and greatly improved in 1887, Morrell, of Headington Hill, Oxford. The Almshoust>sr

and is a plain building, supported on stone pillars, with near the entrance to the town, on the east of the Read-

a balcony on the north front, from which the result, of ing road, were built and endowed in 1681 by William

Parliamentary elections was formerly proclaimed; the .A.ngeir and Mary his sister ; the income amounts to

hall and council chamber occupy the first floor; in the about £10o a year: the inmates, six widows, hav~

former the quarter sessions and borough courts were comfortable apartments and a garden, "-ith a weekly

held; the latter serves for municipal business: the allowance of 5s. 6d. each. This charity has received a.

petty sessions are now held in the large hall : on the (lonation of £x,ooo from Mr.Francis Simmonds llunting.

upper floor is a large room, formerly used as a kitchen of St. 1-Iary's street. Sir Thomas Bennett kt. mentioned

on the occasion of municipal banquets, now as a ladies' above, founded 17th January, 1616. a charity of £2o

cloak room : behind the open space under the hall are yearly, payable out of an estate at Kirton, Lincolnshire,.

other rooms appropriated as a waiting room and lava- and vested in the :Mercers' Company, of London, upon

tory. It contains many portraits, those of William trust: by a decision of the Court of Exchequer, 3oth

Seymour Blackstune M.P. for the borough; Jacob, 2nd May, 1826, the Charity trustees of the borough are-

Earl of Radnor, high steward; Sir Francis Sykes bart. entitled to one-sixth of the net proceeds of the estate.

M.P. and high sheriff, and Justice Blackstone are hung amounting in 1889 to £65, from which, together with

in the large hall, and to these have now been added a dividends arising from money in Consols, fifteen poor

portrait of Her Majesty the Queen, painted by Mr. persons receive £6 1os. a year each. Major JJigg's

James Hayllar, of the Castle Priory, Wallingford, and charity consisted, up to the year 1835, of a net annuaJ

l\Ir. G. D. Leslie R..A.. and presented by them to the sum of £2o paid by the Merchant Taylors' Company, of

town as a jubi:ee offering: also two landscapes. one of London, to the Corporation, and arising- out of an ex-

\Yallingford bridge as seen from the S.E. side and tensive range of buildings on the south side of Sohf)

another of Grims Dyke about 1! miles S.E. of Walling- square, conveyed to the Company by the donor, Waiter

ford, the former painted by Mr. G. D. Leslie RA. and Bigg, for the erection of a grammar school and the-

the latter by Mr. James Hayllar; these were presented relief of ten poor persons: a report of the Master of the-

to the town by the mayor, H. Hawkins esq. In the Rolls based on a decretal order dated 29th July, 1835,

council chamber are hung the portraits o1 R de Beau- and confirmed by the Court, assigned to the charity two•

Yair, Archbishop Laud, John Allnatt Hedges and Charles equal third parts of the net annual income of the-

Atherton Allnatt, and to these have been added the property: the t-en poor persons indicated in the bequest.

portrait of Edward Wells esq. six times mayor of Wal- now receive 24s. each every half-year, and the grammar

lingford and :\LP. for the borough, 1872 to 188o; elected school has been established. Archbishop Laud's charity

high steward gth November, 1889; this picture was consists of a sum of about L-So yearly, derived from

painted and presented by James Hayllar esq. : also a the manors of Hagbourne and Astou Upthorpe, and br

portrait of 1\lr. Francis Bunting, a generous contributor a deed executed 12th March, qo6, the income is applie<f

of £I,ooo to the Wallingford Almshouse fund, painted annually towards apprenticing boys each year for two

by Mr. Hayllar and presented to the town by public years consecutively and each third year to provide-

subscription in 1889. In the centre of the market place marriage portions for three poor maids. Fludger'(f

IS an obelisk bearing the arms of the town, and around charity, founded in 18o8 by the will of Henry Fludger

it a paved ring of light-coloured stones called the " Bu:l esq. a. member of the Corporation, now consists of {,goo

Ring." .A guild of merchants or traders, "Gilda Consols, the dividends arising from which are distri-

Mercatorum," with liberties, laws and customs secured buted annually among 30 poor men and women. Gold·

to the inhabitants by royal favour, existed here from ing's charity consists of £1,6oo Consols, left to the Cor-
the time of Edward the Confessor; it wa~ re-established poration on trust by Widdows Golding esq. a native of

2oth September, 1667, by letters patent from Charles II. '\Yallingford, by will dated 5th .August, I8I8: the divi-

The Corn Exchange, on the east side of the market dends arising therefrom are distributed annually 11t

place, was erected in 1856 by a joint-stock company, Christmas in clothing, flannel and blankets, without any

and is a structure of brick, with stone dressings, in the distinction or reservation as to religious belief. Morrell'&

Italian style; it has a pedimented front, supported hy ..:harity consists of £4,075 IOS. invest,ed in Consols,

fiat pilasters with foliaged caps, and a roof of iron and originally left to the Corporation, under certain con-

glass ; the interior is furnished with st.ands and desks, ditions, by the will of Charles Morrell esq. of Sloan&

and the general control of the exchange is vested in a street, London, and Bridge House, Wallingford, dated

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. WALLISGFORO. 231

25th October, 1855, which directs that the annual in- 1646; he died 14th Nov. r66o, and is buried in the

come therefrom derived shall be divided equally every north cross of Westminster Abbey: after its surrender

year among ten poor persons. the castle became the state prison, and in r652 was

Castle Priory, formerly the seat of Judg0 Blackstone, demolished by an Order of Council, dated 18th Nov.:

is now occupied by Edward Arthur Smalley Potter esq. the centre moat still exhibits traces of artificial works of

The castle, built within the ancient walls, was situated in great strength, and in the large ordnance map the

the north-east quarter of the town, on ground comprising existing remains of the fortifications are set out with

between 20 and 30 acres, and may be said to have over- great minuteness. The proprietor, J. Kirby Hedges

bung the Thames ; its original construction has been esq. J.P. has an Elizabethan mansion situated on a com-

attributed by some to the Romans, and several still exist- manding eminence with picturesque grounds adjacent,

ing subterranean passages connected with the keep, with for which see Olapcot.

portions of early masonry, have been pronounced to be The College of St. Nicholas and the church or chapel

Roman work; the fortress, despoiled by the Danes A. D. belonging to it were situated at the south-east corner

1006, was rebuilt by Robert D'Oyley, acting under tht> of the area circnmscribed by the fortifications of the

orders of William the Conqueror, between A.D. 1067 and castle, and within the third dyke; the still existing

1071 : during the contest between Stephen and the ruins show that the buildings' were constructed of lime-

Empress Maud it was held for the latter by Brian Fitz- stone (malin) intermixed with flints and cemented with

count, and during the years 1146 to II53 sustained concrete; the south wall, of considerable height, is nine

several attacks from the king, who had thrown up forti- feet thick, and in the upper portion of the tower the use

fications in a close in the parish of Crowmarsh. still of blocks of concrete may be traced; an extensive view

called "Barbican:" in the reign of Henry II. A. D. II55• over the surrounding country is obtained from the

a parliament was held at the castle to determine the summit, which is approached by a path formed along

succession to the crown; and in that of Richard I. it the top of the wall; the doorway and windows, con--

was traitorously seized, during the king's absence in structed of freestone, four of which remain on the wesi

Palestine, by his brother John, who, on succeeding to side, bear traces of alterations late in the 14th or rsth

the throne, strengthened and garrisoned it against the century; the burial ground is supposed to have adjoined

barons: Richard Plantagenet, King of the Romans, Earl the church on the south-east. The enclosure called

of Poitou and Conwall, and brother of Henry III. spent "the Kine Croft" is appropriated as a public recreation·

vast sums upon it and made it his chief residence, and ground, and a sum of about £3 is yearly received for

in 1246, the king being present, celebrated here with the right of depasturing cows; it is fenced in on the

great rejoicings the birth of his son: by Edward II. it north and west by earth works, forming portions of a

was granted to his hapless favourite, Piers de Gaveston, Roman camp, which, by a perpetual mjunction of the

Baron Wallingford and Earl of Cornwall, and on his Court of Chancery, dated 2rst July, I88I, are preserved

death, A.D. 1312-13, to Hugh Despencer the younger from any future disturbance.

(executed at Hereford, November 29, 1326), and subse- GLAPOOT is now a separate parish. The Castle Pre-

quently, in 1317, to his Queen Isabella, who transferred cincts have been merged into it. It will be found under
it to her paramour, Roger, 2nd Baron Mortimer, upon
whose execution at Smithfield in 1330, Edward IlL gave the letter C.
the castle to his brother John Plantagenet of Eltham,
The area of the several parishes is : -

Earl of Cornwall, and it afterwards became the inherit- .Acres. Ra:eable Value•
ance of Edward, the famous Black Prince: in 1471, after
the battle of Tewkesbury (May 4), it became the prison- Allhallows (estimated) ......... 13 0 0. £397
house of the unfortunate Margaret of Anjou, who re- St. Leonard ....................... . ...236 3,067
mained here till the payment of a heavy ransom by her ...97 4.556
St. Mary-le-More.................. ...
t34 2,204
St. Peter ...........................

father, Rene, Duke of Anjou, and King of Naples, Sicily The population in 1891 was:-

and Jerusalem, liberated her in 1475 : during the civil Allhallows ..... ...................... . Parish t76
war~ lines of defence were again thrown up within the St. Leonard ......................... I,I5-J
*St. Mary ........................... , I ,276-
interior area, and the fortress regained, in some measure, St. Peter.............................. ,
490
its ancient strength, many of the outbuildings having "

been dismantled and quantities of lead and other

materials transported to Windsor during the reigns of t Including 8 of water. 3,096
Mary and Elizabeth for the construction of works at

Windsor Castle: a warrant for this refortifying was *Including 169 officers and inmates in the Workhouse.

issued by Charles I. in May, 1643, and the defence of The area of the municipal borough is 380 acres; th&

the town and castle entrusted to Colonel Blagge, an population in r89r was 2,989.

officer of great courage and military talent, who defended Parish Clerks & Sextons :-St. Leonards, George

it with great resolution for sixteen weeks, and eventu- Bowden; St. Mary's, Joseph Absolon; St. Peter's, JohD

ally surrendered with a loss of only five slain, 27th July, Sadgrove.

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL I~STITUTIONS &c.

Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Councillors.
Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.-Thomas
IRetire in November, 1899·
George Collings, postmaster. Letters are delivered at
James Thomas Champion Thomas Pettit
7 & 9.30 a.m. & 1.15 & 6.35 p.m.; dispatched at 9.20 George Peck James Wilder

& 11.30 a.m. & 2. 25, 3• 7.50 & 8. 55 p.m. & I a.m. ; Retire in November, 1900.
sundays, delivered at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 9 p.m. &
Benjamin William Hilliard j Thomas Lester
r a.m.; parcels dispatched at 9.15 & 11.30 a.m. & 2.15,
8 & 9 p.m. Parcels arrive same time as delivery ot George Dunlop Leslie Henry Watkins Wells

letters

Wall Boxes, with times of c:earing :...,--Railway station, Retire in November, rgor.

8.15 & 11.5 a.m. & 12.35, 1.45, 5-SO & 8.50 p.m.; sun- Edward Borne George :Frederick Slade
day, 12.20 :noon; Winterbrook, 8.15 a.m. & 12.10, 2.15, James Morty Henry William Snow

5·45 & 7·45 p.m. ; New Town, 8.45 a.m. & 12.30, 2.45, Mayor's Auditor, Councillor James Morty
6 & 8 p.m. ; Shillingford Bridge, 12.30 & 7·30 p.m. ; Elective Auditors, John Carthew & Fredc. Pearman

Croft Road, 9· ro & w.so a.m. & 12.50, 2.25, 6.5 & ' The ordinary meetings of the Corporation are held at
7.50 p.m
Wall Letter Box, St. John's road, cleared at 9·5 & 10.40 the Town hall, first wednesday in every month at II
a.m. & 12.45, 2.20, 6 & 7·45 p.m. ; no collection on
sundays. Castle street, 9.10 & 11.10 a.m. & 2.55 & 9 a.m. and as the Urban District Council every month at
p.m. ; no collection on sundays
noon 0

Officel'l! of the Corporation & Urban District Council.

Bridge Chamberlain, .Alderman T. F. ·wells

CORPORATION. Bridgemen, Mr. Henry Ponking- & Mr. J ames Wilder

I8g8-99. Town Clerk & Clerk to the Urban District Counf'il &

High Steward, Edward Wells esq. Wallingford. Borough School.A.ttendance Committee, Francis Edwd.
Mayor, Councillor Benjamin William Billiard.
, Hedges, Market place ·
Deputy Mayor, Councillor Richard Wilder.
Treasurer, Charles Morrell, Market place

IAldermen. Borough Aocountant, William Thomas Brooks, St. Peter'e
§Henry Ponking
street

*Sidney Payne Medical Officer of Health, W. T. G. Woodforde M.D.

*Thomas Frederick Wells §Richard Wilder Oak bank, near Reading

Marked thus * retire in November, 1901. Borough Surveyor & Manager of Water & Sewage works,

Marked thus § retire in November, 1904. Arthur Burst, Town hall

232 WALLINGFORD. BERKSHIRE. [ K E L L Y 7S

Borough Surveyor for New Buildings & Streets, Samuel Prior, Britwell Salome, Brookhampton, Crowmarsh

Couch Johns, St. Mary's street Gifford, Crowmarsh l'reston, Cuxham, Dorchester,

Sanitary Inspector, Samuel Couch Johns, Crowmarsh Ewelme, Gangsdown Hill, Gatehampton, Gold's Heath,

Gifford Goring, Goring Heath, Greenfield, Holcombe, Homer

Collector of Rates, Charles 'l'heodoreVenimore, High st Farm, Huntercom be-end, Ipsden, May's Farm, Mange-

School Attendance Officer, John J ames Hall, Springdale well, Mongewell Upper Farm, Newington, Newnham

cottage, Croft road Hill Farm, Newnham Murren, Nuffield, Roke, Rake

Collecting Bailiff, Char!es Theodore Venimore, High st Marsh, Scotts common, Shillingford, Stoke Little,

Collector of Fair & Market Tolls, John Hardy, Croft road Stoke North, Stoke Row, Stoke South, Turner's Court,

Sergeant at Mace & Hall Keeper, William Blackwood Warborough & Woodcote

()urfew (Moo-ning & Evening) Bell Ringer, John Sadler For BankrulJtcy purposes this Court is included in that

'Town Crier, Joseph Lamb, Wood street of Oxford, George Ma1lam, I St. Aldate street, Oxford,

WALLINGFORD RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. official receiver. Certified Bailiffs Appointed under the
"Law of Distress .Amendment Act," Joseph John Gale,

1\l'eets at the Workhouse on the day of the first meeting of auctioneer, Market place, Wallingford; Charles E.

the guardians in every month at noon. Bullford, solicitor, Watlington, Oxon

..Oerk, George Frederick Slade, Market place, Wallingford County Police Station, St. Mary's street, Edwin Hear-
· Treasurer, Edward Wells, Wallingford ness, superintendent & 3 constables

Medical Officer of Health, William Thomas Garrett Fire Brigade, Engine house, Waterworks, Frederick
Woodforde M.D. Oak bank, Spencer's Wood, Reading Pearman, sec. & 8 men

. Sanitary Inspector & District Surveyor, R. B. Lay, Sot- Free Library & Literary Institute, St. Mary's street; E.
well Wells, president; S. Payne & H. Ponking, vice-presi-
dents; Sidney L. Hawkins, treasurer; James Preston,

· COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR WALLINGFORD PETTY hon. librarian; Westley Carthew & Thomas Levy, hon.
secs
SESSIONAL, DIVISION.
Morrell Charles esq. Milton Hill, Abingdon, chairman Town Hall, Market place, William Blackwood, keeper

Hoskyns Rev. Sir John Leigh hart. M.A. Rectory, Aston

Tirrold, Wallingford VOLUNTEERS.

Arding Alfred Chas. esq. Br.a~iers park, WaJlingford rsb Volunteer Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's
·; Fraser Alexander Caspar esq. Mongewell, Wallingford (Royal Berkshire Regiment, M Co. ), head quarters,
Lamb hotel; Alfred Charles Arding, Braziers Park,
Hawkins Henry esq. Cranford hou,e, Cholsey captain commanding; armoury & drill hall, Corn Ex-
Hayllar James, esq. Bournemouth
.Hedges John Kirby esq. Wallingford Castle, Wallingford change
liilliard Benjamin "William esq. High street, Wallingford

Littleboy William, Preston Crowmarsh, Wallingford WALLINGFORD 1.:-NION.
Latham Thomas, Bishop's Court, Dorchester

:Morrell Hopewell Baker esq. The Retreat, Reading Board day, every alternate tues. at u, at theWorkhouse.
Wells Edward esq. High street, Wallingford
The Union cornprises the following places : -Allhallows
Clerk to the Magistrates, Francis Edward Hedges, (Wallingford), Aston Tirrold, Aston Upthorpe, Ben-
Market place sington, or Benson (Oxford), Berrick Salome (Oxford),
Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall every other Brightwell, Cholsey, Clapcot, Crowmarsh Gifford (Ox-
ford), Didcot or Dudcott, Dorchester (Oxford), East
friday at n.3o a.m. for general business & Petty Ses- Hagbourne, Ewelme (Oxford), Fifield (Oxford), Little
sions under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts every fri- Wittenham, Long Wittenham, Mongewell (Oxford).
duy at rr.3o a.m. The places in the Petty Sessional Moulsford, Newington (Oxford), Newnham Murren
Division are :-Aston Tirrold, Aston Upthoq:e, Blew- (Oxford), North Moreton, North Stoke (Oxford), St.
bury, Brig-htwell, Cholsey, Clapcot, Didcot, East Hag- Leonard (Wallingford), St. Mary-le-More (Walling-
bourns, West Hagbourne, North Moreton, South More- ford), St. Peter, Sotwell, South Moreton, South Stoke
ton, Moulsford, Sotwell & Upton

BOROUGH MAGISTRATES. (Oxford), w~urborough (Oxford), & West Hagbourne.
~The Mayor The p()pulation of the Union in 1891 was 14,706;
·"The Judge for the time being of the County Court
area, 42,697 acres; rateable value in 1898, £99,854
Hawkins Henry, Cranford house, Cholsey Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, George
Morty James, High street
l'ayne Sidney, St. John's Frederick Slade, Market place, Wallingford
Pettit 'rhomas, Sandford lodge Treasurer, Edward Wells, banker, Wallingford
'\\ilder Richard, St.. Lucian's Collector to the Guardians, Relievin~ & Vaccination

Clerk, Francis Edward Hedges, Market plaC'd Offi~rs, Cholsey district, Benjamin Tubb, Erightwell;
·The Magistrates' sittings are held at the Town Hall Wallin~ford district, Thomas Tyson Henson, St. Peter's
street, Wallingford
every saturday at II a.m !\'ledical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Aston district,
John Aldington Gibb M.B., C. M. Aston Upthorpe;
Trustees of the Wallingford Charities. Cholsev distrif't, Edwin Charles Walter L.R.C.P.Lond.
Market• place, Wallingford; Dorchester district, Thomas
1\fessrs. T. F. Wells, H. Hawkins, H. Ponking, G. D. Spry Byass L.R.C.P.Lond. Dorchester; Wallingford
Leslie, H. W. Wells, Rev. A. W. N. Deacon, Rev.
E. B. Mackay, S. Payne, E. J. Castle, E. Horne, R. district, Edward Borne M.R.C.S.Eng. St. Mary's street,
Wilder, Rev. H. R. Salt & J. Morty Walling-ford

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. SupPrintendent Registrar, Westley Carthew, Church la.
Wallingford; deputy, John Carthew, Church lane
Alm shouses. Reading road
Cemetery, Francis Edward Hedges, Market place, clerk Registrars of Births & Deaths, Cholsey sub-district,
Benjamin Tubb, Brightwell; deputy, Mrs. Ellen Tubb;
to the Burial Board; Joseph Albert Absolon, sexton Wallingford sub-district, Thomas Tyson Henson, St.
Corn Exchange, Market place, Charles Eggleton, colkt.r Peter's street, Wallingford; deputy, Mrs. Emma. Hen-
Cottage Hospit-al, Heading road, Edward Horne M.R.C.S. son, St. P~>ter's street, Wallingford

Eng. & William Bremner Nelson L.R.C.P.Lond. & Registrar of Marriages, Charles Theodore Venimore, High
M.R.C.S.Eng. hon. surgeons; Rev. Edward Bruce street, Wallingford; deputy, John Smith, Castle st
Mackay M.A. chaplain; Col. Blunt, Manor house, Dor-
chester, hon. sec. ; Sidney Payne esq. hon. treasurer; The Workhouse, situated near the boundary of the
Miss Kitching-, matron borough, in the parish of St. Mary, is a structure of
County Court, His Honor Sir Alfred George Marten Q.C., brick, constructed to hold 382 inmates. A new & en-
J-'L.D. judge; George Frerierick Slade, registrar & larged infirmary was opened 22 Dec. 1898; William
high bailiff; J. J. Hall, bailiff. The Court sits once in Cawse, master; Rev. Alfred Babington, chaplain;
two months at the Town Hall on wed.; office (hours Edward Home M.R.C.S.Eng. medical officer; Mrs.
10 to 4), Market place. The district comprises the Amelia Loveday Cawse, matron; Miss Elsie B. Nicoll,
following places in Berkshire: -Aston Tirrold, Ast.on superintendent nurse; William Jackson, porter

Upthorpe, Brightwell, Cholsey, Didcot, Hagbourne, The children of the Workhouse attend the National

East Hagbourne, West Hagbourne, Lollingdon Farm, school, Kine croft

Mackney, Moreton North, Moreton South, Moulsford, School Attendance Committee.
New town, Didcot; Slade End, Sotwell, Southridge,

Streatley, Walling-ford, Westridge, Winterbrook,. Wit- Meets at the Workhouse at II a.m. on the day of the

tenham Little & Wittenham Long, & the following in second meeting of the guardians in each month.

Oxfordshire: --Bensing-ton, Berrick Prior, Berrick Clerk, George Frederick Slade, Market pi. Wallingford

Salome, Brazier's Park, Erightwell Daldwin, Britwell Attendance Officer, Robert T., Franklin, Ewelme

DIRECTORY.) BERKSHIRE. W.ALLINGFORD. 233

PUBLIC OFFICERS. there are separate schools for boys, girls & infants,

Certifying Factory Surgeon, Edwd. Borne, St. Mary's st which will hold I8o boys, I40 girls & I40 infants;

Inland Revenue Officer, Wm. Edwd. Collins, 8 Croft villas average attendance, I3-1- boys, I37 girls & I3o infants ;
Superintendent of Police, Edwin Hearuess, Police station Thomas H. Astbury, master ; Frederic Ridley &
William Francis Wyber, assistant masters; Miss Bessie
PLACES OF WORSIDP, with times of services.
Woodward Lovejoy, mistress; Miss Violet Hill, assist-

St. Leonard's Church, Rev. Edward Bruce Mackay M.A. ant mistress; Miss Alice Forward, infants' mistress;
Misses Harriet Willmott & Emily Insall, infants' assist-
rector; daily, Io & II a. m. & 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.; tues. ant mistresses
thurs. fri. & sat. at 7·30 p.m

.St. :Mary's Church, Rev. Alfred Wranius Newport Deaeon, Newspaper.
Theol.Assoc.K.C.L. rector & surrogate; II a.m.

& 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; daily matins, wed. at ro & fri. I2 Berks & Oxon Advertiser, St. Mary's street; William D.

noon; mon. & thurs. 5 p.m.; tues. thurs. & sat. 8 a.m J enkins, printer & publisher; published friday

St. Peter's, Rev. Alfred Babington, rector; II a.m. & 6.30 COJ\'VEYANCES.

p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m

Baptist, Thames street, Rev. Henry R. Salt; II a.m. & G. W. Railway Station, Elias Cordrey, station master;
6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m
H. W. Snow, goods & cartage agent
Baptist (Particular) (Jireh), New road; 10.30 a.m. &
-6 p.m Omnibus on snndays to Moulsford, by J ames Giles, Green

The Brethren, Castle street; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m Tree inn, to meet all trains
Primitive Methodist, Rev. John Edward Sunderland; II
Omnibus from Lamb hotel meets all trains; J. S. Law-
a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m
rem·e, parcels agent

Wesleyan Methodist, St. Leonard's square, Rev. Brignall CARRIERS.
.Peel; Rev. Samuel Hutton, supernumerary; II a.m. &
6. 30 p.m.; mon. & thurs. 7 p.m At.ingdon-Giles, from' Shakespeare,' 9 a.m. & return at
4 thurs
SCHOOLS.
Aston-Prior, from ~Feathers,' tues. & fri

Grammar School, High street, originally founded, under Benson-Young, Cherrill & Wingfield, from 'Feathers,'

the charity of Waiter Bigg, supposed to have been daily; & Cope, from 'Gerrards Hall,' daily

an innkeeper of St. Hiles-in-the-Fields, Lcindon; Blewbury-Green, from 'Oxford House,' tues. & fri. afl

.the endowment, amounting to not more than £10 4; & Prior, fram 'Feathers,' tues. & fri

yearly, was directed to be applied to the erection of a Chalgrove A. Higgs, from 'Feathers' inn, at 3 fri

free grammar school, the maintenance of a master, & Checkenden-Tubbs, from 'Feathers,' fri. at 2

the instruction of six boys, sons of parents residing in Cholsey-Mrs. Larkcome, from Market place, daily

the town: no nominations to the school were made for Dorchester-Greenaway, from 'Feathers' inn, at 2 fri.;

.many years, and the income was allowed to accumulate Giles, from 'Shakespeare,' daily (except tues-), at 8 &

until the invested capital produced a yearly income of Green & Brown, from 'Feathers' inn, daily

£,200, which, with the aid of private subscriptions, has Hagbourne-Sawyer, from Market place, tues. & fri. at 2

enabled the trustees to erect suitable buildings for no l\Ioreton {North & South)-Butcher, from Market place,

scholars, constructed so as to be capable of easy en- tues. & fri

1argement, on a site to the west of the town, at a cost Oxford-Andrews, wed. & sat. at 9

of about £3,000; & these were opened, with some cere- Reading-Giles, tues. & sat. at 8.30

monial, 10th Sept. I877, by Edward Wells esq. then Stadhampton-Moody, fri. at 2

M.P. for the borough; girls, Miss Margaret Alice Warboi"<mgh & Shillingford-Bailey, from 'Feathers '

Nugent B.A.Lond. mistress; boys, George S. MorgaiJ inn, daily

IF.R.G.S. master \Yatlington-Evetts, from 'Lion' inn, fri. at 2 & Jones.

National, Kine croft, erected in I86r at upwards of £2,ooo tues. & fri

.cost, exclusive of the site, granted by the Corporation; Wittenham-Thatcher, from 'Lion' inn, fri

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Driver Robert, High street Morty James, St. Martin's street

Allnatt Mrs. Goldsmith's lane Fairzhorne Miss, Stone hall, High st Naish Mrs. 'St. Martin's street
Nelson Wm. Bremner, St. Mary's st
Astbury Thomas H. Croft villas Francis Mrs. Reading road

Babington Rev. Alfred, St. Petel"'s Gibbons George William, Ca.stle st Payne Ernest Orsmond, Market place

rectory Goodcbild James, St. John's Payne Sidney, St. John's

Eallard Mrs. Merton ldg. Reading rd Hammans Andrew E. St. Mary's st Pettit Henry, Reading road

Barton Bernard, 2 Castle vil. High st Harris Edward Harold, St. Mary's st Pettit Thomas, Sandford lodge

Bliss Wm. The Croft, Castle street Hawkins Sidney L. I Queen's gardens, Pettit William Holland, Suffolk house,

Eoughton Mrs. St. M(l;ry's street Castle street Wood street

.Bower Chas. Prospect pl. High street Hazel Miss, Chalmore vil. Reading rd Pittman Mrs. St. John's square

Bower Mrs. High street 1Hendley Mrs. St. Mary's priory Platt Rev. Thomas Henry Pigott M.A.

Bradford Jn. Edith villa., High street Henham Rev. William Townsend M.A. (curate of St. Ma.ry's, North Stoke,

Eradshaw Miss, Wood street Bekesbourne, High street Oxford), Croft villa

Brasher Edgar, St. Mary's street Henson Thomas T. St. Peter's street Pon.king Henry, Market place

Brasher Miss, Reading road Hilliard Benjamin Wm. J.P. High st Potter Edward Arthur Smalley, Castle

Brasher Wm. Fras. jun. St. Mary's st Holmes Ar~hur, Croft vil. Croft road priory

.Brooks Mrs. St. Peter's street Horne Edwa.rd, St. Mary's st.reet Powell Riohd. E.Brook lo. Reading rd

Butcher Geo. 1 Prospect pl. High st Howard Frank, Reading road Powys Mis·s, St. Michael's, High street

Butler Mrs. 6 Croft villas Jenkins William D. Caxton house, Price Miss, Wa.lcots, St. ~Ia.ry's street

Carter Mrs. Old lodge, High street St. Mary's street Reynolds Mrs. St. John's

Carthew John, Church lane Jones Miss, High street Rogerson Cha.rles Thomas, Elmhurst,

Clifton Thomas, 5 Croft villas Kench Mrs. 2 Prospect place, High st Castle street

Cope Robert, Reading road Kirkpat~ick Frederick, High street Routh Miss, Elm villa, Castle street

ICordey Elia.s, 3 Prospect pl. High st Langley Miss, Priory cot. Thames st Rowbothan Claude, St. Mary's street

Oorneby George F. W. Bridge landing Lesli& George. Duulop R.A. River side Salt Rev. Henry Richard (Baptist),

stage Leslie Miss, Thames street Uhapel house, St. Peter's street

C:over Mrs. Thames cottage Lester Thomas, St. Peter's street Simmons Mrs. High street

Orook Mrs. St. Mary's street Levy Thomas, Castle street Slade George Frederick, Wood street

Curtis Mrs. St. Martin's street Lewis Mrs. St. Leonard's square Smith John, Castle street

odurtis Willia.m George, Ca.stle street Little Miss, Flint cotta.ge, High street Smith Samuel, St. Ma.ry's street

Dalzell Miss, St. Alban's priory Lone Arthur Philip, Gerrard's hall, Snow Henry William, Croft house

Davies Miss, Park house Thames street Spokes Mrs. Reading road

Davies Mrs. Overthorpe ho. High st Lvdford Waiter, 2 Croft viis. Croft rd Sunderland Rev. John Edward (Primi-

Davison Frederick Geo. Bridge house Ma.ckay Rev. Edward Bruce M.A. tive Me~hodist), The Manse, St.

~eacon Rev. Alfred Wranius Newport (rector of St. Leonard's), Rootory, Mary·s street

Theo.Assoc.K.C.L. (rector of St. Reading road Tap:in James, Reading road

Mary's & surrogate), Rectory, High Ma.rshall John Mitchell, High street Taylor Sidney, Castle street

~treet Marshall Misses, Castle villa, High st Tickner Thomas W. Market place

Deane George, Goldsmiths lane Mence Hy. Stanford lo. Reading road Trollope Miss, St. Martin's street

Dyer Rev. Frederick Thomas Stuart Mitchell Mrs. Oak house Walter Edwin Charles M.R.C.S.Eng.

lL!. (chaplain to Berkshire County Morgan George S. F.R.G.S. (head & L.R.C.P.Lond. Market place

.Asylum), The Chilterns,Reading rd master), Grammar school Ward Thomas, St. Leonard's square

234 W.A.LLINGFORD. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY's

Wells Edward J.P. High street Wilder Henry, Lynton house, Wood st Wilder Richard, St. Lucian's
Wells Thomas I<,, High street
Wilder J ames, St. Ma.ry's street Withers Mrs. Castle street
Whichello Mrs. High street

COMMERCIAL. , Ford Charles E. tobacconist & refreshment rooms, St.

Allright J esse, boot maker, St. Mary's street 1 Mary's street

.Allsworth Martha. (Mrs.), baker & beer ret. Goldsmith la Franklin, &Gsaulreve&yorNs e&wtaogne,ntsaufcotriotnheeersA'llivaanlcueerAs~suersatnactee
Atkins Henry A. beer retailer, Wood street agents

Baker Thomas & Sons, millwrights & cycle manufacturers, Co. Market place

High street; & at Reading Franklin Robert T. school attendance officer Ewelme

Banbury Ruth (Miss), shopkeeper, Wood street Free Library & Literary Institute (James Preston, bon.

Bartlett James, builder, Croft road librarian; Westlev Carthew & Thomas Levy, hon. secs.),

Beale George Richard, beer retailer, Croft road St. Mary's street

Beisly "\Villiam R. watch maker & jeweller; repairs to Fursman Herman Browning, Town Arms hotel, High st.

watches, clocks & optics, jewellery of every description; Gale Joseph John, auctnr. &c. "'ee Franklin, Gale & Newton

twenty years practical experience, High street Gardener Ephraim, shoe maker, High street

Belcher Thomas, butcher, St. Leonards Gardener Priscilla Ann & Emily Elizabeth (Misses,) re·

Barks & Oxon Advertiser (estab. 1855) (the only paper freshment rooms & confectioner, High street

printed in the town) (William D. Jenkins, printer & General Supply Stores Co. (The) (J. W. & W. W. Walker,

publisher; published fri. morn. ), St. Mary's street directors), grocrs. provsn. mers. &c. 2 & 3 Castle st.

Blissett Stanley, stationer, hairdresser & tobacconist, St. Gibbons George James, baker, Wood street

Mary's street Gibbons George W. baker & corn dlr. St. Leonard's sq

Bosley Caleb, beer retailer, Hart street, Wood street Gibbons Henry, provision dealer & pork butcher, Highs~

D()ossom Thomas, coal merchant, Canal wharf Giles Arthur George, beer retailer, High street

l3oughton Mary (Mrs.), miller (steam), St. Mary's street Giles James, Green Tree inn, fly proprietor & jobmaster,

Bradford John, stationer, St. Mary's street St. Mary's street

l3rakspear William Henry & Sons Limited, brewers, St. Gill Sarah Ann (Miss), dress maker & shopkeeper,

Martin's street; head office, Henley-on-Thames · & at High street
Wokingham ' Grammar School (boys), George S. Morgan F.R.G.S.

l3rasher William & Sons, builders, St. John's road master; (girls), Miss Margaret .A.lice Nugent B.A.

Briginshaw James, shopkeeper, St. Mary's street Lond. mistress, High street

Erooks Wm. Thomas, borough accountant, St. Peter's st Great Western Railway Co. (Henry William Snow, carting

Bull Edward, fruiterer, St. Mary's street agent), Railway station ·
Bull William, chimney sweeper, Wood street Greenwoo~ J. G. manager of the London & County

l3utcher Charles, tanner & currier, High street & Croft rd Bank, High strt-ct .

Calvert Wm. M.R.C.V.S. veterinary surgeon, High st Gunston Robert, blacksmith, Wood street

Oarthew John, accountant, deputy supt. registrar; Hall John James, school attendance officer, Springdale

secretary to the Wallingford Gas Light & Coke Co. Lim. cottage, Croft road

& district agent for St. John's College, Cambridge, Hands Ellen (Mrs.), beer retailer, St. Mary's street

·Church lane Harding Joseph, nursery & seeds man, Market place

Carthew Westley, supt. registrar, Church lane Hard! John, collector of fair & _market tolls, Croft road

Cash Drapery Stores (William Hedgcock, manager), Barns Ed';ard Harold, orgamst of St. Mary's church,

drapers, St. Mary's street St.. Mary s street .
Castle & Co. stationers & music sellers, St. Mary's st Harn~ Jos~ph Henry, beer reta~ler, St. M~ry's street.
Castle Arthur G. hair dresser, St. Mary's street Hawkins Sidne!• draper! see Field, Hawkms & ~onkmg
Castle Edwin Jn. grocr. & provsn. dlr. St. Mary's street Hearn~ss Edwm, supermtendent of county pohce, Police
statiOn, St. Mary's st;~et
Castle Mary (Mrs.), dressmaker, Castle street

Cemetery (Francis E. Hedges, clerk to the burial board; Hedges & Ma.rshall, solicitors, Market place

J oseph Albert Absolon, sexton), Castle street Hedges, Wells, Morrell & Co. Wallingford .Bank, Mar-
k~t place; draw on London & West,mmster Dank
Chamberlain Thomas A. dairyman, St. Mary's street
Champion James T. who. & ret. ironmngrs. St. Mary's st I L1m. Londo~ E C
Chapman Nathanl. J. furniture wareho. St. Mary's st Hedg.e~ Franc1s E?w~rd (firm, Hedges & Marshall.
so~IC~tor & commissiOner for ~aths & perpetual. ~O~·
Chappell John B. clothier & outfitter, High street

Cheney George White Hart P.H. St. Mary's street misswner, & clerk to the magistrates for the divislon
Cheney Harry, ~hopkeeper, St. Mary's street of Wallingfor~ & bor?~gh justices & commissioners of
Cheney Henry, picture frame maker, St. Leonard's square taxes & pu~lic char1t_Ies, town clerk & clerk to the

Church House Temperance Club (Wm.Preston manager), urban. d1stnct counml & to the school attendance
1 committee & the burial board, Market place
St. Leonard's lane

Clifton Thomas, draper &c. see Pettits Hedges John Henry, Eight Bells P.H. St. Martin's street

Collings Thomas George, postmaster, Post office Hedley John, Feathers hotel & stationer, Market place

Collins Wm. E. inland revenue officer, 8 Croft viis. Croft rd Henbery Sarah (Mrs.), Two Brewers P.H. Hart street
Cooper Margt. (Miss), furnished aparts. St. Martin's st · Henso~ Thomas Ty~on•. regist~a~ of births.& ~eaths for

Cope Alfred, Cross Keys P.H. High street Wallmgford sub-district,_ rehevmg & vaccmatwn office:r
& collector to the guard1ans, St. Peter's street
Cordrey Elias, station master, G. w. railway station

Corn Exchange (Chas. Eggleton, collctr.), Market pl Hobbs George, bricklayer, W?od street .

Corneby George F.W.boat builder,Bridge landing- stage Holme Henry Thomas, chemist & drugg1st, Market pl

Cottage Hospital (Edward Horne M.R.U.S.Eng. William Holmes Arthur, farmer, St. John's farm, Croft road

Bremner Nelson L.R.C.P.Lond. & M.R.C.S.Eng. hon. Holmes Emma Martha (Mrs.), butcher, St. Mary's street

surgeons; Col. Blunt, Manor house, Dorchester, hon. Holmes "\Yilliam, farmer, Lower green

sec. ; Sidney Payne, hon. treasurer; Miss Kitching, Honeybone & Son, stone & marble masons, building

matron), Reading road materials of all kinds, St. Martin's street

County Court (His Honor Sir Alfred George Marten Q.C., Honeybone .A.rthur, saddler, High street

LL.D. judge ; George F. Slade, registrar & high bailiff) · Horne Edward M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, certifying factory
office hours, 10 to 4; sats. 10 to x p.m., Market plac~ surgeon & medical officer & public vaccinator for Wal-

Cowling Joseph, manager of Wallingford Gas Light & lingford district & medical officer to the workhouse,

Coke Co. Limited, Gas works St. Mary's street

Crook Charles George, fellmonger, St. John's road Hurst Arthur, borough surveyor & manager of the

Crook John, beer retailer, St. John's road Water & Sewerage Works, near railway station,

Davis Thomas & Son, grocers & furniture warehouse, St. Town hall

John's road International Tea Co.'s Stores Lhnited (Charles E.

Dell Geo. Ernest, cycle manufctr. Isis cycle stores, High st Looker, manager), High street

Dobinson Harry, coach builder, St. Peter's street Jenkins Bessie (Miss), stationer, St. Mary's street

Dodd Waiter J. H. corn, seed & cake merchant, Wood st Jenkins Frank E. watch mkr. & tobacconist, Market pl

Durham Charles, fishmonger, St. Mary's street Jenkins William D. printer & publisher of the "Berks &

Dyer Henry W. cabinet maker, Market place Oxon Advertiser," St. MMJ'S street; the only paper

Emery Waiter Edwin, tobacconist & hairdresser, High st printed in the town

Evans Thomas Sander&, plumbr. & ho. decorator, High st Johns Samuel Couch, architect & surveyor, St. Mary's sl

Fastnedge Edwin, dairyman, High street Jones Elizabeth Ann (Miss), ladies' school, High street

Field, &wkins & Ponking, linen & woollen drapers, silk Kelly Robert, butcher, High street

mercers, carpet warehousemen & funeral furnishers, Kent Mary F. (Mrs.), fancy repository, Market place

Market place & St. Mary's street Kirkpatrick. Benjamin, shopkeeper, St. Mary's stree•

Ford Wm. Chas. beer retailer & shopkeeper, St. Mary's st. Lamb Joseph, town crier, Wood street


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