BERKSHIRE - 1899

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 2 5BI~FIELD.

Gyles Edward farm steward to Henry· Samson John, farm bailiff to Draper Trim Thomas Edwd. grocer & draper

Waring esq. Hall Place farm Strange esq. Gravel Pit farm Ward William, builder, Stone cottage

Holloway George, blacksmith Soper William, head gardener to Hy. Webb Richard, fanner, Hi11 Foot farm

.Tohnson 'l'homas, stud groom to Hy. Waring esq Whale 'Valter, shopkeeper & beer retlr

Waring esq. Park farm Strickland Charles, beer retailer \Vigg Charles, h~Jad clerk to Henry

Keal John,fann bailiff to H.Waring esq Todd William Robert, schoolmaster & Waring esq

Millson William, Six Bells P.H assistant overseer

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BESSELSLEIGHisaparishon the road from Oxford hall, M.P. for Wood&tock and Spooker of the Hous-e of
to W'llntage and Faringdon, 4~ mHes north-west from OommJons during the reign of Charles I. and the Protec-
Abingdon and 5~ south-west foom Oxford, in the Nort-h- tmlllte, and Master of the Rou.ls, stood near to the west

ern division of the couDJty, hundred of Hormer, petty end of the church; his son, Sir John LeDithall, knighted

sessional division, union anrl county court district of by Cromwell, 9th March, 1657• govern()r of Windso?

.A.bingdon, and in the rural deanery of Abingdon, arch- Castle, e. oolonel in the Parliamentary army and M.P. fo-r

deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church Gloucester and Abingdon, died in November, 1682, and

of St. Lawrence is a small building of stone, chiefly La.te was buried in the chancel of the church. In 1644 an

Norrnan, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch oand a atltempt was made by the Royalists to fortify the Moanor

western bell ga.ble, contruining 2 bells dated 1655; there house and hQid it against the Plarliament, in which they
i·s an in-scribed slab to Sir John Leonthall knt. ob. 8 Nov. were assisted by Bechman, a Swedish engineer; befora

1681; the church was restored by Speaker Lenthall in however the arrangements could be completed, the place

1632, and by his descendant William John Lenthall in was a.ttacked and taken by a furce dispatched thither by

1788 ; there are 100 sittings, 70 being free. The register Major-General Browne, then governor of Abingdon.

dates from the year 1689. The living is a rectory, net Oliver Cromwell is said to have been a frequent visit<lr

yearly value £I ro, with residence and 24 acres of glebe, here, but tms- statement seems to rest ·on tradition only.

in the gift of Edmund Kyflin Lenthall esq. and held since Besse1sleigh Manor, the seat of Edmuild Kyflin Lenthall.

1895 by the Rev. Edward Mewburn Walker M.A. of esq. J.P. is a mansion of white stone with :Ba.th stone

Queen's College, Oxford. The charities a;re £,2 15s. dreASISings in the Tudor style, and· was erected abou~

year~y. The Besils or Bles.elles family, according to 1865. The paa-ish is mostly the property of E. K. Lenthall

Leland, who visited this place on horseback in the reign esq. who is lord of the manor. The soil is loamy sand;

of Henry VIII. (Itinerary, vol. vil. 167) came out of subsoil, sand. The chief crops ai'e wheat, barley, oats

Provence, and were "men of activitye in Fea.tes o-f ond turnips. The area is go6 a.c:res; rateable value;

Armes" ; they came into pos.sessi()n of this manor £685; the population in 1891 was 101.

by marriage, in 1350, and one member of the family, Plarish Clerk and Sexton, JohJt"Bull0ck. ·

Sir Pe·ter Be.sils, gave the stone for the building of Borford The inhabitants of this village are entitled to send their

bridge, at Abingdon, in 1416, and left houses for repair- ohi:dren to the school at .Aip{t!llt'On, endowed by Sir

ing the bridge and roads ; the laStt direct heir of this Richard F~ttyplace kt. ~on of :Besse1s Fettiplace esq

family intermarried with one of the Fettiplaces of Apple- Letters through Abingdon arrive at 7.30 a:m. Marcham

ton and Little Shefford, and in 1634 the esta.te was sold is the nearest money order office & Cothill, about ~~

oo Speaker Lenthall. The old Manor house, formerly miles distant; the nearest telegraph office. Wall Letter

the residence of the Besils family and of William Lent- Box cleared week days at 5-So p.m.; sundays, ro.so a.m

Lenthall Edmund Kyffin J.P.Bessels- COMMElWIAL. Bedwell Albert, farmer,Rowleigh frm
leigh manor Hicks Joseph, Greyhound P.H

Walker Rev. Edward Mewburn M..A Barguss Andrew, farm bailiff to E. K. N eild John, farmer, Little Bradley

'fhe Rectorv• Lenthall esq

BINFIELD is a scattered village and parish 2! mres 1300 to 1859 placed in the church by the present rector;

from tihe Bracknell station of the London and South the church was restored in 1887 at a cost of £1,400, and'
Western railway, 3~ north-east from Wokinglham and 9~ affords 625 sittings, of which 220 are free. The register

east from Windsor, in the Eastern division of the county, dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, net

petty sessional division of Wokingham, hundred of Cook- yearly value £390, including residence, in the gift of the

ham, union of Eastbampstead and county oourt district Lord Ohancellor, and held since 1859 by the Rev.

of "Windsor, rural deanery of Mruidenhead. archdeacdnry Edmund Savory M.A. of Oriel Col2.ege, Oxford, hon.

of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The parish is supplied canon of Christ Ohurch, rural dean of Maidenhead,

with water by the Wokingham District Water Co. The proctor in Oonvoca,tion for the diocese of Oxford, and

church M A:l Saints is a building of stone in tile Per- surrogate. St. Mark's C'hapel of ease, erected by sub-

pendicular or Third Point~d style, and was probably scription in 1866, is a building of red brick, with stone

built in the latter part of the reign of Edward II. : it facings, in the Early English style, t!l.Ild consists of chan-

~onsists of onancel with north aisle, nave of four bays, eel, nave, aisles and transepts; one aisle was added and

north aisle, south porch, vestry and an embattled western the chapel restored in 1875-6, at a cost of over £598 and

tower, containing 6 bells and a c:O'Ck: in the chancel is a reredos of oak was erected in 1897; there are 350·

a fine brass, with half-effigy, and inscription i'n Norman- sittings. Here is an undenominational chapel, erected

French to wa:.ter de Annesfordhe, a former rector, dated in 1875· with sittings for ISO. There is a fuel allot-

1361: ffue north aisle wa.s added by subscription and the ment of 13 acres, producing £10 yearly and charities

church re-seated in 1848: in 1859 the north c.1ancel-aisle of £4o a year for distribution. The Working Men's

WU~S added by the late Mrs. Y(}ung, the chancel being at Club, erected by subscription in 1885, is a sub-

the same time restored at the expense of the Ven. James sta'ntial building of red brick, comprising large reading

Randall, arohdeacon of Berks and late rector, a vestry and smoking rooms and a abrary of soo volumes. Bin-

built, and other a:terations made: the east window is field Park House was sO:.d in 1890 to WiLiam. Regina:d

stained: there are two memorial windows in the chanoel Cookson esq.; the mansion of brick is surrounded by a

to the family of t!"..:1e late rector; one at the ~ast end of park of about 300 acres, and is now occupied by WilliaiD<

ilie south aiS:e to Mrs. Parker, another at the west. end Du Pont esq. :Binfield Court is the seat of Frank Daven-

to C. Parker esq. and one in the hortb. aisle to Mrs. port :Bullock-Webster esq. Forest Lodge, a handsom&
Young: th-e pulpit and r~ding-desk of oak, handsQmei.y house surrounded by a park of about 100 acres, is the

carved, date from 1628; attached to the pu:pit is a very seat of Sir Warwick Charles Morshead hart. .T.P. Bin-

ancient !hour-glass stand of iron, curiously wrought with field Lodge, the property and seat of Captain Ernest

the arms of the Smiths' and Farriers' Companies of fue Frederic Rhodes (late R.E.), is a mansion of brick and

City of London: in 1887 a memorial of the Ven. Arch- stone, standing in grounds of about 6o acres, and has.

deacon Randall, rector I831-59• was added in the form successively belonged to the Nevel and Vernon families.

·of a beautiful carved oak reredos in three compartments: It was originally one of the hunting lodges of Windsor

immediately beiow flhe reredos rnns a bold &:tar-shelf of Great Park. Arthnrstone, is the residence of James

alabaster, carved in high relief with shields and flowers: William Macnabb esq. .T.P. ; Egmont, of Col. A. Cbap-

tr..:J.e wa:Js on either side of the east window are fi~led man ; Farley Copse, of Sir Donald C. Macnabb; AUanbay,

with glass mosaics: the ancient piscina in the east wall of .Tames Allan Wiggett esq. J.P.; and the Grove, of Sir

€till remains: theo chancel is divided from the body of the Robert Wi1mot hart. A portion of Billingbear Park, th&

church by a screen of light and very graceful iro'nwork, 1BprinofpieelrdtyMoafnLororHdoBusrea,ybnroowoke(1, 8i9s9)siutunaotcecdupiinedt,hiiss parish.
and similar side screens fill the arches on either side of in this

the chancel: the original copy of Erasmus' pa.raphrase parish; in 1:738 it was held by the Pitt famtly. The chief

on the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, placed in manor of Binf!.eld was given up to the Crown in 1548, by

the chureh by order of King Edward VI. in 1547, has Thomas, 2nd Baron Sandys, of the Vine, near Basingstoke

been replaced and there is a framed list of the rectors from and in 1617 was given by James I. to Prince Charlea

BERKS. 3*

88 BINI'I.ELD, BERKSHIRE.

(afterwards Charles I.), for whom it was surveyed by [ Post, S. B. &. Annuity & Insurance Office.-"·illiam

Norden; an inf~;>riur manor existed and still exists, af Caudell. Letters are received from Bracknell at 7 a. m.

which Henry Skrine esq. is the lord. The manor was & II a.m. ; di;;patched at 10.30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.;

formerly included in "'Windsor Forest, and many fine sunday, delivery at 7.15 a.m.; dispatch ro.r5 a,m

specimens of the old forest trees still remain on the Post, M. & '1'. 0., •r. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
esta:te, especia~::y some magnificent oaks and a cedar uf
~xtra.m·dinary growth. By tlhe Act of Parliament passet.l Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Pope's "-ood.

-Lewis Robert Rogers, sub-postmaster. Letters are

in 1813 for inc:osing Windsor Forest, a spring of water, received from Bracknell at 6.4.5 & 12 a.m.; dispatched

a mile from the manQr house, was reserved tQ the :'Ord at 8 & rr a.m. & 5·45 p.m. ; sunday, deliyery, 6.45
1Jf the manor, who s'till has the sole right to it. The a.m. ; dispatch, 8 a.m

principal landowners are Lord Braybrooke, Samuel Palmer Schools

esq. Percy J<~dward Crutchley esq. of Sunninghill Park, . . . ·
.James Allan Wiggett esq. Sir Robertl Wilmot bart. \Yilliam Nat'lona! (g:r1s_ & boys), supported partly by endowments

Regir1ald Cookson esq. and Sir Warwick Charles Morshead I left by will m r6:t-8 by W. Symo1_1dson, lY. How r652,

bart. The soil is principally gravel and clay; subsoil, I ~nd ·by Rev. J. Bn-ch, rector of Binfi_eld, r]8], amount-

clay. The chi&f crops are wheat, oats and barley. The I' mg to about £3o yearly, for 180 children; aYerage at.

area is 3•470 acres of land and rg of water; rateable value, tendance, ./4?; Monday Bolton..' _master
Infants, bm.t I~ 1874, for 120 c.~lldren; average atten-
£ro, 129 ; the population in r8gr was 1740.
Parish Clerk, Monday Bolton. dance, 85 ; Miss .A. Basden, mistress

Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Carrier to Reading. Chas. Scott Barker, wed. & sat

PRIVATE :RESIDENTS. Santi Francesco G. Marlough Giles Edwin, baker & grocer

Bailey Miss, Cressex lodge Shackel 'l'hom.as, The Grange Green George Harman, carpenter

Braybrooke Rev. lVilliam Alfred Rossi Smith-Masters Mrs. Church house Green John Wm. & Son, carpenters

(curate) Speneer Mrs. Elm grove Gunn Charles, Roebuck P.H

- Halliday Waiter, Stag & Hounds P.H

Moor cYose Walker William, Primrose hill Hart William R. Royal Standard P.H

Bullock-Webster Frank Davenport, ·watkins Rev. William M..A. (curate) Hatfield Thos. farmer, Cabbage hill

Binfield court Wheelwright lYm. Hadwen, Under- Higgins Louis Arthur, baker

Butler Mrs wood cottage Hooper J ames, shopkeeper

Caswell M1ss, Binfield place lViggett James Allan J.P. .Allanbay Jarvis John, builder

Cates Joseph, '!'he Earnshaw Wilkin James Edward, The Cottage Jones .John, butcher & dairyman

Chapman Col. Arthur Robt. J<-:gmont Wilmot Sir Robt bart. D.L. '!'he Grove King A1fd. saddler & harness maker

Chapman 'l'he Misses, Fernlands Woods Mrs. Parkside King Jsph. Shoulder of Mutton P.H

Clarke .Arthur Charlton, St. Mar- COMMERCIAL. Kislingbury iFrancis, plumber

garet's house Aitken Henry, laundry Lawler Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Cree Rev. 'l'homas George l\I..A.. Pope's Baker .Felix, teacher of music, '!'he \faskell Richard, farmer

Wood lod~e Terrace Minchin Brothers, hay, straw,

Du Pont William, Binfie.Jd park Baker Thomas, carpenter corn, coal, seed & oil cake mers.

Gibson Arthur Sumner, 13racondale Ball Henry Thomas, draper forage contractors & brick & tile

Godfrey-Fraussett Col. Wm.Farley mr Barker Charles Scott, Old Jack of manufacturers; & at Wokingham;

Hardman Jones Richard Jephson M..A. Newbury P.H. & fly proprietor .Ascot & Bracknell

The Woodlands Barker John, blacksmith Morris Benjamin, bricklayer

Hare Capt. the Hon. Hugh, Forest cot Binfield Brick & Tile Co. Lim. (Danl. Munday Charles, boot maker

Harris Stanley, Holmlea Sharp, managing director) Phelps Wm. Edmund,White Horse P.H

Hawker Francis Alfred, Eaglehurst Burch Harry, tobacconist & stationer Rogers Lewis Robert, grocer & baker,

Knipe Mrs. Glenusk lodge Caudell Wm. wheelwright, Post office Post office

Liddell Mrs. Northwood Clarke 'l'homas, Bridge House P.H Sly Charles, farmer

Long Stephen Oliver, Binfield grange Clifton William, Jolly Farmers P.H Slyfield David, baker

Ludlow Thomas (Mrs.), Blossomfield Cook Miss, dress maker Swindale John M.R.C.S.Eng., L.S.A.

Macnabb SirDonald Campt,ell K.O.I.E. Coote Emma (Mrs.), coal dealer surgeon & union medical official &

C.S.I. Farley Copse Crockford Frederick, farmer public vaccinator for Hinfield dis-

Macnabb Jas. Wm. J.P. .Arthurstone Cropp George, baker & grocer trict, East Hampstead union

Marrio.tt Mrs. Pope's Wood cottage Cutler Ellen (Miss), dressmaker Thorp Joseph. farmer, Brooklands

Meynel Ing-ram Miss, Park lodge Dav John, fa.rmer, Buck's farm Vaile Emma (Mrs.), newsagent

Minchin William, Park view Dyer .Annie Elizabeth (Miss), ladies' Webster Waiter Benj. assistant over-

Morshead Sir Warwick Charles hart. school, Woodside seer, & apiarist & bee-keeping ap-

J.P. Forest lodge East George, insurance agent pliance manufactr. The Apiary

Needham Lieut.-Col. Binfield house East & Hyde, builders, contractors, West .Toseph, dairyman & fart:ner,

Oades George, Spring villa house decorators, sanitary & hot White House farm

Pritchard Capt..Alfred Thos. Oaklands water engineers, funerals completely Wild William Hy. baker & grocer

Rhodes Capt. Ernest Frederic (late furnished; established 1877 Wilson Mary (Mrs.), farmr.Park frm

R.E.), Binfield lo.; & Junior United Elmes James, Victoria Arms P.H Woodason Henry, broom maker

Service club, London SW Ford 'l'homas Bailey, farmer Woodason John, Bee Hive P.H

Savory Rev. Edmund M.A. (rector, Fowler Samuel, fly proprietor Working Men's Club (W. Braybrooke,

hon. canon of Christchurch),Rectry Gibson John, blacksmith sec)

BIRCHETS GREEN is a hamlet situated on an ele- well-wooded park of about r6o acres, containing a.bout
vation commanding an extensive view of the surrounding roo hood of deer; the park is noted for its magnificent
avenues of lime trees, one of whi<lh leads to the mansion,
country and adjoining the beautiful demesne of Hall the other•S> extending right and left. The land is the
Place, 3~ miles west from Maidenhead. A small portion property of Sir G. A. Olayton-East hart. 'l'he population
i.s included in the respective parishes.
-of this hamlet is in the parish of Bisiham and the re-
·'Qlaander in the parish of Hurley, in the Ea.soorn division .
Plostt Office.-Letters from MMdenhead at 8 a.m. & I
of the county, Maidenhood pei:Jty sessional division and
•00unty court diSitriot of Henley-on-Thames. .A school p.m. ; box cleared at 11.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. e_xcept
chapel was opened her& and licensed by the late Bishop sundays, then at 10.30 a.m. Postal orders are 1ssued
here, but not paid. The nearest money order & tele-
·w!ilberforce Fe·bruary 2 8th 1 a6g. but the services are graph office is at Littlewick Green, I mile distant
at present' ( 1 8gg) discontu;_ued. 'the vicar and church-
wardens of Hurley are trustees ~d managers. Hall Pia.ce, 1\lrochial Sichool (mixed), for 6o children; average
arotendance 56; Mdss Emily Langdon, mistreSoS
the sea.t of Sir Gilbert .Augustus Clayton-East hart. J.P.

is a mansion of red brick, stand;ng in a picturesque,

East Sir Gilbert .Augustus Clayton- Croxford 'l'homas, beer re~ailer Lowe George, insurance agent
Lowe William, baker, Post office
hart. J.P. Hall Place Field John, farmer, Stubbings farm Smith Susan (Mrs.), laundress
Windsor 'l'homa.s Wm. cattle dealer
Brewer Frederick, Woodlands Hall 'l'homas, Crown P.R

l:.ayard Capt.Arth.Stubbings Farm ho Lee Augustus, builder

BISHAM (formerly Bustleham) is e. village and parish, Great Western railway, in the Eastern division of the
county, hundred of Beynhul"St, Maidenhead pebty ses-
beautifully situated on the bank of the river 'l'hames, sional division, union of Maidenhead, county court district
of High Wycombe, rural d~anery of Maidenhead, arch-
over which is a suspension bridge to Marlow (Buc~). deaconry of Berks and diooese of Oxrord. The churoh of
built in the year 1836; it is 13 miles north-east from All .Saints, which atands close to the river and not far

Reading, 7 east from Henley, 5 north-west from Maiden-

bead and one mile south from Marlow station on the

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. BLEWBUB.Y. 37

from fue Abbey,. is an ancient 11tructure of chalk and seem 1o exist: on the sout'il sida of the hQu.se is the
rubble stone, dating from about the 12th century, and "Council Ohftmber," which., with an adjoining bed-room,

consists of chance!, nave of 4 bays, eisles, south porch formerly constituted a single apartment, and was oc-

and "an embattled western tower of Norman date, con- cupied as suoh for tihree years by the Princess El'zabetb

taining 3 'be:.ls; it was restored in 1849 and 185o, and a whe'n in retirement here, under the charge of S:r Thomas

north aisle was added in I87]-8, at a cost of £2,300, de- Hoby: in one of the wal:s of the house is a emi-Ceale\1

frayed by Lieut.-Gen. Owen Williams J.P.: in the church chamber, the chimney of which communicates with that

are monuments to Sir Philip Hoby kt. the last English of the hall: t!he conv€nt barn, a detaclled bui:_ding, is
legate to the Pope, who died 1558 and Sir Thomas Hoby a.J..so extant, its woodwmk being of Spanish chestnut, and

kt. ambassador to France, who died 1566, with their the gardens are still surrounded by a moat: the founder
effigies in alabaster, erected by the widow of the latter: of the priory, who died i'n 1343, is said to have been

there is also a stained window with arms of twelve buried in its church, together with Wi:liam, his f!OD, 2nd
members of the Hobye family, placed in the year 1609: Earl K.G. who died in 1397; his grandson, Sir John de

there are 350 sittings, all being free, except those in the Montacute, 3rd Earl, beheaded at Chichester, 5th Jan.
north and south chapels. The register dates from the 1400; and his gr€at grandson, Thomas, restored a.s 4th
year 1560. The living is a vicar-&ge, net yearly value Ear'., and slain at the siege of Orleans, 3rd Nov. 1428:

£130, with residence, in the gift of Henry James Van- hither, after the disastrous batt:e of :Ba.rnet, April 14th,

sittart-Neale esq. C.B. and held since 1848 by the Rev. 1471, were brought the bodies of Richard Nevill K.G.
Thomas Edward Powell :M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. Earl of Warwick, the famous "king maker," and his

The charities are of £2 1os. yearly value. :Bisham Abbey, brother Jo'hn Nevi3, Marquess of :Montagu, and here aho
the property of Henry James Vansittart-Neale esq. was interred Edward Plantag€net, neplherw of Edward IV.

O.B., J.P. is at present the residence of J. Monro-Walker and grandwn of the "kmg maker," who was executed
esq.: the priory of :Bisham was founded in 1338 on Tower HU, in 1499· Temp~e House, the seat of
on a pre-existing preceptory of the Knights Temp:ars, by Li€ut.-Gen. Owen Lewis Cope Williams J.P. was erected
William de Mo'lltacute, 1st Earl of S{lllisbury of that on the site of a preceptory of the Kllights Temp~ars, and

name and King of the Is'.e of Man, for canons regular of is a noble mansion of brick, on the banks of the Thames,

the order of St. Augustine, and was dedicated to Our and surrounded by a beautiful park and grounds. Stoney

Lord, St. Mary and tib.e Holy Trinity, tihe founder en- Ware, the seat of Percival La Trobe Harter esq. J.P. is a-

dowing it with a sum of £285 yearly; in 1536 i't was fine timber-gabled mansion pleasantly situated on the rvier·
surrendered to Henry VIII. by Wi]ia.m Barlow, the last bank. The Temple Paper Mills here give employment to

prior, who was thereupon created Bisihop of St. David's; many of the inhabitants; there are two machines working
i'n the fo~lowing year tlhe King refounded and endowed it continually night and day. Henry James Vansittart-
as a Benedictine monastery with about £662 yearly, but Neale esq. C.B., J.P. who is lord of the manor, Henry
in 1540 it was again and finU.:Iy suppressed, and was Duncan Skrine esq. of Claverton Manor, Bath, and Lieut.~
granted to Queen Anne of Cleves, W.1o disposed of it by General Williams J.P. of Temple Hou~e are the principal
exchange to Sir Philip Hdby kt. and it remained in that landowners. The soil is light and chalky; subsoil, gravel

fami:y till 1768, when it passed to the Mill fami:y, and oha·k. The chief crops are wheat, barl-ey and oa.ts.
baronets, of Camois Court, Sussex, and Mottisfont, The area is 2,427 acres of land and 51 of water; rateable

Hants, and was afterwards sold in 1780 to the Vansit- value, £5,408; the population in 1891 was 751.

tarbs, a Dantz:c fami:y, several of wh()m represented Paris-h C:erk, H~nry Edward Atlee.

Berkshire in Parliament, and one, tihe Right Hon. Nicho- Post Office. Miss Mary Alln Rarding, receiver. Letters

las Vansittart ~LP., F.R.S. a.fter serving the office of j arr:ve from Marlow & are de1iver€d at 7 a.m. & 12.30

Chance~lor t>f tl1e Exchequer, was, in 1823, created Baron p.m. ; dispatched to Marlow at 7· Io & 10.40 a.m. &

Bexley, a title which became extinct on his death, Btt' 2.55 & 7.20 p.m. ; delivered at 6.30 a.m. & dispatchedl
Feb. 1851: of the conventual buildings the refractory and at 10.10 a.m. on sundays. Postal orders are issued

an octagonal tower dating from the early part of the here, but not paid. The nearest money order & tele-

ltwelftib. century, still remain; the former, restored in graph office is at Marlow, 2 miles dist-ant

1'859, has a fine open timbered roof and a ga·lery: t!he Wall Letter Box at Temp:e, cleared at 10.20 a.m. & 7

remaining bui:dings, apparently enclosing portions of the p.m.; sundays at 10 a.m
ancient fabric, are of the Tudor period and were built by National School (mixed), for 150 chi~dren; average ot-

Sir Philip Hoby kt. ; of the priory church no traces tendance, no; Henry Edward Atlee, master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Vansittart-Neale Henry James C.B., Morton Samuel, estate manager to H_

* J.P. The Grange J. Vansittart Neale esq. O.B., J.P

1\larked thus receive letters through "'illiams Lient.-Gen. Owen Lewis *Randall Henry, farmer & carpenter

Pinkney's Green, Maidenhead. Cope J.P. Tt>mple house *Randall Willia•.n, blacksmith

:Bennett Miss, Bisham cottage \Yoolan Bell :Minars, Quarry wood Sheen Wm. Cawood, farmr.Hyde frm

Hamilton J. P. Quarry wood Silver & Sons L1m? brick & lime wrks

Barter Percival La Trobe J.P. Stonev• COMMERCIAL. Smart Wm. farmer~ Apple House fnn
Smith William, Red Lion P.H
Ware Blake Frederick, Bull inn

Lee Miss, Riverdale Caley Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Thomas Bros. & Co. Limited, paper

:Monro-Walker J. Bisham Abbey Coster George Henry, fisherman makers, Temple paper mills; &

Powell Rev. 'l'homas Edward l\I.A. ElFott John, farmer, Town farm 196 Upper Thames st. London E C

(vicar), VIcarage *Hobbs Geo. sen. farmer, Lee farm Towers Robert, boot maker

Powell Wilfred W. Apple House porch Judd James, shoe maker Worlting Men's Club & Institut&

Riley Edward, Bohemia Kilby Robert Burstall, 'l'he Compleat (Walter Ernest )' ates, sec)

Roberts James, Riversleigh Anglers' hotel Yates John, registrar births & deaths-

Sturgess :Miss, Warren cottage K nowles Mark, fanner, Temple farm Cookham sub-district & insurance

Thomas James, J'S'orwood cottage ~lead Arthur, beer retailer agent

Thomas Jas. 'l"he•Jphilus, Temple cot .Meake,; & Redknap, boat builders

BLEWBURY, called in Sa:xon c-harters "B:eobirg '' consisting of chancel, with a chape~ on the soutlh side..

and "Bleobyrig," in Dom.esday "Blitberie" and "Bhd- nave, ais·:es, transeopts, the piers and lantern stage of a
beria," and later "B:eJberia" and ~· Blebire," is a pari~h
6 mi!.es south-west from Wallingford, 10 east fr()m Want- central tower, n.ort.h and s<JUth porches. and a fine we-st-
age, 10 south from Abingdon, 4 north-east from East ern tower of three stages, with a quatr.efoiled parapet
lis:ey, 4 south from the Did~Cot junction station on the aud crocketed pinnacles with vanes, and contain:n~ a
main line of the Great Western railway, and I~ miles
from Upton &t~tion on tlhe Didcot, N.ewbury and 1Vin- clock 3nd 6 bells, of which t!he 4tlh and ea.r:iest it; da.ted
~:--hester railway, in the Northern d<ivision of the count·y, 1586, and the others respectively 1663, 1689, 1704, 1752
part:y in the hundred of More.ton, but chiefly in that of and 1825 : the church was originally a :!'iro=n sti'llcture.
Reading, pet-ty sessional divi~Bion of WaJGing'ford, union erected in tlhe 12th century on the siite of a. mor~
u-nd county court district of Wantage, rural deanery of
Wallingford, arohdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Ox- ancient ed!ifioo, and portions of this Xorma.n church still
exist at eacli end of the ll{)rth 3ll"Cade : in t.he Transitionn~
ford. The viliage, wi,tlh tlhe exception of one principaJ period (n45-9o) it w~ gr€at:y enrarged and made cruci-
street on the high -road from Reading to 'Vant..ae-e and
A.bingdon, is scatll;ered ; from its posi·t-ion at bhe foot of form: the chanc-el, which is part of this work, reotains a
fine stone groined roof and ()ne of itos original wind'OwE,
the downs it enjoys a pure and invigora.t~ng air and
besides a sma:tl circul81r opening in the apex of the
abounds with springs affording an amp:e supply of good
water. eaSttern gab!e, but its other windows are Late De<>orated :
the soutJh aisd.e is also Transitional, but built at diffeTent
The church of St. Miohael, formerly depen..-1-ent on times, and restor~d with new windows during the Per-

Reading Abbey, is a structure of rubble, flint and stone, pendlicular period: iots continua.tlion eoastwoaTd, forming a

sout>h-OO!St cha~pe!, i>So Late Decorated, c. 1350, a11d has a

piscina ; the piers of tlhe former T.r-a.Mitionw cemnlol

38 BLEWBURY"' BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

tower are of unus-ual thickness, and at the angles are retains a .sim.L.'ar one, muCh worn, to J'Ohn Bouldre, I499·

slender nook sha.fts, the capitals having the volute and Of other antiquities belonging to the church may be

straight-leaved ornaJinent peculiar t<O this dat,e : tthi.s merum.oned llwo chained books n.ow a·ttached to a desk in

tower it would seem had 4 bcl~s : the two easternmoslt the chancel, viz.: the Paraphrase of Erasmus on the

piers are pierced with hag,j,Ot.scopes, thHjt on tlhe soutih New Testament, ordl}red by Edw. VI. in I547• to be

being Perpendicular and the other sq_uare and pwbab:y placed in every parislh ohurch, and Bishop Jewel's Defence
original; the south-we,st pier cont,ains a flight of stone of 'h~· Apology frn.- the Church of Eng:and, placed in

steps leading to an open. archway on the right of t·he churches by diTec.tion of .A.rchbisililop Parker, together
nave and anciently ilie enh"aJIIIce to the rQod loft, which with the contro"Versy with Dr. HaTd:ing, arising out of
retaim a p~Sicina formed out o[ a Norman oap, a unique his famous sermon at St. Paul's Cross in I56o; these
feature discovered during tlhe restoration of I877; the vOlumes were very carefully res1tored and rebound in
Loodon in I8gr, and have tlhe chains by whicih t;he,y were
door is Perpendic!Lar, wil:!h elabOO"ately carved panelled
prQibaJb:J'y HjtJtached to a leotern; .Ashmole, howeve·r, says
traoery; the nave is separruted frolll the .south ruis!OO by t;ha t in his time llwo large boob were clhained to t'he

an aroode of five Trans:UhionaJ arches; t'he nortlh arcade is monumoo•t of S.ior John and Da.me Alice Daunce, men-
Decorated and has two arches only, supported by tioned! above : ·the fine church Chest, strolllgly bound with
oct.agonal columns: tlb.e windows are Perpendicu:ar and iron st,mps, is pr()brub:ry Decoral;led ; t.here is also a good
oak StCreen of Perpendicul3.1" date, and two alll.Cient prayeT
Lwte Decora,ted: the west-ero tower opens to the nave by
d:9ls,ks : in I·886 two recumbent ·satone effigies of a knight
a bo-ld and lofty arch, and ibs lower -stage. lighted hy a and lady, probably 15th cent•.now much wo.rn a.nd hmg
large Perpendicu1Jar window, serves both as a vestry and lying on ~he oostt sid:a of the -SJOlLtlh porch, were removed
ringing ehamber; the po·rohes, ere-cted in the Perpen-
dicular period, were of open timtber-work wilih huge to tlhe north side of t:he churchyard next to tJhe tower.

bo'<!lni.s richly carved; of these th-e south p.Hch rema~ns Tho parbia.l restoraoon of the church was carried out
dumng ih~ period 1877-82 under the direction or£ t.he late
all'ti ha.s been we11 res·tored; but the north porch was
rebuilt in 1882 of flint with stone dressings, it:; carved Mr. Edwin Dolby, arehilteot, .of Abingd10n: an ancient
wock reproduced and a new oak door hung: <llbrve the aumbry was also re.fit'ted, a reredos of carved alai!J.a,sfer

doorway is- a stone niche, witih a modern figure t•f St. »e<h up and the north porch relbu.ilt, at a total coo't of
£3,ooo: t,he nol'1th a:itsle was reosto.red and an organ in-
Michael, and on either side are smaJ.l stone ;;labs, cr>n-
taining matrices of brass figures with sorohls: the south troduced in 1882: the restoration of t:he SIOnth aisil.e,
dooT, a venerable reJic, has a !huge wooden. lock and fine traJnsepi, and routlh-easlt chape'l, in memory o.f the Rev.
irOIII. work: the font, of Penpendicular date, is r.dagr•nal John Hugh Burges~S, vioar I87r-go, was effe.cted in 18gr,
and panelled in quatrefoiLs.
In the c):mrch are several brasses to the ancient family under tlhe direction oof Mr. J. O:dlrid Scoli:t F.S..A.
of La.tton, of Upton a.nd Ohilton~ the earliest is that of a al'chi~ct. mt a total: coot of £r,I46: a communion rf:.atble
knigtht iln a full suit of p~ate armour with his two w:veos of ca·rved oak, witlh a sllab of Belgian marble, for use in
t•he SIOUth chapel h.a.s been presented by tlhe Rev. W. C.
and severaJ. children, c. ISOO, and perhtaps l't'pT~~enting
Thomas Lastton, of Upton, d. 8 .April, 1503, two of the.se Sayer Milward M..A.. lia1te recbor o! S't. Leonardis, Wa,lling-
figureso are on the chancel wall: one wife being now on ford; tlhe communion pJa.te inc:udes a s.i~rver chalice and
<me of t'he piers of the fo.rmer centraJ. ·tower: on the pwten datro 1663, 001d a pa.ten of s,ilver made in 1725-6,
soutlh side of the cha'lliCel, o.n the floor, .ios the bras1s of and given by 1\falt.hus's trustees: thNe al'e 300 s·:iJttings.
John Laltton, of Chilton esq. ob. 3I Ma.y, 1548, wi!Jh The regiSlter dates f.rom the year 1588. The living ~s a
effigies of himself, oobited in a tabard of his arms, Anne vicarage, net yearly value £220, with residence, in the
(YaJte), hlis wife a([ld 6 children Gut of tihe I4 named in gift of the Eishop of Oxford, and held since I895 by the

the iilJSICrip,tion; Al.ice, sister o.f this John Latt10n, married Rev. Edward Isaac Gillam M..A. of Queen's College,
Sir John Daunce, general surveyor of Crow:n lands in the Oxford.

rnign of Hemry VIII. who a'CICompanied the King to B:ewbury was ancienj;q,y a. prieslt-prebend att.a<e<hed to
Frnnce in IS 13, and waiS knighted by him in tJhe chureh Vhe oatlb.edral church Olf Sa!lislbury and was asse,ss,ed :i.n
at Tournay; in IS I5 he was sheriff of Oxon and Berks ; 1226 at 40 mar<ks, and in 15 34 at £54; the right of
represented Oxfordshi.re iln the parliamenlt o[ 1529, and nomination was dtaimed both by t1he Crown and bv the
died 7t:ll Dec. 1'54!5; tlhe remains of thl.' tomb, erec~pd KIIIights of St. John of Jerr"usalem, or HospiWTerS: and

apparent1y both to hdJmself and his wife, witih brass t'he names of 28 pre.bendiaries variousl:y nomtin.a.ted a're

effigies· and shields oof a-rms, is now in the south chapel, on record: t\he ;right of col:at~on rested with bhe bishop:
having been removed t'bither S>ince the time of .A.Sihmole, by t,lte .Act 33 Hem. VIII. ( I54I-2), the estate forming

and has an inscription to D~me .Alice Daunce, ob. 27 ~he pre-bend was m-e·rged in the .se'P~Ta;te eSlt1clil:"'oS be1ong-

Aug. 1523; agarunstli iihe ,soutlh-ea,st pier, in a slab of mg to lfuoe See of SiahiSJbury and the pmbend distsolved.
Poobeck mavble, lis a b.ra.s.s with effigy allld Latin inscrip- The C'hurc.'h, t~ge~bher with 5 virg3ltes (150 acres) of land,

tion to Jolhn Balam, a former vicar, ob. 25 May, 1496, wa.s held aJt the time of the Domesdlll.y survey by William

cm the south side a modern brass, with a figure of ·Belfou: tlhe advowson was subsequently given to the
Fa.ilth and inooriplb.ioo to tlhe Rev. Ja.cob Macdonald LL.B. Knights Temp'!.arr"IS in I2r8 by Tho. doe Sandford, clro.m-
35' years vicar of ihis par.iJsh, d. 4 June, I87r: his wife bprla.in to King John, and it wa's had a,t a !at.e'l' period
Eliza, r849, and his son John, 184r, and on the north side· by t'hs prelbendla.ri.es of l3lewbury. The oomes of 23

a large brass, with arms to the Lowsley family, placed vwars are krum n, and among the pa~ curail:es may be

about I8g6 in lieu of an iron slab, buried under the floor mentioned tihe Rev. :M:organ Jones (c. I78o-r82o), an
jn 1877: the mural monuments were partially destroyed eo?cen_tric cl:umrtruCter, who wa's in cha.rge he,ne during the
during the repairs of I876-7, and include a despoiled v1carwa,t.e of tlhe Rev. John Kelble :M..A. and who is said
marble tablet to the Rev. .Arthur Bromley, chap- to hrure died worbh ab.out £4o,ooo.
lain to John, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, and for five The Wes:,eyan chapel, buiJt. in r86q, on t\e slite of a
years curate here, d. 29 Dec. I83I; and on the former chapel, is an edifice of brick with stone dressings,
<lpposite side, the remains of a monument to Mrs. in a simpl'e style aof Gotlhic, from des,igns. by tihe lat.e

Sa.rath Witherell, d. 12 Oct. 1728: tihe memorial slabs Mr. W. H. WoOO.maiJt, of Reatdillg; John Wes,ley v~s.it.ed
formerly on the chancel floor have been buried and ta1e Blewbury twice in 1746 and once in 1750: t1here is also
:fl.o-.Qii' enltir91ly relaid with tiles ; of these s·lahs one bore an :~, Primiltiv·e MetibJOdlilst chatpe~; rbhoe olJ.d Quakers' chapel
inscription. IJo Elizabetlh, wife of Daniel Lousley, d. IS which stood a little south-west of Blewbury farm, in what
June, 1828, and has beoo reproduced on a smailer scale; is now an orchard, was removed during the last century.
the remainder are indicated on:y by initials ; the sttlained The Working Men's club occupies t'be old infants'
east window, a memorial to .A.ugus.ta Sarah, wifl' of the sohool, and has a good 'billlliiard tnlbloe; John Bil~s.on, ooc.
Rev. J olhn Hugh Burgess, late vicar, was desrigned and and treasurer. There is also a Cricket club · Thomas
executed by Mr. John Bentley, of Londo,n, the subject Smith, captain. '

being suggested by <tihe figure of an aJngeil censing, tJhe .Among the ancient fa.miJies C'O<nnedt·ed with this place

only fragment of anciemt g],ass which remained i·n tille wa;s one cail.lPd Bloobury or de Ble'bury, some of whom

tracery; it was dedica,t.ed 16 Oct. r887: there iis another were buried at Shlllingfo.rd ; tlhere were a~so the de

Dl!eiillOrial wind!ow to Mr-s.Burg,ess, e'l'ee•t,ed by tlhe la:te Rev. NotynghaJins, KidiWell~, Edgal'ls, :Ma:rsllm~h, afterwards

Canon Liddo<n. D.D. and one tO(} Eliza Serre Rotch, d. r6 of old Windsor; Humfreys, Plotts and the HanSIO'll.S, of

.April, 1878 ; there are also mural monuments to John whom waos Sir Robert Ha.noson, a na.t:ive of this place,

Bushnell esq. 1816; Ann Goddard, I847; John Gammon, knighted Isb Feb. 1665, when sheriff of LO!Ildon, lord

I828, aJll.d to the fam~ly of Humfrey, 17BB-r86o; and mayor in 1673, and d~ed 1st Dec. r68o. Fl!'10m oll.d Lady-

floorstones inscribed to Thomas Plott M.A. feilllow of day to old Michae1mtaS-day a. bell is or~rly rung here

Pembroke College, Oxoo, c. I720 ; Mart1ha, daug<Mer of at 8 in t:he evening and till lately also at 4 in the morn-

James Baker JauDIO, I720, and to th~ family of Slade, ing, in oonbinua.noe of an ailoient cusif:Qm instituted for

1757-I8:i!O; in the no['lth aisle is a smaJl inscriptio0n on the guidance of any who might geJt loSJt upon t1ht>- Down!'.

bross to "Jo.hn Oasbetrd·e, o·ne of the good be·nefnotol'\S to There a.:r:e two a.lm&lou&es, one for the o1deslt man in the

this Clhurch." c• .xsoo, and a. large floor slab in the tower parish, erOClted 1738 by the gift oo one James Bacon, who

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died in 1734, with an allowance to the inmate of 7s. 6d. this parish wa.s con.tribut.ed to t.he vo1umoe of the New•

weekly; anutfuer, erooted 1838, for the UJSe <lif :Bacon's bury Field Club foor 1894. There a·:oo three mai10'rs, the
oCharity, on a Slite given by t.he late John IS!haw Phiiiips Great Manor, the Pl'el~nd.al! M'an()II", and t1he manor o.r

.esq. of Gn~he.m, with an allowamoe of os. 6d. weekly; hber'ty of "Kottiugham's Fee. Lord Wantage i<~ lo.rd of

Hanoon.'s charity of £6 and Jones' of £3, are exp-end<ed the G:roea.t malliOr and the pninci;pal land-owner; the

in brood fo.r the poor; Justice's of £3 and Tyrre:l's a['e Pre•beru:llall manor is he:d by the Eccle-sia.s-tiC'all Corn•

odistiributed in m'Jfll.ey on St. Thomas' Day. The Church m~s.siwl~rs, Mid bhrut of No<bbingham's Fee by Mr. T\wmas
.Acre and P:ay Olos•e produce abcut £3 yearl~- for chuvC'll Hum<frey; otih.e·r landowners are M·rs. Powys and Mes.srs.

II?urposes. Eli Caudwell and Na.tha:n.ie-1 Humfrev. The soi:l i.s chalk

The anc:ent houses in the place inc!ude one, built in a.nd marl and t'he land ch:efly arabie, producing whoot,

1651, and sometcime used as an independent chape';, barley, ro<J1t.s and bea[l's, but witlhin the vi[age ilt is

:another, n()W a fail"Ul h()use-, darted x66o, and a. rr.althouse- principailily laid out a:s ch.erry orc'ha.rds, a.nd :rarge

with t.he date 1752: the farm house of Bloewbury fa.rm., quantities .of thO.s fruit a.re annu&!:y -sen.t to the London
foormer'Iy t1he manor hoose Qf the Prebemd, is pr()ba,bly
and other markeob&. 'Vatercre~s is al:so extensive:y cul·
cl the 17th cetiilbury. tri.vwted. The emire aJrea is 4,o37a. Ir. 4P· ; ntoob~e
The Downs rise immooia.t.e:y south of t!he Yo:il:age, in value £3,139; the population in 1891 was 628.

part by a. steep undulwting gras.s~ sJope known a.s Uplton, with .As!Jon Uptili.o.rpe, were formerly chapelries

"L_ydds," descending on the other side into the great in thi<& parish, but, by Ord~I' in Council, 7 June, r862,

hollow known as "Churn"; this plain, the site of the were separa;f:.ed from B:ewbury an.d fo,rmed .into an ecole-

South Midland Volunteer Brigade Camps of 1890 and siastical parish and later into a civil parish.

I894, and of the Camps for the cavalry manamvres of the Po~·t, & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insuranc-e Offic.e.-

:Soame yelllrs, aveTages a mii1e in width with an extl"€me Ml'S. S'are.h ·weston, sub-postmil.sotres.s. Letters thr()IUgh

length of rubout 2,5oo yardJS, and .i.s alnw-slt complet-ely Didcoot R.S.O. arrive 7·35 a.m. & 2.5 p.m.; · di,,pa.bched

sUI"l'oundled by s<weoill.ing hill.s; the sul'face is gene!l"'3.ill:y at 12 noon & 6.25 p.m. .Aston Tirrold, 1! miles distant,

level, and most:y covered writh fine turf: there are now 1 is the nearest telegraph office

some per.manent buildings on rtJhe •slilt.e, and but·ts ·with 6 Police Constable, 'Yilliam Butcher

taoi"geJts, and a range of over I,ooo yards: the branch S hool
c·
line from Didco't to :Newbury and 'VinC'hes,ter rull's along
:at the foot of the hi:ls on the 10outh, and has a small The En.illJ,wed school was ll'!"ooted in 1709 by the trus.tees
temp-or3ll"y 1S<tation wit!h <Sidli.I~~gs here call'.oo "Ohurn,"
.ereCibed for the purpose;s olf the camp, which is wholly of William Mal'thus esq. coj)!izen of London, who be·

withri.n the parish of Kewbury. queatthed lands a.t N()ke, in Oxfordshire, for the educa-
d~slt'ance from the
.A short isolated 1hill ca~~ed village, eastward, is 3 tion & o:othing of 30 boys and 30 girl'S; the endo,v-
l'emarka.b1e "B[ewburton" (B:e()by-
ment a.bso providing pmmiums of £10 for bhe a.p·
prenliceehip of t.he boys to various trades att the age

rigdun), scarp<ed. on it·s wesbern :s•ide int o 31 seri.es (){ of J4, & a certain 'SUm to eaeh girl on leaving the
broad pla.tooux, ri·sing one above an(l~her, and sruppo~ed
by soa:ne to be inck~ti()ns of a forufied position, but are school; tlhis charity at the retUTn in r8o8, produced a
totaJ. gros·s income of £72 5 yea.rly, o·f whi·ch £ 2 7 yearly

more probmb:y remalins of the m<&hod of culti'Vation by was ava.i:ab:e for appreruticing & bhe mme ,sum for
means of "lin.ches " or terrnJCes pul"l~rued under the " ()pen disltrilbuti•on in blankets, sheebs & coal on N-ew Year's

fiel::d" sys<tem; many coins., from tlhe tillme olf the Romans day; Hhe property, comis.ts of 664 acres, but through

to i:Jhat of the Stua.rts, have been ploughed up in the agricultural depreosSJion tlhe endowment haJS failed, &

locality, t<Ogether with bul!:eil:JS, weapons and ot,her evi- the olli.y benefit the sc'hool at pre-se!1Jt derives from it

oden.oe1s of fo<rmer wwr·s. During tlhe Gi<vil \Va.r tllie noeigh- are the repairs done by the trustees, & the hoUJSoe
boUI"hood was frequeflltly &ooured by the R()ya1[s-t and occupied rent free by ·the master; the sch{)ol has been

Parliamerutary forces. The pa'I"Iislh is intersected by the enlarged, and i.s ca;pable of hflldin,!! 160 chciildren; aver-
13ritillsh road, called the lckleoon or kknie:d wa.v, and by age_ attendance, bo~s & girls, 75_; infan~<~, 35; Thomas
a mere or d·efensi'Ye oo:r:thwork knorwn as "Grin{sdJ'tch ,, ; St~tth, maste.r; ~~s~ Ethe~ C~ild, assistant mistress;
tl~e formoo- throws o:ff a collalt'e'rai! branch ca-:Ied " the [ MLs Irene ~htcheJ, mfants mistress

Ridgeway," whrch runs aZ:Ong t'he downs and by Cuck- Carrier.
ham,sley (Cwiche~lm':. hlaewe), oommonly known as [ George Green, to .Abingdon, mon. at 7; to ·wal!lingfo-rd,

~· Scutchamo·re Knob," to Wantage. .A Y~uab:e pape•r on tue.s. & fri. at B a.m

PRIVATE RESIDEKTS. coach, cart builders & van ·wheel- Hearn James, watercress grower

Curtoys AlfreJ wrights ; all repairs punctually J ohnson John, blacksmith

Funke Otto attended to Kislingbury William, chimney sweepr

Gill'<~m Rev. Edward Isaac :\LA. Yi- Corderoy J ustus, farrcer & miller Leach Henry, maltster & farmer

carage (water) Martin Samuel, shoe maker

Lane Misses Cricket. Club (Thomas Sm1th, c.aptain) Pepall George, watercress grower

Lousley Miss Ebsworth Dennis, painter, glazier, Pether Edwd.carpenter & wheelwrght

Richardson Mrs writer ll!i picture frame maker; all Prior Harry, Barley Mow P.H

Saunders Mrs ()rders receive prom.pt attention Robinson William, farmer

Stark Robert, Newton house Gardener John, carpenter, builder & Rumsey John, farmer

COMMERCIAL. coal merch:mt Saunders Wiliiam Curtoys, farmer

Abbott George, farmer Grace Abner, blacksmith Slade Leonard Gillett, farmer & miller

.Aldridge George, watercress grower Grace J\1ary (Mrs.), New inn (water), B:e.wbtuy fnrrr:

.Aldridge Thos. wheelwright & carpntr Green George, carrier & higgler, & Upston Waiter, gr<lcer & taker

Batt Joseph Napner, farmer Load of Mischief P.H Webb John, Catherine Wheel P.H

Eennett Thos. baker & confectioner Green J oseph, mason & plasterer, 'Velch Wm. farmer & machine propr

llillson John, grocer Red Lion P.H Weston. Sarah (Mrs.), Po•t office

Caudwell Eli, farmer, Ashbrook farm Hall Charle·s, grocer, draper, china Workin~ Men's Club (John Billson,

Corderoy J,osiah & Son, farmers, dealer & newsagent sec. & treas)

:BOU.RTON is a township and now a parish formed in from the year 186o. The living is a vicarage. gross
yearly value £84, net £79, including 36 acres of glebe,
1867 out of the civil parish of Shrivenham, situated on with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and
the Wilts border, three quarters of a mile south-by-west held since 1899 by the Rev. James Bates. .A new vicarage
(rom Shrivenham station on the Great Western railway, was built in 1897 at a cost of £1,700. The Baptist chapel,
built by the late Henry Tucker esq. of Bourton House,
<>! miles north-east from Swindon and 7 south-west-by- was opened October Igth, 1851, by the late Hon. and Rev.
Baptist W. Noel M..A. and will seat 1_co persons. Six
-south from Faringdon, in the Northern division of the almshouses, of stone, in the Pointed style, were erected
-county, hundred of Shrivenham, petty sessional division, and endowed by the late John Baker and John Tucker.
'Union and county court district of Faringdon, rural Great quantities of fossils of various kinds were at one
-deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of time dug up here. In the centre of the village stands
llerks and diocese of Oxford. The Wilts and Berks canal an ancient cross. Bonrton House, a handsome mansion,
(lasses through. The church of St. James, built by public commanding extensive views, is the property of Ernest
subscription on a site given by Thomas Tucker esq. .A. Tucker esq. Vernon Lodge, Preston, Brighton, who is
the principal landowner, but is occupied by Charles W.
'Who also contributed £5oo to its erection, is an edifice
oaf ston-e in the Decorated style, c()nsisting of chancel, Butler esq. Viscount Barrington is lord of the manor.
nave, south porch and western bell-gable containing 2 The soil is part loam and clav; subsoil, clay. The chief
bells~ the organ, presented by the first vicar, was opened
crvps are wheat, beans, oa~s,• clo1er and turn;•ps. 'Ihe
May 22nd, r881: the church was restored in 1878, and

~Jiords 120 sittings: a churchyard, the gift of Mr. J. T.

Painton Smith, was provided in 1897. The regi~ter dates

40 BOURTON. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S.

area is 1,252 acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, only. Postal order,; are issued, but not paid. Shriven-
£6,o67; the population in rBgr was 260. ham, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & te~
graph office
Sexton, Henry Peacey. School, erected in 1842 at the expense of the late- Joh~

Post Office. Miss C. E. Locker, sub-postmistress. Let- Baker, Joseph Tucker, Henry Tucker & John Tucker,.
ters through Shrivenbam R.S.O. arrive at 6.30 a.m. &
4 p.m.; dispatched at 8 a.m. & 7.20 p.m. week days for 69 children; average attendance, 56; John Phillips,.

master

l'RIVATE RESIDENTS. Keevil Mrs. Church farm 1 Locker E. E. (Miss), shopkpr.Post off

Bates Rev. James, Vicarage Mansfield Rev. Robt. Wm. (Baptist) Mortimer J sph. thrashg. rna.ohine O<wnr-
Ea.tt Mrs
Bffi.sant George COMMERCIAL. Phi:lips John, National schoolmaster
Butler Oharles W. Bourton house Smith John Tombs Painton, fa.rmer..
Chillingworth Miss
.A.rkeU Henry, farmer Grove farm

Dixon Eleazer, blacksmith & wheelwt Wilson Abraham, he.ad ga.rdener to..

Keevil Saml. Carter,frmr. Low.Bourtn Cha.r:es W. Butler esq

"BOXFORD-cum-WESTBROOK is a parish and vil- the parish, conjectured to have been the Roman road

lage, on the road from Newbury to Lambourn, with a from :3pinre (Speen) to Wanting (Wantage), is a boundaryc

station on the Lambeurn Valley railway, and is 4~ miles stone of the parishes of Bo:x:ford, Welford and Leckhamp-

north-west from Newbury, in the Southern division of stead; this road is called "H3illgmanstone lane" froiU

the county, hundred of Faircross, petty sessional division, the following legend :-A man having stolen a sheep~

union and county court district of Newbury, archdeaconry v·as carrying it with its hind legs round his neck, and'-

of Berks, rural deanery of Newbury and diocese of Ox- sat down to rest on the large boundary stone; the sheep.

ford. The Lambourn river separates Bo:x:ford and West~ struggled and drew him backwards, and he was found·

brook. The church of St. .Andrew is an ancient in the morning strangled by the hind legs of the sheep.

elifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of three The Earl of Craven and Colonel George Bramston Archer-

bays, north aisle, south porch and a low em- Houblon, of \Velford Park, are lords of the manor: the-

battled western tower of flint and brick, built latter is the principal landowner. The soil is mixed

about 1670 and containing 5 bells and a clock: in the gravel and chalk; subsoil, loam and chalk. The chie£

church is a monument of clunch or hard chalk, inclosing crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is.

a black marble slab inscribed to the Rev. James An- 2,807 acres of land and 12 of water; assessable value,

derton, rector here, who died in 1672: the north aisle '.£ 1,83I; the population in r8gr was 549·

was built in I 841 for the use of the poor by the Rev. John _ . .. . . ...
Wells, then rector: there are 270 sittings, all being free. WESTBROOK 1s a tythmg m th1s par1sh adJommg:
The register dates from the year 1558. The living is Boxfo~d o~ the west.

a rectory, net yearly value .£soo, with 20 acres of glebe Par1sh Clerk, Alfred1 Taylor.

and residence, in the gift of the Rev. G. F. Wells, rector Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office. Alfred Taylor,.

of March St. Peter, Cambs, and held since 1892 sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Newbury at 8.15

by the Rev. Charles Nattali Edgington M.A. of a.m.; dispatched at 4.40 p.m. Postal orders are issued'

::Magdalen Hall, Oxford. Here is . a chapel for here, but not paid. Speen is the nearest money order·

Wesleyans ; there is also one for Primitive Methodists office

on Wickham Heath. The benefactions to the poor are- Post Office, Wickham Heath. William Pearce, sub-post-

the rector pays I3IS. 4d. on every Easter; Mr. Gregory master. Cleared at S·So p.m.; & Boxford, cleared at

Iremonger gave £27 by will; Mrs. Wayte gave 6s. 8d. 4.50 p.m. week days only. Postal orders are issued

payable yearly; Mr. Richard Whare gave £30 by will; here, but not paid. Boxford, 2 miles distant, is the-

..\1r. Willoughby gave an annuity of zos. by will, dated nearest telegraph office. Speen is the nearest money:

1610; John Shepherd gave £2o, the interest to be paid order office

t.o poor widows; these sums are invested in the £z! per Police Constable, Edward Tame

cent. Consols. Oliver Samson, the Berkshire Quaker, Carrier. William Peal'Ce, lhckham Heath to New.bnrv

who spent a considerable time in prison for refusing to Parochial School, Boxford (mixed), built in 187I, for IOO•

pay tithes, resided here, and the cottage in which he children; average attendance, 77; Miss Helen Mathe-

lived is still standing. On the road at the north end of son, mistress; Miss Anna O'Brien, assistant mistress

BOXFORD. Baverstock \Va~ter, farmer ~Ienitt William, Bell inn, & farmer

Austin George, Westbrook house Baylis George, farmer Pearce \Vm. coal merchant & carrier,.

Baylis George, Wyfie:d Bint Francis John, butcher Post office, Wickham Heath

de Havilland Rev. James Rainier B..A.. Dodd John, harness maker & farmer Thatcher Charles, farmer

(curate) Froude John, farmer, Hunts green "\YESTBROOK.

Edgington Rev. Charles Nattali M.A. Hawkins Caroline (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Rectory He.a.th William, fa:rmer, Ownbam A.ustjn George, Westbrook house"

Gilks James l\I. Wickham Heath Hutt Thomas, farm bailiff to Waiter Beard Howard, carpenter

Ullithorne Mrs. Ownham Baverstock esq. Bo:x:ford house Houghton J ames M. Knapp's farm·

·wilson Edwin, Cou.rt Oak farm Lawrence John, farmer :Vlitche:l J oseph, boot repairel'

COMMERCIAL. Lovegrove Hy. shoe ma. 'Wickham Hth Snook John, fa;rmer, Hill hQuse

Adams William, blacksmith Lovegrove Jas.shopkpr.Wickham Hth Pocock \Yil:iam, farmer & shopkeeper:

B OYNE HILL is a long irregular village and eccle- ! Drummond M..1. of Christ Church, O::dord, and diocesan
siastical parish, formed August 10, r8s8, out of the civil inspector of schools. St. Paul's church, High Town road•.
parish of Bray and comprises the village of Boyne Hill, was erected at. a cost of £3,813, and consecrated Nov. 4th,
the outlying hamlets of Cox Green and Tittle Row, and 188g. The Baptist mission chapel is an iron building-
parts of the town of Maidenhead near the station, but seating about Bo persons. There are likewise almshouses.
with the exception of Cox Green and Titt:e Row the whole for six persons. The land is the property of William
district of Eoyne Hill is situated within and forms part Henry Grenfell esq. of Taplow, and t'he trustees of th&-
of the borough of Maidenhead; Boyne Hill is on the south Salters' Company. The soil is gravel and in some parts
side of the great Bath road, 7 miles south-west from loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief •Crops are wheat, barley-
Windsor, and is in the Eastern division of the county, and oats. The area is r,ooo acres; the population im
hundred of Boynhurst, Maidenhead petty sessional divi- 1891 was 2,88g.

sion, union of Maidenhead, county court district of Wind- Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance·

sor, rural deanery of Maide.nhead, archdeaconry of Berks Office. William Sandford, sub-postmaster. Letters.
and diocese of Oxford. The church of All Saints, built through Maidenhead arrive at 8 & I 1.30 a.m. & 4 &
in 1857, from designs by the late G. E. Street RA_, 7.30 p.m.; dispatched at 8.15 a.m. & 12.40, 3.30 &
F.S.A. is an edifice of red, white and black brick, with 7.30 p.m.; sundays, dispatched 7.20 p.m. The nearest
<>arved stone dressings, in the Early English style, and telegraph office is at Maidenhead
consists of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles and a west- COX GREEN is a long, irregular village on the south.
t-rn tower with spire, together 147 feet in height, erected side of the great Bath road, and separated from Boyn&-·

·.n 1865 and containing 8 bells and a clock, with West- Hill by the Great Western railway. Here is a. Primitive-

minster chimes : all the windows are stained and the Methodist chapel, built in 1875·
chancel has carved stalls and decorations: the church Post Office. Miss Eliza Payne, sub-postmistress. Let-
was restored in 1889 at a cost of £400 and affords 400 ters through Maidenhead arrive at 7 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. ;;

sittings. The register dates from the year 1857· The dispatched at 11.45 a.m. & 2.30 & 5·I5 p.m. Postal·

Iliving is a vicarage, net yearly value £340, with residence, orders are issued here, but not paid. Maidenhead, z-

united to the church by a cloister, in the gift of the Bishop miles distant, is the nearest money order &. tal.egt·ayb.
of Oxford, and held since 1877 by the Rev. A.rthur Hislop office

.. BERKSHIRE. 41BRACK~ELL.

JDIRECTORY.

TITTLE ROW, or Altwood Road, is a. hamlet adjoining Schools. ..

Boyne Hill, close to the Great Western railway; it ter- The Schools, with vicarage & residence for curates, form
minates at Maidenhead Thicket, and is situated on the
south side of the great Bath road. a quadrangle, in the Gothic style ; there are residences

Parish Clerk, William H. Farrant. for the mistresses adjoining

Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office. :William ~ational School (boys), built in 1894, for 250 boys; aver-
Taylor, sub-postmaster. Letters through Maidenhead
arrive at 7 & 11.10 a.m.; dispatched at 9.25 a.m. & age attendance, 190 ; William J. Elliott, master ;

12.30 & 7.30 p.m. ; sundays at 7·5 p.m. Postal orders (girls), built in 1857, for zoo girls; average attend-

are issued here, but not paid. Maidenhead is the near- ance, r85; Miss Roddal, mistress; (infants), for 173
est money order office
children; average attendance, r63; Miss .Abbott, mist

St. Paul's Infants', .Albert street, Maidenhead, built in

r86g as a school chapel, will hold So children; average

attendance, 6o; Miss Baskins, mistress

BOYNE HILL. Eastbrook David, china & glass dealen Lit-tle Lowbrooks Fruit & Flowel'

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Grainger William, grocer & beer retlr Farm (W. H. & A. E. Hubbard,.

Gray Edward, boot maker proprietors)

Bell Rev. Harold Chalmer .A.K.C.L. Hicks John, Crooked Billett P.H Payne Rachael (Mrs.), baker

(curate) Howard Richard, shopkeeper Pearce Wiliam, painter & decoratol"

Cockson Charles, "Wingates Hubbard Philip Arthur, beer retailer Soanes Joseph, hurdle maker

C01x Ohall"les William, The Orchaxds & shopkeeper Sti:es Jane (MTs.), laundress

Crompton Thomas, Dunwood house Huse Frederi.ck, basket makea- Tucker James, Foresters' inn

Drummond Rev. Arthur Hislop M.A. Lambourne George James, shopkeeper Young James, beer retailer

(vicar &diocesan inspector of schls. ), London Central Meat 0:1. butchers TITTLE ROW
Vicarage Maidenhead Cemetery (Thos. Smith, ·

Eden The Hon. Misses, Boyne Hill ho sexton); offices (Oha-s. Alfd. Va1rley, Butler Lewis Wm. Geo.Altwood house-

Filewood Charles, The Cotroge soc. ), Queen St. chmbrs. Maidnhd Forman Mi.~s, Redco1.

Forbes Miss, Boyne Hill cottage Montague Thomas, shopkeeper Goodo1ll Jamefl, .Altwood cottage

HautenvillC! Miss, Eden lodge Payne William, Plough P.H Hickman Miss, The Firs

Lewis Miss, The Ca1bin, .Altwood road Sandford Wm. coal mer. Post office Hickman Rev. William, The Poplars

Low Williarn Anderson, Courtfi.eld (For other names see Maidenhead.) Ken;ey Miss, :Firs lodge

Newton Rev. Henry M.A. Boyne Grth Peel Mrs. Heathfleld

Noel Rev.Fdc.Aug.Douglas, St.Pancrs OOX GREEN. Si:ver J ames Edward, Harwood

Pretyman Capt. Chas. Henry Sheffield Jupp Mrs. Fern villa Silver Joseph Love, Fountrun cottage
R.N. Boyne Holm Smith F~ederick, The Elms
Morgan Rhis. D. Lowbrook
Simmons Rev. Argent M.A. (curate) Simpson Mrs. Fern house Brill John (Mrs.), farmer,Norden frm
Walford Mrs. Boynings Harvey John, beer retlr. C1ll1Ilon lane-

lVigram Mrs. Redriff COliMERCIAL. Ma;son George, gardener to L. W. G.

BriJ EdwaJ>d, mairket gardell€r But.lell" esq

COMMERCIAL. Brill Joseph, farmer & thrashing ma- Silver & Sons Limited, builders; &i

Brill Edwall"d, farmer, Boyne Hi~l frm chine proprietor,GreatLowbrook fro at ~iaidenhead

Creed William, builder & contractor Fletcher George, market gardener Silver James, blacksmith

Crockford William, shoe maker Bolt ·william, shopkeeper Taylor William, grocer, Post office

BRACKNELL is an ecclesiastical parish formed Oct. about 6o acres, is the seat of Jnlius Meyer esq. The

24, 1851, out of the parishes of Wartield and Winkfield, Brackens is the residence of Sidney King George esq. and!
28 mil~.s from Lond-on, 12 south-east from Read:ing, Heathfield Lodge is at present unoccupied. Lord Bray-

S south from Maidenheftd and, 9 south-west from brook is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are-

'Windsor, in the Eastern division of the. oounty, petty Lord Ormathwaite, Mrs. Bagot Lane, Mrs. Palmer Chap-

sessional division 'Of Wokingham, hundred of Wargrave, man, U. J. Cave esq. Maj.-Gen. G. H. L. Milman R.A. of

union of Easthampstead, county court district of Martins Heron, and Capt. John Hunter Rleynolds, of 2:-

·windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdleftconry of Prince's Mansions, Victoria street ·S W. The soil is clay
Berks and diocese nf Oxford; it is situat~d on the and gravel; subsoil, clay and sand. The land is prin-

fore.st road from Reading to London, forming part of cipally pasture. The population in 1891 -was 2,220.

the Old Forest of Windsor, and is surl'ounded by a Sexton, John Eacott.
neighbourhood full of picturesque scenery and contain~

ing several mansions ancL parks of resident noblemen Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
and gentlemen. The Bracknell .station oo the South Post, S. B. & ..Annuity & Insurance Office. Joseph
Western railwa.y is in the parish of Easthampstead, a .Bartlett, postmaster. Letters are delivered at 7 & 100
qua1ter of a mile distant. The parish is lighted witi.J a.m. & 3 & 6.40 p.m.; dispatched, London & all parts,.
gas by the Ascot District Gas Co. and supplied with 9.50 a.m. & 3.50 p.m.; London, Reading & all parts,
lwate.r by the Woking~ham District Water Co. and the
II.5o a.m. ; Reading & all places through, 5 p.m.;
South Western and Suburban District Water Co. The London, Basingstoke, Reading, West & South West of
church of the Holy Trinity, built in the year 1851, England, 7.30 p.m.; Reading, Ascot, Wokingham &;.
a-nd enlarged in 1B6o, is a structure of flint.s in the London, 9 p.m.; sundays at 7 & 7.30 p.m
Early P·Ginted style, and consists of chancel, nave of
Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
thre~ bays, aisles, south porch and aa north tower with
pictun sque spire e<>ntaining one bell a.nd a dock ; in Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, ·Chavey Down_

1888 the chancel was rebuilt and an aisle added at -Samuel 'Hopkins, sub-postmaster. Letters are dis-·
a. cost of £1,515; a new organ and chancel soots of
patched at 7.30 & II a.m. & 5·45 p.m.; sundays, 7-3G
oak were added in 1894; the stained ea&t window is a a.m

memorial to Col. Bagot Lane; there are 510 sittings, PL'BLIC OFFICERS.
307 of which are free. The register dates from the

year r'851. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Medical Officer & Public Yaccinator, Bracknell District,.

£3oo, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, Easthampstead union, Medical Officer to Workhouse &i:

and held since 1886 by the Rev. Herbert Barnett M ..A. of Certifying Factory Surgeon, Norman Davis M.D., B.S~

Christ Church, OX!ford, and surrogate. At Chavey Down The Gables

is a mission chapel, a plain building of red brick, with Clerk to the Guardians & School Attendance & Assess-

western bell-cot containing one bell. The Catholic church ment Committee of Easthampstead Union, to the East-

of St. Josep'hs, in Stanley road, is an iron building, hampstead Rural District Council & to Bra.cknell Burial

erected in 1898. The Congregational chapel was rebuilt Board, Charles James Cave

in 1859. There are Baptist, Wesleyan and Primitive Collector to Guardians,. Easthampstead Union, Charles-

Methodist chapels, and the Christians have a place of Barker Wilson, Stanley road

worship known as "Our Hall." There is also a ceme- Sanitary lnspector for Easthampstead Rmal Districv

tery of 2i acres in extent containing one mortuary chapel, Council, Harry Uoyd, Crowthorne

which is under the control of a burial ·board of 9 members. District Highway Surveyor, Easthampstead Rural District,.

The Victoria Hall, in Church road, built in r887, is James Jeffery Osman, Chavey Down

managed by trustees and used for various public purposes. Registrar of Births & Deaths, Bracknell Sub-district,.

The County Police Station, in High street, was built in Easthampstead llnion, Edwin George Wright, Stanley

1897· A cattle market is held here every Thursday at road; deputy, H. T. Jones

the back of the Hind's Head hotel. Lilyhill, a handsome Registrar of Marri:ljges for Easthampstead Union, Fredk...

modern residence, beautifully situated on an elevation William Hunt<ln, High street

and surrounded by a park, is the seat of Mrs. Bagot Lane. Superintendent Registrar of Easthampstead Union, Chas.

Holly Spring, a pleasant mansion, s~tuated in a park o~ J:I;nes C:n-e; deputy, Charles Barker Wilson,_Stanley T\11

42 BRACK~ELL. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Schools. Infants', for roo children;. average attendance, 76;
Kational (mixed), Eullbrook, enlarged in 1897, for 280 M1ss Ada Durham, mistress

children; average attendance, 195 ; Harry Thompson Carrier to Reading. Joseph Bailey, daily, except wed.;
& to Windsor, mon. & fri
J unes, master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bowyer Mrs. Elizabeth, beer reta.i:er, Giles Cliarlotte(Miss),cnfctnr.High st

Armstrong Henry M.D. Gilnochie Mount Pleasant Giles Thomas, hrick~ayer, Ashford cot

Astwood Ernest George, Brookside Bowyer Ja.s. ohimney swpr. Bullbrook Goods()n Cha.rles, b~acksmith, High st

Barnett Rev. Herbert M.A. (vicar & Boxall E. (Mrs.), grooer, High street Gough Frank Ernest, coach builder,

surrogate), Vicarage Bracknell Cricket Club (A. Dinham, London.road & High street

Barnett Miss, Oaklea sec) Green :ijerbt. insur. agt. Chavey Dwn

Eaynes Major Kenneth S. Chavey dwn Brac-knell Brick & Tile Co Grimes William, cycle agt. London rd

Berkeley Baroness, Martins heron Bradford Peter Perceval L.R.C.P. Gwynn Edmund, shopkeeper, High st

Bickerton J"Oseph William, Station rd Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, Fir Halfacre Richd. cabinet ma. High st

Bradford Peter Perceval, Fir cottage, cottage, Church road Haward Arthur Clifford, grocer & boot

Church road Bray Forence (Mrs.), dress maker, maker, Bullbrook

Brereton Rev. William (curate of Wokingham road Hollis Harry Toilit., tailor, High street

Bracknell), High street Brown George, builder & contractor, Holloway Henry, police sergt. High st

Carr George Shoebridge M.A. Chavey plumber & honse decorator, Church Hopkins Samuel, baker & post office,

do"VITI road; & at Winkfield Chavey down

Cave Cha.rles James, Wick hill Bruce Edw:n, tailor, High street Hutt Fredk. Hind"s Head inn,High st

Ca:r.enove Mrs. Forest grove Bullbrook Coffee Room (H. Runnacles, Hunton Frederick William, auc-

Croft Thoma.s, High street manager) tioneer, estate a.gent, accountant,

Davis Norman, The Gables Burch 'lhomas, florist & tomato grwr. printer,, registrar of marriages for

Elton :Mrs. G01·don house Priestwood nurseries Easth.ampstead union & agent tQ

}<,ear Thomas James, The Cottage Cave Charles Jame.s, S()licitor, com- Sun Fire & Life, sec. to the Victoria.

Foreman Henry, Bullbrook missioner for oaths, clerk to magis- Hall & to the Roya.l Forest Agricul-

Forester Edward, Church road trates of Wokingham (Forest) Petty tural .Association; live & dead stock

Gardner Miss, r Stanley vil.Ohurch rd Sessional division, clerk to the guar- market held every thursday, 2.30,

George Sydn-ey King, The Brackens dians of Easthampstead union & Hind's Head Hotel yard; offices.

Hatfield Frederick, London road to assessment committee, to East- High street

Haworth Henry, Sussex villa hampstead rural district council, International Tea Co.'s Stores Lim.

Hunton Frederick ·w. Eracknell cott school attendance committee, & (H. Frith, manager)

.Tones Mrs. Kirkleigh, Church road Eraclmell burial board & superin- Jelly Charles, saddler, High street

Keane Lady, Hill side tendent registrar; &at Wokingham; Jones H. T. deputy registrar of births

Kuner Rev. Isidor (Roman Catholic), London agents, Snow, Snow & Fox, & deaths for Braclmell sub-district,

High street 22 College hill E 0 Easthampstead union

Lane Mrs. Ea.got, Li1yhill Cemetery (Charle.s James Ca.ve, clerk Jordan Thomas, agent Singer Manu-

La wrence .Arthur Jn. Birdsgro>e to the burial board) facturing Co. High street

Lawrence Ernest, P.restwood Chamberlain Jn.P.coal mer.London rd King A. & Son, saddlers, High street

Lawrence John Edward, ·west view Cocks Charles, greengrocer, High st King John, chimney sweeper, High st

Lawrence Sidney W. Oakfield (Colebrooke & Co. Lim. butchers & fish- Laird Archer C. J. baker, Bullbrook

Lawrence Thomas, The Elms mongers, High street Lawrence John Edwa.rd & Son,

Ling-ham-Lees James B.A. Church rd Gales W. J. & Son, agricultural im- butcherS & fishmongers, High street

Littledale C. St. George R. Wickhill ho plement maker;;, Station road Lawrence J oseph Tlhomws, architect &

Lloyd Rev. Wm.WellesleyGordon M.A. Oollins J. H. ~ Son, fishmongers surveyor, High street

(curate of Bracknell), Church road & butchers, H1gh street Lawrence Thomas & Sons,

L<:lgan The Misses, Chavey down Cook Wm. RoyaJ Oak P.H. Bullbrook drapers, ciothiers, comp~ete home

Mackenzie Lieut. -Col. Frederick Finch Cooper J. & Son, coach builders furnishers, ironmongers, earthen-

J. P. Ramslade Cooper Elizabeth (Mrs. ),registry office ware, china & gla,ss warehousemen,

l~Iaclean Col. Allan, Brook house for servants, High street printers & fancy stationers, grocers

May Mrs. Fernlea Cotterell Thomas, general contractor & provision merchants, & agents for

May William J. Priestwood works & road & drainage contractor, Sta- W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine &;

Meyer Julius, Holly spring tiou road spirit merchants, High st. T.N. 7

Milman Maj.-Gen. GustaJvus Hamilton County Police Station(HenrvHolloway, Lawrence Thomas & Sons,

Lookwood R..A. Martins heron sergeant) · brick & tile manufacturers, builders'

Newman Fredk. George, Church rd County Council Laundress School merchants, timber merchants &

Nuthall Robert, Lothian Scratchley, (Mrs. Marg,uet Waddy, matron) steam saw mills

Priestwood Cra.wley Joel Henry, tailor, Station rd Lewendon Henry, shopkpr. Bullbrook

Parsons The Hon. 1\frs. Lilly hill Crocker Thomas, brick maker & far- Lingham-Lees James B.A.. boarding

Phillips Charles, High street mer, Bullbrook school for boys, Church road

Pigot Dowager Ladv, Hillside Cusden Harry, boot ma. Priory road Long Thos. blacksmith & cycle agent

Pollard Miss, West 'lodge Dallimore & Son, dairymen, High st Mason Hannah (Mrs.), laundress,

Raggett Mrs. Priory Davies Jas.refreshment rooms,High st AsPot road

Rip:ey Mrs. Station road Davies Thomas, builder May :Mary & Son, corn dealers,High st

Rook Miss, Church road Davis .Alfred Flekher,boot ma.High st May John, farmer

Sandwith Wm. Henrv, Oswaldkirk Davis Norman M.D., B.S. surgeon, May William J. builder & contractor

Sargeant John Frederick, Holly bank medical officer, public vaccinator for & house decorator, Priestwood wks

Shrimpton .Arthur, York cottage Bracknell district, Easthampstead Minchin Brothers, corn, coal, hay,

Southard .Arthur, Fern lodge union, medical officer to the ·work- s'raw, seed & oil cake merchants,

Warnes Lacey, Bucklands house, & certifying factory surgeon, forage contractors & brick & tile

'West Arthur Henry, Church road The Gables manufactnrers; & at A.scot; Bin-

Western WaJtr. Studia.nd ho. High st Dear:ove Rd. confctnr. & bakr.High st field & Woki.ngham

vVheeler Edward, Eullbrook cottage Drake & Mount Limited, forage Mo:esworth Wm. fancy repos. High st

1Vicke Miss, Chavey down contractors, corn, hay, straw, coal Morris John, carman, Wokingham rd

COMMERCIAL. & building goods merchants, The Mnmford Richd. tea dlr. Chavey down

A.psey Goo.boot & shoe ma.Bullbrook Granaries; & at .Ascot; Sunning- Mundy Wm. insur. agt. Rochdale rd

Armstrong Henry M. D. physician, dale; Sunninghill; Wokingham; Napper Frederick J. baker, Long hill

Gilnochie Camberley & Virginia Water Nash M. & Oo. coal & coke merchants,

llacon Edward, Bull inn, High street East Berks Conservative .Association Railway station

Bailey J oseph, carrier, High street (Easthampstead, Binfieid, \Varfie:d National Telephone Co. Limited (cail

Baker Bros.grocrs.&ironmngrs.High st & Winkfie:d district) (F. W. Hun- office), High streE>t

Barker & Son, blacksmiths, Station rr" ton, sec) Norris E:iza (Mrs.),drpr.Cha:vey Down

Earnes Mary Jane (Mrs.), hair dresse· Ewins Charles, carman, High street Norris William Henry, builder & con-

& news agent, High street Faulkner L. & Sons, iron & wire fence tra.ctor & beer retailer, Chavey Dwn

Eartlett Joseph, collector of rate.s t manufacturers, London road Norton & Verel,photographers,High st

taxe.s, Post office, Church road Faulkner Daniel Henry, baker & grcr. Noyes Harry, insurance agent, High st

Bickerton Bros. brewers & wine & spirit High street 1Noyes Thomas William, watch maker

merchants, Station road Fielder .Albt. builder, Mount Pleasant & tobacconist, High street

"Routland Henry, job master Fletcher Thomas, laundry, London rcl Nuthall Robert Lothian Scratchley

Bowles Alfred, shopkeeper, Bullbrook Frisby Joseph, boot maker, High st M.R.C.S.En~.• L.R.C.P.Lond.medi-

Dowles Frederick, carpenter,Bullbrook George Harry, blacksmith, Priory rd cal home, Priestwood

DIREarORY.) BERKSHIRE. BRADFIELD. 43

Nutlow Elizabeth (~Irs.), dress m<.~ke1 Sa.rgeant John Frederick (firm, Sar- Watkins Ernest, watch maker & hair-

Osman James Jeffery, district high- geant & Haye), solicitor dresser, High i!treet

way surveyor Easthampstead rural Shepherd Thos.TheCrown P.H.High st Webb Harry, Running Horse P.H.

district council, Chave.y down Slyfield C. & C. drapers & milliners, Bullbrook

Owen John, shopkeeper, Binfield rood .High street Weber Louisa. M.(:\Irs.),photographer,

Parker Rupert Hy. plumber, High st South James, Red Lion P.H. High st London road

Partridge Jam')s, Prince of Wales P.H Spenc& Annie (Miss), dress maker, Wells William, grocer, Church road

Penfold Thos.Station hotel&posting ho Ohavey Do\\n Western Walter M.R.C.V.S.veterinary

Phillips Charles, manager of Stephens, Stephens, Blandy & Co. bankers surgeon, Stud!and house, High st

Blandy & Co. Bank, High street (Charles Phillips, manager); draw Wheeler Edward1 builder, house

Phipps Richd. Ja.s. outfitter, High st on Lloyds Bank Limited,London EC decorator, upholsterer & cabinet

Poynter Wm. watoh maker, High st Steptowe Mary J.(Mrs.),baker,High st maker; estimates free on applica-

Prior William Geo. cabinet ma.High st Stevens Reuben, basket maker & tion, Bullbrook cottage

Readings C. & C1J. carmen, Binfield rd cooper, High street Wheeler George, butcher, High street

Reilly John Patrick & Son, tailors, Swindale John, surgeon, High street Whitaker Martha (Miss), laundress,

Ohurch road Sworder John T. fruiterer, High street Long hill

R-oberts & Nightingale, boot makers, Taylor Edmund John, station ma.ster Wi:d George, grocer, Bullbrook

High street Tucker Robert, ale & porter stores, Williams George, confectioner,High st

RoyaJ Forest Agricultural Association :Bullbrook Williams Jane E. (Mrs.), New inn,

(F. W. Hunton, assistant sec) Turner Richard, nurseryman, High st High street

St. .Joseph's High & Elementary Yictoria Public Hall (F. W. Hunton, Wilson Charles Barker, collector &

Schools (conducted by Siste-rs of sec.), Chuxch ro.ad deputy supt. registrar, Easthamp-

Christian school) Walker John, Blue Lion P.H stead union, Stanley road

Sandwith 1Yilliam Henry, pharmaceu- Warnes Lacey, ladies'& gentlemen's Wright Edwin George, registrar ot

tical chemist, High street tailor, & habit & costume maker, births & deaths, Bracknell sub-dist.

Sargeant & Haye, solicitors High street Easthampstead union, Stanley road

ERADFIELD is :t scattered villag,e, parish and head ters from Reading arrive at 7-50 a.m. ; dispatched 2.45
of a union, 8 miles west from Reading, 3 north-west from & 5.50 p.m.; sunday, arrive 9·45 a.m.; dispatched,
Theal-e, and 3~ south-west from Pangbourne railway 9.50 a.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Bradfi.eld,
t>tation, in the Southern division of the county, hundred 2 miles distant
of Theale, p-etty sessional division and county court \Vall Boxes :-Rotten Row, cleared at 5.30 p.m.; sun-
district of Reading, rural deanery of Bradfield, arch- days, 9.30 a.m. Southend, cleared at 6 p.m.; Sun-
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford ; the village is
situated: in a valley, on a stream called the Kimber, days, 9·35 a.m. Malthouse Farm, cleared, 8.30 a.m.
which rises in this parish. The village is supplied with & 6.20 p.m. ; sunda.ys, ro. IS a. m. ; Southend leHers
water pumped from St. Andrew's well. The- church of collected at 6 p.m
St. Andrew, with the exception ·of the. tower and part
of the north aisle, rebuilt by the Rev. Thomas Stevens, Schools.
rector, I 843-82, was l'e-consecrated in 1848, after En-
largement, and is an edifice of flint with stone dressings The colle~ of St. Andrew, near the parish church,
in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave,
aisles, tr31llsept, n<Jrth porch and an embattled western wa.s founded by thBt Rev. Thomas Stevens M.A. in
tower of red brick and flint, containing 6 bell.s ; the
windows are stained, and there are 5oo sittings. The I85o, for the education of the sons of genrtlemen, &
register date.s, with s.Qme interruptions, from I539· endowed in I859 for 153 commoners & r6 FoundeT's
boys; in I862 it wa.s incorp-C>rated by Royal Charter
The living is a rectory, net yearly value £670, including & by aJteration of th~ statutes the warden is now
72 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Herbert authorized to admit 300 commoners, & as vacancies
Wa.tney esq. M.D. and held since 1888 by the Rev. Arthur occur there is a yearly competitive election of one or
Standidge :B.A.. of Christ's College, Cambridge. Holy more boys under the age of fifteen to the foundation
Trinity chapel of ease, at :Buckhold, about 2 miles north of the school; by the statutes it is provided that
of the village, was built in I836 and is an edifice of stone, "the Founder's b(}ys shall be either fatherless or the
consisting of nave only; SS. ,S}mon & .rude's chapel of sons of poor gentlemen or clergymen, & they shall
be lodged, boarded & instructed gratuitously & upon
ease, about a mile from the church, built in 1835, terms of equality in all respects with the commoners."
is a structure of flint, also of nave only, and is In I899 there were 270 boys in the school. Attached
intended for the use of the inmates of the to the school is the Stevens scholarship of £3o,
tenable fmr throo years at Oxford or Cambridge, &
Union workhouse; There is also a small Primi-
tive M~thodi~>t chapel. The charities consist of various prizes of £5 & lesse,r amounts; in 1886, a

the interest of £300 £2l per Cent. Consols left by steam laundry was built, & also waterworks,

J. Buller, of Privy Gardens; Wilson's £roo like Con- providing a plentiful i!iupply of good water; in 1890
a new sanitorium was erected roo yards from the col-
sols; .sev~n acres of land, now let in allotments, and lege, with four large wards for •o.rdinary infectious
&•me small·er amounts left by other pers(}nS for the cases & a completely isolated fever ward : the college
benefit of the poo.r. The charities are now administered, chapel was built by public subscriptions, & opened in
under a scheme sanctioned by the Charity Commis- 1892; it at present holds 250 boys, but is about to be
sioners, by trustees, some of whom are elected annually extended & completed; warden & head master, Rev.
by the p-arishioners, th~ remainder being permanent. Herbert Branston Gray D.D. of Queen's College, Ox-
Buckh&d, the s~t of Herbert \Yatney esq. M.D., ford; second master, Andrew Low M ..A. Corpus Christi
F.R.C.P. is a mansion of red brick in the Early Gothic college, Cambridge; assistant mflsters: T. Steele M.A..,
style, erected from designs by .Alfred Wa.terhouse R ..A.. H. C. Minchin M.A., Rev. W. F. Duckw01·th M.A., F.
architect, and is situated about two miles north of the M. Ingram M.A., J. Watts M.A.., C. R. Kyrke M.A., A.
'\ illage, i11 extensiv~ and undulating grounds. Bradfield
Hall, the seat of Arthur Radford esq. J.P. is a substantial H. Worrall M.A.., E. L. Richardson M.A., H. H. Piggott
building of red brick about one mile and a half west of the M.A., J. H. Vince M.A., U. E. Nicholl M.A., B. F.
village. Herbert Watney esq. M.D. who is lord of the
reputed manor, James Herbert Benyon esq. J.P. of Engle- Hardy M.A.., F. J a cob B.A. & .A.. S. Goss et-Tanner;
field, Blackall Simonds esq. of Bradfield house, Thomas bursar, Major W. P. Thring; organist & choir master,
Stevens esq. of Horseleas, and Arthur Radford esq. of C. F. Abdy Williams M.A.; drawing, painting & music
Bradfield Hall, are the principal landowners. The soil is master, 0. Hay Campbell R.S.A., R.B.A.; medical
generally gravelly; subsoil, for the most part, chalk. The officers, W. T. Freeman F.R.C.S., L.R.C.l'.Lond. &
chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area N. A. Joy M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P
is 4,346 acres of land and I3 of water; rateable value,
The Army House, .A.ndrew Low M..A.. house master
£6,n6; the population in I891 was r,458, including 117
offiooo-s and inmates in the workhouse. The Modern Side House, T. Steele M.A. house master
The Junior School, Rev. E. Peake M.A. Oriel College,
Parish Cle.rk, Tom Dobson Rowe.
Oxford, house master; ass:stant masters: C. C. Rice
Post, M. 0. & T. 0,, T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel B.A., A.. J. Gill B.A. & C. W. Perfect; college matron,
Miss M. .A.. Bullen ; college sec. William H. Money;
Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. Miss Helen college clerk, F. C. Sales; drill, gymnastic & swimming
Perrin, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Reading instructors, Sergt.-Major M. Belton, Sergt.-Major J.
at 7 a.m. & 1.30 p.m.; dispatched at 8.I5 a.m. & 6.15 Bedford & Sergt. Hathaway
p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 10 a.m
Church of England (mixed & infants), erected at the
Southend Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. &; .Annuity & Insurance sole expense of the late R. Benyon esq. in 1886, for 230
children; average attendance, 205; Edwin Wilde,
Office.--Charles Joseph Harwood, mb-postmaster, Let-
master; Miss Ethel Smith, infants' mistress
National. (mixed & infants), built in 1848, for 170 chil-

dren; average attendance, 6o; John Davis, master

44 BRADFIELD. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Cmriers to Reading.-Payne, mon. thur:s.& sat. ; Turner, Clerk to the GuaJ>dians & to the Assessment Oowmitte~10

tues. thurs. & sat. ; Mitchell, wed. & sat. ; .Anstey, mon. Robert Simmons, solicitor, Oaversham

wed. & sat. ; J ohnson, wed. & sat Trea.surer, Charles Stephens, Reading
Relieving & Vaccination Officers, No. 1 district, Ed~
BRA.DFIELD RURAL DISTRJOT COUNCIL.
ward Bunce, Armour villa, Tilehur.st; No. 2 district~

Meet on tuesdays. Waiter Alien Butler, Stanford Dingley
Medical Officers & Public Vaccina.tors, No. 1 district,
Clerk, Robert Simmons, Caversham
Richard! Cox M.D. Theale; No. 2 district, Francis-
Treasurer, Lewis William George Butler, Reading
Bateman M.B. Whitchurch, Oxon; No. 3 dlistrict,
Medical Officer of Health, Willia.m Thomas Garrett Wood-
I William Sandford Whitcombe M. D. Aldermaston; No.
forde M.D. Oakbank, 'Spencer's Wood, Shinfield 4 district, Waiter Roalfe-Cox L.R.C.P.Lond. The

Sanitary Inspector & Surveyor, Thomas Windle, North Laurels, Stratfield Mortimer ; ~o. 6 district, J ames.
street, Theale
Henry Breach M.R.C.S.Eng. Yattendon
District Highway Surveyor, John Forrester, Theale
Superintendent Registra.r, Jame.s C.ockburn Pinniger,

BRADFIELD UNION. Newbury
Registrars of Births & Droths, Bncklebury sub-district,.

Board day, tuesday, u a.m. Rerrry Guyatt, Bradlfie:d•; Tilehur:st sub-district,

1 E?-ward Bun.ce, ~rmour villa, Tilehurst .,

The Union consists of 29 parishes: Aldermaston, As- Reg;rstra'l' of Marnages, Edward Bunce, Armour VIlla,
hampstead, Basildon, Bee,ch Hill, Beenham Vallence,
Bradfield, Bucklebury, Burghfield, Englefie::.d, Fril- Tllehurst .
Th~ Workhouse,. about three-quartl'r5: _of a m1le from the-
sham, Goring (Oxford), Grari.zeley or Graisley, Maple- ·nl~age_ & 3 m1les f~om Theale 8tatwn, G.W.R. was
durharn (Oxfocdl), Padworth, Pangoourne, Purley, built m 1835, & w_tll hold about 214 pa~pers; John.
Stanford Dingley, Strat.field Mortimer, Strea.U~y.
Clamp, master; R1_chard Cox :M.D.. mediCal officer;

SuJham, Sulhampstead Abbots, Sulhampstead Ban- Rev. Arthur Stand1dge B..1. chaplam; Mrs. Clamp,.

nister (Lower End), Sulhampstead Bannister (Upper matron

End), Tidmarsh, 'l'ilehurst, Ufto111 or Ufton Ne;vet, School .Attendance Committee.

Whitchurch (Berks & Oxford), Wokefield, Yattend10n. Clerk, Robert Simmons, Caversham

The area of the union is 62,651 acres; population in School Attendance Officers, Waiter Allen Butler, Stanford..

I8gi was I8,o17; gross rateable value in 18gB, £122,342 'Dingley, & Edward Bunce, Armour villa, Tilehurst

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Richardson Ernest Lamont M.A. (as- Ford Sidney, grocer, Southend

sistant master), The College ,Gadd Sidery, carman

Bailey Arthur, Tutt's clump Ryman Philip, Clay hill 11Grweeantesrhcireeldsss & Putnam, farmers k
Bullen Miss, ·rhe College Shea Mrs~ Village house growers

Campbell Charles Duncan Hay R.S.A., Simonds Blackall J.P. Bradfield ho Guyatt Henry, registrar of births &;;

R.B.A. The College Standidge Rev. Arthur B.A. Rectory deaths for Bucklebury dist. Brad-

Duckworth Rev. William F., M.A. (as- Steele Thomas ~LA. (assistant mas- field union & assistant overseer

sistant masto€r), The College ter), The College Hancock James William, carpenter

Freeman William Thomas F.R.C.S. Stevens Thomas J.P. Horseleas Harwood Charles Joseph, baker &

Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. (medical offi- Stevens Miss, Redhouse grocer, Post office, Southend

cer), The College Symes Aaron H1lary, Stanford wood Hawkins Henry, gamekeeper to Herbt..
I Watney esq. ~LD., F.R.C.P
Gill A.rthur J .,B.A. (assistant master), Usborne Mrs_ The Cottage

The College Vince James Herbert M.A. (assistant H{)::Otup Richard, farm€r

Gosset-Tanner Arthur S. (assistant master),. The College 1 Holloway .A.rthur, blacksmith

master), The College ·watney Herbert M.D., F.R.C.P. Howlett Frederick, fruit grower
IJohnson James, market gardener
Gray Rev. Herbert Branston D.D. Buckhold

(warden & head master), St. And- 'Watts James M. A. (assistant master), Love John Henry George, farmer..

rew's college The College I Boot farm

Hardy BenjaminFrederick M.A.(assist. Williams Chas. Abdy M.A., M.B. The Lyford lsaac, blacksmith, Southend

master), The College College Macklin .John, beer retailer

Har-per Rev. Frederick (Primitive Worrall A. H., M.A. (assistant mas- Major Aibert Jn. Queen's Hea<i P.H

Methodist), Tutt's clump ter), The College Mayers John, farmer, Tutt's clump

Ingram Francis Manning M.A. (as- Wyatt Daniel Millson George, boot maker, Clayhin

sistant master), The College COMMERCIAL. Minchm John, farmer, Copyhold frm
JoyNormanH.,M.R.C. S.Eng.,L.R. C.P. Minchin Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Lond. (medieal officer), The College Anstey Frederick, carrier PPema•·rncee Charles, carrier to J. H_
Kyrke C. R., B.A. (assistant master), Bedford John Henry, drill & gymnas- Thomas, farm bailiff

The College tic instructor Benyon esq. D.L., J.P

I...eake Miss, CMla.•yAh..i l l Belton Martin, drill & gymnastic in- Perrin Helen (Miss), Post office
Low Andrew (se structor, The College Perry Wm. Thos. boot ma.Southend-
co n d master),

The College C. M., 1\L.A.. (assis- Bradfield Village Club (Rev. Arthur Pove,•- Jn. Jesse, farmer, Buckhold
l\Iinchin Harry Standidge B.A. sec. & treasurer) St. A.ndrew's Colll'ge (Rev. Herber.-

tant master), The College Bu.tler James, farm bailiff to H. War- Branston Gray• M:.A. warden & head
Money William. 'futt's clump mg esq master; Rev. Andrew Low M.A ...

Money Wlliiam Hy. Bradfield hill Chamberlain William, carpenter second mf st-er ; for other assistant.

Nicholl Christopher Edward M.A. (as- Chapman Ernest Albert, shopkeeper masters, see p. 43)

sistant master), The College & baker William, farmer, Barn Smith Henry, farmer Burnt hill
Peake Rev. Edward M.A. (house mast. Chillingworth Trotman Jos•iah. farmer,

junior school), The College }~lms farm Turner Ed ward, carrier

Piggott Henry Howard M.A. (assistant Clamp John, workhouse master 1Yakelin William J ames, farmer,Malt-

master), The College Cooper Alfred, grocer house farm

Radford A.rthur J.P. Bradfield hall Cox Ed ward John .Blake, farm bailiff "ra!ls Geo~g~. cowkeeper, Southend

Rice Charles B.A. (assistant master), to H. Watney esq. M.A.., }I.D., \Vest 'l'om, coal dealer, Southend

The College F.R.C.P.Lond. Heron farm Wise Jsph.baker & grocr.Tutt·s dmp-

BRAY is a. village md parish sepaa-ated from Bucking- springs ; it empties itself into the river Thames, but is
not narvigable. The Clhurch of St. l\iicha.el, .built in t•he-
hamshire by the river Thames, one mile south-east from
reign of Edwrurd I. is an edifice of flint, S<alildswne and
the Great Western Railway s'OOt.ion at Maidenhead, 5
chalk, in the Ea.r:y English and Perpendicular styles,.
north-west from Windsor, and 10 south-earst from HenLey,
and comprises within its limits the divisions o.f Bray vil- consisting of chanc€1, with north aiD.d soutri1. ehapel;;,.
lage, Bray Wick, Kimbers, Touchen End, East Oakley and nave of three bays. ais!es and a massive embattled tower
Boyne Hill, and is in the Eastern division of the county, with b()M angle-buttresses- on the south side and con-
hundred of Bray, Maidenhead petty sessional divi-
sion, Maidenhead union, Windsor county court dis- taining 6 bells amd a. clock; the towe~r is of four stages,
trict, YUral deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry
of Berks and diocese of Oxfm'd. Bray is supposro to be the lowermost forming a porch ; th~> massive oak roofs,

on the site of the Roman station " Bibracte," but ceased fJf the nave and aisles are sa<id to da.te from the 13th

to be a place of importance when the Roman system of centuTy; the fabrie was rrepaired and restored in 1859
communicaltions fell into disuse; it is now within the at a great cost, under the superintendence of 'l'bomas
liberty Qf Windsor Forest, being pa.rt of the Royal Wyatt esq. ; the windows are near1y aU ~ta.in~d: thtTe
dt>mesne. Eray Cut is an artificial cutt.ing filled from
a.re 8oo sittings, 447 being free. The registoeT dates hom.
the year 1656. The living is a vicarage, net yearly-
value £525, with residence, in the gift of tlte Bishop· nf

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. BRAY. 45

Oxford, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Oha.rles .Andrewes J Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. :\<I. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel

Raymond M.A. and :ate scholar of Magdalene College, Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Henry Hull,

Oambridge. W:iliiJam Goddard esq. in the year 1627 sub-postmaster. Letters from Maidenhead arrive at 7

founded and endowed a.n hospi1:6l, called Jesus? Hospitail., & n.2o a.m. & 7 p.m.; dispatched at 9·35 & 10.50 a.m.

and placed it under the government of the F.ishmon~rs' & 1.30 & 6.50 p.m.; sunday arrival at 7 a.m. & dispatch,

<Jo.mpa.ny of London, of which he was a member; the 6.20 p.m

buildings consist of a chapel and 40 houses, forming a. Wall Letter Box, near Bourne bridge, cleared at 9.30 &

quadrang~e ~ith cultivatro. gardens in the ce.ntre and a.t ~~-so a.m. .& 6.5_5 :p.m.; sun~ys, 6.~5 p.~ .

the back; s1x of the inmates must be free of the above National School, built m 1848 & smce tWice eD.iarged by

company, and these if single receive ns. and 1f married John Hibbert esq. for 140 boys & infants; average at-

t6s. a week, including Mr. Jeremiah Copping's gift; all tendance, 120; Hugh R()SS Mackintosh, master; Mrs.

the Olther occupants, who wre parishioners of Bra.y, have Annie Mackintosh, mistress

when single 6s. and when married 8s. 6d. per week,

besides other allowances; the Rev. John Oha.r~es Gaw- BR.A.YWOOD is an ecclesiastical perish, formed August

therne M.A. of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, has been resi- 22, IB]r, out of the mother parishes of Bra.y and Wink-

dent payma,gter and Chaplain since 1892; the chapel has field ; it includes the small places of Fifield and Oakley

a quaint stained window; services are held twice duriPg Green, a small portion of Winkfield and a part of Cran-

the week and in the morning and evening on Sundays. bourne, and is 3 miles south from Bray and 3 west from

There are several <fuarities, amounting tO' about £so Windsor. The churoh of All Saints, erected in 1866 at
yearly, for educating and apprenticing boys, also for co!ll the sole cost of the larte Madame Van de Weyer, is a

and clothing. .A. late Act of Parliament has vested m cruciform building of cut fiint with Bath stone dressings,

-the magistrates (instead of the lord of the man•Jr) the in the Early Eng1ish and Decorated styles, and consists

power to appoint chief and petty constab!es and tithing- of chancel, nave, transepts, south and west porches and

man. Ockwells Manor House, now (1899) the residence an embattled western tower contaillling 5 bells : there are

of Edwa.rd Arthur Barry esq. was erected by l;ir Jc.hn 280 sittings. The register da-tes from the year r866.

Norreys in the reign of Edward IV. and contains some The living is a vicarage, net yearly value [98, with

very fine oak panelling and bay windows filled with residence, in the gift of Col. Victor Willia.m Bates Van

heraldic glass. William Henry Grenfell esq. J.P. of Tap- de Weyer, and held since 1867 by the Rev. William

low Court, who is lord of the manors of Bray Lowbrooks Browning Turner B..A. of Balliol College, Oxford. The

and Philberds, Col. Victor William Bates Van de Weyer principal landowners are Ool. Victor Willia.m Bates Van
J.P. of New Lodge, and the Fishmongers' Vompany, are
the principal landowners. 'l'he soil is clay and gravel; sub- de Weyer J.P. of New Lodge and C. Palmer esq.
soil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats &c. Parish Clerk and Sexton, George Simmonds,

The parish area is 7,957 acres; rateable value, /,25,267; School, Fifield (mjxed), bulit in 1857, for 140 children;
tbe population in 1891 was 3,171. Maidenhead originally
average attendance, 120; William Henry M&.colm,
rartly in this parish, is now a distinct civil parish. master; Mivs. Elizabeth MaJcolm, mistress

Sexton, Sydney Wrurre.Il. TOUOH F.N END is a small village and chapelry in the

Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel parish of Bray, situated between Holyport and White
Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Ann Waltham, and 3! miles west from the Maidenhead station
Jones, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Maiden- of the Groot "\Veste;rn railway. Holy Trinjty Church,
head at 7 & 11.15 a.m. & 7 p.m.; dispatched at 8-40 & a chapel of ease to St. Michael's, Bray, built in
11.4S a.m. & 7·50 p.m.; sunday, 6.40 p.m
1862, is a structure of red brick, consisting of
'W.all Letter Box, at Bray court, cleared at 8.30 & II.30 chancel, nave, aisle and south porch ; attached is a
a.m. & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 6.30 p.m
burial ground, given by Oapt. Wasey R.N.; service is
Oakley Green is a. village 3 miles south from Bray. held on Sundays in the afternoon and in the morning on
Letters from Windsor arrive at 8 a.m. & 3 & 6 p.m. the first and third Sundays in the month by the vicar
Clewer is the nearest money order & telegraph office of Bray or his curate: there are 250 sittings.
'Wall Letter Box at 'Nag's Head,' cleared 8.40 a.m. & Post Office, Touchen End. James Cox, sub-postmaster.
1.40 & 6 p.m.; sun. 8.40 a.m
Letters arrive from Maidenhead at 8 a.m. & 12. rs
1-Yall Letter Box, Fishery Estate, cleared 8.10 & 10.45 p.m.; dispatched at 9.20 a.m. & 12.10 & 6.30 p.m.;
a.m. & 8.10 p.m.; sun. 6.45 p.m
sundays, arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 6 p.m. Postal

BRAY WICK i:> a hamlet in the paxish of Bray, county orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
money order & telegraph office is at Holyport, z miles
comt district of Windsor, 1 mile soubh from the Great
distant
Western railwaiY station at Maidenhead. Bray Wick

Grove, the seat of Mrs. Coney, is a fine mansion of red Wall Letter Box at Hawthorn hill cleared a.t 10 a.m. &

brick, erected in r675 by 1Sir William Paull, and en- 5.30 p.m. ; sundays, ro a.m

larged in the year 1750 by Lord Windsor; it contains a Parochial School, Touchen End (mixed), built in 1862,
ma~nificent drawing room of considerable proportions, & enlwrged in r 892, for r5o child!l"en; average atten-
and being on a slight eminence commands a fine view of dance, 82; Miss F. E. Watson, mistress
the surrounding country. The river Bourne runs through Money Row Green. is also a palMi of thls parish.
the grounds.
Water Oakley is a hamlet 2~ miles south from Bray.
Wall Letter Box, situate at corner of Cross roods; hours Letters through Windsor, arrive at 7·45 a.m. 3.30 &

of collection, 9·55 a.m. rz noon & r.55 & 7.20 p.m.; 6.15 p.m
sundays, 7·5 p.m
Letter Box at Bullock's Hatch, clea.n!d at 7·45 a.m. &
National School (girls & infants), built in 1454 as the 3.15 & 6 p.m.; sunday~, 7·45 a.m
r.sCourthouse of the manor; it will hold 130 children; Letter Box at Water Oakley, cleared at 7·55 a.m. &
average attendance, 84; Miss Mary Jane Ayres, mist & 5.20 p.m.; sun. 7-55 a.m

HOLYPORT is a village in the pa.rish of Bray, r mile FIFIELD is a village 4 mil'i'S south from Maidenhead.
of:Outh-south-west from B.ray aM 2 miles .south from
Here is an evangelical mission chapel, built of wood and
l.Iaidenhood; it contains a We.sleyan chapel. .A charity
capable of seating 120 perSQruS.
was left by William Cherry esq. for the education of
LetterS/ through Maidenhead. The nearest telegraph
20 boys of this place, who are instructed a.t the National & money order office is at Holyport, about 2 miles dist

i!chool. Wall Letter Box, at Fifield House, cleared at 7·45 a.m.
Fledborough Hall, the seat of Alfred Barnard Basset
& 12.50 & 5·55 p.m.; sundayS>, 7·45 a.m
~sq. F.R. S. is built on the site of an old house, called
Bourne Bridge Lodge, which formerly belonged to Sir Boyne Hill, Cox Green and Tittle Ro'l'V, within the

Robert .Sidney kt.; the present house is named after the civil parish of Bray, form a separate ecclesiastical parish

manor of Fledborough in Nottinghamshire. and are given under the heading of Boyne HiU.

BRA.Y. Eggloton William Pitman Fredk. Isley, Bray mead

Field George Purdy, Bray court Pollock J ames Wheeler, Lalao

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Fcs~ick Alfred, W~lbury Pratt-Barlow Lelford, Dormer cottage

Arfwedson Mrs. The Nook Gawtherne Rev. John Charles M ..A. Pratt-Barli)W Mrs. Th& Chalet

13ailey Leslie Lloyd, Chauntry h'>use (paymstr. &; chapl"'in),Jesus hosptl Raym ond Rev. Chas. .Andrewes ~I. A,

'Barr•v Edwd. .Arth. Ockwells manor Jacobs S. The Bungalow (vicar), Vicarage
Bentham George, Riverbank Jon::s James, Rivermere Robertson Mrs. The Little house

Blake Edward, Thamesfield Kershaw Frank, Vicarage cottage Rouquette Miss, Chauntry cottage

Carpenter Edward Arthur, l'orothy's Lamb George, Rome view Russell Countess, Bray lawn

Bungalow Lewis James William, "Bray cottage Russell Dick, The Nest

DarvaU Lieut. -Col.RobertF.Rivermead Lewis Miss, Cedar lodge Saunders Thomas, Thames villa

Eggleton Francis Dell, Bray mill Newland John, Rose cottage Schuster Leo. F. The Hut.

46 BRAY. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY's

Scott Lady, The Cottage Jenkinsor, Miss, Pebbles court Hawkins John, blacksmith

Snow Mrs. La Chaumiere Langwcrthy Mrs. Geys house Headington Jn. farmr.Braywood frm

Todd Mrs. Creek house ~fan~bridge Mrs. Elm lodge Hubbard Ernest, wheelwright

Tringham Rev. Herbert John Fyers McFarlane Evan, The Bartletts Hubbard William, trmterer

!l.A. (curate), The Limes Seymour William, Fair view Mobbs .Albert Edwd. Hind's Head P.H

Warr Frank, The Orchards Stapley Sir Harry bart. Holyport ho Pett James, farmer, Short Lane frm

Wilson Edwin, Bower house Unwin Edwin Thomas, Rona lodge Wallington Price, beer retailer

Yeowell George, Neilgherry Wasey Capt. Edward Frodsham Ncel FIFIELD

COMMERCIAL. Kindersley R.N. Foxleighs .· .

.Atkins Herbert, Hind's Head hotel; Watkinson Frank M.A. The Philberds Marked thus * rece1ve theu letters
through Windsor.
head quarters Cyclists' Touring Archer John,CObMakMeErR,C~IA,·?Lr.est gTeen
for boat- Barlow Alfd. hlacksmitn & beer retlr Brant J ames, Belle Vale cottage
club; good accommodation Brown Samuel, market gardener
ing & picnic ~arties maker Clayton Lt.-Col. Fitz-Roy .Augustus
Illackall Wm. ~ames, shoe Talbot J.P. Fyfield house

Ilrambley Stephen, beer retailer CoHins W~ll.iam, fly prop.rietor Ludgate. Mrs. Rose cottage

Cox Frederick, beer retailer Rose Joseph, Grove farm

Oowler Wilhall!-, beer retailer Van De Weyer Col. Victor William
Eggleton William, miller (water), Good Jo~, dauym~
:Bray mill, & farmer, Hill farm Gorton RIC~a:d, dauyman Bates J.P. & Lady Emily, New ldg.

(letters through Winkfield, Wind-
Hards George Henry, George hotel Halfacre Wilham George, carpenter & sor); & ZI Arlington st. London W
Jones Ann (Mrs.), grocer, Post office beer retailer
COMMERCIAL.
Marks Thomas, baker & fly propr Halfacre William Henry, farmer, Bailey 1YiLiam, farm bailiff to Mr.
Mickley Waiter, boat proprietor
Crasswells farm Henry Hornet, Banham faTm
Sable Hy. beer retailer & fly propr Hull Henry, stationer, Post office
WarreU :::iydney, beer retailer Bond Charles, farmer

Johnson Fredk. farmer, Tythebarn frill Courtney Thomas, jobbing gardener
Woodhouse Henry, steam hnnch, Norgrove John, draper & grocer
Danel Edward, Hare & Hounds P.H
pleasure boat, punt & canoe b1.:ilder Pilcher Amelia (Mrs.), beer retailer Greenaway Rebecca (~rs.), beer re-
& proprietor;· & at Bridge road & R"ackley Maria (Mrs.), laundress
tailer & blacksmith
the 'l'hames family hotel,}l(aideilhd Robms,.m Wiwam, market gardener Halton Daniel, The FoTesters P.H
Woodhouse James, dairyman
Sexton J ames, wheelwright Ludgate Sa rah (::\Irs. ), farmer

IlRAY WICK. Sharp Eliza (Miss), grocer Maher Thos. jun. cattle dealer, Con-

Adams Henry J.P. Canon hill Stacey Bowyer & Sons, farmers, ingsby farm
•
Coney Mrs. Bray Wick grove Moors tarm, & butchers Pottinger William, farmer

Stacey George, beer retailer, Money *Rose William Lewis, farm steward
Ford Frederick Thos. Kimber's house Row green
Hibbert Mrs. Bray Wick lodge t~ Col. V. W. B. Van de Weyer J.P.

Thorn William, shoemaker Hawe's Hill farm
Hughes William, Bray Wick cet.tage Watkins Thos.farmr.Sturt Grt!'en frill Seymour George, beer retailer
Palmer Greville Horsley,Stafferton ldg Watkinson Frank M.A. preparatory Simmonds Henry, wheelwriaht
Sankey Mrs. Menzies, Jersey cottage school for boys, The Philberds
Willson Albert Hy. The George P.R OAKLEY GREEN o

COMMERCIAL. .L •

Allen George, baker Woodbridge Francis, brick, tile & Avery William B. Oakley court

Ba.rford J. H. & Co. coppersmiths, pottery works, drain pipe manu- Se;kirk Alexander, Bishops farm
gasfitters & smiths; & at Maidenhd facturer, builder & timber mer- Turner Rev. William Browning B..A.
Barman Ellen (Miss), "l'he Old H&re chant, steam saw mills, wheelwright, Braywood vicarage
cart & van builder, grocer & pro- tYilton Countess of, The Hatch
& Hounds P.R
vision dealer
Ha.rvey John, beer retailer COIDIERCIAL.

Reid William, farmer, Lar...:hfield Worth WUr. shopkpr.Money Row grn Childs William, beer retailer
TOUOHEN END. Coom bs 'fhos. farmer, Kimbers farm
Spragg James, beer retailer
Hellett Joseph Arthur,Xag's Head P.H
Vickery Robert George, builder Brown Miss Lovej oy Thomas, farmer
'Yoods William James, farmer, Shc·p- Maher Thomas, farmer & cattle dlr
Collins William, Redstone
penhangers Cunard William Saml. Hawthorn hill Melbourne Edward, farmer, Oakley
Righton Arthur John, Rose cottage Place farm
HOLYPORT.
COMMEECIAL.
Ilasset Alfred Ilarnard F.R.S. Fled· Norfolk Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer
Appleby James, farm bailiff to Mr.For·

borough hall sythe, Little Redstone farm WATER O.AKLEY.
BeaU Edward, Hazelbank Bennett Philip, farm bailiff to Sir (]darked thus * the postal address is

Ileall Mrs. Edith, Hazelbank Robert Rodney Wilmot hart. Red- Maidenhead.)

Carpenter Mrs. Elm villas stone farm Codington Capt. Albert, Brooks Mead

Croxton-Smith Mrs. Arkley Birch Rupert, farmer Harford Col. Frederick, Down place

Ferrers Capt. Cecil Stuart, Sturt cot Cox James, grocer, Post office *Morrison Miss, Bray rise

Fremantle Mrs. Chuffs Gilroy Jn. farmer,Braywoodside frm Hands Frdk.farmr.Water Oakley farm

Gingold Y. H. The Deu Halfacre Robert, jun. farmer, Little *Knight Henry, market gardener

Ha rrison Mrs. Elm villas Foxley farm *Parker John, farmer, Tythe's farm

Heilbut Samuel, The Lodge Harvey Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Upton Edw::trd, Queen's Head P.H

:BRIGHTWALTON, or Brightwaltham, is a village accounts, dated I48r, in a good state of preservation.

and parish 8~ miles north from Newbury, 6 south from The living is a rectory, net income £365, including So

¥Vantage, 4 miles north-east from Shefford station on the acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Philip

Lambourn Valley railway, and 7 north-west from Hermit- Wroughton esq. ·and held since I872 by the Rev. Henry

age station on the Newbury and Didcot branch of the Frederick Howard M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, who

Great Western railway, in the Newbury division of the is also rector of Catmore. There is a 'Vesleyan chapel

county, hundred of Faircross, Newbury and Hungerford here. In the garden of the Marquis of Granby inn a

petty sessional division, union and county court district of number of human skeletons were found in I886·7, sup-

)Vantage, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaeonry of posed tQ be those of ·soldiers who fell in one of the many

Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of .All Saints, local skirmishes which occurred in this neighbourhood

erected on a new site in I862-3 (in place of the older struc- during the Civil War. Philip Wroughton esq. of Woolley

ture, then removed) and opened in August, I863, is an Park, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The

edifice in the Early English style after designs by the late soil is clay and chalk; subsoil, chalk. The area is 2,054

G. E. Street esq. R.A. and consists of chancel, nave of acres; rateable value, £x,6s6; the population in 1891

four bays~ south aisle, south porch and a tower with was 365.
shingled spire containing 4 bells, removed from the old
church: an organ chamber has been added since the Sexton, Joseph Breadm0re.
erection of the church, from designs by Mr. Edwin
Dolby, architect, of Abingdon: the stained east window ..
is a memorial to, Philip Wroughton esq. who died in
1862, and at whose expense tbe church was built: there Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.--
is another to Mr. Dobs(n, and one given by Mrs. Wrongh-
William Jordan, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from
ton: the font, of reputed Saxon date, was removed from Wantage at 8.40 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. from
the old church, and two Early English doorways from
Ist March to rst November & from November to-

. March eh 4.30, p.m. Chaddleworth is the nearest
telegraph ():ffice, 2 miles distant

the old mcharnscse9l. ! ther-e are 2 80 sittings. The registers National School (mixed), erecttd with teacher's house-
date fro and there book of churchwardens' by the late Philip Wroughton esq. in I863 &; enlarged
is a

DffiECTORY.j BERKSHIRE. BRIMPTON'. 47

in 1885; it will hold roo children; average attendance, Carrier.

65 ; Edward Gaskin, master; Mrs. Ernma Gaskin, Newbury.-'--Thomas, daily

mistress '\Vantage.-Thomas, wed

Howard Rev. Hy. Frdk. M.A. Rectcy Hussey Charles, baker, grocer, meal· Prince Isaac, haulier

Peachey George Charles m:m & farmer Prismall Bros. bakers & grocers

Jordan Wm. grocer, & post office Roshier Isaac. chimney sweeper

COMMERCIAL. Painter , farmer, Yew Tree farm Sharps Thomas Angell, farmer,.

Adams Jsph. Marquis of Granby P.B Peachey George Charles L.R.C.P. & Manor farm

Basing John, shopkeeper S.Edin. physician & surgeon, medi- Wells Alfred James, wheelwright

Belcher Richard, carpenter & fanner cal officer of health to Wantage Whistler Llewellyn Arthur Douglas,

Bracey John, farmer, Green farm union, & medical officer & public land surveyor

Hamblin Edwin, builder vaccinator to Brightwalton district

BRIGHTWELL is a village and parish, 2 miles north- thorne esq. of this parish, gave £700 Great Eastern

west from Wallingford, in the Northern division of the stock to found two scholarships for the- advanced educa-

county, Moreton hundred, Wallingford petty sessional tion of boys brought up in the village school. The

division, union and county court district, rural deanery Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor.

of 1Vallingford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of The principal landowners are Edward Fairthorne esq.

Oxford. The church of St. Agatha is a building of stone John Dearlove esq. and William Toovey esq. The land,

in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of both arable and meadow, is very good. The soil is

six bays, aisles, north porch and an embattled western green sand; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are

tower containing 6 bells · in the church are brasses to wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,064 acres ;

John Scoffyld, priest, 1507; Robert Court, auditor to rateable value, £z,86o; the population in 1891 was 613.

Prince .Arthur, rsog, and Jane, his wife, and to Richard Mackney, l mile south-east, and Slade End, ! mile
Hampden, 1512, and Jane, his wife: the church was east, are hamlets in this parish.

thoroughly restored in 1858, the tower having been re-

built in 1797, and in 1884 it was further restored, at a Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E:xpress Delivery, Parcel

cost of £1,193: there are about 350 sittings, of which Post, S. B. &i .Annuity & Insurance Office.-F. Tarry,

about half are free. The register dates from the year sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Wallingford at

1564. The living is a rectory with Sotwell annexed, I 6.50 a.m.; dispatched, ro.3o a.m. &;, 7·30 p.m.; sun-

joint. net yearly value £soo, including 40 acres of glebe, days, dispatched at 10.30 a.m

Iwith residen~e, in the. gift of the Bishop of OxforJ. Wall Letter Box Mackney Brightwell cleared at 7.20
By order m Council of 14th May, r868, the am & ..., m: sunda s ' 10 am '
chapelry of Sotwell was transferred from St. Leonard's, ·· p. ·' ·
' Y'

in Wallingford, to this parish, certain tithes in the parish :National School (mixed), built in 1846 & rebuilt in 1870,

of Harwell, belonging to Brightwell, being trans:erred for r6o children; average attendance, 74; Herbert

to St. Leonard's in exchange. There are bequests .Arthur Reely, master; infants' average attendance, 55;

amounting to £67 17s. a year. In 1812 Edward Fair- Miss Emily Layton, mistress

PBIVATE RESIDENTS. Butler Charles, grocer & draper Martin J abez, boot maker

Cozens George, Slade end Butler John, beer retailer & baker Tarry Frank, butcher & grocer,

Cozens Robert. Slade end Castell George, shoe maker Post office

}'airthorne Edward, Slade end Cozens .Arthur, farmer, :Mackney 'l'ubb Benjamin, registrar of births &;

Hedges l<'ras. Edwd.Brightwell house Cozens Wm. Robt. farmer, Mackney deaths, & relieving officer for Chol-

Nash Mrs. Blade end Dearlove John Saunders Leaver, sey district, Wallingford union,

Pratt Charles, Laburnum. cottage, farmer, Home farm Holly lodge

Slade end Dearlove J n. Stanley,farmer, Smalls fro White Wm. blacksmith & ironmtJnger

'Veils Edward Toovey,Slade End field Fairthorne Edward, farmer & land- Yates Charles, Swan P.H. carpenter,

'Vilcox Shadrack owner, Slade end builder & undertaker

COMMERClAL. Goddard J emima (Mrs.) ,Red Lion inn Yates Harry, butcher

Brooker John, boot> & shoe maker Holloway .Arthur, blacksmith

BRIMPTON is a parish on the borders of Hampshire, a Baptist chapel, and there are a few small charities_
6~ miles east~south-east from Newbury, 2 miles south The late Countess of Falmouth, who died May r, 186.h
from the Midgham station on the Great "\Vestern railway built and endowed seven almshouses for the aged and
and 1o£ south-west from Reading,in the Southern division destitute inhabitants in 1854 under the name of St. Peter's
of the county, hundred of Faircross, petty sessional .Almshouses, and bequeathed £3,000 £z1 per Cent. Con-
division, union and county court district of Newbury,rural sols for their support. Mrs. Burn-Blyth, of Woolhampton
deanery of Bradfield, arc:hde::tcon?'Y of Berks and diocese House, is lady of the manors of BrimptDn, Shalford and
of Oxford. The river Kennet and the Kennet can,tl are Woolhampton, and the principal landowner. The soil is
on the nc.rth and the river Auburn paso;;es 0n the east, peat in the Kennet valley, with loam and gravel mixed on
separating the parish from Wasing. The church of St. the high lands; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are
Peter, erected in 1869, on the site of the fanner church, wheat, barley, clover and beans. The area is 1,683 acres
at the sole cost of the late James Blyth esq. is a build- of land and 22 of water; assessable value, £1,965; the
ing of flint with stone dressings in the Decorated style population in 1891 was 392.
and consists of chancel, nave, north annexe, south aisle,
south porch and western tower with a light and graceful Sexton, Charles Collins.
spire containing a clock and 4 bells: most of the windows
are stained, one on the north side being a memorial to Post & M. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insuranee Office.-Mrs.
George Henry, Earl of Falmouth, who died zg .August, Charlotte Stair, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from
1852; the stained windows on the south side of the Reading at 7 a.m. & 12·55 p.m. ; dispatched at 11.30
chancel are in memory of Edward Golding B.A. late a.m. & 6. 10 p.m. & 6 p.m. on sundays. The nearest.
telegraph office is at Woolhampton, 2 miles distant
vicar of this parish, and are dated 1857: on the north
Wall Letter Box, near Hyde End house, cleared at 9·5
side of the chancel is onu in memory of Ellen Mary Caffin,
a.m. & 5·45 p.m. & II-4° a.m. on sundays
wife of the Rev. George Benjamin Caffin l\:L.A. vicar from
1840: there are 250 sittings, 150 being free. The regis- National Endowed School (mixed), rebuilt & enlarged in
ter dates from the year 1500. The living is a 'icarage, r862 on a site originally given by the hte Earl of
net yearly value from tithe rent charge £240, with Falmouth & added to by the late James Blyth esq. for
residence, in the gift of George Fordyce Crawford Caffin 94 children; average attendance, 74; George Richard
esq. and held since 1895 by the Rev. Charles Joseph Tay- Garrett, master; Mrs. Garrett, mistress. The endow-
lor B.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Here is ment given by the late Countess of Falmouth amounts

to £r8 6s. 8d. yearly

PBIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Iremonger Mortimer West, mil1er

(water), Manoo." FIU"Dl house

Cope Dowager Lady, Brimpton cottage Allsop George. farmer, Black nest Lawrence Frank Herbert, farmer,Hyde

Douglas Miss Boyer & Son, house decorators End farm

Hall Misses, Brin:tpton house Butler Amos, Three Horse Shoes P.H Mildenhall James, cowkeeper

Hedley Basil, Brimpton lodge Cox Henry, farmer, Glebe farm Stair Sydney, assistant overseer.

Salmon Mrs. Hyde End house Foster Jas. farmer, Holdways farm Staniford Geo. shopkeeper & coal .dl:r

Stockwell George Freeman William, blacksmith Tanner Charles, grocer, Hyde end

Taylor Rev. Charles JGSeph B.A.. GreyHarry,miller (water),HydeEnd ml Vince Alfred Nathaniel, farmer, Shal~

·Vicarage Hodgkins Hy. boot & shoe maker · ford farm , . .."

48 BUCKLAND. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY's

:BUCKLAND is a pleasant village and parish near the The register dates from j,he year 1679. The living is a

road from Faringdon to Abingdon and ext.ending to Ox- vicarage, gross yearly value £189, net £157, with 5-t
fordshire, from which it is separated by the Isis, 3! miles acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of
north-east from Faringdon, IO west from Abingdon and Bristol, and held since I88g by the Rev. wmiam Bulmer
14 from Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, M.A. of University College, Durham. The Catholic

hundred of Ganfield, petty sessional division, union and church, dedicated to St. George, is a building in the Early

county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Decorated style, and was erected by the late Sir Robert

Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese Throckmorton bart.: mass is celebrated at 10.30 on Sun-

of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a cruciform days. Here is also a. Baptist chapel. The Rev. J. Wrote
building of stone, of the late Norman period, with chancel left land to the yearly value of £1o as a repairing fund for

rebuilt in the 14th century, south porch and a central the church; the Southby family also left land, now of the

embattled tower containing a clock and 6 bells; the tenor yearly value of £13, which sum is distributed to poor

is dated 1721, the treble was given by W. Graham Niven parishioners on St. Thomas' Day. Buckland House, the
esq. in 1898, and the others date from 1636 : the chancel seat of Sir Nicholas William Geor,;re Throckmorton hart.
has a panelled oak roof with carved bosses, and on the D.L., J.P. is a handsome mansion in the Italian style,
~uth side are sedilia and a piscina: there is a small but built in 1757 from the designs of Wood, of Bath, con-
excellently carved marble slab representing the " Adora- sisting of a centre and two wings, each terminating in an

tion of the Shepherds; " and adjoining is a sepulchre con- octagonal building; attached to the house is a well-

taining an altar tomb and a bracket: a tnangular in- wooded deer park of r3o acres. Barcote, the property of

dosed niche on the north side contains a curious casket the trustees of the late William West esq. J.P. erected in
enclosing the heart of William Holcot, whose ancestors I 874, is a mansion in the Tudor style, th~ view from which
<Owned the manor of Barcote from 1292 to !575• and ,:ome northwards embraces portions of Berkshire, Oxfordshire
records of the family are inscribed on a mural monu- and Gloucestershire. Carswell House, I mile west, is the
ment in the south transept: Holcot himself was a lay residence of William Niven esq. F.S..A. The principal

preacher after the Reformation, but recanted to escape landowners are Sir N. W. G. Throckmorton hart. (lord of
persecution in the reign of Mary, and by his will directed the manor of Buckland), the trustees of William West
his heart to be interred here: there are four stained esq. (lords of the manor of Barcote) and William Niven
windows in the chancel, and one in the nave, erected in esq. F.S.A. (lord of the manor of Carswell). The soil is a
1896 by William Niven esq. F.S.A.. of Carswell, in memory rich sandy loam; subsoil, various, clay, sand and gravel.

<>f his wife : in the north transept is a brass t-o John The chief crops are the usual cereals and roots. Buck-

Yate esq. and Mary (Justice), his wife, ob. 1578, land contains an area of 3,244 acres, while the total
with effigies of both and of 12 children: there is amount of acres in the entire parish (including the
also a mural monument of marble to Sir Edward Yate hamlets of Carswell 6o8 and Barcote 580) is 4,432 of

hart. who died c. 1645, and to members of his family, land and 4-8 of water; assessable value, £4•578; the popu-
who recorded their pedigree and arms at the Visitation lation in r8gr was 747·

<>f 1664-6 ; in the nave are numerous tablets to the Barcot, or Barcote, is 2 miles west.
'Southby family, of Carswell, dating from r6o3, and Carswell is one mile and a half north-west.
whose pedigree is found in the same Visitation; both Parish Clerk, Alfred King.

transepts contain a piscina: the south porch still retains Post, M, & T. 0., T. M. 0., Expres,s Delivery, Parcel

its original oak door: the font is Perpendicular: in 1890 Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.-Frederick
a new vestry and organ chamber were erected, and an Oarter, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Faringdon

organ and brass eagle lectern presented by W. West esq. at 7.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 10.10 a.m. &

l.P. the latter being a memorial to his wife, Clara Jane, 5·45 p.m.; dispatched sundays II.Jo noon
-d. r888, and in 1892 the Barcote aisle was elaborately Police Station, William Charles Portchmouth, constable
decorated in glass mosaic by Messrs. James Powell and National Endowed School (mixed & infants), erected in
Sons, of Whitefriars, London, at the cost of the late 1857, for r5o children; average attendance, 130; &
William West esq. J.P. of Barcote, the whole work being supported in part by an endowment of £r,ooo left in
mtended to illustrate the praise of God by His created land & Consols by Mr. J. Stephens, & by other
works; the aisle has been repaved with coloured marbles, benefactions of the Southby family, now producing
and provided with oak benches, finely carved: the £33 a year; John Lewis Fletcher, master

church was restored in 1870 by subscription, and has 400 Catholic School (mixed), for 40 children; average
-sittings, all being free except those in the transepts. attendance, 12; Miss Kate Kelly, mistress

.A.rundel Rev. John (Catholic), The Br1scoe William, gamekeeper to Sir Hughes William James, butcher

Presbytery N. W. G. Throckmorton hart King Alfred & Giles, wheelwrights

Eacon Barley.Alfred Harcourt,Home fm Brown John, farm bailiff to Mr. Henry Lambeth Edward, Trout inn, Tadpols

Ilulmer Rev. William M..A. Vicarage Hutt, Ragnall farm Pearce Caleb, carpenter

Ilutler Misses, Audley house Butler Alfred, shoe maker Phillips W. G. & Sons Limited, wine

"Eyston Charles T. The Cottage Carter Frederick, sub-postmaster & & spirit merchants & brewers,Steam

"Niven William J.P.,F.S..A.Carswell ho assistant overseer brewery; & Eagle brewery,Faringdn

Niven Wm. Graham, Carswell house Chandler Henry Rayner, farmer, Rec- Sharps Robert., shoe maker

Phillips Ernest, Newton house tory farm Shewry William (Mrs.), shopKeeper

"'l'hrockmorton Sir Nicholas Wm. Geo. Chare Charles John, coal merchant Skinner William Pullen, shopkeeper

hart. D.L., J.P. Buckland house Chare Rosetta (Mrs.), Lamb P.H Tilby James, farmer, A.shtree farm

Wheeler Miss, Somerset cottage Fletcher Jas. farmer,Carswell marsh Vines Jacob S. farmer, Marsh & Buck·

White Thomas, Roach house Fletcher John Lewis, schoolmaster land Marsh farms

Williams George John Gerring Frederick, farmer, Carswell Weedon John Benjamin, market gar-

COMMERCIAL. Home iarm dener, Barcote

:Bacon Barley Alfred Harcourt, farmr. Gough James, head gardener to Sir Williams George John, land agent to

Home farm, Barcote N. W. G. Throckmort()n bart Sir N. W. G. Throckmorton hart. &;

llennett Jn. farm bailiff to Sir N. W. Godwin EU.ward, blacksmith sec. to Dulverton Fox Hounds

G. Throckmorton hart. Home farm Hedges Hy. Richard, grocer & draper

:BUCKLEBURY is a village and parish, 3 miles north- combe-Hartley, and to Frances, first wife of Henry St.
1
-east from :Midghoam strution on the Great Western uil- John, the celebrated Viscount Bolingbroke; ·she died
I
way, 12 m~les soutJh-west from Reading and 7 north-east i previous to 1718; the south doorway is a beautiful speci-

fr()ID Newbury, in the southeTn division of the c()unty, ! men of Norman work, with highly-wrought zigzag mould-

'hundred of Reading, union of Bradfield, pebty sessional ings and .shafts with sculptured caps.: the old-fashioned

I-division and county court district of Newbury, rural!1 square pews, pulpit with .sounding-board, and western

-deanery of Newbury, archdeaoonry of Berks and <Liocese gallery remain; the-re is an ancient church chest: the

(Jf Oxford; it oonltains the liberties of Hawkridge and Ichurch affords 350 sittings. The register, including that

Marlston; the Pang stream flows tb1'0ugh the parish. I of Marlston, dates from the year 1538, and is said to be

iThe churoh of St. M'ary is an ancioot building of chalk one of the oldest and best kept in the COlmty ; it contains

and flint, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south a list of the rectors of Bucklebury from 1303 to the present
porch and an embabt:Jed western tower, with pinnacles, time. The living is a vit:arage, with the chapelry of Marl-

conta.ining 6 bells and a clock; tlhe greater part I ston annexed, joint net yearly value £330, with residence,

o(Jf the chancel seems h) have been rebuilt in 1705, by Sir· in the gift of Mrs. N. K. Webley-Parry, and held since

"Henry Winchcombe bart.: the nave is divided from the. r8go by the Rev. Oecil Hope Gill M.A. of Jesus College,

·aisle by an arcade of three Pointed Transition Norman Oambridge. Here is a Congregational chapel. The Rev.
1

·arches; the aisle itself is Perpendicular, as also is the Winchcombe Henry Howard Hartley, who died gth Sept-

tower, which has a good eastern arch; in ths chancel are ember, 1'832, left £1,22o in the £2! per Cent. Consols for

-several monnments to the families of Packer and Winch- the endowment of a. school to educate and clothe six boys

I>mECTORY.) BERKSHIRE. BURGBFIELD. 4.9

and six girls. Lady "Winchcombe left £6o, the interest sisting of chancel, nave, south purch and an eastern bell

for the poor. There is an iron foundry in the village. turret containing one bell; it contains some monuments
:Bucklebury Common, possessed of singular beauty, ex- to the Bunbury fam.ily, and on the south wa,U is a sun

tends for upwards of 5 miles through the heart of the dial with the mooto, "Life as the shade doth fly and
J6arish. At the lower, or East end, there is a fine avenue fade"; the chapel wa.s thoroughly res.tored in r855 by
one mile in length, flanked by double rows of oaks planted the la.te Henry Mlill Bunbury esq. of Marlston House,

in the days of Quem Anne amlJ George IlL ; also some fish under the direction of Mr. W. Blitterfield, architect.
:ponds in the manor estate close by the site of the old The manor was once held by Richard Wightwick, eo-
Manor House, pulled down in 183o. The manor, which founder of Pembroke College, Oxford. G. W. Palmer
belonged to Reading abbey, was. granted in 1539 to John esq. M.P., J.P. is lord of the manor; the co-heiresses of
lVinchcombe, son of the famous clothier of that name, the late W. H. H. Hartley esq. are the chief landowners.
known as "Jack of Newbury"; his son, Henry Marlston House, the residence ()f George William Palmer
esq. M.P., J.P. is a. mansion of brick in the Elizabethan
Winchcombe esq. of Bucklebury, was created a

baronet in r66r and married Frances, daughter style, and was entirely rebuilt during 1895 and r8gg.
of Thomas Howard, Earl of Berkshire; on his Bucklebury Place, the property and residence of tArthur
death in 1667, the estate passed to his oon, Sir Sutton esq. is a brick mansion .standing in park-like
Henry, 2nd bart. who married a. Miss Rolls, but dying grounds and commanding a fine view over the Kennet

witlwut male is·sue in 1703, the baronetcy became extinct valley.
and the property deV10lved on Franceos (Winchcombe), Hawkridge is a liberty 1 mile north. Sir W. Cameron
ViscouiJiteSIS Bo1ingbroke, and aft.eTwards through her Gull hart. M.P., J.P. of Frilsham House, Newbury, is

younger sisters passed to the Packer family; Henry Packer. lord of the manor.

last maJ.e heir of that family, devised it to his sist-er's The Upper and Lower Commons are 1 mile south, the
tSOn, W.inchcO'IILbe Henry Hartley esq. grand£ather of the Slade, 2 miles south-west, Westropp Green, 2~ west, and

We ·w. H. H. Hartley esq. The co-heir-esses of the late Bucklebury Alley about 3 miles west.

·w. H. H. Hartley esq. and George William Palmer esq. Parisih Clerk, Richard Brown.

M.P. are the chief landowners; the former are owners of Post O:ffice.-George Davis, sub-postmaster. Letters

1the manor of Bucklebury. The soil varies very much, bnt through Reading arrive at 8.so a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dis-
is chiefly sand, clay and gravel; subsoil, clay, chalk and issued here, but
patched at 5· 15 p.m. Postal orders are

·gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office

is 6,121 acres of land and 9 of water ; rateable value, is at Yattendon, 3 miles distant

.£4,365; the population ia rBgr was r,I51.
Marlston is a liberty 2 miles west by north. The Puhlic Elementnry Sphool, eroobed in 1874, £or 170

chapel, built by Sir Geo:ffrey Martel, a descendanrt of the children; average attendance, 95 ; Mrs. Britton, mist

Taille.fers, Oounts of Angouleme, is a building of flirut Carriers.-Charles J ohnson & William Mitchell, to Read-
,and rubble, originally in the Kmman style and con- ing, on wed. & sat.; to Newbury, thurs

(Those marked * have lett.ers ad- *Brown .Alfred John, Fir Trees P.H Layley George, farmer, & farm bailiff

dressed via Newbury.) Brown John, farmer, Jewel's farm to the co-heiress of Bucklebury

o.Gill Rev. Cecil Hope M.A. (vicar), *Burgess Henry, farmer, New farm estate, Copyhold farm

Yicarage Butches Moses, farmer, Bucklebury ho *~orton Chas. farmer, Holly farm

Jones Rev. John Price B..A.. (curate) Butler ·wm. farmer, Lower common Mossman Alice (Miss), parish nurse,

Maskelyne J. Neville, Spring cottage Clift Jane (Mrs.), Bladebone P.H Glebe cottage

~->II!Palmer George William M.P., J.P. *Dance Jas. farmer, Sadgrove farm Patey David, grocer, Upper common

Marlston house; & 36 Queen Ann's Davis George, sub-postmaster *Patey Isaac, dairyman, Sadgrove

gate SW; & Reform, Devonshire *:Fisher William (Mrs.), buildr.Slade ·bottom

& National Liberal clubs, London. Freeman George, farmer, Chapel row *Patey Isaac, jun. farmer, Green's

Telegrams " Hermitage" & Lower common Old farm

ff'arry Mrs. Webley, The Cottage Grace George, farmer, Hillfoot fr;rm *Prio:r George, beer retailer

-Button .A.rthur, Bucklebury Place *Gunter Charles, farmer, Marlston fm *Ratclifie Bobert Coles, farmer, Hill

'\Vallis Rev. '\Vm. Marshall,Roselands Hedges .&; Son, iron founders, engin- House farm

4\Yeber Harry, Hawkridge house eers & agricultural implement mas Weaver Wm. farmer,Chapelbrow frm

COMMERCIAL. *Hermon Henry, 'l'hree vrowns P.H & Lower farm

Allum Edwin, boot & shoe maker Johnson Charles, carrier *Wilhams Thos. farmer,Tomlins frm

''*Barr Thos. brick ma. Hawkridge *Lailey Wm. bowl turner & farmer *Willsher William, farmer & bowl

~Barr .Ann (Mrs.), beer ret.Hawkridge Lailey Julia Elizabeth (Mrs.), Boot turner, Winchcombe farm

Bastin Jasper, frmr.Home fm.Marlston inn (letters should be addressed

·Betteridge Wm. frmr. \Yotton's farm "Stanford Dingley," Reading

:BURC,HETS GREEN, see Birchetts Green.

:BURGHFIELD is a parish, 2~ mHes south-eas-t from be-ing free. A new burial ground, adjoining the old
'Theale station on the Grea.t Wesotern railway and 5 churchyard, w.a.s consecrated in 1886. The register dates
south-west from Reading, in the Sourt.hern division of the from the year 1563. The living is a rectory, net yearly
·-e<>unty, hundred of Theale, Bradfield union, Reading value £6sg, with residence and 13 acres ()f glebe, in the
peibty sessiona[ division and county court district, rural gift of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Taloot, and held since
·deanery of Bl'adfield, archdeaconry ·of Berks and diocese 1879 by the Rev. Dallas Oldfield Harington M ..A.. of St.
·-of Oxford. The river Kenn-et flows• on the north. The Alban Hall and Merton College, Oxford. The Mission
c-hurch of the Virgin Mary, rebuilt at a cost of £2,500 room, Burghfield common, the property of the trustees of
.and re-constructed in June 1843• is· an edifice of brick the late Horatio Bland esq. was formerly Mr. Bland's
·and st<Jne in the Romanesque style, consiSJt-ing of chance-l, museum. The collections are now in the museum at
rebuilt in 1892, at a cost of _£2,ooo, entirely defrayed by Reading; in x886 it was re-seated by the trustees, and it
the late Richard Benyon esq. of Englefield (d. 1897), Miss will now seat 200 perSOtiJ:s. There are also Wesley.an and
Sopthia C. Thnrsby of Brighlton, and Arthur Rarvey Primitive M~hodist chapels. The Brightwell charity,
· Thursby esq. D.L., J.P. of Culverlands, na.ve, transepts, for the apprenticeship ()f poor boys of the parish, now
and an octagonal western tower with a smaH dome and yields an annual income of _£26 6s. 8d. There are three
·containing 6 bells ; at the west end is a stained window, other charities with an aggregate income of £27 yearly,
·prese-nted by the Rev. Henry Curtis Cherry M.A. rector which :iJs given to aged poor persons. There are three
from 1827; the Rev. F. B. Boyd, late rector, -eresented the almshouses for widows, situated in the parish of
church with five stained windDws; a. sh1ined window wa.s Tilehnrstt, bui1t and end()wed by the late Miss Mary
·also erected by tile Rev. Benjamin Bradney Bockett M.A. Lyne. The knightly family of Williamso resided here in
vicar of Epsom (1839-83), in memory of his brother and the 16th century and subsequently the Pot'tenger family.
1two sisters ; and another has been placed in the sout-h Culverlandls, the seat of Arthur Harvey Thursby esq.

tralllSept by A.rthur Ifurvey Thnrsbr esq. D.L., J.P. of D.L., J.P. is situated in extensive and picturesque
'Cnlverlands, in mellli)ry of 'Iris father aud mo-ther ; the grounds, commanding a ma-gnificent view of about r5
oost window, placed in 1892 by Miss Sovhia Charlotte mile.s of undulating country; in x88r it was entirely

· Thursby of Brighton, iSI a memorial to the Rev. Wm. Ford renovated and a new wing and stables added. High-

Thursby B.C.L. Tector of Burgh-Anton, Norf. (d. 1893) and woods, a very handsome residence, is the property and
Eleanor 1\fary, ·hit; wife ; in the tower there are two stone residence of Mrs. Thursby; Hillfields is the residence of
effigies and one .of ·oak, all o-f early darte ; a floor stone Henry George \Villink e-sq. J.P. Gilliat Hatfeild esq. of
:·inscribed to the Rev. Garnans. Daunser M. A. x676, has been Morden Hall, Surrey, is lord of the man()r. The principal

ffo1II'ld under the ·old chancel; there are 6o8 sit.tings, 402 landowners are James Herbert Benyon esq. of Englefield,

BERK8. 4

50 Bt'RGHF'IELD. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Major William. Richard Mortjmer Thoyts, of Sulham- r.35 p.m.; dispatched at l0·30 a.m. & 7.10 p.m.; sun--

stead, Herbert Cyril Allfrey esq. <Jf Wokefield Park, Mar- days, arrive at 7.50 p.m.; dispatched at II.IO a.m.

timer, .Arthur Harvey Thursby esq, and Henry George The nearest telegraph office is at Burgh:field

Willink esq. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel and clay. Schoo:Ls.

The chief crops a.re wheat, barley, oats and beans. The N"<lli:.ion:al (mjxed), built in I 873, for 200 children; average-
area is £47,~2 54B7ga;c res of la.nd and 52 acres of water; rateable attendance, 160; Charles Tyler, ma&l:er; Mrs. Sarah,
value, the p opulation in r8gr was 1 .327• .Ann Tyler, sewing mistress; Mi;;s Elizabeth Ongley,

P!arish Olerk, David Higgs.

Pinge Wood & Sheffield :Bottom are hamlets of this infanrts' mistress
parish. Noa.tional (mixed), at Pinge Wood, built in 1868 & en~

Post, T. & Express Delivery Office.-Goorge Cooper, larged in I88g, will now accommodat-e 150 children;

sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Reading at 8 a.m. average attendance, 58; Miss Florence Cresswell. mist

& 2.ro P.m . ; d1. spat ch ed at ro.I5 a.m . & 6·4:>J p .m . ; Mrs. Illand's (mixed), at Ilurghfield Common, built ~n~

sundays, arrive 8 a.m.; dispatched 10.50 a.m. Postal r87o, for roo children; average attendance, 82; Miss
orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest Harriett Sperring, mistress; Miss Millicent Reaney, in-

money order office is at Burghfield common fants' mistress

Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office, Oarriers.-Dore, to Reading, wed. & sa•t.; J. Ostridge,.
Burghfield Common.-.Arthur Helston, .sub-postmaster. to Reading, wed. & sat.; Pem.broke, to Reading, man.

Letters arrive from Mortimer R.S.O. at 7.50 a.m. & wed. fri. & sat

PIUVATE RESIDENTS. Urlwin John, The .Bungalow Hawkins Charlotte (Mrs.), beer retl:t> ·

Marked thus t receive their letters Willink Hy. George J.P. Hillfields tHelston .Arthur, grocer, Post Office,.

through Mortimer R.S.O. Common

Bacchus Robert Sydney, Manor house COMMERCIAL, Hews William Henry, farmer, Hose.

Bird Edward, Kennt't lodge (postal Ilru:kler Waiter, assisttant agent to Hill farm (postal address, 'l'heale,..

address, Theale, Reading) James Herbert Benyon esq Reading)

Bockett Miss Beasley Charles, baker Hicks George Mark, farmer
:Brewer Miss, Holme Dene
Bowden Henry, farmer, Field farm tHiggs Henry David, builder & assist..

Buck Gen. Lewis Wm. The Hollies :Bunce William Robert, grocer overseer & clerk t<J the parish coun--

.,Chance Ernest Burghfield branch of Manchester cil

Cottingham Col. Edward Roden, Her- Unity of Oddfellows, Lodge No. Lousley Job, farmer, Green farm

mits hill 157, Royal Star of the West Love James, blacksmith

Dewe James (Charles Wenman, sec) Ostridge Joel, carrier

Harington Rev. Dallas Oldfield M.A. Cooper George, grocer, Post & tele- Pembroke Henry, carrier

Rectory graph office Pendry Geo. tailor & beer retailer
Jackson Charles, Brookhouse
Copperthwaite Henry, beer retailer React William, carpenter

tKing Miss, Brookfields tCumberland Ruth (Miss), district Rosier Thomas, beer retailer (postal!

Lang Capt. Conyers R.N. The Shrub- nurse, Common address, 'fheale, Reading)

beries & .Army & Navy club, Lon- Dewe James, miller (steam & water), Summers Thomas, farmer

don SW Burghfield mUls Taylor John, farmer

Monger Rev. William Bevan (curate), Dore J<Jseph, carrier T:1ylor Richard James, farmer

The Curatage Fairthorne Henry, butcher Turvey Claydon, Hatchgate inn

tThursby .Arthur Harvey D.L., J.P. Fisher Charles, blacksmith Waiters James William, grocer

Culverlanci.s Freeman Benj. Swan inn & blacksmth Working Men's Club (Tom Read, hon..

Thursby Mrs. Highwoods Harman Fredk. Jonathan, farmer sec)

BUSCOT is. a village and par.ish, pleas·antly situated on there is also a charity <Jf £2 4s. per ann. for the purchase·

the south bank of the Isci.s, which separates it from 1 of clothing, besides thTee other minor charities. Buscot

Oxford•slhire,about 4 miles· north-west from Faringdonand House, the seat of Lllexander Henderson esq. M.P., J.P.

2 svuth-eatst from Lechlade, in bhe Northern division of was built by Edward Loveden Loveden esq. about 178o,

the oounty, hundred of Shrivtenham, petty sessllional divi- and is a mansion of stone, surrounded by gardens, skirtrd '

sion, union and oounty court diostrici of Faringdon, rural 1 by an extensive park, which contains two lakes, <Jne ot '
1

deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of about 25 acres and another of 15 acres; over the first i~ a

Berms ancl diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary bridge of three arches. In rBgo the house was enlarged

is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Early English and and improved, and a bachelors' wing added at the west

lPerpeooticu1ar s·tyle,s, conrsistin.g of chancel, nave, south end. .Alexander Henderson esq. M.P. is lord of the manor,

porch and a.n embattJed western tower, containing 3 and the chief owner and occupier <Jf the land. The Dean

bells; in the churcih are a :Eew mural tablet.s; it was and Students of Christ Church and the ·warden and·

re-sea,ted and repaired. at t\he expense of a former rector ; Fellows Df New College, Oxford, are also landowners in ·

the stained east window, designed by Sir Edward Burne~ this parish. Buscot Park Stud Farm was established by·

Jiones bart. was pres&~~ted in 1892 by .A. Renders<Jn esq. A. Henderson esq. M.P. for the breeding of shire horses,

M.P. of Buscot House, in memory of his father: there and "has met with remarkable success. The soil is various,

are 220 sittings, so of which are free; the <Jak lych gate mostly str(lng clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are

was also erected by Mr. Henderson in 1897· The register wheat, barley, oats, turnips and clover. The area is 2,834:

d!a.te& from the year 1.676, those of an earlier date having acres of land and 53 of water; rateable value, £4,168; the-·

been destroyed. The living is a rectory, net income £350, population in 1891 was 423.

with residence and 62 acres of glebe, in the gift of Alex- Parish Cl-erk, John Gile.s.

andar Henderson esq. M.P. and held since 1-884 by the fusst Office.-Miss Elizabert:h c. Simmons, postmisl;re-ss-

Rev. Oswald Birchall M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford. Letters through Lechladeo S.O. (GlQucester), arrive at:
The Baptist chapel here was erected in 1883. The villa~e
reading room, erected in 1897 by .A. HenderS{)D esq. M.P. L7 eac.hmla. d&e 2.30 p.m. Postal mders issued, but not paid.
is used for concerts and meetings. The annual interest is the nearest money order k telegraph office,..
accruing from a sum of £r,r66 13s. 4d. in £~! per Cent. 2 miles distant
Consols, left by Mrs. Nash, of Maidenhead, at the request Letter :Box cleared at 6. 30 p.m

of her late husband, formerly a sugar refiner of London, Police Station, George Lovell, constable

to be appropriated by the churchwardens and overseers N'a;twnal School (mixed), ereoted in r853, for 8o children;.

for the yearly purchase of eoats for 20 poor men and gowns average attendance, 65 ; Owen Hopkins, master; Mrs_

and petticoats for 20 poor women residing in the parish; Margaret E. Ropkins. mistress

(M.awkJed thus t receive letters Bowles Chri!5wpher, farmer tKibble Thomas, farm bailiff to .Alex-.

through Faringdon.) tBuscot Park Dairy (William Pearce, ander Henderson esq. M.P., J.P.

Birchall Rev. Oswald M.A. (rector) manager) Oldfield farm

Campbell Stuart, Manor farm tlluscot Park Stud Farm (Waiter Hudson Chas. carpenter & shopkeepr·

tHenderson .Alexander M.P., D.L., J.P. Crosland, agent) 1\laundrell David, farmer, Snows-

Buscot ho.; 52 Prince's gate & Re- tCrosland Waiter J.P. agent to .A.. wick farm

form club, London SW Henderson esq. M.P., J.P Pearce William, manager to the Bus--

COJ\,fMERCIAL. E:wis Henry (Mrs.), farmer, Broad· cot Pa:rk dairy

tllastin William, e-ardener to A. Hen- leaze farm Smith F'ranlr, carpenter

derson esq. M.P., J.P Fitchet Frederick, blacksmith flpicer Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Binning Henry, farmer, Lock farm Hart Mary Ann (Mrs.), Red Lion P.H Spicer Henry, farmer

Boulton Hy. farmer, Pennyswick frm Hill Owen, farmer, Manor farm tSprigg-s George, g-amekeeper to A.

Buscot Reading Room (Owen Hop- Hoddinott Fras. farmer, Weston farm Henderson esq. M.P

kins, sec) Hopkins Owen, assistant overseer ·walker Jas. farmer, Buscot Wick frn•

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 51CHADDLEWORT~.

CATMORE, with the district of LilJey, is a small of glebe, in the gift of Col. George B. Areher-Houblo,n,
and scattered Till-age and parish, 8 miles north from New-
bury, 6~ south-by-south-east from Wantage, 6 north from 2.Ild held s-ince 1895 by tho Rev. Henry Frederick Howar~
Hermitage stati~:m on the Didcot, Newbury and Win-
chest-er railway, and 5~ miles north-east from Shefford M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, wh() is also recto-r of. and
station on the Lambourn Valley railway, in the Southern resides at IlrightwaltQn. John J. Eystou esq. of Ea~
division of the county, hundred of Compton, llsley petty
sessional division, union and county court district of areHendred, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The
Wantage, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of
soil is clay; subsoil, c~alk. The chief crops the usual
Ilerks and diocese of O'Xford. The church of St. Mar-
garet is a small building of Norman date, consisting cereals. The area is 710 acres; rateable value, [346;
of chancel and nave, south porch, and a. turret con- the population in r8gr was 92.
taining one bell; there are roo sittings, all free. The Parish C!erk and Sexwn, James Hedges, l.illey.
Letters through Wantage, arrive a.t 9.10 a.m.; Wall
register dates from the year 1724. The living is a
Letter Box cleared at 4 p.m. summer &; 3 p.m.
rectory, net yearly value £g8, with residence and II acres
winter; sunday, ro.3o a.m. Brightwalton is the

neare...<:t money order office, & West Ilsley, the nearest

telegraph office, 2 miles dist·an1;
Children from here attend school at Brightwalton

Leg~ett Co-l. Charles, Catmore house Holland Rbnry, The Fox & Cubs P.H.I Small George, farm bailiff to John J.

Reeves lhchard, farmer & threshing machine proprietor Eyston esq ,

CHADDLEWORTH is a village and paris~ on the shaped windows; in an angle between these and the

road from Wantage to Hungerford, 9 miles north-west large window over the doorway is the figure of a monk

from Newbury, 7 south from Wantage and 9 south from in a sitting posture, with the head inclined to the lefJ;

Wantage Road station on the Great Western main line, and resting on his hands; in 1796 a large heap of earth

and 3 miles south-east from Shefford station on the at the back of the farm was removed and thrown into

Lambourne Valley railway, in the Northern division pits about the farm and with it some quantities of

of the county, hundred of Kintbury Eagle, petty sessional human remains; there are also remaining the ruins of

division, union and county -court district of Wantage, rural the chapel, in moving the foundations of which the lid

deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of a stone coffin slightly bevelled was discovered with

of Oxford. The church of St. Andrew is a the inscription, "Hieronimus Robertus, Prior Primus ";

building of st·Jne of Norman date, consisting of chan- this memorial is now 3t East Hendred, but the stem and

eel and nave under one roof, south porch and a base of the cross upon it are wanting ; during the years

low western tower containing 3 bells and there 1867-72 other discoveries were made, including a similar

is also a Sanctus bell; the upper part of the tower lid or slab of Caen stone, also bevelled and bearing the

is Perpendicular; at the north side is a square full length figure of a priest, with the hands joined

stair turret, and on the western side is the date 1637, teneath a floriated canopy, supported by angels, the

when it was probably repaired; the south doorway is figure dating from about 1500; in the ruins of the

good Norman work with finely-carved chevron orna- chapel were also found a carved corbel of elegant de·

ment, and on the right of the entrance is a stoup-niche; sign, a large porti()n of the arch of a doorway. a pis·

the tower arch is in part Norman, but has a Perpen- cina and fragments of a clustered column and encaustic

dicular ogee head; the windows are chiefly Norman or tiles, one of which bore the word "Magdalene "; iwelv&

Transitional; in the tower is an ancient font, discarded quarries from a stained glass window in the priory arl}

about 18u, when the original Norman font was found now in the entrance porch at Prior's Court, having been

and restored; the church contains monuments to the removed thither by the late Mr. J. T. Wasey, then lord

Wroughton family and others to the Nelsons, formerly of the manor; these exhibit curious figures of men.

lords of the manor; among the latter are memorials to women and monkeys; the well of the monastery is

Mary Nelson, 1618, and to Dorothy, wife of William deep and large, but the water is very poor; hoards oi

Nelson esq. "cheefe prothonotarie of the common pleas," money have been discovered in the adjoining woods and

1619; the church was restored in 1881 at a cost oi on the manor; in r8n many coins were found in a p~t

£58'2, and an organ was provided in 1898 at a. C{)st of at Field Coppice, and in 1825 a pot containing 8oo coins

£150; there are 200 sittings. In the churchyard is of the Emperors Constantine (A.D. 306), Julian (A.D.

an ancient but much dilapidated cross, two oblong 361), Gratian (A.D. 367), Valentinian (A.D. 375) and

monuments and a fiat stone with a raised cross thereon. others were found by some labourers about 24 yards

The register, which dates from the year 1538, is an from the Newbury road; subsequently a party of

uninterrupted record from that period and in good pre- gipsies, encamping in Margaret's Head, discovered there

servation; it has the following unique entry:-" Thomas another hoard of the reputed value of £3oo. The

Nelson, sone of Thomas Nelson, Nov. 8, 1644. This charities include Saunder's of £15 a year and a house;

was the Thomas Nelson that fought two dragoons in Wynne's of £10 a year; and Coventry's of £1 6s. 8d~

Hangman Stone lane in the time of the Civil Wars, and and there is an allotment of 12 acres, producing £12

was never well afterwards''; a later entry in Latin yearly, which sum is distributed in clothing. Woollef

r~ords the planting of a yew tree in the churchyard (Wulvely) Park, the seat of Philip Wroughton esq.

by Hugh Pocock, then vicar, on Feb. 20, 1694; this tree, D.L., J.P. contains a handsome mansion situate(l

however, does not now exist. The living is a vicarage, on a beautiful slope; the park is very extensive anil

neh income of £235, with 14 acres of glebe and resi- well-wooded; the deer park extends over an area {)f

deuce, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of n6 acres. Philip Wroughton esq. who is lo-rd of

Westminster, and held sinct~ 1887 by the Rev. the manor, and Herbert Humfrey esq. are the principal

George Herbert Rust ~LA. of Trinity College, Cam- landowners. The soil is principally chalk; subsoil.

bridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapeL In this parish, chalk and rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats

about 1! miles from the village, once stood the cele- I and turnips. The area is 3,400 acres; rateable value,.

brated monastery of Poughley, founded by Ralph de £2,696; the population in 1891 was 441. •
Chadworth about n6o, in a wild and secluded spot, on Parish Clerk and Sexton, Robert Bailey.

the site of a little lowly hermitage, in a dale hard by Post &; Telegraph Office.-Charles Spanswick, post.-

a forest side, at a. place called H Elmsfordsmere," for master. Letters arrive from Wantage at 9.15 a.m.;

canons regular of the order of St. Augustine and dedi- same on sundays; dispatched week days, winter 4-I$

cated to St. Margaret; the revenues of the priory a p.m. &; summer 5.15 p.m.; sundays, 10.30 a.m,

little before its suppression amounted to £71 ws. 7d.; Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Thf)

it was subsequently given, 23 Henry VIII. (1531-2), to nearest ::noney order office is at Brightwalton

the abbot and convent of Westminster, in exchange for Endowed (mixed) School, with an income of £II2

100 acres of land (a portion of which now forms St. yearly, left by Mr. Saunders, Mrs. Coventry & Mrs.

James's park), conveyed by that house to the king, Wynne, for the education of 10 boys; the school was

having been surrendered by John Somer, the last prior, enlarged in 1851 for 8o children; average attendance;

Feb. 14th, 1524; the chief portion of the existing re- 75; Rlichard )Villiam Brade, master; Mrs. R. W:

mains has been converted into a farm house, including Brade, mistress

what was formerly the kitchen with an oven and cook- Carriers. John Uzzell, to ~ewbury, mon. tues. thnrs. &.

ing places and some dormitories over, with lancet- sa-@. Thomas, to Wantage, wed.; to Newbury, daily

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Smith Richard Bradley Ja.mes, bricklayer
Tarrant Alfred Carter Alfred, farmer, Heads farm .

Coteswo.rth William, ·Chaddleworth ho Wroughton Philip D.L., J.P. Woolley Chisman "William Rumsey, farmer,..

Messenger Mrs park Woolley farm

:Mosdell Mrs COliMERCH.L. Dance John Newton, The Ibex P.H. k.
Rust Rev. Geo. Herbert M ..A. (vicar) Bennett Robt. farmer, ~Ianor fa1·m shopkeeper
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OBADDLE WOITS. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'&
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Masters Frank, farmer, Oak Ash farm Poffiey Henry, carpenter Spanswick Charles, blacksmith, &

Maunders Jt1mes, head gardener toW. Reading Room (Simon Sayer, sec) post office

Cotesworth esq Sayer Simon, insmance agent Uzzell John, carrier

Poffiey John, head gardener to Philip Smith Uharles A. farmer,Woolley cot Uzzell William, farmer, Lower barn

\Yroughton esq. D.L., J.P Streat John, shoemaker

EAST and WEST CHALLOW, formerly townships By Local Government Board Order 2o,68g, dated l\larch

of Letcombe Regis civil parish, were in r852 formed 24, r887, Warman Cottages, &c. were transferred from
into a separate parish (each township maintain- Letcombe Regis to East Challow.

ing its own poor and being distinct for parochial and WEST CHALLOW is 2 miles north-west from Wantage.
&.lther purposes), in the Northern division of the county, The church of St. Laurence is a plain structure chiefly

hundred of runtbury Eagle, petty sessional division, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles and consist-

unian and county court district of Wantage, arch- ing of chancel, nave, north porch of wood and an Early

deaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Want-age and dio- English bell-cot on the western gable, containing 2

cese of Oxford; these townships lie to the south of the bells; the chancel, with its screen, is Perpendicular, the

Great Western railway, which has a station here; the north doorway Transition Norman, and the porch Per-

Wilts and Berks canal passes through. East Challow is pendicular; the church was restored in 1892 at a cost

one mile west from Wantage. 'l'he church of St. of £-PS; the communion plate includes a pre-Refor-

Nicholas is a small edifice of stone, consisting of chan- mation paten and a chalice of the 17th century; there
eel, nave, south aisle, and a small tower (built in r884) are 66 sittings. The register dates from the year 1653·

and containing 2 bells; the Decorated east window,of three Nearly opposite the vicarage house is an old house,

lights, has flowing tracery ; the chancel arch is Early called " The College," perhaps originally the abode of

English, and the nave is separated from the aisle by a priest. Lord ·wantage is lord of the manor and chief

an ·arcade of three good arches of the same period; the landowner. The soil is .strong clay; subsoil, blue clay.

aisle is modern; the west doorway is modern, but has The crops are wheat, beans, oats and turnips. The area
an Early English stoup on the south side; the font is arnadteianblre8gvra,lu1es,g.£3,05 s;
plain and cylindrical; the communion plate is dated is 1,0 w67as;ac1r7e2s,; the population in
r88r
x783; the church was enlarged in 1858, and affords r65
~ittings. The register dates from the year 1712. The By Local Government Board Order 2o,6Bg, dated March
:living is a vicarage, net yearly value £248 with 9 acres of C24h,al1lo8w87., a detached part of Sparsholt was added to West

,glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford,
:and held since rBBg -by the Rev. Oharles Luke Jeayes B.A. Post Offioo, East Challow. J oseph Hughes, sub-post-
.of Kew College, Oxford. There formerly existed between master. -Letters through Wantage arrive at 6.45 a.m.
-:this village and \Vantage an obelisk, pla-c-ed at the end of & 12.15 p.m.; dispatched at 6.45 a.m. 12.25 & 7.25
:an avenue stretching to Circourt, in the pa.rish of Dench- p.m. ; :;.unday, 12 noon. Postal orders are issued here,
'vorth ; some of the stones, it is said, may be seen in a but not. paid. 'Vantage is the nearest money order &
_paved pathway east of the church. At W oodhill is an telegraph office, 2 miles distant
old house, occupied by l\fr. Sharpe, and containing an West Challow ·wall Box, hours of collection, 7·5 p.m.;
1mcient fireplace, over which are the initials of Richard sunday, 11.35 a. m
and Mary Bray, and the date 1676. Here are the ex- Challow Station Wall Box, cleared at 4·45 p.m. ; sun.
tensive works of Messrs. Nalder and Nalder Limited, 11.30 a.m
Schools.
for the manufacture of agricultural implements. Stephen

William Silver esq. of Letcombe Regis, is lord of the East Challow National (mixed), built in 18_s.6 &; en-

-manor ; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, W. B. Reynolds larged r8g2, & again in r8gg, for 150 children; average

esq. the trust<:Jes of the late W. Barker esq. and W. B. attendance, 104; Miss Annie Ba.rnett, mistress

1Vasbrough esq. are the principal landowners. The area The children of West Challow attend the schools at

is· 1,653 acres; rateable value, £5,484; the population in East Challow & Childrey

:x88r was 397, -and in r8gr, 4g6. Challow Station.-Cornelius Jas. Clifford, station master

EAST CH.A.LLOW. Monk John Wm. Coach & Horses P.H COMMERCIAL.

l\i"alder & Nalder Limited, agricul- *BedfDrd Peter, Prince of ·wales P.H
Aldred Rev. Christian Rycroft M.A. tural engineers
(curate of St. Mary, Childrey) East Alfred Jn. farmer, Coppice lease
Kirkpatriek \Yilliam Hy. Kirklands
Pert Henry, dairyman *Frogley William, farmer & corn
Nalder William Sharpe Dennis, farmer, Woodhill frm dealer, Petwick farm Chal-
Reynolds Wm. Brooks, Challow park Simmons 1Vm. H. farmr.Manor farm
*Gibbs James, coal merchant, Corn-
Stroud Mrs. Shirley cottage Watson John N. sporting correspon-
Wallis Arthur John, Kirklands dent, The Mount low station
Hawkins William, shopkeeper
Welch John Jas. horse slaug-hterer
Keable Thomas Broom, farmer,

COMMERCUL. Yates William, farmer, Park villa hill farm

Rnssell Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer,

Alder Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Challow ho Bridg-e farm

Fowles John, farmer, Hill house 'WEST CHALLOW. *Sims Fanny (Mrs.),LeatherBottleP.R
*Harris David, shopkpr. & coal dealer (Marked thus postal addre.ss Thatcher Fred John, commission

Hughes Joseph, Post office Faringdon.) agent, Manor farm

..Jeffries Chas. farmer, Marsh farm *'foomer John & Sons, coal mer-

.Lovegrove Joseph, Goodlake Arms .Teayes Rev. Charles Luke RA. chants, Challow station

P.H. & shopkeeper (vicar), Vicarage h-Yest Daniel James, farmer, Garlands

CHANDLING'S, formerly extra-parochial, is now a Sunning-well. The soil is clay and .sand; subsoil, lime-

parish, 3 miles north from Abingdon and 3 south ·stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The

from Oxford, adjoining Bagley Wood, on the road from area is 76 acres; rateable value, £go; the population
,Abingdon to Oxford, in the Northern d~vision of the
in 1891 was +
county, hundred of Hormer, petty sessional division,

union and county court district of Abingdon ; it consists Letters through Abingdon via Marcham, which is the

of one small farm, which belongs to St. John's College, nearest money order office & Abingdon the nearest tele-

I{)xford, .and is now occupied by Mr. Dennis Deane, of graph office

CHIEVELEY is a parish and village with the at the we.st end are various memorials to the Poc15ck
chapelries of Oare and Winterbourne and the tithings of family, and other memorials to Lucy Fincher, ob. 22nd

.Curridge and Snelsmore, in the Southern division of the March, r667-B, and Catherine Stephens, d. 12th Oct.

~ounty, hundred of Faircross, petty sessional division, r86o; Rev. George Wyld, 48 years rector, d. New

union and county court district of Newbury, and in the Year's day, 1837; and to Robert Hillman, gent. 1748;

Tural deanery of N ewbury, archdeaconry of Berks and on the north side of the chancel remains part of a.

fd.iocese of Oxford. Chieveley is on the road from New- brass, with a shield of arms: the nave was rebuilt in

bury to Abingd'On, 5 miles north from Newbury, 22 from 1873, from the plans of Mr. J. W. Rugal1, architect: in

Oxford and 2 north-east from Hermitage station on the the chancel is an ancient wood frame from which the

Didcot and Newbury branch of the Great Western rail- Lenten veil was anciently suspended: the- churchyard,

way. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a plain to which half an acre, the gift of W. l<'isher esq.

building of rubble stone, partly in the Early English w-as ~dded in the year 1894, is surrounded by elms,

style, with some traces of Norman, and consists of affords a fine view of the downs towards the· west, and

chancel, nave of five bays, north aisle, south porC'h and contains a massive tomb to Elizabeth. wife of Charles

an embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 Long-, ob. ISt Jan. 1767, and others to the families of

bells: the east windows are stained: in the cbar..cel and Rathb::md, Halcomb, Leney, Basing, Preston, and Small-

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. CHIE.VELEV 53-

hone, and to Joseph White, 44 years parish clerk, d. 14 brick, containing 2 bells: in the church is a monument
June, r871: there are 340 sittings, 150 being free. The
register dates from the year 156o. The living is a con- of marble, with arms, to Philip "\Veston esq. ob. June 9o
solidated vicarage, net yearly value £r,oso, incluidng 220
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. M. J. 1729, and on the floor are memorials to the Southby,
:Mills, and held since 18~ by the Rev. Richard Andrew Head, Spear and Prior families: the church was corn-
J<'awssett M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There are pletely restored and reseated and enlarged by the ad-
Baptist, Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Several bequests and endowments have been left for the dition of aisles in 1854, and has now 150 sittings, all
poor, amounting to £4o yearly, besides £35 for educa- being free. The principal landowners are the trustees of
the late Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie kt. ).I.A. Chief .Justice
tional purposes and a church charity producing £75 of British Columbia (d. 1894), Richard Fisher esq. :Mar-
maduke Head ·Best esq. D.L., J.P. of Donnington, and
yearly. .Arlington Manor, the seat of the Right Hon. Charles Thatcher and Benjamin J. Hudson esqrs. The
Sir Francis Henry Jeune P.C., K.O.B., D.C.L., M..A., is area is 2,n2 acres; assessable value, £r,:t58; the popu-
lation in 1891 was 270.

a fine mansion of stone standing on a slight elevation in Infants' School, built in 1865, for 40 children; average
the midst of a well-wooded country. Prior's Court House, attendance, 24; :Miss J<~rances Helena. HQOper, mistresff
the property of the Rev. .John Spearman Wasey M..A. of
Speen Hill, Newbury, is· now occupied by Lionel Barlow CURRIDGE is a hamlet and tithing 2! miles south-
esq. M..A. Downend House is the residence of Ernes!;
Edwin Martin-.At,rins esq. J.P. The principal land- east from Chieveley. The school-room, a building in
owners are Lord ·wantage, K.C.B., V.C., who is also lord the Pointed style with a residence for the master and
of the manor, William G-eorge Mount esq. M.P., of ·wasing mistress, erected by the late Miss Wasey and her sister,
the late ~irs. Stackpoole, is licensed for divine service-.
Place, the Right Hon. Sir Francis H. Jeune P.C. William The Rev. John Spearman Wasey }.LA. of Speen Hill,
]:<'isher esq. the Rev. J. S. Wasey M.A. and William Boyes Newbury, is the principal landowner.
esq. The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief
crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The entire area Snelsmore is a hamlet and tithing r! miles south.
Downend, three-quarters of a mile north, is a place ia

is g,217 acres; and of Chieveley township, 5,328; assess- Chieveley·

able value, .£4,391; the population in r89r was 1 ,02o. Parish Clerk, William Smallbone.
Post, ~I. & T. 0., T. ]\f. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
0..:\..RE (or Oure) is a chapelry or C1J.ieveley, 2l miles Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.-~lrs.
from Chieve~ey, 5 miles ea.st and 5 miles north from Hannah l\Iaria Gearing, sub-postmistress. Lettm·s

~ewbury. The chapel of St. Bartholomew is a plain through ~ewbury, arrive at 6.40 a.m. & 12.30 p.m.;.

~<difice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of dispatched at g.5o a.m. & 6.19 p.m.; sunday, arrive

l!hancel, nave, south porch and a western turret of stone 6.40 a.m. & dispatched 5·34 p.m
·wanrontaining one bell: there is a stained window on the
Letter Box, Oxf<lrd road, Snelsmore, clearE.>d at 6.30

south side, erected to the memory of four little children p.m.; sunday, 5-45 p.m

of the Rev. John Ellill Robinson M..A. vicar of Chieveley, 'Wall Letter Box, Downend, cleared at 5.40 p.m.; sundaya

1837-82: the church was thoroughly restored and: re- at 11.40 a.m
seated by the late incumbent in 1852, and affords 6o 1'\Yall Letter Box, Winterbourne, cleared 5.30 p.m.; sun-

sittings. The churchyard has fine spreading yew trees, days 9 a.m

and memorials to the Butt, Taylor, Wallins and Tuckey Police Constable, George Fisher

f~milies. There. is also a sm~ burial-gr~mnd, long- .s~nce Schools.
d1snsed, belongmg to the. Soc~ety of Fnends. William A School Board of 5 members was formed for Chieveley

George Mount esq. M.P. lS chwf landowner. in 1 373 ; George Hill, clerk & attendance officer

1'\ITXTERBOURNE is a chapelry in the pari~h of Board, built in 1896 for 180 children, averags attendance,

Chieveley, z! south-west of Chieveley and 4 north-west ro8; .Alberl:l Henry Hale, master; ~fiss Barbara ::Xew-

frOin Newbury. The church of St. James, seated on an man, mistress

eminence, is an edifice of flint with stone dressings, in Board (mixed), Curridge, built for 64 children; average

the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, attendance, 6o; Mr. "\Villiam Bassett, master; :Mrs. Bus-

aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower of 1 sett, mistress

CHIEVELEY. Boyes Henry, farmer S•hepherd George William, grocer

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bune Frdk. jun. farmr. Totterdown Skeats Thos. beer rtlr. & blacksmth

.Appleton Rev. Thomas (curate), Butler Richard, saddler '\Vasey Edward J. S. farmer, Priors

Curridge Butler Robt. farmer, Bradley court Court farm

Barlow Lionel M.A. Priors Court ho Clark "\Villiam R. watch ma.Curridge '\Veaver Jn. jun. farmer,Middle farm

Dristow William, Downend Clarke John, farmer, Green's farm 'Vebber William, farmer

Broovn Mrs. Meadow villa Crocker Edmund, farmer, Oaklands '\Vickens James, coal dealer

Butler Robert, Bradley court tarm, Curridge '\Vinter J oseph, bricklayer

Fawssett Rev. Richard .Andrew M.A. Dawson William (Mrs.), laundress 'Vise John James, New inn, Curridge

Vicarage Franklin Chas. carpenter, Downend '\Vooster John, farmer, Birds farm

Hurrell Capt. George Froome William, farmer, Downend O.ARE.

Jeune Right Hon. Sir Francis Henry Fry George, blacksmith

P.C., M ..A., D.C.L., J.P. .Arlington Hardham William George, grocer l\Iatthews James, farmer, Manor frrn

manor Hill George R. insurance agent & TTahv•altocrheFrr e derick, farmer, N e w farm
Marlow M.rs assistant overseer Charle Fowler, fa rmer,
s

Martin-Atkins Ernest Edwin J.P. Hiseock Wm. shoe maker, Down end Crosslane farm

Downend house Hobbs Joseph, farmer, 1Snelsmore Wallen Edward, farmer

Pigot .Albert Ranee, The Cottage lll.,ley Joseph, bricklayer

Pigot Miss, The Cottage Marriner Wm. Fox & Hounds P.H. WINTERBOURNE.

Pocock Jn. Wernham, The Laurels farmer & timber dlr. Snelsmore A.ldridge Reginald, \Vinterbourne Holt

Prismall John, Maple cottage Moss Frederick, dairyman Cook Wiiliam, marine st-ore dealer

Rayner Oscar W. Manor house Nash Alfred, beer retailer Fisher Richard, \Vinterbonrne house

Vernon Mrs. The Oaklands, Curridge Pauling Robert, shopkeeper, Long la Fowler Charles, boot maker

·weaver Mrs Pre-ston Alfred, farm bailiff to the Hudson Benjamin J. timber mer-

Weaver John, Curridge Rev. J. S. Wasey M.A chants, Snelsmore

Wbitmore Miss, Coombe house Pocock Wernham, general dealer Jenner Fanny (Mrs.), blacksmith

Wimberley Rev. Charles Irvine M.A. Pocock William James, insurance King John W. Blue Boar P.H

Ohieveley house agent & boot maker Knight Theresa. (Miss), baker &

COMMERCIAL. Prismall & Co. bakers & g-rocers beer retail~r

.Adams John, market gardener Prismall Ernest, cattle dlr.The Limes Lailey John, wheelwright

Annets Charles, carpenter Robins .Arthur, butcher Phillips Gerald Edwin, farT'I'ffi'l'ler, Win-
Barrett Thomas, shoe maker
Bosley William, farmer, Arlington Sartian Jsph. farmer, Downend lodge 1ThtiecrkboJuorhnne, farm North Heath
Shefford Joseph, Wheatsheaf P.H builder,

CHILDREY is a parish about 2~ miles west from brook, but there seems to be no mention of it, as a vil-
lage, in the old chronicles. The church of St. Mary is
\Vantage and 2! south-west from the Chal:ow station on
an ancient and highly interesting cruciform structure in
the Great Western railway, in t'he Northern division of
mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and
the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and
an embattled western tower of Perpendicular date, con-
county court district of Wantage and in the rural taining 6 bells and a small sanctus bell called "ting-

deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and

fiiocese of Oxford. The Berks and Wilts canal S€parates tang" and a clock : the chancel, nave and north transept
this parish from West Challow : the name is were probably built by the Frethorues and the tower an.d

derived from its situation at the source of the Cillarethe S{)Uth transept added by the Fetyplaces, whose arms

• BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

54 CHILDREY.

appear over the west window: the chancel has a fine Here are Wesleyan e.nd Primitive Methodist chapels.
Perpendicular east wind·1w, a double piscina, Early English Here are almshouses for a cantarist (now for the school-
master) and three almsmen, maintained by Queen's
2!edllia and a canopied Easter sepulchre; the chancel is College, Oxford ; these almshouses were originally attached
as wide a.s the nave and without chancel arch ; part of to land given by William Fettyplace to this college, for
the rood-loft remains, and there are hagioscopes for each the support of his chantry, as above mentioned. The
transept: th~ north transept, or St. Mary's chapel, charities for distribution in money and kind amount to
belonging to the manor of Frethornes, had a chantry
£7o yearly. The old Manor House, now (1899) the
founded in the 14th century ; in the east wall is a property and residence of E. T. W. Dunn esq. J.P.
piscina, and in the north-east angle a curious stone has a good 15th century porch, stone-mullioned
bracket, opposite a. priests' door ; here also is a door windows and arched doorways ; traces only of the old
formerly leading to the rood-loft: the south transept, or hall are now visible, and the buttery hatch is blocked
St. Catherine·'s chapel, belonged formerly to the Fety- up; from the time of Henry VI. t() that of Charles II.
it was inhabited by the family of Fettyplace, of whom
places, and here was a chantry, founded in 1526 by
John Fettiplace esq. of Childrey, was soon after the
William Fettiplace esq. in honour of the Blessed 'l'rinity, restoration created a baronet by patent dated March 30,
r661; the title, however, expired with Sir George Fetti-
Our Lady and St. Kateryn, with provisions for a can- place, sth bart. who died unmarried April 8, 1743; in a.
.mr1st or chaplain ; 1t contains a piscina, some fragments room of this building Charles I. is said to have slept
on the night of April 10, 1644, during his memorable
of good. stained glass and curious corbels ; there is a march from Oxford to Marlborough; portions of the
priests' daor, and traces of another doorway leading to a bedstead used by him were sold some time since and
curious small stone pulpit projecting from the wall by are now in Bisham Abbey, near :Maidenhead: the house
the side of the transept: the font is cylindrical and was thoroughly restored and enlarged by William School-
consists of a leaden basin Io inches deep, surrounded on
the exterior by 12 small figures of bishops, mitred. and croft Burton esq, all the old oak having been re-used: a

carrying a crosier in one hand and a book in the other, noteable feature is the principal staircase, which is entirely
of oak: the grounds adjoining are tastefully laid and con,
upon a massive stone base; the windows of t'he church tain one of the largest holly trees in England. In the
generally retain considerable· remains of stained glass,
l'epresenting "The Salutation," "The Adoration of the tovillage are several other ancient houses, and not far off is
Magi," "The Crucifixion" and "The Ascensi0n," with
armorial devices : and there are a number of ancient the" Punch-bowl," a curious hollow in the hills, similar
and interesting monuments of the Walrond, Fynderne, the "Manger" at Woolstone: of the manor house of Fre-
Kyngeston, Fettyplace, Englefield, and other families ; thornes, traces only can now be seen in a field close to
the:;e include a very fine canopied brass, with effigies in
heraldic dresses, to William Fynderne esq. 1444, and his the church: it is said to have been pulled down and re-
wife Elizabeth (Chilrey), widow of John Lord Kyngeston,
with a curious inscription round the edge, of 20 Latin erected on the hills above at Greendown. There are three
manors in this parish. Capt. Sir Charles Gibbons hart.
verse~; near this is the brass of a priest, c. 1480; a
brass, with effigies and partial inscription to William R.N. of Stanwell Place, Middlesex, who is lord of the
manor of Frethornes, E. T. W. Dunn esq. J.P. lord of
c.l-Valrond gent. and his wife Elizabeth, c. 1480; a priest,
1490, with chalice; a curious brass tC> Joan (Walrond), the manor of Rampanes, formerly held by the Fettyplace
wife of Robert Strongbow, 1507, in a shroud, with 7 family, the trustees of Joshua Burton esq. lords of that
of Maltravers, and Lord ·wantage, The Dean and ChapteP
English verses; and brasses to John Kyngeston esq. of Winchester, and R. J. Walker esq. are the principal
1514, and Susan his wife; Thomas Walrond gent, 1480, landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, chalk.
and his wife Alice (Englefield), 1477; Bryan Roos LL.D. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, turnips, etc.
(rector), 1529, in academic dress; Agnes, wife of John
F'ynderne, 1441 ; William Feteplace and his wife Eliza- The parish comprises 2,924 acres of land and 5 of water;
beth, rsr6, founders of the chantry, with shields ; and rateable value, £3,484; the population in 1891 was
a matrix of a civilian and his wife, c. :138G; in the 462 in the civil and 454 in the ecclesiastical parish.
south transept is a marble canopy, with brass effigies of
a man and his wife rising from their graves, and a By Local Government Board Order 20,689, dated
mutilated shield of Fetiplace : in the north transept is a March 24, 1887, Letcomb Field was transferred from
fine tomb, with the effigy of a cross-legged knight, under Letcombe Regis to Childrey.
a richly ornamented ogee arch, supposed' to com-
memorate Sir Edmund de Chelrey, 1372: the chancel Parish Clerk, Charles Lovegrove.
and nave, both of which retain some fine specimens of
lfioor tiles, were thoroughly restored in 1875-6, at a cost Post, M. & •r. 0., T, M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
of £1,700; the north transept was restored by the late Sir
John Gibbons hart. M.A. (d. 1893) and the south transept Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.--Mrs. Lydi~
by Queen's College, Oxford: on t.he first Sunday in Lent Treadwell, sub-postmistress. Letters through '\'Vant-
·the Fettyplace sermon is preached, for which a sum of
6s. 8d. is allowed to the preacher by Queen's College, age; delinries commence at 7· 15 a.m. ; sundays, 7· 15
Oxford: the curfew is still rung here at 8 p.m. from
October to February; there are 250 sittings. The re- a.m.; dispatched at 4.40 & 6.35 p.m.; sundays,
gister dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, 11.15 a,m
net yearly value, £3oo, derived from s6o acres of glebe,
besides 3! acres in hand, with residence, in the gift of Schools.
R. J. Walker esq. of Balliol College, Oxford, and held Fettyplace (now only for boys), founded in 1732, by Sir
since 1882 by the Rev. G'harles John Cornish M.A.
formerly exhibitioner of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. George Fettyplace hart. will hold 50 boys; average
attendance, 27; George Piggott, master
Girls, for So children ; average attendance, 30; Mrs.
Eliza Piggott, mistress
The children of West Challow attend these schools & East
Challow
Wesleyan (infants), built in 1849, for 70 children; aver~
age attendance, 39 ; Miss Mary Elizabeth Dawton, mist
Carrier.-Treadwell, to Wantage, tues. wed. fri. & sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Alder l'{illiam, carpenter Passmore Charles Manning, farmer,

Burson Mrs. John, Alders Bnrson Jc·shua Jn.farmr.Chur~h fnn Pond house

Cornish Rev. Chas. Jn. M.A. Rectory Ch.ildrey Benefit Society (George l'ig- Pinnell John, baker

Coventry Misses, .A'lders gctt, sec) Pointer Ebenezer, The Hatchet P.H

Dunn Edward Thomas William J.P. Early Jsph. boot ma. & beer retailer Preater Charles, tailor

The Old Manor house Froud Lf'onard, farmer Puzev John '\V. brick & tile maker
J ones Misses, The Grotto Froud. Thomas, farmer •

Rea Edgar, watercress grower

Jone~ Mrs. The Grotto Harding Thomas, farmer Shurmer Charles,farmer,Sincombe fm

Merry Miss Legge Joseph, baker & j)hopkeeper Smith Arthur, engineer

Roach Robert, Rose cottage Legge Ralph Oliver, assist. overseer Taylor John, china dealer

Legge Thomas, coal dealer Treadwell Wm. shopkeeper, Post off

COMMERCIAL. Lovegrove Charles, carpenter ·wearing George & William, coal meT-

Alder Frederick, farmer, Symonds fm Packer Fdk.blacksmith & wheelwrght chants & farmers

CHILTON is a small but picturesque village and sisting of chancel, nave of two bays, south aisle, south
parish, pleasantly situated on a rise of the Downs, about
porch and w western tower with open embattled parapet
7 miles south-east from \Vantage and 2 miles east from
and small gabled pinnacles and containing 6 bells and a
Upton station on the Didcot and Winchester branch of sanctus bell: in 1892 the tenor bell was recast and two
the Great Western railway, in the Southern division of new bells added; a clock which strikes the hours was

the county, Compton hundred, llsley petty sessional divi- also placed in the tower at the same t.ime; the chancel
was restored in 1876 under the direction of the late G. E.
sion, union and county court district of wantage, rural Street esq. R.A.: the south aisle appears to be Early
deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese English and is divided from the nave by an arcade of
of Oxford. The church of All Saints is a small building two Pointed arches supported by a single circular col-
of stone, of the Early English and later periods, con-

DIRECTORY. I BERKSHIRE. CHOLSEY. 55
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•umn, with a boldly mounted cap and base; the windows to be distributed in bread. A little distance below
of the church are chiefly of the Decorated and Perpen- the church, on the south side of the village, stands
dicular periods ; the. south porch and tower are modern: wha.t still remains of the. Manor house of the Lattons,
:in the south ai~le stands a font, a deep ten-sided basin anciently called "Latton's Place," but now C9mpletely
hewn ()Ut of a solid block of stone; it expands modernized and converted into a. farm residence: up to
slightly towards the top and is placed on a circular base : about 1878 or later, the house surrounded three sides
in the north wall of the nave is a trefoiled niche: in the of a small courtyard, and had two oak panelled rooms,
chancel, on the north side, is a mural monument of one of which, on tha ground floor, possessed a nearly per-
marble, in the Classic style, to Richard Knapp esq. reader fect carved cornice, bearing the quartered shield of the
of the Inner Temple, d. June 6, 1716, and Jane, his wife, Latton family, who removed here from Upton in the reign
of Henry VII. but having purchased, in 1542, with other
d. sth September, 1737, and two children; al;>Ove is a property, the manor of Kingston Bagpuze, they settled
· shield of arms, or, a. lion, pe.ss. sable, and in chief, 3 there until about 1670, when .John, son and heir of Thomas
Latton of Kingston, sold the estates and removed to
helmets ; on the south side is a tablet inscribed to George Esher, in Surrey, but the family is now extinct. The
Knapp, d. 12th November, r8og: on the west side of the house now consists only of the centre and west wing;
the whole of the woodwork, together with some fragments
chancel arch is· a marble monument in the Classic style, of stained glass, was sold by the landlord to a local
erected during his lifetime, by .Adam Head, to himself dealer in antiques a.t Abingdon, for £16, in order to pay
for repairs, and a. very fine and massive table of oak,
(d. 8th April, 1729); Martha, his wife, d. 21 December, formerly in the kitchen, is said now to be in the hands of
some person at Chippenham. John Latton esq. of Chil-
I73'5, and 3 children, 1703-23, with inscription in Latin,
and below an inscription to Head Plott, of Upton, gent. ton, was representative m Parliament for the city of Ox-

·grandson of Adam Head, d. November ]th, 1765 ; on the ford in 1529, and subsequently held the offices of treasurer
arcade is a marble tablet to Elizabeth, wife of Head and governor of the Inner Temple; he died 3oth May,
1548, and his brass, with effigies of himself and Anna.
Plott, buried May 24, 1773; Anne, wife of Thomas Yorke, (Yate), hiSI wife, is in the church of St. Michael, Blew-
buried December 17, 1756, and Anne, wife of Richard bury. Race horses are trained here. Lord Wantage L.L.,
Hopkins, d. March 21, 1807: the stained east window is K.C.B., V.C. is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
··a memorial to the Rev. Edward Morland Chaplin M..A. The soil is chiefly chalk and light gravel ; subsoil, chiefly
late rector, who died June I, 1877, and there is a small chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The
memorial window to Mary G. R. Chaplin, d. 9th July, area is 1,448 acres ; rateable value, £1,275 ; and the
1871: in the churchyard, east of the aisle, are three altar population in 1891 was z-68.
tombs to the Knapp family of Biewbury and Chilton,
Parish Clerk and Sexton, James Green.
I754-1817: near the porch is a coped tomb to the Rev.
Post & T. 0. & Express Delivery. Henry Edward
Charles Gaisford M.A. rector, d. rst August, 1857, and
Oliver, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Steven-
hy the entrance to the rectory grounds is a marble cross ton R.S.O. at B.ro a.m.; same on sundays; dispatched
marking the grave of the Rev. E. M. Chaplin M.A. 19 at 5.15 p.m.; sundays, 9,25 a.m. Postal orders are
·years rector, inscribed to himself and others of his family: issued here, but not paid. West Ilsley is the nearest
money order office
there is an altar tomb and mural tablet to the Goddard
National School (mixed), built in 187o, for 6o children;
family, 1742-18oo; coped tombs to the family of Lay, average attendance, 44; Miss .Amy Hapgood Maysey,
mistress
r8I5·75, and other memorials to the families of Stevens,
Carriers.
1854-72; Guy 1885, and Lewintoo, 1803-9: on the east David Prior, to .Abingdon, 'Blue Boar,' mon. & thurs. ;~
side of the churchyard is a lich-gate, surmounted by a
cross : the church affords roo sittings. The register George Spiers, to Abingdon, mon. & fri

dates from the year 1584. The living is a rectory, net

'income £270, with residence and 70 acres of glebe, in the

gift of the trustees of the late G. B. Morland esq. and held

-since 1877 by the Rev. .Anthony Thomas Morland
M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Here is a
Primitive Methodist chapel. Thomas's charity is

£336 6s. 8d. £2£ per Cent. Consols, the interest

Morland Rev. .Anthony Thomas M ..A. Prior David, farmer & carrier Stevens ThoS'. trainer of racehorses

Rectory Spiers Bros. farmers Tyrrell Frank, farmer

Hall .Job, draper & grocer Spius George, carrier Woodley Frederick William, Horse .t

'Jlarris William Jchn, farme:> Sriers Henry, sporting correspondent Jockey P.H. carpenter & assistant

-Dliver Henry Edward, baker, grocer Spiers James, turf correspondent overseer

& provision merchant, Post office Spiers Sarah(Mrs.),Rose & CrownP.H

ICHILTON FOLIATT is a parish formerly partly in 73), by Local Government Boards Provisional Orders Con.

13erks but principally in Wiltshire. Under the provisions fitmation (No. 12) .Act, rBgs, the Berkshire portion was
-of the "Local Government .Act, 1894" (56 & 57 Vict. c. added to the civil parish of Hungerford.

CHOLSEY, in Domesday, "Celsea," is a village and memorates Sir John Gate, one of the earliest vicars,

parish, 1:eparated from Oxfordshire by the river Thames, who died 21st July, 1394; in the chancel is an interesting

2~ miles south-west from 1-Vallingford and r! miles from brass, somewhat mutilated, to John Mere, also Q former

rthe new Cholsey and Moulsford station on the Great vicar of this church, with effigy in eucharistic vestments
Western railway, opened in 1893, in lieu of the former 1 and holding a chalice; h~ died 13th June, 1471: the

station at Moulsford, and illOW the junction for the branch church was partly repaired in 1849, and the chancel and

to Wallingford; extensive sidings have also been con- transepts were restored in 1878 at a cost of £1,300:

·structed here; it is in the Northern division of the county, during the year z886 the south transept was fitted up

hundred of :Moreton, petty sessional division, union and for daily services: there are about 350 sittings: in the

county court district of Wallingford, and in the rural churchyard is a, yew tree, the trunk of which is about

deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks and dio- six yards in circumference. The register dates from the

•cese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a cruciform year z679· The living is a vicarage, net yearly valua

'building, without aisles, and consists of chancel, nave, £276, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor.

transepts, south porch, and an embattled central tower : and held since 1897 by the Rev. Thomas Cooper M..A. of

containing 6 bells: the ancient church having been burnt Christ's College, Cambridge. Mr. Walter Carter is

down by the Danes, an Early Norman edifice was built 1 impropriator of the great tithes. Here is a Baptist.
on the site; some traces of the older edifice, consisting cir11pel. The charities amount to
£3 yearly, which is
<Of burnt stones &c. were found when the chancel was re- given in money to the poor. King Ethelred fonnded a

stored in 1873: the chancel is very fine Early English, I monastery here in g86, as an atonement for the death of

with five lancets on south and three on north side and a his brother, Edward the Martyr, murdered at Corfe

good east window with three lights ; the massive piers Castle, by Queen Elfrida in 978 : traces of the founda-

supporting the tower are Early Norman, but the upper tions and surrounding moats still remain Dn a farm now

part of the tower is Decorated and has an octagonal stair- in the occupation of Mr. C. H. Hunt: the fabric was

turret of the sameo date with a pyramidal roof; the south destroyed by the Danes in :roo6, when they burnt Reading

doorway of the nave is also Norman, with zigzag and and committed other ravages in the. county. Henry L

billet mouldings, and sculptured caps, and the door re- granted the manor to Reading Abbey, and the abbots

tains its original iron work; the nave has two windows had a. seat here. Charles Morrison esq. of Basildon, is

l()n the north and two side, but two long and narrow Nor· lord of the manor and chief landowner. On the afternoon

man windows on the south: in the nave amd south tran- of Saturday, June r8th, I887, a portion of the village

flept are several brass il:u!criptions, the earliest of which, near the railway was destroyed by fire. A new hotel,

in Norman-:F'rench, is to "John Barfoot de Chelseye," ·with stabling, has been erected near the railway station.

who died 8th October, 1361; another and later brass com- The soiJ a.nd subsoil vary. The chief crops are wheat,.

56 CHOLSEY. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

barley and beans. The area is 4,426 acres of land and in a modified style of Early English ; the Asylum stands.

12 of water; rateable value, £r8,oo1; the population ill on an estate of 8o acres, extending from the Walling-

1891 was 2,014, which included 58I in the Lunatic Asy- ford road to the banks of the river Thames, forming

lum, of whom 520 were patients. nearly a square; it was designed to hold 285 patients,,

WINTERBROOK, 2 miles north-east, is a part of at a cost of £68,6oo, but has been enlarged for an.
this parish. additional 324 patients at a cost of about £ss,ooo and
is now in process of further enlargement; the numbel"'
Parish Clerk and Sexton, Job George Finch.
of patients is now (1899) 650, of whom 290 are males-
Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-(Railway & 360 females
Sub-office. Letters should have R.S.O. Berks added). Medical Superintendent, Jas. Wm. A. Murdoch M.B.,C.M.
-Timothy Sawyer, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive
direct from London, 7 a.m. & 4.15 p.m.; despatched at Assistant Medical Officers, Edwin Lindsey Dunn B.A.,
M.B., B.Cb. & Thomas Leonard Johnston L.R.C.P. &.
10.30 a.m., 4·15 & 7·I5 p.m S.Ed., L.F.P. & S.Glas

Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Thomas Stewart Dyer B.A

Wall Letter Boxes Clerk to the Committee of Visitors, Jn. Thornhill Morland

Cholsey & Moulsford Railway station, cleared at 4• 5.40 Steward &! Clerk of the Asylum, Moses Nich0lls

& 9.40 p.m.; sundays, 9·45 p.m Housekeeper, Miss :Browne
Winterbrook, cleared at 8.15 & n.s a.m. & 2.15, 5·55 & A school board of 5 members was formed 23 Dec. r875;;
George .Frederick Slade, Wallingford, clerk to ths
7 p.m
board; .A.ugustus Greenwoad, attendance officer
County Lunatic Asylum.

The County Lunatic Asylum is in this parish, although Board School (mixed), established in I875, for 210 chil-

called the Moulsford Asylum, it was opened in Sept. dren; average attendance, 70 boys, 6o girls &:. 70 in-

1870, and occupies a position on the Wallingford fants; 1Yilliam Harvey, master; Miss Annie Worrall,

road, three-quarters of a mile from Moulsford station mistress

& 2 miles from the town of Wallingford; it is built of Cholsey & Moulsford Railway Station, Waiter Martin,.

red brick relieved with stone & coloured brick dressings, station master

CHOLSEY. Brooks William, beer retailer Silvester Hy. farmer, Kentwood frllll

Carter John, bricklayer & farmer Smith Fletcher, farmer

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Caudwell Gordon, farmer Smith J ames, boot maker

.Arnould Mrs County Lunatic Asylum (James Stevenson Hy. farmer, Heathercroft

Broad Miss William Aitken Murdoch M.B., C.M. Turnock Harry, beer retailer

Cooper Rev. Thomas M.A. (vicar), (medical superintendent) Wallin William, farmer, The Beeches

Vicarage Cozens Stephen, jun. farmer, Manor Watts George, shopkeeper

Dunn Edwin Lindsay Il.A., M.Il., farm Wyatt Geo. blacksmith & beer retail!!'

B.Ch. County Lunatic Asylum Cozens Stephen Wellesley, farmer, WINTERBROOK.

Hawkins Henry J.P. Cranford house :Blackball farm & Offiands farm

Hensley Rev. Alfred M.A. Bucklands Eltham Alfred, Star inn P.H PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Hooper J ames, The Cott~ge Finch Job, builder Bradford William, 6 Elmscroft

J ohnston Thomas Leonard, Oounlty Freeman Mary .Ann (Mrs.), beer retlr Buckell Anthony, The Lawn

Asylum Greenwood Augustus, school attend- Bunting Mrs

Kent Horace, Cholsey mill ance officer Crook Chas. I Elmscroft, Winterbroog.

Miller Fred, Chestnuts H-awkins Peter, dairyman Dodd Francis

Miller Mrs. The Willows IHearmon Edward, Swan P.H Dunell Cyril, White Cross
Moore Alfred
Henderson Helen (Miss), day school Faulkner Ml"s. lrinterbrook house~

Moore Miss (mixed) Gale Mrs. Elms

Mur:loch James Wm. Aitken M.B., Hawse John, jun. Chequer's inn P.H Gilkes Miss, 3 Elmscroft

C.M. County Lunatic Asylum Howse John, farmer, East End farm Hill Mrs. 1'he Lodge

Nicholls Moses, County LunaticAsylm Hunt Charles Hewett, farmer Paynton Oharles, 4 Elmscroft

Taylor Mrs. River view Larkcom George, baker Shrubb Walter F

,Trollope Mrs. Highcrorft Lewis Chas. & Reuben, basket makrs Smith Miss

COMMERCIAL. Millard Henry, land surveyor & col- Weedon Francis Hedges, Quick Elm

lector of Queen's taxes Westley Mrs. 5 Elmscroft

.A.bbott George, farmer, Hazel's farm Nicholls Moses, clerk & <Steward to COMMERCIAL,

Ashforth George, Waterloo hotel P.H. NoMrcouutlst foGredoLrguenaRtiocbeArts,•vlgurmocer Dodd Francis, farmer
J<mes Geo. Henry, Nag's Read P.H
& farmer

Baker & Fitt (Edward Nash, mana- Saunders .Sophieo (Miss), Railway htl Painton Oliver, florist & seedsman

ger), florists; & Reading Sawyer Timothy, draper & clothier, Steer Chas. insur. a~rent, 2 Elmscroft

JJosher Chas. Wm. & Son, builders & sub-postmaster Warner Esther (Mrs.), laundres8,

:Bosher JO"hn, Brentford Tailor P.H Sheldon J ames, grocer Winterbrook laundry

CLAPCOT, formerly a hamlet and liberty in the parish J. K. Hedges esq. Charles Fuller esq. the trustees of th&

of All Hallows, "\Vallingford, was constituted a separate late P. L. Powys-Lybbe esq. (d. 1897) and Charles

parish in , under the " Local Government Act, Morrison esq. The land, both arable and meadow, is

1894" (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73). It lies 1 mile north-east very good. The soil is green sand; subsoil, chiefly clay.

from 'Wallingford, in the Northern division of the county, T.lie chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is

Moreton hundred, Wallingford petty sessional division, 876 acres; rateable yalue £1,426; the population in

union and county court district and in the rural deanery r8gr was 176.

of 1Vallingford, archdeaconry of :Berks and diocese of

Oxford. There is no church. Wallingford Castle is the Letters through Wallingford. Wallingford, I mile dis-

residence of John Kirby Hedges esq. J.P. and Shillingford tant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office

Hill of Frank Sweetland esq. The chief landowners are

Hedges John Kirby J.P. Wallingford Fuller Charles, farmer & landowner, recognised as one of the most
comfortable hotels on the river, &
castle Rush court stands midway between Oxford &
Reading
l!oneybone William, River view Reynolds Wm. Jordan, Shillingford

Sweetland Frank, Shillingford hill Bridge l!otel; first class accommo~

Davies George, farmer, Park farm dation for private families &tourists;

CLEWER WITHOUT, anciently Cleworth, is a style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays,

village and scattered parish, I mile west from Windsor, 6 aisles, south porch and a western tower with broach

miles south-east from Maidenhead and 23 from London, shingled spire, containing 6 bells; the nave and tower are

situated on the banks of the Thames, in the Eastern divi- Norman, but have Deeorated and Perpendicular windows;.

sion of the county, hundred of Ripplesmere, petty ses- in the chur~h is 1!1! tablet to Field-MaTsiha1 William, 3rd

sional division, union and county court district of Wind- Earl Harcourt G.C.B. who died June 17, 183o. IIII

sor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks the lady chapel is a brass, with six verses to Marti1.11

and diocese of Oxford. The parish was in 1894, under Expence, who "shott with Ioo men him selfe alone, a.t

the provisions of section r of the " Local Government ould feild rut Bray ; " on the chaneel floor is a brass ro

Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), divided into two, Lucy, daughter of Sir Willirum Wray bM>t. ailld wife of

Clewer Within and Without, the former being that part John HDbsonl gent. ob, 29 Ma,y, r657, and there- are

of the old parish in Windsor municipal borough. The two modern brasses to Emma. Oha,rlotte, daughter of

parish church of St. .Andrew is aEarblyuildNin~()m' aonf Admiral SiT Edward Codrington, d. May 13, 1863, and to
flint and rubble, chiefly in the
Ma,ria. Elizabeth her sister, d. March I8, 1865; and m-

DmEGTORY.] BERKSHIRE. CLEWER. 51

scribed ~Slabs to the wife and daughter .of John Lovell, 1 Sobool for 68 children, Sister Clare, principal; St.
1685-91, and to John Ewen, ob. Decembe.r 12, 1694, and Andrew's cottages, a temporn!l"y home and house of rest

Elizabeth his wife, ob. December g, 1694; there is a fine for ladies of small means, not invalids; and alsmhouses..

marble reredos and a. handsome font; all the windows fo.r 12 poor ladies. The principal seats include St.

are stained; the church was restored in 18S8, 6nd in Leonard's Hill, formerly called Gloucester Lodge, th~

1884 the spire and lady chapel were restored at a cost seat of Sir Francis Tress Barry bart. M.P., D.L., J.P.

of £6oo; there are about 370 sittings, so being free; (Baron de Barry, of Portugal), a noble stone mansion in

the churchyard is ~remarkable for its quiet and secluded the French Gothic style, from designs by Mr. C.' H.

beauty and the care with which it is tended; within it Howell, architect, a great portion of which was rebuilt in

rest the remains of not 01 few soldiel'IS, and many of 1876 on the site of the former house erected by Maria,

the immediate retainers of the Royal Household,' Countess of Waldegrave, afterwards Duchess of Glouces-

amongst whom may be named the late Sir Thomas M. ter, and for many years the residence of the Harcourt

Biddulph K.C.B. keeper of Her Madesty's Privy Purse,' family; the house stands on an eminence in Ill• well

who died in 1878; in summer the whole gr(JIIlJld is timbered park of 200 acres and commands some of the

radiant with flowers, and is the reS<l!l't of many p~sing finest scenery in t•he county, overlooking Windsor Park

pilgrims. The register dates from the yew- 1650. The and Castle; from the top of the Water Tower several

living is a rectory, net yearly value £220, with 22 acres counties can be seen; it is said to stand on the site of a

.of glebe and residence, in the gift of Eton College, and Roman encampment, end a Roman lamp found here,

held since r88o by the Rev. Roland Errington M.A. of and presented by Sir Hans Sloane to the Society of

Exeter College, Oxford, and late con~uct of Eton College. .Antiquaries of London, has been adopted by that learnelf

St. Agnes' church, at Clewer Green, a chapel of ease to body as a crest; St. Leonards is the seat of Sir Theodore

the parish church, is a structure {){ brick, consisting of Henry Brinckman hart. D.L.; Clewer Manor, of Edmund

chancel and nave, and will seat ISO persons. DEDWORTH B. Foster esq. D.L., J.P.; Clewer Park, of Sir Daniel

is a hamlet of Clewer. .All Sain.t1s' chapel of ease is an J;'ulthorpe Gooch bart.; Clewer Lodge, of Borace Charles

edifice of red brick, erected in memory of Mrs. Tudor, George West esq. and St. Leonard's Lodge, of Mrs. Fanny

aJt the sole cost of her family, and consistS! of chancel, Fitzmanrice Scott. Arthur Stovell esq. who is lord of

nave of four bays, south aisle and north porch; all the the manor, Sir F. T. Barry bart. M.P. Edmund Benson

windows "a•Te stained; there are 200 sittings. Here is Foster esq. Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch bart. and Col.

also a Congregational chapel, with so sittings. The Charles Rivers Bulkeley, of \Vhitchurch, Salop, are the

area is 347 acres, and the population is included with chief landowners. The soil is clay and gravel; subsoil,

Clewer. The chapel of St. John the Baptist, opened in various. The chief crops are wheat, barley and peas.

Octobe.r, 1881, is a building in the Early English style, ; The area of Clewer ·without is 1,6oo acres; rateable value~

consisting Of chancel, nave and aisles; the chancel is ' £22,535; the population in 1891 WaS 5,620.

separated from the nave by a carved oak screen, with Parish Clerk, Richa~rd Acke1·man.

brass gates; the who:e od' the windows are stained. The Sexton. John Copas

Parish Hall, er~ted in I893, {)n a site given by the late Ct p 0rBICe St t" ( ~rete ted · 1g79 ) • N d ~
Sir Henry Daniel Gooch hart. is used for public meetings a wn d 1tn ew roa
oSunl Y
and ent ertam· ment s. · o omt on or1acet, bsluperm en en ; I inspector; 2 ser-
Surly Hall, {)ll the Berks banks of the Thames, gean 8 ; IS cons a es

about half a mile above Boveney lock, is a re- Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Exgress Delivery, Parcel

sort for the Eton College crews during the boat- Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Clewer
ing season and for aquatic plea~re parties; in Green. John Manley, sub-postmaster. Open from 7
a.m. to 8 p.m. week days & from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on
the meadow oppositE\ the boats' crews from Eton College
asS€mble and sup at their annual aquatic festival on the sundays, for telegraph business & sale of stamps. Let-

4th of June, the birthday of George Ill. The Windsm ters arrive from Windsor at 7.10 a.m. & I2.30 &; 5

races are held in this pa•rish on aJ meadow called " The p.m.; dispatched at IO.IS a.m. & 3.20, 5·45 & 7.2s
Rays" adjoining the river Thames. There are charities p.m.; sun. arrive at 7.10 a.m.; dispatched at IO-IS a.m

of £53 yearly for distribution in money and kind, and Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., .S. B. & Annuity & Insurance

£22 10s. fo;r apprenticing. .A. Ohmch penitentiary, called Office, Clewer New Town. Miss Emma Mazzey, sub-
the House of Mercy, in connection with the London
postmistress. Letters arrive from Windsor at 7.30 &
Church Penitentia;ry Association, was founded in this 11 a.m. & 3 & 7 p.m.; dispatched at 9 & 10.25 a.m. &-.
parish in 1849 and was subsequentll.y elliarged; about
1. I5, 3-30, 5.25, 6.40 & 7· 40 p.m. & I2 midnight.
roo penitents are maintained here; the bMhop of the
Clewer Green is the nearest telegraph office

diocese is visitor; the .spiritual superintendence is en-

tr-usted to clergymen of the Church of England, viz.. the W3ll Le.tter Box, Clewer Hill, cleared at 10 a.m. & S· I5
warden, Rev. T. T. Carter l\f.A. and the sub-warden, the p.m. ; sun. 10 a.m

Rev. G. S. Outhbert M.A. ; the internal work of the Dedworth Green. James Turner, sub-postmaster. Let-
house is carried on by Sisters of Mercy, ladies devoting ters received through Windsor, cleared at 9· IS a. m. &
themselves to it of free service and dwelling in the same 2 & 6.2s p.m.; sun. 9-IS a.m. Postal orders are issued
house with the penitents who are under their care ; the here, but not paid. The nearest money order office is
institution is endowed with an esffite <Yf 26 acres, but at Clewer Newtown. Clewer Green, I mile distant, is
. is dependent for it.s wpport on the C<lllltributions of the the nearest telegraph office
sist-ers and voluntiiJI'y benefactions of f;riends; the man-
·wan Letter Box, Clewer Village, cleared at 9 a.m. & r.r5,
agement of the funds is under the control of a council
3.4o, 5-30 & 6.50 p.m. & 12 midnight; sun. n a.m. &-.
composed of clergymen and laymen: in 1875 a new wing
was opened to the south of the main building for 33 12 midnight

penitents, cal:ed "Ma.gdaleiliS," in addition to the Ioo Schools.
above-mentioned; the Rev. John ~oyer Pendlebury M.A.

and the Rev. Frederick Thomas Herbert Shepherd M.A. Harcourt's Charit.y (mixed), Clewer Green, rebuilt in

are chaplain-priests in connection with the sister- r8I3, for 232 children; average attendance, 187; it is
hood and its works. The institutions following
endowed with £75 IOs. yea~rly from bequests by the

are also under the care and management of the Clewer Earl & Countess Harcourt & Sir J. Pulteney; George

Sistel'ls, viz. : St. .A.ndrew'.s Convalescent Hospital, for Shorter, master; Mrs. Shorter, assistant mistress

invalids of both se:xes., besides a few incurable cases, •St. Katharine's (infants), built in r86I, for I7o children;

and conta.inilllg' 64 beds ; and in addition 31 children's average attendance, g6; Mrs. R. A. Taylor, mistress

ward opened in 1876, and capable of holding 30 beds; National, Dedworth (infants), for 8o children; average

St. John'.s Home, an Orphanage and Industrial Training attendance, 57 ; Miss Elizabeth Dennis, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDEXTS. Carter Rev. 'l'homas Thellusson l\LA. Ford Frederic Willbraham Randle,

Barnes Capt. Edwd. Edgworth house (hon. canon & warden of the House Hadspen

Barry Sir Francis Tress bart. M.P., of Mercy), St. John's lodge Foster Edmundl Benson D.L., J.P.

D.L., J.P., F.S.A.St.Leonard's Hill; Currie Lady l\Iary, Clewer Hld house Clewer manor

& I South Audley street W & Carl- Cuthbert Rev. George S., M.A. (sub- Gooch Sir Daniel Fnlthorpe bart.

ton club SW, London warden), Warden's house Clewer park

Blake George, 10 St. .Andrew's terrace Durrant Edward, Clewer conrt Go'lch Frederick Vivian, Sefton lawn,.

Blane Miss, Woodside Errington Capt. .Arnold John R.N. I Clewer green

Bridgman Mrs. The Laurels Bexley villas, New road Green William, St. .Andrew's terrae&
Brinckman Sir Theodore Henry bart. Errington Rev. Roland ~LA. (rector), Hawkins Miss, I Prospect cottages,

D.L. St. Leonards Rectory Clewer hill

Buckworth Richard, Dedworth manor Fetherstonhaugh Mrs. Manor farm, Hibburd Mrs. Forest view, Clewer hill

Cox Mrs. 2 Prospect cots. Clewer bill Clewer hill

58 CLEW.BR. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Jones Rev. George M.A. (curate of St. COMMERCIAL, Ives- Ann (Mrs.), beer rtlr.Clewer hill

.Agnes'), 2 Be:x:ley villas, New road Ash Alfred, painter, 6 Jutland place Jackson Charles, boot & shoe maker,

Lopes The Hon. Ethel, The Limes, Blake J sph. Duke of Edinburgh P.H Clewer fields

Village Borlase John James, shopkeeper, Ded- Kamester Thomas, carpenter, I Manor

Macbean Miss, Findon villa, Village worth road place, Clewer green

:Penbrey Marcus Seymour, Park Side, Borlase Solomon, supt. county police, King William George, beer l'etailer,

Clewer green Police station, New road Clewer village

.Pendlebury Rev. John Roger M.A. Boyce Thomas, Three Elms P.H. & Lovegrove Chas. boot ma. Clewer grn

(chaplain to St. Andrew's Convales- fly proprietor Manley John, grocer, Clewer green

cent Hospital) Brewer Frederick Charles, shopkeeper, Mazzey Emma (Mrs.),shopkpr.Post off

:Rabus Miss, Frankenheim, Ded- Clewer green Paget William, The Swan P.H

worth road Brickwood William, Wolf P.H. Ded· Payne Walter Thomas, tinplate workr

:Rollit Lt.-Col. Sir Albert Kaye M.P., worth green Pottinger Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer,

LL.D., D.C.L., D.L., J.P. The Wil- Carter George, grocer, Dedworth rd Dedworth green

lows; & 45 Belgrave square SW; Clewer Laundrv Co. Limited (J. Jack- Poynter Samuel, collector of taxes,

Carlton club S W; Savage & Con- son Saint, sec.), Hatch lane Park cottage, Clewer green

stitutional clubs W 0; City Carlton Davis George Sampson R.S.S. smith, Russell Sarah (Mrs.) & Sons,coal dlrs.

dub E 0 & Ranelagh club, Putney farrier, machinist & locksmith; lann Clewer Hill road

SW, London mowers ground & machinery re· St. .A.ndre;v's Convalescent Hospital

Scott Mrs. Fanny Fitzmaurice, St. paired on the premises (W. B. Holderness, med. officer;

Leonard's lodge Dedworth Green S•Jcial Club (A. D. Rev. G. S. Cuthberb, sec.; Rev.

.Shepherd Rev. Herbert M ..A..(chaplain Selkirk, hon. sec) John Roger Pendlebury M.A.chapln)

to St. Andrew's Convalescent Hos- East Jas. beer retailer, Dedworth grn St. Augustine's Home for Boys(Sister

pital), 2 Lynton villas, New road Forder Henry, gardener, Clewer green Emma, superintendent)

:Slade Edmund, Fairfield, New road Fuller Arthur, grocer, Dedworth grn Sheath Hy. baker, Dedworth green

Smith Rev. John Kinchin (curate in Fuller Benj. beer retailer &: shupkpr JSheppard Waiter 'fhos. Prince Albert

charge of All Saints'), 4 Bexley viis. Gilbert Christopher, beer ret. New hm P.H. Clewer green

New road Green William & Sons, builders, con- Skeet Waiter, head gardener to Sir

Spofforth Miss, The Limes, :Village tractors & undertakers,monumental Daniel F. Gooch hart

Stickland Ernest Albert, 6 Bexley viis. & marble masons Smith John, florist & seedsman

New road Gulliver Thos. shoe ma. Hatch lane StaceyAlick,wood flour mill,Clewer ml

Sutherland The Dowager Duchess, Hammond Robert .A.rthur, carpenter & Strange John Henry, clerk to Clewer

The Willows; & 45 Ilelgrave square, joiner, Dedworth road Without parish council, assistant

London SW Hawkins Emma (Mrs.), beer retailer, overseer & rate collector

Taylor Mrs. Clewer mead Dedw.orth green Thwaites Henry, beer ret. Clewer grn

Tennant Robert Craig, Bell farm Hearn William Henry, beer retailer & Turner James, shopkeeper & Post off.

Vanderbyl Wm. Alex. White Lilies fly proprietor, Dedworth road Dedworth road

Vidler John, 'fhe Lawn Holland George, sbopkpr. Clewer grn Vidler John Edmund, farmer

Voules Francis M. St. Katharine's Holland Sarah lMrs.), shopkeeper, Wade Edgar, laundry, Hatch lane

cottage, New road Village Weston Alfred, shopkpr.Wellington ter

West Horace G'harles Geo. Clewer lo Rous~ of Mercy(The Mother Superior Wheatley Hy. Jn. beer rtlr.Hatch la

Willis John, Stansfield, New road & Sisters of St. John Ilaptist)

COLD ASH is a parish, formed for ecclesiastical pur- Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in r847.
poses 12 Sept. r865, out of the civil parish of Thatcham, Here is a Cottage Hospital for children; Miss A. M. Bow-
and for civil purposes Sept. r8g4, and includes .A.shmore ditch, lady superintendent; Miss Florence Mee, sister.
G-reen, part of Long Lane, Henwick and Shaw Fields, it St. Mary's Church of England Home for Girls,
occupies elevated ground about two miles west from under the direction of the Church of England
Thatcham station on the Great Western railway, Central Society, for providing homes for waifs
4 west from Newbury and rs .south-west from and strays was reopened by the Lord Bishop
Reading, in the Southern division Qf the county, of Oxford as patron, May zgth, r886, and has been certi-
hundred of Reading, petty sessional division, union fied as an industrial school for 30 girls and is supported
and county court district of Newbury, and in by voluntary contributions: the home is managed by a
-the rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of committee consisting of gentlemen and ladies of the
:Berks and diocese of Oxford. The .church of St. Mark, neighbourhood. Miss Isabel Waiters, hon. lady superin-
erected in r864, is a structure of brick, consisting of tendent ; the Rev. 1Y. S. Grindle, hon. sec. and chaplain,
-chancel, nave, south porch and 3J western turret contain-
ing 2 bells : in the chancel is a memorial window to the L. H. Baxendale esq. of Greenham, W. G. Mount esq.
Rev. W. J\L Pickthall, a former vicar, and his daughter, M.P., H. J. A. Eyre. esq. and Lord Wantage are the prin-

cerected by his widow and the parishioners : the reredos cipal landowners. The area is r,87o acres; assessable
was erected in r8go by the present vicar, to the memory value, £2,209; the population in r891 was 792.
()f liis father, and the chancel screen in r8g2 to the me~
mory of his two sisters: in r88g two memorial windows .Sexton, Edward Buckle.
were placed to the late W. P. Padmore esq. by his widow,
-and in r894 the chancel was adorned with fine mural Post Office.-Geo. Drinkwater, sub~postmaster. Letters
paintings as a memorial to Mr. and Mrs. Padmore, at are delivered from :Kewbury at 7·45 a.m. & I p.m. &
the cost of their daughter: there are 225 sittings. The dispatched at 5·45 p.m. Postal orders are issued here,
:register dates from the year r865. The liv-ing was de- but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph
dared a vicarage January zrst, r868, net yearly value office is at Thatcham, 2 miles distant

£roo, with residence and 4 acres of glebe, in the gift of Girls' & Infant School, Cold .Ash, enlarged in t885, for
the vicar of Thatcham, and held since r873 by the Rev. roo children, & again enlarged in 1899, for 54 more
'Waiter Smith Grindle Theol.Assoc.K.C.L. and surrogate. children; average attendance, 91 ; Miss Gilbert, mist

Carriers,-Sharp, to Newbury, tues. thurs. & sat. &
Ward, to Newbury, tues. thurs. & sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bolton 'J'homas, beer retailer ILane Joseph, private school for boys,

-.A.cland R'eginald Brodie Dyke Brooks Tom, boot & shoe maker,grocer Henwick

Bacon &v. John Mackenzie M.A. & hair dresser Marshall William & Sen, bricklayers

Sunnyside Butler Thos.farmer, Old farm,Henwck Minchin Robert, farmer, Wallis' farm

:Bowditch Miss, The Cottage Butler Charles, beer retailer Newma.n Thomas, farm bailiff to Mr.

Fawcett l\Irs Cleverley Henry, beer retailer Purdue

Fountain William Childrens' Cottage Hospital (The) Osgood Charles, farmer & wood dlr

'Grindle Rev. Wait. Smith Theo.Assoc. (Miss A. M. Ilowditch, lady super- Parfitt Edmund, farmer

K.C.L.(vicar & surrogate),Vicarage intendent; Miss Florence Mee,sister) Pocock Alfred, market gardener &

Hamblin ~frs Drinkwater George, grocer & pro- farmer, Ashmore green

Harland Henry Outhwaite vision me:rchant, Post office Pocock William Charles, shopkeeper

"Harris Ernest, Mount Pleasant Elliott Frank, farmer, Ashrnore green Rivers James, shoe maker

Prescott James Flitter Albert, coal merchant Rowles Edmund, farmer & assistant

"Rogers Mrs Franklin Joseph, market gardener, overseer for Shaw-cum-Donnington

Stroud James, sen. Gladstone villa. Ashmore green St. Mary's Church of England Home

Walters Miss Hamblin Samuel, seed measure ma for Girls (Miss lsabel Waiters, hon.

Wilson Miss Jones John Bastin,farmer,Holden's end lady superintendent; Rev. W. S.

COMMERCIAL• Josey William, Castle inn Grindle T.A.K.C.L. hon. sec. &
chaplain)
.Aldridge Henry, farmer,Hatchgate frm

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. COM!''fON. 59

.-Sharp William, carrier, Campbell cot seer, collector of rates &i taxes & of highways to the Newbury rural

.Shepherd Frederick, wheelwright,Ash- district surveyor district council

more green Stroud James, jun. baker & grocer Ward William, carrier

:Staniford John Robert, assistant over- Talbot Herbert Sprey,district surveyor

COLESHILL :Bs a parish prurtlly in Wilts, 0'11 the river Chancery gives a premium of about £25 witih e«c~h boy
or girl who DlliiY be .a~ppnentrncedl; the mcome of tbe
<Cole, wbri,ch separates the \Yi1lts and BeTkis portions, 3l charity is aboult £150 yoo:rly. Oolieshi.l1 House, tJhe seat~>
,miles wes.t-soutih-wesrt from Fa:cingdon, in t.he Novt:hern of the Hon. DuiOO()mbe Pl.E•mle}il-Bouverie D.L., J.P. lord
.divilslion o·f this cmty, ih.undlred of Shrivenllwm, p~·tty of the mlilltOr and sole landowner, is a beautiful :manSiion,
eorecied about 166o from the deslligns of the famous
:;:.ess:i.onal diviSiion, union aoo courrty court dii.srtrict· of architect Inigo JO'Iles, and is CODisndered a perfect s.peci-

.Farinogdon, rUI"aJ deanery of Vale of White Horse,. areh- men of ms style; its situaffiion., on 6Jil eminence, eruibles
.dt>131Conry of Be~rks and diocese of Oxford. Th~ chureh it to C'O'Illmand !lXtensi<ve vie.ws of a feTtil.e, undulating
.of .All Saints ~s a fine a.nd a!DlCielrut edri.fice o.f .s•bone, of the
country, through whidh the Oole me.ande<I'S and forms
Ea.:rlly English period, with iDJs.erited Perpoo.dicular win- t-he western bound.ary of the county ; the house stban-ds
m a park of 250 acres. The soi/1 is ck!Jy and loomy. The
dows, and OODJs!i:stts of chancel, nave of <me bay, norbh chief Cl"'tpS a.I"e Wheat, beallJS, ba.rt}ey, oartJs, turruips &c.
The area is 2,014 acres; rateable value £z,o71; the
a:isle, soutlh transept and l!lln embaVbl.ed western tower population of the civil parish in 1891 was 373, of which
ro were in Wilts and 388 in the ecclesiastical.
·with pinnac"les a.nd containing 5 l:J.eilil•s, druted 1708: the
south traDJsept was origruaNy a chaped built in the laot:ter By Local Government Board Order, 13,156, dated Dec.
zo, 1881, Penn Cottages were transferred from Coleshill
part <i too 15th cem.tury, by Thiomas Ple')'deN esq. an to Inglesham.

:anceSitor of tlhe pre.setnlfi paif:.ron, who dioo :in 1527: the Pari•sh Clerk, Gool'ge Cox.

st.ained east window, filil.ed wiifu glass brought from Post Offi.ce.-Richard Marchant, sub-postmaster. Let-
ters arrive from Swindon via Highworth at 7.20 a.m. &
.Angers, wa>s pre.s.ented by J3JCOib, 200 Eatrl ()f RadnJOr in 3.40 p.m. ; sundays, 7.10 a.m. ; dispatched at 8.45 a.m.
&; 7·5 p.m.; sundays, 7.20 p.m. Postal orders are
1787; and there are four otlher \\!tamed windows: tihere issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order &;
telegraph office is at Highworth, Wiltshire, 3 miles
.is a smal[ but. eilegam.t mural monnrn•<mt by Ry,sbrach, oo distant

:Harriott (Pleyd-e~ll), wife of Witlia.m, 1.st Earl of Radnor, Police Station, "\Yilliam J. Ilarnard, constable
·wh!o diJed in 1751; a Il1'a;rble lll!Onnmenlt wibh recumbent
Schoo1, erectoed in 1842, for 84 chiil.ldren; 8lvera.ge at•tend-
effigi{)!s oo S.ir Renry Protlt bart. who died 6th .April, ance, 70; mainly supported by the Hon. Duncombe
Pleydell-Bouverie; Miss Fanny Louisa Kiddell, mistress
1647; and to 'Mary (A.daa:nts), h.is w:ilfe: aU tlle bells were
rehuiLg ~nd a cracked one :recast in IB84, at t!he sole

t>xpense cl Ja.cob, 4th Eal'l of Radnor: l!:'here are 250

-sittings. The·register dates from t!he year I559· The
.living is a vicarage, net yearly value £235, with residence,

in t,he gift of i:the EUJI'l of Radnor, a•nd held since 1•874

by the Rev. Edwail'd Banks B..A.. of New Inn HaJl, Oxford.

'The Pinsent charity, fDr a.pprenticiDJg poor children of

Goleshill and 'GJ.'!OOJt Coxwelil., whose paren:bs never re-

ceived parrehiaJ. relief, by a decree of the C.(lu;rt of

Banks Rev. Edward JLA.. (vicar), the Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-Dou- Robertson James, agent to the Hon.

Vicarage verie D.L., J.P Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie, Court

Pleydell-Bouverie Hon. Duncomue Harris '\-Villiam & Edmund, farmers Leaze farm

D.L., J.P. Coleshill house Marchant Richard, grocer, Post office Robertson Thomas Edward, assistant

COMMERCIAL. Maundrell David, famter agent to Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-

Cox George, carpenter Mawler Florence (Mrs.), blacksmith B<mverie, Court Leaze farm •

Deadman Thomas, estate carpenter Pickford Thos.R.farmer,Brimstone fm Smith SidneyPainton, fimr.Colleymori'J

Edmonds James, stone mason Hobey Francis, head gamek<Je!_Jer to Theobald Jn. baker, grocer & overseer

Haines Stephen, head garJener to Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie Yeates George, butcher

COMBE is a small village and parish, in a deep valley formerly stood a convent connected with the .Abbey of
on the Hampshire border and surrounded by downs, 6
:miles south-east from Hungerford station, on the Great Bee in Normandy. There is a charity of about 2os. a
Western railway, in Pastrow hundred, petty sessional
division of Kingsclere, Hungerford county court district, year, left by the late Mr. Skinner, formerly lessee of the
~Hungerford and Ramsbury union, rural deanery of Kings-
great tithes, to be gh·en to the poor either in bread or
.dere and archd-eaconry and diocese of Winchester. Under
:the provisions of the ''Local Government .Act, 189+" (56 money on Christmas Eve. A. C. Cole esq. is lord of th~

and 57 Vict. c. 73), this parish was, .April 3, 1895• trans- manor and sole landowner. The soil is rather heavy;

'ferred from Rants to Berks. The church of St. Swithin subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats
'is a-small, ·plain flint fabric in the Early English style,
consisting of chancel, nave, and a low wooden tower at and turnips. The area is 2,r6o acres; rateable value,
•the west 'end with 3 'bells; it was restored in 1881 by pub-
:lie subscription at a cost of £1,495: there are So sittings. £624; the population in 1891 was 93·
The registers date from the year 1516. The living is a
·vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £8g, gross yearly Pa r ish Clerk, Hen rMv• Matthew s.
'Yalue £192, net '£151, with residence, in the gifts of the ost Off i.ce.-H enry atthews, sub-pos
'Dean and Canons of --Windsor, and held since 1856 by the P tm a s t e r . Letters
Rev. George·Pearson M.A. of :Xew Inn Hall, Oxford. Here
received through Hungerford are delivered at 9·45 a.m.

&I dispatched at 4 p.m. Postal orders are issued here,

but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph

office is at Hungerford, 5 miles distant

:Xational School (mixed), restored & reopened (1894), at

the expense of A. C. Cole esq. will now hold 30 child-

ren; Miss Dingwall, mistress

Carrier to Newbury.........{i-eorge .Annetts, mon. & thurs

'Hooper Miss, Corribe cottage Matthews Hy.parish clerk, Post office Tovey Peter, farm bailiff to A. C.

'Pearson R'ev.Geo.M.A.(vicar),Vicarage Richards John, gamekeeper to A. C. Cole esq

.:Annetts George, shoe ma. & shopkeepr Cole esq

COMP'l'ON (or Compton Parva) is a pret-ty village beautifully decorated at the expense of the late W. Gray

·and parish, wilbh a station on the Didcot, Neowbury and esq. formerly lay rector, the work being carried out by

')V.i.ncheS'ter branch of the Great WeSII:.ern railway, 62 Mr. N. \Yestlake, of London: there are 200 sittings. The

1mil-es fl'Om London and 9 noT'th-eaiilf, :£rom ~ewbury, in register dates from the year 1553. The living is a vicar-

·the Southern division of the county, hundred oi Comp- age, net yearly value £210, with 5 acres of glebe and resi-

·:tm~ petty sess~:onUJl ®vision of l:>sl.ey, union and: ~'..ounty dence, in the gift Qf Lord '\Vantage, and held since 1892

•court district of Want/alge, rum[ dean<ery of WaUlingford, by the Rev. Hy. Bennet Phelips M.A. of Christ's College,

;arciJ.<Leoaoonry <Jf Be·rks and' di'O(:e<Se of Oxford. 'fhe Ca.mlbridge. There M'e Ba•ptiSjt and Primiltive Metl::iodlist

-church, assigned by vaTiou:s mOO.em authori'tie·s both w CJoope!,s here. The rpr~sent \hundred of C{)I[Ilpton is oolled

St. Mary and St. Nidholas, is -s<itua'ted about a f;_ua.rler in Doma..<:day "Naohooedorne," a.s is believed, foom a

..00 a mile from t'he village, and :Us a smaJ:l building of single t1horn t.l"ee, w'h:ilch, 8JC'COrdling rto AsseT, SII:QOd on

il.int of mixed. styles, consi:stting of chancel.' nave, vestry, the bat1J.e field of " .LEce!.'d.une," somewhere beotween

south porch and a weste<:rn emba•Utled tower ("{ stcne Cho:Lsey and Cwi()oolm'.s "h1aewe," or hil'l, now called

-containing 6 bells: the cha.n.<:e<l has Early Englislh kmc€'t " Cuckhamsley," but looa.Jly known to the 001mtry folk

windows and s:iro.iJ.ar windows light 'the nave, on the 110~b a.s " Scuchamo.re knolb." Soui:th of the vi.J!lla,ge is an en-

Bide : tJbre lower part of t'he tower cils Traiillsition N<•rn:e.n, oompment at the foot of the Down, known as "Per-

but has a Perpendicular we&t windQW : on tlhe north S:~de borough Castle" (per, a rompart, and beorgh, a forti-

of the church are foUT TI.'ailsition Norman arches, now fied place), fl'OIIll whiclh, eaosl1wards, a good view is ob-

blocked up, too aisle 'having been de.stroyed: there is a OO.ined of "Lowbmy,'' 300ther a:n.cient mi~tary sta.t:ion,

plrun Norman font: a bra&s is recorded h~re to Richard and the highest hill in t'be oounty, being 830 feel!; above
nearil'ygott and .Alice his \Wi:fe, e. 1520 : the chancel has been the sea level;
Perborough, remains of burnt dwell-

60 COMPTON. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY's

ings, pit dwe1liings and a cursu! have been met wiltlh, as Pa.ri-sh Olerk, Goorge Monger.

we!il as Roman pottery aJld coinsr; in the " Cross-'barrow " Post & T. 0. & Express Delivery Office.-Miss Matild'a
here short knives and the iron bO'SJS of a shield were
Daarlove, sub-postmistress. Lettoo-s n-rom Newbury,
fO'Und. The va[e on t!he nort·h, towards Blewbury, is via Ilsley, arrive at 8.30 a.m. & 1I.IO noon; dispatched
from Compton, 10.·35 a.m. & 6.25 p.m. Postal orders
called "t'he Slad." Here poMery, t.ill.es, bones and oysrter are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money orde.r
shells have been found in lai"g~S quant.it1es, beiscl::les. coins office is at East Ilsley

of sevexal Romran Emperors, from Probus (A.D. 276) t10 School<S.

Gratian (A.D. 367). Race llorses are trained here on Day & Sunday Church (mixed), bui~l:l in 1855, for 100
th~ Downs. Lord Warnta:ge i·s lord of the manor of East children, & en~ravged in 1'892 for 140 crhi:drrn: uver!l{!e
Comp.rton, and Cd. Borland irs lord of tlhe manor of West attendance, 125; Richard Johns, master; Mrs. Sarah
Compton. The pri111Cjpal fandlowners are the lords of the Johns, mistress; Misses Amelia Elton & Kate Higgs,
manor and WiUirum Brown esq. The soi'l: is ohra~k and assistant mistresses

flint; subsoil, chiefly cha~k. The obief crops are whea:t,

barley and roots. The area is 3,863 acre,s., of which 74
are downs ; rateable value, £z,6oo; the population in

1891 was 6zg. Railway Station, Thomas Sorrell, station master

King Thomas Margetts, Sunnybank Burgess Eli James, grocer & draper Margetts Henrietta Mary (Mrs.), as-

Phelips Rev. Hy. Benn.et .M..A. (vicar) Chandler Henry, farmer, Wood view sistant overseer & assessor of taxes

Smith John, Hursley Deacon Wm. Rd. Swan inn, & builder for Compton
Stevens William Guy, Roden house
Dearlove Matilda (Miss), postmistress Stevens William Guy, trainer of race~
COMMERCIAL.
Fulker 'fhomas James, Red Lion P.H. horses, Yew Tree house

carpenter & wheelwright Stratton Edward, coal agent

Baker Thomas & Sons, iron founders, G.olding Henry, farm bailiff to Lord Tinson William, farm bailiff to WJru..

engineers-agricultural, agricultural Wantage Guy Stevens esq. Manor farm

implement manufacturers & agents, Hobbs George Collins, coal merchant Weedon Brothers, chemical manure-

White Wall ironworks Horsman Alfred, coal agent manufacturers & coal merchants ;.

Bracl:field J ames, farmer King Charles, grocer chief office, Goring

Brown George, blacksmith Stevens Alfred. farmer. Church farm

COMPTON :BEAUCHAMP is a parish and villra•ge Queens' College, Cambridge. Langley's charity of £3 10s.

near ihe base of a hill and commanding o. fine view of year:y, is f<Jil" br.ood, and for maintaiining bhoe tombs of
the a.djoin:ng vale, 4 miles ea.srt froom Shrive.nham strat:i()[} the Langley family. Compton House, the seat of Hi~
on t.he Great Western railway, 6~ south-w·est from Honour Judge Francis Henry Bacon M..A. is an anoeient

Faringdon and 8! wes•t from "\>Va!Illbage, :i:n the Northern mansion of stone, with an inner quadrangle, and is sur.-
division of tihe county, hundred of Shrtivenh~:~m, petty rounded by a moat ; the grounds and terraced gardens
sess~onal division, union and county C'Ourrt distriot of I and the cloister walk are very tastefully laid out. The

Facingc1on, rural deanery of trhe Vale of Whi·te Horse, Earl of •Craven is lord of the manor and sole landowner,

arC:hdetaC'(llllry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The with the exception of the glebe land. The soil is chalk
c'huroh 01f St. Swithin is a cruciform building of ~·tlCrne, and good pasture land; subsoil, brash. The chief crops

in bheo Ea.rl'y Euglish and Deooralted s:ty:re.s, consnsting of are wheat, beans, oats and turnips. The area is I,8no
chancel, nrave, trans-epts, nort.h porc'h and a we~·tern acres; rateable value, £2,879; the population in 18gr was

tower with broach pyramidal roof contrarinilllg O'Ile hell : 122.

the chancel retains a fine sedile: the east window is par- Knighbon is a hamlet adJoining, on the norrth-ea.~t.

tially filled with ancient glass, and there are also four By Local Government Board Orde-r, 21,438, dated Marc!l

small memorial windows: in the nave are mural epitaphs 24, 1888, Hardwell Farm was transferred from U:ffington

to Margaret White, ob. 2oth July. 1627; and Christian to Compton Beauchamp.

White, ob. May zrst, 1618 ; and a brass to "Magister" Parti•s!h Cl'erk, David Titcombe.

Staunton, an early rector of this chureh: there are 100 Lebterr9 to Compton come through Shriv·enham R.S.O.
sittings: in the churchyard, near the chancel, are several arrive at 7.30 a.m. & to Knigh'ton tlhroug-h F~ring-don
large tombs to the Langley and Hawkeswell families. The arnive wt g.30 a.m. The Deaffi..."'t money order & rt.eJe--

register dates from, the year 1558. The living is a , graph Dffice is at Shrivenham, about 4 miles distant.

rectory, net yearly value £220, including 20 acres Wall Letter Box, cleared at 4·55 p.m. week days & 10.40

of g-lebe, wit·h resridlence, i'll tlhe gift of the Earl of Craven, a.m. sundays

and 'held S.:IllCe 1887 by tlhe Rev. Jrohn Ed,gell B..A. of The children attend the school at :Ashbury

Bacon His Honor Fras. Henry M.A. Hill Edward, farmer, Knighton farm Reading John Basely, farmer, Camp-

(county court· judge), Compton ho Lodge William, head gardener to His ton farm
ITitchener J ames, gamekeeper to His
Edgell Rev. John B..A. Rectory Honor Fras. Henry Bacon

COMMERCIAL. Pepler John Edwd. farmer, Har~lw\lill Honor Fras. Henry Bacon M.A

Barrett Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper farm. (Letters through Faringdon)

COOXHAM, formerly a market to·wn, is a beautiful the vicarage until the Reformation. The Wes~eyan chapel,

village and pari:s'h, wi·th a sltarl:iilon on the branc-h of t·he built in I 846, seat-s 200 persons, and there is an iron

Gr001t We51Lern ra•i'lway from Ma.i'denbead to Hi·goh. Wy- \Vesleyan chapel at Cookham Rise. The Workhouse of

oombe, Thrame and Oxford, 3 mi1es north from Maiden- the Maidenhead Union, built in 1837, is a structure of

head, 16 north-east from Reading, 9 east from. Henley, brick arranged to hold 250 inmates ; particulars of the

and 27 from London, in t•he Easttern divisoion of the union are given under Maidenhead. The charities

'COunty, hundred of its own name, Maidenhead union and for distribution are of £ II I yearly value. 'Here
petlty sessimJtarl dtvi:srion, county court distriot of Wind.sor, is an extensive paper mill, which gives employ-
rurol deanery of Maridenhead, al'Chdearconry of Berks and ment tJo. llllany of the inhwhlt.ailllts. In the 16th century,
diocese of Oxford. This p::ace is on tihe wes.t bank of tJhe Mores, pr-eviously of Sal'op, resided here, and at the
the river Thames, on t'he BuC!I{/s si{te of which are the visri't.wtion in 1664, the families of Robinson, Sa~'te:J,
highly pioburresque and ,ridhly cll:!i:~vated d<Jmains of Turbervme and W e:dQn recorded their pedrigree-s and
Cli.veden, Hedsror and TaplO'W. The- po:rbion of the river srms a.~ of this p!ace. The princirpa1 lrarndownem are
from Miaiden1lread up to Cookham Lock is· consirlerred thre Henry Duncan Skri'Die esq. of Ola.verton, Bartlh, who i-s

anmos-t beau•tliful the whoie C'OUrse from. OxfOTd to Lorn- l{lrd of t'he manor, John Th()rnrbon Rogers esq. of SB~Ven~

don; an iron toll bridge, supported on seven iron pillar;; oaks, Kent, Francis Devereux Lambert esq. Ernest Garcr-
crosses the Thames at this point. The church of the Holy ner esq. of Spencers, Maidenhead, and the Vaughan
'f.rinillty is an ancient building of cha.:'k, ,mnd.slbone and tru.s1toos. The .soil is various, but ge'llerail,ly good cmn
flint, chiefly in the :&\;rly Englislh style·, with some por~ larnd.; '!!'IUbsoil, g-ravel, chalk and loam. Tlhe f'i1.ief Col'l()lps
t~ons of Normarn d:aote, and oonsilsts of dhanool, nave of &re wheat, barley and oats. The area is 4•474 acres;
four bays, Uli-s~es, SIOU'Ih porch and an 0011bartUed western rateable value, £25,218; the population in 1891, including
t.owe•r of mwssrive proporltk"ons., with a turret and oonta.in~ the district of Cookham Doon, was 2,965 (including 19&
ing 6 bells a;nd clock : the·re· a:re eleven stra:ined windows officers and inmates in the workhouse). Holy Trinity
and 6oo sitstirrgs. The reg:i.S'I:er dates from the yeJa.r 1662, district has a population of 1,358. Maidenhead once
the fourteenth of Charles II. The living is a vicarage, partly in this parish, has been entirely separated fro~ it.

net yearly value £235, including s! acres of glebe, with

residence, in the gift of J. T. Rogers esq. and held since

1&64 by the Rev. Reginald Wellford Rogers M..!. of Trinity RAY MILL (Raymead) is a hamlet in the parish o.f

College, Cambridge; the living was by Henry I. made Cookbam, one mile from the Taplow and Maidenhead
part of the endowment of the Augustinian abbey of St. liltations of the Great Western railway. Here is an

. Mary, Cirencester, which religious h{luse presented to c.:xt ensive corn mill workt'<l by the river Thames a.t

DIRECTORY.] EERKSHIRE. COOK HAM. 61

Uay !\Till Lock. For names of residents within the Post, ~1. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
-borough s-ee Maidenhead.
Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office (Sub-Office.
. Letters should have S.O. Berks added), Cookham.-
Edward Cooper, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at
PINKNEYS GREEN is an irregular but picturesque 6.45 a.m. 12.30 & 5.50 p.m. ; dispatched g.5o a.m.
hamlet in the pa;rish of Cookham and partly in 12.15, 3·45 &; 7-50 p.m.; sundays, 7·5 p.m

Cc-okham Dean e.cclesiastical. parish, 3 miles south from Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
Great Ma:·low and 3! west-by-noorth from the Great Post, S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office, Oookham
West-ern railway station at Maidenhead. 'Ihe :Mission
church here is connected with th~ church of St. .John Dean.-·William Deadman, postmaster. Letters through
the Baptist, Cookham Dean; it is not consecrated, and Cookham Rise; deliveries, 7.0, 10.0 & 11.50 a.m.;
bas abou. t 50 sittings. dispatches, 7.25 a.m. 12.5 & 6.55 p.m. ; sundays,
11.30 a.m
COOKHAM DEAN is an -ecclesiastical parish formed
Post &; M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.
.January 2, r846, out of the parish 'O'f Cookh3m and in- Cookham Rise (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O.
dudes Pinkneys Green, a mile west from Cookham Berks. added).-William Shergold, sub-postmaster.
railway statiQn and! 3 miles north from the Great Deliveries <>ommence 6.30 & ro.3o a.m. & 5.50 p.m. ;
West-ern r<llilway station at Ma.id~enhead'; part of this dispatched at 10.20 a.m. 12.40, 4.10 & 8 p.m.; sunday,
district is situated! on an eminence of at least 250 feet
above the 'l'hames; the other portion lies in a dell.

The church of St. John the Baptist, conse~rat:ed in 7-30 p.m

r845, is an edifice of flint with stone dressings, in Post Office, Pinkneys Green.-Mrs. Marianne Hillary,

the Early Decorated style of the 13th century, and sub-postmistress. Dispatch at 12.30 & 7.20 p.m. week

consists of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, south days. No delivery from here, but from Maidenhead,

porch, organ chamber and 31 small turret containing - which is the nearest money order & telegraph office, 2

one bell; nearly aU the windows are stained, one being miles distant. Postal orders are issued here, but not

a. memorial presented in r893 by Jvhn Philip Weatherby paid

esq. in me)lllory of his late wife; in 1892 a new Wall Lette-r Box at Cl:arefield House, Pinkneys Green,
v-estry was built by subscription at a COISt of about
cleared at 8.55 a.m. & 12.20 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays,
[2oo, and in 1894 the interior of the church was
restmoo and refitted at a cost of about £140, in com- 12 noon
mE"mora.tiOtll. of the 50th anniversary of the laying of
Wall Letter Box, Cookham Rise, cleared at 10.10 a.m.
the foundation stone; in 1898 the interior was re-decorated 12.25, 4·5 & 7-40 p.m.; sundays, 7.20 p.m
and the pulpit restored ; there are 300 sittings. The
Wall Letter Box, Railway station, cleared at 8.10 a.m.

1·egister dates from the year 1846. The living is a 12 noon & 7 p.m. ; sundays, 5·55 p.m

vicarage, net yearly value £168, with residence, in the Wall Letter Box at West Lodge, Cookham, cleared at

gift of the vicar of Cookham, and held since 1895 by the 10 a.m. 12.25, 3·55 & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 7· ro p.m.
Rev. Sept.inms Cox Thicke, of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
There is a Primitive :\fethodist chapel with a burial ground Pillar Letter Box, North Town, cleared at 7·45 a.m.
at Cookham Dean. Henry Duncan Skrine esq. of Claver-
ton, Somerset, ·and John Thornton Rogers esq. a-re the 12 noon, 2.45, 3.10 & 7 p.m.; sundays, 6.20 p.m
principal landowners. The po.pulation in 1891 was: 998.
Wall Box, l:<~ormosa, 9·45 & 11.50 a.m. 3.40 & 6.40 p.m.;

sundays, 6.55 p.m

NORT~. ~OWN is a hamlet .in th~ parish of Cook- Schools.

ghaa.mt'w,naa1dJmom1· sms·wg nthreootmownh of Mseaaitdsenahbeaodu.t The Congre- Parochial Cookham (mixed), built in xM8 5a8r'y for 220
ere 100 persons. 1 hcheailddremn' i;straevsesrage attendance, 133; M1· ss G"1bb·ms,

ISTUBBINGS, a hamlet in this civil parish, has been Parochial, Cookha~ Dean (mixed), built in 1846, enlarged
formed into an ecclesiastical parish and will be found 1899, for 270 children; average attendance, 200; Henry

under a separate heading. Edwards, master

Sexton, Cookham, William Lane. I Great Western Railway Station, William Thomas Ashley,

Sexton, Cookham Dean, Thomas Hazell. station master

COOKHAM. Tilkins Ernest A. Park house Lacey Wm. boat builder & proprietor

PRIVATR RESIDESTS. Troughton Miss, The Ferns Lacey Ricl::.ard George, builder

.A.llen Mrs. The Myrtles, Station road Wailer Josiah John, Moor house Lane William Francis, blacksmHh

"Brown Harry Pinder, Hedsor view Warren Mrs. The Halls Llewellyn Jas. boat propr. Elmstea:l

Cahusac Miss, Moor cottage Watney Arthur G. Dodsons Main George, jobbing gardener

Coleman Harry, St. George's lodge Wykes Fredk. Wm. Clevooon villa Matthews Henry George, dairyman
Young Sir George bart. M.A., J.P. Medlicott Elizabeth (Mrs.), King's
Cooper Edward, White's place
Formosa Place Arms hotel
Ellis Mrs. The Berries
O.xlade Susan (Mrs.), apartments, 2
Flood Alfred Edward, Rowborough COMliERCIAL.

Ford Miss,The Laurels, Cookham Rise Aldridge Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeepr Harlesden cottages
A.ldridge Geo. grocer, Cookham rise Pearce Mary Ann (Miss), apartments
Ford Mrs. The Willows
Bailey William Henry, decorator Peto lVm. fannr. Cannon Court farm
Garbutt Mrs. Norman cottage
Gardner W alter Silvester, Widbrook Briginshaw Eliza (Mrs.), baker Pratt Alfred, Royal Exchange P.H

Gilbey Arthur Nockolds, Melmoth ldg Buckham Alfred George, draper & Pryer Wm. Hy. grocer, Cookbam rise
I• ronmonger Price Rd. market gardnr. Sutton frm
Gold Quiller, Sutton croft
Cockings Thos. Geo. White Hart P.H Pym Frederick, boot maker
Goolden Miss, The Grove
Cooper Edward, grocer, agent for \V. Pym James, apartments, Moor view
Batch M:rs. North view
& A. Gilbey Limited, wine & spirit Pym John, shoe maker
Ray Miss, Cornick
merchants, & cycle agent,Post offi'ce Randall Harry, farmer, Pound farm
Jay Daniel, Lodene cott~ge
Lacey Richard, Nightingale place Cordrey Charles, boot maker, Cook- Rixon John Wingrove, Ferry family

Lambert Fras.Devereux J.P.Moor hall ham rise l:.otel ; the only hotel at Cookham

Littledale Capt.Fletcher,Cookham end Fairlie Wm. boot ma. Cookham rise facing the river
Ferry Hotel (J. W. Rixon, proprie- Robinson Ephraim, baker
Muller William John, Mill house
tor); facing the river; good accom- Savuge George, engineer
Oakes Mrs. Church Gate house

Preston Edwd. Oxenford, ·west lodge modation for boating parties &c Sheldrake Henry Waiter, Railway

Pullin!,r Mrs. Denver house Frewing .Jsph. buildr. Cookham rise tavern & jobmaster

Ray Percy, West villa Gammon Arthur Samuel, beer retlr Shergold William &; Son, stationers &

Ricardo Lt. -Col.Francis Cecil,TheElms Godden Edwd. fisherman & dairymn fruiterer~, Post office, Cookham rise
Shergold William, assistant overseer
Roffe Mrs Gresswell Thomas, coal merchant

Rogers Rev. Reginald Wellford M.A. Hall Alice (Miss), shopkeeper & clerk to the parish council

Vicarage Harding William, builder, Hillgrove Smith Herbert, farm bailiff to F. D.

Russell Hugh William, Hedsor view Hatch Alfred, coal merchant Lambert esq. Sutton Farm lodge

Saxton Charles, Riverdene Hatch George, New inn & butcher Spencer John, builder

Sicb John H. Inglefield Hatch Geo. Wm. farmer, Ovey's frm Spencer William, professor of music,

Spencer Julius, Belmont villa Hawkins John, market gardener, :Fernley villa

Stone Henry, Glenore Cookham rise Thompson P. &; S. grocers

Sutherland Duke of, The Fisherv; Heath Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Tuck Geo. dairvman, ';eatot'. cottage

Stafford house, St. James's SW; Jordan Thomas James, accountant, V('nables George & Son, paper manu-

Brooks', Marlborough & Travellers' Rose bank, Cookham rise facturers, The Mills

cl'llbs SW & Turf club W, London KP-eley Edward, shoe maker Village Club & Institute (- Main,

Taylor Miss, Suuth view Keele•v Frank, beer retailer hon. sec)

62 COOKHAM. .BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Waller Josiah John, maltster,Moor ho Thicke Rev. Septimus Cox, Vicarage Gardner Ernest;

Wappshott Henry, jobbing gardener, Thompson Arth. Edmund, Dean cot Gardner Ernest, yeoman & land-

Cockham rise Thomson Mrs. C. Grove cottage owner, Spencer's farm

Wearing Charles, wheelwright Watney A. E. Littlemount Groom George, The Harrow P.H

Webster & Plummer, coal mer•.::hants, Wells Charles M.D. Fairfield Lovejoy Henry, farmer

Railway station West Solomon, Minns Nightingale William, cattle dealer

Williams Rosa (Miss), apartments, Whitaker Charles Albert Victor, The Pratt Charles, florist, Harrow lan~­

E a s t gat-e Cottage Ridout Frederick, beer retailer

W orboys Thos. Bel & The Dragon htl Withers Miss, The Park farm Smith James, beer retailer

Wigg 'fhomas, carpenter COMMERCIAL.

Working Men's Club.& Reading Room PI~KNEYS GREEN.
(!>-· G. Gray, hon. sec.), Cookbam Alien Robert·, farm bailiff to H. D.
rise Skrine esq. Hill Grove farm PRIVATB :RESIDENTS.

Worster Edward Michael, butcher Arman Wm. farmer, Woodlands frm Bidder :Miss, Fernhurst
Baldwin William, fruiterer Chester Miss, Elm cottage

COOKHAM DEAN. Bishop James, farm bailiff to James Cooper Waiter, Hindhaye

PRIVATE :RESIDENTS. Darby esq. The Cedars Everest Miss, Box cottage

Beaumont Ronald, Dean view Copas Mary (Mrs.), Chequers P.H Gilder Caledon, Clarefield
Eelton Charles, Cartlands
Eottom Mrs. Louis~ Hope cottage Darby Jas. farmer, King Coppice frm Hammond Miss, Home Close cottage·

Deadman William, grocer, baker & Kersey Alexander, Hartwells

Chapman Mrs. Beechwood corn dealer, Post office Lee Arthur Maurier, l''lint cottage
Darby J ames, The Cedars
Da.rby Stephen, Sterlings Fitchett William, basket maker Lee Lady. Ditton house
Dunn George Crosby, lVoodside Lenny Miss, Elm grove
Gray George, tailor MacGregorSir Evan K.C.B.,J.P. Meads.
Frost Thomas Hatch William, beer retailer Norsworthy George, The Orchards
Pemberton-Pigott Col. Edward Chas.
Frost Mrs. Orchardleigh Jordan Henry William, fly proprietor-
Gosden Henry, Sterlings & fruiterer Furzecote
Plumer George C. Camley
Gregory Edward John R.A., P.R.I. Keeling George,shoe maker & shopkpr Sang Mrs. Pinkneys lodge
Keeling Walter, shoe maker Skrine Mrs. Moorlands
Quarry edge Luker Alfred, farm bailiff to )lr. Spoward Rev. James (curate),Fern cot;
Hardv• Alfred, Les Arbres
Jackson Robert Thomas, Lynwood Waiter Frost COMMERCIAL.
Lambert James G. Henfield cottage
Laurence Arthur, jun. Mount farm Mash Hy. Jas. farmer,Winter Hill frm Alien Charles, farmer
Levy Arthur, The Mount Middleton Henry, beer retailer Bowgett John, Golden Ball P.H
Lewis George, Irlas Parsons Frederick, basket maker Brown Robt. fruiterer, Fern cottage-
Parsons 'rhos. farmer, Brigfrith farm Button John, ga.rdener to Lady Lee
Luxmoore Chas. Noble, Dial close Paul Thomas, fruiterer Cooper John Kinghorn & Sons, brick
Macnab William, Maybank
Major Alfred, Woodland cottage Startin Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper & tile makers
Major Ernest, Waterdale Taft Henry, bricklayer Goodall John, beer retailer
Major Frederick, Dean croft Heather George, Stag & Hounds P.H.
Ware William, market gardener Hunt Robert, dairyman
Meakes George Robert, Grove house Werrell Emma (Mrs.), Hare & Hounds Mitchley J oseph. fruiterer
Morrison Miss, Tugwood
P.H
Working Men's Club & In~itute(Geo.

Grey, sec)

Pitt Sidne;y, The Islands NORTH TOWN. Musselwhite John, beer retailer
Putney Alfred, Stonehouse Parsons George, carpenter

Rowe Frederick, Western cottage Anderson Frank, The Cottage Weall Wm. farmer, Pinkneys farm

Stone Mrs. The Glen French William Watkins, 1\Ioorside "\Vynch George, shopkeeper

GREAT COXWELL is a village and parish, 2 miles year 1654. The living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly
south-west from Faringdon, 4 north-ea.st from High- value £122, with residence and 50 acres of glebe, let at
worth, 14 south-west from .A.bingdon, in th6i Northern £46, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since
division of the county, hundred, petty s.essional division, 1899 by the Rev. Robert Charles St. Lo Auber. A Con-·
gregational chapel was erected here in 1875. Pinsent's-
univn and county court district. of Faringdon, rural
charity, in which the parish of Coleshill also participates, is
deanery of the Vale l()f White Horse, archdeaconry of
for apprenticing poor children. On the top of Badbury Hill,
Berks a.nd diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Giles
a short distance from the village, on the north side of the
is an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, high road from Faringdon to Highworth, are the re-
naV~e>, north porch and a battJemented western wwer, mains of a fortified camp of a circular form, 200 yards-
with crocketed pinnacles at the angles, containing. 5 in diameteil", and surrounded by a ditch of Io yards
bells, dated 1738; the ch..runcel, restored by the Earl of
wide. Contiguous to the village is a farm-house, the·
Radnor in r88r, at a cost of £250, is good plain remains of a religious establishment of Cistercians,
Early English work ; the east window of three lancets
is flanked on 8{l.Ch side by a plain niche ; and thm-e is founded by the abbots of Be.aulieu, in the New Forest,
also a niche ovt~r the communion table, with a locker to whe>m King John granted this manor in 1200; the

on each sid8!; in the south wall is a piscina, with barn is 156 feet in le.ngth and 45 ff>et in width, with.
a spacious porch on one side and a smaller one on th!:)
a shelf and low-side window; the nave, restored in other; the ro;>f, high-pitched, and internally pre·senting,
1882 at !ll cost of £4oo, ha.s Perpendicular window!'l frerm its peculiar construction, a very singular per-
on the south !fide; 1-here is a westmn gallery and the spective, ~s supported by two ranges of wooden pillars
remains of a turr~ leading to the rood loft ; at the resting on pedestals of stone. The Hon. Duncombe·
junction of the chancel and nave is a sam.ctus bell Pleydell-Bouverie, of Coleshill, is lord of the manor and
gable ; th~ tower, 15 feet square, is Early Perpen- principal landowner. The soil is various ; subsoil, clay
dicular ; there is a. brass with effigies and inscrip-
and oolite rock. The chief crops are wheat, beans,.
tio;n to William Morys, fa.rmer, and Joan his wife, 2
sens and a daughter, c. 1500; and inscriptions to barley and turnips. The area is 1,410 acres ; rateable
Robert Russe.ll, gent. citizen and draper, of London,
value, £1,671; the p<lpulation in 18gr was 317.
1630; Ann, wif8! of Thomas Mores, 1632; and :Margaret, Pa.rish Clerk, Henry Belcher.
wife of Fra.ncis Mores, I675, ancestors of Edward Rowe
Mores D. D., F.S..A.. the a;ntiquary; to Robert Spindlm-, Post Office. Thomas Smart, sub-postmaster. Letters·
1743; Frances, wife of Bond! Spindler M.A. rector of
through Faringdon, which is the nearest money order &;.
St. Martin's, Oxford, 1743; and: to Waiter Mathe.w,
1698 ; in the church is also a mem()ll'ial to the telegraph office, arrive at 7·45 a.m. & 2 p.m.; sunday,
Rev. David C&lyer B.A. for nearly so years vicar here, 7·45 a.m.; dlispatched at 6.15 p.m. week days &
and a benefactor to the parish, and to Maria, his
9.30 a.m. sundays. Postal orders are issued here, but
daughter, wife of Henry Stevens; he died 21 October, not paid
National School (mixed), erected in 1864, for 88 chil-
1724, a;nd was the a.uthor of the " Sacred Interpreter ; " dren; ave.rage att-endance, 42; with a small endow-
there are 200 sitting~r. The register dates from the ment >Oif £2o from the Pin·sent's charity for the mis~
tres-s ; Mrs. Gane, mistress

Auber Rev. Charles St. Lo (vicar) 'Butler Thos. Kelsoo, frmr. Badbury hi Newport William, fanner
Fereman Thomas A
Whitfield Miss Farr Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker Nias John Willia.m, butoher

COMMERCIAL. Gerring .A.rth. frmr. Court House fl.,.,'ID"" Rickards Reuben, farmer

Baker Goorge, plumber &i glazier Green Edwin, beer retJr. & cow leech Roberts Williarn, haulier
Belcher Thomas, butcher
King Ernest, carpenter Smart Thomas, market gardener &t

Mulcock George, farmer grocer, & post office '

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. C.ROWTBORNE. 63

LITTLE COJtWELL is a township and chapelry, I~ 1Here is also a Baptist chapel. There are charities of

IJDiles south from Faringdon, in the Northern division' £z7 yearly v?Jue. The Coles pits, situated a short dis-

of the county and in the parish, hundred, petty ses· tance from the village and extending over an area of I.J
sional division, union and county court district oi 1acres, are objects of considerable interest, as they are

Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, supposed to have been habitations of the ancient Bri-

archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The kns; they number about 6o, are circular, and vary in

church of St. Mary is a building of stone, principally of 1depth from 7 to 22 feet. The Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-
the Norman and Transitional periods, consisting of chan·1 Bcuverie iil lord of the manor and the principal land-

eel, nave, south porch and a small central bell gable, owr.er. The soil is a light loam; subsoil, gravel of a

containing 2 bells; the east window has Decorated bright yellow hue, which is much used for walks and

tracery, and is flanked on each side by cinquefoil·headed I avenues. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips.

niches; in the south wall of the chancel is a piscina; j The area is 834 acres ; rateable value, £r,f33 ; the

the nave has a Norman south door and Early English population in r8g1 was 251.

and Perpendicular windows ; over the western gallery Parish Clerk Vincent Hawkins
is a small circular stained window ; the pulpit is oi ' ·
oak, richly carved; there are So sittings. The register Post Office.-Vincent Hawkins, sub·postmaster. Letters

dates from the year 1582. The living is annexed to the through Faringdon, which is the nearest money order &
vicaragu of Faringdon; tithe rent-charge, £6r, joint telegraph office, arrive at 6.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.45
p.m.; sundays, arrive 6.30 a.m.; dispatched 12.30 p.m.
net yearly value £220, with residence, in the gift of Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

the trustees of the late Rev. Charles Simeon, and held

since 1891 by the Rev. Charles Edward Welldon M.A. National School, reopened in 1888, average attendance,

of Keble College, Oxford, who resides at Faringdon. 26; Miss Wakefield, mistress

Browning Mrs Face Goorge, painter Roberts David, farmer & sheep dipper

Chandos.Pole Frnncis Harvey James, Plough P.H Se!lfe Sa.ml. Rolls, farmer, The Yews

Dyke George John, Coxwell house Hazel Henry, farmer SU:me James, patent medicine vendor

Hole William Redwood, The Grove King Albert, Eagle tavern Whenman Thomas, farm bailiff to

Neat George Albert }fO'Iley James, blacksmith George Adams e.sq. G()rse farm

COMMERCIAL. :Mulcock Goorge, shoe mali:er Willis Jo.'hn, builder

.Atkins William, farmer, Coxwell farm :Mulcock Mary Ann (Miss), dress ma Wirdnham Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper

CRANBOURNE, an ecclesiastical parish formed of Mrs. Victor Johnson. Lady Errington, ~Irs. Bowring

March nth, I851, out of the parishes of Winkfield, and James Scott esq. are the principal landowners. The-

Sunninghill and Old Windsor, is on the border of Wind· soil is clay, loam and gravel; subsoil, clay and sand. The·

sor Park, 5 miles south·west from Windsor and 3! chief crops are barley, oats and pasture. The popula-

north-by-east from Ascot station on the Reading branch tion in 1891 was 1,142.

of the London and South Western railway, in the East-

ern division of the county, unions of Easthampstead Letters through ·windsor arrive at 6.30 a.m. I &.;

and Windsor, petty sessional division and county court 5·45 p.m. Winkfield, about 2 miles distant, is the.

district of Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, arch· nearest money order & telegraph office
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church Lett-er Box cleared at 9·55 a. m. 2.55 & 6.35 p.m.; sundays~.

of St. Peter is a building of flint stone in the Decorated 6. 10 p.m
style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept, south Wall Letter Box, Woodside, cleared at 8.30 a.m. 2.3o,

porch and a western turret containing 1 bell; there are & 5·25 p.m. ; sun. 9·3° a. m
several stained windows; the church affords 400 sit· Wall Letter Box, Hatchet lane, by Fleur-de·Lis, cleared'
tings, 220 being free. The register dates from the year
at 8.45 a.m. 2.40 & 5-35 p.m.; sun. 9·45 a.m
a1 50• The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £rgo,
Wall Letter Box, North street, cleared at 9.40 a.m. 2.45
with IO acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of thtl
Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1s 91 by the Rev. & 5·45 p.m. ; sun. 9·4° a.m ·
Robert Abercromby Hamilton M.A. of St. John's Col·
National School (boys, girls & infants), erected in
lege, Oxford. There is a wesleyan chapel in North
1879, for 200 ehildren; average attendance, 65 boys,.
street, erected in I867. Among the handsome resi·
derrces in the pari3h are Lovel Hill house, at present 75 girls &;:, 59 infants ; John Haydon Whitehead, master;
=vriss Kate ~Ianders, mistress; 3Iiss Price, infants':'

mistress

vacant ; Forest Farm, the residence of Mrs. Bowring ; Carriers to Windsor-Charles Clayton & George Lynn-,._

Fernhill, of Lady Errington; and King's Mead, daily

Marked thus * receive their letters Ravenhill Mrs. \Voodside house 1*England Charles, butcher & farmer;·.

through Ascot. Sa.wyer HaJXourt, Spring hill Hatchett lane

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Scott Major James George, Lovel Hili Howard William, Fleur-de·Dis- P.H;

house, Woodside Hatchet lane
*Barron Gerald Edward B.A., ~LB. Stokes Innes, Hurstleigh Johnson Jas. boot maker, Lovel lane·

Cranbourne corner lirquhart Major Charles James, The Laird Arthur Percy, shop!Uleper;.

Blundell Miss, Ascot cottage Grange Lovel lane

Bowring Mrs. Forest fa.rrn Ward Mrs. Dudley, Ohilston Lovegrove Charles, shoe ma. Lovel la:

Davis James, Forest lodge Lynn George, carrier, North street

Daynton James, Rose cottage COMMERCIAL. Morton A.rthur .Alfred, Squirrel P.H:.

Edwards George, Winkfield l{)dge North street

Errington Lady, F.e•rnhill *Barron Gerald Edwd. B.A., M.B. sur· Olley Julia (Mrs.),laundress,Hatehetla.·

Foster Jame-s, Cranbourne hall geon & medical officer & public va<:· Parham Charles, farm bailiff to Waiter·

Hamilt()n Rev. Robert Abercromby cinator for Winkfield district, East- Palmer esq. Kilby's farm

M.A. (vica.r), The Vicarage hampstead union, Cranbourne crnr Platt Edwin, beer retailer, Lovel :road

Hudson Mrs. Vale lodge, Woodside Belcher Robert & Son, corn & cokt- Povey Willia.m, horse dealer, L()vel rd

Jackson Mrs. North lodge merchants, North street Poynter Fras. blacksmith, Hatchet la

.Tohnson Mrs. Victor, King's Mead Clarke Thomas, grocer, North street Priest George, farmer, Church farm

Kohler John David J.P. Barlon lodge Clayton Charles, ca.rrier, North stree• Smith Edgar, beer retlr. Hatchet lane-

Langfear Harold, Fernhill cottage Clayton Eliza (Mrs.), laundress Smith Wm. Henry, baker, Lovel road

Lewarne Rev. Frederick Temple B.A. Coles Oharles, grocer, 1Voodside Spencer Geo. beer retailer, Woodside-

(curate), Wilton lodge ,Cranbourne Reading Room (Robert Stockton Robert Geo. Herne'sOakP.H

Marsham Lady .Anne, Elm house, Crow, sec.), North street Stanley Harry, carpenter, Love! lane

Windsor forest Crow Robert, farm bailiff to Lady Tombs William, blacksmith; North st

Marsham Lady Macy, E1m house, Errington, Hatchet lane Ward Edmund & Son, grcrs.& drapers

Windsor forest Douglas Willia.m, butcher, Lovel road Wells J n. frm. bailiff to Mrs. Ravenhill

Moo:r Sir Ralph Denman Rayment Easton Ja.mes & Sons, farrie:rs &c. Wheeler Wm. carpenter, Hatchet lane

K.C.M.G. Elm lodge Woodside Wicks Hannah (M:rs.),sb.opkpr.Lovelrd

Myers Mrs. Kingsland Easton James, Duke of Edin:burgh Wiggins Archibald, baker, North street

P(}rter Hy. Aylmer, Cranbourne court P.H. Woodsid-e

CROWTHORNE, formerly a hamlet in the parish of railway, in the Eastern division of the County, petty
Sandhurst, was constituted a. separate ecclesiastical sessional division of Wokingham, hundred of Sonning,

parish July 10th, 1874, and was constituted a civil union of Easthampstead, county court· district of Read-
rarish .Tune 23rd, 1894; it is 4 miles sout.h·east from ing, rural deanery of Sonning, archdeaconry of Berks and

Wokingham. 36 from London and n from Reading, the diocese of Oxford. The church of St. John the Baptist.
village being 1 mile from the Wellington Colle~o station built and consecrated in 1873, is an edifice of red brick

of tlte Reading and Reigate branch of the South EasLerrt in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel,· nave, south ,

'64 <JROWTHORNE. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S

'8isle, and! !ll bell cote ; the chancel was added in are so arranged as to give to each a. separate room:

1888-g, at a cost of £2,ooo; there are 400 sittangs. The the •south side of the building is occupied by tihe

lregister dates from the year 1873. The living is a dining-hall, Whioh corresponds in size to t.he great

vicarag~, net yearly value £187, with residence, in the school: two dwelling-houses for .goenior assistant mas-

gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1894 by the ters form the northern side of the co[ege; the

Rev. George Frederick Coleridge M ..A.. of Keble College, lodge of the 'head master is detached on the south

Oxford. The vicarage house was built in 1877. Here is fron:t, and in the grounds are several houses of

a 1Vesleyan chapel. The principal landowners are the masters, •some of Whom receive boarders: two lofty

governors of Wellington College and (for Eroadmoor) the towers give access to ttt1e dormitories &i contain in

directors of Convict Prisons. The population in 1891 was their lhig:1est .storeys water-:tanks. & the apparatus con-

2,254, including 629 in Broadmoor Asylum. The rate- nected with the ventilation of the whole building; two

able, value of Crowthorne is £g,oi3- dormitories were added in r886 to the east of the

01VLSMOOR is a hamlet in this parish, 2 miles south- original structure. The buildings are efficiently
east, and has an iron church, with 8o sittings. The warmed by a •system of hot water pipes.

population in 1891 was 198. The chapel, an exquisite building, erected from de~igns

Parish Clerk, Henry Harris Watkins. by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R..A.. stands at t!J.e

.Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel souifu-east angle of the co~lege, wi:th which it is con-
Post, S. E. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Harry Over, nected 1by a C.:.oister : the style is Gothic, with some
sub-postmaster. Lette:rs arrive from Wokingham at
6.50 & 10.30 a.m.; dispatched at 9.20 a.m. 2.15, 6.20 & !Characteristics of the Gobhic of North Ita:y, & the edi-
8.50 p.m. •Sunday delivery, 7 a.m. ;dispatch, 4-40 p.m fice is remarkable both for tihe ooauty of its propor-
tions & the delicate finis~ of its details: from ~be roof
Wellington CDllege Station Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., an elegant & richly decorated "fl.eche" of oak & zinc
rises to the h.eig'h.t of 120 feet: the east ~nd of the
Expres.s Delivery, Parcel Post, S. B. &; Annuity & In-
surance Office (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. chapel terminates in an apse, round• which, both within
:Berks added). Frederick Hill, postmaster. Letters ar- & without, runs an arcade, continu~d outside along
rive direct- & delivered at 7 & 10.30 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; the ·south side of the cnapel: the carving throughout
dispatched at 10.5 & 10.15 a.m. & 3·5• 6.30 & 9.30 p.m. the bui:ding is v-ery e~aborate, & chiefly represents
Sunday delivery, 7 a.m.; dispatch, 5 p.m. Letters can groups of natural 'flowers, especially those growing in
l1e had from the last mail at 6.15 p.m. by calling for the neighlbourhood : a finely-carved oak .screen &i stalls
them. Wall Letter Box at Wellington CDllege gates were erected in memory of the Prince Consort, one of
cleared at. 9·35 a.m. 2.15, 6.20 & 8.55 p.m.; sunday, whose last public acts was to lay the foundation stone
of the ohapel. In 1885-6 :the chapel was enlarged by
4·45 p.m the addition of a 'nort"n transept & aisle, from designs
WaU Box, Crowthorne, cleared at 8 a.m. 1.30 & 6 p.m.; by Sir .A.. W. Komfield M.A., A.R.A., F.S.A. with
arcading similar to that on the south side, and in 1898
sundays at 7.30 p.m
a similar transept was thrown out on the south side, in
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, which occupies
an elevated site about 400 feet above the sea level & memory of the late Archbishop Benson, the first Head
partly sheltered by pine woods, was opened in r863 :)!aster of the College
& consists of an extensive range of brick buildings,
planned & erected under the exclusive direction of The boys' library, a commodious room, finished in 1863,

the late Maj.-Gen. Sir Joshua Jebb K.C.B. at a cost stand•s between the chapel & the college, corresponding
in style with the latter: it contains some remarkable
of £u8,039, & several times altered & enlarged, the memorials both of the Duke of We]ingtDn & the Prince
total amount expended reaching a sum of £2oo,ooo ; Consort. A museum of interesting objects of natural
history & antiquities has been formed
the asylum is now (1899) available for 665 inmates;
Richard Brayn L.R. C.P.Lond. M.R. C. S.Eng. Supt. ;

John Baldwin I~.::wc M.D. deputy Supt.; Reginald Harry T'..1e college grounds consist of an estate of about 430
acres, more tihan 20 of which are turfed to form a
Noott M.B., U.M. senior assistant medical officer;

Edmund James Lawless M.D. junior assistant medical playing field; the p:an:tations are very extensive &

officer; Rev. Hugh Wood M ..A.. chaplain; Charles T. flourishing; a double avenue of Wellingtonias, the gift

Phelps, ste-.vard; .A.. Ernest Sayer, Supt.'s clerk of the Prince Consort, now constitute a noble feature

National School (mixed), built by John Waiter esq. in of the place: theo drainage is admirable, all sew-

1874• conveyed to trustees in r885 & enlarged in age being dea:t with by the Native Guano Co. on

1886, to hold 188 boys &; girls & 8o infants; average their .A. B 0 process as at Aylesbury; in ti;!e front of

attendance, 191 boys & g-irls & 65 infants; Herbert the col:•ege, at a little distance, are four small arti-

Sharpe, master ; Mrs. J. Sedman, mistress ficial lakes for skating &i bathing, as we:l as a. tepid

{;arrier tD Reading.-George Elmer, from Crowthorne, swimming-bath. Attached to the college is a Cadet

tues. thurs. & sat Corps of the 1st Vo~unteer Battalion, Princess Ohar-

We-lling-ton College Railway Station, ~Henden Irvine Jury, lotte of Wales's, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Near the

station master rai:way station & no't far from the entrance tD the

WELLIXGTO:N COLLEGE. college grounds is the "Wellington Hotel," erected by
the lat~ .Tohn Waiter esq. principally for the use of the
Wellington College, incorporated by Royal G1arter dated friend& of the youths at the college; there is also a
I31J:l Decem/her, 1853. was founded I&; erected oy range of sta.bling for gentlemen living at a distance &
national subscription in honour of the Great Duke. hunting- in the neig-hbourhood
The foundation stone was laid in June, r856, by H. M. Visitor-Her Most Gracious Majesty
the Queen, m:ro also opened the school in Jan. I859· Preside'nt-H.R.H. the Prim!le of Wales K.G
The number of boys is now about 450, of whom go, Vice-President-His Grace the Duke of Wellington
being the orpihan son~ of officers, are maintained and
Ex-Officio Governors.
.educated upon ihe foundation, .standing in all respeds
upon an equal footing with the other scbo:ars ; the F.M. The Commander-in-~ The Duke of Wellington
The Rt. Hon. the ~reta.ry
property of t.be col~ege is vested in a board of gQV- Chief K.P., G.C.B
The Lord Archbishop of Can-~ of State for War
ernors, who make regulations in conformity with their

ohart~r & elect foundationers; also appoint the master terbury

of t~1e coU.ege, who in turn appoints the tutors & as- Governors.
sistant master·s; there a:re two departments in tihe

;;~ehool, one c-:'assical &i genera1 on the usual public H.R.H. The Duke of Con- Field Marshal Viscount

school system, preparing for the univer-sities; the other naughtK.G Wolseley K.P,, G.C.B

modern & mat•hematical, preparing for Woo~wich & H.R. H. The Duke of YorkK.G The Bishop of Winchester

other examinations in which mathematics occupy u H.R.H. The Duke of Cam- The Bishnp of Oxford

primary place ; tthere are exhibitions :to the univer·sities bridge K.G The Warden of All Souls

.&; .sC.1olarsJhi<ps t-ena.ble at the •school, open to boys of H.R.H. Prince Christian K.G Surg.-Gen. Sir Jsph. Fayrer

certain ag-es whet-her in tihe ·school or not : the bui:d- F.M. H. H. Prince Edwardof hart, K.C.S I

ing, whioh is in the style of Louis Quinze, consists ot Saxe Weimar K.P., G.C.B Field-Marshal Sir John 1•. A.

throo quadrangles, .surrounded by cloisters, the great The Duke of Richmond & Simmons G.C.B.,G.C.M.fr

.school, a spacious &i lofty room, dividing the two larger Gordon K.G Gen. Sir Dighton Probyn

quadrangles. In the cloisters. are p:aced upwards of The Duke of Devonshire K.G K.C.B., K.C.S.I., V.C

so bronz·e busts (mostly •by Theed) of the generals .t TheMarquess ofSalisburyK. G Sir Charles L. Ryan K.C.B

private & po:itical friends of the Great Duke, &i eight Earl of Derby G.C.B Gen. Sir George W. A.

fine statues -adorn i:he principal fronts : >ti:1e smaller Earl of Morley Higginson K.C.B

schoo:s & the domestic oftkes form the sides of the Earl of Rosebery K.G The Rev. the Master of

quadrangles, and over these are the rooms of the as- Earl of Northbrook G.C.S.I Trinity College, Cambridge
·.sis'tarrt masters !& the dormitories of the boys, -which Earl of Cranbrook ~-.C.S.I D.D

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. CROWTHORNE. 65

Honorary Treasurer, Sir Charles L. Ryan K.C.B Kempthorne Rev. P. H., ::\LA •
La-.ie Rev. C. 'f., M.A
Secretary, J. F. Chance esq. Treasury, Whitehall, Londn Lemmey Rev. Tom B.A. (science)
}lcDowall 0. R. L., ~LA
}!aster, The Rev. Bertram Pollock }LA. late scholar of ~Ieore R., :M.A
Trinity College, Cambridge .Xorth E. G., ni.A
Pearson J. Y., B.A
Bursar, MichaeliSeymour Forster M.A., B.C.L., B.Sc Perkins 0. T ., M.A
Purnell E. K., M. A
Tutors & Assistant Masters. Robinson W. S., M.A
Rogers T. A.• ~I.A
Awdry H., M.A Ruston W. H., 1\>I.A. (mathematical)
Bevir J. L., M..A Saunder S. A., ~I..A.
Blundell G. E., B..A. (science) Sers L., B. es L. (french)
Eroomfield A. E., B.A. (mathematics) Strangways A. H. Fox M.A. (music)
Erougham H. W., B. A. Toye W. J., M.A. (mathematics)
Erown Rev. W. F., B.A. (mathematics) "Cpcott E. A., M.A
Cave J. W., B.A
Christopherson P., B.A "\Vagstaff W. H., ::\LA. (mathematics)
Collett W. G \Yells C., B.A
Davenport Rev. E., M.A
Earle E. H., B..Al Medical Officer, H. G. Armstrong ~LR.C.S., L.S ..A.
E~tc·n E. F., M.A. (mathematics) .Accountant, Robert C. Deane
Evans W. A., M.A Drill Instructor, Sergeant Peter J\IcCabe.
Fitzgerald H. Purefoy M.A., F.L.S. (science) Matrons, Miss Mayo, Mrs. Carbis, Mrs. Tuck
Forster M. S., M.A., B.C.L., B.Sc
Goodchild Rev. W., M..A Steward, J. C. Seidenstricker
Hagreen H. W. Owen B.A. (drawing)

CROWTHORNE. Jones J. P. Pinehurst Godwin James Lewis, news agent

(Residents in Wellington College.) Jones Rev. Thos. (Baptist), TheCroft Hanks William, tailor

Postal address, Wellington College *Kempthorne Rev. P. H., M.A Heelas, Sons & Co. tailors &c

Station S. 0. Berks. King Thomas, High street Hewett Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments

Pollock Rev. Bertram M.A. master Lavie Miss *Hill & Co. drapers & boot dealers
Awdry Herbert M.A
Broomfield A. E., B.A Lawless Edmond Jaml:'s M.D. Broadmr Rills Thomas Chaplen, butcher

Cave J. W., B.A *Lemmey Rev. Tom B.A *Hookham, Gadney, Embling Bros.
Davenport Rev. Edward M.A
McCabe Peter, W oodside tailors
Evans W. A., M.A
Goodchild Rev. William M.A *McDowall C. R. L., M.A Howard W. H. ironmonger

Lavie Rev. C. T., M.A *Monckton Col. the Hon. Horace ::\<Ian- *Hunt Thomas, bookseller, sta-
Moore R., M.A
North E. G., M.A ners, Whitecairn tioner, printer & bookbinder; by
Perkins 0. T., M.A
*Moore Mrs. Heatherside appointment to Wellington college
Robinson W. S., M.A
Rogers Thomas Alfred M.A Noott Reginald HarryM.B.Broadmoor *Ifould Edwin, Waterloo hotel

Ruston W. H., M.A Pearson Edwin David Ives Joseph, grocer

Sers L. B.esL Pearson John Y., M.A .Tames Joseph, butcher
Strangway·s A. H. Fox M.A
Upcott Ernest Alfred M.A Phelps Charles T. Broadmoor *James "\Vm. Joseph, Wellington hotel

Wagstaff W. H., M.A *Phillips Miss, Inglemere Knight Tho.mas, chemist

Purnell Edw«ll"d Kelly M.A Lake Christopher J. g-rocer & agent

Saunder Samuel .A., M.A for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine &.

Sayer A. Ernest. Broadmoor spirit merchants

Spear William, The Woodlands Langley Leonard, carman

Toye Miss Llo.yd Brothers, painteTs

Toye William Joseph M..A. Lloyd Harry, surveyor & inspector of

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. *Wells C., B.A nuisances to East..lmmpstead union

Wood Rev. Hugh M.A. (chaplain to rural district council

Marked thus * postal address Welling· the Brl()admoor criminal lunatic Lloyd J. (Miss), dress maker

ton College Station S.O. Berks IIIJSylum) Lloyd M. (Mrs.), draper

Armstrong Henry George Longhurst Wm. boot & shoe maker

Bevir Joseph Louis M.A COMMERCIAL. Lovick Charles, Crowthorne P.H. &

Bevir Mrs S Armstrong Henry George M.R. C. S. fly proprietor
*Blair The Misses, Heatherley Eng., L.S.A. surgeon & medical ~Iartin William Hill, blacksmith

Blundell G. E., B.A officer to Wellington college Ma..son 'Chas. Wm. hair dresser &c

*Boyle Miss, Red lodge *..!.ttride Brothers, ironmongers l\Iunday Harrry, boot & shoe maker

Brayn Richard L.R.C.P.Lond., Aylett Herbert, Iron Duke P.H Newman William, saddler

M.R.C.S.Eng. Broadmoor Barnes Harry, Prince Alfred P.H Over Harry, grocer & postmaster

*Brown Rev. W. F., B.A Barnes John William, boot & shoe ma SatcheJl Frederick (Mrs.), fancy

Brougham Hy. Wm. M.A.Broughm.ho Beeton Charlotte (Mrs.), laundress repository

Chavasse .Mbert Sidney M.A., B.C.L. Bartlett Albert H. farrier *Simonds J. & C. & Co. bankers

Ed<Yebarrow Oadet Corps ISt Volunteer Ba.ttalion (branch), open tues. & fri. II to 3;
Christopherson Percy B..A
Princess Ohadotte of Wales' Royal draw on ~lliams Deacon & Man-

Coleridge Rev. George Frederick M.A. Berkshire Regiment (E. A. Upcott, oehester & Salford Bank Limited,

(vicar), Vicarage captain) London E C

*Collett W. G., M.A Oho.wings Samuel, stone ma,son Spear & King, builders & contractors

*Colthurst John Buller, The Firs Collins William Hedges, insurance agt Spurling Rev. John Waiter M.A. pre-

Deane Bernard B. Sherwood cottage Cook Edward George, corn dealer paratory boarding school

Deane Robert C. Holly bank Cox Josiah,dairyman,Edgebarrow cot Sworder Waiter Joseph, fruiterer

*Earle E. H., B.A DaJV:id William, watch make:r Wa.lls George, builder, carpenter &

Elton Edward F., M.A Deane Robert C. agent for the Pelican decorator; estimates given for

*FitzGerald H. Purefoy B.A Life & Railway Passenger .Accident general repairs, Albert villas

Forste.r Michael Seymour M.A., InsUTance Co.'s Holly bank Watkins Hy. Harris, boot & shoe m:a

B.C.L., B.Sc. Woodhill Dean Thomas, confectioner Wilkinson William, ooilor

*Freeling Dowager Lady,Heatiherside Donnelly George, baker &; confectioner Wilmott Henry Ross, gasfitter

Hagreen H. W. Owen B.A Douglas Archiba.ld John, 6hopketlper Youlden John, news agent

Haverson .Arthur Charles Ohappell Elmer Goorge, carrier

Hardy Lt.-Col. John B. (lateR. (Bo.) Forbisher Francis Henry, hair dresser OWI.SMOOR.

R.A.), Heathcote Franklin Emma (Mre.), dress meike:r (Letters throui'h Sandhurst.)

Huntington Mrs *Great Westerp Coal Co. (L. Langley, Drew FJ"edk. Hy. beer retlr. & grocer

Isaac John Baldwin M.D. Broadmoor agent), Wellington College station Lewis George James, shopkeeper

CULHAM is a. parish par.bly in tr..lls county but principally in Oxfordshire; particulars are ~Ten in Kelly'a

Directory of the latter county.

CUMNOR is a. large parish and village on th~ road is the 'nearest railway sta:tion., in the Nortf..1ern division of
the county, hundred o-f Hormer, petty sessional division,
from Abingdon to Witney, bounded on the west by the union and county court district of Abin.gdon, and in the

river Isis, whioh separates it from Oxfordshire, 4! mi;es rural deanery O!f .A.bingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and

north from A.bingdon and is 3! west from Oxford, which

BERKS. 5

66 CUMNOR. :BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S

diocese of Oxford. The cthurclh of S:t. Michael is a'n edi- Leicester), in the presence of Edward VI. at Sheen

fice of stone, generally in the Transitional Norman style, Court, Surrey, being then only 18 years of age; on the

with insertions and additions of a century later, and 8th of Sept. 1560 while staying at Forst.er's house at
consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, a chapel at the Cum'nor, she met with her death at the murderous
east end of the sout':l aisle, which served as a mortuary hands of her host and his accomplice Sir Richard Var-
chapel for the abbey of .AJbingdon, nortJh pol'Ch and a ney; the latter died a miserable dea:th. in London: For-
battlemented we·S:tern tower containing a cl{)Ck and 6 ster, offering to divulge the particulars of the deed, was
bells; the west doorway is Norman and tlhe tower arch a strangled in prison by Dudley's order, and the Earl him-

fine example of Transitional work: against tlhe north wall self died, 4 Sept. 15'88, at Corrrbury Manor house in
of the chancel is :the rich altar-tomb of Anthony Forster, Oxfordshire, when his titles became extinct, his son, Sir

e. 1572, and whose epitaph, of 32 verses, speaks highly of Robert Dudlcy, by his second wife, having failed to estab-
'bim. as being amiab:e a'nd· accomplished; the tomb has lish his legitimacy; the remains of the hapless lady
bra.sses of himself in armour,and /his wife Ann(W"i:liams), were brought from Oumnor to Gloucester (now Wor-
wi& several children: there are other brasses to Cathe- cester) College, Oxford, and thence taken, with great

rine (Williams), wife of Henry 6taverton, gent. 1577; solemnity, to St. Mary's church, and there interred, the
and to Deodatus Staverton and his wife Edith (Williams), funeral being attended by the University and City au-
c. rsBo; there is :L.so a memorial to Benjamin Iluck:er thorities, the officers of the Heralds' Co:lege, and many
D.D. \Sam.etime· fellow of .All Souls College, Oxford, vicar oth('rs, as described in the Dugdale MS. in the Brit. Mus.;

here and rector of Frilsham, 1755 -8o: he was editor of in r874, the la.te Very Rev. John William Ilurgon B. D.
the "6temmata Ohicheleiana" and keeper of the uni- late Dean of Chic'he·ster, and then vicar of St. Mary's,

versity archives at Oxford, and was buried here 24th caused the following inscription to be p:aced on the a:tar

Dec. 17Eo : in 'the church is preserved a very fine ex- steps : "In a vautt of brick, at the upper end of this
amp:e of a chained Bible, dated 1611, and said to have quire, was buried Amy Robsart, wife of Lord Robert
been. used!. by the Oxford University Press in I832-3 for Dudley K.G. \Sunday, 22 September, rs6o :" the old
producing au exad reprint of the authorised version: a Hall, pul:ed down in I'8Io, was a quadrangular building,
list of vicars., in the church, commences in 1314, and with good Decorated windows and doors: some of th~
has been continued 'to the present time: there is also a windows, with their stained glass, were removed to Wy-
full-length statue in Caen stone of Queen Elizabeth, tham Abbey, the residence of the Earl of Abingdon;

crowned, and bearing the orb and sceptre, said to have others are now on the south side of the church at Wy-
been erected by t'he Earl of Leicester, in :the garde'ns of tham, and one of the doors, with the inscription "IANVA
old Cumnor place: the church affords 300 sittings. The VIT..E VERBUM DOMINI" above it, is in the wall sur-
r~gisters all date from 1559. The living is a vicarage, net rounding Wytham churchyard. The village inn, a. pie-

yearly value £242, including 25 acres of glebe, with resi- turesque old-fashioned hostelry, is still "The Bear and

dence, in the gift of the Earl of Abingdon, and held since Ragged Staff." Oake'n Holt, the seat of Sir William Wil-

r877 by the Re-v. Samuel Young :Kaylor Griffith M..A. of son Hunter K.O.S.I., C.I.E., LL.D., M.A., J.P., D.L.

Exeter College, Oxford. The Rev. Dr. Buclder left £ Ioo stands on a. wo<>ded eminence and commands an exteR-

(of which the present interest is £7 r7s. 4d.) to b~ ex- sive view of the upper valley of the Thames and four

pended in the purchase of Bibles and Prayer Books for surrounding countie,s. The Earl of Abingdon is lord Gf
the poor; the Rev. John S:atter, £r 10s. year~y for the the manor a'nd chief owner of the land; St. John's Col-
poor; Mr. William Se:lwood, £4 ns. annually for the lege and Merton College, Oxford, are also landowners.
parishes of Be•s.s-elsleigh and Cumnor alternate:y, to be The soil is various, consisting of stone brash, sand and
laid out in the purchase of foul-weather jackets; Mr. G. loam; the sub-soil is various, principally limestone.

Noble left two £5 notes to 'be lent to poor persons, one The crops are a succession of grain. The area. is 5,g6z
at a time, and to he repaid at the rate of IO groats per acres of land and 32 of water; rateable value, £6,718;

quarter; Mr. Oarey Godfrey, tf..1e interest of £wo, to be the popu:ation in rBgr was 919.

l-aid out in rewards for the Sunday S'C'hool; Mr. H. Hall, Chawley, t1'..1ree quarters of a. mile north~east; Dean-

the yearly interest of £wo, to be divided amongst four court, 2~ north-east; Swin.ford, 2i miles north; Hen-

industrious persons not receiving pari~h relief; Mrs. M. wood, 1! mile south-east; Fi:tc'hampsted, 1! mile north;
Peacock, the interest of £5oo, £3 of which towards the and Rocklt>y, 1! miles south, are hamlets.
school and £r2 to be divided amongst three poor widows Parish Clerk, Edmund Holifield.
who are not on the parish; Mr. W. Slatter, the interest Post & M. 0. 0., S. B., Annuity & Insurance Offi.ce.-

of £wo, to be divided between the school of this parish Edmund Holifield, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from

o.nd the Blue Coat School at Oxford. The pDor's land Oxford at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 7·5 p.m. The
of 7 aeres a'nd 3 cottages produce £22 year:y. T·he nearest telegraph office is at Oxford, 4 miles distant
manor belonged at a very early period to the abbot and Pillar Letter Box, Ohawley, c~eared 7.25 p.m. daily,
convent of Abingdon, by whom the manor house was sundays excepted

nsed as a country seat and built as a sanatorium: ·wall Letter Box, Oaken Holt, cleared 10.30 a.m. daily;

in 1562 it was purchased by Anthony Forster, sundays, Io.go p.m

Juring whose occupancy the tragic event so vividly O'n.urch of Eng:and School, founded in r861, for 153
told in the pages of "KQnilworth," is said to have oc- children; average attendance, 125 ; the school-room
curred: Amy, the young and beautiful daughter and with teachers' house, was built lby the Rev. the ..t.i.On.

heires'> of Sir John Robsart kt. of Norfolk, was married Char:es F. 0. Spencer M. A.. vicar 185o-61; Thomas

.Tune 4, r55o, to Lord Robert Dudley (afterwards Earl of James Cole, master

Gri:ffi.th Rev. Samuel Young Naylor Olanfield John, dairy farmer May Fdk. .Arth. frmr. Bradley farm

M.A. (vicar), Vic.all'age Coates Hy. frmr. Mt. Pleasant farm Podbury John, farmer

Hunter Sir William 1-Yilson K.C.S.I., Coster John, market gardener Richa;rds Edward R. poulterer & far-

C.I.E., LL.D., M.A., J.P., D.L. Drewett Aylmer, wood dealer mer, Dean court

Oaken H<tlt Franklin Thomas, farmer, Swinford Rowles Thos. TheVineP.H.&blacksmith

COliiMERCBL. Franklin 'Yilliam, farmer, Red house Saunders Ja,s. farmer, Manor's farm

Bent Henry, gamekeeper to Capt. Frewin Betheul, carpente.r Sherwood James, bricklayer

Webster Fros1; John, farmer, Lower 'Vbitley Sherwood John, bricklayer

Bennett Edward, boot & shoe maker Hicks Julia (Mrs.), farmer, Hill end Simmonds Jsph. frmr. Sweatman's fro

Blackwell Harriet (Mrs.), grocer Holifield Edmund, shopkpr. Post off Smith EdWlard, clerk vf works to

Buckingham George, coal & wood dlr Howse Susan (Mrs.), marlret gardener Lord Abingdon, Ohawley house

Busby John, Bear & Ragged Staff P.H James Alfred, farmer, Chawley Smith Ephraim, farmer, Ghawley

Butterfield Frederick M. farmer, Far- James David, · gamekeeper to Capt. Walker Percy, frmr.RockleyField fm

moor farm 1-Yebster White Joseph, Dean court

Caple William, market. gardener Kent James, skin manufacturer Wigmore John Bracher, farmer,Ohild-

Chawley Brick Works (Edwaud Smith, King Ilrot'hers, Wood End farm well's faJI'm

manager), Chawley Lambourne Mark, frmr.Longleys frm Wing Richard, dairy farmer

DENCHWORTH is- a parish. s.i.tuated on a feeder of styles, consisting of chancel,nave, north and south chapeLs,
the river Ock, about 3 miles wes:t from Wantage Road and a tower on the north side, oontaining 4 bells·, dated

Etatio~ zl north.Jby-west from Wanro.ge, partly in the 1624, 1733, 1868 and 1869; the chancel is Perpendicular,

Northern division of the connty, hundr{'d of Ock. and and ha.s sedilia. formed in the sill of the south-eas,t
parrtJy in that of )'\'bnmge, petty sessional division, 1mion windQw; the nave has Perpendicular windows and a Late
und county court district of Wantage, and in the rural roof ; the s:oul:ih doorway is a g'OOd example of Nomtan

deanery of Wtantage, archdeaC()nry of Berks and dioce!!le work; the tower is apparently Early English at the base,

of Oxford. The church of St. James, thoroughly re- the upper plart being rather poor Perpendicular : in the
paired in 185z, under the direction of the late G. E. SIOath chapel are some memlorials- to tilie Geering family
Street e~q. R.A. is an ancient cruciform edifice of mixed n.nd in the chancel are bra.sses to Oliver Hyde e~q. 1516,

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and Agnes, his wife, with effigies ; William Hyds esq. are rso si.tlting~s; in the churchyard is a. marble cro5s,

I557• and Margery, his wife, 1562, 12 sons and 8 daugh- erected to commeiDJOralte the w,ife of H. B. Hyde esq.

ters, with effigies and a punllling inscription ; and Wi1liam of Ealing. The earliest date in th& old registers, which

Hyde esq. 1567, and his wifeo Alice, '<llw with effigies; are much mUJtilladed, is 1540; there is also a register
t·he male figures are all in armQur; tlhe. Hyde bra>sS of of briefs from 1707 to 1740· The living is a vicarage,
r562 is a rescript or paJimpsest_; it originally belonged to net yearly value £r2o, derived from 54 acres of glebe,

Bisham Abbey, and has on its proper obverse side an in- with residence, in the gift of the Provost and Fellows of

scriptum commemorating the foundation of that abbey Woroostler Oollege, Oxford, and held since r89.4 by the
by S~r William de Montagu in 1338, and stating that the Rev. Waiter Os"W!ald Wai.t M.A. of Worcest~r College,
fu'lll1<futiJi,on stone was laid, at his request, by King Oxford. There is a coal and clothing club for the poor,
Edward lll. after the ba.ttle of Halidon Hill, near Ber- and two sets of allotments, one called "Poor's piece" and
'Wiick, 1333; there is another brass to William Say, 1493, the other belonging to the vicar, which are cultivated as
robbed of its &'hieldis and effigy, and the church alw field gardens. A Jj~nch of the Fetlt·iplaces, also of Fern-
contains various monUiffi~nts to the familieS> of Geering ham, Ohildrey and Besilslcigh, res.i.d!ed here in the I]th
and Frogley; in the chancel is a JILOnument erect-ed by century, and recorded t·heir pedigree in the visirt-Mtion of

>the Rev. Richard Lynch Goitton D.D. late provoot of 1664-6. The Provos-t and Fellows of Worcestber Oollege,

·worcester College, Oxford, to his two brothers: there Oxford, are lords of the manor. The principal land-

is- also a ha.gioscope in the noctlh chapel, and fa.int tracer. ownens are Worce.ster and Mag-dalen College-s, Oxford.

()f a. rood-loft and a hagiasoope; a library of 150 ancien~ The soil is stiff clay; subs'Oil, clay. The chief crops are

books, formed in 1693 by the Rev. Ralph Kedden, vicar, wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is r,o4o acres;

:Mr. Geering, churclhwarden, and Mr. Edward Brewster, rateable value, [3,5Io. The population in 1881 wa.s 249,

-siliationer, of London, two of which are chained, and and in 1891 was 209.

formerly in a OOQ1ll over the church parch, was trans- Post O'ffice.-Arthur Dearlove, sub-postmaster. Letters
dispatched a~
ferred to tln.e Vii.carage at the restoration of the church; t6ah.r4reo5iuspgs.uhmed.Whsauenrmtea,mgbeeura;trnr6io.v1te0paapti.dm7. ._. 50 a.m.; Postal orders
it included an edition of the "GolcOOn. Legend," printed winter. is the neares~
Wantage
lly Caxrton in 1483, and now in the Bodle[an, and s-till

retains a copy of Oranrner's Bilble, four volumes of money order office & East Harmey, 3 miles distant, the

'Thomas .Aquinas·, one of Homilies, a. copy of Burnet on nearest telegraph office
the Artticles, given by the. llishroR hjmself, and' a Life of
ChriiSit by Ludolphus Saxe; an altar cloth, worked at Naltional School (mixed), erected in 185S, on a site given

St. M'.ary'& Home, Wa:rutage, wus presented by Miss Pye by ·w<Jrcester Oollege, for 6o childrenj average attend-

and friends; the brass lectern is a memorial to ance, 40; in 1726 a sum of £5o was bequeathed by

Mr. Walker, 33 years churchwarden; the oak pulpit Richard Gilgrasse, of Denchworth, to educate poor
was deJSiigned by Mr. A. B. Al1in, architect, Wantage; t children ()f this parish; a field allotted in ~eu of this

-other gifts have been made by H. B. Hyde esq. Mrs. money, now produces. £6 1os. !early, & hmber s~ld

I'Walker, of the Mlanor h'Ouse, W. B. Hyde esq. and others; produced £so, n?w mve.sted at 4 per cent.; Miss

the ea.S't window is stained,and in the wind-Ows of the south Mary Hodgson, m1.stress
transept or chapel are a number of ancient shields of J1 Carriers.-Bond, to 'Alfred's Head,' ·wantage, wed. &;
:arms re~tored by members of the Hyde ilamily; there sat. ; Haines, to Market place, Wantage, wed, fri. & sat

Church Christopher, Ivy cottage Bookex Eliza. (Mrs.), farmer Keep J ames, beer retailer

Wait Rev. Waiter Oswald M.A.(vica<r), Hooker Joseph, shopkpr. Clock house Kimber William, farmer

Vicarage Collins Ja;mes, Fox P.R Lay George, farmer, Hide farm

'W-alker Mrs. Laurel doon Dearlove Arth. groce.r, Post <>ffice Lay Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, New farm

COMMERCIAL, Franey ·waiter Mackay, farmer, North Marcham Joshua, blacksmith

Denchworth farm Walker Jn. Fruin, frmr. Manor farm

lBooker Ben~mi:R., farmer Jefferies Hy. farmer, Low.Circourt fm 1

.DENFORD is a hamlet of Kintbury civil parish, and in in the gift of Major-General Apsley Cherry-Garrard

1833 was formed into an ecclesiastical parish. It is about B.A., J.P. and held since 1895 by the Rev. John

2 miles north-east from Hungerford station on the Great I Frederick Charles Denning M.A. of Trinity College,

lVestern railway, in the Southern division of the county, ' Dublin, and chaplain of Hungerford union, wh<> resides at

Kintbury-Eagle hundred, Hungerford petty sessional divi- Hungerford. The manors of High and Low Denford were

,sion and county eourt district, Hungerford and Ramsbury ; formerly the property of Longespees, Earls <>f Salisbury,

union, Newbnry rural deanery, archdeaconry of Berks and and afterwards of the Lords Lovell and Holland; they are

~iocese of Oxford. Holy Trinity church, which adjoins now the property of Major-General Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Denford House, was erected and endowed by the late G. C. J.P. Denford House, a mansi<>n of the Classic style, and

Cherry esq. in 1832, and is aru edifice of stone in the De- the property of Maj.-Gen. Apsley Cherry-Garrard J.P.

·corated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of nave, south of Lamer Park, Herts, is the residence of George Banks

porch and a riebly carved and embattled eastern tower, Rennie esq. The area is acres; the population in

with pinnacles and spirelets, containing ()De bell: there are i 1891 was 122.
75 sittings. The register dates from the year 1832. i Letters through Hungerf{)fd ab<>ut 2 miles distant, which

"The living is a perpetual curacy, net yearly value £6z, I is the nearest money order & telegraph office

Rennie George Banks, Denford house· Bungey George, miller (water), Den- Cobden Edward, farm steward

&; zo Lowndes street, London S W ford mill to Major-General Apsley Cherry-

.iBooth Joshua, farmer, Denford farm Garrard B.A., J.P. North farm

DIDCOT (or Dudcote) is a. village and parish, with a above the floor, on a stone base, is the recumbent effigy,
junction station of the Oxford and Birmingham and New- in stone, of a bishop or mitred abbot of the 13th century,
bury and Winchester branches with the main line of the recovered in 1775 from the churchyard on the relaying of
•Great Western railway, 6 miDes west from Wallingford, 6~ the path : portions of the figure, reversed, having been
south from Abingdon, 53 from London by rail and 10 from used to form the pathway; the identity of the effigy is at
tOxford, in the Northern division of the county, hundred present in question, although by some supposed to repre-
of Moreton, petty sessional division, union and county s-ent Ralph de Dudcote, abbot of Dorchester, ob. 1294; the
court district <>f Wallingford, rural deanery of Walling- figure, however, is unquestionably mitred, and Dorchester
d:ord, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The was ruJt a mitred abbey; at the south-east corner of the
church of All Saints is a small but interesting edifice of nave is a piscina, and a little bracket for the figure of a
saint; the chancel has four Decorated windows, all of
-stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicullar styles, pic- which, a.s well as the oost window, are stained; the Per-
'turesquely situated on high ground north of the pendicular west window retains some fragments of old
-village, and consi8ts of chancel, nave, aisles, south poreh glass; on the west side is a tStained window to the Rev.
and a low western tower with short octagonal broach John Ashworth Ashworth M.A. 39 yeal"s rector of this
spire, both covered with -shingles and containing 3 bells ;
parish (185r-go), Catherine hi8 wife, and w John Ash-
'the nave is of three bays and ha.s arcades of wide Pointed
Early English arches on low clustered piers, the central worth Ashworth, lieut. R.N. tiheir son; the reredos is
·pier, against which the font is placed, being octagonal and of stone simply arcaded, and on the north .side of the
the other two cylindrical, with caps formed by a succes- chancel is a square piscina ; the pulpit is also of stone,

sion of projecting flat fillets; the south aisle is Decorated, with traceried panels-; the stairs to the rood-loft remain,
and has s-egmental-headed wind<>ws, with recticulated
"tracery; on the t~outh side of the nave, slightly raised a-s also the upper door, over which is a curious two-light

window ; the north aisle, in which stands the organ, is

BERKS. 5._

68 DIDCOT. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY's

modern ; there are floor swnes to Francis Dandridge number of houses ha...-e been built, forming a new village,..

gent, 1759; Robert Lydcll de Dydcott, generosus, r677; which is within the parish of Hagbourne, and is known
Richard Blake of Dudcott, 1709; Benjamin Banner A. M. as North Hagbourne, or Didcot New Town, which see..

fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, .and 24 years rector The Lydalls, or Lydells, wll() resided at Didcot in the

here, and reotor als.o of Whi1Jtington, Lancs. 1817; and 17th century, recorded their pedigree and arms at the:-

to Thomas Collins, and 1\fary, his wife, 18oo; in the visitation of 1664; Robert Lydell, mentioned al:Jove, who
churchyard, west of the porch, is a fine old yew, and on married Martha, daughter of John Collins, of Betterton~

its east side a restored cross raised: on two steps ; on the being then 45· Lord Wantage is lord of the manor and

exterior walls are memorials to the families of Sayer, principal landowner. The soil is chiefly chalk drift and

1721-36, with arms and mantling; and Hayward, 1759- strong black loarn ; subsoil, chalk, shale and clay. The
82; to Muriel, wife of ,Edward Sawyer, of Didcot, 1641, chief crops are wheat, bar~ey and roots. The area is

and her husband, with the arms of Sawyer and Backer- 1,120 acres of good arable and meadow land; rateable-

ton; to the family of Taylor, 1719-63, and to Catherine value, £9,598; the population in 1•891 was 337·
Loder, widow, r6g8; the church was restored in 1876, Parish C:erk, George Robey.

at the cost of Rev. J. A. Ashworth M.A. rector, r85I-go, .Assistant Overseer, John Edmund Hobbs, New Tcmn,.
and a friend, at a cost of £750, and affords about 2oo Didcot
sittings. The early register of this parish, which had Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. &:; .Annuity & Insurance Office

been missing for rsome yeavs, appeared for sale in Septem- (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O~

ber, r88g, in the catalogue of a Birmingham bookseller, Berks added).-:M:rs. Harriet Wiggins, postmistress.

bun was recovered and re·stored t~ the pm-i>;h Ly Mr. G. Letters arrive by rail at 5.30 a.m. & I p.m. ; dispatched

F. Tudor Sherwood; it contains baptisms I575-r678, at 2 p.m. & 9.30 p.m. Telegraph office at station

marriages 157I-I674, and burials rs68-r679, compnsed in WaU Letter Box, opposite Railway station, cleared at 1.4_5;

20 pages of vellum. The living is a rectory, gross yearly & 9.20 p.m.; sundays, 9.20 p.m

value £350, net [301, with residence, in the gift of the Wall Box in the centre of parish cleared at 12.45 p.m. &
Principal and Fellows of :Brasenose College, Oxford, and 9· m p.m. ; sundays, 9· 10 p.m

held since 1890 by the Rev. John Brown M ..A.. of Brasenose A School :Board of 5 members was formed Mar. 8, 1895;

College, Oxford. There is a Cmn Exchange close to the George Frederick Slade, :Market place, Wallingford,
station, in which a market is held on Tuesdays, and a woo] clerk to the board
fair first Tuesday in July. The railway station, which Board School (mixed), erected in 1896 for roo children;
was partially destroyed by fire in 1886, has been rebuilt, average attendance, 82 ; Mrs. Martha Skyrme, mistress;·
with an attached residence for the station master. On Miss Elizabeth Ann Endicott & Miss Sarah Elizabeth
the rising ground, south of the road leading to Walling- Mills, assistant mistresses

ford and Hanvell, and south of the station, a large Railway Station, Christopher Henry Evans, station master

Brown Rev. John 'M.A. (rector) (Harry Stuart :Bush, Long Witten- Legg J ane (Mrs.), coffee tavern

Stevens Hy. Arthur, Britwell lodge ham, sec) Lewis George, Queen's Arms P.H

COMMERCIAL• Drewe Hannah (Mrs.), Junction hot€1 .Napper Dennis', fa.rmer, Manor farm,.

.Alien Elizh. (Mrs.), White Hart P.H & refreshment contractor, Station & hay & straw dealer

Appleford Ann Christian (Mis-s),grocer Evans Christopher Hy. station master :Kapper William, farmer

& provision dealer Great Western Provender Stores Perry George, farmer

Blissett Fanny (Miss), dress maker (Alfred Oampbell, mana·ger) Perry George Thoo. Royal Oak P.H

Cutler Chas. Prince of Wales hotel Hobbs George Collins, farmer, coal Perry John, butcher

Davis Geo. farmer, New House farm &c. merchant & hay & straw dealer Smith Henry, farmer

Didcot Corn Exchange Co. Limited

DIDCOT NEW TOWN. see Hagbourne.

DRAYTON is a parish situated on the borders of register dates from 1754, the earlier ones having been

Oxfordshire and near the road from Abingdon to New- destroyed at the great fire of Drayton in the year 1780.

bury, 2! miles south-west-by-south from Abingdon, xi The living is a vicarage, separated from St. Hel~m, .A.bing-

miles north from Steventon station on the Great Western don, by Order in Council, November 4th, 1867; net

railway, in the Northern division of the county, hundred yearly value £132, with residence, in the gift of Loro

of Ock, petty .sessional division, union and county court Wantage K.C.:B. and held since 1·878 by the Rev. Francis-

district of Abingdon, rural deanery of Abingdon, arch- Edward Robinson M..A.. of Exeter College, Oxforo.

deaconry of Berks· and diocese of ,Oxford. The ·wilts a.nd diocesan inspector of school·s, and master of the Oxford

Bilrks canal passes through thi·SI parish. The church of diocesan guild of church bell .ringers. Here are the
• St. Peter is .a bu.iUding of stone, consisting of chancel, :Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The charities amount to

nave, north aisle, ·South porch and an embattled western about £22 yearly, and there 11re five cott.ages for the poor

tower containing 8 bells and a clock ; the chancel was at a very small rent. The Manor House, an ancient

erected in 1872, chiefly at the cost of the late vicar, and mansion, is the residence of Mrs. Caudwell. Lord ·wan-

has a stained window repr.esenting The Crucifixion ; the tage, who is lord of the manor, and Messrs C. & L. Caud~

!OUth porch, added in 1879• is furnished with gurgoyles of well are principal landowners. The soil is loamy and

carved stone, and in the pavement is the following in- clay; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat.
l!Cription inlaid in lead, "Keep thy foot when thou goest barley, beans and turnips. The area is 1,844 acres o-f
io the house of God !" these improvements jwere effected land and 7 of water; rateable value, £2,475; the popula~­
under the superintendence of Mr. E. Dolby, architect, of tion in 1891 was 585.

Abingdon; the font is a plain cylindrical work of Norman Parish Clerk, WLliam Webb.

date; in the north wall of the lady chapel there is an Post Office (letters through Abingdon).-Robert Mattock,
aumbry, and in the 150uth wall a credence and piscina; 4mb-postmaster. Letters arrive 7.30 a. m. (& 1 p.m.);
there are also two other piscinre in the church; in

digging a vault in the church in the year 1814 the work- dispatched at 1.55 p.m. & 7· 15 p.m. ; ·Sundays, 7 a. m.

men came upon some elaborate and beautiful.' old carvings for callers only. Postal orders are issued here, but nr.i

in alabaster, representing The Betrayal, The Scourging. paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office 1s at

The Crucifixion (now missing) and The Entombment of Steventon, 2 miles distant

Our Saviour, The Adoration ,and The .Annunciation; Parochial School (boys, girls & infants), built in 1874, for

there are 200 ~~ittings, about half being free; the church- 130 children; total averag-e attendance, no; Albert

yard cross was .restored in r871. The earliest existing Sandys, master; Mrs. L. F. Sandys, infants' mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Clarke Waiter B. brick, tile & drain
pipe manufacturer, lime burner &
:Ball Joseph, grocer

Bishop Miss Bradfield Wm. Edwd. miller (water) maker of pressed red faced bricks

Brewer Georg<3 Brewer Georrge, Red Lion P.H Dunsdon Edwin. shopkpr. & coal dir

Caudwell Outhbert, The Grange Brewer Joseph, fruiterer Fisher Charles, blacksmith

Caudwell Leopold, Manor house :Brooker Arthur J. baker & grocer Gardener Edward, shoe maker

Caudwell Mrs. Manor house Oaladine Maria (Mrs.), beer rtlr. (off) Hine J oseph, shopkeeper

Cheer Miss, Drayton villa Carpenter Joseph, jomer Mattock Robert, carpenter, Post office

Dunsdon James, Vale view Caudwell Cuthbert, farmer & land- Neville John, wheelwright

Green Oliver, Briar meade owner, The Grange Rust Albert, farmer, Gilborn's farm

Hyde Mrs Caudwell Leopold, farmer & landowner Rust 1\Iartha (Mrs.),Wheat SheafP.B

Robinson Rev. Francis Edward M.A., & steam ploughing & threshing Winter Charles, bricklayer

J.P. Vicarage machine owner, Manor house Winterbourne Charles, laundry

Stone The Misses Curtis Geo. farm bailiff to Leopold Woodley J ames, cattle dealer

Vincent -, The Limes Caudwell esq

JDIRECTORY. BERKSHIRE. EASTBURY. 69

..DRY SANDFORD is an ecclesiastical parish formed Lenthall esq. ofi Besselsleigh and Mrs. George Grimbl&
in 1867 out of the civil parish of St. ;Eielen., Abingdon, 3 are the chief landowners. The soil is various; subsoil,
miles north-west from that town, in the Northern division brash. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats and
of the county, Abingdon petty sessional division, uruion root crops. The entire area is 730 acres ; the entire popu·
-~nd county court district, Abingdon rural deanery, Berks lation in 1891 was 249.

archdeaconry and Oxford: diocese; it includes Cothill, -} Parish Clerk and Sexton, Richard King.

mile .IOIJuth, a hamlet in the civil parish of Marcham and Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office, Cothill.-
Andrew George Ashfield, .sub-postmaster. Letters from
is called Dry Sandford to distinguish it from Sandford-
(Jn-'l'ha.mes (Oxon), only 5 miles diste.nt. The church of Abingdon by messenger, arriving at 7 a.m. & 12.30
St. Relen, consecrat~d in 1855, is a building of stone in
.the :Barly English style, consisting of chancel, nave, sout.h p.m.; returning at 12 noon & 6.30 p.m. Postal orders
porch and a western turret containing 2 bells ; in the issuecl, but not paid. Abingdon is the nea;rest money
-church is a marble tablet to Mrs. :\Iutrie, a considerable ord~r office
benefactress to the parish; there are 170 sittings, qo "-a:l Letter Box, Dry Sandford, cleared 6.15 p.m. week
days & 11.15 a.m. sundays
being free. The register dates from the iYear 1855. 'l'he Endowed School (mixed), erected in 1869, & enlarged in
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £140, with 9 acres 1898, for 6o children; average attendance, 52; the
of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held school is partly supported by subscription; Miss Amy
since 1878 by the Rev. Henry ·william McCreery B. A. of .Armstrong, mistress
Carriers to .Abingdon-Frederick Bosbury & Percy King,
"Trinity College, Dublin, who is also vicar of, and resides monday & friday

at Shippon. Benjamin Henry Morland esq. of The Cot-
tage, Marcham, who is lord of the manor, Edmund Kyffin

DRY S.A....'llij'DFORD. Phipps Charles, market gardener, COMMERCIAL.
Carter :Mrs Honey bottom

Grimble Mrs. George, Manor house Webb Cecil Eden, miller (water & Ashfi!"ld Andrew George, gardener t()

':Beach Charles, plate powder manfr steam) Messrs. Knowles & Dauglish

-:Beach Waiter Henrv, Fleur de Lvs P.H COTHILL. Herbert George, market gardener

Eaton Edward, farm bailiff tQ. B. H. Dauglish Maurice .John, Cothill house Knowles (Foster) & Dauglish (Maurice

::Morland esq Knowles Foster, Cothill house John), preparatory school, Cothill ho

.EARLEY (or Erleigh) is an ecclesiastical parish interest; the ancient domain of lVhiteknights, formerly

;formed April 28th, in the year 1844, out of Sonning possessed by the DukE's of Marlborough and famous for

'Parish, and comprising the liberty of Earley and part of its ele~ant gardens, has been parcelled out into 8':l1 era)

Woodley, in the Eastern division of the county, Charlton propertie;; for building purposes; the "Wilderness," once

hundred, '\Vokingham petty sessional division and union, renowned for its collection of rare trees and si1ru'Js, has

-Reading county court district, Sonning rural deanery, been divided and several residences built, including "Wilder-

.archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. At Earley ness House, occupied by Howard Vyse esq. Erlegh l\ hite·

·is a station on the Reading and Reigate branch of the knights is the residence of Mrs. Porter and Fox Hill, a.

South Eastern railway and on the South Western line mansion in the Elizabethan style, of Albert Edward Hug-

from Reading to London, about 2 miles south-east from gins esq. Maiden-Erlegh, the old seat of the Goldings, is

.Reading and 4o! by rail from London. The cnurch of St. occupied by Mrs. Garden Nicol and Earley House by the

Peter, consecrated Sept. 21st, 1844, is an edifice of brick, Hon. Eustace Edward Twiselton-Wykeham Fiennes J.P.

lin the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave The principal landowners are Capt. J. St. L. "\Vhehle, who

()f five bays, aisles, vestry organ chamber, south porch is lord of the manor, and the trustees of the late John

.and a tower at the north-west angle, containing one bell: Hargreaves esq. (d. 1895). The area of the liberty is

in 1882-3 the transepts were removed and aisles and a 1,913 acres, and the population in 1891 was 496; the

new chancel and other additions made, at a cost of portion within the municipal borough of Reading having

.£4,338: the east window is stained; the west window is been transferred to St. Giles' parish, Reading, by Local

a memorial to the Rev. George Porcher and his two Government Board Order, 23,869, dated March 24, 1899;

daughters; and there is another memorial window to rateable value, £12,134·

Mrs. Frances St. Aubyn: the church affords soo sittings, Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Post,

of which 200 are free. The register dates from the year · S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Miss ,lane Kis-

1844· The living is a vicarage, net income £250, iu- lingbury, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Read-

eluding 2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the ing at 6.50 & n.5o a. m. & 1.4q !&; 5 p.m. ; dispatched at

vicar of Sonning, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Charles 9·55 a.m. & 12.55, 3·35 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays arrive at

Edward Adams M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cam- 6.50 a.m. ; dispatched at 12.50 p.m. There is a telegraph

bridge, who resides at Earley road, Reading. Bulmershe office at the Earley railway station for forwarding, but

Court, the property of Capt. .Tames St. Lawrence l\'heble not the delivery of, telegrams

and at present occupied by .Tames Bruce esq. is a man- National School (mixed & infants), built in 1850 &;

'!'belsion of stone, standing in its own park-like grounds and enlarged in 1869, 1879, 1·886 & 1890, for 330 children;
commanding- fine views of the surrounding country. average attendance, 305; Henry Wooldridge, master

district of Earley contains several properties of note and Railway Station, Henry John Porter, station master

(Several of the Streets of Reading Pither Miss, Woodbine cottage COMMERCIAL.

extend into the ecclesiastical parish Porter Mrs. Whiteknights park Brooks Bros. farmers, Home farm,

of Earley, and for names of resi- Ryder William Henry, Newhay Maiden Erlegh

dents in these see Reading) Spiller Lieut.-Colonel Duncan Chis- Fulker Geo. carpenter &; wheelwright

PRIV.ATB RESIDENTS. holm Oliver, Earley lodge Hart Frederick, farm bailiff to Capt.

Ilruce James, Bulmershe court Stephens Charles .J.P. Woodley hill James St. Lawrence Whehle, l~cl.

Craft James, Oakleigh villa Sturgiss Edward M. The Coppice mershe park. (Postal address,

Dunlop lierbert Wm. Maisonnette Vyse Howard,Wilderness house,\Vhite- Woodley, Reading)

Fiennes Hon. Eustace Edward Twisel- knights park Hatch George,farmer,Lower Earley fm

ton-Wykeham J.P. Earley house Waite Mrs. Trelawny, Pepper lane Hatch William, farmer, Elm farm

Heelas John, jun. Earley manor Wheble Capt. James St. Lawrence, Hissey .Tames, farmer, Wokingham rd

Jlill Arthur, Erleigh court Hungerford lodge Lewington Jesse, milk seller, Loddon

Huggins Albert Edward, Fox Hill, Wheble Tristram J oseph, Hunger- bridge

White Knight's Park ford lodge Minchin William Leopold, farmer

Nicol )lrs. Garden, Maiden Erlegh Wyly Joseph George, Uplands Pratt Geo. George P.H. London bridg~

.EASTBURY is an ecclesiastical parish formed :March chancel containing 2 bells : there are two stained
.22, 1867, out of Lambourn civil parish; it is 1~ miles
south-east from Lambourn and 7 north from Hungerford, windows in the chancel; the east window, erected in
with a station on the Lambcurn Valley railway. The
river Lambourn passes through the parish. It is in the 1884, is a memorial to the wife of the Rev. George
:Southern division of the county, Lambourn hundred and
;petty sessional division, Hungerford union and county J:o'rederick Forbes M.A. vicar here 1879-84: another, ill
.court district, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry
o0f Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of the west end, was erected in memory of the late Bishop
St. J ames, erected by the late Rt. Rev. Robert Milman
Milman: in 1889 a stained window was erected in thl}
D.D. bishop of Calcutta 1867-76, and vicar of Lambourn
south side of the nave, in memory of the Rev. Thomas
:1851-62, is an edifice of flint in the Early English style, Wat~rs Burridge M..A. vicar of Eastbury r885-8, by his
~Consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, friends: there are 180 sittings. The register dates

;and a small turret at the intersection of the nave and from the year r867. The living is a vicarage, net yearly
value £no, with residen.~e, in the gift of the Bishop of

Oxford, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Barnard

Tyrrell Thompson Theol.Assoc.K.C.L. The charities

amount to fA ros. yearly. The manor belonged at an

70 EASTBURY. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY's

early period to the Fitzwarines, Barons Fitzwarine: on are wheat, barley~ oats and turnips. The
the death in 1429 of Fulk, 7th baron, his .sister Elizabeth acres; the population in 1891 was 277.
became the heiress of the family, and marrying Richard
Hankeford esq. had an only daughter, Thomasine, wife Parish Clerk, Thomas Vockins.
of Sir William :Bourchier kt.; the manor was thus
transferred to the Bourchiers; and Sir William in right P;:Jst Office.-Renry Carter, sub-postmaster. Letters
of his wife was summoned to Parliament as Baron Fitz- from Lambourn R.S.O. arriv~ at 6.40 a.m.; dispatched
warine: it was subsequently held by the Clarkes ot at 7-IO p.m.; sunday, arrive at 6.40 a.m.; dispatched,.
Ardington, and then by the Jones family of Ramsbury; 12.10 p.m. Postal orders are issued, but not paid.
Lambourn is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
Eleanor, daughter and co-heir of William Jones esq. 2 miles distant
married Francis, eldest son of Sir Robert Burdett bart.
from whom the property has descended to Sir Francis National (Church) School (mixed), built for 65 child-
Burdett bart. who is the principal landowner. The soil
is thin clay; subsoil, flint and chalk. Tho chief crops ren; average attendance, 35; endowed with £u yearly.

left in the last century by :Mrs. John Serjent; Miss.
Norton, mistress

.Alderto!l Frederick, The Hermitage Carter Henry, baker, grocer & far- Scambler Thomas, farmer, Eastbury

Nash Frederick, Sunnyside mer, Post office Bottom farm

Scambler Thomas, The Grange Grieve Waiter, trainer of race horses Serrey Ellen (Miss), blacksmith

Thompson Rev. Ba.rnard Tyrrell Hughe.s Frederick, grocer & baker Spackman William, farmer, Manor fm

Theo.Assoc.K.C.L. Vicarage Kearl Charles, Plough P.H Spanswick Henry Thomas, grocer.

COMMERCIAL. l{~nt ~ohn,_ ~hopkeeper draper & farmer

Bew Elijah, farmer & €state agent, Kmohm Wilbam, coaJ dealer Spanswick Thomas, beer retailer

Middle farm Matthews John, farmer Titchiner William, beer retailer

Canning Henry, boot & shoe maker Quallington Albert, carpenter

EASTHA~PSTE~D is a village _and parish and Letters by foot messenger, through Bracknell, which is.

head of a um~m, 5 m1les east from Wokmgham, 9 south- the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at

west from Wmdsor and 29 from London; the Bracknell 6.35 &; 10.30 a.m. Wall Box, near the church, cleared
station of the St~ines :'lnd_ Wokin~ham. bran?h of ~he
~o~th Western ra1l~R:Y. Is situated m this pansh, w~nch at 6.58 & J0.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. week days & 12.15
1s. I.n. the Easte~n division of the cou~ty, petty sesswnal
p.m. on sundays. Pillar Letter Box, Bagshot road,
dcioVuISrItOndiosftrWictokomf glhVaimn,dshour,ndrr~erdalofdRe1anppelreysmoefreR, ecaoduinngty,
cleared at 6.30 & 10.30 a.m. & 5·45 p.m.; sundays, 12
archdea~onr,r of Be~ks a~d dwcese of Oxford. ~art of
t~e I?ar1sh_ IS supphed with water by th~ Wokmgham noon. \Vall L e&tte6r.4B5 opx~ma.t; Bracknell s1t2atinoono~.,deWaraeldl
at 10.30 a.m. sundays,
Distnct "ater Co. _The churc? of St. M1ehael and St.
Mary ~agdalene, bu~lt on t_he_ sit~ of the old churc_h, and Box, at Priestwood, cleared at 8. 15 & 10.30 a.m. &
()pen~d m May, 1E67 IS .a buildmg m the Early C~ntmental 6.40 p.m.; sunciay, 11 a.m
Got~IC style, from designs by Mr. Hugall, ar?hitect, and
consists of chancel, nave . of three bays, aisles, so~th National School (mixed & infants), built by the late
transep~, south porch,_ ~aptistery and a square tower with
four pmnacles contammg 6 bells : the south transept Marquess of Downshire & other landerl proprietors .t

belon_gs to the ~ill family : t~e windows _are stained, attended by the childrea from the workhouse; th9

and mclude one 1n t~e north aisle to ~arohne Frances, school will hold 239 children; average attendance,
170 ; James March, master; in~ants', Priestwood,
late Dowager Marc_h10ness of Downslnre, d. Io _May,
1893• _and Devonsh:re marble has. be~n freely mtro- for 120 children; average attendance, 8o; Miss .A. L.
duced m the decorative work of the mter10r: the chancel
fittings are of oak, and a sedile is formed on the north Crook mistress

Brackneh Railway Station, Edmund Taylor station

master '

Carrier to & from Re~ding.-Joseph Bailey, from Brack·

nell, daily, but wed. & to Windsor mon. & fri
'

EASTH.AMPSTE.AD RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.

side by the elongation of the window sill; double sedilia Meets at the Easthampstead Guardia ·1s' Board room at
occupy the south window; the communion table is of the 'Workhouse en altern.1te thursdays, immediately

oak; the pulpit, on a stone base, is composed of portions after board meeting.

of that fixed in the old church in 1631; in 1876 a stained Clerk, Charles James Cave, Bracknell
east window, designed by the late Sir Edward c. Burne- Treasurer, lVilliam Simonds, Reading
Jones bart. was inserted as a memorial to Arthur (Hill) Medical Officer, William Thomas Garrett "\Voodforde M.D.
Myeawrchtr,ee1a7o4f
Marquess of Downshire, who died 31st : the Oak Bank, Spencer's "\Yood, Reading
roof was re-tiled in 18g8: an ancient very Sanitary Inspector, Harry Lloyd, Crowthorne

remarkable growth, which stands by the church, measures Surv£;yor, James Jeffery Osman, Winkfield Row, Bracknell

63 feet in circumference: there are 340 sittings, of which E.ASTH.A:MPSTE.AD UNION.

2oo are free. The register dates from the year 1558. Board day, every alternate thursday, at II a.m.
The living is a rectory, net income £375• including 93
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Christ Church, The Union comprises the following places :-Binfield, East-
Oxford, and held since 1883 by the Rev. Herbert Salwey hampstead, Sandhurst, Warfield & Winkfield. The
M.A. late senior student of that house, rural dean of population of the union in 1891 was 13,717; assessable
Reading and chaplain to Easthampstead union. The value in r8g8, £,65,469
chapel of ease at Priestwood (also used as a school) was Treasurer, William Simonds, Reading
erected in 1888, at a cost of [781, and is an edifice of red Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Charles
brick, with an apse ; it will seat rso, and is served by the James Cave, Bracknell •

rector and curate. There is also a parish room. The Relieving & Vaccination Offteer, Edwin George )Yright,
CoSllteacntloer•vtorotahde, llra cknell
Primitive Methodist cha'Pel at Priestwood. has sittings Gua rdians , Chas. Barker Wilson, Bracknell
for 6o persons. The fuel allotment has been sold, and
the amount invested produces £6o yearly for coals; Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators : Binfield district,
thers are various charities, amounting together to £8o John Swindale M.B., B. S. Parkham, Binfield; Brack-
yearly for distribution. Here are remains of a Roman nell district, Normm Davis M.D., B.S. The Gables,
~amp. Easthampstead Park is the seat of thl) Marquess Bracknell; Sandhurst district, James Russell M.D.,
of Downshire: the mansion is a spacious building of brick C.M. Sandhurst; Winkneld district, Gerald Edward
and stone, in the Elizabethan style, and stands in a park Barron B..A., M.B. Cranbourne
upward,; of 65o a•'res in extent. This park once con- Superintendent Registrar, Charles James Cave, Brack·
nell; deputy, Charles Barker Wilson, Bracknell
tained a royal residence, inhabited by Richard II. in 138r, Registrars of Births & Deaths, Bracknell sub-district~
and Queen Cat.herine of Aragon, in 153r; James I. was
Edwin George Wright, Bracknell; deputy, H. T. Jones,.
also a visitor here in 1622 and 1623. South Hill Park, Bracknell; Sandhurst sub-district, Herbert Watts,.
the seat of the Rt. Hon. Sir .Arthur Divett Havter hart. Sandhurst; deputy, Mrs. Phrebe Watts, Sandhurst
P.C., M.A., D.L., J.P. is a compact residence of
brick, standing in a park of Boo acres, with four lakes; Registrars of Marriages, Fredk. lYm. Hunton, High st.
the private gardens, laid out in terraces, are very beau- Bracknell; deputy, J. W. Rowe, Bracknell

tiful. The principal landowner!> are the Crown, the The Workhouse, a red brick building, was originally
Marquess uf Downshire, who is lord of the manor, and built by William Watts esq. of South Hill, as alms-
the Rt. Hon. Sir .A. D. Hayter hart. P.C. The soil is houses in 1760, & enlarged & converted into a Union
gravel and sand; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Workhouse by the Marquess of Downshire in r826, ~
wheat and oats. The area is 5,285 acres of land, of which further enlarged in 1889, again in 1898 to hold about
I,ooo acres or more are heath, the property of the Crown, 200 ; George Henry Elwick, master ; Rev. Herbert-
and ro of water; rateable value, £7,351; the population Salwey M. A. chaplain; Norman Davis M.D. medical
in 1878 was 884, and in 188r, r,r72, and in r89r, 1,418, officer; )lrs. Emily Elwick, matron

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. ENGLEFIELD. 71

School Attendance Committee. Clerk, Charles James Cave, Bracknell

Meets at the Board room at the Workhouse on alternate .Attendance Officers: F. W. Mellon, Sandhurst; H. J.
Dallimore, Bracknell; John Edwards, Winkeld
thursdays at noon.

PRIVATE RESIDE:STS. *Peel Lieut.-Col. Cecil Lennox & the Fowler Robert, baker & shopkeeper,

(Marked thus * receive their letters Hon. Caroline, The Cottage, East- Priestwood

through Wokingham.) hampstead park Gale John, farmer, Peacock farm

.Alben :Mrs. Ivy cottage Potter Edward, Newton cottage, Old Gale Joseph, farmer, Manor farm

.Arkwright Hon. Mrs. Firlands Bracknell Greenwood Harry Septimus, Green

*Berwick Henry W. Il. 1Vest gardens, Salwey Rev. Herbert ~LA.. (rector, Man P.H

Ea.sthampstead park rural dean & chaplain of the work- *Harris Edward, head gamekeeper to

Collingridge Frederick, Beechcroft house}, Rectory Marquess of Downshire

*Downshire- Marquess of, Easthamp- Sargeant Miss, Calcot villa. Hatcher William, beer retailer

stead park ; & 24 Belgrave square, Stevenson John, Church Stile farm Hay John,head gardener to Right Hon.

London SW COMMERCIAL. Sir A. D. Hayter hart

*Downshirs Marchioness of,Easthamp- *Berwick Henry W. B. agent to Mar- Loader James, Brewers' Arms P.H

stead park quess of Downshire, 'Vest gardens, *Lowe Frank, head gardener to Ma:r-

Gooch John Viret, Cooper's hill Easthampstead park quess of Downshire

*Harris Fredk. 0. Easthampstead pk Brooks Daniel, farmer, Rectory farm May Edwin, head gamekeeper to Right

Hawker Capt. Charles F. Park side *Ilrown John, farm bailiff to :Marquess Hon. Sir. A. D. Hayter hart.

Hazell l\Irs. The C{)ttage of Downshire, Easthampstead park ).lay William J. builder & contractor

Hayter Right Hon. Sir Arthur Divett Burch Thomas, florist & tomato grwr. Sargeant Henry Jn. wheelwright & car-

bart. P.C., M. A., D.L., J .P. South Priestwood ; & at Bracknell penter & collector of poor rates

Hill park Callingham Walter, nurseryman Seholey George, Horse & Groom P.R

Lewis Mrs. Oakdene Dougal James, land steward to Right Tuckey Charles, farmer, Old :Bracknell

Lucena Charles, Westwick Hon. Sir A. D. Hayter hart. South (For remainder of names see Brack-

Price William, Old Bracknell hcmse Hill Park farm nell.)

EAT ON HASTINGS is a small parish, separated of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Rev. Jolileph Monk
from Oxfordshire by the river Isis, 3~ miles north-west
from .Faringdon, in the Northern division of the county, :M.A. and held since 1899 by the Rev. Vi.noent R{)ck
hundred of Shrivenham, petty sessional division, union
Howa;rd. .Alexander Henderson esq. M.P., J.P. of Bus-
and county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of
the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and cot Park, is lord of the manor an-d chief landowner. The
diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael and .All
soil is strong clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are
Angels is a small but ancient edifice of stone in the Nor-
mau and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave wh€at, barley, beans and oats. The area is 1,584 acre~

and a western turret, containing 1 bell: the chancel was of land and 22 of ·water; rateable value, £ 1,so8 ; the
1·estored in 1870 and the nave in 1879, at a total cost of
£750, and a vestry added in 1895 on the nmth side of the population in 1891 was I57· ·
church: there are five stained windows and a mem()rial
Sexton, William Tuck.
to Henry Beeke, rector, 1670: the church affords Ioo
Letters through Faringdon arrive about 8 a.m. & 2. 30
sittings. The register dates from the year 1500. The
living is a rectory, net yearly Yalue £245, with two acres p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is

at Faringdon, 2! miles distant

Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.45 a.m. & 6.10 p.m.; no

collection on sundays

~at-ional School (mixed), erect-ed in 187-t-• for 6o children;

average attendance, 33; Miss E . .A.dams, mistress

Crosland ·walt-er J.P. The Grange 1 Cambridge 1Vm. James, estate clerk Jackson Thomas, stud groom, Buscot

Howard Rev. Vincent Rock, Rectory to A. Henderson esq. ~.P. Heck- Stud farm

Bowker Chas. J. farmr. Rhodes farm ford lodge Moir George, clerk of works to A.

Clack Richard, farmer, Lower Ho.frm Hill Owen, farmer, Phillip's farm Henderson esq. ~LP. Buscot estate

Cox Hy. John, farmer, Crabtree frm Jordan Jonathan, Anchor inn Tuck George, shopkeeper

ENBORNE is a parish r mile north-west from Woodhay thoroughly restored and reseated in r893 and a new north
station on the Great Western railway, 2~ miles west- aisle added at a total cost of [3,000: there are 250 sit-
south-west from Newbury and 8 east from Hungerford, t.in~s. The register da•tes fram t-he year 1543. The
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Kint- living is a rectory, with tliat of lfu:mpstead M.arsh-all

bury-Eagle, petty sessional division, union and county annexed, joint net yearly value [4-45, with residence and Br

court district of Newbury, rural deanery of ~ewbury, / acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Craven,
archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church and held since 1892 by the Rev. Charles Blois Jobn-
of St. Michael, standing on a slight elevation by the side of son, of Worcester College, Oxford. Here is a Primi~
the road leading from Newbury to Hampstead Marshall, at tive Methodist chapel, erected in 1844 and rebuilt
the head of a charming valley, is an ancient edifice of flint, in 187r, with sittings for 50 persons. There is a
con.sislting of chancel, nave, south a.i.sle, north poroh and poor's allotment of 2oa. rr. 22 p. and a charity producing
western bell-cote, supported on e1arly wooden framework, £9 IS. gd. a year for church purpGses. Enborne Lodge
and containing 2 bells; that there was at one time a is the residence of Robert Hlarris Valpy e£q. J.P. Tht)
north aisle is evident from the piers and arches of an Earl of Craven, w.b.o is lord of the manor, and Robert
arcading formerly built into the north wall, but uncovered Harris Valpy esq. oare the principal landowners. The soil

in 1893, and now forming part of the new north aisle: these is gravel, c:ay and loam; subsoil, clay and chalk. Tne

have good Norman ca•ps and baJS;(l.'S; the chancel is Early chief crops are wheat, biarley, o-a,ts, roots and pasture.
English, with lancet windows at the sides, and a debased The area is 2,483 ~res of land and 18 of water; assessable
Perpendi<mlar easlt window; there is a double Early value, £2,808; the population in 1891 was 442.
English piscina, with a locker at tlhe back; the clmncel Parish Clerk, James Clark.
arch is Norman, but has undergone some alterat.ion ; the
nave and south aisle are separated by an arcade of three Letters thll".ough Ne.wbury, the nearest money order &

Early Korman arches, with circular pillars and sculptured telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 5·30
caplitaJ..s; in the 3Jis1e are some very Early oak benches, p.m. ; sunday, at 10·20 a.m

o.nd the wa1Ls disclose some traces of fresco painting; School (mixed), built in 1876, for roo children; average
the font is cylindrical and arcaded: the church was attendance, 58; William Collins, master

Cox Edward, The Redlands Bowden James, fanner, Wash farm Levy Jesse, bla(:ksmith

Fieldere Thomas W. Enborne house Bullock Joseph, horse slaughterer Phillips Henry, fanner, The Cedars

Gould John, Elmsleigh Clark Frederick, timber merchant Pocock .A.rthur, farmer

Johnson Rev. Chas. .Blois, Rectory Collier Leonard, farmer, Crockbam Punter Mary Ann (Mrs.), Craven

Kimber Charles, Cope hall Collins Joseph, farmer Arms P.H

Valpy Robt. Harris J.P. Enborne ldg Couzens Charles Wm. frmr.Glebe frm Sturgiss John, shopkeeper

Froome John, butcher Thatcher Charles Fowler, farmer,

COMMERC'l.A.L. Green John, bricklayer Skinner green

BartholDmew George, gamekeeper to Heath Benj. Chas. farmer, Hill farm Wallis George, farmer, Enborne gate

James Bishop esq Heath Frederick, farmer Whitington & Son, farmers & potato

Biggs Richard, farmer, Church farm Heath George Thomas, farmer growers, Wheatlands farm

ENGLEFIELD is a v.illa.ge and parish, one mile divisi<m of the county, hundred of Theale, Reading petty
north-west from Theale railway stlation on the Great soosionnl division, B'radfield unio.:n, CO'Illlty ccurt district
'Western roilway,42i miles from London,5 west from Read- of Reading, rural deanery of Bradfield, archdcoconry ol

ing and 2! south from Pangbourne station,in the Southern Berks and diocese of Oxford. This parish is said to take

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72 E:NGLEFIELD. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S

its name from he·ing the site of a. battle fought here the gift of the trustees of the late Richard :Benyon esq.

ll€tween the Dnnes and Saxons, a.d. 87r. The church and held since r8g6 by the Rev. Henry Savill Young

of St. Mark, restored in 1857, and the chancel rebuilt a.t M..A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, and surrogate. There
the sole expense of the lateR. Benyon esq. is a building of is a charity of £27 yearly, left by an unknown donor, for

'flint and stone, consisting of chancel with north aisle, apprenticing poor children; also a gift of £2 for bread on

nave, south aisle, south porch and a western tower with St. Thomas' day. ..A Volunteer Fire Brigade of 12 members

broach spire, containing 6 bells, _Bresented by Mr. Benyon was formed here in 1893, and has a steam fire engine and

in 1868; the nortoh aisle was added to the chancel in various apparatus. James Herbert :Benyon esq. J.P. is

"1514, and is· kMwn a.s the Englefield chapel, having been lord of the manor and principal landowner; his resid·ence,

for a series of yoors. the burial place of that family, Englefield House, is a fine Tudor mansion, charmingly

which became extinct on the dea.t;h of Sir Henry Charles, situated on -a gently rising &k>-pe of the fine deer-park,

Englefield hart. 21st March, 1882; Sir Thomas Engle- facing south and overlooking the valley of the Kennet, its

field knt. Speaker of the House of Commons in qg6, and many turreted pinnacles giving it a noble appearance; it

"in the first furliament of Hemy VTII. the founder of the was built by one of the Plaulert or Bowleut family, but

chapel, is here buried; his monument, an elegant altar- reduced and modernized by one of their descendants,

tomb, surmounted by a c;an.opy and once bearing brass€18, Paulet Wright esq. and has also been reMvated and

sW.nds on the nnrth side of the communion table; and refaced by the present owner, who has -added a new

there is also in the chapel a monument to Sir Francis entrance hall, and converted the old hall into a magnifi-

"Englefield hart. ob. Oct. :z6, r63r, and Jane (Browne) cent library. Siir Fooncis Englefield being abbainted of
his wife, wWi effigies of bath, kneeling ~t a desk, and of high treason in r564, the manor became the property of
~veral ch!ildren. bersides other monumelllts of the Engle- Sir Fr.ancis Walsingham K.G. Secretary of State to Queen

fie.ld family; there is also a mom1ment to Charles Benyon, EJ.izabeth; on one occas·ion the Queen visited this h<mse,

lieutenant in H.M.S. ".Aja:x," killed while at-tempting to and Sir Frlanoi·s, in order to save Her Highness the

board a French vessel off the Lsle of Uba; on the north wall. trouble of as.cending the staircase, built a gallery 120

is a mural tablet of black marble,with epitaph by Dryden, feet long, so as to reach the leV'el of the hill outside a.t

to JoJm Powlet, fifth Marquess of Wtinche.ster, of Basing, the back of the house; this gaHery, reduced t<l go fee.t

Blants, who held Basing House for four years for King by modern alt-emtions within the· house, is now used,
Charles I. but ths mansion bein2" eV'entually stormed hy with Mr. Beny<m's permis,sion, fqa: parochial meetings,

the Parliamentary forces was burnt to the ground; the schooJ fetes and similar useful purposes ; from the second

l\farqueS<S died March 6th, 1674; the monument is &ur- storey of the building, along its passage, an exit is gained

mou.nted by a sh·ield of arms .and t·he motto, "Donee pax to the park out-side ; a portr-a~t of Queen E1izabeth, pre-

cedii.t terris;" a portion of t.his monument, hitherto sented by 'herse·llf in commelllilration of this visit, still

mi&sing, together Wiith three other sepulchral stones,were hangs on a wall in the library.4 in the hall and corridor

d¥covered in the pavement of the church in September, are some exquisite &eulptures by Mu._'}ro, Foley, Po-wer
d~78, during some alterations then proceeding, and the and others ; the dr:a.wing room is a very fine apartment~

four slabs are now fixed upon the surface ; that belongling with a painted ceiling represen;ting the four seasons ; in

tD the monument of the Marque'Ss. bears a long inscrip- one of the upper rooms :Ls a bed.stead brought from
tion, detai1ing his public services, marriages and issue ; Gidea Hall, Essex, and said to have been used by Oh:arles

the others are inscribed t'O Honom (de Burgh), his second I. ; from tillese a.partments and from th~ tower magnifi-

wife, 1661; John Powlett, her e~dest son, r66o; and to cent views are afforded of the beautiful woodland scenery,
Ronora Powlett,her y<lungest daught-er, r66o ;in the south which is here the greatest charm of the far-strffi.chin.g

ai&le is a beautifully sculptured mural monument to landsca[le; the gardens are very attractive, and many

1\fury, wife of Richard Benyon esq. 1777, and another to visitors. from the neighbourhood avail themselves of the

Powle•t "~right esq. 1779; ovter the puJpit is a mural oppDrtunity of inspecting them on Wednesday during the

brass inscribed to Richard de Beauvoir Benyon esq. 1854; months of ..August and September, permission being
in the south a-isle, under two obtuse arches in the wall, kindly given by the proprielt<>r. Elias .Ashmole M.D. of
&re two recumbent e:ffigieiS; one of the.se is a stone figul'e Br,a.senos~ CoHege, Oxford, Windsor Herald and a dis-

of a knight in full armour, with a surcoat, and bearing t.inguished antiquary, ret-ired to this village in 1647;

his shield upon his arm ; the other figure is that of a during his lifetime he founded, br the bequest of the

lady in the costume of bhe 14th century, and is carved younger Trad>e.scant, the museum at Oxford which now

cUJt of a solid piece of oak; t;he areade between th-e nave bears his name, and died a.t South Lambeth, May r8th,

· and south a:Lsle ha,s Early Englisoh arches with very h<>ld r6g2, aged 76. The soi·l is gravel; subsoil, clay and

mouldings suppor<ted on pla.in round massive pillars, with cha:k. 'l'he land is chiefly gras.s and woods. The area
Transition Norman caps; in the chancel is a piscina, is 1,406 acres of land and 30 of water; rateable va~ue,

discov-ered in removing part of the wall for the int-ro- £2,365; the population in 1891 was 341.
duction of a window and sediua; in 1878 a massive Sexkm, WillU!m Vince.

signet ring, of pure gold, of 16th century date and un- Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office.-
usua1ly large size, was found in the churchyard; it bears J ames Hulford Claydon, sub-postmaster. Letter~

a sard, engraved with a helmeted head in profile, inolosed through Reading, arrive at 6.25 a.m. & 12.30 p.m.;

by a cable moulding, and is in posse·SJsion of the rector; dispatched at 8.55 & 11.15 a.m. & 6.55 p.m.; sundays,
the. church wa.s partially rebuiFt in 1B74• a.t a cost of dispatched at u.2o a.m. The nearest telegraph office

{,2,200, and restored in 18gr, at a cost of £450, defrayed is at Theale, 2 miles distant
by the patron. There are 265 sitting8'. The register of National School, built in 1863 &; enlarged by the late

be..ptimls and rnarria.ges da.tes from the year 1567 ; Richard Benyon esq. for 120 children ; average attend-

burials r569. The living is a rectory, net yearly value ance, 85; .Albert Edwin Robinson, mast-er

£3oo, with residence and 26 acres of glebe, let for £35· in Olrrier to Reading.-Tumer, tues. thurs. & sat

Eenyon Jas. Herbert J.P.Englefield ho !Coombes James, head gardener to J. Pocock Frederick William, baker &

Young Rev. Henry Savill :M...A. (rector H. Benyon esq shopkeeper

& surrogate), The Rectory Palmer William, farm steward to J. Roake George Stuart, estate clerk of

COMMERCIAL. H. Benyon esq. Chalk. Pit farm works to J. H. Benyon esq

"Bucknell James. farmer Working Men's Club (Jas. Tegg. sec)

FARINGDON (or Grea.t Farin~on, formerly Chip- in 1646 ; it was su:rren.dered bv !royal command to Si·r

.ping Faringdon) is a well-built IDJarket and union t-own, Robert Pye kt. its owner, who was th~- en in command of

head of a petty se®s·ional diVisi<m and county court dis- the Parliamentary troops, considera,ble damage, however,

trict, and parish, with a station (on a branch of the Great being done bOJth to the town and the ohurch. The town

Western railway from Uffington, opened in 1864), 70 miles is lighbed witlh gas by a company formed in 1835. The

from London, 14 west from .Abingdon, 25 north-west church of All Saints i.s an ancient and in-teresting cruci-
from Newbury, 17 soruth-we.st from Oxford, 35 from form edifice of stone in the Noi'man and later M:yles, con-

"Reading and 9 south-we.st from ·wan·ta.ge, in the norlhern sisting of chancel, nave of 4 bays, aisle.s, double transepts

division of bhe county, partly in the hundred of Faringdon and a central tom!r, containing 8 bells and a clock; the
.and partly in tha.t of Shrivenham. rural deanery of the north door of the n:ave, now disused, is Early Norman;

VaJe of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese the nave and other portions of the- church are in the

of Oxford. The town, which is situate on an eminence, TralllSition style, da.ted from about n8o, and including
.dates a.s far back as the 9th cerutury. Tlb.e Saxon kings the south door, which retains some remarkably ~od
had a palace here, in which Edw,ard the Elder died in 92<1. Early English iron~ork ; the nave arches are semi-cir-
In II44 Robert, Earl of Glouce.st.er, erected a castle, whi~h cular, supported by mass•ive cylindrical piers with ricoh

-after a short siege was demolished by the forces of King foliated capitals; the Early English tower, erected about
Sltephen. During the civil wars Thringdon Rouse was r2oo, is sustamed by four great piers, lined with
garrisoned for t-he Kling, Sir Marmaduke Rawdon kt. clusters of se.mi-cy.Iindci.~l shaFts, each furnished with
being governor; it was attacked in June r645, and again a capital of an elegant and varied form ; the chancel is

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 73FARINGDON.

also Early English, of about the same period, and is the corn market, and built in x863, is an edifice of stone,

remarkable for its grea.t l-ength and extreme simplicity; in the Cffithic style, and is partly occupied by reading

there are canopied sedilia, with rich decorat-ed work, rooons and offices and a. lending library of 6oo volumes.

dating from about 1300 ; the Unton chapel of the north .A. market is held here every Tuesday and the great

tran~pt is also Decora.ted, but later, and dates from cattle market on the first Tuesday in every month,

about 1370; the window is remarkable as haring a which is well supplied with ca.btle of every kind; there

foliated canopy in its splay; the windows of tihe north are Sl!:atute fairs on the Tuesday before and the Tuesday

aisle of the nave are Perpendicular and were probably after Old Michaelmas day. The Police Station is in

inserted about 1400; the west window of the nave is Coach lane, and the Flire Engine Sl!:ation in Ohuroh street.

about a. century later ; the Pye chapel, attuched to the There is a brewery, a saw mill, and patent corn

chancel, was probably added soon after the Reformation ; drill, and brick, tile and drain pipe manufactories,

the eta:s.t window and 6 others in the chancel, 4 in the but the trade is chiefly local. The I Company, xst

south transept, 3 in the aisle of the south transept and 2 Volunteer Battalion, Princes.s Oharlotte O<f \Vales's (Royal

in the south aisle of the nave, are stained; in the Unton Berkshire Regiment), have their armoury in Southampton

chap-el is an -alabaster tQxnb, with recumbelllt effigies of etree-.. Sir Henry Unton kt. left in 1591 £38 yearly

Sir Thomas Unton kt. of Wadley. and Elizabeth, his derived from land, for apprentice fees and blankets fo~

wife; adjoining is a mcmument t{) Sir Alexander Uitton the benefit of the poor of the Port of Faringdon; a suru

kt. ob. 1547, with effigy of himself in a tabard, and his of £xs from Eletanor Goff's charity, left in 1756, is for

two wives, Mary and Cecyll, in heraldic mantles, witb apprent.ice fees; Jhhanna Alfurd in 1721 gave £20 annually

wten children; on the west wall is a marble IlWtllument to ten poor families; there are several other charities

Sir Edward Unton, made a knight of the Bath at the for bread, cools and clothing, amounting to about £so

coronation of Queen Elizabeth, who married Anne (Sey- yearly, which amount is distributed by the trustees.

mour), widow of John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, daughter The Faringdon <Jo.btage Hospital, on the Co-xwell

to Edward Seymour, Duk"S of Somerset, Lord Protector rotad, wa.s· opened July xsth, x8g2, both the site

of England; on the oo.slt wnll is a tablet to Sir Henry and building bein.g- t.he gift of W. Dundas esq. J.P.

Unkln, knighted in Holland in 1586, by Robert, Earl of of the Elms. The building is of red brick and

Leice.ster, for his bravery at the siege of Zutphen; he sttone, from de.signs by Mr. JiOhn Luker, architect, of WeSit

was twice chosen ambassador to France, and died in Dulwich; tht)re are at present eigp.t beds and one cot.

1596, during the emba&sy; the monument was erected in Faringdon Hill, east of the town, is an. eminence of con-

x6o6 by his widow, DQrdthx., Wihose knooling effigy siderable height, crowned with a plantation of lofty firs;

formeirly stood on a pedestal at the foot, brut is now in circuLar and transverse wa.lks round and through the

the Pye- cht:lpeJ.; in this chaEel, on a buttress of the plantat.ion form a favourite Eromenade, commandmg

rower, is a mural monument to Lionel Rlich, ob. 1742, bea,llltiful and extensive views of the slliiT'Ounding country,

who ma.rried, in 1734, Anne, daughter of Henry Pye esq. ; About 1! miles n'Orth is Radcot Bridge, OVt'r the Isis,

ngainst the nQrth wall is a noble monument of "WihiJte which separates this county from Oxon; this was- the

marble with blue columns supportin~che:rubs of alabaster, 1'-<:ene of a battle in 1387 between Robert de Vere, gth

to Ja.ne Pye, ob. 1706; another monument of variegated Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland, a favourite of

marble, supported by columns of the TrusQan order, is Richard II. and the forces of the disaffected nobles under

in memory of Ann Pye; there are many additional monu- Henry, Earl of Derby (ajterwards Henry IV.) and

mentJs and bras.ses to the Parker, Purefoy, Pleydell and Thomas, Duke of Gloucester, when the troops· of de Vere.

other families, but these have been mostly mutilated or numbering some s,ooo, beling surrounded, he secured his

remo.ved from their original positions; Richard Lenton, personal safety only by divesting himseLf of his armour

vicar, ob. 1410; Thomas Far;y_ndon esq. ob. 1396, and and s·wimming down the river; 6~ miles south-east is

Margaret, his wife, ob. 1402; and their daughter, Cather- 1i the celebrwted White Horse _(from whi:h the vale is
ine Pynchepole, ob. 1443· The church was thoroughly named), rude-ly cut through the turf on the side of the

restored in 1854; there are x,ooo sittings, 300 being free. chalk hill, and dating in all pro-bability from the Saxon

"The churcth is approached by a pleJ.asant avem.u.e of chest- period. Faringdcm House, re-erected in 1780 by Henry

nut trees. The register dates from the year 1582. The James Pye esq. M.P. for Berks and Poet-Laureate, is a

living is a vicarage, with Little Coxwell annexed, net building in the ItJalian style, &itua.ted on an eminence,

:yearly value £220, including 78 acres of glebe, with resi- with fine views of the counties of Oxford and Gloucester;

dence, in the gift of Simeon's trustees, and held since Mr. Pye, who received from the University of Oxford the

1891 by the Rev. Charles Edward \Velldon M.A. of Keble bonQrary degrees of M.A. in xz66 and D.C.L. in 1772,

'O:>llege, Oxford. The meeting house of the Society became poet-lauroote in 1790, and m 1792 one of the police

of Friends in Lechlade road is a. building of stone magistxates forWestminster; he was the author of a poem

with ISO sittings. The Baptist Chapel, Bromsgrove called "Faringdon Hill," and other works, and died

place, is of stone, and will seat 250 persons. The August n, 1813. The Tru!itees of the late Daniel Bennett

Congregational Chapel, Marlborough street, erected esq. are lords of the manor, a court leet is held annuaJly

in x84o, has 300 sittings.. The Primiotive Methodist at the Crown hoteL The principal landowners are Oriel

Chapel, Ooxwei.l street, erect-ed in IB51, will seat 180 College, Oxford, Lord \Vantage V.C.. K.C.B. the t.rustess

persons. The Wesleyan Chapel, Gloucester street,erected of the late Daniel Bennett esq. Alexander Henderson esq.

in r837, has 180 sittingos. The cemetery of about I! M.P. of Buscot, and W. Niven esq. F .S.A. of Carswell.

acres, on the we~rn side of the tQWil, was opened fo.r The area is 5,886 acres of land and 3I of water; rateable

burials in 1865, but has oo mortuary chapel; it is under value, including Little-worth, £13,929; the population in

the management of trlliSI!:e.es. The Town Hall, an old 189I was 3,I33, including 112 officers and inmates of the

building, the upper part of which is Uised as a coffee workhouse.

room, is sitUI'3•ted in the centre of the town, from whicth Parish Clerk, 1Villiam Noad, London street

the stree.ts diver,2'e. The Oorn Exchange, situated in

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL I~STITU'riONS, &c.

Post 0. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Parcels Post.-The post office is open for parcels post

Post, S. B. &; Annuity &; Insurance Office.-John Pike, business on week days from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. On

postmaster sundays no parcels post business is transacted. Par-

Letters received from London & all parts (night mail) cels deliveries commence at 8 a.m. 1 & 6.50 p.m.
Parcels mails are dispatched a~ n.3o a.m. I2.4o, 8.30
are delivered to callers & by letter carrier at 7 a.m.
& ·:) p.m
I p.m. & 7 p.m. ; office open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. On

sundays, one delivery, 7 a.m. The Qffice is open from F..illiXGDOt..""i RC'RA.L DISTRICT COUXCIL.
8 to :ro a.m

Meets at Workhouse on tuesdays on completion of

Letters Dispatched to: ordinary Guardians' board business for sanitary matters

tJ·London, 9 a.m. ; London, Oxford & Abingdon, 11.20 & last thursday in month (excepting July) for Highway
-a.m. (extra stamp) 11.30 a.m.; Swindon, 1.15 purposes.

p.m. (extra "2"d. stamp) 1.20 p.m.; Bampton, Buck- Clerk for Sanitary Purposes, Alan George Haines, London

land, Coxwell, Clanfield, Coleshill, Eaton Hastings, street

Highworth, Longworth, x p.m. ; London & all parts, Clerk for Highway Purposes, Edward Percy Crowdy, Mar-
ket place
8.45 p.m. (extra !d. stamp) 9 p.m.; Witney & Faring-

don postal district, ro p.m. Sunday, London & all parts, 'rreasurer, \Villiam "\V. Bliss, Lloyd's Bank
8.45 p.m
Medical Officer of Health, Friend Edward Streeten

Wall Letter Boxes.-Stanford road, cleared II a.m. &. L.R.C.P.Edin., D.P.H. 26 High street, Swindon

8.45 p.m. week days; Marlborough street, cleared Surveyor, William Powell, Marlborough street

at rx a.m. &; 7.50 p.m. week days & 8.45 p.m. sundays Sanitary Inspector, Frederick James Mattbews, London st

74 FARINGDON. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S.

COU:XTY ~UGISTRA.TES FOR F.ARINGDO~ PETTY F.ARINGDOX U~l10'~.

SE'SSIOYAL DIVISION. Board day, tuesday, at 10.30 a.m. at the ·workhouse.

Edwards Lieut.-Col. Charles Grove, Wicklesham house, The Union comprisas the following parishes :-Ashbury-

Faringdon, chairman with Idstone, Odstone & Kingston Winslow, Baulking..

Barrington Viscoant, Beckett, Shrivenham Bourton, Buckland, Buscot, Charney, Coleshill, Comp-

Barrington Hon. Walt. Bulkeley D.L. Beckett, Shrivenhm ton Beauchamp, Eaton Hastings, Fernham, Gafton

Pleydell-Bouverie Hon. Duncombe D.L. Ooleshill house, (Oxford), Great Coxwell, Great Faringdon with Littla-

Highworth, Swindon w•)rth, Hatford, Hinton Waldrist, Kelmscot (Oxford).

Throckmorton Sir ~'icholas William bart. D.L. Buckland Kinggton Lisle with Fawler, Langford (t)xford), Le·~h~

house, Faringdon lade (Gloucestershire), Little Coxwell, Little Faring-

Butler William Joseph esq. Woolstone lodge, Faringdon don (Oxford), Longcot, Longworth, Pusey, Hadco£

Case .Arthur Molesworth esq. Faringdon (Oxford), Shellingford, Shrivenham with Beckett,

Crosland Waiter esq. The Grange, Eaton Hastings, Far- Svmford-in-the-Vale, "Cffington, Watchfield, Wool-

ingdon stone. The population of the union in r8gr was
Dundas William esq. The Elms, Faringdon I3,5-H; rateable value in r8gg, £ ro2,gro.
•

Habgood George William esq. Marlborough house, Faring- Clerk to the Board of Guardians & Assessment Com-

don mittee, .Alan G. Haines, London st. Faringdon

Hanbury Edgar esq. Eastrop grange, Highworth Treasurer, William W. Bliss, I.Joyd's Bank, Market place,.

Henderson .Alexander esq. M.P. Buscot park, Faring<lon Faringdon

Loder-Symonds Capt. Frederick Cleave, Hinton manor, Collectors to the Guardians &, Assistant Overseers, Eaden

Faringdon Caddy, Gloucester street, :Faringdon; F. J. Matthews.

Liddiard George esq. Market place, Faringdon London street, Fal'ingdon (Ashbmy); John Phillips~

~iven 1Yilliam esq. Carswell manor, Faringdon Bourton; James Lawrence, Shrivenham; F. Carter~

The chairman, for the time being, {){ the Faringdon Rural Bucklaud; 0. Hopkins, Busoot; E. Belcher, South-

District Council is an ex-officio magistrate ampton street, Faringdon (Little Coxwell); F. Street,

Clerk to the Magistrates, E. P. Crowdy, Market place Lechlade; James Drew, Longworth; Thomas Herbert
Burge, London street, Faringdon (Baulking & Uffing-
Petty Sessions are held at the court house, Coach lane, ton); John Theobald, Coteshill; W. J. Cambridge.
evary tuesday at II a.m
Eaton Hastings; W. C. Smith, Kingston Lisle; James

The following places are included in the Petty Sessional George, Longcot; Henry A.. Cox, Stanford
division :-.Ashbury, Baulking, Bourton, Buckland, Relieving Offilcers & Vaccinating Officers-Faringdon &
Buscot, Charney, Coleshill, Compton Beauchamp, Buckland district, John Trentfield, London street, Far-
Coxwell (Great & Little), Eaton Hastings, Faringdon, ingdon; Shrivenham district, John Selby Baseley,
Fernham, Hatford, Hinton, Kingston Lisle, Longcot, Shrivenham
Longworth, Pusey, Shellingford, Shrivenham, Stan- ::\[pdieal Officers & Public Vaccinators-Ilucklancl dis~
trirt, Harold Dal'win Hey ~I.R.C.S.Eng., L.RC.P_
ford, Uffington, Watchfield & Woolstone
Lond. Eastfi~ld, Faringdon; Faringdon district Nu. r.,.

PUBLIC EST.ABLISHME...~TS. David Gerald Kennard L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.E'ng.

Gloucester house, Faringdon; Faringdon district No. 2~
Cemetery, Canada road, Frederick Barnard, secrebry to .Toseph Ogden March L.R.C.P.Lond. St. John's house,
the trustees
Lechlade ; Shrivenham district, George Eccles Priestley
Oorn Exchange, Market place, E. P. Crowdy, sec.; ~ixon L.R.C.S.I. Shrivenham
William Koad, clerk & collector
Superintendent Registrar, Alan George Haines, Lcndon
Cottage Hospital, Coxwell road, J. C. Maclean M.n. l'on. street, Faringdon; deputy, Ernest Edward HaineS)
consulting physician; Horatio Percy Symonds F.R.C.S. London street, Faringdon
Bdin. &; John Parker Lockwood L.R.C.P.Lond. hon. Registrars nf Births & Deaths, Buckland sub-district,.
consulting surgeons; Harold Darwin Hey L.R.C.P.Lcmd. John Trentfield, London street, Faringdon sub-
& David Gerald Kennard L.R.C.P.Lond. hon. medical district, William Noad, London street, Faringdon;
officers ; Augustus E. Butler, hon. surgeon-dentist ; deputy, J. Shirley, London street, Faringdon; Shri-
Edward Percy Crowdy, hon. sec. ; Miss Haines, London venham sub-district, John Selby Baseley, Shrivenbam;
street, assistant sec. ; Miss M. J. Matthias, matron
deputy, H. C. E. Olliver, Shrivenham
County Court, held bi-monthly, at the court house, Registrar of Marriages, Henry Williams, London stroot~
Coach lane, His Honor Thomas William Snagge ~LA. Faringdon; deputy, T. H. Burge, London street~
judge; Edward Percy Crowdy, registrar & hi;:;h bailiff; Faringdon
Harry Thomas Cobden, assistant bailiff. The district
comprises the following places :-Ashbury, Baulking, The ·workhouse, a stone building in Union street, will
Beckett, Bourton, Buckland, Buckland Marsh, Bullock's
Pits, Buscot, Buscot Wick, Carswell, Carswell Marsh, hold 450 inmates, Owen Goswell, master; Mrs. Gas-
Charney, Clanfield, Clanfield ·(Little), Coleshill, Compton well, matron; Rev. Edward Thorp B..A. chaplain;
David Gerald Kennard, medical officer

Beauchamp, Great Ooxwell, Little Coxwell, Downing- School .Attendance Committee.

ton, Duxford, Eaton Hastings, Great Faringdon, Little Meets at the Workhouse on completion of ordinary
Faringdon, Fawler, Fernham, Grafton, H:.tford, Hinton board business.
Waldrist, Idstone, Kelmsoot, Knighton, Kingston Lisle,
Kingston Winslow, Langford, Lechlade, Littleworth, Clerk, .Alan Geor.ge Haines, Loa1don street, Faringdon
Longcot, Longworth, Odstone, Pusey, Radcot, Shelling- Attendance Officer, W. Noad, London street, Faringdon

ford, Shrivenham. Stanford, Thrupp, Uffingt.on, 1Vad-

ley, Watchfield, Woolstone PUBLIC OFFICERS.

This Court is included in Swindon for bankruptcy pur- Clerk to Commissioners of Taxes, .Alan George Haines,
poses, Harry Bevir, 46 Cricklade street, Swindon, London street; assistant, Ernest Edward Haines,
official receiver London street

Certified Bailiffs appointed under the "Law oi Distress Clerk to the Lighting Inspectors, Edward Percy Crowdy,
.Amendment Act " : Matthew Catlin Innocent, Lechlade ; Market place
Harry Thomas Cobden, Faringdon & George John
Dyke, Faringdon Clerk to Unton's Charity Trustees, Frederick J am~s
Matthews, London street
County Police Station, Coach lane ; Faringdon division,
Ashbury, Buckland~ Buscot, Coleshill, Faringdon, Inland Revenue Officer, Patrick Walshe, Marlborough st
Longworth, Shrivenham, Stanford-in-the-Vale & Collectors of Poor's Rates, William Nc·ad, London street
Uffington, Robert Butcher, superintendent; I sergeant Inspector of Weights & Measures, Superintendent of

& 9 constables Police, Inspector under the Explosives Act & the Con-
Fire Engine Station, Church street, Capt. E. E. Haines, tagious Diseases .Animals .Act, Robert Butcher, Police·
station, Coach lane
supt. & 12 men Steward of the Manor of Great Faringdon, R. R. Elwell,.
Inland Revenue Office, Marlboro' street, Patrick 1Valshe, Highworth

officer Town Crier, William Hughes, Gloucester street

Stamp Office, Marlborough street, John Pike, distributor

VOLU~1TE,ERS. PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services.

JSt Volunteer Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales' (Royal All Saints' Church, Rev. Charles Edward Welldon M.£
Berkshire Regiment) (I Co.), Armoury, Southampton vicar ; Rev. .Arthur Faussett Alston, curate; II a.m. &
street. Officers : 2nd Lieut. Berkley William Fair- 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7.30 p.m. ; saints days, 12 noon
thorne, commanding; Sergt. Alfred Parmenter, drill
instructor Baptist, Bromsgrove place, Rev Henry Smith; xo.4J

a.m. & 6 p.m. ; mon. & thurs. 7 p.m

DIRECTORY.) BERKSHIRE. FARINGDON.

Congregational, Marlborough street; Rev. Jasper J. Newspaper-Faringdon Advertiser & Vale of Whiter

Frewing, rr a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; mon. & thurs. 7 p.m Horse Gazette, London street, C. Luker & Co. pub-

Friends' Meeting House, Lechlade road; services oc- lishers ; published saturday

casionally Railway Station, "'alter King, station master

Primitive Methodist, Coxwell street, Rev. George Hull; Parcels & Goods Office, William Houghton, agent·~

2.30 <& 6 p.m. ; tues. 7.30 p.m clerk, Brom sgrove place

1Vesleyan, Gloucester street, Rev. Ebenezer Wilson; 10.30 CARRIERS to:

a.m. & 6 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m Abingdon-Brown, mon. & fri. from his house, Gravel

SOHOOLS. walk, calling at Littleworth, Buckland, Longworth,
Kingstone, l'rilford &i ~iarcham

National (boys), Stanford road, erected in 1825, for 1 Highworth-Brown, wed. from his house, Gravel walk;

204 children; average attendance, 131; James Sbir- & Bizley, tues. from '·whi.te Hart'
•
ley, master Kingston Lisle Curtis, from ' Red Lion,' tues

:Xational (girls), London road, erected in 1833, for rso Longworth-Batts, tues. from 'Red Lion '

children; average attendance, 120; Mrs. Emma Sbir- Oxford-Boucher, wed. & sat. from his house, London

ley, mistress street, calling at Littleworth, Buckland, Pusey, Hin-

National (infants), Station road, erected about 1856, for ton, Longworth, Southmoor, Kingston, Fyfield, Tub-

130 children; average attendance, roo; Miss Caroline ney & Besselsleigh

\Vatling, mistress Stanford-in-the-Vale-House, tues. 'Red Lion'; &

British (mixed), Lechlade road, erected in 1872, for 140 Brown, sat. from his house, Gravel walk

children; average attendance, 110; Henry Proctor, Uilington-Curtis, tues. from ' Red Lion '

master; Mrs. Proctor, mistress Wantage Brown, sat. from his house, Gravel walk

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Y.dwa.rds Col. Charles Grove J.P. :\Iatthews Miss, Beaumont place

Wicklesham house ~Iatthias Miss, Coxwell road

Abel Emanuel, Gravel walk Emery Mrs. Hill side ~Ioney Miss, Church street

Alston Rev. Arthur Faussett (curate), Fairthorne BerkeleyWm.Leamington vl Kewdick Edwd. Palmer,z Westfieldvls-

The Nurseries, Coxwell road Fidel Mrs. Marlborough street NewingtDn Fdk. Wm. Gloucester st

Anderson Major John Frederick, Cox- Frewing Rev. Jasper J. (Congrega- Owen Percival Thornton, London st

well lodge tional), Marlborough street Parker- Jas. Hy. Mill ho. Stanford rd

Andrews Charles J. D. Gloucester st Gardner Mrs. Marlborough street Partridge Miss, Marlborough street

Anns Misses, Union street Gerring Miss, Marlborough street Penson ~Iiss, Westbrook villas

.Anns Mrs. Camden house Griggs Elisha Henry, Gravel walk Pocock Robert, Market place

Ballard Mr~. Arthur, London street Gylby Mrs. Gloucester street Porter Fredk. Wm. Ilromsgrove place-

Beasley Mrs. Bleak house, Church st Habgood Geo. Wm. J.P. Marlboro' ho Povey :!\Irs. l"ernley villa, Coxwell rd

Belcher Edward, London street Habgood John, West lodge Powell 1Yilliam, Marlborough street

Bennett Miss, Sudbury house Haines Alan Geo. M.A. Hill Side ho Re,·nolds ::\Irs. Station road
Bliss William Warren, Bank house •

Haines Ernest Edward, London st Saunders Edward, Tollington house

Buckley Miss, 1Vestbrook Haines Miss, London street Sell Wm. Collins, Marlborough street

Butler Augustus Edwd. Gloucester st Hands James Bell, Gloucester street Smith Rev. Henry (Baptist), 1Yest

-Bye George Edwin, Gloucester street Rev Harold Darwin, Eastfield view, Stanford road
Cadel Mrs. London street Hawse Miss, 3 Westfield villa'! Smith Herbert Augustus,Mistletoe cot~

Cadel Randal Jsph. Church street Hull Rev. George (Prim. :Meth. ), Stanford road

Carter Albe.rt, Marlborough street Bromsgrvve place Taylor Turrill, Gloucester street

Case Arthur Molesworth J.P James Mrs. .Astley house Watling l\Iiss, 4 Westfield villas, Cox-

Chamberlain Edward Jas. The Firs, Jefferies James, London street well road

London street Kennard David, Gerald, Gloucester ho n·elldon Rev. Charles Edward M...\.•.

Chamberlain Thomas, London street Kent Miss, Marlborough street Th\' Yicarage

Cobdeu Harry Thos. Gloucester st Lawrence Miss, Marlborough villa, ·wheeler Mrs. 1Vestbrook villas

Cook Wm. Bichd. M.P.S. Market pi London street ·wheeler l\Irs. W. Marlborough st

Counsell Henry, Madborough street Liddiard Frank H. Market place Wieks Mrs. I "\Vestfield villas

Creese Franklin Waiter, Market place Liddiard George J.P. Market place Williams George Arthur, London st

Crowdy Edward Percy, The Grove Liddiard George Ernest, Market pl Willis George S. Market place

Curtis Miss, London street Lockwood Jn. Parker,Bromsgrove ho 1Yilson Rev. Ebenezer (Wesleyan),.

Deacon Thomas, Southampton street Luker Charles, London street Lechlade road

Dundas William J.P. The Elms Martin-Atkins Fras. Hastings, Wes-t-[Wright Thomas, Gravel walk

Dyke Mrs. Market place field house Young The Misses, 1-Yestbrook house

COMMERCIAL. Butcher Robert. supt. of police & inspector of weights &;

.Abel Brothers, watch makers, Market place measures, inspector under the Explosive Act & under·

Andrews Charles J. D. solicitor, Gloucester street the Contagious Diseases (Animals) .Act, Police station,.

Anns Thomas William, ironmonger, London street Coach lane

Archer D. & Son, pianoforte tuners, Marlborough street Butler .Augustus E. denti~t, Gloucester street

Archer John, teacher of music, Marlborough street Caddy Eaden, collector to the guardians & assistant onr--

Austin Henry, builder, Gloucester street seer, Gloucester street

Bailey Jn. fellmngr. & parchment ma. Bromsgrove place Cadel Brothers, builders, Church street

Ballard & Co. wholesale & retail chemists & oil, calor & Cadel Arabella (Miss) &i Bap Adele (Mdlle.), girls' board-

hop merchants, Market place ing &; day school, Gloucester street

Ballard & Son, blacksmiths & wheelwrights, Coxwell st Cadel Randal Jsph. bldr. & coal mer. see Cadel Brothers-

Barnard Frederick, cabinet maker & earthenware dealer Carpenter JDseph, black;,mith, Coxwell street

& sec. to cemetery trustees, Market place Carter .Alfred, baker & corn dlr. Marlborough street

Bayly Sarah (Mrs.), stationery & fancy repos. London st Carter John &; Son, wholesale & retail grocers & bacon.

Belcber & Habgood Lim. wine & spirit mers. Market pl curers & provision merchants, Marlborough street

Belcher & Co. grocers, Market place Carter William, farmer, Gravel walk

Belcher Edward, collector to the guardians & assistant Cemetery (Fredk. Barnard, sec. tD trustees), Canada rd

Dverseer for Little Coxwell &; clerk to Little Coxwell ('ham berlain & Son, grocers & agents for W. & A. Gilbey-

parisb cotmcil, London street Limited, wine & spirit merchants, London street

Bevan Charles Henry, boot maker &; agent for Sutton & Cheese Clement Macmichael, Salutation hotel, Market pi

Co. carriers, London street Church Charles, coal merchant, Bromsgrove place

Bliss William Warren, manager Df Lloyd's Bank & Church George, farmer, Bri:~ton farm

treasurer tQ the union & Rural District Council, Mar· Clack Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Camden farm

ket place Clark John, insurance agent, Southampton street

Boucher Thomas, beer retailer & carrier, London street Clarke "\Villiam Shaw, Folly P.H. London street & coal!

Bowler Thomas, shopkeeper &; haulier, Coxwell street merchant, Railway -station

Brasington James, baker, London street Clement Charles Richard, coal merchant, Station road

Brown James, carrier, Gravel walk Clements William, chimney sweeper, Gloucester street

Burge Thomas, saddler, London street Cobden Hy. Thos. bailiff under Agricultural Holdings

Burge Tom Herbert, deputy registrar of marriages &i col- Act & solicitors' clerk

Ilector to the guardians & assistant QVerseer for Baulk- Cole Joseph, farmer, :Korthfield farm
ing & Uffington di:::tricts, London street Cook William Richard ::\I.P.S. pha.,.,rm""aceutical chemist

Burgess Albert E. saddler, -see Deacon & Burgess &c. see Ballard & Co

76 F.A.RINGDON. BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Collins & Co. carriage builders, Marlborough street J otcham & Son, solicitors, Gloucester street
Cooper Isaac, boot maker, Marlborough street Kight Mrs. apartments, London street
Cooper J ames, carpenter, Southampton street Kitto Jasper G. sewing machine agent, Marlborough st
Corn Exchange Co. Lim. (E. P. Crowdy, sec) Knapp Mary (Miss), reg. office for servants, Market pl
Counsell Edwin, watch maker, Corn market
Lane Bros. ironmongers, Marlborough street
County Court (His Honor Judge T. W.. Snagge; Edward Lavington f'rederick, Marlborough Arms P.H. & basket
Percy Crowdy, registrar & high bailiff; Harry Thomas
Cobden, assistant bailiff), Court house, Coach lane maker, London street
Lay Eliza. (Mrs.) (late Henry Lay), pastry cook & con-
Cox Frederick William, farmer, Bromsgrove place
fectioner, british wines, rich wedding & other cakes
Cox Hy. reporter, Wellington cottage, Lechlade road
Craddock Lucy (Mrs.), Crown family & commercial hotel, of all descriptions, Market place; & at Wood st.Swindn

Market place Leverton Esser, boot & shoe maker, London street
Lewis Samuel George, brewers' agent, Coxwell road
Creese Franklin Walker, draper, Market place Liddiard Frank H. grocer, see Belcher & Co
Crowdy & Son, solicitors, Market place
Crowdy Edward Percy (firm, Crowdy & Son), solicitor, Liddiard Goorge Ernest, grocer, Market place

commissioner to administer ooths & clerk to magis- Lloyd's Bank Limited (branch of) (William Warren Bliss,
trates, clerk to Faringdon Rural District Council for manager) (hours Io till 3 except tuesdays 10 tD 4 &
saturdays 10 to 1), Market place; draw_ on London
highway purposes & registrar of County Court & clerk
office, 72 Lombard. street EO
to highway inspectors, Market place
Davis William, boot maker, Marlborough street Long Louis a (Mrs.), laundress, Coxwell road
Deacon & Burgess, saddlers & harness mas. Market place Long Willi[lm, painter, Marlborough street
De Bank Isaac, Volunteer P.H. Gloucester street Loveridg-e Tho~rna.l Potter, chemist, London street
Deverell Geo. agt. for L. L. Morse, Swindon, Gravel walk
Dyke George John, auctioneer, valuer & estate agent, Luker G. & Co. booksellers, stationers, printers, proprie-

& certificated bailiff under the "Law of Distress Amend- tors & publishers of the "Faringdon Advertiser & Vale
ment Act, 1888," Market place; res. Coxwell house of White Horse Gazette," London street
Elliott David James, saw mill proprietor, Station yard McDonald William, travellin~ draper, London street
Faringdon Advertiser & Vale of White Horse Gazette ~latthews Alf, farm bailiff to George Adorns esq.
(C- Luker & Co. publishers; published sat.), London st Lodge ia-:;:·m
Faringdon Cottage Hospital (Harold Darwin Hey L.R.C.P.
Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng,& David Gerald Kennard M.R.C.S. Matthews Annie (Miss), dress maker, Church street
Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. hon. medical officers; Edward Matthews Frederick Jame-s, sanitary inspector to Rural
Percy Crowdy, hon. sec.; Miss M. J. Matthias,mat.ron),
Coxwell road District Council, collector to the guardians, assistant
Faringdon Gas Light & Coke Co. (Wm. Noad, sec.) ;
overseer & clerk to Unton's Charitv, London street
offices, London street; works, Canada road
}'ire Engine Station (Capt. E. E. Haines, supt.),Church st Mattingly William, Angel P_H. Ma•rket place
Mills Charles, general dleal-er, Coxwell street
Fletcher Charles .A. baker, London street Newma.n Joseph, shoeing smith, Market place
}'oard William Rabbets, grocer, Marlborough street Noad William, registrar of births & deaths for Faring-
Franklin Thomas, Bell family & commercial hotel &
don sub-dist.rict, sec. to thf! Gas Light & Coke Oo.
posting house, l\farket place
Goddard Jonathan & Son, boot makers & drapers, Glou- Lim. clerk to the Faringdon Corn Exchange Co. Lim.

cester street assistant overseer, school attendance officer, collector
Godfrey Henry Thomas, brick mannfr. Stanford street of poor rates & parish clerk, LJndon street
Goulding Maria (Mrs.), linen draper, Marlborough street Parker Jas. By. M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgn. Stanford road
Great Western Railway Co. (Parcels Booking office) (John Phillips W. G. & Sons Lim. brewers, Eagle brewery
Pike Ellen (Mrs.), lVhite Hart P.H. Gravel wa:.k
Houghton, agent's clerk), Bromsgrove place Pike John, postmaster, Marlborough street
Green Charles, builder, Marlborough street Plumb & Brown, dress makers, Union street
Griggs Elisha Henry, boarding & commercial school, Pocock & Son, tai1oll's, Market place
Porter Frederick Wm. corn & seed mer. Gloucester st
Gravel walk Powell William, district surveyor to the Faringdon
rural district council, Marlborough street
Haines .Alan George M..A. solicitor, clerk to guardians & PDwell Louisa (Mrs_ ), furnished aparts. Marlborough st
Reading & Kews Rooms (E. Belcher, hon. sec.), Corn Ex-
assessment i& school attendance committees & supt. re- change, Market place
gistrar of the Faringdon IUnion,clerk to Faringdon Rurnl Reason Rose Emma. (Miss), dres'! ma. Coxwell road
Richings JDhn, monumental mason, Station mad
District Council for Sanitary purposes, clerk tD the Rigden William .Attwood, solicitor & commissioner for
Thames Valley Drainage Board No. 3 district, com- oaths, attends tuesdays, Marlborough street
missioners of taxes & to the Baulking School Board, Rixon John, jun. farmer, Canada farm
London street
Haines Ernest Edward, deputy superintendent registrar & Roberts ,James, hoot maker, London street
assistant clerk to the commissioners of taxes, London st
Harris J esse, builder, Lec.hlade road Roge.rs Richa.rd H. shopkeeper, Coxwell road
Haworth Edward Norton, photographer, Glouc.ester st
Hazel Henry, farmer, Coxwell road Ryman George, coal dealer, Bromsgrove place
Heath J. Christopher, draper, Market place Salmon Cordeli8! & Laura (Missils), apartments, :Marl-
Heath George Henry, seedsman & florist, Coxwell road
Heath William, refreshment rooms, London street borough street
Heavens Edward, butcher, Market place Selwrnxl· John, f2.rme.r, Highd:en farm, Coleshill road
Heavens William C. farmer, Hill farmer Sell William Collins, draper, Marlborough street
Hemmings J ames, farmer, Viewlands, Coleshill road Shelton Sarah (Mrs.), boot dealer, Lon&n street
Hey Harold Darwin M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond_ sur- Sheppard! J os•eph, builder, Brom>tgrove place
geon & medical offic.er & public vacciuator & medical Sheppard J oseph, jun_ Swan tavern, Station road
Sheppard Stephen, beer retailer, Coxwell street
officer of health for Buckland dist. Faringdon union, Shirley James, nation<->l schoolmaster & deputy registrar
Eastfield
Hicks Mary (Mrs.), baker, Gloucester street of births & deaths for Faringdon sub-district, The
Higgs Alfred Isaac, shopkeeper, London street Laurels, London street
Hodgkins Alfred, Red Lion P.H. Marlborough street
Sims Thomas, Queen's Arms P.H. Coxwell street
Household (The) Stores Supply Co. (J. Shead, manager),
Bromsgrove place Smith Herbert .Angustus,auctioneer,see Innocent & Smith
Smith John, chimney sweep-er, CoxweJl street
Hughes Robert, plumber' & painter, London street Smith John, da.iryman, Gloucester street
Hughes Wm. dairyman & town crier, Gloucester street Smith Thomas, chimney sweeper, Coxwell street
Inland Revenue Office (Fatrick Walshe, officer), l\Iarl- Spring James, taila-r, Bromsgrove place

borough street Stamp Office (John Pike, distributor), Marlborough street
International Tea CD.'s Stores Lim. (Wm. Day, manager), Sutton & Co. railway & general carriers (Charles By.

grocers & provision dealers, Corn market Bevan, agent), London street
TaJ.bot Cha.r:es, boot dealer
Indge William, bicycle agent, Station road Tarrant Eliza (Mrs_ ), Park farm
Innocent & Smith, auctioneers, Market place Tarrant William J. farmer, estate bailiff to the Faringdon

James Wm. Hy. (trustees of), horse blisters manufr House estate, timber merchant & saw mill proprietor,
Jefferies Ernest Edward, hairdresser, London street London street
J"ohnson Mrs. Jane, dress maker, Union street
1.'aylor Henry & Sons, butchers, poulterers, fishmongers
Kennard David Gerald M.R.C.S.Eng. & L.R.C.P.Lond. & fruiterers, licensed dealers in game, Corn market
physician & surgeon & medical officer & public vaccina-
tor for Faringdon No. 1 district, Faringdon district & Tilsley Henry, jobbing gard~ner, Coxwell road
medical officer of the workhouse, Gloucester house Tompkins Thomas, shopkeeper, London street
Trentfield John, relieving & vaccination officer for Faring-

don & Buckland district & registrar of births & deaths
for Buckland sub-district & inspector for rural district
council, London street

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 77G BEAT & LITTLE FAWLEY.

Tucker R. & Sons, nurserymen & florists, Stanford road Webb George, Duke of York P.H. Coxwell street
Webb William, fishmonger, London -street
Vincent Henry, beer retailer, London street
Volunteer Battalion (1st) Princess Charlotte of Wales' 'Vestall George Stanley, hardware dealer, London street
Westall William, baker, StatiOIIl road
(Royal Berkshire Regiment) (I C<J.) (2nd Lieut. Berkl{'y "\Vheeler .Albert, beer retail-er, Union street
Wm. Fairthorne, commanding ; Sergt. Alfred Parmen- 'Vheele.r Mary Ann (Miss), dress maker, Southampton s'
ter, drill instructor) ; Armoury, Southampton street White Bros. hair dressers & tobacconists, Chrn market
Walker Wmiam Henry, boot maker, London street
Walshe Patrick, inland revenue officer, Marlborough st s•'Vhite John, collect.Qr of taxes, Glouoester street
Warman John, Duke of Wellington P.H. & market
gardener, Lechlade road Williams By. grocer & registrar of marriages, London
Warman Joseph, beer retailer, Coxwell stre-et Yeatman Henry Edward, tailor, Corn mark-et

FARINGDON (LITTLE), see "Kelly's Oxford~hire Directory."

FARNBOROUGH is a village and parish, pleasantly was created a baronet, 2 Feb. 1804; the chancel retains

8ituate.rl on the Downs, II miles north from Newbury, a. piscina and has also some stained windows, the east

5 south-by-'sDuth-east from ·wantage, 7 south from window being a memorial to members of the Whitehurst

''Vantage Rc.ad! sta.tion on the main line of the Great· family; the church was restored by the Rev. John White-

We<~tern railway, and 6 miles east from Shefford station hurst ~LA. in 1883 and 1885 at a. total cost of £550, and

on the Lambourn Valley railway, in the Southern division affordsl 100 sittings. The I'egister dates from 1735. The

of the county, hundred of Compton, Ilsley petty sessional living is a rectory, net yearly value £2oo, with 76 acres

division, Wantage union and county court district, and in of, glebe and residence, in the gift of and held since 1893

the rural deanery of ·wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and by the Rev. John Baron Howes Whitehurst B.A. of St.

diocese of OxfOII"Cl. The church of All Saints is an Peter's College, Cambridge. The rectory house i& an

F.ncient fabric of stone in the Perpendicular style, ccn- I ancient mansion, oommanding fine views oYer the Downs.

sistin~ of chancel, nave and fine embattled we,stern Philip Wroughton esq. D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and

tower cont:..IDing a clock and 4 bells; in the church are principal landowner. The soil ·is clay; subsoil, chalk.

several monuments of the family of Price, formerly The crops are the usual cerealS>. The area. is 1,886 acres,

residents here, includiing the Rev. Bartholomew Price, of which 100 acres are down; rateable value, £I,2II; the

rector, d. 17 April, 1677, and Mary (Garnham) his population in 1891 was 195.

wife; his sons, ~<:~.rtholom~w Price M. A. rector, 1702- 1 Parish Oerk & Sexton, Albert Abbott. a.m. Bright-
32, and _Petlt>y Pnce. esq. of the Ha~ Viwtage, d. :Nov. Letters throug Want3ge arrive at 7-30
h
1723, With other children; John ~nee ~sq. _of _the-~~· walton is the nearest money order office & West Ilsley
d ..28 Nov. 1787, and Anne (Robms) hls Wlf~, "\hllia.m the nearest telegraph office about 2! miles distant
Pnce esq. of Charlton H')use, Wantage, d. Jan. 1792, . '.
and Mary (Collins) his wife; and the Rev. Ralph Price "al~ Box, hours of collectwn, summer, 4·45 p.m.;
]l.f.A. rector, d. 20 Nov. 1779• all sons of the foregoing I wmter, 3·45 p.m.; sundays, II.IS a.m
IPetle.y Price esq. ; Oharles, 3rd S'O'll of the Rev. Ralph Xa.tiona.l Sch<Jol (mixed), for so children; average at-

Price, lord mayor of London and M.P. for the City, tendance, 30; Mrs. Emma A. Orviss, mistress

Whitehurst Rev. John Baron Howes 'Pike George, farm bailiff to Philip Qnelch Robert, blacksmith

B.A. (rector), 'fhe Rectory Wroughton esq Wyld Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Pullen William, farmer, Coombe frm

GREAT and LITTLE FAWLEY with What- value, £r,o22; the population in 188r was 228, and in.

combe form a parish in the Northern division of the r8gr was 170.
CNlllty, hundred of Ki.ntbury-Eagle, Want-age petty s-es- Little Fawley, 1 mile south, and Whatcombe, 2 miles
sivnal division, union andi county court district, and in
south, are hamlets; at Whatcombe was formerly a.
the rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks
and dwcese uf Oxford. mansion, now converted into a farm house, with a
garden containing beautiful yew tree walks; in the
Great Fawley is 5 miles south from Wantage, 7 south
adjacent meadow may be traceli the site of a. church,
from Wantage Road station on the main line of the Great the date of the foundation of which is uncertain, but
Westerr~ railway, and 3~ miles north from Shefford station
on the Lambourn Valley railway. The ~hurch of St. it appears from the records of inductions in theo epis-
Mary, erected in 1866 on a new site, ·by Philip "\VroughtDn copal registers that the patronage was in lay hands as
e~q. and .M:rs. Wroughton, sen. on the dismantling of the early as A.D. 1313; on 6th! July, 1507, the church or
chapel of Whatcombe was appropriated to the chantry
dd church, is a. building of stone from designs by the of the Holy and: Undivided Trinity in the parish church
late G. E. Stree,t esq. R.A. and consists of apsidal of Lambourn. A smaU portion only of the old manor
chanee'l, with a gro!ined roof, nave, south porch and a house now remains attached to the modern farm house;
Wl)stern towe.r containing 2 b-eillls; the pulpit, scree.n and with which much of the stone and other material of
pillars <>f the nave arcades are of Devonshire marble, an earlier building has been incorporated; wme blocks
and there is a reredos of Caen stone and mosaic, with a of ston~ inserted in the wall of the farm servants'
group of the " Crucifixion," by Salviati, the mosaic by refectory bear three curiously carved figures, rudely
Earp; the old church was the burial place of the ancient executed in low relie.f, apparently Early Norman work,
family of MooTe, who heJd both manors here from some and which may be considered, as representative of the

time a.foor the Reformation until 1765; to this family be- church in its oo.rlie.st state; the principal figul'6S were
longed Sir Fra-c.cis MCQre kt.a distinguished lawyer, who supposed to represent the Virgin and Child, the second
was born at East Ilsley, and represented Reading in the an ecclesiastic, and the third is a grotesque. head;
rarliaments <Jif 1597, I60I and 1613; he died 20 :Nov. lying about in different parts of the premises are
1621 and wa3 buried in Old Fawley church, on the several pie,ces of worked masonry, which ma-nifestly
removal of which the vault of the MooTe-s was opened formed part of an ecclesiastical building; a portion
and their remains, bcnnd round with bands of leather, of a quoin, in particular, exhibiting some well-executed
W("re found to have been embalmed and in perfect rru- 13th century traC6tl'Y; the bells from Whatcombe church
servatic-n, even to the features; his eldest surviving are said to hav-e been removed to East Ga.rston, re-

son and heir, Henry Moore, was cre>ted a baronet 21 cast, and hung in the tower of the church there.
May, 1627, but; the title became extinct on the death Parish Clerk and Sext{)Jl, William PanfH-ey.
of Sir Thomas Mooo-e. 6th bart. 10 April, 1807; in 1892
a. me.norial window was erected to Mrs. Bonham, wife Post Office. Mrs. Mary Ann Heighton, sub-postmistress.
J:.,etters from Wantage at 8.30 a.m.; sundays, 8.30
of Col. Bonbam and sister to P. Wroughton esq.;
there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the a.m.; dispatched at 5·45 p.m. summer & 5-I5 winter;
yea.r 1540 and contains entries relating to Whatcombe sundays, Io.ss a.m. Postal orders' are issued here, but
not paid. The nearest money order office is at Bright..
from 1596. The living is a donative, net yearly value walton k telegraph office a~ Chaddleworth, 2 miles
£8o, with residtmce, in the gift of Philip Wroughton esq. distant
and held since 1<197 ·by the Rev. Hugh St. Maur Wil-
loughby B.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Philip Wall Letter Box, Little Fawley, cleared at 5 p.m. 1st Nov.
Wroughton esq. D.L., J.P. of Woolley Park, is lord of the
ruanor and sole landowner. The soil is principally chalk; to 28th Feb. & 5-30 p.m. Ist :Mar. to 31st Oct.; sun,.
subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, days, 10.30 a.m
turnips and clover. The area is 2,191 acres; rateable :Xational School (mix-ed), established in 1863, by the
late Philip Wroughton e.sq. for 6o children; ayerage

attendance, 40; Miss L. White, mistress

Dawson Richard Cecil, Whatcombe Heighton MaryAnn (~Irs.),shopkeeper, Wheeler James, farm ba~l:ff to Philip

Willonghby Rev. Hugh St. Maur B.A. Post office Wroughton esq

~tory Le Grice Charles Henry sub-agent to Woods Edward. Tace horse trainer,

co:IDIEnCIAL. Philip Wroughton esq. Little Fawley Whatcombe

Drown Stephen, farmer, Gt. Fawley Q11elch Calcb, blacksmith, Lit. Fawley

78 PBBNS.lM, BERKSHIRE, [KELLY'S

IFERNHAM is a small straggling township, bordering a small stained window on the south side of the chancel
{)fi the Vale of White Horse, and forming part of the aml another in the nave; there are no sittings, half

ecclesiastical district of Longcot, 2l miles south-south- being free. Here is a Cgngregational chapel, seating go

east from Faringdon, 3 mile.s north from "Cffington junc- person. Lord Wantage and J()seph Thorley esq. who divide

tion on the Great Western railway, in the Northern the manorial rights, Mrs. H. Church and Messrs. Kin-

division of the county, parish and hundred of Shriven- near & Co. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay

ham, petty sessional division, union and county court and stone brash; subsoil, clay. The crops are the usual

district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White cereals. The area is r,o12 acres; rateable value, £ 1,457i
Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. f,he population in 189r was 146.

St. John's, a chapel of ease to Longcot, is a small Letters by foot post from Faringdon, which is the
nearest money order office, arrive at 6.15 a.m. ; tele-
modern building of stone in the Early English style, graph office at Uffington Junction railway station, about
consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and western 3 miles distant
bell-gable with one bell : the chancel parclose and read-
ing desk are of freestone with coloured marble panels : Wall Letter Box cleared week days, 6.15 p.m. ; sun-
days, I2 noon
the font is octagonal with emblematically carved panels,

and is supported on marble shafts: the east window is

a memorial to John Hughes, who died in 1857: there is The children of this place attend Longcot school

Langham Miss Bond Albert, farmer Cook Miss Lydia, fanner, ~ightingale

Pinnegar William, Red house Brown David, shopkeeper farm

Thorley Joseph, Ringdale Butler John Handy, farm bailiff to Goddard Henry, scripture reader,
Messrs. Kinnear & eo
COMMERCH.L. Chapel house

Bray Louisa Annie (Mrs.), Woodman Church Henrietta. (Mrs.), farmer & Thorley Joseph, breeder of short horn

inn landowner, South farm cattle, Ringdale

FINCHAMP STEAD is a pretty village and parish Wokingham, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Routh
Tomlinson M..A.. of Clare College, Cambridge. Here is a
()fi the borders of Hampshire, from which it is separated Baptist chapel. There is a sum of £22 yearly for
fuel, derived from the investment of funds received
by the Blackwater river, 3 miles south from Woking- by sale of the all{)tment. Finchampstead Ridges, a
ham, 2 from the Wellington College station of the South raRge of hills extending from here to Sandhurst, afford
Eastern railway and 9 south-east from Reading, in the some splendid views of the surrounding country. .A.rthur
Eastern division of the county, hundred of Charlton, Fraser Waiter esq. of Bear Wood, is lord of the manor and
petty sessional division and union of Wokingham, county chief landowner. The .soil, which varies, is sand, gravel
court district of Reading, rural deanery of Reading, and loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats
archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The and beans. The area is 3,934 acres of land and 9 of
church of St. James is an ancient fabric, partly Norrman, water; rateable value, [4.627; the population in r8gi was
consisting of chancel, with semi-circular apse, nave of 68o.

two bays., north aisle, south porch and an embattled Parish Clerk, Henry Milam.
western tDwer containing 6 bells, !he sixth bell having Post, 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel
been added Dec. 8th, 1885, by voluntary subscriptions
{){ the parishioners, to celebrate the Both birthday of Post. S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office.-Owen .A.. J.
Goddard, sub-postmaster. Letters from Wokingham
the Rev. Edward St. John LL.B. rector, I840-92: in the arrive at 7.50 a.m. & I2.5 p.m. & dispatched at I p.m.
church are various monuments, a curious brass, to & 5·45 p.m. on week days; on sundays at II.25 a.m
Elizabeth, daughter and heir to John Taylor, of Pillar Letter Box, cleared at r.I5 & 6 p.m. & on sundays
Finchampstead gent. and wife of John Blighe, ob. I635, at II-45 a.m
and to her daughter, Jane; and another brass to the Police Station, James Oross, constable
wife of the Rev. Edward St. John, d. I85o: the church National School (mixed), built by the late John Waiter
was thoroughly repaired and reseated in 1856, and has esq. & supported by subscriptions, for 100 children;
250 l'ittings. The register dates from the year I530. average attendance, 78; Miss Annie Smith, mistress
The living is a rectory, yearly value £430, with residence,
in the gift of .A.rthur Fraser "·alter esq. of Bear Wood,

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Riggs Mrs Dixon Robert, farmer & miller (water

Buchanan Rev. Alexander M..!.. West St. John Henry & steam)

court. (Letters through Farley St. John Mrs. South court Fullbrook Alfred, carpenter & joiner

hill, Reading) Tomlinson Rev. Routh M.A. (rector), Goddard Geo. carpenter, Post office

Digby Rear-.A.dml. Noel Stephen Fox, Rectory Kelsey Jn.frmr.Manor & Pithers frms

Banisters "\Yatson Gen. Sir John V.C., K.C.B. Loader Geo. farm bailiff t(} W. B.

Frost Mrs. The Cottage North court Pigg esq

Hopkinson The Misses, Wyse hill Witt John George Q.C. M. A. Bridge cot Smallbone Thomas, New inn

Jones Col. Alfred S., V.C. Ridge cot Townsend Charles, grocer

Lyon William, East court COMMERCIAL. "\Yatts William, farm bailiff to H. St.

Molyneux Mrs. Warren lodge Annett John, farmer John esq

Pigg William, Beechey Attride Bros.blacksmiths & ironmngrs Webster .A.rthur, clerk of works to A.

Powlett Col. Percy "\'Villiam C.S.I. Brown Thomas, White Horse P.H F. ·waiter esq

Sunnyside Cooper Charles, Greyhound P.H White Thomas, farmer, Lee farm

FRILSHAM is a. village and parish on the Pang £8 I6s. yearly. Frilsham House, the residence of Sir
stream, I3 miles west from Reading, 6 north-east from W. Cameron Gull bart. M.P. is a. large mansion of red
::Xewbury and 2 east from Hermitage station on the brick, re-built in 18~ from the designs of Mr. S. Gambier
Didcot and Newbury branch of the Great Western rail- Parry A.R.I.B.A. Mrs. Floyd and. Sir William Cameron
way, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Gull bart. M.P. are the principallandDwners·. The soil is
Faircross, union of Bradfield, petty sessional division clay; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley

and county court district of Sewbury, rural deanery of and oats. The area is 977 acres; ratea.I:Jle value, £I,057;
13radfield, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. the population in I891 was I59·
The church of St. Frideswide is an ancient structure of
stone and flint in the Norman style, and consists of Sexton, William Werrell.
chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western Wall Letter Boxes cleared 5.0 p.m. week days & 10.40

tower Df brick, containing 2 bells: there are· So sittings, a.m. sundays. Letters through Newbury arrive at 9
6o being free. The register dates from the year 1754. a.m. & I p.m. Yattendon, about I~ miles distant, is the
The living is a rectory, n.et yearly value £135, with 39 acres nearest money order & telegraph office
of glebe and residence, in the gift of :Mrs. Robert Hayward Wall Letter Box near the Vicarage cleared at 5.25 p.m.
Floyd, and held 'since I86g by the Rev. George Floyd :M:..A..
of Caius College, Cambridge. The charities amount to week days, u.s a.m. sundays

Church School (mixed), built in r8g8 for 6o children;
average- attendance, 42; Mrs. Emma S. Lane, mistress

gardens "\.V & Reform & Devonshire Stone John, farmer, Frilsham farm

Floyd Rev. George M ..A.. (rector), clubs SW, London Toms William, shoukeeper

Rectorv Austin William, head gardener to Sir Warner Frederick William,farm bailifl'
Gull. Sir ·w. Cameron hart. M.P., J.P. W. Cameron Gull bart. M.P
to Sir W. Cameron Gull hart. M.P.

Frilsham house; & IO Hyde Park Barr Thomas, brick maker Home farm

FYFIELD is a parish, on the road from Abingdon to Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford.

:Faringdon, 5 miles west-by-north from Abingdon, and 8 The church of St. Nicholas, an edifice of stone, chiefly in
wuth-west from Oxford, in the Korthern division of the the Middle and 'Third Pointed styles, consisting of chancel,
county, hundred of Ock, petty sessional division, union nave of four bays, north aisle, north or Golafre
and county court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of chapel, and a modern western turret oontaining a

J•DIRECTORY. BERKSHIRE. GOOSEY. 79

.clock and 2 bells, was almost entirely destroyed [12 yearly value. The President and scholars of St.
John's College, Oxford, are lords of the manor and land-
'by fire 27 Oct. 1893, including the miserere stalls owners. The soil is a sandy loam; subsoil, calcareous
end screen of St. John Baptist's chapel and the grit. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and root
])ecorated rood-screen: in the chancel is the tomb crops. The area is 1,6o3 acres; rateable value, .£),434;
>Of Lady Catherine Gordon (the "White rose of the population in 1891 was 303.
Scotland"), daughter of Alexander, 3rd Earl of H~ntly,
~nd widow of Perkin Warbeck, one of the pretenders to :Netherton, l of a mile north, and Fyfield Wick, I!
the throne in the reign of Henry VII.; she died c. 1527;
~nd in the north or Golafre chapel is the altar-tomb of miles south, are portions of this parish.
Sir Thomas Golafre, lord of the manor, who died .in Pa·ris-h Clerk & Sext<m, Arthur Butcher.
1442, with his effigy in armour upon the upper slab,
while in the open space below lies the figure of a Post Office.-James Barrett, sub-po.::;tmaster. Letters
shrouded skeleton; both these tombs have been damaged, through Abingdon, 8.25 a.m. & 1.20 p.m. callers
but not irreparably; the restoration of the church was only; box cleared 1.20 p.m. & 5-55 p.m. Postal orders
completed in ~ov. 1894· The early registers, destroyed are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order
'by the fire of 1893, dated from the year 1583. The living office is at ~Iarcham & telegraph office Kingston Bag-
is a vicarage, net yearly value £no, including 70 acres of puze, 2 miles di~tant
·glebe, with residence, in the gift of the President and
scholars of St. John's College, Oxford, and held since 1892 Parochial School (belonging to St. John's College, Ox-
by the Rev. Cyril Travers Burges M.A. of that college. ford) (mixed), built in 1873, for Bo children; average
Here is also a small Baptist chaped. The charities- are of attendance, 40; Miss Alice 1Ja.ry Shakespeare, mistres:i

Carrier to Abingdon-Ewin Fisher, mon. wed. & sat.;
Oxford, fri. & sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Warner William Johnson Ernest, smith

'Besley Levi, South view COMMERCIAL. Kimber Jas.Weaving,frmr. Fyfield"\Yick

Bidder Rev. Henry Jardine B. D. (vicar Baker Wm. Britford, farmer, Nethertn Kimber John, fa:rmer, Netherton

of St. Giles', Oxford) Butcher Arthur, farmer, Netiherton Lay William Hazel, farmer, Manor fm

'Bright Rev. James Franck D.D.(mstr. Barrett James, carpenter & wheel- Spiers WiUiam, farmer, Ketherton

of Univ. Col. Oxford), Manor house wright, Post office Stevens Jn. trainer of horses,"\Yood ho

'Burges Rev_ Cyril Travers M.A. The Fisher Ewin, carrier & shopkeeper Vokins George, boot maker

Vicarage Harris Rosina (Mrs.), White Hart P.H

EAST GARSTON is a parish about 3 miles east- and Elsyng families: the church was restored during
-south-east from Lambourn, 7 north from Hungerford the period 1876-82, at a cost of £2,300; during the
station on the Great Western line, and 9 south-west restoration in 1882 many interesting Epecimens of Kor-
froni ·wantage, in the Southern division of the county, man work were discovered, and a massive font of ::Xorman
"hundred and petty sessional division of Lambourn, county design introduced: there are zoo sittings. The register
court district of Hungerford, Hungerford and Ramsbury dates from the year 1554. The living is a vicarage,

uniGn, rnral deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks net yearly value £254, including 53 acres of glebe, with
and diocese of Oxford. The river Lambourn runs through
the village and is remarkable for generally ceasing to flow residence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held
in the months of November, December and January; the since 1870 by the Rev. William Osborn Jenkyn 1\I.A. of
'Lambourn Valley railway, which runs between Kewbury Christ's College, Cambridge. There are Wesleyan and
and Lambourn, passes through this parish, and has a Primitive Methodist chapels here. Thomas Palmer and
station here. The parish was inclosed under an Act of
l'arliament in 1771. The church of All Saints is Mary his wife left £soo Bank Annuities, the dividend to
a handsome and spacious edifice of flint and stone,
mainly in the Norman and Early English styles, be distributed equally among 30 poor inhabitants. Sir
consisting of chancel, with a chapel in the north-east, Francis Burdett hart. of Ramsbury, Wilts. is lord of the
nave of tli'ree bays, transepts, south aisle, south porch manor and principal landowenr. The soil is principally
~nd an embattled central tower containing a clock pre- chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops a;re wheat, barley,
seldted in 1889 by Mrs. King Smith and 6 bells, said to oats and turnips. The area is 4•343 acres; rateable value,
!have been removed here from Fawley, and a sanctus
'bell; in 1889 the bells were re-hung by public subscrip- £2,066; the population in 1891 was 436.
tion: the chancel was rebuilt in 1875 by the lay rectors,
ihe Dean and Chapter of Christ Church and their lessee, Parish Clerk, William Woodley.

Sir Robert Burdett bart. and the chapel (called the Post Office. Mrs. William Reeves, sub-postmistress.
Seymour chapel) by the vicar and his friends; the Letters arrive from Lambourn R.S.O. at 7·5 a.m.;
chancel is handsomely painted, and has a piscina and dispatched at 6.45 p.m.; sundays, arrive 7.20 a.m. ;
sedile formed out of the sill of the south window: the dispatched at 11.45 a.m. Postal orders are issued here,
Seymour chapel also has an ancient piscina and a but not paid. The nearest money order office is at
Teredos of oak, arcaded and adorned with paintings : Great Shefford, &; telegraph office at Lam bourn, 4 miles
·all the windows of the church are stained : the distant
church contains memorials of the Seymour, Gastrell
National School (mixed), erected in r872, for So chil-
dren; average attendance, 50; Miss Norton, mistress

County Police, Thos. Fredk. Couling, constable

The carriers between Newbury and Lambourn pass
through

'(Marked thus * :receive their letters *Atkins Charles, farmer, Poughley ]Parsloe John, farmer, Crane's farm

through Hungerford.) *Bishop "\Vm. farmer, Lower Poughley Pocock Henry James, baker
(Marker thus t receive their letters Brown Eli, Queen's Arms P.H
Pounds Francis, wheelwright & farmer

through Wantage.) Crook Herbert, commercial traveller Reeves William (Mrs.), Post office

Athawes 1Villiam Aaron Denton Ralph, farmer & blacksmith Rogers Thos. frmr. & assistantoversee.r

Crook Thomas Herbert Ferrebee Waiter, cowkeeper Spackm:m Joseph Havelock, farmer,

Dickson Mrs. The Cottage Freer Isaac, farm bailiff to H. Huicks Manor farm

.Jenkyn Rev.Wm.Osiborn 1M.A. Vicarage esq. Maiden Court farm Wale James, jun. woodman

COMMERCIAL. Hughes Francis Herbert, farmer, Par-

.A.lexander Thnmas, .shoe maker sonage farm

GOOSEY is a village and chapelry in the civil parish key is Early English, and the oldest in the district ; the

·of Stanford-in-the-Vale, 4 miles north-west from Wan- font is octagonal ; in the chancel is a stained window
tage, 5 south-east fr6m Faringdon and a mile north from given by Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, late Bishop of

·Challow station on the Great Western railway, in the Lincoln and vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, 185o-69.

Northern division of the county, hundred of Ock, petty The church is now (r899) about to be thoroughly re-

:;:essional division, union and county court district of stored, and services are at present held in the school

Wantage, rural deanery of Vale of White Horse, arch- room : there are 86 sittings. The register dates from

•deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church the year 1850, previous to which all entries were made in

of All Saints is a small edifice of stone, in the Early the registers for Stanford. The living is a vicarage, an-

English style, cQnsisting of chancel and nave, and a nexed to the vicarage of Stanford-in-the-Vale, joint net

turret on the western gable, containing 2 bells: the yearly value {,220, with residence and 14 acres of glebe,
·chancel has a curious Early English piscina, and east- in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. and
ward a square locker; the wall plate is ornamented with held since r892 by the Rev. Henry Aldrich Cotton M.A.
-a row of trefoil-headed panels: there is no chancel arch: of Exeter College. Oxford. and priest in ordinary to the
in the nave are some good corbel heads and a. plain Early Queen, who resides at Stanford-in-the-Vale. The his-

English stoup; outside is one good buttress of like date, tory of this place may be traced to an earlier

~nd in the churchyard the base of a cross ; in the porch date than that of any other in the district; it was

is a shie1d with the arms of Hyde; the church door- given by Offa, King of Mercia., about 785, to the

80 GOOS.EY', BERKSHIRE. [KELLY18

abbey of Abingdon, in exchange for their beautiful isle ' loam; subsoil, clay. The land is chiefly in pasture.

of Andersey, lying south-west of the abbey; and a cell The area is 968 acres; rateable value, £1,461; the
was established here by the monks, the site of which is population in 1881 was 141 and in 1891 was x6o.
n(lw QCcupied by a house next to the school; the manor Parish Clerk and Sexton, Richard Smith.
here supplied the abbey with cheese. Lt.-Col. James Wall Box: cleared 4.30 p.m.; sundays, 10.15 a.m. Let-

H. Oliver, Capt. R. J. E. Oliver Bellasis and R. D. Oliver ters through Faringdon arrive at 8.30 a.m. The
esq. who are lords of the manor, Sidney Edward &uverie nearest money order & telegraph office is at Stanford-

Pusey esq. of Pusey house, and the trustees of the late J. in-the-Vale, about 2 miles distant
H. Pocock esq. are the principal land-owners. The soil is School (mixed), built about 1847, for 40 children; aver.
Kimmeridge clay, v.ith a. thin superstratum. Gf gravel and age attendance, 26; Miss Gatherine Shepperd, mistress

Alder Eli, thatcher Dawson George, The Pound P.H Prince Isaac, watch maker
Reading Ed'ward Selby, farmer
Booker Albert, farmer Heading J ames, farmer Stratton William, farmer,Millaway fm

DuniL William, farm bailiff to Lords Jefferies Jame·s, farmer

of the manor

GRANDPONT, a tifuing of the parish of St. A1date, bC'e'n included wit:h!in t!OO extended city of Oxf{)ll'd and

Oxford, formerly in Berks, has, by the City of Oxford also tralllSI.ferred to Oxfor,dsh.il'8.
OrdeT, r88g, under the Local Governm~mt AQt, r888,

GRAZELEY, 4 m~1es S'Outih from Reading, fmmerly and of the tithing 32, being the portion in the Bradfield

known as "Lambwood Hill," is a tithing and an eccle- union, and in 1899 was 761.

sirusttiJool pari,s'h, fo-rmed May g'illl, 1854, out of the pari!She.s Didenham, a tithing of this parish, fornoor1y belO'II>ged
of SuU!b13JIIJipsffiead Abbots, Sul'hampstbead Ita·nni·Siter and
include·s the Bberty of Ifur<tdey Dummer, in Shinfield tD Wi:tsrure, but by thl' .Acts 2 and 3 Wh.[lilam IV. cap.
civill. parish, in tJhe Sout'hern d!ivision of the county, 64 and 7 and 8 Vict. oap. 61 it wa.s annexed to llerk-
hundred and county court dish·iclt and petty se<ssi10nal
division of Rood:ing, u'Illiorus of W~k>ingtham and Bradfield, shci.re, and is ecclesiasticalily a.utoohed to GrazeJ.ey.
rurnl dPanery of Roo.ding, archdeaoonll'y of Berks and
diooo.se of Oxford. The church od' the Ho:y Trinity, Hartley Dummer. liberty, baJf-a-mile nmih, had a.
erected in 185o, is a Emall struc·ture of flint, consisting popu}a:tion of 382. Har'tl<ey CJou,rit is i:he re-sidence of the
Misses Ke.mble.

Parish Cle['k, Robert George.

of chancel, nawe, oou11h porcth. and a. bell1ry, containing Letters through Reading ; the nearest money order offices

one bell : the east window is- stained, and there are also are at Shinfield & Mortimer; telegraph office is at
two memorial windows : the church affords 250 sittings.
),Jortimer, a.bout 2! miles distant

The register da.tes from the year 1856. The living is a PiUar Let.ter Box, near tbJe chureh, clteared! rut 1.30 & 6
vicarage, net yearly value £r57, with residence and 2
acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and p.m. ; sunday, 9 a.m
held smce 1897 by the Rev. Charles Hubert 1Yhitfield
M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. 'l'he Congrega- PiJlar Le<t.tJC:r- Box, at Spencer's Wood, Cleared at 2 & 7.25
p.m. ; sunday, 6.55 p.m

tiooa.l Cha1pel rut Pound Green, erected in 1813, has 90 Sc'hools.

siMings. Righland,s is the residence of :Miss Crowdy, ~a.tiooal (mixed), ereclJed in 1861, & enJarg'*'d in 1~93,
and Stanbury of Frederick William Allfrey esq. James for 120 children; average attendance, 8o; Misses
H'erbert Benyon esq. of Englefield, is lord of the manor,
and Frederick William Allfrey esq. and Miss Crowdy are Enllily, Ad.a & Mary Ann Walker, m~stresses
the principal landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil,
gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and Infalllts, at Spencer's. Wood, erected in 1890. for <r5 chil-

beans. The entire area is 3,267 acres, and of Grazeley dren; average attendance, 86; Miss Catherine Scar-
ra:tt, m!ilsltress
tithing 519 acres; rateable value, £766; the rateable
Garriers to Reading. Hounsell, mon. tues. thurs. fri. &

value for the portion in Bradfield union is £831; the sat. ; )lulford, mon. wed. & sat. ; Merrick, wed. & sat.;
pepulation of the ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 636, & Whitburn, tues. thurs. & sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Rolbinson Thomas, Wheatsheaf P.H.

Alllrey F.rederick William, Stanbury Beesley .Toseph, Old Bell P.H Lambwood hill

Cooper Charles, The Nest Bullingham Joseph Gould, farmer, R<lwe Jas. H. farmer, Great Lea. farm

OrowdyJ Miss, Highlands Hartlev Court farm Tice Walter, farmer
O>ve W~lliam, farmer, Whitley farm Templeton Annabella (Mrs.), farmer
Kemlble Mis·ses, Hartley court

Whitfield Rev.Chas.HubertM.A.Vicrge Hewett James Hy. farn1er, Manor frm Turvey Mary Ann ~Mr:s.),beer retailer,

Woo&orde Wm. Thos. Garrett M.D. Knowles Mark, frmr. Gravelly bridge Great Lea

(medical officer olf health for Berks Long Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Waltham Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer,

combined sanitary district), Spen- Mugford Ernest John, blacksmith Didenham farm

cer's Wood Na.sh Brothers, farmers Woodeson Jn.beer retlr. Spencer's Wd

GREENHAM is an ecc!J.e.siasbical pariSih adjoining ilhe 1 Baxendale: a catalogue of the plate, vestments &c. belong-

town of Newbury on the south-ea,st and lying EIOUth of ing to the old church at the time of the Reformation and

the 1river Kenne1t, whicil se·paraltes it from T'hakham, in dated 4 Aug. 6 Edward VI. (1552) is preserved at the
the Southern divi:s.ion of H11e< cou.n.ty, hundred of Fair- Record office: there are 220 sittings, 145 being free. The

cross, pel!ty seSISiona~ dlivision, union and oounty court register dates from the year 1706. The living was

district of Newbury, rural deanery of Newbury, arch- declared a vicarage April3rd, r866, net yearly value £w6,

deaconry of Berks and dio-cese of Oxford. Green- with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and

ham was originally a tithing of Thatcham, and in 1857 held since 1890 by the Rev. Herbert Henry Skrine M.A of

it was formed into the ecclesiastical parish of Worcester College, Oxford. The vicarage house was built

Greenham. In 1859 a portion was included in the in the year 1874· Here are Baptist and Primitive

ecclesiastical parish of .St. John the Evangelist, Methodist chapels. In the reign of Henry II. Maud,
Newbury, and in 1878, at the extension of the Countess of Clare, gave the manor to the Knights-

borough of Kewbury, a great portion of Greenham Hospitallers, who then founded a preceptory here.

was included. The urban part of the parish is In 1876, during the progress of excavations on the estate

alltached to Newbury for Pamsih QQuncil ipUJrpos-e-s, and of the late Lloyd Baxendale esq. horn cores and

the rural part haJS a ColllllCii of its own. The church of skulls of bos primi-genus and bos longifrons, and

St. Mary tho Virgin, situaltied about half-a.-anile from the portions of antlers of the red deer were met with,

boundia.ries of <t'he 'OOTouglh of Newbury, is a modern at a depth of about 5 feet below the surface, in a
bui!ld.in:g of st-one, in the Eady En:glish sty~e, cbnSiist~ng st:r'altum of clapslh aHuvinrm ; one of fue giganti'C ox
of chancel, nave, ~outh porch baptistery, and a western skulls IDOOIS'Ilred moJ'Ie than 3 feelt ibeotween t.he horns;
turret, containing 2 bells : there are ·several memorial ~e horse slhoes, with plates 3 ioobeos widle, covering

windows: the foundation stone was laid by the vicar, July tlhe whole fOO't; except the frog, were also exhumed near
3r.st, 1875, and the church was consecrated on Oct{)ber tJhe same s·~t. Roman coms of Dioolettli~m (A.D. 284)

24th, 1876, by the bishop of the diocese, the total cost amd Probus (A.D. 276) were foiUild in 1846 near FWeJ.Ider's

amounted to £3,500: a new a<i&le wrus add<ed in 1·888, a.nd farm, ood a. number of !Skeletons (prolbab1y a hundred),

since tha.t date the ohancel 'ha.s beem. deoomted with togelbher wit'h mllWly specimens of fiatille W~ll"e. were dis-
freSJCIOe'S!: the Vlesttry e:nlli.rged and wrought iron ga.tes covered in excavating the g.ravel near the Newbury goods

erected to the organ chamber at the cost of Lloyd H. station; thli-s 5p01t appears to 1have been a J'lo-:nano-BritisiJ

BaxendlaJe esq. J.P.: the organ, eroof:ed in 1888 8lt a cemeiery. Greenham Lodge, the residence of Lloyd Harry
oost of a.bout £4oo, and the baptistery, added in x8g5, Baxendale esq. J.P. lord of the manor and principal
at a. cost of £570, were both the gift of Mrs. Llovd H. landowner, is a modern mansion of red brick, beautifully

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. H.AGBOURNE • 81

situated on elevat~d ground and commanding a splendid •
,-iew of the suiTounding country. The soil is gravel
and clay; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, Verger, Henry Talmage.
barley, oats and roots. The area is 2,529 acres, part of Letter.! through Newbury, which io; the nea.rest money

which is heath and 35 of water; assessa.ble value, £3•499; oro'e/1" &:; tellegrnph office, arrive at 6.45 a.m
the populaJt.ion in 1891 wa.s 2,315. 'Wall Letter Box, at Berrie Bank, cleared at 8.30 & 11.35

Stroud Green, forming a part of the borolli'h of New- a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sundays at 4-40 p.m
tJury, is in this parish. National School (mixed), built in 1846, & im.proved in

r849 & enlarged in r888 & 1894; it now holds 120 chil-
dren; average attendance, 67; Miss Sarah New, mist

(For residenta in Kewbury see that Skinner William, Eastleigh Dallby Cbarles, head gardener to L. H.

town). Skrine Rev. Herb-t. Hy. M.A. (vicar) Baxendale esq
Southby Arthur ltLA., J.P. Aldern bdg Doy Orlando Matthews, secretary to-
PRITATK RESIDENTS.

Eaxendale Lloyd Harry J.P. Green- Stewart Rev. T. Johnson (Unitarian) L. H. Baxendale esq

ham lodgs Hewitt Ed'Ward, gamekeeper to L. H.

Doy Orlando Matthews, Cbapel farm COMMERCIAL. Baxenda:e esq

Flint Mrs. The Firs, Berries bank .Allen Alfred, farmer, Riverside farm Hollands Bros. millers, Greenham mill

Hollands Henry, Greenham Mill house .Alien Benjamin, farmer,Bowdown's fm Pocock Chas. farmer, Bishop'~ green

()ldham Mrs. ·Round Oak Bendle John, cowkeeper, .Alderu bridge Smith E. P. farm bailiff to L. H.

Matthews Stephen M.A.., J.P Clarke Fdk. da.irymn.fumBridge dairy Baxendale esq. Lower farm

GROVE :is a civil parish, formed August, 1832, out of t'he interest of which is wstributJSd in coal, clotlhes &c.

that of Wantage, half-a-mile from the Wantage Road sta- to the poor of t!hs parish. The malllor of Grove ·was

tion on the Great ·western railway, and about r! north given by King Stephen in II42 to the Conv-ent of BEr-

from Wantage, and a branch of the river Ock passes mondsey; a.fter r!Jhe Disw:111t.ilon it came ruto tht.> posses-

through: it is in the Northern division of the county, sion of the family of Grove, whose monuments appear
petty sessional division, union and county court district in the sowt;h aisle of W31I11age churoh. The principal

of ·wantage, rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of landowners are Lord Wantage L.L., K.C.B., V.C., A. S.

Eel'ks and diocese of Oxford. The ecclesiastical parish Castle esq. Edward Ormond esq. of Wantage, Mrs. and

was formed May 12, r835. The church of St. James the Miss Jones and R. Floyd esq. The soil is deep loam;
~treat is a small and plain building of stone, and consists subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat,
~f nave only, with a western turret containing one bell: beans and clover. The area is 1,779 acres of land and 12

there was in ancient times a chapel here, dedicated to St. of water; rateable value, £g,r82; the population in r8gx

.John the Baptist, which existed up to the beginning of was 559·

the r8th century: the present church was built in 1832 Parish Clerk and Sexton, Elon Dance.

through the exertions of the late Dr. Richard Lynch
Cotton, provost of ·worcester College, Oxford, when the P()st O:ffice.-Fredk. HOOl"'Illan, sub-postmaster. Let~Ns

former dedication was changed: there are four memorial delivered from Wantage at 7 a.m. ; dispatched :tt 7 25

windows to members of the Godfrey family and three to p.m. ; sunday, rr.3o a.m. Postal orders issued, but

the family of Caudwell: the church affords rso sittings. not paid. Wantage is the nearest money order & tele-

The register dates from the year 1832. The living is a graph office

vicarage, net yearly value £235, with residence and xo! Wall Letter Box, Wantage Road station; hours of col-

acres of glebe, in the gift of the vicar of Wantage, and Iection, 7.20 p.m.; sundays, II a.m

beld since r897 by the Rev. Fitzwilliam John Carter Gill- Pillarr LeiJrer Box, Grove Bridge; houl'IS ol CJ.)llt>ct.!on,
mor M ..A. Oxon. Here are Wesleyan and Baptist
chapels, the latter having an attached burial 7·45 p.m.; sundays, 11·4° a.m

ground. Caudwell'.s charity, bequeathed in 189o, National School (mixed), built in rBgo, for 130 children;

consists of £400 invested in Government Stock, average attendance, ro8 ; Clement Legge, master

-Gillmor Rev. Fitzwilliam John Carter Giles Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Robins William, farmer

M.A. Vicarage Goddard Sydney, dairyman,Bridge ho RO'bson Edmund, farmer, Steptoes frm

'Rodney Miss, Cane Lane house Godfrey Hen.ry, wheelwright Simmons Hy. farmer, BosJ.ey's farm

'Sargent Thomas, Gmve cottage Haines Henry, Bell P.H. & shopkeeper Sims Waiter, Volunteer P.H. & farmer

St~venson Mrs. Bridge house Hearman Fdk. grocer & baker,Post off Stephens John, farmer, Bradfield

COMMERCU.L. Hedger Preston George,miller (water) Stevens William, miller (water)

Collingborn Hy.Caleb, frmr.Barwell fm & coal merchant Tame Josiah, farmer, Whitgreen farm

C-ollins Oha.s. Herbt. frmr. Elms farm Ireoson Hy.coal mer.Wantage Rd.statn West George, farm bailiff to R. H.

Cottrell Fanny (Mrs.), Baytree P.H Ody Noah, dairy farmer, Bridge farm [ Betteridge, Brook farm

Dance Elon, parish clerk Prince Albert, watch & clock maker White Geo.coal mer.Wantage Rd.statn

Ga.untlett Francis, blacksmith Robins John, farmer Woools Richard, farmer

HAGBOURNE EAST and WEST is a parish con- small be:l, the belfry containing a fine peal of 8 bells:
.sisting of the township of East Hagbourne and liberty of the cha.n~ is Early Englilsh, and has a. good open

West Hagoourne, in the NOTthoe.rn c:Lirision of the county, timbered roof vribh carvings of interestiing character, a

lmndred of Moreron, petlty sessional driv1s.ion, union and locker, trefoiled piscina. and a. large Perpendicular east

<OOuniy CQurt dlis.trruct of WaJllingfOTd, rural dean€ry of window: the nortJh aisle or c'hapeil was built by John
Wallingfoorl, arohderuconry of Berks. and diiooese of Ox- York, as appears from inscribed braS~SJes st.ill rema.ining

ford. Ea.Sit Haglbomme is 6 mj]es weSit-by-south frc-m in it ; the earliest is that of " Claricia Wyndsore, form-
Wallingfmd, 2 soutJh-001SJt from Didooot Juncl.ion !<;l;atJivn erly lady of Westhakborn, and wife of John York, who

-on the Groot Wes.tern raiilway, and 1! from Up·run sta- ooused. tlhis chapel to be made;" she diied March, qo3:
t·ion on the Didcot, Newbury and Winchester branch of the se<:ond oomanemorU~tes John York himself, "f()under
tJhe sa.me line; We~st Blagbourne being within three- of oflills aisle,'' who died 15tJh July, 1413: there is a

quarrters of a mile. East Hagbourn.e is situa,te on a llhird inscription to John York (probably a ·SOD of the
stream called in Saxon times "Hacca's-brook," from a foregoing) and Johanna his wife, both of whom died

person of that nam~; there is a charter of King Alfred, sth of September, 1445: in thi'S arusle is also a handsOID{'

which mentri.ons bath "Ra.ooau Burn" and "H'a.oca-Droc,'' marble moommerut to John PhiLlips esq. C3rpenter at

as may be seen in Kemble's " Codex Diplomaticus .£vi Windsor Cashle tJo George I. and II. ; he aocumulated

Saxonici; " this stream is derived from a spring rising in consridemble propert·y in tlhe neighbourhood, most of
the old moat near the Manor Farm, and never known which, by purehta~se from his retpresenta.t.ives, has now

to be dry. In Domesday the place is called paSISed ii1lOO the hands of Lord Wanrt:age, and there is

"' Hacheborne," and -was held at the time of the some sta.ined glass and a Deoorated piscina; the south
Great Survey by ·waiter, son of Otherius; Rainbald de a.isle is Perpendicu1ar, and retwins a piscima 8!1ld a hagio-

Girce.stre (Cirell(!ester) also held 1and here of tJht! king. scope: tlhe chanool aroh and the arcades on the south

The IDaJnQr is said to have been given by Henry I. to Slide are Tram;illtion Norman; the north arcade of the

the monaste.ry of CirencMter, whlch he had founded. nave h318 three Early English arches, but tfue lllisle itself

Here the Par:iame'ntary army under the Earl of Essex is Decoroted, and has a door oof the same date ; the nave

was quartered on the 2fbh of May, 1644. Tht church has a flat open tim'bel'ed roof, which, with the clerestory,

'Of St. Andrew, in Ea$!; Hagbourne, is a building of is Late Perpendicular: tJhe lower part of the rood screen
st~me and rubble in mixed styles, consisting of chancel remains, witih th& <Stairce.se and tfue original door: the
pulpit and oot.agonal font e..re bot,h Perpendicular : in the
and nave of ,six bays, bobh cle:oo.Sitoried, a.isles, north and
!'Outh porches, &n embattled western Perpendi~ular chancel there i.s a fine J'llJCOobean brass to " Christ.ian

tower, wibh a s!Ja.hr .tnrredi and on tJh.e roof a unique bell- Koote, wife a.nd widow of Hugh Koote, Oif Hoocott, in

cot, wi.th cano-py &nd pinnacles, in which hangs one fue oounty of Barkes, gent. ; " it has kneeling figures of

EERKB. 6

82 BAGBOt'R:XE. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY's

both, witJJ. four sons and four daughters; he died 23rd ' "Here was formerly a church; and one of the fields is

March, 1613, "and was buried in the parish chancel of s·till called Church Croft!'

Westildsley; she died 14th .August, 1627; " William Oo·scote is a hamlet ha:f-a-mhle we&t from East Hag-

Kea.te, their youngest sone erected this me<IDOoriall." The bourn-e.

church was substantiaJy repaired and well restored in

185g-6o, under the superintendence of W. J. Hopkins NORTH H.AGBOURNE (known also as Didcot New

esq. architeC't, at a oost of £1,soo, includ:ing /.,210 laid Town) is the name given to a collection of houses, whi-ch

out by tihe Earl of Craven (formerCy lord of the manor) have increased in number during some years past, and

in the repairs and restora.tion of .tihe chancel : there are now form a small village on the northern border of th(f

474 S!it•tings, all being free. The regi:>ter da:bes from the parish, about a quarter-of-a-mile from Didcot Junction

year r662. The living is a vicarage, net yearly station on the Great Western railway. The church of

value £143, with residence, in the gift of the St. Peter, in North Hagbourne, is a building in a plain

present vicar, and held since I 878 by the Rev. Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles,

William Robert Baker B..A. of Corpus Christi Col- north porch, and an embattled western tower containing-

lege, Camb11idge. Hel'e is a Primitive l\Ietfuodist chapel. one bell : the church was opened 3oth June, I 8go, and

.A short distance north-east of the church, in the village, completed and the bell dedicated Oct. 18th, 18g8: there

is a fine croSIS on lofty steps ; the tall sha.ft has on c·11e are 250 sittings. There is also a Primitive Methodist-

side, at ·the foot, a wide deep niche, and above it a chapel. The population is included in East Hagbourne.

smaller one, with traces of a canopy; it is now sur- Parish Clerk, James Pether

mounted by a cube of stone, with sun-dials on three Post, M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office..

sides, and on the fourth an inocripbi10n illegib:e from East Hagbourne.-Frank George B. Dew, sub-post-
below: on the east side of the village, at the cross roads, master. Letters arrive from Didcot R.S.O. at 7·5 a.m.
oppos!ilie the " T,rnvellers' 1Ve~oome " inn, are the re· & 1.40 p.m. ; dispatched at 12.25 a.m. & 7· 10 p.m.
m3Ji,ns of another cross, placed on a hig-h mound ; and Didcot station is the nearest telegraph office, 2 miles
the· base of a third is in the hedgeside in a road north distant
of the viTila.ge. There are &~me extremely picturPsque Letter Boxes, witlh times orf clearing.-Nortlb. Ragbourne.,
and good examplers here of timber and pla&ter, or tiled- 12.50 & 9 p.m.; sundays, 9 p.m.; West Hagbourne,
frontad houses, several of which, the property of Lol'd 6.55 p.m.; sundays, 10.30 p.m
Wantage, have been wry carefuKy reSitored. The to1.al
amount of charities, from several legacies, is about £8o Schools.

annuaUy. Lord Wa;ntage Y.C., K.C.B. is lord of t.he Ohurclh (mixed), 'bui1t irn 1874, for 190 chi1dn'en; anr-

manor of East Hagbourne. and prmc~all landowner ; age attendance, 105; James Goodall, master; Miss

Charles Morrison esq. of Basildon Park, Maj. Matthew Jane Hughes, mistress; Miss Alice Mills, asst. mistress

Pilcher, Mr. John Holliday and Mr. Robert Rich are the North Hagbourne, built in 1871, enlarged in 1892, & fur-
other chie! landownei"s. T'h~ 1soil is strong, black and ther enlarged in 18g6, for about 250 children; average
lOOillly; subsoi!l, rubble oh~k. The crops are whe,at, attendance, boys & girls, Ig6; George R. McFarlane,

barley and beans. The parish is noted for its cherry master; Misses .Ada Cautwell & Frances Wells, assist-
orchards, and watercress is largely grown 'here. The ant mistresses

area of East Hagbourne is. 1,758 acres, and of ·west Hag- Oal'lriers to:-
bourne r,o57 acres; ra•teab[e value of East Hagbourne

[7,328, and of West Hagbourne £r,550; the population Abingdon Fredk. Keep & Daniel West, mon. wed. & sat

in 1891 was, Eas't Hagbourne 1,297, West Hagbourne 157. Wallingford-Daniel West, tues. & fri.; Job Sawyer, tues.

West Hagbourne is a liberty 1 m~le routh-we.st. & fri

EAST HAGBOURNE. Napper Edwd. frmr. & miller (water) COHYERCIAL.

Baker Rev.William Robert B..A. (vicar), Napper Frank, carpenter, undertaker, Andrew Thomas George, grocer
& farmer Be:cJher Goorge, toy shop
Vicarage
Napper Job, farmer, Coscote Bosley Alfred R. family butcher; meaJ.
King Alfred C. Kingsholm.e
Napper John Pether, farmer of the best quality only supplied
Pilcher Matthew, The Grange
Richard Capt. Oswald, Church villa ~apper William (!Mrs.), F1eur-de-Lis Brown J oseph, harness maker

Saunders Mrs P.H. & blacksmith Davis George, jun. farmer, coal & coke

COMMERCIAL. 'Manor frm Pether James, builder merchant
Sawyer Job, ]3oot inn & carrier
.Abbott Frederick, farmer, Day Thos. G. W. Railway inspector

.Andrews George, thatcher ''l'hite William Hy. saddler & harness Dixon John, ca.rpenter

.Andrews Henry, ginger beer maker maker & rope & twine manufadurer Edlinburgh Joseph, dairyman

Bosley .Alfred R. family butcher vVEST HAGBOURNE. Edwards Richard, grocer & draper
F1ranklin Henry, railway engineer~
Buckel Charles, baker, grocer, pro- Antony J3rother
Buckeridg-e Frank, The Manor Monckton house
vision dealer, coal & wood merchant Thorne William Bezley Fulford John, grocer
Clargo Waiter, shopkeeper Hart Thomas, corn merchant
Butler l\Iaria (Mrs.), Greyhound inn Dearlove Ezra, frmr. Lime Tree :farm Lavell J Olb.n G. W. railway engineer
Justice William, Wheatsheaf inn Luthwaite William, private gardener
Butler John, Travellers' ·welcome P.H Napper Jsph. F. Horse & .Arrow P.H
Reeves James, farm bailiff toT. Aid- to Henry .Arthur Stevens esq. Brit-
Child Ephraim, wheelwright · well lodge
worth esq. Yo.rk farm McLean J ames, tailor
Clarke Robert L. farmer, Coscote
W oodley John, baker & grocer "Yewman Ohas. Railway Arms P.H
Cozens 1Villiam, beer retailer
Parker Mrs. Marv .A.. dress maker
Dew Frank George B. & Sons, grocers,

Post office

Dixon John, farmer & landowner, Par-

sonage farm Pryor John Edward, grocer & draper
Stock James G. W. ticket examiner
Holliday Clarence, farmer DIDOOT NEW TOWN or NORTH Strange James, boot maker
Holliday John, farmer & landownel'l RA GBOUR..l\'E.
Keep Frederick, carrier & farmer

Leach Artlhur, farmer Banwell J ames \Yebb Georgina (Mrs.), beer retailer

Mills Richd. tim'ber dealer & farmer Chapman Mrs & grocer

soHAMPSTEAD :MARSHALL is a parish 3 miles r667: there are 150 sittings, being free. The re-

north-west from Kintbury station on the Great Western gister dates from the year 1675· The living is a rectory,

railway, 4 west-south-west from Newbury, 7 south-east united to that of Enhorne, joint net yearly value £445•
from Hungerford, in the Southern division of the county, with 81 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Craven,

hundred of Ki'ntbury Eagle, petty sessional division, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Charles Blois Johnson, of
union and county court district of Newbury, rural dean- Worcester College, Oxford, who resides at Enborne.
ery of Newbury, archdeaoonry of Berks and diocese of There is a small Congregational chapel. The poor's allot-
Oxford. The .Avon and Kennet canal, the river Kennet ment cons~sts of 3a, 2r, 36p. and one acre of land £1 in
and the GreRJt Western rai~way pass through the parish, value is held by the parish clerk rent free : Rays Mead

The place received its addition, according to .A.shmole, charity of Ss. is distributed in money amongst the widows
because it "formerly belonged to the Earl Marshal of in this parish who receive no income from the poor

Eng:and and was held by the tenure of the Rod of the rate. The manor, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
Marshalsea." The church of St. l\Iary is a plain struc- belonged to the Parrys, and Sir Thomas Parry, treasurer
ture of flint and stone, re-erected in tlhe time of J ames I. to the household of that queen, built a house here:
consisting ~f chancel, 'nave, nmth aisle, north porch and about 1620 this manor passed by purchase to the Cravens
a :tower of brick con~aining 2 be~ls: the chancel is an- and became one of the chief seats of that family. In
cient and is built of flint: in the church is an inscribed I626 (r2th March) Sir William Craven kt. son of Sir W.

s:ab laid over the tomb of Sir Balthazar Gerb:er kt. Craven kt. Lord Mayor of London, was created Baro'n
painter and architect, who died while o'n a visit here in Craven of Hampstead-Marshall and in r662 Ear: of

DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. HAMPSTEAD NORRlS. S3

Craven for services which he had rendered to ihis exiled The Earl of Craven is lord of the manor and principal
master during the protectorate of Cromwell and the
losses which he had sustained by confisca!ion. The earl- landowner. The soil is light and gravelly and some por~
dom expired on the death of the earl, gth April, 1697,
tion stiff clay; subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops
but was revived (18th June, 1801) in the perso'n of
William, seventh Baron Craven. The house built by are Wheat, barley, oats &c. The area is I,824 acres of
Sir T. Parry having been pulled down, Sir Balthazar Ger-
bier kt. began a stately pi:e of bui:.ding after the model land and 28 of water; assessable value, £t,673; the popu-
of the castle of Heidelberg, which was finished in 1665,
but this house was almost wholly destroyed by fire in 1718. lation in I89I was 219. 1. .
The present mansion, erected by the Earl of Crave'n Parish C~erk, J ames Hall.

about 1720, !has been from time to time en·arged: the Post Office. James Hall, sub-postmaster. Letters ar-
rive from Newbury at 8.5 a.m.; dispatched at 5.10
deer park extends over more than 400 acres, with a p.m. The nearest telegraph & money order office is
at Kintbury, 3 miles distant
series of sma:J lakes across it: it ·belongs to .the Earl of
School (mixed), built in I896, for 40 children; average
Craven, but is in the occupation of \lames Bishap esq. attendance, 36; Miss .Annie Colton, mistress

Carrier to Newbury. James Miles, tues. thurs. & sat

Bishop James, Hampstead park Burton Walt.J.carpenter&wheelwright Minchinton James, White Hart P.H

Joyce Thoma.s, Red Hill house Bushnell James, boot & shoe maker Punter Frederick, plumber &:; glazier

Lamb Misses Dodd Harvey, farmer Smith Benjamin, miller

COMMERCIAL. G()ddard Hy. farmer, Watermans £rm Taylor William, farmer

Burton James, su!b-rugent to the Ear:i Goddard John (Mrs.), farmer Thatcher Riohard, farmer, Holt wood 1

of Craven Miles James, carrier Tha.teher William Richard, farmer .

'
HAMPSTEAD NORRIS (or Hamgstead Norreys) is the parish remains of ske~etons and spear-heads have.

a village a'nd extensive parish with a. station on the Did- been found, which seem io indicate that it was a place

c<Jt and Newbury branch of the Great Western railway of considerable importance in the time of the British and

opened in Apri~, 1882, and is 7 miles nor~h-east from Roman periods. In a part of Grimsbury Forest, locally

Newbury, in the Southern division of the county, hun- termed "Fenie 'Vood," at the foot of the hill, a few

dred of Faircross, union of Wantage, petty sessional di- hundred yards on the north or Hermitage side of the

vision and county court district of Newbury, rural forest, a pile-dwelling was discover£>-d some years ago at a.

deanery of Wallingford, arohdeaconry of Berks and dio- depth of four or five feet below the surface, and consisted,

ces-e of Oxford. The parish was enc~osed by Act of of balks of rough oak timber, about 18 feet in length,.

Parliament in 1771. 'IIhe church of St. Mary is an edi- supported by vertical posts ·at their extremities, and

fice of stone exhibiting a mixture of Norman and Early by a stouter one in the centre, also IB feet long;

English architecture and consists of chancel, nave, south altogether, more than two waggon loads of oak timber ·

porch and a low battlemented western tower containing were taken out and the solid earth or clay was fou'nd to

7 bells and a clock: there is a trefoiled piscina, supported be at a depth of about 7 feet; it is inferred that this

on a shaft and sedilia formed in the si:l of a window; structure may have been the platform of an ancient

the stair to the rood loft remains and in the porch is a dwe:ling. This manor was held by th-e family of Norris,

stoup; the nave roof is dated I635: in I879-8o the or Norreys, in :the reign of Henry VII.; the place had

churdh was restored at a cost of £1,531: the walls of been previously known as Hampstead Cifrewart, from a

mthe church and tower !being carefu~ly repaired, the in- family O'f the latter name, who possessed it the time
terior enlarged, a new chancel arch erected and the of Henry Ill. and then as Hampstead Ferrars for a like

whole interior re-seated: the font is of Purbeck stone,orna- reason. Lord Wantage V.C., K.C.B. and Lionel Dewe

mented with carved crosses: the original early font was Lowsley esq. who are lords of the manor, James Dewe,

removed in I78o to the church of Stone, Bucks: there are and Wm. Dewe esqrs. and G. W. Palmer esq. M.P. are the

292 sittings, 282 being free; the remaining 10 are appro- principal landowners. The soil is stony, clay and gravel;

priated. The register dates from the year 1538. The subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and
living is a vicarage, yearly value £210, with I35 acres of oats. The parish contains the ecc~esiastical parish of

glebe and residence, in the gift of Lionel Dewe Lowsley Hermitage, 3 miles south; and the hamlets of Little

esq. and held sinre 1897 by the Rev. Horace Adiel :U:rws- Hungerford, 2! south; Bottomstead, It west; Eling,

ley M..A.. of Wadham College, Oxford. There are I south; Langley Hall, 2! west; Wor~d's End, 3 west;

Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels here. and We:l House, 3 south. The population of Hampstead·

The charities amount to £21 yearly, which is Norris, Hermitage and the hamlets in 1891 was 1,204;

distributed in clothing. About three miles to the the area is 6,042 acres; rateable value, £3,960.

south of Hampstead Norris and near the hamlet of Parish Clerk and Sexton, Eli Quelch.

Well House is a hill fortress called Grimsbury Castle, Post Offiee. Hubert James Wright, sub-postmaster.

remarkab~e for its strength, the extreme beauty of its 1 Letters arrive from Newbury at 8.25 & II.I5 a.m. (cal-

situation and the skill displayed in its construction; the lers only); dispatched at 10.35 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sun-

rampart is of circular form having two entrances, one days, arrive 8.25 a.m.; dispatched 11 a.m. Postal

on the north and the other o'n the south side, the former orders are issued here, but not paid. Yattendon is the

being reached by a narrow sunken road ; the fortifica- nearest money order office. The telegraph office at the

tions on this side, consisting of a deep ditch and ltlny station is for collection only ; the nearest for delivery

bank, are of a formidable character and opposite the en- is at Yattendon, 2 miles distant

t.rance is a mou'nd, perhaps used for reconnaissance; the School (mixed), erected in 184:; & enlarged in 1899, for

fortress is nearly inaccessible on the northern and western zoo children; average attendance. 150; Miss Isabel

sides, being defended by morasses, and before the Furmage, mistress ; Miss Mary Bartlett, infants' mist

country was drained the who:e of the valley must have Police Constable, Richard Oollins

been under water, as is evident from the peat deposit: Carriers to

within the Tamparts on 'the right side by the south-east :Kewbury George Fulker, tues. thurs. & sat. 9.30 a.m,.;

corner, is a beautiful spring of excei:.ent water, which is Thomas Jeffery, tues. & thurs

never known to be dry; the adjoining iha.mlet derives its Reading-George FulkeT & Thomas Jeffery, sat

name from this spring. The Pang stream also rises in Railway Station, Thomas TayloT, station master

this parish. About 1833, in a field on Well House Farm Hermitage is an ecclesiastical parish formed out of

and about ha:f a mHe from this spot the Temains of a this civil parish and will be found under a separate

Roma'n villa were discovered; in several other parts of heading.

Dames Mrs. Langley house Burgess Eli Jameiil, grocer Fulker George, carrier

De Vetrie George T. Dennis, Eling Bushell George, White Hart P.H. & Hathrill Charles, beer retailer

Honor Levi whiting manufacturer Hazell George, carpenter

Lowsley Rev.Horace Adiel M.A.Vicrge Butler Louisa. (Mrs.), farmer, World's Herman Waiter, grocer & baker

Lowsley Mrs. Manor h011se End (letters via Beedon) Honour Levi, farmer, Townsend farm

Lowsley Lionel Dewe, Manor house Ohapman Willia.m Henry, farmer, Bot- Huggins Samuel, Railway hotel

Wells Thomas George, Parsonage ho hampstead farm Lowsley Luke (Mrs.), farmer & land-

Clark John, boot & shoe make.T owner, Manor farm

COMMERCIAL. Deacon John, coal dealer Morton Geo. (Mrs.),farmer&bricklayer

Barlow Hy.hurd:e mkr.&t,imber <fualer De Vetrie George T. Dermis, steward Newton Fredk shopkeeper, sanitary

Bosley Sarah (l'frs.), shopkeeper, to George William Palmer esq.M.P., inspector, assessor & eollector of

World's End (letters vi~ Beedon) J .P. Eling taxes & assistant overseer

Brackstone Robert, Langley Hall inn Dewe Jas. farmer, Wyld Court farm Pyke George, Coach & Horses P.H.

(letters vi~ Beedon) . Dewe William, farmer, Haw farm World's End (letters via Beedon)

BERKS. 6*

84 HAMPSTEAD NORRIS. BERKSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Quelch John; blacksmith 1Yood:ey Wil:iam, watch mkr. & bee Wright Hubert J. boot & shoe maker
Simmons J'lhilip, farmeJ", Oak house farmer, Wor~d's End (letters v1'Aa & shopkeeper, Post office
Weedon Erothers, coal & coke mers Beedon)

HANNEY is a parish consisting of the .tow'nsh:ps of and part leasehold. The soil is loam ; subsoil, clay and
gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and
East and We.st Hanney, in the Northern division of the turnips. The township comprises 1,331 acres; rateable
county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and
c.on'nty court district of Wantage, rural deanery of Want- value, £1,967; the population in 1891 was 361.
age, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford.
By Local Government Board Order, zo,68g, dated March
WEST H.ANNEY is about 1! miles north-west from 24, 1887, two detached parts of West Hanney, known as
Hannev Meadow, and Dead Man's Hand, were added to
the Wantage Road station of the Great Western railway, East H• anney.
4 north-north-west from Wantage and 7~ south-west
from Abingdon. The church of St. James the Great is Parish G.erk, James Bunoe.

a. fine cruciform building of stone, consisting of chancel, Post Office.-Mrs. Rosamelia Shepherd, sub-postmistress.

nave of five bays, south aisle and an emba.tfed tower on Letters arrive from Wantage at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched
the north side containing 7 bells and a clock : the chan-
ce! is poor and Late Perpendicular : the cha'ncel arch at 6.45 p.m. ; sunday, 10.15 a.m. Postal orders are
Early Eng~ish and very acute, with good corbel shaft·~;
a blocked hagioscope and rood-loft stairs remain: the issued here, but not paid. Wantage is the nearest
south transept is Early English, with a trefoiled piscina:
money order office & East Hanney the nearest telegraph
the north transept, albove "\l-thi-ch the tower rises, has a
Transition Norman arch opening to the na.ve; its east office, 1 mile distant .
window and piscina are Decora.ted and there is a curious
o~d staircase to the belfry : the nave has five Decorated EAST H.AJNXEY is situated on the Letscombe
arches on the south side, the co~umns supporting these brook, a feeder of the river Ock, about 7 miles
being of modern date : the south aisle is Decorated and south-west from Abingdon and 3~ north from
has a richly panelled parapet: the lower part of tlhe Wantage. The Wantage Rood station on the Great
tower is Transition Norman, the upper portion Perpen-
dicular and the bell frame is dated 1605 ; the north door- Western railway is aibout a mile from the village, and

way is Norman and has an Ear:y Eng:ish porch, the the Wilts and Berks. canal 2 miles. The chapel of ease

south doorway Decorated: in th:e chancel is a brass, with of St. James-the-Less is a building of stone, in the
effigy, and mutilated marginal inscription to John Seys,
rector, c. 1370; besides others to Humphrey Cheynie, of Perpendicular style, erected by subscription, from de-
West 'lVoodhay, with effigy in armour and 12 Englioh
signs ·by the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. and consists of
verses, 1537; Sir Christopher Lytoot (knighted in 1591 ohancel, nave, south porch and a western gable be]-cot
by Henry IV. of Bourbon, king of France and Navarre),
with one bell : :there are sittings for upwards of 160
high sheriff of Berks, d. 1599; with effigies of
himself in armour and his wives J ane and p'.lrsons, 125 being •free. There is also a. chapel belo'nging

Catherine; John .Ayshcombe, of Lyford, gent. 1592, with to the home mission; ministers various. The principal
figures of two wives, ten sons and four daughters ; and landowners are Lord Wantage L.L., K.C.B., V.C. Waiter
Oliver Ayshcombe, gent. 16n, and his wife Martha Morrison esq. V.D. of Malham Tarn, Langcli:ffe, Settle,
(Yeate), four sons and two daughters: there are also Sidney Edward Bouverie-Pusey esq. and the Messrs. Floyd
and Powell. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay and white
marble monuments to John Ayshcorube, 1655, with gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans.
The area of the township is 2,192 acres, comprising 6oo
arms; E. Scrogg, 1784; and H. Popham, 1752: in the acre;; of very rich arable land and 8 of water; rateable
value, £2,915; thB population in 1891 was 549; the entire
south transept are brasses to Thomas Mellisborne, 1602, area of the parish is 3,503 acres, and the population in
1891 was gro.
two wives and three daughters; in the nave is a tablet
By Local Government Board Order, 20,689, dated
to Edw. Bowles, 1685, and his wife, Elizabeth Bowles, March 24, 1887, two detached parts of West Hanney,
known as Hanney Meadow and Dead Man's Hand, were
I7'I8, aged 124 years: there is a stained window in the added to this township, and two portions of Wantage
parish, known as Ro:xley and J.indsey, were also annexed.
south •side of the chancel to the memory of Helen Mac-
dougall, d. Oct. 21st, 1887; and one on the north side Sexton, Edward Tombs.
to the wife of the Rev. George Herbert Johnson
M.A. vicar 1893-5 : the pulpit dates from 1649: Post & T. 0. & Express Delivery Office. Miss Mary Ann

the church has been restored at a cost of about Piggott, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Want-
age at 7·55 a.m.; dispatched at 7 p.m.; sunday, ro.3o
£2,300 and affords 290 sittings : in the vicarage garden a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The
are several stone coffins, pinnacles and gurgoyles, re- nearest money order office is at Wantage
mo'Ved from the church at the restoration. The register
date~ from the year 1582. The living is a vicarage, National School (mixed), established in 1846, en~arged
with 74 a.cres of glebe, net yearly value £227, with resi~
deuce, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury, 1894• for 200 children; average attendan.ce, 175; H.
and held since 1895 by the Rev. Charles Avery Pinhorn Leslie Edwardes, master; Mrs. H. L. Edwardes, mist
B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. There are charities of
about £z6 yearly for educational purposes, distribution Carriers to

in bread and money. The principal landowners are F. J. Abingdon-George Herman, to 'Old Bell,' mon.; & Ry.

J ackson esq. New College and Magdalen College, Oxford, Barrett, 'Old Befi,' mon
and the Messrs. Aldworth. The land is part freehold
Wantage-Henry Barrett i& George Herman, to ':Blue

Boar,' wed. & sat

WESrr RANNEY. Higgs Dennis, thatcher Booker George, wheelwright

Broad Mrs. Tavistock cottage Higgs Esther (Mrs.), laundress Broughton Henry, shopkeeper

Cockerell Goorge Russell, The Old Markham William Henry, butcher Bunce !Wbert, Black Horse P.H
!Monk John Batton, assistant oversee.r Butcher Alfred Archbold, Crown P.H
Rectory house Cox William, blacksmith
for East Hanney
Dandlridge Mrs Monk Waiter, farmer, Danes farm Da.ndridge Alfred William, miller,

Dunnett George Lunn Sthe:eherd Martin, baker, grocer & pro- Wantage Ro.ad roller mills

EarnJey Charles VISion deal-er, & assistant overseer, Dandridge Edgar, fa.rmer, Manor fa.rm

Hales Mrs Post office Herman Geo. carrier & shopkeeper
Steele Joseph,threshing machine propr Herman Henry, grocer & coal mer
Kent Robert William B.A.Vicrge WhiteGeorge,coal merchant & grocer; Herman John, farmer & maltster
Pinhorn Rev. Chas. Avery

COMMERCIAL. & at Wantage Road station Holmes James Robins, bookseller,The

Barrett Henry, carrier & shopkeeper Willis Cyrus, shopkeeper Mulberries

Barrett John Parker, bricklayer EAST HANNEY. Ireson Henry, coal merchant, hay &

Eoor John, The Lamb P.H straw dealer & farmer

Bunce J ames, stone mason Cowdery George Bell IJoyd Edrwin, fanner, Grange farm
Long Philip Augustine, baker
Bunce HenryRobert,beer ret.& shpkpr Fitzgerald Edward, The Buddleas Piggott Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeeper,
Ilutler Nathaniel, fa.rmer
Lyford Mrs. Lay house Post office
Cox Ann (Mrs.), blacksmith. Stevenson Alfred, !rmr. Yew Tree frm
Price John, Robey villa Talmage William, horse dealer
Do-rmer Emm a (Mrs.), shopkeeper & Stevenson Robert Tombs James, The Plough P.H
beer retailer
Dormer Henry, farm.er, Lidbrook COMMERCIAL.

Fuller Thoma-s, boot maker Aldworth Oharles, carpenter West Daniel, miller (water)

Greenaway Ann Eliza (Mrs.), farmer, Barrett John Robins, mason Willoughby Rober.t, farmer

Manor farm Bennet.t Richard Fisher, fanner