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PACK Abbas, see White Waltliara 10.3 Abiiig-don l'» Albert Park, see Abingdon 13 Alderrnastou I'J Aldwortb 2(i Alley, sre Bucklebury 'M Altwood Ildsee Boyue Hill 31 Applelbrd "-^0 Appleton 20 Arbortield 21 ArdiofTtoii 21 Ascot Heatli 21 Ascot Side,sce Ascot Heath 21 Asliaiupstead 22 Ashbury 22 AshmoreGm.seeThatchani 142 Aston, .see Remenham 125 Aston Tirrold 23 Aston Upthorpe 23 Aviii;;tou 2i Awbury .'--treet, sec That- cham 142 l{aclieliirsAcre,sre Windsor 102 liadbury Hill, see Great (Joxwell 4.> Baf,'leyWood 24 Ban nor, ,>•('(• Speen I W I'>a<;sliot, see bhal bourn. . . . 12? IJarcot, or liarcote, .see liuckland ''.0 Barkham 24 Barton, set? Kiutbury 72 JJasildon 24 Baulkiny 20 Baywortli, see Suuuinf^well Mo liearwood 2"> Beckett, sec iShriveuham .. 131 Beech Hill 2C. Beedon 2(1 Beeiihain-Valleiice 2\ okiugham. ]>1 73 Euborne 51 13 Eiigleli«ld fcjouniuL' 131 14H FanugUon 42 F.inijgdon Great, Clewer, ste Windsor 101 Fariugaou Hill.see Fariug- CU wcr Green, .se- Clewer... Cockpolc. Set Wargrave.... Cold Ash, see Thaicham. .. Coles I'lts (The), *te JLillle <"t)Xwell Coleshill Coltlirop, .sec Thatcham.... Common— Upper Lower, St I Bucklebury Coniptoi 74 Coniplon Bcauchamp 44,Fihe' 42 don 63 159 Farley Uill,set:5wallowhi.-ld 141 142 Farmoor, see Cumuor 49 ' Furn borough 50 40 Fawler, Ste Kingston Lisle 71 43 h'awky— dreal iV Little... 50 142 ' Fenie \Vood.st c Hampsiead >i orris 01 ;;7 Firuham 5? 4;l I'Vrrv Hiuksev 03 34 Id, Brav, Compton I'arva, s< e Comp- ton Compton— West, see Comp- ton Cook ham Cookham Dean, see Cook- ham Cookliam Woodeide, see Cookham Coscoti', S( 0 Hag bourne Cothill, Sic Dry bandlord.. Cox (ireen. .set Boyne Hill Coxwell— Unat Coxwell - Little.. Cranbourne Cra/ies Hill, set Wargrave. ( rookham, ste TliaicUam. . Crookhani Heath, see Thatcham .... Crowthorue 40 Goo^ey. FiuchampsteaU 4;j Fiucliampstead Kidges.see I Fiuchainpstead 44 Filchampbtf d, see Cumnor 44 Forbury (1 he.i, .see Reading FriUord, st e .Marcham 44 Frilbham Frog more, see Windsor. . . . 44 Fulscot, seebouth Moreton 60 Fytield 50 Fyucld Wick, s>\- l-'ytield.. ;;i Gardeuer'bGr(.rn,see Wok- 4j' ingnam 4,-, Gariord, .see -Marcham 4o Garstou— fcast 15y Gmge— Eabt,A(t West Heu- 142 «ired j Ginge— West.seeEastLock- 142 >uy;e Culliam Culliam— Upper & Middle, .ste War;;rave Cumuor Curridge, .see Chieveley. . . . Dtanctuirt, see Cumuor Uedwortli, see Clewer Ued worth Green, see Clewer Deiichworth Ueiilord, see Ivintburv.... Didcot Did nam, ste Grazelcy Donnington, see Sliaw ... Dowueud, «ee Chieveley... 45; Graudpont 56 Grazcley 5b 150 Great Cox well 45 4y Great Farmgdou 52 3(j Great Fawley .")0 48 Great I'ark, see Windsor. . 105 42 (ircat bhetlord 129 Green Lower A: Upper,see 42 Inkpeu 71 4y Grteuliam 58 72 Greeuliam, see Newbury. . . 92 4i» Grimsbury Forest, see 58 llanipsiead Norris 01 128, Grove 69 39 1 Hudley, sec Lamborue .... 74 PAGK Hagbourne— East it West.. 59 Ha<^bourne —North, see Hagfbourne 60 Halfway, see Hoe Benhaui, 100 Ham Bridge, see Thatcham 142 Hamjtstead .Marshall 0-> Hampstead Norris 00 Hanney-East tou Bagpuze 71 lviu;L;ston Lisle 71 ivingstone Wiuslow, see Ashbury 23 Kintbury 72 Knighton, see Compton Beaucliamp 44 Knowlllill 73 Lam borne 73 Lamborue — Upper, see Lamborne 74 Langborough, see Woking- ham 179 Laugley Hall, see Hamp- stead Norris 01 Leckhampstead, st eChicve- ley 39 LL'tiombe Basset 75 Lelcombe Kegis 7(i Lilley, see Catmore Little ( oxwell 46 Little Fawley 66 Little Hungoi-ford, see Hampstead Norris 61 Little I'ark. ste Windsor.. l(v» Little Suetlbrd b VI INDEX TO Kelly's Berkshire directory. PAGE Little 'Wittenham 177 Littlewick Green, see White NYaltham 153 Littleworth 7(j Lockiuge — East 76 Loekinse— West 77 L,ono'cot 77 Lou'o- Walk (The), see Windsor 105 Long Wittenliam 177 Long worth 77 Lowbury, see Compton .... 43 Lower Basildon, see Basil- i don 25 Lower Common, see Bucklebury 37 Lower Green, see Inkpen . . 71 Lower AVick,. see Sutton i Wick 140' Lyford 78 j\raekney, see Brightwell . . 35 IMaideuhead 78^ Maidenhead Thicket, see \ Boy ne Hill 311 Maiden's Green, see Wink- { field 177 JMarebam S5i Market Ilsley, see East Ilsley 09 IMarlston, see Bucklebury,. 36 3Iarsk Benham, see Speen. 134 3Iiddle Culham, see War- i urave 150 Midgham 86 Milton 86 1 ^Miltou Hill, ste Milton.... 86; Mouev Kow Green, see i Bray 34 Moreton— North 86 Moreton— South 87 1 Mortimer West End, see \ Stratlield Jlortimer 137 ]Moss End, see Warlield .. . . 15S Moulsford 87 ]S'etherton. see Eyfield 57 New Bridge, see Kingston Bajrpuze 71 New" Hinksey, see South Hiuk>oy , 04 Nt'v,' Windsor, see Windsor 161 Newbury 87 Newlaud, see Arborfield... . 21 Newland, see Bearwood ... . 25 Newland, see Hurst 6'.i Newton, see Shalbourn .... 127 Newtown, see Hungcrford. 6o Newtown, see Thatcham .. 142 Norfolk Park, see Maiden- he.'ni 81 North Hagbourne, see Hag- bourne 60 Nortli Heatli, see Winter- bourne 40 North Hinkscy 63 North Moreton 86 North Town, see Cookham 44 North Town, see ^laidenhd 81 Northcourt, see Abingdon . 13 Nup Town, see Warrield .. 158 < lakltv Green, see Bray 34 OiH-e, Sf'c Chieveley 3U < )(istoiii% .see Aslibury 23 Oily Hill, see Sutton Wick. 140 UM Bracknell, see East- liampstead 51 Old Windsor 175 Cure, see Chieveley 3li Owlsmoor, see Crowthorne 46 PAGK Oxenwood, see Shalbourn... 127 Padworth 97 Faky Street, see White Waltham 153 Pangbourne 98 Park, Home or Little & Great, see Windsor 165i Peasemore 98 Perborough Castle, see Compton 43 Pinge Wood, seeBurgh field 37 Pinknevs Green, see Cook- ham.'. 44 PlummeryDitch,seeReadng 104 Pound Green, see Grazeley 58 Purley 98 Pusey 99 RadcotBrdg.see Faringdon 53 Radley " 99 Eadley, see Avington 24 Raymead, see Cookham 44 Raymead, see Maidenhead 81 Ray Mill, see Cookham 44 Ray Park, see Maidenhead 78 Ray's Island, see Windsor 162 Reading 99 Remenham 125 RemenhamHill,see Remen- ham 125 Rockley, see Cumnor 48 Royal Mews (The), see Windsor 104 Rusconibe 126 Sanden Fee, see Huugerford 65 Sandford, see Abingdon .. . 13 Sandford, see Sonnmg 131 Sandhurst 12(i Sandleford 127 Seacourt 127 Shalbourn 127 Sliaw-( um-Donninhill 130 Bajfshot house, Rev. Thos. H. ^Michell .m.,v. .see .Shalbourn 128 Barcoto manor, William West esq. , see Buckland 30 Barkhara .^lanor house. Major General William liickman, ■ .see Barkliam 24 Barton court, Harry Adolphus Siramonds esq.s^eKiiitbury 72 Barton lo(l>^(', John David Koliler esq. j.p. seeCranbourue 45 Basildon liouse, Charles -Alorrison esq. .see Basildon 2'i Bear place, Henry Ximenes, esq. see War^rravc 150 Bearwood, John Walter esq. m.p., d.l., j.v. see Hearwood 25 Boch^.s, Lieut-Col. Geo. Newdifjate j.p. see Wokingham 180 Beckett house, Viscount Barringtou p.c, d.l., j.p. see Shriven li am 1.31 Beech II ill house, Henry Lannoy Hunter esq. j.p. see Beech Hill 26 Beonham house, Hy. Warini;- esq. see Beeiiliam-Vallence 26 Benham park. Sir Richard Francis Sutton bart. see Speen 134 Kere court, Lady Donaldson, .see I'angbourue 98 Besselsleigli manor, Edmund Kyffln Leutliall esq. j.p. sec BesselsleiKh 27 Betterton house, Uev. John Ferdinando Collins b.a., j.p. see Lockinye 77 Bill hill, John Levoson-(iower esq. d.l., J. p. see Wokingham 178 Billingbear park, Thomas Kussell esq. see Waltham St. L.Mwrence 152 Binfield court. Frank D. B. Webster esq. see Binfield 27 Binfield ilaiior house, ]\Iiss ^Meyncll-Ingram, see Binfield.. 27 Binfield Park house, Mrs. Rock,. see Binfield 27 Bishani abbey, George Henry Vansittart esq. d.l., j.p. see Bisliam 28 Bloomfield hall, .lames Reiss esq. see Sunniiigdale 1.3.s Boiirton house, !Mrs. Tucker, see Itourton ."JO Brackens (Thei, Sir AVilliam Cunningham Bruce bart. see Bracknell 31 Bradfield hall, 3Iis8 Connop, see Bradfield :;:! Bradlield Iodide, Gtlio Cooke esq. see Bradfield .33 Bray Wick lodge, John Hibbert esq. j.p. .sve Bray Wick.. 34 Buekhiirst, Charles Townshend Murdoch esq. j.p. see Wokinyhani 178 Buckhurst park, Joseph Savorv esq. see SunninLrhill. . . . 139 Buckland house. Sir Nicholas William George Throckmor- ton bart. D.L., J.p. .see liuckland .36 Bulmershe ffourt, James Joseph Wheble esq. d.l., j.p. see Earley, SouTiing 1.32 Burfielil, Lieut-Col. lion. \V. II. Peregrine Carington j.p. see Old Windsor 170 Burghfield ^Slanor house, Sirs. Davis, see Burghfield 37 Buseot house. Robert Campbell esq. f.r.g.s.,j.p. se>' Buscot 37 Calcot nark, Caledon Du Pre Alexander epq .see Tileliurst 144 Carswell liouse, Thos. Hayward Southby esij.see Buckland 30 Castle priorv, James Hayllar esq. see Wallinirford 148 Castlemans house, M.Hy. Court; es(j.c.s.i.,J.p..seeKnowl Hill 73 Chapel house, Lady Smith, ser Wargrave 159 Charlton Iiouso, Hy. Denis de Vitre esq. J.P. see Charlton, Wantage 158 ChufTs, Lieut-Col. Fitzroy WilliaraF'remantle J.p.see Holy- port. Bray .34 Church Spcen lodge, ]Mrs. Corrie, see Speen 1.35 Clewer lodsjfe. Colonel Clias. Richard Bulkeley, see Clewer 42 Clewer manor. Edmund B. Foster esq. j.p. see Clewer 42 Clewer park. Sir Daniel Gooch bart. m.p., d.l., j.p. see Clewer 42 Coleshill house. Earl of Radnor, .see Coleshill 43 Conipton house, Vice-Chancellor Sir James Bacon knt. j»ee Compton Beauchamp 44 Courtlands, Mrs. Henry Breedon, see Pangbourne 98 Coworth park, William Arbuthnot esq. j.p.see Sunningdale 13S Crookham house, Albert Richd. Tull esq. d.l., j.p, see Thatcham 142 Cruchfield house, Thos. Jsph. Hercy esq. j.p.' see War field 1.5S Culham court, :\lrs Egerton, see Wargrave 159 Cumberland lodge, Their Roval Highnesses the Prince & Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, see Old Windsor 176 Dell (The), Baron JohnHy. Wm. Schroder, see Old Windsor 176 Denford house, Geo. Chas. Cherry esq. j.p. see Kintbury 72 Donniugton grove. Head Pottinger Best esq. d.l., j.p. see Donnin-ton, Shaw i^g Donniugton lodge, Charles S. Slocock esq. j.p. see Don- niugton, Shaw 1-28 Earley court. Johu F. Hall esq. see Earley, Sonning 132 East court, AVilliam Lyon esq. see Finchampstead 57 Easthampstead park. Marquess of Downshire, see East- hampstead 51 Egmont, Gen. Sir Trevor Chute k.c.b. see Binfield 27 Elcott park, Wm. Hew Dunn esq. d.l., j.p. .see Kintbury.. 72 Enborne lodge, Robt. Harris ViUpy esq. j.p. see Enborne 51 Eny lefield house, Richd. Benyon esq d.l., . J.p.seeEnglefield 52 Erlegh Whiteknights, Thomas Porter esq. see Earley, Soiming 132 Fanngdon house, Daniel Bennett esq. j.p. see Faringdon. 53 Farley castle, Mrs. Atkins, .see Swallowfield 141 Farley hall, Col. William Gray d.l., j.p. see Swallowfield. 141 Farley Hill court, John Brooks esq. se(> Swallowfield 141 Farm wood.MariaMarchioness ofAiiesbury,seeSunninghill 139 Fernhill, Richard Ravenhill esq. see Cranbourne 46 Firs (The). Lucius Henry FitzGerald esq. see P.infield 27 Foliejohn park, Thomas Law Blane esq. see AVinkfield 176 forest end. Lt.-Col. W. J. Gascoigne, see Sandhurst 127 Forest farm, John Charles Bowring esq. f.l.s., j.p. see Cracbourne 46 Forest Hill park, John Skelton esq. see Clewer 42 Forest lodge. Sir Warwick Charles Morshead bart. j.p. see Binfield 27 Fox Hill, Arthur Edward PhiUips esq, see Earley, Sonning 132 Friary, Francis Ricardo esq. j.p. .see Old Windsor 170 Glen, Capt. Hon. Algernon Wm. Fulke Greville d.l, j.p. see Sunninghill 1.39 Grotto, Arthur Smith, esq. j.p. see Basildon ,:5 Grove (The), Sir Henry Mervin Vavasour bart. d.l., j.p. .see Binfield 27 Haines hill.Thomas ColletonGarth esq.D.L.,j.p. seeHurst.. . 09 Hall place. Sir Gilbert Augustus Clayton East bart. j.p. see Birchetts Green 28 Hampstcad park. Marquess of Donegall k.p., g.c.h., p.c. .see Hanipstead Marshall CO Hare Hatch house, Adolphus William Youngesq. d.l., j.p. see Wargrave 159 Harewood lodge, Col. the Hon. Charles Rowley Hay j.p. see Sunninghill 139 Hartley court. Major-Gen. Walton, see Grazeley 58 Harts' Leap, Mrs. Blakeley. .see Sandhurst 127 Hatch (The) Gerald Cecil Stuart Paget esq. see Oakley Green, Bray 35 Heatherfield, Capt. Hon. Ashley George John Ponsonby D.L.. J.p. see Ascot Heath 22 Heathfield lod^e, Harry Farquhar De Paravicini esq. see Bracknell 31 Heatlilauds house, Sydney Alers Hankey esq. d.l., j.p. see Wokingham i:S Hendred house, Mrs. Eyston,see East Hendred 63 Hendred Down house, John Alliu esq. .see East Hendred. 63 Heywood, Beaumont Hankey esq. see White Waltham.. 153 Hinton manor, Capt. Fredk. Cleave Loder-Symonds j.p. see Hinton Waldrist 04 Holly STOve, Col. the Hon. George Augustus Frederick Liddell, see Old Windsor 176 Holly spring. Palmer Chapman esq. see Bracknell 31 Holme green. Bartle Geo. Goldsmid esq. see Wokingham 179 Holme park. Rev. Henry (iokiing-Palmer B.. v. .see Sonning 132 Hungerford park, George S. \\ illes esq. j.p. see Huugerford 65 Hurst grove. Mrs. Finch, .s( (' Hurst 69 Inglewood house, Mrs. General Dunn, see Kintbury 72 luholmes, John Aldridge esq. j.p. see Woodlands, Lam- borne 75 b 2 viii LIST CF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN BERKSHIRE. PAGE Keep Hatch, Rev. Georg-e Edward Denis-De Vitre M.A.see Wokingham King's Mead, Capt. William Victor Johnson j.p. see Cran- bourne ^ ^6 Kingston house, John Blandy Jenkins esq. j.p. see Kings- ton Bagpuze ^1 Kingston house, Lt.-Col. Victor William Bates Van de Weyer j.p. see Kingston Lisle 72 Lamborne place, Hy. Hippisley esq.DX., j.p. see Lamborne 74 Lavender farm, Lt.-Gen. Anthony Robert Thornhill j.p. see Bracknell 31 Lily hill, Lt.-Col. John Hy. Bagot Lane j.p. see Bracknell 31 Linden hill, Mrs.Bulkeley, see Knowl Hill 73 Little Park house, Mrs. Shuter, see Crookham, Thatcham 142 Lockinge house. Col. ^Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay m.p., v.c, K.C.B., J.p. see East Lockinge 76 Loddon court, Thomas Boone Roupell esq. see Swallowfield 141 Long Wittenhahi Manor house, William Goddard esq. see Long Wittenham 177 Lovel Hill house. The Dowager Marchioness of Ailsa, see Cranbourne 46 Lynwood, Viscount Hood, see Sunningdale 1.38 MaidenErlegh, JohnHargreaves esq. j.p. seeEarley,Sonning 1.32 Manor cottage, Col. George Charles Ernest Adolphus Richard Howard-Vyse j.p. see Old Windsor 176 Marcham park, Charles Philip DuflSeld esq. j.p. see Mar- ch am 85 Marchfield house, Mrs. Bunbury, see Wokingham 17S Marlston house, Henry Mill ]3unbury esq. d.l., j.p. see Bucklebury 37 Martins Heron, Major-Gen.Gustavus Hamilton Lockwood Milman r.a. see Bracknell 32 Matthews green, Edward Nicholson esq. see Wokingham. . 180 Midgham house, Benj. Buck Greene esq .j.p. see Midgham. 86 Milton hill, John Samuel Bowles esq. d.l., j.p. see Milton 86 Milton house, John Basil Barrett esq. j.p. see Milton 86 Mortimer hill. Sir Claudius Stephen Paul Hunter bart. D.i/., J.p. see Stratfleld Mortimer 137 Mortimer house, Major-Gen. Charles G. H.Coote, see Strat- field Mortimer 1.37 Isew lodffe, Lt.-Col. Victor William Bates Van de Weyer J.p. see Wlnkfleld 176 Newtown lodge, Jas. Thring Coxe esq. see Hungerford... . 67 North courtArthurFraserWatts esq.j.p.see Finchampstead 57 Oakfield, Lt.-Col. Charles Edward Morgan j.p. see Strat- field Mortimer 137 Oakley court, Lady Fitzgerald, see Water Oakley, Bray . . 35 Ouseley lodge. Rev. Wm. Hy. Rooper m.a. see Old Windsor 176 Padworth house, Christopher Darby-Griffith esq. d.l., jp. see Padworth 97 Park lodge. Gen. Sir David Edward W^ood g.c.b.,r.a. see Sunningdale 1.30 Park place, John Noble esq. j.p., f.r.m.s. see Remenham,. 125 Pelliug place. Lady Bulkeley,see Old Windsor 170 Pembroke lodge. Lady Algernon Percy, see Sunninghill... 140 Pewit house, William Grahain esq. j.p. see Wootton 182 Pou^hley park, Walter Brind Waldron esq. see Woodlands, Lamborne 74 Prior'sCourthouse,Rev.Chas.Rchd.PowysM.A.seeChieveley 39 Prospect house, Capt. John Liebenrood r.n. see Tilehurst. 144 Purley hall, Frederick Wilder esq. j.p. see Purley 9S Purley park, Major Anthony Morris Storer j.p. see Purley. 9S Pusey house, Sidney Edward Bouverie-Pusey esq. j.p. see Pusey 99 Ravenswood, Charles Henry Smith esq. see W^okingham.. . 180 Royal lodge, Lt.-Gen. Geo. Grant Gordon, see Old Windsor 176 St. Helens, Lieut.-Col. George Sheppard Harvey r.a., j.p, see Sandhurst 127 St. Leonard's, Sir Theodore HenryL. Brinckman bart. d.l. see Clewer 42 St. Leonard's hill. Baron de Barry, see Clewer 42 St. Leonard's house, Mrs. Fitzmaurice Scott, see Clewer .. 42 Sandhurst lodge, Wilham Jas. Farrar esq. see Sandhurst. . 126 PAGE Sandleford priory, William P. B.Chatteris esq. d.l,., j.p. see Sandleford 127 Scarletts, Charles Rd. Littledale esq. j.p. see Knowl Hill 73 Shaw house, Mrs. Eyre, see Shaw 128 Sheepstead house, Mrs. Davis, see Marcham 85 Shinlield grange, Alexander Cobham Cobham esq. j.p. see Shintield 130 Shooters hill, Frederick Shoolbred esq. see Pangbourne . . 98 Shottesbrooke park, Chalfont Chute Ellis esq. see Shottesbrooke 130 Shrivenham house. Lady Bloomfield, see Shrivenham .... 1.31 Shrubbs hill, John Barry Torry esq. see Sunningdale .... 138 Sillwood park, Mrs. Stewart, see Sunninghill 139 Sindlesham ho. Thos. Rickman Harman esq. see Bearwood 25 South Hill park. Lady Hay ter, see Eastliampstead 51 Stanford place, George Basil Eyston esq. see Stanford-in- the-Vale 136 Staulake park, Mrs. Barker, see Hurst 69 Sulham house. Rev. John Wilder m.a. see Sulham 138 Sulhampstead house. Major William Richard Mortimer Thoyts J.p. see Sulhampstead-Abbots 138 Sunningdale park. Lady Crosley, see Sunningdale 138 Sunninghill park, Gcn. Crutchley j.p. see Sunninghill 139 Swallowfield park, Lieut.-Col. Sir Charles Russell bart. v.c, D.L,., J.p. see Swallowfield 141 Tangley, Captain Edward Walter, see Wokingham 180 Temple house, Major-Gen, Owen L. C. Williams m.p., j.p. see Bisham 28 Tetworth park, Sir Edward Robert Sullivan bart. see Sunninghill 139 Tidmarsh manor, Robert John Hopkins esq. m.a., j.p. see Tidmarsh.. 143 Titness park, Capt. Sir Reginald Cathcart bart. see Sunninghill 1.39 Titteiihurst lodae, Thomas Holloway esq. see Sunninghill 139 Tubney liouse, William Wasteneys esq. see Tubney 144 Ufton court, Capt. Cecil Sharp, see Ufton 140 Uplands, Mrs. Beaucharap, .see Sandhurst 127 Wadley house, Thomas Lcinster Goodlake esq. j.p. see Littleworth 70 VVallingford castle, John Kirby Hedges esq. j.p. see Wallingford o 148 Waltliam ^lanor house, William Lansdowne Beale esq. J.p. see Waltham St. Lawrence , 153 Warfield grove, Frederick Cazenove esq. seeWarfield .... 158 Warfield hall, Wm. Chas. King esq. D.L., j.p. see Warfield 1.58 ^Varfield park. Lord Ormathwaite, see Warfield 158 Warrennes wood, Riglit Hon. Sir John Robei't Mowbray bart. .M. p., J.p. see Stratfield Mortimer iLi? Wasing place, Wm. Geo. Mount esq. d.l,., j.p. see Wasing 159 Waste court. John Creemer C larke esq. m.p. see Abingdon 16 ^V'elford park, Charles Eyre esq. d.l., j.p, see Welford lO') West tnd. Misses Hopkins, see Pangbourne 98 West Wood hay ho. Wm. Hy. Cole esq. see West Woodhay 181 White Waltham place, Charles Ellis esq. see White ^ Waltham 15.11 Wilderness house, INFrs Marsland, see Earley, Sonning 132 Windsor grange. Right Hon. Sir Charles Augustus Murray p.c, K.c.E. see Old Windsor 176 Winkfield place, Hon. Lawrence Parsons j.p. see Winkfield 177 VV'okefield park. Alajor Goodrich Holmsdale 2^11frey j.p. see Stratfield Mortimer 137 Woodside, Lieut.-Col. Robert William Webb Follett, see Old Windsor 170 Woolhampton house, Robert Burn-Blyth esq. j.p. see Woolhampton 182 Woolley park, Philip Wroughton esq. m.p., d.l., j.p. see Chaddleworth .38 WoolstOTie lodge, William Joseph Butler esq. j.p. see Woolstone ..' 1S2 Wytham abbey, Earl of Abingdon d.c.l. see Wytham .... 183 Yattendon house, Alfred Waterhouse esq. a.r.a. see Yattendon 183 INDEX TO KELLY'S BUCKINGHAMSHIRE DIRECTORY. PAGE Abbots Aston 276 Aokhampstead 272 Acldiugtou 272 Adstock 272 Agmondeshm. see Amrshin 273 Akeley : Amersbaia 273 AmershamHill,seeWycomb 41 Ankerwycke, seeWraysbry 41 Arngrrove, see BoarstalL. . . 202 Ascott, see Wiug 407 Ash Furlong, see Olney .. . . 371 Ashendon 275 Asheridsre, see Chesliam.. . 308 Ashley Green 275 Askett, see Plonks Risboro' 364 Aston Abbotts 276 Aston Clinton...., 276 Aston Sandl'ord 277 Aston Vaches, see Aston Clinton 276 Astwood 277 Astwood Bury,seeA8twood 277 Austen Wood, see Chalfont St. Peter 305 Averiuiidale, seeBradenhni 292 Aylesbury 277 BacombeHill..seeWendover 401 Ballanger Common, see Great ]\Iissenden 363 Barton Hartshorn 287 Bcachanipton 2S7 Beaconsfield 2S7 Beaumond End, see Little Missendon 364 Beaumont Rise, see Great Marlow 356 Bellinodon. see Chesham. . .308 Berry Fiold.sceQuarrendon 378 Biddlesden 2so Bierton 2M) Bierton Hill, .se^' Aylcibury 271> Bijrffstrup, .see Iladdenbam 332 Birdstane.seeAstonAbbtis 276 Bisliopstonc. .see .'^tone 3'JO Black Park (The), see Lang- ley Marls h .347 Blackgrove, seeWaddesdon 400 Bledtow 2'.»0 Bledlow Ridqe.see Blodlow 290 Bletchley 291 BletchleyStation,see Fenny Stratford 32S Boar's Pond, see Clietwode 31v! Boarstall 292 Bocknier End, see Mcdmen- liara 362 BoddinstonllU.seeWendvr 401 Bolter End, see Lane End. 347 Booker, see West^\'ycorabe 424 Botley, see Chesham 308 Botolph Claydon, see East Claydon 313 Bourne End, see Wooburn 412 Bourton, see Buckingham.. 297 Bourtonhold,seeBucknghm 297 Boveuey— Upper & Lower, see Buniham 3C2 Bovingdon Green, seeGreat IMarlow 356 Bow Brickhill 293 Boycott, see Stowc 394 Bradenhara 292 Bradwell & Bradwcll New 292 Bradwell Abbey 293 Bray's Green, see Little Missenden 364 Bretch Well, see Nash 366 Briokhill-(ireat 293 Briekhill— Little 2'.)4 Brill ^94 Bristle Hill, see Bucking- ham 299 Britwell.sce Burnham .302 Broadway, see Amcrshara.. 274 Broadway, see Chesham . . . .309 Broughton 295 Broughton, see Bierton .... 289 Bryant's Bottom, see Prest- wood 375 Buckingham 295 Buckland 301 PAGE Buckland Common, see Buckland 302 Bufflers Holt, see Water Stratford 401 Bullington End, see Han- slope 335 Burcot, see Wing 407 Burcott, see Bierton 289 Burnham 302 Burnham Beeches-seeBum- ham 302 Burnham— East, see Burn- ham 302 Burston, see Aston Abbotts 276 Great King's Hill, see Hugheuden 342 Great Kingshill, see Prest- wood 375 Great Linford .350 PAGE Datchet 317 Datchet Mead, see Datchet 317 Datchet St. Helen's, see Datchet 317 Dean— North, see Hugh- enden 342 Great Marlow . . . .354 Denham 318 Great Missenden 303 Denham, see Quainton .... 378|Great Penn's Mead, see Denner Hill, see Prestwood 375 Wycombe 417 Dinton 318 , Great Seabrook, see Iving- Ditton, see Stoke Poges ... 389 hoe 345 Doddershall, see Quainton 378 Great Wolston '.!!'.!'.! 411 l>orney 319 {Green Highland, see DorneyWood,see Burnham 303! Monks Risborou^h 365 Bury p]nd, see Amersham.. 274iDorton 319 , Greeu Valley, see Astwood 277 BuryPond,seeChoulesbury 313 Dorton Hill, see Brill 294jGreenborough, see Grand- Bushey Loy8,seeEllesboro' 322jDownley, see West Wy- I borough 331 Butler's Cross, see Elles- combe 424 1 Grendon Underwood 3.31 borough 322 ] Draycott, see Ickford Cadsdean, see Monks Ris- | Drayton borough 364 1 Drayton Beauchamp, see Caldecot, se^' BowBrickhill 2931 Drayton Caldecot, see Newport Pag- [ Drayton Parelow nell , .366 Dropmore 343 Gritmore, 320 ' 320 320 320 Grendon Caiverton 303 Calverton End,seeCalvertn 303 Caiverton End, see Stony Stratford .391 Castle Field, see Weston Turville 404 Castle Hill.seeBuckingham 29a Castle Hill, see Wycombe. . 417 Castle Thor])e .303 Chackmore, see Radclive . . 378 Chalfont St. (Jiles Chalfont St. Peter Dropshort, see Bow Brick- hill Dropshort.see FennyStrat- ford Dunton 293 331 331 331 Underwood Grove Haddenham .... Hall Barn Park, see Beaconsfield 288 Haltou 332 HaItonWood,seeWendover 401 Hambleden 332 Hampden— Great 333 Hampden— Little .334 Easington, see Chilton.... 312 [Handy Cross, see Great Easiugton, see Long Cren- I Marlow ZoS don 352 Han slope .334 East Burnham, see Burn- ' Hardmead .335 ham 302 Hardwick .335 3(Hj East Claydon 313 Hart well ,330 .304,Edgcott 321 Harwood, see Great Hor 321 Chalkshire, see Ellesboro' 322 Edlesborough 321 wood 340 Chalvey, see Slough .382' Edlesborough Green, see Haversham 330 Charndon, see Twvford .398 1 Edlesborough 321 Hawridge .337 Charteridge, see Chesham. 308 . Ekeley,seeStokeGoldingtn. 3S8 Hazlemere .337 Chearsley 305! Ellesborough .322 : Hedgerley 337 Cheddington :'05i Emberton 322 Hedgerley Dean, see Farn- Chenies 3u6|Eton ,323 ham Royal 327 Chepping Wyci'mbe, see Kton Wick, see Eton 323 Hedsor 337 Wycombe 415 Fair Alicc,see Whitchurch 405 ; Hcisthorpe, see Drayton .. .320 Chesham 307 F'arnham Royal 3.i6 'Higli Wycombe, see Wy- Fawley 327 combe 415 Fenny Stratford 327 ; Hillesden 3-38 Filgrave, see Tyringham.. 399 Hitchara 338 Fingest 329 Ho^i>-eston 339 Finings, see Lane End 347 HoLrshaw 339 Flackwell Heath, see Little ' HoUinudon, see Soulbury 387 Marlow 359 Holly Bush Hill, see Stoke Flackwell Heath.see Loud- Poges 389 water .3-53 Holly Green,. ?ee Bledlow.. 291 Fleet Marston 360 ; Holman's Bridge, see Flowers Bottom, see Speen, Aylesbury ....277 Lacey 347 'nolmer Greeu, see Little Ford, see Bledlow 291 1 Missenden 361 Ford, see Dinton 319 1 Horsefair, see Stony Ford End, ^ee Hadden- | Stratford .392 ham 332 Horsemoor Green, see Forty Green, see Bledlow. . 291 Langley Marish 34S Forty Green, see Poun 373 Horsendon 339 Foscott 329 Horsendon — Little, see Foxcott, see Foscott 329 Horsendon .339 Frieth, see Hambleden 333 Horton 3.39 Frogmore Gardens, see ' Horton, see Edlesborough 321 Wycombe 417 j Horton, see Ivinghoe 345 Fulbrook, see Hogshaw . . . 339 Horton, see Slapton 381 Fulmer 330 Hor wood— Great 340 Fulmer Common, see 1 Horwood— Little 340 Gerrard's Cross 330 j Hudnall. see Edlesborough 321 Gables (The), see Taplow.. .395 ' Hughenden • .341 Gawcott,sec Buckingham. . 297 1 Hulcott 342 Gayhurst 330 Hundridge, see Chesham.. 303 George Greeu, see Langley iHuudridge — Great, see 3Iarish 348 Chesham 309 Gerrard's Cross 330 'Hunt's Green, see Great Gold Hill, see Chalfont St. I Missenden 363 Peter 305 i Hyde Heath, see Great Gorefields, see Stoke Gold- Misseuden 363 ington 388;Hythe End, see V7ray8bury 415 I Graudborough 331 Ibstone 342 Cubliugton 316 j Gravel Hill, see Chalfont Ickford 343 Cuddington 3171 St. Peter 305 Ilmer, see Ilmire 343 Dadbrook,S( e Haddenham 332; Great Briekhill 293 Ilmire 343 Dadford, sec Stowe .394 1 Great Hampden .333 Isenhampstead Cheynes, Chesham Bois 311 Chetwode 311 Chiolieley 312 Chiltern Hills (The), see Aston Clinton 276 Chilton 312 Chilton Park, see Cliilton,. 312 Chorloy s> c \VestWyc(mibe 424 Choulesbury 312 Church End. see Bledlow.. 291 Church Eud, see Bucking- ham 299 Cippeuham, see Burnham. . 302 Clavdon Botolph, see East Claydon .313 Claydon— East 313 Claydon— Middle 313 Claydon— Steeple , 314 Clifton Reynea 314 Coare's End, see Little Marlow 359 Cold Brafield 315 Coldmoriiolm, see Little 3Iarlow .359 Coleshill, see Amersham .. 273 Colnbrook 315 Colstrop. see Hambleden.. .333 Coombe Hill.see Wondovcr 401 Cores End. see Wooburn,. 412 Cottesloc, see Win or 407 Cotton Hall, see Eton .323 Cowley, see Preston liissett 375 Cowley's Walk.seeWinslow 410 Crafton, see Wing 407 Crawley— North 316 Crendon— Lonii" 352 Creslow -. 316 Cryers Hill,.see Hughenden 342 Dagnall, see Edlcsboro' ,.. 321 Dancer'sEnd, see Buckland 302 Darvill's Hill, see Speen, Lacey 347 Great Horwood 340' see Chenies 306 Great Hundridge, see Ches- I Tver 343 ham 309 i Iver Heath, see Iver 343 Great Kimble 345 Ivinghoe 344 X INDEX TO Kelly's Buckinghamshire dip.ectoky. PAGE Ivinglioe Aston, see Iving- hoe 345 Ixhill, see Oakley ,.. 370 Kimble— Great 345 Kimble— Little 346 Kimble Wick, see Great Kimble 345 King's Field, see Edles- borougli 321 King 's "Furlong (The) see Bierton 290 King's Hill, see Hughenden 342 King's Hill — Great, see Hughenden 342 King's Hill — Great, see Pi-estwood 375 Kiugshill— Little, see Little Missenden 364 Kingsey 346 Kinaswood, see Grendon Underwood 331 Kingswood,see Ludgershall 353 Knotty Green, see Penn.. . . 373 Lacey 346 Lacey Green, see Lacey.. 346 Lake End, see Burnham.. . 303 Lamport, see Stowe 394 Lane End 347 Langley Marish 347 Langley St. Mary's, see Langley Marish 347 Larkins Green, see Coles- hill 273 Latchmoor, see Gerrard's Cross 330 Lathbury 348 Latimer 348 Lavendon 349 Layter's Green, see Chal- font St. Peter 305 Leekhamsted 319 Ledburn, see Mentmore.. 362 Lee 349 Lee Common, see Great IMissenden 303 Leigh Green, see Ashley Green , 275 Leigh Hill, see Ashley (ireen 275 Lekehampstead, see Leek- hamsted 349 Lenborough, see Bucking- ham 29 Ley Hill, see Ashley Green 276 Lillingstone Dayrell 350 Lillingstone IjovcU 350 Liuford— Great 350 Linford— Little 351 Linslade 351 Little Brickliill 294 Little Hampden 334 Little Horsendon, seeHor- sendon 339 Little Hoi-wood 340 Little Kimble 346 Little Kingshill, see Little 31issenden 364 Little Linford 351 Little London, see Brill.. 294 Little Marlow 359 Little Missenden 364 Little Seabrook, see Iving- hoe 345 Little Tingewick, see Tingewick .397 Little Wolston 411 Littlecote, see Stewkley.. 387 Littleworth, see Wing 407 Littleworth Common, see Dropmore 321 London— Little, see Brill.. 294 Long Crendon 352 Long Down, see Great Kimble 346 Longwick, see Princes Ris- borough 376 Loosley^Row, see Lacey . . 346 Loudwater 352 Loughton 353 Lower Boveney, see Burn- ham 302 Lower Cadsdean, see Monks Risborough 365 Lower Hogshaw, see Hog- shaw 339 Lower Mill End, see West Wycombe 424 Lower Moseley, see Hugh- enden 342 Lower Pollicott, see Ashen- don 275 Lower Waldridge, see Dinton 319 Lower Weald, see Calver- ton 303 Lower Wiachendon 406 Ludgershall ,353 Lutfield Abbey 354 TAGE Lyde (The) see Bledlow. ... 290 Magna Charta Island, see Wraysbury 415 Plaid's Moreton 354 Maretield, see Great Mar- low 357 Market Hill, see Bucking- ham 299 Marlow Fields, see Great Marlow 356 jMarlow— Great 354 Marlow— Little 359 IMarsh, see Great Kimble.. 345 Marsh Gibbon 359 MarshGreen, see Wycombe 419 Marsh — Upper, see Wy- combe 425 Marsham End, see Chal- font St. Peter 305 Marston— Fleet 360 Marston— North 360 Marsworth 361 Masworth, see Marsworth. 361 Mayne's Hill, see Hogges- Ris- 339 364 361 362 313 411 416 306 369 369 309 ton Meadle, see Monks borough Medmenham Mentmore Middle Claydon Middle Green, see Langley Marish 348 Middle Weald, see Calver- ton 303 Mill End, see Hambledeu.. 333 Mill End, .see West Wy- combe 424 Milton Keynes 362 Missenden — Great 363 Missenden — Little 364 violins, see WestonTurville 404 Monks Risborough 364 Moseley — Lower, see Hughenden 342 IMoulsoe 365 Mursley 365 Muzwe'l Hill, see Boarstall 292 Naphill. see Hughenden.. 342 Nasbury, see Whaddon. . . . 4ii5 Nash 366 N ash Ley s .see Ellesborough 322 Nearton End, see Swan- bourne 394 Needle's Hole, see Biddles- den 289 Nettleden, see Pitstone 374 NewBradwell,seeBradwell 392 NewWolvertOD ,sceWolver- ton Newland, see Wycombe. . . . Newport Pagnell Newton Blossomville Newton Longville Newto\vn, see Chesham Nightingales, see Chalfont ^^t. Giles 304 North Crawley 316 North Dean,seeHughenden 342 North End,seeBuckingham 299 North End, see Turville 398 North Marston ,360 Northall, see Edlesborough 321 Northend Woods, see Woo- burn 412 Northlea, see Datchet 317 Oakley 370 Oakley Common, seeOakley 370 01dwick,see Shalstone 380 Olney 370 Over Winchendon 406 Oving 372 Owlswick, see Dinton 319 Owlswick, see Monks Ris- borough 364 Padbury 372 Parkfield, see Princes Ris- borough 376 Parmoor, see Hambleden.. 333 Parslow's Hillock, see Princes Risborough 377 Penn 373 Penn Street 373 Penn's Mead, see Wycombe 417 Penn's Mead— Great, see Wycombe .... 417 Petsoe End. see Emberton 3^3 PetsoeManor.seeEmberton 32 Pheasants' Hill, see Ham- bleden 333 Pightlesthorne.seePitstone 374 Pitch Green, see Bledlow. . 290 Pitchcott 373 Pitstone 374 Ploraer Green, see West Wycombe 424 Plomer Hill, see West Wy combe 424 Pollicott— Upper & Lower, seeAshendon 275 TAGK ! Pound Mead, see Wycombe 417 Poundon, see Twyford .... 398 Poyle, see Burnham 302 Poyle,see Colnbrook 315 Prebend End, see Bucking- ham 297 Preston Bissett 374 Prestwood 375 Prestwood Common, see Great Missenden 363 Princes Risborough 375 Quainton 377 Quarreudon 378 Kadclive ' 378 Raduage 379 Ravenstone 379 Redlane End, see Monks Risborough 365 Rickford's Hill, see Ayles- bury 280 Ringshall,see Iviughoe 345 Rockwell End, see Hamble- den 333 Rockwood,see Chetwode. . 312 Rout's Green, see Bledlow 290 Rowsham, see Wingrave .. 408 Rye (Thej, see Wycombe . . 417 St. Leonards 379 St. I\rargaret's,seeIvinghoe 345 Salden, see Mursley 365 Salt Hill, see Fariiham — Royal 327 Salt Hill, see Slough 382 Sandstone, see Iver 344 Saunderton 379 Saunderton Lee, see Saun- derton 380 Scotsgrove,.see Haddenham 332 Scrub Wood, see Wendover 403 Seabrook, see Cheddington 306 Seabrook— Great <& Little, see Ivinghoe .345 Seer Green 380 Shabbington 380 Shalstone 380 Shenley Brook End, see Shenley Church End. . . . 381 Shenley Church End .380 Sherington 380 Shiptou, see Winslow 408 Shipton Lee, see Quainton 378 Shredding Green, see Iver 344 Simpson, see Sympson 395 Singleborough, see Great Horwood .340 Skirmett, see Hambleden . . 333 Skittle Green, see Bledlow. 291 Slapton 381 Slough .382 Slough, see Saunderton .... 380 Small Dean, see Bradenham 292 Soulbury 386 SouthEnd, see Turville ,398 Southcote, see Linslade 351 Southlea, see Datchet 317 Spade Oak Wharf, see Little ]\rarlow .359 Speen, see Lacey .346 Stantonbury 387 Steart Hill, see Little Horwood 341 Steeple Claydon .314 Stewkley 387 StewkleyDean,seeStewkley ,387 Stoke Goldington 388 StokeGreen,seeStokePoges 39i) Stoke Hammond ,388 Stoke Mandeville .389 Stoke Poges .389 StoUidge, see Tingewick . . 397 Stone 390 Stony Stratford 391 Stowe 393 Svvanbourne 394 Sympson 395 Sympson,see Fenny Strtfrd 327 Taplow 395 Tattenhoe 396 Terrick, see Ellesborough .322 Tetchwick, see Ludgershall 353 The Black Park, see Lang- ley Marish , ... 347 The Chiltern HUls, see Aston Clinton 276 The Gables, see Taplow 395 The King's Furlong, see Bierton 290 The Lyde, see Bledlow 290 The Rye, see Wycombe 417 The Yale of Aylesbury, see Aylesbury 277 The Wilderness, seeWeston Underwood 404 Thornborough .396 Thomey, see Iver 344 Thornton 396 ThreeHousehoIds, seeChal- font St. Giles .304 Threelocks, see Soulbury.. 387 PAGE Tingewick 3ui"> Tinker's End, see Winslow 410 Towersey 397 Town, see Burnham 302 Turville 397 Turville Heath,see Turville 397 Turweston 398 Two MileAsh,seeCalverton 303 TvvoMileBrookseeBurnham 303 Twyford 398 Tyler's Green 399 Tyler's Hill, see Waterside, Chesham 308 Tyringham 399 Tytlirop, see Kingsey 346 UpperBoveney,seeBurnhm 302 Upper Hogshaw, see Hog- shaw 339 Upper ]Marsh,see Wycombe 420 Upper Pollicott,see Ashen- don 275 Upper Weald, seeCalvertjn 303 Upper Winchendon 406 Upton, see Dinton 319 Upton, see Slough 382 Vale of Aylesbury (The), .see Aylesbury 277 Waddesdon 399 Waldridge Lower, see Dinton 319 Waller's Oak, seeColeshill 273 Walter's Ash, see Braden- ham 292 Walter'sAsh,seeHugheudn 342 Walton 400 Walton, see Aylesbury .... 277 Warrington, see Olney 371 Water Eaton, see Bletchley 291 Water Stratford 400 Waterside, see Chesham . . 308 Wavendon 401 Weald- Lower, Middle & Uppev, see Calverton. . . . 303 Weedon, .see Ilardwick. . . . 336 Weedon Hill, see Hardwick 336 Well End, seeLittleiMarlow 359 Wellwick.see Ellesborough 322 Wendover 4l1 Wendover Dean, see Wen- dover 402 Wenge, see Wing 406 West End, see Stoke Poges 389 West Wycombe 423 AVestbury 4U3 Westcott, see Waddesdon. 4(i0 Weston Turville 403 Weston Underwood 404 Wexham 404 Whaddon 405 Whaddon Chase,see Whad- don 405 Wheeler End, see West Wycombe 424 Whelpley Hill, see Ashley Green 275 Whelpley Hill, seeLatimer 349 Whitchurch 405 Whiteleaf, see Monks Ris- borough 364 Wilderness (The), see Wes- ton Underwood 404 Willeu 406 Willowbank,see Aylesbury 284 Winchendon— Lower 406 Winchendon — Upper or Over 406 Wincbmore Hill, see Amer- sham 273 Wing 406 Wingi-ave 408 Winslow 408 Woburn Sands, see Waven- don 401 Wolston— Great & Little.. 411 Wolverton 411 Wolverton End, see Stony Stratford 391 Wolverton End, see Wol- verton 411 Wolverton— New, see Wol- verton 411 Wooburn 412 Wooburn Green, see Woo- burn 412 Wood, see Burnham 302 Wood End,seeLit. Horwood 341 WoodEnd,seeMedmenham 362 Woodham, see Waddesdon 400 Woolston— Great & Little 411 World's End, see Wendover 402 Worminghall 413 Wormstone, seeWaddesdon 4U0 Wotton Underwood. 414 Woughton-on-the-Green.. 414 Wraysbury 414 Wycombe 415 Wycombe Marsh, see Wy- combe 417 Wycombe— West 423 LIST OF THE PKINCIPAL SEATS IN BUCKIKGHAMSHIRE, With Reference to the Places under which they will be found in this Vclumc. PAGE Addington manor, Rt. Hon. John Gellibrand Hubbard P.C, M.r., D.L., J.P., F.R.G.6. See AddingtOQ 272 Akeley wood, Mrs. rilorini, see Akeley 272 Alderbourne, Rev. Henry Hugh Way b.a., j.p. ieeGerrard's Cross 330 Aukerwycke liousc, Charles Woodward Wallis esq. see Wraysbury 410 Ascott park, Leopold de Rothschild esq. j.p. see Ascott, Wing 407 Ashridge park, Rt. Hon. Earl Brownlow, see Pitstone 374 Aston Abbotts abbey, FrederickStraw esq. veeAston Abbotts 27G Aston Clinton, Louisa, Dowager Lady de Rothschild, ^ee Aston Clinton 27G Aston Sandford^Lanor house,Mrs.Dover,4eeAston8andford 277 Aylesbury 3Ianor house. CharlesThrclfall esq..wAylesbury 279 Bacres. Henry Riversdalo Grenfell esq. j.p. .^ecHambleden 333 Beech-hurst, Lt.-Col. Wilham Albany Fcthcrstonhaugh, see Faruham Royal 327 Berkin Manor house, Avery Tyrrell esq. spe Horton 34U Biddlesden park, Lt.:Col. George Planners Morgan j.p. see Biddlesdt'u 289 Blythe Wood house, George Hanbury esq. j.p. sceHitcham 339 Boveney court, Mrs. Evans, see Bitrnham 302 Boycott Manor liouse, Charles Higgins esq. j.p. see Stowe 394 Bradenham Manor house. Rev. John Graves m.a., j.p. see Bradenham 292 Brands house, Jn. Xewnian esq. d.l., j.p. see Hazlemere .. 337 Brazier's en(l,Ja8.Bennersl*arkinson esq.J.p.seeChoulesbry 313 Brickhill lod^e, Capt. Charles Cullen JIaunsell j.p. see Great Hrickhill 294 Brickhill Manor house. Sir Philip Duncouibe Pauncefort Duncombe bart. d.l./j.p. see Great Brickhill 293 Buckland cottage, Jlrs. Parrott, see Buckland 302 Bulstrodc park, Duke of Somerset k.g., p.c. see Gerrard's Cross .".30 Burnliam grove. James Dickinson esq.Q.CJ.P.s^^'Burnhara 0(12 Bury (The), William Lowndes esq. j.p. ircCiieeham 3(is ■Chalfout grove, Saml.Saudars esq. M.A..wChalfontSt.Giles 304 Challont lodge, Leicester Hibbert esq. j.p, see Chalfont St. Peter 3u5 Chalfont park, John Nerabhard Hibbert esq. d.l., j.p. see Chalfont St. Peter 305 Chequers court, Mrs. Frankland-Russell Astley, see EUes- borough 322 Chestnuts (The), Kichard Rose esq. d.l., j.p. .ve Aylesbury 283 Chicheley hall, Chas. Anthony Chester esq. j.wsee Chichly 312 Claydou camp, Henry Small esq. see Steeple Claydon 314 Claydon house. Major Sir Harry Verncy bart. m.p., d.l., J.P., F.R.G.s. see Middle Claydon 313 Cliveden, Duke of Westminster p.c. k.g. sec Taplow 395 Croft (The), INIajor-General George Weutworth Alexander Higginson c.B,, j.p. see Great Marlow 355 Danestield house, Charles Aloysius Scott-Murray esq. j.p. , see Medmenham 3G1 Datchet house, Lady Alicia Bristowe it Lady Georgiana Necdham, .see Datchet 317 Denham court. Mrs. Lambert, see Denhanv 318 Denham place, Benj. Henry Walpole Way esq. AeeDenham 318 Dinton liall. Rev. James Joseph (ioodall m.a. see Dinton 318 Ditton park, Duke of Buccleuch k.g., p.c. xec Stoke Poges 389 Doddershall park, Mrs. Pigott & William Harvey Pigott esq. J.p. .see t^)uainton 378 Dorney court. Sir Chas. Jas. Palmer bart.D,L.,j.p.seeDorney 319 Dorton house. Charles Aubrey Aubrey esq. see Dorton.... 320 Drayton lodge, Stewart William Jenney esq. j.p. see Drayton Beauchamp 320 Dromenagh. Edward Tompson esq. see Iver 344 Dropmore, I>ady Louisa Fortescue. see Dropmore .321 Elmers, Kichard Wm. Selby-Lowndes esq.j.p.seeBletchley 291 Fairlield, Herbert Shaw esq. see Stoke Poges .■>89 Earnham cliase,LewisDuvalHall esq.j.p.seeFarnhamRoyal 327 Fawley court, WiUiara Dalziel Mackenzie esq. m.a., j.p. see F'awley 327 Fernacres, Edward Dent esq. see Fulmer 330 Fishery (The), Lt.-Geu. G. L. Goodlakc v.c, a.d.c. see Denham 318 PAGE I Foscott Manor house, Lawrence Robert H.all esq. j.p. see Foscott 329 Fulmer hall, Dowager Lady Willoughby, see Fulmer 330 Fulmer place, Vice Admiral Lord John Hay k.c.b. see Fulmer 330 Gayhurst house, James Wilham Carlile esq. d.l., j.p. see Gayhurst 330 Germans, John Stralton Fuller esq j.p. see Chesham 30s Glen island, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Roger William Henry Palmer bart. D.L., J.p. .see Taplow 393 Greenlands, Right Hon William Henry Smith p.c, m.p., D.L., J.p. see Hambleden 333 Hale (The), Alfred de Kothschild esq. see Wendover 402 Hall Barn park, E. L. Lawson esq. see Beaconsfield 288 Halton cottage, Alfred de Rothschild esq. see Halton 332 Hambleden ]\Ianor house, liight Hon. The Earl of Antrim see Hambleden 333 Hampden house, Rev. the Earl of Buckinghamshire, see Great Hampden .334 Hanslope lodge, 3Irs. Walpole, see Han slope 335 Hanslope park, Edward Hanslope ^V'atts esq. j.p. see Hanslope 335 Harleyford house, Sir William Robert Clayton bart. d.l., J.p. see Great Marlow :'>55 Hartwell house, Edward Dyke Lee esq. j.p. see Hartwell 337 Hazlemere lodge.Geo.D.Heatley esq.D.L.,j p.seeHazlemere 337 lledgerley park, Mrs. Steveusoii. see Hedgerley .337 Hedsor house, J^ord Boston, see Hedsor 338 Herschels, Charles Francis Montresor esq, see Slough 384 Highfields, Peter Borgnis esq. see Great Marlow 355 Hitcham grange, Rigiit Hon. Lord Churston, seeHitcham . 3.39 Horseuden 3Ianor house, Rev. William Edwards Part- ridge B.A., J.p. see Horsendon 339 Horwood house, Philip Dauncey esq. j.p. see Little Hor- wood .340 Hughenden manor. Sir Samuel Wilson, see Hugheuden .. 342 Huutsmoor park, Christopher Tower esq. d.l., j.p. see Iver 344 Ibstone house, Samuel Hichard Brewis esq. j.p. .see H)stone 342 Langley house. James Watson esq. j.p. see Langley 3Iarish .348 Laugley lodge, John Bramley-Moore esq. d.l., j.p. see Gerrard's Cross 330 Langley park. Sir IJobert Bateson Harvey bart. m.p., d.l., j.p. see Langley ]Marisli 347 Lathbury house. Cbarles St. Quintin esq. seeLatbbury . .. 348 Latimer house, Rt. Hon. Lord Chesham, see Latimer .349 lA'igh house. The Hon. Mrs. Cholmondeley, see Datchet .. 317 Lilies, Henry Cazcnove esq. j.p. see Weedoh, Hardwick .. .336 Lillingstone house, Abraham John Robarts esq. j.p. see Lilhngstone Dayrell 350 Liscombe park, Capt. Phillips Cosby Lovett d.l., j.p. see Soulbury 3S0 Little Linford house, Matthew Grenville Samwell Knapp esq. J.p. see Little Linford 351 Little Marlow JIauor house, John Pattison Ellames esq. J.p. see Little ^Marlow 359 Little 3Iissenden abbey, John Macmeikan esq. see Little Missenden 364 Little :Missenden jManor house, CharlesLechmereShepherd esq. see Little Missenden 304 Little Shardeloes, Capt. Thomas Henry Tyrwhitt-Drake, see Amersham 273 5[entmore towers. The Earl of Rosebery, see Mcntmore . . 362 Misbourne, Chas. Hunter Fenn esq. see Chalfout St. Giles 3l>4 3Iissenden abbey, ]Mrs. Carrington, see Great Missenden.. 303 Newland park, Thomas Newland Allen esq. j.p. see Chal- font St. Peter 305 I Nutting grove, Rev. Hy. Hugh AVay b.a., j.p. see Langley Marish 348 I Orohehill, William & Lady Charlotte Blount, see Gerrard's I Cross 330 ' Oving house, Col. Walter Caulfeild Pratt d.l., j.p.seeOving 372 I Padbury lodge, William Frederick Gore-Langton esq. see I Padbury 373 Parmoor house, Henry William Cripps esq. m.a., q.c, j.p. I .^ee Hambleden 3.33 1 Pcnn house, Earl Howe c.B. see Penn Street 373 XII LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. PAGE Peverel court, John Edward Bartlett esq J.r. see Stone 390 Kayners, Sir Philip Rose bart. D.ii., j.p. see Tyler's Green 399 Reinnantz, Mrs. Fenwick, see Great Marlow 355 Richings park, Mrs. Meeking, see Iver 343 Sefton park, Etienne Rig-gio esq. .see Stoke Poges 389 Seymour court, Thomas Owen Wethered esq. j.p. see Great Marlow 355 Shalstone Manor house, Mrs. FitzGerald, see Shalstouc.. 380 Shardeloes, Thomas Tyrwhitt-Drake esq. d.l., j.p. see Amersham 273 Shenley house, Jas. Waddell esq, see Shenley Church End 381 Spinfield, Major James Simpson Carson, see Great Marlow 355 Stockgrove, Edwd. Henry John Hanmer esq. see Soulbury 386 Stoke court, Christian Allhusen esq, see Stoke Pokes 389 Stoke house, Bernard Thomas Fountalne esq. see Stoke Hammond 388 Stoke park, Edwd. John Coleman esq. j.p. see Stoke Poges 389 Stoke place, Howard Henry Howard- Vyse esq. see Stoke Poges 389 Stone Dean, Rev. J]dward Moore, see Chalfont St. Giles.. 304 Stowe house, Duke of Buckingham & Chandos P.c.G.c.s.i., c.t.K. see Stowe ^ 393 Swanbourne house, Rt. Hon. Lord Cottesloe p.c. see Swautourne 394 Taplow court, William Henry Grenfell esq. d.l., j.p. see Taplow 395 Thames bank, Thomas Somers Cocks esq. d.l., j.p. see Great Marlow 355 Thorney house, Charles ]\reeking esq. see Iver 344 Thornton hall. Rev. Herbert Richard Peel m. A.see Thornton 396 Tickford abbey, Philip Butler esq. see Newport Pagnell.. 360 Tickford park. Richard AVilliam Selby-Lowndes esq. j.p. see Newport Pagnell 368 Towersey manor, James Svhitehouse Griffin esq. see Towersey 397 Tiirville park, Stafford O'Brien Hoare esq, see TurvlUe . 397 Tiirweston house, John Locke Stratton esq. j.p. see Turweston 398 Tyringham house, John Glutton esq. see Tyringham 399 PAGE- Uplands, Major John Maddy Moore Hewett j.p. see Hughenden 342 Vache (The), Thomas Newland Allen eeq. j.p. see Chalfont St. Giles 304 Waddesdon Manor, Baron Ferdinand James de Rothschild see Waddesdon 399 Walton hall, Wm. Schoolcroft Burton esq. j.p. see Walton 40ft Waveudon house, James Budgctt esq. see Wavendon 401 West Wycombe house, Elizabeth Lady Dashwood. see West Wycombe 424 Westbury manor, Lt.-Col. Hon. Percy Barrington d.l.,j.p, see Westbury 403- Westhorpe house, George Jackson esq, see Little Marlow 3,59 Wexham park, Edward Brooke esq. see Wexham 404 Whaddon hall, William Selby-Lowndes esq. j.p. see Whaddon 405 Wilton park, Caledoa George Du Pr6 esq. d.l., j.p. see Beaconsfield 288 Winchendon priory. Sir Thomas Tyringham Bernard bart. D.L,., J.p. see Lower Winchendon 406 Wing lodge, Henry Joseph Chinnery esq. see AVing 407 Winslow Hall, Henry Larabton esq. see Winslow 408 Winslow house, Edward William Selby-Lowndes esq. J.P.,D.L. see Winslow 409 Wolverton house, Spencer Richard Harrison esq. j.p. see Wolverton 412 Wooburn house, Mrs. Gilbey, see Wooburu 419' Woodlands park, James Edward MacCounell esq. f.r.g.s., J.p. Great Jlissenden 363 Wotton house, Duke of Buckingham & Chandos p.c.,G.c.s.i., C.I. K., see Wotton Underwood 414 Woughton house, William Levi esq. j.p. see Woughton-on- the-Green 414 Wycombe abbey. Lord Carrington, see High Wycombe 417 Wycombe court, Professor Paul Henry Stokoe f.l.s., b.a., ' M.D.iiOnd. see Lane End 347 j Wvcombe priory, James OliflF Griffits esq. Q.c, see High Wycombe 417 I Yewden manor, G.C. Schwabe esq, see Hembledcu 333 INDEX TO KELLY'S OXFORDSHIRE DIRECTORY. PAGE Adderbuiy— East & West otv) Adwell 501 Albury 501 Alchestor, see WeiiUlebury 7W Alkertoii oOl Alvescot r,oi Ambrosdeu bo> Ardley oU2 Arucott— Over & Nether, see Ambr<).s(.ieu 502 Arucott— Upper & Lower see Ambrosdeu 502 Ascott 5o3 Ascott, csce Little 31iltou... (3ul Ascott- under - Wycbvvood, see Ascott 503 Assenden — Lower, see Henley-upou-Tliaraes ... 582 Asseudeii — Middle & Lower, scf; Bix 52U Asseudeu— Upper, see Pyr- toa 675 Asterleifi-h, see Kiddiuf^tou 5'J2 Astliall 503 Asthall Harrow, iVf.'xVsthall 5o3 Asthall Lei^^li.iie AsthalL. 503 Astou, see liampton Astou 507 Aston— .Middle, see Steeple Aston 505 Astou— North 504 Aston Kowaut .VH Attiu<:toa 5u5 Bablocke Ily the, see Xorth- nioor 005 Bacon's Bottom, see \ Stokeiichurch 080 Badyeniore Hill, sec ^en- ley-upon-Thames 579 Ba-ley Wood, stc Oxford. . 0071 Bainton.sre (Javerstield .. 5411 Bainton, .sr.' Stoke Lyne .. OS?, Baldou-Littk'. see Toot Baldon 5(>6\ Baldon ;Marsii 505 Baldon— Toot 500 1 Balscote. .see Wroxton 717 Banipton .'M Bauipton Astou •">h7 liampton Lew 5o8 Banbury ... .(Oi; Banbury— South, .see Ban- bury 509 Barford— (Jreat. see Bar- ford St. Michael 522 Barlord St. John, see ' Addorburv 500 ; Barford St. Michael 522 Barnard Gati-.-sy Kyusham :Vu Bartlemaa, ,s,'.' lleadingrton 577 1 Barton, see Headiugtoa ... 577 Barton - Middle, see Steeple Harton 522 Barton- Steeple 522 Battle Edge, ste Burford.. 53^ Bayard's Green, see Few- I cott. Stoke Lyne 0^7 BaywellGate.see Charlbury 544 Beacon Field (The), see Sandford St. Martin .... 078 Beacon's Bottom, see , Stokenchurch O-^O Beckley :)23 Begbrook 523 Iien»inj;ton 524 Benson, see Bensinjiton .... 524 Berncote. .see Ipsden .V.»o Berrick Salome 525 PAGE BerryField,seeHookNorton 587 Berry 3Ioor, see Banbury . . 511 Berwick Prior, see Newing- ton 003 Bicester 525 Binfield Heath,seeSbiplake 080 Binsey 529 Bishop's Court, see Dor- chester 502 Bix 529 Bix Common, see Bix 529 Black liourton 534 Blackthorn, see Ambrosden 5u2 Blackthorn Hill, see Black- thorn, Ambrosden 502 Bladon 530 Blandford Park, see Corn- bury Park 554 Blenheim 530 BletchinL,Hlou 532 Bloxham :>:v> Bodicote 5.33 BouH, see Idbury 5!;9 Bourton Abbots, see Black Bourton 534 Bourton— Black 534 liourton— Great & Little.. 534 Bradwell 534 Briy hthanipton, see Bamp- ton Aston 507 Brijjhthumpton.see Stand- lake 08.-. Briyhtwell Baldwin 535 Brig^htwell Upper Town, see Brightwell Baldwin. . 5.35 Britwell Prior 53.") Britwell Salome 535 Brize- Norton 530 Broadwell, see Bradwell... 534 Brook End, see Chastleton. 540 Brookharaptou, see New- ins:ton 00."^ Brou^rhton 6.30 Broui^hton Pofjis 537 Brueru, see Milton-under- Wychwood 000 Buckuell 0.37 Burcott, see Dorchester. .. . 561 Jiurdrop, see SibfordGower 683 Burford 53S Byxbrand. see Bix 529 Byxgwbbyn, see Bix 629 Cadmore End 54ii Calthorpe, see Banbury.. .. 511 Cane End. see Caversham . . 542 Cane End. see Kidmore. . . . 593 Carfax, see Oxford 0^8 Cassinyton HI Caulcott..seeLowerHeyford 5.^4 Caverstield 641 Caversham 541 Caversham Hill, see Caver- sliam 542 Caversham — Lower, see Caversham 542 Chadlinutou 542 Chadlinijtou Fields, see Chadlington 543 Chalford.f e AstonKowant 5i>4 Chalford, see Enstone 505 ChalLrrove 543 Charlbury 543 Charltou-on-Otmoor 545 Charterville, s-'e Miuster Lovell <>(V2 Chastleton 545 Checkendou 540 PAGE Chesterton Field8,seeGreat Chesterton 546 Chesterton— Great 540 Chesterton — Little, see Great Chesterton 540 Chilsoii, see Shorthampton 082 Chilworth.see Great Milton Ool Chimney.see BamptonAstn .^07 Chinnor 540 Chipping Norton 547 Chippinghurst, see Cud- desden .558 Chiselhampton 551 Choice lIill,seeOverNorton 551 Christmas Common, see Watlington 702 I Church Cowley 555 I Church Enstone, see En- ! stone 565 Church Green, see Burford 539 Church Green, see Witney 7u7 Church llandborough, see Hand borough 574 1 Churchill 551 Claiifield 552 Clare, see Pyrton 675 Clattercote 552 Clay don 552 Cleve, see Goring 573 Cleveley, see Enstone 505 Clifton, sec Deddington.. .. 559 Clifton Hampden 553 Coalpit, see Bampton 5o; Cogges 553 Cogges— High, see Cogges.. .553 Coggs— see Cogges 553 Cokethorpe Park,seeDuck- ! lingtou 503 Collins' End, see Goring I Heath .573 'Combe 554 Combe— Long, seeCombe.. 554 I Conduit (The)seeNuneham i Courteuay 600 jCookley Green, see Swyn- 1 combe 093 Cornbury Park 554 Corn well 554 jCote, see Bampton Aston.. 5u7 Coton, see Wardington 701 !Cottisford 554 Court— Upper iV Lower, see Chadlington 543 Cow Ground, see Sanford St. Martin 078 Cowley 3Iarsh, see Temple Cowley 556 Cowley— :Middle, Temple & Church 555 Cowley St..John,seeOxford 021 Cowley's Farm, see Pid- dington 074 Crawley, see Hailey 573 Crocker End, see Nettlebed Oa3 Crockwell, see Bicester 525 Cropredy 550 Cropredy Bridge, see Crop- redy 550 Cropredy Wharf, see Crop- redy 557 Crowe 11 5.)7 Crowmarsh Battle,see Ben- nington 524 Crowmarsh Gifford 557 Cuddesden, seeCuddesdon.. 557 Cuddesdon 557 Culham 5.'>8 Cumnor Hill, see Oxford . . Ot)7 Curbridge, see Witney 708 PAGE Cutteslowe 5.58 Cuxham 558 Danes More, see Banbury. . .jU Dean, see Spelsbury 0S4 Deau Field, see Henley- upon-Thames 579 Deddington 559 Delly End, see Hailey .... 573 Denton, see Cuddesdon 558 Devil's Coits, see Stanton Harcourt 086 Dike Hill, see Dorchester.. 502 Ditchley, see Spelsbury 684 Dorchester 501 Drayton (near Banbury)... . 562 Drayton St. Leonard (near Wallingford) 503 Druids' Temple, see Hen- ley-upon-Thames 579 Ducklington 503 Dun's Tew 504 Dunsden 504 Dunthrop, see Heythrop .. 585 Easiugton 504 Easington, see Banbury.... 511 Kast Adderbury 500 East End, see Hook Norton 587 East End, see North Leigh 590 East Shutford 082 Elsfield 565 Emington, see Emmingtou 565 Emmer Green, see Caver- sham 542 Emmington 505 Enslow, ,see Bletehingdon.. 532 Eustoue 505 Epwell, see Swalcliffe 091 Ewelme 506 Exlade Street, see Wood- cote, South Stoke 089 Eye, see Dunsden 504 Eynsham 567 Fair Hill (The), see Henley- upon-Thames 578 Fair Mile (The), see Henley- upou-Thames 579 Fair Rosamond's Well, see Blenheim 531 Faringdou~Little 5'.iS Fawler, see Fiustock 509 Fencott, see Charlton-on- Otmoor , 545 Fewcott, see Stoke Lyne.. 087 Field Assarts, see Asthall. 503 Fifield 508 Fitield, see Bensiugton.... 524 Filkius 569 Fin me re 509 Finmore, see Finmere 509 Finstock 569 Ford wells, see Asthall 503 Forest Farm, see Wood Eaton 712 Forest Hill 569 Foxcott, see Idbury 589 Freeland 570 Fringford 570 Fritwell 570 Fulbrook 571 Fulwell, see Mixbury 002 Fulwell, see Spelsbury 684 Fyfield, see Beusington.... 524 Gagingwell, see Enstone.. 565 Garaingtou 571 xiv INDEX TO Kelly's Oxfordshire directory. Gatehampton, sec Goring-.. 572 Gibraltar, see Bletchingdon 532 Glympton 572 Goddingtou 572 Godstow, see Woolvercot. . 715 Golden Ball, see Toot Baldon 506 Golder, see Pyrton 675 Goring 572 Goring Heath 573 Gorvell, see Watlington.. 703 Gosford, see Kidlington... . 592 Grafton, see Langford 694 Grandpont, see Oxtord 621 Gravel Hill, see Heuley- upon-Tliames 581 Great Sarford, see Barford St. Michael 522 Great Bourton 534 Great Chesterton 546 Great Haseley 576 Great Lemhill, see Brough- ton Pogis 537 Great Milton 6J0 Great Minster, see Minster Lovell 601 Great Rollright 675 Great Tew 695 Greys, see liotherfleld Greys 676 Grey's Green, see Kother- field Greys 676 Grey's Hill, see Henley- upon-Thames 581 Grimsbury, see Banbury.. 609 Haad- 573 5yo 574 574 574 PAGE Kidlington 592 Kidraore 593 Kingham 593 King's End, see Bicester .. . 525 King's Stones (The), see Little Rollright 07G Kingston Blount, see Aston Rowant 504 Kingston Grove, see Aston Rowan t 504 Kirtlington 594 Kitt's Quarries, see Burford 539 Knowle Bury, see Chadling- tou 543 Hailey Hailey, see Ipsden Hampton Gay.... Hampton Poyle.. Hanborough, see borough Handborough 574 Hanwell 575 Hardwick, see Banbury. , . . 511 Hardwick, see Ducklington 563 Hardwicke 575 Harpsden 575 Haseley- Great & Little.. 576 Hawk Stone :(The), see Dean, Spelsbury 684 Hazley— Great & Little. .. . 576 Headington 577 Headington Hill, see Head- ington 578 Headington Quarry, Headington 577 Heath, see Hethe 584 Hempton, see Deddington 559 Henley Hill, see Henley upon-Tliames 579 Henley-upon-Thames .... 5 Hensington, see Bladon . . 53u Henton, see Ohinnor 54 Hethe 584 Heyford-at-Bridge, see Lower Heyford 584 Heyford— Lower 584 Heyford Purcell,see Lower Heyford 584 Heyford— Upper 685 Heyford Warren, see Upper Heyford 585 Heythrop 585 High Cogges, see Cogges.. 553 Highmoor 585 Hinksey— Xew, see Oxford 621 Holcome, see Newiugton . . 503 Holton 586 Holwell 580 Holy Well (The), see Tad- marton 694 Hook Nor ton 586 Horley 587 Hornton 588 Horse - on - the - Hill, see iSIorth Leigh 596 Horsefair, see Banbury 510 Horsefair, see Chippin Norton 549 Horsefair, see Deddington 560 Horsepath 588 Horsley Green, see Stoken- church 639 Horton, see Beckley 523 Ibstone 580 Ickford 589 Idbury 589 Iffley 589 Ipsden 590 Islip 590 Kelmscot 591 Kencott 591 Kiddington 591 PAGE 3Iilton— Great 600 Milton— Little 601 Milton-under- Wychwood.. 600 Minster— Great & Little, see 3Iinster Lovell 601 Minster Lovell 601 Mixbury 602 Molliugton 602 Mongewell 602 Moorton, see Northmoor . . 605 Moreton, see Thame 696 Murcott, see Charlton-on- Otmoor 545 Muswell Hill, see Pidding- ton 674 Langford 504 Langley,seeShipton-under- Wychwood 681 Lashbrook, see Shiplake.. . 680 Latchford, see Gt. Haseley. ^7^ Launtou 595 Lea— Lower & Upper, see Swalcliffe 691 Leafleld 595 Leatield, seeShipton-under- Wychwood 681 Ledwell, see Sandford St. Martin 678 Leigh— North 595 Leigh— South 596 Lemhill— Gt. see Brough- ton Pogis 53:; Lew— Bampton, see Bamp- tonLew 508 Lewknor 59 Lewknor-up-Hill, see Cad- more End 540 Lidslone, see Eustone 565 Little Baldon, see Toot Baldon 50(; Little Bourton 534 Little Chesterton, see Great Chesterton 64C Little Faringdon 568 Little Haseley, see Great Haseley 576 Little Milton 001 Little Minster, see Minster Lovell 601 Little Nottingham, see Goring .' 572 Little Rollright 676 LittleStoke,see Checkendon 546 Little Tew . . . 695 Littlemore 597 Littleworth,see Bensington 524 Littleworth, see ^Vheatley. .705 Lobb, see Great Haseley . . . 576 Long Combe, see Combe . . 554 Long Handborough, see Handborough 574 Lower Arncott, see Am- brosden 502 Lower Assenden, see Bix. . 529 Lower Assenden, see Hen- ley-upon-Thames 582 Lowei- Caversham, see Ca- versham 542 Lower Court, See Chadling- ton 543 Lower Heyford 584 Lower l^ea, see Swalchffe. . 691 Lower Side, see Chipping Norton 549 Lower Tadmarton, see Tad marton 693 Lower Woolvercot, see Woolvercot 715 Lyneham,seeMilton-under Wychwood 600 Lyneham, see Shipton-un der- Wychwood 6S0 Neat Enstone, see Enstone 565 Xeithrop, see Banbury 511 Nether Arncott, see Am- brosden 502 Nether Kiddington, see 604 504 595 537 687 PAGE Rock Hill, 5ee Chipping Norton 548 Rolford, 5ee Chalgrove .... 54:*> Roke, see Bensington 524 Roke Marsh, see Bensing- ton 524 Rollrich Stone (The), see Little Rollright r.7() Rollright— Great 675 Rollright Heath, see Great Rollright ^ 676 Rollright— Little 676 Rose Hill, see Cowley 555 Rotherfield Greys 676 Rothcrfield Peppard ()77 Rousham 677 Russell's Water, seeSwyn- combe 6:i3 Rycote,see Great Haseley 576 Kiddington. Nether Worton Nethercot, see Tackley ... Nethercote.see Banbury . Nettlebed New Hinksey, see Oxford New Thame, see Thame . Newbridge, see Northmoor 605 Newington 603 Newiugton — North, see B rough ton 537 Newington— South 504 Newland, see Banbury 516 Newland, see Cogges 553 Newnham Murren 604 Newton Morrell, see New- ton Purcell 604 Newton Purcell 604 Newyatt, see Hailey 573 Newyatt, see North Leigh 596 Noke North Aston North Leigh North Newington Broushton North Stoke North Weston, see Thame 606 Northbrook,seeKirtlington 594 NorthfieldEnd,see Henley- upon-Thames 579 Northmoor 605 Nottingham — Little, see Goring 572 Nuffield 605 Nuneham Courtenay 6U5 Oaklev, see Chinnor 547 Oddington 606 Old ShifTord, see Bampton Aston 508 Old Thame 696 Old Woodstock, see Wood- stock 713 Osney Hill, .see NorthLeigh 596 Over Arncott, see Ambros- den 502 Over Kiddington, see Kid- dington 591 Over ^Norton, see Chipping Norton 548 Over Worton 716 Overy, see Dorchester .... 561 Oxford 606 Oxford University, see Ox- ford 621 Madmarston, see Swalclflfe.. 691 Maiden Bower, see Steeple Barton 522 Maiden Grove, see Pishill .. 674 Maple Durham 598 Market End, see Bicester . . 525 Market Hill, see Bicester . . 525 Marsh Baldon 505 Marsh Haddon, see Brize Norton 536 Mai-ston 598 MedlersBank,seeBensiugtn 524 Merton 599 Middle Assenden, see Bix .. 529 Middle Aston, see Steeple Aston 505 Middle Barton, see Steeple Barton , 522 Middle Cowley .0.55 Middleton Stoney 579 Milcombe 599 Milton, see Adderbury 500 Milton, see Shipton-uuder- Wycliwood 080 ParkCornr.seeSwyncombe 693 Path Hill, see Whitchurch 706 Peppard, see Rotherfield Peppard 677 Piddington 674 Pirton, see Pyrton 674 Pishill 674 Poffley End. see Hailey . . 573 Portways, see Pyrton 675 Postcombe, see Lewknor . . 597 Prescote, see Cropredy .... 556 Preston Crowmarsh, see Bensington 524 Priest End, see Thame. . . . 696 Pudlicot, seeShorthampton 682 Pvrton 674 Queen Elizabeth's Island, see Blenheim 531 Radcot, see Langford ....594 Radford, see Enstone ....565 Ramsden 675 Ramsden, see Shipton- under- Wychwood 680 Road Enstone, see Neat Enstone 560 St. Christopher's Quarries, see Burford 539 Sallord 677 Sandford Hill, see Charl- bury 544 Sandford St. Martin 67S Sandford-upon-Thames . . . 678 Sarsden 679 Satwell, see Rotherfield Greys 676 Scotland End, see Hook Norton 587 Sesswells Barton, see Steeple Barton ^^'22 Shelswell <'p Shenington ^''^ Shiff"ord,see Bampton Aston 507 Shilliugford, see War- ^ borough '^^ Shilton <'^-> Shiplakc Shipton-on-Cherwell 080 Shipton-under-Wychwood 680 Shirburn Shocks Coppice, see Short- hampton ^'82 Shorthampton '■'^2 hotover Shotover 'Hill Place, see Headington Showell. see Swerford 691 Sbutford— East &West. . . . 682 Sibford Ferris Sibford Gower <>^"-i Signet, see Burford 5:19 SinodunHill,seeDorchester 5(V> Somerton <>83 Sonning Eye, see Dunsden 5^4 Souldern Os^^ South Banbury,seeBanbury 5o9 South Leigh 596 South Newiugton 6i)4 South Stoke <'88 South Weston 704 Southcombe Common, see Chipping Norton 551 Southrop, see Hook Norton .586 Spelsbury 684 Spriggs Alley, see Ciiinnor 547 Stadhampton 6?5 Standhill, see Pyrton 675 Standlake (^85 StantOQ Harcourt 6*^6 Stanton St. John 687 Steeple Aston 505 Steeple Barton 522 Stoke— Little, see Checken- don 546 Stoke Lyne 687 Stoke— North 687 Stoke Row 688 Stoke— South 688 Stoke Talmage 689 Stokenchurch 689 Stonesfield 690 Stowood 690 Stratton Audley 690 Studley, see Beckley 523 Summertown,see Oxford.. 620 Sutton, see Stanton Har- court 686 SuttonlMillPool,seeCulham 558 Swalclifl-e 691 Swerford 601 Swinbrook 692 Swyncombe 692 Sydenham 693 Tackley 093 Tadmarton 693 Tadmarton Heath, see Tad- marton 694 Tadmarton — Lower, see Tadmarton 693 Taston, see Spelsbury 684 Taynton 694 Temple Cowley 555 INDEX TO KELLY S OXFORDSHIRE DIRECTORY. XV PAGE Tetswortli G!)4 Tew— Great & Little 095 Thame 605 Thame— Old & New, see Thame 096 Thame Park, see Thame . . 096 The Beacon Field, seeSand- ford St. Martin 678 The Conduit, see Nuneham Courtenay 606 The Fair Hill, see Henley- upon-Tharaes 578 The Fair Mile, see Henley- upon-Thames 579 The Hawk Stone, see Dean, Spelsbury 684 The Holy Well, see Tad- marton 694 TheKiu2:'sStones,iee Little Kollright 676 The RoUrich Stones, sec Little RoUright 676 The Whispering Knights, see Little Kollright 676 The Windmill Hill, see Nettlebed 603 Thomley, seeWaterperry.. 702 Thrup, see Kidlington 592 j Tiddington, see Albury.... 501 Toot Baldon 506! Tusmore 700 PAGE Twyford,see EastAdderbry 500 Tythrop 700 Upper Arncott, see Am- brosden 502 UpperAssenden,seePyrton 675 Upper Court, see Chadling- ton 543 Upper Hey ford 585 Upper Lea, see Swalcliffe.. 691 Upton, see Burford 539 Walcot, see Charlbury 544 Warborough 700 Wardington 700 Warpsgrove , 701 Water Eaton, see Kidling- ton 592 Water End, see Stoken- church 689 Waterperry 701 Waterstock 702 Watlington 702 Weald, see Bampton 507 Wendlebury 704 West Adderbury 50O West End, see Chipping Norton 550 West End, see Hailey 570 PAGE West End,see Stanton Har- court 686 West End, see Witney 710 West Shutford 682 Westall Hill, see Fulbrook 571 Westcott Barton 522 Weston— North, see Thame 696 Weston-on-the- Green .... 704 Weston Park, see Great Chesterton 546 Weston— South 704 Westwell 705 Wheatfield 705 Wheatley 705 Whispering Knights (The), see Little Eollright 676 Whitchurch 706 White OakGreen,seeHailey 573 White Oak Green, see Ramsden 675 Whitehead's Oak, see Nune- ham Courtenay 606 Whitehill, see Tackley 693 Widford 706 Wigginton 707 Wilcote 707 Williamscote, see Ward- ington 701 Windmill Hill (The), see Nettlebed 603 Witheridge, seeHighmoor. 586 PAGE Witney 707 Wood Eaton 712 Wood Green, see Hailey ... 573 Wood Green, see Witney ., 708 Woodcote, see South Stoke. 088 Woodley's Copse,seeHailey 573 Woodstock 712 Woodstock— 01d,seeWood- stock 713 Woolaston, see Mixbury .. 002 Woolvercot 715 Woolvercot — Lower, see Woolvercot 715 Wootton 715 Worsham, see Asthall 503 Worton, see Cassington . . . 541 Worton— Nether & Over . . 716 Wretch wick, see Bicester. . 526 Wroxton 716 Wychwood, see Leafield . . . 595 Wychwood Forest, see CornburyPark 554 Wychwood Forest,seeShip- ton-under- Wychwood... 681 Wychwood Park, see Corn- bury Park 554 Wykham, see Banbury .... 511 Yamton 717 Yelford 718 LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN OXFORDSHIRE, With Reference to the Places under which they will he found in this Volume. PAGE Adderbury house, William Chamberlain esq. see East Adderbury 500 Adwell house, Henry Birch-Reynardson esq. j.p., f.r.g.s. see Adwell Aston house, Thomas Taylor esq. j.p. see Aston Rowant. . 504 Baldon house, Sir John Charles Willoughby bart. see Marsh Baldon 506 Barton abbey. The Hon. Mrs. Hall, see Steeple Barton ... 522 Barton lodge, Alexander William Hall esq. J.p., d.l. see Steeple Barton 522 Barton Manor house, Kev. Jenner Marshall m.a. see Westcott Barton Bicester priory, Mrs. Coker, see Bicester 526 Bignell house, George Tyrwhitt-Drake esq. see Bicester . . 526 Blenheim palace, Duke of Marlborough k.g., p.c, D.c.ii. see Blenheim 530 Bletchingdon park. Viscount Valentia, see Bletchingdon. . 532 Blounts court, Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir William Thomas KnoUys K.C.B., P.C., D.C.L., D.L. See Rotherfield Peppard 677 Bloxham grove. Rev. George Warriner m.a. see Bloxham. . 533 Bodicote grange, Bernhard Samuel son esq. m.p., f.r.s. seeBodicote 533 Bodicote house, Edward William Tritton esq. j.p. see Bodicote 533 Bolney court, John Fowden Hodges esq. d.l., j.p. see Harpsden 576 Bozedown, William Fanning esq. j.p. see Whitchurch. . . . 706 Bradwell grove, Wm. Henry Fox esq. j.p. see Bradwell.. 535 Brashfield house, Edward Robert G. Hopwood esq. see Caversfield 541 Braziers house, Edward Wells esq. see Checkendon 546 Brightwell park, Albert Glas Sandeman esq. see Bright- well Baldwin 535 Britwell house, John Smith esq. j.p. see Britwell Prior. ... 535 Broughton castle, Rt. Hon. & Ven. Lord Saye & Sele, D.c.ii. see Broughton 536 Broughton lodge, Fredk. Jsph. Morrell esq. see Broughton 537 Bury barns, Mrs. Allen-Faulkner, see Burford 539 Bucknell house, Col. Frederick Drummond Hibbert j.p. see Bucknell 537 Cane End house, William Henry Vanderstegen esq. d.l., J.p. see Kidmore 593 Caversfield house, Charles Jacob Bullock Marsham esq. J.P., D.ii. see Caversfield 541 Caversham park, Mrs. Crawshay, see Caversham 542 Chastleton house, Miss Whitmore- Jones, see Chastleton .. 545 Chesterton lodge, George Rochfort Clarke esq. j.p. s ee Great Chesterton 546 Chiselhampton house, Mrs. Parke, see Chiselhampton .... 551 Cokethorpe park, Mrs. Strickland, see Ducklington 563 Col d'Arbres, Alfred de Mornayesq. seeCrowmarsh Gifford 557 Coppice (The), Right Hon. Sir Robert Joseph Phillimore bart. P.C., Q.c, d c.l. see Shiplake 680 Cornbury park. Lord Churchill 554 Cornwell ho. John Fras. Peuyston esq. j.p. see Cornwell. . 554 Cotefield,Tnnothy Edwd. Cobb esq. j.p. see. Ea st Adderbury 500 Cotmore house, Wm. Wemyss Methven Dewar esq. d.l., J.p. seeFringford 570 Cottisford house, Edwardes Richard Kendall Rousby esq. see Cottisford 555 PAGE Crowsley park. Major John Baskerville j.p. see Shiplake.. 680 Cuddesdou palace. Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Oxford, see Cuddesdon 557 Culham house, John Shawe Phillips esq. j.p. see Culham. . 558 Ditchley house, Viscount Dillon, see Ditchley, Spelsbury. . 684 Duns Tew Manor house, Captain George John Egerton Dashwood d.l., j.p. see Duns Tew 564 Easington Manor ho. Thos. Greenwood esq. see Easington 565 Elsfleld Manor ho. Herbert Parsons esq. j.p. see Elsfield.. 565 Eynsham hall, James Mason esq. j.p. see Eynsham 567 Fyfield house, Miss Newton, see Fyfleld, Bensington 524 Fairfield court. Col. William Thomas Makins m.p., d.l,, J.p. see Henley-on-Thames 581 Freeland lodge, Frederick Burn Harvey esq. see Freeland 570 Fringford lodge, Rev. Edward Withington M.A., j.p. see Fringford 570 Fritwell manor, Rev. Reginald Remington m.a. see Fritwell 571 Glympton park. Col. Henry Barnett j.p., d.l. see Glympton 572 Grandpont house, Thomas Randall esq. see Grandpont. .. 621 Greys court. Sir Francis George Stapleton bart. j.p. see Rotherfield Greys 676 Grove (The), Mrs. Wilson, see Over Wortou 716 Grove house, Bryan J. Stapleton esq. see Kidlington 592 Hardwick house, Charles Day Rose esq. j.p. see Whit- church 706 Harpsden court. Rev. Fitzwilliam Wentworth Atkins- Bowyer m.a. see Harpsden 57& Haseley court, James Patrick Muirhead esq. see Haseley . . 57& Headington Hill hall, George Herbert Morrell esq. m.a., B.C.L., J.p. see Headington 578 Headington Manor house. Miss Watson-Taylor, see Headington 578 Heathend house, Mrs.Fraser Thomas DuflT, see Checkendon 546 Heathfield house, Major-Gen. Hon. George Talbot Devereux r.a., j.p. see Bletchingdon- 532 Henley park, James Bland esq. see Henley-on-Thames .... 580 Heythrop park, Albert Brassey esq. m.a., j.p. & Hon. Mrs. see Heythrop 585 Highmoor hall. Miss Elwes, see Highmoor 586 Hill house, Bertram Savile Ogle esq. j.p. see Steeple Aston 505 Holmwood, Henry Akroyd esq. see Shiplake 680 Holton park, Wm. Earle Biscoe esq. d.l., j.p. see Holton. 586 Hook end, Benjamin Palmer esq. see Checkendon 546 Howbery park, Henry Bertie Watkin- Williams -Wynn esq. J.p. see Crowmarsh Gilford 557 Ipsden house, Edward Anderdon Reade esq. c.b., j.p. see Ipsden 590 Kiddington hall, Henry Lomax Gaskell esq. j.p., d.l. see Kiddington 592 Kingston house, Arthur Henry Oerke Brown esq. d.l., J.p. see Kingston Blount, Aston Rowant 504 Kirtliugton park. Sir Henry William Dashwood bart. j.p., D.L. see Kirtlington. 594 Langford house. Lord de Mauley, see Little Faringdon. . . 568 Ledwell house, Frank Joseph Pearce esq, see Ledwell .... 678 Lee place, Capt. John Hampden Waller j.p. see Charlbury 544 Little Stoke, William Charles Dodd esq. see Checkendon. . 54G Mallard's court. Rev. Henry Tulfnell Young m.a., j.p. see I Stokenchureh 689 LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL SEATS IN OXFORDSHIRE. XV 11 PAGE Maple Durham house, John Darell-Blount esq. see Maple Durham 598 Middleton park, Earl of Jersey, see Middleton Stoney 599 Mougewell house, John Matheson Fraser esq. see Mongewell 602 Newingtou house, Major Sir George Floyd Duckett bart. D.L., J.p. see Newington 603 North Aston hall, William Melliar Foster-Melliar esq. J.p. see North Aston 504 Nuneham park, Edward William Harcourt esq. m.p., d.l., J.p, see Nuneham Courtenay C05 Over Norton house, William G.Dawkins esq. see Chipping- Norton 548 Phyllis court, Hugh Mair esq. see Henley-upon-Thames. . 579 Pudlicot house, Samuel Buruham Dudley esq. see Short- hampton 082 Pyrton Manor house, Edward Samuel Hamersley esq. j.p. see Pyrton 675 Rousham park, Charles Walter Upton-Cottrell-Dormer esq. see Rousham ' 677 St. Mary's house, Mrs. Taunton, see Freeland 570 Saudford pai'k, Mrs. Guest, see Sandford St. Martin 678 Sarsden house, Earl of Ducie p.c. see Sarsden 679 Shelswell park, Edwd.Slater-Harrisonesq. J.p.seeShelswell 679 Shipton court, Cecil Samuda esq. see Shipton-under- Wychwood 681 Shipton lodge, Joseph Reade esq. see Shipton-under- Wychwood 681 Shirburn castle. Earl of Macclesfield, see Shirburn 681 Shotover park, Lieut.-Col. James Miller d.l., j.p. see Shotover 682 Shotover lodge, Joseph John Henley esq. d.i.., j.p. see Shotover 682 Steeple Aston grange, Edward John Eyre esq. see Steeple Aston 505 Stonor park, Lord Camoys, see Upper Assenden, Pyrton. . C75 Stratton Audley park, George Glen esq. j.p. see Stratton Audley 600 Stratton Audley hall, Lord Chesham, see StrattonAudley 690 Studley priory, John Henderson esq. see Beckley 523 Swalcliffe park, Henry Norris esq. d.l., j.p. see Swalcliffe . 691 PAGE Swanston house, Alexander Clark Forbes esq. j.p. see Whitchurch 706 Swerford park, Robert Snow Bolton Davis esq. j.p, see Swerford 692 Swift's house, Major-Gen, Sir Thomas Peyton bart. j.p. see Stoke Lyne GS7 Swyncombe house, Col. Edmund Ruck-Keene j.p. see Swyncombe 692 Tackley park, Mrs. Evetts, see Tackley 693 Tew park, Matthew PiersWatt Boulton esq. see Great Tew 695 Thame park, Wenman Aubrey Wykeham-Musgrave esq. J.p, see Thame 696 Tiddington house, Rev. Joshua Bennett, see Albury .501 Tusmore house. Earl of Effingham, see Tusmore 700 Tythrop house, Philip James Digby Wykeham esq. j.p, see Tythrop 700 Waterperry, Right Hon, Joseph Warner Henley p,c., D.C.L., D.L., J.P 702 Waterstock house, John Henry Ashurst esq. d.l., j.p. see Waterstock 702 Watlington park, John Frederic Symous-Jeuue esq. j.p. see Watlington 702 Weston Manor house, Capt. Frederick Arthur Bertie, see Weston-on-the-Green 704 Wilcote, Charles Sartoris esq. j.p. see North Leigh .5^6 Wilcote Manor house, Miss Pickering, see Wilcote 707 Williamscote house, John Edward Taylor Loveday esq. J.p. see Cropi'edy 556 Wood Eaton house, John AVeyland esq. d.l., j.p. see Wood Eaton 712 Woodperry, John Thompson esq. j.p. see Stanton St. John 687 Woodleys, Hon. Edwin Charles William Pousonby j.p. see Wootton 716 Woodstock house, Col. Henry John Thomas k.a.,j.p. see Woodstock 713 Wormsley, Major John Augustus Fane j.p. see Stoken- church 689 Wroxton abbey, Col. & the Baroness North, see Wroxton, 717 Wykhampark, William 3Iewbnrn esq. see Banbury 511 Yew Tree cottage. Captain Adolphus Albert Garland, see Checkendon 547 INDEX TO COMMEKCIAL PROSPECTUSES. THE NUMBERS REFERRED TO ARE THE ADVERTISEMENT PAGES AT THE END OF THE BOOK. ASSURANCE. PAGE British Empire Mutual Life 1 Commercial Union 1 County Fire 2 Economic , 2 General 3 General Reversionary & Investment Co 3 London Assurance 4 Imperial Fire i Liverpool & Loudon & GiObe <,-.. 5 PAGE 5 London Life North British & Mercan- tile 6 Norwich Union Fire C Phoenix 7 Provident Life 7 Royal Exchange 8 Royal Farmers' & General 8 Standard Life 9 Westminster 10 West of England 11 Sun Fire ... 11 MISCELLANEOUS. PAGE Advertising contractor T.B.Browne 15 Aerated water manufacturer T. Parsons 28 Antiques— dealers in : — W. French 32 H. Harron 33 Appraiser J. S. Barton 25 Art needlework warehouse Mrs. Hill 34 Asbestos manufacturer J. Bell 13 Association :— Association of Nurses (The London) 12 Auctioneer & surveyor G. Kemp 21 Auctioneers & valuers Reader & Sou 47 Bag manufacturer J. W. Allen 18 Bakers: — T. Ekins 44 Shurly & Sons 37 Bicycle manufacturers Willis & Son 30 Black lead manufacturers J. Oakey & Sons IS) Boat builder A. East 44 Boilermaker P.J.Perry 23 Boot & shoe manufacturers— wholesale :— J. How 46 C. Long 46 J. Long 46 Boot & shoe manufacturers :— J. Abbott 42 R. Gillman io Brass founders :— Guest & Chrimes 51 W. Tonks & Sons 49 Brazier J. Sharp 47 Brewers :— J. D. Brown & Son , 22 Field & Sons 27 T. Parsons 28 W. J. Strange & Sons 3S Brick making machine manufacturers -.— J. Clews .31 C. Whittaker& Co 55 Brick & tile manufacturers :— Bracknell Brick & Tile Co 26 E. Ward 48 Builders : — H. Dix., 44 G. Kemp 21 E. May 46 E. L. Millington 4(3 Builders' ironmongers Coxeter & Sons 43 Butchers S. Crocker & Co 44 Cabinetmakers: — J. S. Barton 25 W. Longley 40 Cane merchant W. West 48 Carriage builders : — W. Gough 45 H. & F. Pass 47 Cart & wagon builders :— T. Bowyer ,39 G. Hopkins 34 Cement manufacturers Rugby Portland Cement Co. 50 Cliair manufacturers R. Wharton & Sons 42 Chandelier manufacturers Guest & Chrimes 51 Chimneypot manufacturers J. Knowles & Co. 19 China, earthenware & glass warehouse Spiers & Son 37 PAGK Chronometer manufacturers C. Frodsham & Co. Clock manufacturers C. Frodsham & Co. Coal & coke merchants :— H. Parker South & Goodall Tayler & Co 4S Cocoanut mat & matting manufacturer. .A. G. Emmerson 40 Colliery agent H. Pai'ker 36 Composition manufr. for preserving boots &c. . . H. Millen 35 Coppersmith J, Sharp 47 Corn merchants : — T. J. Church 44 H. Dolton & Son 44 C. J. Minchiu 46 Shurly ^ Sons 37 B. Taplin 48 J. Wane 42 Corrugated iron manufacturers :— J. C. Humphreys 11 Redcliffe Crown Galvanized Iron Co 57 Domestic machinery manufacturer T. Newton 50 Drain pipe manufacturers : — Bracknell Brick & Tile Co 26 J. Knowles & Co 19 E. Ward , 48 Dressing case manufacturer J.W.Allen 18 Ebonite manufacturers : — India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co. Limited 16 Electric bell manufacturers :— J. Ball - 56 W. H. Baughan 38 Emery & emery cloth manufacturers J. Oakey & Sons 19 Engineers : — J. Blake 54 J. Clews . . 31 C. Whittaker & Co .'i5 Engineers' stores W. II. Willcox & Co 21 Fire brick manufacturers J. Knowles & Co 19 Flag manufacturers F. Edgington & Co 43 Furniture polish manufacturers :— J. Oakey & Sons 19 J. l^ickering & Sons 52 Galvanized iron manufacturers : — J. C. Humphreys 11 Redclifle Crowii Galvanized Iron Co 57 Gas engineer J. Peattie 36 Gasfitters :— Adams & Son 31 J. Dix & Co 44 Gutta percha manufacturers : — India Rubber.Gutta Percha& Telegraph Works Co. Lim 16 Hay & straw merchants : — T.J. Church 44 C.J. Minchin 46 Shurly & Sons 37 J. Wane 42 Horticultural builders : — P.J.Perry -., 23 .J. Weeks & Co 20 Hose pipe mauufncturers :— India Rubber,GuttaPercha& TelegraphWorks Co.Lim 16 Hosier & glover W. Longley 40 Hot-water apparatus manufacturer P. J. Perry 23 Hot water engineers : — J. Dix & Co 44 J. Peattie 36 J. Weeks & Co 20 Hotels :- J. F. Attwood 25 J. Beddiug 43 J. Francis 32 F. A. Herold 34 J. S. Holland 45 Mrs. T. Nunney 43 W. Park 35 H. Pratt 41 Randolph Hotel Co. Limited 28 W. W. Rennie 47 T. R. Seaton 37 J. P. Starling 47 INDEX TO COMMERCIAL PROSPECTUSES. xix PAGE JIurdle manufacturer J. Honour 40 Hydraulic ram manufacturer J.Blake 5i India rubber manufacturers : — India Kubber,Guttarorcba& Telegraph Works Co.Lim 16 India rubber knife board manufrs J. Oakey & Sons 19 Insurance agent L.Jotcham 43 Invalid furniture manufacturers :— Chorlton & Dugdale Facing Front Cover Iron gate & hurdle manufacturers :— Rowland Brothers 36 J. Sharp 47 Iron roof manufacturers :— J.C.Humphreys 11 Rowland Brothers 3G Iron tank manufacturers Rowland Bros 3(5 Ironmongers : — Coxeier & Sous ■ 43 J. Dix&Co 41 J. Sharp 47 Irrio^ator manufacturer— Patent J. Deverill, juu 26 Knife powder manufacturers J. Pickering & Sons 52 l^amp & oil feeder manufacturers A. C. Wells «fe Co 53 Lightning conductor manufacturer J. Ball 56 Lime merchants Rugby Portland Cement Co 50 I Liuendraper W. Longley 40 Lint manuftxcturers Liverpool Patent Lint Co 52 Loan office S.Williams 3S Machine band manufacturers :— India Rubber,Gutta Percha k, TelegraphWorks Co.Lim 10 Machinists : — L. R. Hilsden 45 T. Newton 50 3ranure manufacturers Native Guano Co. Limited 27 Marquee manufacturers : — V. Kdgington & Co 43 A. G. Emmerson 40 Mercantile offices Stubbs' 17 Metal workers W. Tonks & Sons 4'J Mourning warehouse W. C. Jay & Co 00 Newspapers : — Auiiigdou «fc Reading Herald 35 Bicester Herald 39 Bucks Herald 39 Croydon's Weekly Standard 39 Oxford Chronicle 4U Oxford Times 35 Oxfordshire Arc. Telegraph 39 Reading Mercury 29 Reading; Observer 29 South Bucks Free Press 41 Nurserymen :— J. iMayo 46 P. J. Perry 23 Sutton & Sous 24 Optician H. F. Lovcgrove 50 Painters & paperhangers Adams Son 31 Plate powder manufacturers : — J. Oakey & Sons ]9 J. Pickering & Sons 52 Plumber J. I'eattie 36 Pneumatic bell manufacturer J. Ball 56 Polishing paste manufacturers J. Oakey uarry Co. Limited 57 Rope, line &: twine manufacturers :— A. G. Emmerson 40 Harrison & Co 43 Sack manufacturers F. Edgingtou & Co 43 Salt mercliants Tayler C. Hedges 33 Knowles & Son 3s Stove & range manufacturer J. Sharp 47 Stubbs' Mercantile Offices 17 F. Edgington & Co 43 Tarpaulin manufacturers Telegraph cable manufacturers :- India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co. Limited lo Tent manufacturers F. Edgington & Co 43 Terra-cotta manufacturers J. Knowles & Co 19 Timber merchants Rowland Brothers 30 Tool manufacturer T. Newton 5i> Torpedo apparatus manufacturers : — India Rubber, Gutta Percha & Telegraph Works Co. Limited 10 Tricycle manufacturers Willis & Son 30 Tube manufacturers Guest & Chrimes 51 Turners :— T. Bates & Sons 42 C. Grove 45 A. F. Hawkes 45 W. Poulter 47 S. Reynolds 47 Upholsterers :— J. S. Barton 25 AV. Longley , 40 Ventilator manufacturers W. Tonks & Sons 49 Veterinary chemists Day, Son & Hewitt Is Warming iV: ventilating engineer E. H. fehorland 53 Watch manufacturers C. Frodsham Co 14 Waterproof goods manufacturers : — A. G Eniuierson 4U India l'aibber,GuttaPercha A:TelegraphWorks Co.Lim. 10 Window blind manufacturers :— Janes & Sou 42 R. Lowtlier iS: Co. Limited 20 J.Williams , 21 Wine it spirit merchants : — J. D. Brown & Son 22 Field A: Sous 27 .J. K. H. Fowler 45 J. Francis 32 T. Parsons 28 Wire manufacturers Rowlaud Brothers 36 Wooden ware manufacturers : — T. Bates & Sons 42 C. (Jrove 45 45 47 48 4S 4ji • W. Louftley 4 > A. F. Hawkes S. Revnolds . . .7. Wallingtou T. Wright .... ■\V. AVrlght . . . . Woollen draper . . THAMES INDEX TO OF ADVERTISERS. THE KUMBERS REFERRED TO ARE THE ADVERTISEMENT PAGES AT THE END OF THE BOOK. VXC.K Abbott J., Boot & shoe maker -i- Abing-dou & Reading Herald, Newspaper 35 Adams & Sou, Decorators, painters & paperbangers 31 Allen J. ^Y., Bag & portmanteau manufacturer IS Association of Nurses (The Loudon) 12 Attwood J. F., Hotel 20 Ball J., Lightning conductor manufacturer &, chimney restorer .^O Barton J. S., Upholsterer, appraiser & cabinet maker 'S> Bates T. & Sons, Turners & spade A: shovel manufacturers 42 Baughan W. H., Electrical engineer 3^ Bedding J., Hotel 43 Bell J., Asbestos manufacturer 13 Bicester Herald, Newspaper 39 Blake J., Engineer & hydraulic ram manufacturer 54 ^owyer T., Cart & waggon builder 39 Bracknell Brick ct Tile Co 2G Brown J. D. & Son, Brewers wine & spirit merchants .. 22 Browne T. B., Advertising contractor lo Bucks Herald, Newspaper 39 Chorlton & Dugdale, Tatent spring mattress & mvalid furniture manufacturers Facing Front Cover Church T. J., Hay, straw & corn merchant 4i Clark W., Sausage manufacturer 31 Clews J., Brick, tile & pipe making machine manufacturer 31 Coxeter & Sons, Wholesale furnishing & builders' iron- mongers 43 Crocker S. & Co., Butchers 41 Cross Miss, School 44 Croydon's Weekly Standard, Newspaper 39 Darbishirc W. A., Quarry owner & slate merchant 57 Day, Son & Hewitt, Veterinary chemists IS Deverili J. j an.. Patent irrigator manufacturer 26 Dix J. & Co., Ironmongers «\: hot water engineers 44 Dix H., Builder & house decorator 44 Dolton H. & Son, Corn & cake merchants, seedsmen itc . . 44 East A., Boat builder 44 Edgingtou ¥. & Co., Marquee, tent & flag manufacturers 43 Ekins T., Baker, pastry cook & seedsman 44 Emmersou A. G., Kope, line k, twine manufacturer 4 j Field & Sons, Brewers & wine & spirit merchants -T Fountain (Jr., Monumental sculptor .jj Fowler J. K. H., Wine & spirit merchant 45 Francis J., Wine A: spirit merchant 32 French W., Dealer in antiques 32 Frodsham C. A: Co., Watch, clock & chronometer manufrs 14 Gillman R., Boot & shoe maker 45 Gillott J., Steel pen manufactm-er ! 49 GoughW., Coach builder 45 Grove C, Wooden ware manufacturer & turner 45 Guest A; Chrimes, Brassfounders 51 Guise H. Ac Son, Sculptors A: builders 40 Harding J., Pork butcher & poulterer 33 Harrison A: Co., Kope, line & twine manufacturers 43 Harrison Miss, School , 45 Harrou H ., Dealer in antiques !!*.'.!!.'! 33 Hawkes A. F., Wooden ware manufacturer A: turner 45 Hedges C, Stone &, marble mason 33 Herold F. A., Hotel 34 Hill Mrs., Art needlework establishment. . .'.'.* .*.*.**.'.*.* '.'.',*. 34 ' Hilsden L, K., Machinery merchant 45 Holland J. S., Hotel 45 Honour J . , Hurdle manufacturer . . " . . 46 Hopkins G., Cart & van builder .34 Hopton-Wood Stone Co., Limited 5? How J Wholesale b'>ot A: shoe manufacturer 46 Humphreys J. C, Galvanized corrugated iron manutactur 11 India Kuober, Gutta Percha Ac Telegraph Works Co. Lim 16 Janes & . Son, Window blind manufacturers 42 Jay W. C. & Co., 3Iourning warehouse 60 Jotcham L., Solicitor &, insurance agent 43 Kelly & Co., Printers Ac printers & pubhshers of the' Post Office LoMdon & Country Directories 48, 50, 57, 58, 59 Inside Front Cover, Inside Back Cover d- Facing Back Cover Kemp G., Builder At decorator 21 f PAGE I Knowles J. & Co., Drain pipe, terra cotta & chimney pot I manufacturers 19 , Knowles A: Son, Stone masons A: carvers 38 I Liverpool Patent Lint Co 52 , Long C, Wholesale boot A: shoe manulacturer 46 Long J., Wholesale boot A- slioe manufacturer -iii I Longley W., Linen & woollen draper 40 Lovegrove 11. F., Optician 60 Lowther K. A: Co. Limited, Window blind manufacturers 20 May E., Builder A: contractor „ 40 3Iayo J., Nurseryman 46 Milieu H., Manufacturer of a preservative for leather boots 35 Millington E. L., General Ai horticultural buikli r 40 , Miuchin C. J., Hay, straw & corn merchant 40 ' Native Guano C o. Limited 27 Newton T., Machinist A; tool manufacturer 50 Nunney Mrs. T., Hotel 43 Uakey J. At Sons, Emery, emery cloth A: black lead maufrs 19 Oxford Chronicle, Ne\vs])aper 40 Oxford Times, Newspaper 35 Oxfordshire &c. Telegraph, Newspaper 39 Park W.. Hotel 35 Parker U., Coal merchant A: colliery agent 36 Parsons T., Brewer 28 Pass H. & F., Coacii builders 47 Peattie J., Plumber, hot water, gas & sanitary engineer .. 30 Peu-yr-Orsedd Slate (Quarry Co. Limited 57 I'erry P. J., Horticultural builder, nurseryman A: seed mer 23 Pickering J. At Son^. Polisliing paste A: plate powder mfrs 52 Poulter W., Turner in wood At stone 47 I'ratt H., Hotel 41 Randolph Hotel Co. Limited , 2H Reader At Son, Auctioneers At valuers 47 Reading Mercury, New.-^paper -J'J Reading Observer, Newspaper 29 Redclirte Crown Galvanized Iron Co 57 Rennie W. W., ilotel 47 Reynolds S., Wooden ware manufacturer & turner 47 liowland Brothers, Saw mill proprietors 36 Rugby Portland Cement Co 50 Seaton T. R., flotel :<7 Sharp J., Ironmonger, stove At range manufacturer 47 Shaw K. C, School 41 Shorlaud E. H., Sanitary, warming & ventilating engineer 53 Shurly A: Sons, Bakers 37 South Bucks Free Press, Newspaper 41 South A: Goodall, Coal At coke merchants 41 Spiers At Son, China, earthenware At glass manufacturers. 37 Starling J. P., Temperance hotel 47 Stedman Mrs., School 47 Strange W. J. cc Sons, Brewers 38 Stubbs' Mercantile Offices 17 Sutton At Sons, Seedsmen 'z-i Taplin B., Corn inerchant -i^ Tayler At Co., Coal, coke At salt merchants 46 Thompson Rev. B. T., school 30 Tonks W, At Sons. Brassfounders At metal workers 49 Tottle G., School 42 WaUington J., Wooden ware manufacturer 48 Walmsley C, Pumping engine At pump manufacturer 56 Wane J., Corn, seed, hay A: straw salesman 42 Ward E., Brick Ai tile manufacturer 48 AV'eeks J. At Co., Horticultural builders At hot water engineers 20 Welis A. C. At Co., Lamp At oil feeder manufacturers 53 West W., Licensed victualler At cane merchant 48 Wharton R. A: Sons, Chair manufacturers -i-i WhittakerC. At Co., Engineers At brick-making machine manufacturers 55 Willcox ^V. H. A: Co., Engineers' stores 21 Williams J., Window blind manufacturer 21 Williams S., Money lender 38 Willis & Son, Bicycle & tricycle manufacturers 30 Wright T., Wooden ware manufacturer 48 Wright W., Wooden ware manufacturer 48 BERKSHIRE. Berkshikk, coininnnly cal]el Herks, is a soutlicrn inland ' Wantage anJ Urtin2rton to Swin Ion and Bath; it has shire, on the south l)aiik of the navigable Thames, which l)ranch lines from Didcot by Abingdon to Oxford and forms its northern boundary mark, and in the valley of which from Didcot to Xewbury ; froin Maidenhe;i.l, down the it lies, approacliing within 20 mile-; of London, and situate Tiuimes, teri(»d, by the expulsi(»n of the Welsh or Celts. Julius "which bears large craft throughout its length to London and C-.csar fouml the country in the power of the Atribates, the se^i, and by canal opens the way to Wiltshire, Bristol, though perhaps the Bibroci and Segontiaci had al.so settle- ounds. Berkshire had several Roman anil the North, Krom 1 he windiui: of the Thames it has a towns, sUitions and roads. Spinie (Speen, near Newbury), waterway between Lechlade and ^Vindsor of 1 10 uiiles and is the only well known station. There are camps and walls j)a.s.ses Oxford, Abinirdnn. Waliingfnnl. Heading, Henley of various agej* at Wallingford — L'tlington Castle, on the (Oxon), Marlow Bucks), Maidenhead an«l \\ind.sor. This top of White Horse Hill; .Sagbury C.istle, on Letcombe river is popularly called the Thames throuirhout its course. Downs; Hardwell Camp, near I ttin^rton ; Sherbury Camp, but its pro|K^r name is the Isis until it receives the smaller near Earingdon ; Ca-sar's Cam|),on BagshotHwith ; Ashbury siream the Tluune, which, flowing by Dorchester, Oxon, Camp, or Alfred's Castle, near Lambourn anil al.so camp's joins the Isis l»otween Day's Lock and Sliillin;rford Bridge. I on Suiodun Hill and Bailbury Hill. Many of the hills have Among its lish are trout, barbel, pike, eels, carp, tench, chub, I barrows in them and .some seem to have cromlechs. On roach, dace, and craylish. Between the chalk downs in the ] the chalk hills near Lamfiourn are some remarkable jtiles of west and the Than»es runs its feeorne rises in the ]iarish of Inkpen and forms the Hainp- | white, is by most thought to have been done by the old shire bounilary of the country for al>out 15 miles ; the Black- | English ; it maybe seen from a distance of fifteen miles water form>< a portion of the .-southern boundary. The and gives name to the hill in which it is cut and to the Loddon rises in Hampshire and tlows throuirh East Berks j adjoining valley. Berkshire was invaded by the Danes, with into the Thames below Readini;. Besides the navigation of | whom several battles were fought, a very famous one at the Thames and the Kennet, the county is crossed by two 1 Ashdown, in which Ethelred and Alfred the (Jreat l>eat the t-anals, the Wilts ami Berks in the north, proceeding from | Danes. The battle of Ethandane. in which Alfred defeated Abingdon by Wantaireinto Wilts, where it joins the Kennet | the Danes, is also thoucht to have been fought in lierkshire. and Avon canal at Semimrton ; the Kennet and .\von canal i During the middle aires freipient forays took place in this runs through South Berks from Newluiry by Hungerford! county, but of its many castles few remain : of Walling- into Wills and thence by Devizes to Bath, and so by the Avon ford and Donnington there are remains, to Bristol. In the Parliamentary Wars most of the Berkshire towns Berkshire is now well su])plieil with railway communica- | were the scenes of conflict. Two great battles were fojight tion : the chief railway is tl»e Great Western, the main line [ at Newbury in 1643 and 1644. Reading was besiegeil and of which enters this ct»unty by Slouirli, with a branch to taken ; Abingtlon, Windsor Castle and Donnington were Windsor, thence to Maideijhead and proceeds by Twy- ' attacketl. ford to ReadiMi,'. wliich is a principal station, thence by At Abingdon and Reading were large lienedictine estab- Tanglwurne, Moulsford, Didcot & Stcventon and so near ' lishment^, richly endowed, of which the ablxtts Mere mitred. 1 2 BERKSHIRE. [kelly's Of these fine buildings there are extensive remains ; those of the Grey Friary at Reading are converted into a church called Greyfriars ; of the Benedictine monastery at Hurley some remains are to be seen. Avington is a very ancient church, said to be old English or Norman ; there are also specimens of Norman in St. Nicholas church, Abingdon and in Wilford church. The number of parishes is between 140 and 150, some being partly out of the shire. Berkshire is in the Oxford circuit, and sends three members to Parliament. Abingdon is the nomination town for members of Parliament. The county has one court of quarter sessions and 11 petty sessional divisions. The shire towns are Reading and Abingdon ; by an Order in Council of September 14th, 1868, the assizes and sessions are to be held exclusively at Reading. The parliamentary boroughs are : — Members. Pop. 188 r. Abingdon One 6,608 Reading Two 42,050 Wallingford One 8,194 Windsor One 19,080 The municipal boroughs are : — Abingdon, population in 1 88 1, 6,608 ; Maidenhead, 8,219 ; Newbury, 10,143 ; Walling- ford, 2,803 ; ^^^^ New Windsor, 12,273. Other towns are — Faringdon, Hungerford, Wantage and Wokingham. The manufactures are not of importance — some silk, mats, sacking and sailcloth — though Reading, Newbury and Abingdon used to be great clothing towns : this trade is reviving at Abingdon. At Reading are the large biscuit works of Huntley and Palmers, the Reading Iron Works and the great seed establishment of Sutton and Sons. Whiting is made at Kintbury from the soft upper chalk. Chairs and many articles of turnery are made from the beech woods with which the county abounds. The produce of Berkshire is lime, coarse stone for building, brick- earth, corn, beans, apples, cherries, onions, asparagus, timber, hoops, broomsticks, osiers, cart-horses, calves, butter, pigs, sheep, wool, besides trout and other fish. The shire is divided into twenty hundreds (at Domesday Survey, twenty-two). They are Beynhurst, in the east; Bray, in the east ; Compton, in the midland ; Charlton, in the south ; Cookham, in the soutli-east ; P'aircross, in the midland (formerly Thatcham) ; Faringdon, in the north- west ; Gantield, in the north-west ; Hormer (formerly Hornimere), in the north ; Lambourn, in the Avest ; Kintbury Eagle, in the south-west midland (formerly Kennetbury and Egley) ; Moreton (formerly Blewbury), in the north-east; Ock, in the north-east ; Reading, in the north-east ; Ripples- mere, in the east ; Shrivenham, in the north-west ; Sonning, in the east ; Theale, in the north-east ; Wantage, in the midland ; and Wargrave, in the east. The superintendent registrars' districts are : — No. Place. Area. Pop. in 1881. 112 Newbury 42,956 21,326 113 Hungerford 98.287 17,795 114 Faringdon 63,079 13,676 115 Abingdon 56,445 20,354 116 l^^antage Wallingford 75,700 17,161 117 40,860 14,493 118 Bradfield 61,271 4,699 17,972 119 Reading 43,485 120 Wokingham 42,226 20,015 121 Cookham 29,492 16,934 122 Easthampstead 25,176 12,663 123 Windsor 22,882 32,064 The following list gives the several poor law unions, with the parishes contained in them : — Abingdon Union. Appleford Appleton l^agley Wood Baldon Marsh (Oxford) Baldon Foot (Oxford) Besselsle'gh Binsev (Oxford) Burcott (Oxford) Chandlings Farm Chiselliampton (Oxford) Cholsall Clifton Hampden (Oxford) Culham (Berks & Oxford) Cumnor Draycott Moor Drayton Drayton (Oxford) Eaton Frilford Fyfield Garford Kennington Kingston Bagpuze Littlemore (parts) (Oxford) Lyford Marcham Milton Northcourt North Hinksey Nuneham Courtney (Oxford) Radley St. Helen (Abingdon) St. Nicholas (Abingdon) Sandford (Oxford) Seacourt Shippon South Hinksey Stadhampton (Oxford) Steventon Sunningwoll Sutton Courtney Sutton Wick Thrupp & Wick Tubney Wootton Wytham Bradfield Union. Aldermaston Ashampstead Basildon Beenliam Vallence Bradfield Bucklebury Burgh field Englefield Frilsham Goring (Oxford) Grazeley, or Grasley Maple Durham (Oxford) Mortimer West End (Hants) Padworth Pangbourn Purley Stanford Dingley Stratfield Mortimer Streatley Sulham Sulhampstead Abbots Sulhampstead Banister Tidmarsh Tilehurst Ufton, or Ufton Nervet Whitchurch (Berks & Oxford) Wokefield Yattendon Bisham Ikay Cookham Hurley Binfield I^asthampstead Sandhurst Cookham Union. Maidenhead Shottesbrook Waltham St, Lawrence White Waltham Easthampstead Union. Warfield Winkfield with Ascot Ashbury Balking ]5eckett JJourton Buckland Buscot Charncv Coleshiil (Berks and Wilts) Compton Bcauchamp Eaton Hastings Fernham (xrafton (Oxford) Great Coxwell Great Faringdon Hat ford Hinton Waldrist Idstone Kelmscott (Oxford) Faringdon Union. Kingston Lisle with Fawler Kingstone WinsloAV Langford (Oxford) Lechdale (Gloucester) Little Coxwell Little Faringdon (Oxford) Longcot Longwf)rth Odstone Pusey Radcot (Oxford) Shellingford Shrivenham Stanford-in-the-Vale Uthngton Watchfield Woolstone Hungerford Union. Aldbourn (Wilts) Avington Bay don (Wilts) Blagrave Buttermere (Wilts) Charnham Street (Wilts) Chilton Foliatt (Berks and Wilts) Combe (Hants) East Garston East Shefford Lambourn Little Bedwin (Wilts) Ramsbury (Wilts) Sanden Fee Eastbury and Bockhampton Edington, Hidden and New- town Froxfield (Wilts) Great Bedwin (Wilts'* Hadley Ham (Wilts) Hippenscombe (Wilts) Hungerford (Berks and Wilts) Inkpen Kintbury Shalbourn (Berks and Wilts) Tidcomb (Wilts) West Shefford West Woodhay Newbury Union. Boxford Brimpton Chievelej- Enborne Greenham Hampstead Marshall Leckhampstead Midgham Newbury Newtown, near Newbury (Hants) Sandleford Shaw-cum-Donnington Speen Thatcham Wasing Welford Winterbourn Woolhampton Reading Union. St. Giles (Reading) Southcot St. Lawrence (Reading) Whitley St. Mary (Reading) DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 3 Wallingfoed Union. Allhallows (VVallingford) Aston Tirrold Aston Upthorpe Bensington or Benson (Ox- ford) Berrick Salome (Oxford) Brightwell Cholsey Clapcot Crowmarsh Gifford (Oxford) Didcot or Dndcot Dorchester (Oxford) East Hagbourne Ewelme (Oxford) Fifield (Oxford) Little Wittenham (Oxford) Long Wittenham Mongewell (Oxford) Moutsford Newingtou (Oxford) Newnham Murren (Oxford) North Moreton North Stoke (Oxford) St. Leonard (Wallingford) St. Mary-le-More (Walling- ford) St. Peter (Wallingford) Sotwell South Moreton South Stoke (Oxford) Wallingford Castle Precinct Warborough (Oxford) West Hagbourne Wantage Union, Aldworth Ardington Beedoa Blewberry Brightwaltham Cat more Chaddleworth Charlton Childrey Chilton Compton or Compton Parva Denchworth East Challow East Hanney East Hendred Enst Ilsley or Market Ilsley East Lockingc Fawley Goosey Grove Hampstcad Norris Harwell Letcombe Basset Letcombe Regis Nottingham Fee Peasemore Sparsholt Upton Wantage West Challow West Hanney West Hendred West Ilsley West Lockinge Farnborougii or Farmborough Clewer Ded worth Egham (Surrey) New Windsor Aborficld Barkham Broad Hinton Early Finciiamstead ?Lartley Dummer Hurst Newland Ruscombe Windsor Union. Old Windsor Sunninghill Thorpe (Surrey) Wokingham Union. Shinfield Sonningtown Swallowlield Wargrave Whist ley-in-Hurst Winner sh Wokingham "Woodlev and Sandford The following is a list of the hundreds in the county, with the i)arislics contained in each : — Hundred of Beynhurst— Bisham, Bray, Hurley, Remen- ham, Shottcsbroo'k and White Waltham. Hundred of Charlton— Barkham, Broad Hinton, Earley, Finchanistead, Hartley Dummer, Shinfield, Swallowlield (part of) and Whistley-in-Hurst. Hundred of Compton— Aldworth, Catmore, Chilton, j Compton or Compton Parva, East Ilsley or Market Ilsley, | Farnborough or Farmborough and ^^'est lisley. | Hundred of Cookham— Binfield, Cookham and Sunning- hill. ' Hundred of Faircross— Bagley Wood, Bcedon, Boxford, lirightwaltham, Brimpton, Chandlings Farm, Chieveley, Friisham, (ireenham, Hampstead Nn ; Xen-himf district, J. C. Pinniger, Newbury ; RcaditKj district, William Weedon, Reading; Wantaye district, Llewellyn Jotcham, Wantage. H.M. Prison for the county, in the Forbury, Reading, is a red brick castellated building with Avhite stone dressings, built for 224 prisoners ; Capt.Cheslyn Abney Blyth, governor ; Rev. M. T. ?>iend m-a. chaplain. Royal lierkshire Hospital, London road, Reading, opened in 1839, is an extensive stone building, having a portico in the Ionic style, with two wings added in 1882; it is supported mostly by voluntary contributions raised in the county ; it will hold 120 beds. " Y.. Wells m.d. R. C. Shettle m.d. and J. Shea M.D. phvsicians ; George May and F. A. Bulley, con- sulting surgeons ; G. May, jun. M.n. W. W. Moxhay and O. C. Maurice, surgeons ; F. Workman, J. H. Walters and H. G. Armstrong, assistant surgeons; Rev. T. C. Cardew, ciiaplain ; F. W. Sutton, house surgeon ; John T. Hugo, secretary ; Miss Raster, matron & superintendent of nursing The County Lunatic Asylum, called the Moulsford Asylum, Avas opened in September, 1870; it occupies a prominent position on the Wallingford road,three-quarters of a mile from Moulsford station and 2 miles from Wallingford ; it is built of red brick relieved v, \i\\ stone and coloured brick dressings, the style of architecture being a moditication of Early English, forming nearly a square ; the asylum stands on ail estate of 80 acres, extending to the banks of the riA-er Thames, and is cheerful in aspect and con\-enient and suitable in arrangements ; the cost was ^68,600, but it has been enlarged at additional cost of ^'sSoOO- The number of male patients is 194 ; females 260. Robert Bryce 4 BERKSHIRE. [kell\'s Gilland m.d. medical superintendent ; John Barron M.A., M.D. assistant medical otticer ; Rev. R. W. P. Circuitt, cliaplain ; John Thornhill Morland, clerk to the committee '.)f visitors ; Moses Nicholls, steward and clerk of the as} lum ; Mrs. Horton, housekeeper. The Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum near Woking- ham, opened in 1863, is an extensive range of brick build- ings capable of affording accommodation to 563 inmates and planned and erected under the exclusive direction of the late Sir J. Jebb at a cost of 18,039 ; but since altered and enlarged at a further cost of ^"48,000 : it stands on an elevated site about 400 feet above the sea level, sheltered by pine Avoods on the north and nortli-east and open to the south and south-west VVm. Orange m.d. medical superin- tendent ; David Nicholson m.d. deputy medical superinten- dent; John Bladwin Isaac m.d, assistant medical otticer; Rev. Thomas Ashe m.a. chaplain ; Charles Phelps, steward. Members of Parliament for the County, Col. Sir Robert Jame^ Lockinije house, lVantae:e Loyd-Lindsay v.C, K.C.B., j p. Overstone park, Northants ; 2 ! Carlton gardens & Carlton, Travellers' &, Guards' clubs, I London s.in- : John Walter esq. d.l., j.p. J5earwood, Woking- ham ; 40 Upper (rrosvenor street w.; & Reform .s./r. & City of I London club e.c. London ; & Philip Wroughton esq. ma., d.l., ! J.p. Woolley park. Wantage ; & Carlton club, London s.w j Polling Places. Appointed Oct, 12, 1872, pursuant to the Ballot Act, 1872, *Abingdon ■'♦^Newbury Bracknell Pangbourn Cumner ^Reading ^Didcot *Wallingford "^Faringdon ^Wantage ■'^Hungerford Wargrave East Ilsley *Windsor Lambourne ■'•'Wokingham / ^Maidenhead Woolhampton Mortimer The revising barristers hold their courts at places marked thus *. GEOLOGY OF BEEKSHIEE. Natural History and Scientific Societies, — Wellington College Natural Science Society, near Wokingham : Annual report ; Newbury District Field Club ; Reading Microscopical Society. Museum. — Newbury Museum. PuPiLic.vrioNS of the Geological Survey. — JIaps — Sheets : 7, Western part of London, St. Albans, Windsor, Uxbridge ; 8, Wokingham, Croydon, Guildford, Reigate ; 12, Newbury, Andover, Odiham ; 13, O.xford, Jieading, Wantage ; 34, Chippenham, Swindon. Quarter Sheet ; 45, S.W. Woodstock, &c. — Books. — The Geology of Parts of Berkshire and fLimpshire, by Bristow and Whitaker, 3s. ; The Geology of Parts of O-xfordshire and Berkshire, by Hull and AVhitaker, 3s. ; Geology of the London Basin, by W. Whitaker, 13s. Important Works or Papers on Local Geology. — 1856. Prestwich, Prof. J. — Gravel near Maidenhead in Avhich Skull of Musk Buffalo Avas found. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xii. p. 131. 1875. Rnpert-Jones, T. and King, C. C. — Sections of the Woolwich and Reading Beds at Reading. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxxi. p. 451. 1881. Berries, W. H. — Bagshot Beds. Geo. Mag. p. 171. The rocks of Berkshire have been very carefully studied by the officers of the Geological Survey. Complete geological maps of the surface were published in 1860-61, and in the .splendid memoir on the Geology of the London Basin, by Mr. W. Whitaker, a very full account Avill be found of all the strata except those which form the extreme north-west •corner. The Tertiary Beds of the south and east Avere first described by Professor Prestwich in a masterly series of papers published betAveen 1840 and i860 in the Journal of the Geological Society : Professor Rupert-Jones has also written on the same subject. As the longest axis of Berkshire extends nearly east and west, AAhile the different beds of rock run across it in a slanting direction from north-east to south-Avest Ave naturally expect to meet Avith a good A-ariety of formations in the county, and this Ave shall find to be the case. From the absence of disturbances, however, and from the dip being gentle and coinciding Avith the general slope of the surface, the variety is not so great as might have been expected. We shall commence Avith the oldest rocks, Avhich occupy the extreme north-west of the county. The Oolite, (i.) llie Oxford 0%.— Entering at Coles- liiill and Lechlade, and rimning east by Thrupp Common and Newbridge and north-east by Hinksey, Wytham and Oxford, we have the Berkshire portion of a tVact of stiff' clay, Avhich extends across the Thames into Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. It contains frequent bands of limestone I nodules or septaria, is of a blue colour Avhen dug at any ^ depth, but Aveathers yellow Avhere exposed to the air ; it forms a Ioav tract of land bordering the Tliames for about I a mile or two on its southern side, and is of little economic value. It is mostly in pasture : a boring at Wytham i)assed I through 596 feet of Oxford clay. I (2.) Tlie Coral Rag. — This term is applied to a series of j beds, clayey and sandy at the base, of Avhich the middle portion is a rubbly oolitic limestone full of corals, capped j in a few places by irony sands. The muddy sea in Avliich the Oxford clay Avas deposited must have cleared and ! shalloAved, and in the Avarm Avaters coral reefs grew ir- I regularly, resembling those noAv forming in tropical seas. ^^■here present the thickness of the Coral Rag varies from 10 to 30 feet, and it constitutes a ridge overlooking the A-alley of the Thames. Entering the county near Shriven- ham, Ave can trace it round P'aringdon, and thence it occupies a tract three miles Avide north of the river Ock as far as Abingdon and Cumnor : at Wytham it rises as an outlier to an height of 583 feet ; it is largely quarried for road metal. The loAver portion contains characteristic Amvionites ; corals, and spines and plates of sea-urchins occur in the middle portion in large numbers. (3.) Kimmeridge Clay. — Another thick mass of blue clay Avith bituminous shales succeeds the coral rag ; it forms flat Avet land from Shrivenham station to Longcott. Passing under the Avell-knoAvn sponge gravels of Faringdon, it re- appears south of Siiillingford and Stanford, and forms the " Fields of East and West Hanney and Drayton." Crossing the Ock at Abingdon, Ave can foUoAv the Kimmeridge clay to Radley and Bagley Wood. Of the fossils Awivonites biplex is rather common and beautifully preserved ; Ostrea deltoidea is A'ery abundant. The clay is dug at several places for brickmaking. (4.) Portland Sand. — There is a small outlier forming the hill on Avhich the village of Bourton is built ; it is Avell ex- posed in a large quarry there. The Cretaceous System. — This term is derived from the Latin ' creta ' chalk, Avhich is the best knoAvn and most con- spicuous member. (i.) The Loiver Greenland. — This is a bed of loose reddish sand, often full of pebbles and very variable in thickness. At Fernham and Great and Little CoxAvell it a.ssumes consider- able local importance, constituting the " sponge-gravels of Faringdon ; " here it is largely quarried for gravel, Avhich from its bright yelloAv hue is much sought after for Avalks and avenues. From Baulking eastward to the Thames it is not seen, being overlapped by the Gault, but there is an outlier north of Sunningwell Avhich forms a hilly tract ; it makes a light dry arable soil. DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 5 (2.) Tlie GmiJt. — This is a blue micaceous clay containing occasional nodules of limestone ; it runs as a band about one to two miles -wide betMecn Ashbury and Stainswick to Uifington, Avhere it turns due east and reaches through West Challow and Steventon to ^^'ittenham ; its upper boundary is well marked by a line of springs thrown out by the impermeable clay; forming a low plain at the foot of the chalk escarpment it is seldom exposed in sections, except in an occasional brick-pit ; its thickness is about 100 feet. (3.) The Upper Greensand or Chloritic Series. — From Wittenham Wood past Wallingford to Aston Tirrell the outcrop of this rock is not less than tive miles broad. P'ollowing it AvcstAvard through Hagborne, Didcot, East Hendred and Wantage it rapidly narrows, until at Childrey, Sparshot, Compton Jjeauchamp and Ashbury it only forms the slope of the escarpment of chalk, Avhich consequently becomes steeper as we follow it in this direction. Frequently the exact boundary is obscured by land.slips. As the name implies, the rock is usually full of greenish grains. At \^'oolstone it is 60 feet thick, but above 100 at D'dcot. (4.) I'/ie Oialk. — This is perhaps the best known rock in England — litliologically speaking ; it constitutes the central and most elevated portion of Berkshire. On the west the main mass spreads across from Ilungerford to Compton IJeauchamp, a distance of 12 miles. The strike, or direction, is here nearly east and west and continues so to the Thames. The dip is to the south-east at a very small angle, from one to three degrees only. In the south the chalk dips under the Tertiary beds of the valle}' of the Kennet, and rises up further south at a sharp angle along a line from Inkpen to Kingsclere; at Inki)en Beacon it attains an elevation of 1,011 feet, the highest point reached by the chalk in the south of England. Tlie total thickness in Ikrkshire of this great mass of white soft limestone is probably about 900 feet; the chalk was eminently a deep sea deposit, for when we examine it microscopically we find it to consist in large part of the tiny cliamt)ered shells of foraminifera, being very similar in composition, in fact, to tlie greyish-white ooze which numerous soundings have proved to form the tioor of the North Atlantic Ocean. The Lower Chalk has marly beds at tlie base about 80 feet thick, whfKse top is marked byahard bandcalledtlie Tniternhoe Stone. This lower division nvey bo seen in the (ireat \N estern railway cutting at W alhngfoni Road station. Above it we get about 400 feet of chalk without Hints, but containing marly partings which indicate the line of bedding : this division forms the compiratively low and tlat table-land Avhich extends from ^biul.sford and Stroalloy by Hlewbury and Chilton, narrowing greatly as it goes westwards. Fossils are not very numerous, but Ammonites laricrnsund Tnrrilites are characteristic. The top is formed by a hard cream- coloured band — the i'halk Rock — .some 8 or 10 feet thick, which from its siq)erior hardne.ss usually forms the top of tlie chief chalk escarpment. Thus, we can trace it all along the northern brow of llsiey Common and Cliildrey W arren ; the Ridge Way runs along the edge, and sections are exposed at Cuckliamslcy Knob, iVc. The Vjipt r ( halk is characterised by the presence of flints, which occur most frequently in small irregular lumps, but also in llat sheets. The origin of llints is still a vexed (pies- tion : many appear to have been formed by the ileposit of siliceous matter on and arountl organic botlies, as sponges; the llat tabular masses of Hint wouUl seem to have been deposited in the bedding-planes ]irobably after the consolida- tion of the rock. Such lines of Hint may be seen in the railway cutting near I'angbourn, and in the chalk-pits at Courage, north of Newbury, anil at Cookliam Dean, near (ji*eat Marlow. Fossils are of freipient occurrerce both in the Hint ami the chalk ; sea-urchins or Echimnh rms as J naUchi/tes and Jlicraster, abound, with sponges and such shells as Terrhmtii/ti itc. The main mass of the chalk pas.ses in Ik'rkshire as far east as Rcmenham, Wargi-ave and Maidenhead, but ^^'indsor Castle is built on an inlying boss, ]irobably elevated by some disturbance, of which there are also traces near (ireat Marlow. The scenery of the ('halk Downs is very marked. The beautifully smooth swelling curves are coveretl with a short dense herbage which atYords good pasturage for sheep and capital galloping grounds for horses. The higher part is. however, often covered with clayey deposits, as south of Ilsley, and then forms a .soil on which the beech grows well ; but as a rule the wide ojien nature of the country is always discernible. The valleys are often waterless, the rain being .soon ab.sorbed bv the porous soil. \Miite Horse Hill rises 893 feet above the level of the sea. Economically regarded, chalk is valuable as a dressnig for clay lands; much is also dug to burn into lime, and it forms an ingredient of Tort- land cement. Whiting is solely made from chalk, Kintbury being the seat of manufacture. The soft upper clialk is here ground into a pulp -with water and allowed to settle in tanks ; about 2,000 tons are made per annum ; it is mostly sent to Bristol by canal, and fetches about 8s. per ton. Chalk was formerly more used for building than at present, and Avhen carefully selected is well suited for inside work, being very easy to carve ; examples may be seen in Sonniiig and Tilehurst churches. The chalk-rock ati'ords a poor road- metal. Flints furnish an almost everlasting material for building ; they have been used with good effect, dressed into a cuboidal form, in the beautiful little church at Shottes- brook ; they are also ground up to use in the manufacture of glass and porcelain. The Eocene System. — A great break in the succession of the rocks intervenes here. In those now to be described, we Hud the remains of animals altogether different to those in the chalk, and we believe there was a great interval of time during Avhich either (i) no deposit was formed, the country being a land surface, or (2) deposits were formed Avhich were afterwards washed away — denuded oH — before a Tongh ferruginous browii clay. At about IG inches froMi the bottom there are oc- casional tiiittened con- cretionary nodules of I clay iron-stone, about ! thr- e inches thick, un- 1 iler a layerof scattered I flint pebbles (6) which ' are for tlie most part small and white. c Ferruginous brown sandy clay or clayey sandal>out four feet. rf B?ack clay ; very hard and homogene- ous, and splitting up when dry very uneven- ly with a sort of con- choid al fracture about three feet. / e A line of flint peb- bles. At the outcrop this bed forms a con- tinuous band of clay- ironstone, tour or live inches thick, with small imbedded flints. / Cri-ecnish loamy clay passing down- wards into more <^e- cided solid clay at the I (lerth of about three \ feet. I Junction of London Clay Rnd Woolwich and Reading Beds at j Kintbury Brickyard, north of Tebble Ilill. the rocks of which we now have to speak were laid down as sediment : perhaps both things happened. (i.) The l\cadinurv. Stations —\\o\ioY<\, Buckle- burv, Chicveley, Cireonham, Ilampstcad Norris, Ilamp- .stca'd Marshafl, Pcasemorc, Speenhamland, Stockcross, Thatcham, \\'oolhampton I Chief Superintendent <$■ Chief Clerk, ^\'illiam Grant, County I Police station Readim/ Division, William Grant, chief superintendent, Reading ; George Pocock, superintendent, Reading. Sta- tions— A\«s .— Chaddleworth, Charlton. Childrey, Denchworth, Eastburv, Farnboro', Haniiey East, Harwell, Hendred East, JlsleyEast, Lambourne, Lambourne Woodlands, Wantage IVallinciford Division, James Borlase, superintendent, Wallingford. .S7rr'argrave, ^^'okingham 8 BERKSHIEE. [kelly's ACTING lAGISTEATES FOR THE COUNTY. LORD LIEUTENANT & GUSTOS ROTULORUM EIGHT HON. THE EARL OF CEAVEN, Ashdown park, Lambourne. Abingdon the Eight Hon. the Earl of, Wytham abbey, Oxford Aldridge John, Inholmes, Woodlands St. Mary, Lambourne Allfrey Major Goodrich Hohiisdale, Wokefield pk. Mortimer, Eeading Arbuthnot Wilham esq. Coworth park, Old Windsor Barnett Charles George esq. King's Beeches, Stmninghill Barrett John Basil esq. Milton, Abingdon Barrington the Eight Hon. Viscount, Beckett ho. Shrivenhm Beale Wm. Lansdowne esq. Manor house, Waltham St. Lawrence, Eeading Bennett Daniel esq. Faringdon house, Faringdon Benyon Eichard esq. Engletield house, Eeading Best Head Pottinger esq. Donnington, Newbury Best Marmaduke Head esq. Donnington, Newbury Blagrave John Henry esq. Calcot park, Eeading Bland-Garland Thomas esq. Hillfields, Eeading Bowles John Samuel esq. Milton hill, Abingdon Bowyer Sir George bart. d.c.l. 13 King's Bench walk, Temple, London Bridges William Thomas esq. d.c.t.. Torwood, Torquay Bros Thomas esq. Springfield, Upper Clapton, London Browne Hutchinson Hothersall esq. Moor close, Binfield, Bracknell Bunbury Henry Mill esq. Marlstone house, Newbury Burdett Sir Francis bart, Eamsbury manor, Hungerford ; & Ancaster house, Eichmond, Surrey Burn-Blyth Eobert esq. Woolhampton house, Eeading Burr Danl. Higford Davall esq. Aldermaston pk. Eeading Butler William Joseph esq. Woolstone lodge. Faringdon Campbell Eobert esq. Buscot park, Lechlade Campbell William Henry esq. Buscot park, Lechlade Carington Lt.-Col. the Hon. W. H. Peregrine, Binfield, Old Windsor ChatterisWm.PoIlett Brown esq. Sandleford priory ,Newbury Cherry George Charles esq. Denford house, Hungerford Cobham Alexander Cobham esq. Shinfield grange, Eeading Cobham Alexander William esq. Leighton park, Eeading Collins the Eev John Ferdinando, Betterton, Wantage Conroy Sir John bart. Arbortield grange, Eeading Court Major Henry esq. c.s.i. Castlemans, near Twyford Craven the Earl of, Ashdown park, Lamborne Crutchley Gen. Charles, Sunninghill park, Staines Crutchley Percy EdAvard esq. Sunninghill park, Staines Dangan Viscount, Woodside cottage. Maidenhead Darby-Griffith Christopher esq. Padworth house, Eeading Denis de Vitre Henry esq. Charlton house. Wantage Donegal the Most Hon. the Marqiless of, Hampstead pk. Newbury Duffield Charles Philip esq. Marcham park, Abingdon Dundas William esq. The Elms, Faringdon Dunn Willam Hew esq. Ellcott house, Hungerford East Sir Gilbert Aug. Clayton bart. Hall place. Maidenhead Elliott Capt. George Henry, Farnboro' park, Farnboro' Eykyn Eoger esq. Gayton house, Northampton Eyre Charles esq. We'lford park, Newbury Eyre George Bramston esq. 73 Upper Berkeley st. London Ferard Charles Cotton esq. Ascot place, Staines Fitzmaurice Hon. James Terence r.n. Fernley, Maidenhead Folkestone Viscount m.p. 8 Ennismore gardens, London s.w Foster Edmund Benson esq. Clewer, Windsor FremantleLieut.-Col. Fitz Eoy Wm. Chuffs, Maidenhead Fuller-Maitland Thomas esq. Wargrave, Henley Garth Thomas Colleton esq. Haines hill, Twyford Gooch Sir Daniel bart m.p. Clewer park, Windsor Goodlake Thomas Leinster esq. Wadley house, Faringdon Graham William esq. Pewet, Abingdon Gray Col. William, Parley hall, Swallowfield, Eeading Greene Benjamin Buck esq. Midgham house, Eeading GreeuAvay Henry esq. 25 James street, Buckingham gte. sjo Grenfell Henry Eiversdale esq. Bacres, Henley-on-Thames Hamilton Edward WiUiam Terrick esq. Charters, Sunning- dale ! Hankey Sydney Alers esq. Heathlands, Wokingham I Harcourt Edward Wm. esq. m.p. Nuneham park, Abing^don Harcourt Aubrey esq. Nuneham park, Abingdon Hargreaves John esq. Maiden Erlegh, Eeading Hargreaves Capt. Thomas, Arborfiekl hall, Eeading Harvey Lt.-Col. George Sheppard, St. Helen's, Wokingham Haj' Col. the Hon. Charles Eowlej', Harewood lodge, Sunninghill Hayter Capt. Sir A. Divett bart. m.p. 8 Grosvenor sq. London Hedges John Kirby esq. The Castle, Wallingford Hercy Thomas Joseph esq. Cruchlield house, Bracknell Hibbert John esq. Bray W^ick lodge. Maidenhead Hill Lord Arthur William, Wakehurst place, Sussex Hippisley Capt. H. Nelson r.n. Army & Navy club, London Hippisley Henry esq. Lamborne place, Hungerford Honywood William esq. 52 Warwick square, Westminster Hopkins Eobert John esq. m.a. Tidmarsh manor, Eeading Hoskyns The Eev. Sir John Leigh bart. Aston Tirrold^ Wallingford Howard-Vyse Col. George Charles Ernest A. E. The Manor cottage. Old Windsor Hunter Sir Claudius Stephen Paul bart. Mortimer, Eeading Hunter Henry Lannoy esq. Beech hill, Eeading Ingham Sir James Taylor, Chief Magistrate, Bow street Jenkins John Blandy esq. Kingston Bagpuize, Abingdon Johnson Capt. William Victor, King's Mead, Windsor King William Charles esq. Warfield hall, Bracknell Knox Henry esq. Sonning grove, Eeading Kohler John David esq. Barton lodge, Windsor forest Lancaster Benjamin esq. i Princes gardens, Hyde park s.w Lane Lieut.-Col. John Henry Bagot, Lily hill, Bracknell Lefevre Et. Hon. George John Shaw m.p. Ascot wood, Staines- Le Marchant-Thomas Le Marchant esq. New lodge, Eyde„ Isle of Wight Lenthall Edmund KyflRn esq. Besselsleigh, Abingdon Leveson-Gower John esq. Bill hill, Wokingham Leveson-Gower John Edwd. esq. Finchamstead, "V\"okingham Lindsay Col. Hon. Charles Hugh c.b. Ardington house,. Wantage Littledale Charles Eichard esq. Scarlett's Twyford Loder-SymondsCapt. Fredk.Cleave,Hinton manor,Faringdon Loyd-Lindsay Col. Sir Eobert James, k.c.b.,v.c.,m.p. Lockmge park. Wantage Matthews Stephen esq. Speen house, near Newbury Michell Eev.Thomas Hungerford M.A.Bagshot ho.Hungerfordi Monck John Berkeley esq. Eeading Monck John Bligh esq. Coley park, Eeading Morlancl Edward esq. Ocklea, Abingdon Morland Edward Henry esq. West Ilsley, Newbury Morrell Charles esq. Burcote, near Abingdon Morrell George Herbert esq. Headington Hill hall, Oxford Morrell Hopewell Baker esq. Cae Mawr, Clyro, Eadnorshire Morshead Sir Warwick Charles bart. Forest lodge, Bintield, Bracknell Mount William George esq. W^asing place, Eeading Mowbray the Eight Hon. Sir John Eobert bart. m.p., P.O., D.C.I. Warrenne's wood, Mortimer, Eeading Murdoch Charles Townshend esq. Buckhurst, Wokingham Newdigate Lt.-Col. George, Beches, Wokingham Norreys Lord, Travellers' club, London Oliver John esq. Oxendon, Market Harborough Ormathwaite the Eight Hon. Lord, Warlield park, Bracknell Overstone the Eight Hon. Lord, 2 Carlton gardens s.w ; & Overstone park, Northampton Palk Hon. LaAvrence Hesketh, 3 John st. Berkeley st. London Palmer Lieut.-Gen. Sir Eoger William Henry bart. Glen Island, near Maidenhead Palmer Sir Charles James bart. Dorney court, Windsor Phillips John ShaAve esq. Culham house, Abingdon Pleydell-Bouverie Et. Hon. Edward p.c. 44 Wilton crescent, London s.w Pocock Isaac John Innes esq. Curtisfield, Maidenhead DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. 9 Ponsonby Capt. Hon. Ashley George John, Heatherfield, Ascot heath, Sunninghill, Staines Pym Rt. Ruthven esq. 35 Devonshire place, London w Radnor the Right Hon. the Earl of, Coleshill ho. Faringdon Reade Edward Anderdon esq. c.b. Ipsden house, Wallingford Reynolds Charles Wilham esq. Ramslade house, Bracknell Rhodes John William esq. Henerton, Henley-on-Thames Ricardo Francis esq. The Friary, Old Windsor Riley Major John, Elm house, Winkfield Robinson Rev. Francis Edward, Drayton vicarage, Abingdon Russell Lieut.-Col. Sir Charles bart. v.c.,m.p. SwalloAvtield park, Reading St. John Lieut.-Col. Edward John, Junior United Service club, London Sartoris Alfred esq. Abbotswood, Stow-on-the-W^old Saunders Frederick George esq. Caver sham grove, Reading Say Richard Hall esq. St. Ives, Maidenhead Slocock Charles Samuel esq. Donnington, Newbury Smith Arthur esq. The Grotto, Basildon Spencer the Hon. & Rev Charles Frederick Octavius, Sutton, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire Standi sh Rowland Edmund Walter Pery esq. Marwell hall, Owslebury, Winchester Stephens Major Charles, Woodlej^ hill, Reading Storer Major Anthony Morris, Purley park, Reading Taylor George Noble esq. The Mount, Sunninghill, Staines Theobald Theobald esq. Sutton Courtney, Abingdon Thompson Lt.-Gen. Arnold r.a. North town, Maidenheac" Thornhill Lieut.-Gen. Anthony Rt. Lavender farm, Bracknell Thoyts Major William Richard Mortimer, Sulhampstead house, Reading Throckmorton Sir Nicholas William George bart. Buckland house, Faringdon Toogood Octavius esq. 73 Cornwall gardens, London lo TuU Albert Richard esq. Crookam, Newbury Valpy Robert Harris esq. Enborne, Newbury Van de Weyer Lieut.-Col. Victor William Bates, Kingston- Lisle, near W'antage Vansittart George Henry esq. Bisham abbey, INIarlow Walter Arthur Eraser esq. North court, Finchamps.tead, Wokingham Walter John esq. m.p. Bearwood, Wokingham Wells Edward esq. Wallingford Wheble James Joseph esq. Bulmershe court, Reading Wiggett James Allan esq. Allanbay park, Binheld, Bracknell Wilder Frederick esq. Purley hall, Reading Willes George Shippen esq. Hungerford park Wintle Robert Wintle esq. 21 Warwick square, London s.iv Wroughton Philip esq. m.p. Woolley park. Wantage WynnH. B.W.Williams esq. Howberry, Wellingford Young Sir George bart. Sutton Croft, Cookham Young Adolphus Wilham esq. Harebatch, Reading Clerk of the Peace, John Thornhill Morland, Abingdon County Treasurer, John L. Roberts, Wokingham County Surveyor, Joseph Morris, Reading 10 ABINGDON. BERKSHIEE. [kelly's ABINGDON Abingdon is a parliamentary and municipal borough, a polling place for the county, market and union town and head of a county court district, in the hundred of Hornier, rural deanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and dio- cese of Oxford, 56 miles from London by road, 103I by the river and 59 by the Great AVcstern railway, -with which it is connected by a single line, about a mile and a half in extent, joining the main Oxford line at Kadley station, 25 miles north- west from Heading, 6 south from Oxford, 10 north-west from Wallingford and 21 north from Xewbury. The town of Abingdon is situated on the right bank of the Thames, at the confluence of the Ock, and consists of a spacious Market place at the east end of the town, from ■which several streets diverge to the north, south and west ; the last of these,High street, is much contracted at its western extremity, -where it gives olY tributary streets to the right and left and then expands into a smaller square, and the wide thoroughfare, called Ock street, extending to the western limit of the town. The name in legCTulary history is derived from Aben,a noble hermit, who is said to have l)uilt on this site a dwelling house and a chapel in honour of the Holy Virgin: jiccording to other writers, the town was originally called tSeovechesham or Scus/ia)ii,a.nd some identify it with Cioves/ioe, 41 place famous in the annals of English Church Councils, but it no doubt owes both its name and historical importance to its abbey, formerly one of the -wealthiest mitred abbeys in England : Seovechesham was at a very early period a royal residence, but was subsequently deserted by the Saxon kings, until Offa, king of the Mercians and West Saxons, while acci- dentally visiting the spot, was so charmed with the beauty of the Isle of Andersey, a district lying south-west of the town, and between the monastery and St. Helen's Church, that he prevailed on the monks to exchange it for the manor •of Goosey, and built for himself on the island a royal resi- dence, which was there maintained until Kenwulf, ids suc- cessor, resold Andersey to Abbot Uthemns for the manor of Sutton and £120 in silver; the site is now indicated by a large tract of land encircled by the Thames and a tributary inlet. William the Conqueror, in 10S4, kept his Easter at Abingdon, being splendidly entertained by his powerful adherent, Robert D'Oyley, to" -whose charge" he entrusted his younger son, afterwards Henry I. while receiving his education at this abbey. During the civil war Abingdon was garrisoned for the king, who, on 17th April, 1644, ar- rived here with the queen, attended by Prince Rupert and the Duke of York, and after holding a council of war, re- turned to Oxford; on the following day. May 25th, the Royalist general deserted the town, and the Earl of Essex, arriving with his troops, plundered it, and placed there a Par- liamentary garrison ; on the 31st of May, a new Parliamen- tary force under General Waller, which had been quartered at Wantage, entered the town and demolished the beautiful cross which then stood in the market place ; various at- tempts were made by the king's party during the years 1644-6 to recover the town, but in the main with "little success, and it eventually remained in the hands of the Parliament. Abingdtni increased much, both in popidation and wealth, by the building of Burford or Borford bridge, near the town, and another bridge at Culhamlord, about half a mile east of it, the erection of which has been attrilnited by some to Henry V. who, however, only granted his licence and pro- tection: of these Avorks, begun in 1416, John Houchons -md John Banbury -svere zealous promoters; and among the chief of those who contributed to the building and preservation of the bridges and intermediate road were Sir Peter Besils,of Besilsheigh ; Geoffrey Barbour, a merchant, and William Hales and Maud his wife, who, in 1453. added three arches to Burford bridge. In the reign of Queen Mary, Sir John Mason, a native of Abingdon, and Chancellor of" the University of Oxford, obtained for the town, in the year 1556, a charter of incorporation, under which it was governed bv a mayor, two bailiffs and 9 alderiuen. The corporate bodv^ acting also as the Urban Sanitary Authority, now consists" of the mayor, four aldermen and twelve councillors. Abingdon returned one member to a single parliament in 1337, and has contmued to return one since it was incorporated; among its representatives have been Sir Simon Harcourt and Sir Frederick Thesiger, afterwards Lord Chelmsford ; It IS divided into two parishes, St. Helen and St. Nicholas : the parliamentary borough, including, in addition, part of Sutton "\\'ick, in the parish of Sutton Courtney was ex- tended by the Boundary Act, 1868. The river is "crossed by a stone bridge of seven arches (connecting the town,by Cul- hamford bridge, Avith the parish of Culham, in Oxfordshire), -which bears marks of the attack made by General Ciage when the town -was held for the Parliament by Colonel Jirown ; a high and broad causeway, constructed in the iifteenth century by the munilicence of (reoffrey Barbour, con- nects the two bridges. At an early period of its history Abingdon possessed a Benedictine abbey of great wealth and high distinction, and of which the mitred abbot was sum- moned with the barons to i)arliament. Cina, father of King Ina, whose rule extended over Wiltshire and a large part of j Berkshire, is said to have founded it (a.d. 675) on a site des- I cribed in the abbey chronicle as a " table land surmounting I a rising ground of delightful aspect, in a retired spot, en- I closed within two most i)leasant streams." About a.d. 866-7i,the Danes overran the country, and coming to Abing- ; dnn, destroyed the monastery, leaving only the bare walls ; but on their extermination by Alfred, it was rebuilt, and sub- sequently, between a.d. 946-55, reconstructed under King Edred. On the arrival in England of William the Concpieror (a.d. 1066) Al)bot Aldred took the oath of allegiance to him, but was displaced, anil the abbacy bestowetl upon Ethelhelm, a Norman: at the general dissolution of the monasteries the ' abbey was surrendered to the king by the abbot, Thomas I Jiowland n.D. sometimes written and called " Rowland Ponticost," and 2.5 monks, under the common seal of the convent, on the 29th May, 1537, the value of the yearly re- j vctme being returned asj|^i,876 los. 9d. while the abbot him- self was alloweil to retain the manor of Ciiinnor, with an animal i)ension of £200 : the site of the church has been swept \ bare ; the early minster of St. Mary, 120 feet long, with east and west ap.ses, was only attended for ma.ss on Sundays by a little community of 13, who occupied separate cells provided with chapels, within a jjrccinct wall ; the later church was 434 feet long, with a Perpendicular nave, Avestern and central lowers : the existing remains comprise the Perpendicular gate-house, a vaulted structure, adjacent to the church of St. Nicholas, with central and side arches, and rooms above occupied by the corporation, and .some other buildings situated eastward of it, on the backwater of the Thames, now occupied as a brewery, but readily accessible and principally consisting of a long building, with walls of great thickness, and massive buttresses, at one end of which a Hight of wooden steps, with a timc-M'orn balustrade, gives access to several apartments with lofty open timbered roofs, and con- nected by a corridor running along the north side; the room at the west end contains a line Early English lire-])lace, wit!\ graceful shafts and foliated capitals ; and the doorway is Hanked on either side by good tracerie 1 Avindows ; under- neath is a spacious vaulted crypt, now used for storing ale: the Avindows facing the river are in good preservation, and from a lane between the brewery and the abbey gateway a ' very picturescpie view is ol)tained : Henry I.(Reauclerc) Avas : a student here, and Egelwyn, Bishop of Durham, died Avhile I imprisoned in the abbey in 107 1. St. Helen's church, situated close to the river, south- i west of the town, is a spacious edilice, chielly in the Perpen- dicular style, consisting of live parallel ai.sles of unequal ' length and breadth, tower and spire on the north-east, Avith a porch in the lower stage, A-estry on the south-east, and a small chapel or chantry Avest of the tower : the church was completely restored in 1873, under the direction of Mr.Wood- yer, Avhen the high peAvs and cumbrous galleries Avere removed, the nave and chancel roof renewed in open timber Avork and considerably heightened : the chancel Avas also neAvly enclosed by a stone screen on the north side, and se- parated from the nave by a lofty and elaborate Avood screen of oak : the north aisle has a timber ceiling, richly painted Avitli figures of kings, prophets and saints, and is tradition- ally said to have been moved hither on the dissolution oi the abbey: the south aisles, one of Avhich Avas built in 1539, I for the use of a guild, are rather later, but of the same character as is the .south porch, Avhich has a good doorAvay ' and niches : the toAver is Early English, and has a plain ! parapet with crocketed angle turrets, from Avithin Avhich i Hying buttresses support a tall octagonal spire: it contains a peal of 8 bells, remarkable for their exceedinij sAveetness of tone : the east and Avest AvindoAvs, both of Avhich are ncAv, have been filled Avith stained glass ; the former as a memorial to the late Thomas Hyde esq. and the latter in memory of his son, the late John Hyde esq. and there is a third on the .south side of the church, erected by suKscription to the late George BoAAes Morland esq.: in the north aisle, beneath a feathered arch, is the altar tomb of John Roysse (i57i),the founder of the Grammar School ; the upper slab, brought by his direc- DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. ABINGDON. 11 tion from his garden in London, served, until -within the hist few years, as a table, from Avhich bread was distributed every Sunday, in accordance with his will, to 12 poor per- sons ; it now bears the shield of arms — gules, a griffin sejeant — with crest and mantling, formerly placed above it ; and also an inscribed brass plate, affixed, on the restoration of the tomb, by the jjast and present scholars, in 1873: in the north aisle is a huge monument, by Ilickey, with por- trait figures and busts, erected pursuant to the will of Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins, ob. 1780, and conunenvjrating the deceased, her relatives, and the Rev. \N'alter Hart, vice- principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, who died in 1768, on the eve of their intended marriage ; here also is a monument in- scribed to iiichard Curtaine, gent. " a jirincipall magistrate of this Corporation," 1643 ; and at the foot of this memorial a brass, M ithii: a large slab of Carn stone, to Galfridus ((ieoflrey) harbur, 1417, with his effigy in the attitude of prayer ; he was the town's chief benefactor, and his remams removed from the abbey on its dissolution, Avere re-interred in this church ; at the east end of the south aisle is a por- trait, on panel, of Mr. \N illiam Lee, five times mayor of Abingdon, who died in 1637, aged 92; accompanying the portrait is a genealogical chart, and an inscription, stating that he had in his lifetime issue from his loins two hundred, lacking but three ; the (jrgan, enclosed in a ])anelled case of carved oak, displays a (puiint figure of David, carved in wood, with gilded harp and cnnvn : the font of while marble, was executed l)y Mr. H. P. rcyman.of Abingdon, and shewn in the Great Exhibition of 1851 : in 1644-5, ^'^^ P^'** liamcnlary army, under (Tcncral ^^■a^ler, while quarleretl here, used thi; north aisle as a stable; among the vicars may be mentioned Ethelmarus (»r Aymcr de \'alence, half- l)rother to Henry Land afterwards Ihshop of Winchester : there are 925 sittiiigs,of which 200 arc free. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value /^38o, with the sinecure rectory of St. Nicholas, value ^27, in the gift of the Ihshop ji Oxf<»rd and held since 1878 by the Kev. William ("obliam (iilib.s m.a. of Jesus Collage, Cambridge; a lectureship, foundeil by i{icluird Kigglesworth in 1647, provides a Friday evening .service for St. Helen's <'hurch during the winter, and a Friday evening service for Marcham churcli during the sunuuer months ; a vicarage Intuso f(»r the pari.sh of St. Helen has been erected ui>on a healthy sHc on the north side of All)ert I'ark. The duirch of St. Nicholas, situated on the north side of the market place, adjoining the abbey gateway, was built, according to Dugdale, by Nicholas de Coleham or Culham, prior, and afterwards abbot (jf Abingdon, bet ween the ye irs 1289 & 1307, although jtortions itf tlie west front seem to in- dicate an earlier origin, i>erhaps during the jteriod 1200-20; lra<-cs of the ir\\)\v lancet window, which originally litrhted t\w west front, are still visil>le, as well as of other similar w indows in the north wall ; and it may therefore be concluded that the building existeil at least 60 ye^irs Ivfore the abl)cy of De ('olehum : the church is a small structure, consisting only of chancel and nave, a small chantry, org.ui chamber iuui vestry on the north, and a western batf len>ente«l tower, <'ontaining 6 bells, cast in October 1741, by Al)e Hudhall, who receiveil ft>r the work the five old bells and claj>pers, valued i\{ £141 ICS. 4.\il. i\iu\ £jo IS. lod. in cash: the tower is built j)artly up(»n iho west wall, ami is otherwise supporteil fr<»m within the church by two stone jiiers or legs, standinir dear of the walls attached to it ; on the north side is a singular square stjur turret, w ith a gabled roof and a small triangular window : the Avest doorway, with its lateral arcading, is a good example of late Norman work, but the rest of the churt-h, as now existing, is chielly Perf»cndii-ular : during the year 1881 the church underwent a thonnigh restoration at the hands of Mr. Edwni I>olb\-, architect of Abingdon, in course of which the nave ro if was entirely renewed in lOnglish oak, and a panelled and embattled parapet, with numerous carved shields, indifTerently executed, Avas iujposed upon the north Avail; the floor Avas al.so relaid with small blocks, tiles and disturbed gravestones ; the old i)u'pit relixed and the chancel and nave relittetl in oak : the heraldic glass, Avith Avhich the east and other Avindows Avere )»reviously iilled, ini-luding a shield of arms of Hi<-hard Plantagcnet, Puke of York, Avas Avholly removed and .sold ; of this some jnay still be seen in the Avindows of Paston Farm, and <>ther portions at the Abbey Hou.se, the residence of K. .1. Trendell es(|. Avho has refilled the east Avindow Avith 15risto| glass, and one lancet Avindow has also l)een renewed in memory of the late Mr. Henry Yeates, of Abinifdon : the reredos, given l>y the rector, is of carveel, the first fi>undation of Avhich Avas in 1640, but it^ registei-s arc not earlier than 1764: it has sittings for 800. The Congregational chai>el, in the Square, rebuilt some rears since in the Italian style, has records from 1780: it will hold 800. There is also a chapel for Particular Paptists in Abl)ev street ; and one for Plymouth Prethren in the Vineyard. Tlie Primitive Methodists have a chapel in Spring road Avith seats for 150. i The Cemetery in the Spring road consists of about six acres of land "prettily laid out and planted; Avith tAvo uiortuary chai>cls of 'stone, in the Decorated style, and curator's residence. The Free Granunar school Avas founded in 1563 by John I Roysse, citizen and mercer of Lond{)n, then in the 63rd year of ins age for the education of 63 Iwys, natives of Abingdon ; an ushershii> Avas subsequently founded by Thos. Teasdale, of Fit/.harn's Farm in Abingdtin and afterAvards of (Jlympton, Oxon, Avho Avas the first scholar admitted by the founder, and at his death he bequeathed a sum of /5,ooo for the : njaintenance of 7 Felh»ws and 6 scholars in the University of Oxford; William Pennett, also a former scholar and i Teasdale's ne'phew. left lands in Wiltshire for the e lucation I (»f 6 jioor boys at the .sch(»ol, and these l)enefacl ions Avere ! au!rmentcd bv the lilierality of Robert OrpAVood, John 1 Kent in 1604, "John Placknall in 1625 and Richard Wright- Avick. rector I'f East Hsley, Perks ; the united benefactions ' of Teasdale and \N right"wick, first otTered to and dixdined ; by Palliol, Avere sub.sequcntly applied, under letters ]>atent of j James L dated 29 June, 1624, to the reconstitution of the ancient hall of Proadgates, (^xfctrd, into a college, by the ! name of " Pembroke ('ollege," from the Earl, at that tinu^ Chancell<»r of the I'niversity ; the fellowships have for some ! time been abolished, and the scholarships, fixed by the i Oxford Cniversity Act of 1854 at 5 in number, Avith a yearly i value of ;^5o each, are noAV consolidatencil Chamber, a long and somewhat narrow, but si)acious hall, i)anelle(l all round Avith rich dark oak and entered by a tall ])edi- mented doorway, adorned Avith massive foliated carving: the ceiling is fiat and ornamented in stucco, and the floor has recently been laid doAvn in parqueterie at considerable ' cost: a series of recessed Avindows lights both sides and on the walls are hung portraits of (ieorge IIL and Queen ! Charlotte, painted by Gainsborough in 1794; Charles IL Jaines IL Richard Mayott firsthand 3 times Mayor of; Abingdon, 1556; John Roysse, founder of the Grammar! School, 1563; Simon, Baron Harcourt, Lord Chancellor and ' formerly representatiA-e in Parliament for Abingdon, oh. 1727 ; Charles Abbott, tirst Lord Colchester, born at Abing- ■ don in 1757, and Speaker of the House of Commons, presented in 1859 the Rev. Herbert Randolph of Marcham ; Sir Fredk. Thesiger, firstBaron Chelmsford, Lord Chancellor and formei'ly M.p f(^r this borough, oh. 1859; Montague Bertie, Earl of Abingdon and High StCAvard of the borough and Ad- miral Sir Geo. Bowyer bart. presented by his grandson, the present Sir Geo. BoAvyer bart. Oct 6th 1870 ; there is also a very tine painting of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian by Van- dyke and a portrait group by Hen. J. Brooks, of Abingdon, of the Corporation of Abingdon in 1877-8 ; at the Avest end is a noble pier glass, presented by the Earl of Abingdon, High SteAvard in 1823, during the mayoral tv of James Cole esq. and adorned Avith the arms and coronet of the donor : adjommg is a smaller council chamber Avith other rooms, and m the basement beloAv there are kitchens : immediately adjoining these buildings on the south is the old school- room, noAv used as the headquarters of the Abini?don company of Berks A'olunteer rifles ; it is a long room, panelled on either side to a considerable height, and' lighted by plain square AvindoAvs above the panelling ; the Avhole north end is also panelled and at the south end is a balus- traded gallery ; a cj^or on the east side opens into the old dining hall, noAv serving as an armoury, and another at the north end leads to the porch, over which is inscribed the invitation, " Ingredere ut proficias " ; the other sides of the ([uadrangle are occupied by the former head master's resi- dence and the houses in Bridge street, between Avhich and the municipal buildings is the old school gatcAvay ; this is built of stone, and Avas erected by the Earl of Abingdon in 181 1 ; it consists of a single depressed arch, flanked by small scpiare battlemented turrets, decorated Avith niches containing demi-ligures on pedestals and surmounted by an elongated pediment Avith linial ; the space above the arcli bears the arms of the founder, Avith those of Lord Abingdon and the toAvn and several inscriptions, and is finished by a string course and a (piatrefoiled parapet. The Corporation plate includes 2 silver maces of the reigns of James L and Charles L and one of a more ancient date, and the great mace of silver gilt also of the reign of Charles L : the Mayor's chain originated Avith toe gift in 1879 of an elaborately Avorked gold badge, bearing the arms of the town, by J. C. Clarke est], m.v. for Abingdon since 1874, together Avith a link representing his year of otbce ; other ex-mayors have since made similar additions, and the chain is noAV an exceedingly handsome and valuable otlicial symbol, consisting of a series of links alternating AvitU shields liearing the arms and names of the donors, pendent from Avhich is the badge enclosing the Borough Arms in coloured enamel, surrounded l)y municijial emblems in gold, and surmounted by the shield of the donor : the Corporation also possesses a magniticent gold vase, ])resented, October 6, 1870, by Sir (ieorixe Bowyer bart. d.l., .i.p., D.c.r.. : itoccuj)ies the site of the ancient and famous cross, erected jjrobably in the reign of Henry \1. by tlu^ fraternity of the Holy Cros.s "as a monument of their name," repaired in 1605, and destroyed by the troops of General \\aller, May 31, 1644, during the occupation of the toAvn by the Parliamentary army ; it Avas then the greatest ornament of the ))lace, and is descrilied by l^ichard Symonds, an oHicer in the King's army, Avho had (piitted the to\Mi only a fcAV days before its demo- lition, as an octagonal structure, surrounded Avith figures of kings, saints and apostles and projihets, in three stages and adorned Avith escutcheons of arms and heraldic metal vanes' ; a view of the Cross, Avhich ser\ ed as a model f(»r the still more sumptuous one at Coventry, may be seen among the ]>aintings on the river-side gable of Christ's Hospital in Abingdon. The County Hall is a spacious and remarkable building, of ashlar anridge street, erected in 181 r, at an expense of ^35,000, was sold on the transference of the assizes to Readinir to J. C. (Clarke esq. M.p. and is now in the occupation of Mr. Chas. Woodbridge, jun. : all jtrisoners are now sent to H.^^ prisons at Jteading and Oxford ; by an Order in Council, dated September 14th 1868, it Avas directed that the assizes and quarter sessions should be held at Reading ; the petty sessions for the divi- sion are still held at Abingdon. The Drainage Avorks and farm, erected and laid out in 1S77, are situated some di.stance sf)Uth of the tOAvn ; and include a pumjnng station and adjacent offices ; the drainage scheme Avas carried out in 1877-78, under the direction of Mr. Bailey Denton, at a co.st of nearly ^30,000, anti Avater AVorks have since been completed at a further outlay of £<^,ooo: to the excellent system of drainage and the suppiv of water furnished by gravitation from Boar's Hill may be attributed the very Ioav death rate in Abingdon, viz: from 12 to 14 per 1,000: the seAvage farm is let to Mr. Pritchard, at £4, los. per acre yearly : the seAvage being- raised and delivered on to the farm at the cost of the toAvn. The Borough Police Station is of local stone Avith Bath stone dressings, built a feAV years since, on tlie south-east side of the Abbey gateway: 'the local force consists of a super- intendent, I .'^erjeant and 4 men. Christ's Hospital, situated ()n the west side of St. Helen's churchyard, dates its present foundation from a charter granted by EdAvard VL May 18, 1553, to Sir J(.hn Mason, of Abingdon and others, be.stoAving upon the founders the lands belonging to the dissolved fraternity of the H(»ly Cross, established in or before the time of Richard IL tofrcther Avith other prf>pcrty, then of the total value of ^65 us. lotl. DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. ABINGDON. 13 condition that tiie body thus incorporated should main- tain the four bridges over the Ock and Thames, with their causeways, furnish a home and food for 14 poor persons and devote their surplus funds to other works of charity : the statutes formed by Sir John Mason, the first master, re- mained in force exactly 300 years : in 1859, by a new scheme | jipprovetl by the Court (jf Chancery, the number of the alms- ]jeople was increased to 36, with tw(j nurses and 18 additional liouses built and endowed : the original buildings consisted of a long range of dwellings with an open timber cloister extending along the whole front ; in the centre is a jianelled liall, used for daily prayers, above which rises a quaint tlomed hmtern, surmounted by a large vane: the hall contains a j)icture of the building of Abingdon bridge, given by p>ancis Little, one of the governors in 1607, portraits of Edward VI. Sir John Mason, John Koysse, founder of the grammar school and other benefactors; the original charter of the hospital is also preserved here, and there is a fine oak table, with curiou.sly-carved legs: over the central porch and on the gables are curious paintings, representing the giving of alms, the (rood Samaritan and other scripture subjects, as weU as a portrait of Edward VI.: and tlie cloister walls are inscribed with various texts : on the south side of tiie church- yard are six almshouses of brick, with open arcades, rebuilt from the funds of the hospital in 1797; the almspeople re- ceive 8s. any Leiand to have been founded by one of the abbots ; in ' i8or it was removed by the corporation to new buildings situatcvl in the vineyard ; theeral contribntuil«lings. Twitty's hospital, situate on the north side of the church- yard, was erected in 1707 from a sum of jTi.yoo given by Charles Twitty, and further endowed with ^6oo in 1S25 by E. Ueasley, J. 15edw(>ll, Samuel Cripps and many otlier I ilonors, for the maintenance of three n>en, three women and one nurse ; it is under the management of the vicar aiul churchwardens and the inmates receive about 4s. each weekly and clothing. In 1823 V. Klein bequeathed /Jr.ooo for the poor of Abing- vlon, now producing ,^30 19s. 6(1. yearly, which is distributed in mon(>y ; there are other charities amounting to ;^427 17s. yearly for distribution in money and kind and £112 for apprenticing. i?eside the above charities there are almshou.ses in Ock street, built by the late H. Tomkins esq. for ten persons who ure Dissenters ; these houses are built of brick and form three sides of an elongated quadrangle (ijienin:; to the streets by iron gates, and are endoweil with land and money invested in New ^^3 I'cr Cents, producing /173 9s. 3d. Oflacial Establishments, POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE Savings Hank & (lovernment Annuity A- Insurance Oftices, Market place. Postimasti r — James Smith. l?ox closes 10.10 "a.m. for Oxford; 11. 10 a.m. for London & | Reading ; 1.55 p.m. for London : 3.30 ]i.m. for Oxford ; 4 1 p.m. for London ; 6 p.m. for North of ?higlan,-. West St. Helen street Evans George, hair dresser, West St. Helen street Evans Robert, cabinet maker, upholsterer, paperhanger, picture frame maker & general house furnisher & under- taker. High street it Stert street Farley Sarah Matilda (Miss), dress maker, Lombard street Faulkner Daniel, butcher, & ]'ine. West St. Helen street Faulkner Harriet (Mrs.), Red Coiv, Bath street Faulkner James, butcher, I?ath street Faulkner Thomas, butcher, corn, coal, hay, straw & potato factor, & Bear inn, Stert street & Railway station yard Ferriman George, tobacconist, Bridge street, & refreshment I'ooms, Railway station Field Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodging house, Victoria road Fisher Caroline (Mrs.), Duke William, Ock street Fisher f^mma (Mrs.), dress maker, Stert street Fisher John, boot maker, Stert street Fisher Samuel, tailor, Stert street Fisher ^^■illiam, shopkeeper. Vineyard P'letcher Susan (Mrs.), dress maker, Radley read Franklin Edwin, beer retailer. Market place Franzowitz P'ritz, professor of languages, East St. Helen st Free Grammar School (Rev. Edgar Summers B D. head master ; John Howard Deazeley m.a. Ernest W. Floyd 15.A. Rev. J. G. Carter m.a. & William Clarkson Birch m.a. assistant masters ; V. H. Veley b.a., f.c.s. lecturer in science), Albert park Freeborn Hester (Mrs.), lodging house, Ock street Fruin William Joseph, relieving officer, ist district, North ct Fulker Albert Edwin, bookseller. Market place & Stert street Gardiner Samuel, boot k shoe maker, 7 Ock street Gardner Daniel, boot maker, Ock street Gardner George, shoe maker, Ock street Gardner Henry, boot maker, West St. Helen street Gardner Tliomas, White Horse, Ock street Gerring William, insurance agent k clerk to St. Nichola;?, Vineyard Gibbens Annie (Miss), straw bonnet maker. Vineyard 18 ABINGDON. BERKSHIRE. [kellys Gibbens John, Three Tuns, k pork butcher, Bath street Gibbens Joseph, saddler. Broad street Gilbert Helen Mary (Miss), school. East St. Helen street Gillettife Co. bankers (Lamplugh Hird Fawcett, manager), The Square ; draw on Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co. London Girling Chai'les, shoe maker. Broad street Glanville William, watch maker, Market place GoddardRose J.(Mrs.), Croivn^- Thistle commercial ^-family hotel ($■ county fostincj house, Bridge street Godfrey Edward Crotch, solicitor. West St. Helen street Goldsmith John Jackson, chemist & druggist. High street Gosset George m.a., m.b. surgeon & union medical officer. No. I district, Bath street Graham & Sons, solicitors. East St. Helen street Graham Robert Philip, solicitor (firm, Graham & Sons), East St. Helen street Graham Thomas Edmund, solicitor (firm, Graham & Sons), East St. Helen street Green Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer, Ock street Green Ann (Mrs.), dress maker, Ock street Green Eliza (Miss), dress maker, Ock street Greenaway Walter, baker. West St. Helen street Grigg Joseph W. & Co. drapers. High street Grigg John, plumber, ii Stert street Hall & Co. maltsters, Winsmoor lane Harber John, Three Pigeons, Lombard street Harding Ehzabeth (Mrs.), dairy. East St. Helen street Harding Margaret (Miss), ladies' school, Spring terrace Harker Richard, musicial instrument dealer, Stert street Harper Arthur, baker, Ock street Harper Tom, pastrycook, confectioner & fancy baker. Market place Harris George, boot maker & furniture dealer, Ock street Harris Hannah (Mrs.), clothier, 5 High street Hays Albert, butcher. West St. Helen street Hedger Peter, superintendent of county police & inspector of weights & measures. Bridge street Hedges William, linen draper, see Badcock Wm. &. Hedges Hicks Charles, cabinet maker. Vineyard Hinks Joseph, Red Lion, Vineyard Holland Sophy (Mrs.), Hare ^ Hounds, Thames street Holton Richard, newsagent, Lombard street Honey Eliza (Mrs.), baker, Stert street Hook Israel, wood dealer, Bridge street Howdown Richard, shopkeeper. West St. Helen street Plowes Robert, plumber, Ock street Hughes Henry Huggett, bookseller. Market place Humphries Agnes & Edith (Misses), dress makers, St. Helen's wharf Humphries Joseph, beer retailer. Vineyard Hunt Charles, carpenter & joiner, builder, undertaker, wheelwright & contractor, Ock st. ; residence, Victoria rd Industrial Co-opei^ative Society (Sidney French, manager), West St. Helen street Inland Revenue Office (John Fawcus Dobson, supervisor). Railway Station yard Ivey George, baker, Lombard street Jeff eries Robert Ernest, yeast dealer, Stert street Johnson George Frederick, baker, Bath street Johnson James Lacey, linen draper. Market place & Stert st Jones Edward John, hair dresser, Bath street Jones M. (Mrs.), first-class boarding school for young ladies & Kindergarten, Havenhope school, Ock street Keates Henry, carpenter. West St. Helen street Kendall Thomas Benger, currier, Ock street Kennedy William Law, draper & milUner, 38 High street Kent John, general carrier, furniture remover & storer & goods & cartage agent to Great Western Railway Company, Ock street ; & at Faringdon & Shrivenham Kerry Mary (Mrs.), confectioner. Market place Kimber James, baker, Bath street Kimber Wilham, confectioner, Ock street King & Adkin, auctioneers, valuers, surveyors & land agents, 14 High street ; & at Wantage King George John, builder, West St. Helen street King Thomas, sugar boiler, Ock street Kirkpatrick Ivone James, grocer. East St. Helen street Knight Brothers, boot & shoe makers, Market place Knight Harriet (Mrs.), boot & shoe maker, High street Land, Loan ^ Enfranchisement Co. Great George street, Westminster, London s.w. (John Thornhill Morland, sole agent for Berks), Bath street Langford George, fancy repository, Ock street Lawrence John, chimney sweeper. Vineyard Lay George Alfred, Bittchcrs' Arms, Stert street Leach Charles, shopkeeper, Ock street Legg & Co. butchers & rope & twine manufacturers, Ock st Legg William, shopkeeper, Bridge street Leonard James, plumber, Ock street Leverett Joseph, baker, Ock street Lewis James Charles, boot maker, Bath street Liberal Hall (Joseph Argyle, hall keeper), Ock street Lock Joseph, stone mason. East St. Helen street London Sf County Banking Co. Limited {branch of) (Henr}- D'Almaine, man.). Market f)l. ; draw on chief office, London Loosley Henry, baker, Stert street Lowder Emma (Mrs.), greengrocer. Bridge street Lyford Belinda Sarah (Mrs.), china & glass wareho. Bath st Maltby Arthur Sidney, boot maker. Market place Martin Paulin, surgeon & public vaccinator, No. i district, Ock street Merry Albert James, superintendent of Prudential Insurance Companj^ Limited, 2 Exbourne terrace Mobbs George William, insurance agent Morland & Co. brewers, maltsters & Avine & spirit merchants f William Anderson, manager). The Brewery, Ock street ; & stores. The Abbey Morland John Thornhill, solicitor, clerk of the peace for the count of Berks ; clerk & receiver of Christ's hospital, Ab- ingdon ; clerk to the Moulsford (Berks, Reading & New- bury) lunatic asylum ; steward of the copyhold of the manors of Harwell & Blewbury ; commissioner for oaths & perpetiial commissioner for taking acknowledgments of married women for Berks & Oxon, Bath street Morrell James (trustees of), maltster, Bath street Morrison William Henry, Queen\s hotel, Market place Moss Alfred, hair dresser. West St. Helen street Moulden Caroline (Mrs.), laundress, Spring road Mudd Edward, inspector of nuisances to the rural sanitary authoritj% Spring street Mulcock Henry Joseph, plumber. Vineyard Mulcock Thomas, Plough, Stert street North John, pork butcher, Ock street Parsons Alfred Avery, grocer. High street Partridge Jesse, Broad Face, Bridge street Paul James Nairne, watch maker, Ock street Paxman Elijah & Sons, grocers. Market place Payne Edwin, miller (steam & water), St. Helen's & Ock mills Payne George Septimus, watch maker, jeweller & silver- smith. High street ; & at Wallingford & Tunbridge Wells Payton Alfred, boot maker. East St. Helen street Pemberton William, coal merchant. East St. Helen street Peters George, photographer, East St. Helen street Petty Charles Archer, dispenser to Christ's hospital dispen- sary. West St. Helen street Peyman Clara (Mrs.), stone mason, Ock street Phipps Albert Thomas, Star tavern, Market place Pickett George Jam^^s, watch maker, Bath street Pitt John Frederick, medical botanist, Lombard street Plowman George, Eagle, Market place ; & fruiterer, Stert st Plowman Harry, Black Swan, Bath street Plowman Joseph, Anchor, St. Helen's wharf Plowman Thomas, butcher & carrier, Ock street Pocock Stephen, shopkeeper. West St. Helen st Porter James, saddler & harness maker, Stert street Preston Alfred Prince, chemist, Bath street Preston Arthur E. chartered accountant ; secretary to Abing- don Cafe Co. Lim. & Queen's Hotel Co. Lim. ; collector of assessed taxes & of borough rates ; assistant overseer for parishes of S. Helen k S. Nicholas, Abingdon, Steventon, "V^'ytham, North Hinksey & Culham, High street Prior Jesse, shopkeeper. Abbey street Pritchard k Son, nurserymen, florists, seed merchants k growers, Lady Grove nurseries Probetts George, carpet slipper maker, Ock street Prudential Insurance Company Limited (Alfred James Merry, superintendent), 2 Exbourne terrace Pryce Charles Alfred (firm, Sedgefield & Pryce), solicitor Bath street Purten William, boot maker, West St. Helen street Radbourn Thomas, fishmonger. The Square Rant George & Co. grocers, Ock street Ridge William, grocer. West St. Helen st Roberts Ammon Felix (exors. of), bakers, Spring road Robotham Oliver, superintendent of borough police & in- spector under the Explosive Acts, Borough Police station Rogers John Thomas, berlin wool repository, & lamp dealer & oilman, Stert street Rogers Mary Ellen (Mrs.), painter. East St. Helen street Salisbury & Emerton, wheelwrights. Abbey street Savings Bank (Charles Glanville, actuary), Stert street Saxby & Co. ale & porter brewers, Stert street Schofield William, sewing machine agent, Lombard street Scrivener Lucy (Mrs.), dress maker, Bath street Scare Albert John, watch k clock maker, West St. Helen st Sedgefield & Pryce, solicitors, Bath street DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. ALDERMASTON. J 9 Sedgefield Walter James (firm, Sedgefield & Pryce), solicitor & registrar of county court & clerk to borough magistrates, Bath street Sharpe Thomas Richard, corn miller (water). Abbey mills Shaw James, county court bailiff, Oxford road Shepherd E. L. ironmonger. High street & Lombard street Shepherd George F. cocoa matting manufactr. Thames wharf Sherman Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper. Bury street Short G-eorge & Son, carpenters, Bath street Short James, Britannia, West St. Helen street Silvester Charles, beer retailer, Vineyard Simmonds James, shopkeeper. Vineyard Simmons Arthur, cabinet maker. Bridge street Simpson Alfred H. & Co. Avoollen drapers, tailors, clothiers & general outfitters, Market place & Bridge street Simpson Eleanor (Mrs.) , Cross Keys, Ock street Simpson Tom Smith, grocer & registrar of births & deaths & vaccination officer for Abingdon sub-district, Ock street Slatter Samuel, Holly Bush, Ock street Smart Lucy (Mrs.), shoemaker, Ock street Smith Abel, The Horns, Ock street Smith Isaac, dairyman, Vinej^ard Smith James, stationer, & post office. Market place Smith Maria (Mrs.), refreshment rooms. The Square Smith Thomas, academj^, Bath street Smith William, pharmaceutical chemist. High street Smith William John, Old Bell, East St, Helen street Smuin Daniel, beer retailer. Vineyard Spear Henry, carpenter. Broad street Spier Charles, Bee Hive, Stert street Squire A^'illiam, Old Wheat Sheaf, & provision dealer, West St. Helen street Stamp Office (James Smith, distributor). Market place Stanmore Anthony, tailor. West St, Helen street Steane Caleb, gingerbeer maker, Thames street Stevens James, boat, punt & canoe builder ; boats let on hire, St, Helen's wharf & Abingdon bridge Stimpson William, beer retailer. Bury street Stokes James, furniture dealer, Stert street Stone Rd. tailor & collector of assessed taxes, East St. Helen st Stone William, wheelwright, St, Helen's wharf Stroud Charles & Daniel, plumbers, Stert street Tarry Shadrach, butcher, 5 Ock street Tayler William, basket maker, Bath street Taylor William, baker, St. John's terrace Thatcher George, builder, contractor, carpenter & joiner & building material dealer, Stert street Thomas James, cabinet maker & hair dresser. High street Thomas William, maltster. Vineyard Thorpe Shadrach, shoe maker. Bury street Tomkins Mary Ann (Mrs.), boot & shoe maker, Bath street Town Hall Council Chambers (Alra. Miles, hall kpr.). Abbey Townsend Thomas & John Matthew, brewers & maltsters, corn factors & hop & coal merchants, Ock street Townsend Edwin, shopkeeper. Vineyard Townsend James, Nelson, East St. Helen street Trafford Eliza (Mrs.), & William Harper, hnen & woollen drapers, hosiers, haberdashers, mantle & carpet warehouse & funeral furnishers. The Square ALDERMASTON is a pleasant village and parish on the Hants border, with station on the Hungerford and Devizes branch of the Great Western railway, 46 miles by rail and 49 by road from London, 10 south-west from Reading, 9 south- east from Newbury, in the hundred of Theale, union of Brad- field, county court district of Newbury, rural deanery of Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford : in Domesday this place 'is given as " iEldremanestone " and " Heldremanestune." The church of St. Mary is an ancient structure standing in the park of Aldermaston Court, and consists of chancel, nave, south chapel and a western tower, Avith spire, containing 5 bells and a clock : the east window of the chancel is Early English, having three lancets under one arch ; most of the' other windows are Decorated ; in the south chapel is a Transition Norman arch and a Decorated piscina ; the tower is of the same period,with a Norman door- way built in at the west end : the pulpit is of finely carved oak ; in the chancel is an altar-tomb of alabaster ,Avith recum- bent figures of Sir George Forster, who died in 1526, and liis wife Elizabeth, heiress of the De la Mares ; around the sides, under canopies, are small figures of 11 sons in armour and 8 daughters in angular head dresses; there are also monuments to Ralph Congreve esq. Richard Congreve, the dramatist, and others, and a sliield of the ancient family of Achard : this church was a chapelry of the Priory of Monks Sherborne,near Basingstoke. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is an unendowed vicarage, gross yearly in- come ;^i5o, in the gift of Daniel Higford Davall Burr esq. Trendell & Brook, wine & spirit merchants. High street ; & Old Barley Mow, Lombard street Tripp & Bottrell, ironmongers. Bridge street Tripp John, furniture broker. West St. Helen street Tubb William, beer retailer. North court Turner James, boot maker, Winsmoor lane Tustin Brothers, brewers. Market place Vasey Henry, rope & twine manufacturer. Vineyard Vickers George, chimney sweeper, Ock street Viner Philip, bricklayer, Abbey street Volunteer Fire Brigade (John T. Morland esq. hon. supt. , T. B. Kendall, deputy supt. ; Thomas Anderson, hon. sec.) headquarters. Old Grammar School j'ard Walter Charles, general dealer, Ock street Ward William, Blue Boar, & farrier, Bath street Warrick William, Warvnck Arms, Ock street Way Joseph, grocer, Bath street Webb Edward, provision dealer, Ock street Webb Eliza (Mrs.), professor of dancing, Ock street Webb Henry, maltster, Ock street Webb John, coach builder. Railway Station yard Welford Thomas James, grocer, Stert street West Augusta (Mrs.), dress maker. East St. Helen street West George, draughtsman, 7 West St. Helen street Westbrook William, market gardener, Northcourt Wheeler Alfred, tailor, Winsmoor lane Wheeler George, builder, see Buckle & Wheeler Wheeler Henry, fishmonger, Stert street Wheeler John, commercial traveller. East St. Helen street Whitford Amelia (Miss), berlin wool & fancy repository, ladies' outfitter & baby linen warehouse, Bath street Whittington Benjamin Francis,rope & twine manfr. Vineyard Whittington William, rope & twine manufacturer, Ock street Wiblin John, Crow7i, Ock street Wiblin William, fruiterer, Ock street Wiggins Thomas, Steam Plough, Broad street Williams Alfred, beer retailer, Vineyard Williams Edward, builder, contractor & timber merchant Vineyard Williams Edward, jun. George cf- Dragon, Stert street Williams James, beer retailer, butcher, dairyman, furniture broker & general dealer. Bury street Williams James, surveyor of highways, Shippon Wilson John William, plumber. Bridge street Wilts ^' Berks Canal Co. (James Stevens, agent) Wiltshire Jesse, boot maker, Vinej^ard Winders Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Ock street Winship George a.m.i.c.e. borough surveyor, inspector for urban sanitary authority & manager & engineer to borough waterworks, Borough buildings VS^interborne George, Happy Dick, Ock street Witham Vi'illiam Charles, watch & clock maker, Stert street Witts Eleanor (Mrs.), milliner, Broad street Wood & Hughes, printers. Market place Woodbridge Charles, jun. corn, seed, cake & hay & straw merchant & saddler & harness maker. Bridge street Woodley Sarah (Mrs.), Fighting Cocks, Bridge street Young Martha (Mrs.), lodging house, Park road and held since 1881 by the Rev. James Wescomb Douglas B.A. of Magdalene College, Cambridge. There are almshouses for four widows, built in 1706, by the Rev. Robert Dixon formerl)^ minister here, but without endowment ; the charities for church purposes amount to £7 17s. 6d. yearly.. About a mile from the village is Aldermaston Wharf, on the river Kennet and Kennet and Avon canal, where a considerable business is done in timber and coals ; there is also an extensive brewery and malting establishment, the property of INIessrs. Strange and Sons. Near the village is Aldermaston Court, a modern mansion in the Tudor-Elizabethan style, rebuilt by P. Hardwick esq. architect, in 1856, after partial destruction by fire, and stand- ing on an eminence in a park of 1,000 acres of finely varied scenery, with groves of oak, hawthorn and yew : the clock tower may be seen at many miles' distance : this is the seat of Daniel Higford Davall Burr esq. j.p. who is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is gravel. The chief crops are Avheat and barley. The area is 3,699 acres ; rateable value ^^4,498 ; and the population in 1871 was 583. Sexton, Henry Nash. Post & Money Order Office & Savings Bank. — David Stroud, receiver. Letters arrive from Reading at 6.55 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 1.30 & 6.25 p.m National School (mixed), for 135 children: average atten- dance in; supiwrted by subscription; Thomas Salwaj' Cambridge, master ; Miss Annie Watts, mistress Eailway Station, Charles Wigg, collector 20 ALDERMASrON. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's V>nvv Daniel Higford Davall j.p. Alder- maslon court Douglas Eev. Jas. Wescomb b.a. [vicar] P\)x George Fort (reary Cliarles Joplan Mrs Strange John Thomas COMMERCIAL. Ahhrmasion Co-operative Industrial Provident Society Limited. (Thomas Selway Cambridge, sec. & man) ]?rtlding Frank W. coal dealer Charlton George, Hare 4' Hounds Evans George, cattle dealer, Rose cot Ford Henry, blacksmith & wheelwright Fox George Fort, surgeon Giles James, blacksmith Goddard James, carpenter Grove John, shoe maker Hoddinott Dan, farmer, Church farm Jacobs James, osier grower Keep "V^'illiam, farmer Kersley Anthony James, miller, Alder- maston water mill Lawes Richard, tailor Linnell Thos. farmer & general valuer, Aldermaston farm Millson Thomas, Butt inn, & wine & spirit merchant ; good beds &. ac- commodation for travellers, Alder- maston wharf (close to the station) Phillips Richard Warrington, land steward to D. H. D. Burr esq Rumbold John, farm baihtl to D. H. D. Burr esq. Park farm Strange William Jeffreys & Sons, brewers, maltsters & farmers. See advertisement Strickland James (Mrs.), Furze Bush Stroud David, saddler Wright John, Hind's Head ALDWORTH is a village and parish 12 miles north-west I came hither from Ewelme to inspect them ; the De la Beche from Reading, 3 west from Goring station on the Great Western railway, in the hundred of Compton, union and county court district of Wantage, rural deanery of Walling- ford, archdeaconry of Reading and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a building of mixed styles, chiefly De>:;orated, and consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and tower, the north and south windows and a piscina in the I'hancel being the eai'liest examples in the church of that period, while the lately removed chancel screen, and some bench ends are of late Perpendicular work : this church is AV3II known as containing the famous tombs of theDe la Beches, who were resident in this parish in the fourteenth century ; these consist of eight altar-tombs bearing nine recumbent elfigies, two being ladies, and th rest, with one exception, of knights in armour, six of these lying under richly foliated ogee arches : the figures, together with the slabs on which they repose, are each carved out of a single block of stone, «xcej-)ting that in the middle of the church, which is in three pieces ; the large figure to the east, in the north wall, repre- sents the Godfrey de Beche, of Domesday Book, founder of tlie fam.ily, and is 7 feet 2 inches in length ; the ethgy of latest date is that of the lady under the central arcade at the east end, probably representing Lady Isabella de la Beche, with her husband. Sir John de Beche, 0/;. 1329; the single figure in the middle of the church is that of Sir Nicholas de la Beche, Constable of the Tower, and tutor to the Black Prince, oh. 1346 ; the effigies have, unfortunately, received much wilful injury, and on one, which has lost both hands and feet, may be seen the dates 1511, 1561, i64i,and 1706; they were cele- brated even in the time of Queen Elizabeth, who herself family became extinct in the direct male line, probably by the death of Edmund de la Beche, archdeacon of Berks, in 1371. The church has lately been restored under the direction of Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn : in the churchyard is a very ancient yew tree measuring nine yards round the trunk and sup- posed to be older than the church. The register dates from the year 1556. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ;i^45o, with residence, in the gift of St. John's College, Cambridge, and held since 1858 by the Rev. Francis Llewelyn Lloyd b.d. formerly fellow of that college. Beche Castle, the ancient residence of the De la Beches, was situated a short distance south-east of the church : its site is now occupied by a farm house, but numbers of encaustic tiles have been found on the spot, and in 1871 a silver seal Avas met with inscribed S' Isabelle de la Beche," and engraved Avith a trefoil cusped and roseated like the south canopies in the church, within which are three shields of arms. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here. J. B. Monck esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is chalk and clay ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots ; the area is 1,960 acres; rateable value ^1,750 ; the population in 1881 was 275. Parish Clerk, Joseph Johnson. Letters from Reading, via Pangbourne ; Goring is the nearest money order office Parish School, Wm. Price Jones, master ; Miss Leah Gwenllian Jones, mistress ; the school was founded by the late Mr. Mozick m.p. for Reading & has capacity for 100 children Lloyd Rev. Francis Llewelyn B.D.[vicar] Jiowles Charles Aldr.'d^e Henry, farmer B^lche:- John, shopkeeper Fairthorne Edward Francis, farmer Hunt James, Avheelwright Johnson Joseph, cooper Johnson Joseph, jun. beer retailer Josey Charlss, grocer & beer retailer Macquhae Georgina (Mrs.), Bell inn Oades Charles, farmer Rowles Charles, farmer White Sarah (Mrs.), blacksmith APPIiEFORD is a village and parochial chapelry of ^Sutton Courtney, 3 miles south-east from Abingdon, 3 from Culham station, in the hundred of Ock, union and county court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of Abingdon, arch- deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, separated from Oxfordshire by the river Isis, which is here crossed hy the (,f reat Western raihvay. The chapel is ancient and is a smaU plain edifice, consisting of chancel, nave, porch and wooden tower Avith 3 bells. The living is a chapelry annexed to the vicarage of Sutton Courtney, joint yearly value ;^i48, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor and held since 1856 by the Rev. Richard John HoAvard Rice m.a. of Exeter College, Oxford, Avho resides at Sutton Courtney. Mr. f]Jmond Bradstock gave a messuage and 36 acres of land in l?ullock Samuel Cox John Symonds EdAvard jluUock Henry, Carpenter Arms Bullock Richard, Black Hors, Paxman Elijah, farmer Pullen EdAvard, jun. farmer perpetuity to found a Free school ; the income is noAv applied in support of the National schools here and at Sutton Courtney : there are charities of £g yearly for distribution. Charles Eyston esq. is lord of the manor and principal land- OAvner. The soil is green sand and gravel ; subsoil, chiefly gravel ; the crops are Avheat, barley and roots ; the area is 829 acres ; rateable value ^2,922; the population in 1881 Avas 346. Parish Clerk, Thomas Clifford. Letters through Abingdon, which is the nearest money order office. Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.15 p.m National School, Miss Mary Dinah capacity 80 Thame Charles, farmer Viner Job, baker Viner Philip, shopkeeper Frances, mistress APPLETON" is a parish in the hundred of Ock, union and •county court district of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Abingdon and diocese of Oxford, situated about 5 miles north-west from Abingdon and 6 south-Avest from Oxford, bounded on the Avest by the Isis AA'hich separates it from Oxfordshire. The church of St. LaAvrence is a plain structure Avith chancel, nave, square embattled toAver and a fine peal of 10 bells ; it contains several memorials to the families of the present and former lords of the manor. The register dates from the year 1569. The living is a rectory, ■ tion in 1881 was 573. Eaton toAvnship is i mile north yearly value ^307, with residence, in the gift of the President \ p,,,,,-,.;, clerk, Frederick \^'hite. and felloAvs of Magdalen College, Oxford, and held since 1878 hy the Rev. William Moore m.a. formerly fellow of that college. There are charities connected Avith the parish, producing about ^50 a year for church and poor and 3 acres for proAnding fuel. The Manor House is supposed to have been built in the reign of Henry II. ; it ^vas formerly surrounded by a moat, part of Avhich has been filled up. The manor of Appleton Avas successively in the possession of the families of F'itz Warine, Caston, Petyt and Fettyplace : it was purchased of the Hanleys by an ancestor of Robert Southby esq. Avho is noAv lord : the manor house is occupied by John Walker Wearing esq. The principal land- owners are Robert Southby esq. and St, John's College, Oxford. The soil is loam and clay ; the chief crops are Avheat, barlej', beans and turnips ; the area, including the township of Eaton, is 1,991 acres ; rateable value ^2,934 ; the popula- PosT Office. — George Busby, receiver. Letters arrive from Abingdon at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Marcham Here is a Free school for 8 boys, endoAved in 1504 by Sir R. Fettyplace Avith £20 yearly ; Henry Chambers, master Careier TO Abingdon — Thomas Enoch, mon. ; Oxford, sat DIRECTOKY.] BERKSHIRE. ASCOT HEATH. 21 Appleton. Moore Rev. William m.a. [rector] Weavine- John Walker, Manor house COilMERCIAL. Alley William, farmer. Manor farm Baker William, farmer Barnett Charles, shopkeeper Bennett Alfred, wheelwright Bennett William, farmer Blake James, Plough Busby George, farmer Clanclfield William, farmer Enoch Thomas, farmer & carrier Gaff John Prasley, farmer Holitield George, plumber Holiheld Samuel, farmer Jones Edward, farmer Lambourn Samuel, Thatched iaveVi Tubb James, carpenter Webb David, timber merchant White George, Three Horseshoes, & blacksmith Woodwards William, shopkeeper ' Eaton. Athawes Samuel, farmer Cornish Selby, farmer Webb John, Bells ARBORFIELD is a village and parish 5 miles south-east from Reading and 3 south-west from A^'okiugham, in the hundred of Sonning, union of Wokingham, county court dis- trict of Reading, archdeaconry of Berks, rural "deanery of Sonning and diocese of Oxford, situate on the river Loddon. The church of St. Bartholomew is a handsome modern stone building in the Early English style, built at a cost of upwards of ^4,000, to which the late Sir William Brown hart, of Liverpool, was the principal contributor ; it consists of chan- cel and nave ; the chancel windows are stained ; there are two memorial windows to members of the Towgood familj^. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, yearly value £388, with residence, in the gift of Lord Bray- brooke and held by the Rev. E. Lionel Walsh b.a. St. Aidans College, Birkenhead. Arbortield Hall, the seat of Mrs. Hargreaves, is pleasantly situated on the banks of the river Loddon, with park and grounds. Arborfield Grange, the seat of Sir John Conroy bart. j.p. is a pleasant house, stand- ing in small grounds, Avith shrubbery and miniature lake. Conroy Sir John bart. j.p. Arborheld grange Hargreaves Mrs. Arborfield hall Hayes Rev. Sir John Warren bart. m.a. Newland Simonds John, Newland Simonds Mrs. Newland Walsh Rev. E Lionel b.a. [rector]. Rectory COMMERCIAL. Corderey William, jun. farmer Cordrey William, builder & contractor, Newland Cox Charlt.(Mrs.), shopkeeper, Newland Gold James, farmer. Carters hill Hannington Wm. farmer, White Hall frm Hart Henry, baker & grocer Hobson Richard Peele, farmer. New frm Jeacocke Caleb Edward, farm baihff to John Simonds esq Mattingley Henry, blacksmith & post- master, NcAvland Sir Charles Russell bart. is lord of the manor The princi- pal landowners are the lord of the manor, John Walter esq. M.p. and John Simonds esq. The soil is clay and gravel ; sub- soil, London clay. The chief crops are wheat and barley; the area^is 1,468 acres ; rateable value, ^2,263 ; the population in 1 87 1 was 270. Newland is a liberty 2 miles east ; the population in 1 88 1 was 277. Post Office. — Henry Mattingley, receiver. Letters arrive from Reading at 8.55 a.m.; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. The nearest money order otftce is at 'VS'okingham Insurance Agent. — JVorth British ^ Mercantile,W. Cordrey National School (mixed), for the children of this parish & of the adjoining one of Barkham, for 150 children, with an average attendance of loi ; Harry Webster, master ; Mrs. Elizabeth Webster, mistress A portion of the names given under Arborfield are in the ecclesiastical district of St. Catherine's, Bearwood, but placed here for postal purposes Payne Charles, farmer Pither Elizabeth (Mrs.), Swan, Arbor- field cross Tayler Charles, tailor, Newland Vincent William, wheelwright, agricul- tural implement maker k wagon builder, NeAvland Wells Richard, farmer, Cross lane Windebank William, Btdl Young Frank, Bramshill Hunt ARDINGTON" is a parish in the hundred, union and county court district of Wantage, rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, about 3^ miles south-east from the ^A'antage Road station on the Great \^'estern railway which crosses the Berks and Wilts canal in this parish. The church of the Holy Trinity is in the Early English style, with chancel, nave and south aisle, and square tower surmounted bj- a spire con- taining 6 bells. The register dates from the year 1674. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £160, -with residence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford and held since 1839 by the Rev. Ralph Barnes m.a. late student (fellow) of Christ Church. The Vernon charity, bequeathed in 1848, consists of ;i^i,6oo £3 per Cent. Consols, the interest to be distributed. Colonel Barnes Rev. Ralph m..a. [vicar] Hcarn Rev. Henry Thomas b.a, [curate] Lindsay Hon. Coi.CharlesHugh c.b,, j.p. Ardington house Jeffries George, shopkeeper ) ASCOT HEATH is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1865 out of the civil parishes of Sunninghill and Winkfield, and includes Ascot Side : it is in the hundred of Ripples- mere, union and county coiirt district of Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdcaconrj- of Berks and diocese of Oxford, and contains several fashionable villa residences and two good hotels, and is noted for the races which are held here. The South ^A'estern branch railwaj'^ to Reading has a station near the Grand Stand, 28 miles from London and 7 south-west from Windsor. The church of All Saints, erected in 1864, is a brick building in the Earlj' English style, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles and bell-turret, with a painted roof and mural decorations ; there are some stained Avindows. The register dates from the year 1865. The living is a rectory, yearly value ;,^iio with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1864 by thejiev. Beauchamp Kerr \^'arren Pearse m.a. of Universitj' College, Oxford. The London and Ascot Convalescent Hos- y)ital for convalescents and incurables, under the patronageof PLR.H.thePrincess of Wales, is an extensive building situated between Winkfield Kow and Ascot Heath, built in 1850 by and belonging to the Sisters of the Devonport Society, but supported in part by subscriptions and payments for patients : it has room for about too patients ; the site is in very bracirg air, as well as picturesque; the original plan w^as to provide for several hundred patients of both se:;es, Dolby Edwin, land steward to Sir Robt. James Loyd-Lindsay k.cb., m.p Eady Charles Henry, farm bailiff to Sir Robt. James Loyd-Lindsay k.cb., m.p Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay v.c, k.cb., m.p. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clay, chalk and loam ; subsoil, clay and chalk. The crops ai-e the usual cereals and roots. The parish comprises 1,775 acres of good land; rateable value, ;^3,325 ; the population in 1871 Avas 397- Parish Clerk, Charles Collins. Letters through Wantage, which is the nearest money order otiice. Pillar Letter Box cleai^ed at 6.45 p.m. week days & II. 15 a.m. on Sundays ParocJdal School {iownCieA in 1872), is for 180 children, & new schools have been erected at the cost of Sir R. Loyd- Lindsay, from designs by E. Dolby; Henry Reeves, master ; Mrs. Lucy Reeves, mistress Puzey Edwin, Boar''s Head Taylor Charles, shopkeeper \^^allace Richard, joiner Whittield Wm. farmer, Betterton farm but it has been limited by want of funds. Patients are received Avithout anj^ reference to their creed, though a chaplain, licensed h\ the Bishop, attends to the spiritual Avants of i^atients ; a medical officer is appointed to the hospital ; the sum of ^10,000 Avas expended by the Society on its present building, the site included. Ascot Heath House, the seat of Miss Delane, is a modern brick mansion situated m a firAvood. Ascot Wood is the seat of Lady ShaAV-LefcA-re ; there are also manj- other neAvly-erected mansions in this parish. Ascot racecourse is situated in the parish ; the races take jilace in June and are usually honoured by the presence of H.R.H. the Prince of ^A'ales and others of the Royal Family ; the grand stand is a building of considerable beauty, with front and back porticoes, an elegant staircase, Avith extensive draAving and refreshment rooms and offices ; it Avas built by subscription ; the ground for the races Avas appropriated by Act of Parliament for the purpose. The extensiA'e nursery grounds called the Royal Nursery, belonging to Mr. Joseph Ashby, trading as John Standish and Co. are situated he.'e, and the Royal Kennels, Avhere her Majesty's buckhounds are kept. The principal land- owners are her Majesty th.e Queen and General Charles Crutchley. The population in 1871 Avas 1,357, and in 1881 AA'as 1,699. Parish Clerk, Ricliard Grav. 22 ASCOT HEATH. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank. — Edward Abbey, postmaster. Letters arrive from Staines at 6 a.m. ii a.m. & 6 p.m.; dispatched at i p.m. & 7.30 p.m Insurance Agents : — Queen, W. A. Barber & Co Ascot Heath. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ainwer Rev. Edwd. Barnard Sandridge Ashby Joseph, Rosenau Bayley Sir Edward Clive k.c.s.i. The Wilderness Boyle Vice-Adm. AIexander,Ascot house Brown William Barr Dasent Sir George d.c.l. Tower hill Delane Miss, Ascot Heath house Fagge Thomas Henry, South lodge Goodhall Frank, Royal kennels Gwynelgir Mrs. Englemere wood Hamilton - Gordon Hon. Sir Arthur G.c.M.G. Red house Hanbury Capt. Gurney, Holmhurst Huddleston Sir John W. The Grange Ingham Miss, Glebe villa Lee Henry, Queen's Hill lodge Magniac Arthur, The Hermitage Meade Hon. RolDert Henry, Englemere Pearse Rev. Beauchamp Kerr ^^'arren M.A. Rectory Ponsonby Capt. Hon. Ashley George John D.L., j.p. Heatherfield ; Brooks', Travellers', & Army & Navy clubs ; & 9 Prince's gardens, Sth. Kensington, London s.w Reynolds Major Alfred Clement, Old rectory Ryan Charles Lister c.b. Burley bushes Shaw-Lefevre Lady, Ascotwood Smith Miss, King's ride Thacker Miss, Queen's hill ^Varner Captain Lee, Englermere cot commercial. Abbey Edward, fancy repository Barber William Albert & Co. auctioneers liriginshaw Charles, fly proprietor Chamberla'n Thos. coal, coke & building material merchant. Railway station ; & at Windsor Chancellor Albert, auctioneer, valuer, house, estate & land agent & surveyor. Railway station ; & at Sunning hill ; & Richmond, Surrey Charmaii Henry, builder, contractor, carpenter & undertaker Churcli Robert William, Railway hotel, &. posting house Cottrell William, plumber Cowie James, cabinet maker Fagge Thos. Hy. surgeon. South lodge Frankling Thomas, beer retailer Goodall Frank, huntsman to Her Majesty's buckhounds. Royal kennels Halfpenny William, fly proprietor Hobbs Neville George, butcher Jennings George, boot & shoe maker Jordan V^'illiam, Horse ^ Groom London ^ Ascot Convalescent Hospital (Alfred Playne, medical ofticer) Longhurst George, grocer Morton Richard, beer retailer Morton V\'illiam, lodging house Pither John, shopkeeper Spooner Martha (Mrs.), Royal Ascot hotel Standish John h Co. (Joseph Ashby, so'e proprietor), nurserymen, florists & fruit growers, Royal Ascot nursery ; Sun Fire, T. T. Soundy, The Poplars, Upper Halliford via '\^'alton-on-Thames National School, Ascot Side, erected in i869.for 300 children ; William Millard, master ; Miss Sarah Scribner, mistress ; Miss Emily Soames, infants' mistress Railway Station, Thomas Graham Greig, station master & 52 St.George's place, Knightsbridge, London s.to Walker William & Co. house & estate agents, auctioneers & valuers 'V^'^aters Wm, Robt. architect & surveyor Watson William, builder & contractor Wheeler George, coach maker Ascot Side. Dalton Mrs. Ascot lodge Dyke George '' Dyke Robert James Frampton Rev. Jas. [chaplain to London k Ascot Convalescent Hospital], The Hermitage Paterson Miss, Heather down Throgmorton Capt. Fern bank COMBIERCIAL. Bishop John, Hie Gold Cup Grajf Richard, M'heelwright Hatcher Chas. Jn. beer 1 e' ailer & carpntr Hibbert George, shoe maker Kerley Samuel, shopkeeper Mugford William John, blacksmith Norris William, Qiieen^s Stag Hounds Poole Rf)bert, saddler & harness maker ; & at Winkfield Rudd Edwin, blacksmith Saunders Richard, Royal Foresters Skerry Edward, shopkeeper Storey John, Royal Hunt Wells William, baker Whiteman Hy. road surveyor, Hope cot Young Jn. Geo. farmer, Brick Hill farm ASHAMPSTEAD is a village and parish 11 miles west | and Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel here, from Reading, 10 south from Wallingford, 5 from Pang- Hopkins' charity of £12. yearly is for distribution. John bourne station on the Great Western railway, in the hundred | Hopkins esq. is lord of the manor and chief landoM'ner. The of Moreton, vmion of Bradfield, county court district of | soil is clay and chalk ; subsoil, chiefly chalk. The crops are Reading, rural deanery of Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks ; wheat, barley and roots. The area is 2,057 acres ; rateable and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Clement is a j value, ^2,194 17s. 3d. ; and the population in 188 1 was 344. plain structure, Avith a chancel, nave and wooden tower ; it Letters arrive from Reading. The nearest money order was thoroughly repaired in 1849. The register dates from 1 oflice is at Bradfield the year 1612. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ;^87, ' National School (mixed) for 80 children, supported by in the alternate gift of the Rev. William Sykes and the [ voluntary subscription ; Maryann Bloomfield, mistress trustees of the late Rev. Charles Simeon, and held since Carrier. — Charles Ilsley, to Newbury, thurs. ;& to Reading, 1880 by the Rev. John Henderson, of St. Aidans. The Baptists | wed. & sat Henderson Rev. John [vicar] Andrews George, farmer, Pyt house Ayers Henry, farm bailili" to Jn. Robert Hopkins esq. Bebbington William, provision dealer Butler William, carpenter Hancock James, tailor Harris Stephen, New inn Roberts George William Smith Miss COMMERCIAL. Albury James, carpenter Albury James, jun. carpenter ASHBURY is a parish in the hundred of Shrivenham, union and county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, 3 miles south-by-east from Shrivenham station on the Great Western railway, 8| miles from Faring- don and 21 from Newbury; it is the extreme parish on the north-west of the county near Wiltshire, with the hamlet of Kingstone Winslow and the tithings of Odstone and Idstone annexed. The church of St. Mary is an ancient cruciform structure,consisting of chancel, nave, with aisles separated by arcades of 4 arches each, a north porch and massive pinnacled western tower containing 6 bells : an old Norman door was re-opened in the south aisle at the restoration of the church in 1872 : the chancel, which was restored by the Ecclesias- tical Commissioners, is principally Early English work : the aisles and north porch Perpendicular : the latter has a good groined roof, over which is a parvise ; a fcAv of the windows are filled with Decorated tracery : in the chancel are brasses with efiigies, one bearing date 1440, to the Rev. William Ilsley Charles, shopkeeper & carrier Knowles Edward, farm bailifi:" to George Herbert Morrell esq. j.p Nullis George, shoe maker Shepherd Thomas Edward, farmer Wolf George, blacksmith name of the benefice was Ashbury St. Mary-cum- Chapelwick, and there Avas formerly a chapel (nothing of which remains) at the northern boundary of the parish. The living is a vicarage, yearly value about £112, augmented by a grant from Magdalen College, Oxford, to about ;^4oo, with residence, in the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford, and held since i860 by the Rev. Henry Miller m.a. late fellow of that college. There is a small Primitive Metho- dist chajDel in the village and a Baptist chapel at Kingstone. The charities are ;^ioyearl3^, two-thirds of which go to the school and the remainder for coal. It is, perhaps, M'orthy of remark that with the Rev. Thomas Stock, curate of this parish, originated in 1777 the Sunday school system of instruction, he having commenced it by collecting together the children of the poor in the chancel ; in 1778 he went from Ashbury to Gloucester,Avhere he became acquainted with Mr. Raikes, who rendered the most important aid in promoting andcstablishing these charitable institutions, and Avhich may be regarded as having prepared the way for the National sys- Skelton,^ formerly rector of this parish, and another to John tem of education. Here is a Public Reading-room and Library, established ini874. In the parish, adjoining Ashdown Park, is a valley containing a large number of huge stones, called, " Sarsden Stones," probably the indurated remains of a ter- tiary formation formerly overlying the chalk. A spot, now marked by a clump of trees or circular plantation, contains •what is considered to be a British remain, called " Wayland de Walden esq. dated 1448: a stained AvindoAV in the south transept was erected in 1873 the Rev. William Chambers b.d. ; oh. i860; 36 years vicar. The impro- priate rectory belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commis- sioners. The register dates from 1653, but there is an old parish book which dates from 1602. The ancient DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. ASTON UPTIIORPE. 23 Smith," situated about a mile eastAvard of the village. At one time several large Sarsden stones formed a circle, but some of them have been broken up for the repair of the roads ; in -what was the centre are now to be seen three of the largest, with a fourth laid on the top, after the manner of the British cromlechs. A singular tradition of an invisible blacksmith who shod any horse left within the enclosure, provided a piece of money was left, has been perpetuated by Sir William Scott in his novel of " Kenil worth," and has invested the spot with considerable interest and renders it a favourite resort of the antiquary and the toui'ist On the downs in this parish, there is reason to believe, was fought thegi-eat battle between the Saxons and the Danes,called the battle of Ashdown, in which the latter were totally defeated. Ashdown Park, the seat of the Earl of Craven, is 103 acres in extent and well-wooded, 2^ miles south, the mansion, -erected by Webbe, a pupil of Inigo Jones, is an old stone building. The manor of Ashbury was given by King Edred to the monastery f)f Glastonbury ; after the Dissolution it Avas granted by Henry VIII. to the family of Essex, of whom it Avas purchased in 1625 by Sir William CraA^en, ancestor of the Earls of Craven. The Earl of Craven Craven Earl of, AshdoAvn park ; & 16 Charles street, Berkeley sq. to ; Guards & Turf clubs s.w London Miller Kev, Henry m.a. Vicarage Wilson Thomas COAIMERCIAL. Avenell Stephen, plumber BoAvkett Sidney, shopkeeper,& post office BoAvles John, farmer, Odstone marsh Dike Wm. Rose ^ Crown inn, & brcAver Goddard William, blacksmith Hamblin Stephen, butcher & farmer Hedges Robert, farmer, Ruffian's Avick ASTON TIRK-OLD, in Domesday "Estone," is a village and parish aa ithin the parliamentary borough of Walling- ford, 4 miles south-Avest from Wallingford, 3 Avest from Moulsford station on the Great Western raihvay, 3 miles east from Upton station on the Didcot and NcAvbury railwaj\ in the hundred of Moreton, iinion and county court district of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Wallingford and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael is a building of flint Avith stone dressings, and appears to have been at first an Early English Avork ; it Horsburgh Alex, beer retailer, Idstone Humfrey Thomas & Joseph, farmers, Odstone farm Humfrey Heber, farmer, Kingstone Johnson George, shopkeeper, Idstone Johnson James, farmer, Ragnall farm Lawrence James, farmer, Idstone LaAvrence John Henrj', farmer & assist- ant overseer & collector of poor rates, Idstone LcAvis James, farmer, Berrycroft house Manners Harriet (Mrs.), farmer, Chapel Wick farm Partridge John, wheehvright is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is chalk and clay; subsoil, rubble and clay. The chief crops are Avheat, beans, barley, turnips and clover. The area of the entire parish is 5,520 acres ; rateable value ^7,737 ; and the population in i88r was 684: the population of the township of Ashbury, including Ashdown Park, 388. Kingstone Winslow is a hamlet half a mile north-east. The population in 1881 was 138. Odstone tithing is one mile north-east. The population in 1881 was 34. Idstone is a tithing three-quarters of a mile south-west. The population in 1881 was 124. Parish Clerk, Joseph Garner. Post Office. — Sidney Bowkett, sub-postmasler. Letters arrive from Shrivenham at 7 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 12.30 & 5.30 p m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Shrivenham JVational »S'cAoo?, erected 1864, accomziiodate 170; average attendance, 134 ; Asher Ball, master ; Mrs. Jane Ball, mist Carrier. — John Smith, to SAvindon, mon. & fri Pound Annie (M'ss), haker& shopkeeper Pound Henry, miller (Avater), Kingstone Public Reading Boom cj- Library (Rev, Henry Miller m.a. hon. sec) ReeA'es EdAvin, Avheelwright Richens Joseph, blacksmith Richens Robert, shopkeeper Smith John, carrier, Kingstone Spindloe John, farmer Talbot George, shopkeeper Tidmarsh Mark, farmer, Manor farm Walklett Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Willis Henry, farmer, Odstone lands Willis "V^'illiam, farmer, Idstone rectory, net yearly value ^^300, with residence, in the gift of the President and fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, and held since 1845 by the Rev. Sir John Leigh Hoskyns bart. M.A. late felloAV of that college, hon. canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and rural dean. There is here a Presbyterian chapel, originally founded for an Independent Congregation in 1670 ; the existing structure is of some antiquity, and has an attached cemetery, well kept and pleasantly shaded with trees ; the baptismal records are said to date from 1738, ^.^ ... ^ ^„ , , The charities amount to £12. annually, of Avhich £2. los. consists of chancel, nave, north aisle, south transept | from Rigby and Smith's charity, is given in money to the and an embattled Avestern tOAver containing 5 bells; both } National school, £^ los. distributed in bread and clothing- rood-loft doors remain, but the stairs are Availed up : a modern screen stretches across the toAver arch, converting the loAver stage into a vestry ; the south door has a round head, resting on simple jambs, Avith a moulded hllet ; the porch is Decorated, and Avas formerly open timbered, but has been plastered up ; outside the north aisle is an ancient doorway, Avith plain holloAved corbels and Availed up Avithin it, a fine stone coffin lid, bearing an elegant, but partially mutilated foliaged cross ; the priests' door has graceful Early English shafts Avith foliaged caps ; the AvindoAVS on the south and Avest of the transept are Decorated, on the east side are two cusped lancets ; the Avest windoAV is late Per- pendicular ; the east AvindoAv, Decorated, Avith ogee head, is partially filled with stained glass in memory of Mark Robert Taylor esq. of Aston and BlcAvbury (1868), Avho lies buried Avith his wife (1872) on the south side of the churchyard. The register dates from the year 1720. The living is a Cuff Miss Curry Rev. Thomas [Presbyterian] Fuller George Frederick P'uller Mrs Fuller Thomas Wellingham Hoskyns Rev. Sir John Leigh bart.M.A J.p. [rural dean], Rectory ASTON TJPTHORPE, situated Avithm the parliamen- ' on the north, of the same date ; the old timber and plaster tary borough of Wallingford, and formerly a chapelry of roof of the nave is also existing, and an ancient timber- the parish of BlcAvbury, Avas, in 1862, united to Upton as a j framed Decorated porch coA'ered Avith ivy : the west window separate ecclesiastical parish ; it is 4 miles south-Avest from | is Perpendicular, the font rude and massive Norman AVork ; Wallingford and 3 miles Avest from Upton station on the the church Avas restored, and the chancel rebuilt of flint Wyatt Miss Arnold Esther (Mrs.), beer retailer Buckner George, boot & shoe maker Buckner Thomas, shoe maker, & sub- post office Curtis Thomas, farmer Dyer Charles, grocer and _,^5 given to the poor in money. Thomas Wellingham Fuller esq. Avho is lord of the manor, George Frederick Fuller and EdAvard P^airthorne are chief landowners. The soil is loam ; subsoil, chalk. The land immediately round the village is celebrated for its apple and cherry orchards. The chief crops are Avheat and barley. The area is 1,674 acres; rateable value, ^2,060; the population in 1881 Avas 310. Parish Cleric, Lemuel Curtis. Post Office. — Thomas Buckner, sub-postmaster. Letters through Wallingford, arrive at 8.40 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.20 p.m. Wallingford is the nearest money order & telegraph office Schools : — National, for 60 children ; Miss White, mistress Presbt/terian, founded in 1871 for 45 children ; Miss Emily Bailey, mistress Fuller George Frederick, farm.er & landowner. Copse Stile farm FullerThos.Wellinghm.frmr.&landownr Jenks William Aston, Chequers inn Lane Seth & "V^'illiam, grc^cers Lane Thomas James, farmer *t corn dlr ^A'elch Adam, farmer Didcot audNcAvbury raihvay, in the union and county court district of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Wallinjjford and diocese of Oxford. The church of All ..Saints is a plain edifice of great antiquity, consisting of ■chancel and nave and a Avooden belfry Avith short lead- covered spire on the Avestern gable, containing 2 bells : the ■church Avas originally a Norman structure, and the south " splayed. The register dates from the year 1725 ; tlic earlier records are supposed to have been destroyed by fire. The benefice is a rectory, 3'early value £200 Avith residence,in the- gift of Sir Francis Biu'dett bart. and held since 1879 by the Kev. Walter F'rancis Lanfear m.a. of Queens' College, Cam- bridge. This manor, in the time of Edward the Confessor, belonged to a family named Gunner or Gonnere ; itu- mediately after the Conquest, to Bichard Puingcant (Anglo-Saxonice Bigge), the supposed founder of the church; then to the Longespees, Earls of Salisbury, Avho appear lo have held it from the reign of Henry 11. ; at a later period it Avas in the families of Coventry and Choke ; Richard Choke- married the heiress of the Coventrys of Avington ; his^ grandson Francis Avas knighted in 1643 ! latterly it Avas in the possession of the Jones faiuily, of Bamsbuiy Manor, iiii succession from Avhom it noAV belongs to Sir Prancis Burdett bart. Avho is also the sole landoAvner. The soil is light chalk ;. subsoil, gravelly chalk. The chief crops are Avheat, barley and oats. The parish comprises alout 1,143 acres, in tAvo farms ; rateable value, ^^926 ; the population in 188 1 Avas 98. Eadley, if miles north, and Bowling Gkeen, 2j miles north, are hamlets Avithin this parish StiXton, John Sparks. Letters through Hungerford. Kintbury is the neares'S money order office Lanfear Rev. Walter Fras. m.a. Rectory Jeffries Jason, woodman, Radley bottom Lanfear Chs.farmer,Manor House farm* Chapman George, farmer, Radley farm The area is 390 acres ; rateable Avas 14. Letters BAGLEY WOOD, formerly extra-parochial, is noAv a [ John's College, Oxford. T parish 3I miles north from Abingdon, in the hundred of i value, ^339 ; the populatioi Hormer, union and county court district of Abingdon ; it { through Abingdon, Avhich is the nearest money order and chiefly consists of an extensive Avood, Avhich belongs to St. | telegraph office. Johnson Giles BARKHAM is a parish and A-illage"2 miles south-AA'est from Wokingham and 7 south-east from Reading, in the hundred of Charlton: county court district of Reading, union of Wokingham, rural deanery of Reading, arch- deconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. James was rebuilt in 1862 in the Early English style ; it is of flint Avith Bath stone dressings, and consists of chancel and nave Avith a tower containing 4 bells and spire. The register dates from the vear 1538. The living is a rectory, yearly value /350 Avith residence, in the gift of John Walter esq. m.p. and held by the Rev. Arthur Roberts m.a. of Magdalen College, Oxford. The children attend the Arborfield school. Alhvright's charity of ^3 yearly is for bread. The poor allotments haA-e been pur- chased by John Walter esq. m.p. for becAveen ;^4ooand ;/^5oo Rickman Major-Gen. Wm. Manor house Ashby Thomas Henry, baker & grocer Roberts Rev. Arthur m.a. Rectory . Barnard Stephen, Bidl, k blacksmith woodreeve and the money iin-ested in the ^^3 per Cent. Consols, and the interest is expended in coal for the benefit of the poor. The- Manor House, a red brick mansion, Avith pleasant ground.s- and shrubberies, is the residence of Major-General U'illiam Rickman. John Leveson-Gower esq. Avho is lord of the mancr and John Walter esq. m.p. are the chief landoAvners. The soil is gravel and clay ; subsoil, London clay. The chie£ crops are Avheat and barley. The area is 1,358 acres ; rate- able A-alue, £2,0^7 ; the population in 1881 Avas 217. Farish Clerk, William Hutt. Letters arrive from Wokingham by foot post. There is a Wall Box, cleared on Aveek days at 6 p.m. & on Sundays? at 11.15 '^^^^ nearest money order office is at "Wokingham Holmes Edward Lane, farmer Rossell Robert, farmer BASILDON is a village and parish 8 miles north-west county court district of Reading, rural deanery of Walling- from Reading in the hundred of Moreton, union ofBradfield ford, archdeaconrv of Berks and diocccc of Oxford; it is DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRF. BEARWOOD. 25 pleasantly situated on the river Thames Avhich is here crossed by a bridge of four arches, on the line of the Great Western railway, the erection of which cost ^^25,000 ; the nearest station is at Goring, 2|- miles. The church of St. Bartholomew is supposed to have been built in the reign of Edward II. ; it consists of chancel and nave, Avith a square tower, 4 bells and a Gothic porch ; it contains some hand- some monuments to Sir Francis Sykes bart. and family, formerly residents here ; the eastern window is stained ; in 1878 the church was completely restored. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ;^20o Avith residence, in the alternate gift of the Rev. Edward John Sykes and Simeon's trustees and held since 1859 by the Rev. Edward John Sykes m.a. of Worcester College, Oxford. The poor's land of 8 acres produces £16 yearlj'. In ex- cavating for the railway a beautiful tesselated Roman pave- ment was discovered a few inches below the surface, and on an elevated spot not far from the Thames coins of Vespa- sian, in good preservation, domestic utensils and several human skeletons, with a Roman SAVord Ij ing near them, Avere found. The Grotto, a pretty residence, is the seat of Arthur Smith esq. j.p. Near the village is Basildon House, formerly the seat of Sir Francis Sykes bart. butnoAV the pro- perty and in the occupation of Charles Morrison esq. ; the BroAvn Col. Percival Ashley, Stone ho LeAvis Thomas William Morrison Ciiarles, Basildon park Smith Arthur j.p. The Grotto Sykes Col. Augustus Sykes Rev. Edward John m.a. [vicar] COMMERCIAL. Addison Charles, farmer Albury Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer, & sub-postothce Albury Emanuel, grocer Dennie Alfd. beer retailer & blacksmith Gale William, beer retailer Hem wood David, shoe maker Leech James, beer retailer LoA-al Jonah, Red Lion Osborne William, brick maker & farmer mansion is modern, Avilh Avings and portico with Corinthian pillars : the park contains 400 acres and is enclosed Avithin a brick Avail. Charles Morrison esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is chalk and loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are Avheat, barley and oats. The area is 3,083 acres ; rateable A'alue, ^10,025 ; and the population iu 1881 was-651. Parish Clerk, James Fuller. Post Office, LoAver Basildon, — Mrs. Elizabeth Albury. receiver. Letters from Reading arrive at 9 a.m. ; dis- patched at 6 p.m Post Office, Upper Basildon. — John Palmer, receiA-er„ Letters from Reading, at 7.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 6 p.m. Reading is the nearest money order otiice, & Pangbourn the nearest telegraph ottice for both places Letters received from Reading, for Lower Basildon arrive at 9 a.m. dispatched at 7 p.m. Schools : — Endowed, endoAved by Mr. William Allen with ^^4 and a cottage, for ten poor children ; erected in 1858 for 150 children ; mistress, Mrs. Charlotte King Uj^per Basildon, erected in 1875 for 100 children ; mistress^ Miss Emily Bott Palmer John, carpenter, & sub-postoffice Pocock Henry, farmer Robinson Henry, Crown inn, & grocer Shackel Richard v'^'illiam, farmer Simms William, shopkeeper Sims Thomas, farmer Sims William Henrv, blacksmith Stanford William, steward to Charles Morrison esq BAULKING- (anciently Bethelkixg) is a scattered gift of Charles Eyre esq. and held since 1878 by the Rev. village and parish formerly a hamlet in Utlington parish, ' Edmond W.St. Maur Macphail m.a. of Jesus College,Oxford : in the hundred of Shrivenham, vmion and county court dis- a vicarage house Avas erected in 1864. The trustees of the late trict of Faringdon, Vale of White Horse rural deanery, arch- : Edwin Martin-Atkins esq. are lords of the manor; Tlio deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, 5 miles south from principal landowners are Messrs. Readc and MatthcAvs. The Faringdon, 12 from Abingdon and 18 from Oxford; the j soil is principally clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Utfington Junction railway station on the Great Western ! the usual cereals. The area is 1,367 acres ; rateable value,, main line to Bristol is situated in this parish, about half a j ^^5,510; and the population in 1881 Avas 169. mile Avest of the village, from Avhich there is a branch to [ Parisli Clerk, Noah Gerring. Faringdon. The river Ock separates this parish from Shellingford and the Wilts and Berks canal is half a mile distant. The church of St. Nicholas is a small ancient structure, in the Early English style, comprising chancel, nave and turret at the Avest end. The registers date from t he year 1846, previous to Avhich they Avere kept at the mother church at Utiingfon. The living is a vicarage united Avith Woolstone, joint yearly value ^65 Avilh residence, in the Macphail Rev. Edmd. W. St. Maur m.a. Collins Charles, farmer [vicar] j James Thos.Mattliews, frmr.ifr landownr Box William, brick maker 1 Moore Henry, Junction hotel Letters through P'aringdon. The nearest money order otiicc- is at Stanford-in-the-Vale, & telegraph office, Faringdon Wall Letteii Box, at liailway station, cleared 6.40 p.m. ; Sunday. 11.40 a.m A School Board of live members was formed here in 1875 C'/t rA", (reorge James Haines, F'aringdon Board School, to hold 50, Avith an average attendance oi 30 ; Miss Jessie Atkin, mistress Reade George, farmer & landowner Stephenson Jsph. farmer, Oldtield farmi Wliittield Robert, farmer BEARWOOD is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1846, consisting of the townsiiips or liberties of Newi.and, part (tf WiNKEi laundress. King- street, Winnersh Dickens Thomas, J/oZ^', Newland Ford Jsph. Geo. machinery prop. Ling st Gold Frederick, carpenter Gould Jn. steward to Jas. Simmonds esq Grace George, woolstapler Henderson Mary (Mrs.), Pheasant, King street LaAves Joseph, miller (water) & farmer, Sindlesham mill Marshall Henry, shopkeeper necessary article, built and entirely supported by John Walter esq. m.p. and capable of holding 160 children, with an average attendance of 144 of both sexes ; J. Higgs, master ; Mrs. S. Higgs, mistress Carrier. — George Plance, from the 'Fox,' Sindlesham, to the ' Black Horse,' Reading, daily except thursday, starting at 10 a.m Mattingley Fredk. James, Walters Arms, Sindlesham Metcalfe Jabez, farmer Plance George, Fox, Sindlesham Simmons Henry, land agent & valuer Smith William, blacksmith Sparvell William, florist. King street Tegg James, head gardener to John ^Valler esq. m.p. [The remainder of the names in NeAV- land Avill be found under Arborfield, being placed there for postal purposes] BEECH HILL is a tithing and ecclesiastical parish formed in 1869 out of the Berkshire portion of Stratfieldsaye parish, Hampshire, 2 miles east from Stratfield Mortimer raihvay station, 7 south from Rcadinq: and 10 north from enclosed. The priory of St. Leonard on the Loddon retains no features older than 1648. Beech Hill House, the seat of Henry Lannoy Hunter esq. j.p. is a large plain brick build- ing. This is a parcel of the manor of Stratfieldsaye, of Avhich. Basingstoke, in the union of Bradfield and county court dis- j the Duke of Wellington is lord. The principal landoAvners trict of Reading, rural deanery of Reading, archdeaconry of are the Duke of Wellington, H. L. Hunter esq. Major Allfrey Berks and diocese of Oxford ; it is situated on the river Lod- I and the provost and felloAVS of Eton College. The soil is don. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of brick and flint, built in 1867 in the English style of the four- teenth century ; it has a chancel, nave, north aisle, Avooden belfry with 3 bells, porch, organ, seven stained AvindoAvs and font of A'arious marbles. The register dates from the year 1 868. The living is a vicarage, 80 yearly tithe rent-charge Avith i| acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Miss Forbes and held since 1869 by the Rev. Charles Stephen Turner m.a. of Corpus Christi college, Oxford. There is a chapel for Bap- tists Avith endoAved stipend. The common lands have been subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are Avheat, beans and The area is 915 acres; the population in 1881 Avas Dollery Charles, blacksmith HolloAvay John, farmer. Home park Wheeler \\'illiam, AvheelAvright Hunter Hy. Lannoy j.p.Beech Plill house Parsons Mrs. Woodbine cottage Turner Rev. Chs. Stephen m.a. Vicarage Allen John, Old Elm Tree jBEEDON is a village and parish 7 miles north from Xcaa'- bury and 3 south from East Ilsley, in the hundred of Fair- cross, county court district of ISewbury, union of Wantage, rural deanery of NcAvbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas, formerly a chapel to Farnborough, is a small building in the Transition Norman style and consists of chancel and nave, Avith a bell cot : the east end has three Transition Xorman AvindoAVS, Avith the tooth ornament and banded shafts betAveen the Hghts : the chancel arch is of the same date, Avith corbel shafts, as is also the north doorway ; the south doorway is Early English : the church was re-opened after complete restoration on the 22nd of July 1882 : the chancel Avas undertaken entirely at the expense of Col. Sir Robert and Lady Loyd-Lindsay :'the nave is due principally to the exertions of the vicar and his friends, assisted by Col. Sir Robert Loyd-Lindsay : Mr. EdAvin Dolby, of Abingdon, Avas the architect. The register dates from tlie year 1732. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ^200 Avilh residence, in the gift of Colonel Sir Robert James Lovd- Lindsay v.c, k.c.b., m.p. and held since 1878 bv the Rev.l^'after EdAvard Buckland m.a. of Keble College, Oxford. In 1877-8 a quantity of Roman antiquities, comprising fragments of Samian, Durobrivian and other fictile Avare, together Avith bones and skulls of the short-horned ox, goat and red deer clay grass. 277. Parish Clerk, Henry James Monger. Post Office. — Mrs. Eliza Froud, postmistress. Letters from Reading arrive at 8.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Stratfield Mortimer There is a mixed school for boys, girls & infants, with house for mistress, Avhere a Sunday school is held National School, Miss Caroline Mead, mistress Ratcliffe James John, farmer, obtained first prize for farming at R.A.S. show, Reading priory and a variety of other remains belonging to the Romano- liritish jieriod Avere discovered lieic by Mr. Walter Money F.s.A. of NeAvbury. Colonel Sir liobert James Loyd-Lindsay v.c, K.c.n., M.p. is lord of the manor and principal landoAvner. The soil is various, principally clay and chalk mixed ; sub- soil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 2,004 acres, including Avoods ; rateable value, ^^1,822; the population in 1881 Avas 323. Stanmore is a hamlet i| miles north-Avest; in April, 1815, a large bell-shaped barrow, here called by the villagers " Bur- roAv-liill," Avas opened by the late Charles E. Long esq. then resident at Langley Hall ; and at the depth of about 10 feet, some remains of burnt bones, Avith fragments of a funereal urn Avere met Avith, beloAV Avhich the floor of the barroAv Avas reached and found to be pierced by seven perpendicular holes, about a foot deep, cut in the solid chalk and each con- taining a deposit of charred Avood. Parish Clerk, George Curtis. Post Office Receiving House. — Walter EdAvards Good- man, receiver. Letters through Newbury arrive at 7.15 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.45 p.m. ; Sundays, 5.8 p.m. The nearest money order k telegraph oitice is at East Ilsley National School, erected 1876 to hold 120 children ; average attendance, 60 ; MissE. Hillman, mistress Buckland Rev. Walter Edward m.a. [a-: car] Beak Worthy, farmer, Stanmore Brand Enoch, shopkeeper, Stanmore Goodman 'V^'alter EdAvards, painter k glazier Herbert Alice (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hibbert EdAvin, blacksmith King John Goddard, farmer. Manor frm Pocock George, carpenter Raj er John, farmer, Stanmore BEENHAM VALLENCE is a parish in the hundred of Readmg, union of Bradfield, county court district of Read- ing, rural deanery of Bradfield, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, 8 miles Avest-south-Avest from Reading and 8 east from Newbury. The Aldermaston station on the Hungerford branch of the Great Western raihvay is at the south-west end of this parish, 45 miles from London. The church of St. Mary is an ancient fabric of Early English architecture and formerly belonged to the monastery of Reading ; it comprises chancel, nave, aisles, porch and toAver and contains an organ presented by the last Aicar ; the church was struck by lightning and partly burnt in the year 1794; it was last repaired and restored in 1859: here is a monument to Stackhouse, Avho Avrote " The History of the Bible." The register dates from the year 1562. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ^^230 Avith residence, in the gift of Mrs. Bushnell and held since 1855 by the Rev. Thomas Hext Bushnell m.a. of Pembroke College, Oxford. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Near the village is lieenham House, the property of Lieut.-General Samuel A. Dickson, Avho is lord of the manor ; it is a large square brick building facing the Bath road, situate in a park of about 60 acres and is at present occupied by Henry Waring esq. The principal landoAvners are Lieut.-General Dickson and W. H. H. Hartley esq. The soil is clay and loam ; sub.soil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,890 acres ; rate- able value, £2>'>'^77 ; the population in 1881 Avas 517. Parish Clerk, Joseph Hatto. Post Office. — Letters arriA^e from Reading at 8 a.m. ; dis- patched at 6 p.m. The nearest money order oflice telegraph office is at Aldermaston R.S.O National School, James Philpot, master ; Mrs. Ellen Philtop, mistress DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. BINIIELD. 27 Bushnell Rev. Thos. Hext m.a. Vicarage Geary Charles Ironmonger John, Church cottage Salmond WilHam, Park Farm cottage Waring Henry, Beenham house BESSELSLEIGH is a parish in the hundred of Hor- nier, union and county court district of Abingdon, arch- deaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Abingdon and diocese of Oxford, 4| miles north-west from Abingdon and 5^ south- west from Oxford, on the road from Faringdon to Oxford. The church of St. Lawrence is a small Gothic structure with chancel, nave and belfry ; it contains an ancient monument to Sir John Lenthall knt. and bart.: the church was re- stored and beautified by Speaker Lenthall in 1637. The register dates from the year 1689, The living is a rectory, yearly value £200 with residence, in the gift of Edmund Kythn Lenthall esq. and held by the Bev. Hugo Daniel Harper d.d. principal of Jesus College, Oxford. The chari- ties are £2, 155. yearly. The old Manor house, formerly the residence of Speaker Lenthall, stood near to the west end of the church : his son. Sir John Lenthall, governor of Windsor Castle, a colonel in the Parliamentary army and m.p. for Gloucester and Abingdon, died November, "1682, and was Holloway — , blacksmith Ironmonger Richard, farmer Layley George, grocer &. draper Milson Edward, t^ix Bells \>'arman Josiah, shopkeeper &, beer retir Harper Rev. Hugo Daniel d.d. Rectory Lenthall Edmund Kythn j p. Bessel- sleigh manor Kyttin Kyffin Wm. Besselsleigh manor Lenthall Frank Kyliin f.s.a. Bessels leigh manor BINFIELD is a scattered village and parish 2^ miles from the Bracknell station of the London and South Western rail- "^^''*yi 3h north-east from Wokingham and 9^ east from Windsor, in the hundred of Cookham, union of East- hampstead, county court district of Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks and dio- cese of Oxford. The church of All Saints is a stone structure in the Third Pointed style, and w< s probably built in the latter part of the reign of p:dward III. : in the chancel is a tine brass of Water de Annefordlie, a former rector, of the dat-e of 1335: a north aisle was added by subscription and the church re-seated in 1848 : in 1859 a north chancel- aisle was also added by the late Mrs. Young, at the same time the chancel was restored at the expense of the late rector, the Rev. James Randall and a vestry built and other alterations made in the church at the expense of various parishioners ; it has a tine old square tower : the east Avin- dow is stained ; there are two other stained Avindows in the chancel in memory of the family of the late rector ; there is likewise a memorial Avindow in the east end of the south aisle to Mrs. Parker and in the Avest end to C. Parker, esq. and in the east end of north aisle is a memorial AvindoAV to Mrs. Young : the pulpit and reading-desk arc of oak, hand- somely carved, of the date of 1628; attached to the pulpit is a A^ery ancient hour-glass stand of iron, curiously wrought Avith the arms of the Smiths' and Farriers' Companies of the City of London. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, yearly value ^"628, including residence, in the gift of tiie Lord Chancellor and held since 1859 by the I!ev. Edmund Savory m.a. of Oriel College, Ox- ford, Aviio is surrogate, hon. canon of Christ Church, rural dean and diocesan insi)ector of schools for the rural deanery of Maidenhead. St. Mark's is a chapel of ease and is a hand- some red brick building Avith stone facings in the Early English style, erected by subscription in 1866, an aisle being added in 187^6; it now consists of chancel, nave, aisles and transepts. Here is a l>aptist chapel. There is a fuel allotment of 13 acres, producing £10 yearly and charities of £jfO for distribution. liinfield Park House, for- merly the seat and property of Mrs. Young, avIio also owned Pope's Wood, at one time the favourite retreat of the great poet, Avas sold in 1877 to Lord Arthur Hill ; it is a good brick building surrounded by a park of about 300 acres and occupied by Mrs. Rock ; there is a PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ayhner Henry Gerald. Pope's Avood Biake Mrs. Pope's ^^'ood lo.lge Blake William, Holly cottage Browne Hutchinson Hothersall J. p. Moor close Butler John Cambridge Philip, The Acacias Caswall The Misses, The Elms Chapman Mrs Chute (reneralSirTrevor K.c.n. Egmont ; & Army & Navy club, Pall Mall a.w. Cooper John, Elm lodge Faussett Col.U'm. (rO(itfrey,Farley moor Fit/XJerald Lucius Henry, The Firs Forster Stuart, Bintield house Fowler Mrs GodAvin Richard, Bin field cottage Hawker Francis Alfred, Eaglehurst HaAvorth Capt. Holmlea Hunter The Misses, NorihAvood Jones Hardman, The Woodlands Long Stephen Oliver, Bintield grange Meynell Ingram Miss, Binlield manor Morshead Sir Warwick Charles bart, J. p. Forest lodge Mortimer Robert, Oaklands Pratt Mrs. Forest cottage Retty John Ryder S. L. Dudley, Park lodge Rock Mrs. Bintield Park house Saunders Edmund, Primrose hill Savory Rev. Edmund m.a. [rector, hon. canon of Christchurch, rural VS'ebb Richard, farmer. Hill Foot farm Wilkinson Samuel, farm bailiti to Henry Waring esq. Grange farm Wright James, farm bailiff to Henry Waring esq. Rose cottage buried in the chancel of the church. Oliver Cromwell is said to have been a frequent visitor here, but this statement seems to rest on tradition only. Besselsleigh Manor, the seat of Edmund Kytiin Lenthall esq. j.p. is a handsome modern mansion in the Tudor style, built of Avhite stone Avith Bath stone dressings. The parish is mostly the property of Edmund Kyliin Lenthall esq. Avho is lord of the manor. The soil is loamy sand ; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are Avheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 893 acres ; rateable A'alue, ^1,086 ; and the population in 1881 Avas 105. Parish Clerk, John Bullock, The inhabitants of this village are entitled to send their children to the school at Appleton, endowed by Sir R. Fettyplace Letters through Abingdon. Marcham is the nearest money order oltice & Abingdon the nearest telegraph office. Waia. Letter Box cleared at 5.30 p.m Bolton William, farm bailiff to E. K. Lenthall esq. j.p White Fredk. Greyhound, & blacksmith Catholic chapel attached to the house ; Bintield Court is the seat of Frank Davenport B. Webster esq. ; Forest Lodge, a handsome house surrounded by a park of about 100 acres, is the seat of Sir WarAvick Charles Morshead bart. j.p. ; The Firs, of Lucius Henry Fitz Gerald esq. ; Egmont, Gen. Sir Trevor Chute k.c.b. ; Allanbay, James Allan Wiggett esq. J.P. ; The GroA'e, Sir Henry Mervin Vavasour bart. d.l., j.p. A portion of Billingbear Park, the property of Lord Bray- brooke, is situated in this parish. Bintield Manor House, the seat of Miss Meynell Ingram, is in this parish ; it Avas in 1738 in the possession of the Pitt family. The chief manor of Bintield Avas given up to the CroAvn in 1548 by the then Lord Sandys ; an inferior manor existed and still exists, of Avhich Henry Skrine esq. is the lord. The manor Avas for- merly included in Windsor forest, and many of the old forest trees still remain on the estate, Avhich is very remarkable for some magnificent oaks and a cedar of extraordinary growth. By the Act of Parliament enclosing ^^'indsor Forest, passed in 1813, the right to a spring of Avater, a mile from the manor house, Avas reserved to the lord of tlie manor, who has the sole right to it. The principal landowners are Lord Arthur Hill, Lord Braybrooke, General Crutchley, Allan ^N'iggett esq. and Sir Warwick Charles Morshead bart. j.p. The soil is principally gravel and clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Avheat, oats and barley. The area is 3,207 acres; rateable value, ^^9, 388 ; the population in 1881 Avas 1,682. Parish Clerk, Monday Bolton. Post k Money Order Office & Savings Bank. — William Caudell, receiver. Letters are received from Bracknell at 7.10 a.m. & 12 a.m. ; dispatched at 6 p.m. ; Sundays, 10.15 a.m. Bracknell is the nearest telegraph office Insurance Agents : — Bn//al Farmers' General {Hail), C. J. Minchin fFestminster Fire General Life, C. J. Minchin Schools : — There is a large National school for girls & boys supported partly by endoAvment & partly by subscription ; an infant school Avas built in 1874; average number attending both schools is over 200 ; Monday Bolton, master ; accommo- dation, 150; average attendance, 130 Infant, Miss Kate Sarah Burnham, mistress ; accommoda- tion, 120; average attendance, 85 Carrier to Readying. — Charles Scott Barker, Aved. & sat dean,surrogateifcdios. insp. of schools], Rectory Smith Mrs. Pope's Wood cottage Smith-Masters Mrs. Church house Swindale John, Spring villa Tudor Owen, Bintield lodge Vavasour Sir Hy, Mervin bart. d.l., j.p. The Grove Watson Miss Webster Frank Davenport Bullock, Bintield court Wiggett James Allan j.p. Allanbay commerclal. Barker Chas.Scott, Old Jack of Xewhuri/ Barker John, blacksmith Barker A\'illiam, blacksmith BenningGeo. farmer, White Ho. farm 28 BIN FIELD. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's Bray Brothers, grocers & drapers Burdtield Samuel, Bee Hive Butler Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Caudell Wm. Avheehvright & postmaster Charlton John, fFhite Horse Coote Henry (Mrs,), coal dealer Crockford Frederick, farmer Cropp George, baker & grocer Dyer Annie Elizh. (Miss), ladies' school, Woodside East George, builder & ironmonger Elliott Arthur, farmer, HazleAvood farm Elliott James, farmer,Rounds Hill farm Fielder Thomas, brickma. Amen corner Giles Edwin, baker & grocer Green Benjamin, Victoria Arms Green Jolm VVm. Bochxck, k builder Hatfield Thomas, farmer, Hill farm Hatton John, boot &shoe maker Jarvis John, builder Jones John, dairyman Jones Joseph, job master k butcher King Alfred, saddler & harness maker Kislingbury John & Son, plumbers & glaziers Lake Henry, Shonlder of Jfntton Lawrence Thomas, tailor k draper Martin James, farmer Mawby \A'illiam, Bridge house Merson Joseph, farmer. Manor farm Miller Daniel, farmer Miller Wm. carman Minchiu Benjamin, baker & grocer Minchin Charles Jacob, hay, straAV, corn & coal merchant, k brick & tile manuf. See advertisement Minchin Henry Charles, overseer, Hill cottage Minchin\N'm. assistant overseer k collcc- Morris Benjamin, bricklayer Partridge Wm, farmer, Westley Mil^ farm Reilly John Patrick, tailor & outfitter Betty John, farmer Kose Jane (Mrs.), Blade Bone Rose Lewis, farmer. Cabbage hill Sargeant John, JoUi/ Farmer Simonds H. k G. Stac/ ^ Hounds Swindale John,surgcon, union medicai official & public vaccinator forBinfieUl district. Spring villa Thorp Joseph, farmer, Brooklands ^Vatts Alfred, Eoyal Standard Watts Georpe, grocer & baker West Joseph, dairyman Wild "\^'m. Henry, baker & grocer AN'ilson John, farmer, Park farm BIRCHETT S GREEN is a elevation conunanding an extensive view of the surrounding country and adjoining the beautiful demesne of Hall Place, lo miles north-east from Beading and 35 west from Maiden- head. A small portion of this handet is in the parish of Bisham and the remainder in the parish of Hurley ; it is in the county court district of Henley-on-Thames. Hall Place,! he seat of Sir Gill)ert Augustus Clayton East bart. .t.p. is a rod brick mansion situated in a picturesque, well-wooded park of about 160 acres, in Miiich are alx)ut 100 head of deer; the park is noted for its magniticeut avenues of lime trees, one of which leads to the mansion, the others extending right and left. A school cha])el was opened and licensed by the tor of poor rates. Vine cottage handet situated on an |. bishop of the diocese ( J^ishop Wilbcrfoi'cc) on February 28th, 1869, in which divine service is ludd on Sunday afternoon. The land is the [)roperty of Sir G. A. Clayton East, bart . .i.e. and of the vicar and churciiwardens of Hurlf^y, who are trustees and managers. The population is included in the respective parishes. PiT.L.\n Lkttkh Box. — Letters from Maivlenhead at 9 a.m.; box cleared at 6.30 p.m. except Sundays, then at 10.45 The nearest money order & telegraph otiice is at Maidenhead ratocliial ScJiooI hiiixed) for 60 children, average atten- dance 36, Miss Fanny Hoarn, mistress East Sir Gilbert Augustus Clayton bart. J. p. Hall place Micklen John Henry, Bosley James, brick k tile ma &, builder Clarke Christopher, land agent to Sir Ciilbert A. Clayton East bart Croxford Thomas, beer retailer Field John, farmer, Stubbings farm Lowe \\ illiam, shopkeeper Panter John, The Crown Windsor Thomas, corndealer BISHAM (formerly Bustleham) is a village and parish within the parliamentary borough of Great >hirlow (Ihicks), beautifully situated on the bank of the river Thames,i3 miles north-east from ]^eading, 7 east from Henley, 5 north from Maidenhead and one mile south from Marlancis, blacksmith Randall Henry, carpenter Silver Sons k FilcAVOod, brick k lime Avorks Smart William, Ihd Lion Tajiping James, stCAvard to G. H. Van- sittart esq Thomas Bros, paper makers ample supply of good Avater. The church of St. Michael, formerly dependent on Reading Abbey, is a structure of rubble, ilint and stone, consisting of chancel,Avith a chapel on the .south side, nave, aisles, transepts, the piers and lantern stage of a central loAver,north and south porches,and a ^ est- AVesterir railway and i| miles from Up1on station on the ern toAver of three stages, Avith a quatre-foiled parapet and. Didcot and NcAvbury radwa}', partly in the hrndred of crocketed pinnacles Avith vanes, and containing a ch.ck and Moreton, but chiefly in that of Reading, union and county 6 bells, of Avhich the 4th and earliest is dated 1586, and the court district of ^A'antage, rural deanery of Wallina-ford, others re.si)ectivelv 1633, 1689, r704, 1752 and 1825; it Avas archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The village, originally a buildiiijr of the Late Transition orAnglo-Xorman Avith the exception of one principal street, is scattered ; from period, dating from' about a.d. 1180, of Avhich a considerable its position at the foot of the downs it fnjoys a pure and portion still exists ; the chancel, Avilh its interior sout'.i wall, invigorating air and abounds Avith springs afff)rding an is Transitional ; it retains a line stone groined roof and one DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. BLEWBURY. 29 of its original windows, besides a small circular opening in the apex of the eastern gable.but its other windows are Late Decorated ; the south wall of the chancel was cut through about A. D. 1350, on the erection of the chapel; this is a Decorated work, and the reticulated tracery of the windows is characteristic of the style at its best period ; it was not improbably built by the Lattons, who then resided in the adjoining rillage of Upton ; on the .^outh-side is a piscina, two pointed arches, enclosed by oaken screens open to the chancel ; one of these screens is good Perpendicular, and there are also two ancient prayer desks of the same date, till of which are elaborately carved ; tlie piers of the central lower, also Transitional, are of unusual thickness, and at the angles are slender nook shafts, with the volute and >traight-leaved ornament on the cafiitals peculiar to this date ; from the chafings of the ropes upon the arc lies, still j)laiiily distinguishable, it would seem that this tower had 4 bells ; the vaulting is perfect, the-two easternmost piers lire pierced with hagioscopes, that on the south Perpendicu- lar, while that on the nortli is square and probably original ; 1 lie south-west pier contains a flight «{ stone steps leading to an open archway on tlie right of tlie nave and anciently llie entrance to the rood-loft, which it appears had a piscina, a unique feature carefulh' reproduced during the recent rf'sloration ; the lower door is Perpendicular, with elabo- rately carved panelle I tracery; tlio nave is separated from the south aisle by an arcade fif live Transition arches, of the same date, the two westernmost being Mider and loftier than the others ; these si)ring from stilted circular <;olumns, the ca])itals havi;ig the volute ornament, and in <»ne instance Early foliage! work; the north arcade is Decora teil and has two arches only, suii])orted by octagonal cohmuis; i)lain Perpendicular windows light both aisles, nnd the west window in the tower is a good exam]»lc of the sauje dale: the tower opens to the nave by a bold and hifty arch, and its lower stage serve> Ixith as a vestry and ringing chamber; the oriirinal porches seem t(» have been removed in the Peri)endicular jicriod and rei)laced by sub- stantial porches of open timber-work with barge boards richly carved; of these the south porch remains, but the north ]>orcli has lately been rebuilt in tlint with stone drt'ssinirs, its carved work rei)ro luced and new oak door iunig; above the doitrwayis a stone niche, and on either side are small stone slabs, one containing brass figures with scTolls: the south door, a venerable relic, has a huge woddeti lock and tine Early English iron work : the font is of Perpendicular date, octagonal and panelled in quatre- foils; around the under surface are alternate tleurs delis nnd lu-i/.^.soiis d haiic/ic. The llumfrcys, still a numerous family in this locality, have been connected with the parish from a remote period — a AN'illiam Huiiifray being ri'sideiit here so far back as 1340; the Lattnns, who took their name fmm Latton, in AN'ilts, and derived themselves fn>m the Stutvill(>s or Estotevilles i>f Normanby, were once a family of high consideration in these parts, and owned 26 manors in Horks alone, besides large property in other ^•omities; they apjiear to ha\e resided in tins neighbour- liott I from an early jterioil, W illclnius de Latton, fourth in 3ed ' the lowering of part of the floor to the depth of about a foot, j the entire renewal of the nave roof, in exact facsimile of the old open timber roof, the entire relaying of the floors Avith Av<»od blocks and tiles, re-glazing the windows, an 1 generally renovating the iiiteri(»r ; in the nave, chairs have been sub- stituted f(»r the high pews, a ne\\ puli)it of carved oak j erected, and the font set up at the Avest end ; in the chancel ' the eastern end has been raised, a sedile formed in the eastern ' arch of the arcade, closed by a new screeii,an ancient aumbry refitted, and a reredos of carved alabaster set up; the gal- leries Avhich encumbered the north aisle and Avest-end have 1 been taken doAvn and the tower opened to the nave, and north porch erected. The church Avas re-ojiened on the comjiletion ' of these Avorks by the Bislio]t of Oxford; more recently the north aisle has been restored and an organ introduced, for Avhich a sjiecial service Avas held on Tliursilay, Sep. 14, 1882 : j the communion plate includes a siher chalice dated 1663, and a paten of silver given by Malthus's trustees. The register dates from the year 1588." The living is a vicarage, net 1 yearly value ^^270 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1874 by the Rev. John Hugh Burgess. Among the ]iast curates may be mentioned the Rev.Morgan Jones, an eccentric character knoAvn as "The BIcAvbury Miser," Avho died Avortli about ^^40,000; he Avrote his S3r- mons on scraps of paper sometimes torn from the walls.an I lay in bed Avhile his single shirt was Avaslied ; a threadbare coat, said to have been Avorn by him ft>r 40 years, is now in the possession of Mr. Luke Lowsley, of Hampstead Xorris. Sir Robert Hanson, Lord Mayor, 1673, Avas a native of this place. From olil Lady-day to Old Michaelmas-day a bell is regularly rung here at 8 in the evening and till lately also at 4 in the morning, in continuance of an ancient custom instituted for the guidance of any avIio might get lost upon the DoAvns. There are two almslit»uses, one for the oldest man in the parish, erected 1738 by the gift of on? James liacon, Avho died in 1734, Avith an alloAvance to the inmates of 8s. Aveekly ; another, erected 1838, for the use of Bacon's charity, on a site given by the late John Shaw Phillips esq. of Culham, Avith an alloAvance of 7s. weekly U:mK)n's charity of £6 and Jor.cs' of £2, arc expended 30 BLEWBURY. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's in bread for the poor ; Justices of ^3 and Tyrell's are distributed in money. The Church Acre and Play Close produce about ^3 yearly for church purposes. The Wesleyan chapel is a building of brick with stone dress- ings, in a simple style of Gothic, erected from designs by the late Mr. W. H. \^'oodman, of Reading ; there is also a Primi- tive Methodist chapel. The village was on several occasions visited by Wesley ; the chapel in which he preached is now a dwelling house, A short distance from the village, east- ward, is a remarkable hill called Blewburton (Bleohi/ridim), scarped on its western side into a series of broad plateaux rising one above another, and generally supposed to have been a fortified position, although regarded by some as a sacred eminence devote! to the sun-worship of the Celts ; in the lands around, many coins, from the time of the Romans to that of the Stuarts, have been ploughed up, together with bullets and other evidences of former Avars. During the Civil 'V^'ar the neighbourhood was frequently scoured by the Royalist and Parliamentary forces. The parish is intersected by a Roman road and a British road, called respectively the Ickleton or Icknield way, and Grims- ditch ; the former represented here by the high road between Reading and Wantage, at Streatley throws off a collateral branch called"TheRidgeway,"which runs along the hills soul h of the village by Cuckhnmsley {Cwickelm^s //Zee w) to Wantage. Col. Sir R. J. Loyd-Lindsay v.c, K.C.B., M.P., J.p. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are The Rev. C. R. Powys an 1 Nathaniel Humfrey esq. The soil is chalk and marl and the land chieiiy arable, producing wheat, barley, roots and beans, but within the village it is principally laid out as cherry orchards, and large quantities of this fruit are an- nually sent out to the London and other markets, ^^'atercress is also extensively cultivated. The entire area is 6,814 acres ; rateable value of Blewbury, only ^'4,829 ; the popula- tion in 1 88 1 was 746. Upton, with Aston Upthorpe, were formerly chapelries, Burgess Rev. John Hugh, Vicarage Church Rev. William Montagu Higgin- son M.A. [curate], St. Michael's cottage Huggell Mrs Richardson Mrs COMMERCIAL. Abbott George, farmer Aldridge Elisha, Barley JTow Aldridge Tom, Avheelwright Batt Joseph, fruiterer Belcher Joseph, sawyer Caudwell Eli, farmer, Ashbrook farm Corderoy Joseph, Load of Misclde f Corderoy Josiah, farmer Corderoy Justus,farmer & miller(water) Grace Malachi, New inn, k carrier Green George, carrier Hall John, grocer Hall Mark, draper Hester Henry, plumber and glazier Huggins Samuel, coal & wood mer Huggins Sarah (Mrs.), Red Lion Humfrey JU ron, farmer Humfrey Walter, farmer Johnson John, blacksmith Lane Seth, farmer k carrier Lay Thomas, sieve k basket maker Leach Henry, maltster Lousley Joseph, farmer Martin Samuel, shoe maker but have now been united together as a separate ecclesiasti- cal parish. Letters through Didcot R.S.O. which is also the nearest money order & telegraph office. Schools : — The Endowed school was erected in 1709 by the trustees of William Malthus esq. citizen of London, Avho bequeathed lands at Noke, in Oxfordshire, for the education & clothing of 30 boys & 30 girls ; the endowment also pr-oviding premiums of ^10 for the apprenticeship of the boys to various trades at the age of 14, & a certain sum to each girl on leaving the school, this charity at the last return (1808) produced a total gross income of £72^ per annum, of Avhich £27 yearly was available for ap- prenticing k the same sum 'for distribution in blankets, sheets & coal on New Year's day ; the property, con- sisting of 664 acres, now produces only £49^ yearly, out of which £280 is paid for the 10 boys at the Blue & Green Coat schools at Reading ; the distribution of gifts, for some years suspended, has been to a slight extent re- sumed, but there is at present no free education nor any provision for apprenticing. An infant school is attached, in which about 50 children of both sexes are taught, supported partly by the school pence & partly by the trustees I'Jndowed, founded in 1709, for 60 children, but has now space for 200 ; James Watkins, master ; Miss Anne Louisa ^Vatkins, mistress Infant, Miss Annie Caroline Hillier, mistress Carriers : — Joseph Seth, to the * Wheatsheaf,' Reading, Saturday, returns same day George Green, to Abingdon, monday, at 7 ; to Didcot, tues lay ; to Wantage, Saturday, at 7 Malachi Grace, to Wallingford, monday & friday Mazey Edward, shoe maker Napper Frederick, farmer Pepall Samuel, watercress grower Pether Edward, carpenter Porter William, Catherine Wheel Rant George, grocer liichardson Thomas Percival & Alfred Heber, grocers & provision merchts Robinson Richard, farmer & miller (water) Hobinson William, farmer Rumsey John, farmer Saunders William Curtoys, farmer Silverthorne \^Mlliam, beer retailer Thatcher Emily Louisa (Mrs), shopkpr BOURTOlSr is a township and ecclesiastical parish formed in 1867 out of the civil parish of Shrivenham, in the union and county court district of Faringdon, hundred of Shriven- ham, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, three quarters of a mile south-by-west from Shrivenham station on the Great \^'estern railway, 6| miles from Swindon and 7 south-west- by-south from Faringdon, situate on the Wilts border. The Wilts and Berks canal passes through. The church of St. James was built by public subscription, by far the largest benefactor being the late Thomas Tucker esq. who gave ^500, parsonage garden and site of church ; it is a stone building in the Early English and Pointed styles and has chancel, nave and bell-gable with 2 bells. The register dates from the year i860. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value ^100, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and held since 1867 by the Rev. John Batchelor Kearney m.a. of St. John's College, Cambridge. Here is a Baptist chapel. Messrs. John Baker and John Tucker built and endowed six alms- Kearney Rev. John Batchelor m.a. [vicar] Mansfield Rev. Robert [Baptist] Tucker Mrs. Bourton house Allaway John, farmer Dixon Eleazer, blacksmith Keevil Noah, farmer, Lower Bourton houses ; they are o fstone, in the ornamental Pointed style. Great quantities of fossils of various kinds are frequently dug up in this village. A very old cross stands in the centre of the village. Bourton House, a handsome edifice, com- manding extensive views, is the residence of Mrs. Tucker. Viscount Barrington is lord of the manor, and he and Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. Lawrence are principal landowners. The soil is part loam and clay ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats, clover and turnips. The area is 1,251 acres; rateable value, ;^5,03o ; the population ini88i was 284. Letters through Shrivenham R.S.O. which is also the nearest money order & telegraph office Wall Letter Box cleared 1.20 p.m. week days only' The school, for 30 girls & 40 boys is a stone building, erected in 1842 ; it was built at the expense of the late John Baker, Joseph Tucker, Henry Tucker & John Tucker ; erected in 1842 to accommodate 76 ; average attendance, 58 ; John Phillips, master Locker Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Trueman William, wheelwright Waltham John, farmer BOXFORD-cum-WESTBROOK is a parish and village on the road to Lambourn,4 miles north-west from New- bury, in the hundred of Faircross. union and county court district of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Newbury and diocese of Oxford. The Lambourn river separates Boxford and Westbrook. The church of St. John is an old stone edifice : the chancel and nave are probably of the fourteenth century : the low square tower, which is of flint and brick, contains a peal of 5 bells and a clock : the north aisle was built in 1841 for the use of the poor by the Rev. John Wells, then rector. The register dates from the ^'^ar 1558. The living is a rectory, rent-charge commuted at ^867 with 20 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of and held, since 1872, by the Rev. George Francis Wells b.a. \ of Christ Church, Oxford. Here is a chapel for Wesleyans ; ! there is also one for Primitive Methodists on Wickham Heath. The benefactions to the poor are — the rector pays I 13s. 4d. on every Easterday in the church ; Mr. Gregory Ire-monger gave ^^27 by will ; Mrs. Wayte gave 6s. 8d. pay- I able yearly ; Mr. Richard Whare gave ^30 by will ; Mr. W'illoughby gave an annuity of 20s. by will, dated 1610; John Shepherd gave £20, the interest to be paid to poor widows. On the road at the northern end of the parish is a boundary stone of the parishes of Boxford, Welford and Leckhampstead ; this road is called Hangmanstone lane from the following legend : — A man having stolen a sheep, DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. BRACKNELL. 31 ■n'as carrying it Avitli its hind legs roun 1 his neck, and sat down to i-est on the large boundary stone ; the sheep struggled and drew him backwards, and he was found in the morning strangled by the hind legs of the sheep : this road is conjectured to have been the Roman road from Spinse to Wanting. The Earl of Craven and Charles Eyre esq. are lords of the manor : the latter is the principal landowner. The soil is mixed gravel and chalk ; subsoil loam and chalk. The chief crops are Avheat. barley, oats, and turnips The ai-ea is 2,769 acres ; rateable value, ^^4,295 ; the population in 188 r was 568. Westbrook is a tything in this parish. Parish Clerk, Alfred Taylor, Post Office. — Stephen Liddiard, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Newbury at 1.30 a.m. dispatched at 4.40 p.m Newbury is the nearest money order & telegraph office. There is Boxford a letter box at M'ickham heath ; also one Parochial School mistress Boxford. Wells Rev. Geo. Francis b.a. Rectory Adams Robert, blacksmith Baverstock Walter, farmer Baylis George, farmer, Wyfield Cruse Thomas, shopkeeper Dodd James, farmer Dodd John, harness maker (t farmer Hawkins Joseph, shopkeeper Heath William, farmer, Ownham Hutt Henry, farmer, Boxford house Joyce Thomas, farmer. Hunt's green Knight T. miller (water), Boxford mill Liddiard Stephen, shopkeeper Merritt William, Bell inn, & farmer Pearce Geo. shoe ma. Wickham heath Pearce Jas. shopkeeper, Wickham heath Pearce Wm. coal mer. Wickham heath Westbury Giles, farmer, Court Oak farm (Boxford), Mrs. Mary Jane Crudge, Wilson Edwin, farmer, Court Oak farm Westbrook. Matthews Charles, Westbrook house Baverstock Frederick, farmer Cruse Daniel, wheelwright Hobbs Francis, boot and shoe maker Matthews Richard, farmer. Hill house Pocock '\^'illiam, shopkeeper BOYNE HILL is a long, irregular village and eccle- siastical parish formed in 1858 out of the civil jiarish of Bray, comprising the vilhige of Boyne Hill, the outlying hamlets of Cox Green and Tittle Row, and parts of the town of Maiden- head near the station, on the south side of the great Bath road, in the hundred of Beynhurst, union of Cookham, county court district of Windsor, rural deanery of Maiden- head, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford ; it is 7 miles south-west from Windsor. The church of All Saints w as built in 1857 of red, white and black brick, with carved stone dressings, and ornamented inside with carved work ; all the wind(nvsare stained ; the nave is very lofty and the aisles, Avhich are proportionately so, are separated from the nave by stone columns and arclies ; the chancel has carved stalls and decorations : in 1865 a noble Decorated tower with a peal of 8 bells and lofty steeple (together 147 feet) were added by the incumbent and his friends : a parsonage- house is connected witii the vestry by a corridor of 36 feet. The register dates from the year 1857. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ^^rSo, Avith residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1877 by the Rev. Arthur Hislop Drummond u.\. Clirist Church, Oxford. St. Paul's mission chapel and Infant school, in Albert street. Maiden- head, belong to this district : there are likewise almshouses for six persons. Near this village is a spring, known by the name of Reading Pond. The land is the property of VVilliam Boyne HilL PKIVATE RESIDEXTS. Barkshire James, 2 Boyne villas Cox Charles William, the Orchards Dalrymple Miss, Clicfden cottage Drummond Rev. Arthur Hislop m.a. [vicar]. Vicarage Dyer Mrs, Aralueu house Filewood Charles, Boyne Hill villa Forbes Miss, Boyne Hill cottage Higgs Miss, Boyne lodge Hurley Mrs. i Boyne villas Lamo'tte Miss, Boyne Hill house Spencer Rev. Robert Edward [curate in charge of St. Paul's chapel of ease. Maidenhead], Church house Walford Mrs. Boynings COMMEUCIAL. Brill Edward, farmer, Boa uc Hill farm Brown Richard, baker Crockford William, shoe maker Ferrebcc John, Crooked Billet (Jray George, Plouyh Huse Frederick, basket maker Martin Thomas, builder, contractor & stone mason, lioyne Hill Avorks Pet tit Thomas, beer retailer Smart William, beer retailer ■Winter James, carpenter Cox Green. Smith William, Selbv cottage Watkin John, Old Court Beer James, Tlie Foresters Wv'iW Josejih, farmer,Lowbrook farm Fletcher Jacob, market gardener Harvey John, beer retailer Hopkins Isaac, beer retailer Seymour Henr}-, beer retailer H. Grenfell esq. and the trustees of the Salters' Company. The soil is gravel and in some parts loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is I, 000 acres ; the population in 1871 was 1,554. Cox Green is a long, irregular village, in the parish of Bray, situated on the south side of the great Bath road, and separated from Boyne Hill by the Great Western railway. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Tittle Row, or Altwood Road, is a small village adjoin- ing Boyne Hill, close to the Great Western railway ; it ter- minates at Maidenhead Thicket, and is situated on the south side of the great Bath road. Parish Clerk, William Goulden. Letters through Maidenhead, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office Wall Box cleared 10.55 ^ 7-45 P-"^- ^ ^.t 10.45 on Sundays Schools : — The schools, with residences for curate and the master and mistresses, form a quadrangle, in the Gothic style District Parochial (boys), to hold 150; average attendance, 95 ; William Goulden, master ; girls, to hold 150 ; average attendance, 80 ; Miss Standford, mistress *S'^. Paul's Infant, Miss Esther Stratton & Miss Elizabeth Brown, mistresses Wilkinson Allport, farmer,Ockweirs frm Webb Philip, baker Tittle Row. Baylis Frederick George Drummond Mrs. The Elms Robson Captain Geo. Altwood house Rolls Arthur, The Poplars Silver James Edward, 2 Cedar villas Silver Joseph, Fountain villa Silver Richard, i Cedar villas Vivian Claude Hamilton, The Firs Gardener Joseph, farmer Silver, Sons & Filcw^ood, builders, con- tractors, stone masons it brickmakers, Altwood works ; & brick & lime works, Bisham Silver, Peter, blacksmith Silver Richard, jun. engineer BRACKNELL is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1 851 out of the parishes of Warfield and Winkfield, in the hundred of \N'argrave, union of Easthampstead, county court district of AN'indsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, arch- deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, situated on the Forest road from l^eading to London, and forming part of the Old Forest of Windsor, surrounded by a neighl)Ourhood of picturesque scenery, and containing several mansions and parks of resident noblemen and gentlemen ; it is an im- proving place, 28 miles from London, 12 south-east from Reading, and 8 south from Maidenhead and 9 east from Windsor. The 15racknell station on the South Western railway is in the parish of P^asthampstead, a quarter of a mile distant. The ciiurch of the Holy Trinity was built in the year 1851, in the Early Pointed style, of flint, and in i860 w as improved and enlarged, and now consists of chancel, nave, aisles, with organ loft ; there is a good reredos. The register dates from the year 1851. The living is a vicarage. yearly value ^^95, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1865 by the Rev. Charles Palmer Tidd Pratt m.a. of Jesus College, Cambridge. The Congregational chapel was rebuilt in 1859. The Baptists, Wesleyans and Primitive Methodist also have places of worship here. Here is a cemetery of zh acres in extent containing one mortuaiy chapel. Lily- hill, a handsome modern residence, beautifully situated on an elevation and surrounded by a park, is the seat of Lt.-Col. J. H. Bagot Lane j.p. Holly Spring, a pleasant mansion and situate in a park of about 60 acres, is the seat of Palmer Chapman esq. There are also The Brackens, Sir Wm. Cunningham Bruce bart.; Lavender farm, Lt.-Gen.Anthony Robert Thornhill j.p. and Heathfield Lodge, H. F. De Paravicini esq. Lord Braybrooke is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Lord Ormathwaite, Lt.-Colonel J. H, Bagot Lane, W. C. King esq. Palmsr Chapman esq. andC. J. Cave esq. Rev. E. H. Linzee b.a. and Major-Gen. G. H. L, Milman r.a. of Martin's Heron. The soil is clay and 32 BRACKNELL. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's ^Travel ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat ; the land is ])rincipally pasture ; and the population in 1871 was 1,273 and in 1881 1,785. Parish Clerk, Charles C. Davies. I'osT, Money Oeder & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank it Government Annuity & Insurance Office. — Joseph IJartlett, receiver. Letters are delivered at 7 & 10 a.m. 6.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 12 noon, 7.30 p.m. & 9 p.m "Wall Letter Box, corner of Station road, cleared ii.o a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; Sundays, ii.oa.m, only Insurance Agents : — General Hailstorm, Bartlett & Smith, High street Imperial Fire, W. H. Sandwith, High street Imperial Live Stock, Bartlett & Smith, High street Liverpool <^ London ^ Globe, C. C. Davies London General Plate Glass, H. Dix Pha^nix Fire, Bartlett & Smith, High street Popal Farmers'' ^' General, Bartlett & Smith, High street Royal, H. Dix Sun Fire, F. W. Hunton JVhittington Life, Bartlett & Smith, High street Public Officers : — Clerk to the Guardians, Rural Sanitary A uthority 4" School Attendance Sf Assessment Committee of Easthampstead Union ^ to Bracknell Highway cf- Burial Boards, Charles James Cave Inspector of Nuisances for Easthampstead Union Rural Sanitary Authority, J. Lawrence Medical Officer ^ Public Vaccinator cf- Registrar of Birtlis Deaths for Bracknell Suh-di strict, Thomas Croft Registrar of 3Iarriages for Easthampstead Union, Frederick Wm. Hunton, High street ; deputy, ChB,r\es Barnes, High st Superintendent Reg istrar o f Easthampstead Union, Charles James Cave ; deputy, James Darling, V^'ick hill Road Surveyor, William Andrew Ripley, Station road Schools : — National, mixed, capacity for 130 children ; average atten- dance, 100 ; Bull brook, Alfred Hill, master ; Mrs. Mary Ann Hill, mistress Infant, capacity, 50 ; average attendance, 45 ; Miss Smith, mistress Carrier to Reading. — Daniel Brown, tues. thurs. & sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS. .Armstrong Henry m.d. Gilnockie Ashman Mrs. High street liruce Sir Wm. Cunningham bart. d.l., j.p. The Brackens <'ave Charles James, Wick hill 'Chapman Palmer, Holly Spring •Croft Thomas Drake Frederick William, Oakleigh Eyre Col. Frederick Vincent Hill side Fowle W. Station road -< iardner Mrs. Bullbrook ITal field Frederick, Mallory cottage Lane Lt. Col. John Henry Bagot j.p LilyhiU Lawrence Thomas, High Elms Linzee Rev. Edward Hood b.a. Forest lodge Littledale C. St. George R. Wickhill ho Marshall Francis Alb,ert, Westwood ; (Sc 32 St George's road, London s.w Miller Richard, Bullbrook IMihnan Major-Gen. Gustavus Hamilton LockAvood R.A. Martin's heron Monday Thomas, Rose villa Faravicini Harry P'arquhar De, Heath- field lodge Patterson Miss, Heatherdown, Ascot rd Pratt Rev. Charles Palmer Tidd m.a Vicarage Raggett George, Priory Reynolds Chas. \^'m. j.p. Ramslade ho Sargeant John Frederick Sovitliard Arthur, Fern lodge Thornhill Lieut-Gen. Anthony Robt. j.p Lavender farm commercial. Angel Robert, Bidl inn. High street Apsey George, boot & shoe maker, Bull- brook Barker & Son, blacksmiths Barnes Charles, hair dresser & grocer, & deputy registrar of marriages for Easthampstead union. High street BarroM' Charles Cornelius, grocer & ironmonger. High street Bartlett & Smith, auctioneers, appraisers, house & estate agents, accountants, printers, & stationers. High street Bartlett Joseph, assessed tax collector & postmaster, High street Bennett Herbert George coach builder. High street Black well Thomas, New inn, High st Boston Brymer, Crown inn. High street 3^>0Avles Alfred, shopkeeper, Bullbrook BoAvles Charles, carpenter k joiner Bullbrook Boxall Edmund, grocer. High street Bracknell Gas Co. Limited (Fredk. Wm. Hunton, secretary) Bracknell Pottery, Brick Sf Tile Co. (Thos Seaward manager), London Depot, Bourne Valley Whf. Nine Elms .V.I" (E. Greenfield, manager). See advertisement Brewer Geo. Red Lion, & dairy, High st horse dealer Brewer Wm. Salisbury, Nutcroft villa Brown Daniel, Prince of Wales, k carrier. High street Butler Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer. Mount Pleasant Capp Fredk. china & glass warehouse, High street Carn \^'m. Benj. Running Horse, Bull- brook Carter Wm. EdAvard, saddler & harness maker. High street Cave Charles James, solicitor, commis- sioner for oaths,clerk to the Easthamp- stead union, to assessment committee, rural sanitary authority, school attendance committee, district high- way board & burial board, supt. registrar ; London agents, Blake k Snow, 22 College hill e.c Cemetery (Charles James Cave, clerk to the burial board) Chamberlain Thomas, coal, coke & building material merchant, Station yard ; k at Windsor Church Thos. John, hay, straw k corn merfhant, opposite the church, See advertisement Clemen+s James, shopkeeper, Bullbrook Cocksedge Geo. Bloomfield, chemist. High street Coles William Joseph, iron & brass founder, agricultural implement maker k general machinist. High street Cox John, farm bailiff to Lieut-Col. Lane, Lillyhill farm Crawley Joel Henry, tailor. Station rd Crocker Samuel, butcher & cattle dealer, High street. See advertisement Crocker Thomas,broom maker & farmer, Bullbrook Croft Thomas, surgeon, registrar of births k deaths & medical officer k public vaccinator forBracknell district, Easthampstead union Darling Jas. m.r.c.v.s. veterinary surgn. & deputy supt. registrar of East- hampstead union, Wick hill Davies Claudius Chas. cabinet maker. High street Davies Thomas, builder. High street Davis Alfred Fletcher, boot & shoe ma Dix Henry, builder, contractor, plumber k decorator. High street. See advert Drake & Mount, hay, straAV, coal & corn merchants ; k at Sunningdale Dredge Robert, dairj-man,EIdon cot Dunbar Amelia (Miss), berlin -wool warehouse. High street Ekins Thomas, baker, confectn. & seed- man & agent for Phillip's pure teasife Milner's safes. High street. See advert Faulkner Henry Geo. tailor. High st Faulkner Rt. Jn. iron and wire fencing & iron gate, hurdle k palisading manuf. & general smith, Bullbrook Fielder Albert, builder, Mount Pleasant Fletcher Thomas, grocer, BuUbi'ook Foreman Henry, builder, Bullbrook Gale John, Plough ^ Harrow Giles Charlotte (Miss), confectn. High st Giles Thomas, bricklayer, Ashford cot Godfrey Vt'm. shopkeper, Chavey Down Goodchild Geo. blacksmith, Ascot road Gosde)! C. blacksmith. High street Gough Wm. coach builder to the Queen, Bullbrook. See advertisement Harris Edmund, fishiDonger, High st Harvey Maria (Mrs.), Royal Oak, Bull- brook Plolliss Eras. Peachey, outfitter, High st Hunt James, farmer, Broad lane Hunton Frederick Wm. auctioneer, estate agnt. accountant, printer,sec. to Bracknell's Gas Co, Limited, registrar of marriages for Easthampstead union & agent to Sun Fire & Life ; offices. High st. ; &at Bagshot, Surrey Jarvis George, Boot, Clay lane Laird Harriet (Mrs.), baker, Bullbrook LaAvrence J. inspector of nuisances to Easthampstead union, rural sanitary authority Lawrence John Edwd, butcher. High st Lawrence Thomas, draper & grocer, brick maker k timber merchant, agent for W. k A. Gilbey, wine k spirit merchants. High street Lewis Charles Frederick, plumber Long Thomas, blacksmith Longhurst John, carpenter, Churph rd Lovegrove Mary (Mrs.), baker. High st May I^dward, builder and contractor, Priest wood ; & at Easthampstead. See advertisement May Edward, corn dealer, Station rd Nash Moses, wholesale & retail coal & coke merchant. Railway station ; & at Raihvay station, Twyford Norris Wm. Hy. builder and carpenter Chavey Down Panter George, blacksmith &c. High st Paulding Rosa (Mrs.), toy dir. High st Recover James, tailor. High street Phipps Richd. Jas. outfitter, High st Pickering Elizh. (Mrs.), school. Clay la Poynter William, watch maker. High st Reeves Geo. boot &. shoe maker. Highs Eipley William Andrew, drainage en- gineer, district road surveyor & inspector of main roads Roberts Arthur Edward, boot & shoe maker, High street Robertson k Co. importers of Brittany &. Kerry cows Rose Joseph, farmer. High street Rose Wm, Avatch & clock maker. High street Royal Forest Agricrdtural Association (F. W. Hunton, assistant sec.) SandAvith Wm. Hy. pharml. chemist. High street Sargeant John Fredk. (firm, "Wheeler Sargeant), solicitor DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. BRAY. 33 Saunders Fredk. Robt. Royal Foresters, Ascot road Slyfield C, & C, (Misses), drapers & milliners, High street Smith C. A. auctioneer, see Bartlett & Smith Squire Wm. butcher, BuUbrook Stephen S. Blandy & Co. bankers (T Lawrence, agent) ; draw on Willis, Percival & Co. London e.c BRADFIELD is a scattered village, parish and head of a union, 8 miles west from Reading and 3I south-west from Pangbourne railway station, in the hundred of Theale, county court district of Reading, rural deanery of Bradfield, arch- deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford : the village is situated in a valley, on a stream called the Kimber, which rises in this parish. The church of St. Andrew was enlarged and, with the exception of the tower and part of the north aisle, rebuilt by a former incumbent, was re-consecrated in 1848 ; it consists of a rich Early English chancel, nave, aisles, transept (in which is an organ) and a tower : the windows are stained. The register dates, with interruption, from 1539. The living is a rectory, yearly value ;i^i,i48 12s. with residence, in the gift of John Thompson esq. j.p. of Broughton Hall, Chester, and held by the Rev. Charles Harry Owen M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. There is a chapel of ease (The Holy Trinity) situated at Buckhold, about 2 miles north of the village, also a chapel of ease (SS. Simor and Jude) about a mile from the church, in- tended specially for the use of the inmates of the Union Workhouse ; there is also a small chapel belonging to the Primitive Methodists. The charities consist of the interest of ;^3oo Three per Cents, left by J. BuUer, of Privy Gardens ; Wilson's ;^ioo ;^3 per Cent. Consols ; seven acres of land and some smaller amounts left by other persons for the benefit of the poor. Bradfield Hall, the seat of Miss Connop, is a substantial building of red brick about one mile and a half west of the village. Bradfield Lodge, the property and residence of Otho Cooke esq. is one mile south of the church. The principal landowners are Richard Benyon esq. and Miss Connop. The soil is generally gravelly ; subsoil, for the most part chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 4,384 acres ; rateable value, ^5,991 3s. 9d. ; the population in 1871 was 1,182. Parish Clerk, John Perrin. Post & Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank. — John Perrin, postmaster. Letters arrive from Reading at 7.30 a.m. & 2.15 p.m. ; dispatched at 8.25 a.m. & 5-55 P-m Near the parish church stands the college of St. Andrew, founded for the education of the sons of gentlemen ; it was first opened in 1850, was endowed as a Foundation school in 1859 for 153 commoners & 16 Flounder's boys, & it was incorporated by royal charter 1862; by a recent alteration of the statutes the warden is now authorized to admit 300 commoners ; there is a yearl)- competitive election, as vacancies occur, of one or more boys under the age of fifteen to the foundavion of this school ; by the statutes it is provided that "the Founder's boys shall lie either fatherless or the sons of poor gentlemen or clergymen, & they shall be lodged, boarded & instructed gratuitously & upon terms of equality in all respects with the commoners " Warden 4" Head Master, Kev. Herbert Branston Graj' m.a. Queen's College, Oxford Bouch Thomas Joseph, Stanford Avood Connop Miss, Bradfield hall Cooke Otho, Bradfield lodge Gray Rev. Herbert Branston m.a. [M-arden & head master], St. Andrew's college Le Page Peter IJenjamin Money William Owen Rev. Charles Harry m.a. Rectory Perrin John Rowley Rev. John m.a. [precentor], St. Andrew's college Wyatt Daniel Young George, ]5urnt hill commercial. Alexander Edward, farmer, Burnt hill Ball Andrew Jackson, stationer Steptowe Isaac, baker, High street Stevens Reuben, basket & sieve maker, High street Strickland A. Station hotel Taylor Edmund, station master TownsendGeo, chim. sweeper,Bullbrook Tucker Eobt. Hind's Head, High st Vincent & Co. brewers Webb Mary (Mrs,), beer ret. Long hill Welch George, shopkeeper. High st Westness Thomas, photographer, Bull- brook Wheeler & Sargeant, solicitors Wheeler Geo. butcher. High street Whittaker Martha (Mrs.), laundress, Long hill Wiggins Joseph, hair dresser, High st Wild George, grocer, BuUbrook Young Alfred, fruiterer. High street Young Harry, Blue Lion, Broad lane Hancock James William, carpenter BRAY is a village and parish in the hundred of Beyn- hurst, union of Cookham, county court district of Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, separated from Buckinghamshire by the river Thames ; it is i mile from the Great Western railway station at Maidenhead, 5 north-west from Windsor and Second Master, Andrew Low m.a. Corpus Christi college, Cambridge Assistant Masters (Classics ^c), A. D. Godley b.a. {Com- position), Balliol College, Oxford, H. Field b.a. Queen's College, Oxford ; Modern side, Herr Knecht b.sc. London University ; Mathematics, R. W- Shackle b.a. St. Catherine's College, Cambridge; Precentor, Rev. John Powley M.A. Jesus Coll. Cambridge ; Bursar, Herr Knecht Visitor, The Right Rev. John Fielder Mackarness, Lord Bishop of Oxford Clerk, W. H. Money In the village is a mixed school, under Government inspec- tion, for boys k girls : William George Challis, master ; Miss Boucher, mistress Carriers to Reading. — Payne, monday, Wednesday & Saturday ; Henry Hawkins, tuesday, thursday & Saturday ; Thomas Girdler, Saturday & Wednesday Bradfield Union. Board day, tuesday, 11 a.m. The union consists of 29 parishes: — Aldermaston, Ashamp- stead, Basildon, Beech Hill, Beenham Vallence, Bradfield, Bucklebury, Burghfield, Englefield,Frilsham, Goring (Ox- ford), Graizeley or Graisley, Mapledurham (Oxford), Padworth, Pangbourne, Purley, Stanford Dingley, Strat- field Mortimer, Streatley, Sulham, Sulhampstead Abbots, Sulhampstead Bannister (Lower End), Sulhampstead Bannister (Upper End), Tidmarsh, Tilehurst, Uftoii or Ufton Nevet, Whitchurch (Berks & Oxford), Wokefield, Yattendon. The population of the union in 1881 was 17,973 ; rateable value, ;^i36,998 Clerk to the Guardians, J. C. Pinniger, solicitor, Newbury Relieving <^ Vaccination Officers, No. i district, Wm. Robert Bunce, Theale ; No. 2 district, James Ford, Bradfield Medical Officers ^ Public Vaccinators, No. i district, R. Cox M.D. Theale ; No. 2 district, F. Bateman m.b. Whit- church, Oxon ; No. 3 district, G. F. Fox, Aldermaston ; No. 4 district, G. H. Davis L.R.c.P.Edin. Stratfield Mor- timer ; No. 5 district, R. B. Morrell L.R.c.P.Edin. Pang- bourne ; No. 6 district, J. Breach, Yattendon Superintendent Registrar, J. C. Pinniger, Newbury Registrars of Births ^- Deaths, No. i, Bucklelmrg suh- district, Henry Guyatt, Bradfield ; No. 2, Mortimer .^ub- district, Edward Pocock, Sulhampstead Bannister; No. 3, Tilehurst sid)-district, W. R. Bunce, Theale Re(/i. good keeping at East Hendred, but the stem and base of the under one roof and a low western tower, the upper part of cross are wanting : within the years 1867-72 other discoveries which is Perpendicular with a square stair turret on the north side : on its western side is the date 1637, when it was probably repaired : the south doorway is good Norman with finely carved chevron ornament and on the right of the entrance is a stoup-niche : the tower arch is in part Norman, but has a Perpendicular ogee head : the windows are chiefly Norman or Transitional : in the tower is an ancient font, discarded about 1811 : the church contains monuments to the Wroughton family, of Avhom P. Wroughton esq. m.p. of Woolley Park is now the representative, and others to the Nelsons, formerly lords of the manor ; among the latter are memorials to Mary Nelson, 161 8, and Dorothy, wife of Wm. Nelson esq. ''cheefe prothonotarie of the comon pleas," 1619 : in the churchyard is an ancient but much dilapidated cross, two oblong monuments and a flat stone with a raised cross thereon. The register dates from the year 1538 and is an uninterrupted record from that date and in good preservation: it has the folloAving unique entry: — "Thos. Nelson, sone of Thomas Nelson, Nov. 8, 1644. This was the Thomas Nelson that fought two dragoons in Hangman Stone lane in the time of the Civil Wars, and was never well after- wards ; " a later entry in Latin records the planting of a yew tree in the churchyard by Hugh Posock, then vicar, on 20 Feb. 1694 : it does not now exist. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ^272 Avith residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster and held since 1851 by the Rev. Edward Thompson b.d. of Clare College, Cambridge. In this parish was the celebrated monastery of Paughley, founded by Ralph de Chadworth about 1160, in a wild and secluded spot, on the site of a little lowly hermitage in a dale, hard by a forest side, at a place called Elmsfordsmere, for Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustine and dedi- cated to St. Margaret : a little before its suppression the revenues of the Priory amovinted to £71 los. 7d. and it was given, 23 Hen. VIII. to the abbot and convent of Westmin- ster, in exchange for 100 acres of land (a portion of which now forms St. James's park), conveyed by that house to the king, having been surrendered by John Somer, the last prior, Feb. 14th, 1524 : the existing remains have been converted into a farm house : there are also some ruins of the chapel and an excavation is pointed out as having been one of the lishponds: these remains include what was formerly the kitchen, with an oven and cooking places and some dormi- tories over, with lancet-shaped windows ; in an angle between these and the large window over the doorway is a figure of a monk in a sitting posture, with the head inchned to the left and resting on his hands : in 1796, a large heap of earth at Mosdell Mrs 1 Bennett William, farmer Sauley F. W I Bradley James, bricklayer were made, including a similar lid or slab of Caen stone, also bevelled and bearing the full length figure of a priest, with the hands joined beneath a floriated canopy, supported by angels; the figure would date from about 1500: in the ruins of the chapel were found a carved corbel of elegant design, a large portion of the arch of a doorway, a piscina and fragments of a clustered column and encaustic tiles, one of which bore the word " Magdalene : " twelve quarries from a stained glass window in the priory are now in the entrance porch at Prior's Court, having been removed thither by the late Mr. J. T. Wasey, then lord of the manor ; these exhibit curious figures of men, women and monkeys : the well of the monastery is deep and large and the water very poor : hoards of money have been discovered in the adjoining M oods and on the manor; in 181 1 many coins were found in a pit at Field Coppice, and in 1825 a pot containing 800 coins of the Emperors Constantine, Julian, Gratian, Valentinian and others was found by some labourers about 24 yards from the Newbury road ; subsequently a party of gipsies, encamping in Margaret's Head, there discovered another hoard of the reputed value of ^^300. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Baker's Charity of j^i 6s, 8d. is forthcoming ; and there is an allot- ment of 12 acres, producing ^18 yearly, also distributed in clothing. Woolley (Wulvely) Park, the seat of Philip Wroughton esq. m.p., d.l., j.p. contains a handsome mansion situated on a beautiful slope : the Park is very extensive and well wooded : the Deer Park extends over an area of 116 acres : in the park was formerly a small church, given in the twelfth century to the monastery of Paughley ; there were no remains of it in 1759 but its site was known. Philip Wroughton esq. who is lord of the manor, and Herbert Humfrej^ esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is principally chalk ; subsoil, chalk and rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,319 acres ; rateable value, ;^3,484; the population in 1881 was 412. Parish Clen^k, Robert Bailey. Post Office. — Mrs. Bradley, postmistress. Letters arrive from Wantage at 9.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Brightwaltham & tele- graph office at Wantage Endowed School, with an income of £106 yearly, left by Mr. Saunders & by Mrs. Wynne, for the education of 10 boys ; George Miles, master ; Miss Laura Giles, mistress National School, supported by subscription Carrier. — John Uzzell, to Newbury mon. thurs. & sat. ; Wantage, wed Hedges James, Ibex Huzzey Jonathan, shoe maker Thompson Rev. Edward b.d. [surrogate Chisman William, farmer I Messenger Robert, farmer for diocese of Oxford], Vicarage ' Harvey Hugh, head gardener to Philip | Norrinton Bartholomew, farmer. Oak Wroughton Philip m.p., d.l., j.p. Wool- Wroughton esq. m.p j Ash ley park ; & Carlton club, London s.w ' Hedley John, steward to Philip j Spanswick Charles, blacksmith Bennett Robert, farmer, Bottom farm I Wroughton esq. m.p | DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. CHIEVELEY. 39 EAST and WEST CHALLOW townships, in the civil parish of Letcombe Regis, were formed in 1852 into an ecclesiastical parish (each maintains its own poor and is separate for parochial and other purposes), in the hundred of Kintbury Eagle, union and county court district of Here are the extensive works of Messrs. Nalder and Nalder Limited, for the manufacture of agricultural implements. The L oclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. W. B. Reynolds, W. Barker and W. B. Wastrough esqrs. are the principal landowners. The area is 1,276 acres; rateable Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Want- j value ;i^3,8i8 ; the population in 1881 was 397. West age and diocese of Oxford, situated to the south of the Great Western railway, which has a station here and is intersected by the Wilts and Berks canal. East Challow is one mile west from Wantage. The church of St. Nicholas is a small structure of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and south aisle and an Early English bell-cot on the western gable, containing 2 bells : the east window is Decorated, of three lights, with flowing tracery, the chancel arch Early English with shafts : the nave is separated from the aisle by an arcade of three good Early English arches, but the aisle is modern : the south doorway is good Late Norman, the west doorway Transition Norman, with an Early English stoup on the south side : the font is plain and cylindrical : the communion plate is dated 1788. The register dates from the year 17 12. The living is a vicarage, yearly value _^30o with T( sidence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1853 ^y the Rev. George Purdue s.c.l. of Merton College, Oxford. There formerly existed between this village and Wantage an obelisk, placed at the end of an avenue stretching to Circourt, in the parish of Denchworth ; some of the stones, it is said, may be seen in a paved pathway east of the church. At Woodhill is an old house, occupied by Mr. Thorpe, containing an ancient fireplace, over which are the initials of Richard and Mary Bray, and the date 1676. East Challow. •"'^"f" Nalder William Pickard Rev. William Jesse [curate in charge] Wright George Cross Alder William, shopkeeper Brooker Charles, wheelwright Burson P'rederick, Coach ^ Horses Bye Henry, shoe maker Jeffries Charles, farmer CHANDLING'S FARM, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish, 2^ miles north-east from Abingdon and 3 south from Oxford, adjoining Bagley Wood, on the road from Abingdon to Oxford, in the hundred of Hormer, union and county court district of Abingdon ; it consists of one small shopkeeper Nalder & Nalder Limited, agricultural engineers Sharpe Benjamin, farmer Simmons Willian, farmer Stroud Robert, fruit merchant West Challow. Purdue Rev. George s.c.l. [vicar ] Breach Joseph Thos. farmer, Th e Hill Dean Thomas, farmer Challow is 2 miles north-west from Wantage. The church of St. Laurence is a plain unpretending structure, consisting of a chancel, nave. Perpendicular wooden porch and a double Decorated bell-turret containing 2 bells ; the chancel, with its screen, is Perpendicular, the north doorway Transition Norman. The communion plate includes pre-Reformation paten and a chalice of the seventeenth century. In the vicarage garden is the head of an ancient stone cross with traces of a crucifix. Nearly opposite, is an old stone house, called " the College," originally perhaps the abode of a priest. The register dates from 1653. Charles Cotton Ferrard esq. is the lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is strong clay ; subsoil, blue clay. The crops are wheat, beans, oats and turnips. The area is 697 acres ; rateable value, £1,772 ; the population in 1881 was 172. Letters through Wantage, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office. Pillar Letter Boxes at East & West Challow. Letters arrive at 7 a.m. ; cleared at 7 p.m. Schools : — East Challow National, built in 1856 for 50 children; Miss Katherine Tosland, mistress West Challow Church, built in 1872, for 25 children ; Miss Sarah Burgess, mistress Challow Station. — Cornelius Clifford, station master Goodlake Ai^is, Sf Craddock Thomas Myers, farmer Dormer John, farmer Fleetwood William, shopkeeper I Leanord John, Frince of Wales j Lloyd Charles, artiflcial manure works Mitchell James Henry, farmer Pert Robert, farmer Sims George, Leather Bottle Toomer John & Sons, coal merchants, Challow station Welch John James, shopkeeper farm which belongs to St. John's College, Oxfoi-d. The soil is clay and sand ; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 75 acres ; rateable value, ^1^85 ; the population in 1881 was 3. Letters through Abingdon, the nearest money order office. CHIEVELEY is a parish and village with the chapelries of Leckhanipstead, Oare and Winterbourne and the tithings of Curridge and Snelsmore, in the hundred of Faircross, union and county court district of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Newbury and diocese of Oxford. Chieveley is 5 miles north from Newbury, 45 south from Ilsley and 22 from Oxford, on the road from Newbury to Abingdon. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a plain builduig partly in. the Early English style, with some traces of Norman : the whole of the nave was rebuilt by the late incumbent in the Early English style, from the plans of Mr. J. W. Hugall, architect ; it was le-opened by the Bishop of Oxford in 1873. The register dates from the year 1560. The consolidated living is a vicarage, of the yearly value of £1,^60 with residence, in the alternate gift of J. Dand and tlie Rev. John S. Wasey and held by the Rev. James John Dand m.a. of Christ's College, Cambridge. There are chapels for Baptists, Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans ; and several beciuests and endowments left for the poor amounting to £i\.o yearly, besides ^^35 for educational purposes and a church charity producing £7$ yearly. Prior's Court House is the seat of the Rev. John Spearman Wasey, but occupied by the Rev. Charles Richard Powys m.a. The principal landowners are W. G. Mount esq. William Fisher esq. Mrs. Jeune (Chieveley) and the Rev. J. S. Wasey (Compton). The soil is sandy loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The entire area is 7,397 acres; rateable value, £^,os7 ; the population in 188 1 was 1,164. Leckhampsteadis a chapelry and tithing of Chieveley parish, 7 miles north from Newbury and three north-west from Chieveley. The church, built by the late incumbent in i860, in the centre of the village, is in the Pointed style, of brick and flint in alternate courses : it consists of chancel, nave, south aisle and will seat 250 persons : the mullions of the windows are of Bath stone ; the walls are unplastered : the east window is stained, subject. The Ascension : there is a bell-turret with i bell : the east end of the nave and the south porch are mainly composed of the oak of the ancient screen in the former church, which stood a mile from the village : the ancient font has been retained : the architect was Mr. Teulon, of London, and the cost of erection was _^i,745 '■ there is a burial-ground attached to the church. The principal landowner is C. H. Noble esq. The soil is sandy loam ; subsoil chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. Rateable value, ;^2,452 ; the population in 1881 was3ii. Thicket, i| miles north-west, and Hill Green, i north, are places within this chapelry. Oare (or Oure) is a chapelry of Chieveley, 6 miles east and 5 miles north from Newbury. The chapel of St. Bar- tholomew is in the Perpendicular style and was thoroughly restored and reseated by the late incumbent in 1852 and has a bell-turret of stone. There is a small burial-ground, long since disused, belonging to the Society of Friends. The principal landowner is W. G. Mount esq. Winterbourne is a chapelry in the parish of Chieveley 4 miles south-west and 4 north-west from Newbury. The church of St. James is seated on an eminence and was com- [jletely restored and reseated and north and south aisles added by the late incumbent in 1854 : it is in the Early English style. The principal landowners are Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie and Richard Fisher esq. Rateable value, ;,^3,4io ; the population in 1881 was 340. Infants' School, Miss Clements, mistress Curridge is a hamlet and tithing 2^ south-east from Chieveley. A school-room, which is licensed for Divine service, was erected here in the Pointed style with a residence for the master and mistress, by Miss Wasey and her sister, Mrs. Stackpoole, both since deceased. The principal land- owner is the Rev. John Spearman Wasey. Snelsmore is a hamlet and tithing mile south. Downend and Snelsmore East are other places in Chieveley. Farish Clerk, Wm Smallbone. Post Office. — Thomas Wheeler, postmaster. Letters through Newbury arrive at 6.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.10 p.m. ; Sunday, 5.25 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Newbury 40 CHIEVELEY. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's Insurance Agent. — Liverpool ^ London ^ Globe, G. Mar- low Schools — A School Board of 5 members Avas formed for Chieveley in 1873 '■> Cr- Marlow, clerk Chieveley. Bellhouse Chas. Hatton, Oaklands, Curridge Beanland Rev, Arthur b.a. [curate] Cooke Michael, Coombe house Hand Rev, James John m.a. Vicarage Fane T. G Jeune Mrs. Arlington manor Newby Rev. John [curate], Curridge Pigot Albert Hance, The Cottage Pigot Miss, The Cottage Pocock John Wernham, DoAvn end Powys Rev. Charles Richd. ]\[,a. Prior's Court house A School Board of 5 members was formed for Leckhamp- stead in 1876; G. Marlow, Chieveley, clerk Board, North Heath, Winterbourne ; John Meggs, master InfanU\ Chieveley ; Miss Kate Langridge, mistress Mixed, Curridge ; Wm. Henry Crippin, master Holmes Joseph, beer retailer Jacobs Joseph, harness maker,Down end Johnson John, tailor, Down end Lamden William, coal dealer Marlow George, surveyor & assistant overseer & clerk to the school board Marriner William, Fox iff Hounds, & timber dealer, Snelsmore New Daniel, butcher Paice Hy. farmr.Old Kiln farm,Curridge Pocock Jas. farm bailiff toW. Fisher esq Portsmoutli John, baker, grocer, draper & ironmonger Preston Alfred, farm bailitf to tlie Rev. John S. Wasey Prismall John, cattle dealer Sopp Charles, draper & grocer Taylor Arthur, boot maker Wallen William, farmer \\'heeler Thomas, baker k grocer,&post oflice Weaver John, farmer, Curridge Wernham Richard, farmer Winter Joseph, builder Winter Rit-hard, watch maker Woodward Stoplien, beer ret lr.& carrier Leckhampstead. Adams Richard Savory Mrs tOMMKHCI.\L. Adams John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Annets Charles, carpenter Armstrong James, tobacconist,Curridge Beckett James, WJieatsheaf Brazier William, Hare cj^ Hounds Bristow Wm. wheelwright, Down end Brown Charles, farmer, Curridge Butler Robert, farmer, Bradley court Clarke John, farmer, Green's farm Drinkwater John cfe Charles, farmers Fisher William, landowner Franklin Charles, carpenter, Down end Fry Edwin George, blacksmith Hamlin Alfred, painter & shopkeeper Curridge Hiscock Ann (Mrs.) & Son, shoe makers, Down end CHILiDREY is a parish in the hundred, union and county court district of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of \\'antage and diocese of Oxford, al)out 2^ miles west from Wantage and south-west from the ChalloAv station on the Great Western railway. Tiie 15erks and Wilts canal separates it from West ('hallow : the name is derived from its situation at the source of the brook Cillarethe, but there seems to be no mention of it, as a village, in the old Chronicles. The church of St. Mary is an ancient and highly interesting cruciform structure of nuxed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and a Perpendicular embattled Avestern tower containing 6 bells and a small sanctus bell called "Ting-Tang": the chancel, nave, and north transept were probably built by the Frethornes and the tower and south transept added by the Fetyplaces, whose arms appear over the west window : the chancel has a fine Perpendicular east window, double piscina. Decorated sedilia and a canopied Easter sepulchre ; the chancel is as wide as the nave, and without chancel arch ; part of the rood- loft remains, and there are hagioscopes f(»r each transept ; the north transept, or St. Mary's Chapel, belonging to tlie manor of Frethornes, had a chantry founded in the fourteenth century ; in the interior are a number of brasses, in the eiist wall is a piscina ; in the north-east angle a curious stone bracket, opposite a priests' door, and here also is a door for- merly leadmg to the rood loft; the south transept, or St. Catherine's Chapel, belonged formerly to the Fettyplaces, and contains a piscina, some good fragments of stained glass, and curious corbels ; there is a priests' door, and traces of another doorway leading to a curious small stone pulpit projecting from the wall by the side of the transept ; the font is cylindrical, and consists of a leaden basin 10 inches deep, surrounded on the exterior by 12 small figures of bishops, mitred, and carrying a crosier in one hand and a book in the other, upon a massive stone base ; in the Avin- dows are considerable remains of stained glass, representing The Salutation, The Adoration of the Magi, The Crucifixion and The Ascension, with armorial devices : the Church con- tains some very old and interesting monuments of the Walrond, Fynderne, Kyngeston, Fettyplace, Englefield and other families ; these include a very fine canopied brass, with effigies, to William Fynderne esq. 1444, and his Avife Ehza- beth Avith a curious inscription round the edge, of 20 Latin verses : near this, the brass of a priest c. 1480 ; a brass, with effigies, and partial inscription to William Wal- rond gent, and his Avife Elizabeth c. 1480 ; a priest c. 1490, with chalice; a curious brass to Joan (Walrond), Avife of Robert Stroughbon, 1507, in a shroud, with 7 English A^erses; and brasses to John Kyngeston esq. 1514, and Susan his wife ; Thomas Walrond gent. 1480, and his wife Alice (Engle- Blundy John, blacksmith Deacon John, farmer. Thicket Evans John, farmer Ford \Mlliam, farmer, Rookery farm Holland H. beer retailer Jannaway John, farmer, Eastley Masters Frank, farmer Ruddle — , bailiff to C. H. Noble esq. Smith Josiah, grocer & baker Thomas Charles, tailor Tubb Thomas, farmer. Hill green \^'ard Thomas, farmer, Chapel farm Wells James, carpenter Oare. MatthcAvs James, farmer. Manor farm Taylor Fredk. farmer. New farm Winterbourne. Clifford Henry, Copyhold Cook Arthur Burton, Snelsmoi-e Cook U'illiam, shoe maker, Snelsmore Fisher Richard, farmer & landoAvner Frampton Fk. E. farmer, Penclose farm (ioodchild Philij), rake ma. North heath Jenner William, blacksmith Knight Sarah Ann (Mrs.), baker & beer retailer Lailey John, wheelwright Lawrence Wm. Jn. farmer, North lieath Mason William, Blue Boar, h baker, North heath Streat John, boot maker field) 1477; Bryan Roos ll.d. [rector], 1529, in academic drest. ; Agnes, Avife of John Fynderne, 1441 ; William P'ete- place and his Avife Elizal)etii, 1516, founders of the chantry, with shields; a matrix of a civilian and his Avife c. 1380; and in tlie south tran.sept, a marble canopy, Avith bras.s effigies of a man and his Avifc rising from th(!ir graves, and a mutilated shield of Fetiplace; in the north transept is a fine tomi), Avith the cfiigy of a cross-legged knight, under a richly ornamented ogee arch, and supposed to commemorate Sir Edmund de Chelrey, 1372 ; tlie chancel, as well as the nave, has some fine old tiles: the cliancfd and nave Averc thoroughly restored in 1877; tlie north transept has been restored by Sir John Gibbons and the south tran.sept by Queen's College, O.vford. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £600, Avith re- sidence, in the gift of the President and scholars of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, and lield since 1882 by the Rev. Ciiarles John Cornish m.a. formerly exhibitioner of that college. Here are almshouses for a cantarist and three almsmen, maintained by Queen's College, Oxford ; these almshouses Avere originally attached to land given by William Fettyplace to this College, for the support of his chantry, as above mentioned. Here are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. The charities for distribution in money and kind amount to ^65 yearly. The old manor house, lately Avell repaired, has a good fifteenth century porch, with stone-mullioned AvindoAvsand arched doorAvays, t races only of the old hall are now visible, and the buttery hatch is blocked up : from the time of Henry V'L to Charles II. it Avas inhabited by the family of Fettyplace ; in a room of this building Charles I. is said to have slept on the night of April 10,1644, during his memorable march froinOxiord toMarlborough: portions of the bedstead used by him Avere S(jld some time since and are noAV at Bisham Abbey, near Maidenhead : in the grounds is one of the largest holly trees in E^ngland ; in the village are several other ancient houses, and not far off is the Punch- bowl, a curious holloAv in the hills, similar to the Manger at Woolstone ; of the manor house (jf Frethorne, traces only can now be seen in a field close to the church : it is said to have been pulled down and re-erected on the hills above at GreendoAvn. There have always been three manors in this parish. Sir John Gibbons bart. Avho is lord of the manor of Frethorne and William Schoolcroft Burton esq. Avho is lord of the manors of Rampanes, formerly held by the Fettyplace family, and also of that of Maltravers, are the principal landowners. The soil is chiefiy clay ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are Avheat, barley, beans, turnips &c. The parish coin- prises about 2,850 acres of good soil ; rateable Aalue ;^3,i95 ; the population in i«8i was 516. Pariah Clerk, Charles Lovegrove. DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. CHOLSEY. 41 Post Office. — Thos. Herman, postmaster. Letters through Wantage arrive at 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.45 p.m. Wantage is the nearest money order & telegraph office Fettyjilace Schools^ founded in 1732, by Sir George Fetyplace, Burson Mrs Burton John Schoolcroft Burton William Schoolcroft Corni.sh Rev. Chas. John m.a Jones Miss Jones Mrs Male Kev. Robert m.A Roach Robert it enlarged by the Rev. S. A. Pears d.d. late rector, for 80 children ; George Piggott, master ; Mrs. Eliza Piggott, mistress Cahrier to Oxford. — Geo. Pike, from his house, mon [rector] commercial. Alder Frederick, farmer Alder Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Burson Eliza (Miss), grocer Burson John, farmer Burson Maurice, baker Coventry Ann (Miss), farmer Early Joseph, shoe maker Fairburn Peter, farm bailiff to William Schoolcroft Burton esq Froud James, beer retailer Froud Thoitias, shoe maker Harding Charles, farmer 1 Herman Thomas, shopkeeper \ Legge Joseph, shopkeeper ; Legge Thomas, coal merchant I Lester Walter, -wheelwright Merry Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Packer Thomas, blacksmith Pike George, farmer 1 Preater Charles, tailor j Rea Edgar, watercress groAver j Siins Arthiir, Hatchet \ Stone Richard, farmer. Manor house CHILTON is a parish in the hundred of Coinpton, union ] the manor and chief landowner. The soil is chiefly chalk and and county court district of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks, j light gravel ; subsoil, chiefly chalk. The chief cr»ps are rural deanery of ^^'antage and diocese of Oxford, situate j wheat, barlej about 3J miles north from East Ilsley and 7 south-ea.st from j Wantage. The church (»f All Saints is a small structure in ! the Early English style, having chancel, nave, south aisle j and square embattled tower containing 5 bells. The register 1 dates from the year 1584. The living is a rectory, yearly value £400 with residence, in the gift of the trustees of the late George Bowes Morland esq. and held since 1877 by the Kev. Anthony Thomas Morland h.a. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Thomas' charity is ,^330 £^ per Cent. Consols, the interest to be distributed in bread. Tliere is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Jiace horses are trained here. Col. Sir iiobert James Loyd-Lindsay v.c, k.c.b., m.p., j.p. is lord of Morland Rev. Anthony Thomas ij.a. Lay William Hazell, farmer Rectory 5h(»pkeeper com.merciai. Hall Job, draper Harris William Jolui, farmer CHILTON FOLIATT Oliver Henry Edward Prifir David, carrier J^amses AN'illiam. farmer Spiers James, carrier Spiers A^'illiam, AW 4' C'l oirn is a parisii partly in Berks but principally in I)irect(jry of the latter county. 878 by the and roots. The area is 1,500 acres ; rateable value, ;^i,985 ; and the {population in 188 1 was 276. Parish Clerk, James Green. Post Office. — Miss Martha Wigley, postmistress. Letters arrive through Steventon R.S. 6. at 9. 45 a.m.; dispatched at 5.40 p.m. East Ilsley & Hendred are the nearest money order offices. East Hendred is the nearest telegraph office Insurance Agent. — Phoeuix Fire, H. A. Stevens Parochial School, built in 1870, for 50 children ; Mrs. Elizabeth Spiers, mistress Cakrieus. — David Prior, to Abingdon, monday & thursday ; James Si>iers, to Abingdon, monday & friday Stevens Hy. Arthur, auctioneer, valuer & estate agent Stevens Thomas, trainer of racehorses Tyrrell Frank, farmer Wootlley Calel), Horse <^ Jockey, & ; wheelwright & carpenter WUt.shire : full particulars are given in the CHOLSEY (in Dome.sday, Celse;i;, is a village and parish witliiii the parlianieiitary boroiigii of Wallingf(»rd, 20 miles south-west fnim W alhngford. anil one mile from Moulsford station on the (ireat Western railway, which intersects the parish, in tlie luindreil of Moreton, union and county court district of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Wallitjgford arul dioc-esc ol Oxford, and is separated from Oxfordshire l)y the river Thames. King Ethelred is said to have foimdod a monastery here in 986 as an atonement for the nuirder of iiis brother, Edward the Mart> r, of which the Early Norman tower of the i)re.sent churc h is almost the only fragment remaining, the rest having lieen de.stroyed by the Danes in 1006, when tlicy burnt Ht-ading and connnitted other raxagcs in the c-ouiity Henry 1. granted the manor to Reading Al)bey, and the abbots had a se.it here. The church once belongeil U* the Abliey of .Mont St. Michael, in Normandy. The church of St. Mary is a cruciform l)uilding, without aisles, and consists of ciiancel, nave, north and !. Bannister William, beer retailer Bosher Williaiu, beer retailer 42 CHOLSEY. BERKSHIRE. [kelly*s Buckle Anthony, farmer Costiff John, wheelwright Coulson William Hill, farmer County Lunatic Asylum (Robert Bryce Gillard m.d. medical superintendent) Cozens Stepheii Wellesley, farmer Finch George & Son, builders Greenwood Augustus, farmer Greenwood Charles, farmer Horne George, Star Howes John, farmer Hunt Charles Hewett, farmer Kearsey Frederick, farm bailiff to Messrs Jacobs & Kearsey Larkcom George, baker Latham James, farmer Lewis Charles, basket maker Millard Edward, corn dealer Millard Henry, land surveyor Neale Job, farmer Norcott George, grocer Powell Charles, Chequers inn Robards Bisley, Swan Saunders John William, Railway hotel Sawyer Timothy, shopkeeper,& sub-post office Silvester Henry, Waterloo inn, & farmer Smith Barnard, Brentford Tailor Smith Fletcher, farmer Smith Harriet (Mrs.), shoe maker Stedon James, baker Walters Arthur, farmer Wyatt Mark, blacksmith Winterbrook. Gale Joseph John Greenwood Charles Littlewood Rev. Henry Charles m.a Morrell Captain Edward Morrell Mrs Shrubb Walter F Skurray Mrs Wakelin Thomas Weedon Francis Hedges Cope William, JVa^^s Head Painton Oliver, nurseryman Wakelin Thomas, butcher CLEWER, anciently Clewoeth, is a village and scattered parish i mile Avest from Windsor, 6 miles south-east from Maidenhead and 23 from London, in the hundred of Ripples- mere, union and county court district of Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, situate on the banks of the Thames. The parish consists of two divisions, one of which constitutes part of the town of Windsor, but is a separate parish for ecclesiastical purposes only, and the other a country district ; the latter is the portion given below, while the former is included with children's ward was opened as an enlargement of St. Andrew's Hospital, capable of holding 30 beds : an Orphan- age and Industrial Training School for 40 children, called St. John's Home, and St. Andrew's Cottage, a temporary home and house of rest for ladies of small means not invalids. Almshouses for 12 poor persons have lately been added and a chapel named St. John the Baptist was opened in October, 1881 ; it is in the Early Engligh style and consists of chancel, nave, and aisles ; the chancel is separated from the nave by a carved oak screen, with brass gates : Windsor. The parish church of St. Andrew is a building the whole of the windows are stained. The principal chiefly in the Early Norman style, consisting of chancel, j seats are : — St. Leonard's Hill, formerly called Glou- nave, aisles, south porch, and a western tower with broach i cester Lodge, the seat of the Baron de Barry (of Portugal), shingled spire, containing 5 bells : the nave and tower are ! a noble stone mansion in the French Gothic style, a great Norman, but have Decorated and Perpendicular windows in the church is a tablet to Field-Marshal Earl Harcourt, a brass with six verses to Martin Expence, who " shott with 100 men him selfe alone, at ould feild at Bray," and memorials to the family of Hayes, of Holyport ; all the windows are stained : the font is of lead : the church Mas restored in 1858 : the churchyard is remarkable for its quiet and secluded beauty, and the care with which it is tended ; with- in it rests the remains of not a few soldiers, and many of the immediate retainers of the Royal Household, amongst whom may be named the late Sir Thomas M. Biddulph, k.c.h. keeper of Her Majesty's Privy Purse, who died in 1878 ; in the summer the whole ground is radiant with flowers, and is the resort of many passing pilgrims. The register dates from the year 1650. The living is a rectory, net yearly value ;^40o, with 24J acres of glebe land and residence, in the gift of Eton College and held since 1880 by the Rev. Roland Errington m.a. Exeter College, Oxford. St. Agnes' church, a chapel of ease, situated at Clewer Green, is a building of brick, consisting of chancel and nave and will seat 150 per- sons. The Congregationalists have also a chapel here. Dedwoeth is a hamlet of New Windsor : All Saints' chapel of ease is a building of red brick, erected in memory of Mrs. Tudor, at the sole cost of the family ; it has one stained portion of which was rebuilt in 1876 on the site of the former building, erected by the Dowager Countess Walde- grave, afterwards Duchess of Gloucester, and for many years the residence of the Harcourt family ; C. H. Howell, esq. was the architect ; the house stands on an eminence in a well-timbered park of 200 acres and commands some of the finest scenery in the county, overlooking Windsor Park and Castle ; from the top of the Water Tower several coun- ties can be seen ; it is said to stand on the site of a Roman encampjnent and a Roman lamp found here, and presented by Sir Hans Sloane to the Society of Antiquaries, has been adopted by that learned body as a crest : St, Leonard's, the seat of Sir Theodore Henry Brinckman bart. d.l. ; Clewer Manor, the seat of Edmund B. Foster esq. j.p. ; Clewer Park, the seat of Sir Daniel Gooch bart. m.p., d.l., j.p. ; Clewer Lodge, the seat of Colonel Charles Richard Bulkeley ; St. Leonard's House, the seat of Mrs. P'itzmaurice Scott ; and Forest Hill Park, the seat of John Skelton esq. Surley Hall, an hotel on the Berks bank of the Thames, about a mile above Boveney lock, is a great resort for aquatic pleasure parties ; in the meadow opposite, the boats' crews from Eton College assemble and sup at their annual aquatic festival on the 4th of June, the birthday of George IIL ; it has been rebuilt by Mr. Thomas Pennicott, the proprietor. The lord- window. The area is 347 acres, and the population is included ship of the manor is vested in the trustees of the late Arthur with Clewer. There are charities of ^^53 yearly for distribu- Vansittart esq. and Arthur Stovell, esq. who with the Baron tion in money and kind, and ^16 for apprenticing. A Church 1 de Barry, Edmund Benson Foster, esq. and Sir Daniel penitentiary, called the House of Mercy, in connection with Gooch bart. m.p. are the chief land owners. The Windsor the London Church Penitentiary Association, was founded races are held in this parish on a meadow adjoining the river in this parish in 1849 and was subsequently enlarged ; about Thames. The soil is clay and gravel ; subsoil, various. The 80 penitents are continually maintained : the Bishop of the chief crops are wheat, barley and peas. The area is 1,666 diocese is visitor ; the spiritual superintendence is entrusted acres : rateable value, ;^37,3i5 ; the population in 1871 was to clergymen of the Church of England, viz. :— the warden, , 8,078, and in 1881 9,292. Rev. T. T. Carter m.a. and the sub- warden, the Rev. W. H. Parish Clerk, James Payne. Hutchings m.a. ; the internal work of the house is carried 1 Post & Money Oedee Office & Savings Bank. — Frederick on by Sisters of Mercy, ladies devoting themselves to it of Dallen, postmaster, Clewer green. Letters arrive from free service and dwelling in the same house with the penitents who are under their care : the institution is en- dowed with an estate of 26 acres, but is dependent for its support on the contributions of the sisters and voluntary benefactions of friends; the management of the funds is under the control of a council composed of clergy men and laymen: in 1875 a new wing was opened to the south of the main building for the accommodation of 33 penitents, who are called Magdalens, in addition to the 80 above- mentioned ; the Rev. Baldwin Browne m.a. and Rev. J. E. Swallow are chaplain-priests in connection with the sister- hood and its works. Under the care and management of the Clewer Sisters there are also the following institutions, viz. : — A Convalescent Hospital, containing 64 beds, called St. Andrew's Convalescent Hospital, for invalids of both sexes, admitting besides a few incurable cases ; in 1876 a p.m. ; dispatched at 10.15 is the nearest telegraph for 120 boys ; average master ; for 65 girls ; peivate eesidents. Allen Mrs. 2 Holt villas Atkins Edward, St. Katherine's cottage Barry Baron de, St. Leonard's hill Bridgman Frederick, The Laurels Brinckman Sir Theodore Henry Laving- ton bart. d.l. St. Leonards ; & 40 Berkeley square, London w Brown Rev. Moyle Sherer m.a. [curate], I Bell terrace Windsor at 7.10 a.m. & 12.30 a.m. & 5.45 p.m. Windsor office Schools : — HarcourVs Charity, Clewer green, attendance, 80 ; Samuel Poynter, average attendance, 50 ; Mrs. Sarah Knowles, mistress St. Agnes (infants'),Clewer, for 70; average attendance, 40 ; mistress, Mrs. Kate Murray St. Katherine's (infants'), for 170; average attendance, 120; mistress, Mrs. Emily Wharton St. Leonard's Charity, Dedworth green, endowed with ;^64 yearly, from bequests by the Earl & Countess Harcourt & Sir J. Pulteney (mixed) for 80 ; average attendance, 65 ; mistress. Miss Elizabeth Dennis House of Mercy, Miss Ellen Nixon, lady superior Browne Rev. Baldwin, m.a. [chaplain to hospital], Forest cottage Brocklehurst Captain John, The Willows Bulkeley Col Chas Richard, Clewer lodge Capes Mrs. 6 Bexley villas DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. COMPTON. 43 Carter Rev. Thomas Thellusson m.a [hon. canon & warden of the House of Mercy], St. John's lodge Carter George P'rederick, 4 Bexley villas Cole Hon. Arthur, St. Leonards Dale cot Cox Capt. Thomas, 2 Prospect cottages Coxhead Edwin, Findon villa Cripps William, Clewer green Curson Major Geo. Augustus, Manor cot Errington Rev. Roland m.a. [rector]. Rectory Ford Henry, Harpseen house Foster Edmd. Benson j.p. Clewer manor George Mrs. The Limes Gooch Sir Daniel hart, m.p., d.l., j.p. Clewer park ; & 3 Warwick road w, & Carlton club s.w Hawkins Mrs, i Prospect cottages Hutchings Rev. William Henry m.a. [sub- warden]. Warden's lodge Ingalton Misses, Edgworth house Julius Fredk, The Hermitage,Clewer grn Kedge George, 5 Bexley villas Layton Mrs. Park cottage, Clewer grn Neeld Capt. Audly Dallas, Manor farm Pinfold Mrs. 3 Bexley villas Pritchard Miss, The Cottage Ribbans Frederick Bolingbroke ll.d. The Laurels St. John Mrs. i Holt villas Scott Mrs. Fitzmaurice, St. Leonard's ho Seymour George Evelyn, Clewer Hill ho Skelton John, Forest Hill park Swallow Rev. James Edward m.a. [chaplain to House of Mercy] Viddler John, The Lawns Wyllie Mrs. Anglesea villa COMMERCIAL. Allen James, beer retailer Blake Joseph, beer retailer, Clewer grn Bosher Jn. Rbt. dairyman, Clewer Hill rd BramptonWm.Rd. ironmngr.Clewer grn Carter George, grocer Cox Geo. shopkeeper, Dedworth green Dakin John, builder, Clewer green Dallen Frederick, grocer, & post office, Clewer green Davis George Sampson, smith, farrier, Grainger George, beer retailer GristwoodThos.farmr.Clewer Court frm Gulliver Thomas, shoe maker. Hatch la HawkinsDanieljbeer retlr, Dedworthg rn Hearn William, beer retailer Hewitt Cath. (Mrs.), grocer, Clewer grn Hewitt Joseph Norrington, baker, Clewer green Holland Daniel (Mrs.), shopkeeper Ives Benj. beer retailer, Clewer Hill rd Kohn Henry, shopkeeper Mander Chas.Edwd. watch ma.Clewr.grn Ollett George, boot maker, Clewer grn Paget William, Swan Pennicott Thomas, Surly Hall hotel St. Andrew's Convalescent Hospital CW.B.Holderness,medical officer ; Rev. Baldwin Browne m.a. sec. & chaplain) Sheath Henry, baker, Dedworth green machinist, locksmith & tin plate j Sheppard Walter, Prince Albert, Clewer worker ; all kinds of machinery repaired on the premises Dell Albert, farmer, Dedworth green East James, beer retailer, Dedworth grn East Thomas, shoe maker green Sherwood Geo. beer retailer, Clewer grn Silver Alfred, shopkeeper, Clewer green Smith John, florist Stevens James, coal dealer, Clewer grn Edwards John Wm. fVolf\ Dedworth grn ! Thompson Hy. dairyman, Dedworth rd Garwood Hy. Avis, carman, Clewer grn i Vidler John, miller (water mill) Green Wm. builder & contractor ; esti Roberts Henry, i Bexley villas COIjESHILL is a parish partly in Wilts, in the hundred of Shrivenham, union and county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of Vale of Wiiite Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, 3I miles west-south-west from Faringdon. situated on the river Cole, which separates the Wilts and Berks portions. The church of All Saints is a fine old structure of Early English work, with Perpendic ular in Ward William F yv,e\l,Di(ke of Edinhurgh Wheatley Henrj' Jn. beer retir. Hatch la WhittekerEliza(Mrs.),grocer,Clewer grn the income of the charity is about ^^150 yearly. mates given for all kinds of building Wheatley Henrj' Jn. beer retir. Hatch la work boy or gir Coleshill House, the seat of the Earl of Radnor, a beautiful mansion, designed and built by Inigo Jones about the year 1660, is considered a perfect specimen of the style of that great architect ; its situation is on an eminence, commanding views of a fertile, undulating country, through which the Cole meanders and forms the western boundary of the county ; it serted windows, and consists of chancel, nave with north i stands in a park of 250 acres. Several cottages built of aisle and south transept and western embattled and pmna- cled tower, containing 5 bells, dated 1708 : the south transept Mas originally a chapel built in the latter part of the 15th century by Thomas Pleydell esq. an ancestor of the present patron ; the eastern window of the chancel, which represents The Nativity, was presented by the p]arl of Jiadnor in 1787 ; there are four other stained windows ; here is a small but elegant mural monument by Rysbrach, to the Hon. Harriot Bouverie, dated 1751, also a marble monument with recum- bent effigies to Sir Henry Pratt and his lady, 1647. The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £^3^ ^^'ith residence, in the gift of the Earl of Radnor and held since 1874 by the Rev. Edward Banks b.a. of New Inn Hall, Oxford. The Pinsent charity, for appren- ticing poor children of Coleshill and Great Coxwell whose parents never received parochial relief, by a decree of the Court of Chancery gives a premium of about £2$ with each Radnor Earl of, Coleshill house ; & 52 | Harris William & Edmund, farmers Grosvenor street 10. ; & Boodle's & Carlton clubb s.w. London Banks Rev. Edward h.a. [vicar], Vicarage Deadman Thomas, carpenter Hall Henry, blacksmith COMPTON (or Compton Parva) is a pretty village and parisli, wit h a station on the Didcot and Newbury branch of the Great Western railway, 9 miles north-east from Newbury, 2 east from East Ilsley, and 62 from London, in the hundred of Compton, union and county court district of Wantage, rural deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church assigned by various modern authori- ties, both to St. Mary and St. Nicholas, is situated abf>ut a stone and of ornamental design, with gardens sloping and neatly laid out, are scattered over the village. The Earl of Radnor is lord of the manor and sole owner of the land. The soil is clay and loamy. The chief crops are Avheat, beans, barley, oats, turnips itc. The area is 2,301 acres ; rateable value, ji^3,36i ; the population in 1881 was 313, of which 10 were in Wilts. Parish Clerk, Thomas Theobalds. School, erected in 1842, for 100 children ; average attend- ance, 60 ; supported by the Earl of Radnor & the vicar ; Henry Handel Thompson, master ; Mrs. Fanny Thomp- son, mistress Post Office. — William Marchant, postmaster. Letters ar- rive from Swindon vid Highworth at 7.50. a.m. ; dispatched same time & from Faringdon at 1.50 p.m.; dispatched same time. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Highworth, Wiltshire Skinner Charles, stone mason Smith Painton, farmer, Colleymore Theobald Thomas, shopkeeper Thompson H. H. assistant overseer k collector of poor rates Marchant William, grocer, & post office Neat William, butcher Pinniger Elnr. (Mrs.), farmr. Ashen cop Robertson James, farm steward to the Earl of Radnor quarter of a mile from the village ; it is a small building of Hint of mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and a western battlemented stone tower, containing 6 bells : the chancel has Early English lancet windows and similar windows light the nave on the north side ; the lower part of the tower is Transition Norman, but has a Perpen- dicular west window ; on the north side of the church are four Transition Norman arches, now blocked up, and the aisle destroyed : there is a plain Norman font : a brass is recorded here to Richard Pygott and Alice his wife, c. 1520. The register dates from the year 1553. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value jr-^x'^ with 5 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Col. Sir Robert J. Loyd-Lindsay v.c, K.C.B., M.p. and held since 1853 by the Rev. John Spearman Wasey, of Trinity College, Oxford. Tlie Primitive Metho- dists have a chapel here. South of the village is an encjunp- inent at the foot of the Down, known as " Perborough Castle," from which, eastwards, a good view is obtained of " Lowbury," another ancient military station and the highest hill in the county, being 830 feet above the sea level ; Per- borough has been identified by Mr. Luke Lowsley, of Hamp- stead Norris, a well-known local antiquarian, with the ancient " Nachededorne." The vale on the north, towards Blewbury, is called "the Slad." Racehorses are trained here on the downs. Colonel Sir Robert James Loyd-Lind- say v.c, K.C.B., M.p. is lord of the manor of East Compton, and Capt. McRea and Capt. Borland are lords of the manor of West Compton. The principal landowners are the lords of the manor and John Brown esq. The soil is chalk and Hint; subsoil, chietiy chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 3,725 acres, of which 74 are downs; rateable value, ;!^3,827 ; and the population in 1881 ■was 632. Parish Clerk, Thomas Fisher. Post Office. — George Dearlove, postmaster. Letters from Newbury, vid East Ilsley, arrive at 9.30 a.m.; dispatched at 3.45 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at East Ilsley Schools : — Dai/ <$■ Sunday Church, built in 1855, for 100 children; Miss Henrietta Mary Hardy, mistress British, for 60 children Railway Station, Walter Wright, station master Carrier.— Stimpson Thomas, to Reading every Saturday 44 COMPTON. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's Brown \^'illiam Wasey Rev. John Spearman [vicar] COMMERCIAL. Baker Thomas, iron founder Brown Francis Pearce, farmer Brown George, blacksmith Brown George, draper Brown Wilham, farmer Chapman Henry, shopkeeper Deacon WilUam, Swan inn \ Dearlove George, carpenter Dewe Robert, farmer Fuller Thomas, farmer Head Henry, carpenter Hulbert William, farmer, West Compton King Charles, grocer Matthews Richard, farmer Payne George, shoemaker Peck Jacob, bricklayer Smith Elizabeth (Mrs.), Red Lion Hobbs George Collins, coal, coke, slate | Stevens William Guy, trainer of race- & salt merchant ; & at Didcot & Upton I horses, Ycav Tree house village and parish COMPTON BEAUCHAMP is in the hundred of Shrivenham, union and county court dis trict of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, 4 miles east from Shrivenham station on the Great Western railway, 6| south-west from Faringdon and west from Wantage ; it is pleasantly situated near the base of a hill and commands a tine view of the adjoining vale. The church of St. Swithin is an old cruciform structure of the Early English and De- corated transition period, consisting of chancel, nave, tran- septs, north porch and western tower with broach pyrami- dal roof and containing i bell. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rector}', yearly value £,'^2>^, with residence and 23 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Craven and held, since 1849, by the Rev. George Carter m.a. of St. John's College, Oxford ; the Rev. William Richard Jones M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford, is curate in charge and resides at the Rectory. Langley's charity of ^3 los. yearly Bacon Vice-Chancellor Sir James knt. | Jones Rev. William Richd. im. Compton house ; & i Kensington Gar- ' in charge], Rectory denster.; k Athenaeum club ^. w.Lndn Chivers Thomas, shopkeeper COOXHAM, formerly a market town, is a beautiful vil- lage and parish with a station on the branch of the Great Western railway from Maidenhead to High Wycombe, Thame and Oxford, 3 miles north from Maidenhead, 16 from Reading, 9 nonh-east from Henley and 28 from London, in the hundred and union of its own name, county court dis- trict of Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, situated on the west bank of the river Thames, on the Bucks side of which are the highly picturesque and richly cultivated domains of Cliveden, Hed- sor and Taplow. The portion of the river from Maidenhead up to Cookham Lock is considered the most beautiful in the whole course from Oxford to London. A portion of the town of Maidenhead is in this parish. The church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient building of Early English archi- tecture, with some portions Norman, comprising chancel, nave, aisles, tower Avith 6 bells : there are eleven stained win- dows. The register dates from the year 1662, 14th year of Charles II. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £4.^'^ with residence in the gift of J. T. Rogers esq. and held since 1864 by the Rev. Reginald Wellford Rogers m.a. of Trinity College, Cambridge ; the living Avas in the patronage of the Queen in 1297, about which period it Avas appropriated to the abbey of St Mary, Cirencester, Avhich religious house presented to the vicarage in 1317. There is a A\'es- leyan chapel. The Avorkhouse is a building of brick, built in 1837, to hold 250 inmates ; particulars of union are giA-en under Maidenhead. The charities are of the A'ahie of £70 yearly for distribution, Here are an extensive paper mill and boot and shoe manufactory, Avhich give employment to many of the inhabitants. The principal landoAvners are Henry is for bread and maintaining the tombs of the Langley family. The parish school is supported by voluntary con- tributions. Compton House is the seat of Vice-Chancellor Sir James Bacon knt. ; it is an ancient stone building, with an inner quadrangle and surrounded by a moat. The Earl of Craven is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is chalk ; subsoil, brash. The chief crops are Avheat, beans, oats and turnips. The area is ^^1,453 acres; rateable value, _^2,7i4 ; the population in 1881 was 120. Knighton is a hamlet adjoining, on the north-east. Parish Clerk, Richard Wheeler. Letters through Faringdon. The nearest money order & telegraph ottice is at Shrivenham. Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.40 p.m. Aveekdays ; 10.40 a.m. Sundays Infant School, erected about 1872, for 30 children, with an average attendance of 20 ; Miss Jane Taylor, mistress. Elder children attend Ashbury [curate Reade Henry, farmer, Knighton i Reading John, farmer the Great AVestern railAvay station at Maidenhead; part of this district is situated on an eminence of at least 250 feet aboA^e the Thames; the other portion is in a dell. The church of St. John the Baptist is in the Early Decorated style of the thirteenth century ; it was consecrated in 1845 and comprises chancel, nave and south aisle with organ chamber. The register dates from the year 1846. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ;i^io8 Avith residence, in the gift of the vicar of Cookham and held, since 1875, by the Rev. Isaac William TroAV m.a. of Jesus College, Cambridge. There is a chapel for Primitive Methodists. Henry D. Skrine esq. is the principal landowner. The population in 1 88 1 Avas 800. Parish Clerk (Cookham Dean), Eli Jemmett. North. Town is a hamlet in the parish of Cookham, ad- joining the toAvn of Maidenhead. The names of some of the inhabitants, Avho are Avithin the borough of Maidenhead, are giA-en under that heading. Pillar Box cleared at 12.45 & 6.45 p.m. Letters delivered from Maidenhead Assessor Collector of Queen's Taxes, William Roft'e Stubbings is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1856 from the parishes of Cookham, Bisham and portion of Pinkneys Green and is 3 miles Avest of Maidenheal. St. James' church Avas built at the expense of the late Henry Skrine esq. ; it is in the Early Decorated style and Avas consecrated in 1850 ; it comprises chancel, naA-e and north aisle, added in 1854, and contains seven stained AvindoAvs hy members of the Skrine familj^ ; a circular stained windoAV in the Avest gable Avas given by the contractors, Messrs. Silver and Son, of Maidenhead. The register dates from 1852. The living is Duncan Skrine esq. who is lord of the manor, John Thornton 1 a A'icarage, yearly A^alue ;^i89, Avith residence and nine acres Rogers esq., Ernest Gardener esq., Edmund Mortimer j of glebe, in the gift of Henry Duncan Skrine esq. of Warleigh Leycester esq. and the Vaughan trustees. The soil is various, but generally good corn land ; subsoil, gravel, chalk and loam. The chief crops are Avheat, barley and oats. The area is £6,sog acres ; rateable value, ^36,685 ; the popu- lation in 1 88 1, including part of the borough of Maidenhead and the district of Cookham Dean, Avas 6,841, of which 2,239 Avere in the rural and 4,620 in the urban district (Maiden- head town). Holy Trinity district has a population of 851. Sexton, William Lane. Ray Mill (Raymead) is a hamlet in the parish of Cook- ham, one mile from the TaploAv and Maidenhead station of the Great Western railway. Here is an extensive corn mill, worked by the river Thames at the Ray Mill Lock. For names of residents Avithin the borough see Maidenhead. Pinkneys Green is an irregular but picturesque hamlet in the parish of Cookham and partly in Cookham Dean ecclesiastical parish, 3 miles from Great Marlow and 4 from the Great Western railway station. Maidenhead. Pillar Letter Box .—Letters arrive from all parts through Maidenhead ; dehA'ered at 7.30 & 11.30 a.m ; dispatched at 7 p.m. Cookham Dean is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1845 ^ut of the parish of Cookham and includes Cookham WooDSiDE, a mile Avest from Cookham raihvay station, 8^ miles east from Henley, 14 from Reading and 3 north from Manor, Somersetshire and held by the Rev. George Samuel Hodges b.a. of Jesus College, Cambridge. The principal landowners are Henry Duncan Skrine and G. Vansittart esqrs. The area is 900 acres. Post & Money Order & Telegraph Office, Savings Bank & Government Annuity & Insurance Office, Cookham. — Miss Louisa Young, postmistress. Letters arrive from Maidenhead at 7 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; & dispatched at 12.45 & 7.3s p.m. except sunday, M'hen they are dispatched at 7.30 p.m Insurance Agents: — Itoj/al Exchange, W. D. SAveet, Mount villa, Cookham Dean Westminster Fire 4" General Life, J. Child Schools : — Parochial, Cookham, built in 1858, for 220 children ; John Child, master ; Miss Susan Lane, mistress ; Miss Ann Pearce, infants' mistress Pctrochial, Cookham Dean, built in 1S46, for 150 children ; Miss Amelia Susan SAveetman, mistress Infant, Cookham Dean, Miss Harriet HaAves, mistress Infant, Pickney's green National, Stubbings, built in 1850, by the late H. Skrine esq. & enlarged by his AvidoAV & noAV holds 50 children ; Mrs. Jane Healey, mistress Railwai/ Station, William Shergold, station master DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. GHEAT roXWELL 45 Cookham- PRIVATE KESIDENTS. Aldridge Miss Anderson Hen. Percy, Cookham lodge Burrows Jair.es Walter Cahusac Miss, Moor cottage Fleming Miss, The Grove P'ryer William Fleming, The Hall Grazebrooke William Joshua Lambert Francis Devereux, The Lawn Leycester Edmund Mortimer Matless Walter, Church Gate house Mellsdew John, Moor hall Rogers Rev. Reginald Wellford m.a. [vicar], Vicarage Saxton Charles, Riverdene Seymour Mrs Sharpe Thomas Bowdler, Holly lodge Spencer Julius, 2 Fernly villas Spencer William, i Fernly villas Stanley Francis Sloane, Formosa house Taylor Gustavus Thomas, West lodge Troughton Miss, The Ferns Waller Josiah John, Moor house Wetherby John Phillip, Melmoth lodge Wootten John Cardy, Boyne groves Wrench William James Young Sir George bart, j.p, Suttoncroft Young Dowager Lad)-, Formosa cottage COMMERCIAL, Bailey William Henry, decorator Briginshaw Thomas, baker Burrows & Son, boot & shoe manufrs Cocking Thomas George, IFhite Hart Cooper Edward, grocer & draper Cox Tliomas Henry, Railway hotel Duckett Sarah (Mrs,), beer retailer Francis George Edward, lodging house Godden Francis, fisherman Gray Wm.Turner,beer retailenfcbutcher Greenland James, beer retailer Greswell Tliomas, coal merchant Hatch James Thomas, lodging house Holland Edwin Wm. frmr. HighAvay frm Hyde Alfred, boot maker Johnson Sarah (Miss), greengrocer Lacey Richard, carpenter Lacey Eliza (Mrs.), boat builder Lane Susan (Mrs.), blacksmith Llewellyn James, Ferry hotel Lucas William, beer retailer Medlicott Edwd.(ieo. Kinr/'s Arms hotel Nott Albert, mineral water agent Peto William, farmer, Cannon farm Poulton Richard, boat proprietor Price Henry George, fiy proprietor, coal merchant & agent to the Great Western Railway Co. for delivery of all goods & parcels Price Rd. market gardener, Sutton farm Robinson Ephraim, baker Slack George, shopkeeper Spencer John, bricklayer & greengrocer Taylor John, farmer Venables George & Son, paper manu- facturers. The Mills AValler Josiah John, maltster Warboys Thomas, Bell Dragon Webster Richd. farmer, Sheephouse farm WhitmarshCatherine (Miss), shopkeeper Wigg Thomas, carpenter Worster Edward Michael, butcher Cookham Dean. Balme Nettleton, The Cottage Brown James David Burnej- James Edward, Lynwood Chapman Thomas Darley Stephen Donges John Conrad, Grove villa Dunn George, \^'oodside Meeson Thomas, Henfield cottage Stone Mrs. Glen cottage Sweet \^'alter Davies, Mount villas Trow Rev. Isaac William m.a. Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Baldwin Caroline (Mrs.), basket maker Baldwin Thomas, fruiterer liishop Bciij.frm.bailiff to Jas. Darby esq Bishop James, frm. bailiff to Jas. Darby esq. The Cedars Copas James, Cherjuers Darby Jas. farmer, Cops&Starlings frms Deadman William, grocer, baker, corn dealer & hardware dealer Frost Thomas, fruiterer Grey George, tailor Harding William, carpenter Hester George, Hare ^ Hounds Keeling George, shoe maker Lewingdon Alexander F. shoe maker Parsons Jn. Stph. farmr. Woodlands frm Rose Elislia, farnifr. Hill (xrove farm Sharp ^^■illiam, market gardener Startin Edward, shopkeeper Stephens William, beer retailer Stevens Robert Andrew, farmer, Winter Hill farm Ware William, market gardener West Martha (Mrs.), dress maker West Soloman, carpenter Wix Thomas, carpenter North. Town. WooUet William, The Cottage Burfoot Henry, beer retailer Gardner Ernest, farmer & landowner. Spencer's farm Hart Alfred, The Harrow Purton Charles, farm bailiff to Henry Lovejoy esq Watts James, beer retailer Pinkneys Green. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Burton John Cooper John Kinghorn Hobbs George, Pinkney's Green cottage Hodges Rev. George Samuel h.a. Stub- bings vicarage Jones John, Towers house Lee Lady, Ditton house ; & 28 Bryauston sq. London w Lenny Misses Norsworthy Henry, Clarifield house Ogilvie Mrs. The Orchards Sang William, The Lodge Saunders Richard, Furzecot Skrme Rev. Wadham Huntley m.a. Camley house "Winter John, Rose cottage COMMERCIAL. Allen William, Golden Ball Brain Henry, beer retailer Cannon James, farmer Cooper John Kinghorn k Son, brick & tile makers & lime burners ; othces at Maidenhead Hobbs George, cattle dealer & farmer Hunt Robert, dairyman Jackson George, grocer Mitchley Joseph, fruiterer Musslewhite John, beer retailer Otley Sarah (Mrs.), grocer Parsons George, carpenter Reeves Benjamin, upholsterer Shaw Daniel, beer retailer Weall John, farmer, Pinkney farm GREAT COXWELL is a village and parish 2 miles south-west from Farinijdon, 4 north-east from Highworth, 14 south-west from Abingdon, in the hundred, union and county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Giles is an ancient structure comprising chancel, mixe, north porch, and a battlemented western tower, with crocketed pinnacles at the angles, con- taining 5 bells, dated 1738 : the chancel, restored by Lord Radnor in 1879, is good plain Early English Mork : the east windoAv of 3 lancet lights, is Hanked on each side by a plain lancet niche ; there is also a niche over the communion table, Avith a locker at each side : in the south wall is a piscina,with shelf and a low-side Avindow : the nave, restored in (1882) at a cost of £400, has Perpendicular lights inserted on the sout h side ; there is a western gallery and remains of a turret leading to the rood loft : at the junction of the chancel and nave is a sanctus bell gable: the tower, 15 feet square, is Early Perpendicular : there are good brass efrtgies, with inscription, to William Morys, farmer, and Joan his wife, 2 sons and a daughter, r. 1500 ; and inscrip- tions to Robert Russell, gent, citizen and draper of London, 1630 ; Ann, wife of Thomas Mores, 1632 ; Margaret, wife of Francis Mores, 1675 I Rf^bert Spindler, 1743 : Francis, wife of Bond Spindler m.a. rector of St. Martin's, Oxford, 1743 ; \N'alter Mathew, 1698. In the churchyard is a memorial to the Rev. David Collyer h.a. for nearly 50 years vicar here, and a benefactor to the parish, and to Maria, his daughter, wife of Henry Stevens; he died 21 Oct. 1724, and was the author of the " Sacred Interpreter " The register dates from the year 1654. The living is a discharged Hooper Rev. Richard Hope m.a. [vicar] | Cave Richard, baker cfe gardener COMMERCIAL. Cave Robert, shopkeeper Adams James, cattle dealer & butcher 1 GerringGeo.Frdk: farmer Badbury hill vicarage, yearly value £zso with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1877 by the Rev. Richard Hope Hooper, m.a. Lincoln College, Oxford. A Con- gregational chapel was erected in 1875. Pinsent's charity, in Avhich the parish of Coleshill participates, is for apprenticing poor children. On the top of Badbury Hill, a short distance from the village, on the north side of the turnpike road from Faringdon to HigliAvorth, are the remains of a Roman camp of a circular form, 200 yards in diameter and surrounded by a ditch 10 yards wide. Contiguous to the village is a farm-house, being the remains of a religious establishment of Cistercians, founded by the abbots of Beaulieu, New Forest, to whom King John granted the manor in 1205 ; the barn is 148 feet in length and 40 feet in width, with a spacious porch on one side and a smaller one on the other ; the roof, high-pitched and internally presenting, from its peculiar construction, a very singular perspective, is sup- ported by tAVo ranges of Avooden pillars resting on pedestals of stone. The Earl of Radnor is lord of the manor and sole landoAA-ner. The soil is A-arious ; subsoil, clay and oolite rock. The chief crops are Avheat, beans, barley and turni])S. The area is 1,407 acres ; rateable value, ^^2,149 ; and the popu- lation in 1881 ATas289. Parish Clerk, Henry Belcher. Letters through Faringdon, Avhich is the nearest money order & telegraph oltice. "Wall Letter Box cleared at 7 p.m. ; Sundays 10 a.m National School, erected in 1864, for 88 children, average attendance 60, with a small endoAvment for the mistress, Miss Martha Jane Eves, mistress Davev David, farm bailiff to Charles Frederick Spackman esq Gerring William, Court Hou.se farm 46 GREAT COXWELL. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's Gosling James, shopkeeper Green George, beer retailer & cow leech Mulcock William, farmer Roberts James, shoemaker Robins Emanuel, farmer Smart Thomas, shopkeeper Whipp James, farmer Williams Henry, carpenter LITTLE COXWELL is a township and chapelry in the parish, hundred, union and county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, arch- deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, distant one mile and a half south from Faringdon, and i8| miles from Oxford. The church of St. Mary consists of a chancel, nave, south porch, and a small centre bell gable containing 2 bells : it is principally of the Norman and Early English Transition period ; the east window is flanked on each side by dissimilar cinquefoil headed niches, but its tracery is of the Decorated style ; in the south wall of the chancel is a piscina: the nave has a Norman south door and Early English andPerpendicular windows ; over the western gallery is a small circular stained window ; the pulpit is of oak, richly carved. The register dates from 1582. The Hving is annexed to the vicarage of Faringdon, joint yearly value £260, in the gift of the trustees of the late Rev. Charles Simeon and held since 1880 by the Rev. William Edward Chapman, who resides at Faringdon. There are charities of £27 yearly value. The Coles pits, situated a short distance Lewis George, farmer Money James, blacksmith Moss Jonathan, shopkeeper Mulcock George, shoe maker Bond Thomas Day Thomas Harris Edmund Langham Miss Green Edwin, beer retailer CRANBOUKNE is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1851 out of the parishes of Winkfield, Sunninghill and Old Windsor, in the unions of Easthampstead and Windsor, and county court district of Windsor, rural deanery of Maiden- head, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, situate on the borders of Windsor park, 5 miles south-west from Windsor. The church of St. Peter is a flint stone building, with chancel, nave, and south transept, and having several stained windows. The register dates from the year 1850. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ^Ti 30 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1850 by the Rev. Conyngham Ellis, m.a. of Trinity College, Dublin. The Wesleyans have a chapel in North street. There are several handsome residences in the parish : Lovel Hill House, from the village and extending over an area of 14 acres, are objects of considerable interest, as they are supposed to have been habitations of the ancient Britons ; they number about 60, are circular, and vary in depth from 7 to 22 feet. The principal landowners are the Earl of Radnor, who is lord of the manor, and the trustees of the late Mr. Charles Belcher. The soil is a light loam ; subsoil gravel of a bright yellow hue, which is much used for walks and avenues. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 938 acres ; rateable value ;^i,Si4 ; the population in 1881 was 250. Parish Clerk, Vincent Hawkins. Post Office. — Vincent Hawkins, receiver. Letters through F'aringdon (which is the nearest money order & tele- graph oflice) arrive at 6.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.30 p.m.; Sundays, dispatched 1 o a.m ScJiool, built in 1852, for 60 boys & girls, with an attendance of 30, & supported by the Earl of Radnor, Miss Martha Money, mistress Nias John William, meat salesman Stone James, shopkeeper Williams Charles, Plough Willis John, builder PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Adams Capt. Joseph Wood Richards, Spring hill Ailsa the Dowager Marchioness of,Lovel Hill houie Barron Gerald Edward b.a., m.b. Ivy ho Blundell Miss, Ascot cottage Bowring Jhn. Chas. f.l.s.,j.p. Forest fm Cook William, Woodside Cooper Wylbie, Fern bank, Woodside Ellis Rev. Conyngham m.a. Vicarage Elwyn William Rainer, Elm house Grant Lt.-Col. Ed. Chas, Meadow's Croft Hawkes Mrs, Elmleigh How William, Hatchet lane Jackson Rev. Fras. Geo. m.a. North lodge Johnson Capt. William Victor j.p. King's Mead Kohler John David j.p. Barton lodge Layton Rev.Wm. Edwd m.a. [curate] Mc Hardy Coghlan, Cranbourne hall Peirce Richard King, Woodside house Pigot Hugh, Elm lodge Ravenhill Richard, Fernhill Scott Capt. Geo. Deniston, Lovel Hill cot commercial. Baker John, Tlie Crispin, Woodside Barron GeraldEdward b.a., m.b. surgeon & medical officer & public vaccinator for Winkfield district, Easthampstead Union, Ivy house Benford Richard, baker, North street Bishop William Jas. grocer, draper, clothier & furniture dealer. Brook side Bowyer John, Rose <^ Crown, Woodside Boyce George, farmer. North street Cam Geo. Flern'-de-Lis, Hatchet lane Clayton Charles, carrier. North street Cock Charles, carpenter, Lovel road Coles George, grocer, Woodside Cook Hy. Diike of Edinb urgh, Woodside Dobner Charles Henry, coffee house, Lovel road Douglas William, butcher, Lovel road Embury Richard, baker, North street Gray John, The Old Hatchet, Hatchet la Happle John, farmer, Lovel hall Harper Jn. Chas. Heckford, Herne^s Oak the seat of the Dowager Marchioness of Ailsa ; Forest Farm, the seat of John Charles Bowring esq. j.p. ; Fernhill, the residence of Richard Ravenhill esq. ; and King's Mead, of Capt. Wm. Victor Johnson j.p. The principal landowners are J. C. Bowring esq. James Scott esq. and Algernon Gilliat esq. The soil is clay, loam, and gravel ; subsoil, clay and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The population in 1881 was 961. Letters through Windsor, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office National School, erected in 1879 for 200 children, John Middlemist, master ; Miss Mary Elizabeth Clark, mistress ; Miss Louisa Edy, infants' mistress Carrier to Windsor. — Charles Clayton, daily Kimber George, tailor, Lovel road Laird Thos. corn merchant, North st LemmonFrank,builder,house decorator, plumber &glazier &sole manufacturer of the elastic & toughened paint for exterior work. North street Pithers Henry, grocer, Northjstreet Poynter Francis, blacksmith Rye Alfred, plumber. North street Smith William Henry, baker, Lovel rd Spong Richard, beer retailer, Lovel rd Strike & Wyborn, builders, Lovel road Todd Isaac, painter. North street Tombs William, blacksmith, North st Underbill William, butcher. North st VearJn.Clewer,bricklayer,Lovel Hill rd Ward Edmund, grocer. Hatchet lane Warskitt David, Squirrel inn, North st Wells Jn. frm,baihffto Rd.Ravenhill esq Wheeler William, carpenter, Lovel rd Wilson Benjamin, professor of music, Lovel road Worvill Robert Edmund, shoe maker, Hatchet lane CIlOWTHOE,NE,formerly a hamlet in the parish of Sand- hurst, was constituted a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1874 ; it is 4. miles south-east from Wokingham, 36 from London, 1 1 from Reading, and the village is one mile from the Welling- ton College station of the Reading and Reigate branch of the South Eastern railway, in the hundred of Sonning, union of Easthampstead, county court district of Reading, rural deanery of Sonning, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. John the Baptist is a red brick building consisting of a nave only, built by subscription and consecrated in 1873. The register dates from the year 1873. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ^^150 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1874 by the Rev. Henry Stokes Noel Lenny m.a. of Trinity College, Cambridge, who is also the diocesan inspector of schools. A vicarage house was built in 1877. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. The principal landowner is John Walter, esq. m.p. The population in 1881 was 1,365. OwLSMOOR is a hamlet in this parish, 3 miles south- east ; it has an iron church. The population in 1881 was 179. Sexton, Hy. Harris Watkins. Post & Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank. — Harry Over, postmaster. Letters arrive from Wokingham at 6.45 a.m. & 11.30 p.m.; dispatched at 10.20 a.m. 1.20 p.m. & 6.20 p.m Insurance Agent. — North British ^ Mercantile, R. Bunce Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1863, is an extensive range of brick buildings capable of holding 563 inmates, & planned & erected under the exclusive direction of the late Sir J. Jebb at a cost of 11 8,039; it has been several times altered & enlarged and the amount expended now reaches the total of ^166,350 ; it stands on an elevated site about 400 feet above the sea level, sheltered by pine woods on the north and north-east & open to the south & south-west ; Wm. Orange m.d. medical superintendent; David Nicolson m.d. deputy medical superintendent ; John Baldwin Isaac m.d. assist- ant medical officer; Revd. Thos. Ashe m.a. chaplain; Charles Phelps, steward DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. CROWTHORNE 47 National School (mixed), built by John Walter esq. m.p. ; average attendance 120; Jas. T. Fulcher, master; Mrs. Fulcher, mistress Wellington College Railway Station, Isaac Croucher, station master Wellington College. Wellington College was founded and erected by national subscription in honour of the Great Duke ; Her Majesty laid the foundation stone in June, 1856, and it was opened by her in January 1859. The number of boys at present in the school is 400, 80 of whom, being the orphan sons of officers, are maintained and educated upon the foundation, and stand in all respects upon an equal footing with the other scholars ; the property of the college is vested in a board of governors, who make regulations in conformity with their charter and elect foundationers ; the governors appoint the master of the college and by him the tutors and assistant masters are appointed: there are two departments in the school, one classical and general on the usual public school system, preparing for the universities ; the other modern and mathematical, preparing for Woolwich and other examinations in which mathematics occupy a primary place ; there are exhibitions to the universities and scholarships tenable at the school, open to all the scholars : the build- ing , which is in the style of Louis Quinze, consists of two quadrangles, surrounded by cloisters and divided from each other by the great school, a spacious and lofty room : in the cloister are placed upwards of 50 bronze busts (mostly by Theed) of the generals and private and political friends of the Great Duke, and eight fine statues adorn the principal fronts : the smaller schools, the masters' common room and the offices form the sides of the quadrangles, and over these are the rooms of the assistant masters and the dormitories of the boys, which are so arranged as to give to each a separate room ; the south side of the building is occupied by the dining- hall, which corresponds in size to the great school ; two dwelling-houses for senior assistant masters form the northern side of the college ; the lodge of the head master is detached on the south front and in the grounds are several houses of masters who receive boarders : two lofty towers give access to the dormitories and in their highest stories contain water-tanks and the furnaces and other apparatus connected with the ventilation and warming of the whole building, and it has been necessary to add two more dormitories. The chapel, an exquisite building, erected from designs by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott k.a. stands at the south-east corner of the college, with which it is connected by a cloister : the style is Gothic, with some characteristics of the Gothic of North Italy, and it is remarkable for the beauty of its proportions and the delicate finish of its details : from the roof an elegant and richly decorated Heche of oak and zinc rises to the height of 120 feet : the east end of the chapel terminates in an apse, round which, both within and without, runs an arcade, which outside is continued along the south side of the chapel : the carving throughout the building is very elaborate, and chiefiy represents groups of natural flowers, especially those growing in the neighbourhood : a finely-carved oak ' screen and stalls were erected in memory of the Prince j Consort, one of whose last public acts was to lay the foundation stone of the chapel. I The boys' library, a commodious room, finished in 1863, ' stands between the chapel and the college and is in the ; same style as the college ; the books are arranged in classes, in the manner of college libraries in the Univer- sities : it contains also some remarkable memorials both of the Duke and the Prince Consort. A museum of interesting objects of natural history and antiquities has been formed. The college grounds consist of an estate of 430 acres, 20 of which are sown and turfed to form a playground ; the plantations are very extensive and flourishing ; a double avenue of Wellingtonias, the gift of the Prince Consort, will be a noble feature of the place in future years : the Prince's well-known interest in the college and its con- stitution and system extended even to the details of the laying-out of its grounds and the arranging of its statues : an admirable system of irrigation utilises all the sewage and fertilises a farm of *' Bagshot sand " : in RESIDENTS AT WELLINGTON COLLEGE. Allcock Arthur Edward m.a Allcock Charles Howard m.a Awdry Herbert m.a Bevir Joseph Louis b.a Brougham Henry W. b.a Bull Herbert Arthur m.a Davenport Rev. Edward m.a Deane Robert C Edmonds Thomas E Goodchild Rev. William m.a the front of the college, at a little distance, are three small artificial lakes for skating and bathing ; near the railway station and not far from the entrance to the college grounds is a commodious hotel, "The WeUington," erected by John Walter esq. m.p. principally for the use of the friends of the youths at the college ; there is also a complete range of stabhng for the convenience of gentlemen living at a distance and hunting in the neigh- bourhood. Visitor — Her Most Gracious Majesty President — H.R.H. the Prince of Wales k.g Vice-President— Col. the Hon. W, P. Talbot Governors — H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught k.g. ; H.R.H. Prince Leopold k.g. ; H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge K.G. ; His Grace the Duke of Richmond & Gordon k.g. ; His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch k.g. ; the Marquis of Salisbury k.g. ; Earl Granville k.g. ; Earl Cowley k.g. ; Earl of Northbrook, Viscount Eversley, Earl of Redesdale, Earl Cairns, Viscount Cranbrook, Col. Right Hon. F. A. Stanley m.p. ; General Lord Napier of Magdala g.cb. ; Rt. Hon. S. H. Walpole m.p. ; General Sir J. L. A. Simmons G.CB. ; General Sir A. H. Horsford g.cb. ; Lieut.-Gen, E. A. Whitmore c.b, ; John Walter esq, m.p. ; Henry Richard Cox esq, ; Rev. H. D. Harper d.d. ; Rev. G. R. Gleig M.A Ex-officio Governors — H.R.H. the General Commanding-in- Chief ; His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury ; His Grace the Duke of WeUington k.g. ; Rt. Hon. the Secre- tary of State for War Secretary — J. F. Chance esq. Treasury, Whitehall, London Head Master — The Rev. Edward Charles Wickham m.a. late fellow & tutor of New college, Oxford Bursar — C. H. Lane esq. m.a Tutors Assistant Masters : — The Rev. Chas. Wm. Penny m.a., f.l.s. late exhibitioner of Corpus Christi college, Oxford The Rev. Stephen Nottidge Tebbs b.d. fellow of St. John's College, Oxford Rev. Philip Henry Kempthorne m.a. late fellow of St, John's College, Cambridge Rev. John Hy. Dudley Matthews m.a. University Coll. Oxford Rev. Edward Davenport m.a. Trinity College, Oxford William Joseph Toye esq. m.a. University College, Oxford Charles Henry Lane m.a. late scholar of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge (bursar) Rev. Alex. Irving b.sc, b.a., f.g.s. London (natural science) Rev. Wm. Cecil Wood m.a. late scholar of Emmanuel Col- lege, Cambridge Samuel Arthur Saunder esq. m.a. late scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge (mathematical) Edward Kelly Purnell esq. m.a. late scholar of Magdalene College, Cambridge Rev. Wm. Goodchild m.a. late scholar of New Coll. Oxford Harry Christie Steel b.a. late scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge Thomas Alfred Rogers b.a. late scholar of Exeter College, Oxford (mathematical) Joseph Louis Bevir b.a. New College, Oxford Arthur Edward Allcock m.a. late scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (mathematical) Herbert Arthur Bull m.a. Trinity College, Cambridge Francis Johnson Tuck b.a. scholar of King's College, Cam- bridge (mathematical) Henry W. Brougham b.a. Keble College, Oxford Ernest Alfred Upcott b.a. scholar of Balliol College, Oxford Hugh Frank Newall b.a. Trinity College, Cambridge (mathematical & natural science) Herbert Awdry m.a. New College, Oxford Charles Howard Allcock m.a. fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (mathematical) Amesley Ashworth Somerville b.a. Trinity Coll. Cambridge C. Lowry b.a. late scholar of Corpus Christi College Oxford W. S. Robinson b.a. late scholar of Trinity Col. Cambridge Professors : — French — A. J. Calais, B es-Lettres Chemistry — James Gale Barford Dra icing — H. A. Owen Hagreen b.a Singing ^ Music — Mr. Thomas Edmonds Accountant — Mr. Robert C. Deane Drill Master — Sergeant Lowe Matrons — Mrs. Bramah, Miss Deane, Miss Marfleet Steward — Mr. W. Harrington Irving Rev. Alexander b.a., b.sc, f.g.s Kempthorne Rev. Philip Henry m.a Lane Charles Henry m.a. [bursar] Lowry C. b.a Matthews Rev. John Henry Dudley m.a Newall Hugh Frank b.a 48 CROWTHORNE. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's Phelps Charles, Broadmoor Skipwith Capt. Gray, Edgebarrow Spurling Rev. John Walter m.a COMMEECIAL. Agate Thomas, Prince Alfred Attride Bros, gasfitters, hot water & sanitary engineers, plumbers & zinc, tin iron plate workers Barford James Gale, surgeon & medical olficer & professor of chemistry at Wellington college Berkshire Volunteers (Wellington College corps) (H. C. Steel, capt) Bishop George, printer, bookbinder, stationer & bookseller to the Welling- ton college Bunce Robert, fancy repository Chowrings Samuel, stone mason Dean William, chimney sweeper Douglas Archibald John, ironmonger Forbisher Francis Henry, hair dresser Goodfellow George, Iron Duke Hazard Henry, Crowthorne inn Hill Arthur, coal merchant, Wellington College station Penny Rev. Charles William m.a Purnell Edward Kelly m.a Robinson W. S. b.a. Rogers Thomas Alfred b.a Saunder Samuel Arthur m.a Somerville Amesley Ashworth b.a Steel Harry Christie b.a Tebbs Rev. Stephen Nottidge b.d Toye William Joseph m.a Tuck Francis Johnson b.a Upcott Ernest Alfred b.a Wickham Rev. Edward Chas. m.a. [head master] Wood Rev. William Cecil m.a PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Ashe Rev. Thomas m.a. [chaplain to Broadmoor criminal lunatic asylum] Griffith John j.p. Heatherley house Isaac John Baldwin m.d. Broadmoor Lenny Rev. Henry Stokes Noel m.a. [vicar & diocesan inspectr. of schools], Vicarage Monckton Col. Hon. Horace Manners Morrison Col. John Chas. Downie, Heatherside Nicolson David m.d. Broadmoor Orange William m.d. Broadmoor I Hills Thomas Chapman, butcher CXJLHAM is a parish partly in this county, but principally in that of Oxford, and full particulars will be found i) the directory of Oxfordshire. Hookham, Embling & Co. tailors Ifould Edwin, Waterloo hotel Ives Joseph, grocer James William Joseph, Wellington family hotel, & wine & spirit mer.close to Wellington College railway station Lloyd Harry, painter & decorator Longhurst William, boot & shoe maker Mahon Henry, draper Maynard Charles, baker Miller Robert, draper Over Harry, grocer & postmaster Roberson Miss, teacher of music Rogers Robert, grocer Satchell Frederick, chemist Spear & King, builders & contractors Spurling Rev. John Walter m.a. pre- paratory boarding school Watkins Henry Harris, boot & shoe ma Webb James, boot & shoe maker Willmott Henry Ross, gasfitter Owlsmoor. Letters through Sandhurst. Warrington Capt. r.n James Elijah, farmer New James, beer retailer & grocer CUMNOR is a large parish in the hundred of Hornier, union of Abingdon, county court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, situated 5 miles north from Abingdon, 4 west from Oxford, and is on the road from Abingdon to Witney, and bounded on the west by the river Isis, which separates it from Oxfordshire. The name is derived by some from Cymen, a prince of the South Saxons, and A. S. ova, the shore of a river or sea. The church of St. Michael is a building of mixed styles, and consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, a chapel at the east end of the south aisle, and a battlemented Avestern tower containing 6 bells and a clock : the walls are Transition Norman, with various insertions of later date : the tower is almost Early English, but has a round-headed west doorAvay, the tower arch being a fine ex- ample of late Transition work : against the north wall of the chancel is the rich altar-tomb of Sir Anthony F'orster, whose epitaph, of 32 verses, speaks highly of him as being amiable and accomplished : the tomb has brasses of himself in armour, and his wife Ann, with several children, c. 1570: there are other brasses to Catherine, wife of Henry Staverton, gent. 1577 : and to — Staverton and his wife Edith, c. 1580 : there is also a memorial to Dr. Benjamin Buckler, formerly vicar, and editor of the " Stemmata Chicheleiana," and in the churchyard is the tomb of Richard Brown, a shepherd, aged 109. The register, including Seacourt, dates from the year 1559 for baptisms ; marriages and burials, 1504. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value ^^400, with residence, in the gift of the I^arl of Abingdon, and held since 1877, by the Rev. Samuel Young Neyler Griffith m.a. of Exeter Col- lege, Oxford. The Rev. Dr. Buckler left an annuity, value 3s. 2d., to be expended in the purchase of Bib-es and Prayer Books for the poor ; the Rev. John Slatter, los. yearly for the purchase of blankets for the poor; Mr. William Sellwood, ^4 iis. annually, for the parishes of Besselsleigh and Cumnor alternately, and to be laid out in the purchase of foul- weather jackets ; Mr. G. Noble left two ^5 notes to be lent to poor persons, one at a time, and to be repaid at the rate of 10 groats per quarter; Mr. Carey Godfrey, the interest of ;^ioo, to be laid out in rewards for the Sunday School: Mr. H. Hall, the yearly interest of ;i^ioo, to be divided amongst four industrious persons not receiving parish relief; Mrs. M. Peacock, the interest of ;^5oo, ^3 of which towards the school and £12. to be divided amongst three poor widows who are not on the parish ; Mr. W. Slatter, the interest of £ioo, to be divided between the school of this parish and the Blue Coat School at Oxford. The poor's land of 7 acres and 3 cottages produce ;^22 yearly. The manor at a very early period belonged to the abbots' and convent of Abingdon, by whom the manor house was used as a kind of Sanitarium. In 1560 it was purchased by Anthony Forster, during whose Dawson Frederick Hill, Chawley Griffith Rev. Samuel Young Neyler m.a. [vicar]. Vicarage Weaving Mrs COMMERCIAL. Adams John, farmer. Red house Ayres Alfred, farmer Ayres Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Bennett Edward, boot & shoe maker Blake Marj- Ann (Mrs.), farmer. Lower Whitley Busby John, Bear ^ Ragged Staff occupancy occurred the tragic event so vividly told in the pages of " Kenilworth." Amy, the yovmg and beautiful daughter of Sir John Robsart of Sheen Court, Surrey, was married to Lord Robert Dudley, June 4th, 1550, in the presence of Edward VI., being then only 18 years of age ; on the 8th September, 1560, while staying at Forster's house at Cumnor, she met with her death at the murderous hands of her host and his accomplice Sir Richard Varney ; the latter died a miserable death in London : Forster, offering to divulge the particulars of the deed, was strangled in prison by Dudley's order, and the Earl himself was accidentally poisoned in 1588 at Cornbury manor house. The remains of the hapless lady were brought from Cumnor to Gloucester (now Worcester) College, Oxford, and thence taken, with great solemnity, to St. Mary's Church and there interred, the funeral being attended by the University and City authorities, the officers of the Heralds' College, and many others, as described in the Dugdale MS., British Museum. In 1874, the Rev. J. W. Benyon, then vicar of St. Mary's, caused the following inscription to be placed on the altar steps : " In a vault of brick, at the upper end of this quire, was buried Amy Robsart, wife of Lord Robert Dudley K.G. Sunday, 22 September, a.d. 1560." Hardly anything now remains of the old Hall, which was pulled down in 1 88 1. It was a quadrangular building, with some good Decorated Av indows and doors ; the windows, with their stained glass, were removed to Witham Abbey, and one of the doors, with the inscription " lANVA VIT^ VERGUM DOMINI " above it, is in the wall surrounding Wytham churchyard ; two coffin slabs, with crosses, were also removed to Wytham. Forster's initials, with the date 1571, appeared over another door, but the building was of earlier date. The village inn, a picturesque old-fashioned hostelry, is still *'The Bear and Ragged Staff." The soil is various, consisting of stone brash, sand and loam ; the subsoil is various, prin- cipally limestone. The crops are a succession of grain. The Earl of Abingdon is lord of the manor and chief owner of the soil : St. John's College and Merton College, Oxford, are also landowners. The area is 5,703 acres : rateable value, _,^6,739 : the population in 1881 was loii, Chawley, three-quarters of a mile north-east ; Dean- court, i| miles south-east ; Swinford, 2 miles north-Avest ; Henwood, I mile south-east; Fitchampsted, i mile north, and RocKLEY, ij miles south, are hamlets. Parish Clerk, George Howse. Post Office. — George Howse, receiver. Letters arrive from Oxford at 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 7 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Oxford Church of England ScJwol (founded in 1861 for 150 children ; the schoolroom was built by the Hon. and Rev. O. F. Spencer, formerly vicar ; Miss Sophia Helen King, mistress ; Miss Elizabeth Drake, infants' mistress Braine Elizabeth Jane (Mrs.), farmer, The Elms, Botley Chawley Brick Works (Edward Smith, man.), brick, tile &drainpipe makers, wheelwrights & steam joinery woi'ks, Chawley DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. DIDCOT. 4 9 Caple William, market gardener Clanfield John, farmer Curtis John, engineer Deadman Elizh.(Mrs,), farmer,Henwood farm Franklin Martha (Mrs.), farmer, Swin- ford farm Franklin James, farmer P'ranklin William, farmer. Noble's hole Gamble Wm, farmer. Upper \Miitley fm Godfrey Tryoth, carpenter & beer retlr DENCHWORTH is a parish partly in the hundred of Ock and partly in that of Wantage, union and county court district of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks, rviral deanery of Wantage and diocese of Oxford, about 3 miles west froixi Wantage Road station, 25 north-bj'-west from Wantage, on a feeder of the river Ock. The church of St. James, which was thoroughly repaired in 1852, under the direction of the late G. E. Street esq. r.a., is an ancient cruciform edifice of mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north and south chapels, and an embattled tower on the north side, containing 4 bells, dated 1624, 1733, 1868 and 1869 : the chancel is Per- pendicular, and has sedilia formed in the sill of the south- east window: the nave has Perpendicular windoAvs and a late roof : the south doorway is a good example of Norman work : the tower is apparently Early English at the base, the upper part being rather poor Perpendicular : in the south chapel are some memorials to the Geering family and in the chancel are brasses to Oliver Hyde esq. 1516, and Agnes, his wife, with efligies ; William Hyde esq. 1557, and Margery, his wife, 1562, 12 sons and 8 daughters, with ethgies and a punning inscription; and William Hyde esq. 1567, and his wife Alice, also with effigies ; the male figures are all in armour ; the Hyde brass of 1562 is a rescript or palimpsest ; it originally belonged to Bisham Abbey, and has on its proper obverse side an inscription commemorating the foundation of that abbey by Sir ^MUiam de Montagu in Lambourn Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Lay James, farmer, Farmoor Rose Thomas, market gardener Rowles Thomas, blacksmith SaundersJames, farmer, Denman's farm Taylor Charles, farmer, Bradley farm Tubb Rosina (Mrs.), farmer Wigmore John Bracher, farmer. Child- well's farm Winterbourne Mark, farm bailiff to Mr . John Robert, Stroud Hedges Jas. farmer, Sweatman's farm Hicks John, farmer. Hill end Hopkins Sidney, farmer, Woodend farm Howse George, shopkeeper, & post office Hutt Wihiam, shopkeeper, & registrar of births & deaths for the Cumnor sub-dis Ireland Geo. Jsph. frmr. Deancourt frm James Alfred, farmer Johnson Frederick, farmer, bailiff to Lord Abingdon, Chawley Lambourne Mark, farmer, Farmoor Cranmer's Bible, four volumes of Aquinas, one of Homilies, a copy of Burnet on the Articles, given by the Bishop himself, and a Life of Christ by Ludolphus Saxe. The church will seat 160 persons, eight pews only being appropriated ; an altar cloth, worked at St. Mary's Home, ^^'antao•e, and flower vases, have been presented by Miss Pye and friends ; service books by H. B. Hyde esq. ; brass standards, for lights, by Mrs. Walker, of the manor house, besides other gifts ; the stained east Avindow was inserted by the exertions of Mr. and Mrs. Walker, and the ancient shields in the windows of the south transept or chapel, were restored by members of the Hyde family. The earliest date in the old registers, which are much mutilated, is 1538; there is also a register of briefs from 1707 to 1740. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value of ^^130 Avith residence and 54 acres of glebe, in the gift of the ProA'ost and felloAvs of Worcester College, Oxford, and held since 1869 by the Rev. Charles Henry Tomlinson m.a. formerly fellow, tutor and chaplain of that college. The Baptists haA-e a place of worship here. There is a coal and clothing club for poor AvidoAvs and aged and infirm persons, and for poor married couples having children in the schools ; and tAvo sets of allotments as field gardens, one called " Poors- piece " and the other belonging to the vicar. Worcester College are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Worcester and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford. The soil is stiff claA- ; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, 1338, and stating that the foundation stone was laid, at his oats and beans. The area is about 1,060 acres ; rateable request, by King Edward III., after the battle of Halidon Hill, near BerAvick, 1333 ; there is another brass to William Say, 1493, robbed of its shields and effigy, and the church also contains A'arious monuments to the families of Geering ' and PYogle}' ; in the chancel is a monument erected by ! Richard L. Cotton d.d., late provost of Worcester College, Oxford, to his tAvo brothers ; there is also a hagioscope in the | north chapel, and faint traces of a rood-loft, as Avell as a library of 150 ancient book.s, formed in 1693 ^''.V ^^^^ Rev.Ralph Kedden, vicar, Mr. Geering, churcliAvarden, and JNIr. EdAvard BreAvster, stationer, of London, some of Avhich are chained ; I this library, formerly in a room oA'cr the church porch, was ' transferred to the vicarage at the restoration of the church ; | it included an edition of the "Golden Legend," printed by Caxton in 1483, and noAv in the Bodleian, and it still has a value ^2,297; the population in 18B1 was 249. Letters through Wantage arrive at 8 a.m. ; Pillar Box cleared at 6.45 p.m.; Wantage is the nearest money order & telegraph office Kational School (mixed) erected in 1858 on a site gi\-en by "\\'orcester College, for 60 children : average attendance about 25 ; in 1726 a sum of ^^50 was bequeathed by Richard Gildgrosse, of DenchAvorth, to educate poor children of this parish: a field allotted in lieu of this money, noAV produces £7 los. yearly, and timber sold produced ^50, noAV invested at 4 per cent.— Henry Lucas Okey, master Carrier.— Henry Church, to ♦ Bell,' Wantage, Wednesday & Saturday ; to Abingdon, monday Booker Joseph, shopkeeper Bosley Ann (Mrs.), farmer Church Henry, carrier Jefferies James, farmer Tomlinson Rev. Charles Henry m.a [vicar], Vicarage Booker Albert, beer retailer Booker Albert, carpenter Booker Benjamin, farmer DIDCOT (or Dudcotk) is a village and parish and a station and junction of the Oxford and Birmingham branch with the main line of the Great \N'estern, 9 miles Avest from Wallingford, 6h south from Abingdon, 53 from London by rail and 10 from Oxford, in the hundred of Moreton, union and county court district of Wallingford, archdeaconrj' of Berks, rural deanery of \^'allingford and diocese of Oxford. The church of All Saints is a small but interesting edifice, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, picturesquely situated on high ground north of the village, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles and a Ioav tOAver Avith short octagonal broach spire, both covered Avith shingles, and containing 4 bells : the nave is of 3 bays, and has arcades of Avide pointed Early English arches, on Ioav clustered piers, the central pier, against Avhich the font is placed, being octagonal, and the other tAvo cylindrical, with caps formed by a succession of projecting flat lillcts : the south aisle is Decorated, and has scgmcntcd-hcaded AvindoAvs, Avith reticulated tracery : at its Avcstern end, slightly raised above the floor, is the recumbent effigy, in stone, of a bishop or mitred abbot of the 13th century, and conjectured to be the first of the mitred abbots of Abingdon, c. 1268 : at the south-cast corner of the naA'e is a piscina, and a little bracket for the ligure of a saint : the chancel has four pointed Decorated AvindoAvs, and the cast AvindoAV is of three lights ; beloAV it is a simple arcaded reredos of stone, and on the north side a square piscina ; the pulpit is also of stone, Avith traceried panels ; the stairs to the rood-loft remain, as also the upper door, over A\hicli isf a curious two-liiiht A\indoAv; the cast AvindoAV Kimber William, farmer Lay Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Stevens Thomas, Fox inn Walker Thomas, farmer and others in the chancel are stained, and the Avest window Avhich is Perpendicular, retains some scraps of old glass ; the north aisle, in Avhich stands the organ, is modern ; there are mural monuments to the families of Deacon, Emerton, and Taylor, 1820-60, and floor stones to PYancis Dandridge, gent. 1759: Robert Lvdell de Dydcott, generosus, 1677; Richard Blake of Dudcott, 1709; Benjamin Banner a.m. felloAv of Brasenose College, Oxford, and 24 years rector here, and rector also of Whittington, Lane. 1817 ; Thomas Collins, and Mary his Avife, 1800 ; in the churchyard,west of the parish, isaflneold yew, and on the east side a restored cross, on two steps ; Avest of the toAver, are three coped stones to Ruth AshAvorth, 1853; Catherine Ashworth, 1878, and Philip Sidney AsliAvorth, rector of Bredicot-cum-Tibberton, Wore, 1864;" on the exterior walls are memorials to the family of Sayer, 1721-36, with arms and mantling; Hayward, 1759-82 ; Muriel, Avife of Edward SaAvyer, of Didcot, 1641, and her husband, Avith the arms of SaAvyer and Backerton : to the familv of Tavlor, 1719-63, and on a stone to Catherine Lodef, widoAV,' 1698. The register dates from the year 1613. The living is a rectorv, £rross yearly A'alue ^'399 ^^ i^'i resi- dence, in the gift of the Principal and felloAvs of Brasenose College, Oxford, and held, since 1851, by the Rev. John AshAvorth AshAvorth m.a. formerly fellow of that college. There is a Corn Exchange, and a market is held on Tuesday. On the rising around, south of the road leading to U alhng- ford and Hanvcll, and south of the station, a large number of houses haA-e been built, forming a neAV villaire. Avhich being Avilhin the parish of Hagbourne, is kiv^wn as 50 DIDCGT. BERKSHIRE. [ Kelly's North Hagbourne, or Hagbourne New Town, which see. Colonel Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsaj- v.c, k.c.b., m.p. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is chiefly clay ; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 1,094 acres of good arable and meadow land ; rateable value ^^5,574 ; the population in 1881 was 373. Ashworth Eev. John Ashworth m.a. [rector] Green Thomas COMMERCIAL. Allan James, White Hart Appleford Ann (Miss), shopkeeper Blissett John, blacksmith Copeland E. S. & J. coal &c. merchants Railway station Danbe John Hurst, Prince of Wales commercial hotel Davis George, coal agent Drewe George Augustus, Jnnction hotel Frergard Thomas, farmer Hobbs George Collins, coal, coke, slate & salt mer. ; & at Upton & Compton Leech Benjamin, farmer London <^ Counti/ Banking Co. (sid)- hranch), open on market days ; draw on head office, 21 Lombard street, London e.c Napper George, farmer Parish Clerk, George Robey. Post & Money Order Office & Savings Bank. — John William Sheppard, postmaster. Letters arrive by rail at 5.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 2.30 p.m. & 10 p.m Church School (for 60 children). Miss Martha Skryme, mistress Railway Station, Charles William Noble, station master Napper William, farmer Pryor John, shojikeeper Shippen Joseph Allen, Royal Oak Sired Henry, Queen'' s Arms Smith Henry, farmer Turner James, farmer Wallinyford Old Bank (branch,) (Hedges, Wells & Co ), open on mar- ket days ; draw on London & West- minster Bank, London e.c DRAYTON is a parish in the hundred of Ock, union and county court district of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of Abingdon and diocese of Oxford, zh miles south-west-by-south from Abingdon, 2^ miles north from Steventon station on the Great Western raihvay, on the borders of Oxfordshire and near the road from Abingdon to Newbury. The Wilts and Berks canal passes through this parish. The church of St. Peter is a Gothic structure, with chancel, nave and square embattled tower with 8 bells ; a handsome chancel was erected in 1872, chiefly at the cost of the vicar ; it contains a stained window representing The Crucifixion : a stone porch has been recently added, covered with lead and having carved stone parapets, while the floor has letters of lead run in the stone as follows : " Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God." This church has for many years past been superintended by Mr. E. Dolby, architect, and further works are contemplated : the font is plain round Norman ; in the north wall of the ■"ladye chapel" tTiere is an old aumbry, and in the south walla credence and piscina ; there are two other piscinae in the church ; in digging a vault in the church in the year 18 14 the workmen came upon some elaborate and beautiful old carvings in alabaster, representing The lietrayal. The Scourging, The Crucifixion (now missing) and The Entomb- ment of Our Saviour, also The Adoration and The Annunciation. The churchyard cross was restored in Best Mrs Cheer Mrs Curtis John Deacon Misses Hyde Mrs Lyford Misses, The Cottage Robinson Rev. Francis Edward m.a.,j.p. Vicaraofe COMMERCIAL. Beesley James, shopkeeper Jjishop Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer ]3radtield Wm. Edwd. miller (water) Brewer George, fruit dealer Brooker Arthur, baker Caudwell Charles, farmer & landowner, Manor farm Caudwell Cuthbert, farmer, Manor frm DcAve Thomas Newton, farmer & land- owner Hyde Jesse, blacksmith James John, shopkeeper 1871. The earliest existing register dates from 1754, the earlier ones having been destroyed at the great fire of Dray- ton in the year 1780. The living is a vicarage, separated from St. Helen, Abingdon, by Order in Council, November 4th, 1867 ; the value is about ;^i5o yearly, with residence, in the gift of Colonel Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay v.c, K.C.B., M.p. and held ^ince 1878, by the Rev. Francis Edward Robinson m.a. of Exeter College, Oxford, j.p. for Berks. Here are places of Avorship for Baptists and Wes- leyans. The charities amount to about ;j^22 yearly, and there are live cottages for the poor at a very small rent. In a part of the Manor House, Avhich is of great antiquity, was formerly a Catholic chapel, now used as a lumber room. Col. Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay v.c, k.c.b., m.p. wlio is lord of the manor, and Messrs. Caudwell and Dewe are principal landowners. The soil is loamy and claj- ; subsoil gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barle}', beans and turnips. The area is 1,950 acres ; rateable value, ;,^355 ; the popula- tion in 1 881 was 622. Parish Clerk, William Welch. Post Office. — Robert Mattock, receiver. Letters arrive 7.30 a.m. & I p.m. ; dispatched at 1.50 p.m. & 9 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Steventon ; R.S.O. & tele- graph office at Abingdon Parochial School (boys & girls) for 80 children ; Miss Eliza- beth Gilmour & Miss Alice Collier, mistresses Jones William, butcher King James William, Red Lion Lyford James, farmer & landowner Mattock Robert, carpenter, k post office Neville James, wheehvright NorrintonBartholomew,frmr.& brick ma Rust Robert, Wheat Sheaf Thomas James, carpenter Wadsworth Richard, sacking maker Winter James, shoe maker Woodley James, cattle dealer DRY SANDFORD is an ecclesiast ical parish formed in ' McCreery, of Trinity College, Dublin. The principal land- 1867 .out of the civil parish of St. Helen, Abingdon, 3 miles owner is Benjamin Henry Morland esq. The soil is various ; north-Avest from that toAvn, in Abingdon union and county court district, Oxfoi-d diocese, Berks archdeaconry and Abingdon rural deanery ; it includes Cothill, ^ mile south, a hamlet in the civil parish of Marcham, and is called Dry Sandford to distinguish it from Sandford-on-Thames (Oxon), only 5 miles distant. The church of St. Helen is a stone building in the Early English style, consisting of chan- cel, nave and porch. The register dates from the year 1650. The living is a vicarage, yeaily value ;^i5o, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held "by the Rev. Henry William Dry Sandford. Dover William, farmer Horner Job, farmer Fairbrother Thomas Hopkins Mutrie Bosbury William, Fleur de Lis subsoil, brash and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats ; the entire area is 730 acres ; the entire population in 1 88 1 was 220. Parish Clerk, Richard King. Letters from Abingdon by messenger, arriving at 8 a.m. ; returning at 7 p.m. Abingdon is the nearest money order and telegraph office There is an endowed school, erected in 1869, for 45 children of both sexes, partly supported by subscription. Miss Mary Louiza Smith, mistress Shepherd Henrietta (Mrs.), farmer Walton William, farmer EASTHAMPSTEAD is a village and parish and head of a union, in the hundred of Ripplesmere, county court dis- trict of Windsor, rural deanery of Reading, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, 5 miles east from Wokingham, 9 south-west from Windsor and 29 from London : the Bracknell station of the Staines and Wokingham branch of the South Western railway is situated in this parish. The church of St. Mary was biiilt on the site of the old one and opened in May 1867 ; it is a handsome and substantial build- ing, consisting of a chancel, nave, with south porch and baptistery, north aisle and south transept for the Down- shire family, and south aisle set apart as a vestry and organ chambers ; the style of architecture adopted by the ; rchitect, Mr. Hugall, is an early type, embracing Byzantine Cothill. Curies Charles Wyndham, Cothill house Ayres Albert, quarry owner and First-Pointed details ; the various mouldings are bold and massive ; the windows are large and filled Avith stained glass ; there is a considerable quantity of Devon marble in- troduced and the carving of the capitals and corbels is rich in design and exquisite in workmanship; the chancel fit- tings are of oak and a seclile for the bishop is formed by the elongation of the north windoAv sill ; double sedilia occupy the south Avindow ; the communion table is of oak ; the pul- pit, on a stone base, is compo.sed of portions of that fixed in the old church in 1631 ; in 1876 a stained east windoAV Avas inserted in memory of the late Marquis of DoAvnsliire; an ancient yeAV tree of A-ery remarkable groAvth which stands by the church measures 63 feet in circumference. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory. DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. E.VBORNE. 51 gross yearly value /"sSS, with residence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1861 by the Rev. Osborne Gordon b.d. late student (fellow) of Clirist Church. The fuel allotment has been sold, and the amount invested pro- duces £60 yearly for coals ; there are various charities, together ^80 yearly, for distribution. There are the remains of a Roman camp. Easthampstead Park is the seat of the Marquess of Downshire ; the mansion is a spacious brick and stone building in the Elizabethan style, standing in a park of upAvards of 350 acres in extent. South Hill Park, the seat of Lady Hayter, is a compact residence of brick faced Avith cement, standing in a park of 800 acres, in which there are four lakes ; the private gardens are very beautiful, being laid out in terraces. The principal landowners are the Crown, the Marquess of Downshire, who is lord of the manor, and Lady Hayter. The soil is gravel and sand ; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat and oats. The area is 5,186 acres, of which 1,000 acres or more is heath, the property of the Crown ; rateable value, ;/^6,405 ; and the population in 1871 Avas884, and in i88r, 1,172. Letters received through Bracknell, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office. There is a Wall Box near the church, cleared at 6.30 p.m. week days ife 12.15 p.m. on Sundays. Pillar Box, Bagshot road, cleared at 6.30 a.m. & 5.45 p.m. Sundays 6.30 a.m. only Kaiiona School (mixed), built by the late Marquess of Down- shire ' & other landed proprietors, and is attended by the children from the workhouse ; 239 children, average attendance 220, George Pigromc, master Bracknell Railwai/ Station, E Imund Taylor, station master Carrier to & from Reading.— Daniel Brown, from Brack- nell, every tuesday, thursday & Saturday private residents. Andras John Win. Gay, Brook house Arkwright Hon. Mrs. Fernlands Chilman John, Rose cottage Downshire Marquess of, Easthampstead park ; & 24 Belgrave sq. London s.w Downshire, Georgiana Marchioness of, Easthampstead park England Capt.Richard, Old 15racknell ho Foster William, Oxford villa Gooch — , Cooper's hill Gordon Rev. Osborne r.d. Rectory IlaAvker Capt. Charles F. Park side Hayter Lady, South Hill park Easthampstead Union. Board day, every alternate Thursday. The Union comprises the following places : — Binfield, East- hampstead, Sandhurst, Wartield& Winkfield ; the popula- tion of the union in 1881 Avas 12,663; rateable value, £S7A73 Clerk to Guardians, C. J. Cave, Bracknell Relievinrj ^ Vaccination Officer, Geo. Slarke, Easthampstead Collectors of Poor R-de.^, Joseph Bartlett, Warlield ; John Sargeant, Easthampstead; Wm. Minchin, Binfield; Reuben Watts, Sandhurst ; J.J Osman, Winkfield Medical Officers ^ Public Vaccinators ; Binfield district,^. SAvindale, Binfield; Bracknell district, T. Croft, Brack- nell ; Sandhurst district, J. Russell m.d. Sandhurst ; Winkfield district, G. E. Barron b.a., m.b. Cranbourne Superintendent Rec/istrar, C. J. CaA-e, Bracknell ; Deputy, James Darling, Wick hill, Bracknell Ber/istrars of Births <^ Deaths, Bracknell sub-district, Thos. Croft, Bracknell; Sandhurst sub-district, Reuben Watts, Sandhurst Registrar of 3Iarriages, Fredk. Wm. Hunton, High street, ijracknell ; Deputy, Chas. Barnes, High street, Bracknell Workhouse, a red brick building, originallj' built by Wm. Watts esq. of South hill, as almshouses in 1760, & Avas enlarged & converted into a Union Workhouse, by the Marquess of DoAvnshire in 1826 : it Avill hold 120. Joseph Parker MacXeilance, master ; Rev. George Blink- horn M.A. chaplain: Thomas Croft, surgeon; Mrs. Margaret Miller MacXeilance. matron Rural Sanitary Author itv. Clerk, C. J. CaA-e, Bracknell Medical Officer, W. T. G. Woodforde m.d. Oak Bank, Reading Inspector, i .lidLVivence, Bracknell Elder John, farm liailiff to Marquis of DoAvnshire, Easthampstead park Holliss Frank LeAvis, Green Man May EdAvard, builder & contractor ; & at Bracknell. See advertisement May Mary (Miss), farmer Mills Jessie, farmer, (^Id Bracknell Peed John, farmer, Peacock farm Sargeant J»)hn, Avheehvright k carpenter [ & collector of poor rates ' Saunders Richard, nurseryman & florist Dougal James, farm steAvard to Lady ' Slarke George, relieving & vaccination Hayter, South Hill park ! officer for Easthampstead Union Gibbons William, Brewers^ Anns , Stevenson James, fanner, Manor farm Hazel Joseph, The Cottage Izod George, Ivy cottage Peel Lt.-Col. Cecil Lennox, The Cottage, Easthampstead park Qneensbcrry Marquis of. The Hut Vivian Mrs. Easthampstead cottage ^^'eston Henry, Priest Avood house COMMERCIAL. I?ishop William, Horse Jj- Groom Ihitler Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer Butler James, bricklayer EATON HASTINGS is a scattered parish, 3^ miles north-Avest from Faringdon, in the hundred of Shrivenham, union and county court district of P'aringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse. arch(feaconry of J^crks and dio- cese of Oxford ; the river Isis separates the ]>arish from Oxfordshire. The church of St. Michael and All Angels is a A'ery old structure in the Norman and Early P^nglish style, date unknoAvn ; it is a small building, consisting of chancel, nave and turret, Avith i bell : the chancel Avas restored in 1872 and the nave in 1874, at a total cost of ^"700 : there are the Rev. Frederick John Walker m.a. of Trinity College, Dublin. Robert Campbell es.]. Avho is lord of the manor and Mr. William Thomas Kinch are chief landoAvners. The soil is a strong clay ; subsoil, clay ; the chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and oats; the area is 1,511 acres; i*ateable value, ;i^i,923 ; the population in i88i Avas 133. Sexton, William Tuck. Letters through Faringdon. The nearest money order & telegrajih otiice is at Faringdoi five stained windows. The register dates froni the year 1500. ^^'^^-^ Letter Box cleared 6.45 p.m.; Sunday 6.10 p.m The living is a rectory, yearly comnuited rent-charge Xational School, erected 1872, accommodation, 50 ; aA'erage ^^378 5s. Avith residence, in the gift of and held since 1869 by attendance, 30 ; Miss Isabella McKenzie, mistress Walker Rev. Fredk. John m.a. Rectory Corfield John Hill, assistant OA-erspor Cox William, farmer, Crabtree farm Hart William Thomas, Anchor Hiet William, farmer, Churchill farm Hill OAven, farmer, Phillip's farm Hutt Henrv, farmer, Kilmaston farm Kinch Win. Thos. farmer & landowTier Walker Isaac Ainge, farmer, Rhodes frm Wiggins Jane (Mrs.), shopkeejjer IINBORNE is a parish 3 miles west-south-Avost from Xewbury and 8 east from Hungerford, in the huudrod of Kintbury-Eagle, union and county court district of Xewbury, rural deanery of Xewbury, archdeaconry of Berks and dio- cese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael is very ancient, and especially interesting as a specimen of very Early Christian architecture, and is situated on a slight elevation by the side of the road leading from XoAvbury to Hamstead Marshall, at the head of a charming valley ; it consists of chancel, nave, south aisle and a bell-cot, on Early wooden framcAvork, at the Avest end : that there Avas at one time a north aisle is evident from the ]i;ers and arches of an arcading being noAV built into (he existing north Avail ; these have good Norman caps and bases: the chancel is Early English, Avith lancet AvindoAvs at the sides, and a debased Perpendicular east AvindoAv : there is a double Early English piscina, Avith a locker at the back : the chancel arch is Xor- inan, but has undergone some alteration : the nave and south aisle are separated by an arcade of three Early Xorman arches, Avith circular pillars and sculptured capitals: in the Fielder Thomas W. Enborn house I Kimlier Charles, Coi>e hall Johnson Jiev. Chas. Aug. m.a. Rectory 1 Kiiuber John, Cope hall aisle are some very early oak benches ; an:l the Avails dis- cl(»se some traces of fresco jiainting : the font is cylindrical and arcaded : there are no monuments of special interest. The register dates from the year 1726. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £a37 ^vith residence and 80 acres of glebe, "in the gift of the Earl of Craven and held since 1850 by the Rev. Charles Augustus Johnson m.a. of Brasenose Col- lege, Oxford. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected 1844 and rebuilt 1871, Avith sittings for 50 persons. There is a poor's allotment of 20A. iR. 22P. and a charity producing a year for church purposes. The Earl of Craven, Avho is lord of the manor and Robert Harris Valpy esq. J. P. are the principal landoAvners. The soil is gravel, clay and loam ; subsoil, clay and chalk. The chief cr(>ps are Avheat, barley, oats, roots and pasture. The area is 2,485 acres; rateable value, ;ance for Queen Elizabeth ; this monument Tvas erected by his Avidow, Dorothy, in 1606 ; the kneeling effigy of this lady formerly stood on a pedestal at the foot, but is noAv in the Pye chapel : in this chapel, on a buttress ■of the toAver, is a mural monument to Lionell Kich, ob. 1742: against the north Avail is a noble monument of Avhite marble, Avith blue columns, supporting cherubs of alabaster, to Jane Pye, ob. 1706 : another monument of variegated marble, supported by columns of the Tuscan order, is in memory of Annie Pye : there are many other monuments and brasses to the Parker, Purefoy, Pleydell and other families, but these have been mostly mutilated or removed from their original 'positions. The register dates from the year 1582. The living is a vicarage, present income is £260, the neigh- bouring parish and church of Little Coxwell being attaciied to the living, Avliich is in the gift of Simeon's trustees and lield since 1880 by the Rev. AN'illiam Edward Cliajiman, surrogate. There are ^^'esleyan, Congregational, JJaptist Ofi&cial Establishments, Post & IMonev Order & Telegraph Office, Savings i^ank. Government Annuity & Insurance oliice. — John Pike, postmaster. With extra Stamp. Letters can be r- gistered till. Letters dispatched to Wantage (only) Letters dispatched to London, Oxford, Read- ing & AbingdtMi Bampton, Clanfield, Coleshill & Highworth London it all parts Witney & Faringdon district 9.10 a.m. 11.25 i^ m- 12.40 p.m. 8.45 p.m. 10. 0 p.m. 8.45 p.m. 9.15 a.m. 1 1.40 a.m. 9.15 p.m. 9. 0 a.m. II. 0 a.m. 11.30 a.m. 8.15 p.m. 8.15 p.m. 10. 0 a.m. London & all parts (sun- days) Money order & savings bank business transacted from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. Aveek days. OtHce open from 7 a.m. till 9 p.m. ; Sundays, 7 till 10 a.m. Wall Letter Roxes, Stanford road, cleared 7.50 p.m. Aveek days, Marlborough st. cleared 7.50 p.m. Avcck days k 12.50 p.m. Sundays County Magistrates for Faringdon (Petty Sessional Division). Viscount Rarrington, Reckett house, Slirivcnham, chairman Daniel Rennett esq. Faringdon house, Faringdon AVilliam J. Rutlor os(]. \N'oolstono lodge, Faringdon Robert Campbell esq. Ruscot park, Faringdon and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a meeting house for the Society of Friends. There is a cemetery on the western side of the town, opened for burials in 1 865 ; it is about i| acres in extent, Avithout mortuary chapels and is under the man- agement of trustees. The tOAvn hall, an old building noAv disused, is situated m the centre of the toAvn, from Avhich the streets diA^erge. A Corn Exchange was built in 1863, Avith rooms for the savings bank and reading rooms attached ; it is a Gothic stone building situated in the Corn Market. Sir H. Unton left in 1591 ^^38 yearly, derived from land for apprentice fees and blankets for the benefit of the poor of the Port of Faringdon, and there is ^15 from Eleanor Goff s charity, 1756, for apprentice fees ; Johanna Alford, 1721, ^^20 to ten poor famiUes annually : there are seA-eral others for bread, coals and clothing, amounting to about ^^50 yearly ; they are distributed by trustees. A market is held here every Tuesday and the great cattle market on the first Tuesday in every month, Avhich is Avell supplied Avith cattle of every kind ; there are statute fairs on the Tues- day before and Tuesday after Old Michaelmas day. The toAvn is governed by the Rural Sanitary Authority. There is a brcAvery ; the trade is chiefly local. Faringdon Hill, on the east, is of considerable altitude, crowned Avith a planta- tion of lofty firs ; a circular and transA-erse Avalk round and through the plantation is a favourite promenade, command- ing beautiful and extensive vicAvs of the surrounding country. There is a Aveekly nCAVspaper, the " Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of White"^Horse Gazette," published every Saturday. Radcot Rridge, over the Isis, Avhich sei>arates this county from Oxon, once the scene of a battle betAveen Robert oe Vere, favourite of Richard IL and the discontented barons, is about zh miles north ; in the south-eastern distance, about 6i miles, is the celebrated White Horse (from Avhich the vale is named), rudely cut by our Saxon forefathers on the side of the hill in celebration of the great victories gained by Alfred and his brother OA-er the Danes. Faringdon House, re-erected, 1780, by Pye, the Poet-Laureate, is the seat of Daniel Rennett esq. J. p. it is a handsome building in the Italian style, situated on an eminence in an avenue of fine elm trees, extending nearly two miles, having line views of the counties of Oxford and Gloucester. Daniel Rennett esq. is lord of the manor. A court leet is held annually at the Crown inn. The principal landoAvners arc Oriel Collcg-e, Oxford ; Col. Sir Robert James Loyd-Lind.say v.c, k.c.b., m.p.; Daniel Rennett esq. J. p.; Robert Campbell' esq. J. P. and Thomas Ilayward Southby esq. The area is 6,550 acres ; rateable value (in- cluding LittlcAVorth) ^^14,668 ; the population in 1881 Avas 3.139- Farish Clo-l; "W illiam Xoad, London street. , Local Institutions, &c. \\ illiam Henry Campbell esq. Ruscot park, Faringdon V^'Illiam Dundas esq. The Elms, Faringdon \'iscount Folkestone ji.p. Coleshill house, Faringdon Thomas Leinster Goodlake esq. Wadley house, Faringdon Capt. Fred.ClcaA-e Loder-Symoiids, Hinton manor, Faringdon Hon. Lawrence Ilesketh Palk, 3 John street, Rerkeley square, London to Sir Nicholas Wm.Throckmorton bart.Ruckland ho. Faringdon Clerks to the JLii/i.^trates, CroAvdy J: Son, Church street Petty Sessions are held at the court house, Coach lane, every tucsday Tlie following places are included in the Petty Sessional divisi(jn :— Ashburv, Raulking, Rourton, Ruckland, Ruscot, Charney, Coleshill," Compton Reauchamp, CoxAvell (Great & Little), Eaton Hastings, Fanngdon, Fernham, Hatford, Hinton, King.ston Lisle, Longcot, Longworth, Pusey, Shellingford,'Shrivenham, Stanford, Uttington, \N'atc;ilield & ^\■oolstone Insurance Agents : — County ly Felican Life, F. H. Rartield, Gloucester st Frovident Life, George James Haines, London street Uaihcay Fassenyers\ A. Rallard, Market place Royal Fire 4- Life, Vickridge & Nunn, Marlborough street f)4 FARING DON. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's Jxoi/al Exchange, W. C. Sell, Bromsgrove place Ilo}/al Farmers^ £r General, A. Ballard, Market place Scottish Provident Institution, J. Campbell, Borough place Standard Life, O. Gearing, The Grove, Little CoxM'ell Sun Fire, G. F. Crowdj^, Church street Public Establishments : — Berkshire (ist) Rife T'olunteers {I Co.), Armoury, South- ampton street, Lieut. Ernest Edward, commanding ; Wm. Brisk, drill inspector Cemetery, Canada road, Arthur Ballard, hon. sec. to the trustees Corn Exchange, Market place, John White, clerk & collector County Court, held bi-monthly, at the court house. Coach lane, W. H. Cooke esq. Q.c. judge; Geo. Fredk. Crowdy & Edwd. Percy Crowdy, registrars ; Jas. Jefferies, high bailitt". The district compinses the following places : — Ashbury, Balking, Beckett, Bourton, Buckland, Buckland Marsh, Bullock's Pits, Buscot, Buscot Wick, Carswell, Carswell Marsh, Charney, Clanlield, Clanfield (Little), Coleshill, Compton Beauchamp, Great Coxwell, Little Coxwell, Downington, Duxford, Eaton Hastings, Great Faringdon, Little Faringdon, Fawler, Fernham, Grafton, Hatford, Hinton Waldrist, Idstone, Kelmscot, Knighton, Kingston Lisle, Kingston Winslow, Langford, Lechlade, Little- worth, Longcot, Longworth, Odstone, Pusey, Eadcot, Shellingford, Shrivenham, Stanford, Thrupp, "Utiington, Wadley, Watchfield, Woolstone County Police Station, Coach lane, Robert Butcher, super- intendent & 2 men Fire Engine Station, Church street, John Eixon, supt Inland Revenue Office, Bell hotel, Market place, George Dodds Watt, officer Stamp Office, London street, Robert Deacon, distributor Faringdon Union. Board day, tuesday, at 10.30 a.m. at the workhouse The Union comprises the following parishes : — Ashbury with Idstone, Odstone & Kingston \\'inslow, Balking, Bourton, Buckland, Buscot, Cha^-ncy, Coleshill (Berks & Wilts), Compton Beauchamp, Eaton Hastings, Fernham, Gafton (Oxford), Great Coxwell, Great Faringdon with Little- worth, Hatford, Hinton Waldrist, Kelmscot (Oxford), Kingston Lisle with Fawler, Langford (Oxford), Lechlade (Gloucestershire), Little Coxwell, Little Faringdon (Ox- ford), Longcot, Longworth, Pusey, Radcot (Oxford), Shel- lingford, Shrivenliam with Beckett, Stanford-in-the-Vale, Uffington, Watchfield, Woolstone. The population of the union in i88r was 13,676; rateable value, ^117,564 Clerk to the Board of Guardians, Geo. James Haines, London street, Faringdon Collector of Poors Rates, Wm. Noad, London street, Faring- don ; J. H. Lawrence, Ashbury ; H. H. Thompson, Coles- hill ; George Butler, Shrivenham ; Jesse Hughes, Stanford Relieving Officers Vaccination Officers — Faringdon 6f Buck- land district, Thomas Wright, Gravel Avalk, Paringdon ; Shrivenham district, Wm. James Morse, Shriventiam Medical Officers ^ Public Vaccinators— Buckland district, Geo. Hy. Maskelyne, Church street, Faringdon ; Faringdon district ,iVb. i, Fredk. Charles Spackman, Gloucester street, Faringdon ; Faringdon district, iVb. 2, VV. H. Box, Lech- lade ; Shrivenham district y George Eccles Priestly Nixon, Shrivenham Superintendent Registrar, George James Haines, London street, Faringdon ; deputy, Samuel Jordan Farmer, London street, Faringdon Registrars of Births Deaths, Buckland sub-district, Thomas Wright, Gravel walk, Faringdon ; Faringdon sub-district, Wm. Noad, London street, Faringdon ; Shrivenham sub- district, Wm. James Morse, Shrivenham Registrar of Marriages, Arthur Ballard, Market place, Faringdon W orkhouse, a stone building situate in Union street & wall hold over 400 persons of both sexes, James Jefferies, master ; Mrs. Emma Bossom Jefferies, matron ; Rev. Edward Thorpe b.a. chaplain ; Fredk. Charles Spackman, surgeon PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Anns Misses, London street Armstrong Mrs. Westbrook hou Asquith Mrs. Gloucester street Atkins Francis, Westfield house Baker Rev. William John [V^'eslevan], Gloucester street Barfield Frederick Henry, Gloucester st Beasley Mrs. Church street Belchor Miss, London street Bennett Daniel j.p. Faringdon house Butler Augustus Edward, Gloucester st Butler Frederick, Gloucester street ]?ye Richard, Marlborough street Chamberlain Thomas, London street Chapman Rev. "V^'m. Edward, Vicarage, Church street Chapman Walter, Marlborough street Cobden Harry Thomas, Church street Cox Frederick William, Bromsgrove pi Crowdy Edward Percy, The Grove Crowdy George Frederick, The Grove Rural Sanitary Authority. Clerk, George James Haines, Loudon street, Faringdon Medical Officers, same as for Union Inspector, Thomas Wright, Gravel walk, Faringdon Public Officers : — Clerk to Assessment ^-School Attendance Committee, George James Haines, London street Clerk to Commissioners, George James Haines, London street ; assista)it, Samuel Jordan Farmer, London street Clerks to the Gas Inspectors, Crowdy & Son, Church street Clerk to the Highway Board, Geore Frederick Crowd j', Church street Clerk to Hunton's Charity Trustees, Ernest Edward Haines, London street Inspector of fVcights ^- Meastires Sf Superintendent of Police, Robert Butcher, Police station, Coacli lane Inland Revenue Officer, Geo. Dodds Watt, London street School Attendance Officer, William Noad, Lor-don street Steward of the Manor of Great Faringdon, Henry Crowdy CroAvdy, Highworth Surveyor to the Highway Board, Wm. Powell, Stanford rd Town Crier, \\'illiam Hughes, Gloucester street Places of Worship, with times of services : — All Saints^ Church, Rev. William Edward Chapman, vicar ; Rev. Thomas Edward Pritchett, curate ; 11 a.m. . Edginton ; tues. &. fri. from Salutation inn ; Boucher, thurs. from his house, London street Cirencester — Ijoucher, mon. from his house, London street, calling at Eaton Hastings, Buscot, Lechlade, Fair- ford, Maisey Hampton, Poulton & Easington Goosey — John Clack, every tues. from the Bell inn Highworth — Brown, wed. from his house. Gravel walk Kingston Lisle — Richardson, tues. from Bell inn Langford — Rowland, tues. from Salutation inn Longworth — Batts, tues. from ' Red Lion ' Oxford — Boucher, wed. & sat. from his house, London street, calling at Littleworth, Buckland, Pusey, Hinton, Longworth, Southmoor, Kingston, Fyfield, Tubney & Besselsleigh Stanford-in-the-Vale — Howse, tues. & fri. from Saluta- tion inn ; & Brown, sat. from his house. Gravel walk Swindon — Daniels, tues. from Bell inn Uffington — Richardson, tues. from Bell mn Wantage — Brown, sat. from his house. Gravel walk Witney — Boucher , thurs. from his house, London street ;. Hastings, tues. from Salutation inn Cull Thomas, Bank house Curtis Miss, Southampton street Dundas WiUiam j.p. The Elms Dyke Mrs. Market place Emerj' Charles Gregoi'y, Sudbury ho Pldel Mrs. Westtield villas George Rev. Elias [Baptist], Southamp- ton street Gerring Miss, Marlborough street ' Green Rev. John H. [Primitive Methodist], Bromsgrove place DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. FARINGDON. 55 Griggs Elisha Henry, ToUington house Habgood Miss, Westfield villas Haines George James, London street Harris Miss, Beaumont place Heading James, Bromsgrove place Heading Mrs. London street Hunt Jonn, Stamford road James Mrs, The Mount Kent Miss, Marlborough street King Mrs. London street Lewis Joseph, Westfield villas COMMERCIAL. Abel Brothers, "vvatch makers, Market place Adams George, farmer, Pidnell & Lodge farms Anns Thomas William, ironmonger, London street Arthur Betsy Mary (Mrs.), girls' day school, Marlborough st Atkms William, farmer, Camden farm Badcock & Dyke, auctioneers, valuers, land & estate agents, Market place ; & at Abingdon Bailey Thomas, fellmonger, Bromsgrove place Ballard Arthur & Co, Avholesale & retail chemists & oil, color & hop merchants. Market jilace Ballard Arthur, registrar of marriages for Faringdon union & hon. sec. to cemetery trustees. Market place Barfield Frederick Henry, architect, surveyor, valuer, house & estate agent, Gloucester street ; & at Buckingham Barnard Ellen (Mrs.), beer retailer, Union street. Barnard Frederick, cabinet maker. Market place Barnett Thomas, Queen's Arms, Coxwell street Bayly Sarah (Mrs.), fancy repository, London street Beckinsale Harry Reginald, baker, Gloucester street Belcher & Co. grocers, Market place Berkshire {ist^ ^fie Volunteers (I Co.) (Lieut.Ernest Edward Haines, commanding ; William Brisk, drill instructor). Armoury, Southampton street Boucher Thomas, beer retailer & carrier, London street Brisk William, drill instructor, I Compy. isL. ]5erks. Rifle Volunteers, The Armoury, Southampton street Bromwich Emma (Mrs.), boarding house, Southampton st Brown Matthew, carrier. Gravel walk Burge Thomas, saddler, London street Butcher Robert, supdt. of police & inspector of weights k measures. Police station, Coach lane Butler Augustus Edward, dentist, Gloucester street Cadel o, in the gift of Robert Hay ward Floyd esq. and held since 1869 by the Rev. George Floyd Rev. George m.a. [rector] [ Spurlc Robert, farm bailiff Floyd Thomas, P'rilsham house | Pain esq. Frilsham manor Letters by foot post from Faringdon, money order & telegraph office Wall Letter Box cleared week 7 p.m. ; Sundays, 12 noon Infants'' School, erected in 1875, for 30 children, with an average attendance of 18 ; Miss Ann Wornham, mistress. Elder children attend Longcot school Curtis Charles, shopkeeper Parker Alfred, JVoochnan Curtis William, farmer & horse dealer Wornham Richard, carpenter ^^'alter Arthur Eraser j.p. North court \\'cathera]l Frederick P. H. Sunnyside Annatts John, White Horse Barker William, shoeing smith Finchamstead Ridges, a range of hills extending from here to Sandhurst, afi'ord some splendid views of the surrounding country. John "Walter esq. m-.p. and the Rev. Edward St. John, who are lords of the manor, and the trustees of the late John St. John esq. are the chief landowners ; the soil is sand and gravel ; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are Avheat, oats and beans. The area is 3,926 acres ; rateable value,^4,79i; the population in 1881 was 664. Parish Clerk, \N'alter Goddard. Post Office. — George Goddard, receiver. Letters from Wokingham arrive at 7.45 a.m. & dispatched at 5.45 p.m. on week days ; on Sundays at 11.25 a.m. There is also a Pillar Letter Box, cleared at 6 p.m. & on Sundays at 11.45 The nearest money order office is at Woking- ham, & telegraph office at \N'ellington College Railway Station Free School, built by John Walter esq. m.p. & supported by subscriptions ; Miss Lewis, mistress Beechey Samuel Jas. Greyhound, & gro Goddard Geo.wheel wright it postmaster Kelsey John, farmer, Home farm Kelsey 1-Jobcrt, farmer,Mo(.)r Green frm Pigg ^^'illiam P.eechey, farmer Vass Charles, Poi/al Oak Floyd M.A. of Cains College, Cambridge; the charities are ^8 i6s. yearly. J-Jobert HayM'ard Floj d esq. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is clay ; subsoil chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 989 aci*es ; rateable value, £1,760 ; and the population in 1871 was T83. Letters through Newbury, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office National School (mixed), to hold 60 children, with an average attendance of 46 ; Miss Alice Browning, mistress to John I Pain John, miller (steam & water) I Toms William, shopkeeper EYFIELD is a parish 5 miles west-by-north from Abingdon, in the hundred of Ock, union and county court district of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Cerks, rural deanery of Abingdon and diocese of Oxford, on the road from Abingdon to Faringdon. The church of St. Nicholas is of mixed styles, chielly Middle and Third Pointed, consisting of chancel, nave and north aisle Avith a modern tower : in the chancel is the tomb of Lady C. Gordon, the " \Miite Rose" of Scotland, Avidow of Perkin \^'arbeck, and in the north aisle is the tomb of Sir John Golafre, lord of the manor, who died in 1442 ; liis effigy in armour lies upon an open altar tomb, having beneath the ii:_rure of a shrouded skele- ton. The register dates from the year 1587. The living is a vicarage, yearly value, ;^i25, in the gift of the President and scholars oi St. John's College, Oxford, and held since 1879 Aston Rev. Edwd. Albert Hy Bartlett Mrs. Ann Pai'ker James, Manor house COMMERCIAL. Barrett James, carpenter M.A. vicar Druce Alfred Francis Milton, farmer Harris John, IVhite Hart I HolitieldChas. HoAves,farmer, Netherton I Kimber Jas. Weaving, frmr.Fyheld Wick I Kimber John, farmer, Netherton Belcher John, farm'er, Fyfield Wick I EAST GARSTON" is a parish about 3 miles east-south- I south-west from Wantage, in the hundred of Lambourn, east from Lambourne, 7 north-ea:rt from Uungerford and 9 | union and county court district of Hungerford, rural dean- by the Rev. Edward AH ert Henry Aston m.a. of that college ; the charities are of ^25 yearly value. The Presi- dent and scholars of St. Jolm's, Oxford, are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The soil is a sandy loam ; subsoil, calcareous grit. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and beans. The area is 1,620 acres; rateable value, 2,233 ; the population in 1881, 337. Netherton, | of a mile north, and Fyfield Wick, miles south are portions of this parish. Parish Clerk, James Barrett. Letters through Abingdon. Pillar Box cleai'ed at 6.10 p.m. ; Sundays at 12 noon. The nearest money order office is at Marcham, ifc telegraph office at Abingdon National School, for So children ; Miss Kate Rowdatt, mistress Leach George, baker Nichols Eliza (Miss), shopkeeper Spiers ^^■i!liam, farmer, Netherton Taylor James, farmer ^Miite ^^'illiam Alfred, blacksmith 58 EAST GARSTON. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's ery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The river Lambourne runs through the village and is remarkable for generally ceasing to flow in the months of November,December and January. The church of All Saints is a handsome and spacious structure, with a chapel in the north-east chancel, nave, north and south transepts and a square tower : the chancel was rebuilt in 1875 bj^ the lay rectors, the Dean and Chapter of Clirist Church and their lessee, Sir Robert Burdett bart. and the chapel (which is called the Sej-mour chapel) by the vicar and his friends : all the windows of the chancel are stained : the church was re- opened in October, 1882, after restoration ; during Avhich many interesting specimens of Norman work were discovered, and a new massive font of Norman design was added. The register dates from 1554. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £370 Avith residence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1870 by the Rev. AVilliam Osborn Elderfield Richard, farmer Palmer John, wheelwright Parsloe Henry, farmer. Crane's farm Pounds PYancis, Avheelwright Pounds John, sawyer Reeves William, shopkeeper Rogers Thomas, farmer & grocer Admans ]\Iiss Jenkyn Rev, Wm. Osborn m.a. Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Alexander George, shopkeeper Alexander Thomas, shoe maker Brown Eli, Queen's Anns Denton Ralph, shoplceeper Earley Isaac, carrier GOOSEY is a village and chapelr^- in the civil parish of Stanford-in-the-Vale, 4 miles north-west from Wantage, 5 south-east from Earingdon and a mile nortli from Challow station on the Great Western railway, in the hundred of Ock, union and county court district of 'Wantage, rural deanery of the Vale of \Vhite Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of All Saints is a small Early English building, consisting of chancel and nave, with Jenkyn m.a. of Christ's Culiege, Cambridge. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have places of worship here. Sir Francis Burdett bart. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is principally chalk ; sub-soil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 4,342 acres ; rateable value, ;|/^4,i26 ; and the population in 1881 was 459. Farisli Clerk, William Woodley. Post Office. — William Reeves, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Lambourne R.S.O. at 9 a.m.; dispatched at 4.45 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Great Sheftord, & telegraph office at Lamborne National School, erected 1872 to hold 60 children, the average attendance being 35 ; Miss C. Eowle, mistress Carrier to Newbury. — Isaac Earley, thursday. The carriers between Newbury & Lamborne pass through Ruddle James Skeats, farmer Spanswick Charles, farm baililT to William Palmer esq Stephenson Alfred, farmer Thatcher Chas. blacksmith, Woodlmds Waldron Walter, farmer, Poughley Wise James, blacksmith and held since 1869 by the Rev. EdAvard PeuAvarne-Wellings, m.a. of University College, Durham, Avho resides at Stanford- in-the-Vale. The history of this place may be traced to an earlier date than that of any other in the district ; it Avas given by Offa, king of Mercia, about 785, to the abbey of Abingdon, in exchange for their beautiful isle of Andersey, lying south-Avest of the abbey, and a cell Avas established here by the monks, the site of Avhich is noAV occupied by a a bell-turret on the Avestern gable containing 2 bells. The house next to the school ; the manor here supplied the abbey •hancel has a curious Early English piscina, and eastward a square locker ; the Avail plate is ornamented Avith a row of ti-efoil-headed panels : tliere is no chancel arch : in the nave are some good corbel heads and a plain Early English stoup ; outside is one good buttress of like date, and in the church- yard the bass of a cross ; in the porch is a shield Avith the arms of Hyde ; the church door-kej' is Early English, and the oldest in the district. The register dates from the year 1850, previous to Avhich the registers Avere kept at the mother church, Stanford. The living is a vicarage, yearly A'alue £15^ Avith residence, annexed to the A'icarage of Stanford-in-the- Vale, in the . gift of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster DaAA'Son George, beer retaile Frampton Henry, farmer Jeffries James, farmer Blackall Rev. Thomas b.a. [curate in charge] Whitfield Thomas Clack John, shopkeeper GK,ANDPONT is a tithing of the parish of St. Aldate, Oxford, from Avhich it is separated by the Isis and is bounded by the parish of South Hinksey on the Avest, in the hundred of Hormer and union, local board and county court district of Oxford. The land is the property of Christ Church, Ox- GHAZELEY is a tithing and an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1854 out of the parishes of Sulhampstead Abbots, Sulhampstead Bannister and includes the libei'ty of Hartley Dumaier, in Shinfield civil parish, in the hundred and county court district of Reading, unions of Wokingham and Brad- field, rural deanery of Reading, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, Grazeley is 4 miles south from Reading. The church of the Holy Trinity is a small flint structure, erected in 1850, and has a chancel, nave, porch and stained east Avindow ; there is i bell. The register dates from the year 1856. The hving is a vicarage, yearly value ^130 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1880 by the Rev. John Doyle Kennedy. Richard Benyon, esq. Avho is lord of the manor, Frederick William Allfrey, esq. and Mrs. Merrj' are the principal landowners. The soil is loam ; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are Avheat, Allfrey Frederick William, Stanbury Kennedy Rev. John Doyle, Vicarage Large Mrs. The Firs Merry Mrs. Highlands Walton Maj.-Gen. Chas. Sheridan Black- wood, Hartley Court Woodforde William Thomas Garrett m.d Oak bank. Spencer's Wood Bradley Wm. blacksmith. Pound green G!REENHAM is an ecclesiastical parish adjoining the town of NeAA'bury on the south-east and lying south of the river Kennet, Avhich separates it from Thatcham, in the hundred of Faircross, union and county court district of Newbury, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks Avith cheese. John Oliver esq. Avho is lord of the manor, S. E. Bouverie Pusey esq. and J. H. Pocock esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is Kimmeridge clay, Avith a thin super- stratum of gravel and loam ; svibsoil, cVdy. The land is chiefly in pastm-e. The area is 958 acres ; rateable value £1,7^7; and the population in 1881 was 141. Farish Clerk, Richard Smith. Letters through Faringdon. The nearest money order office is at Stanford-in-the-Vale and P\iringdon the nearest tele- graph office Carrier to Wantage. — Israel Clack, sat Maslin Ernest, farmer Moon George, coal merchant Richards Henry, farmer ford. The soil is clay and gravel ; subsoil, gravel. The chief crop is hay. The area is included with Oxford. Letters received from dxford,Avhich is the nearest money order office. The names of residents Avill be found under Oxford. oats and beans. The entire area is 3,267 acres ; the popula- tion in 1 87 1 Avas 648. DiDNAM, a tithing of this parish, formei'ly belonged to Wiltshire, but by the Acts 2 & 3 Wm. IV. cap. 64 and 7 & 8 Vict. cap. 61 it Avas annexed to Berkshire, and is ecclesiasti- cally attached to Grazeley. Hartley Dummer, liberty, half-a-mile north, had a popula- tion of 382. Hartley Court is a fine mansion, built of stone, standing in its own park-like grounds, commanding a fine vicAv of the county looking north-west; it is the residence of Major Gen. Walton. Farish Clerk, John Charles Hawkins. National School, John Charles Hawkins, master Letters through Reading, the nearest money order &. tele- graph office Nash Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Robinson Thomas, JVheatsheaf, Lamb- Avood hill Stevens John, farmer. Great Lea farm Wicks Edward, Old Bell Woodforde Wm. Thomas Garrett m.d. medical officer for Berkshire com- bined district BroAvn Timothy, blacksmith. Pound grn Coldicut Edward, farmer, Hartley farm Cove AVilliam, farmer, Whiteley farm Dougall Peter, farm bailiff to R.Benyon esq Gosden William, farmer Hewett John, farmer, Grazeley bridge Long William, farmer Maynard William, farmer and diocese of Oxford. Greenham was originally a tithing of Thatcham ; in 1857 a portion of this tithing Avas formed into the ecclesiastical parish of Greenham, the remainder AA'as in 1859 included in the ecclesiastical parish of St. John the Evangelist, Newbury, and in 1878, at the extension of the DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. HAG BOURNE HAST & WEST. 59 borough of Newbury, a great portion of Greeuham -was added alluvium ; one of the gigantic ox skulls measured more than to it : the addresses of those residing Avithin the borough are ' three feet between the horns : some horse slioes, Avith plates given under that head. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, I 3 inches wide, covering the whole foot except the frog, were situated about half-a-mile from the boundaries of the borough | also exhumed near the same spot. Roman coins of Diocletian of Newbury, is a modern stone building in the Early English and Probus were fwund in 1846 near Fielder's farm, and a style, consisting of chancel and nave and has a very handsome number of skeletons (probably a hundred), together witli reredos and several stained memorial windows ; the founda- many specimens of fictile wai'e,were discovered in excavating tion stone was laid by the vicar, July 31st, 1875, and the the gravel near the Newbury goods station ; this spot appears church was consecrated on October 24th, 1876, by tlie Bishop to have been a Romano-British cemeterj-. Here are chapels of the diocese ; a catalogue of the plate, vestments, &c. be- longing to the old church at the time of tlae Reformation and dated 4 Aug. 6 Edw. VI. (1552) is preserved at the Record ottice. The register dates from tlie year 1706. The living for Baptists and Primitive Methodists. F'ellmongering is largely practiced and there is an extensive trade in flour. The trustees of the late Lloyd Baxendale esq. who are lords of the manor, and Capt. John Ward i?.n. of Round Oak, are is a vicarage, gross yearly value ^^150 M'ith residence, in the j the principal landowners. The soil is gravel and clay ; sub- gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1871 by the Rev. I soil chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. Oliver Edmtmd Slocock, m.a. of Pembroke College, Oxford. A vicarage house (there having been none before) Avas built in the year 1874. In the reign of Henry II. Maud, countess of Clare, gave the manor to the Knights-Hospitallers, who then founded a preceptory here, assumed to have been situ- ated near the present Avharf. In 1876, during the progress of excavations on the estate of the late Lloyd Baxendale, horn cores and skulls of ho.s 2}ri)ni(/em(s and bos loncjifrons, and portions of antlers of the red deer Avere met Avilh, at a depth of about 5 feet beloAV the surface, in a stratum of clayish [For residents in NeAvburj-, see that Fidler John C ToAvn.] Bartholomew Henry, Grecnham villa Baxendale Harry, (irccnluuu lodge Baxendale Mrs. Lloyd, Greeuham lodge Batson Mrs. Hill house Horseman Mrs. James, 3 Milford villas Horseman Mrs. W. INIilford vilUis Kenhan William, 2 Milford villas Knight Wilham, Cyprus villa Skinner William, Eastleigh The area is 2,354 acres, part of which is heath ; rateable value £6,j$6 ; and the population in 1881 Avas 1,586. Stroud Green, forming a part of the borough of NeAvbury, is in this parish. Parish Clerk, "William Andrews. Letters through NcAvbury, Avhich is the nearest money order & telegraph office National School, hwWi in 1846, & improved in 1849; it noAV holds 90 children : ]\Iiss Alice Todd, mistress Slocock Rev.OliverEdmundM.A.Vicarage Ward Capt. John r.x. Round Oak Allen ]\Iark, farmer, BoAvdoAvn's farm Clark Joseph, coAvkeeper, Berries bank Fidler John C. miller, Greeuham mills Skinner Robert k, ^^'illiam, maltsters GROVE is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1835 out of of the civil parish of Wantage ; it is situated half-a-mile from the Wantage Road station and about 2 nortli from Wantage, and a branch of the river Ock passes through ; it is in the county court district of ^^'antage,^•ural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxfctrd. The church of St. James the Great is a small plain structure and consists of nave only, Avith a small bell-turret. There Avas in ancient times a chapel here, dedicated to St. John the Baptist,Avhich existed up to the beginning of the i8lh century; the present church Avas built in 1830 by the exertions of the late Dr. Cotton, provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and the old dedication Avas changed. The register dates from the year 1832. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ;^83 Avith residence, in the gift of the vicar of Wantage and held since 1836 by the Rev. William Simcox Bricknell, m.a. of Worcester College, Oxford, avIio is also vicar of and resides at Hedger Mrs. The Grove Gauntlett Francis, blacksmith Liddiard Miss, The Elms Giles Elizabeth (Mrs.), iJell, k shopkpr Sargent Thomas | Goddard Sydney, farmer COMJIERCIAL. Harris David, boot & shoe maker Berks Wilis Canal Office (Frederick Hearman Frederick, baker Hudson, manager) Burson George, Avheclwright Clark William, boot k shoe maker Cordery Sanuiel, farmer Cox ^^'illiam, Jiai/ Tree Danec Eland, boot k shoe maker Hedger James, farmer. The Grove Hine Charles liichard, miller (water) Hud.'ion Frederick, agent to the Berks k Wilts Canal Co Ireson Henry, coal merchant, 'N^'antage Road station HAGBOURNE EAST and WEST is a parish con- : John York, as appears from inscribed brasses still remaining sisting of the townshiji of East llagbourne and liberty of in it ; the earliest is that of " Claricia Wyndsore, formerly West llagbourne, in the hundred of Moreton, imion and lady of Westhakborn, and Avife of John York, Avho caused county court district of Wallingford, rural deanery of Wal- this chapel to be made ;" she died March, 1403: the second lingford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. East commemorates John York himself, " founder of this aisle," Eynsham, Oxfordshire. Here is a Baptist chapel. The manor of Grove Avas given, in 1142, by King Stephen to the Convent of Bermondsey ; after the Dissolution, it came into the pos- session of the family of Grove, Avhose monuments appear in the south aisle of Wantage church. The principal landowners are Col. Sir Jiobert James Loyd-Lindsay v.c, k.c.k., m.p. B. Castle esq. E. Ormond esq. Mrs. and Miss Jones and R. Floyd esq. The soil is deep loam ; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are Avheat, beans and clover. The area is 1,630 acres; rateable value ;^5,6o6 ; the population in 1881 Avas 557. Parish Clerk, Thomas DaAvson. Post Oi-fice. — Fredk. Hearman, sub-postmaster. Letters delivered from Wantage at 7.0 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.20 p.m. '\N'antage is the nearest money order k telegraph office Natiojial School, for 70 children ; Miss Hinton, mistress ' Lacey Frank, farmer, BarAvell farm ; Pasmore Charles, farmer, Wick farm I Perry John, cattle dealer I Prince Isaac, Avatch k clock maker 1 Robins John, farmer I Sinnnons Edward, farmer, Bridge farm Sinunons Henry, farmer Sims Walter, Volunteer I Stevenson Robert, farmer, Brook farm Whitfield Albert, farmer, I Wood Richard, miller (water) Hagbourne is 16 miles south-Avest from Wallingford, 2 south- east from Didcot Junction station on the Great Western railway, and is situated on a stream called in Saxon times, " Hacca's-Brook," from a person of that name ; there is a charter of King Alfred, Avhich mentions both Haccan l?urn and Hacca-Broc, as may be seen in Kemble's " Codex Diplo- maticus ^vi Saxonici ;" this stream rises from a spring called Shovel Spring, never knoAvn to be dry. In Domesday the place is called Hacheborne, and Avas held at the time of the Great Survey by \\'alter, son of Otherins ; liainbald de Circestre (Cirencester) also held land here of the king. The manor is said to have been given by Henry I. to the monas- tery of Cirencester, Avhich he had founded. Here the Parlia- mentary army under the Earl of Essex Avas quartered on the 24th of May, 1644. The church of St. Andrew, in East Hag- Avho died 15th July, 1413 : there is a third inscription to John York (probably a son of the foregoing) and Johannah his Avife, both of Avhom died 5th September, 1445 : this aisle also has a handsome marble monument to John Phillips, esq. cari)enter at Windsor Castle to George I. and II. ; he accumulated considerable property in the neighbourhood, most of Avhich, by purchase from his representatives, has now passed into the hands of Col. Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay y.c, K.C.B., M.p. of Lockinge Park : this aisle has some stained glass, Avith a Decorated piscina ; the south aisle is Perpendi- cular, and retains a piscina and a hagioscope ; the chancel arch, and the arcades on the south side, are Transition Nor- man ; the north arcade of the nave has three Early English arches, but the aisle itself is Decorated, and has a door of the same date; the nave has a flat open-timbered roof, Avhich, bourne, is a building of mixed styles, consisting of chancel Avith the clerestory, is late Perpendicular ; the loAver part of and nave, both clorcstoried aisles, and a Avcstern battlemented the rood screen remains, Avitii the staircase, and the original Perpendicular toAver, Avith a stair turret and a sanctus bell- I door ; the pulpit and octagonal font arebotli Perpendicular: cot, with canopy and pinnacles, erected on the top, and con- in the chancel there is a fine Jacobean brass to " Christian taining one small bell, Avhile the tower has a fine peal of 8 Keate, Avife and AvidoAV of Hugh Keatc, of Hodcott, in the has kneeling figures of lioth, bells : the chancel is Pearly English and has good open timbered roof, a locker, trefoiled piscina and a large Perpen- dicular cast Avindow : the north aisle or chapel Avas built by county of Barkes, gent. ;" it Avith four sons and four daughters ; he died 23rd Marcli. 1613," and was buried in the parish chancell of ^^'cstildbley;* 60 HAG BOURNE EAST & WEST. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's she died 14th August, 1627 ; " Wm.Keate their 5 0ungest sone erected this memoriall." The church was some years ago substantially repaired and well restored, under the superin- tendence of W. J. Hopkins, esq. architect, at the cost of about j^i,2oo, including ;r^2io laid out by the Earl of Craven (former lord of the manor) in the repairs and restoration of the chancel. The register dates from the year 1662. The living is a vicarage, the tithes of which have been commuted at £'22.0, gross income about £260, in the gift of flenry Baker esq. The Firs, Buckland, Faringdon, and held since 1878 by the Rev. William Robert Baker b.a. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. A short distance north-east of the church, in the village, is a fine cross on lofty steps ; the tall shaft has on one side, at the foot, a wide deep niche, and above it a smaller one, with traces of a canopy ; it is now surmounted by a cubical sun-dial ; on the east side of the village are the remains of another cross, placed on a high mound ; and the base of a third is in the hedgeside in a road north of the village. There are some extremely picturesque and good examples here of timber and plaster or tiled houses, several of which, the property of Sir R. Loyd-Lindsaj^, have been very carefully restored. The total amount of charities, from several legacies, is about £^0 annually. Colonel Sir R. J. Loyd-Lindsay v.c, k.c.b., m.p. who is lord of the manor of East Hagbourne, Charles Morrison esq. Mr. Stephen Dixon and Mr. John Holliday are the principal landowners. The soil is strong, black and loamy ; subsoil, rubble chalk. The crops are wheat, barley and beans. The parish is noted fur its cherry orchards, and Avatercresses are largely grown liere. The entire area is 2,755 acres ; rateable value of East Hagbourne;!r5,93i,and of West Hagbourne^i,933 ; the popu- Pliander Priscilla (Miss), grocer East Hagbourne. Gardner Charles, boot & shoe maker Appleford Jacob Jiakcr Rev. '\^■illiam Robert b.a. Vicarage Holiday Miss lation m 1881 was, township 1,108 ; liberty 162 ; total of the Lousley Mrs Pilcher Matthew, The Grange COMMERCIAL. Allen Charles William, farmer. Cose Andrews George, thatcher Andrews Henry, ginger beer maker Arnold Charles, tailor Eosley Benjamin, Travellers^ JVelcome Butler James, Greyhound inn Child Ephraim, wheelwright Clare Benjamin, wheelwright Corderoy William, grocer Dixon Stephen, farmer & landowner Parsonage farm HAMPSTEAD MARSHALL te Holliday John, farmer & landowner Keep Frederick, fruiterer Lousley John, farmer. Manor farm Mills P>ederick, shoe maker Mills Richard, timber dealer Napper Frank, carpenter Napper Frederick, farmer, Oakburne ho Napper George, farmer Napper John, farmer, Coscote Napper Sarah (Mrs.), Boot inn Napper William, Fltur-de-Lis, & blacksmith Pether James, mason Port Daniel, shoe maker Saunders Joseph, farmer Stevenson Fi'ederick, beer retailer ' "Wakefield Edward, grocer I White Vi'illiam, saddler parish 3 miles miles north-west from Kintbury station on the Great Western railway, 4 west-south-west from Newbury, 7 south- east from Hungerford, in the hundred of Kintbury Eagle, \mion and countj- court district of NeAvbury, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford parish 1,270. West Hagborne is a liberty i mile south-west. There was formerly a church here ; a field is still caUed Church Croft. Philip Aldworth esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Coscote is a hamlet half-a-mile west from East Hagbourne. North Hagbourne is the name given to a large number of houses, which have gradually increased in number during some years past, on the northern border of the parish, form- ing a sort of suburb to Didcot station and village, three- quarters-of-a-mile north-east, about a quarter-of-a-mile from Didcot Junction station on the Great Western railway. Here is a school chapel, in which services are held every Sunday evening, but it is intended to build a permanent church to seat 300. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel, with schoolroom attached. The population is included in East Hagbourne. Parish Clerk, James Pether. Post Office. — Edward Wakelield, postmaster. Letters ar- rive from Didcot at 7.10 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.50 p.m. Didcot is the nearest money order & telegraph office Church School for 190 children ; James Moss, master ; Miss Lizzj' Lawton, mistress North Har/hoitrne Infant School, established in 1871 for 80 children ; Miss P'anny Chapman, mistress Carriers to : — Abingdon — Benjamin Bosley & Frederick Keep, mon Wallingford — Benj. Bosley & Frederick Keep, tues. & fri. ; William Sawyer, daily "West Hagbourne. Appleford Jacob, farmer, Down farm Aldworth Philip, farmer. Manor house Beasley Richard, Wlieatsheaf inn Dearlove Isaac, farmer, Lime Tree farm Lousley Joseph, farmer Napper Joseph, Horse cf- Arrow Woodley John, baker North Hagbourne. Noble Charles William Sadgrove Arthur Augustus,Highfield ho Andrew Thomas, grocer Butler Frederick William, draper Chi vers Joseph, grocer Martin Caleb, grocer Martin Jabez, shoe maker Painter Jonathan, beer retailer Sidery William, bviilder Townshend Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Lord Maj'orof London, was created Baron Craven of Hamp- stead-Marshall and in 1662 Earl, for services which he had rendered to his exiled master during the protectorate of Cromwell and the losses M'hich he had sustained by confisca- cation. In the same year, the house built by Sir T. Parry having been pulled doAvn, Sir Balthazer Gerbier began the Avon and Kennet canal, the river Kennet and the Great : stately pile of building after the model of the Castle of Western raihray pass through the parish. The place : Heidelberg, which was linished in 1665, but this house was received its surname, according to Ashmole, because it " for- | almost wholly destroyed by fire in 1718 : Sir B. Gerbier, the merly belonged to the Earl Marshall of England and was ' architect, died in the parish and Avas buried in the church : held by the tcnm-e of the Rod of the Marshalsea." The j the present mansion was erected by the first Earl of Craven church of St. Mary is a plain brick building, re-erected in and has been from time to time enlarged : the deer park the time of James I. and consists of chancel, nave, north ' extends over more than 400 acees, with a series of small aisles, porch and a tower containing 2 bells. The register lakes across it; it belongs to the Earl of Craven, but is at tlates from the year 1675. The living is a rectory, net yearly present in the occupation of the Marquess of Donegall k.p. value ^276 Avith 17I acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of ' g.c.h., p.c. The Earl of Craven is lord of the manor and CraA'en and held since 1850 by the Rev. Charles Augustus ' principal landowner. The soil is light and gravelly and Johnson M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, who resides at some portion stif? clay ; subsoil, c-lay and sand. The Enborne. There is a small Congregational chapel. The poor's iillotment is 3A. 2R. 36?. and one acre of land, in value, is held by the parish clerk rent free : Smith's charity of 8s. is •distributed in money. Hampstead Marshall appertained to the hereditary office of Marshal of England. The manor, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, belonged to the Parrys ; Sir Thomas Parry, treasiu-er to the household of that queen, built a house here; about 1620 this manor passed by purchase to the Cravens, and became one of the chief seats of that family; in the year 1626 Sir William Craven, son of Sir W. Craven, Donegall Marquess of k.p., g.c.h,, p.c. Hampstead park ; & 22 Grosvenor square ; & White's & Boodle's clubs, London s.w Orr Rev. Daniel Martin b.a. [curate]. Red Hill cottage chief crops are Avheat, barley, oats &c. The area is 1,839 acres; rateable value, ^^2,514; the population in 1881 was 247. Parish Clerk, William Parker Arnold. Post Office. — William Parker Arnold, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Newbury at 8.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.20 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Kintbury & Newbury is the neai'est telegraph office School, Miss Mary Ann Ray, mistress Bune John, farmer. Holt wood I Freebody John, farmer. Plum farm Burton James, sub-agent to the Earl of j Hallett Charles, shoe maker CraA'en 1 Punter Betsy (Mrs.), plumber & glazr Burton Walter Jas. carpenter & wheehvt ; Snook John, farmer Collins William, White Hart \ Taylor Wilham, farmer HAMPSTEAD NORRIS is a village and extensive parish 7 miles north-east from Newbury in the hundred of Faircross, union of Wantage, county court district of New- bury rural deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry of DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. HANNEY. 61 Berks and diocese of Oxford and is a station on the Didcot and Newburj' branch of the Great Western railway, opened in April, 1882: this manor was held by the family of Norris, or Norreys, in the reign of Henry VII. ; the place had been previously known as Hampstead Cifrewart, from a family of the latter name, who possessed it in the time of Heury III., and then as Hampstead Ferrars, for a like reason. The chvirch of St. Mary exhibits a mixture of Norman and Early English architecture and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a low and battlemented western tower : there is a trefoiled piscina, supported on a shaft and sedilia formed in the sill of a window ; the stair to the rood loft remains and in the porch is a stoup ; the nave roof is dated 1635 : the walls of the church and tower have been carefully repaired and the interior enlarged by the removal of a timber and plaster partition which stood between the nave and the chancel and a stone arch with detached pillars having richly carved capitals, has been erected in its place: the two lancet windows at the west end of the nave have been restored and new windows inserted where necessary in har- mony with the ancient work : the w^iole of the church has been fitted with open seats of pitch pine and white deal: the font is of Purbeck stone and ornamented with carved crosses, the entire cost of restoration being ^1,600. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, gross value ;^430 with 135 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Luke Lowsley esq. and held since 1876 by the Rev. Henry David Grantham. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have chapels here. The charities amount to £21 yearly, which is distributed in clothing. About three miles to the south of Hampstead Norris and near the hamlet of Well House* is a hill fortress called Grimsbury Castle, remarkable for its strength, the extreme beauty of its situation and the skill displayed in its construction ; the rampart is of a circular form having tAvo entrances, one on the north and the other on the south side, the former being reached by a narrow sunken road ; the fortifications on this side consisting of a deep ditch and lofty bank, are of a for- midable character and opposite the entrance is a mound, perhaps used for reconnaissance ; the fortress is nearly inaccessible on the northern and western sides,being defended by morasses, and before the country was drained the whole of the valley must have been under water, as is evident from the peat deposit : within the ramparts on the right side by the south-east corner, is a beautiful spring of excellent Avater which is never known t6 be dry ; the adjoining hamlet derives its name from this spring. About the year 1833, in a held on Well House Farm and about half a mile from this spot Avere discovered the remauis of a lloman villa ; in several other parts of the parish remains of skeletons and spear-heads haA-e been found Avhich seem to indicate that it Avas a place of considerable importance in the time of the ancient Britons and the Romans. In a part of Grinisbury Forest, locally termed " Fenie Wood," at the foot of the hill, a few hundred yards on the north or Hermitage side of the fortress, a pile- Hampstead Norris. Breach James Dewe William, Parsonage Grantham Rev. Henry David, Vicarage Lousley Jethro Lowsley Luke, Manor house COMMERCIAL. Barlow Hy. hurdle ma. & timber dealer Breach James, surgeon Burgess Eli, shopkeeper Burgess James, beer retailer, Little Hungerford Bushell Chas. Fox ^ Hounds, Well ho Chapman "^^'illiam Henrj-, farmer, Botthamstead farm Clark John, boot & shoe maker Clark Jsph. Horse 4' Jockei/, World's end Dewe Jas. farmer, Wyld Court farm DcAve William, farmer tk landowner, Parsonage HANNEY is a parish consisting of the townships of East and West Hanney, in the hundred, union and county court district of Wantage, rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. West Hanney is about 2 miles north from the Wan- tage Road station of the Great Western raihvay, 4 north- north-east from Wantage and 75 south-west from Abingdon. The church of St. James the Great is a fine cruciform struc- ture consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and an embattled tower on the north side containing 7 bells : the chancel is poor and late Perpcizdicular ; the chancel arch Early English, Dewe Robert, farmer, ButtenshaAv farm DeAve William, jun. farmer, Haw farm Ferrebee Thomas, beer retailer P\ilker Thomas, carpenter GodAvin Thomas, farmer, WeW house Hibbard Joseph, farmer, Bothamstead Jef¥ery Hannah (Mrs.), beer retailer Joj-ce ^Villiam, grocer, & post otiice Lousley Jethro, farmer k landowner, ToAvnsend farm LoAvsley Luke, farmer & landowner, Manor farm Marsland Amos Streat, grocer k. draper NcAvton John, baker & grocer Phillips Edward, plumber Pyke John, THiite Hart Quelch John, blacksmith Ralph Sarah Ann (j\Irs.), shopkeeper. World's end "V\'eston Anthony, carpenter I Wicks John, Keiv inn, Langley hall dAvelling Avas discovered some years ago ; this was met with some four or five feet below the surface Avhile digging for peat and consisted of rough oaken timber, about 18 feet in length, supported by vertical posts at their extremities and by a stouter one in the centre, 18 feet long ; altogether, more than tAvo AA'aggon loads of oak timber Avere taken out and the solid earth or clay was found to be at a depth of about 7 feet ; it is inferred that thi > structure may have been the platform of an ancient dwelling. Col. Sir Robert Jas. Loyd-Lindsaj^ v.c.,k.c.b., m.p. and Luke LoAVsley esq. are lords of the manor, they Avith William Dewe, William Dewe, jun. and George Palmer m.p. are the principal landowners. The soil is stony, clay and gravel ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The parish contains the hamlets of Hermitage 3 miles south-west, Little Hungerford 2| south-west, Bottom- stead ij Avest, Elixg, Langley Hall 2| west, World's End 3 west and Well House i south-by-west. The popula- tion of Hampstead Norris and the hamlets in 1881 Avas 1,378; the area is 5,769 acres ; rateable value, ^5,296. Parish Clerk Sf Sexton, Thomas Warman. Post Office. — William Joj-ce, postmaster. Letters arrive from NeAvbury at 8.35 a.m. ; dispatched at 4.35 p.m. East Ilsley is the nearest money order & telegraph office Insurance Agent: — Liveri^ool cf- London <^ Glohe, A. S. Marsland Parochial School, erected 1873 for 160 children, average attendance, 130, supported by subscription ; Miss Isabel Furmage, mistress Carriers to : — Neavbury — George Fulker, tuesday, thursday & Saturday; & Thomas Butler, thursday &. Saturday Reading — George Fulker, Saturday Railway Station, William Parker Parsons, station master Hermitage is an ecclesiastical parish forms :l in 1840 out of the parish of Hampstead Norris, 4 miles north-east from NcAvbury and 3 south-Avest from Hampstead Norris and is a station on tlie Didcot and NcAvbury branch of the Great Western raihA-ay. The church of the Holy Trinity Avas built in 1835 and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and bell turrets. The register of baptisms and marriages dates from 1839; burials, 1841. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly A'alue ^^167 with residence, in tlie gift of Luke LoAvsley esq. and held, since 1852, by the Rev. Philip Alexan- der Longmore m.a. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Here is a Primitive Methodist cliapel. Sir R. J. Loyd-Lindsay v.C , K.C.B., m.p. is the principal landoAvner. The soil is flint and gravel ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are Avlieat, bai'lej' and oats. The area is 1,550 acres; the population in 188 r was 461. Parish Clerk; Henry Keep. Parochial School , erected in 1841 for 120 children ; aA-erage attendance, 100; supported hy subscription; Miss Mar- garet Ann Walker, mistress Hermitage Station, William Brain, station master Woodley William,watch & clock maker ; repairs of all kinds neatly executed ; World's End Hermitage. Hulbert William Jackson William c.E Longmore Rev. Philip Alexander m.a. [vicar]. Vicarage Martin-Atkins Ernest EdAvin, Her- mitage liouse Pargiter John Cook George, coffee rooms Hulbert William, solicitor Ireson Giles, JFhtteHo'ise Jackson William, civil engineer Lewendon William, cattle dealer INIerritt Charles, butcher Merritt James, Fox Rivers Stephen, smith Rust Geo- shopkeeper,Little Hungerford very acute, with good corbie shafts ; a blocked hagioscope, and rood-loft stairs remain ; the south transept is Early English, with a trefoiled piscina ; the north transept is under the tower and has a Transition Norman arch opening to the naA-e, its east window and piscina are Decorated and there is a curious old staircase to the belfry; the nave Ins four Decorated arches on the south side ; one of the pillars is Norman, cylindrical and massiA-e ; the others liave been at one time similar : the south aisle is Decorated and has a richly panelled parapet : the loAver part of the tower is Tran- siitic.n Norman, the upper portion Parpon licular and the boll 62 HANNEY. BERKSHIRE, [kelly's frame is dated 1605 ; the north doorway is Norman and has an Early Eng-lish porch, the south doorway Decorated : in the chancel is a brass, with ettigy, to John Seys, rector, c. 1370; others to Humphrey Cheynie, 1537; Sir Cliristopher Lyicot, 1559, with effigy ; John Ayshcombe, 1592, Avith fitrures of two Avives, ten sons and four daughters ; and Oliver Ayshcombe, 1611, wife, four sons and two daughters; there are also marble monuments to John Ayshcombe, i655,Avith arms; E. Scroggs, 1784; and H. Popham, 1752; in the south transept are brasses to Thomas Wellisborne, 1602, tAvo Avives and thi'ee daughters ; in the nave is a tablet to Edw. Wantage at 7.50 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.35 p.m. Wantage is the nearest money order & telegraph office East Hanney is situated on the river Ock, about 7 miles south-Avest from Abingdon and north from Wantage, The Wantage Road station on the Great Western railway is situated about a mile from the village and the Wilts and Berks canal 2 miles. The chapel of ease of St. James-the-Less Avas erected by subscription, from designs by the late G. E. Street esq. h.a. ; it will seatupAvards of 150 persons. The principal landowners are Col. Sir Robert James Loyd-Lindsay v.c, k.c.e., m.p., j.p. W. Bowles, 1685 and his Avife, Elizabeth BoAvles, 1718, aged 124. | Morrison esq. E. B. Pusey esq. and the Messrs. Godfrey years; the pulpit dates from 1649 : in the vicarage garden are several stone coffins, pinnacles and gurgoyles. The register dates from the year 1582. The livingis a vicarage, yearly A'alue ^256 Avith residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury and held suice 1849 by the Rev. James Macdougal m.a. of Brasenose College, Oxford. There are charities of ^30 yearly for educational purposes, _^io for dis- tribution in bread and 12 guineas in money. Tlie pnncipal landoAvners are F. J. Jackson esq. New College, Oxford, and the Messrs. Aldworth. The land is freehold. The soil is loam ; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are Avheat, barley, beans and turnips. The toAvnship comprises 1,390 acres; rateable value, ^2,578 ; and the population in 1881 Avas 369. Parish Clerl; James Bunee. Post Office. — John Bursom, receiver. West Hanney. Heading William, jun Joy Rev.Chas.Ashfieldr.A.K.C L. [curate] Macdougal Rev. James m-a. [vicar], Vicarage Stevens John CO]MMERCIAL. Barrett Henry, shopkeeper Belcher Alfred, Avheelwright Belcher James, Avheelwright Bunce James, mason Butler Nathan'el, farmer Clinch Edwin, harness maker Cox William, blacks>riith Dormer Charles, shopkeeper Fuller Thomas, shoe maker GrcenaAvay Joseph, farmer, Manor farm Heading William, farmer Letters arrive from Lloyd Richard, farmer Lloyd William, farmer Monk Walter, butcher Shepherd Martin, baker Steel Josej^h, Lamh East Hanney. Brooks William Tyrrell, Robey villa Earnley Charles Holmes Frederick COMMERCIAL. Aldworth Charles, carpenter Arthurs Charles, iJlack Horse P>etteridge Henry, farmer Booker George, Avheelwright Cox Williami^ blacksmith Dandridge Edgar & Alfd. Wm. millers (steam & Avatercombined)&maltsters, ^^'antage Road mills The soil is loam; subsoil, clay and Avhite gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The toAvnship comprises 600 acres of very rich arable land ; the population in 1881 Avas 493 ; entire area of the parish is 3,060 acres ; rateable value of East Hanney tOAvnship, ;,^3,448 ; the entire population in 1881 Avas 862. Sexton, James Tombs. Post Office. — Mrs. Mary Ann Piggott, receiver. Letters arrive from Wantage at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.20 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Wantage National School, es'tabhshed in 1848 for 200 childr^i Charles Manning, master ; Miss Han*iet Arnes, mistress Carriers to : — Abingdon— George Herman, to ' Oxford Arms,' monday \^'ANraGE — Henry Barrett & George Herman, to ' Blue Boar,' Avednesday & Saturday Dandridge Dennis, farmer Dormer Thomas, farmer Faulkner John, horse bre^jker Fisher Mary (Mrs.), farmer Herman George, shopkeeper Herman Henry, shopkeeper Herman John, fruit dealer Holmes James Robins, shopkeeper Johnson John, Plougli Lloyd Edwin, farmer Long Philip Augustine, baker Lyford John, farmer Lyford Joseph, farmer. Lay house Newman Thomas, Crown Piggot John, boot & shoe maker Piggot Mary Ann (Miss), draper Richards Benjamin, shopkeeper Talmage William, shopkeeper West Daniel, miller (Avater) HARWELL is a parish in the hundred of Moreton, union and county court district of \Vantage, rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, 8 miles Avest from Wallingford, 6| east-by-north from Wan- tage and 2.h south-Avest from the Didcot station of the Great Western railway. The church of St. Matthew is an ancient Gothic structure with chancel, naA'e, north and south transepts and square embattled tower containing 6 bells : it contains an organ and has several monuments to the families of Smith, Hopkins, Tyrrell, Eaton, NeAvton, Elderlield and King: the church was restored in 1867 through the muni- ficence of the late John Hopkins esq. of Tidmarsh. The register dates from the year 1562. The living is a vicarage, yearly A-alue £320, in the gift of and held since 1856 by the itev.Samuel Mountjoy Smith m.a. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Wesleyan Methodists have a chapel here. Here are almshouses for six poor widoA\-s and other charities amounting to about ^^300 a-year. John Hopkins esq. who NeAvman AsliAvin Conway Oliver Henry Perry Mrs Pokins Edmund Shorter Newman Smith Rev. Samuel Mountjoy [vicar] Thomas Mrs COMAIERCIAL. Beesley Richard, Cheqners inr, Betteridge Richard, farmer Burnham Henry, inspector of nuisances to Wantage rural sanitary authority, & overseer Cooper Edward, builder Day Catherine (Mrs.), farmer Day Francis Benjamin, farmer. Winter- brook house Day George, brewer Day Harriet (Mrs.), farmer Day Isaac, farmer Day Joseph, maltster & corn dealer Elsom Alfred, baker Gardener George, butcher Gardner Joseph, shoe maker GreenaAvay Jas. Whitehorn, W^7/?7^ Hart Hanson George, veterinary surgeon Harris Joseph, Crispin imt Hitchman Isaac, carpenter Hughes John, blacksmith Hutchings Eliza Ann (Miss), shopkpr. & sub-post office Hutchings Thomas, farmer Jordon John, shopkeeper Keat John, baker Keat William, farmer Lay John, farmer & landowner is lord of the manor, the President and felloAVS of Magdalen College, Oxford and Mr. John Lay are the principal land- owners. The soil is loam and chalk ; subsoil, chiefiy chalk. The chief crops are Avheat, barley, oats and roots. The area is 2,482 acres ; rateable value, ;/^S,2ii ; the population in 1881 Avas 810. Parish Clerk, Isaac H. Itchman. Post Office — Miss Eliza Ann Hutchings, sub-postmistre?s. Letters arrive from Steventon R.S.O. at 8.30 a.m. ; dis- patched at 6 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Didcot & telegraph office at Didcot raihvay station Schools : — National, for 80 children ; Mrs. Union, mistress EmJoived, with £s7 yearly, for 20 children ; Wm. T. Wood, master Carriers. — Henry King & Frederick Elderfield, to Abingdon, daily: Isaac Jefferies, to Abingdon, mon. tues. Aved. & thurs. ; to Wallingford, fri. ; to Wantage, sat Newman Askwin Conway, surgeon h medical ofiicer for BleAVsbury district, Wantage vmion Perry George, farmer Pryor John Thomas, shopkeeper Richens John, farmer Richens John, jun. farmer Saunders Francis, cattle dealer Sims Charles, beer retailer Tame John, farmer Tame William, farmer Tyrrell Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker Weston Frederick, Crown inn White William, saddler Wilkinson John, shopkeeper Wood William Thomas, registrar of births & deaths & vaccination officer for Hendry sub-district HATFORD is a village and parish 3I miles south-east- 1 station on the Great Western raihvay, 6 south from Bampton by-ea.it from Faringdon, 3^ south-east from the Challow ' and 7 north-Avest from Wantage, in" the union and county DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. korth hinksey. 63 court district of Faringdon, hundred of Ganfield, rural deanery of the Yale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxf^-rd. The church of the Holy Trinity, consecrated May yth, 1874, is a handsome stone edifice in the Early English style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave and square embattled tower at the south-west corner, \ with 4 bells and was erected at a cost of about ^4,000, de- j frayed by the patron, the Rev^ Samuel Paynter. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, yearly value £375, with residence in the gift of the Rev. Samuel j Paynter and held since 1877 by the Rev. Stephen Hastings Kational School, erected 1862 for -^o children Atkins M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Sidney Bouverie i tendance, 30 ; Selina Howard, mistress Atkins Rev. Stephen Hastings, m.a. j Burton Richard, farmer. Manor House j Wigmore Alfred, beer retailer k shop- Rectory I farm EAST HENDRED is a parish 2 miles north from Steventon station ( n the Great Western railway, 4 east from Pusey esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is principally a coral rag ; subsoil, clay, sand, gravel and stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 999 acres ; rateable value, ^1,225 ; the population in 1 88 1 was 132. Parish Clerk, Charles Gray. Letters from Faringdon by foot post arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest money order otiice is at Stanford-in-the-Vale ; telegraph oHice, Faringdon. Letteu Box in wall cleared at 6.30 p.m. ; Sunday 11.30 a.m average at- AV'antage, on the road to Reading and Wallingford, in the hundred, union and county court district of Wantage, rviral deanery of Wantage, archdeaconrj- of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Augustine of Canterbury is a stone structure, with chancel, nave and square tower at the west end, containing 6 very fine bells : it Avas enlarged and restored in the year 1861 : it contains a lectern of the thirteenth century and several ancient brasses and is re- markable as having an arcade, dividing the two southern aisles, of slender piers without arches, of which the most eastern pier is original. The register dates from the year 1539 and is in a reniarkable state of preservation. The living is a rectory, yearly value £600 with residence in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford and held since 1875 '^v ^'le I^cv. Thomas Bowles m.a. of Queen's College, Oxford. St. Mary's I late C. J. Eyston Catholic church is a commodious stone building in the 1 cipal landowners Decorated style, erected in 1865: it has a school annexed. ' principally chalk keej^er 1291 and probably existed at an earlier date ; it is a private chapel of the family, and previous to the building of the Catholic church was used for public services. Hendred Down House, the seat of John Allin esq. is a very large mansion enclosed in a Avell-timbercd park of 90 acres. The village stands near the Vale of White Horse and was once a populous and thriving market toAvn and one of the seats of the cloth manufacture ; several privileges were conferred upon it by a charter of Henry \1. The stewardship of the King's Mar.or in this parish is a nominal office, in the gift of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and is one of the places which may be accepted for the purpose of vacatiiig a scat in the Houte of Commons. Here are the remains of an ancient chapel, now converted into a granary. There are five manors and three lords of manors, John Allin esq., trustees of the late Ciiarles John Eyston esq. and New College, Oxford ; trustees of the esq. and John Allin esq. are the prir.- Tlie soil is chalk and loam ; subsoil, The chief crops are the usual cereals 3,099 acres; rateable value, ;^4,496 ; Here is also a Primitive Met liodist chapel. By an entry inland roots. The area i the churchwardens' book, dated 22nd Ajiril, 1682, it is stated the population in 1881 was 815. that Catherine Spiser had delivered into the hands of one of Parish Clerk, Joseph Besloy. the churchM-ardens for that year £6, to be received to the Post, Money Okdek & Teleoraph Office & Savings world's end, for preachment of a sermon ; and £6 s^^e has Bank. — Lawrence Besley, postmaster. Letters received given to tlie poor of this parish, to be given in bread by the ' through Wantage at 8.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 6 p.m Schools: — National, Iniilt in 1862 for 200 children ; Charles John Johnstone, master Catholic, Miss L. Leary, mistress Cakuieh.— William Stotter. to Abingdon, mon. & fri. ; to churchwardens to the poor present after the .^ermon is ended upon Holy Thursday, tp remain to the world's end; there are other charities amounting to nearly £100. Hendred House, the scat of Mrs. P'ystnn, is i)lea.santly situated near the centre of the village: attaclied is an ancient chapel dedicated to St. Amand Avhich can be traced back to Allin John, Hendred Down house Bowles Rev. Thomas m.a. [rector] Cowdrey Mrs Eyston Mrs. Hendred house Harris William Luck Rev. Thomas [Roman Catholic] Martin William Patey George Samuel Robey Mrs Sheard Mrs commf,t?ciat-. Besley Joseph, enginr. it implement agt ^^'antage, sat Besley FVcderick & Richard, Avheel- wrights, carpenters k builders J^esley Lawrence, grocer liosley Thomas, Eysion Arms Bradfield Robert, miller (water) Castle John, farmer Castle Jihoda (Miss), slir)pkceper Dennis John, baker Dennis ^^'illiam, wheelwright Eagles Edwin Silcs, I'lovtjh inn Gibbs William, farmer Goddard Joseph, shoe maker WEST HENDRED is a parish in the hundred, union and count>- court district of U'aiitage, rural deanery of ^\'an- tage, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, about 3.V miles east from ^^'antage antl intersected by a strcani which falls into the Thames near Monkey Lsland. The churcli of Holy Trinity is a very ancient building with several remains of Norman architecture; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and square tower at the -nest end containing 5 bells. The registers date from the year 1578; in them are recorded several instances of collections made for the Protestants in Poland and elsewhere, for the redemption of captives taken by the Turks, and for the sutTerers by fire in 1666. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ;^75i with resi- dence, in the gift of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, and held since 1873 by the Rev. Charles Frederick Hayden m.a. late fellow of tliat college. Hayward's charity of Hayden Rev. Charles Frederick m.a [vicar], Vicarage Reeves Mrs COMMERCIAL. Bartholomew Thomas, farmer Greenaway Benjamin, carpenter Harris William, bricklayer Harris \\'il]iam, farmer & landoMUcr Hughes Frederick, shopkeeper Jackson 'William, butcher Roberts Shadrach, coal dealer Robey Chas. (Mrs. ),farmer & landowner Smith PVederick. farmer Stibbs Richard, bricklayer Wallis Joseph, tailor West Warner, beer retailer Woodley George, blacksmith fuel The President and fellows of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, who are owners of the manor, and John Allin esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is clay, ciialk and loam ; subsoil clay and chalk. The chief crops are the usual cereals and roots " The area is 1,973 acres; rateable value, ^1^3,486; the pojiulation in 1881 Mas 351. p]AST GiXGE is a hamlet belonging to this parish, a mile and a half south, consisting of two farms ; John Allin esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Parish Clerk, Stephen Bartholomew. Letters through Wantage. The nearest money order & telegraph otiice is at East Hendred In 1853 an ornamental building was erected for a mixed school for 80 children with residence for the master &, mistress ; Miss Hannah Lavan, mistress Chesney Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper I Tame John Robert, farmer Hujrgins Noble, baker ! Watts Thomas William, shopkeeper Mulford Frederick, Hare . Williams Francis, farm bailiff to John Saunders Thomas, beer retailer j Allin esq. EastGingc Stevenson George, mdler (water) I [4s. is for NORTH or FERRY HINKSEY (anciently "Henge- stesige," from the mythical chieftain Hengist) Avilh the hamlet of I]otley, form a parish on the western bank of the Thames, in the hundred of Hornier, county court district of Oxford, rural deanery of Oxford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, union of Abingdon. North Hinksey is one mile west from Oxford and 5I miles north from Aliingdon. The church of St. Lawrence, situated on an eminence at the north end of the village and formerly a chapel of ease to Cumnor, is a plain building of mixed styles and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower of Early English date, with a pyramidal roof ; it has but one doorway, a fine specimen of Early Norman character and on the south side of the chance) is a low side 64 NORTH HINKSEY. BERKSHIRE. [kelly's window of the same date : on the north side of the chancel is an arched recess, Avith zig-zag moulding, probably a blocked hagioscope : in the church is a memorial to Thomas Willis (father of the celebrated Dr. Willis and an- cestor of BroAvue Willis, the antiquary), who died in the Eoyal cause at the siege of Oxford, Aug. 4, 1643 ; an inscrip- tion on the monument of William Finmore, felloAV of St. John's College, Oxford, Avho died in 1647, begins thus : " Eeader, look to thy feet ; honest and loyal men are sleeping under them ;" there are other memorials to the same family : in t he churchyard near the porch is a line old yew and at the east end the steps and shaft of a cross ; this old church, with its rustic surroundings, is one of the most picturesque bits in the neighbourhood of Oxford and has been repeatedly sketched by Mr. Kuskin and other artists. The register dates from the year 1703. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £'^2.0 with residence and 64 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Abingdon and Edward W. Harcourt esq. alternatel}' and held since 1877 by the Rev. William Floyer Cornisli m.a. of Lincoln College, Oxford. The ground at tlie hack of the church, at first a farm-yard, rises rapidly intc a park-like eminence, thickly wooded with fine elms, on emerging frcm which and gaining the open ground Botley on the top of the hill, an exceedingly good view is obtained of Oxford and its south-western suburbs ; the village is con- nected Avith South Hinksey by a pleasant path across the fields, and a ferry across a small feeder of the Isis unites it to a causeway leading through the meadows into the Botley road. E. W. Harcourt esq. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are E. W. Harcourt esq. and Brasenose College, Oxford. The soil is chieflv stone brash, clay, gravel, peat and loam ; subsoil on the hills is limestone, in the A^alley peat and clay. The crops are the usual cereals ; the low lands are chiefly meadow. The parish comprises 900 acres; rateable value, ^^2,332 ; the population in 1881 Avas 527, including the hamlet of J5otley, and in 1881 was 526. Parish Clerk, Charles Annetts. liarson Thomas, shopkecjier Frewin Mary (Mrs.), Georf/e Ilartwell AN'illiam, jilack Horse Hemming ^^'illiam Isaac, poulterer Hunt John, miller (Avater) Hunt William, miller ^Avater) Lewis James, commercial traveller North. Hinksey. Cornish Rev. "William Floyer Vicarage Faulkner William Carey, farmer Rhodes Esther (Mrs.), Fishes ToAvnsend Charles, farmer "\\'allcr Charles Ashtoii, farmer SOUTH HINKSEY is a parish mostly Avithin the par- liamentary limits of the city -if Oxford, in the hundred of Hormer, counH' court district of Oxford, \mion of Abingdon, rural deanery of Oxford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, one mile south from Oxford, from Avhich is separated by the Isis, over Avhich is a bridge of three arcnes, and 5^ miles north from Abingdon. The Great Western rail- way passes through the parish. The church of St. Lawrence is a structure of Late Perpendicular date,consisting of chancel, nave and a Avestern toAvcr, Avith jilain parapet containing 3 bells : it has a good plain open timbered roof,but no features of special interest : the chancel Avas rebuilt in the last century : all the seats are free. The register dates from the year 1750. The living is a vicarage, Avith that of Wootton annexed, joii»t net yearly value £22.^, Avith residence and 32 acres of glebe, let for ^^142, in the gift of the P'arl of Abingdon, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Halsall Scgar m.a. of Exeter College, Simmons Frederick, General Elliott Steptoe Joseph, farmer, Kendels farm ToAvle John, j.p Grconing \\'illiam, fanno HINT ON WALDRIST is a village and parish about 6 miles east from Faringdon, 9 Avest from Abingdon and 11 south Avest from Oxford, in the union and county court dis- trict of Faringdon, hundred of GantieUl, rural deanery of A'ale of 'SMiite H(jrse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, and was formerly' a market town. Tiie river Isis separates it from Oxfordshire. The church of St. Margaret is a cruciform building; its architecture is of a mixed character, some details being Early English, others Late Decorated Avork : it comprises chancel, nave, transepts and Avestern tOAver : the Avhole of the windows, except three, con- tain stained glass ; the east AvindoA\- is a good example of floAving tracery work : in the south porch is a Avater stoup : the reredos is of marble, with an etching of " The Lord's Supper " : the modern stone pulpit and font are very good Post Office, Botley. — George Parker, receiver. Letters arrive through Oxford at 7 a m. ; dispatched at 10.45 P 'n. The box closes at 9 p.m. The nearest money order office & telegraph is at Oxford National School, founde.l in 1867, for 55 children ; John Barker, master Carrier to Oxford. — Charles Mitchell, from Botley, mon Ave 1. k sat Little ■\^■illiam, tea agent Mitchell Charles, carrier Pascy l^ichard, baker Smith Ph(cbe (Mrs.), Carpenters^ Arms, ^^'arner Thos. agricultural implement maker, contractor, timber m?rchant waggon & cart builder V^'ebb Jeremiah, farmer Oxford, Avho resides at Xew Hinksej'. Fawkner's charitj', shared by this parish Avith St. AMate and St. Michael, in Oxford, ]»rovides for three poor orphans. The I^arl of Abing- don is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay, gravel and loam ; subsoil, stone brash. The crops are the ordinary cereals. The area is 550 acres ; rateable value, ;^4,oio ; and the population in 1881 Avas 956. Neav Hixksey is a hamlet adjoining Oxford and has lately been included in the Oxford Local Board district. The names of iidiabitants Avill be found under Oxford. The church of St. John the Evangelist is a small brick building, erected in 1870, containing 300 sittings: a National school was built at the same time. I'arisli Clerk, Charles Keen. Post Offick, Ncav Hinksey. — Mrs. Eliza Lee, receiver. Let- ters arrive through Oxford at 7.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.30 p.m. Oxford is the nearest money order & telegraph office Towle Jn. paper ma. South Hinksey mill TufFrey Henry, Cross Keys ford toll free : the manor afterwards lapsed to the Crown and Avas granted by King Charles I. in the third year of his reign, to Sir Henry Marten, judge of the Prerogative court, of the Hiirh Court of Arches and of the Admiralty, by patent under the Great Seal : Colonel Henry Marten, son of Sir Henry, joined the Parliamentary army and testified his grati- tude to his father's benefactor by signing his death Avarrant ; he died a prisoner in Chepstow Castle : the manor passed in 1658 to John Loder esq. of Balston park, Berks. The Loder family were, in the reign of Elizabeth, lords of the manor of Princes Harwell. Remains of a small Roman camp, knoAvn as Hadchester, exist upon the estate ; this was probably an out-post of the neighbour- ' ing camp at Cherbury and guarded the road to the ford. ! The soil is various, but principally sand, loam and clay ; The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a rec- 1 subsoil, the same, Avith portions of rock ; and there is a t/^i-ni- nrT»r»CO i'rto-»»l«- T-ri1»irt rjl-v/HTf /"^^-Ni-i -ii'-i + K 'r%r\cr'\ A r^.i', -I -r^ I y-i i-t rt -M-m • ^t- 1 1 *-» 4- ofi-i*-*/-^ T^V-*/^ rnr>f\ir\L' f\r*£\ O Ct~\ rtf'CkQCi CXTl tory, gross yearly value about ^"300, Avith residence, in the gift of Capt. Fredk. Cleave Loder-Symonds j.p. and held quarry of excellent stone. The chief crops are a succession ! of grain. The area is 2,180 acres ; rateable value, ;^2,339; since 1880, by the Rev. F'rederick Harper m.a. of Qvieen's the population in 1881 Avas 287. College, Oxford. Hinton Manor is the seat of Capt. Fredk. Cleave Loder-Symonds j.p. Avho is lord of the manor : the house is near the church and has a vieAV of the Cots- wold hills and Oxfordshire doAvns on the north and of the White Horse range on the south : the house is of consider- able antiquity and occupies the site of a Norman " domus defensabilis," which commanded the ford over the Isis, at " Duxford," a hamlet of Hinton : the only ancient remains are, however, the moat, the " keep " and a A-ery large barn, AAjhich is said to date from the time of EdAvard III.: in Norman times the manor belonged to a family named de Walriss, whence Hinton Waldrist : Henry III. granted a charter to Baron Hugh de Walriss, permitting him to establish a weekly market and to pass all produce into Ox- Harper Rev. Frederick m.a. Rectory Lodcr-Symonds Capt. Fredk. CleaA-'e j.p. Hinton manor Ayris Tiiomas, ItlAcks.oith Batts Joseph, carrier & farmer Batts Thomas, carrier Chandler Henry, farmer Clack Richard, farmer, Duxford Duxford is a hamlet, i mile north, in this parish ; here is a ferry over the Isis, Parish Clerk, Henrj' Nealc. Post Office. — Wm. Smith, receiver. Letters through Faringdon, arrive at 8.50 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.5 p.m. LongAvorth is the nearest money order office ; telegraph office at Faringdon Villaije School, erected 1850, for 80 children, with an aA'er- age attendance of 60 (buys, girls k infants), Miss Maria jMeaby, mistress Carriers to: — Oxford — Thos. Batts, wed. & sat. ; Abingdon, mon. k thurs Wantage — Joseph Batts, Aved ; P aringdon, tues. ; Oxford, fri. it sat. ; Abingdon, mon Hobbs Neighbour, farmer, Duxford Smith William, shopkeeper, post office Tarrant Daniel, farmer, Glebe farm DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. HUNGERFOKD. Co HUNGERFORD HuNGEEFOED is a market and union town, head of a county court district, a polling place for the county, and station on the Great Western railway, 23 miles west-by-south from Heading and 64 from London (by rail 61), 27 from Salisbury, 26 south-west from Oxford, 24 from Devizes, 16 south from Wantage,8f west from Newbury, 18 south-east from Swindon, in the hundred of Kintbury Eagle, rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. Hungerford is situated on the Avestern border of the county and a part of the town (Charnham street) is in Wilts. A branch of the Great Western railway from Reading has a station here and is continued through the town to Devizes by the Berks and Hants Extension railway ; from Reading there is rail- way communication with every part of England ; the Ken- net and Avon canal gives Avater communication. The river Kennet and the small streams Avon and Dun, which pass through the town, are celebrated for the fineness of their trout ; the fishery extends for some miles, and is strictly pre- served and leased to a fishing club by the town authorities. The town has had very important rights conferred upon it at various periods ; the inhabitants have the right of depas- turing cattle on some valuable marsh and down land, and the}' are also by charter exemi»t frojn toll in the different fairs and markets throughout the kingdom. The govern- ment is vested in a constable, Avho is elected annually, and feoffees Avho (with rare exceptions) have borne the office of constable ; the constable for the time being is coroner by charter for the liberty of Hungerford. The town is lighted Avith gas. The parish church of St. Lawrence is a modern stone erec- tion, standing on the site of, an old one: it comprises chancel, nave, aisles, Avith square Avestern t<»\vcr, embattled Avith pin- nacles, containing 6 bells and a south enibattled pf»rch : it contains several memorials and aflixed to the Avail is a small tablet of yellow mar)»le, formerly a ])ortion of the tomb of Sir ]-{obort dc Hungcrforil, Avho died in tiie reign of King EdAvard III. and Avas buried in a chapol on the south side of the old church ; his etligy, cros.s- legged, carA-ed in stone, is noAv jjlaced on the Hoor of the chancel. The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a vicarage, yearly value ^'522, with residence, in the gift of the Dean ami Canons of Windsor and held, since 1866, by tiie Rev. Josopii Ball An- stice M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, avIio is surrogate and rural dean. A church (St. Saviour's) has been built at Eddington, as a chapel of ease, for the convenience of tlic northern part of tlie ))arish; it is (iotliic, of rod and Avhite brick, with stone dressings, and com|(rises chancel, nave, north ai.sle, porch and open timbered roof and has sittings for 250 persons : it Avas built from the designs of A. W. Biomtiehi e»q. at a cost of about /^2,ooo : the land Avas given by William Honeywood esq. ('hilton Lodge : the east Avindow is stained, subject, " The Ascension," in memory of the Rev. T. P. .Mitchell : the stained Avindows in the chancel, representing the Four Evangelists, Avere gifts : the pulpit, given by Jesse Hillier esq. is much admired. There is also a school church at NcAvtown in connection with the parish church. The Wesleyan chapel, in Charnham street, is a Gothic building of grey local bricks, Avith red bands and arches and Bath stone dressings; it is divided into six bays, each Avith a two-light AvindoAV ; a handsome f(»ur-light AvindoAv in the front surmounts tliree small stained AvindoAvs representing The Adoration of the Shei)herds : the chancel, which isa p- sidal, contains three two-light tracery stained AvindoAvs, in Avhicli five subjects are treated, viz. The Last Supper; The Agony in theCiarden ; Angels in the Sepulchre ; The Journey to Enuuaus ; and tlie Incredulity of St. Thomas: shalloAv transe])ts intersect the chapel, in one of Avhich is an organ, Avith illuminated (jiothic front; the other forms a A'estry : the ground plan provides room for about 300 persons, and there is a shalloAv gallery at the Avest end for 80 more: the Avindows are tilled with cathedral glass in three tints: the spirelet, besides forming an ornamental feature, assists in the ventilation: the total cost, including the site, amounted to upwards of ^1^3,000. There are also Congregational and Primitive Mctho(.list chapels. A Savings Bank has been established some years; the trustees meet CA'ery Wednesday. A Literary and Scientific Institution Avas established in 18C5: the Vicar is president, and there are six vice-pre- sidents and a committee, with secretary and treasurer : the reading-room is supplied Avith the daily London and pro- A'incial ncAVspapers, magazines and periodicals. A To\^•n Hall and Corn Exchange Avas erected in the High street in 1870 at a cost of about ^4,000 ; it is of red and grey bricks, Avith Bath stone dressings, and comprises a magistrates' room, an upper hall and a large and convenient corn exchange, which is also aA-ailable for concerts ; a corridor in front, supported by stone pillars, and the square toAver, has a four-dial illuminated clock. The market day is Wednesdaj' and a pitched market is established in the Corn Exchange. The Police Station for the Hungerford division is in Park street, near the raihvay station ; the division comprises Hungerford, Shefford, Inkpen and Shalbourn. Tavo statute or hiring fairs are annually held in the Market place, one on the ^^■ednesday before and the other on the Wednesday after old Michaelmas day; there are also fairs hold the last Wednesday in April for cattle, the last Wednesday in June for avooI and August 17th for sheep. The charities are John Hamblin's charity, the rent of a close of land called Chantry Mead, now ^^15, applied as follows — £4 to the master of the Free school for teaching four boys, and ^4 to buy clothing for the four boys the week before Easter, the surplus to be spent in clothing and education : the rent of a close of ground of about 3 acres in East Field, producing £2 3s. applied as follows — vicar los., singers 6s. each, clerk 2s. and sexton 2s. ; LaAvrence's be- quest, being a rent-charge payable from a copyhold estate at Modsteail, Hants, given by the will of Ezekiol Lawrence, producing a net rental o( ^^4 4s. for apprenticing one poor boy: Ilobbe's gift (1625), a moiety of a rent-charge of 4s. payable from land at Enborne, distributed in clothing : Sir Vincent Smith's charity (1626), _^2 annually, for appren- ticing two Vioys : Field's gift (1626), £1 annually, for apprenticing one boy: Mrs. Cummin's charity: the divi- dends arising from the sum of £6gg 14s. 6d : Three per Cent. Annuities (formerly Old South Selace ; the mansion is in the Italian style and occujiies the site of the old house, which Avas built by Queen Eli/.;ibeth and given to the Earl of Essex ; it is the seat of George Shippen Willes esq. J. p. The manor of Hungerford, Avith the appurtenances of common and fishery, Avas formerly held under the CroAvn and is supposed to have been granted by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.and is vested in certain of the inhabitants ' of the toAvn, Avho are called feoffees ; these feolTecs, as lonls of the manor, hold a court at Hocktide; the court is j summoned by blowing a horn, supposed to have been given by John of Gaunt ; some curious old charters are preserve