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T yler John A. farmer, Old Hayward
Sm ith W. H. & Son, booksellers & stationers, High st
T yler John Spendley, draper * m illiner, & deputy re­
Sm ith Edgar Bursev, insurance agent, Park street
gistrar of m arriages for Hungeriord union, H igh st
Starkey-am ith
Thomas
Gordon
M.D.,
B.S.Lond..
M .K .C.S., L.B .O .P . physician & surgeon, The Laurels, Weaver William, Plume hotel, High street
Wheeler Thomas, Red Lion P.H . Charnham street
Eddington
W hite W illiam , insurance agt. Paulton cot. Church st
Stevens George, baker, High street
Stradling & Plenty, cycle m anufacturers, agents & Whicehead Em ily (Miss), nurse, i Atherton villas,
Charnham street
dealers, Charnham street
.Stubbs Edward, gamekeeper to the Hon. John Hubert W iggins Thomas, bricklayer, Church street
Wiggins W illiam, blacksm ith, Eddington
Ward C.V.O . Chilton kennels, Hayward hill
Sutton & Co. parcels carriers(Sam l.H awkes,agt.),H igh st Winkworth Em ily (Miss), shopkeeper, Eddington
Winkworth Thomas, jobm aster, Bridge street
Taylor W illiam Gee, chem ist, Bridge street
Town Hall & Corn Exchange (Edward Bushnell, keeper), Wooldridge & Son, builders, Canal wharf, Bridge st
Wren George, saddler & ironm onger. H igh street
High street
Wyman & Sons Lim ited, news agents, Railway station
Townsin Alec, refreshm ent rooms, Bath road
H U R L E Y , anciently “ H urstelega,” is a beautiful poor of the civil parish in clothing &c. and, together
village and parish situated in a valley on the bank of with Lovelace’s
charity,
am ounted in
1894 to
the river Thames, surrounded by an am phitheatre of ¿39 13s. 7^d. Here was a cell of Benedietine monks,
richly-cultivated woodland hills, 4 miles north-east given to W estm inster Abbey by Geoffrey de Magn&
from Henley, 4^ north-west from Maidenhead and 12 Villa or Mandeville in the reign of W illiam the
north-east from Reading, in the Eastern division of Conqueror, and dedicated to St. Mary the \ ir g in ;it s
the county, hundred of Beynhurst, Maidenhead petty revenues at the Dissolution about 1535 were estim ated
sessional division and union, Henley-on-Thames county at ¿ 1 2 1 ; the Lovelace fam ily built out of the ruins of
court district, rural deanery of Maidenhead, arch- i the monastery a stately mansion and called it “ Lady
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church ! Place.” The house was for some time the residence
of St. Mary, anciently attached to the priory, is a of the brother of the . ill-fated A dm iral Richard
structure of Hint and chalk, partly in the Norman Kem penfelt, drowned on the sinking of the “ Royal
s ty le ; it was rededicated about 1086 by Osmund the George,” at Spitkead, 29 Aug. 1782, and was eventu­
Good, Bishop of Sarum and Chancellor of England. ally pulled down in 1837. H ailey Manor, including
and consists of chancel, nave, and a turret containing ; Hurley G reat Wood, was granted in exchange by Henry
3 bells; it was restored in 1852 at a cost of ¿1,493» V III. to Westm inster Abbey. The principal land­
when the original windows on the north side, form erly owners are Sir Gilbert A ugustus C layton-East bart.
closed, were re-opened, those on the south side re­ J.P. of Hall Place, who is lord of the manor, Mrs.
stored and a vestry added: the chancel retains a W illiams, of Temple House, Bisham, Major-Gen.
Decorated window of the 14th ce n tu ry : there are Edward Micklem, of Rose Hill, Sir C. S. Henry bart.
several monuments in the church and chancel, includ­ M.P. and George Samuel Elliott, of Chalk P it House,
ing one to the Lovelace fam ily, of H u rle y ; Editha, Knowl Hill. The soil is light gravel and chalk ; sub­
sister to K in g Edward the Confessor, was also buried soil, chalk. The area of the civil parish is 4,110 acres
h e re : two of the Norman windows on the north side of land and 49 of w a te r; rateable value. ¿7.965 ;
of the nave were filled with stained glass in December, population of the civil parish in 1901 was 1,067, and of
1876, as memorials to the Rev. Florence James the ecclesiastical parish 493, exclusive of Knowl Hill
Wethered, six years curate and twenty-nine years vicar portion of Hurley civil parish.
of Hurley, and to Mrs. Wharton, late of the Malt
Burchetts Green, a ham let partly in this parish, will
House, H urley; on the south side of the nave is I be found under a separate beading.
another erected as a thank offering for peace on the
Parish Clerk, James Green,
termination of the war in South Africa in 1902 : the ;
j Post. M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.—
church affords 261 sittin gs: the churchyard is neatly
Mrs. Marv Gough, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive
kept and has several handsome marble and granite j
through Marlow, at 7.45 a.m. & 1.50 p.m . ; dispatched
crosses. The register dates from the year 1560. The
at 9.55 a.m . & 6.30 p.m. ; Sundays at 9.35 a.m
living is a vicarage, net yearly value ¿180, and one ’ost Office~W
arren RRow.—
o w . — Heibt,
Office, Warren
Herht. PÌum,
Plum, sub-postmaster,
sub-postm;
acre of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held ^ Letters
^^ ^TH
e n l e yHenley-on-Thames,
- o n - T h a m e s , delivered
delivered at
at 8.10
8.10
through
since 186S by the Rev. Florence Thomas Wethered ,
*nr° uo
.
' tched at
&
p .m •
M.A. o f Christ Church, ° x f o r d ’
£ u p f aj!r
S u n d a y s , 10.50 a.m. The n e a r e s t m o n e y o r d e r & tele-----v ic a r a g e h o u s e was e n la r g e d a n d r e m o d e lle d in 18^0.
. j »„
-a
graph office is at Littlewick Green
Four cottages, built on land given by H urley priory in W all ’ Letter Boxes, cleared at 10 a.m. & 6.35 p .m .;
1494, produce about ¿ 2 1 yearly, and is for repairs of the
S u n d a y s at 9.30 a.m. ; & Cockpole, cleared at 1.25 &
church. Sir Richard Lovelace kt. and first Baron
6 p.m. ; S u n d a y s , n a.m
Lovelace, of H urley, left the value of ten quarters of
Elem
entary School (mixed), for 81 children ; average
rye for the poor; Kem penfelt’s, Benwell’s,„M icklem ’s
a t te n d a n c e , 30 ; Mrs. Alice Sm ith, m istress
and S. Bradley’s charities are distributed am ongst the

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P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .

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(Marked thus * receive their letters
through Henley-on-Thames.)

Wethered Rev.Florence Thomas M.A.
(vicar & surrogate), Vicarage
^ c o m m e r c ia l.

Dowell Mrs. The Copse
»Bradley George,The Old Hatch Gate
Hancock Laurence, Ladv place
P.H. Cockpole
Henry Sir Charles Solomon bart. M.P. .»Burchell Wm. gardener, Cockpole
Parkwood; & 5 Carlton gardens Challenger Joseph, builder
S W ; City Liberal club E C & Na- Deacon Elizh. (Mrs.), East ¿ ™ s litl
tional Liberal club S WT, .London ; & S»Fleming Alexander, farmer. Dean pi
Brooklands, Wellington, Sh io p sh ire!»Goodchild Owen, Four Horse Shoes
Hungerford Mrs. Hurley cottage
P.H. Cockpole
Lardelli Thos. Fras. The Malt house : Gough Mary (Mrs.), grocer & beer
Micklem Major-Gen. Edwd. Rose hilli retailer, Post office
Nicholson Reginald, Lee Farm house |Gregory James W. The Old House
Phillimore Mrs. Manor house
at Home P.H
Richardson Morris, Hurley house
»Henry’s C. S. (Mrs.), Recreation
H U R S T (or H urst St. Nicholas) is a parish about 4^
miles square, and consists of the liberties of Broad Hin­
ton, W histlcy-in-H urst and Winnersh and form erly com­
prised N ew land; the latter liberty, w ith a great part of
Winnersh, has been formed into the ecclesiastical dis­
trict of St. Catherine. Bear Wood, and the hamlet of
Twyford with an adjacent district was formed into a
separate ecclesiastical parish April 4th, 1876, and a civil
parish June 23rd, 1895. W histley-in-Hurst is 6 mi es
east from Reading, 2 south from the Great Western
railway station at Twyford, 7 I south from Henley, 4
north 'from Wokingham and 10 from Maidenhead, with
a halt on the South Eastern and Chatham railway, in

Home for children in the summer
& nurses in the winter months
(Miss C fies, matron"), Parkwood
Holmes Tooke, Black Boy inn
May W illiam , farm bailiff to Mark
Knowles esq. Tem ple farm
Meys Sidney H. farm er. Frogm ill frm
Mines Ada B (Mrs.), Old Bell hotel
*T°lum Herbert, grocer, Warren t o w
♦Prior Charles, road contractor
Ridgway Samuel & Frederick,farm ers,
Hall Place farm (letters through
Maidenhead)
♦Taylor A rth u r Frederick, beer retlr
♦Watson Oliver C yril Spencer, land
steward to Sir C. S. Henry bart.
M.P. Cockpole

the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Charlton,
petty sessional division and union of W okingham,
county court district of Reading, rural deanery of
Sonning, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford.
The church of St. Nicholas is a building of stone in
the Transitional and later styles, consisting of chancel,
with south aisle (added in 1876), nave, south porch,
aisles and an em battled western tower, rebuilt in 1612,
and containing a clock and 8 b e lls : the chancel is
separated from the nave and aisle by a screen of
elaborately carved oak, surmounted by the Royal arms
and Prince of W ales’s plum e, richly g ilt; five large
pillars w ith arches of various dates, from the 12th cen-