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the east wall was rebuilt, the old wooden tower pulled
down and two bells were hung m the present bell cote,
the interior reseated and a stone pulpit and font pror ile d : there are aoo sittings, half appropriated: the
churchyard contains memorials to the K irby Sadgrove,
Field and Taylor fam ilies, and at the east end is a yew
tree of great antiquity. The register dates from the
■ear j t o o . Th e*liv in g is a rectory, net yearly value
£
of 0glebe,
with ----------residence, in
X 12
I . i1,
l , including
1 U U U U U .6 94
y - f acres —
--------- ,------------the gift of the University of Oxford, on the nomination
of the principal of Hertford College, and held since
1891 by the Rev. William. John Betts B.A. of Queens’
College, Cam bridge. Here is a Baptist chapel. The
charities include the interest of £ 10 , and a gift of
£1.000 by the late Edward Sherman esq. a native of
the parish, ancl
and for the administration of these charichanties, amounting to ¿28 a year for the benefit of the
poor, the Charity Commissioners have framed a new
scheme. To the west of the church is an ancient
mound, probably a burial tum ulus. The Manor House

was form erly a “ oated
^
W a U ilg fira
moat remains. The Misses M e a g e ,
, Jaiid_
Castle, are ladies of the manor.
Morrison M P
owners are Captain James “
aid M . u n s o n J .l ^
of Basildon Park and John BA y
« k vel ; and the
principally arable , the soil
a lig ht g
,
crops arc wheat, barley and roots
„f
the hamlet of Fulscot is _i , 3S°
*
value, £ n»554 i
population in 1901 as
3.
Sexton, Percy Baker.
Post Office.— Jason M artin, sub-postmaster.
Letters
arrive from W allingford at 6.4s a.m. fc 12.50 p.m. &
dispatched at 10.50 a.m. A 7.20 p.m. ; S u n d a y s , 9.30
a.m. Aston Tirrold, i j miles distant, is the nearest
money order & telegraph office
fm ivedl erected in 1896, for 82
Elem entary
attendance 6 o' Edwin T . Owen,
ch ild ren ; average
mistress’ There is a school
m a s t e r ; M r s . A l i c e Owen, mistress,
house attached
Reeves John Taylor, grocer & harness
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
COMMERCIAL.
maker & assistant overseer
Betts Eev Wm. John B.A. (rector), Dix James, baker & grocer
Rivers Jesse, blacksm ith
Bectory
Hall Edwin George, farmer
West W illiam , Anchor inn
Bowles Edward Wingfield, The Croft H unt W alter Charles, farmer
Dixon Miss Ada
Kislingbury W i ffi a m , c h im n e y sweepr Wigley A lbert Thom as, Crown inn, &
farmer
K irbv Frank, Millhouse
Maggs F. H. (M rs.), far“ e^
ull C
Wiglev Henry, m iller (water)
-Rvman Mrs
Martin Jason, shoe ma. & post office
Winter Eichard, farm er, Manor ho
W hite William John, Rectory cottage Owen Edwin T. clerk of Fansh Coun­
cil & schoolmaster
1I O E T I M E E , see Stratficld Mortimer.
C o u n ty -■
Lunatic Asylum, called the
Berkshire
M O U L S F O R D is a picturesque village and compact lum ," is locally within the parish of Cholsey, under
parish on the London road,
miles from Cholsey and
which heading it is described. This T1llag? 18
Moulsford station on the Great W estern
47 resort of verv many artists, anglers and boating men,
miles from London, 3^ miles south from Wallingford to whom the Beetle and Wedge hotel is a well-known
and 11 miles north-west from Reading, in the -^ rthern and much valued hostelry of long standing; excellent
division of the county, hundred of Moreton, W alling­ perch fishing can he had between the islands near the
ford petty sessional division, union and county court bridge. The splendid stretch of water which the river
district, rural deanery of W allingford, archdeaconry of here affords is usually chosen for the race of th e Oxford
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. John trial eights for the annual inter-university boat race
the Baptist is a small building of stone and flint of The scenery (wood and down) at the back of th e villagethe 14th century, charm ingly situated on the righ t is very beautiful. The manor was given by Henry X. to
bank of the river Thames, and consists of chancel and Giraldus F itzC aru and Moulsford, but how it afterwards,
nave, w ith a small north aisle, added in 1847, south descended previous to the 17th century is not known
porch and a low western belfry of wood, w ith short at this period it belonged to the Sam bournes. Sir
spire, containing 3 bells; in the west end are m onu­ H enry Samboume. of Moulsford, was sheriff of the
ments to the Gifford fam ily; W illiam Gifford, who died county in 1631: it was subsequently in the possession
in 1694, was the first president of Fort St. George, in of the Giffords and the Bakers. A rth ur W illiam Mayo
A frica: the east window is a memorial to Hopewell Hobson esq. of the Manor House. Moulsford, is lord of
Morrell e sq : the church was restored by the late Sir G. the manor and sole landowner. T he soil is chalk and
Gilbert Scott R.A. in 1847, and has 120 sittings
In loam ; subsoil, chiefly chalk. The crops are wheat,
the churchyard is a memorial cross of white marble, barley and turnips. The parish contains 1,030 acres of
inscribed to the Rev. George Kidd Morrell D .C .L. vicar arable land and the downs comprise 40° acres, total
here 1846-77, who died April 18, 1881, and to bis 1,430 and 11 of w ater; rateable value, ¿1,4 8 9 ; the
daughter, M. A. Morrell, d. June 24, 1880. The regis­
population in 1901 was 124.
0
,
ter dates from the year 1773; m arriages only, from Post M 0 & T . Office.— Mrs. Mary sw adlm g, sub1754. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £50,
postmistress. Letters through W allingford arrive at
with residence, in the gift of A. W. Mayo Robson esq.
7.14
a.m. A 1.30 p .m .; dispatched at 10.30 a.m. A
and held since 1907 by the Rev. Joseph Games Gibbs
6.55
p.m. ; sunday, delivery, 8 a .m .; dispatch, 10.45
M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Sambourne's
charity of 3 acres produces £6 yearly, which is dis­ Elementary School (m ixed), built in 1850 for 40
tributed in money. Mrs. Sally Hall Bradshaw in 1880
children; average attendance, 3 2 ; Miss Mabel F
left ¿1,000, the interest to be distributed amongst the
rvrara,.
uf 4-H
nci-ricV> »rmniillv
dav. The
poor^of
thea parish
annually nn
on Ascension day.
Fernlev, mistress
v w
Chisholme John A rthur, Sowberry crt Eobsou Arth. Wm . May^ M a n o r^ o j^ e th u ra ^ F re d e ra c k , ba.hff
A. W

ifi

G ibbsS *Rev. ^ Jo se p h ^ G a m e s M . A .
Evan^ Tu& ^M oulsford cottage
SwadUng Mary
c o m m e r c ia l
1 1
om ce
(vicar), Vicarage
Martineau W illiam . The Grange
Blewitt Ida Mary (Miss), Beetle &
Perowne Connop F. S. Moulsford ho
Wedge hotel

(M rs.), shopkeeper,.

N b l W B U R Y with S P E E N H A M L A N t )
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NEW BURY is a m unicipal borough, market and union
town, and gives its name to the Southern or Newbury
Parliamentary Division of the county, under the “ Redis­
tribution of Seats Act, 1885.” It is the head of a petty
sessional division and county court district, in the hun­
dred of Faircross, and in the rural deaneTy of its own
name, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford.
The town is on the river Kennet, and intersected by the
Kennet and Avon canal, over which is a stone bridge
of one arch, with a balustraded p arapet; it is near the
Hampshire border, 56 miles by road and 53 by rail from
London, 17 south-west from Reading. 9 east from
Hungerford, 19 south-west from Wallingford. The Great
Western railway has a station here on the branch from
Reading to Hungerford and Devizes.
The Newbury
section of the Didcot, Newbury and Winchester railway,
which affords communication with the chief m anufac­
turing centres of the north and with the port of South-

amptun, was opened for traffic between Didcot and New­
bury in April, 1882, and between Newbury and W in­
chester in May, 1885, and a junction with the main line
of the London and South W estern Railway Company at
Shawford, near W inchester, in accordance with the
Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway Act, 1888,
was effected in October, 1891. The Lambourn Valley
railway, a single line connecting Lambourn with New­
bury, was opened April 2nd, 1898.
The town is of very ancient origin. Antoninus makes
mention in his “ Itin e ra ry ” of the station of Spinae. and
Newbury, as its name implies, arose and had its begin­
ning out of the ruins of Spinæ, and therefore, says
Camden, “ Newburie must acknowledge Speen as its
m other.” In Saxon times there was a town here of 51
houses, belonging to a Thane named Ulward, which in
Domesday the Normans called “ Uluritone.”
Newbury sent two m mbers to Parliament in the