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B E R K S H IR E .

GBAZELEY.

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piscina and sedile formed out of the sill of the south
window: the Seymour chapel also has an ancient piscina
and a reredos of oak, arcaded and adorned with paintin g s : all the windows of the church are stain ed : the
church contains memorials of the Seymour, Gastrell and
Elsyrig families ; the church was restored during the
period 1876-82, at a cost of £2,300; during the restora­
tion in 1882 m any interesting specimens of Norman
work were discovered, and a massive font of Norman
design introduced : there are 200 sittings. The register
dates from the year 1554. 'Ihe living is a vicarage, net
yearly value £247. including 53 acres of glebe, with
residence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held
since 1901 by the Rev. John Lechmere Tudor M .A. of
Exeter College1, Oxford. There are Wesleyan and Prim i­
tive Methodist chapels, here. Thomas Palmer and Mary
his wife left £500 Bank Annuities, the dividend to be
distributed equally among 30 poor inhabitants.
Sir
(Marked thus * receive their letters
through Hungerford.)
(Marked thus t receive their letters
through W antage.)
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

: Francis Burdett bart. of Ramsbury, W ilts is lord of the
manor and principal landowner. The soil is principally
c h a lk ; subsoil, chalk.
The chief crops are wheat,
barley, oats and turnips. The area is 4,405 acres of
land and 5 of w a te r; rateable value, ,£2,374; the population in 1901 was 360.
Parish Clerk, W illiam W’oodley.
Post & T. Office.— Mrs. S. A. Waldron, sub-postmistress.
Letters arrive from Lambourn at 6.50 a.m. & 1.50
p.m. ; dispatched at 11 20 a m . g 6.55 p.m . ; S u n d a y s,
arrive 7.20 a.m. ; dispatched at 9-45 s.m .
Great
Shefford, 2 m iles distant, is the nearest money order
office
Public Elementary School (m ixed), erected in 1872, for
80 children; average attendance, 49; Miss M. E.
Barnacle, m istress
The carriers between Newbury & Lambourn pass through
the village
| »Manchester George,farm er, Poughley
c o m m e r c ia l
& Lower Poughley
Beardsley Henry, trainer of race
Meikle James & Son, farmers,Maiden
horses. The Bungalow
Court farm
-lack Charles, gamekeeper to Arthur
Miell A lbert, farm er, Maberley
H. Curnick esq
Brown James, farmer, Parsonage frm Muston Robert, shopkeeper
Burr Sarah Ann (Mrs.). Queen’s Pocock Henry James, baker
Pounds Fra«, wheelwright, Lone Barn
Arms P.H
Rogers Thomas assistant overseer
D-nton Charles Alexander, builder
Denton Ralph, farm er & blacksmith Sm ith Charles Apsley,farm er, Cranes
& Pounds farms
Froucle George, bailiff to Mr. Ernst.
Brown, Warren farm (postal ad­ Spackman Joseph Havelock, farm er
Manor & Goldhill farms
dress, Lambourn)
•H ughes A rth ur N. farmer, Good- Waldron S. A. (Mrs.), postmistress
Wale James, woodman
ings farm

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•Aldridge Major Jn. J.P. Inholmes lo
Beardsley Henry, The Bungalow
Curnick A rthur H. Goldkill house
Herbert Capt. Percy, Pounds farm
Palmer Mrs. Spring villa
Purefoy Capt.Hy. Bagnell,Pounds frm
Tudor Rev. John Lechmere M.A.
(vicar), Vicarage
Wheeler George
G O O S E Y is a village and ch apd ry in the civil parish 1892 by the Rev. Henry Aldrich Cotton M.A. of E xetei
of Stanford-in-the-Vale, 4 miles north-west from W ant­ College, Oxford, who resides at Stanford-in-the-Vale.
age, 5 south-east from Faringdon and a mile north from The history of this place m ay be traced to an earlier
Challow station on the Great Western railway, in the date than that of any other in the d is tr ic t; it was
Northern division of the county, hundred of Ock, petty given by Offa, K in g of Mercia, about 785, to the abbey
sessional division, union and county court district of I of Abingdon, in exchange for their beautiful isle of
Andersey, lying south-west of the abbey; and a cell
W antage, rural deanery of Vale of W hite Horse, arch
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church was established here by the monks, the site of which
of All Saints is a sinj.ll tdifi:e of stone, in the Early is now occupied by a house next to the sch ool; the
English style, consisting cf chancel and nave, and a manor here supplied the abbey with cheese. L ie u t.turret on the western gable, containing 2 bells : the chan­ Col. James H. Oliver, Capt. R. J. E. Oliver Bellasis,
cel has a curious Early English piscina, and eastward a of Shilton, near Coventry, and R. D. Oliver esq. who
square locker ; the wall plate is ornamented with a row are lords of the manor, and the trustees of the late J.
of trefoil-headed p an els: there is no chancel arch : in H. Pocock esq. are the principal landowners. The soil
the nave are some good corbel heads and a plain Early is Kim m eridge clay, with a thin super-stratum of gravel
English stoup ; outside is one good buttress of like date, and loam ; subsoil, clay. The land is chiefly in pasture.
and in the churchyard the base of a cross ; in the porch The area is 968 acres; rateable value, £ 1,6 1 4 ; tire
is a shield with the arms of Hyde ; the church doorkey population in 1901 was 125.
is Early English, and the oldest in the d is tr ic t; the font
Parish C ’erk and Sexton, Britford Belcher.
is octagonal; in the chancel, is a stained window given
Letters
by Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, late Bishop of Lincoln Post Office.— Tom Lester, sub-postm aster.
through Faringdon arrive at 8 20 a.m . & dispatched at
and vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, 1850-69 : there are £6
4.20
&
8.45
p.m.
&
Sundays
at
10.15
a.m.
The
nearest
sittings. The register dates from the year 1850, pre­
money order & telegraph office is at Stanford-in-thevious to which all entries were made in the registers
Vale, about 2 miles distant
for Stanford. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the
vicarage of Stanford-in-the-Vale, joint net yearly value Elementary School (m ixed), built in 1853, & enlarged
in 1900, for 54 children; average attendance, 47;
£190, with residence and 14 acres of glebe, in the gift
Miss Ethel Annie Lassam , m istress
of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, and held since
Fvoud Frederick, farmer, Blackaeres Lester Louisa (Mrs.),sliopkpr.Post off
Booker Albert, farmer
Rixon Thomas Lew is, farm er, MillaJefferies Kate (Mrs.), farmer
Booker Reginald, farmer
way farm
Dawson Eli/.h. (M rs.),The Pound P.H Lay Basil, farmer
Sm ith Ernest, farm er, Goosey house
L iy Israel, farmer
Dawson W illiam , farmer
G R A N D P O F T , a tithing of the parish of St. Aldate, I included within the extended city of Oxford and also
Oxford, formerly in Berks, has, by the C ity of Oxford | transferred to Oxfordshire.
Order, 1889, under the Local Government Act, 1888, been
G R A Z E L E Y , 4 miles south from Reading, formerly F. W. Allfrey esq. and Miss Crowdy are the principal
known as “ Lambwood H ill,” is a tithing and an eccle­ landowners. The soil is loam ; subsoil, gravel and clay.
siastical parish, formed May 9th, 1854, out of the The chief crops are wheat, oats and beans. The entire
parishes of Sulham pstccd Abbots, Sulhampstead Ban­ area is 3,267 acres, and of G razeley tithing 519 acres ;
nister, and includes the liberty of Hartley Dummer, in rateable value, £ 6 77; the population of the ecclesiastical
Shinfipld civil parish, in the Southern division of the parish in 1901 was 669, and of the tithin g 42.
county, hundred and county court district and petty
DIDENHAM, a tithin g of this parish, form erly be­
sessional division of Reading, union of Bradfield
rural deanery of Reading, archdeaconry' of Berks and longed to W iltshire, but by the Acts 2 and 3 W’illiam
IV.
cap. 64 and 7 and 8 Viet. cap. 61 it was annexed to
diocese of Oxford. The chu:ch of the Holy Trinity,
erected in 1850, is a small structure of flint, con­ Berkshire, and is ecclesiastically attached to Grazeleysisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a belfry,
Hartley Dummer is a liberty, half a m ile north.
containing one b e ll: the east window is stained, and
Sexton, John Higgons.
there are also two mpmorial windows: the church
affords 250 sittings. The register dates from the year Letters through R e a d in g ; the nearest money order
offices are at Three Mile Cross & Spencer’s W ood;
1856. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £180.
telegraph office is at Spencer’s Wood, about 2 miles
with residence and 2 acres of glebe, in the gift of the
distant.
Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1903 by the Rev. John
Delahaize Ouvry M.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Pillar Letter Box, near the church, cleared at 9.10 a m.
& 1.43 & 7.5 p.m . ; Sundays, 9 a.m
Highlands is the residence of Miss Crowdy, and Stanbury of Frederick William Allfrey esq. James Herbert Pillar Letter Box. at Grazeley court, cleared at 6.50
a m. & 12.25 & 6.50 p m. ; sundavs, 6.50 p.m.
Benyon esq. of Englefield, is lord of the manor, and

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