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N EW B O TLE Y.
Barson Em m a (Miss), shopkeeper
Barson George, naturalist

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

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John s College, Oxford, who resides at New Hinksey.
The living originally belonged to the Abbey of Abing­
don, afterwards it became a chapelry of Cum nor, from
which it was separated about 1750, and was subse­
quently7^annexed, until 1885, to the vicarage of Wootton.
A new vicarage house was built in 1888, at a cost of
¿2,055, from designs by Mr. H. W. Moore, architect,
of Oxford, 011 a site given by the E arl of Abingdon
and the Corporation of Oxford. The village retains
some houses of the 16th century, and John Piers, Arch­
bishop of Y o rk (1589-95), is said to have been born
here. The Earl of Abingdon, who is lord of the manor
and lay rector, owning the lands form erly belonging
to the Abbey, is the chief landowner. The soil is clay,
gravel and loam ; subsoil, stone brash. The crops are
the ordinary cereals. The area is 765 acres of land and
16 of w ater; rateable value, ¿ 5 ,1 3 2 ; the population of
the civil parish in 1901 was 242, and in the ecclesi­
astical 1,430, which includes New Hinksey, now trans­
ferred to the county of Oxford for civil purposes, and
is within Oxford city as extended in 1889; it will be
found given w ith Oxford.
By Local Governm ent Board Order 18,180, Iffley Lock
House was transferred from Iffley, and by Order 18,177,
the Isis Tavern was added from Wootton to South
H inksey parish, March 25, 1885.
Wall Letter Box, cleared at 7.30 p.m. ; S u n d a y s , 10.55
a.m
County Police Station, John Adams, constable

Lysaght Hon. Henry M.A. The Bun­
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galow
Barton James, Isis tavern P.H.
Turner George H. Paisley house
Ifllev Lock
Watkin Thomas, Hill rise
Bradfield Richard, farmer, Tin farm
WTeller John Percival, Lvndhurst
Davis George Wm. Cross Keys P.H
.Morris Edwin, General E lliott P.H
jTowle John & Co. m ill board manfrs,W iggins Jn. farm r.SouthH inksey fm

H I N T O N W A L D R I S T is a village and parish, and
was form erly a m arket to w n ; it is separated from O x­
fordshire by the river Isis, and is about 6 miles northeast from Faringdon, 9 west from Abingdon and 11
south-west from Oxford, in the Northern division of the
county, Ganfield hundred, petty sessional division, union
and county court d istrict of Faringdon, rural deanery of
Vale of W hite Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese
of Oxford. The church of St. M argaret is a cruciform
building of local stone and oolitic limestone, in the Early
English and Late Decorated styles, consisting of chan­
cel, nave, transepts, south porch, clock and an em ­
battled western tower containing 6 b e lls ; the whole of
the windows, except three, are stained ; in the south
porch is a sto u p ; the reredos is of m arble, and ineludes a representation of The Lord's Supper:*’ there
are 209 sittings, 168 being free. The register dates
from the year 1559. The living is a rectory, net yearly
value ¿250 , with residence, in the gift of Capt. F. C.
Loder-Symonds, and held since 1880 by th e Rev. Frederick
Harper M .A. of Queen’s College, Oxford. Hinton ManoT
is the property and residence of Capt. Frederick Cleave
Loder-Symonds J.P. : the house is near the church and
has a view of the Cotswold hills and Oxfordshire downs
pn the north and of the W hit? Horse Tange on the
so u th ; the house is of considerable antiquity, and
occupies the site of a Norman “ domus defensabilis,”
which commanded the ford over the river Isis at Duxford, a ham let of H inton; the only ancient remains
now existing are the moat and the keep ; in Nonnan
times the manor belonged to the fam ily of St. W alery,
whence it was called Hinton W alerys, now corrupted
into “ W aldrist
Henry III. granted a charter to Hugh
de St. W alery, permitting him to establish a weekly
m arket and to pass all produce into Oxford toll free ;
the manor afterwards lapsed to the Crown and was
granted by K in g Charles I. in the third year of his
reign, by patent under the G reat Seal, to Sir Henry
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(Blackwell Esther (Miss), dress m akr Jenkins W illiam , dairyman
¡Davis Bertha (Miss), shopkeeper
jPayne George W illiam , grocer
|Isles Daniel, insurance agent
ISoanes W illiam , hurdle m aker

S O U T H H I N K S E Y is a parish one m ile south
from Oxford and 5^ miles north from Abingdon, and
is in the Northern division of the county, hundred o f
Hormer,
county
court d istrict of Oxford, petty
sessional division and union of Abingdon, rural deanery
of Oxford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese o f
Oxford. The G reat Western railway passes on the
border of the parish. The church of St. Lawrence is
a building of stone partly of the 13th and partly o f
the 14th century, consisting of chancel, nave, north
porch and a western tower, w ith plain parapet, con­
taining 3 bells, two of which are cracked ; on the
sm allest is the inscription, “ Vox A ugustini sonet in
aure Dei,” on the second, “ Sancta M argareta ora
pro n o b is:” the nave has a good plain open-timbered
r o o f; the chancel is divided from the nave by a
sm all and low arch, not more than 6ft. 5m. in width,
and there are traces of a rood loft, the stairs to which
still re m a in ; the chancel windows were altered and
enlarged early in the 18th cen tury; in the south wall
is a curious double piscina, and there is one memorial
w in dow : the church affords 120 s ittin g s : in the
churchyard are the remains of a cross, presum ably of
the 15th century. The register dates from the year
1669, the pages relating to burials up to the year 1693
being m issing. The livin g is a vicarage, net yearly
value £ 16 1, with 16 acres of glebe and residence, in the
g ift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1909 by
the Rev. W illiam W ellesley Gordon Lloyd M .A. of St.

Boasten Bertram
Clarke Miss, Icknield
Draper Alfred, Lynton
G illm an Charles, Bagley croft
.Jarvis Percy, Stellenbosch

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; Marten, judge of the Prerogative Court, of the High
Court of Arches and of the A d m ira lty; Colonel Henry
j Marten, son of Sir Henry, joined the Parliamentary
army, and testified his gratitude to his father’s bene­
, factor by signing his death-warrant, but died a prisoner
j in Chepstow Castle ; the manor passed in 1658 to John
Loder esq. of .Balston park, Berks, whose great-grand­
daughter married in 1797 Robert Symonds. The Loder
family were in the Teign of Elizabeth lords of the manor
! of Princes Harwell, in which parish they founded several
charities. Remains of a small Roman camp, known as
“ Hadchester,” exist upon the estate ; this was probably
an outpost of the neighbouring camp at Cherbury and
! guarded the road to the ford. Capt. Frederick Cleave
j Loder-Symonds is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
, The soil is various, but principally sand, loam and c la y ;
subsoil, the same, with portions of rock ; and there is a
quarry of excellent stone. The chief crops are a succes­
i sion of grain. The area is 2,005 acres of l°nd and 11 of
j w ater; rateable value, ¿1 ,8 7 5 ; the population in 190.'.
was 301.
DUXFORD is a hamlet, 1 mile north, in this parish ;
here is a ferry over the Isis.
Parish Clerk, William Prior.
Post Office.— Mrs. Bessie Sm ith, sub-postmistress.
Letters through Faringdon, arrive at 7.45 a.m. & 3.5
p.m. ; dispatched at 9.50 a.m. & 5.50 p.m. Longworth is the nearest money order office; telegraph
office at Buckland, 3 miles distant
Elementary School (boys, girls & infants), erected in
1850, & enlarged in 1870, & further enlarged in 1905,
for 100 children; average attendance, 54: Mrs. H.
Sm ith, m istress
Carriers to W antage.— George Batts, Faringdon, tues. &
fri. ; Oxford, tues. & fri. ; Abingdon, mon. & thurs.
& W antage wed. ; George Gibbins, Oxford, wed. & sat

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p r i v a t e RESIDENTS.
Ayris Frederick, m arket g a r d e n e r
Harper Rev. Fredk. M .A. Rectory
Batts George, butter m er. & carrier
Symonds Capt Fredk. Cleave Loder- Chandler Hy. C. farm er, Manor frm
R A , J.P. Hinton manor
Clifford W illiam , dairyman

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Gibbins George, carrier
Latham Harold John,frm r.Glebe frm
Sm ith Bessie (Mrs.), shopkpr.Post off
Wells James, blacksmith
Woodin W alter B. farmer, Grange fm