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DENCHWORTH.

B E R K S H IR E .

h U w’ aJ Chi te7 ’ V a n t a g e ; other gifts have been
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esq' M rs’ W alkcr. ° f the Manor
‘ ; n y d e esq. and oth ers; the east window
chancel is a stained window pre­
s s e d by the Hyde fam ily in 1902, and in the windows
of the south transept or chapel are a num ber of ancient
smeids of arms restored by m em bers of the Hyde
fam ily, and one placed by H. B. Hyde esq. to his
p a te n ts : there are 150 sittin gs: in the churchyard is
an ancient cross, the head of which was renewed by a
form er vicar, and at cross roads in the village the base
ot a chipping cross.
The earliest date in the old
registers, which are m uch m utilated, is 1538; there is
also a register of briefs from 1707 to 1740. The living
is a vicarage, net yearly value ¿ 1 3 5 , derived from 54
acres of glebe, w ith residence, in the gift of the Provost
ana Fellows of W orcester College, Oxford, and held
since 1908 by th e Rev. H enry Mihvard Burgess M.A. of
th at college. There is a coal and clothing club for the
poor, and two sets of allotm ents, one called “ Poor's
piece
and the other belonging to the vicar, which are
cu ltivated as field gardens. A branch of the Fettiplaces, also of Fernham , Childrey and Besilsleigh,
resided here in the 17th century, and recorded their ,

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pedigree
visitation of 1664-6. The .n
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of W orcester
College, Oxford,
are lords
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manur. The principal landowners are Worcester and
Magdalen Colleges, Oxford. The sod is stiff clay; sub­
soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and
beans. The area is 1,041 acres; rateable value, ¿3,693
The population in 1901 was 172.
Post Office. A rthur Dearlove, sub-postmaster. Letters
through W antage arrive at 7.55 a.m. k 6.50 p.m. •
dispatched at 7.55 a.m . & 6.45 p.m . sum m er; 7.55
a.m. & 6.10 p.m. winter. No delivery on Sundays.
V an tage is the nearest money order office & Grove
the nearest telegraph office

Elem entary School (m ixed), erected in 1858, on a site
given by W orcester College, for 56 children; average
attendance, 35 ; in 1726 a sum of ¿5 0 was bequeathed
by Richard G ilgrasse, of Denchworth, to educate poor
children of this p a ris h ; a field allotted in lieu of this
money now produces ¿ 6 yearly, & tim ber sold produced ¿5 0 , now invested in 2 f per cent Consols;
Miss Elizabeth Barnett, m istress
Carrier.— Moon, to W antage, wed. & sat. & Abingdon
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D E 1T F O R D is a hamlet of K intbury civil parish and curacy, net yearly value £66, in the gift of Apsley
in 1833 was formed into an ecclesiastical parish. It is
Cherry-Garrard esq. and held since 1894 by the Rev.
about 2 miles north-east from H ungerford station on the
John Frederick Charles Denning M.A. of T rinity College,
Ure.it Western railway, in the Southern division of the
Dublin, and chaplain of Hungerford union, who resides
county Kintbury-Eagie hundred, Hungerford petty ses­ at Hungerford. The manors of High and Low Denford
sional division and county court district, Hungerford and were form erly the property of the Longespees, Earls of
Ram sbury union, Newbury Tural deanery, archdeaconry Salisbury, and afterwards of the Lords Lovell and
of Berks and diocese of Oxford. Holy Trinity church
H olland; they are now the property of Apsley Cherrywhich adjoins Denford House, was erected and endowed Garrard esq. Denford House, a mansion of the Classic
by the late G. C. Cherry esq. in 1832, and is an edifice style, and the property of Apsley Cherry-G arrard esq.
of stone 111 the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con­ of Lam er Park, Herts, is the residence of Capt. Edward
sisting of nave, south porch and a richly carved and Henry B. Sawbridge. The population in 1901 was .100.
em battled eastern tower, with pinnacles and spirelets
containing one b e ll: there are 75 sittings. The register’ Letters through Hungerford about 2 miles distant, which
dates from the year 1832. The livin g is a perpetual
is the nearest money order & telegraph office
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Henry B
I Booth Joshua,frmr.Denford Manor frm 1Bungey
& Chamberlain,
m illers
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ednego, farm er. IBucknell Arth. Wm . farmer,Lower fm j (water), Denford m ill
D I D C O T (or Dudcote) is a village and parish, with a
junction station of the Oxford and Birm ingham and
Newbury and Winchester branches with the main line of
the G reat Western railway, 6 miles west from W alling­
ford, 6| south from Abingdon, 53 from London by rail
and 10 from Oxford, in the Northern division of the
county, hundred of Moreton, p etty sessional division,
union and county court district of W allingford, rural
deanery of Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks and dio­
cese of Oxford. The church of A ll Saints is a small but
interesting edifice of stone, in the Decorated and Perpen­
dicular styles, picturesquely situated on high ground
north of the village, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles,
south porch and a low western tower with short
octagonal broach spire, both covered with shingles and
containing 3 bells : the nave is of three bays and has
arcades of wide Pointed Early English arches on low
clustered piers, the central pier, against which the font
is placed, being octagonal and the other two cylindrical,
with caps formed by a succession of projecting flat
fillets ; the south aisle is Decorated, and has segmentalheaded windows, with reticulated tracery; on the south
side of the nave, slightly raised above the floor, on a
stone base, is the recumbent effigy, in stone, life-size, of
a bishop or m itred abbot of the 13th century, under a
m utilated canopy, and holding a crosier, of which por­
tions rem ain ; it was recovered in 1775 from the church­
yard on the relaying of the path, having been reversed,
and used to form part of the pathway ; the identity of
the effigy is at present in question ; at the south-east
corner of the south aisle is a piscina, and a little
bracket for the figure of a saint ; the chancel has four
Decorated windows, all of which, as well as the east
window, are stained ; the Perpendicular west window is
a memorial to the Rev. John Ashworth Ashworth M.A.
39 years rector of this parish (1851-90), Catherine his
wife, and to John Ashworth Ashworth, lieut. R.N. their
son, and retains some fragments of old stained glass in
the top lights : the reredos is of stone simply arcaded,
and on the south side of the chancel is a square piscina ;
the pulpit is also of stone, with traceried panels ; thé
stairs to the rood-loft remain, as also the upper door,
over which is a curious tw o-light window ; the north

aisle is modern ; there are floor stones to Francis Dandridge, gent, 1759 5 Robert Lydell de Dydcott, generosus,
J677 > Richard Blake of Dudcott, 1709 ; Benjamin Banner
A.M. fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and 24 years
rector here, and rector also of W hittington, Lancs. 1817 ;
and to Thomas Collins, and Mary, his wife, 1800; in
the churchyard, west of the porch, is a fine old yew,
and on its east side a restored cross raised on two
steps ; on the exterior walls are memorials to th e
families of Sayer, 1721-36, with arms and m an tlin g; and
Hayward, 1759-82 ; to Muriel, wife of Edward Sawyer,
of Didcot, 1641, and her husband, with the arms of
Sawyer and Backer ton ; to the family of Taylor, 1719-63,
and to Catherine Loder, widow, 1698 ; the church was
restored in 1876, at the cost of Rev. J. A. Ashworth
M.A. rector, 1851-90, and a friend, at a cost of ¿750,
and in 1904 the vestry and organ chamber were restored
at a cost of ¿840: the church affords about 200 sit­
tings. The early register of this parish, which had been
missing for some years, appeared for sale in September,
1891, in the catalogue of a Birmingham bookseller, and
was recovered and restored to the parish by Mr. G. F.
Tudor Sherw ood; it contains baptisms 1575-1678, m ar­
riages 1571-1674, and burials 1568-1679, comprised in 20
pages of vellum. The living is a rectory, net yearly
value ¿303, with residence, in the gift of the Principal
and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford, and held since
1890 by the Rev. John Brown M.A. of that college, wha
is also rural dean of Wallingford. A corn m arket is
held on Tuesdays, outside the railway station, and a
wool fair on the first Tuesday in July. The railway
station, which was partially destroyed by fire in 1886,
has been rebuilt, with an 'attach ed residence for the
station m aster. On the rising ground south of the
road leading to Wallingford and Harwell, and south of
the station, a large number of houses have been built,
farm ing a new village, which is within the parish of
Hagbourne, and is known as North Hagbourne, or New
Town, which see. The Lydalls, or Lydells, who resided
at Didcot in the 17th century, recorded their pedigree
and arms at the visitation of 1664; Robert Lydell.
mentioned above, who married Martha, daughter of
John Collins, of Betterton, being then 45.
Lady