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B E K K & H IR E .

CHIEV E l FJY.

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Elem entary (m ixed) School, enlarged in 1851, for7 74 j Carriers.— John L'zzell, to N e w b u r y , w e d ^ t o 'j S e w children ; average attendance, 58 ; Miss Ada Mary j & sat. ; W illiam Thomas,
g ,
Harriss, m istress ; Miss Danes, assistant mistress
1 bury, daily
Bennett W illiam , gamekeeper to P Masters Em ily Jane (Mrs.), farmer,.
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Purley farm
M. N. Wroughton esq
Reading Room (Simon Sayer, sec)
Bradley James, bricklayer
Ewens Major George F. W ., I.M .S
Saver
Simon, insurance agent
Hughes Richard, Chadleworth house Bradley Miriam (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Spanswick Charles, blacksm ith, &.
Lord Rev. John Douglas (vicar), Bradley Robert George, watch maker
post office
k assistant overseer
Vicarage
C arter Alice (Mrs.), frm r. Heads frrn Streat Arthur, shoe m aker
Lucas W. L. Oakash
Uzzell
John, carrier
Carter James, farmer
Mosdell Mrs
Uzzell W illiam , farm er, Lower barn
Wroughton Philip, Musgrave Neeld, Chisman W illiam Rum sey, farmer,
V
iveash
Joseph Hv. frmr. Home frm
Woolley farm
Woolley park
Dance John Newton, farm er, Pough- "Watts Ernest, head gardener to
Philip M. N. W roughton esq
C O M M ER CIA L.
ley farm
Holland & Sons, farmers, Manor frm
Ball Leonard, The Ibex P.H
E A S T and W E S T C H A L L O W , formerly town­ acres ; rateable value, £ 5^ 9° 5 ^-he p^putati011 in 1 901
ships of Letcom be Regis civil parish, were in 1852 was 506.
By Local Governm ent Board Order 20,689, dated
formed into a separate parish (each township m ain­
taining its own poor and being distinct for parochial March 24, 1887, Warman cottages &c. were transferred
and other purposes), in the Northern division of the from Letcom be Regis to East Challow.
county, hundred of Kintbury Eagle, petty sessional East Challow Elementary school (m ixed), built in 1856 &.
division, union and county court district of W antage,
enlarged 1892, & again in 1899, for 150 ch ild ren ;
archdeaconry of Berks, rural deanery of W antage, and
average attendance, 80; Miss Annie Barnett, m ist
diocese of O xford; these townships lie to the south
of the G reat Western railway, which has a station
W EST CHALLOW7 is
m iles north-west from
h ere; the W ilts and Berks canal passes through. East W7antage. The church of St. Laurence is a plain struc­
Challow is one m ile west from Wantage. The church ture chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles,
of St. Nicholas is a small edifice of stone, consisting and consisting of chancel, nave, north porch of wood
of chancel, nave, south aisle, and a small tower (built and an Early English bell-cot on the western gable,
in 1884) and containing 2 bells and a clock added in containing 2 b e lls ; the chancel is Perpendicular and
1911, in commemoration of the coronation of His has a pre-Reformation screen ; the north doorway is
M ajesty King George V. ; the Decorated east window, Transition Norman, and the porch Perpendicular; th e
.if three lights, has flawing tracery ; the chancel arch church was restored in 1892 at a cost of ;^ 4 I5 * the
is E arly English, and the nave is separated from the communion plate includes a pre-Reformation paten and
aisle by an arcade of three good arches of the same a chalice of the 17th cen tu ry; there are 66 sittings.
p erio d ; the aisle is m odern; the west doorway is The register dates from the year 1653. Nearly opposite
modern, but has an E arly English stoup on the south the vicarage house is an old house, called “ The Col­
s id e ; the font is plain and cylindrical ; the church lege,” perhaps originally the abode of a priest. Lady
was enlarged and restored in 1858, when many details Wantage, of Lockinge Park, is lady of the manor and
of the old building were destroyed, and much of its chief landowner. The soil is strong c la y ; subsoil, blue
beauty m a n e d : there are 165 sittings. The register clay. The crops are wheat, beans, oats and turnips.
dates from the vear 1712. The living is a vicarage, net The area is 1,070 acres; rateable value, .¿3.148 ; th e
yearly value ¿2*35, with 9 acres of glebe and residence, population in 1901 was 170.
in the gift of'th e' Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1900
Bv Local Government Board Order 20,689, dated
by the Rev. Henrv .Tames Moore Sanders, Assoc, of
K ing’s College, London.
Here is a Mission hall. March 24, 1887, a detached part of Sparsholt was adde 1
There form erlv existed between this village and Wan­ to W7est Challow.
tage an obelisk, placed at the end of an avenue stretch­ Post Office, East Challow.— Franklin Barnett, sub-post­
m aster. Letters through W antage arrive at 6.45
ing to Circourt, in the parish of D enchw orth; some of
a.m. & 12.5 p.m. ; dispatched at 8 a.m. k 4-45 &
the stones, it is said, may be seen in a paved pathway
7.40
p.m. ; sunday, 10.30 a.m.
W antage is th e
east of the church. A t WToodhill is an old house, occu­
nearest money order & telegraph office. 1 m ile distant
pied by Mr. Sharpe, and containing an ancient fire­
place, over which are the initials of Richard and Mary West Challow Wall Box, hours of collection, 7.45 a.m.
Bray, and the date 1676. Here are the extensive
k 4.30 k 7.25 p.m. ; sunday, 10.15 a.m
works of Messrs. Nalder and Nalder Lim ited, for the Challow Station Wall Box, cleared at 4.45 & 8.55 p.m . ;
m anufacture of agricultural -implements.
Stephen
sunday, 10.30 a.m
William M. Silver esq. of Letcom be Regis, is lord of The children of W est Challow attend the schools at
the m anor; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, W. BE a st Challow & Childrey
Reynolds esq. and W. B. Wasbrough esq. are the prin­
Challow Station.— Archibald Claude Drew, station m astr
cipal landowners. The area of East Challow is 1,653
W E S T CH ALLOW .
Harris John W illiam , sanitary in­
E A ST CHALLOW .
(Marked thus * postal address
spector k surveyor to Wantage
Bennett W alter Lovegrove, Hedge hill
Faringdon.)
Rural D istrict Council, No. 1 d is-!
Bitmead Ralph, Hill house
trict, Rock cottage
Sanders Rev. Henry James Moore
K irkpatrick William Hv. Kirklands
Hoare Henry, nurseryman
T h .A .K .C . (vicar). Vicarage
Nalder Edward W illiam
Reynolds Wm. Brooks, Challow park Jefferies Chas. farmer. Marsh farm
C O M M ER CIA L.
Lovegrove
Joseph,
Goodlake
Arms
Stroud Miss, Shirley cottage
P.H. & shopkeeper, mineral water Burson Joshua John, farmer, Manor
W allis A rth ur John, Kirklands
farm k Cornhill farm
m anufacturer, dairyman k haulier
C O M M ER CIA L.
Monk John Wm. Coach k Horses P.H Eddolls Frank, farm er. Coppice lease
Alder Brook, general dealer
♦Frogley W m . farmer, Petwick farm
Nalder
&
Nalder
Lim
ited,agricultural
Ball Alfred, painter, Challow road
♦Langford R. S. & Sons Limited,coaIr
& mechanical engineers
Frogley Charles Herbert, farm er,East
hav & straw & seed mers. Station
Sharpe Dennis, farmer, Woodhill frm
Challow house
•Prowton W m . Prince of W ales P.H
Simmons
Charles,
haulier
Froud Leonard, farm er, Canal farm
♦Toomer
John k Sons Lim ited, coa?
Griffin
Elizabeth (Mrs ), haulier, Simmons Henry, farmer. Manor farm
merchants, Challow station
Watson John’ N. sporting corre­
Challow road
♦Warner John. Leather Bottle P H
spondent. The Mount
Harris Em ily (Mrs.). shopkeeper &
W est Daniel James, farmer,Garlands
W hiting Thomas, saw m ills
coal dealer
C H A R L T O N , see Wantage.
C H A E N E T , o r C H A E N E Y B A S S E T T , see Longworth.
from Oxford and 2 north-east from Herm itage station on
C H I E V E L E Y is a parish and village with the
the Didcot and Newburv branch of the Great W estern
chapelries of Oare and W interbourne and the tithm gs railway. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a plain
of Curridge and Snelsmore, in the Southern division of building of rubble stone, partly in the E arly English
the county, hundred of Faircross, petty sessional divi­ style, with some traces of Norman, and consists of
sion, union and county court district of Newbury, and chancel, nave of five bavs, north aisle, south porch ana
in the rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks
an em battled western tower containing a clock and 6
and diocese of Oxford. Chieveley is on the road from
b e lls : the east windows are stain ed: in the chancel and
Newbury to Abingdon, 5 miles north from Newbury, 22