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COOKHAM.

B E R K S H IR E .

L evy A rth ur, The Mount (letters Bishop James,farm bailiff to Stephen
received through Maidenhead)
Darby esq. The Cedars
Lidderdale Mrs. The Coppices
1Copas James, market gardener
Macnab W illiam , Mayfield
¡Copas Mary (M rs.), Chequers P.H
Major L ad y A lfred, G ibraltar dose
Crockford Henry Thomas, blacksmith
M ajor M rs. Ernest, Waterdale
j Deadman W illiam , grocer, baker, corn
M arshall George, Cartlands
I dealer & coal m erchant, Post office
M illington W alter S. Five Elm s
j Eagles Edwin Silas, beer retailer
Morison Miss, Tugwood
¡Frost W alter, fruit grower
Patton Bethune M. Dean cottage
IGammon A rth ur Samuel, Hare &.
P itt Sidney, The Islands
1 Hounds P.H
Putney A lfred, Stonehouse
I Gardner John S. farm er, Mount farm
Richards J. Grant, Bigfrith
I (letters received thro' Maidenhead)
Rowe Frederick, Fern bank
IHatch George, bee:- retailer
Saunders Cecil Harloven.The Hill ho ¡Horne Edmd. farmr.Woodlands farm
Saxon Snell Alfred, Cranford
Jordan Henry W illiam , fly proprietor
Stannard Edward John, The Orchard Keeling A rthur Ge orge,m arket grdnr
Stone
John
W illiam ,
Harwoods 1Keeling W alter, shoe maker
(letters received through Maiden­ Luker Alfred, faim bailiff to Mr.
head)
j W alter Frost
Stone Mrs. The Glen
Mash Henry Joseph, farmer
Thompson A rth ur, The Hatch
Parsons Henry, builder
Thompson Mrs. C. Grove cottage
1 Parsons Henry, farmer
Tuke Mrs. Hurst
Parsons Sidney George, jobbing g a r­
Vaughan-M organ
H arley
Pascoe,
dener, Bigfrith
Rondels
Peto Mary Jane (M rs.), farm er, Can­
Watson David, The Thatch
non court (letters through MaidenW hitehom Ernest, W inter Hill house 1 head)
Wood Frederick. Dean house
Pryer W illiam Henry, grocer
Y o u n g Francis Gordon, Inwood
South wood Mary
Evelyn
(Miss).
nurse. Hatch cottage
COMMERCIAL.
Taft Henry, builder
Wootten A rth ur E. boat builder
Baldwin W illiam , fruiterer

[K E L L Y ’ S
NORTH TOWN.
(Letters through Maidenhead.)
French William W atkins, Moorside
G ardner Ernest M .P., J.P. Spencers
Ta-Bois Percy, The W hite house
COMMERCIAL.

Deadman Jacob Richard, beer retail:Gardner Robert, The Harrow P.H
Jordan Albert Ernest, dairyman
Loch A rth ur
Antonius Andrews,
m axket gardener
N ightingale W illiam , cattle dealer
North Town W orking Men’s Club
(Miss Cham bers, acting hon. sec)
Ridout Celia (M rs.), beer retailer
Stacey T. & Sons, ballasters
P IN K N E Y S GREEN .
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Cooper W alter, Hindhaye
Eve William Fredk. Cougham view
Garcke Em il, Ditton house
Kersey Alexander Henry, Hartwells
Riego Michael del, W hite cottage
COMMERCIAL.

Brown George, Golden Ball P.H
C arter W illiam , fruiterer
Cooper J. K . & Sons, brick & tile
makers
Cornwall Claude, laundry
Distin John, shopkeeper
Duvall M artin, beer retailer
Weall Wm. farmer, Pinkneys farm

G R E A T C O X W E L L is a village and parish, 2 miles Oxford, and held since 1899 by the Rev. Robert Charles
south-west from Faringdon, 4 north-east from High- St. Lo Auber. A Congregational chapel was erected
worth, 14 south-west from Abingdon, in the Northern here in 1875, and has 100 sittings. The Parish Reading
division of the county, hundred, p etty sessional division, Room, erected in 1900, at a cost of over £400, and
union and county court d istrict of Faringdon, rural opened December 12th, 1901, occupies a site presented
deanery of the Yale of W hite Horse, archdeaconry of by the late Hon. Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (d. 1909),
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Giles is and contains a lending library, bagatelle table &c.
an ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, Pinsent’s charity, in which the parish of Coleshill also
north porch and a battlem ented western tower, with participates, is for apprenticing poor children. On the
crocketed pinnacles at the angles, containing 5 bells, top of Bradbury Hill, a short distance from the village,
dated 1738; the chancel, restored by the Earl of Rad­ on the north side of the high road from Faringdon to
nor in 1881, at a cost of £250, is good plain Early Highworth, are the remains of a fortified camp of a
English work ; the east window of three lancets is circular form, 200 yards in diameter, and surrounded
flanked on each side by a plain niche ; and there is by a ditch of 10 yards wide. Contiguous to the village
also a niche over th e communion table, with a locker is a farmhouse, the remains of a religious establishment
■°n each side ; in the south wall is a piscina, with a shelf of Cistercians, founded by the abbots of Beaulieu, in
and low-side window; the nave, restored in 1882 at a the New Forest, to whom K in g John granted this
cost of £400. has Perpendicular windows on the south manor in 1200; the barn is 156 feet in length and 45
side ; there is a western gallery and the rem ains of a feet in width, with a spacious porch on one side and a
tu rret leading to the rood loft ; at the junction of the sm aller one on the other ; the roof, high-pitched, and
chancel and nave is a sanctus bell gable ; the tower, internally presenting, from its peculiar construction, a
15 feet square, is E arly Perpendicular ; there is a brass veTy singular perspective, is supported by two ranges of
with effigies and inscription to W illiam Morys, farmer, wooden pillars resting on pedestals of stone. The Hon.
and Joan, his wife, 2 sons and a daughter, c. 1500; Mrs. M. E. Pleydell-Bouverie. of Coleshill, is lady of
and inscriptions to Robert Russell, gent, citizen and the manor and principal landowner. The soil is
draper, of London, 1630; Ann, wife of Thomas Mores, various ; subsoil, clay and oolite rock. The chief crops
1632 ; and Margaret, wife of Frances Mores. 1675, an­ are wheat, beans, barley and turnips. The area is 1,410
cestors of Edward Rowe Mores D .D ., F .S .A . the an ti­ acres ; rateable value, £1,668 ; the population in 1901
q u a ry ; to Robert Spindler, 1743; Frances, wife of Bond was 264.
Spindler M .A. rector of St. M artin’s. Oxford, 1743 ;
Parish Clerk, Henry Belcher.
and to W alter Mathew, 1698; in the church is also a Post Office.— Thomas Sm art, sub-postmaster.
Letters
m em orial to the Rev. David Collyer B.A. for nearly 50
t h r o u g h Faringdon, arrive at 7 a.m. & 1.45 p.m. ;
years vicar here, and a benefactor to the parish, and to
S u n d a y , 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.35 p.m. week days
Maria, his daughter, wife of Henry Stevens; he died
& 12.15 p na. Sundays. Faringdon. 2 miles distant,
21 October, 1724, and was the author of the “ Sacred
is the nearest money order & telegraph office
In terpreter : ” there are 200 sittings. The register Elem entary School (m ixed), erected in 1864, for 73
dates, from the year 1654. The living is a discharged
ch ild re n ; average attendance. 38 ; with a small en­
vicarage, net yearly value £122, with residence and 50
dowment of £20 from Pinsent’s charity for the m is­
acres of glebe, let at £46, in the g ift of the Bishop of
tress ; Miss Goldby, mistress
A uber Rev. Robt. Chas. St.Lo(vicar) Denniss Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shopkeepr Nias John W illiam , butcher
W hitfield Miss, Holloway cottage
Gerring A rth .farm r.C ourt House fm Reading Room (Arth. G erring, sec)
c o m m e r c ia l '
Heading Jthn, seed m erchant
Roberts W illiam , haulier
Butler Thomas Kelson, farmer, Bad- Hinckley Robert Hy. Royal Oak P.H Robey Anthony, dairyman
bury hill
Newport Brothers, farmers
1 Sm art Thomas, grocer, & post office
L I T T L E C O X W E L L is a township and chapelrv,
miles south from Faringdon, in the Northern division of
the county, and in the parish, hundred, petty sessional
division, union and county court district of Faringdon,
ru ral deanery of the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry
of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St.
Mary is a building of stone, principally of the Norman
and Transitional periods, consisting of chancel, nave,
south porch and a small central bell gable containing 2
bells ; the east window has Decorated tracery, and is
flanked on each side by cinquefoil-headed niches ; in
the south wall of the chancel is a piscina ; the nave has
a Norman south door and Early English and Perpen-

dicular window s; over the western gallery is a small
circular stained w indow ; the pulpit is of oak, richly
carved: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1582. The living is annexed to the vicarage
of Faringdon; joint net yearly value £220, with resi­
dence, in the gift of the trustees of the late Rev. Charles
Simpon, and held since 1909 by the Rev. John Edward
Cowell M .A. of Corpus Christi College, Cam bridge, who
resides at Faringdon.
Here is also a Baptist "chapel.
There are charities of £27 yearly value. The Coles pits,
situated a short distance from the village and extending
over an area of 14 acres, are objects of considerable
interest, as they are supposed to have been habitations of