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F A R IN G D O N .

B E R K S H IR E .

Shelton S. (Mrs.), boot & shoe warehouse, London st
Sheppard Joseph, ]un. builder, Marlborough street
Sinitn John, cninm ey sweeper, Coxwell street
Sm ith John, dairym an, Gloucester street
Stam p Office (H arry John Sm ith, distributor), M arl­
borough street
Stevens Messrs. boot & shoe w a r e h o u s e , & a g e n t s for
Sutton & Co. carriers, London s t r e e t
Stevenson David L. relieving & v a c c in a t io n officer,
collector to th e guardians &; registrar of b ir t h s &
deaths for Faringdon & Buckland district, Marlboro’ st
Sutton & Co. Tailway & general carriers (Messrs.
Stevens, agents), London street
Taylor Henry & Sons, butchers & fishmongers, Corn m kt
Taylor E lijah , boot m aker, Southampton street
Toomer John & Sons Ltd. coal merchants, Station yard
Tucker R. & Sons, nurserym en & florists, London st. ;
nurseries, Stanford road
Tyldesley Henry, jobbing gardener, Coxwell road
Vincent A lbert Henry, Queen’s Arms P.H. Coxwell st
V incent Henry, beer retailer, London street
W alker Frederick, carpenter, Gloucester street
W alker Henry, boot maker, London street
W alker Thomas, painter, Gloucester street

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Warman John, Duke of Wellington P.H. Lechlade road
i Warne H. Glynn, district surveyor to the Rural D is­
trict Council, London street
W atts Alexander, farm bailiff to Messrs. George Adam
& Sons, Lodge farm
W atts Homy, baker & corn dealer, Marlborough street
Weaver W illiam & Sons, hauliers, Gloucester street
Webb G. Cowdery, accountant to Messrs. G. Adams .L
Sons (office). Corn exchange
W ebster George, Red Lion hotel, Marlborough street
West of England Sack Hiring Co. Lim ited (agencv)
"Westall
T•-*■-" George Stanley,
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baker,
Station
road,
W heeler Frank, baker, Union street
Wheeler Mary Ann (Miss), dress maker, Southampton sc
W hite Brothers, hair dressers & tobacconists,Corn mrk*.
W hite Charles G inland revenue officer. Market place
Williams Hy. registrar of m arriages, Leam ington villa
W illis George S. pastry cook, see Mrs. Eliza Lay
Wyles Brothers Lim ited, boot & shoe dealers (W alter
Henry Walker, branch m anager), Corn market
Y ates T. & Son, cycle agents, London street
Y ates Thomas, hardware dealer, London street
Yeatm an Henry Edward, tailor & hosier, Corn market
Yeatm an Albert Edward, ladies’ tailor, Gloucester st

F A R I N G D O N ( L I T T L E ) , see “ K elly’s Oxfordshire Directory.”
E A R L E Y H I L L , see Swallowfield.
F A R N B O R O I T G H is a village and parish, pleasantly window being a memorial to members of the W hite­
situated on the Downs, n miles north from Newbury, hurst fa m ily ; the church was restored by the Rev.
5 south-by-easb from W antage, 7 south from W antage John W hitehurst M.A in 1883 and 1885 at a total
Road station on the main line of the G reat Western cost of ^550, and affords 100 sittings. The register
railway, and 6 miles east from Shelf or d station 011 the dates from the year 1735. The living is a rectory, net
Lainbourn Valley railway, in the Southern division of yearly value £200, with 76 acres of glebe and residence,
the
Ilsley* Xpetty* sessional in the
of uand
since
1893
John
. . . .county, hundred .of Compton,
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division, Wantage union and county court district, and Baron Howes W hitehurst B.A. of St Peter’s Colie
, 0 f, W^ tag<;> archdeaconry of Cam bridge. The rectory house is an ancient mansion!
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of A ll Saints commanding fine views over the Downs. A charity of
is an ancient fabric of stone in the Perpendicular style, ^100 provides £2 10s. per annum for division amongst
consisting of chancel, nave and fine em battled western widows of the parish over the age of 60. Philip
tower containing a clock and 4 bells; in the church Musgrave Neeld W roughton esq. of Woolley Park, is
are several monuments of the fam ily of Price, formerly lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil i<
residents here, including the Rev. Bartholomew Price, c la y ; subsoil, chalk. The crops are the usual cereals.
re t ¿or, d. 17 April, 1677, and Mary (Garnham) his The area is 1,886 acres of which 100 acres are down;
w ife ; his sons, Bartholomew Price M .A. rector, 1702-32, rateable value, /,933; the population in 1901 was 133.
and Petley Price esq. of the Ham, W antage, d. Nov.
Parish Clerk and Sexton, Albert Abbott.
1723, w ith other children; John Price esq. of the Ham,
d. 28 Nov. 1787, and Annie (Robins) his w ife; William Post Office.— Mrs. Eva Chappell, sub-postmistress. L et­
ters through Wantage arrive at 7.40 a m. ; dispatched
Price esq. of Charlton House, W antage, d. Jan. 1792,
at 7 45 a m. & 7.5 p m. ; Sundays, 11.40 a.m. Brightand Mary (Collins) his wife ; and the Rev. Ralph Price
walt-on
is the nearest money order & telegraph office,
M .A. rector, d. 20 Nov. 1779, all sons of the foregoing
2 miles distant
Petley Price e s q .; Charles, 3rd son of the Rev. Ralph
Price, lord mayor of London and
M.P. for the C ity, Police Constable,Joseph Hopkins
was created a baronet, 2 Feb. 1804;
the chancel retains Public Elem entary School
(m ixed), for 50 children
a piscina and has also some stained windows, the east | average attendance, 37; Miss Shepherd, m istress
W hitehurst Rev. John Baron Howes!
c o m m e r c ia l .
|Pullen Wm. farmer, Coombe farm
B.A. (rector), The Rectory
|Chandler Geo. farmer, Lower farm j Quelch Robert, blacksmith
j Craze Frank, farm er, Upper farm
! Wyld Maria (M rs.), shopkeeper
G R E A T a n d L I T T L E E A W L E Y w i t h W h a t - 6th bart. 10 April, 1807; in 1892 a memorial window
c o m b e form a parish in the Northern division of the was erected to Mrs. Bonham, wife of Col. Bonham and
county, hundred of K intbury-E agle, W antage petty sister to P. Wroughton e sq .; the new west stained
sessional division, union and county court d istrict, and window was erected in 1909 to the m emory of Stephen
in the rural deanery of Wantage, archdeaconry of Berks and H arriett Brown by their children; there are 200
and diocese of Oxford.
sittings. The register dates from the year 1540 and
G reat Faw ley is 5 miles south from W antage, 7 south contains entries relating to Whatcombe from 1596.
from W antage Road station on the main line of the The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £100, with
G reat W estern railway, and 3^ miles north from Shef- residence, in the g ift of Philip W roughton esq. and
ford station on the Lambourn Valley railway. The held since 1906 by the Rev. H erbert W illiam Sawyer
church of S t. Mary, erected in 1866 on a new site, by M.A. of Trinitv College, Cambridge. Philip Musgrave
Mrs. Blanche Wroughton and her son, Philip W roughton Neeld Wroughton esq. of Woollev Park, is lord of the
The soil is principally
esq. on the dism antling of the old church, is a build­ manor and sole landowner.
in g of stone from designs by the late G. E. Street esq. ch a lk ; subsoil, chalk. The chief c-ops are wheat,
R .A. and consists of apsidal chancel, w ith a groined barlev. oats, turnips and clover. The area is 2,190
Toof, nave, south porch and a south t-ower containing acres; rateable value, ¿ 8 7 7 ; the population in 1901
2 b e lls ; the pulpit, screen and pillars of the nave was 155.
arcades are of Devonshire marble, and there is a
reredos of Caen stone and mosaics, with a group of
L IT T L E F A W L E Y , one m ile south, and Whatcombe, 2
the “ Crucifixion,” by Earp, the mosaics being by miles south, are hamlets. The old manor house wa =
S a lv ia ti; the old church was the burial place of the built in 1614 by Sir Francis Moore, the eminent lawyer,
ancient fam ily of Moore, who held both manors here on the site of an older building, of which the cellars
from some tim e after the Reformation until 1765; to still rem ain ; the house was for many years used as a
this fam ily belonged Sir Francis Moore k t. a dis­ farm , bu t has recently been restored and the grounds
tinguished lawyer, who was born at E ast Ilsley, and laid o u t; it is now the residence of Major Angus
represented Reading in the parliaments of 1597, 1601 McNeill. The chief features of the house are its m as­
and 1613; he died 20 Nov. 1621 and was buried in Old sive walls, mullioned windows, Jacobean porch and oak
Faw ley church, on the rem oval of which the vault of staircase. The garden, which was originally surrounded
the Moores was opened and their remains, bound round by a high wall, contains an old bowling gre e n ; a broad
w ith bands of leather, were found to have been em ­ avenue of trees marks the ancient approach to the
balmed and in perfect preservation, even to the house. A t Whatcombe was form erly a mansion, now
fe a tu re s; his eldest surviving son and heir, Henry converted int-o a farm house, with a garden containing
Moore, was created a baronet 21 May, 1627, but the beautiful yew tree w a lk s; in the adjacent meadow
title became extinct on the death of Sir Thomas Moore, m ay be traced the site of a church, the date of the