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side th e north aisle is an ancient doorway, possibly originally founded for an Independent congregation in
Saxon, w ith plain hollowed corbels, and walled u p ; 1662: the existing structure is of some antiquity, and
within it is a fine stone coffin lid, bearing an elegant has an attached cem etery, well kept and pleasantly
b u t p artially m u tilated foliaged cro ss; the priests’ door ] shaded with tr e e s ; the baptismal records are said to
on the south side of th e chancel has graceful E arly ; date from 1738. The charities amount to £12 annually,
En glish shafts w ith foliaged c a p s: the windows on the of which £2 10s. from Rigby and Sm ith ’s charity is
south and west of the transepts are D ecorated; on the given in money to the Elem entary school, ¿£4 10s. d istri­
east side are two cusped la n ce ts ; the west window is ' buted in bread and clothing, and £ 5 given to the poor
L a te Perpendicular; the east window, a Decorated work, 1 in money. Francis John Kynaston Cross esq. J.P. who
w ith ogee head, is partially filled w ith stained glass in 1 is lord of the manor, and the Rev. John W. A. S.
m em ory of M ark Robert Taylor esq. of Aston and Blew- Betteridge M.A. of 8 Harvey road, Cambridge, are
bu ry, who died N ovem ber 8, 1868, and lies buried with the chief landowners. The soil is lo a m ; subsoil, chalk.
C atherine Mason, his wife (d. June 16, 1872), on the The land im m ediately round the village is celebrated
south side of the ch u rch yard : there are other tombs in for its apple and cherry orchards. The chief crops are
the churchyard to Frances Boyfield, relict of Com ­ wheat and barley. The area is 1,753 acres; rateable
modore Sir John Peyton K .C .B ., R.N. ; to the H erbert value, ¿£1.236; the population in 1901 was 289.
Sexton, A. Aldridge.
fam ily, 1810-72; and to the fam ilies of C urtis, Beckinsale. M unday, Lano and G a le : there are 200 sittings, Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Percy Maynard, sub-post­
m aster. Letters frorn W allin gford; delivery com­
100 being free. The register dates from the year 1720.
mences at 7.15 a.m. & 1.15 p .m .; sunday, 8 a m . ;
Th e livin g is a rectory, net yearly value ¿£196, including
dispatched at 10.35 a.m. & 7.5 p.m . ; sunday. 9.20
13 acres of glebe, with residence, in the g ift of the
a.m . Letter Box cleared at 10.35 a m - & 7-5 P m - r
President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, and
sunday, 9.30 a.m
jheld since 1845 by the Rev. Sir John Leigh Hoskyns
Elementary
School (m ixed), enlarged for 94 children;
bart. M .A. late fellow of th at college and hon. canon
average attendance, 80; Robert Evans, master
of C h rist C hurch, Oxford. Here is a Presbyterian chapel,
Hoskyns Rev. Canon Sir John Leigh Maynard Percy, g r o c e T , & post office
P B I V A T E B E S ID E N T S .
bart. M .A ., J.P. (rector), RectoTy M uir John, butcher, see Strange &
-Anger V ictor, The Filberts
Muir
C ross Francis John Kynaston J.P. W yatt Miss, Chestnuts
Pope Jonathan, waggonette proprietor
Manor house
C u ff Miss
'
C O M M EB C IA L.
Raisin John Thos. trainer of horses
•Curry Rev. Thomas (Presbyterian), Baillie James, farm bailiff to F. J, Slade Joseph Harold, farm er & clerk
to Aston T i r T o l d Parish Council
The Manse
K . Cross esq
Strange & M u ir, butcher»
Fu ller Miss, Croft house
Dandridge Albert, carpenter
Wheeler
John, beer retailer
Fu ller Misses, Forge cottage
Elliott Stephen, blacksmith
Whichello Fredk. W m . Chequers inn
Holland Capt. Samuel Clifford, Copse I Griffiths James, baker & grocer
style
¡Lane Thos. Jas. corn dir. Springfield
John Henry Moore A .X .C .L . who resides aft Upton.
Edmund Gibson D.D. Bishop of Lincoln and subsequently
of London, and some modern writers following him have
fixed upon this plac£ as the scene of the battle of
JEscesdnne A.D. 871, between K ing Et&elred, w ith Alfred
his brother and the D anes: the actual site has been the
■cause of m uch controversy, and some’ authorities are
of opinion th at the term “ J£scesdune77 refers, not to
a particular portion of the downs, biat rather to the
whole ra n g e : others have suggested plajces of a similar
name in Sussex, Essex and Bucks, bxKfc as the Saxon
Chronicle, in treating of the year 1006. states thart the
Danes, after ravaging W allingford and bivouacking for
the night at Chofeey, went from thence “■along Ashdown
to Cwichelm ’s H ill,” there can be little- doubt thait the
engagement, or some part of it, w a s fought on- the
h ills above th is village, ooe of w hich rising im m e­
diately to the south is s tili known as “ ■
K in g’s Stand­
in g,” and a tradition lingers that after the victory
Alfred came down here and gave thanks in an amcient
chureh then occupying th e site of the present church
of AM Saints. W est of th e village, and partly included
in this parish, is the great isolated »nd terraced hill
called “ Blewburton,” described under Blewbury. Thorpe
Farm , an ancient house, partly Saxon, has been oc­
cupied by the Slade fam ily for upwards of 40® years.
The E arl of Craven is lord of the manor ; Major John
G . M orris, of Blewburton, is chief landowner. The
soil is lo a m ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat
and barley. The area is 1,324 a c re s; rateable value*
¿£68i ; the population in 1901 was 125.
Sexton, Ernest G. Blake.
Letters through W allingford, arrive at 7.50 a.m. Aston
Tirrold is th e nearest money order & telegraph office
Lond. physician & surgeon &
C O M M E B C IA L.
Forshaw Rev. H enry (curate of
medical officer & public vaccinator,
Aston Tirrold)
Aston
district, W allingford union
Corderoy Joseph R. carpenter
H ills Eustace G
Slade Leonard G illott, fanner,Thorpe
la n gm o re1'H erbert Richard M.B Redj'§ ^
b ™a\ ef it h a r ’ S8ddler & har
farm
house
Strange Frederick, wagonette pro­
Jervis Charles, Boot inn
Mead M rs. Acacia cottage
prietor & jobmaster
Langmore Herbt. Richard M B ., B.C.
M orris M ajor John G. Blewburton
Cantab., M .R .C .S .E n g., L .R .C .P .
S tark Misses, Edlins
is a parish on the river Kennet, about it date« from the
9th century, andconsists of chancel,
A V I N G T O N is a par
west-hy-north
nave, north transept and a south porch: there was
f ^ i T h e K in tb u ry . S o n
the Great W estern rail- I anciently a bell tu rret at the west end
containing
one bell, but a small cross was substituted some
wav 6 i west from N ewbury, in the Southern division
vears ago, and the bell removed to a place within
1 e county, hundred of Kintbury-Eagle, Hungerford
petty'sessio n ai division a i d county 'court district, Hun- the r o o f: the whole structure forms an elongated
parallelogram , on a scant foundation, the four walls
ywerfordJ and Bomohnrv
Ram sbnry union,
union, rural
rural deanery
deanery of
of INewinclosing* an area 75ft. long by 15ft. broad, or five
bu rv archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of O t o u .
widths in length, and of these five square spaces one
The’ 'K en net borders the parish on the south The
forms the sanctuary, one the choir and three the
/-Tmrph is a good example of the Saxon style and is
helieved to have been dedicated to SS. Mark and n av e: the sanctuary is divided from the choir by
Lu ke, from symbols of these saints ,in the sanctuary; pilasters, intended to sustain a semi-circular arch,

A S T O N TX PTH O R PE (“ the upper v illa g e ” ), for­
m erly a chapelry of the parish of Blewbury, was, in
1862, united to Upton and together form a separate
p a rish ; it is 4 m iles south-west from W allingford and
.3 m iles east from Upton station on th e Didcot and
-Newbury railway, in the Northern division of the
‘county, W allingford petty sessional division, union and
SOuniy court district, and in the ru ra l deanery of
W allingford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of O x­
ford. The church of A ll Saints is a plain edifice of
great an tiquity, consisting of chancel and nave, south
porch and a wooden belfry w ith short lead-covered spire
on the western gable containing 2 b e lls : the church was
originally a Norm an stru c tu re : the north doorway with
plain sem i-circular head rem ains, and there is a N or­
m an window on the north side, and a blocked doorway
o n the south, of the same d ate: the E a rly tim ber roof
of the nave, ceiled over in recent tim es, is also existing,
as well as the timber-fram ed porch, a work of the
Decorated period, now covered w ith i v y : the west
window is Perpendicular and the font Norman ; portions
of the form er Perpendicular benches have been care­
fully incorporated in the new s e a ts : the church was
restored and the chancel rebuilt of flint w ith stone
-dressings, in 1859-60, and the church re-opened in April,
£860: in the chancel are several tablets to the Slade
fa m ilv : the church will seat 100 persons. The church­
yard was consecrated by the late Bishop W ilberforce,
May oth, 1862. The register dates from the year i8 bi,
but a volume of earlier date is kept at Blewbury. The
livino' was declared a vicarage A pril 3, 1866 and is
«ecclesiastically united to U pton: joint net yearly value
/ s c * w ith one acre of glebe, and residence, m the gitt
of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1895 by the Rev.