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of stone, consisting of nave only, with a western turret
containing one bell, was entirely rebuilt of brick and
stone in 1900-01 : it consists of nave with a isle : there
•was in ancient times a chapel here, dedicated to St. John
the Baptist, which existed up to the beginning of the
18th cm tury : the church, lately removed, was built in
1832 through the exertions of the late Dr. Richard Lynch
Cotton, provost of W orcester College, Oxford, 1839-81,
when the form er dedication was changed: there are four
memorial windows to members of the Godfrey family
and three to the fam ily of C audw ell: the pulpit, from
which Dr. Pusey preached his first written sermon, and
the font in which he was baptised, are now placed here:
the church affords 230 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1832. The living is a vicarage, n. t yearly
value £245, with residence and 10^ acres of glebe, in the
gift of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, and held since
1899 by the Rev. Stanley Heddon Howard M .A. of O x­
ford University. Here are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels,
the latter having an attached burial ground. Caudwell's
charity, bequeathed in 1890, consists of ¿400 invested in
Government Stock, the interest of which is distributed

HAGBOURNE.

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in coal to the poor of the parish. The manor of Grove
was given by K ing Stephen in 1142 to the Convent of
Bermondsey ; after the Dissolution it came into the pos­
session of the fam ily of Grove, whose monuments appear
in the south aisle* of W antage church. The principal
landowners are Lady W antage, of Lockinge Park, Edward
Ormond esq. of W antage, on l R. Floyd esq. The soil is
deep loam ; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops
are wheat, beans and cloveT. The area is 1,782 acres of
land and 9 of w ater; rateable value. ¿9,884; the popu­
lation in 1901 was 580.
Parish Clerk and Sexton, Elon Dance.
Pest & T. Office.— Frederick Hearman, sub-postmaster.
Letters delivered from W antage at 7 a.m. & 12.15
p .m .; dispatched at 4.15 & 7.30 p .m .; sundavs, 9.55
a.m. W antage is the nearest money order office
Wall Letter Boxes, W antage Ro d station; hours of col­
lection, 4 & 7.15 p.m . ; Sundays, 9.40 a.m . Grove
Bridge, hours of collection, 4.30 & 7.45 p.m. ; Sundays,
10.10 a m
Elementary School (m ixed), built in 1890, for 130 child­
ren; average attendance', 100; Russell B irv e v , m aster

Collingborn Henry Caleb, farmer, jOdy Noah, dairy farmer, Bridge farm
¡Prince Albert, watch & clock m aker
Barwell farm
Collins Chas. Herbt. farm er,Elm s frm i Robins James, farmer
i R 'l'io s S id r e v , f ir m e r
Dance Elon, parish clerk
Robins W illiam , farmer
Giles E'izabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Sims W alter, Volunteer P.H. &; frmr
Godfrey Henry, wheelwright
Gaodale W illiam Henry, dairyman, jS lv H erb-rf E d v * " 1, Pell P.H
assistant overseer & clerk to the ¡Stephens Bessie (M rs.),frm r.Bradfield
COMMERCIAL.
Stevens W illiam , m iller (water)
Parish Council
Break.«pear
frm r. Bosley's frm Hearman Fdk. gro. & baker. Post off Tame Josiah, farm er, Whitgreen frm
Burson Albert, farm er, Steptoes farm Ireson Henry,coal merchant, Wantage West George, farm bailiff to R. H.
Betteridge, Brook farm
Road station
Burson W illiam , Baytree P.H
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Boslev Miss, Grove cottage
Ellis Rev. W illiam P. (Wesleyan),
Brook side
Howard R°v. Stanley Heddon M .A.
(vicar), Vicarage
Stevenson Mrs. Bridge bouse

H A G B O T T R N E E A S T a n d W E S T is a parish con­
sisting of the township of East Fagbourne and liberty
of W est Hagbourne, in the Northern division of the
county, hundred of Moreton, petty sessional division
union and county court district of W allingford, rural
deanery of W allingford, archdeaconry of Berks and dio­
cese of Oxford. East Hagbourne is 6 miles west-bysouth from Wallingford, 2 south-east from Didcot Junc­
tion station on the Great Western railway, and
from
Upton station on the Didcot, New bury and Winchester
branch of the same lin e ; W est Hagbourne being within
three-quarters of a mile. East Hagbourne is situate on
a stream called in Saxon tim es “ Hacca’s-brook,” from
a person of that nam e; there is a charter of King
Alfred which mentions both “ Haecan Burn ” and
“ Hacca-Broc,” as m ay be seen in Kem ble's “ Codex
Diplomaticus JEvi Saxonici; ” this stream is derived
from a spring rising in the old moat near the Manoi
Farm, and never known to be dry. In Domesday the
place is called “ Hacheborne ” and was held at the firm
of the Great Survey by W alter, son of O th eriu s; Rainbald do Circestre (Cirencester) also held land here of
the king. The manor is said to have been given b\
Henry I. to the monastery of Cirencester, which he had
founded. Here the Parliam entary arm y under the Earl
of Essex was quartered on the 24th of May, 1644. The
church of S t Andrew, in East Hagbourne, is a building
of stone and rubble in mixed styles, consisting of chancel
and nave of six bays, both clerestoried, aisles, north
and south porches, an embattled western Perpendicular
tower, with a stair turret and on the roof a unique bellcot, with canopv and pinnacles, in which bangs nnp
small bell, the belfrv containing a fine peal of 8 b e lls :
the chancel is in part Transitional, and has a good open
timbered roof with carvings of interesting character, a
locker, trefoiled piscina and a large Perpendicular east
window: the north aisle or chapel was built by John
York, as appears from inscribed brasses still remaining
in it ; the earliest is that of “ Claricia Wyndsore, for­
merly lady of W esthakborn, and wife of John York,
who caused this chapel to be m ade: ” she died March.
1:403; the second commemorates John Y o rk himself,
“ founder of this aisle,” who died 15th July, 1413: there
is a third inscription to John Y ork (probably a son of
the foregoing) and Johanna his wife, both of whom
died 5th of Septem ber, 1445 : in this aisle is also a
handsome m arble monument to John Phillips esq. car­
penter at Windsor Castle to George I. and II. ; he ac­
cumulated considerable property in the neighbourhood,
most of which, by purchase from his representatives, is
now the property of Lady Wantage, and there is some
stained glass and a Decorated piscina • the south aisle
is Perpendicular, and retains a piscina and a hagio­
scope : the chancel arch and the arcades on th- south
side are Transition Norm an; the north arcad of the
nave has three Early English arches, but the aisle it-

j self is Decorated, and has a door of the same date ;
the nave has a flat open tim bered roof, which with the
lerestorv, is Late Perpendicular: the lower part of
the rood screen remains, with the staircase and the
original door: the pulpit and octagonal font are both
Perpendicular: in the chancel there is a fine Jacobean
brass to “ Christian Keate, wife and widow of Hugh
Keate, of Hodcott, in the county of Parkes, gent. ; ” it
has kneeling figures of both, with four sons and four
daughters; he died 23rd March, 1613, “ and was buried
:n the parish chancel of W estild sley: she died 14th
August, 1627; ” “ W illiam Keate, their youngest sone
erected this m emoriall.” The church was substantially
repaired and well restored in 1859-60. under the super­
intendence of W. J. Hopkins esq. architect, at a cost
of ¿1,500, including ¿210 laid out bv the E arl of
Craven (form erly lord of the manor) in the repairs and
'■estoration of the chancel: there are 474 sittings, all
being free. The register dates from the year 1662.
The living is a vicarage, net vearly value ¿ 1 7 9 , with
"esidence, in the gif' of Lady W antage, and held since
1878 by the Rev. W illiam Robert Baker B.A. of Corpus
P'hristi College, Cambridge. Here is a Prim itive Metho­
dist chapel. A burial ground, com prising one acre, was
>pened July 3rd, 1896, some distance west of the church
and below the railway embankment. N orth-east of the
church and in the village stands a fine cross on lofty
step s; the tall shaft has on one side, at the foot, a
wide deep niche, and above it a sm aller one, w ith traces
of a canopy; it is now surmounted by a cube of stone,
with sundials on three sidps, and on the fourth an
inscription illegible from below : on the east side of
the village, at the cross roads, opposite the “ Travellers*
Welcome ” inn, are the remains of another cross, placed
on a high mound; and the base of a third is in the
hedgeside in the hamlet of Coscote. There are some
extrem ely picturesque and good examples here of tim ber
and plaster, or tile-fronted houses, several of which
have been very carefully restored. The total amount of
charities, from several legacies, is about ¿80 annually.
Lady Wantage is lady of the manor of East Hagbrurne
md principal landowner; %Capt. J. A. Morrison M.P. of
Basildon Park, Mr. John Clarence Holliday and Robert
Rich esq. are the other chief landowners.' The soil is
strong-, black and loam y; subsoil, rubble. The crops
are wheat, barley and beans. The parish is noted for its
cherry orchards, and watercress is largely grown here.
The area of East Hagbourne is 1.758 acres, and of West
Hagbourne 1,057 acres; ra te a b le 'v alu e of East H ag­
bourne, ¿8,054, and of West Hagbourne!, ¿ 1 ,5 3 6 ; the
population in 1901 was, East Hagbourne 1,231, West
Ha"bourne 129.
W est Hagbourne is a lib erty one m ile south-west.
“ Here was form erly a church; and one of the fields
is still called Church C ro ft.” In 1893 a small bronze
celt, in remarkable preservation, was found by a shep-