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G R A ZE LE Y .

B E R K S H IR E

Public Elem entary Schools.
Mixed, erected in 1861, & enlarged in 1893, for 109
children; average attendance, n o ; Misses Em ily, Ada
& Mary A lice W alker & Miss Emmie Burgham , m is­
tresses

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In fan ts, at Spencer’s Wood, erected in 1390. for 95
children; average attendance. 36; M is. W right, mist
Carriers to Reading.— Hounsell, mon. tues. uliurs. fn . &
s a t.; Merrick, wed. & sat.; Whitburn, tues thurs. &
sat. & Bye, tues. thurs. &, sat

P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
Curnick_Fdk.Jn.frm r.Gravelly bridge
A llfrey Frederick W illiam , Stanbury Double Charles, blacksm ith
J-earing John, gardener to F. W.
Crowdy Miss, Highlands
A llfrey esq
chi Mattos W illiam , H ill house
George Robt. frm r. Pound Green frm
Neilson Mrs. Grazelev court
O uvry Rev. John Delahaize M .A. Hewett Jas. Hy. farm er, Manor farm
vash Brothers, farmers
Vicarage
io we James H. frm r, Great Lea frm
C O M M E R C IA L .
Shaw
George,
W heatsheaf
P.H.
Bullingham Frank Carl, farm er,H art­
Lambwood hill
ley Court farm
L'empleton Thomas, brick m aker

Tice W alter, farm er, Great Lea
House farm
Turvey
Mary Ann
(M rs.), beer
retailer, Great Lea
W altham Mary Ann (M rs.), farmer,.
Didenham farm
Woolfe Charles, Old Bell P.H
Wren Henry Blandy, farm er, Whiteley farm
Wynn W illiam , farm bailiff to F. W .
Allfrey esq

G R E E N H A M is an ecclesiastical parish adjoining the the horns; some horse shoes, with plates 3 inches wide,
town of Newbury on the south-east and lying south of covering the whole fujt except the frog, were also
the river Kennet, which separates it from Thatcham , in exhumed near the same spot. 'Ihe new Newbury race­
the Southern division of the county, hundred of Fair- course is picturesquely situated in this parish, at the
cross, petty sessional division, union and county court foot of the rising ground 011 which stand Greenham
district of Newbury, rural deanery of Newbury, arch­ Church and Greenham Lodge, the home of Lloyd Baxendeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The nearest dale esq. to whom the racecourse site previously be­
railw ay station is at Newbury.
Greenham was longed : the course has been laid out by Mr. John Porter,
originally a tithing of Thatcham, and in 1857 it was
and comprises an absolutely straight mile 105 feet wide
formed into the ecclesiastical parish of Greenham. In and a round course a few yards short of two miles, with
1859 a portion was included in the ecclesiastical parish a run in of five furlongs where it joins the straight, was
of S t. John the Evangelist, Newbury, and in 1878, at designed by Mr. C. W. Stephens, of London, and
the extension of the borough of Newbury, a gre:;t por­ includes a Royal box, with a suite of Royal apartments :
tion of Greenham was included. The urban part of the
at the back of the stand is a spacious paddock and in
parish is attached to Newbury for Parish Council pur­
the lower part of the stand, a motor garage and 150
poses, and the iu ra l part has a Council of its own.
loose boxes: the Great Western Railway Co. have
The church of St. Mary the V irgin, situated about
erected a new station adjoining the racecourse, to
half a w l e from the boundaries of the borough of New­
which there is a covered w ay: the first m eeting was
bury, is a modern budding of stone, in the E arly E n g ­
inaugurated 26th Sept. 1905. Rom :n coins of Diocletian
lish style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch,
(A D. 284) and Probus (A.D. 276) were found in 1846
baptistery, and a western turret, containing 2 b e lls :
near Fielders farm, and a number of skeletons (probably
there are several memorial windows: the foundation a hundred), together with many specimens of fictile
stone was laid by the vicar, July 31st, 1875, and the
ware, were discovered in excavating the gravel near the
church was consecrated on October 24th, 1876, by the
Newbury goods station; this spot appears to have been
bishop of the diocese; the total cost amounted to 1 Romano-British cem etery: some Early English pot­
£3,500: a new aisle was added in 1888, and since that
tery was found in 1904 on the Greenham estate, dating
date the chancel has been decorated with frescoes: the from 100 to 200 A.D. Greenham Lodge, the residence
vestry enlarged and wrought iron gates erected to the ■if Lloyd H arry Baxendale esq. J.P. lord of the manor
organ chamber at the cost of Lloyd H. Baxendale esq and principal landowner, is a modern mansion of red
J P. : the organ, erected in 1888, at a cost of about brick, beautifully situated 011 elevated ground and com ­
£400, and the baptistery, added in 1895, at a cost of manding a splend’d view of the surrounding country.
£570, were both the gift of Mrs. Lloyd H. Baxen- Greenham Place is the residence of W illiam St. Quinton
d a le : a catalogue of the plate, vestm ents &c. belonging Leng esq. M .A., L L .B . The soil is gravel and cla y ;
to the old church at the time of the Reformation and subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats
dated 4 Aug. 6 Edward VI. (1552), is preserved at the and roots. The area is 2,323 acres, part of which is
Record office : there ar° 220 sittings. The register dates heath and 25 of w ater; rateable value, £6.977; the
from the year 1706. The livin g was declared a vicarage population in 1901 was 424 in the civil and 521 in the
A pril 3rd, 1866, net vearlv value £140, with residence, ecclesiastical parish.
in th e gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since
Stroud Green, forming a part of the borough of New­
1900 by the Rev. James Nevill Blagdert M.A. of Christ
Church. Oxford. The vicarage house was built in the bury, is in this parish.
Verger,
Frederick Green
year 1874. Here are Baptist and Prim itive Methodist
chapels. In the reign of Henry II. Maud. Countess of Letters through Newbury, which is the nearest money
Clare, gave the manor to the Knigbts-Eospitallers, who
order & telegraph office, arrive about 6.45 a.m
then founded a preeeptory here. In 1876. during the W a ll'L e tte r Box, at Berries Bank, cleared at 12.30 & 6
progress of excavations on the estate of the late Lloyd
p.m. ; Sundays at 11.50 a.m
Baxendale esq. horn cores and skulls of bos primigenus
and bos longifrons, and portions of antlers of the red Elementary School (m :xed), built in 1846, & improved
in 1849 & enlarged in 1888 & 1894; it now holds 113
deer were m et with, at a depth of about 5 feet below
ch ild ren ; average attendance, 78; Miss Sarah New,
the surface, in a stratum of clayish alluvium ; one of the
mistress
gigan tic ox skulls moacnrori mor° than 3 feet between
Leng W illiam St. Quinton M .A.. Giles Henry, cowkpr. Greenham Com
(For residents in N e w b u r y s e e
Hieatt i& Co. butchers. Boundary rd
L L .B . Greenham place
that town.)
King Orlando James, agent to L. H.
Pearson H erbert A. Berries bank
P R IV A T E R E SID E N T S .
T?ixt’T,'5a!e
T P P-'ckp'"'- farm
Preifon Mrs 3 Elm villas
Allen A rth ur, 2 Elm villas
Stoeklev Col.' Charles More C.B. Lane Alfd. m ail contractor, Riverside
Alston George, H ill house
Mathews W illiam Butt, dairy, W est­
Round Oak
Baxendale Lloyd H arry J.P. Green­
wood farm
W illiam s Miss, 4 Elm villas
ham lodge
Morgan Gerald Wm. beer ret. Ham la
COMMERCIAL.
Ba/.ett Mrs Berries bank
Blagden R°v. James Nevill ,M.A. Boulton Charles, head gamekeeper Newbury Racecourse Co. Lim ited (G .
G. Leader, sec)
to L. H. Baxendale esq. J P
(vicar), Vicarage
P -me'- F,r” °st. '■
’or' kpr Piebop’s prn
Bowman John Herbt. Greenham com Bowden John, dairy, Ham lane
St.
Andrew's Home (private) (Mrs.
Cam pbell Christian Armstron".Penlee Canning Henrv Charles, insurance
E.
Holmes,matron),
Greenham Com
■agent. Ham lane
Cotterpll G ° o r ,’rP W m . r Elm villas
Davidson H ugh Coleman, Greenham Clarke F rederick, dairyman, Ham Treadwell Svd. insurance agent, 4
Montana
terrace
Bridge dairy
M ill house
Esther (Mrs.), cowkeeper,
D iibv Chas. head gardener to L. F Vince
Hollands Mrs. Bankside
K n igh t’s bridge
Bax<j n 'lo lo esq . J.P. P-d" Hill cott
Kent Miscf-s. Chapel farm
W
illiams
Lnrd. cowkpr.Aldern bridge
Deacon Chas. shopkeeper,Boundary rd
K in g Orlando James, Pigeons farm
G R O V E is a civil parish, formed .August, 1832, out of
that of Wantage, h**lf a mile from Wantage Road sta­
tion on the G reat Western railw ay, and about
north
from WTantage, and a branch of the river Ock passes
through : it is in the Northern division of the county,

W tv sessional division, union and county court district
■
f Wantage, Tural deanery of W antage, archdeaconry
if Berks and diocese of Oxford.
The ecclesiastical
parish was formed May 12, 1835. The church of St.
James the G reat, formerly a small and plain building.