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WEST ILS LE Y.

B E R K S H IR E .

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consisting of chancel, nave, of St. John’s College, Oxford. There is a Baptist
n” o „ ! 1Si,e n n0r. t P°rcl1 and a 'Tes‘ e™ tu rret contain- chapel here, erected in 1866. C alibut Downing, of Oriel
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I10rth aisle " as added in ’ 876; on College, Oxford, in 1623, a divine of some eminence
the south side of the chancel is a marble slab inscribed
m the reigns of Charles I. and II. was rector here.
tablet fe
' n ? odcott> d - i8°3 1 and there is a Sir George Downing bart. M .P. an envoy to Holland
ta b let to John Head, d. 1746, and his wife, d. 1756;
during the Protectorate, hitherto regarded as bis eldest
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5 r m em °rials to W illiam Morland, d
son, was in fact the son of Em m anuel Downing, of St
838, M argaret, wife of Thomas Gale, d. F ebruary 7th,
Michael, Cornhill, and of Salem , Mass. U .S.A. as appears
1784, and a brass to Marianne Morland, d. A pril 10th,
from records preserved in the C ourt House at Salem.
1877, to whose m emory the stained east window was
. ere are charities consisting of ¿ 2 a year and 10 loads
also e re c te d ; and 111 the naye is a memorial window
of wood to twenty poor people annually.
The Rev.
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“ orland eS(h P'aced by Lord and Lady Edward Moore, a form er rector, bequeathed £50, the
W antage in 1879: on the north side of the chancel is a
interest to be given annually to the poor. Lady W antage
brass recording the opening of a new north aisle A ugust
9th, 1876; and of the chancel July 20th. 1873 (when a is lady of the manor and chief landowner. * The soil
is chalk ; subsoil, chalk, and in some places, clay. The
d e l a t i o n stone was laid by H E H. Princess Christian
crops are oats, wheat and barley. The area is 3,036
of Schlesw ig-H olstein); the restoration of the church,
rateable value, ¿£1,575; the population in 1901
completed in 1881, was carried out under the super­ acres;
was 276.
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intendence of Mr. Edwin Dolby, architect, of AbineSexton, W illiam Day.
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ln , l8W tbe ohancel was partially restored and
Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Miss A m y Elizabeth Eagles,
a tn f.l ™ f r St "
a; sle has also boen ro-Aoored, at
sub-postmistress. Letters through Newbury arrive at
cost of about £100 : there are now s i t t i n g s for
8.25 a.m . & 4.5 p .m .; dispatched at 10.io a.m . &
230 p erson s; on the north side of the churchyard is a
5.20 p .m .; Sundays, arrive at 8.25 a .m .; dispatched
memorial to Thomas Wise, for m any je a rs v e r g e r 'o f
at 9.30 a.m
Anril X
»C5 apC • *} Wfindsor Castle- " h0 d» d 5 th
f a J0mb of g ranite, inscribed to George Elem entary School (boys & girls), erected in 1870, for
Bowes Morland of Abingdon, d. June 1. ,878. The
93 ch ild ren ; altered in 1909, to accommodate 75;
register dates from the year 1358. The living i s a
average attendance, 62;
Ernest George Andrews,
m aster
s if t o 7 th e <!Tl5'eariy4Vn ae £ l3 5 ' with residence, 'in 'the
g ift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held since
Carrier.— Ernest Barlow, Newbury, tues. & th u r s .;
1S99 by the Hey. Edward Alexander McConnell M.A.
Abingdon, m o n .; W antage, sat
P R IV A T E

R E S ID E N T S .

C O M M ER CIA L.

Barling Frank Bonnor, Hodcott ho
H um phery Frank W ., M.D. West
Ilsley house
H nm phery Miss, W est Ilsley house
Lubbock Hon. Mrs. Bowles house
McConnell L , va
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Alexander
M.A. (rector), Rectory

Barling Frank Bonnor, trainer. Hodcot-fc house
Barlow Ernest, carrier
Bushell James, Harr aw inn
Cleverley
Francis, blacksmith
B
e v erley Prancis,
Co-operative Stores (Edwin Hussey.
m anager), grocers

I H K P E H is a parish on the borders of W iltshire, 4
miles south-east-by-south from Hnngerford and 3 south
from K m tbury station on the Beading and Hnngerford
branch of the Great W estern railw ay, in the Southern
division of the county, hundred of Kintbury-Eaole
p etty sessional diylsion and county court district” of
Hungerford, H ungerford and Ram sbnry union, rural
deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks and dio­
cese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael is a small
but ancient structure of flint and stone in the Early
English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel',
nave, south porch and a low western tower carried 011
four piers of oak and containing 3 b e lls : it contains
tablets to the fam ily of Brickenden, who built the rec­
tory and restored the ch n rch : there are also memorials
to the Butlers, including one to Capt. Thomas Butler
R.N . lost on board the “ Scarb orough ” during a hurricane in the West Indies, in 1780: the church was
extensively repaired and restored in 1896, under the
direction of Mr. C. C. Rolfe, architect, of Oxford, when
an oak chancel screen with rood was erected and an
altar table of carved and gilded oak p resented : the
porch is a memorial to the Rev. John B utler M.A
rector, 1838-95, and has a carving in low relief of
“ The Entom bm ent,” from a picture by Taddeo G a d d i:
there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the
year 1545. The living is a rectory, net yearly value
£ 34 °» with 12 acres of glebe, with residence, in the
g ift of and held since 1895 bv the Rev. H enry Dobree
B utler B.A. of Trinity College, Oxford. There is a
Prim itive Methodist chapel, built in i860, and a
W esleyan chapel with a Sunday school. The interest
on Baster’s charity of £200 and Mrs. Harriet Butler's
ch arity of £300, is distributed yearly, in such propor­
tion as the trustees think proper, to the poor of the
parish of Inkpen. In this parish rises the river Auborn,
which runs in an eastward direction till it reaches
Hid? End. in Brirapton parish, then, bending north­
w ard, takes an oblique line between Brim pton and
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Barnes A lbert Henry, Maymead
Bridgem an W alter, Rose cottage
Buckeridge Elias, Mistletoe cottage
Buckeridgo Miss. The Follv
Butler Rev. Hy. Dobree B.A. Rectory
Earner George, Vine cottage
Hercomb Miss, W est view
Lawless H arry Jam es, Bay cottage
Osborne Mr«
Peto Basil Edward, K irby house
Scott Mrs. Fox hill

Carry Edward Henry, farm bailiff to
Lady W antage, Manor farm
Eagles Joseph, grocer
Huzzey Ed«in & Son, farmers.Rowles
farm
Jones W illiam , farm bailiff to F. B.
Barling esq
Newton Edwin, beer retailer
Wells Robert, carpenter

W asmg and falls into the Kennet a little below Wasmg, form ing, through its course of about 17 miles,
the boundary between this county and Hampshire.
W albury Camp, the highest point of which is ju st
outside the parish boundary of Inkpen, is the highest
point of the chalk range in the south of England, being
959 feet high. Kirby House, the property and resi­
dence of B. E. Peto esq. belonged at one tim e to
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Thomas Brickenden, who was Reader of G ray’s Inn,
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and Judge of the Lord Mayor’s court, who died in
1664: about 1770 it passed by purchase to the Frankland Russells, and subsequently to the Butler family.
The Earl of Craven is lord of the manor and
Humphrey Jeffrey W alm esley esq. J.P. of Inglewood
House, Kintburv, W. D. Brown esq. and B. E. Peto
I esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is m ixed,
' light and h eavy; subsoil, clay and loam. The chief
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crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area
' is 2,853 acres of land and 3 of w ater; rateable value,
£2,729; the population in 1901 was 658.
Sexton, James Rolfe.
Post & T. Office.— Miss Rachel Homer, sub-postmistress.
Letters arrive from Hungerford at 7.30 a.m . & 3.15
p.m. ; Sundays, 8.35 a.m. ; dispatched at 10.30 a.m.
& 5 35 p m . ; Sundays, n . 15 a.m. Wall Letter Box
at Lower Green, cleared at 10.45 a m - & 3.30 & 5.15
p.m . ; 011 Sundays, at 10.55 a.m. K intbury, 3 miles
distant, is the nearest money order office
Elem entary School (m ixed), built in 1877, for 180
children ; altered in 1909. to accommodate 173 ; aver­
age attendance, 112; William James, m aster; Mrs.
James, infants' mistress
Police Constable, John Heater
Carriers t o : —•
Newbury— Alfred L e w , from Shalbourn, passes through
thurs ; W illiam Rolfe & Ernest Oswald Rolfe, thurs
Hungerford— Ernest Oswald Rolfe, sat. & Willia’m Rolfe,
w e l. & sat

Weston Arthur Francis
Totterdown house

Anderdon, Black Amos, horse dealer
Brown Frank, farm bailiff to B. E.
Peto esq. Kirby farm
C O M M ER CIA L.
Buckeridge David, farm er & potter
Abraham Charles, shoe m aker
Collins Frederick Charles, watch
Allen Anthony Thomas, Swan P H
m aker & assistant overseer & col­
Lower Green
lector of rates & taxes for Inkpen
Annetts Charles, farmer
Cooling Albert, farmer, Ham spray
Annetts Reuben, blacksm ith, Lower Cottrell George, head gardener to
Green
Mrs. Gnodhart
Bance A rth ur Tom, beer retailer
Cruse Joseph, Craven Arm s P.H
Banee W illiam , farmei’
Deacon James, boot maker