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BUSCOT.

B E R K S H IR E .

Hem m ings Thom as, farm er, Pennyswick farm
H ill Owen, farm er, Manor farm
Hoddinott Francis (M rs.), farmer,
Weston farm
tK ib b le Thomas, farm bailiff to Sir
r Henderson bart. J.P.
Oldfield farm

Maundrell David, farm er, Snowswick farm
Mildenhall Jesse, shopkeeper
Norman Edward, farmer, Lock farm
Norman W illiam , gamekeeper to Sir
A Henderson bart. J.P
Prior Joseph, mason

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Robinson Thomas, blacksmith
Shore George Henry, shopkeeper
Sm ith Geo.W. farmer,Broadleaze frm
W alker Jas. farmer,Buscofc W ick frm
tW illis Oliver, clerk of works to S ir
A, Henderson bart. J.P. Buscot
estate

sca tte ^ d r in a g T a n d ^ a r is h ™ 4 m i ^ n o V t h afromdl\’r d i w A rch®r -HoubIun- an<*held since 1895
by the Bey.
bury, 64 s o u th - b ts o u th “ art
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Howard
M A°f C hri/t Church,
from H erm itage station on the Didrnt wpJi,
. j P x f<->rd > rural dean of Newbury, and a surrogate, who
W inchester railw ay, and c* miles north ea«t fro u / s h e f
V afS° rector °f ’ and_,resi<ies at Brightwalton. John J.
ford station „ „ th e L n l u r n V X v r a ^ f y in th^ 1
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manor and
Southern division of the cou™ y, S r e d I f Com pton !
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Ilslev petty sessional division, union and county court 1 1 ! . “ P, m
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cereals. The area is 710
d istrict of Wantage, rural deanery of Newbury! arch- | “ as 70
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deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The’ church
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Of St. M argaret is a sm all building of Norman date,
ra rish Clerk and Sexton, James Hedges, The Rectory,
consisting of chancel and nave, south porch, and a Letters through W antage, arrive at 9.10 a.m. Wall
tu rret containing one b e ll; there are 100 sittings, all 1 L etter Box cleared at 6.15 p .m .; sunday, 10.50 a.m.
free. The register dates from the year 1724. The
Brightwalton is the nearest money order & telegraph
livin 0
g is a rectory, net yearly
3,3, wwith
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vaiuc¿10
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i t n resiresioffice, 2 miles distant
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d e a c e a n d n acres of glebe, in the g ift of Col. George * Children from here attend school at Brightw alton
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wood dlr.The Bectory .Shem ilt Ernest Edward, bailifl to
I George Baylis esq
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, ? W O K T H is a village and parish, on the J524 5 the chief portion of the existing remains has
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n WantaSe t0 Hungerford. 9 miles north-west been converted into a farm bouse, including what was
from Newbury, 7 south from W antage and 9 south from
form erly the kitchen with an oven and cooking places
Wantage Road station on the G reat W estern main line
and some dormitories over, with lancet-shaped win­
and 3 miles south-east from Shefford station on thd
dows ; in an angle between these and the large
Lambourn Valley Ta.lway, in the Northern division
window over the doorway is the figure of a monk in a
of the county, hundred of K in tbury Eaole, petty
sitting posture, with the head inclined to the left and
sessional division, union and county court district of resting on his h an d s; in 1796 a large heap of earth
W antage, rural deanery of N ewbury, archdeaconry of
at the back of the farm was removed and thrown into
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church of St
pits about the farm and with it some quantities of
Andrew is a building of stone of Norman date, con­
human rem ain s; there are also rem aining the ruins
sistin g of chancel and nave under one roof, south porch
of the chapel, in moving the foundations of which the
and a low western tower containing 3 bells and there
lid of a stone coffin sligh tly bevelled was discovered
is also a Sanctus bell; the upper part of the tower is
with the inscription, “ Hieronimus Robertus, Prior
P erp end icular; at the north side is a square stair
P rim u s” ; this memorial is now at E ast Hendred, b u t
turret, and on the western side is the date 1637, when
the stem and base of the cross upon it are w an tin g;
it was probably repaired; the south doorway is good
during the years 1867-72 other discoveries were made,
Norman work w ith finely-carved chevron ornament,
including a sim ilar lid or slab of Caen stone, also
and on the righ t of the entrance is a stoup-niche; the
bevelled and bearing the full length figure of a priest,
tower arch is in part Norman, but has a Perpendicular
with the hands joined beneath a floriated canopy, sup­
ogee head; the windows are chiefly Norman or
ported by angels, the figure dating from about 1500;
tra n sitio n a l; there is a m em orial window, erected in
in the ruins of the chapel were also found a carved
1904, to Comm ander Cotesworth R.N. and another
corbel of elegant design, a large portion of the arch
presented in 1906 by Mrs. W roughton, in m em ory of
of a doorway, a piscina and fragm ents of a clustered
her youngest son, Christopher C. W roughton- in the
column and encaustic tiles, one of which bore the word
tower is an ancient font, discarded about 1811, when
“ Magdalene” ; twelve quarries from a stained glass
the original Norman font was found and restored; the window in the priory are now in the entrance porch
church contains monuments to the W roughton farmh­
at Prior’s Court, having been removed hither by the
and others to the Nelsons, form erly lords of the m an o r;
late Mr. J. T. Wasey, then lord of the m an or; these
am ong the latter are memorials to M ary Nelson, 1618,
exhibit curious figures of men, women and m onkeys;
and to Dorothy, wife of William Nelson esq. “ cheefe
the well of the monastery is deep and large, but the
prothonotarie of the common pleas,” 1619; the church
water is very poor; hoards of money have been dis­
was restored in 1881 at a cost of ¿582, and an organ covered in the adjoining woods and on the m anor; in
was provided in 1898 at a cost of ¿15 0 : there are 200
1811 m any coins were found in a pit at Field Coppice,
sittings. In the churchyard is an ancient but much
and in 1825 a pot containing 800 coins of the Emperors
dilapidated cross, two oblong monum ents and a flat
Constantine (A.D. 306), Julian (A.D. 361), Gratian
stone with a raised cross thereon. The register, which
(A.D. 367), Valentinian (A.D. 375) and others was
dates from the year 1538, is an uninterrupted record
found by some labourers about 24 yards from the New­
from th at period and in good preservation: it has the
bury road; subsequently a party of gipsies, encamp­
follow ing unique e n t r y T h o m a s Nelson, sone of
ing in M argaret’s Head, discovered there another hoard
Thom as Nelson, Nov. 8, 1644. This was the Thomas
of the reputed value of £300. Th e charities include
Nelson th at fought two dragoons in Hangm an Stone
Saunders’ of £95 a year and a house, which is devoted
lane in the tim e of the Civil Wars, and was never well
to educational purposes and clothing of four poor boys ;
afterw ards ” ; a later entry in Latin records the plant­
Wynne’s of ¿ 1 0 a y e a r ; and Coventry’s of £ 1 . and
in g of a yew tree in the churchyard by H ugh Pocock, there is an allotment of 12 acres, producing £10 yearly,
then vicar, on Feb. 20, 1694; this tree, however, does which sum is distributed in coals. Woolley (W ulvelv)
not now exist. The living is a vicarage, net income of Park, the seat of Philip Musgrave Neeld Wroughton
£ 25°> wifh 17 acres of glebe and residence, in the o*ift esq. contains a handsome mansion situated on a beautiful
of the Dean and Chapter of W estm inster and held slope ; the park is very extensive and well wooded ; the
since 1910 by the Rev. John DougKv~Lord. Here is a deer park extends over an area of 116 acres. Philip M.
Wesleyan chapel. In this parish, about
miles from N. W roughton esq. who is lord of the manor, and W.
the village, once stood the celebrated monastery of L. Lucas esq. are the principal landowners. The soil
Poughlev, founded by Ralph de Chad worth about 1160, is principally chalk ; subsoil, chalk and rock. The
in a wild and secluded spot on the site of a lowly little chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The
herm itage, in a dale hard by a forest side, at a place area is 3,238 a c re s ; ; rateable value, £2,713 ; the
called “ Elm sfordsm ere,” for canons regular of the order population in 1901 was 405.
of St. Augustine and dedicated to St. M argaret; the
Parish Clerk and Sexton, Henry Bailey.
revenues of the priory a little before its suppression
amounted to ¿ 7 1 10s. 7d. ; it was subsequently given. Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Charles Spanswick, post­
23 Henry V III. (1531-2), to the abbot and convent of
m aster. Letters arrive from W antage at 8 a.m. &
W estm inster, in exchange for 100 acres of land (a
2 p.m. ; same on S u n d a y s ; dispatched week davs,
portion of which now forms St. James’s park), con­
3.15
& 5.30 p .m .; Sundays, 10.45 a m
veyed by th at house to the king, having been sur­ Wall L etter Box, Woolley park, cleared 3.40 & 6 p.m. ;
rendered by John Som er, the last prior, Feb. 14th,
Sundays, 11.30 a.m

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