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L IT T L E W ITTEN H AM .

B E R K S H IR E

Hart«, is now lord of the manor and chief landowner.
6 SMl 15 c!*y and green sand; subsoil, clav and
green sand
The chief crops are wheat, barley and
beans. Tbe parish contains 877 acres, including about
41 acres of glebe land and n of w ater; assessable
value, £ 6 76 ; the population in 1911 was 127.
Parish Clerk, Albert Durbridge.

Bowen Edwin, school house
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K ey Rev. Sir John KingsmiU Causton
c o m m e rc ia l.
hart. M.A. (rector), Rectory
| Cozens Henry W ilm ot, farm er
L O N G W I T T E N H A M is a village and parish on the
river Tham es, 5 miles south-east from Abingdon, 5
north-west from Wallingford, 4 miles north-east from
Didcot station on the Great Western railw ay and about
2 south-east from Culham station, in the Northern divi­
sion of the county, Ock hundred, Abingdon petty ses­
sional division, W allingford union and county court dis­
trict, rural deanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks
and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an
edifice of stone in the Norman, Early English’ Deco­
rated, Late Perpendicular and Elizabethan styles, con­
sisting of chancel, nave of four bays on the south side,
and three on the north, aisles, south porch and an em ­
battled western tower, 75 feet high, and containing 6
bells, re-cast in 1768 : the church was restored and repewed in 1850, the chancel being rebuilt by the rector
and Fellows of E xeter College, Oxford, who are the im ­
propriators of the great tith e : the stained east window,
placed in 1866, is a m em orial to Lieut. James Henry
Clutterbuck, 5th Fusiliers, son of a form er vicar, who
was murdered in Ireland, and in the north aisle are
memorial windows to George Max Lam bert esq. (1892)
and to the Rev. J. C. C lutterbuck M.A. vicar 18301885; the organ was provided about 1879: in the chapel
on the south side is a very curious piscina, with trefoiled arch, the upper part of which is covered by figures
of angels with outspread w in gs; and over this is' another
arch with co rb els: along the chamfered edge in front
of the piscina lies the small cross-legged figure of a
¿knight in mail arm our and cyclas of the 13th' ce n tu ry :
the right hand holds a naked sword, and on the same
arm lies a small sh ie ld : the north aisle also retains a
piscina with a small canopied niche on one side of i t :
the font is of lead, circular in shape, ornamented with
small circles of foliage and a row of figures under
pointed arches, and stands on a massive stone base or
pedestal of Transition Norman d a te : there are 300
sittin gs. The register dates from the year 1561 to 1629;
•from this date to 1726 the registers are missing. The
■living is a vicarage, net yearly value £100, w ith resi­
dence, in the gift of Exeter College. Oxford, and held
since 1903 by the Rev. Thomas Daniel Hopkyns M.A.
of Pembroke College, Oxford. Here is a Prim itive
Methodist chapel. There is a charity of £32 a year, the
rent of 25 acres of land, which is given in coals to the
p r iv a t e

r e s id e n t s .

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Letters through Abingdon arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 1.30
p.m . The nearest money order office is at Long
Wittenham & telegraph office at Dorchester (Oxon),
about
miles distant
Wall L etter Box, cleared at 1 & 6 p.m. ; suns. 9.55 a.m
Elementary School (m ixed), for 50 children ; average
attendance, 38; Mrs. Annie Jane Bowen, d is t r e s s ;
Miss Ethel Bowen, assistant m istress
i Deacon James, shopkeeper
Latham James, farmer

poor. The Talbot Ebsworth gift, left in 1886, amounts
to £ 1 16s. 3d. yearly, and is expended in the keeping
up of the Ebsworth grave, any surplus being given away
in bread at Christm as. In 1893 extensive indications
of Romano-British occupation were discovered here by
Mr. H. J. Hewett and W alter Money esq. F.S.A. of
Newbury, and traces of a still earlier people are met
with in the shape of round huts and circles, in which
flint arrow heads, celts and stone im plem ents have been
found. The fields over which these vestiges and founda­
tions extend comprise about 130 a c re s : the greater part
of the vases, pottery &c. found, and form erly in the pos­
session of Mr. H. J. Hewett, of W illington farm , have
been presented to the Oxford and Reading m useums. In
the village is a fine old cross, restored in 1853, and
supposed to be of Saxon d a te : there is also here an
ancient burial ground of the West Saxons, in which
various remains of that period were discovered. The
Manor House is occupied by Rear-Adm iral William
Robert C lutterbuck J.P. T h e ’ President and Fellows of
St. John’s College, Oxford, are the lords of the manor
and chief landowners. The soil in the southern part
of the parish is the upper green sand, the remainder
gault clay covered with drift gravel, nearly all arable,
bearing chiefly wheat, barley and roots. The area is
2,248 acres of land and 27 of w a te r; assessable value,
£2,556; the population in 1901 was 470.
Parish Clerk, Richard Eason
Post «fc M. 0 . Office.— Aug. James Chambers, subpostmaster. Letters are received through Abingdon,
week days, delivery, 7.20 a.m. & 1 p.m. ; dispatched
at 1.10 & 6.10 p.m . ; sundays, delivered at 8.5 a.m . ;
dispatched at 10.20 a m. Parcels for the same d is­
patch accepted until 1.10 & 6.10 p.m. Clifton Hamp­
den, 1 m ile distant, is the nearest telegraph office
Wall Letter Box, in the Village, collections 1.20 & 6.25
p.m. ; sundays, 10.15 a m
Elem entary School (mixed & infants), built in 1856,
accommodating now 108 ch ildren ; average attend­
ance, 84; Alfred L. Glasson, m a s te r; Mrs. Alice Day,
m istress; Miss Pead, assistant mistress
Carriers.— A rthur W inter, mon. wed. thurs. & sat. to
& from the ‘ Old Bell,’ at Abingdon & Thomas Hollo­
way, tues. & fri. to Wallingford

c o m m e r c ia l .
Holmes Sophia (M rs.), shopkeeper
Aiinutt Alice (Miss), apartments
H unt Sidney, gardener to RearAvres Henry, gamekeeper to the Rev.
Adm iral Clutterbuck
C. M. Style
Lovegrove Henry,farm bailiff to RearBidmead Chas. Azel,grocer & cycle agt
Adm iral Clutterbuck
Lkamhers
Annie
(Mrs.),
Plough Paxman Frederick Albert, farm°r,
in n ; good accommodation for boatNorth Field farm
ing & fishing parties ; terms Tame Alfred, beer retailer
moderate
Tame Albert & Percy, farmers,
Down farm
Church George, thatcher
Tame Charles, farmer, Peariths farm
Eason Richard, blacksmith
Eason Tom, fam ily baker & meal- Tam e Frederick James, joiner &
m a n ; fam ilies waited on
undertaker
Harris Charles, farmer, Church farm Wake Georee Fredk. Barley Mow P.H
Hewett Henry Joseph, farmer, Wil- Wing Joseph, beer retailer
lington farm
Winter Alfred (Mrs.), apartments,
Hewett James, wheelwright
Grape Vine cottage
Hewett Stephen P. farmer
W hittenham Co-operative Stores, &
post office
Hitchman Frances E. (Mrs.), apartments, Iv v Meath
W O K E F I E L D , see Stratfield Mortimer.

A llnutt Albert A ugustus, Laurel bank
Black Mrs. River close
Bodkin Archibald Hnnry, Street ho
Bush Miss, Ivy Meath
iClutterbuck Rear-Adm iral W illiam
Robert J.P. Manor house
C lutterbuck Mrs. Manor house
Dawber E Guy
Day Mrs. Fair View villa
Deacon Mrs. Cross ways
Dickson James Hector
Facy Samuel
H allett Freder.c Greviile, Point close
Hayes W illiam , French’s
H itchm an Josiah, Ivy Meath
Hopkyns Rev. Thomas Daniel M.A.
(vicar), Vicarage

W O K I N G H A M
W OKINGHAM , “ Oakingham,” or “ Ockingham ,” is
a municipal borough, m arket and union town, head of
petty sessional division and parish, 7 miles south-east
from Reading, 14 south-west from Windsor, 11 south­
west from Maidenhead, and 32 from London, and is in
the Eastern division of the county, Reading county
court district, rural deanery of Sonning, archdeaconry
of Berks and diocese of Oxford. A portion of this
parish was included in W iltshire, but by the Acts 2
and 3 W illiam IV. cap. 64, and 7 and 8 Viet. cap. 61

(1844), it was annexed to Berkshire. The Staines and
Wokingham railway, which joins the South Western
line at Staines, gives access to London in one hour and a
half, and the Reading, Guildford and Reigate branch of
the South Eastern knd Chatham line affords easy com­
munication w ith the coast, and, through Reading,
with all the stations on the Great Western railway.
The town occupies an elevated and healthy situation
within the ancient lim its of Windsor Forest, and con­
sists of several irregularly-built streets, m eeting in a