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CLAPCOT.

B E R K S H IR E .

[KE LLY’S

M.P. of Basildon Park. Tlie land, both arable and Letters through W allingford. W allingford, 2 miles dis­
meadow, is very good. T he soil is green san d; sub­
tant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office
soil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley Wall Letter Box, Shillingford Bridge hotel, cleared at
and roots. The area is 856 acres of land and 20 of
7.30 & 10.45 a m - & *-30 & 7-20 p.m. ; Sundays,
w a ter; rateable value, ¿ 1 ,6 1 3 ; the population in 1001
12.5 p.m
was 108.
Faber George Denison C .B ., M.P.
CO M M E R C IA L.
modation for private fam ilies &
Rush c o u r t; & 14 Grosvenor sq. Davies George W. farmer, Park farm
tourists
W ; & Carlton & United University Pritchard George, land steward to Wallingford
& Crowmarsh
Joint
clubs S W , London
George Denison Faber esq. C .B .,
Hospital (Edwin Charles W alter
Hedges Misses, W allingford castle
M.P. The Severalls
M .K C .S .E n g .,
L .R .C .P.L ond.
Honeybone W illiam , River view
Reynolds A lfred Fryer, Shillingford
m edical officer ; Miss Stock,matron)
Wilson Fleetwood, Beau Regard
Bridge h o te l; first class accomC L E W E B W I T H O U T , anciently Clevvorth, is a v il­ work of the house is carried on by Sisters of Mercy,
lage and scattered parish, 1 m ile west from Windsor, 6 ladies devoting themselves to it of free service and
miles south-east from Maidenhead and 23 from London, dwelling in the same house with the penitents who are
situated on the banks of the 'lham es, in the Eastern under their c a re ; the institution is endowed with an
division of the county, hundred of Ripplesmere, petty estate of 26 acres, but is dependent for its support on
sessional division, union and county court district of the contributions of the sisters and voluntary benefac­
Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of tions of friends ; the m anagement of the funds is under
Berks and diocese of Oxford. The parish was in 1894, the control of a council composed of clergymen and lay­
under the provisions of section 1 of the “ Local Govern­ men : in 1875 a new wing was opened to the south of
m ent Act, 1894” (56 & 57 Viet. c. 73), divided into two, the main building for 33 penitents, called “ Magdalens,”
Clew er Within and W ithout, the former being th at part in addition to the 80 above mentioned ; the Rev. Row­
of the old parish in Windsor municipal borough. The land Palmer Quilter B.A. arid the Rev. Lewis Hermann
parish church of St. Andrew is a building of flint and Tiarks M.A. are chaplain-priests in connection with the
rubble, chiefly in the Early Norman style, consisting of works of the sisterhood : the House of Mercy is also the
chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and a head quarters of the Community of St. John the Bap­
western tower with broach shingled spire containing 6 tist, a sisterhood maintaining works of various kinds in
b e lls : the nave and tower are Norman, but have England and in India and with an affiliated branch in
Decorated and Perpendicular w indow s; in the church is the United States : the warden of the House of Mercy is
a tablet to Field-Marshal W illiam , 3rd E arl Harcourt the warden general of this community. The institutions
G .C .B . who died June 17, 1830. In the lady chapel is following are also under the care and management of the
a brass, with six verses to Martin Expence, who “ shott Clewer Sisters, viz. : St. Andrew’s Convalescent Hospital,
with 100 men himselfe alone, at ould feild at B r a y ;” on for invalids of both sexes, besides a few incurable cases,
the chancel floor is a brass to L ucy, daughter o f Sir and containing 65 beds ; St. John’s Home, an Orphan­
W illiam W ray bart. and wife of John Hobson, gent. ob. age and Industrial Training School for 68 children, under
29 May, 1657, anc* there are two modern brasses to a sister-in-charge ; St. Andrew's cottages, a temporary
Em m a Charlotte, daughter of Adm iral Sir Edward Cod- home and house of rest for ladies of small means, not
rington, d. May 13, 1863, and to Maria Elizabeth, her in valid s; almshouses for 1? poor la d ies; and St.
sister, d. March 18, 1865 ; and inscribed slabs to the Augustine’s Home, fur 70 boys, under a sister-in-charge.
wife and daughter of John Lovell, 1635-91, and to John The principal seats include— St. Leonard’s Hill, formerly
Ewen, ob. December 12, 1694, and Elizabeth his wife, ob. called Gloucester Lodge, the seat of the Dowager Lady
December 9, 1694 ; there is a fine marble reredos and a Barry, is a noble stone mansion in the French G othic
handsome fo n t; all the windows are sta in ed ; the church style, from designs by Mr. C. H. Howell, architect, a
was restored in 1858, and in 1884 the spire and lady great portion of which was rebuilt in 1876 on the site of the
chapel were restored, at a cost of ¿6 0 0 ; there are former house erected by Maria, Countess of Waldegrave,
about 370 s ittin g s ; the churchyard is remarkable for afterwards Duchess of Gloucester, and for many years
its quiet and secluded beauty and the care with the residence of the Harcourt fa m ily ; the house stands
which it is ten d ed ; within it rest the remains of not a on an eminence in a well timbered park of 200 acres and
few soldiers, and many of the imm ediate retainers of commands some of the finest scenery in the county,
the Royal Household, among whom may be named the overlooking Windsor Park and Castle ; from the top of
late Sir Thomas M. Biddulph K .C .B . keeper of the Privy the W ater Tower, said to stand on the site of a Roman
Purse to Her late M ajesty Queen Victoria, who died in encampment, several counties can be seen ; a Roman
1878; in summer the whole ground is radiant with lamp found here, and presented by Sir Hans Sloane to
flowers, and is the resort of many passing pilgrims. the Society of Antiquaries of London, has been adopted
The register dates from the year 1650. The livin g is a by that learned body as a c r e s t: St. Leonards is the
rectory, net yearly value ¿300. including 22 acres of seat of Col. Sir Theodore Francis Brinckman bart. C.B . ;
glebe and residence, in the gift of Eton College, and Clewer Manor of Edmund B. Foster esq. D .L ., J.P. ;
held since 1900 by the Rev. A rthur Thomas Carnsew Clewer Park of Mrs. M oss-Cockle; the Willows of the
Cowie M .A. of Oriel College, Oxford. St. Agnes’ church, Dowager Duchess of Su th erlan d ; and St. Leonard’s
at Spital, a chapel of ease to the parish church, is a Lodge of Lady Dalton Fitzgerald. Arthur Stovell esq
structure of brick, consisting of chancel and nave, and who is lord of the manor. Sir E. A. Barry bart. E. B
will seat 150 persons.
Foster esq. Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch bart. Col.
Charles Rivers Bulkeley, of W hitchurch, Salop ; Arthur
DEDW ORTH is a hamlet of Clewer.
A ll Saints’ Lawford Wigan esq. of Forest P ark; John Edmund Vidler
church, a chapel of ease to the parish church, is an esq. ; the Council of the House of Mercy, and Mrs.
edifice of red brick, erected in memory of Mrs. Tudor, Moss-Cockle, of Clewer Park, are the chief landowners.
at the sole cost of her family, and consists of chancel, The soil is clay and g ra v e l; subsoil, various. The chief
nave of four bays, south aisle and north porch ; all the crops are wheat, barley and peas. The area of Clewer
windows are sta in ed ; there are 200 sittings. Here is W ithout is 1,854 acres of land and 46 of wateT; rate­
also a Congregational chapel, with 50 sittings. The able value, ¿26,824; the population in 1891 was 5,620,
area is 347 acres, and the population is included with and in 1901 was 6,171 in the civil and 3,839 in the
Clewer. The . chapel of St. John the Baptist, opened in ecclesiastical parish, including 113 in St. Andrew’s Con­
October, 1881, is a building in the Early English style, valescent Hospital.
consisting of chancel, nave and aisles; the chancel is
Assistant Overseer and Clerk to the Parish Council,
separated from the nave by a carved oak screen, with
Frederick John Boucher (resides at Windsor)
brass g a te s ; the whole of the windows are stained. The
Parish
Clerk, Richard Ackerman.
Parish Hall, erected in 1893, on a site given by the late
Sexton, John Copas.
S ir H enry Daniel Gooch bart. is used for public m eet­
ings and entertainments.
County Police Station (erected in 1879), New road ,
The W indsor races are held in this parish on a
Edmund Holding, superintendent; 2 inspectors; 2
meadow called “ The R a y s ” adjoining the river Thames.
sergean ts; 21 constables
There are charities of ¿ 5 3 yearly for distribution in
money and kind, and ¿2 2 10s. for apprenticing. A Post, M. 0 . & T. Office, Clewer Green.— Benjamin
Fuller, sub-postmaster. Open from 8 a m . to 8 p.m.
Church penitentiary, called the House of Mercy, was
week days & from 8.30 to 10 a.m. on Sundays, for
founded in th is parish in 1849 and was subsequently
telegraph business & for sale of stamps.
Letters
enlarged ; about 80 penitents are maintained here ; the
arrive from Windsor at 6, 9 & 10 a.m. & 12 noon & 5
bishop of the diocese is visitor ; the spiritual superin­
&
745
p
.m
.;
dispatched
at
8.15
&
10.15
a.m
.
& 1.25,
tendence is entrusted to clergymen of the Church of
3.15, 7.25 & 8.55 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 6 a.m. ;
England, viz. the Rev. G. S. Cuthbert M.A. warden and
dispatched at 8.20 a.m. & 6.20 p.m
the Rev. Gerald J. Foster M.A. sub-warden; the internal