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KINGSTON LISL E.

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Dymond Mary Jane (M rs.), farmer Homer W illiam Thomas, shopkeeper. Rolfe Henry, basket ma. Lower Green
Rolfe W illiam , basket maker
Upper Green
Edwards James & Sons, builders
Lawrence Albert Arnold, farmer. Taylor Edwin, cattle dealer
Faulknor Arthur, nurseryman
W alters James W illiam ,
farm er,
Church
farm
Fox W illiam, bricklayer,Lower Green
Saddler’s farm
Froome Francis, farmer, Broadlands Lawrence Richd. farm er, Manor frm
Ward
Bros
grocers,
Great
Common
Osborne Wm. Edw d.frm r.U pper Grn
Froome John, farmer, North croft
Watts Hy. carpenter, G t. Common
Hvrcomb Charles, wheelwright, The Palm er Charles, blacksmith
W rig ht Oliver, cowlceeper
Rogers Edward, beer retailer
Hollies
Rolfe Ernest Oswald, carrier
K E N N I N G T O N is a small village, and was formed a vicarage, net yearly value £170, in the g ift of A ll
into an ecclesiastical parish 16 Feb. 1866, out of the Souls College, Oxford, and held since 1904 by the Rev.
parishes of Radley and Sunningw ell; it is separated Charles Boxall Longland M.A. of W orcester College,
from Oxfordshire by the river Isis and is on the high Oxford, who is also vicar of Radley, where he resides.
road from Oxford to Abingdon, 2 miles south from Edgar Norton Disney esq. of Ingatestone, Essex, is
the former, 4 north from Abingdon and 2 miles north lord of the manor and chief landowner. Egrove Farm ,
from the Radley station on the Birm ingham and by Local Governm ent Board Order 18,177, has been
Oxford branch of the G reat W estern railway, in the transferred from Radley. The soil is principally stone
Northern division of the county, hundred of Hormer, brash, resting on the limestone. The crops are grain
petty sessional division, union and county court dis­ in succession. The area is 430 a c re s ; the population
trict of Abingdon and in the rural deanery of Abing­ in 1901 was 151.
Parish Clerk, William Earl.
don, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford; the
Thame branch of the Great Western railway crosses Letters arrive through Oxford, 8.15 a m. & 3 -3° P - m .
which
is the nearest money order & telegraph office
the river here over a bridge of three arches. The
church of St. Swithin, built and consecrated in 1828, Wall L etter Box is cleared at 10.55 a m - & 6.20 p.m . &
S u n d a y s at 9 55 a.m
is a small edifice of stone in the Norman style, con­
sisting of nave and a western bell-cot containing one Elem entary School, built in 1876, & rebuilt in 1890, at
a cost of over £200, for 36 children ; average attend­
bell and has been renovated: there are 80 sittings.
ance, 27; Mrs. King, certificated mistress
The living is
The register dates from the year if
King Jas. Francis,farm er,Egrove frm
Cripps A rthur Frederick, Fairfields
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
L i..
Go >rge Herbt. M.D.. M.R.O.P. Lillev G? Tire Herbt. M D . M R.C.P^
Edin., M .R .C .S.E n g. Nettleham
Nettleham
Arnold George, River view
Mundy Elizabeth Catherine (M rs.),
BroohS W alter Tyrrell M .A., M.B. Phillips Harry, Ingleside
farmer. Manor House farm
Bagley wood
CO M M ER CIA L.
Oxford University Golf Club (J. W.
Charlton George. Woodlands
Gynes, sec)
Allen Thomas, carrier
Chat-well Archer Wm. Bagley wood
Slay Mary (Miss), laundress
Collier W illiam M .A.. M.D., F .R .C.P. Cox Thomas, laundry
Walker Alfred, The Tandem P.H
Faulkner Alfred James, builder
Loud. Bagley wood
K IL N

G R E E N , see wargrave.
New Bridge, in this parish (which derives its name
from the bridge there over the Isis), the Parlia­
mentary army was repulsed by the K in g’s forces
whilst attem pting to cross, on the 27th May,
1644;
bridge itself is one of the oldest on the
river, and has six narrow and acutely pointed flat
arches, divided by angular buttresses, and the para­
pet, which rises to a point in the centre, has niches in
which foot passengers may take refuge from passing
vehicles; hard by is an old and picturesque inn, called
“ The M aybush.” The manor was held from 1542 to
about 1670 by the Lattons, previously of Upton and
Chilton, but in or about the latter year John Latton,
of Kingston, who had married Lsetitia, daughter of
Sir Robert Pve, of Faringdon, knight, sold the
Kingston estate and removed to Esher, in Surrey.
Kingston House, the property of Col. John Blandy Jenkins, of Llanharan House, Pontyclun, G lam organ­
shire, lord of the manor and chief landowner, is a
mansion of red brick, said to have been designed by
Inio-o Jo n es: it has an avenue of trees leading to the
[ principal entrance, and is now occupied by Edward
a oil,onw Qtronco
fvT P
I hp soil is stone brash,
hrasn.
Anthony
Strauss oc/t
esq. M
P. The
black loam, sandy and c la y ; subsoil, sand and lim e­
stone. The chief crops are clover and a succession of
grain. The area is 1,109 acres;
rateable value,
£ 1,2 5 7; and the population in 1901 was 186
Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— James Jefferies, s u b - p o s t ­
master. Letters arrive from Abingdon at 8 a.m . &
150 p.m. ; dispatched at 3.15 & 6.15 p .m .; S u n d a y s ,

K I N G S T O N B A G P T J I Z E is a parish extending
northwards to the Isis, which separates it from Oxford­
shire, and is on the road from Abingdon to Faringdon,
6 miles west from Abingdon, 9 miles from Oxford, and
5 miles from Wantage Road station
on the Great
Western railway, in the Northern division of the
county, hundred of Ock, petty sessional division, union
and county court district of Abingdon, rural deanery
of Abingdon,
archdeaconry of Berks
and diocese of
Oxford, and derives its name from the land having
been bestowed by W illiam the Norman on Sir Richard
Bagpuze, one of his followers. The church of St. John
the Baptist, rebuilt in 1799, is a small edifice of stone
in the Italian style, consisting of chancel and nave,
west porch and a western turret containing 2 bells:
the interior was entirely remodelled in r-882, the
galleries and high pews removed, the interior reseated
with oak benches, new floors laid, and a proper chancel
formed, furnished with a communion table and oak
choir stalls, and in 1883 the walls were decorated in
colour: all the work was executed under the direction
of M r.'E dw in Dolby] architect, of Abingdon: there are
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i£o sittings. The register dates from the year 1538.
The living is a rectory, net yearly value, including 25
acres of glebe, £235, with residence, in the g ift of the
President and Fellows of St. John’s College, Oxford,
and held since 1891 by tbe Rev. John Howard SweetEscott M.A. form erly scholar at that college. There
is a Wesleyan chapel at South Moor. I h e poor’ s land
of 8 acres produces £ 12 yearly, and money in the
funds produces / " i 7 yearly: both sums are distributed
in goods, at the discretion of the recipients. The
kennels of the Old Berkshire Hunt are in this parish,
Louis Paine esq. m aster; the pack hunts on Mondays,
Wednesdays and F rid a ys; Faringdon, Shrivenham and
Wantage are convenient places for hunting visitors. At

i -5 P - m
! Elem entary School ¿m ixed), endowed m 1738, fc ju b s e
quently by John Blandy esq. &• his son, John Blandy,
jun. esq. with an income of about £ 2 5 yea rly; t h e
school will hold 95 ch ild ren ; average attendance, 65;
Frederick George Lane, m aster
Ricketts W illiam , carpenter
CO M M ERCIAL
P R IV A T E R E SID E N T S .
1 Sotham Percival, farm er,Rim es farm
Ballard Charles, blacksmith
Strauss Edward Anthony M.P. King- Farm er William, huntsman, Old Taylor James, baker & grocer
Wigmore Alfred. Hind’s Head P.H
st-on house; & 49 G rosvem r square
Berkshire foxhounds
W & National Liberal club S W A P . r X T f i u r farmer, Kingston Hill Woodbridge W illiam , saddler
& Race farms
; Woodward Herbert C. S.. M .A., M .B.,
Bath club W, London
B.C.Cantab, m edical officer & pubSweet-Escott Rev. John Howard M.A Haines Marv (Mrs.), Maybush P.H.
New
br:d"e
lie vaccinator No. 3 dictrict, Abing(rector), Rectory
Tefferies James, Post office
don union
Treadwell Mrs
Woodward H erbert Croker Spirling Lucking* J,,hn- stud sroom t0 ° ' d i
Berkshire fox hounds
M.A., M .B., B.C.Cantab
K I N G S T O N L I S L E is a township and chapelry from Faringdon and 6 west from Wantage, in th e
with the hamlet of Fawler, in the parish of Sparsholt, Northern division of the county, S h r iv e n h a m h u n d r e d ,
2it miles south-east from Uffington Junction station on Farincrdon petty sessional division, union a n d c o u n t y
the main line of the Great W estern railway, 6 south court °district, rural deanery of W antage, a r c h d e a c o n r y