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DIRECTORY. 1

B E K IO H 1 K E .

EAST HENDRED.

95

residence, in the g ift of Mrs. Webster, of Fairlawn, Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Miss E liza Alin H utchings,
and held since 1906 by the Rev. H arry Crowther,
sub-postm istress. Letters ariive from Steventon,
of St. Aidan's.
Here is a Wesleyan Methodist
B erks; deliveries, 6.50 a.m . & 2.15 p .m .; S u n d a y s ,
chapel.
The parish cemetery is situated near the
6.45
a .m .; dispatched at 11.15 a-m - & 6.50 p .m .;
late National school. Here are almshouses for six poor
Sundays, 9.10 a m
widows and other charities amounting to about £200 ¡1
Wall L etter Box, near the Police station, hours of col­
year. W. Paine esq. of Chertsey, is lord of the manor
lection, 11.20 a.m. & 6.55 p .m .; Sundays, 9.15 a.m
and the President and Fellows of Magdalen College.
Elementary
School (m ixed), erected in 1695, for 187
Oxford, and the trustees of the late Mr. John Lay are
ch ild ren ; average attendance, 125; Charles Fuller,
the principal landowners. The soil is loam and chalk :
m aster; Mrs. Pryor & Mrs. B. Townsend, assistant
subsoil, chiefly chalk. The chief crops are wheal,
m istresses; Mrs. Fuller, infants’ mistress
barley, oats and roots. The area is 2,521 acres; rate­
able value, £6,740; the population in 1911 was 663.
Carriers.— John Barber, to Abingdon, daily ; Miss Daisy
Parish Clerk and Sexton, Walter Hitchman.
Tilby, to Abingdon, mon. wed. fri. & sat
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Bouchier Wyndyard
Chown Mark
Crowther Rev. Harry (vicar),Vieurge
Day Joseph, The Beeches
Day Miss, The Chestnuts
Dearlove Miss, K in g’s lane
Greive Bertrand James Webster
Harris Young, Church lane
Hine Elijah
Lay Mrs. John
Ferry Mrs
Reid Donald, Pillar hous ■
Rice Richard
Tame Mrs. E. L
Thomas Dennis Keat
Tyrrell Frank
Tyrrell Misses
Webster Mrs. Fairia-wn
Wood Mrs
W right Mrs. K in g’s lane
COMMERCIAL

Barber
Bobart
Bosley
Bosley

John, carrier
Robert, farm er, Homelea
Alfred Reid, farmer
Ernest Mark, butcher

Bosley Frank, haulier
Lay John (exors. of), farmers & land­
Bosley Win. J.sph. frinr. K ing's farn
owners, Princes Manor farm
d a r k William, Crown inn
Lay Joseph,farm er,Bishop’s Manor fm
Cooper Edward, farmer. Folly farm
Powell Charlotte Alice (M rs.), apart­
Darmndy John, Crispin inn
m ents, Sunnvside
Day Elizabeth (M rs.), fanner, Win- Pryor Frank, coal dealer & fruiterer
terbrook house
Pryor John Edw. grocer & draper
Day George, farmer
Rice Richard M .R .C .S.E n g., L.S.A .
Day Isaac, Chequers inn, & farmer
surgeon, m edical officer & public
Day W illiam , farmer
! vaccinator, for Blewburv district,
D 111.is William, blacksm ith
W antage union & medical officer to
Edwards & Son, drapers
Post Office
Froud Elond, boot maker
Saundeis Francis, cattle dealer
Fuller Charles, assistant overseer
Sm ith Albert Edward, grocer & baker
Gardner George, butcher
Summersbv Tom, W hite H art P.H
Greenwood John S. C. brewer
Thomas Dennis, butcher
Hanson W illiam , veterinary surgeon
Thorne Frank, A lm s House farm
Harris George, bricklayer
Tilby Daisy (M iss), carrier
Hitchman VineentR.jobbing carpenter jTilby Frank, coal merchant
Hitchman W alter, carpenter, wheel- Tilby James, carpenter
wright, undertaker & smith
,Townsend Bertram , farmer
Hutchings Eliza Ann (Miss), grocer, Turner Sarah (Miss), dress maker
Post office
Tyrrell Henry, farmer
James Henry, cab proprietor
W hite Wm. saddler & harness maker
! James John, baker & grcc^r
Williams William H. beer retailer
j Keat Esther (Mrs ), grocer & baker W right Samuel, butcher

H A T F O R D is a village and parish 3^ miles souib- Thomas Chaucer, a son of the poet, who also held the
east-by-east from Faringdon, 3J north-east from the m an or: the south doorway of the nave is a fine example
Challow station on the Great Western railway, 6 south of Norman work. The register dates from the year
from Bampton and 7 north-west from W antage, in the 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £170,
Northern division of the county, Ganfield hundred. including 52 acres of glebe, w'ith r^ldence, in the gift
Faringdon petty sessional division, union and county of Simeon’s trustees, and held s i y e 1897 by the Rev.
court district, rural deanery of the Vale of W hite Davirl Alfred D uidney M.A. of Tsfnity College, Dublin.
Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. Mr. Henry H. Baylis is the pri/cipal landowner. The
The church of the Holy Trinity, erected in 1873-4. at soil is principally a coral rag) subsoil, clay, sand,
gravel and stone. The chief frops are wheat, barle^
a .cost of £ 3 .7 0 0 . by the R p v . Samuel Paynter M.A.
of Nice, then patron, and consecrated May 7, 1874, is and turnips. The area is 999 a c r e s ; rateable value.
an edifice of stone in the Earlv English style, consisting £778 ; the population in 1901 was 93.
Sexton, W illiam Russ.
of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled
tower at the south-west angle containing a clock and Letters from Faringdon by foot post arrive at 8 a.m.
The nearest money order office & telegraph office is
4 bells: there are 120 sittings. The ancient church of
at Stanford-in-the-Vale, about 1 m ile distant. Wall
St. George, a structure of the Norman period, and
Letter Box, cleared at 8.5 a.m. & 3.5 & 5.55 p.m . ;
still standing, contains a tomb supposed to be th at of
no collection on sundav.s
Sir Robert de Hatford, the reputed founder of the
church, who w'as lord of the manor in the reign of Henry Elementary School (m ixed), erected 1862. for 66 child­
ren ; average attendance. 26; Mrs. W heeler, m istress
II I.; others, however, believe it to be the tomb of
Doudnev Rev. David Alfred M.A IBaylis Henry H. farmer, Manor house jFuller James, beer retailer
(rector), Rectorv
E A S T H E N B R E D is a parish on the road from register dates from the year 1537. The livin g is a
Wantage to Reading, 2 miles south from Steventon rectory, net income £°7<, including 50 acres of glebe,
station on the Great Western railway, 4 east from with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and
Wantage, in the Northern division of the county, held since 1907 bv the Rev. Oe-ul Hope G ill M.A. of
hundred, petty sessional division, union and countv Jesus College, Cambridge. St. Mary’s Catholic church,
court district of W antage and in the rural deanery of erected in 1865, is a building of stone in the Decorated
style and will seat about 200 persons. There is also
Wantage, archdeaconry nf Berks and diocese of Oxford
The church of St Augustine of Canterbury is a build­ a Prim itive Methodist chapel. This village was once
ing of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of eight bays, a populous and thriving m arket town and one of the
aisles and an em battled western tower, with open seats of the cloth manufacture, and bv a charter of
quatrefniled parapet and pinnacles, containing 6 very Henry VI. enjoved various privileges. It is very p ic­
The
fine bells, rehung in 1889, and a clock dated 1525, with ture-que and is a 'avo u n te resort of artists.
quarter chimes, and remarkable *or its livmn tune stewardship of the K ing's Manor in this parish is a
lilaynd every three houvs : a striking feature of the nominal office, in the gift of the Chancellor of the
interior is an arcade of slpnder pm^s without arches Exchequer, and is one of th e offices which m ay be
separating the two south ai les, o? which the eastern­ accepted for the purpose of vacating a seat in the
most pier is original; the En*Jv English piers are also House of Commons. Here is an old wavside Carthusian
notable ; there is also a canopied rood loft and a lectern monastery chapel, known as the Chapel of Jesus of
of the
centu”v, and a fine Jacobean p u lp it: in Bethlehem, with priest’s chamber and dwelling house
the church are brasses to H^nrv Eldvsley and his attached, dating from the 15th centurv, with adjacent
brother Roger E 1^- lev. both merchants. T4.09. with monastic buildings on the oppos-'te cide of the road.
one effi-rv; to John E vston, t cqo. with his effiov From an entry in the Churchwardens’ book, dated 22nd
in armour. Jane (Burington or Bnrton) his wife, and April 1682, it appeals that Catherine Spicer bad
3 cbildmn and an inscrmtion of t o verses; and nn° delivered into the hands o f one of the churchwardens for
with inscription onlv to W iliam W hitwcv. cloth’er and that vear i~6, to be received to the world’s end, for the
wonlman. t/i'zo: a new organ was provided at C h rist­ preachment of a sermon ; and £6 to the poor of this
mas, tqo2. at a cost of /'tc-z: the church was enlarged parish, to be given in h ’-ead bv the churchwardens to
and restored in 1861 and affords 405 sittings. The i the poor present after the sermon is ended, upon Holy