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ARBORFIELD.

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ton Courtenay, 2 m iles distant, is the nearest money
order & telegraph office
Mr. Edmond Bradstock gave a m essuage & 38 acres of
land in fee to found a Free school; the income is now
applied in support of the Elem entary schools here
& at Sutton Courtenay
Post Office.— W illiam John Berry, sub-postmaster.
Elem
entary School (m ixed), built in the 15th century
Letters through A bingdon; deliveries commence at
& enlarged in 1896, for 70 ch ild ren ; average attend­
6.45 a.m. & 2 p.m. for callers; Sundays, 7.20 a .m .;
ance, 42; Mrs. Baldwin, m istress
dispatched at 2 & 7.5 p .m .; Sundays, 10.45 P-m - SutPainter John W yatt, frm r.Bridge frm
Douglas G. W. The Old Parsonage
c o m m e r c ia l .
Balls George, Chambrai minor
Bullock Samuel, Black Horse P.H
Pullen Edward, farm er, Manor farm
Tom pkins Rev. Frederick Geo. M.A Davis Sarah
(Mrs.), farm er, Rad- Tame W alter, farmer, H ill farm
Tompkins Mrs. Barnards
j cott farm
Tom pkins Sydney C. assistant overTompkins Miss, Barnards
ILaw Charles W illiam, Carpenters’
seer, Killarney
Tom pkins Sydney Chas. K illarney
1 Arm s P.H. & sm ith
Viner Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper
barley, oats and roots. The area is 835 acres of land
and 27 of w a te r; rateable value, £4,649; the popula­
tion in 1901 was 251.
Parish Clerk and Sexton. John Wedlake.

A P P L E T O N is a parish bounded on the west by the
Isis, which separates it from Oxfordshire, about 4^
m iles north-west from Abingdon and 6 south-west from
Oxford, in the Northern division of the county, hundred
of Ock, petty sessional division, union and county court
district of Abingdon, rural deanery of Abingdon, arch­
deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church
of St. Lawrence is a plain edifice of stone, in the Early
English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch,
and an em battled western tower containing 10 bells and
a clock striking the h o urs: in the church are several
memorials to the families of the present and former
lords of the manor, including one to Sir Joseph Fettiplace. who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth at Woodstock, in 1575, during one of her “ progresses,” and died
in 1593; there is also a brass, with emaciated effigy
in a shroud, to John Midrington, gent. 1518, and his
wife Dorothe, who after his death, “ toke relygyon in
ye monastary of S yo n : ” the church was partially re­
stored in 1883 at a cost of £ 676: there are 250 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1569. The living is a
rectory, net yearly value £402, with, residence and 26
acres of glebe, in the gift of the President and Fellows
of Magdalen College, Oxford, and held since 1878 by
the Rev. W illiam Moore M.A. and form erly fellow of
that college. Here is a small Wesleyan chapel. There
are charities connected with the parish, producing about
£180 a year for church, poor and school, and 3 acres
for providing fuel. Frederick Charles Southby, of Car­
narvon, left in 1907 charities to the value of £100, for
the aged sick poor of A ppleton ; the money is d istri­
buted by the rector and churchwardens under a scheme
of the Charity Commissioners. Edmund Dickinson
M.D. of Merton College, Oxford, and some time phy­
sician to K in g Charles II. was born at Appleton in
1624, and in 1655 published a work entitled, “ Delphi

Phcenicizantes,” illustrating the connection between the
heathen m ythologies and scripture history, and in 1702
another work relating to the Mosaic narrative of the
Creation : he died in April, 1707. The Manor House,
now (1911) unoccupied, supposed to have been built
in the reign of Henry II. is the most ancient in the
county, and retains a doorway in the Norman s ty le ;
it was form erly surrounded by a m oat, part of which
has been filled up. The m anor of Appleton was succes­
sively in the possession of the fam ilies of F itz Warine,
Caston, Petyt and Fettiplace : it was purchased of the
Hanleys by an ancestor of Robert Souohby esq. ; the
principal landowners are the trustees of the late Mrs.
Weaving, Mr. Joseph Cowderoy Richards and St. John’s
College, Oxford. The soil is loam and clay. The chief
crops are wheat, barley, beans, oats and roots. The
area, including the township of Eaton, is 2,059 acres of
land and 18 of water; iateable value, £2,095; the
population in 1901 was 466.
Eaton township is one m ile north.
Parish Clerk and Sexton, C uthbert George White.
Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— Tom Stallard, sub-postmaster.
Letters arrive from Abingdon at 8.5 a.m. & 1.35
p .m .; dispatched at 12.10 & 6.10 p .m .; Sunday de­
livery, 8.5 a.m. ; Sunday collection, 1.10 p.m
Wall Letter Box, Eaton, cleared at 8.20 a.m. & 7.15
p.m. ; sunday, 10 a.m
County Police, Charles Saunders, sergeant in charge
Elem entary School, endowed in 1709 by Thomas Lane
& others, with £13 yearly: the school will hold 111
children; average attendance, 87; Walt. H. H ewitt,
master
Carriers.
Abingdon— Tom Stallard & Charles Eynstone, mon.& fri
Oxford— Tom Stallard, wed. & sat

IGammon Joseph, insurance agent
Hewer John T. farmer. Manor farm
Holifield George, plum ber, glazier &
p ain ter; motor car for hire
Lay George, Three Horse Shoes P.H
Perry James, Plough P.H
COMMERCIAL.
Bennett Richd. & Sons, hurdle m krs Richards Joseph Cowderoy, farmer &
Bennett Ernest, undertaker
landowner
Brown Ralph, Thatched tavern
; Seeley Joseph, market gardener
Clanfield George, farmer
Squire Eliza (M rs.),m arket gardener
Cullen Edwin, grocer
¡Squire George, boot repairer
Dymock Edwd. m arkt. grdnr. & b tch r; Stallard Tom, shopkeeper & garrier,
Eynstone Charles, carrier
1 Post office

APPLETON.
Moore Rev. William M.A. Rectory
Murrav-Robinson Airs. South lawn
Richards Joseph C
Sm ith Thomas, Hollyhurst

A R B O R F I E L D is a village and parish on the river
Loddon, 5 miles south-east from Reading and 3 west
from W okingham, in the Eastern division of the county,
in the hundred of Sonning, petty sessional division and
union of W okingham, county court district of Reading,
rural deanery of Sonning, archdeaconry of Berks and
diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Bartholomew is
a building of flint and stone in the E arly English style,
erected in 1863 at a cost of upwards of £4,000, to
which the late Sir W illiam Brown bart. of Liverpool,
was the principal con tributor; it consists of chancel,
nave and north porch, western tower and spire con­
taining 6 bells, 5 of which are from the old ch u rch :
the chancel windows are stain ed : there are two
m emorial windows to members of the Towgood fam ily:
the church affords 220 sittings. The old churchy of
St. Bartholomew, built in 1256 of chalk and flint.,
stands in the grounds of Arborfield H a ll; it is now in
ruins, the roof, considered unsafe, having been taken
down in 1863: the piscina, sedilia and credence table,
as well as some m ural paintings, brasses and monu­
m ents, remain ; the aisles contain tombs and tablets
to members of the Standen and Conroy families. The
register dates from the year 1706. The living is a
rectory, net yearly value £210, w ith residence, in the

Walford A. F. farmer
Weaving Owen, hurdle maker
Webb Harold, farm er, Pond farm
White & Sons, church bell hangers
White Cuthbert George, undertaker
White George, blacksmith
Woodward W illiam , shopkeeper
EATON.
Chapel A rth ur, beer •“ •¿«-i
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Cornish Alfred, farm t. Manor farSrCornish Selby, farmer, W est farm

, gift of Mrs. Hargreaves, and held since 1898 by the
Rev. Joshua Alexander Anderson M .A. of Pembroke
College and Ridley Hall, Cam bridge. Here is a Con1 gregational chapel, erected in 1899, seating 200 per­
sons. The old manor house, now gone, is described
in Miss M itford’s “ Our V illage ” as “ the old house at
Aberleigh,” and the Loddon is celebrated by Pope
under the name of “ Lodona.” Arborfield Hall, the
I seat of Mrs. S. Hargreaves, is pleasantly situated on
the banks of the river Loddon, with grounds and park.
The principal landowners are John R. Hargreaves esq.
Sir George A rth ur Charles Russell bart. of Swallowfield, and John W alter esq. of Bear Wood. The soil is
clay and g ra v e l; subsoil, London clay. The chief crops
are wheat and barley. The area is 1,414 acres of land
and 13 of w a te r; rateable value, £2,035 ;
popula­
tion in 1901 was 249.
Newland is a lib erty one m ile east. The area is
1,143 acres of land and 57 of w ater; rateable value,
£2,^56; the population in 1901 was 301.
Sexton, W illiam Cox
Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— John Henry M attingley. sub­
postmaster. Letters arrive from Reading at 6.50 a.m.
& i . i o & 6.30 (to callers only) p .m .; dispatched at