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jn bread and clo th in g and for ch urch and educational W all L e tte r Box, Hi; ;h Cogges, cleared at 9 a.m. fc ^
purposes am ount to about £ 110 yearly. The R t. Hon.
p .m
Lew is H arcourt P .C ., M .P . is lord of the m anor and the j
p rin cip a l landowner. Th e soil is clay and g r a v e l; there
Endowed Schools (m ix e d ): —
is m uch pasture land ; subsoil, clay ; the crops are the |
usual cereals. The area is 2,274 acres of land and 11 Cogges, for 150 ch ild ren ; W illiam H y. Robinson, master
of w a te r; rateable valu e, ,£3,314 ; population in 1911, 888. H igh Cogges (infants), for 25 ch ild ren ; Mrs. Lu
W h ite, m istress
Letters arrive at 6.30 a.m . & 2.45 p.m . th rou gh W itney,
which is the nearest m oney order & telegraph office, & The schools are owned by the trustees of Blake’s charit
Newland th e nearest post office, about half a m ile distan t
H IG H C O G G E S .
Riddle Miss

Harris E dw ard, farm er
Hollis & Son, 'wheelwrights
Hollis H enry, farm er
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Honour John, farm er
j C ollier & M orley, farm ers
Mawle John Fras. farm er, Spring foi]
Dowding Henry, farm b ailiff to John M orley Jack,frm r.seeC ollier & Morlev
I D. B u ry esq. The Laurels
Turner C elia C. (M rs.), m ilk dealer
C O M B E (or Lon g Com be) is a villag e and parish, foiled sides:
M ay 17, 1823, the sexton, ■while
•bounded on the south by the riv er E venlode, with B len ­ d ig g in g a grave, m et w ith some coins of QUeen
heim park on the east, and is 2^ m iles north-west- from E liza beth and a fine rin g of gold, set with a
H andborough station on the O xford and W olverham pton large rub y and w eighin g nearly a quarter 0f an
section of the G reat W estern railw ay, 6 north-east from ounce. Th e register dates from the year 1646. The
W itney, 3 w est from W oodstock, 10 north-w est from livin g is a vicarage, net yearly value ¿2 5 5 , in the gift
-Oxford and 66 from London, in th e M id division of the of the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and held since
county, hundred of W ootton, p etty sessional division of 1891 by the Rev. Stephen Spencer Pearce M.A. of that
W ootton South, union and county court d is tric t of Wood- college. The rectory house, occupied by Miss Brooke
-stock, ru ra l deanery of W oodstock and archdeaconry and is in p art coeval w ith, if not prior to, the date of the
•diocese of Oxford. The ancient church stood in a deep foundation of Lincoln C ollege, and was embattled
.adjoining valley. The p resent ch urch of S t. Laurence towards the east and w e s t; th e south front was built
the M artyr, on elevated ground, above the w inding by recent incum bents : the style generally is that of the
E venlode, is an E arly P erpendicular b uilding of stone, 15th century. There are W esleyan and Free Methodist
b uilt in 1395, and consists of chancel, nave, north and chapels. A tem perance reading and coffee room was
south porches and an em battled western tower with erected in 1890 by volu n tary contributions. The
•pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 b e lls : the chancel charities for distribution in bread and fuel amount
has an east window of five lig h ts, retain in g, in its P er­ to £ X2 y e a r ly : the church land and cottages produce
pendicu lar tracery, some fragm ents of old glass : canopied £ 1 9 yearly. T he Duke of M arlborough K .G . is lord of
sedilia, and two piscinas, one w ith drain and basin very- the manor and p rincipal landowner. The soil is mostly
p erfect : there is a plain chancel arch, on the north stone brash and deep loam ; subsoil, clay. The land is
side of which the stairs to th e rood lo ft rem ain, w ith i chiefly pasture and arable. The area is 1,404 acres of
both d o o rs : on the south side is a D ecorated niche : on I land and 13 of w a te r; rateable value, £2,847; the
th e north side of the nave, under the easternm ost window, population in 1911 was 437.
is a hexagonal panelled stone p ulpit, w ith rich tracery',
Parish C lerk, A rth u r W ild.
-crocheted pinnacles and a battlem ented c o rn ice: the font
COGGES.
C a n tw e ll W illiam
H udgell Rev. Robert W illiam (vicar,
& chaplain of W itn ey union), St.
M ary's p riory
Mawle Joseph, farm er, M anor house

is sim ilar. In 1892 several ancient paintings w ere dis­ Post, M. 0 . & T. Office.— John P u tt, sub-postmaster.
covered, one on each side of the chancel arch, represent­
L etters th rou gh W oodstock arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 2.30
ing the “ C rucifixion,” and over the aTch another of the
p .m .; dispatched at 9.25 a.m . & 1.20 & 6.30 p.m.;
D oom , including figures of Our Saviour and the twelve
no sunday delivery
apostles w ith their respective sym b ols: on the south
wall of the nave a 17th century painting of the “ Deca­ E lem entary School (m ixed), founded in 1843 by Mrs.
Tatham , widow of the late Dr. Tatham , rector of
logue ” was m et w ith , and figures of Moses and Aaron :
Lincoln C ollege, & endowed w ith £ 4 10s. yearly; it
beneath th is traces of a still earlier painting appeared.
was considerably enlarged during 1892-3, & now holds
On the north wall are rem ains of more decorative work,
120 scholars; C y ril D. W . R ich ards, m aster; Miss H.
including a figure of St. C atherine. The chancel was re ­
W astie, assistant m istress; M iss W . Corby, infants’
stored by the R ector and Fellows of Lincoln C ollege in
m
istress
1887, and the church was Teroofed w ith oak in 1908
a t a cost of £590: th e origin al font, form erly in
Carriers to : —
th e garden of a p rivate house, was restored to the
church in 1913.
Th e church affords 220 sittin g s: O xford— H arry K nibbs & W alter S la tter, wed. & sat
in the churchyard are two altar tom bs, w ith quatre- W itney— H arry Knibbs & W alter S latter, thurs
P R IV A T E R E SID E N TS.

Brooke Miss, Rectory house
Close Miss
Horne W illiam , I v y bank
K n ig h t M iss
Pearce Rev. Stephen Spencer M .A.
(vicar)
Stow ell W illiam , W est End villa
W oodw ard W illiam , Edina lodge

COMMERCIAL.

Busby H ubert, shopkeeper & baker
Davis Philip, farm er, A kerm an St. frm
Fowler Francis, farm er, Low er W est­
field farm
Green W alt. Chas. farm r. Manor frm
Honour Caleb, farm er, H igher W est­
field farm
K n ibbs H arry, Cock inn, & carrier
Phipps James, Royal Oak P.H

C O R I T B T T R Y P A R K , form erly extra-parochial, is now
a parish, about 1 m ile south from C harlbury station on
the O xford and W olverham pton section of the G reat
W estern railw ay and 7 w est from W oodstock, in the
Northern division of the county, hundred and p etty ses­
sional division of Chadlington, union and county court
district of Chipping Norton. The historical mansion here,
the seat of Vernon Jam es W atney esq. M .A ., F .S .A ..
J.T. stands on the banks of the riv er Evenlode and is
surrounded bv a spacious deer park and b eautifully
wooded grounds : it is b u ilt of stone from the b ig quarry
in the adjacent forest of W ychw ood: the Tudor portion
dates from about 1495 : the south-west front, b u ilt by
Henry Danvers. E arl of Danbv. in 1631. is m ainly
Jacobean in c h a ra c te r: the Renaissance portion, known
as the Clarendon w ing, was begun in 1666 by Edward
H yde. 1st E arl of Clarendon, to whom Charles II. gave
Corn bury at the Restoration, and has inscribed on it
Clarendon’s m otto. “ Deus nobis haec otia f e c it ” : in the
reign of Queen E lizabeth, C ornbury was in the posses­
sion of the fam ous R obert D udley, E a rl of Leicester,

P u tt John, grocer, Post office
S la tter Frederick,M arlboro’ Arms P.H
S la tter W alter, carrier
Tem perance Reading & Coffee Rooms
W alker Jam es, farm er
W alker Thos. bacon curer
Woodward C harlotte (Mrs.), farmer,
W est Close farm
Woodward Edward, farmer, Alma
G rove farm

whose fath er also bad held both Cornbury and Wych­
wood, who died here 4th Sept. 1588 : Cornbury has been
visited by Henry I. and bis Queen, Matilda, about the
year 1105, by Edw ard IV . in 1461. by James I. in 1605,
bv Charles II. and his Queen. K ath erin e of Braganza,
and by Jam es, Duke of Y o rk and bis Duchess, Anne
H yde, in 1663, by Charles II. again in 1681. by James,
Duke of Y o rk , and his Duchess, M ary of Modena, and
the Ladv Anne, afterw ards Queen, in 1683, by Willia®
III. in 1695, and by Queen V icto ria in 1886: Charles
Edward, the Y o u n g Pretender, is believed to have
visited Cornbury in 1750: in 1751 Henry Hyde, styled
Viscount Cornbury, th e son of the 4th and last 0‘
the Hydes who w ere E arls of Clarendon, sold Corn­
b ury to Charles Spencer, Duke of Marlborough, Whos
great-great-grandson (now Viscount Churchill) sold 1
in 1896. Of W ychwood forest, which has been
since th e tim e of Domesday, and once extended
Clevely. near E nstone in th e north, to Stanton
cou rt in th e south, and from K idlington in the eavto Tainton in the w est, some 3,750 acres remained