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DIRECTORY.]

B E R K S H IR E .

HUNGERFORD.

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old church : the effigy, in stone, of an armed k n igh t, 1 of £ 5 43. payable from land at Enborne, distributed in
cross-legged, and supposed to represent him , is now ' c lo th in g : S ir V incent Sm ith ’s ch arity (1626), £ 2
placed on the floor im m ediately b e n e a th : there are also annually for apprenticing two b oys: F ield ’s g ift (1626),
m onum ents to H enry H ungerford, of Standen (ob. 1673), £ 1 annually for apprenticing one b o y : M rs. C um m in ’s
third son of Sir Anthony Hungerford, of Blackborton, c h a r it y : the dividends arisin g from the sum of
O x o n ; to Mrs. Helina Morgan (ob. 1716) and to C h ar­ £699 14s. 6d. T hree per Cent. A nnuities (form erly Old
lotte, wife of John W illes, of H ungerford P ark (ob. South Sea A n n uities), net amount, after deducting
1807) ; there are also m any m ural tablets to the W illes, expenses of receiving, £ 1 7 19s. 6d. tw o-thirds of the
M ichell and W hitelock fa m ilie s : in 1880-1 the church am ount for educating an equal num ber of boys and
was thoroughly renovated, reseated and a new organ g irls and the oth er th ird in bread or clothes.
added at a total cost of £3,300 : there are 700 sittin gs,
Under the provisions of th e “ Local Governm ent Act,
370 being free. T h e reg ister dates from the year 1559. 1894,” some of the above charities were declared to be
T h e livin g is a vicarage, net yearly value £368, with non-ecclesiastical and are now adm inistered by the
residence, in the g ift of the Dean and Canons of parish council.
W indsor, and held since 1909 by the Bev. W illiam
Th e hunting in the neighbourhood is good and well
Edward Thom as Seccom be G ray M .A. of Brasenose sup po rted; the kennels of the Craven Foxhounds are
C ollege, Oxford.
at W a lc o t; W . J. Y o rk e S c a rlett esq. J.P . of Walcofc
S t. Saviour’s church, at E D D IN G T O N , erected on a House, K in tb u ry, and J. A . F airh u rst esq. of A rlin gton
site given by W illiam Honywood esq. late of C hilton Manor, N ew bury, are jo in t m asters. Th e pack h un ts
Lodge, at a cost of about £2,000, is an edifice of red four tim es a week. N ew bu ry and M arlborough are
and white brick, w ith stone dressings, in the E arly convenient places for h u n tin g visitors.
E nglish style, from designs by the la te S ir A . W.
Th e Eddington flour m ills, on the riv er K ennet,
Blomfield M .A . (d. 1899), arch itect, and consists of , carried on by Mr. Newton Lo w ry Holland, are driven
chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south porch and by two pow erful turbin es, and a com plete ro ller system
a w estern tu rre t, containing one b e ll: th e stained east very successfully treats, on the H un garian principle,
window is a m em orial to the Rev. Thom as H ungerford th e fine qualities of w h eat grow n in the d is t r ic t ; Mr.
Mitchell, a form er vicar of H iston, C a m b s ; the stained j Robert Cole also has flour m ills here.
windows in the chancel w ere also g ifts , and there are
The B erkshire trout farm , constructed in 1907, has
also two large and twelve sm all stained windows in the j one of the la rg est stocks of artificially-bred tro u t in the
n a v e : the p ulpit, of carved stone, was given b y Jesse 1 country. T h e Ken n et V a lley F isheries (Old Sp rin g) is
H illier esq. : there are sittin gs for 250 persons.
another high-class tro u t farm
The church of St. M ary the V irg in , at Newtown, in
C hilton, th e property and seat of th e Hon. John
connection w ith the parish church, is a sm all and plain H ubert W ard C .V .O . was held for about 700 years by
building consisting of quasi-apsidal chancel, nave, south the W hitelocke fam ily, one of whom , B ulstrode W hiteporch and a bell tu rre t containing one b e ll: in the apse locke, a distin guish ed ch aracter of the C iv il w ar and
are five lancets, the centre one bein g s ta in e d : there are Com m onw ealth period, died here, 28 Jan. 1676. T h a
also three stained w in d o w s: the buildin g w ill seat about estate was afterw ards sold to John Zephaniah H olw ell,
100 persons.
one of th e sufferers in the “ Black Hole ” of C alcu tta,
The C hurch House, erected b y th e late S ir W illiam and subsequently governor, and, at the b egin n in g of the
G . Pearce b art. and opened in 1900, is used as a last cen tury, becam e the property of John Pearse esq.
library and club and S unday school.
M.P. who dem olished the old m ansion and b u ilt another
St. John’s Mission H all was erected in 1898, th e cost from the designs of P ilk in g to n ; th is was enlarged and
being defrayed by L a d y Pearce.
alm ost en tirely reconstructed by th e late owner, who
The W esleyan chapel, in Charnham S treet, erected in purchased the estate in 1890: the work was carried out
1869, at a cost, including site, of upwards of £3,000, is under the superintendence of th e late S ir A. Blom field
of grey local brick, w ith red bands and arches and Bath A .R .A . and com pleted in 1892; th e house, b u ilt of
stone dressings in the G othic style, and consists of a stone, is now a fine exam ple of the G eorgian style, and
nave w ith shallow transepts and an apse at one e n d ; has a handsom e portico supported on C orinthian
from the roof rises a belfry containing one b e ll: there colum ns : it stands in an un d u la tin g and w ell-tim bered
are seven stained windows : including the gallery there park and overlooks the valley of the K e n n e t; attached
are sittin gs for about 360 persons. T h e Congregational are la rg e gardens and a m odel farm .
chapel, erected in 1840, is of brick, and w ill seat 300
H ungerford P ark, at th e eastern ex trem ity of the
persons. The P rim itive M ethodist chapel was erected town, was form erly the residence of th e fam ily of
in 1866, and has 250 sittings.
H ungerford, Barons H ungerford, of H ungerford and
T h e Town H all and Corn E xch an ge, situated in the H eytesbury, W ilts ; the present m ansion is a b uildin g in
H igh street, and erected in 1870, at a cost of about the Italian style and occupies the site of the old house,
£4,000, is a building of red and grey brick, w ith Batb b uilt by Queen E lizabeth and given to Robert D evereux,
stone dressings, and comprises a m agistrates’ room, an E arl of E s s e x ; it is now the property of H um phrey
upper hall and a la rge and convenient exchange hall, Jeffrey W alm esley esq. J.P . of Inglewood House, K in t­
which is also available for concerts and other entertain­ bury, and is occupied b y E dw ard P ercy Shepherd esq.
m ents, and w ill hold about 300 persons ; in front is a
Th e m anor of H ungerford, w ith the appurtenances of
colonnade, above which rises a square tower, w ith a common and fishery, was form erly held under the
four-dial illum inated clock.
Crown, and being granted by E dw ard I. in 1297, to
The Police Station for the H ungerford division is in Edm und, E arl of L an caster, it descended to John of
Park street, near the railw ay station.
G aun t, Duke of L an caster, who granted the inhabitants
A S avings Bank was established in 1818 ; the trustees large righ ts of fishing in th e K e n n et: the m anor is now
m eet every W ednesday.
vested in the constable and trustees on behalf of certain
The Bear hotel, C harnham S treet, is a good old- of th e inhabitants of th e town ; the constable, as lord
fashioned brick hostelry of th e 18th cent, w ith a pro­ of the manor, holds a court at H ocktide (the first T u es­
je c tin g bay rising to the eaves, clustered chim neys, day after E aster T u e s d a y ); th e court is summoned by
gabled dormers and a portico carried on pillars.
the blow ing of a brass b ugle, bearing the date 1634;
The M arket day is W ednesday, and a pitched m arket the origin al horn, given b y John of G au n t, is also pre­
is established in the Corn E xchan ge.
served here, and kept w ith various curious old charters
Two statute or hiring fairs are annually held in the in the town chest. C ap t. A . O. B u rm ester J .P ., A.
M arket place, one on the W ednesday before and the Irvin M untz esq. Apsley C h erry-G arrard esq. Charles
other on the W ednesday after old M ichaelm as d a y ; W illiam B u tler esq. Mrs. D unn, H ugh Leyborne-Popthere are also fairs held the last W ednesday in A pril ham esq. Col. G . S. W illes, th e Hon. John H ubert W ard
for cattle, the last week in June for wool and A u g u st 17th C .V .O . and E dw ard R obert P ortal esq. M .A ., J .P . are
for sheep.
the principal landowners.
The charities include John H am blin’s g ift, viz. the
The land around is fam ous for the grow th of barley
rent of a close land called C han try Mead, now £ 15 , and the w ater m eadows are h ig h ly productive and v a lu ­
which is applied as follows— £ 4 to the m aster of the able.
Free School for
teaching four boys, and £ 4 to buy
Th e parish is divided into four tith in g s, viz. H unger­
clo thing for the
four boys the week before E aster, the
surplus to be spent in clothing and education : the rent ford, Sanden Fee, and E ddington and Charnham Street.
The total population in 1911 was 3,040 in the c iv il
of a close of ground of about 3 acres in E ast Field, pro­
ducing £ 3 3s. applied as follows— v icar 10s., singers 6s. parish, in clu d in g 11 officers and 149 inm ates in the
each, clerk 2s. and sexton 2s. : Law rence’s bequest, Poor Law I n s titu tio n ; the area is 6,665 acres of land
being a rent-charge payable from a copyhold estate at and 64 of w a t e r ; rateable value. £15.470.
T h e population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1911
Medstead, H ants, given by the will of E zekiel Lawrence,
producing a net
rental of £ 4 4s. for apprenticing one was 2,893.
poor boy : Hobbe’s g ift (1625), a m oiety of a ren t-ch arge
Parish Clerk and Sexton, Thom as Fruen, H igh street.
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