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OXFORDSHIRE.

BICESTER.

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Snelson James, bailiff to the Incor- Wood C. A. & Sons, g T o c e r s
PRESTON CROWMARSH.
porated National Union for
Horne Edward, Old Mill house
Christian Social Service (postal Young Walter Henry, carrier
Hewett Harry, Swan P.H
address, Turners Court,Wallingfrd)
Summers Alfred, Cottage inn,
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Mundy William, grocer
manure manufactrs. Benson wharf
¡Parks William, wheelwright
West Fred Walter,plumber & painter
FIFIELD.
West John H. builder
ROKE MARSH.
Whicbello Walter Frederick, shopkpr Newton Miss, Fifield house
Howard Walter, boot repairer *caacr
Winter Jacob, farm bailiff to J. T. Walters George, farm bailiff to Mr. ■Hutchings
Mary (Mrs.),poultry dealer
Painter
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¡Main William, beer retailer
JBERRICK S A L O M E is a parish and village 4 miles well-executed seal with the device of a pelican feeding her
north-east from Wallingford terminal station on a 1young, and the legend, u S. Johs le Tannur de Berrek,”
branch from Cholsey and Moulsford station on the main were discovered; the parish chest and the old table are
line of the Great Western railway, and 6 west from now placed in the new vestry: there are 130 sittings.
WatliDgton, in the Southern division of the county, The register dates from the year 1609. The living is 3
hundred of Ewelme, petty sessional division of Faringdon, chapelry annexed to the vicarage of Chalgrove, joint net
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ofAston, and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church,
church of St. Helen is an ancient edifice of stone in Oxford, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Thomas Owen
mixed styles, inoluding some remains of Norman work, Floyd ALA. of Keble College, Oxford, who resides at
consisting of chancel, nave, south chapel, wooden south Chalgrove. There are some small charities amounting
porch and a wooden tower at the west end, with t° £13 8s. yearly for distribution in bread and money
pyramidal roof and containing 6 bells: in 1909 the and £1 7s. for boots to children; the church land pro­
belfry was repaired and the bells rehung. The chancelis duces £11 a year. John Darell-Blount esq. is lord of
Decorated and retains a piscina and an aumbry, which the manor. The principal landowners are Magdalen and
have been carefully repaired, but there is no chancel Lincoln Colleges, Oxford, and Miss Emily Deane. Th^
arch: the nave is partly Norman, and has also portions chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and peas. The
in other styles down to Late Perpendicular with an land is loamy, with gravel substrata. The area is 603
interesting Jacobean roof, dated 16x5, and there is a acres; rateable value, £700-, the population in 1911
south chapel of the same date, with an Early English was 143.
window containing some ancient glass, and a bracket
Under the provisions of the “ Divided Parishes Act,
at the side of it: the font is Norman and has an
1882,” a detached part of Bensington parish was added to
interlaced pattern round the basin : the south door is B
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also Norman : the western gallery, erected in 1676, and
modified in the late restoration, has a balustraded front Post Office.— Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, sub-postmistress.
L
etters through Wallingford arrive at 6.30 a.m. &
of oak: the church was thoroughly restored in 1890,
at a cost of about £ 700, under the direction of Mr. A. 6.20 p.m. & dispatched at xo.io a.m. & 6.40 p.m. ;
no
delivery on Sunday. Benson, 2 miles distant, is
M. Mowbray, architect, of Oxford, when a new vestry
was added, the walls partially rebuilt, the roofs re­ the nearest money order & telegraph office
paired, the chancel fitted with stalls, a new communion Wall Box, Roke corner, cleared at 10.15 a.m. & 6.45
p.m. week days only
tableand rails set up, and other work carried out, in the
progress of which traces of wall painting, a shilling of The children of this village attend the schools at
Henry VIII., a piece of Romano-British pottery and a I Benson
ILane Joseph, builder, The Yews
Belcher Mrs. The Yews
¡Weller Misses
Finzel Hugh Basil, Lower farm
jBiggs Samuel, farmer, Roke farm
Nixey Jn. Hy. frmr. Ivy House farm
I Weller Geo. Arth. farmer,Grace’
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Glanville Miss
IGale William, wheelwright

BICESTER
BICESTER is an agricultural market and union town, Chapel street and St. John street, known also as Crockbead of a county court district and parish, on the bank well, which latter appears to have been so called from
of a small stream called the Ray, which falls into the an ancient well, existing there as far back as 1211, but
Cherwell at Islip, and on the old coach road from Bir­ now built over.
mingham and Leamington to London, with a station The “ Local Government Act, 1858 ” (21 and 22Viet.c.
on the Ashendon and Aynho Park section of the Great 98), was adopted by Bicester King’s End, February 25,
Western Railway Company’s new main line from 1859, and by Bicester Market End, July 22, 1862;
London to Birmingham, and another on the Oxford under the provisions of the Act 38 and 39 Vic. cap. x.
and Bletchley section of the London and North the King’s End district was dissolved and the Market
Western railway, and besides the ordinary main line End district enlarged and renamed the Bicester district.
rains there is also a railway motor service from The townships of King’s End and Market End elect
u«ord, calling at several *•halts” on the way. The their own overseers, guardians and churchwardens, but
own is 54^ miles from London, 13 miles north-east the townships form one ecclesiastical parish. The town
rom Oxford, 15 south-east from Banbury, 17 north­ was governed by a Local Board of 12 members, but
west from Aylesbury, 10 south-west from Buckingham, under the provisions of the “Local Government Act,
and 15 north-west from Thame, in the Mid division of 1894,” the Urban District Council is now the local
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hundred and petty sessional division of authority.
ugnley, rural deanery of Bicester, archdeaconry and The town is lighted with gas by a company, ana is
Fn"reSe of Oxford and includes the townships of Market well supplied with water.
. n»’s End. Bicester, anciently called “Burin- The church of St. Edburg is a spacious and handsome
c?
1S supposed to have been founded in the 7th edifice of stone, in mixed styles: it was originally
»7 ; .^e etymology of its name is uncertain ; by Norman and cruciform in plan, with a central tower
(d- 7 .nls conjectured to derive its name from Birinus (taken down about 1420) and aisles; but now consists
nisW *Slrum)’ ttie Saxon canonized prelate and first of chancel, with north chapel, cleTestoried nave, aisles,
had R
Dorchester (A.D. 625-50), in whose time it north porch and an embattled western tower of Per­
bepn R -u \ iro?tier g'arrison and may possibly have pendicular date, 75 feet in height, with pinnacles at
whirR
^ advice from the Tuins of Alchester, the angles, panelled and crocketed and containing aclock
sideraRi^38 a *0r^hed oity and a Roman station of con- and 8 bells, which were recast and rehung in 1913 at a
(Etvm T11016 under -^ulus Plautius the consul. Skinner cost of ^400 : the south aisle dates from the 13th, and
from th a *'
conjectures the derivation to be the north from the 14th century: the north porch is
a town 6 ®^°"®axon “hern,” a granary, and “ceaster,” later: the chancel has Norman walls and buttresses,
with inserted windows of the Decorated period and on
strept t0Wn con?'8*:s principally of one long and wide the north side a Decorated aTch of wide span, opening
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high road to Banbury, from which runs into the chapel; the chancel aTch and two others west
joins\--S(Ju,ar® an<litscontinuation, Church street, which of it are Early Norman; near these is a small straightford n
End, on the road to Wendlebury and Ox- sided arch, with triangular head, supposed to be
two other streets branching from these called Saxon: the nave is separated from the south aisle by