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cular and retains a piscina: the nave is divided from
& 12.15 P m - & dispatched at 9.20 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.;
its aisle by an arcade of four Decorated arches on
110 delivery on Sundays. Bicester, 3 miles distant*
octagonal columns: the exterior wall of the aisle is is the nearest money order & telegraph office
finished with a good open quatrefoiled parapet and Elementary School, built in 1876, for 90 children; x
cornice of heads and ball flowers, both continued round H. Warren, master
the porch ; the rood-loft stairs remain, and there is a Carriers to Bicester.— George Cooper, tues. & fri.; &
piscina on a shaft, and a Norman doorway on the north William Arthur Aldridge, daily
side; the church also retains a wall painting of the
Last Judgment: in the chancel is a memorial to John ARNCOT, UPPER and LOWER, or Over and Nether,
Stubbinge D.D. vicar, 1635-55, who, in 1638, built the form a hamlet to Ambrosden, Upper Arncot being two
vicarage house, at a cost of £800; this stone was placed miles and Lower Arncot one mile south of that place
to his memory by Dr. White Kennett, who succeeded to and near the Bucks border. Here is a small Wesleyan
the vicarage in 1685, and was Bishop of Peterborough, chapel. A Mission room, built by the Rev. Charles
1718-28 : the church was completely restored from funds Edward Bagshawe, vicar, 1866-84, use(I a^so as a girls’
derived from an ancient devise by an unknown donor, of and infant school, under the control of local managers,
25 acres of land, producing £50 yearly, and reseated to whom it is let by the vicar and churchwardens, who
with open benches : the chancel was restored by the lay are the trustees of the building. The area is 1,700
rector and subscriptions, the whole cost amounting to acres ; rateable value, £1,422; the population in igu
£1,500, under the direction of Mr. Charles N. Beazley, was 174.
architect, of London. A new organ was providedin 1909 Wall Letter Box cleared at 9.5 a.m. & 4.35 p.m.
at a cost of £270. There are 350 sittings,80beingfree:
Letters through Bicester arrive at 7.15 a.m. Piddingthe churchyard, enlarged with ground'given by the late ton is the nearest money order office, & Bicester,
Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner bart. (d. 1874), contains miles distant, the nearest telegraph office
the remains of a cross, on an octagonal base; a further Carrier to Bicester.— William Arthur Aldridge, daily
addition of about half an acre was made in 1897 by the Elementary School (girls & infants), for 40 children;
Page-Turner family. The register dates from the year Miss Edith Reddicliff, mistress
1611. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £274,
including 186 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of BLACKTHORN is also a hamlet, distant from Ambros­
F A. Page-Turner esq. and held since 1884 by the Rev. den a mile east, with a station on the Ashendon and
Charles Bayfield, of Cumbrae College, N.B. Here is a Aynho Park section of the Great Western Railway Com­
Congregational Mission Hall, converted from a cottage pany’s new main line from London to Birmingham.
in 1SS2, having seats for 50 persons. Ambrosden Park Here is a small Congregational chapel, erected in 1825,
was formerly of great extent and contained a noble with 200 sittings. The Mission room here, built by the
mansion, erected by Sir William Glynne, 1st bart. (d. Rev. C. E. Bagshawe, vicar 1866-84, is used also as a
1690), towards the end of the 17th century; in 1728 it girls’ and infant school, under the control of local
was purchased by Sir Edward Turner, 1st bart. (d. 19 managers, to whom it is let in the same way as the
June, 1735), and for some time continued to be the Arncot room. Thomas May esq. of Fewcott, is lord of
seat of that family, but was taken down by direction of the manor and principal landowner. The area is 2,026
Sir Gregory Page-Turner in 1777; the foundations, acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value,
however, remain. F. A. Page-Turner esq. is lord of £2,570 ; the population in 1911 was 249.
the manor and principal landowner. The soil is stone Wall Letter Box, cleared at 8 a.m. & 5.55 p.m.
brash and clay; subsoil, clay and stone. The land is Letters through Bicester arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.
chiefly pasture. The area of the entire parish is 4,863
acres ; area of Ambrosden township, 600 acres of land The nearest money order & telegraph office is at
and 5 of water; rateable value of Ambrosden, exclusive Bicester, 3 miles distant
of hamlets, £865 ; population in 1911, 141 in the civil Elementary School (girls & infants), for 40 children;
Mrs. Clara Shaw, mistress
parish and 564 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Railway Station, John Charles Burtenshaw, station
Parish Clerk, Benjamin James Cross.
Post Office.— Mrs. Blanche Esther Turner, sub-post­ master
mistress. Letters arrive through Bicester at 6.40 a.m. Carriers to Bicester.— Amos Wilkins, tues. & fri
GriffinJoseph, shopkeeper
AMBROSDEN.
Phillips John Albert, shopkeeper
Hepworth Arth. farmer, Essex farm
Sharp William, wheelwright
Bayfield Rev. Charles, Vicarage
Herring
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Ambrosden Club (William Jn. Smith, Shouler Thomas, farmer
Hickman Edward Charles, fanner
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LOWER ARNCOT.
Jones Herbert & David, farmers
Eaves Harry, Turners’ Arms P.H
Jones Charles, farmer
aseyrFrederick, saddler
Eldridge Arth.carpenter&wheelwright C
Jones Joseph, farmer
Deeley Jabez, farmer
Green Charles Orton, farmer
Leach John, carpenter
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Moore John, beer retailer
Hickman Charles Edward, farmer Watkins John, farmer
Parker William, farmer
Salmon Jas. blacksmith & machinist
BLACKTHORN.
Phipps Albert, farmer
COMMERCIAL.
Smith Ernest, miller
Shaw Henry, butcher
UPPER ARNCOT.
Bradley Grove, poultry farmer, Smith Frank Horace, farmer
Wilkins Amos, carrier
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Wilkins Frederick, shopkeeper
Green Amos, brick maker
Harper Frederick, farmer
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A E D L E Y is a parish and village on the road from Culworth, Northants (d. 10 Jan. 1815): there are 15°
Oxford to Brackley, with a station on the Haddenham sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year
and Aynho Park section of the Great Western Railway 1759, burials from 1761, marriages from April, 175®Company’s new main line from London to Birmingham, The living is a rectory, net yearly value £168, wit“
a miles west from Somerton station on the Oxford and residence and 58 acres of glebe, in the gift^of Mrs.
Banbury section of the same railway, 7 from Brackley Perryman, of Farnborough, Hants, and held since 190
and 5 north-west from Bicester, in the Mid division by the Rev. Lawrence Graeme Allan Roberts. In
of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of parish and within a wood are the foundations and moat
Ploughley, Bicester union and county court district, of a castle, supposed to have been built in the reign0
rural deanery of Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese King Stephen (1135-54). Mrs. Perryman is lady oftne
of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an edifice of manor. John Joslin esq. is the principal landowner.
stone of the Decorated period, and 13th century, con­ The land about here is principally limestone ; subsoil,
stone brash. The chief crops are wheat, barley a“
sisting of chancel, nave,restored in 1789, and a
western saddle-back tower of the Decorated period, con­ oats. The area is 1,493 acres; rateable value, £I»491’
taining 2 bells: the chancel is of the same date, but the population in 1911 was 162.
Parish Clerk, Frederick Harris.
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blocked: in the north wall is a sepulchral arch, with is the nearest money order office
shields of arms: the church was restored and beautified Elementary School, built in 1861, for 60 chu '
and the body of the church reseated at considerable Miss Jones, mistress
expense in i860, by Mrs. Anne Hind, daughter of the Railway Station (G.W.R.), Albert Norman Glu
Rev. Thomaa Hind M.A. rector, and subsequently of station master