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OXFORDSHIRE.

pletely restored in 1859 fro m plans by the late G. E.
Street esq. It.A . : there are 450 sittin gs, 200 being u n ­
appropriated. T h e g rea t tithes, origin ally given to the
professor of civil law at O xford by K in g Jam es I.
having become the p roperty of th e E cclesiastical C om ­
missioners, w ere added in 1894 to the endowm ent of
Shipton and the dau gh ter parishes of Leafield, M iltonunder-Wychwood and Ram sden.
Th e re g is te r dates
from the year 1538. The livin g is a vicara g e, net
yearly value £358, w ith 85 acres of glebe, and residence,
in the g ift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1900
by the Rev. W illiam Collingwood C arter M .A. of C h rist
Church,
O xford,
surrogate
and
ru ra l
dean
of
Chipping Norton. In the churchyard is a curious two
storied tom b, the lower p art apparently being in
memory of one person and the upper p a rt of an­
other. A t the north end of the villag e is a small
Church m ission room of corru gated iron.
Th ere is
also a B ap tist chapel.
Beaconsfield H all is a plain
building erected in 1885 at a cost of about £^370, for
public entertainm ents, and is the property of a lim ited
liability com pany, and w ill hold 300 persons.
St.
Michael’s Hom e for W aifs and S trays, opened in 1900,
receives 40 girls. There are garden allotm ents of 8
acres for the lab ourin g poor, subject to a yearly rentcharge of £ 1 2 for the repair of fences &c. and a
further allotm ent of 16 acres was provided by J. Reade
esq. in 1888 ; these allotm ents are under the m anage­
ment of the Parish C o u n c il: there are also fuel allo t­
ments of 17 acres in lieu of the p rivilege of cu ttin g
furze &c. in the forest. The charities for distribution
in clothing, bread, fuel and m oney am ount to ^£58
yearly, derived p rincipally from the ren t of the “ Crown
inn” and adjoining land, devised b y an an cien t w ill for
distribution by 12 trustees, now increased to 16, the
Parish Councils of Shipton and M ilton each appointing
two. W isdom ’s g ift of ¿ 2 8s. is distrib uted by the
vicar every Good Friday in shillings. Th e coal fund,
amounting to about £ 1 2 yearly, is annually added to
the coal charity. Lady Reade’s ch arity of £22 yearly,
originally devoted to the support of the National
schools, is now adm inistered under a new schem e
called the “ L ad y Reade’ s E ducational Foundation for
Educational Purp oses,” and one th ird m ay be used
for apprenticing deserving children.
Bould’s charity
of £10 a year, and P lum be’s £ 2 15s. are distrib uted
in coals or clothing at C hristm as every second year.
The coal fund, am ounting to about ¿ 1 2 yea rly, is
obtained from the rent of land le ft for that purpose
by a m em ber of the Reade fam ily. In th e grounds of
the Old Prebendal House are the rem ains of an ancient
ecclesiastical b uildin g, probably the Prebendal chapel,
SH IPTO N -UND ER-W YCH W O O D .
PRIVATE RESIDENT.

Baggs Mrs
Carter Rev. W illiam Colling wood M .A.
(vicar, su rrogate k ru ra l dean),
Vicarage
Evans Mrs. M yddleton, Holmwood
Hinde Mrs. F rank, The Old Preben­
dal house
Huntington C apt. A rth u r W illiam
D.S.O. Shipton court
Marshall Thomas Stephen
Matthews TierneyClark,W ychw ood ho
Mills Hon. Algernon Hy. Shipton lo
Parsons John E dw ard H ocking B .A .,
L.R.C.P.Lond. T h e C ottage
Peirce John
Pratley Robert
Savidge Mrs. S alisb ury villa
COMMERCIAL.

Avery David, grocer & draper
Beaconsfield Hall Company Lim ited
(John Pierce, hon. sec)
Bunting Fanny (M rs.), baker

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and retain in g two Perp en dicular windows and two door­
ways : the Prebendal huuse, now the p rop erty of Mrs.
F ran k Hinde, lies east of th e church, and there is a
barn w ith ornate gables. Opposite the “ Crown i n n ”
is a m em orial cross erected in 1878 at a cost of about
£ 70, to th e natives of this parish who perished bv the
b urn ing of the em igran t ship “ C osp atrick ” in 1874.
T h ere is a p u b lic recreation ground of 4 acres near the
schools. Shipton C ourt, th e property and residen ce of
C apt. A rth u r W illiam H untington D .S .O . lord of th e
m anor, is a fine old gabled E lizabeth an m ansion, b u ilt
in 1603, and bough t by Sir Compton Reade in 1633;
it is p leasan tly situ ated , and was extensively restored
in 1903. Shipton L odge is the p rop erty of W . F.
Pepper esq. who is th e p rin cipal landowner. The soil
is various, w ith stone b ra s h ; subsoil, rock. Th e ch ief
crops are w heat, b arley, oats and turn ips. Th e area of
the parish is 2,512 acres of land and 8 of w ater ; ra te­
able value, ^3)090; the population in 1911 was 654
the c iv il and 699 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Parish Clerk, Sam uel Coombes.
Post, M. 0 ., T . & T elephonic E xp ress D elivery O ffice.—
M rs. E liza b e th Coom bes, sub-postm istress.
L e tters
arrive th rou gh O xford at 6.5 & 9 a.m . & 12.50 p.m . ;
dispatched at 11.30 a.m . k 7.50 p .m . week days only.
T elegram s m ay also be dispatched from th e railw a y
station
W all L e tter B oxes.— U pper Shipton, cleared at 8.45 a.m .
& 6.55 p .m .; at Station , cleared 8.15 a.m . k 12.15 &
7.10 p.m . week days only
L A N G L E Y is a township 2 m iles south-east in the
union of Chipping Norton and cou n ty co u rt d istrict of
W itney. H ere are the rem ains of an ancient palace,
within which the courts of the various sovereigns from
Henry V II. to Jam es I. w ere occasionally held. In en­
largin g the farm -house the letters H E, w ith a beautifully
carved Tudor rose between, w ere discovered embedded in
plaster. Th e p rin cipal landowners are th e Crow n and
Lord C hurch ill. The area is 303 acre s; rateable value,
£ 219; the population in 1911 w as 45.
Leafield, an ecclesiastical d istrict form ed out of this
parish in i860, w ill be found under a separate heading.
C ounty Police Station, A lfred Page, police constable
E lem en tary School (m ixed), b u ilt in 1854, for 120
children,* & enlarged in 1887 for 170 ch ildren ; John
S tro n g , m aster
Railway Station, A llan Thom as Preece, station m aster
Holloway’s ’bus to Burford runs three tim es daily from
Shipton station

Coom bes Henry & L. fancy rep osi­ Parsons John E dw ard H ockin g B .A.
C am b .,
M .R .C .S .E n g .,
L .R .C .P
tory, Post office
Lond. surgeon, k m edical officer &
Coombes Ann G om m (M rs.), Crown
p ub lic vaccinator No. 4 d istric t,
hotel
C h ip p in g N orton un ion ,Th e C ottage
Cross W illiam , blacksm ith
Dangerfield Bros, farm ers,Lan e house P ra tt & H aynes, coal m erchants,
R ailw ay station
Dee Thos. (exors. of),drapers k grcr
Preece A llan Thom as, station m aster
D urham W illiam , thatcher
& insurance agent
F letch er W illiam , farm er, Glebe farm
St. M ichael’s Home for W aifs k Strays
Foster Brothers, butchers
(Rev. W illiam Collingwood C arter
F ran klin B rothers, grocers
M .A. chaplain k sec. ; M iss A . A.
H artley Richard, farm er, The Grove
E liot, lady supt)
Jones K a te (M iss), shopkeeper
London C ity & M idland Bank Ltd S m ith Annie (M rs.), beer retailer
(agency) (Robert Jam es F ranklin S m ith Daniel, farm er
a g e n t); draw on head office, 5 1 S outh W ales & C annock Chase Coal
Threadneedle street, 'London E C
Co. L im ited
Longshaw Anne (M rs.),R ed Horse P.H S tallard J. J. farm er, Shipton Down3
M addox John Fowler, farm er
(letters th rou gh B urford)
M arriott Jam es L td . coal m erchants T u b b Charles (M rs.). shopkeeper
M atthew s F. W . P. L im ited , m illers U nited D istrict Gas Co
& corn m erchants, R ailw ay station W illis Jam es & Son, saddlers
M aw le H arry, farm er, C ou rt farm
LAN GLEY.
Mullis Jam es, m iller (water) & farmeT,
W ilkin s Charles W illiam , farm er
Shipton & L an gley mills

S H I R ,B U R N is a p arish and village, 1 m ile north-east
Irom W atlington term inal station on a branch from
nnces Risborough of the G reat W estern railw ay, 8
south-west from Tham e and 5$ south from T etsw orth,
in the Southern division of th e county, hundred of Pyr°n, petty sessional division of W atiin gton, union and
county court d istrict of Tham e, ru ra l deanery of Aston
nd archdeaconry and diocose of Oxford. Th e church of
a' n,t;s* situated in the grounds of and close to the
castle, is an ancient building of stone, con sistin g of
cnancel, nave, aisles, transepts, v estry, south porch and
em battled western tower of Norm an date, containing
clock and 2 bells : the nave arcades are E a rly E n glish ,
all the windows of the D ecorated period, and the

tower, origin ally N orm an, has m uch inserted w ork of
later date, and an upper stage of debased c h a ra c te r:
the ch urch contains several fine m onum ents, and brasses
to Richard C h am b erleyn esq. of “ Coot-ys,” N orthants
(i.e. Cotes, now Lin es), d. 1496, and his w ife S yb y ll
(Fow ler), w ith seven children, and to W illiam Bouldre,
d. 1498, and his w ife Joan, th e la tter b ein g an in scrip ­
tion only ; the form er of these brasses bears a curious
representation of the H oly T r in i t y : there is a low-side
window and a piscina, now m u t ila t e d : the b u ild in g was
th oro ugh ly restored and reseated in the year 1876, by
Thom as, 6th E arl of M acclesfield, at a cost of over
£3,000, when a new organ was erected. T h e stained
east window was th e g ift of th e Dow ager Countess of