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BRIZE NORTOV.

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BEIGHTWELL B A L D W I N (or Baldwyn Briglil- ¿1,200, and now affords 150 sittings. The register
well) is a parish and small village, 3 miles west from dates from the year 1545. The living is a rectory, net
Watlington terminal station of a branch from Princes 1yearly value ¿135, with residence and 44 acres of glebe,
Risborough, on^ the Great Western railway, 6 north- in the gift of Roger Fletcher Lowndes-Stone-Norton esq.
east from Wallingford, and 8 south-west from Thame, and held since 1914 by the Rev. Thomas Hainsworth.
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of The charities for distribution in fuel and money amount
Ewelme, petty sessional division of Watlington, union to about ¿12 yearly, and there is a separate coal charity
0f Henley, county court district of Thame, rural of ¿10. Brightwell Park, the property of Roger Fletcher
deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of Ox- Lowndes-Stone-Norton esq. lord of the manor and sole
ford. The church of St. Bartholomew is a building of proprietor, is occupied by Edward Lauder Lauderstone, chiefly in the Late Decorated style, and consists Watson esq.; the mansion, which is situated close to
of chancel with an original vestry and a Perpendicular the church, stands in a beautifully-wooded park of 50
mortuary chapel on the north side, nave, aisles, south acres. The land is level, with a gravel, loam and
porch and an embattled western tower of Perpendicular marl soil; subsoil, chiefly marl. The chief crops are
date with pinnacles, and containing 6 bells, three of ■wheat, oats, barley, beans and roots. The area is 1,612
which were added in 1911, when a clock was also pro­ acres; rateable value, ¿1,523; the population in 1911
vided and the tower restored : the chancel has an east was 188.
window of three lights and an arch and screen of plain Brightwell Upper Town, half a mile south, is a small
Decorated work: the nave is separated from the aisles village in the parish of Brightwell Baldwin.
by arcades of the same date, with tall octagonal pillars,
Sexton, Herbert Gammon.
and the aisle windows retain some good examples of
ancient glass: there are three piscinae, one of which is Post & T. Office.— Benjamin Selwood, sub-postmaster.
in the north chapel: the church contains several monu­ Letters received through Wallingford arrive at 6.35
ments to the Stone family, and brasses to John Cottes­ a.m. & 1.50 p.m.; dispatched at 8.15 a.m. & 1.55 &
8.40 p.m. ; Sundays, arrive at 6.35 a.m. ; dispatched
more, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, d. 1439, and
his wife Amice (Harcourt), with 26 Latin hexameters ; at 8.40 p.m. Watlington, 3 miles distant, is the
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earest money order office
John Carleton, 1547, who came from Walton-on-Thames,
c. 1500, his wife Joyce and 8 children ; Anthony Carle­ Elementary (Council) School (boys & girls), built in
ton and Anne (Perient) his wife, 1562, with 2 children,
1879 at a cost of nearly ¿1,200, with residence for
and an inscription to John the Smith, his wife and 13 the master & room for 80 children; Lionel Field,
children, c. 1370, with 7 English verses: the church
master
was restored and reseated about 1895 at a cost of
Cranstone Alfred, head gardener to Smith George, watercress grower
BRIGHTWELL BALDWIN.
E. L. Lauder-W7atson esq
Tidmarsh Henry, blacksmith
Hainsworth Rev. Thomas (rector), Donaldson Jas. & Son,frmrs. White ho
Rectory
Giles William, grocer
BRIGHTWELL UPPER TOWN.
Lauder-Watson Edward Lauder, Hawes Thomas, farmer
Brightwell park
Howlett Thos. farmer, Brightwell gro Lindsay Jane (Mrs.) & Son, farmers,
COMMERCIAL.
Selwood Joseph, estate foreman to Uppertown farm
Boast George, head gamekeeper to Roger Fletcher Lowndes-StoneE. L. Lauder-Watson esq
Norton esq
BRITWELL, formed in 1913 out of the parishes of money; the church land yields ¿1 us. 6d. yearly for
Britwell Prior and Britwell Salome, is a parish. 2 miles repairs; the church acre produces 10s.yearly. Roger
south-west from Watlington terminal station of a Fletcher Lowndes-Stone-Norton esq.who is lord of the
branch from Princes Risborough on the Great Western manor of Britwell Prior, and Messrs. Paine, who are
railway, and 6 north-east from Wallingford, in the lords of the manor of Britwell Salome, together with
Southern division of the county, hundred of Lewknor, Col. Apsley Smith, the trustees of the late Rev. William
petty sessional division of 'Watlington, union of Preston Hulton M.A. (d. 14 Aug. 1870), and Charles
Henley, county court district of Wallingford, rural Edmund Ruck-Keene esq. J.P. are the principal land­
deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of owners. The soil is gravel and chalk;subsoil, lcam.
Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas, rebuilt in 1867 The chief crops are wheat, oats, beans, barley and roots.
and opened in November of tbat year, is a building of The area is 1,604 acres; rateable value, ¿1,555; the
flmt. and stone in mixed styles and consists of a population in 1911 was 190.
chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and western bell The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1911
gable with 2 bells: the chancel arch and the fine south was 184.
doorway are Norman : the church contains several
monuments, an ancient font and a brass to John Mores, Parish Clerk, Samuel Barkuss.
rector. 1495; there are sittings for 130 persons. In the
churchyard is a magnificent yew tree. The register Post Office.— Samuel Barkuss, sub-postmaster. Letters
from Wallingford arrive at 5.5 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ;
dates from the year 1574. The living is a rectory5
, net
yearly value ¿170, with residence and 18A acres of dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 7.45 p.m. ; Sundays, arrive
at 5.5 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.5 p.m. Watlington, i|
glebe, in the gift of the Marquess of Lansdowne
miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph
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since i898 by the Rev. Joseph
Charles Mansfield B.A. of the Royal University of office
Ireland and A.Iv.C.Lond. Here is a Weslevan chapel. The children of this parish attend the Elementary school
thibnalPs charity of ¿1 16s. a year is distributed ini at Baldwin Brightwell
Hutton Mrs
Munday Thomas, gardener to Col. iron & brass founders & black­
Mansfield Rev. Joseph Charles B A.. Apsley Smith
smiths
A H-C.L. Rectory
Palmer Herbert Ernest, poultry Stevens Frederick, farmer
O'Sullivan Mrs
farmer & assistant overseer
Stevens
John, farmer, Rosedale
Stopes Miss, Garden villa
Sadler George, beer retailer
Stride Herbert Wyndham, farmer,
COMMEHCIAL.
Stevens Brothers, agricultural imple­ The Priory
Barkuss Sml. wheelwright, Post office ment makers & agents, engineers, Train Nelson, Red Lion P.H
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south aoch f -n0 / om Hampton to Burford, 4 miles Decorated piscina ; an ancient Perpendicular screen, reand 7 !l!,r0ln Hurford, 3 north-by-east from Bampton stored in 1881, separates the chancel from the nave:
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"’em Witney, in the Mid division of there is a fine Norman south doorwav and a font of
of Bamntnn w J 3dof Hampton, Petty sessional division Transitional character, with attached 'shafts: in the
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county court district of north aisle, to which it was removed in 1886 from the
diocese of nVde*ne^. of_Wltney and archdeaconry and vestry, is the fine tomb of Sir John Daubigny; the
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rebung in 1881 : the nave is knightly effigy, and below, in a similar opening, the
isused a g ’ e north aisle, the east end of which crossed feet, resting 011 a lion; around are four smaller
the Dpc™ fn,or?ai1 chamber and vestry, has windows of shields with differentiated arms, and a marginal in­
ated period : the chancel, partly of this date, scription, dated 1346: in the Wenman chapel in the