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OOPOOURT is a hamlet
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OXFORDSHIRE.

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miles north (letters Hamp at a cost of £550: theTe are 200 sittings. Here
is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1861, and a Primi­
tive Methodist chapel. Kingston House, the seat of
KINGSTON BLOUNT is a large village and hamlet Henry Clerke Brown esq. D.L., J.P. lord of the manor,
three-quarters of a mile east. St. John’s church, a stands in extensive pleasure grounds, at the base of the
chapel of ease to the mother church, erected in 1877, Chiltern Hills.
at a cost, including site, of £1,600, and consecrated Post, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office,
May 4th, 1877, is an edifice of red brick, from designs Kingston Blount.— Ambrose R. Biazell,sub-postmaster.
by Sir Aston Webb K.C.V.O., C.B., R.A., F.S.A. con­ L
etters received from Wallingford at 7.15 a.m. & 2
sisting of chancel, nave, south transept, north porch and p.m.;
atched at 9.20 a .m . & 6.10 p.m. on. week
a central bell cote containing one bell: the east window days &disp
is stained, and at the west end is a stained lancet S u n d a ys received 7 a.m. & dispatched 10.30 a.m. on
window with a figure of St. Augustine; and below it
an inscription on brass to Alexander Penrose Forbes Elementary School (mixed), built in 1844, & sinoe en­
larged by a class-room, for 103 children ; Miss Green,
D.O.L. late Bishop of Brechin (1847-75), and formerly
curate of this parish, who died at Dundee, 8 Oct. 1875 : mistress
the church was enlarged in 1887 by the late Mr. Henry Railway Station, George Thomas Eggleton, station mast
ASTON ROWANT.
Brown John Clerke, Lower farm
May Hubert, baker
Fleet Henry, Laurel cottage
(Letters through Wallingford.)
Meeks George, farmer
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Mundy Herbert, beer retailer
Cave Mrs. Beacon cottage
Hamp Mrs. The P'irs
Oakley Robert, baker
Dangerfield Rev.George M.A. (vicar), Hatton Mrs. Ferndale
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The Vicarage
Hatton Wm. Cleland, The Laurels Smith Charles, farm bailiff to H. C.
Goncher Mrs. The Cottage
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Brown esq. D.L., J.P
Plowden Sir Wm. Chichele K.C.S.I., Wakelin William, Chiltern cottage Taylor
William, beer retailer
J.P. Aston house
Turner Herbert, shopkeeper
COMMERCIAL.
COMM ERCIAL.
Wakelin Richard, wheelwright
Waters Samuel, Cherry Tree P.H
Abbey George, gardener to Sir Wm. Barnett John, blacksmith
Brazell Ambrose R. grocer, The
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Blake Harry, farmer Woodway farm
(Letters through Thame.)
Ditton-John, farm bailiff to Sir Wm. Brown John Clerke, agent to John
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C. Plowden K.C.S.I
Mansell Albert, The Shepherd’s Close
Holmes Bobt. JoSon, farmrs.Hill frm ,Buckland Liberty, brazier
COMMERCIAL.
Knight PercyWilton,LambertArmsP.il¡Chapman Thomas, butcher & farmer
Morris Arth. Jn. farmer, Warren frm Clark Edward James, farmer, Town Church Alfred, farmeT
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Shrimpton Betsy (Mrs.), farmer, ^ Lower farms
Home farm
Croxford George, coal merchant
CHALFORD.
Hatton Wm. Cleland, assist, oversee:
KINGSTON BLOUNT.
& brewers’ agent
(Letters through Tetsworth.)
p r iv a t e r e s id e n t s .
|Hill Joseph & Son, hay merchants & Browning Thomas Osborne, farmer,
Allnutb Mrs
Upper farm
landowners
Atlunson Mrs. Elizabeth villa
Kent Charles, head gardener to H. Quartly James, farmer, Manor farm
Ballard Mrs. The Grove
C. Brown esq. D.L., J.P
COPCOURT.
Brown Henry Clerke D.L., J.P. King­ King-Edwards Thomas R., M.D.
ston house; & United University (branch from Watlington ; attends Deverell Thomas, farmer, Copcourt
club, London S W
mondays & fridays)
farm (letters through Tetsworth)
ATTINGTON, formerly extra-parochial, is a small subsoil, clay. The crops are wheat and beans, with a
parish 1 mile south-east from Tetsworth and 3 miles large portion of rich pasture land. The area is 444
south-west from Thame station on the Princes Ris- acres; rateable value, £475; the population in 1911
borough and Oxford branch of the Great Western rail­ was 20.
way, in the Southern division of the county, petty
sessional division of Bullingdon, union and county court Letters through Tetsworth, the nearest post, money
order & telegraph office, arrive at 6.15 a.m. & 12.30
district of Thame. W'enman Aubrey Wvkeham-Musgrave
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esq. D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor, and Philip p.m
Worrall esq. are the sole landowners. The soil isloamy; The children of this parish attend Tetsworth school
Wright Stanley, Attington house
Deverell Edgar Thomas, farmer, Dormers Lees farm
B AD G E M O R E is a civil parish formed under the the building is given under the heading of Henley-onprovisions of the “Local Government Act, 1894,” by an Thames. R. L. Ovey esq. of Hemes, Henley-on-Thames,
Order of the County Councils of Berks and Bucks, dated is a landowner. Middle and Lower Assenden are in­
June 14, 1894. It comprises that portion of the civil cluded in the parish. The area is 1,522 acres of land
parish of Henley-on-Thames outside the municipal area. and 8 of water ; rateable value, £4,249; population in
Itisabout a mile north-west from Henley, inthe Southern 1911, 399.
division of the county, hundred of Binfield and petty sea­ Post Office, Lower Assenden.— John Froomes, sub-post­
sonal division, union and county court district of master. Letters arrive from Henley-on-Thames at
Henley. The Henley cemetery is in this parish, and has 6.20 a.m. & 12 noon; dispatched at 10.55 a™-- &
a chapel, in which divine service is held every Sunday at 2.45
& 7.10 p.m. ; sunday, arrive at 6.25 a.m.; dis­
3-15 p.m. The Henley and Hambleden Rural Districts patched at n.45 a.m. Henley-on-Thames,
miles
IsolationHospital is also in the parish. A description of distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office
p r iv a t h r e s id e n t s .
IFroud Samuel, Transvaal house, Grove William, Travellers’Rest P.H.
DeeEdward Harry, Beecblands
Middle Assenden
Lower Assenden
Drummond Henry 0 . & Hon. Mrs. Froud Walter, 1 Spring villas, Middle Judge Emma Amelia (Mrs.), dress
Farr lodge
maker, 11 Clisby villas, Fair Mile
Assenden
Frond Horace Norman, Myrtle villa, Lowenadler Frederick, Badgemore ho Poole William George Ernest,farmer,
Middle Assenden
Neal Alfred Ernest, The Croft
Badgemore farm
Froud James Lewis, 2 Spring villas,
COMMERCIAL.
Wallace Alice Cornish (Mrs.), cowkpr
Middle Assenden
Green H. & Son, farmers, Swiss
road James Wm. Middle Assenden farm, Marlow road
(or Marsh Baldon), anciently an ancient edifice of stone in the Decorated and Per­
aidendone” and “ Baldington,” is a parish and village, pendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north
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railea s°uth-east from Littlemoro station, on the aisle and a Decorated western tower mantled with ivy
xord and Wycombe section of the Great Western and containing 4 bells: on the erection of the north
aiway, 5^ south-east from Oxford, in the Southern aisle, the east window was removed thither and its
vision of the county, hundred and petty sessional place occupied by a painting of the “Annunciation ”
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union and county court district by Guido, presented in 1794 by Sir Christopher Wil­
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rural deanery of Cuddesdon, archdeaconry loughby, 1st bart. ; this picture has since been in turn
oas j10£ese °* Oxford. The Roman Akeman Street removed to the west end, and the former east window
P sed both places of this name in proceeding from replaced: it is filled with glass of dates from the 13th
over to Wallingford. The church of St. Peter is to the 17th century, and includes figures of St. Anne,