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■Casfcleman Francis Wm. Crabtree frm Tucker Hubert Five Horse Shoes i>H
Barton Col. Edmund Merceron B.E. Clark Wm. farmer, New Manor farm Pullin William John farmer
’ iarm6r
O rchard d e n e
Davis Hannah (Mrs.), cowkeeper, fe----hirfield John,cowkeeper,Maidens
gro
Formby Rev. Charles YVykehamM.A. Laurence farm
Thatcher Robert Richard, bricklayer
The Rectory
Davis Tom Tudor, dairy
Ward Charles, Rainbow P.H. Lower
Hoare Hugh Bix hall
Grant Frank, frmr.Bottom House frm Assenden
Schmidl de Moraville Jn. Maximilian Handscomb James, farmer, Oak farm Ward John Allen, farmer, Rocky
F.R G.S. Cross Leys
Maidens grove
Lane farm
c o m m e k c ia l .
Henley Corporation Sewage Farm
Whittick Owen (Mrs.), farmer,
Cannon
F r e d e r ic k
James, farmer, Hoonev Thomas William, Fox P.H
Brawn’s farm
A s s e n d e n farm
:Hunt Geo. farmer, Little Bix bottom Wilder Geo. Alfd. Golden Ball P.H
Castle Charles, farm bailiff to Robert!Jones William, farmer. Westwood farm Young Charlotte Elizabeth (Mrs.),
Fleming esq. Bromsden farm
Manley Thos.farmer, Middle Assenden shopkeeper, Post office
BLACKBOTJRTON" (or Burton Abbots) is a parish since 1913 by the Rev. Harington Offley-Shore M.A. of
and village on the road from Faringdon to Burford, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Primitive Metho­
three-quarters of a mile east from Alvescot station on dist chapel here was built in 1861. The Dean and
the Oxford and Fairford branch of the Great Western Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, who are lords of
railway, 2 north-west from Bampton,
south-west the manor, and the Duke of Marlborough K.G. are
from Witney, and 73 from London, in the Mid division the principal landowners. The soil is stone brash and
of the county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional gravel; subsoil, the same. The land is principally
division of Bampton West, union and county court dis­ arable, producing the usual cereals. The area is 2,347
trict of Witney, rural deanery of Witney, archdeaconry acres of land and 5 of water; rateable value, £5,003;
and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is an population in 1911, 577.
ancient building of stone in mixed stvles, chiefly Tran­ Post Office.— James Baston, sub-postmaster. Letters
sition Norman and Early English, consisting of chancel,
from Clanfield, Oxon. 6.30 a.m. & 2 p.m.; S u n d a y s ,
with north chapel, clerestoried nave, north aisle and an
6.30
a.m.; dispatched at 9.45 a.m. & 8.5 p.m.;
embattled western tower of late Perpendicular date,
Sundays, 8.5 p.m. Alvescot, 1 mile distant, is the
rising from within the south-west angle and containing nearest money order & telegraph office
5bells; the lock and key of thebelfryareEarly English : Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1870, for 74
the chancel, of the same period, retains a piscina and
children ; Mrs. Woolgrove, mistress
has three small stained lancets at the east end ; there
CARTERTON, 1 mile north, an estate of about 740
isalso a locker, and a sedilia formed by the sill of a
window: the stone pulpit is Perpendicular: beneath the acres, was purchased by Homesteads Limited, of 27
communion table is a marble slab to SirArthur Hopton Essex street, London W C, from the Duke of Marl­
kt. ambassador to the court of Spain in the reign of borough, and divided into freehold plots on the “small
Charles I. ob. 1649' snd in the north chapel are monu­ holdings ” principle. Fruit growing and poultry breed­
ments to the Hungerfords of this place and of Farley ing is the staple occupation of the holders.
Castle, Somerset, including one with recumbent figure Post Office.— Robert Lavender, sub-postmaster. Letters
through Clanfield, Oxon. at 7 a.m. & 2 p.m. week
toLady Eleanor Hungerford, ob. 1591, and a sculptured
marble tablet to Col. Anthony Hungerford, 1703: the
days only; dispatched at 9.20 a.m. & 7.40 p.m.;
Sundays, 7.40 p.m. Brize Norton, 1 mile distant, is
church was completely restored in 1866, and affords 161
sittings. The register dates from the year 1542. The
the nearest money order office, & Alvescot, 2 miles,
living is a vicarage, net yearly value £174, with resi­ the nearest telegraph office
dence, in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held Railway Stations.— Bampton or Alvescot, 2 miles
BLACKBOURTON.
Campbell Murdoch, fruit grower & Jackson David, carman
assistant overseer
Akers Hubert, Manor house
Jesty Joseph, cowkeeper
Carpenter Francis, fruit grower
Pogmore Mrs. Brook house
Johnson Joseph, poultry farmer
Shore Rev. Harington Offley- M.A. Carterton & District Co-operative So­ Knowles John, poultry farmer
ciety Limited
(vicar), The Vicarage
Maitland Thomas, dairyman
Carterton Recreation Ground Trus­ Mitchell Ernest, market gardener
COMMERCIAL.
tees (Arthur Giles Gee, hon. sec) Mole Frederick, fruit grower
Akers Lawrence, farmer, Moat house Chapman Clara (Miss),poultry farmer Parrot Charles, carpenter & resident
Grubb William, Horse & Groom P.H Connolly John, farmer
agent to Homesteads Limited
Jeffervs Stephen Watson, farmer, Elm Curzhon Richard James, cowkeeper Playe
r William, grocer
Wood house
Davies Enoch, fruit grower
Richens
Thomas, farmer
Jefferys Thos. White,frmr.Lower frm Faulder John, farmer
Rodgers
William, carrier
Parker George, farmer
Faulder Joseph Benjamin, dairyman ‘
Rossiter Mrs. Susannah, poultry frmr
F
ox
cro
ft
John,
market
gardener
Sharp
John
Henry, fruit grower
CARTERTON.
Garner John, market gardener
Shead William, poultry farmer
COMMERCIAL.
Gee Arthur Giles, fruit grower & in­ Skene James Urquhart,market gardnr
Anderson Reginald Christie, higgler come tax collector
Charles, fruit grower
Atkinson George James Mouncey Gilbert Frederick, insurance agent Walker
Walmsley Frederick, poultry farmer
M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. phy- Harrison George, builder
Wendland
Richard, fruit grower
sician & surgeon (surgery)
Hemprich Mrs. Eveline, fruit grower Woods Albert, poultry farmer
Bateman John, dairyman
Humphries Jas. Archer, fruit grower Yeats Henry, nurseryman
Burge Henry, fruit grower
Ivin William, farmer
B L A C K T H O R N see Ambrosden.
BLADON is a parish and straggling village, bounded the Temple, d. 1665 : the church affords 200 sittings. A
the
the river Glyme, near its junction with lych gate, designed by Sir A. Blomfield, has been erected
2 mil»renlodeand adjoins the grounds of Blenheim, by the Rev. Arthur Majendie, rector 1876-1895, as a
ariri w t 1 om Handborough station on the Oxford memorial to his mother. The Rt. Hon. Lord Randolph
raH^J a am,
pt0n section of the Great Western H. S. Churchill P.C., M.P. who died at 50 Grosvenor
west fr’
r,1 rf0? from Woodstock and 7 miles north- square, London W, 24 Jan. 1895, was interred in the
hundred^f ?r °u’ in the Mid.division of the county, churchyard on 28 Jan. following, and his grave is
South v, ■ oottIon*petty sessional division of Wootton marked by a cross of granite. The register dates from
ruralde5S n
co,unt7 court district of Woodstock, about the year 1545 > and among other curious entries
of fWfm.a
Woodstock and archdeaconry and diocese are these of collections in the parish:— “1663, forStrasacelivitv ic
? urc.b of
Martin, situated on an burg, in Alsatia, in Germany, is. 6d. ; 1681, for the
Goth'r • a v,ain edlfice of stone in a modern stvle of French Protestants, £1 18s. 9d. ; 1700, for the redemp­
church’S X a ? erected in 1802-4 in place of the old tion of captives in the Empire of Fez and Morocco.”
of Mar’
l Wm d®s£°yed..
at the cost of George, 4th Duke The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of Woodstock
edified and 1 ^ ’ in xS9 T~s it; was completely re­ annexed, joint net yearly value £400, including 170
direction nf q-A^ew at a costl of -£2’500> under the acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Duke of
^enanewoh" A \ W - B^ m a d d M.A., A.R.A., F.S.A. Marlborough K.G., P.O. and held since 1905 by the
nave, and ;t anc(d Avas built and two bays added tothe Rev. Charles Humphry Minchin M.A. of St. Mary Hall,
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ana an em- Oxford, and chaplain of Woodstock Workhouse, who
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tower containing 6 bells, 3 re-cast from resides at Woodstock. There is a Wesleyan chapel,
was placed in so ^
3 I?ew bells added : the clock erected in 1878, and a Primitive Methodist chapel.
cel of thA
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i • Public subscription: in the chan- Mr. W. Hopkins’ charity of £14 4s. 8d. yearly is for
Griffiths ronEr iU . Tras buried the Rev. Matthew apprenticing, and there are charities for’distribution
here in the 17th cent, and Master of in bread and for educational purposes. In the villarI’XON. 4 *
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