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ASTHALL.

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Nunn Oapt. Clayton, Ardley hall
Beasley Arthur, farmer
Walton Mary Ann (Mrs.), coal merRoberts Rev. Lawrence Graeme Allan, Coles Ernest, Fox & Hounds P.H
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vTibbard Richard, baker
ARNCOT, see Ambrosden.
ASCOT, see Lit/tie Milton.
AS CO T T- U ND E R - W Y C H W O O D is a parish and Charles Walford M.A. of St. John’s College, Oxford. The
village on the river Evenlode, with a station on the Baptist chapel here was built, in 1803 and rebuilt in 1894.
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton branch of the The poor’sestateof 4a. or. i2p. with 21 cottages, produces
Great Western railway and i£ miles east from Shipton about £72 yearly, and was formerly expended in appren­
station on the same line, 8 miles north-west from Witney ticing, and in clothing girls going out to service, but the
and 6 south from Chipping Norton, in the Northern surplus, after paying for repairs &c. isnow distributed in
division of the county, hundred and petty sessional divi­ fuel and clothing. Vernon J. Watney esq. of Cornbury
sion of Chadlington, union and county court district of Park, who is lord of the manor, the Crown. H. Sander­
Chipping Norton, rural deanery of Chipping Norton son Furniss esq. and Mrs. Walton are the principal
and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The landowners. The soil is clay and stone brash; subsoil,
church of the Holy Trinity is an ancient edifice of clay and rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans,
stone, in the Norman and later styles, consisting of oats and turnips. The area is 1,832 acres of land and 7
chancel, clerestoried nave, north aisle, south chapel, of water; rateable value, £3,389; the population in 1911
south porch and a western tower of the Transition period was 365.
containing a clock and 6 bells: the chancel walls are Sexton, James Edginton.
Norman, but the east window is an insertion of the
Decorated period: two small Norman windows remain Post & M. 0 . Office.— James Edginton, sub-postmaster.
on the north side of the chancel, and on the south side is Letters arrive from Oxford 5.45 a.m. & 12.33 p m.;
a piscina and sedilia: the chancel arch is Decorated, but dispatched at 11.45 a.m. & 8 p.m.; no delivery on
Sunday
rude: the nave and north aisle are divided by an arcade
ofthree semicircular Norman arches, supported on mas­ There is a telegraph office at Ascot station, which is
sivepillars: the south porch has a curious Norman inner open from 8 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. & 2 to 4 & 5 to 8p.m.
doorway and quaint corbels support its roof: the font is on week days; on Sundays at train times only
Perpendicular: there are a few good oak benches with Elementary School (mixed), erected about 1833, rebuilt
poppy-heads of the fleur-de-lis form: the church affords in 1873 & enlarged in 1879; itwill hold 103 children;
204 sittings. The register dates from the year 1569. John W. B. Kinvig, master
The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £180, in­
Railway Stations.
cluding 18 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Ascot— James Attwood, station master
the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Shipton— Allen Preece, station master
Furniss Henry Sanderson, Chesnut Chaundy Osbert Thos. farmer,Long ho Jessop Barbara (Mrs.), Churchill
close (letters through Shipton)
Chaundy Thomas, farmer
Arms P.H
Walford Rev. Charles M.A. Vicarage Claridge John, farmer
Matthews Frederick William Powell
Wilson R, Wallis, The Grange
Cook Benjamin, farmer
J.P. farmer, The Manor house
C O M M E R C IA L .
Cooper James, miller (water)
Walker John, pork butcher
AldenJoseph, shoeing & genl. smith Edginton David, farmer
Walton Mary Anne (Mrs.), farmer
Barrett Jesse, Swan P.H
Edginton Arthur A. farmer
White Charles Henry, boot maker
Busby Joshua, shopkpr. & farmer
Edginton James, stationer, Post office Young John & Son, wheelwrights
Chandler Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundry Hambidge Leonard Robert, farmer, Young John, overseer & assessor of
Chaundy Henry, farmer, Manor farm Crown farm
income tax
ASTHALL is a village and parish on the river Wind- for church purposes. Asthall barrow is a considerable
rush, 4 miles north from the Bampton station on the tumulus, crowned by trees, on Akeman Street, a Roman
Oxford, Witney and Fairford branch of the Great West­ road which formerly crossed the river near Asthall
ern railway, 3 east-by-south from Burford and about 5^ Bridge. The old Manor House, a fine gabled mansion,
west from Witney, and in the Mid division of the county, with a large^embattled oriel, stands near the west end
hundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of Bamp­ of the church, and is the property of A. C. Bateman
ton West, union and county court district of Witney, esq. and the residence of Alfred Herbert esq. The prin­
rural deanery of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of cipal landowners are Lord Redesdale K.C.B., G.C-V.O.
Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas isan ancient build­ who is lord of the manor, Arthur Charles Bateman esq.
ing of st-one, in the Transitional Early English and Eton College and Queen’s College, Oxford. The soil is
other styles, consisting of chancel with north chapel, stone brash; subsoil, gravel and rock. The chief crops
nave, north aisle, north porch and an embattled western are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,246
tower containing 3 bells: the chancel, with sedilia and acres of land and 13 of water; rateable value, £1,691;
piscina, is Early English, but has an inserted window the population in 1911 (including the hamlet) was 319.
of Perpendicular date on the south side: in the fine Letters from Burford, Oxon. arrive at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m.
north chapel, probably built by the Cornwall family, The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bur­
there is, under a Decorated window containing portions ford, 3 miles distant. Wall Letter Box cleared at 7.35
0 ancient stained glass, a large recess of rich Early a.m. & 5.45 p.m. week days only
ecorated work inclosing a recumbent female effigy, Wall Letter Box, Fordwells, cleared at 5.15 p.m. week
Uh v*: kere also is a stone altar with a piscfna days only
attached to one of the supports : a window of the latter
yie at the east end also contains fragments of similar FIELD ASSARTS, 3$ miles north-east; FORDWELLS,
tvrSSr 3 Pare^0£e "within a Transition arch separates
miles north, and STONELANDS, i| miles south­
hpabv j *rom tk0 chancel, and another, with Norman west, are hamlets.
mouldings, divides the chancel from the Letters for Asthall Leigh, Field Assarts, Fordwells &
, Ve’ an arcade of three arches on Norman piers Dodds farm through Witney, arrive at 8 a.m. & 5.25
nP rates the latter from the aisle: the windows of the p . m
biiAn mS-k examples of every style except Norman,
rpot ^rS i!S a ^ormai1 I°nt• in 1884 the church was Worsham is another hamlet, 1 mile south-east.
wivp r’ vr6 nave an<* a^s^es at a cost of above £1,000, Elementary School, Asbhall, built in 1873 & endowed witii
£12 yearly, including £5 from a charity left by Sir
ColW 1 S‘
Collier, and the chancel by Eton
G. Fetiplace, for 60 children; Mrs. Florence Hicks,
was a6’ 3t 3 ,cost akout £200 : in 1892 the chancel
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ora^ec^ with mural paintings and a stained
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W inS6r^ : ^ ere are IJ8 sittings. In the churchASTHALL
LEIGH is a hamlet 2 miles north-east and
and ev anc^en*1altar tomb, panelled with quatrefoils
baiti«,«6 J’ anc* a ^ne
yew tree. The register of 4 north-west from Witney railway station. The church
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year 1704; marriages, 1719;
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^le livinS *s a vicarage, net vearly value of ease to the parish church, is an edifice of stone in a
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Tesidence, in the gift of Eton College, and debased form of the Decorated style, consisting of
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®ev- William Hallowes Kirwan chancel and nave only: the east window is of three
for dktr-R ?■
College, Cambridge. The charities !lights, and at the west end are two smaller windows of
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bread and money are £14 yearly, of one light each.
*4 13s. 4d. is for widows, and there is also £4 ,Wall Letter Box, Asthall Leigh, cleared at 5.25 p.m
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