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D IR E C T O R Y .

J

O XFO R D SH IRE.

1862, when the la rger portion was disafforested: the
1,500 acres still rem aining are adjacent to, and belong
to the owner of the
park of Cornbury. Vernon Jam es
Watney esq. is sole landowner and lord of the manors
of Charlbary, Langley, Leafield, Ram sden and A scott
d’Oyley. The area of the park, excluding forest land,
is 617 acres of land
and 15 of w a ter; rateable value,
£876; the population in 1911 was 56

COW LEY.

Si a ™ a r p u3
rp „i3e3rePUted t0 bS 6 Itr‘*-Par ° ‘* « l

81
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L etters through Oxford, via C harlbury, arrive at 6 &
9.40 a.m . & 12.45 p.m .
C harlbury i s the nearest
m oney order & telegraph office, j m ile distant

L etters are placed in C harlbury le tter box to be dispatched
Vernon Jam es M .A ., F .8 .A . Cam pbell Benjam in, head gardener to
G ran t A. forester to Vernon Jam es
J.P. Cornbury park
I Vernon Jam es W atney esq. J.P
W atney esq. J.P. The Kennels
FeUowes Charles A. B A ., J.P . land D ingle M aynard, gam ekeeper to Veragent to V. J. W atney esq.J.P.
non Jam es
W atney
esq.
J P Vaughan Geo.estate forem an,South hi
Hangers lodge
| B anger's lodge
W a tn e y

Chipping Norton station on
the Cheltenham and in the v ift of the Lord Chanceílnr asfd , i j residence,
Banbury branch >
-• "“
» nW
o sestern
w in railway,
of
theo u*™
G reat
railw ay, min by* The R e v » ‘ chard
i aonns
u iu c ii « ixlÍ.¿x.l tur í ot.
;----- «Pa^rv
the Northern division of the county, hundred and pettypetty College,
C olle™ Cam bridge. 1A. t I the
.
" i f “ . is a\ list S
.i,o hin­
n’
rectory
ofî ' the
sessional division of C hadlington, union and county
cum bents of the parish from 1236 to the present time.
court district of C hipping Norton, rural deanery of
Cornwell Manor, the seat of Col. A lexander Nelson Hall
Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and diocese of O x­
J.P . is a good stone mansion of Jacobean date, stand­
ford. The church of St. P eter, ’ which stands in the
in
g in a well-wooded park of 60 acres. The trustees
grounds of Cornwell House, is a plain b uilding of
of the late Miss Penyston are the principal landowners,
stone in the Transition Norman and la ter styles, con­
ih
e soil is chiefly lim estone b rash ; subsoil, brash rock
sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a central
turret containing one sm all b e ll: the chancel arch is T h e chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The
area
is 849 acre s; rateable value, £ 8 1 7 ; the population
Transition Norman and both the doorways plain Nor­ in 1911
was 79.
man j but the chancel and all the windows are Perpen­
Parish Clerk, W illiam H enry Stowe.
dicular: the stained east window was erected in 1876
in memory of the late Miss Penyston, and there are Letters through Chipping Norton arrive at 7 a.m . & 1.30
p.m . C h urchill, about i f m iles distant, is the nearest
several memorial tablets to th at fa m ily : the church
m oney order & telegraph office
was partly rebuilt in 1830, and in 1882 was thoroughly
restored by the late John F. Penyston esq. at a cost of L etter Box, outside School, cleared at 8 a.m . & 6 p.m .
£850: there are sittings for 70. The register dates
week days only
from the year 1662, but is in m any parts im perfect
Th e children attend school at C hurchill
C rocker M ajor A rth ur A lbert
COMM ERCIAL.
PRIVATE RESIDEN TS.
H all C ol. A lexander Nelson J.P. C orn- C h arrin gto n Mowbray J ulian E ng­
Burnett Rev. Richard P arry M.A.
well m anor
land, farm er, H om e farm
(rector & retired senior chaplain to
I Faw dry G eorge, farm er, Park farm
H.M. Indian Governm ent), Rectory
! Thornton G eorge, farm er, G lebe farm
C O T E , see Bam pton Aston.
C O T T I S F O R D is a parish on the borders of Norththe Provost and Fellows of Eton College, and held since
•mptonshire, 4 m iles south from B rackley station on the
1911 by the Rev. S h erard M ontagu Statham M .A of
Bletchley and Banbury branch of the London and N orth
Queen’s College, C am bridge, and L L .D . of T rin ity C ol­
Western railway, and 6 north from B icester station on
lege, Dublin. John M ansfield, in 1869, bequeathed £100
. mam
to Birm ingham of the G reat W estern
ew £ 3 Per C ents, the interest of w hich is distrib uted
lailwav in the Mid division of th e county, hundred
T h e principal landowners are Eton
and petty sessional division of Ploughlev, ' union and am ong th e poor.
College
and John Allen esq. Th e common land, of about
county court d istrict of B icester, rural deanery of
440
acres,
was
inclosed
about 1854. 'The soil is g r a v e lly ;
Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The
subsoil, stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and
church of St. M ary is an ancient building of stone
oats.
The
area
is
1,062
acres of land and 6 of w a ter;
originally E arly E nglish, but m uch modified by restora­
tion, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a rateable value, £ 1,0 4 9 ; th e population in 1911 was 150.
Wfry containing 3 bells : there is a stone coffin placed

JU N IPE R H IL L is a ham let of this parish about 1
m ile distant,^and contains the bulk of the population.
brass with thn
*
W“ 11; and there is aIs0 a
Letters
through Brackley arrive at 7.45 a.m . & 1 p.m .
.¡T ’ k ? 1
,
glCS 0f a man in arm °u r a " d h ‘ S
W all L e tter Boxes.— C ottisford, cleared at 8.30 a.m .
five dauvht.
g’
figures of eight sons and
1861 feH w a
r j o o t . t h e church was restored in
& 5-45 P m - J Juniper H ill, cleared at 12.45 & 5.30
p.m . Hethe is th e nearest m oney order & telegraph
the year
¿ " ik
gS,' The reg is‘ er dates from
office, 1 m ile distant
oak
Ther a ! ’ a"
earliest volum e is bound
in
¡eel' j' 1™ g IS a rectory, net yearly value /aaa
E lem en tary School, b u ilt in 1870, for 52 c h ild re n ;
Deluding 82 acres of glebe and residence, in th e ¿aft' of I
mistress
p b iv a t e b e s id e n t s
i S tM hja m r B e '"'
S h e ra rd
M o n ta g u H u l e tt E lib u t, F o x P .H . J u n ip e r h ill
Koasby E d w ard e s B ic h a rd K e n d a ll,
' ’
BeCt0IT
T e b b y H e n ry , g a rd e n e r to E . R . K.
Cottisford house
re • r.
c o m m eb c ia l .
R o u sb y esq
Bousby Mrs. Cottisford house
w k ° eorge- farm b alllff t0 K
S- w M e G eorge & Kenneth S. farm ers,
1 vvnyte esq
Manor farm

COWLEY •

M ID D L E ,

T E M P L E and

CH URCH

COW LEY.

¿Pal and parlfa^enta^v^lim
th ® mJuni‘ extensive traces of ancient paintings of the H oly Virgin
from Oxford for 2 I m ifes couth «0
t ’ extending
and Child, Our Lord in G lory, and dedication crosses,
®ile northfrom
t f
u and 130116
SOTne
Porfcionsof w^ich have been
resto red : there
W
vpnmK/v
..
ttlem
>»700016«
V . rore„ station_on
on the
n le cOxxford
io r d and are m em orial windows to Mr. Richard G reening and
the church was
restored and
en­
the Southern diri •
r t
at W estern railw ay, in Miss C h o lm ely:
sessional
m s i™ of the county, hundred and p etty larged in 1865 under the direction of the late G . E.
county court’ di«! ■i Bullingdon, union of H eadington, Street esq. R.A . and affords 500 sittings. The register
desdon and aS h d
0 l f ° r d. rural deanery of Cud- dates from the year 1678. The livin g is a vicarage,
chnrch
and °diocese
Oxford. Th
Thee j net yearly value £ 2 0 0 , w ith residence, in the g i f t ” of
church of
Of S t" obdeacon.i7
Jam««” ";1/ a*"111
! ocasa of
of Oxford.
n n o i 11
. • J 3IDes IS an ancient-, h m 'M i n n n f
~
originally of the L a te Tin ™ anc“ n‘ building of stone, I the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1875 bv the Rev.
consisting of , i !
^ Pa|'lod, b a t now in m ixed I G eorge Moore M .A. of Jesus College, Oxford. The C on­
cur bays, north aisle
u W , th aisIe. nave of I gregational chapel, b uilt in t904 at a cost of about
Western tower of Purri’p L ^ , i P°rch and a low em battled I £900, will seat 200 p ersons; tb e T e is also a Prim itive
ae chancel isTrin«;?;«
1
date, containing 6b ells: | M ethodist chapel. In 1906 some extensive school buildnigo hnote,
lu iiu®rly
tjiij known
ixiiuw 11 asas St.
06. jxeneim
ocnooi,
“ <l beinglighted bv atrfolo^
r ta -y j ,ngllsh' the east ings
ere' foi'm
Ken elm ’ ss School,
a the north
j triplet of stained lancet
w indow s; were
t-.o and
ond ao /iiianal
¿»vod
wereaHHor?
added to
chapel erected,
for a colony of the
retains
a
D
T
,A
"
s0,ibh
si,dM
are
niche3
and
tha
I*tter
Franciscan
order,
established
here
20
Oct.
1906,
and
,
d
Disoinn
\
nlCUeS 311(1 ttie lafcter
has a good p S L f ? . ,a low Slde window : the tower is known as the Franciscan College ; V ery Rev. Father
of tlje
nave are i? , Wesl> window
: the windows A lbert O ’Dwyer. rector. In the parish are In dustrial
80mebenches ri7te? ra^e
there
is a PIain font and schools. Th e 10 acres of land which w ere left for ch arity
cues, dated
,63 2; and upon the walls are have been sold for £1,100 , the in terest of which is disOXON.

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