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HADLEY.

B E R K S H IR E .

also a gym nasium , racq uet & fives courts & cricket &
football grounds, & convenient bath in g arrangem ents
have been m ade at a spot on the riv er not far from the
s ch o o l: there are also am ple facilities for boating, &
the college m aintains an eig h t, w hich annually com ­
petes for the “ Ladies’ Plate ” at H enley R e g a tta ;
no boy is allowed to enter the boats w ith out having
obtained a “ pass ” in s w im m in g : the prem ises are
freehold & now the p roperty of the sch o o l: three new
houses to hold 38, 30 & 32 boys resp ectively have
been erected & are under the charge of E rnest Bryans
esq. M .A. F rancis J. B arm by M .A. & the Rev. Francis
J. Stone M .A .; the design of the school is to give
a thorough p ublic school education to boys of the
upper classes on the principles of the C h urch of
E ngland, & each boy is assigned to the special charge
of one of the m asters, who is styled his “ tu to r,’'
who w ill observe & report on his conduct so long as
he rem ains in th e school
S ch olarsh ip s.— The Sewell scholarship, value ^ 55 yearly,
tenable for four years, was founded in m em ory of
the late Dr. W . S e w e ll: scholars are elected as
v acancies occur & funds p e r m it: ten scholarships &
exhibitions, varyin g in value from £80 to £20, are
offered each year & are open to boys who were under
the age of 14 on the 1st of January last p recedin g;
these are tenable for four y e a r s ; for the first two
years from the date of election the holders are re ­
garded as probationers, & if satisfactory progress has
been m ade they are re -e le c te d : there is also the
Jam es scholarship founded by Lord N orthboum e, for
boys under 18 years of age, value £30 : two scholar­
ships have been founded in m em ory of the late Rev.
W illiam Beadon H eathcote, form erly warden, for boys
u nder 17 & 18 resp ectively, value £20 each, one being
given for classics, the other for m athem atics ; & there
is a scholarship founded by th e late W illiam G ibbs
esq. for boys under 16, value ^ 2 0 ; each of these
scholarships is tenable for one year only ; there are
now (1915) about 200 boys in the college, all boarders
The College is governed by a. Council of 14 persons, &
the Bishop of Oxford is visitor
W arden, Rev. Edward Gordon Selw yn M .A . of K in g ’s
C ollege, C am bridge & late Fellow of C orpus C h risti
C ollege, C am b rid ge
Sub-W arden, E rnest B ryans M .A .; b urser, Rev. A rth ur

[ k e l l y ’s

W illiam Davies M .A. ; F ranklin Sim pkinson M .A.
Rev. F ran cis Joseph Stone M .A. F ran cis Jam es
B arm by M .A. H enry St. Alban Lowe M .A. A rthur
W ilson-G reen M .A. Rev. Roderick Harold Capper B irt
M .A. Lancelot Andrews V idal B .A . Harold Edward
Lionel Porter M .A. G eorge W illis W alker B .A . A le x ­
ander G eld art M acpherson M .A. Leonard A rth u r
Blundell M oss-Blundell B .A . A rth ur Thom as Hedgecock B .A . Charles Fleetwood E llerton M .A. Francis
Philip Stevenson M .A . W alter Reginald Sm ale B .A .
assistant m asters ; Bernard C ollier Jones B .A . m usic
m aster
M edical A ttendant, W alter T yrrell Brooks M .A ., M.B.
of Oxford
E lem entary School (m ixed), b uilt by a form er v icar, for
67 children & enlarged 1892 for 86 ch ild ren ; Miss
E dith W elch, m istress
R ailw ay Station, W illiam H enry Parkins, station m aster
B A G L E Y WOOD, form erly extra-parochial, is 3^ miles
north from Abingdon ; it chiefly consists of an ex ten ­
sive wood, which belongs to St. John’s College, Oxford,
and in which, in the 7th century, a noble herm it, named
Aben, took up his abode and b u ilt a chapel, and about
670, H ean, nephew of a king of W essex, founded a
m onastery on the same spot, b u t afterw ards, in 675, trans­
lated it to Abingdon, then called Seovechesham , and
became its first abbot. In M ay, 1900, by Local G overn­
m ent Board O rder No. 40,662, B agley Wood was joined
to Radley, and now form s p art of the north w ard of
th at parish.
Th is place is reputed to be extra-parochial for eccle­
siastical purposes.
C H A N D L IN G S , form erly extra-parochial, is 3 miles
north from A bingdon and 3 south from Oxford, adjoining
Bagley W ood, on the road from A bingdon to Oxford :
it consists of one sm all farm , which belongs to C h rist
Church, Oxford, and is now occupied by Mr. Dennis
Dene, of Sunningw ell. In M ay, 1900, by L o cal Govern
m ent Board Order No. 40,662, Chandlings was joined
to Radley, and now forms p art of the north ward of th at
parish
This place is reputed to be extra-parochial for eccle­
siastical purposes.

Bonner W illiam , f arm er,Pum n ey frm
P R IV A T E R E S ID E N T S .
(Marked thus * receive letters through Dunsdon F rederick G . baker
Lew
is E dw ard, farm er, Thrupp
O xford.)
M achin W m . shopkeeper, P ost office
Cousins Dennis Chas. Park cottage
Silvester G eorge Kenneth, farm er
Dockar-D rysdale Mrs. W ick hall
Silvester Jethro, Bowyer A rm s P.H
D ockar-D rvsdale W illiam M .A ., J.P. Stone W illiam , farm er, Park farm
W ick hall
Taylor Fredk. C h as.frm r.C h u rch frm
•G reen E rn est Hy. S unningw ell ho Topp Thom as, farm b ailiff to Mrs.
Longland Rev. Charles B oxall M .A.
Dockar-Drysdale
V icarage
W alker M ary (M rs.), farm er, NeatNorton Jam es Lees, Braeside
hom e farm
•S p en der E. B agley house
W ilson-G reen A rth u r M .A. E ast cot
Residents in R adley college.
C O M M E R C IA L .
B arm by Francis Jam es M .A
Badcock Geo. H y. frm r. Nuneham vw B irt R ev.RoderickH arold Capper M .A
Betfreridge Francis F rederick, farm er, Bryans E rn est M .A. (sub-warden)
Davies Rev. A rth.W m . M .A. (bursar)
W alsh & M inchins farm

E llerton Charles Fleetwood M .A
H edgecock A rth u r Thom as B .A
H urley W alter L. E . (steward)
Jones Bernard C ollier B .A . (m usic
m aster)
Lowe H enry St. A lban M .A
Macpherson A lexander G eld art M .A
M oss-Blundell
Leonard
A rth ur
Blundell M .A
Porter H. E. L ., B .A
Selwyn Rev. E dw ard Gordon M.A.
(warden)
Sim pkinson E dw ard Franklin M .A
Sm ale W alter Reginald B .A
Stevenson Francis Philip M .A
Stone Rev. Francis Joseph M .A
V idal L. A ., B .A
W alker G. W . H ., B .A

READING
R E A D IN G , an ancient and very considerable m arket
and assize town and a parliam en tary and cou n ty and
m unicipal borough w ith separate jurisdiction , the county
town of B erkshire, the head of a poor law union, inland
revenue collection, p etty sessional division and county
court d istrict, in the Southern division of the county, in
the rural deanery of Reading, archdeaconry of Berks and
diccese of Oxford ; it is bounded on the north by the
Tham es, sep arating it from Caversham in Oxfordshire,
and is 8 m iles south-w est from H enley-on-Tham es, 26
south-east from Abingdon, 68 from B ath , 13 south-west
from M aidenhead, 17 east from N ew bury, 26 south-east
from W antage, 16 w est from W indsor, 16 north from
B asingstoke, 45 from Southam pton, 15 south-east from
W allingford, 28 south-east from Oxford and 36 by rail
or 39 by road from London, and is situated on two
sm all em inences whose d eclivities fall into a pleasant
vale, through which flow two branches of the Kennet,
u n itin g w ith the Tham es a t the ex trem ity of the town :
on the banks of the K ennet, which is navigable to N ew ­
b ury and Froxfield, are some excellent w h a rv e s : four
b rid ges cross this river, and th ere is also an iron bridge

over the T ham es, and a foot bridge at C aversham W eir,
constructed in 1885. The Kennet and Avon canal opens
up a com m unication w ith th e Severn.
R eadin g is an im portant station on the G reat W estern
railw ay (some of th e trains run n in g from hence to P a d ­
dington— and vice versd— without stoppage), and is the
junction of the Berks and Hants branch to Newbury,
H ungerford and B asingstoke w ith the m ain line.
In
1897-1899 the station was very m uch enlarged at con­
siderable cost. Reading is also a term inus of the South
Eastern and C hatham (Reading, G uildford and R eigate
branch) and South W estern railw ays, w hich occupy a
joint station im m ediately south of the G reat W estern
station.
Th e town is w ell b u ilt and has several good streets,
which are well paved and lighted w ith gas from works
the property of the R eading Gas Com pany, and also by
electric lig h t, and the inhabitants have a constant
supply of w ater from the Ken n et works in the Bath
road, belonging to the C orp ora tion ; the houses are
m ostly b uilt of red brick.