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BR O U G H T O N F o G G S .

OXFORDSHIRE.

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B R O U G H T O N P OG G S is a small village and church was restored in 1874, and affords 100 sittings
.parish, partly in Gloucestershire, on the road from The register dates from the year 1557. The living i8
Lechlade to Burford, 3 miles north from Lechlade sta­ a rectory, net yearly value ,¿250, with residence and 0
tion and 3 west from Alvescot station, both on the acres of glebe, in the gift of William Beck esq. and
Oxford and Fairford branch of the Great Western rail­ held since 1909 by the Rev. William Prowting Roberts
way, 6 vrest from Bampton, 10 west-south-west from John Norman Hardcastle esq. J.P. who is lord of the
Witney, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of manor, and William Henry Fox esq. D.L., J.P. are the
Bampton, petty sessional division of Bampton West, principal landowners. The soil and subsoil are gravel
union and county court district of Witney, rural The crops are the usual cereals. The area is 909 acresdeanery of Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of rateable value, ,£538; the population in 1911 was 83 in
■Oxford. The church of St. Peter is a building of stone the civil and 93 in the ecclesiastical parish, of which 10
•of very Early Norman, and in part, perhaps, of even were in Gloucestershire.
■Saxon date, with Early English additions, consisting of Sexton, Charles Booker.
chancel, nave, north porch and a very low tower at
the west end, with saddle-back roof, and containing Letters through Lechlade (Glo’stersh.) arrive at 7 a.m.
one bell: the chancel is Early English, with lancet & 2 p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 10.30 a.m. & n
windows : the nave and walls are Norman and retain p.m. Filkins is the nearest money order & telegraph
office
•one original window, the rest being Decorated: the
Norman doorways on the north and south sides also The children of this parish attend the Elementary school
remain and there is an Early English piscina and two
at Filkins
hagioscopes: several of the windows are stained: the
Hardcastle John Norman J.P.Brough­
Little Charles Buckle, farm bailiff to
COMM ERCIAL.
ton hall
J. N. Hardcastle esq.J.P.Manor frm
Roberts Rev. William Prowting (rec­ Booker Chas. shoe maker & sexton Morrison James, head gardener to J.
tor), Rectory
Kynaston Chas. farmer, Ox Lease frm N. Hardcastle esq. J.P
BRTJERli, see Milton-under-Wychwood.
B T C K N E L L i
s a parish, 2 J miles south-west from Bennett, forty years parson here, 1591; there are
Bicester station on the Ashendon and Aynho section of various mural and other monuments to the family of
the Great Western Railway Company'« new main line Trotman, 1599-1775, and a modern brass to Lt.-Col.
from London to Birmingham, 3 miles north-west from Hibbert and Mrs. Hibbert: the windows were formerly
Bicester station on the Bletchley and Oxford branch of filled with stained glass, containing invocatory in­
the London and North Western railway, and 14 north­ scriptions and arms: the church affords 195 sittings.
east from Oxford, in the Mid division of the county, The register dates from the year 1653. The living isa
hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union rectory, net yearly value .£275, with residence, in the
and county court district of Bicester, rural deanery of gift of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford,
Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The and held since 1913 by the Rev. William Stuart Harris
village isnow supplied with water from the water pumped M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and hon. D.D. of
into tanks at the summit of a water tower, built of Aberdeen and hon. chaplain to the King. The charities
local stone, the expense being met by Capt. P. Hunloke consist of the interest of £300 in the £ 2\ per Cents,
J.P. who also defrayed the cost of the sewerage works bequeathed by Samuel Gauntlett D.D. warden of New
in the village. The church of St. Peter is a building College, Oxford, 1794-1822, and received annually from
of stone in mixed styles, chiefly of the 13th century, the Charity Commissioners, and also 50s. paid by
and consists of chancel, nave, south porch, and an the proprietor of certain land as the interest of a
•embattled central tower containing a clock and 3 bells: Trotman bequest of £±o charged on the land; these
the chancel is good Early English, with lancet windows, sums are distributed in clothing and beef. On the
and has a south door: the nave is also Early Eng­ south side of the parish stands Bucknell Manor, the
lish, but the clerestory and Toof were added in property and residence of Capt. Philip Hunloke J.P.
the 15th century; the tower and part of the nave are who is the chief landed proprietor and lord of the
plain Early Norman, with a Perpendicular upper storv manor; the house, which dates from 1702, has been
and a circular turret: there are two low-side windows, modernised. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, stone.
and at the elaborate south doorway a fine stoup: the The land is chiefly arable. The area is 1894 acres;
font is octagonal, and the pulpit of carved oak Jacobean, rateable value, ^1,931 ; the population in 1911 was 221.
with pilasters of the Ionic order: in the church are two Post Office.— Thomas Rolfe, sub-postmaster. Letters
brasses let into the same stone, one with a shield of through Bicester, arrive at 7 a.m. & 12.20 p.m.;
arms and inscription to Edward Ewre esq. 1638, and
dispatched 12.20 & 5.55 p.m.; Sundays, 6.45 a.m.
Frances (Poure), his wife, with six children; and the
Bicester is the nearest money order & telegraph office
other to Francis, eldest son of the preceding, and Jane Elementary School, built in 1865, for 76 children; Miss
(Savage), his wife; a third brass is recorded to Richard
Cull, mistress
P R IV A T E R E SID E N TS.
COMMERCIAL.
Kay Ernest, farmer
Harris Rev. William Stuart Harris jBarrett William Sharp, farmer, & Kite Annie (Mrs.), general dealer
M.A., D.D. (rector, & hon. chaplain !
estate agt. Capt.Philip Hunloke J.P Lovatt John, gardener to Capt. P.
to the King)
Enser William Rodnight, farmer
Hunloke J.P
Heape Walt. M.A.,F.R.S.The Rectory |Finch Thomas Costar, farmer, Hawk- Payne Harry, beer retailer
Hunloke Capt. Philip J.P. Bucknell!
well farm
Richardson Thomas G. blacksmith
manor
IFinch Thos. Wrn. farmer, Manor frm Rolfe Thomas, baker, Post office
BURCOT, see Dorchester.
B U R F O R D (A.S. Beorgeorda), “the fortified town are obtained from the hills which skirt the town.
ford, ’ is a township, parish and market town at the Burford was one of the earliest towns to have a
western extremity of the county, on the borders of chartered gild merchant: Robert Fitz Hamon gave a
Gloucestershire, 5 miles south from Shipton station, on charter between 1087 and 1107 which was confirmed
the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton section of by William, Earl of Gloucester. In the parliament
the Great Western railway, 5 north-west from Bampton of 1306 (34 Edward I.), the borough of Burford was
station on the Oxford and Fairford branch of the same represented by Thomas de Lincoln, but on petition
line, 9 north from Lechlade, 7 west from Witney, 11 the inhabitants were relieved froiji any further repre­
north from Faringdon, 22 from Cheltenham, 18 west-bv- sentation ; the ancient corporate body, which con­
north from Oxford, 72 from London by the road through sisted of two bailiffs and ten burgesses, continued to
High Wycombe, and 76 through Henley-on-Thames; it exist until a recent period, but was eventually dis­
is in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Bamp­ solved by Act of Parliament in 1863, when the manage­
ton. petty sessional division of Bampton West, union ment of the local charities and of the Grammar school
and county court district of WTitney, rural deanery of was transferred to the Charity Commissioners; sixteen
Witney and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The charters, extending from 11 Edw. III. (1337-8) to Geo.
town stands on an ascent facing north from the banks of III. (1775-6), have been from time to time granted to
the river Windrush, and consists of three streets, the the town, and the originals of these are still preserved.
principal being High street, intersected by Sheep street The town documents are calendared in the Hist. MSo.
and Witney street and by some smaller thoroughfares ; Commn, Report, vol. i. (1901). The municipal insignia,
it is lighted with ga« and electric light supplied by comprising two maces and the borough seal, are now
private companies, and has a supply of spring water in the possession of the representatives of the late T. »■
from works on the Taynton road, also the property Cheatle esq. who was the last surviving member ofthe
of a company. Fine views of the surrounding country defunct corporation; the great mace, 2 ft. 9§ inches