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Clack Emma (Mrs.), New inn
Hughes Percy, butcher, & Horse Shoe Rose Richd. Thos. frmr. Knapps farm
Collett Oliver, watch maker
P.H. Bridge street
Rose Thos. Johnson (exors. of),farmra
Constable Thomas A. baker, grocer & |Hyde Ernest Willie, registrar of Ruck Francis Joseph, farmer, Weald
carriage proprietor, Market place I births & deaths & relieving & vac­ Shelton Edmd. George & Dragon P.H
Cowley Jane (Mrs.), plumber & glazier1 cination officer for the Bampton Smith John, farmer, Weald
sub-district,Witney union,Market pi Spurrett Teresa (Mrs.), grocer
Craddock Percy, assistant overseer
Dave Joseph, farmer, Ham court
Jones Henry, boot maker
Suffling Charles, boot & shoe maker
Dutton Arthur, deputy registrar of Joyce Alfred & Son, wheelwrights
Bridge street
births & deaths for the Bampton King Jesse Thomas, coal dealer
Tanner Benjamin, thatcher, Weald
sub-district, Witney union
King Thomas, shopkeeper & beer retlr Tanner Rose (Mrs.), haulier, Fishers
Dutton George William, family Lock William, beer retailer
bridge
grocer, italian warehouseman, London Citv & Midland Bank Ltd. Taunt Frederick William, tax collec­
chemist & oil merchant (established (agency) (G. W. Dutton, agent); tor, Waterloo house
by Richard Dutton, 1751), agent for hours, 10 to 4 daily, Wednesday 10 Taylor Hy. & Sons, butchrs.Market pi
the London City & Midland Bank to 2 ; draw on head office, 52 Corn- Townsend & Wheeler, blacksmiths,
Limited & insurance agent
hill, London E C
Cheapside
Bdgington David, chimney sweeper Marriott James Limited, coal & salt Townsend Albt.Elephant & CastleP.H
merchants. Railway station
Eeles James, grocer & ironmonger
Townsend Algernon Colin, cycle
Florey Thomas, farmer
Martin Robert, stationer, & sub-post­ agent. Market place
Fox Fredk.Wm. insur.agt. Church st master, Market place
Townsend G. beer retailer
French Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer
Matthews Wm. egg dealer, Church st Viner Archibald, draper
Fruin Geo. Thomas, Wheatsheaf P.H Mitchell William, grocer, Market pi Wallis John William, corn dealer
Gardner James William, photographr. Mouncey-Atldnson Geo. Jas. M.R.C.S. Wearing Geo. hair dresser. Broad st
Church street
Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. physician
Wells Wm. house decorator,Prospectpi
Gerring Ernest George, farmer, Col­ Nisbet Robert Craig, farmer, Low Wheeler Jesse, blacksmith, see
lege farm
Haddon farm
Townsend & Wheeler
Gerring Frederick J. farmer, Weald Norman William. Talbot hotel
Wilkins George, carrier
Gerring Geo. Edwd. farmer, Broad st Payne Fredk. Walt, carrier, Bridge st Williams Cambria, plumber
Gillett & Co. bankers (sub-branch), Pinnock James, butcher
Winn Robert, builder
open fridays & fair days, 11 to 2 Plaster Arthur, cabinet maker
Wood Frank Herbert M.R.C.S.Eng.,
(F. M. Green, manager) ; draw on Ravenors (Nathaniel John Graham L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon, & medical
Glyn, Mills, Currie & Co.LondonEC Ravenor & Henry Temple Ravenor), officer & public vaccinator Bampton
Great Western Railway Parcels Re­ solicitors& commissioners for oaths, district, Witney union & assistant
ceiving Office (Frederick Walter & clerks to Bampton consolidated medical inspector of schools to the
Payne, agent)
County Education Committee,
charities ; & at Witney
Green Brothers, builders, Church st Reading Room(Alfd.J.Bryant, hon.sec) Lime Tree house
Woodley James & Son, chimney awprs
Hill Rosa (Miss), dress maker, Melita Richens William, farmer, Weald
Horne Edwin, frmr. Mount Owen frm Robinson Charles Johnson, butcher
B A M P T O N AS T O N -is an ecclesiastical parishformed Police Station, Frederick Joseph Gray, constable
Dec. 30th, 1845, from the civil parish of Bampton, em­
Carriers.
bracing the hamlets of Aston and Cote and the chapelry Oxford— Thomas Sparrowhawk, mon. wed. & sat
of Slufford, with the hamlets of Brighthampton and Witney— Albert Phillips, thurs. ; Thomas SparrowChimney, 3.^ miles south-east from Bampton station hawk, thurs. & J. H. Spurrett, thurs. & sat
and 4$: south from Witney station, both on the Oxford
BRIGHTHAMPTON is a hamlet, 3 miles east from
and Fairford branch of the Great Western railway, and
miles east from Bampton, in the Mid division of the Aston. Weal’s charity of £4 15s. is for distribution in
money.
The area is 616 acres of land and 8 of water;
county, hundred of Bampton, petty sessional division of
Bampton East, union and county court district of Wit­ rateable value, £287; the population in 1911 was 42.
ney, rural deanery of "Witney, archdeaconry and diocese
2 miles south-east, is separated from
of Oxford. The church ofSt. James, erected in 1839, BeCHIMNEY,
hire by the river Isis, and consists of one farm
is a cruciform structure in the Gothic style, consisting rkssome
cottages, the property of the Ecclesiastical
of chancel, nave, transepts,north porch and a western and
An ancient chapel, once standing here,
tower with spire containing6 bells: the font was given Commissioners.
taken down in 1758. The population in 1911 was
by the Rev. John Nelson; the church was restored was
33; the area is 643 acres of land and 25 of water;
during the period 1885-9, a cost °f £563* and affords rateable value, .£222.
450 sittings, 300 being free. The register dates from the
year 1839. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value COTE is half a mile east and consists of several farms
¿410, including ni acres of glebe, with residence, in the and cottages. Here is an ancient Baptist chapel, en­
gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and held since dowed with a house at Aston for the minister: in the
1912 by the Rev. Nicholas Germon M.A. of St. Mary chapel is a memorial tablet to past ministers from the
Hall, Oxford. The Baptist chapel, built in 1845,
beginning of the 17th century and one to Thomas Dunsseat 150. Horde’s charities comprise one of £10 yearly combe M.A. 36 years pastor, 1811: the chapel will seat
for clothing and relief, and another of £6 for educa­ 400, and has registers of births dating from 1647, ®n('
tional purposes ; Wilmot’s of 13s. 4d. is for clothing of burials from 1657. Cote House is a Late E lizab eth an
and general relief; Walker’s of £6 18s. 9d. and Snell’s or Jacobean mansion, with a gabled centre and two pro­
of i2 8 . are for general relief. The clerk’s lands of2a. ir. jecting wings of unequal height; it contains a massive
allotted in 1845, are occupied by the deputy parish oak staircase.
clerk; Fox’s charity of £4 is for church purposes.
The trustees of the late Lieut.-Col. William Henry Wall Letter Box, cleared at 9 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; snn"
Hippisley J . P . are lords of the manor and the principal days, 9 a.m
landowners. The soil is suitable for the growth ofbarley SHIFFGRD, on the Isis, 2% miles south-east, is a
and wheat; subsoil, clay and gravel. The population chapelry to which Brighthampton and Chimney pa|f
of the whole ecclesiastical parish in 1911 was 783 ; the church rates; it consists now only of two farms and a
area of Aston and Cote township is 2,972 acres of land few cottages. The chapel, rebuilt in 1863, is a sma
and 15 of water; rateable value, £"2,190; population but elegant building in the Gothic style, consisting °
it* 1911, 647.
chancel and nave with a western bell turret containing
Sexton, David Ball.
2 bells. The register of baptisms and burials dseFost, M. 0 ., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, from the year 1783; marriages, 1786; there are entlV
Aston.— Ernest Long, sub-postmaster. Letters from of baptisms and burials relating to this place from 17 3
Bampton, Oxon, arrive at 6.20 a.m. & 5 p.m. ; dis­ to 1812, and of marriages from 1813 to 1835. Jn__r
patched at 9.15 a.m. & 7 p.m. ; Sunday, arrive at registers of Bampton proper. Tn this place, and
6.20 a.m
the chapel, is a piece of ground called “Court 0 °*■
Rlementary School (mixed), erected in 1845 & enlarged where it is believed Alfred the Great held a Con •
1894, for 180 children; George S. Fletcher, master
Cott MS Brit. Mus. Henry Lawrence Cripps esqThere is a Board of School Managers, comprising six lord of the manor and chief landowner. The so
gravel and clay; subsoil, clay. The crops are the a ^
members ; The Vicar, chairman & correspondent
A school was established here in 1888 for the training of cereals. The area is 764 acres of land and n 0 *
the village girls & others for domestic service
rateable value, £374; the population in 19 15 w as
COMMERCIAL.
ASTON.
'Cripps Thomas, The Elms
1
comm *..*«;«“"
prtyatb residents.
Germon Rev. Nicholas M.A. (vicar), Beckinsale Jane (Miss), dress m
Olarke William Henry, The Cottage
The Vicarage
*Brnnsdon Frank, saddler