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court district of Woodstock, rural deanery of Woodstock rubbed-out legend: the church was restored in 1876,
and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of
St. Peter is a building of stone in mixed styles, prin­ a*i,a ,c?s*' ¿ I,25°> and again restored’and a vestry
cipally Norman, consisting of chancel, nave, north and added in 1902 and 1903 at a cost of over £1,300 : there
itt?-n£8’ The register dates from the year
south porches, vestry and a central tower with spire I&53-20muS
Ihe living is a vicarage, net yearly value
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from within which rises an octagonal ribbed spire: landocwhnieer
f crops are the usual cereals. The area is 2,263
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36 of water;rateable value, £4,105;
paintings of the 15th century, chiefly consisting of the populationand
in 1911 was 296.
emblems of saints, with monograms, but exposure
to the air rapidly destroyed them: the walls of WORTON is a small hamlet about half a mile north­
;he nave and three of the original windows are Nor­ east, consisting of a few scattered houses.
man, the rest being Early English, Decorated and
Parish Clerk and Sexton, Alfred Walker.
Perpendicular: the font, also Norman, is cylindrical Post Office.— Miss Frederica E. Hutchings, sub-post­
and plain: there is a mural brass with shrouded
istress. Letters through Oxford, via Eynsham,
effigy and eight verses to Thomas Nele B.D. fellow amr
ive at 7 a.m. & 6 p.m. Box cleared at 9 a.m. &
of New College, Regius professor of Hebrew at Ox­ 6.r
30 p.m. ; Sundays 8.35 a.m. The nearest money
ford and chaplain to Bonner, bishop of London, an
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able theologian and linguist, ob. 1590, and on the
miles distant
floor of the nave a good brass of a cross fleury with Letter Box, Worton, cleared at 7.45 a.m. & 6.15 p.m. •
inscription to Roger Cheyne, esquire to the king (Edw.
Sundays, 8.15 a.m
II.), 1314; in the churchyard is the base of a Perpen­ Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1852, for 80
dicular cross: the church plate includes an ancient and
children; Sidney Ralph Bridgen, master
curious paten with embossed figures of Adam and Eve Carriers to Oxford.— Richard Mobey & Stephen Putt,
within a walled garden, and a scroll bearing a partly- wed. & sat
Carpenter Rev. Frank Percy, The Day William, farmer
Mobey George, farmer A carrier
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Fox Mary (Miss), shopkeeper
Mobey Richard, Chequers inn
Martindale Henry Gwvnne, The Elms Hale James, farmer
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Charles, shopkeeper
Todd John, Worton
Hedges Thomas, miller (water)
errin Jas. Percy, farmr. Manor farm
Ward Rev. George William Crofts Hutchings Frederica E. (Miss), shop­ P
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B.A. (vicar), Vicarage
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Perrin John Birch, farmer,Purwell fm
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King Hy. Osborne, farmr. Wharf frm Putt Nathaniel, blacksmith
Chitty Thomas, farm bailiff to the Louch Thomas, farmer, Worton
Putt Stephen, Red Lion P.H.A carrier
Duke ofMarlboroug'h, Burleigh frm Martin Robt. farmer, Reynolds farm Sa
vins George, Bell P.H
CAVERSFIELD is a parish adjoining the parish of scrolls with texts, proceeding from a heart held in a
Bicester on the north, 1 mile north from Bicester station hand, with a shield of arms under it: a second brass
on the Ashendon and Aynho section of the Great ha
s been concealed by a pew; there is also an inscribed
Western Railway Company’s new main line from London slab to Maximian Bard esq. 1640: and some memorials
to Birmingham, i£ miles north from Bicester station on to the Moyle family: the church affords 100 sittings.
the Bletchley and Oxford branch of the London and
register dates from the year 1640. The living is a
North Western railway, and 10 miles south-west from The
vicarage, net income about £90, in the gift of Mrs.
Buckingham, in the Mid division of the county, hundred P
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and petty sessional division of Ploughley, union and Mansfipesl,d,and
of Hethe, in January, 1874, paid to the
countj'court district of Bicester, rural deanery of Bices- official trust
ees of charitable funds the sum of £150,
rand archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, this parish to be invested in the £3 per Cent. Consols, in
in Buckinghamshire, but by the Acts 2 & trust to pay _the annual dividend to the vicar and
L !l *m n rCaF\ 64 & 7 & 8 Viet. cap. 61 it was an­ churchwardens of Caversfield, to be by them equally
nexed to Oxfordshire. On Oct. 25, 1902, Caversfield divided on the first day of Februai'y in every year
as disunited from Stoke Lyne for ecclesiastical pur- among eight of the oldest and most deserving of the
J2 .?' ip ch?rch of st- Lawrence is a small and an­ esident poor in the parish of Caversfield. Caversfield
cient edifice of stone in the Transitional and Early r
House, a modern mansion, is the seat of Viscount Gort
f f r ( J and was thoroughly restored in 1874, at M.V.O. Mrs. Phillips is lady of the manor and prin­
\f*!X £2,200, chiefly defrayed by the late R. Bullock- cipal landowner. The soil is stone brash; subsoil,
sonff, ?11esq' ?-9 L- (d- l88o)> ‘
tt’hen the north and stone. The land is partly pasture and partly arable
J M kS ? ’ "!\lch had been destroyed, were rebuilt, The area is 1,278 acres; rateable value, £1,409; the
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arcade being reopened and the north population in 1911 was 101 in the civil parish and 148
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an or?311 chamber and vestry were in the ecclesiastical parish.
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whole building new roofed; the By Local Government Board Order, 21,435, March 24,
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t0Trer’ .and assumed to be of Saxon date, is 1888, a detached part of Caversfield was added to Stratton
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massive with a gable roof, and contains 3 Audley for civil purposes.
Parish Clerk, Herbert Walker.
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W?lch is said t0 date from A D- 1200:
Latft Nr,
3n PorcB> placed at the north-west, are Letters through Bicester, the nearest post, money order
ite f
l man’AT 1180: there is also a Piscina of this A telegraph office, arrive at 6.30 a.m
work o f i man fonfc.ornamented with arcaded Letter Box cleared at 12.5 A 5.55 p.m. • Sundays, 9.30
tomb
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tbe chancel is a high
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1487' mri n' panelled sides, to John Langston esq. The children of this parish attend the schools at Stoke
and ln tBe nave a brass, consisting of three Lyne, Bucknell A StTatton Audley
Gort Viscount .
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Cattle Arthur, farmer,Dymock’s farm
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er, 1911, to Dunsden and Eye civil parish, Oxon. Fullparticulars
greater Part woe °J)
.?r!itl0n November 9th, 1911, the will be found in Kelly’s Directory of Berkshire.
o the municipal and county
cHADLING:as: ;added
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Wnsh 01 Charlbury bounrtiVnwl11 and 7 '!laSf, in .tbe !Western railway, 4 south-south-east from Chipping Noi
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“ ® b"dS0 of 3 arches to Short- petty sessional division of Chadlingto'n, union and
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,r0m ,0bar],b“I7 c°™ty court district of Chipping Norton, Chipping Norsiora and Worcester sectionoftheGreat Iton rural deanery, and archdeaconry and diocese of
OXON.