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O XFO R D SH IRE.

D IR E C T O R Y .]

C U X H A M is a village and parish 2^ miles "west from
Watlington term inal station on the Princes Itisborough
nd Watlington branch of the G reat W estern railway, 4
.outli-west from Tetsw orth and 6£ north-east from W al­
lingford, in the Southern division of the county, hun­
dred of*Ewelme, p etty sessional division of W atlington,
county court district of W allingford, union of Henley,
rural deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and diocese of
Oxford. A stream passes through this parish, which
turns several m ills. T h e church of the Holy Rood is
an ancient edifice of stone, apparently reb u ilt of old
materials at the beginning of the 18th century, apd
consists of chancel, nave, western porch and a western
tower containing 3 sm all bells : a Norm an west doorway
with twisted shafts and sculptured capitals rem ain s:
there is a plain round font of the same date, and the
lower part of the tower also exhibits traces of Norm an
work: on the north side are som e good Perpendicular
windows; a few good open oak benches rem ain, and
there is an hour-glass stand : the ch urch contains several
tablets and a brass to John G regory, 1506, and his
wives Petronilla and Agnes, w ith four ch ild ren ; the
church was restored in 1850, and in 1895 the chancel was
entirely rebuilt in the G othic style of the 14th c e n tu ry :
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r e s id e n t s .

Brooks George, Park view
Fairkead Arthur, The C ot
Fedden Rev. Lorenzo Player
Rectory
Fernley Miss, The Cedars

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the church affords 120 sittin g s: in the church yard lies
a stone coffin. The register of baptism s dates from the
year 1578 ; m arriages, 1 5 7 7 ; burials, 1580. T h e liv in g
is a rectory, w ith th at of Easington annexed, jo in t net
yearly value ¿ 1 9 0 , w ith 32 acres of glebe and resi­
dence, in the g ift of M erton College, Oxford, and held
since 1902 by the Rev. Lorenzo Player Fedden M .A . of
that college.
The W arden and Fellows of M erton
College are lords o f the m anor and own m ost of the
land, but there are some sm aller owners. T he soil is
good lo a m ; subsoil, rubble. Th e chief crops are wheat,
beans, roots and barley. T h e area is 492 acres ; ra te ­
able value, ¿ 6 7 4 ; the population in 1911 was 127 in
the civil and 152 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Sexton, John Newell.
Post O ffice.— D avid Tappin, sub-postm aster.
Letters
from W allingford arrive at 6.25 a.m . & 1.30 p.m . ;
dispatched at 8.30 a.m . & 8.30 p .m . week d a ys;
S u n d a ys, arrive 6.25 a.m . ; dispatched 8.30 p.m .
W atlington, 2 m iles distant, is the nearest money
order & B righ tw ell the n earest telegraph office
E lem en tary School (m ixed), b uilt in 1911, for 42 c h il­
d re n ; Miss M. A . F ern ley, m istress

Hoar A lfred, cattle dealer, G lenroy
Jacobs Benjam in, H alf Moon P.H
Moffatt Thom as M orris, College farm
M .A. j Gale Robert, w heelw right & carpenter M offatt W m . A lex, farm er, Manor frm
Hicks Thom as Owen, farm er & m iller New ell John, blacksm ith
Tappin David, farm er, Post office
(w ater & steam )
, H icks M iss, 3 B righ tw ell villas
,W oolford David, Iv y cottage
c o m m e r c ia l .

D E D D I N G T O N , the “ Town of the Daedings,” for­
merly a m arket town, is a parish and sm all town situ­
ated at the intersection of the high road from Oxford
to Banbury with that from B uckingham to Chipping
Norton, separated from Northam ptonshire on the east
by the river Cherwell and bounded on th e north by the
Swere brook, it is 2 miles west from Aynho Park station
on the London and Birm ingham section of th e G reat
Western railway and 2J m iles south-east from Adderbury station on the Banbury and Cheltenham section of
the game system, com pleted in A p ril, 1887, 6 south from
Banbury, 10 north-east from W oodstock, 16 from Oxford
and 70 from, London, in the Northern division of the
county, hundred of W ootton, N orth Wootton p etty ses­
sional division, county cou rt district and union of Woodstock, rural deanery of Deddington, and archdeaconry
and diocese of Oxford. The supply of w ater is from
wells. The streets are wide, and there is a spacious
market square, the whole being now lined w ith trees
planted in commemoration of th e Jubilee of H er late
Majesty Queen Victoria. The church of SS. P eter and
Paul, originally of the Decorated period, is now a
building of stone in m ixed styles, consisting of chancel
with clerestory, clerestoried nave, aisles, north and south
porches and a western tower surm ounted by pinnacles
and containing a clock and 7 bells, 6 of w hich were
cast in 1791, and the sm all bell in 1869: on the west
front of the tower, within recesses, are life size figures
of the patron saints, replaced from th e old to w e r: in
the chancel are three sedilia and a piscina, and in a
deep arched recess on the south side of the chancel, is
a small square-headed low-side window, w ith a seat
below it: an oak screen separates th e chancel from the
” 7* which has arcades of four a rc h e s : the aisles are
c lefly of the 14th cen tu ry and in each Temain steps
tormerly leading to the rood lofts of two chantry
°i aJe
ea-s^
^ e aisles, and of which, the
Platforms Temain: underneath the east end of the south
w e is a small low cryp t, w ith groined roof, reached
y s eps from the outside, where also are two recessed
-one arches, and on the inside, b u t in a different part
m fw j
two sim ilar arches, in one of which is a
mutilated recum bent fig u re : there are also some rethe108 V
sfcairway °.nc® conducting to a parvise over
tho ! ° T P°rch : a piscina and statue niche rem ain in
r n.nr ajs^e> the porch of which, of the 15th century,
as fan tracery in the roo f: the tow er fell in March,
lefti’ occasion*ng an estim ated damage of ¿8,250, and
tin ei"f P . nt were issued authorizing general collecreiri«! ° r ltS Testorati'on: the font, as appears from the
Was P^ace^ in the church in 1663. Various
of tK 10? Si.Vere hegun in th e church d u rin g the vicariate
a
W illiam Cotton R is k y M .A. vicar
bv th ’
a ,continuance of the work was sanctioned
186c ewu6S u *n l85 8 > b u t it was not com pleted until
were hr>"u
j vestl7 ’ s°u th porch and organ chamber
unrW
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repairs effected at a cost of ¿2,600,
the
chon. of the Iate G - E - S treet
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subscript;
ea™ wind°w was placed there in 1888 by
civilian ° ul , ere are brasses in the church to a
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half-effigy, c. 1370; John H iggin s gent.

and a m utilated brass inscription to W illiam
Byllyng, m erchant of the staple of Calais, 1533, and
Elizabeth, his wife, 1522; this inscription, w ith effigies
now lost, belongs to an altar tomb in the north a is le ;
there are m em orials to the fam ilies of A ppletree, C ary,
Churchill, Faulkner, Harris, W alden and m any o th e r s :
the tow er and bells were restored in 1893, as also the
weather vanes, at a cost of ¿ 2 7 4 : a new organ was
erected in 1912 at a cost of ¿600 : there are 800 sittin gs.
Th e churchyard was enlarged in 1874. T h e register
dates from the year 1631, and contains entries of
m arriages effected under the A ct of 1656. Th e livin g
is a vicarage, net yea rly value ¿ 2 7 5 , w ith residence, in
the g ift of the Dean and Canons of W indsor, and held
since 1878 b y the Rev. Thom as Boniface M .A. of Jesus
College, C am bridge, and surrogate. The E cclesiastical
Com m issioners allow ¿ 12 0 for the curate. Th e Con­
gregational chapel, in New streqt, opened M ay, 1881, is
a building of simple E arly G othic character, with a
gabled central doorway and an octagonal tu rre t above
it, risin g to a height of 60 f e e t : there are sittin gs for
about 280.
There is also a W esleyan R eform chapel,
b u ilt in 1849. Sir Thom as Pope k t. founder of T rin ity
College, Oxford, was born here in 1508, and S ir W illiam
Scroggs kt. Lord Chief Justice of th e K in g ’s Bench
(1678-81), in 1623 : E thelm ar or A udom ar de Valence,
half-brother to Henry III. w as in stitu ted vicar of Ded­
dington in 1247; in 1260 he becam e Bishop of W inches­
ter, b u t dying in the following yea r a t Paris, his body
was there buried in the church of Ste. G enevieve, b ut
his heart, at his own request, was im m ured a t W inches­
ter Cathedral on the north side of th e choir, where
there is an inscription w ith the date 1261. Th e old
Town hall, standing on th e w est side of th e square, is
a gabled structure of brick, origin ally on open arches,
but these are now b u ilt up. A fair is held on the
22nd of Novem ber. T here are alm shouses for four men
and four women, w ith an endowm ent of ¿ 7 2 yearly,
derived from the feoffees’ lands of 43 acres, w hich pro­
duce about ¿ 8 5 yearly. C artw rig h t’s charity of ¿ 6
yearly is for bread. T h is place and H em pton are m en­
tioned in the Dom esday S u rvey of 1086, as am ongst
the possessions of Odo, Bishop of B aveux, under the
names of “ Dadintone,” and “ Hantone.” T h e ancient
rectory house (or great house) was b u ilt in the 16th cen ­
tury, the Plough Inn, in New street, together w ith a
house on the Clifton road, bearing the date 1647, and
the H erm itage, situated in M arket square, and now the
residence of Geo. Coggins esq. have each some in terest­
ing portion« of old work, the form er retain in g a vaulted
cellar. T h e site of the ancient castle is indicated by a
series of ram parts of earth to the east of the to w n :
the fosse, which can also be traced, is the boundary of
the prosent enclosure com m only known as “ the C astle
Ground,” which is used as a parochial recreation
ground and. m anaged by a syndicate. T h e Dean and
Canons of Windsor. C h rist C h urch , Oxford, and W illiam
Cornwallis C artw rig h t esq. of Aynho, are lords of the
manors. The principal landowners are C h rist C h urch ,
Oxford, and the E cclesiastical Com m issioners. Th e land
is arable and p a s tu r e ; soil, lig h t red land. T he entire
1641,