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BERKSHIRE.

LONG VMTIE NHA M.

[ k e l l y ’s

B ritish occupation were discovered here by Mr. H. J. b earing chiefly wheat, b arley and roots. Th e area is
H ew ett and W alter Money esq. F .S .A . of Newbury, 2,248 acres of land and 27 of w a te r ; rateable value,
and traces of a still earlier people are m et w ith in £2,620 ; th e population in 1911 was 472.
the shape of round huts and circles, in which flint arrow
Parish C lerk , Richard Eason
heads, celts and stone im plem ents have been found. Post & M. 0 . Office.— Aug. Jam es Cham bers, sub­
The fields over which these vestiges and foundations
postm aster. Letters are received throu gh Abingdon,
extend com prise about 130 acre s: th e g reater p art of
week days, delivery, 7.20 a.m . & 1 p.m . ; dispatched
the vases, p ottery &c. found, and form erly in the pos­
at 1.10 & 6.10 p.m . ; sundavs, delivered at 8.5 a.m . ;
session of Mr. H. J. H ew ett, of W illin gton farm , have
dispatched at 10.20 a.m . Parcels for the sam e d is ­
been presem ed to the O xford and Reading m useum s. In
patch accepted until 1.10 & 6.10 p.m . C lifton H am p­
the v illage is a fine old cross, restored in 1853, and
den. 1 m ile distant, is the nearest telegraph office
supposed to be of Saxon d a t e : there is also here an W all L e tter Box, in the V illa g e, collections 1.20 & 6.25
ancient b urial ground of the W est Saxons, in which
p .m .; Sundays. 10.15 a m
various rem ains of th at period w ere discovered. The E lem en tary School (m ixed & infants), b u ilt in 1856,
accom m odating now 108 ch ild ren ; A lfred L. Glasson,
Manor House is occupied by R ear-A dm iral W illiam
m a s te r; Mrs. A lice Day, m istress; Miss Pead, assist­
Robert C lu tterb u ck J.P . Th e P resident and Fellows of
St. John's College, O xford, are th e lords of the manor
ant m istress
and chief landowners. Th e soil in the southern part C arriers.— A rth u r W’ inter, mon wed. th u rs. & sat. to
of the parish is the upper green sand, the rem ainder
& from the ‘ Old B ell,’ at Abingdon & Thom as H ollo­
g a u lt clay covered w ith d rift gravel, nearly all arable,
way, tues. & fri- to W allingford
B idm ead Chas. A zel,grocer & cycle ag t L a y W illiam , farm er, C h urch farm
C ham bers
Annie (M rs.),
Plough Lovegrove H enry,farm bailiff to RearA dm iral C lutterbuck
inn ; good accommodation- for b oat­
ing
& fishing
p a r tie s ; term s Oxford Co-operative Society Lim ited
m oderate
j Faxm an
F rederick A lbert, farm er,
Eason Richard, blacksm ith
j
North Field farm
Eason Tom , fam ily baker & m eal- Tam e A lb ert, farm er, Down farm
Tam e A lfred, beer retailer
m a n ; fam ilies w aited on
H ewett H enry Joseph, farm er, W il­ T im e Frederick Jam es, join er &
lington farm
undertaker
W ake G eorge Fredk. B arley Mow P.H
H ewett Jam es, w heelw right
W ig ly Henry, farm er, P earith s farm
H ewett Stephen P. farm er
H itchm an Frances E. (M rs.), ap art-' W ing Joseph, beer retailer
W inter A lfred (M rs.), apartm ents.
m ents. Iv v M<>ath
COMMERCIAL.
Grape Vine cottage
Holmes Sophia (M rs.), shopkeeper
A yres H enry, gam ekeeper to the Rev. H unt Sidney, gardener to RearC. M. S tyle
A dm iral C lu tterb u ck

A lln u tt A lb ert A u g u stu s, L a u rel bank
Black Mrs. R iver close
C lu tterb u ck R ear-A dm iral W illiam
R obert J.P. Manor house
-C lutterbuck Mrs. Manor house
Dawber E. G uv
Day M rs. F air V iew v illa
Dickson Jam es H ector
H allett Frederic G reville, Point close
H ayes W illiam J.P . F rench’s
H opkvns Rev. Thom as Daniel M i .
(vicar), V icarage
K rook Capt. A. D .C am p bell.S treet ho
Robinson G erard A. H. Cross ways

W O K E F I E L D , see Stratfield M ortim er.

W OK I NGH AM
W O K IN G H A M , “ O akin gh am ,” or “ O ckin gham ,” is E n glish style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave
of 5 bays, aisles, transepts, south porch and an em ­
a m unicipal borough, m ark et and union town, head of
p etty sessional division and parish, 7 m iles south-east battled w estern tow er containing a clock and 8 bells,
from Reading, 14 south-w est from W indsor, 11 south­ recast in 1903 at a cost of about £328 : i t was partlywest from M aidenhead, and 32 from London, and is in restored by p ublic subscription in the year 1864, and
the tow er in 1880, at a cost of £1,6 0 0 : there is a
the E astern division of the county, Reading county
court d istrict, rural deanery of Sonning, archdeaconry Hat stone to the m em ory of Dr. Thom as Goodwin,
Bishop of B ath and W ells (1584-90), who was a native
of Berks and diocese of Oxford. A portion of this
parish was included in W iltsh ire, but by the A cts 2 of this town (1517) and died here 19th Novem ber,
1590: th e tow er, nave and font all date from about
and 3 W illiam IV . cap. 64, and 7 and 8 V iet. cap. 61
1450: the windows, w ith one exception, are all stain ed:
(1844), it was annexed to B erkshire. Th e Staines and
in 1897 a new organ was provided at a cost of £ 1,450 :
W okingham railw ay, w hich joins the S outh W estern
line at Staines, gives access to London in one hour and a there are 850 sittings. The register dates from the year
half, and the R eading, G uildford and R eigate branch of 1674. T h e livin g was declared a Tectory J u ly 24th,
the South E astern and, C hatham line affords easy com ­ 1866, net yea rly value £324, w ith residence, in the g ift
of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1904 by the
m unication w ith the coast, and, through R eading,
Rev. Bertram Long M .A. of St. John’s College, C am ­
w ith all the stations on the G reat W estern railway.
bridge, chaplain to W okingham union, and surrogate.
The town occupies an elevated and h ealthy situation
w ithin the ancient lim its of W indsor Forest, and con­ The Town H all was authorised January 23rd, 1889, as
sists of several irre g u la rly-b u ilt streets, m eeting in a the v estry room for the parish of W okingham .
The C h urch House for th is parish, erected in 1901-2,
cen tral spot used as a m ark et place. The governm ent
of the town was, till 1885, vested in an alderm an and at a cost of about £1,795, and opened 9 April, 1902,
burgesses, who derived th eir au th ority from a charter contains a large hall, class room , store and cloak
of Queen E lizabeth , granted in 1583 and confirm ed and rooms, tea kitch en etc. and is used for m eetings and
enlarged by Jam es I. in 1612. Under the provisions of classes in connection w ith church work, entertainm ents
the “ M unicipal Corporations A c t, 1882” (45 and 46 and other purposes.
S t. P aul’s is an ecclesiastical parish, form ed J u ly
Viet. cap. 50), a new ch arter of incorporation, dated
28, 1863, from A ll S ain ts; the church, b uilt by the late
20th J u ly , 1885, was granted, con stitu tin g W okingham
a m unicipal borough, its lim its being coterm inous John W alter esq. of Bear Wood (d. 1894), and consecrated
w ith those of the Local G overn m en t d istrict, and the July 23rd, 1864, is an edifice of stone in the decorated
m unicipal body now consists of a m ayor, four alder­ style of th e 14th and 15th centuries, and ^gp^ists of
and a
m en and twelve councillors, under the n?m e of “ The chancel, nave of 6 bays, aisles, north port
M ayor, A lderm en and Burgesses of the Borough of western tower w ith two tiers of crocket1' 1 _.foinnacles
w
ith
flying
buttresses,
and
spire
contain:'fce
8
b e lls :
W okingham .” The town is lig h ted w ith gas (from
works form erly belonging to a com pany form ed in 1847, the aisles were added in 1874 at a cost c c o t 4>50°*
which
£4,000
was
given
by
Mr.
W
alter
:
the
west
window
but now corporation property), and supplied with
w ater by the W okingham D istrict W ater Co. L im ited, and others in the north and south aisles are s ta in e d :
from works situated at the south-w est end of th e town : th ere are over 600 sittin gs, 311 bein g free. The register
the w ater is obtained from an artesian w ell, 408 feet dates from the yea r 1864. Th e livin g was declared a
rectory A u g u st 31st, 1866, net yearly value about £240,
deep, sunk in the upper chalk beds, and is conveyed
w ith residence, in the g ift of John W a lter esq. of Bear
to reservoirs capable of containing 150,000 g a llo n s : in
Wood, and held since 1896 by the Rev. H enry Major
addition to W okingham , the com pany supplies Binfield,
W
alter M .A. of O riel College, Oxford.
Eastham pstead, and Warfield.
St. Sebastian’s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed
Under the provisions of Section I. of the “ Local
G overnm ent A c t, 1894” (56 and 57 V iet. c. 73), two M arch 28, 1871, out of A ll Saints’ and S t. Paul’s ; the
parishes have been created out of the old parish, church, situated 3 m iles from the town, was b u ilt by
subscription in 1864 at a cost of about £900, and i-s an
and resp ectively nam ed W ithin and W ithout.
edifice of red brick w ith stone facings, in the E arly
The parish church of A ll S ain ts is an ancient and
E nglish style, consisting of chancel and nave o n ly ; in.
handsom e b uilding of stone, principally in the E arly