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V IL LA G E S D IR E C TO R Y — 1917.

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\Parkins Charles Henry, county police
sergeant, School green
Prior Arthur, dairym an, W arren gate,
School green
Kavenscroft H arold,farm er, Hyde End frm
'Stevens Henry W . farmer, Cutbush farm
i Stevens W alter W m . farm er, Parrott farm

Targett James, farm er, H yde end
Thick Charles, gam ekeeper
University
C ollege,
Reading,
E xperi­
m ental
Farm
(Sidney
Pennington,
steward). Lane End farm
W ebb John, T ho Black Boy P.H

S H IP L A K E is a very extensive parish
pleasantly situated on the left bank of
the Thames, with a station on the Henley
branch of the Great Western railway, 3
miles south from Henley-011-Thames and
4j miles north-east from Reading, on the
high road from the form er to the latter,
in the Southern division o f the com ity,
hundred of Binfield, petty sessional divi­
sion of Henley, union and county court
district of Henley, rural deanery of Henley
and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford.
The village, placed on a chalky eminence
overhanging the river, commands a fine
prospect of the woodland scenory of the
adjoining county of Berks and the Surrey
hills beyond. The Loddon, celebrated by
Pope under the name of “ Lodona,” enters
the Thames near Sliiplake l o c k ; the
nearest bridge up the river is at Sonning,
distant 2J m iles, and down, at Henley,
3J miles. A ferry connects this place
with Wargrave. The church of SS. Peter
and Paul is a structure of flint and stone,
with arches and colum ns of chalk in
various styles from the Transition N or­
man period downwards, consisting of
chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and
an embattled tower at the north-west
angle containing 8 bells, 2 of which were
added in 1902 to com m om orate the long
reign of Her late M ajesty Queen V ictoria,
and a c lo c k : in general the church is of
the Decorated era, but the arches of the
nave arcades are Transition Norm an, the
south aisle being Early English and the
font D ecorated: there is an Early English
piscina in the south aisle and many
ancient flo o T tiles re m a in : there is a
brass to John Symonds and Jane his
wife, c. 1540, and m em orials to Arthur
Blunden, 1607, and to Mr. Plowden, with
a fine bu st: the church was rebuilt in
1869 and a chancel and organ chamber
added, from plans by the late George E.
Street esq. R.A. at a cost of ¿3 ,7 1 3
6s. n d . ; the bells were rehung and a
new one a d d ed : there are seven stained
windows, .som e o f which are filled with
ancient glass brought from the church
f the Abbey of St. Bert-in at St. O m er;
e west window is a m em orial to Sir
jbert Joseph Phillim ore bart. d. 19

May, 1885 : the late L ord Tennyson, poet
laureate, was m arried in this church,
June 13, 1850: there are 200 sittings.
T he register of baptisms and burials
dates from the year 1672; marriages,
1674. In the churchyard is a m em orial
cross erected in 1908 by the S t. Hon.
S ir W alter G . F. P hillim ore bart. and
m embers of his family. The living is a
vicarage, gross yearly value ¿ 3 9 2 , net
¿2 6 0 , with residence, in the gift of the
Dean and Canons of W indsor, and held
since February, 1913, by the Rev. Charles
A rthur W illiam Aylen M .A. of Keble
College, Oxford & Cuddesdon. Near the
church is a parish room . Peppard Parish
R oom is in this parish and faces Peppard
C om m on. There are four cottages and
gardens in this parish, the rents of which,
¿ 2 1 yearly, are applied to the repairs
o f the church, after payment o f ¿ 5 to
the clerk.
This village i s . a favourite
resort for boating, fishing and bicycling
parties. Crowsley Park is the seat of
Col. John Baskerville D .L ., J.P. ; the
mansion, built in the reign of James II.
is a fine building of red brick with an
em battled parapet, and is surrounded by
avenues of fine tr e e s ; one avenue in the
rear o f the mansion is a m ile in len g th ;
the park, in which are kept 200 head of
deer, is 250 acres in extent, thickly
wooded and noted for its fine cedar and
oak trees. T he Coppice is the residence
of the Rt. Hon. Sir W alter George Frank
P hillim ore bart. D .C .L ., L L .D ., J .P .;
Shiplake House, of the Misses Phillim ore,
and Shiplake Court, of R obert H. C.
Harrison esq. D .L ., J.P.
Col. John
Baskerville D .L ., J.P. is lord of the manor
and principal landowner.
The soil is
gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops
are wheat, barley, oats and peas. The
area is 2,740 acres* of land and w a ter;
rateable ‘ value, ¿10,3 23 for the whole
civil parish; the population in 1911 was
1,236 in the civil parish; the population
in the ecclesiastical parish in 1911 was
960.

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Parish Clerk, Charles Montague, Ship­
lake Cross.