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G IW Z K L E i .

V IL LA G E S

DIRECTOR V— 1917.

T urvey Mary Inn (M rs.), beer retailer, W ooff Charles, Old Boll P.H . (letteiL
Great Lea
through Burghfield)
\
Wheeler C. eoa m erchant (letters through W yeth W alter John, baker, Great Lea
Bnrghfield)
(Other names in Spencer's W ood will b0
found under that heading.)
E I9 MOBE
E N D is a hamlet and
ecclesiastical
jarish, form ed December
29th, 1853, cn t of portions of the civil
parishes of Sh plake, Sonning and Caversham ; the Car ersham portion was consti­
tuted a civil ja rish June 14, 1894, by an
order of the Join t C om m ittee of the
Oxfordshire, Jerks and Bucks County
C ouncils, bu t on March 1st. 1902, the
civil was re-named Kidm ore End, and a
portion of i t acres was re-transforred
Nov. 1911 ; the village is 6 } m iles north­
east from
Pi ngbourno station and 6J
south-west from Henley-on-Tham es ter­
minal station, both on the Great W estern
railway, and 5 m iles north from Readme,
in the Sonthirn division of the county,
petty sessional division of Henley, union
of H enley-on-Tham es, county court dis­
trict of Reading, rural deanery of Henley
and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford.
The church of St. John the Baptist, built
in 1852, is an edifice of Hint and stcne in
the E arly English style, and consists of
chancel, nave, north porch, vestry and a
turret contairing one b e ll: the windows
are stained and include a m em orial win­
dow presented to the church by C. M.
W orthington :sq. of Dyson's w ood : there
are 220 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1854. The living is a vicarage,
net incom e I 240, with residence and i t
acres o f glebi-, in the gift of the Bishop
o f Oxford, a ad held since 1916 by the
Rev. Bertram Hugh Bird M .A. ; an addi­
tional /T o o a year was added to the living
in May, 1877 by Miss Palmer, of Holme
Park, Sonning, and ¿ 5 0 by the Ecclesias­
tical Commissioners. A Church R oom for
p ublic m eetii gs, m en’ s clubs and Church
lads’ brigade was opened in 1902. At
Gallows Tre> com m on is a Prim itive
M ethodist ch ipel, bu ilt 1873, and at Son­
ning Com m on is a Hall, built in 1908
with 200 sittings, belonging to the Congregationalisis.
Cane End House, the
residence of Henry Douglas Brigham
Vanderstegen esq. J.P. is a mansion of
very ancient date.
The principal land­
owners m e H . D. B. Vanderstegen esq.
J.P. and K eith Ronald Mackenzie esq.
The soil is m ixed, principally gravel ;
subsoil, chalk, gravel and loam.
Thé
chief crops ;ire corn and Toots,
Area,

2,486 a cre s; rateable value of civil parish
£ 3 .3 7 2 : the population in 1911 was 549.’
Parish Clerk, R obert Jackman.
Overseers,
Chown.

J.

S.

All wright

and

W

Assistant Overseer and Collector of
Rates, Ernest C. Cooke, Oak v i l l a , tr
Gosbrook street, Caversham.
’
The Parish Council consists of 6 members,
v i z . : — Henry D. B. Vanderstcgen J P
(chairm an),
Fred
Paddick,
John
Sm ithers Allwright, Ernest Callis. Wm.
Chown fc A lfred O ld ; Ernest C. Cooke,
Oak villa, 5 Gosbrook street, Caver. sham, clerk
Post, M. 0 . So T. 0 ., 3 . B. &c.— Joseph
Foster, sub-postm aster. Letters thronoh
Reading, arrive at 7.5 a.m. & s .j 0
p .m .; dispatched at 6.25 p .m . week
day s; Sundays, arrive at 7.15 a .m .;
dispatched at 12.20 p.m
W all Letter Box, Cane End, cleared at 8,5
a.m . & 6 p .m .; Sundays, 8.25 a.m
Wall Letter Box, Gallows Tree common,
cleared at 6.10 p .m .; Sundays, 12 noon
W all Letter Box, Shiplake Bottom , cleared
at 6.23 p .m .; Sundays, 8 a.m
Wall Letter Box, Toker’s green, cleared
at 7-25 a.m . & 6.40 p .m .; sun.12.30 p.m
W all Letter Box, W igm ore pond, cleared
at 6.15 p .m .; Sundays, 9.10 a.m
Post Office, Sonning com m on, Frederick
Henry Stannard, sub-postm aster. Let­
ters are delivered Sc dispatched from
K idm ore End post office. Postal orders
are issued & paid. The nearest money
order So telegraph office is at Kidmore
P ublic Elementary School (m ixed), built
in i860, & since enlarged, with master’s
house, for i n ch ild ren ; average attend­
ance, 100; Mrs. H % gens, mistress
Public Elem entary Council School, Grove
road, Sonning Com m on, b u ilt in 1913,
for 80 children (m ixed & infants) ; aver­
age attendance. 8 0 ; F. W . Woodward,
head m aster; Mrs. F. C. Woodward,
infants’ m istress; cookery centre Carriers from Reading.— To Cane End,
Havell, m on. thurs. & s a t .; to Kidmoro
End & Gallows Tree Com m on, Smith,
daily, except wed
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