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V IL LA G E S D IR E C TO R Y — 1017.

SHIN F IE L D .

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Sexton, Henry Burgess.

anil C. E ric Palm er esq. join t m asters;
Newbury and Henley are convenient towns Post Office.— W illiam Pocock, sub-post­
for hunting visitors. The principal land­
master. Letters through Reading, arrive
owners are the Rev. H. C. W ilder and Sir
at 6.30 a .m .; dispatched at 8.35 a.m .
Charles Day Rose, o f Hardwick house,
& 6 p .m .; Sundays, arrive at 6.30 a.m .
Reading. The soil is loam and g ravel;
Pangbourne is the nearest m oney order
subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are oats,
& telegraph office
barley and beans. T he area is 1,121 acres
of land and 3 of w ater; rateable value, School,
built
in 1873
by the
Rev.
Richard Palm er, late rector, for 54
¿10,754 1 the population in 1911 was 238
ch ild re n ; average attendance, 38 ; Miss
in the civil parish, and 209 in the eccle­
Reed, mistress
siastical parish.
By Local G overnm ent Board Order No.
31,931, that part o f W hitchurch (O xon) Carriers to Reading.— Sm ith, m on. wed.
thurs. fri. & s a t .; Brind & Crocker,
civil parish in the adm inistrative county
daily
of Berks was added to Purley.
P R IV A T E K E S ID iS t S.

Aldin Cecil, The K en n els; T . N. 14
Pangbourne
Dawson Henry, Hillbrow, Warren road
Elkington Mrs. Purley h a ll; T . N. 31
Pangbourne
Fullerton Mrs. D. Purley p a rk ; T . N.
706 Reading
Hodgkin Charles Ernest, Purley lodge
Pring Rev. Richard Henry M .A . (rector)
Sykes Lady F. Westfield ; T. N. 38 Pangbourne
C O M M E R C IA L .

Gulliver Jn. Ernest, farm er,W estbury frm
Kirk John James & Son, blacksmiths
Menpes Fruit Farm L td. L on g lane (E .
Peters, m n g r .); T . N. 71 Pangbourne
Pocock Horace, Stonecroft, m arket gardnr
Pocock Thom as, wheelwright
Pocock W illiam , Post office
Reed Miss, school mistress
Saunders R t.frm r. & butcher,Scrace?9 frm
South Berks F ox Hounds (Cecil Aldin esq.
& C. E ric Palm er esq. join t m asters) ;
T . N . 14 Pangbourne
Tham e James, lock keeper

Burgess Henry» sexton

S H IN F IE I/D is a village aud parish, 4
miles south from Heading, in the Southern
division, of the county, partly m the
hundred of Theale and partly in the
hundred of Charlton, union o f W oking­
ham, petty sessional division and county
court district of Heading, rural deanery
of Heading, archdeaconry of Berks and
diocese of Oxford.
The river Loddon
flows on the south-east. 'The church of
St. Mary is an ancient edifice of flint and
brick, in the Early English style, con­
sisting of chancel, nave, south aisle,
north porch and low em battled western
tower, with some Norman work, contain­
ing 6 b e lls: in the church are several
monuments : the seats are of oak and the
pulpit of carved o a k : the east window is
stained: the church was com pletely re­
stored in 1857, at a cost of ¿ 1 ,6 0 0 : there
are 320 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1C49. The liv in g is a vicarage,
yearly value £200, with 26 acres of glebe
and residence, in the g ift of the Dean and
Chapter of Hereford, and held since 1908
by the Bev. H erbert Llewelyn Hice M.A
of Queens’ College, Cambridge. There is
a village ball at School green, erected in
1913. A Free Church is at School green.

The charities am ount to about ¿ 8 yearly,
and are for clothing and coal. Alexander
Blyth Cobhain esq. who is lord of the
manor, and James H erbert Benyon esq.
J.P. of Englefield House, Englefield, are
the principal landowners. T he soil i3
gravel and c la y ; subsoil, gravel. The
ch ief crops are wheat, oats and barley.
The area is 4,292 acres of land and 21 of
w e r ; rateable value, ¿ 1 2 ,0 7 2 ;
the
population of the civil parish in 1911 was
2,372The population attached to the parish
church in 19 n was 1,800.
Parish Clerk & Sexton, W illiam T .
Attawell, Post office, School green
Overseers, George Joseph Bromley & G.
W . Alexander
Assistant Overseer, Henry Goddard,
The W oodlands.
County P olice, Charles Henry Parkins,
sergeant.
The Parish Council consists of 11 m em ­
bers, v i z . : — Chas. Aldridge (chairm an),
James Rowe, Sidney' Pennington, A. T.
Poolev,
W ilfrid
Kernutt,
Leonard
Dom one, Harry Turvey, Robert Curtis,