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V ILLA G E S DIRECTORY— 1917.

Mungeam James G eorge, beer retailer
Purfitt Matthew Henry, farm er, Trash
Green farm & Moatlands farm (postal
address, Reading)
Pearce Mrs. district mrrse
Pendrey G eorge, tailor & beer retailer
fPopharri-Crosse E. F. (H eidelberg Univcrsity ), preparatory school f o r r sons of
gentlemen, Burghfield house
Post Office Telephone (Burghfield Exchange
& P ublic Call office) (M rs. Booth, in
charge), Burghfield com m on

Sheppard Ernest, schoolm aster
Sm ith A lbert, baker (postal address
Theale)
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Sm ith Charles Douglas, cab-proprietor
Stokes P. R ising Sun P.H
Summers Thomas, farm er,W oolwich farm
(postal address, Theale, Reading)
fT aylor Sidney, grocer
tThom as Henry, carrier
Turvey Clayton, Hatchgate inn
fW heeler Edwin C. assistant overseer &
rate collector

D T J N S D E N a n d E Y E form a liberty are wheat, barley, oats and peas. The
in Oxfordshire, belonging to the parish of area is 4,022 a c r e s ; rateable value,
Sonning, in Berkshire, and including ¿7*323J the population in 1911 was 1,173;
Sonning Eye, Sonning Com m on and part the population in the ecclesiastical parish
of Binfield Heath.. Dunsden was form ed in 1911 was 531.
into a separate ecclesiastical parish May
Parish Clerk, S. Green.
26th, 1876,. and is 3J m iles north-east
Overseers, W alter Ford and Thos. Cane.
from Reading station, and about the same
Assistant Overseer and C ollector of
distance north-w est from Tw yford ju n c­
tion, both on the Great W estern railway, Rates, Ernest C. Cooke, Oak villa, 5 Gosand 5 m iles south from Henley, in the brook street, Caversham.
C ollector of K ing’s Taxes, J. W . T.
Southern division of the county, hundred
of Binfield, union o f Henley, petty ses­ Baylis, 69 W estfield T o a d , Caversham.
sional division of Henley, county court The Parish Council consists of 9 m em ­
district of Reading, rural deanery of Son­
bers, v i z .:— W . L. Saunders (chair­
ning, archdeaconry of Berkshire and
m an ), A . E. Maskell, Albert Henry
diocese o f Oxford. A portion o f CaverW ells, Thom as Cane, Charles Fox,
sham was transferred to Dunsden Nov.
W alter Fitch, Ernest W. M ay^ John
9th, 1911.' Caversham Park, in this dis­
Pound & Frederick Henry Stannard;
trict, is occupied by W illiam Thom pson
Ernest C. Cooke, Oak villa, 5 Gosbrook
Crawshay esq. D .L ., J .P .; it is a large
street, Caversham, clerk
and handsom e residence, standing in a Post Office.— Ernest Alfred W errell, sub­
park of 300 acres.
The church of All
postmaster. Letters arrive from R ead­
Saints, built and endowed by the late
ing by cycle post at 6.30 a.m . & 6 p .m .;
Robert Falmer esq. of Holme Park, Son­
Sundays at 7 a .m .; dispatched at 7.5
ning, in 1842, is a structure of grey brick
a.m . & 6.25 p .m .; Sundays at noon.
in the Early English style, consisting of
Binfield Heath is the nearest money
chancel, nave, north porch and a western
order & telegraph office
turret containing 2 b e lls : the church has Wall Letter Box, Play Hatch, cleared at
some good stained windows, and affords
8.5 a.m . & 6.40 p .m .; Sundays, 12.15
220 sittings. The register dates from m e
p .m
year 1876. The living is a vicarage, gross
W all Letter Box, Sonning Eye, cleared at
yearly value ¿3 9 0 , net £315. "with resi­
10.10 a.m . & 6.50 p .m .; sun. 7.20 p.m
dence, in the g ift o f the vicar o f Sonning,
and held since 1904 by the Rev. Herbert Pillar Letter Box, Bird-in-H and, cleared
at 7.45 a.m . & 4.30 p .m .; sun.7.45 a.m
W igan M .A. of Ctriei College, Oxford.
M rs. G olding Palm er, of 36 Queen’ s Gate, Public Elem entary School, bu ilt in 1869 &
enlarged at various times, for 142 child­
London, is lady of the manor and prin­
r e n ; average attendance, n o ; W illiam
cipal landowner.
The Parish hall was
built in 1909 at a cost of £400. The soil x H ullcoop, master
is chalk, with gravel here and there; Carrier to Reading.— Thomas Herridge,
subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops
daily
DUNSDEN.
P R IV A T E RESID EN TS.

G ardin er M rs. T he C ottage
Minetfc F r e d e r ic J o h n ,
L ow er C aversham
J.P.

D eane’ s

Crawshay W illiam Thom pson D .L .,
Caversham
park
(letters
through Sage Fredk. Trelawney (letters
Em m er Green, Oaversham)
Binfield heath)

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