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VILLAGES DIRECTORY
A B B O B F I E L D is a village and parish banks of the river Loddon, with grounds
on the river Loddon, 5 miles south-east and park. Arborfleld Grange, at present
from Beading and 3 west from Woking­ vacant, is a pleasant house standing in
ham, in the Newbury division of the grounds of limited extent, containing a
county, in the hundred of Sonning, petty shrubbery and a miniature lake.
The
sessional division and union of W oking­ principal landowners are John B. Har­
ham, county court district of Beading, greaves esq. Sir George A rthu r Charles
rural deanery of Sonning, archdeaconry Bussell bant, of Swallowfield Park, and
of Berks and diocese of Oxford.
The John W alter esq. M.A. of Bear Wood.
church of St. Bartholomew ¡S' a building The soil is clay and grav el; subsoil,
of flint and stone in the Early English London clay. The chief crops are wheat
style, erected in 1863 at a cost of up­ and barley. The area is 2,469 acres of
wards of ¿4,000, to which the late Sir land and w ater; rateable value, ¿2,046;
William Brown hart, of Liverpool, was the population in ig r i was 234.
the principal contributor; it consists of
Newland is a liberty one m ile east. The
chancel, nave and north porch, western
area is 2,227 acres of land and w a te r;
tower and spire containing 6 bells, 5 of
rateable
value, ¿ 2 . 5 5 6 ; the population in
which are from the old ch u rch : the
1911 was 298.
chancel windows are stain ed: there are
Parish Clerk, W illiam Cox.
two memorial windows to members of
the Towgood fa m ily : the church affords
King’s Tax Collector, Wm. Hy. North,
220 sittings.
The old church of St. Beach Bocks, 387 London road, Beading.
Bartholomew, built in 1256 of chalk and
flint, stands in the grounds of Arborfield Post, M. 0 . & T. 0 ., S. B. & Annuity &
Insurance Office, Newland.— John Hemy
Hall; it is now in ruins, the roof, con­
M attingley, sub-postmaster
sidered unsafe, having been taken down
in 1863: the piscina, sedilia and cre­ Pillar Box, Arborfield Grange
dence table, as well as some mural paint­ W all Box, Mole inn, Newland
ings, brasses and monuments rem ain; Elementary School (mixed & infants), for
the aisles contain tombs and tablets to
the parishes of Arborfield & Barkham,
members of the Standen and Conroy
built in 1873, & enlarged 1910, for 182
families.
The register dates from the
children; average attendance, 149; Jas.
year 1706. The living is a rectory, net
B.
Hayward, master
yearly value ¿ 2 4 r, with residence, in the
The Parish Council consists of 5 members,
gift of Mrs. Hargreaves, and held since
v i z . : Jolyn Simonds (chairman), Francis
1898 by the Eev. Joshua Alexander Ander­
W illiam Seymour, Arthur Charles Tayson M.A. of Pembroke College and Bidler, Henry Bishop, Mrs. Bentley
ley Hall, Cambridge. Here is a Congre­
gational chapel, erected in 1899, seating A portion of .the names given under Ar­
borfield are in the ecclesiastical district
200 persons. The old manor house, now
of St. Catharine, Bear Wood, but placed
gone, is described in Miss Mitford’s “ Our
here for postal purposes
Village ” as “ the old house at Aberleigh," and the Loddon is celebrated by Carriers to Beading.— Phillis, daily except
w ed.; A cot, tues. thurs. & s a t .; MayPope under the name of “ Lodona.”
banks, tues. thurs. & sat. & Bayliss,
Arborfleld Hall, the seat of Mrs. S. Har­
daily
except wed
greaves, is pleasantly situated on the