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UKAMJIG DtBEOTQBV— 1919.

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The area of the Parliam entary borough is 2,441 acres ; the population
in 1911 was 63,299 ; the number of electors on the Parliam entary register
in 1913 was 11,088.
The Corporation have from very ancient times been the owners of the
markets and fairs in the borough. In 1868 the Corporation became the
owners of the waterworks, which have from time to time been considerably
enlarged and extended, and now supply a population of about 90,000
within and outside the borough.
The Corporation are the owners of valuable and extensive properties
which include about 800 acres of land held for the disposal of sewage.
W H I T L E Y is a hamlet of the parish o f St. Giles. Southoot House
is a large and ancient edifice, built by John Blagrave, the mathema­
tician, to whose family, for more than two'centuries, Southcot belonged.
Parish Clerks &c.
A ll Saints’, Mrs. Maskell (verger), 21 W estern road.
St Giles’, W a lte r H enry Goodship (vestry clerk and collector), 150
Southampton street.
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St. John the Evangelist’s, A lfred G. N o rth (clerk), 1 Princes street.
St. Laurence, George Eoxell, 6 A bbot’s walk, Eorbury.
St. M ary the Virgin, Mrs. L o n g (verger), Church house, Chain street.
Christ Church, W hitley, James E dw in Eeles (verger,110 H ighgrove st
St. M ark ’s, E. Heather (verger), 151 Elm P ark road.
St. M ary s, Castle street, M rs. Beadles (clerk), 12 Castle street.
St. Peter’s, Earley, J. Lewington (verger), 27 Adelaide road.
St. Saviour’s, G. Courtnell (verger).

CAVERSHAM

is a separate parish, situated amidst picturesque
scenery, on the north bank of the Thames, and connected w ith the
remainder of the borough b y an iron bridge. The parish church of
St. Peter, originally Norm an, is an edifice of flint, with stone dressings,
consisting of chancel with aisle, nave, aisles and a western tower with
plain parapet containing 6 b e lls : it w as partially restored and reseated
with open benches in 1857, when a vestry was built, and w as further
restored in 1879 and the tower rebuilt at a cost of £3,570: the nave
arcade, a portion of the original Norman church, consisting of circular
arches, on plain round pillars, with other ancient features, w as then
destroyed, but there is a N orm an south doorw ay: the chancel arcade,
or two arches, is Perpendicular and relieved b y panelled w o rk : the
stained east window is a memorial to John Stephens esq. of Caversham
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the?6 are several oth ers: the church affords 570 sittings, all
t h e churchyard w as closed to interments and a new burial
ground at Hemdean opened in June, 1885. The register dates from the
year toy/. lh e living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £300, net £285,
with residence, m the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1916 by
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i.ph Sadlelr Stoney M .A . of that college, who is also rector. In
xt 10 the chancel and rectorial rights, form erly in the possession of
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an<^ since the Reformation in lay hands, were purchased
by M r. A . W . Carter and restored to the parish. The chair scats and
parclose screen, in black oak, were erected b y M r. Certeim in memory
of his son. The church of St. Andrew , in Albert road, erect id ia