5S BRITWELL PRIOR. OXFORDSHIRE. mansion was the residence of about 25 nuns of the Letten through Wallingford arrive at about 5-5 a.m. k order of St. Clare, who took refuge here from the 12.30 p.m. & dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 7·45 p.m.; violence of ihe French revolution. Roger Fletcher sunda.ys, arrive at 5·5 a.m.; dispatched 7·5 p.m. Lowndes-Stone-Norton· esq. who is lord of the manor, Watlington, 1! miles distant, is the nearest money Messrs. Paine and .Mrs. Smith, are the principal land­ order & telegraph office. The nearest post office is owners. The soil is loam; subsoil, gravel. The chief at Britwell Salome crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and roots. The area is 720 acres; rateable value, £66I ; the population The Dhildren of this place attend the Elementary school in 1901 was 6o. .at Brightwell Baldwin · Smith Mrs. Britwell house Stride Herbert Wyndham, farmer,/ Sandford J oseph, farm bailiff to H. Stapes Miss, Garden villa The Priory W. Stride esq BRITWELL SALOME (formerly Sallom), is a sity of Irelan;l, and .A.K.C.Lond. Here is a Wesleyan village and parish ~~ miles south-west from Watlington chapel. Chibnall's charity of £1 r6s. a year is distri­ terminal station of a branch from Princes Risborougb buted in money; the church land yields £I rrs. 6d. on the Great Western railway, and 6 north-east from yearly for repairs. Messrs. Paine, who are lords of the Wallingford, in the Southern division of the county, manor, Mrs. Smith, the trustees of the late Rev. hundred of Lewknor, petty sessional division of Wat­ William Preston Hulton M.A. (d. 14 .Aug. r87o), Charles lington, union of HEmley, county court district of Wal­ Edmund Ruck-Keene esq. of Cookley House, Swyn­ lingford, rural deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and combe, and Roger Fletcher Lowndes-Stone-Norton esq. diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Nicholas, rebuilt are the principal landowners. The soil is gravel and in 1867 and opened in November of that year, is a chalk; subsoil, loam. The chief crops are wheat, oats, building of flint and stone in mixed styles and consists beans, barley and roots. The area is 884 acres ; rate­ of a chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and western bell able value, £893; the population in rgor Wll.S uo.~ gable with 2 bells: the chancel arch and the fine south Parish Clerk, Samuel Barkuss. doorway are Norman: the church contains several • monuments, an ancient font and a brass to John :Mores, Post Office.-Samuel Barkuss, sub-postmaster. Letters rector, 1495: there are sittings for 130 persons. In the from Wallingford arrive at 5·5 a.m. & 12.30 p.m.; churchyard is a magnificent yew tree. The register dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 7·45 p.m.; sundays, arrive dates from the year I574· The living is a rect()ry with at 5·5 a.m.; dispatched at 7·5 p.m. Watlington, r! Britwell Prior annexed, joint net yearly value £170, miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office with residence and 18~ acres of glebe, in the g-ift of the Marquess of Lansdowne K.G. and held since 1898 by the The children of this parish attend the Elementary school Rev. Joseph Charles Mansfield B.A. of the Royal Univer- at Baldwin Brightwell

PIUVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Stevens Brothers, agricultural imple­ ment makers & agents, engineers, Hutton Mn Barkuss Sml. wheelwright, Post office iron & brass founders & black- Mackay Misses, White cottage Munday Thos.gardener to Mrs.Smith smiths Mansfield Rev. J osrph Charles B.A.., Palmer Herbert Ernest, poultry Stevens Frederick, farmer A..K.C.L. Rectory farmer & assistant overseer Stevens John, farmer, Rose dale , Sadler George, beer retailer 1 Tram :Nelson, Red Lion P.H BRIZE NORTON 1s a parish and long stmggling are also floor stones to the Greenwood family, formerly village along· the road from Hampton to Burfard, 4 miles of the Manor House: the chuTch was restored in 1868, south-east from Burford, 3 north-by-east from Bampton and in r88r an organ was introduced: there are 200 sit­ and 4 south-west from Witney, in the Mid division of tings. The register dates from the year I579· The the county, hundred of Hampton, petty sessional divi;>ion living is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £2ro, of Hampton West, union and county court district of including 200 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift Witney, rural deanery of Witney and archdeaconry and of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford, and diocese of Oxford. The Hampton station of the Oxford held since 1900 by the Rev. Miles Douglas Fletcher and Fairford branch of the Great Western railway is .\L.A. of Keble College, Oxford. Here is a Primitive in this parish. The church of St. Brize or Brice is an Methodist chapel. An annuity of £5 was left by God­ ancitmt edifice of stone with stone dressings in mixed ,Lud Carter, in 1723, for the education of poor children, 11tyles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south but is now expended in prizes; there is also an annual porch, and an embattled western tower of Early Englisl1 charity of about ss. for poor widows. The Manor House date containing 6 bells, rehung in r88r: the nave is is occupied by Mr. Edward Castle. The principal land­ Early English, the north aisle, the east end of which owners are the Dean and ·Chapter of Christ Church, is used as an organ chamber and vestry, has windows of Oxford (who are lords of the manor), and MeS81"8. the Decorated period~ the chancel, partly of this date, Edward Morley, John Joslin and Thomas Gillett. The­ contains three sedilia, an aumbry and an interesting soil is stone brash and clay ; subsoil, soft stone and Decorated piscina ; an ancient Perpendicular screen, re- clay. The chief crops are the usual ooreals. The area !'tared in rBB r, separates the chancel from the nave: is 3,265 acres; rateable value, £2,592; the population there is a. fine Norman south doorway and a font of m rgii was 521. Transitional character, with attached shafts: in the Parish Clerk and Sexton, William Smith. tWrth aisle, to which it was removed in r886 from thP vestry, is the fine tomb of Sir John Daubigny; the Post & ::\1. 0. Office. Joseph Timms, sub-postm~ster. central portion of the tomb consists of a slightly raised Letters arrive from Bampton at 7.20 a.m. & 3.50 slab, on which are carved in relief the crested helm, p.m.; dispatched g.2o a.m. & 6.45 p.m. week days mantling and shield of the knight; the mantling is only. Hampton, 3 miles di~tant, is the nearest tt>le- semee of mullets, and the shield bears four fusils in graph office fess, each charged with a pierced mullet; above this in . Wall Letter Box, Bampton station, cleared 6.40 a.m. t a trefoiled opening appear the head and shoulders of 11 7·5 p.m. week days only knightly effigy, and below. in a similar opening, thr for ..,. crossed feet, resting on a lion; around are four smallPr Elementary School (mixed), built in r875, 1..., shields with differentiated arms, and a marginal in- children; average attendance, 105; Edwin Melville scription, dated 1346: in the chancel is a mural tablet Williams, master to Eleanor Woodd, 1664, widow of Basil Woodd, 'l"ho wa~ Bampton Railway StatiDn, Cecil Haywood Dicks, station slain at Preston, in the Scottish invasion of 1648 : there 1 master Barnes A.rthur, The Poplars Castle Edward, farmer Powell David William Henry, road Castle Edward, Manor house Field Caleb, assistant overseer surveyor to the Witney Rural Di!­ Fletcher Rev. Miles Douglas M.A. Fowler William, fa1mer trict Council (vicar), The Vicarage Joynes George, carpenter, Ivy villa Pratt Jane (~rs.), Chequers P.H Gillett Miss, Fern cottage Launchbury John, grocer Pratt Thos. Irmr. Upper Haddon frm Knight 'Miss, .Acacia lodge Marriott Jam ss, coal merchant, Print .!lbert, blacksmith Lott 'Mrs. W. Buckland, The Cottage Hampton station Silman Elizabeth ('~iss), shopkPPper Warner Percival, The Firs Morley Edward, farmer & landowner, Slade John, haulier COMMERCIAL. ~{al"\Sh Haddon Smith Henry .Arnold, butcher .Akers Lucy (Miss), beer retailer 'Morley William, threshing machinE' Sturch Henry & William, farmers, The Badger WiHiam, farmer, Grove farm. owner, Marsh Haddon Grange Barnes Arthur & Son, bakers, grocer~.JPacker John, wheelwright Thatcher William, pig dealer drapers & ironmongers P:n-ne Wm. roal mPr. Hampton station Timms Joseph, stationer,& post office Bright John, farmer, A.strop farm Pearman & Sons, frmrs.Kilkenny frm Waite Isaac Jas. 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