DIREGI OR Y. J • BERKSHIRE. LONG Wn'T.t.l\HAM • 291 "WINNERSH, see ll'urst. WINTERBOURNE, see Chieveley. WINTERBROOK, see Cholsey. LITTLE WITTENHAM, or Wittenham Abbot, is the Charity Commissioners, is distributed to the poor. a village and parish on the banks of the Thames, d The Wittenham hills, twin eminences riSing consplcn­ miles north-west from Wallingford and 6 south-east from ously to the south of the village and crowned with Abingdon, in the Northern division of the county, hun­ clumps of trees, are interesting from the remains of dred of Ock, Abingdon petty sessional division, Walling­ British or Roman fortifications which encircle the second ford union and ~ounty court district, rural deanery of hill (Sinodun), t.he fosse and ditch with the various Wallingford, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Ox­ entrances being fairly perfect. On the tree at the corner ford. The church of St. Peter is an edifice of stone in of the eastern clump are the remains of 20 lines of Eng:ish the Early English style, consisting of chancel and nave verse in couplets, composed and carved in 1844-5 by and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: the late Mr. Joseph Tubb, of Warborough Green; these the east window is a memorial to the Rev. Frederick verses wBre printed at length in the "Oxford Journal" J oseph Hilliard, for 40 years rector here: in the church of June 28, r89o. The manor anciently formed part of are brasses and other memorials to the Dnnch family, the possessions of the Abbey of .A bmgdon, but was some of which, until the restoration of the church in subsequent:y held in 1547, as a grant from the Crown, 1862, were contained in an old mortuary chapel, be­ by Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton K.G. and longing to this family, which stood in tl•e churchyard, Lord Chancellor, and later by John Barnes esq. mentioned but this structure, a building of some size, was then above : by the marriage of his sister to W illiarn Dun eh pulled down and several of the monuments destroyed, esq. it passed into that family, and the lordship was the present representatives of the family being un­ held by the Dunches for a long series of years; ·walter willing to repair it: in the tower below the west window Dnnch esq. whose monument iS! in the- church, married is an altar tomb of marble and alabaster, with recum­ Debora.h, daughter and co-heir to J ames Pilkington, bent effigies, and shields of arms and Latin inscrip­ Bishop of Durham (1561-77); his nephew, Sir William tions 3/bove, one to Waiter Dunch esq. son of William Dnnch kt. whose monument is also in the church, Dunch esq. and Mary, his wife, ob ..June 4, 1594, erected married Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell kt. ot by his mother; and the other to Sir William Dunch kt. Hinchinbrooke, sister-in-law of William Harnpden esq. ob. Jan. 22, 16n, erected by his parents, Edmund and of Great Hampden, Bucks, and aunt of Oliver Cromwell, Anne Dunch : on the floor of the tower is a stone with Lord Prote~tor; Edmund Dunch, eldest son of Sir arms and inscription to Mary, eldest daughter of Ed­ William, was made by the Protector governor of Wal­ mund Dunch, wife successively of William Winchcombe, lingford Castle, and subsequently created (April 26, of Buck!ebury, and Sir Edward Clarke kt. of Ardington, 1658) Baron Burnell, of East Wittenham, but this title ob. Oot. 18, 1846: and another, w>th arms and in· was disallowed at the Restoration : the Dunch family scription, " bestowed" by her to her first husband, became extinct in the male· line on the death, in I7I9, William Winchcombe, ob. July 29, 16n~: in a recess on of Edmund Dunch esq. who left two daughters and co­ the north side of the chancel is an altar tomb wrth brass heiresses, Elizabeth, the elder, who married Sir George effigy and inscription to the Kid welly family; there are Oxenden bart. :\LP. for Sandwich, and Harriet, who­ also other brasses to this old family on the floor of the married Robert, 3rd Duke of Manchester. The Dunch~ chancel, and •the brass effigy of a priest vested, with in­ estate here was bought in I787 by a Mr. Hallett, grand­ scription to John Churmound, rector 1433; on the son of the Mr. Hallett, ca.binet maker, of Long Acre, north wall of the tower are ·brasses to .John Barnes esq. London, who in 1747 purchased the· greater part of "gentleman porter of the Towne and Castle of Guysnes "Princely Canons," at Little- Stanrnore, in Middlesex:o in ffraunce," ob. at London, 1588, and to his sister Mary, the famous residence of James Brydges, Duke of wife of William Dunch esq. with effigies (himself 11> Chandos. Mr. Hallett pulled down the fine old mansion, armour) and inscription below: there is also a tablet which had been for more than two centuries in the to Henry Carter M.A. so years rector, and Anne Wilhel­ Dunch family, retaining only a small portion (also after. mina, his wife, with their daughters, Mary Ann and wards destroyed) as a ''sporting box." Apsley Cherry­ Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. William Palmer, vicar of Garrard esq. is now lord of the manor and chief land­ Yarcombe, Devon, 1819, and memorials to John Sheen, owner. The soil is clay and green sand; subsoil, clay d. June I, 1783, and to the Cozens family, who still and green sand. 'l'he chief crops are wheat, barley and reside in the parish and neighbourhood: in I894 t> beans. The parish contains 877 acres, including about stained window was placed on the south side of the 41 acres of glebe land and I I of water; rateable value, chancel by the late Rev. J. A. Stafford Billiard B.A. £689 ; the population in 19ll was H9. vicar of 'fidenham, and rector here 1861-84; and in Parish Clerk, Jonas Deacon. 1902 a vestrv and organ chamber were added on the north side Gf the chancel: there are I20 sittings. The Letters through Abingdon arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 1.30· register da.tes from the year I538. 'l'he living i<~ a p.m. The nearest money oTder office is at Long. rectory, net income £127, with 42 acres of glebe and Wittenham & telegraph office at Dorchester (Oxon), residence, in the gift of Mrs. Howland, of Baxterley about. '~ mile;; distant Vicarage, Atherstone, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 1 & 6 p.m.; suns. 9·55 a.m Kenneth Campbell Bickerdike M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Elementary School (mixed), for so children; Miss C .. Oxford. The interest of £3o, which is in the hands of Bennett, mistress; Miss Pusey, assistant mistress Ilickerdike Rev. Kenneth Camp bell Cozens Henry Wilmot, farmer M.A. (rector), Rectory Latham James, farmer LONG WITTENHAM is a village and parish on the provided about I879: in the chapel on the south side" river Thames, 5 miles south-east from Abingdon, 5 is a very curious piscina, with trefoiled arch, the upper north-west from Wallingford, 4 miles north-east from part of which is covered by figures of angels with out­ Didcot station on the Great Western railway and about spread wings ; and over this is another arch with a south-east from Culham station, in the Northern divi­ corbels : along the chamfered edge in front of the sion of the county, Ock hundred, Abingdon petty ses­ piscina lies the small cross-legged figure of a knight in sional division, Wallingford union and county court dis­ mail armour and cyclas of the I 3th century: the right trict, rural deanery of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks hand holds a naked sword, and on the same arm lies and diocese of Oxford. 'l'he church of St. Mary is an a small shield: the north aisle also retains a piscina edifice of stone in the Norman, Early English, Deco­ with a small canopied niche on one side of it: the font rated, Late Perpendicular and Elizab<Ythan styles, con­ is of lead, circular in shape, ornamented with small sisting of chancel, nave of four bays on the south side, circles of foliage and a row of figures under pointed and three on the north, aisles, south porch and an em­ arches, and stands on a massive stone base or pedestal battled western tower, 75 feet high, and containing 6 of Transition Norman date: there are 300 sittings. The bells, re-cast in 1768 : the church was restored and re­ register dates from the year 156r to 1029; fr~m this seated in r85o, the chancel being- rebuilt by the rector date to I726 the registers are missings. The living is a and Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford, who are the im­ vicarag-e, net yearly value £roo, with residence, in the propriators of the great tithe: the stained east window, gift of Exeter College, Oxford, and held since I903 by placed in r866, is a memorial to Lieut. James Henry the Rev. Thomas Daniel Hopkyns M.A. of Pembroke Clutterbuck, ,<;th Fusiliers, son of a former vicar, who College, Oxford. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. was murdered in Ireland, and in the north aisle are '!'here is a charity of £32 a year, the rent of 25 acres memorial windows to George Max Lambert esq. (1892) of land, which is g-iven in coals to the poor. The Talbrt and 1>o the Rev.