DIRI!.CrOHY.] BERKSHIRE. wurosoa. WELFORD. Le Mesnrier John Cortlandt William Plumb William, bricklayer Cobbold Major Ralph Patteson, Wel- B.A. Milton lodge Willis Alfred, farmer, Elton farm ford park Alien Albert, farmer, Halfway farm Working Men's Club (William Isaacs, Brown Edwin, shopkeeper Hallett George, Halfway Rouse P.II steward) Butcher Mooes, farmer, Welford farm Richens George & .Alfred, farmer• Harris Alfred, estate carpenter WICKIIA...\f. ROE BENHAM. Trotio Fredk. head gardnr.Welford pk Attewell Owen P EASTON. Batson Mrs Hardy Rev. Charles Edward 1oi.A. Perris John Wickham house Archer-Houblon Capt. Henry Lindsay Wand Reginald Bnrbidge Rev. Richard John A.K.C.L. .!Jewitt William Joseph, Oakhanger Burton Cassandra (Miss), •hopkeeper Adey Brothers, brick makers (Thomas (curate) & beer retailer :Masters Fredk. farmer, Easton farm Wood Blake, manager) H uzzey Frederick, farmer Allee Jn. William, shopkpr. & post off Moore Thomas., beer retailer Tucker Wiiiiam, baker Radbourne Edw3rd, blacksmith Brooks Robert Henry, farmer, Wick- ham farm HALFWAY. WESTON. Froome James, poultry farmer (Letters for Halfway should be ad Batt Alfred Charles, beer retailer IHonour William 'l'homas, farmer dressed Hungerford.) Birch Edwin, blacksmith Nutt James, Five Bells P.H. & farmer Lawrence John, Halfway house Hamblin Wm. & Sons, millers (water) Willis Alfred Thomas,farmer,Sole frm WHISTLEY-IN-HURST, see Hurst.
WHITE W ALTHAM (formerly Bury Town 1 and the young men of the parish. There are sum• or Waltham Abbotts) (for Abbas) forms a parish amounting tMaidenhead looking White Waltham and commanding a fine view of petty sessional division, Maidenhead union, county court the surrounding country. Reywood, the property of C. district of Windsor, rural deanery of Maidenhead, arch Sawyer esq. and now occupied by Greville H. Palmer deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford; part of the esq. is a square white mansion, situated in a fine park. village extends into the parish of Shottesbrooke. 'l'he B. G. 0. Smith esq. who is lord of the manor of Bury, church of St. Mary the Virgin, a building of flint with George Dunn and C. Sawyer esqrs. are the principal stone dressings, was rebuilt, with the excepHon of the landowners. The soil is very various; subsoil, chalk, chancel and mortuary chapel, m 1~68, and is in the gravel, and clay in some parts. The chief crops are Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, wheat, barley, oats &c. The area is 2,638 acres of land nave of three bays, mortuary chapei, south porch and and 5 of water; rateable value, £10,926; population in a western tower containing 6 bells and a striking clock 1gii, 8r8. erected in 1893 as a memorial to the late W. J. Beadel By Local Government Board Order 7,057• dated Oct. esq. M.P. of Brentwood,_Essex, d. 1892: the north aisle 9· 1877, a detached part of White Waltham parish wa• and tower were added, principally at the expense of the added to Shottesbrooke. late Charles Sawyer esq. of Heywood, the late Charles Ellis esq. of Waltham Place, restoring the mortuary Littlewick Green, with Woolley Green, in this civil chapel belonging to the estate: an organ chamber was parish, have been formed into an ecclesiastical parish, erected on the north side of the chancel in I'B89 by and will be found under the letter L. Lieut.-Gen. Sawyer as a memorial to his late wife at Post, M. 0. &; T. Office.--James C. Skinner, sub-post a cost of £546, and in 1892 a new organ in a handsome master. Letters arrive from Maidenhead at 6.45 & oak case was erected at a cost of £400; in taking I 12.15 & 7.30 p.ro.; sunday, 6.45 a.m.; dispatched at down the walls of the old church a group of alabaster I 9.10 a.m. & 1.55 & 7·35 p.m.; sundays, 6.15 p.m figures was found, supposed to have formed part of the , reredos: the chancel walls appear to have been covered PALEY STREET is a small hamlet, one mile and a with mural paintings; nearly all the windows are half south-east of Waltham church, in the parish of stained, and there are 300 sittings. 'fhe register dates White Waltham. Here is a Congregational chapel, from the year 1563, and contains a list of the vicars connected with the "Fifield Mission," built in 1837, and of this parish from 1309, Simon of Ghent being then seating about so. Bishop of Salisbury, of which diocese Berkshire con Post Office, Paley Street.-Philip Hallworth, sub-post tinued to form a part nntil October 5th, 1836. The master. Letters through Maidenhead, delivered at ]i,·ing is a vicarage, annexed to the Rectory of Shottes~ 7 a. m. & 12.20 & 8.45 p.ro.; sunday, 8.45 a.m.; brooke, joint net yearly value £3o4, with glebe and resi dispatched at g.rs a.m. & 12.20 & 7.30 p.m.; sunday, dence, in the gift of Basil Guy Oswald Smith esq. and 6.25 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph held since 1905 by the Rev. Richard Holmes M.A. of office is at Holyport, z miles distant Christ's College, Cambridge. The old parish stocks and Elementary School (mixed), built in 1875, enlarged whipping post are still to be seen here. In 1906 a about 1885, for 156 children; George Bell, master g-ymnasium was erected by B. G. 0. Smith esq. of Shottesbrooke Park, for the use of the school children County Police, Frank Robins, constable
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Rawlins William Donaldson K.C., Heasman Alfred,beer ret.Paley Street Brownrigg Capt. Sir Douglas Egre-l J.P. White WaHham Grove Hicks William John, RoWINDSOR (or New Windsor), anciently called Windles Windsor and part of the suburb of Clewer, on the west. ora, the "winding shorfl" (A.S. "ora," shore), is a Over the Thames, connecting the borough with Eton, municipal and parliamentary borough, head of a petty is a bridge 200 feet long and 29 feet wide, supported sessional division and of a connty court district and a by three arches of cast iron, the middle one being 55 market and union town on the navigable Thames, 22 feet span, resting on piers of granite; the bridge is miles from London, rg from Reading-, r4 from Hampton now free of toll and was built in 1823. Lower down the Court· and 6 south-east from Maidenhead, in the riv~r a're two bridg-es : the Victoria bridge of one arch Eastern division of the c~:>unty, hundred of Ripplesmere, to Datchet and the Albert bridge of four arches from rural de!lnery of Maidenhead, archdeaconry of Berks Old Wind110r to Datchet. The town was given by and diocese of Oxford. The town consists of New Edward the Confessor to Westminster Abbey, but seems
