348 WATLINGTON. OXFORDSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Watlington H~rticultural .Society (Rev. S. C. Saunders ·wheeler Henry, ironmonger, High street M.A. sec) Wheeler Henrv William Robert, builder & general Watlington Lecture Hall Co. Limited (Arthur Lett, sec.), contractor, Brook street High street Wheeler Lilla H. (Miss), dress maker, Shirburn stree\ Watlington Volunteer Fire Brigade (Jim Jones, captain White William, chair turner, Patemore lane & engineer) ; engine house, Town hall W iggins Herbert Richard, farmer, Lamp Watlington Working Men's Club (Arthur Lett, hon. sec.), Wiggins Philip, farmer, High street High street Wilkinson George E. farmer, Howe farm Watson John & Sons, land agents, appraisers & insur­ \Vilson Charles Henry, watch maker, High street ance agents, Estates' office, Britwell road Winfred Walter, butcher, High street Weedon Brothers, coal merchants, Church street & Wise Will.iam, laundry, Shirburn street Railvmy station; chief office, Goring Worley Henry, Three Crowns P.H. High street Wheeler & Crump, plumbers & glaziers, High street Worley Herbert Edgar, hair dresser, High street Wheeler Arthur F. plumber, High street Wright Charles Fredetick, draper, Market place WENDLEBURY is a parish and village on the road :\i.A. rector here 1730, till his death in Oct. 1764, from Bicester to Oxford, 3 miles south-west from and including all the entries from 1579 to 1738. The Bicester station on the Ashendon and Aynho Park living is a rectory, net yearly value £146, with residence, section of the Great Western Railway Company's new arising chiefly from rent of 2oo acres of glebe, in the gift main line from London to Birmingham, 2.i; miles south­ of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and west from Bicester station on the Bletchley and Oxford held since 1902 by the Rev. Henry William Gresswell branch of the London and North Western railway, and M.A. of Hertford College, Oxon. A charity of £4 16s. aho with a halt for the system of steam trams from yearly, given by deed of feoffment by William Browning, Oxford to Bicester, and 10 north-east from Oxford, in rector, in 1573, is distributed in money. A sum of {,100 the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty was left by the Rev. G. D. Bowles M.A. vicar 1866-I902, ~essional division of Ploughley, union and county court whioh has been invested by the Charity Commissioners, district of Bicester, rural deanery of Bicester and arch­ and t.he dividends are distributed amongst the poor of deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Giles Wendlebury in bread. In this parish are the remain& of is a building of stone, consisting at present only of the Roman station ...Elia Castra, or Alchester, the m011t chancel, nave and transept: the ancient church, a conspicuous trace of which consists of a slightly elevated cruciform structure, became much dilapidated in r639, mound, situated in a triangular meadow, bounded by a when the south tmnsept was wholly removed : the brook: it was excavated in 1776 by Mr. Penrose, and remaining portions, with the exception of the tower, found to inclose a portion of the walls of a t>quare being afterwards deemed incapable of repair, were taken building, 3 fee.t in height, with a tesselated pavement. down and a debased edifice erected in 1761, considerably The Duke of Marlborough K.G. is lord of the manor. smaller than its predecessor: in 1902 the church was The principal landowner is Queen's College, Oxford. restored under the supervision of J. Oldrid Scott psq. The land, stiff clay with gravel in the bottom, is nearly architect, of Westminster, at a cost of abont £1,ooo, new equally divided into pasture and arable. The area is choir stalls of oak were provided at a cost of £6o, and 1,147 acres of land and 7 of water; rateable valut>, a heating apparatus and hanging lamps supplied at a £1,357; the population in 1901 was 196. further cost of £ r ro: the only remaining ancient Parish Clerk, William Holton. features are an Early Decorated window, the Perpen­ Wall Letter Box cleared at 5.15 p.m.; sunday, 11.15 dicular south doorway and a bracket on the north a.m. Letters through Bicester, which is the neare~i side: the tower has not yet been rebuilt: the church money order & telegraph office, arrive about 7 a.m affords only 12:5 sitting'!! : in the churchyard ar~ th~ Elementary School, built in 1850, for 6o children; aver­ remains of a cross. The register dates from the year age attendance, 25 ; Miss Thirza Ibell, mistress 1579; there is also an alphabetical index to the register, Ca.rrier.-George Lapper, to Bicester, tues. & fri. & to compiled, with notes, by the Rev. Robert Welborne Oxford, wed. & sat COMI>IERCIAL, . Killhy Thomas Spencer, farmer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dumbleton Albert J. Red Lion P.H.: Lapper Edwin,Plough P.H.& overseer Gresswell Rev. Henry William M.A. buildBT" & wheelwrig-ht Lapper George, carrier (rector), Rectory Harr:is. William, farmer Tanner William Henry, farmer Hall Mrs 1hthawav Ernilv (Miss'), laundreDeddington residence, in the gift of Miss M. K. Seagrave, and is at and 7 north from Woodstock, in the Northern division present (Sept. H}I r) vacant. In 1901 Col. Edmund S. B. of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty sessional divi- LDCkyer conveyed to trustees two sm-all meadows, called sion of Wootton North, union and county court district respectively "Pittice" and "Mill Acre," in this place of Woodstock, rural deanery of Woodstock and arch- and Middle Barton, for the benefit, repair or improve­ deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. ment of the parish church, or for the benefit or relief Edward is an ancient building of stone, in mixed styles, of deserving members of the Church of England in thi. its earliest portions being Norman: it consists of chan- parish, in memory of his father, the Rev. Edmund eel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a Perpendicular Leopold Lockyer M.A. rector here 1852-1goo. Too poor'• western tower with pinnacles and corrta.ining 3 bells, allotment of 29 acres, awarded in 1796, produces about rung by means of the short piece of wood and half £2o n~t y!'l3.rly, which is expended in the purchase of wheel used in the 16th century; two were da.ted 1527, fuel, to be equally divided between this and the Jld­ and the third 1756, and there is also a priest's bell; joining parish of Middle Barton; there is also a bread of these bells two were recast and hung in a new steel charity of £2 ros. arising from the rent of land given frame in 1904, at the cost -of the Marshall family and by Norwood and others. Westcote Barton Manor House their friends : the chancel retains a stone sedile and a i~ the residence of Mrs. Marshall. The trustees of the small piscina, and on the north side a credence: the late J enne'r Guest Mar shall esq. are lords of the manor. chancel arch is Transitional, early 13th century, and Francis EdPn Marshall e~q. M.A. Alexander William has an ancient screen with doors, probably of the Hall esq. of Barton Abbey, and the rector are the prin­ ISth century, which has been mo!tt carefully restored, cipal landowners. The wil is mostly limestone brash; and the cornice of the rood loft, part of which re- subsoil, clay and white limestone. The land is arable mained, has been renewed and beautifully painted in with a small proportion pasture.• The area is 910 gold and colours, the orig-inal design being as nearly acres; rateable value, £r,072; the population in 190r as possible reproduced: there are traces of the rood was 153, and 177 in the ecclesiastical parish. loft stairs: two original Norman arches and piers Parish Clerk, William Brain. of the aisle arc~lde remain, ·but the wir.dows of the 1 Letters from Oxford arrive at 7.10 a.m. & 2.35 p.m- aisle are Perpendicular: the font is Norman: the I Wall Letter Box cleared at 11.5 a.m. & 6.45 p.m.; church was carefully restored in 1856, under the direc- I sunday, Q-55 a.m. The nearest money order & tele- tion of the late G. E. Street eosq. R.A. and affords 120 ' graph office is at MiddlP Barton sittings. In the churchyard is the base of a cross and 'fhe children of this parish attend the schools at Sand- half of a stone coffin, formerly used as a stand for the I ford St. Martin or Steeple Barhm basin of the Norman font, now placed on a new base: , Ca.rrier.-E'rnest A. Jones pa~ses through to Eanbury, there is also a large memorial cross of Cornish granite • mon. thurs. & sat. & Oxford, wed