DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. LITTLE COXWELL. 53

Warrell Charles, Hare & Hounds P.R Lee Lady, Ditton house; & 28 Bryans­ Reeves Benjamin, upholsterer West M:utha (Mrs.), dress maker ton square, London w Shaw Daniel, beer retailer West Solomon, carpenter Norsworthy Henry, Clarefiel:l house Wix Thomas, carpenter Sang William, The Lodge Stubbings. Hanning Charles, Fern house North Town. COMMERCIAL. Hodges Rev. Geo. SI. B.A. The Vicarage Gray Mrs. Russell, The Cottage Allin William, Golden Ball P.R Lee Arthur, The Orchards Gardoor Ernest, farmer & landowner, Brain Henry, beer retailer Lenny The Misses, Elm Grove cottage Spencer's farm Brawn Robert, fruiterer, Fern cottage Shine Mrs. W'adham H. Camley Hart Alfred, The Harrow P.R Burton JohM, Stag & Hounds F.R Wethered Lawrence Wm. Stubbings ha Kinchington J ames. beer retailer Cannon Robert, post office Wood William John, Rose cottage Lovejoy Henry, farmer Cooper John Kinghorn & Son. brick & Cannon James, farmer, Pinkneys green Watts James, beer retailer tile makers Field John, farmer, Stubbings farm Mitchley JO'leph, fruiterer Hobbs George, jun. cattle dealer Pinkneys Green. Musslewhite John, beer retailer Hunt Robert, farmer, Pinkneys green Cooper John, Kinghorn Parsons George, carpenter I Wynch George, shopkeepel'

GREAT COXWELL is a village and parish 2 miles I The register dates from the year 1654. The living is a south-west from Faringdon, 4 north-east from Highworth, discharged vicarage, yearly value of tithe rent-charge £190, 14 south-west from Abingdon, in the Northern division of with residence and 50 acres of glebe, let at £60, in the gift the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1877 by the Rev, county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Richard Hope Hooper M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford, and Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of surrogate. A Congregational chapel was erected here in ()xford. The church of St. Giles is an ancient building of I 1875. Pinsent.'s charity, in which the parish of Coleshill -stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a battle- also participates, is for apprenticing poor children. On the mented western tower, with crocketed pinnacles at the top of Badbury Hill, a short distance from the village, on angles, containing 5 bells, dated 1738: the chancel, re- I the north side of the turnpike road from Faringdon to stored by the Earl of Radnor in 1879, is good plain Early I Highworth, are the remains of a Roman camp of a circular l':nglish work: the east window of three lancets is flanked form, 200 yards in diameter and surrounded by a ditch of on each side by a plain niche; and there is also a niche 10 yards wide. Contiguous to the village is a farm-house, 1Jver the communion table, with a locker on each side: in being the remains of a religious establishment of Cister­ the south wall is a piscina, with shelf and a low side window: cians, founded by the abbots of Beaulieu, New Forest, to the nave, restored in 1882 at a cost of £400, has Perpendi- whom King John granted the manor in 1205 ; the barn is cular windows on the south side; there is a western gallery 148 feet in length and 40 feet in width, with a spacious and the remains of a turret leading to the rood loft: at the porch on one side and a smaller one on the other; the junction of the chancel and nave is a sanctus bell gable: roof, high-pitched, and internally presenting, from its the tower, IS feet square, is Early Perpendicular: there is peculiar construction, a very singular perspective, is sup­ a brass with effigies and inscription, to WilIiam Morys, ported by two ranges of woooen pillars resting on pedestals farmer, and Joan his wife, 2 sons and a daughter, c. 15°0; of stone. The Earl of Radnor is lord of the manor and sole and inscriptions to Robert RusseJI, gent. citizen and draper landowner. The soil is various; subsoil, clay and ooJite of London, 1630; Ann, wife of Thomas Mores, 1632; and rock. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and tur­ :'flargaret, wife of Francis Mores, 1675, ancestors of Edward nips. The area is 1,407 acres; rateable value, £1,833; Rowe )fares D.D., F.S.A. the antiquary; to Robert Spindler, the population in 1881 was 289. 5:743; F'rances, wife of Bond Spindler M.A. rector of St. Parish Clerk, Henry Belcher. Martin's, Oxford, 1743; and to WaIter Mathew, 1698 : in the Letters through Faringdon, which is the nearest money <:hurchyard is a memorial to the Rev. David CoUyer B.A. order & telegraph office. WALL LETTER Box cleared at for nearly 50 years vicar here, aud a benefactor to the 7 p.m.; sundays 10 a.m parish, and to Maria, his daughter, wife of Henry Stevens; National School (mixed), erected in 1864, for 88 children, he died 21 October, 1724, and was the author of the average attendance, 68; with a small endowment of £20 4' Sacred Interpreter:" there are 200 sittings, all free. for the mistress; Miss Martha Jane Eves, mistress Hooper Rev. Richard Hope :\l.A. [vicar Cave Hobert, shopkeeper Roberts Daniel, haulier & surrogate] Cook Aaron, farmer Roberts Dadd, market gardener COMMERCIAl,. Dancy David, farm bailiff to Charles Roberts John, cage & hurdle maker Adams James, cattle dealer & butcher Frederick Spackman esq Robins Emanuel, farmer Baker George, plumber & glazier Farr Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker Smart Thos. market gardener & grocer .Heckinsale Harry Reginald, baker Gerring William, Court House farm Whipp James, farmer Butler H. farmer, Hadbury hill Green George, beer retailer &: cow leech Williams Henry, carpenter & shopkpr Cave Richard, baker & gardener l\-Iulcock William, farmer LITTLE COXWELL is a township and chapelry, in Faringdon. There are charities of £27 yearly value. The -the ~orthern division of the county and in the parish, hun­ Coles pits, situated a short distance from the village and dred, petty sessional division, union and county court extending over an are 1 of 14 acres, are objects of consider­ district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White able interest, as they are supposed to have been habitations Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, one • of the ancient Britons; they number about 60, are circular, mile and a half south from Faringdon. The church of St. and vary in depth from 7 to 22 feet. The principal land­ Mary is a building of stone, principally of the Norman and owner is the Earl of Radnor, who is lord oi the manor. The Transitional periods, consisting of chancel, nave, south soil is a light loam; subsoil, gravel of a bright yellow hue. porch and a small central bell gable containing 2 bells: which is much used for walks and avenues. The chief -the east window is flanked on each side by dissimilar crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The·area is 938 acres; cinquefoil-headed niches, but its tracery is Decorated; in rateable value, £1,3°3; the population in 1881 was 250. the south wall of the chancel is a piscina : the nave has a Norman south door and Early English and Perpendicular Parish Clerk, Vincent Hawkins. windows; over the western gallery is a small circular stained window; the pulpit is of oak, richly carved: there POST OFFICE.-Vincent Hawkins, receiver. Letters through are 80 sittings, all being free. The register dates from Faringdon (which is the nearest money order & tele­ the year 1582. The living is annexed to the vicarage of graph office), arrive at 6.30 a.m.; dispatched at 7.30 Faringdon, joint net yearly value £190, in the gift of the p.m. ; sundays, dispatched 12.30 a.m trustees of the late Rev. Charles Ijimeon, and held since :r880 by the Rev. William Edward Chapman, who resides at The children attend the school at Faringdon. :Belcher Charles Green Edwin, beer retailer Selfe Samuel Rolls, farmer, The Yews Belcher Edwal'd Harding James, farmer Stone James, patent medicine vendor Bond Thomas Kemm William, farmer Titchener Edmund, greyhound trainer Clack ~iss Lewis George. farmer to F. Graves esq Harris Edmund Money James,blacksmith Tombs Edward, farm bailiff to Jame.s COMMERCIAL. Moss Jonathan, shopkeeper Heading esq Dancey Thomas, Plough P.R Mulcock Geor/:re, shoe maker Willis John, builder Gerring Fredk. farmer, Langham's frro Nias John William, butcher & dealer