DIRECTORY.) . WALTON-C>N-THAMES• 1533 • • • POST, M. 0 ..& T. 0., B. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office._:_ M.D~ the astrologer, died here June 9, 1681~ 'Iri BaKer Lee . Miss Pink, postmistress. Letters from London & all lane is Brown's o:~.k, measuring 27 feet in circumference. parts arrive at 5.30 8i 8.15 a. m. & 5· 15 p.m. ; dispatched Here is a circuhtr Congregational chapel, built in 1844, at a at 8.45 & n.4o a.m. & :l.55, 8 & 9 p.m.; sunday, arrive cost of £8oo; in I858 it was restored at a further cost of at 5.30 a'.m: & dispatched at 8 p.m £320, and was enlarged in 1889 at a cost oi £100; there • 1 PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., & Annuity & Insurance Office, are 400 sittings. 'fhe cemetery,• half an acre ·in extent, is road.-E. J. Ingram, postmaster. Letters unconsecrated i it has a mot:tuary chapel, a~d is controlled by dispatched at g.xo & 11.35 a.m. & 3 . .10 & 9.15 p.m. i the Walton Burial Board. Burwood Park, cot:ttaining about• sundays 8.I5 p.m 367 acres, is the seat of Henry William. Ask~w esq. ;'the mansion is pleasantly situated nearly in the centre of the PosT OFFICE, Terrace road.-Mrs. Charlotte Bowran, park. There are also Burwood House, B111'wood Park, 'Burr­ receiver. ~Dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 2.30 & 8.20 p.m hill, Burr Vale, Brackenhorst House, Pain's Hill and Silver-· · WALL LETTEi BoxEs, Rydens road, cleared 1 & Io.30 a.m mere. The population in IS81 was 2,415. ' . & 7.15 p.m. :jtmday 7·.?P p.m.; Chapel street, cleared at Parish Clerk, John Higgins. 8 & 10.30 a.m. & 2.40, 5.20 & 8.35 p.m. ; sundays at 7.30 p.m. ~ Railway station, cleared at 10 a. m. & 12.30 & PosT, M. 0, & T. 0., S. B. & Annuit~ & Insurance Office.­ 7 p.m. ; High street, 8 & 10.45 a. m. & 2.30,. 5.20 & 8.45 FrederickJohn Kerry, postmaster. Letters from l.ondon p.m. ; sunday 7·55 p.m • & all parts arrive via Walton-on-Thames at 6 & 9 a.m. & 6 p.m.; dispatched at Io a.m. & 2.45 & 8.10 p.m. i arrive­ PuBLIC EsTABLISHMENTS :- on sundays at 6 a.m. ; dispatched at 7.IO p.m • Cemetery, Willia81 Drewett, clerk to .the burial board; George Redding, superintendent PILLAR LETTER Box, Bridgewater .road, cleared at 8.I5 & Metropolitan Convalescent Institutiqn, Norman Rush worth u.15 a.m. & 6.45 p.m ; sunday, 8.15 a.m t..R.C.P.Lond. medical officer; Rev'. Frederick William Police Station, an· occasional COlll"t is held here, Turner Vintner M.A. chaplain; Mrs. Proctor, lady superintendent Edgeler, inspector, I sergeant & 10 constables Public Hall, High street, W. Drewett, hon. sec. & treasurer Registrar of Births & Death,jl lor Walton Sub-district, Wm. Volunteer Fire Brigade, High street, R. Price, superinten- Henry Higgins; deputy, James ~elf, The Green• ' dent, & IO men • Registrar of Marriages for Ch~rtsey District, William Henry Higgins 1 deputy, James Self, The Gr~n PuBLIC OFFICERS:- Board School, built in -z86l k ~nlarged in 1882, for 170 Clerk to the Burial Board, William Drewett boys, 170 girls & 200 infants ; average attendance, 130 Collector of Rates & Taxes, Arthur Christopher Waiter, boys, 130 girls & 120 infants~ Francis Allen, master; Church street • Mrs. E. E. Cbi-tttenden, mistress ; 'Miss A. M. Alien, in­ Inland Revenue Officer, Wm. Geo. Phillips, Churchfield rd fants' mistress ... Medical Officer, W alton District, Chertsey Union, Richard Reece, Church street Oatlands Park is an ecclesiastical parish, formed PLACES OF WoRSHIP, with times of services:_._ January .IS.th, .1869, very pleasantly situated between Wai- St-. Mary'.s Church, Rev. Thomas James Craig McCowan ton-on-Tpamesand railway stations. St. Mary's M.A. vicar; sun, II a. m. & 6.30 p.m. ; saints' days, n a. m church, erected in 1862, at a cost of. between £4,000 and Holy Trinity Church, Hersham, Rev. W. }'', Fagan M.A.. £5,000, is a building of stone in the Early English style, vicar; sun. n a. m. & 6.30 p.m . consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a bell, St. Mary's Church, Oatlands park, Rev. John Hands cot containing one bell:. there are several memorial and Townsend H.A.. vicar; sun. :u a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; winter, other stained windows and a finely carved pulpit of stone 3.30 p.m and marble. The register dates from the year 186I. The Congregational, Hersham, Rev. Herbert Jason Crouch, living is a vicarage, net yearly ~,ue £327, derived chiefly minister; n a.m. & 6. 3o p.m from pew rents, in the gift of H. )f. .A,skew esq. of Bur- Wesleyan, Walton, Rev. J. C. Trafford, minister ; sun. n wood Park, and held since 1887 by the Rev. John Hands a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Townsend H.A. of Trinity College, Oxford. Oatlands (for- SCHOOLS :- merly the seat of the Duke of Y o.rk, and afterwards of Lord • A School Board of members was formed in I ; Percy Francis Egerton) is an exceedingly beautiful domain, com­ 9 878 B. Webb, clerk to the board; c. Butt, Hersham, attend- manding delightful views over the riv~r and valley of th& ance officer • . Thames, with Windsor -Castle towering in the distance :: Board (boys), for 200 ; average attendance, ISO; T. c. E. the mans~on has been converted into the Oatlan_ds Park, Dodds, master; girls, for 200 ; average attendance, 130 ; Hotel, wh1cb s_tands upon ~levated terrace ~an~, _with a dry Miss A. B. Baker, mistress; infants, built in 1884, for 202 ; gravelly subsoil:- the hotel mcludesa splendid d~nmg saloon, average attendance, 105 ~ Miss Davies, mistress J 88 feet b.>: 40 feet, and ~here are excelle~t bvery stables Railway Station Edward William Parsons station master attached : m the grounds Is a grotto, a magmfi<:ent structure . ' ' . of shell work, constructed about 1747 by Henry Pelham­ CA.RRIE~ TO LoNDON.-Carter, Paterson & Co. & PICkford & Clinton x.G. 9th Earl of Lincoln, at a cost of about £ 4o,ooo: Co. daily a father and his two sons are said to have been employed Hersham is a pleasant village and ecclesiastical parish upon it for upwards of twenty years : it consists of three formed August Ist, I851, from the civil parish of Walton, chambers. of elaborate execution leading, l>y passages into about a mile from the railway station and x! from each other ; the walls and valting are infaid in various de­ and Walton; it comprises, with the exception of the Metro- vices with coloured spars, minerals and shells: at the en­ politan Convalescent Institution and a few residences adjoin- trance in a niclr& is a marble .statue by the Florentine · ing it, all that portion of Walton situated on the south side of sculptor, Pietro Torregiano: at the foot of the terractt is the London and South Western railway. Holy Trinity church, Broadwater Lake, and on a grassy mound overhanging it completed in 1887 (in place of the former church, built in stands a model o.{ the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, now form­ I839), from designs by J. L. Pearson esq. R.A. at a cost of ing the vestibule of a gentleman's residence. G. Jeffkins £9,200, is an editice of Bargate stone and brick, with Bath ~q. E. Pettit esq. and Gen. Annesley are the chief land­ stone dressings, in the Early English style, and consists of owners. The land is much sub-divided for villas with ex­ chancel, nave of five bays~ aisle.<~, transept, north and south tensive grounds, which are mostly oocupied by the owners. po'tches and a western tower with spire containing a clock The population in l88l was 1,47!01. , and one bell : there are four memorial windows : the chan- Parish Clerk John Lemon. eel, a memorial to the late F. T. Bircham, of ·Burr Hill, was ' . erected by his family: the site of the new church, which ad- PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. ~ Annmty & Insurance Office. joins that of the old one, was given by Lieut.-Col. Terry, of .,....Mrs. C. Lawrence, rece~ver.J Cleared at 8.20 & 9·55 Burr Vale~ the church affords 6oosittings,3oo being free, The a. m. & 2. Ip• 5·~o & 7.30 p.m. J sunday, 7 p.m. Letters register dates from the year I851. The living is a vicarage, through~ eybr1dge ' net yearly value £300, chiefly derived from pew rents, with Board School (boys); built in 1882, for I30; average attend- residence and If acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of ance,. 65 ~ Je~se Colman, master; girls & mfants, bttilt in Winchester, and hdd since 1885 by the Rev. William Feltrim 185o, for 200; average attendance, ng; Mrs. CaYoline Fagan H • .&.. of Corpus Christi college, Oxford. William Lilly Elizabeth Lemon, mistress • . Ballard Mrs. The Poplars, Sidney road Brown Josepb, Riverside Walton-on-Thames. Banfield Miss, Church street Brown Miss, :l l''ield villas, Chapel st PRIVATE :{l.ESIDENTS. Banks Mrs. Park house Brown Mrs. Southwood, Churchtield rd 4 [Marked thus •letters tbrough Weybridge.} Bartleet l''rederick, Cottimore ... Bush John Northen, Eastcote, Boward • Abraham Harry, The Bircbes,Rydens av Bastard John, Hawthorn vils. Chapels~ Butler Wm. Geo. Oakleigh, Rydens rd Ackerman Arthur, Walton house Bent Miss, Long lodge, Rydens road Cababe Mrs. The Grove Ashley Atherton Edmund, Percy lodge Boyle Richd. Willcocks, Portland house Chetwynd Herbert, Lyndhurst, Rydens Ashley Henry Cooper, Bracken house, Bridger Lowther, Elm bank road Rydens r0c1d Bristow Henry, 5 Broughton villas Cobbett Henry, York lodge