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80 GREAT EVERDON. NORTHAJ\IPTONSHIRE. [ KELLY'S Eodley and Garner, architects, of London: there are 400 tine Knightley bart. J.P. of Fawsley, William Bromwich sittings. The register dates from the year 1558, but are esq. of Staverton Hall, A. W. ~IarriDtt esq. of Perry Hill, missing from 1637 to 1683. The living is a rectory, Catford, Kent, Mrs. Todd, Mr. Theodore Walter Mont net yearly value £418, including 165 acres of glebe, gomery, and Henry Hawkins esq. of Everdon Hall. The -with residence, in the gift of the ProvDst and Fellows soil is red marl and clay; subsoil, blue clay. The area is of Eton College, and held since 1887 by the Rev. Frank 2.556 acres, of which three-fourths is rich pasture land; Ohm'chill B.A. of Worcester Oollege, Oxford. The rateable value, £3,671; the population in 1901 was 456 CongregatiDnal chapel, erectedJ in 1813, is a plain Little Everdon is a tithing of Great Everdon, about oedifice of brick, endowed with the interest on £500, a quarter of a mile north from the village and 21 miles left bv• Mr. William Folwell. The town land of 16A. south-west from the Weedon station of the London and "2R. 28p. is let in allotments to the pODr, the rents, North Western railway. Everdon Hall, a substantial now producing about £36 yearly, being assigned to mansion of brick, situated amid beautiful surrounding 'the repairs of the church fabric and the bells. Mrs. scenery, was built by the late General Doveton, and n w Peacock, relict of WaIter Anderson Peacock esq. left the property Daventry-Samuel :Bird, wed. &; sat; manor. The principal landowners are Sir Charles Valen- Northampton-Anthony Arnold, wed. & sat GREAT EVERDON. Gilkes William, beer retailer Tate John, Plough P.H. thrashing ;Bliss Mrs Goodman William, farmer & grazier, machine owner & cowkeeper White House farm Wills J oseph, beer retailer 2~~~~~~1l~:~sFrank B.A.. Rectory Great Everdon Club & Institute (Hy. Witts Thomas, farmer Wilson Richard The Cottage Hawkins es~. president) LiTTLE EVERDON. , Hopcraft Austm, baker COMMERCIAL. Hopcraft John, farmer Hawkins Henry, Everdon hall ..A.rnold Anthony, boot maker & carrier Hopcraft Mary E. (Mrs.), shopkeeper Baker George, gardener to Henry 'Balderson Mary E. (Mr.s.), Plume of Hurley John William, farmer Hawkins esq Feathe·rs P.H Newberry Robt. frmr. Westcombe frm Walker Joseph, farm bailiff to A. W. "'Bird Richard John, assistant overseer Pittam William, shopkeeper Marriott esq. The Limes !Bird Samuel, cowkeeper & carrier Smith William, butcher . Bodily Robert, builder & mason Sutton William, tailor & parish clerk SNORSCOMB. 'Brown Charles, farmer Post office Bach Edward, farmer & miller (water Buswell Mary Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer Tift Thomas, blacksmith & steam) EYDON is a village and parish, bounded on the west' in 1853 by the Rev. Francis Clerke M.A. rectDr of EydoD 'by the river Oherwell, 2! miles west from Moreton Pink- 1826-53, is divided between the school and the poor: lley and 3 south-by-east from Byfield station on the East Sir John Knightley's charity of £191 17s. invested in £3 .and West Junction railway, IQ miles south-by-west from per Cent. Consols, is expended upon the Church Sunday Daventry, IQ north-west from Towcester, 10 north from school. In this parish is a chalybeate spring called 'Brackley and 10 from Banbury, in the Southern division "Redwell.' There is a lending library and reading room. of the county, .hundred of Chipping Warden, Brackley working men's club, coal, clothing, cricket and athletic ~etty sessional division, union and county court district, clubs, a horticultural society and a girls' friendly society '1:ural deanery of Brackley (first portion), archdeaconry of Eydon Hall, the property of Viscount Valentia C.B .• Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. The church M.V.O. who is lord of the manor, is a handsome modern .Gf St. Nicholas is a building of stone, in mixed styles, mansion of stone, standing on a gentle eminence south· ..consisting of cib.ancel, nave, aisles, south porch and east of the village, and now occupied by Thos. Wilkinson an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing Holland esq. J.P. The principal landowners are Viscount '5 bells: the stained east window, a memorial to Ellen Valentia, Sir William Francis Clerke bart. of 46 Lennox -and Hugh RiChard Empsom, was erected in 1865: there gardens, London sw, Capt. H. A. Cartwrig-ht, of Upwood. are several other stained windows, including one to the Salisbury, Mr. John Henry Ivens, G. A. Butlin esq. and Rev. A. J. Empson, and monuments to the Annesley Mrs. Calmedy. The soil is various; it is principally family, Viscounts Valentia: the font is ancient and of light, with subsoil of Northamptonshire sandstone, mar! Norman design: in 1865 the church was thoroughly &c. The crops are genera), with a larO'e proportion t restored and enlarged by the addition of a south aisle pasture. The area is 1,664 acres; rateabl~ value, £2,710; and porch, built ali a memorial to the Rev. Charles A. F. the population in 1901 was 39B . ..Annesley, of Eydon Hall, d. 26 Sept. 1863: there are P t T & M 0 SBA .~ I 0 -J h H G lb 'tt' A . t d th '11 t k os,. ..,..,. 0;, •• osep enry 0 r. 174 SI mgs. n anCIen cross a~ e VI age s oc s su[)..postmaster. Letters received 'through Byfieid !>tand near the church. The regIster dates from the R SOb t & d' t h d t ·· t t 1 1 £ 8 ... a ou 7 a.m. 2,15 p.m.; Ispa c e a 9 a.m. year 1538.Th e livmg IS a rec ory, ne year y va ue 39, & 5 ~ including glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop . ·,)5 p.m.. .. . of Peterborough, and held since 1876 by the Rev. William NatIOnal School (mIxed), built m 1854,. for 105 children.; Herbert Chapman M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. average attendance, 59; & supported m part by Clerke s '"There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Moravians, endowment of £9 7s. 6d.; Arthur Green, master Clerke's charity of £18 I4s. yearly, derived from money Carriers to Banbury.-Arthur Albert Herbert &; George 'invested in Government stock, left in 1809 by B. Clerke and Hunt, mono & thurs oChapman Rev. William Herbert M.A.. Golby George, stone mason Humphries John, blacksmith, general Rectory Golby Joseph Henry, painter, paper- smith & repairer of agricultural jm. 'Clarke Leigh T hanger, house decorator. plumber &, plements "Holland Tom Wilkinson J.p.Eydon hall glazier, stationer & hardware dealer, Hunt George, carrier :Ratton Mrs Post office Inge Ambrose, farmer .8eaton Francis Jeremiah, Osborne ho Gostick Raymond, farmer Ivens John Henry, farmer, grazier &I 'Stennett John Holland M.A. Griffin William, farmer landowner, Glebe farm Weston Mrs Herbert Arthur Albert, carrier Jones Richard, boot maker COMMERCIAL. Herbert William, Royal Oak P.H Kench Thomas, plumber & carpenter Coy Sarah (Miss), dress maker Humphries Thomas, grocer Lines Edward, farmer & tax collectDr