DIRECTORY. J . LAMBOL"RX. Ill to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, which are still UPPER L.AMBOURX is a tithing, r mile north-west. held (though the days appear to have been changed) The church of St. Luke, built and consecrated here, on October 2nd and December 4th, for sheep, horses and with a burial ground, in November, r868, by the late cattle. In . the market place is a fine Perpendicular Bishop Wilberforce, is a small edifice of red brick, in cross, cons1stmg of a tall plain shaft with canopied the Early English style, consisting of ch~ncel and nave, he.ad, raised on oc.tagonal steps : the c~nopy once con­ the chancel only being consecrated: there are roo sit­ tamed figures, wh1eh had been much defaced, but re­ tings. About r acre of land was consecrated here in stored c. 1899, by the Rev. Robert Vaughan-Hu<>hes rgr3 for cemetery. Here is also a Wesleyan M.A. of Chepstow, lay rector: the steps are comp':.ra­ chapel, built in r859· tively modern, and appear to have been patched· it is said that formerly there was another cross h~re Wall Box cleared week days 6 p.m.; sundays, 8 a.m on the spot now occupied by the weighing machine' and known as St. Antholin's cross. Lambourn Place: BOCKHA!MPTON is a tithing, r mile east. This the property of the trustees of the late Col. Charles manor was anciently held by the tenure of Grand Grove Edwa~ds, of Wicklesham, now (1915) unoccupied, Serjeanty, the lord having to maintain a pack of harriers 1s a fine Ehzab.ethan manswn, erected in r843 on the for the royal hunt at the King's charge; it was for s1te of the _anc1ent r~s1dence of the Hippisley family, some time in the families of De Bathe and Teyes, and 1tself trad1t10nally brult on the site of a Saxon palace in 1468 Margaret (Beauchamp), wife of Sir John Talbot belongmg . to Kmg .Alfr~d the Great; until 1893 the K.G. rst Earl of Shrewsburv, died seized of it: it was hall contamed a collectwn of armour, said to be the subsequently in the Garra;d family, and at the be­ largest private collection in the country· one of the ginning of the present century was held by Henry suits formerly belonged to Sir William 'Temple and Richard (Fox) 3rd Baron Holland. 'l'he Earl of Craven subsequently to Lord Palmerston: there were also is now lord of this manor. The principal landowners portraits of Charles I. Wiclif, and Sir Thomas Horde a are Sir Herbert Barnard F.S.A. and Sir Francis Burdett Parliamentarian, pictures by Gainsborough and Sir hart. Joshua Reynolds, and an old wassail bowl, formerly belonging to the Earls of Huntingdon, and reputed BLAGRAVE is a tithing, 2~ miles south. The Earl of to be of the time of Robin Hood, nB9-99, besides many Craven is lord of the manor, anciently held by the other rare curiosities: the whole crollection was sold in families of De Bathe and Teyes. The principal land­ owners are H. C. Gooch esq. and Sir Francis Burdett r8g3 for upwards of £4,ooo. On -the downs, 6~ miles north of Lambourn, are Wayland Smith's Cave, White hart. Horse Hill,. and Uffington Camp, descriptions of which H.ADLEY is a tithing, 2 miles south-west. The Earl are given under the headings of Uffington and Wantage. of Craven is lord of the manor. The priacipal land­ Near here are also the "," so called, a owners are Mrs. William Hippisley, the Rev. Theodore group of tumuli on the downs about two miles north de Landulph Sprye, and the Rev. James Francis. of Lambourn, some 20 in number, which have been proved, from excavations made by Dr. Wilson and Mr. Eastbury and ·woodlands St. Mary are ecclesiastical E. 1\l:artin-Atkins, in r85o, to be the sepulchres of parishes formed from Lambourn , and will Ancient Britons; one of these, stal)ding apart from the be found under separate headings. rest, with a height of ro fee~ and a circumference of 36o Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office. feet, contained a large number of British urns ar­ Lambourne (letters should have Berks added).­ ranged rounct the sides, one of which measured 13 Richard Summerfield, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive inches in height: the other barrows examined afforded at 4.40 a.m. & r2.3o & 5 p.m.; box closes r2.ro )'>.m. instances both of cremation and ordinary burial, bodies for letters & r2 noon for parcels.; 7·45 p.m. for letters in the latter ease being interred with the knees drawn & 7·35 for parcels; sundays, arrive at 4.40 a.m.; up to the chin. Membury Fort, a Celtic earthwork, dispatched at 7 ·45 p.m with a single vallum, now overgrown with trees, is situated on the borders of Wilts and Berks, being partly COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR LAMBOVRN PETTY in Lambourn and partly in Ramsbury parish, and has SESSIONAL DIVISION. been thought by Dr. Guest and others to indicate the site of an ancient town, foundations of ancient build­ Aldridge Major John, Inholmes lodge, , ings having been met with on this spot. Letcombe , acting chairman Camp, also called "Sagbury," or "Sa•,kborough," is a Burmester Capt. Arnold Chas. N ewtown lo. Hungerford circular earthwork of about 26 acres in extent, situated Butler William Joseph, Woolstone lodge, Faringdon on the brow of the chalk escarpment overlooking the Craven Hon. Osbert Wm. Ashdown park, vale to the novth, goo feet above the sea level, and Fosbery Hy.Jas.Wilson,The Grange, Eastbury,Lambourn about 2 miles wuth-east of Wantage; skeletons have Portal Major Edwd. Robert, Eddington ho. Hnngerford been found on Stancombe Down, near Lambourn, and Spackman Joseph Havelock, Manor house, East Garston, in a ploughed field at Maddle Farm, about 2 miles Lam bourn distant from the town. The manor of Lam•bourn was Clerk to the Magistrates, Reginald Longmore Barnes, given by .Alfred the Great to his wife Ealhswitha, New bury street daughter of Ethelred, a Mercian thane, and she sur­ The Petty Sessions are held at the Magistrates' room at vived him four years, dying A.D. 904: at the time of the Police Station, the last friday in every month at the Domesday Survey it belonged to the Crown; it 11 a.m was subsequently held by Sir Thomas Grandison, 4th The places in the petty sessional division are :-East­ haron Grandison, who in 1361 conveyed it to Sir John bury, East Garston, Lambourn, Upper Lambonrn & Peche kt. who died in 1376, and the manor afterwards came again to the Crown; it appears also that this Woodlands St. Mary manor, together with that of Upper Lambourn, had Police Station, Charles Harris, resident sergeant; & 3 at some time been granted, by Henry Ill. to Henry de constables Bathe, Justiciar of , who died in 1252, and is Railway Station, John Richard Charsley Williams, sta­ buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and thence tion master hy a female heir to the Bohuns; in 1543 both manors were granted by Henry VIII. to Sir William Essex kt. PUBLIC OFFICERS. of Lam bourn, and his son Thomas, afterwards Sir Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes & to the Isbury 'fhomas Essex kt. whose tomb i• in the church: in r6og Charity Trustees, Reginald Longmore Barnes, New- an Act of I'arliament was passed, enabling the repre­ bury street . . sentatives of the Essex family to dispose of the,se estates, Registrar of Births & Deaths for Lambourn Sub-D1str1et, and soon after they became the property of Sir William Hungerford Union, Miss Ethel Winifred Kennard, High Craven kt. ancestor of the present owner. The Earl street; deputy, Mrs. E. Kennard . . of Craven, who is lord of the manor. Sir Francis Burdett Relieving & Vaccination ?fficer! Lambou~n Dtstnct, hart. the trustees of the late Col. Charles Grove Edwards Hunaerford Union, Fredertek Br1ant Hutchm• and H. C. Gooch esq. are the principal landowners. " The parish comprises the town of Chipping Lambourn Schools. and the tithings of l.:pper Lambourn, Eastbury and Elementary (mixed), Lambourn, erected in r85o, for 26<) Bockhampton, Blagrave and Hadley. The entire area is boys & girls; a new class room was erected in r899; 14-,865 acres of land, a large portion of which are downs Robert Wing, master on which race-horses a-re tr-ained, and 8 of water; rate­ Infants' school, erected in r9n, for go children; Miss able value, £rr,o17; the population of the civil parish, Donaldson, mistress including the Woodlands and Eastbury, in 1911 was 2 ·336, and of the ecclesiastical, r,683. Carriers. Parish Clerk, Waiter Ralph. Newbnry-George Thomas Hull, tues. thurs. & sat. & Allan Busby, jun. tues. thurs. & sat