DIRECTORY. J . • LANGFORD • 125 Convalescent Rome (:::\fl'ls. Burch, Hunt J onah, butcher & shopkeeper Raper Arthur, haulier matron), Plymout·h house Hunt Lucy (Miss), shopkeeper SimiDtS Arthur, haulier Cook Joshua, farmer Hur1..<;lj:'On Edward, beer retailer Siwn1s Th,omas, farmer Cooik."haan J ashua, farmer Keen Gearge, sen. mruson Taylor Franc~s, nursery-man Cooper William, sexton Ken.ch William, shoe maker Taylor J ulia (MiSts), shopkeepe.r Eaton Aden, grocer, & agent for W. & Lainchbury Caleb, machinist Turton J. George Hough, Plough P.H A. Gilibey Lim. wine & spirit mer­ Millin Jame.s, black.smit;h Venville John, miller (water) & beer chants, Post office Peause Rolbert, farmer & saddler reta.iler Godwin Albeit, farmer Pearne William, carpenter Wilks. Caroline (Ml'IS. ), farmer, :Manor Haviland Maugaret (Mrs.), farmer Phillips G.eo.farmr. & a.ssistant ovel'lseer farm Hunt James, butcher & shopkeeper Porter William, carpenter & carrier KINGSEY, see page 314. KIRTLINGTON is a parish and village on the road vicarage, net yearly value of £190, including 230 acres from Bicester to Woodstock, about a mile and a half of glebe, with residence, in the gift of St. John's College, from Bletchington station on the Oxford and Birming- Oxford, and held !Since 1890 by the Rev. James Deane ham section of the Great Western railway, 6 miles south- M.A. formerly scholar of that college. Here is a Wes­ west from Bicester, 4 north-east from Woodstock, and leyan chapel. There are two charities, amounting to- 71 from London, in the Mid division of the county, gether to £75 yearly, for the relief of widows and for hundred and petty sessional division of Ploughley, the aged poor. A great Synod or Council is said to have union and county court district of Bicester, rural deanery been held here in A.D. 977, at which King Edward the of Bicester and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. Martyr and St. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, The river Cherwell separates the parish from that of were present; Kirtlington was then a frontier town , and the Oxford and Birmingham canal runs between the Mercian and West Saxon kingdoms and parallel with that river. The church of St. Mary, a much frequented on account of the portway which led building of stone in mixed styles, consists of chancel, through it. Kirtlington Park, the property of Sir clerestoried nave, aisles, a lady chapel or chantry, south George John Egerton Dashwood hart. D.L., J.P. lord of porch and a central tower con.taining a clock and 8 the manor and principal landowner, is at present in the bells, rehung in 1853: the original church consisted occupation of Henry Gaskell Close esq. M.A., J.P.; the simply of a chancel and tower, which has been twice re- house is a noble mansion in the Italian style, erected in built: the present chancel is Norman, with side win- 1746 by Sir James Das>hwood, 2nd hart. M.P. (d. 10 NQv. dows of that date and a Decorated east window filled 1779) ; it stands in a finely-wooded park .of 700 acres with stained glass as a memorial to Marianne Sarah and commands an extensive prospect. The soil is stone (Rowley), widow of the late Sir George Dashwood bart. brash and clay; subsoil, stone brash, clay and gravel. who died 24th March, 1877; three of the arches sup- The land is chiefly arable; chief crop, barley. The area parting the tower are Norman, the fourth Decorated, and is 3,494 acres; rateable value, £3,861; the population in the ceiling is groined : the nave, with both the aisles, 1891 was 733. appears to have been added about the middle of the 14th Northbrook is a hamlet 2 miles north. -century, but the south aisle was rebuilt by Sir Robert Dashwood, 1St. bart. who died in 1734. and the chapel Parish Clerk, Arthur Lambourne assigned by faculty to him and his heirs, about 1720: Sexton, James Simmons, jun. the nave has thr€e Early English arches on each side Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance O:ffice.- .and a Perpendicular clerestory: in the south aisle is a John Hawkes, sub-postmaster. Letters through Ox- piscina with drain on a foliaged corbel, c. 1220: the ford arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 1.45 p.m.; dispatched at church underwent very extensive repairs in -x853, the 5.15 p.m.; sundays, arrive 7.42 a.m.; dispatched tower being rebuilt on the original foundation, the gal~ 4.25 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Bletch- 1eries removed and the interior fitted with open benches : ington in 1877 the chancel was rebuilt by the late Sir Henry National School (mixed), established in 1834, for r8o William and Lady Dashwood, at a cost of £2,ooo, under children; average attendance, 120; with an endawment the direction of the late Sir G. G. ,scott B.A. and sub- of £40 a year, the rent of four ll'ouses; Arthur Henry .stantially roofed with oak : there are 370 sittings. The Austtin, master ; Miss Lottie Harris, assiSitant mistress register dates from the year 1558. The living is a Carrier to Oxford.-Charles East, wed. & sat 1Jlount GodJirey, Nut1ands Ca.stleman Francis George, farmer, Hopkins WilliMD, beer retaileT Cl01se Henry Gaskell M.A., J.P. Kirt- NortJ1brook Jessett Jl)lhn, boot & shoe maker Iington park Cooper J ohl).. f~rm bailiff to Sir G. J. Kirtland Edward, bla.ck911lith Deane Rev. James M.A. Vicarage E. Daslhwood ba.rt. Park farm Lang Be.njamin, Dashwood Arms P.H Do-dwell Ri.chard, farmer, Vicarage fro Scars brook 'l'hos .. saddler,& coffee tavrn CO:Mllt ERCIAL. Ea:st Ohaxles, b:r_ker & carrier Scott John Oliver, land steward to Sir Ea.st Waiter, beer retailer & butcher G. J. E. Dashwood hart .Allarm ArtJhur John, head gamekeeper Edogint