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I>JRECTORY. J . CA VERSFIELD. 65 Hornsl>y Henry E. watch m!l.ker, street Bowels Thomas, chimney sweeper, High street Howse Charles, blacksmith, High street Ruck Waiter Henry, baker, High street :Hulbert Frederick Waiter, miller (water), Witney street Search J useph, haulier, High street Humphris Albert Henry, painter, Witney street Sharp & Son, china dealers, High street Hunt, Edmunds & Co. Limited, brewers & wine & spirit Shayler J ane (Mrs.), dress maker, High street merchants, High street Simms Frederick, boot maker, High street Jiussey Edwin, dairyman, Witney street Smith William & Son, builders, Sheep street Jacob:> J.gbn, corn merchant, Witney street Smith Edwin, china & glass dealer, High street ..Jacques Thomas, Royal Oak P.H. Witney street Smith George, stone mason, High street Jefh Ernest, boot & shoe dealer, High street Smith Harriett (-:-.Irs. ), toy dealer, High street Jones James, boot & shoe maker, High street Smith Harry, painter, High street :Lloyds Bank Limited (branch) (Alexander Gavin Hen- Smith John, chimney sweeper, High street derson, manager), Sheep street; draw on head office, Tansley Henry, farmer & landowner, Bury barns 71 Lombard street, London E C Thomas Alfred Harry, draper, High street Lomas Leonard, farmer, White hill Timms Ed""in, inspector of police, common lodging Lomas Richard, The Swan P.H. High street houses, under the " Contagious Diseases (Animals) "Marshall Mary (~rs.), laundress, Witney street Act," " Explosives Act" & "Shop Hours Act,'' High st Matthews George Waiter, insurance agent, assistant rwer Timms William, boot maker. Guildenford seer & collector of gas & water rates, High street Ti tcomb George, baker, Sheep street .Matthews Vincent, builder, H;gh street Townsend Mary (Miss), dress maker, Witney street Matthews Vincent (Mrs.), milliner, High street Waine Harr-y, grocer, High street Merchant James Vincent, Bear P.H. High street Wakefield John Packer, farmer, Signett hill Minty Arthur Edward, butcher, High street Wall Jabez & Son, rope, twine, sack, rick cloth, ' William John, journalist & correspondent for tent, tarpaulin, scaffold cord & net manufacturers, " Witney Gazette " brushes, mops, housemaids' gloves &c. (established Moore Louisa (Mrs.), shopkeeper. High street 175 ~), High street Mosson Sydney, New inn, High street Wall Jabez J. insurance agent, High street Newman & Co. linen drapers, High street Walter Emily & Annie (Misses), booksellers, High street 'Packer George, printer, stationer, bookseller & binder, Waiter Elizabeth Sarah (Mrs.), watch maker, High street newsagent & publisher of " Story of Burford," " Walks Webb John, poulterer, High street & Drives around Burford," local postcards &c. The Wells John, plumber & g:azier, The Hill Library, High street Wickens William, butcher, High street l'acker Hannah (Mrs.), boot & shoe dealer, Witney st Wiggins & Co. fellmongers, Witney street Patience Mary (Mrs.), laundress, Witney street Wirdr.am Junat.han Robert, saddler, High street Pl'arse Brothers, bakers & grocers, High street Witne_y & Burfurd Gazette (published friday) (William :Pether Charles & Sons, builders, High street J. Monk, correspondent), Stonefield Polley Walter .Tames, grocer, High street Wyatt Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer, Up ton Potter James C. corn merchant, High street Wyatt Edward Henry. clerk to the Grammar School & fratlev James, baker. High street Charity Trustees, ShePp street Preston Charles E. tailor,~ High street Wyatt Henry, saddler, High street Reynolds John Beuben, apartments, Springfield Wyatt Percy Summers, Lamb P.H. Sheep street Riohards Bertram & Frank, braziers, High street ~ADMORE END with LEWKNOR-UP-HILL I r8g5, March 31, 18g6, transferred wholly to Bucks, and was, by the County of Buckingham (Stokenchurch) Order, will be found in Kelly's Directory of the latter county. is a parish and village, bounded on floor of the nave a good brass of a cross fleury with the south by the Isris, on the west by the Evenlode, inscription to Roger Cheyne, esquire to the king (Edw. which here flows into the Isis, 2 miles east-north-east II. ), 1314; in the churchyard is the base of a. Perpen­ -from station on the , Witney and Fair- dicular cross : the church plate includes an ancient and ford branch of the Great Western railway, 4! south curious paten with embossed figures of Adam and Eve 'from Woodstock and 6 north-west from Oxford, in the within a walled garden, and a scroll bearing a. partly­ Mid division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty rubbed-out legend: the church was restored in r876, Bessional division of Wootton South, union and county at a cost of £r,25o, and affords 200 sittings. The -court district of Woodstock, rural deanery of Woodstock register dates from the year r653. The living is a "Bnd archdeaconry and . The church of vicarage, net yearly value £r8o, with 120 acres of glebe, "St. Peter is a building of stone in mixed styles, prin- in Lhe gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since eipally Norman, consisting of chancel, nave, north and rgog by the Rev. George William Crofts Ward B.A. of touth porches and a central tower with spire containing Si. John's College, Cambridge. The vicarage house was ~bells; the chancel has Norman walls and stone grained built in r888. The _charities for distribution, partly in Yaulting; the east window of two lights is Decorated; fuel, now (rgrr) amount to about £7o, and Allnutt's and in the east wall is a double piscina, of the same date, J ohnson's charities, in the bands of the Goring Heath with shelf: the stalls, of Jacobean date, were brought trustees, produce [30 a year for educational purposes. from Oxford Cathedral: the lower part of the tower i~ The Duke of Marlborough K.G. who is lord of t~he Norman. with a door on the nortb side. and the eastern manor, and Christ Church, Oxford, are the principal -and western arches are good examples of that style; in landowners. The soil is gravel and clay; subsoil, clay. the Decorated period the tower was raised one stage The chief crops are the usual cereals. The area is 2,263 1md has a window on each face and a panelled acres of land and 36 of water; rateable value, £4,296.; oquatrefoiled parapet, from within which rises an octa- the population in 1901 was 314. gtmal ribbed spire: previous to 1842 the interior walls bad several curious paintings of the 15th century, WOBTON is a small hamlet about half a. mile north- ebiefly consisting of emblems of saints, with monoginms, east. consisting of a few scattered houses. bn~ exposure to the air rapidly destroyed them: the Parish Clerk and Sexton, Alfred Walker. walls of the nave and three of the original windows Letters through Oxford, vill Eynsham, arrive at 8 a.m. ne Norman, the rest being Early English, Deco­ & 5.30 p.m. Pillar Box cleared at 8.55 a.m. & 6.30 r.~ted and Perpendicular: the font, also Norman. p.m.; sundays 12.45 p.m The nearest money order­ ia cylindrical and plain : there is a mural bra>s & telegraph office is at Eynsham, about 1! miles distant with shrouded effigy and eight verses to Thomas Nele B.D. fellow of New College, Regius professor of Hebrew Elementary School (mixed), ereded in r852, for 8o chil- d Oxford and chaplain to Bonner, bishop of London, drPn; average attendance, 53; Alfd. Lovegrove, mastr an able theologian and linguist, ob. 1590, and on the Carrier to Oxford.-Gemge :M:obey, wed. fri. & sat Amery George Jsph. The Mill house Day William, farmer Nash Charles, shopkeeper Holliday &bert. Worton Fox Mary ('Miss). shopkeeper Perrin Jas. Percy. farmr. ~{anor farm Yartindale Henry Gwynne, The Elms Hale James, farmer Perrin Jdhn, farmer. Jericho farm Ward Rev. George William Crofts HedgPs Thomas,miller(stPam & water) Perrin John Birch, farmer.Purwell fm B..\. (vicar), Vicarage Hnkhings Frederica E.(Miss),shopkpr Putt Nathaniel. blacksmith Louch Thomas, farmer, Worton Putt Stephen, Red Lion P.H CO¥MERCIAL. Mobey George, farmer & carrier Savins George, Bell P.H Churchill William,farmer,Burleigh fm ~{obey Richard, Chequers inn CAVl!!RSFIELD is a parish adjoining the parish of to Birmingham, r! miles north from station on Bicel!ter on the north, r mile north from Bicester station the Bletchley and Oxford branch of the London and on the Ashendon and Aynho section of the Great North Western railway, and 10 miles 1outh-west from Western Railway Company's new main line from London Buckingham, in the Mid division of the county, hundred oxo~. 5