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the churchyard, enlarged wirth ground given by the late and infant school, under the control of local managers, Sir Edward Henry Page-Turner bart. (d. 1874), contains to whom it is let by the vicar and churchwardens, who the remains of a cross, on an octagonal base ; a further are the trustees of the building. The area is T ,697 addition of about half an acre was made in 1897 by the acres; rateable value, [1,309; the population in 190I Page-Turner family. The register dates from the year was 196. . IDl'I. The Living is a vicarage, net yearly value £274• , Wall Letter Box cleared at 4 p.m. Letters through including 'I 86 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Bicester arrive 9.30 a.m. Riddington is the nearest F . .A. Page-Turner egq. and held since r884 by the Rev. money order office, & Bicester, 4' miles distant, the Charles Bayfie!d, of Cumbrae College, N.B. Ambrosden nearest telegraph office Park was forme;--ly of great extent and contained a noble mansion, erected by Sir William Glynne, ISt bart. (d. CaiTier to Bicester.-George Cooper, passes through on r6go), towards the end of the 17th century ; in 1728 it tues. & fri was purchased by Sir Edward Turner, rst bart. (d. 19 June, 1735), and for some time continued to be the BL.ACKTHORN is also a hamlet, distant from Am seat of that family, but was taken down by direction of brosden a mile east. Here is a small Congregational Sir Grcgory Page-Turner in 1777 ; the foundations, chapel, erected in 1825, with 200 sittings. The Mission :however, remain. F. A. Page-Turner esq. of 9 Den room here, built by the Rev. C. E. Bagshawe, vicar, mark terrace, Brighton, is lord of the manor and prin r866-84, is used also as a girls' and infant ~chool, -cipal landowner. The soil is stone brash and clay; under the control of local managers, to whom it i!! let ,sutsoil, clav and stone. The land is chiefly pa.sture. in the same way as tha .Arncot room. Thomas May esq. of Fewcott, is lord of the manor and principal 'The are:~. of the entire parish is 4,863 acres; area of .Ambrosden township, 6oo acres of land and 5 of water; landowner. The area is 2,026 acres of land and 5 of rateable value of .Ambrosden, exclusive of hamlets, ~ater; rateable value, [2,231; the population in 1901 £879; the population in rgo1 of the entire parish was was 260. ·5~4; .Ambrosden, exclnsive of hamlets, 138. Wall Letter Box cleared at 4·35 p.m. Letters arrive Parish Clerk, Frederick Harllis. through Bicester by foot messenger at 9 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bicester, •Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Sarah Taylor, sub-post about 2 miles distant mistress. Letters arrive through Bicest~r at 7.20 a.m. & dispatched 5-IO p.m.; no delivery on sunday. Elementary Schools. Bicester, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money order .Ambrosden, built in r8]6, for 90 children; the average & telegraph office attendance is 75; T. H. Warren, master .ohncot (girls & infants), for 45 children; nerage at .ARNCOT, UPPER and LOWER, or Over and Nether, tendance, 29; Miss Bailey, misi;:-ess form a hamlet to Amhrosden, Upper Arncot being two Blackthorn (gir~ k infants), for 40 children; average -miles and Lower .Arncot one mile south of that place attendance, 39; -Miss Clara Shaw, mistres& and near the Bucks border. Here is a small Wesleyan .chapel. A Mission room, built by the. Rev. Charles Carrier. From Blackthorn to Bicester, Charles Heritage, -Edward Bagshawe, vicar, 1866-84, is used also as a. girls' tues & fri • A~ffiROSDEN. :3harn William, wheelwright 'Green Amos, brick maker Bayfie:d Rev. Charles, Vicarage Shouler Thomas, farmer I Green Geo. (Mrs-.},&se & Cro-wn P.H .Abbott William, farmer Wright John, miller (wind) Griffm J oseph, shopkeeper Hepworth .Arthur, Essex farm Eldridge Geo. carpenter & wheelwngm LOWE:R ARNUOT. Harrison Herbert, Turners' .Arms P.H Heritage Charles, carrier Hawes William, baker Casey Frederick, saddler Herring John, baker Hickman Char1es Edward, farmer Deeley Jabez, farmer Jones Charles, fanner Salmon Jas. blacksmith & machinist Green George, farmer Jones David & Herbert, farmers Smith John,. estate carpenter Hall Anthony, farmer J ones J oseph, farmer Smith William Thos. farmer, miller Wakelin Eli, Plough P.H Leach ;;-ahn, carpenter (water & steam) & coal merchant Watkins John, fa.rmer Moore John, beer retailer Parker William, farmer UPPER 'ARNCOT. BLACKTHORN. Phipps .Albert, farmer Askins Jarnes, carpenter J

ARDLEY is a parish and village on the road from Thd living is a rectory, net yearly value £130, with Oxford to Brackley, 7 miles from Brackley and 5 north residence and 55 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. - west from Bicester, 3 miles west from Somerton station Perryman, of Farnborough, Hants, and held since 1904 · on the Oxford and Banbury section of the Great Western by the Rev. Art bur William Woodruff M . .A. of Trinity -railway, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and College, Oxford. In the parish and within a wood are • petty sessional division of Ploughley, Bicester union and the foundations and moat of a castle, supposed to have county court district, rural deanery of Bicester and arch been built in the reign of King Stephen ( II35-54)· . deaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mrs. Perryman, of Farnborough, Hants, is lady of the Mary is an edifice of stone of the Decorated period, and manor. Lieut.-Col. .Sir .Algernon Francis Peyton hart. rBth century, consisting of chancel, nave, built in 1789, of Swifts House, Stoke Lyne, Messrs. John Joslin and .A. and a western saddle-back tower of the Decorated period, J. Dempster ~nd tha rector are the principal landed containing 2 belb : the chancel is of the same date, but proprietors. The land about here js principally lime -the nave was rebuilt in a verv inferior style: the stone; subsoil, stone brash. The chief crops are wheat, ·chancel has five windows, including the east window of barley and cats. The area is 1,492 acres; rateable 'three lights ; the tracery of three of these is very good : value, £867; the population in 1901 was 130. here also on the south side is a double piscina, apparently Early English, and a low side window, now Parish Clerk, Frederick Harris. blocked : in the north wall is a sepulchral arch, with Post & Telegraph & Express Delivery Office. Thomas shields of arms : the church was restored and beautified Addison, sub-postmaster. Letters through Bicester and the bodv- of the church reseated at considerable arrive at 8 a.m. & 1.30 p.m.; dispatched 11.55 a.m. & expense in 186o, by Mrs. Anne Hind, daughter of the 5·5 p.m.; sundays, rr.5 a.m. Fritwell, 2 miles dis Rev. Tbom:1s Hind M . .A. rector, and subsequently of tant, is the nearest money order office Culworth, Northanh (d. IQ Jan. 18I5): there are 150

sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year Elementarv• School, built in r861, for 6o children; 1759, burials from 176r, mai"Tiages from April, 1758. average attendance, 41 ; Miss Jones, mistress Woodruff Rev. Arthur William M.A. Fowler Henry, farmer Lovell Joseph Robt. farmer,Manor frn Rectory · Gibbard Richard, baker Millington Henry Ormond, steam Wynn Lady Williams-, .Ardley Fields Humphries Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkpr plough proprietor COMMERCIAL. Joslin Jn. frmr. & landownr. .Asbgrove Warland John, Fox & Hounds P.H Beasley Mark, faimer

ARNCOT, see Ambrosden. ASCOT, see Libtle ~filton.