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brasses, one bearing the d~te 1303: the church was are ti.Je ct>lebr~ted Park House Racing Stables. A fair reseated in 1848, and affords 450 sittings. The regii>ter, is held on the first Tuesday after Old Michaelmas day including Ecchinswell and Sydmonton, dates from the for hiring servants and pleasure. The principal land year 1538, but the early part is imperfect. The living owhers are Lord Bolton, who is imprapriator of the is a. vica.ra.gt>, net yearly value £240, with residence and great tithes and lord of the manor; t~e Duke of Wel 1 QC're of glebe land, in the gJft of Lard Bolton, and lington K.G., G.C.V.O. John Ashley Wailer esq. o[ held since 1895 by the Rev. Arthur Thomas Finch M.A. Be{'nhom, .Mr. John Bradfield, Megsrs. John and Austin oi PEmbroke College, Cambridge, and chaplain of Kings Webb, and William Holding e8q. D.L., J.P. The soil is clere union. In 1850 a. vicarage house-, m the Eliza chalk and clay; subs.oll, chalk. The chief crops are bethan style, was erected on a. site given by William, wheat, barley and oats. The area is 13,n6 acres or 2nd Baron Bolton. There is a Wesleyan chapel in the land and 10 of water; rateable value, £I0,822; the Ma.rket place, seating 280 ; and a new school was added population of the civil parish in rgor was 2,452, and in x8g7, at a cost of £700. of the ecclesiastical, 1,499, including Bo officers and The Albert Hall, in Swan street, built in 1886, is the inmates ol the workhouse. property of a company. Here are various funds, amount ing to about £rs for the repairs of the parish c·hurch, NORTH OAKLEY and part of the village of Ran· and others for the benefit of the poor, amounting to nington are in this parish. about £r4o, derived from land &c. left by Robert Higham in 1722, and distributed principally in clothing WOODLANDS is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 1845 and apprenticing poor boys of the parish; 12 boys of from Kingsclere, and will be found under a separate the Free School also receive ./.,2 each yearly. At the heading. foot of the Downs, about half a mile south of the town, Sexton, William 'Ihumwood.. OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c.
Post, M. 0. &i T. Office. Miss Rosa Twitchin, sub- 1 Treasurer, Evan Jones, Capital & Counties Bank, New-
postmistress. Lettel'B arrive from Newburr: at 7.25 1 bll:ry . a.m. &i 12.50 p.m. ; sundays, 7.25 a.m. ; dispatched Med1cal Officer (}f Health, Regmald Maples M.R.C.S_ at 12.45 & 6.10 p.m.; sundays, 4·35 p.m Eng., L.R.C.P.Edin., L.S.A. Tower Hill house Wall Letter Boxes.-Kingsclere Union, cleared at 12.50 \ Sanitary Inspector & Surveyor, William Thomas Jelfs. & 6.20 p.m.; t;undays, 4·45 p.m. Newbury road Field Gate, Kingsclare 1 (Catts farm), cleared at I, 5 & 6.30 p.m.; sundays, PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. 4·55 p.m Kingsclere Albert Hall Co. Limited, Swan ~t·. Reginald COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR KINGSCLERE PETTY Maples, managing director · SESSIONAL DIVISION. Police Station, Newbury road, Fredenck George Jones. Wellington Dulie of K.G., G.C.V.O., D.L. Ewhurst, superintendent, 2 Eergeants & 13 constables Reading Roam, George st.Chas.Stevens,hon. sec. & tren Da.singstol•e, ch1.irman of quarter sessions Fire- Brigade, Georga Hopkins, captain Burnet Sir l11bert William M.D. 11 Upper Brook street, Grosvenor square KINGSCLERE UNION. Oa.rden Major Sir Frederick Henry Waiter bart. Star- Board day, tuesday, fortnightly, alternately at the Work groves, East Woodhay, Newbury house- & the Magistrates' roam, Whit way, Burghclere. Carnarvon Earl of D.L. Highclere castle, Newbury at n a.m Clifford Arthur Frederick esq.Ashe, Overton,Whitchurch The Union contains the following parishes :-Ashmans· Oooper Sir William Cha.rles, Woolton house, Newbury worth, Baughurst, Burghclere, Crux Easton, East Fax Edward Herbert esq. Ecchinswell, Newbury Woodhay, Ewhurst, Hannington, H1ghclere, Itchings· Hayter Tom .Augustine Edney esq. The Mount, Wl.lit- ' well or Ecchinswell, Kingsclere, Litchfield, Newtown, church Sydmonton, Tadley, Wolverton & Woodcott. The Holding William esq. D.L., D.C.L. Elm grove, Kings population of the union in rgor was B,soo; area, clere, Newburv • 44,463 acres; rateJ.ble value, Lady Day, 19II, /.,39,122 Kelly Edward Festus esq. Hollingtan house, Newbury Chairman of the Board of Guardians, William Holding, McConnel William Hcmldsworth e~q. Heath End house, Elm grove, Kingsclere Ba.ughurst, Basingstoke Clerl~:, John Barnes, Kingsclere Mortimer Percy esq. Ashe park, Overton, Whitchnrch Treasurer, Evan Jon€s, Capital & Counties Bank, New Phillips John esq. M.D. The Wilderness, Tadley, Basing bury stoke Relieving & Vaccination Officers, Kingsclere district. Portal Sir William Wyndham bart. D.L. Laverstoke John Georgs Ford, George street; Highclere district, house, Whitchurch Henry Day, Highclere Portal Col. Bertram Percy D.S.O. Soutbington, Overton Medical Officers, Baughurst & Tadley district, William Portal Spencer John esq. Bere Hill, Whitchurch Johnson Langley L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. Kiln house, Tad Quinn John esq. Sungrove, East Woodhay, Newbury ley; Kingsclere district, Reg-inald Maples M.R.C.S. Roskill John esq. K.C. Heatherfield, Newtown, Newbury Eng., L.R.C_P.Edin., L.S.A. To'~