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212 SPEEN. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S Eliza.be~h, Baroness Craven and Margravine of Anspacb, lation in x8gx was, without Speenhamland, r,-427; the who died in January, 1828: there are 350 sittings. The population attached to the parish church in 1891 was 6gz, register dates from the year 1629. The living is a vicar· Bagnor, one mile north, and Wood Speen, north-west, age, net yearly value £550, including 25 acres of glebil, are hamlets. with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and Speenhamland forms part of the town of Newbury and held since r87o by the Rev. Reginald Campbell Edwards will be found fully described under that town. M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. There are almshouses for two widows in Speenhamland, also [30 yearly from Stock Cross, x! miles north-west, and Marsh Benham, several charities. .A Convalescent Home was established 2 west, have been formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1869 and contains 6 beds, it is supported by subscrip· and will be found under a separate heading. tions. Bmham Park covers about 2oo acres, including Parish Clerk, Thomas Benham. wood, with a lake; the house, designed in the Italian Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel style, but at present (r899) unoccupied, is the property of Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office, Speen.-Wm. the trustees of Sir Richard Vincent Sutton bart. a minor. Eliel Lewenden, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Marmaduke Head Best esq. of Donnington, lord of the Newbury 6.35 a.m. & 12 noon (callers only); dispatched manor of Bagnor, the Earl of Craven, lord of the manor of at 7 a.m. 12.40 & 6 p.m Wood Speen, and the trustees of Sir Richard Vincent Wall Letter Box, Bagnor, is clea.red at 5.40 p.m. week Sutton bart. ( a minor), lords of the manor of Benham days only Valence, are the principal landowners. The soil Wall Letter Box, Speen hill, cleared at 8.15 a.m. 12.55, is principally gravel, except the Kennet valley, which is 6. ro & 8.35 p.m. ; sundays, 5.30 p.m chiefly water meadows; subsoil, chalk and clay, with peat Schools. and bog in the valley. The chief crops are wheat, barley, Infant, Speen; Mrs. Elizabeth Tapsfield, mistress oats and some roots. 'The entire area is ?;.797 acres ot The elder children attend the schools at Stock Cross or land and 65 of water; assessable value, £6,848; the popu- Speenhamland PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Godwin Miss, The Lawn, Speen hill Young Geo. Henry, Wyforne house Gordon Rev. William M.A. (curate of Woodspeen. (Letten thro'Newbury) Barrett Misse·s, Speen hill St. Mary's, Speen), Bath cottage COMMERCIAL. Bazett Mrs. Thornhills Hine Mrs. Bath cottage Andrews Alfred, cab proprietor BeJ.cher Wm. Henry, 2 Castle houses Hopson Jo.seph, The Croft Benham Thomas, carpenter & builder Beevor Major Waiter M.B., R.A.M.C. Labalestier John Henry, The Laurels Bla.ckwell Wm. beer retlr. Bagnor (Scots Guards),The Lee,Woodspeen Liddiard Nathaniel, Craven lodge Chaplin Matthew, plumber Bingham Alfred Jn.J.P.Nalder Hill ho Low Misses, The Limes, Speen hi:il Convalescent Home (Jn. Watson M. D. Caine Mrs. Deanwood Ma.jendie Miss, Speen hill medical officer; consulting physi- Camp Alfred, Rosecroft Nash Rev. N. Lindenhurst cian, H. Watson M.D.; Rev. R. C. Casbourne Sylvanus,• Marsh Be.nham Newton 'flhomas, Wood Speen lodge Edwards M. A. manager; Miss Mary Ohalk Miss, Church View villa Risley S. N. Elmore house Lewis, matron & nurse) Ohaplin Mrs. Chilton lodge Rudge Mrs. Fairholme Corneby Arthur, Five Bells P .H Gomyns Mrs. Malta p!ace Sannders Mrs. Hillcot Gould Edward, beer retailer, Bagnor Dreweatt :Mrs. Vicarage cot. Speen hill Smith Hy. Montague villa, Speen hill Kimber Geo. cattle dlr. Rectory farm Dreweatt Thomas, Norfolk lodge Tacbot Misses Leader John Rus,han, dairy farmer Dougla.s William Thomas Parker B.A. Ternan Mrs. Battle LewendenWilliam Eliel,grocer,Post off M.B. Holmbv Thatche·r Alan, Leighton lo. Speen hill Miller Wm. nurseryman, Speen hill Edwards Rev.Reginald Campbell M. A. Thatcher Mrs. Leighton lo. Speen hill Pepler Geo'l'ge Henry, farm bailiff to Vicarage Thurlow Lieut. -Col. Hugh H. Church M. H. Best esq. Bagnor Mill farm Edwards Miss, Maisonette Speen lodge Stroud Hannah (Mrs.), laundress, Ferrers Augusta Countess of,Foley ldg W alsh Capt. FrederickHenry .& Ferrers Bagnor Flithm William, Marsh Benha.m Augusta. Countess of, Foley lodge Warner Harry, Hare & Hounds P.H Fort Mrs. Speen Elms Waldo Misses, Bagnor manor Watts William, Sportsman's Hall P.H Francklyn Miss, Speen Hill lodge Wasey Rev. John Spearman M . .A. Wells William, gardener to Nathaniel Froobody Mrs. Craven cottage Speen Hill house Liddiard esq Gibbs Rev.Jn. Lomax M.A.Speen ho Wells Edward, r Castle houses Wise Moses, baker & grocer STANFORD DINGLEY is a parish and village 4 parts of which are still in good preservation: amongst miles north from Aldermaston and Midgham stations on other details, the scene of the Last Judgment is repre the Great Western railway, xo north-west from Reading sented; there is also the figure of a royal personage, and 8 north-east from Newbury, in the Southern division crowned and holding in his hand a heart, transfixed by of the county, hundred of Faircross, union of Bradfield, three arrows ; some of the patterns are extremely beauti petty sessional division and county court district of New- ful: the church was restored in 1870 and has 150 sittings. bury, rural deanery of Br::tdfield, archdeaconry of Berks The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Denis is an rectory, net yearly value £r6o, with residence and .23 ancient and most interesting structure of flint and rubble, acres of glebe, in the gift of Herbert Watney M.D. of consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a Buckhold., Bradfield, and held since r864 by the Rev. wooden belfry at the west end, probably of Perpendicular Antony Bird Valpy. The co-heiresses of the late W. H. date, supported on wooden framework, rising from within H. Hartlev esq. are ladies of the manor and principal land the nave and containing 4 bells: the chancel was rebuilt owners. The soil is loam and gravel; subsoil, chalk. of brick about 1768 and has a Pointed arch of Transition The chief crops are wheat, barley and oa.ts. The area is Norman period: the arches of the nave arcades are of the g6z acres; gross rateable value, £687; the population in same date, with the exception of the two easternmost, 1891 was I44· which are plain Norman: the south doorway displays an Parish Clerk, Albert Chapman. unusual design, its inner head being trefoiled within Post Office.-Albert Chapman, sub-postmaster. Letters a moulded Pointed arch: there is a brass, dated 1444, through Reading arrive at 9·5 a. m. & 4.50 p.m.; dis- to Margaret, wife of William Dyneley, esquire to Henry patched at 4·55 p.m. Southend is the nearest money VT.; another to John Lyford, citizen and merchant order & Bradfield the nearest telegraph office, 3 miles tailor of London, a native of Stanford, ob. I6IO, and a distant third to a civilian, with kneeling effigy: some highly School (mixed), enlarged in 1865 & now holding 56 chil· glazed and richly designed bricks of an early date have dren; average attendance, 20; Miss Lucas, mistress been discovered and placed in the chancel wall; the walls Carrier. William Mitchell, Reading, on wed. & sat. ; of the church were originally covered with paintings, Newbury, thurs Newton Robert, The Willows Butler Waiter Alien, relieving, school Herbert J esse, boot & shoe maker Valpy Rev. Antony Bird, Rectory attendance & vaccination o:ffilcer for Mitchell Harriett (Mrs.), Bull inn COMMERCIAL. the Bradfield union, Brookside Osmond Miohael Kingham, farmer, Ball CharLes, carpenter Chapman .Albert, grocer, Post office Manor farm Berg J. C. E. & Sons,mineral wtr.mfrs Grace Edward, farmer, Field farm Wyatt Daniel, farmer STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE is a village and district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White parish pleasantly situated in the Vale of White Horse and Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. on the river Ock, about 2! miles north-west from Challow This was a market town from 1230 down to the Reforma• station, 3 north-east from Uffington junction on the Great tion. The church of St. Denis is a building of stone, Western railway and 4 east-south-east from Faringdon, furnishing good examples of the Early English and De· in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Gan corated styles, and consists of chancel, nave of four field, petty sessional division, union and county court bays, aisles, south porch and a fine Early English western .