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64 CHALGROVE. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY's A School Board of 5 members wa.s formed 6 Feb. r877, Board Sohool (mixed), erected in r877, for 120 children; for this & the adjoining parishes of Warpsgrove, Eas- avevage attendance, 82; William Harvey, master ington & Rofford; chairman & clerk to the Sohool Carrier.-Thomas Harding, to Oxford, sat. ; to Thame, Board, Rev. C. R. P·owys M . .A. Rofford lmes.; to Wallingford, fri.; returning same days Brown Rev. George Blamire M . .A. Elbrow Thomas, beer retailer Nixey George, farmer (\'icar), Vicarage Franklin Wm. Walt.farmer,Manor frm Phelps .A.rbert, carpente·r Powys Rev. Charle5r Richard M . .A. Fra.nklin W. T. & T.frmrs.Roffordhall Saw Joseph Miller, carpenter&builder, (rector of Yelford, Be·rks), Rofford Gray William, Crown P.H Post office COMMERCIAL. Hall J esse, grocer & baker Smith Esther (Mrs.), grocer & baker Atkins• 'Dhomas, farmer HardJing Thomas, carrier Town William, beer retailer BroW1ll Moses, blacksmith Hatt John, farmer, Man.or farm Weedon John, blacksmith Bustin Thomas, farmer Hatt John Daniel & .Alexander, frmrs. vVilrite J O·Seph, ib.arne·ss maker & fa.rmeT .Clark William, farm bailiff to the Rev. Home farm Witn.ey Ohar1es, beer retailer C. R. Powys, Rofford J.ohnson Fredtk. fa.rmer, Ohurch farm Woodward•s Thomas, farmer -Croxford ~Iarshall, grocer Marsball :Ed.ward, beer retailer Young William, farmer CHARLBURY is a parish and village on the river at-Arms. The manor of Charlbury was founded by the Evenlode, with a station on the Oxford and Worcester Mercian kings and was given by them to the Bishop of section of the Great Western railway, 7 miles west from Lincoln, from whom it passed by exchange to the Woodstock, 7 north from Witney, 7 south-east from abbots and monks of Eynsham; it remained in possession Chipping Norton and 76 by rail and 69 by road from of that monastery until the Dissolution, and was sub London, in the Northern division of the county, forming sequently purchased by Sir Thomas White the founder South Banbury hundred, which is attached to Chadling of St. John's College, Oxford, to which society it con·· ton hundred, petty sessional division of Chadlington, tinned to belong until by exchange it became the pro union and county court district of Chipping Norton, perty of Lord Churchill. The principal landowners are rural deanery of Chipping Norton and archdeaconry and the Duke of Marlb-orougb, Viscount Dillon, George diocese of Oxford. The village is lighted with gas. The Morris esq. Frank Bowly esq. with many small owners. church of St. Mary, originally Norman, is an edifice of The soil is stone brash; subsoil, limestone rock. The stone in mixed styles, and was enlarged in the 13th chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is century, when the tower was built, the height being 2,478 acres; rateable value for Charlbury and Walcot is subsequently increased, and in the time of Henry VII. £6,156; the population of this parish (including the further additions were made to the church; it now con township of Walcot) in r891 was r,478. sists of chancel with aisles, nave, north transept, aisles, Parish Clerk, Charles Fowler. south porch and a lofty embattled western tower of the Early English and Perpendicular periods containing a fine WA.LCOT is a hamlet in the parish of Charlbury, peal of 6 bells and a clock with chimes : the chancel has about half a mile west, and consisting of one farm. a Decorated east window of five lights and a good open Lmd Chnrchill is lord of the manor and sole landowner. timbered roof of the same date: the arcades of the The area is 434 acres; the population in 1891 was 19. chancel are Early English: the north transept has arches Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity of the same date, a singular Decorated north window & Insurance Office (Sub-Office. Letters should have and a Perpendicular roof: the nave is separated from the S.O. Oxon added).-Joseph .Albany Bowl, postmaster. north aisle by an arcade of three Norman arches and Letters arrive from Oxford at 5.30 & 8.40 a. m.; from from the south aisle, which is very wide, by three of Oxford & London at 12.40 p.m. ; dispatched at 12.50 Early English character, and has a Perpendic.'ular roof: p.m. to Oxford & London; to Oxford at 4.30 p.m. ; & the church contains m-onuments of the Jenkinson family, to all parts at 8.10 p.m.; sundays arrive 6.30 a.m.; ancestors of Charles (Jenkinson), ISt Earl of Liverpool, dispatched 6.45 p.m who possessed property in this parish and a memorial to Wall Letter Box, Dyers Hill, cleared 12.10, 4.40 & 8 Elizabeth (:Martin), ISt wife of Price (Devereux), rotl1 p.m. ; sundays, 6.40 p.m Viscount Hereford, ob. 1732; he himself died in 1748; in 1857 the interior of the church underwent com Public Officers. plete repair, and in 1874 the chancel 11as rebuilt by John Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, No. 3 District, Chip Winston, 7th Duke of Marlborough K.G. who died 5 ping Norton Union, Frederick Thomas Maisey .July, 1883: there are so6 sittings, 290 being free. The Sanitary Inspector to Chipping Norton Rural District register dates from the year 1559 and records a visita Council, Richard Cooper tion of the plague, which continued from roth June to Town Crier, Oliver Hobbs November 25th, 1583. The living is a vicarage with the chapelries of Shorthampton and Chadlington annexed, Schools. -average tithe rent-charge £45 3, with 360 acres of gle bt>, Free Grammar, founded & endowed by Miss .Ann joint net yearly value £soo with residence, in the gift Walker, in 1675, with £4o yearly, arising from rent of St. John's College, Oxford, and held since 1874 by charge & this income is increased by a voluntary pay the Rev. Ohar:es Frederick Cumber Wes1i B.D. formerly ment from Brasenose College, Oxford, of £10; the fellow of that college and surrogate. The W esleyan average attendance is 14; Ge-orge Morris, master chapel was built in r823; Baptist in r866; and Primitive .A School Board of 5 members was formed 13 Jan. r888; Methodist in r853; there is also a Meeting-house of the Thomas Mace, clerk, Chipping Norton; F . .A. Bunting, Society of Friends, built in 1774· A. cemetery Qf one acre attendance officer Charlbury and a quarter was formed in r887, and is under the con Board (mixed), erected in 1815, for 140 children; average trol of a Burial Board of 9 members. There are charities attt>ndll.nce, 13S ; Henry Edmund Close, master; Mrs. of £4 yearly for apprenticing, other charities of about Close, mistress £r7 for public uses and John Penson's charity of £2 r4s. Board (infants'), opened in January 1863, for roo chil for bread. The market, granted by King Stephen and dren; average attendance, 75 ; Miss M. S. Fallows,mist now held on Friday, was formerly of considerable im Railway Station, Thomas Brookfield, station master portance. .A fair is held on the rst January, and a cattle fair on the first Monday in each month. Near Carriers. Baywell gate is a portion of the ancient Grimsdyke, James Eeles, to Chipping Norton wed.; Witney, thurs.; which constitutes part of the boundaries of Charlbury Oxford, sat and Fawler. Lee Place is the residence of Capt. John Henry Hall, to 'Fox,' Chipping Norton, wed. ; 'Cross Hampden Waller J.P. of H.M. hon. Corps of Gentlemen- Keys,' Witney thurs. ; 'Anchor,' Oxford, sat PRIVATE RESIDENTS . lngles Mis.ses COMMERCIAL. .A.lbrigh t J ohru Marshall, Hazel dean Lay William Hemy .A.lsworth Albert Wm. bnker & grocer Albright Miss Maisey Fredoerick Thomas & agent for W. & .A. Gilbey Lim. Baker Geo. Edrward, Wyc'hwood hous-e Martin Frederick William wine & spirit merchants . Baskett Miss :Morris1 GeQ. (master), Grammar scihl .Alien Hemy, tailor & d'l'aper Bowly Frank J.P Pulham ii\fiss Barrett! Ebenezer Edward, saddler Bunting 'Mrs Pumphrey Mrs Ba.skett H<'mry, plumber Butler Robert Sessions Edward Baughan William Henry, ironmonger, Clary John Sturdy• ,J.ohn electric bell maker & coal merchant Ford Percy Sturge John Marshall Bayliss George, farmer • Golden Misse.s Waller Oapt. Jn. HampdJen J.P. Lee pl Blunt William Cook, watoh maker Harris Miss West Rev. Chas. Fredk. Cumber B.D. Boots J"Oseph, boot maker Holloway Walter Henry Benjamin (vica·r & surrogate), Vicarage Bowl J . .A. & .A. grocers &i mine-ral Hollyfi.eld Thomas, Gordon villa. Wilcox Ernest M.D., O.M.The Poplars water manufacturers, Post office .