D~BECTORY.J OXFORDSHIRE. CROWMARSH GIFFORD. 89 armour in the nnrth aisle of the church, and cannon acres of Jand and 19 of water; rateable value, £6,208; ahot, button!!, broken swords and rusted weapons are dis- the population in 1901 was 436 in the civil and 453 in interred from time to time in the meadows by the the ecclesiastical parish.

river side; some relics of interest are also in the 1 Parish Clerk, Louis Lambert. poasession o~ the Loveday family, and more than onl" i P06t & M. 0. Office.-John Smith, sub-postmaster. Let- ~ravestone m th~, chu~chyard re~rds th~t he who ters from Leamington Spa at 7.26 a.m. & 2.48 p.m.; liils ~ne~th was. a f~1thful _solc:J.ier of Kmg _Charles dispatched a:t 1.15 & 7·5 p.m.; no delivery on sunda). ye Frrst: the bndge, first bwlt m 1312, remams, but Great Bourton 2 miles distant, is the neare.-t tele- con~derable repairs and alterations, made iJ?- 1619 and graph office ' ~ about the year 1780, as well as an mcrease .m The children of this place attend the Oropredy & Boor- Width lately effected have taken away somewhat of 1ts ton school, situated midway between the two parishes • primitive character; the base and shaft of a cross averaoe attendance about no· Frank Ross- Walke;,. remain in a fiel~ on the left of the roa~ to Claydon. maste'"'r; Mr~. Ros~-Walker, Miss Wall & Miss Bin- !. farm house With a moat, connected w1th the oanal, stead assistants iJ ~ that now remains of th~ Ma~?r House,. once_ the PRESCOTT, a lordship in the parish of Cropredy, i• restdence

Griffin William 1 Cherry Thomas & Son, masons Palmer & Son, coal dealers Lambert James Cooknell Thomas & Son, coal dealers Pargeter George, ~hoe maker Maltby Rev Maurice (vicar, chaplain Cooknell ThO'IIlas, jun. shoe maker Pinniger Wilkinson, farmer, Cropredy of Banbury workhouse & surrogate), Gumming Thomas, jobbing gardener lawn Vicarage Douglas Thomas Henry, farmer Pratt Thomas, relieving & vaccination. Selby John Eagles William, farmer officer for Cropredy district, Ban- COMMERCIAL. Gardner F. E. & C. W. plumbers & bury union Abbott Chapman, Brasenose P.H painters Smith Brothers, builders Amos George T. farmer Godson William, baker Smith John, shoe maker, Post office Banbury Industrial Co-operative So- Hadland & Son, millers ("ater & Sumner & Neal, builders ciety Limited (branch) · steam), Cropredy mill Townsend. George, farmer Bonham James William, saddler . Hadland William, Red Lion P.H Watkins Henry, farmer CROWELL is a. parish at the foot of the L-'hiltern 9 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Wenman. Hills, and 1 mile south-west from Chinnor station on .A. Wykeham-Musgrave esq. of Thame Park, and held the Princes Risborough and Watlington branch of the · since 1902 by the Rev. Francis Neville Davis B . .!.., Great Western railway, about s! south from Thame, and B.Lttt. of Pembroke College, Oxford, who also officiate!> 4 north-west from Tetsworth, in the Southern aivision as chaplain at Thame Park, Thame. The principal land­ of the county, hundred of Lewknor, petty sessronal divi- . owner i~ Henry Joseph Hill esq. of KingstDn Blount. 1ion of Watlington, union and county court district of Henry Clerke Brown esq. of Kingston Blount, is lord oi Thame, I"Ural deanery of Aston and archdeaconry and the manor. The soil is chalk and loam r subsoil, chiefly diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Mary is a small soft stone. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, building of flint, chiefly in the Decorated style, and peas, seeds and oats. The area is 996 acres, som~t lined inside with chalk, and consists of chancel, nave, : portion of which is woodland; rateable value, £88r ~ sonth porch and a modern stone bell-cote containing one the population in rgo1 was 104. bell: the chancel, which is Decorated and appears to I p,arish Clerk, Frederick Gomme. have been shortened at an early period, retains two : The children of this place attend Chinnor school sedilia and a blocked low-side window : the doorways 1 are Norman and the font Transitional: there is a brass Letten; through Wallingford arrive at 7 a. m. & 1.30 to Sir John Payne, panwn, q6g, with a demi-effigy p.m. Kingston Blount, half a mile distant, is th~ and eight English verses :. the church was partially ' nearPst telegraph & mahey order office rebuilt in rB7B, at a cost of £r,3oo, and affords roz I Wall Letter Bux cleared at 9·15 a.m. & 5·45 p.m.; sun- sittings. The register dates from the year I594· I day at ro.2o a.m The living is a rectory, net yearly value £ rgo, with I Assistant Overseer, Arthur Harry Tranter, Stokenchurds

CROWELL. 1 Smith John, Rose cottage · Earp Thos. Wm.Catherine Wheel P.B Davia Rev. Francis Neville M.A. The COMMERCIAL. :Rectory Castle Valentine F . bailiff to Henry J. CROWELL HILL. Sibley Alfred Durley, Manor house Hill esq. Ellwood house Wi.xon Jas. gardener to Capt. Manse}

CROWMARSH GIFFORD is a parish and village. with a projecting circular basin, ribbed on the under 1eparated from Berkshire by the river Thame~. over side; the massive door, formerly a.t the west end, and which is a 'ine stone bridge of fifteen arches, connecting still bearing the marks of bullet hules, made, it is this place with Wallingford, on the opposite bank; it iil said, during the siege of Walliugford at the time ot 1

1 mile west from Wallingford terminal station on a 1 the Civil War, has been removed to the vestry; there branch from Cholsey and Moulsford station, on the 1 is a brass with inscription t<> William Hyldesley, gent. Great Western railway, 16 north-west from Reading and 1 ob. August 30, 1576, his wife Margaret and 13 children: 14 aouth-east from Oxford and on the road from Henley- in the chancel is a mural monument of marble to. on-Thames to Wallingford, 11 north-west from Henley•. Bridget, wife of Philip Parsons M.A. ob. Sept. 27, 1645: in the Southern division of the county, petty sessional l the whole fabric was restored in 186g, and in 1894 the division of Henley, Wallingford union and county court east end was rebuilt and altered, the oak-timbered roof district, Langtree hundred, rural deanery of Henley and being left open, and the walls decorated : certain lands. archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. in the parish, of between one and t·wo acres, were sold ~ary Magdalen, originally erected between I I35 and I 1.)4, in 1903, and the proceeds invested in Trustees' Stock. ll a small but very interesting building of Tubble with the income of which is applied to the repairs of the atone dressings, in the Norman style, consisting of chan· church: there ol:"e 2ro sittings. The register of bap­ eel, nave. a small n_o~ transept of later date, and. a tisms dat&s frf'm the year 1575; marr1ages, 1018 ~ Wl!lltem belfry contau~rng 8 ~u.bul_a~ bells. presented m burials, 1576. The living is a rectory, together with lllemory of Henry Bert1e Watkin ~Ilhams Wynn D.L. and that of Newnham Murren, joint net yearly value £I go. J.P. la~e o~ Howbery Park, ~ho died 4 Oct. 1895 :the west with residence, in the gift of the Hon. FlorPnce Barring­ !Jld. With 1ts ~mall round wmdows and Norman d_oorway, I ton, and held since 1909 by the Rev. Jm;eph Perry Dyer 11 perhaps nmque: the latter was blocked up till I 843, M. A. of Bishop Hatfield Hall, Durham. A horse fair is when the south porch was removed and thts entrance held here annuallv on Au!!ust 2nd. Howberv Park is. 1'80penPd; all the other sides have been altered by . the residence of William Harvey Du Cros esq. ; the \he addition of windows: in the chancel is an elegant I mansion, a handsome structure, commandinq a fair 5grmao piscina consisting of a recessed moulded arch view of the surrounding country, was rebuilt about