SP~LSBUBY, OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLY'S T.ASTON is a hamlet to Spelsbury, half a mile north Letters through Enstone arrive at 6.30 a.m. The nearest east. Here is a very ancient stone wayside cross and a money order & telegraph office is at Oharlbury fountain erected to the memory of Henrietta, Viscoun :;ess Dillon, who died at Paris, r8th March, r862, by Viscount Dillon's School (mixed), Spels.bury, founded by her family; and immediately adjacent, standing by the the late Charles Henry, 14th Viscount Dillon, who roadside, is a monolith, believed to IJ:Je ·that from which died 18th N{)vember, r865, and now supported by bailiff to Vis~ Martin Joseph, miller (water & steam) count Dillon Dillon Hon. Mrs. Constantin~ Nield Alfred, farmer, Dean house Wilcox Rev. Arthur Marwood ~'LA. Sturdy John (Mrs.), farmer FULWELL. Vicarage Thornton George Alfred, shopkeeper l\Iace John Minchin, farmer :Bolton Edward, farmer & beer retailer Butcher William, shopkeeper, Post ofl TASTON. Holyfield Charles, miller (water) DITCHLEY. Fowler Henry, farmer Lay Charles, Chequer's inn Dillon Viscount D.L., M.A. Ditchley Harris Robert, farmer Lodge John, farmer house ; & 3 Swan walk, Chelsea SW Howe Herbert, nurseryman & Army & Navy club SW, London Howse John, shoe maker DEA~. Barrett Thomas, farmer lvings Amos, wheelwright Prestidge Jarnes Gardner Thomas Macgregor, farmer Penson Frederick, farmer STADHAMPTON is a parish and village, on the kennels of the South Oxfordshire Fox Hounds are located road from Thame to Wallingford, bounded on the west here, 1Villiam .Ashhurst esq. J.P. master. Oxford. by the River Thame, 6 miles east from Culham station Thame and Wallingford are convenient places for hunt Franklin e'sq. who is lord of the manor, and Oriel Col from Thame, in the Southern division of the county, lege, Oxford. The soil is gravelly; subsoil, gravel. hundred! district of Abingdon, area is 620 acres; rateable value, £r,272; the popula rural deanery of Cuddesdon, archdeaconry and diocese tion in r8gr was 276. of Oxford. The church of St. John the Baptist is a Parish Clerk, John Ayres. !!mall building of stone, with a north aisle of Perpendi- Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & .Annuity cular date, the rest of the building being of a more or & Insurance office. Joh'n Lowe, sub-postmaster. Let- less modern character: it consists of chancel, nave, ters arrive from Wallingford at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at aisles, south porch and a westnn tower surmounted 5-So p.m.; sundays, arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at hy four pinnacles and containing 4 bells, 2 of which ro.2o a.m were re-cast. and' the other 2 re-hung in 1884: arcades .A School Board of 5 members was formed 21 Dec. r876. of three arches divide the nave a'nd aisles: the font is for the united district of Ascot, Chiselhampton & Stad- plain and round: there are brasses to John Wylmot the hampton; Bromley Challenor, Abingdon, clerk to the younger, 15o8, and Alys, his wife; and to Dorothy board; J. Ellis, attendance officer, Abingdon Clarke, r645 : the church was thoroughly restored and Board School, for Stadhampton & Chiselhampton, es- reseated in r875, at a cost of about £r,3oo, and affords tablished in r878, for 68 children, with an endowment I68 sittings. ri'he register dates from the year 1557, of £rg yearly; average attendance, 6o; Frank ~Iillard, and includes entries for the parish of Chiselhampton. master The living is a vicarage consolidated with that of Chisel- The endowment called the Peers Charity was left by a !hampton, joint gross yearly valne £r6o, including four member of that family for the support of the Parochial Oxford Canal shares, bequeathed to the conwlidated school, but is now applied under the direction of the living by the late Charles Peers D.C.L., with residence, Charity Commissioners for rewards for deserving in the gift of the Rev. William H. Peers M.A. vicar of children Harrow Weald, Middlesex, and held since r88r by the Garrier.----George :Moody, to 'Blue Boar,' Abingdon, Rev. George Barrow Pennell :M . .A. of Trinity C-ollege, mon.; to tTharoe, tues. ; to Oxford, wed. & sat. & Dublin. There is a Particular Baptist chapel here. The Wallingford, fri. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Lowe John, draper & grocer,Post office Franklin Thomas, 'l'he :Ma.nor Ash John, shoe maker Osborn Ann (.Mis·s), shopkeeper Jones Francis William. 'I'he Laurels Ash .Manuel, butcher Phillips George, blacli:smith Pennell Rev. George Barrow M. A.. Ayers J oseph, baker South Oxfordshire Fox Hounds, Ken Vicarage Bobart Richmond, miller (water) nels (Chas. Sheppard, huntsman) Shrubb Miss Hickman Philip, beer retailer Turrill Henry (exors. of), butchers & Turrill Mr& Hicks Harry Hrbt. frmr. Doylies frm farmers Wells James, Mount Pleasant Lowe Henry J. farmer, Cold Harbour ·wheeler Richard, Crown P.H STANDLAKE is a large village and' straggling parish rich in oak -carving: the church was completely restored King, but surrendered in lighted by eight Perpendicular windows: outside, in the 1645 to one of Fairfax's generals: it is now the pro south wall of the chancel, is a small sepulchral recess ol perty of Christ Church, Oxford, and is occupied by ,John 'Early English work : in the church are various mural William Giles esq. The President a'nd scholars of !Mag • mdnuroents to the Strickland and Western families, and dalen College, Oxford, wh() are the lords of the manor, to former re-ctors, and a handsome carved oak screen and John Perry esq. are the principal landowners. The has been presented, and the interior is otherwise very soil is stone brash ; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops