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Warwickshire 246 'l'l'SOE, WARWICKSHIRE. (KELLY'S lington each left small legacies, the former the interest of Post & Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings B&.nk, & £zo and the latter £2 yearly: there is also £3 10s. for Annuity & Insurance Office.-Olark Greenway, post­ the poor, paid out of Westcot farm, and the like sum out master. Letters through Warwick, arrive at 8.50 a.m.; of Edge Hill farm. The Marquess of Northampton's dispatched at 4.25 p.m. ; no sunday post. Wall Letter clothing club, carried on for the benefit of the mhabitants, Box, at Lower Tysoe, cleared at 4·45 p.m. is managed by Mrs. Dodgson. The Marquess of North­ National School (mixed), built in 1856, together with a ampton, who is lord of the manor, Algernon Bertram Free­ man-Mitford esq. C.B. of Batsford Park, Moreton-in-the­ master's house, after designs by the late Sir Gilbert Marsh, Gloucestershire, Messrs. Thomas Herbert Middle­ Scott R.A. & enlarged in 1872, for about 250 scholars; ton, William Gardner, Arthur E. Peach, of Leicester, average attendance, 157; the old school-room is now used as a village club-room & is. furnished! as a library & Miss Mary E. Hopkins, of Brailes, the Rev. Sir William Henry Cope bart. of Bramshill Park, Rants, the tiustees reading-room; Henry H. Dodge, master ; Mrs. Mary of the late W. B. Lowe esq. of Ettington, and! Hewens Ann Dodge, mistress Edmund Nicholls are the principal landowners. 'I'he lay Carriers. rectors are Magdalen College, Oxford, Lord Willoughby de Broke and J oseph Garrett. There are u4 acres of land John Hirons, to Banbury, thurs. ; to Leamington & War- let out in allotmentS! belonging to the Marquess of North- wick, tues.; to Shipton, sat ampton. The chief crops are wheat and! beans, but the William Butcher, to Banbury, mon. thurs. & sat. ; to land! in this neighbourhood is chiefly used: for grazing, Stratford-upon-Avon, frl and! is of the richest kind. The area is 4,710 acres; rate- Mary Ann Gardner, to Banbury, mon. thurs. & sat able value, £5,515; the population in r89r was 910. Thomas Gardner, to Warwick, tues. & ~at UPPER TYSOE. CHURCH or MIDDLE TYSOE. Price John, blacksmith COMMEIWIAL. Dodgson Rev. Francis Vivian M.A. Strong Fredc. Joseph, The Peacock inn Ainge William, farmer Vicarage Styles William Brice, carpenter & Berridge Sarah (Mrs.), frmr.Manor ho COMMERCUL. assistant overseer Blunn Thomas, saddler Coldicott John, tin plrute worker Walker Joseph Hill, land surveyor, Bull Thos. registered veterinary surgn Eden John, fishmonger &; greengrocer assessor & collector of taxes, also for Butcher Wm.carrier,seedsman & florist Gardner MaryAnn(Mrs. ),frmr.&icrrier Compton Wynyates · Calcott Richard, shopkeeper Geden Esther (Mrs.), draper, grocer Walker Mary Ann (Mrs.), dress maker Gardner William, farmsr & landowner, & g~neral dea~er TEMPLE or LOWER TYSOE. Burland farm Gre-enway Clark,, :farmer, grocer & Bishop Charles, farmer Horton Robt. Jonah, gardener draper, Post office Broad Charles, farmer, Edge Hill frm NichollsHewensEdmd.frmr.&landownr Greenway John, farmer & grazier (Banbury postal address) J>argetor William~ baker Groonway John Jones·, paa·ish clerk to Freeman Tom, oiJ. dealer, seedsman, Parrish Thomas, carpenter ' Compton Wynyates' greengrocer, carrier & farmer Redding Frank, relieving officer & r~- Harris Thomas, farmer:& carrier Gardner .Ann (Mrs.), farmer gistrar of marriages, No. 3 district&; Heritage William, butcher & baker Groves John, farmer, Harwick registrar of bil'ths & deaths for Hal- Heritage Wm. jun. grazier &; butcher Hall Thomas A. farmer ford sub-district, Shipston-on-Stour Hewens Thomas, miller (wind) Hancox Thos. bldr. & monumntl. masn ·union Insurance. Society (Frank Redding,sec) Harris William, farmer Styles, Edmund, baker Middleton Henry, farmer & grazier Heritage John, farmer Tarver Emma (Mrs.), farmer, Comp- Middleton Emma (Mrs.), farmer, Peach Arthur E. farmer, Edge Hill bo ton Wynyates Church farm (Banbury postal address) Webb Thomas, shopkeeper Middleton Thomas Herbert, farmer & Phillips Thomas, farmer&; haulier Wells George, carpenter grazier &; landowner Rainbow Wm. farmer, Westcote fa.nn Wells Wm. Beasley, frmr. Rose's farm Page William, haulier Walton Daniel, farmer • Wrighton Gilbert. carpenter Penny Bank (Mrs. Dodgson,secretary), Wolgrove John, farm bailiff to Robert Wrighton Robt. (Mrs.), dress maker Vicarage Miller esq. Brix:field farm UFTON, in Domesday "Ulchetone," and subsequently face represents the Crucifixion, on the opposife side is the called "Oloughton" and! "Utton," is s small village and Blessed! Virgin, o.nd the two other faces bear respectively parish. on the road! from Southam to Warwick, about 2~ figures of .st. Chad .and St. Oat.herine: the church affords miles north-west from Southam road and, Harbury station 250 sittings. The register of baptisms and: marriages on the Oxford and• Leamington section of the Great dates from the year 1708, but there are x·egisters of burials Western railway, 2! miles west-by-north from Southam, from an earlier period. The living is a rectory, average 4! miles east-by-south from. Leamin,gton, in tl1e South- tithe rent-charge £qo, net yearly value £t47• including Eastern division of the county, Kenilworth div1sion of x& acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop Knightlow hundlredl, Southam petty sessional division, of Worce&ter, and held since r885 by the Rev. Henry Cecil union and county court district, rural deanery of Phelps M . .A. of Queen~s College, Oxford~ and rural dean Southam, arch deaconry of Coventry and diocese of W or- of Southam. Balliol College, Oxford, has the lordship cester; from its situa.tion on .an emin-ence, the village of the manor, to which college it was bequeathed: by John commands extensive prospects. The Warwick and Nap- Snell A.M. of Glasgow University in t(;ryg, for the main­ ton canal passes near it on the north. The church of St. tenance of certain ·scholarships· therein, andi the college Michael, appropriated! to the Priory of Ooventry by Roger also possesses the chief part of the land. The soil is de Mol end, Bishop of Coventry and, Lichfield, in r26o, is mar! and clay; subSIOil, limestone, gravel ana c1ay. The an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly int the Early English chief crops are wheat and beans. The area iSI r,76r acres; style, consisting of chancel, na.ve, aisles, south perch and rateable value, £r,642; the population in 189r was 201. sn embattled' western tower containing a clock and 3 Parish Clerk, William Wincott. bells: it was entirely reseatedJ with oak and! thoroughly Pillar Letter Box cleared at 5.25 p.m. week days. Letters repaired by the parishioners in 186o, and' has several through Southam 8.0. which is the nearest money stained windowS!; here is an ancient brass to William order & telegraph office, arrive at 7,30 a.m. & 5 p.m Weddowes, a former rector, vb. 1587: an interesting School (mixed), with mistress's house, built in 186o, for cross found in the churchyard, and! .supposed! to be over 70 children; average attendance, 45; l\iiss Elien R. soo years old, was restored! in x862 by the diocese: one Neville, mistreSJS Phelps Rev. Henry Cecil M.A. Rectory Downing Franc:is, White Hart P.Bl Johnson Austin, farmer, Hill farm COMMERCIAL. Field William & John, carpenters Reed Thomas, farmer Beck William, blacksmith Hall J oseph, farmer Webb Thomas, shopkeeper Brown James, farmer, Wood farm Hicken l\'Iary Ann (Mrs.), farmer ULLENHALL, in Domesday "Holedale," and later, ley station on the Birmingham and Stratford section of the "Outenhall," and Aspley, hamlets of the parish of GreatWestern railway,in the South-Western division ofthe Wootton Wawen, were~ constituted a separate ecclesiastical cGunty, Barlichway hundred, Henley petty sessional clivi­ parish, June 27, r86r. By an order of the Joint Corn- sion, Stratford-on-Avon union and oounty court district, mittee of the County Councils of Warwick, Worcester and rural deailery of Alcester, and archdeaconry and diocese Gloucester, dated 22nd of May, 1895, and which came of Worcester. The chapel of St. Mary, dating from the into operation on Sept. 29th 1895, a part of the hamlet of qth century, served formerly as the parish church, but Aspley wrus transferred from the parish of Wootton Wawen is now used only as a mortuary chapel; it consists simply and union of Stratford-on-Avon to the parish o! Tanworth of a chancel and nave, and has few attractive features, and union of Solihull; they are on the Worcestershire bor- save, perhaps a singular Decorated window in the south der, 2 miles north-west from Heneiey-in-Arden, ro north- wall of three trefoiled lights, but destitute of any hood­ west from Stratford-on-.Avon, and 6 north-west from Bear- moulding: there 'remain ·some fragments of ancient .
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