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294 WATERPERRY. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S glass to Waiter Curson e.sq. and Isabel (Saunders) his the ClaSISic style, pleasantly situated in an extensive park wife, 1527, and there are bra.sses in the nave to the of rich pastu;re land and pleasure grounds, through same persons, including effigies of both and six children, which flows the river Thame. The soil is loamy; sub-' with four shields and a. mutilated marginal inscription, soil, g:rovel and clay. The chief crops are grass, wheat, divided· by skulls and oross bones: these figures are barley and beans. The area. is 1,8g8 aCTes, a portion of specially interesting as an example of an unusual kind of which is woodland; ratoohle value, £2,548; the p{)pula palimpsest: they originally il'epresented other persons lation in 1891 wrus 164. and dated from aJbout 1440-50, but by various alterations Thomley is a hamlet of the parish, 2 miles north from ood additions have been made to suit their present pur the villa,gl\ partly in Buckinghamshire, and contains llne po.se: near these is an effigy in brass to Isabel Beaufo, farm and a. few cottages; area is 55r acr-es; rateable the Norman-Frenoh inscription of which is lost: on the value, £so6; the population in 1891 was 18. Lord south wall is a monument to Sir Francis Curson kt. cf C1ifden is the sole landowner. Waterperry, d. 1610: there are r8o sittings, go being free. The register dates from the year 1678 ; an older Parish Olerk, Charles Waters. regisber is in the posseSision of Joseph J. Henley esq. Lette<rs from Oxford, via Wheat1ey, which is the nearest The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £103, with resi- money order & telegraph offioe, arrive at 7.20 a.m. dence, in the gift of J. J. Henley esq. and held since Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.15 p.m.; sunday, 1876 'by the Rev. Josiah Smith. Waterperry Rouse, the 10.45 a.m seat of J~eph John Henley esq. C.B., D.L., J.P. lord of Kational ISohool (mixed), for 40 children; average at- the manor and sole landowner, is a handsome mansion in tendance, 32; Mrs. Elizabeth Tubby, mistress Henley Joseph .John C.ll., D.L., J.P. Baker Thomas, farmer Hill Gilbert, farmer Waterperry house Biggo:; James, shopkeeper Hinton \Yilliam, farmer, Thomley Smith Rev. Josiah (_vicar) Brandum Uriah, farmer Morris Charles, gardener to J. ,J, Bustin Thomas, farmer Henley esq COUMERCHL. Fonge Joseph, farmer,\Yaterperry corn Simmonds Joseph, woodman to J. J. Almond A. bailiff to J. J. Henley f.sq Hatt Sidney, farmer Henley esq WATERSTOCK is a parish and village, 1 mile north- charge £250, average £r86, gross yearly value £206, net west frO'IIl Tiddington station on the Wyoombe and Ox- income £186, including 13 acres of glebe, with residence, ford section of the Great Western railway, 5 miles west in the gift of W. H. Ashhuf!st esq. and held since 1856 from Thame and 9 east from Oxford, in the Southern by the Rev. James Henry Ashhurst M.A. of Exetel' division of the county, hundred, union and county court College, Oxford, hon. canon of Christ Church, Oxforrl, district Gf Thame, petty s~ssional division of Bullingdon, and surrogate. Bernnett's charity of £8 yearly is dis il'ural deanery of Cuddesden and archdeaconry and diocese tributed in money; Q certain number of aged men and of Oxford. The river Thame winds round part of the women of this parish have a claim to nomination as in parish. The chureh of St. Leonarrd is a £llllall building mat-es of the Oroke almshouses at Studley. Waterstock of stone, rebuilt; in 1792: the tower and north aisle, House, the seat of William Henry Ashhurst esq. D.L .• which are of Pe:rpendicular date, and the rood stairs J.P. and M.F.El. lord of the manor and sole landowner, are the only portions with any pretensions to antiquity: is a substantial mansion of stone, pleasantly situated on a the church consists m chancel, nave, north ali.Sile, north gentle emin~:mce near the oentre of the village; t11e and south porohes and a tower with a singular bell cDte dining-room contains a good collection of family por on its eastern side, containing a clock and 6 bells, the traits ; the river Thame fiOIWs near the house. The soil 3 old bells having been reca:st in 1889 and 3 new ones is gravel and loam; su:bsoil, gravel. The chief crops added: in the north aisle is a canopied monument with are wheat, barley and beans. The area. is 659 acres; :a bust in judicial raoos holding a book in one hand and the rateable vaJue, £1,793; the population in 1891 was q6. other resting on a skull, and an inscription to Sir George Parish Cle.rk, James Paxslow. Croke kt. a Justice of the King's Bench in the reign cf Charles I. and a strenuous opposer of the Ship Money Draycott, a hamlet fmmerly included in the parish of Tax, who died at his house here, r6 Feb. 1541 _2 : some Ickford (Bucks), now forms part of this parish, and is fragments Df ancient glass remain; these include por- situated three-quarters of a mile east distant from the tions of the figure of an archbishop, probably intended village. for George Nevill, who held the see m Ymk from 1464 Post Office.-James Pai!'slow, sub-postmaster. Letteu to 1476; and mutila-ted figures of saints: there is a hand- 1 from Oxford, via Wheabley, arrive at 8 a. m. ; dis- som.e reredns, adorned with a representation of "The patched at 5·45 p.m. ; sundlay, arrive at 8 a. m. ; dis- Last Supper": the font is cylindrical: the wall painting patched at 10.20 a.m. Great Milton is the nearest is also noteworthy: most of the windows are stained ; money order & telegraph office one in the north aisle displays heraldically the National School (mixed), for 30 children; average at- alliances of the Ashhurst family from the time of the tendance, 25; Miss Annie Summersby, mistress Conquest: in the north aisle is a brass, placed by the rector, giving a complete list of the sovereigns ··of Eng- Carriers t<J land, bishops of the see, and of the .reotors and patron~ Oxford-Sbrimpton, from the ~Chequers,' wed. & sat_ of the living and lords of the manor of 1Vaterstock from returning same evenings; Honor, from the Crown inn,. the year 1235 to 1894, with da,tes. The register dates wed. & sat. returning same evenings from the year 158o. The living is a rectory, tithe rent- Thame HDnor, tues .Ashhurst Rev. James Henry l\I.A. Ashhurst William Henry D.L.,J.P. & Latham William, farmer, Draycott (rector, hon.canon of Christ Church, M.F.H. Wat·erstock house Parslow James, Post 0ffice Oxford, & surrogate), Rectory Bull Charles, farmer Way William, farmer, Draycott Kidman George, farmer WATLINGTON is a parish and small but ancient was filled with stained glass, at a cost of £2oo, by town, situat~d on a stream at the foot of the Chiltern subscription: the chanoel retains a piscina and sedilia: • Hills, and t.he head of a petty sessional division, with a the organ was enlarged in 1884 at a_ cost of £roo: ther~ .terminal station on a branoh of the Great Western rail- are brasses to ·william Frankeleyn, 1485, and his wife. way from Princes Risboro', and is 8! miles south-west Sibill, with 4 children; Jeremiah, eldest son of RDberl from Thame, 8 north-east from Wallingford and 42 from Ewstes, 1587, and John Ewstes, his brother, 158(8); London, in the Sout-hern division of the county, hundred the pulpit, lectern and lit!l!ny stool of elaborately co.rved of Pyrton, union of Henley, Thame county court dis- oak were executed from designs by the late Mr. Edwin trict, rural deanery of As ton and arch deaconry and dio- Dol by, architect, of Abingdon: the church was thoroughly cese of Oxford. The town is lighted with gas from restored in 1877 at a C()St (){ £4,029: a reredDs of carved W()rks, the property of Mr. Frank Morris, erected here oak, pan-elled and gilded, representing the Annunciation, in 1866. The church of St. Leonard is a plain building was placed in the ohurch in r88g: there are about 520 of flint with stone dressings, in mixed $tyles, mostly sittings, about haM of which are appropriated. The Perpendicular, and consisting of chancel, nave of eight regist-er dates from the year 1635. The living is a bays, aisles, south porch, organ chamber, south chantrry, vical'age, tithe rent-charge £62, average £47• net yearly vestry and an embattled western tower of the 14th value £2oo, including 61 acres of glebe, with residence-. century, 58 feet in height, containing 6 bells, dated in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1887 rE-spectively 1587, 1635, 166o, 1663 (two) and 1875: the by the Rev. Basil Tilson Shaen Carter M.A. of :Kew stained east window of the sout·h chancel aisle is a C'Ollege, Oxford. 'f!here are Congregational and Prim:i memorial to the late Rev. William Preston Hulton :M.A. tive Methodist chapels, and a Wesleyan ch~pel in Shjr of Watlington, d. 14 Aug. 1870, and was placed in 1887 burn street, erected in 1812. The Town Hall, "Whiob by Julia Anne (Griffin), his 2nd wife: the east window stands in the centre of the t{)wn, was erected in :1664.