BERKSHIRE. Place." the Barony of Lovelace of Liurley, However, Williamsj.P

82 HURLEY. BERKSHIRE. Place." The barony of Lovelace of lIurley, however, WilliamsJ.p. of Temple House, Bisham, and Henry Micklem expired on the death of Nedl Lovelace, fifth baron, in 1736: esq. The soil is light grul'el and chalk; subsoil, chalk and the foundations of the original monastery still remain, in- gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. 'fhe eluding a vaulted chamber or crypt, which extended under area is 4,lIO acres of land and 49 of water; rateable value, the hall, and in which, in the year 1838, three bodies of £6,903; the population in 1881 was 562, exclusive of Knowl monks, clad in their Benedictine habits, were discovered; Hill portion of Hurley civil parish. during the time of John LO\"elace, third baron, an energetic BmcHETs GREEN, a hamlet partly in this parish, will be. !lartisan of William of Orange, meetings of revolutionists found nnder a separate head. are said to have been frequently held in this crypt. The Parish Clerk, Dennis Hignell Wargent. house was for some time the residence of the brother of the WALL Ll<;TTER Box cleared at 10 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; sun- ill-fated Admiral Richard Kempenfeldt, and was eventually days at 9.30 a.m. only. Letters through Marlow, which pulled down in 1837. The principal landowners are Sir is the nearest money order & telegraph office Gilbert Augustus Clayton-East bart. J.P. of Hall Place, who Parochial School (mixed), for 81 children; average attend is lord of the manor, Major-General Owen Lewis Cope lance, 32; Miss Louisa Clarke, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. I COMlIfERCIAL. H obbs George jun. farmer Bell Frederick Charles, Holmleigh Bolton James, Black Boy inn Horwood James,farmer,Goulqres farm~ Cholmondeley Miss, Hurley house Carter Charles, Four Horse Shoes P.H. Cockpole Lobb Arthur, Lady place Cockpolfl House Martha (Mr3.), beer retailer Micklem Heury, Rose hill Cox Robert. farm baliff to Sir Gilbert A. Leaver James, carpenter Phillmore Charles Bagot, Manor house Clayton East bart.J.p. Chalk Pit farm Sharp Henry, farmer, Frogmill Wharton Robert, Malt house Coventry George,TheOldHatchGatep.H Street Thomas, miller (water) "\Vethered Rev. Florence Thomas M.A. Garaner Henry, farmer, Dean place Stevens James, blacksmith [vicar], Vicarage Groves Harrison, Old Bell P.H Symmons Thomas, East Arms P.H HURST is a parish about 7 miles long and consists of the yearly distributed in fuel. There is also the Hooten and hamlet of TWYFORD, the liberties of BROAD HINTON, WHIST- Pooley bequest of £44 yearly, for the benefit of the inmates of LEY-IN-HuRST, WINNERSH and NEWLAND ; the latter liberty, Barker's almshouses; and two other charities, founded by with a great part of Winnersh, has been formed into the George William Barker esq. for educational purposes and ecclesiastical district of St. Catherine, Bearwood. Whistley- for the purchase of coals for the poor, and amounting in-Hurst is 6 miles east from Reading, 2 from the Great together to £19 yearly; besides which there are some smaller Western railway station at Twyford, 71 south from bequests. The charities are now administered under a. Henley, 4 north from Wokingham and 10 from Maidenhead, scheme of the Charity Commissioners; the total income in the Eastern division of the county, petty sessional being about £530' Lord Braybrooke is lord of the manor. division and union of Wokingham, hundred of Charlton, The principal landowners are the Rev. Henry Golding county court district of Reading, rural deanery of Sonning, Palmer B.A. of Holme Park, Reading, John Edward Leveson archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford; the hamlet of Gower esq. J.P. of Bill Hill, Wokingham, and Thomas Twyford with an adjacent district was formed into a separate Colleton Garth esq. J. P., D.L. The soil is mostly sand and ecclesiastical parish April 4th, 1876. The church of St. gravel; subsoil, gravelly. The chief crops are wheat, bar Nicholas is a building of stone in the Transitional and ley and oats. The area of the entire parish is 6,801 acres of later styles, consisting of chancel, with south aisle (added land and 97 of water; rateable value, £19,774; the popu in 1876), nave, aisles and an embattled western tower, lation in 1881 was 2,868. rebuilt in 1612, and containing 6 bells: the chancel is separa- BROAD HINTON is a liberty, formerly in Wiltshire, but by ted from the nave and aisle by a screen of ela~orately crarve,d the Acts 2 and 3 William IV. cap. 64 and 7 and 8 Vie. cap. 6I oak, surI?ounte.d by the Royal .arms a~d Prlllce of " a~es s it was annexed to Berkshire. A small portion of a farm plume, rIchly gilt.: five large pillars With arches of varIOUS called" Old Warren House," in the parish of Wokingham. dates, from the. t"\\elfth century down'!ards, for.m the aJ:cade is in the county of Wilts, the remainder being in Broad to the north aisle, and t~ree arches III the Mlddle-P?lI~ted Hinton, to which liberty it is rated, Stanlake Park is the style separa~e the south aisle from the nave .: t~e pulpit Is?f I property of the Rev. Alfred Gresley Barker M.A. of Sherfield carved oak III the Jacobean style, and thele lS ~ splendid on-Loddon, Basingstoke; the mansion stands in an extensive marble monu~ent,.of the s~venteenth c.entur~, to Lady park, through which flows a tributary of the river Loddon. Margaret SavrUe, WIdow of .S~r Henry SavIll~ kt. prov?st o~ Haines Hill, a large and commodious mansion, standing in a ~ton, f?under of the Sa~IllIan pro~essorshlp at. Oxford, park of considerable extent, is the seat of Thomas Colleton It has SIX ~arble figures III the attitude o! pra~ er, under liarth esq. D.T,., J.P. who is master of a pack of fox-hounds. a canopy With dr~p.ery, supported. on e01ch s.lde by an angel, The population in 1881 was 643; area, 1,737 acres of land and t~e whole of exqUisite workmanship; there IS also a brass tu 13 of water' rateable value £5 20<9. Richard Waude," aulae proquestor" to Henry VIIL, Edward ' .' .' . VI., and Queens Mary and Elizabeth, ob. 1574; his wife, WHISTLEY-IN-HuRST IS a lIberty, With an area of 1,917 Colubra, and 17 children, with effigies and 14 verses; and acres of.land.and I? of water; r.ateable value, £8, ~09; the another brass to Alice eldest daucrhter of Richard Ward populatIOn, mcludmg Broad Hmton, was 1,9°6 ID 188r. esq. "cooferer" to Qu'een Elizabeth and wife of Thomas Hurst Lodge, a commodious red brick building, standing in Harrison esg. ob. c. 1600; this brass has her effigy in a bed, considerable grounds, occup~ed by Col. <;feorge. B~au.champ. she having died in chilubed: in 1876 the whole church was Hurst Gr.ove, a pleasant resld~nce standmg Wlthm Its own restored at the expense of Miss Palmer, of Sonning, a memo- grounds, IS the seat of Mrs. Fmch. rial window: being at the same time placed in the.south aisle WINNERSH is a liberty and comprises Sindlesham. The by the.famIly oft?e late T. R. Harman esq: of Smd!es?a~; populationlin 1881 was 685 ; area, 2,034 acres of laud and II the stamed east wmdow wa~ erected by public subscrlptl?n m of water' rateable value £3 703. memory of the Rev. Archlbald Alien Cameron, late vicar: '.." .. there are 400 sittings, all free. The register dates from the NEWLAND IS a liberty. The populat~on m 188T, 277; :rear 1583. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £298, rateab~e value, £2,500. The names WIll be found under in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1880 by Arborfield.. the Rev. Edmund Broome M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The na!lleil belongmg to TWYFORD wII~ b~ found under 'rhere are almshouses, founded in 1682 by WiIliam Barker that ~eadmg, and those of the BEARWOOD dlstrlCt under that esq. of Hurst, for eight poor people, with a donation to them headll~g or that of ARBORFI~LD. and their successors for ever of 7s. 6d. weekly, besides a new Parrsh Clerk, Georg~ Robmson: . gown every second year. The other chief benefactors to the POST OFFICE, Broad HI?-ton.-Wllha~ Henry Bance, post- parish are the following: Mr. Richard Bigg, formerly fellow master. Lette~s arrive from Readmg through Twyford of New College, Oxford, who in 1677 left three freehold houses at 7· IQ a.m. ; dispatched at IQ. 10 a.m. & 7. 10 p.m. & on and a warehouse in London, now (1887) producing £220 sundays at r1.4~ a.m. The nearest money order & yearly; Lady Dorothy Harrison, whose charity yields £22 t~legraph office IS at Twyford. PILLAR Box at Hurst yearly; Lady FrancesWinchcomb; William Harman esq.who Church, cleared at 6.50 p:m. ; sundays at 11.30 a.m. & by his will left the interest of £500 to be annually distributed WALL Box at Broad Hmton, cleared at 7.30 p.m.; in coal among the poor of the liberty of Winnersh, theamount s~ndays at 12.10 a:m. , being now about £r8; Mrs. Sarah Glasspool, who left £200, NatIOnal ~chools (mixed & m~antsl: the boys sch~ot was the interest of which, now £6 a year, is expended in flannels erected m 1881, the schools ~I~l umte~ly hold 290 chlldre?-; and blankets for the poor of the liberty of Whistley; and Alice a;verage att~ndance, 250 ; WIll~am Crrt?hley, ~as~er ; MISS Allright,who left £8 a year for the poor of Newland liberty.

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