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LAMBOURN. Cl..taplin Walter,Georg~ hotel, Higl..t st Rolph Waiter, jobbing gardener, Bay- PIUVAT!l: RESIDENTS. Coles Rd. \Vm. insur. agt.Newbury st don road ! Collins Alfred, farmer, Parsonage Rozier James, carpenter, Blind lane Bagnall Rev. ~eginald !'!.A. Vicarage farm, Newbury street Sanson Stanley, Red Lion hotel, Mar- Barnes Jo~n 0 ,Neale, North lodge Cox Ernest Charles, shopkpr. High st ket place Barnes Mls~, North lodge I Cox Rose (Mrs.), beer ret. New bury st Sergeant John George,trainer of race- Barnes Regmald Longmore, Ivy house· Doggett Guy Alfd. butcher, High st horses, Baydon road Bayl1s M1Rs~s. Place farm Elkins Frank o-rocer Wantao-e road Smith Charles Apsley, farmer, Seven Beatty Capt. Victor, High street 1 Emblfng Ed;in, grocer G. bal

LECKHAMPSTEAD (or Leckhamstead) is a village Chieveley, and' held since 1910 by the Rev. Thomas and civil , formed for law purposes in 1835. and Odwyn Jones M.A. of Keble College, Oxford. There is a distinct ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1882 out of a Wesleyan chapel here, built in r86o, and a Primitive Chieveley parish, 7 miles north from New bury, 3~ miles Methodist chapel at Thicket, erected about r83o and north from Boxford station on the Lambourn Valley rebuilt in r874· The Working Men's Club and Institute railway, via Newbnry, and 3 north-west from Chieveley, was erected in xgro by H. M. Morison esq. and contains in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Fair­ a library of soo volumes; it is also used for concerts cross, petty sessional division, union and county court and parochial purposes. The principal landowners are district of Newbury, rural deanery of Newbnry, arcl:­ Donald Kennedy esq. and Moses Butcher esq. The soil deaconry of Berk,s and diocese of Oxford. The church is sandy loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief 'crops are of St. James, built in t86o by the Rev. J. E. Robinson wheat, l1a-rley and oats. The area is 1,777 acres; Tote­ M.A. vicar of Chieveley, 1837-72, a former incumbent, able value, £1,798; the population in rgrr was 26r. at a cost of £1,745, and situated in the centre of the village, is an edifice of brick and flint, with stone Thicket, 1 mile north-we•t, and Hill Green. r north, mullioned windows, in the Gothic style, from designs are places "Within this parish. by Mr. S. S. Teulon, architect, of London, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch imd Post & T. Office.-Josiah Smith, sub-postmaster. a central turret containing one bell : the east window is Letters arrive from Newbury at 7·35 a.m, & 2.25 stained: some wood work at the east end of the nave p.m.; dispatched at 9 a.m. & 5.30 p.m.; sundays, and the south porch are mainly composed of portions of ro. 15 a.m. Chaddleworth, 2 miles distant, is the the ancient oak screen of the former church, which nearest n1oney order office stood a mile from the village, and the pulpit is Elementary School, built in r875, for about 6o children; Jacobean: the ancient font has been retained: there are Edward H. Hoyden, master zso sitting a: attached to the church is a burial ground. The living is a vicarage, net income £156, with resi­ Carriers-William Kent Thomas, to New bury, daily; to dence and 13 acres of glebe, in the gift of the vicar of Wantage, wed