100 HAILEY. OXFORDSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Morton George, shopkeeper DELLY END. ~ra~ley J oseph, shopkeeper Robinson Thomas, farm bailiff to the Buckingham .A.lfd. threshing machine :::lm1th Wm. beer retailer & saddler exors. of Wm. Clinch esq. of Witnf'y proprietor & farmer CRAWI:E'i. Wright Martha (Mrs.), shopkeeper & Buckingham Jason, sho11keep~r pork butcher Dyer Robert, farmer & grazier COMMERCIAL. Nutt Alfred, Roebuck P.H POFFLEY END. Buckingham Leonard, farmer Rogers John, farmer Cook Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Buckingham Frdk. farmr.College frm White William Henry, farmer Little 1Ym.farm bailiff to Wm.Smith Blake Ernest, farmer, Swanhill fuiTn WHITE OAK GREEN. Nutting John, beer :retailer Harris Jonas & John, farmers Harris Frederick, Bird,-in-Hand P.H Pratley William B. l.amh P.H Harris Micah (Mrs.), farmer Pratley Charles, nurseryman Smith William & Co. blanket manu­ Hicks Charles, shoe maker facturers (branch) Rowles Matthew H. shopkeeper NEWYATT. Smith William, shopkeeper Turner Thomas, farmer Collier Charles, farmer Townsend Chas.farmer,Chasewond frm ' HAMPTON GAY is a parish and village on the in r768, in the gift of Wadham College, Oxford, ancF river Cherwell, 1~ miles north-by-east from Kidlington held since 1S71 by the Rev. Henry William Yule B.D., station on the Oxford and Birmingham section of the D. O.L. of that college, who is also rector of and resides: Great Western railway, 3 east from Woodstock and 6~ at Shipton-on-Cherwell. The Warden and Fellows ot north from Oxford, in the Mid division of the countv,• Wadham College, Oxford, who are lords of the manor, hundred of Ploughley, petty sessional division of Bul- and Viscount Valentia are the principal landowners. lingdon, union and county court district of Woodstock, The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, clay and sand. The rural deanery of 'Islip and archdeaconry and diocese of land is half arable and half pasture, and is chiefly in Oxford. The suffix " Gay '' is a perversion of the name the occupation of Mr. Henry Isaac Bartlett, who resides " Gait," the manor having been held in II38 by Sir at Greenhill Farm, in the parish of Bletchington. The­ Robert Gait knight, who, in IJ40, gave the church, and area is 638 acres; rateable value, £I,I35; the fOpula.­ subsequently the manor, to the Abbey of Oseney. The tion in 1891 was 30. church of St. Giles is a small building, consisting of Parish Clerk, James Walsh, who resides at 'fhrupP', nave, south porch and an embattled western tower con­ Kidlington. taining 2 bells : on the north wall is a fine alabaster monument with kneeling figures to the Barry and LettPrs through Oxford, via Kidlington, arrive at lJ Fenner families, 1665 : the church was rebuilt in the a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is last century and skilfully restored in 1859 in the Early at Kidlington English style, and now affords 100 sittings. The register Nearest Wail Letter Box, Shipton-on-Cherwell, cleared of baptisms dates from the year 1622; marriages, at 8.15 a.m. & 4·4S p.m.; sundays, 4 p.m I6S7; burials, 1621. The living is a donative vicarage, The children of this parish attend the school at Bletch- gross yearly value £2o, devised by the Rev. T. Hindes ington HAMPTON POYLE, in Domesday, "Hantone," is mantle, with her feet on a dlog, conjectured to represent • a parish and village on the Cherwell, ~~ miles north­ Catherine, widow of Edmund Rede, and lady of the east from Kidlington station on the Oxford and 1Yolver­ manor, d. 1489; there is also a brass to John Poyle e~q. hampton section. of the Great Western railway, about d. 31 Oct. 1424, and Elizabeth, his wife: the church was the same distance from Islip station, on the :Bletchley restored in 1870, and has ISO sittings. The register· and Oxford branch of the London and North Western of baptisms dates from the year 1540; marriages, 1545 ; railway, 4~ east from Woodstock, and 6 north from burials, 1544. The living is a rectory, corn rent £70, Oxford, in the Mid division of the county, hundred of net yearly value £ss, including !24 acres of W-ebe, with Ploughley, petty sessional division of Bullingdon, union residence, in the gift of Queen's College, Oxford, and and county court district of Woodstock, rural deanery held since 1892 by the Rev. Reginald Francis Dale M.A. of Islip and archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The and Bac. Mus. of that college, and F.R.A.S. who resid~s- church of St. Mary is an ancient building of stoJne in at Bletchington. Thomas de la Poyle was vicar here- mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a in 1306. Viscount Valentia, who is lord of the manor-. ·turret at the west end containing 2 bells : the east and Capt. Georg~ Knapp are the principal landowners. window, of three lights, is a remarkably fine example The soil is mixed ; the land arable and pasture, in of the transition from Early English to Decorated and parts gravel and in other portions clay. The area is has good geometrical tracery; the chancel arch is of no acres; rateable value, £1,030; the population in the latter period: the nave is separated from the north 1891 was 106. aisle by an arcade of two arches, on octagonal pillars, with capitals bearing demi-figures: on the south side Parish Clerk, John Giles. are t:wo Decorated arches springing from a flat rier : Pillar Letter Post cleared at 7.30 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. in the north aisle is a fine Perpendicular recess wil.ih an Letters from Oxford, via Kidlington, arrive at 7.30< open crocketed canopy ; and here is a small piscina, a.m. & 4.30 p.m. The nearest money order & tele· formed by a hand supporting a basin : in the north graph office is at Kidlington aisle are two monumental effigie~ of a cross legged knight in plate armour, 'temp. Edward I. and perhaps repre­ The children of this parish attend the schools at Kid­ senting Waiter de la Poyle, and of a lady in a long lington & Bletchington Hunt Warwick Haynes J ames, farmer Read John, farmer Beesley John, farm bailiff to e:xors. Hinton Joseph, market gardener Wixon William, farmer of the late - Hedges Kerwood Thomas, farmer Young Eliza (Mrs.), Bell mn•

HANDBOROUGH (or Hanborough), called in and is filled by a screen, dating from about 1460; the­ Domesday "Haneberge," is a village and parish, bounded projecting canopy is panelled with bosses and has an on the north and east by the river Evenlode., with a elaborately carved cornice, with a wavy stem of vin~ station on the Oxford and Worcester line of the Great leaves and grapes ; the whole retains traces of colour Western railway, 67 miles from London, 5! north-east and gilding; the nave is Perpendicular and is separated from Witney, 4 south-west from Woodstock and 8! north­ from the aisles by arcades of three arches on ~ach !:'ide, west from Oxford; the parish is divided into Church springing from octagonal piers ; the clerestory is light~d Handborongh and Long Handborough, and is in the by square-headed: windows, three on each side; the· Mid division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty font, of Perpendicular date, is octagonal, with panelle