186 WELFORD. . [ KELLY'S of Abingdon. Welford House 1S the seat of George Bram- flint and mortar about three inches thick: the new work has stan Eyre esq. J.P. lord of the manor and principal land- been executed in the most sumptuous manner, and the owner; the park contains 200 acres and is stocked with sculpture of the 10liage on the capitals and bosses is con­ deer. The soil is light and gravel; subsoil, gravel. The sidered by some as equal to the best examples of ancient chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is work: a handsome font-cover, from the exhihition of 1862, 5,199 acres of land and 29 of water; rateable value, £5,863; was presented to the chuch by Lieut.-Col. Nicholson: there the population in 1881 was 94-3. are 150 sittings, all of which are free. EASTON, three-quarters of a mile south-east, Parish Clerks-Welford, vacant; Wickham, Wm. Brown. 2 miles south, are hamlets; WESTON is a hamlet half-a-mile WICKHAM RECEIVING OFFICE.-Jas. Brown, sub-postmaster. north-west. The manor of Weston was purchased of Sir Letters arrive from Newbury at 8 a.m.; dispatched at William Percy by John Aubrey, who conveyed it in 1364 to 4.30 p.m. LETTER Box cleared at 5 p.m .John de Cokkyng and his heirs; this manor, iu Queen Letters for Welfordthrough Newbury,arriveat9a.m. WALL Elizabeth's time, was in the family of . Col. Sir LETTER Box cleared at 3.40 p.m Francis Burdett bart. J.P., D.L. of Ramsbury Manor, Wilts, Weston letters through Hungerford, arrive at 8.45 a.m is lord of the manor and principal landowner. Letters for Halfway are delivered from Hungerford & arrive WICKHAM chapelry is oue mile and a half south-west from at 8.30 a.m the parish church and is situated on the line of the great The nearest money order & telegraph office for all parts of Roman highway connecting Gloucester and Silchester with the parish is at London; a branch from Wickham leading by High Street WALL BOXEs.-Easton, clearedat 4.15 p.m. ; Halfway, at4.5 Lane to Boxford. The church of St. Swithun, a building of p.m. ; sunday, 10.35 a.m.; u·.. eston, a t 5.20 p.m.; WeI - squared flint, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch for d,a t 4.10 p.m and an embattled western tower containing 1 bell, and, with the exception of the tower, was entirely rebuilt in 1846-9, INSURANCE AGENT :- from designs by Mr. B. Bury, in a kind of fourteenth-century Royal Farmers' & General, T. Drewcatt, 23 Cheap street style, with a profusion of ornamental carving; the tower is SCHOOLS:- the only portion of the ancient church now remaining, and National (mixed), erected in 1854, for 180 children; aver- may possibly belong to the close of the eleventh century; it age attendance, 120; supported by George Bramstone bas a balustered belfry window and quoins which appear Eyre esq. J.P. & the rector; James M. Gilkes, master like Saxon long and short work: the walls are of great Infant (Hoe Benham), for 50 children; average attendance, thickness and the masonry cousists of alternate layers of 20; Miss Louisa Willis, mistress WeIford. Holloway Henry, blacksmith Weston. Eyre George Bramston J.P. Welford pk Laurence John, farmer Birch John, blacksmith Godwin Charlie, Oakhanger house )larks John, beer retailer Clifford Elijah, rake maker Maynard Rev. John [curate], Easton H"D h ' Dance William. miller (water) cottage oe ,gen am. I Fisher FrederiC"k, beer retailer Allee John Wm. farmer, Tulloch farm Bagot Hon. Mrs IFroome William, farmer, Elton farm Brown Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Dreweatt Mrs Osmond Richard, farmer, Weston farm Godwin Charlie, frmr.Oakhanger house Wansbrough William, Halfway ISmallbone Robert, grocer & draper Ross Charles, gardener Allen Albert, farmer, Halfway I Wickham Smith John, farm bailiff to George Burton Fredk. shopkeeper & beer ret IBaston Rev.AlfredStephen M.A.Rectory Bramston Eyre esq. J.P. Welford farm Flowers Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Adey Brothers, brick makers (Daniel Willis Alfred Thomas, farmer, Sole frm Hallett George, Halfway House P.R Waters, manager) Hoddrell Harry, basket maker,Halfway Boyes Henry, farmer, Rectory farm Easton Huzzey Shadrach, farmer Hutt Henry, farmer, Wickham farm Chapman Thoma.s, steward to George Pearce George, shoe maker Nutt James, Five Bells P.R. & farmer Bramston Eyre esq Richens William,farmer & cattle dealer, Stroud George, shopkeeper Goodman William, shoe maker Halfway Thomas Henry, tailor WHITCHURCH is a parish in Bradfield union, partly in this county hut principally in Oxfordshire; full particulars will be found in Kelly's Directory of the latter county. - \;VINDSOR. WINDSOR (or ~EW WINDSOR) anciently called Windlesora, in April, 1886, mto the Castle, Park, and Clewer wards, and the "winding shore," A.S. ora, shore, is a municipal and is well built, paved and lighted. For the supply of the many parliamentary borough, a polling place for the Eastern divi­ wealthv residents and visitors the town has establishments :sion of the county, head of a petty sessional division and of and shops of a higher class than are usually met with in a a county court district and a market and union town, in the place of its size. hundred of Ripplesmere, rural deanery of Maidenhead, The South Western Railway Company has a branch line archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, situated on the from 'Vandsworth through Richmond and Staines which navigable Thames, 22 miles from London, 19 from Reading, crosses the river below Windsor, and has its terminus in the 14 from Hampton Court and 6 south-east from Maidenhead. Datchet road, immediately adjoining the northern boundary The town consists of New Windsor and part of the suburb of of the castle, into the grounds of which a private entrance has Clewer, on the west. Over the Thames, connecting the been made for the convenience of Her Majesty. The Great borough with Eton and Slough, is a bridge 200 feet long and Western railway has a branch from Slough, crossing the 29 feet wide, supported by three arches of cast iron, the river a little above the town by a bow bridge of peculiar con­ middle one being 55 feet span, resting on piers of granite; structIOn and terminating in George street on the west side it is a toll bridge for horses and carriages and was built in of the castle; in March, 1882, a miscreant named Maclean 1:323. Lower down: the river are two bridges, the Victoria fired at Her ~iajesty as she was leaving this station, but bridge to Datchet and the Albert bridge from Old WiH.dsor happily without effect. to Datchet. The town was given by Edward the Confessor The parish church of St. John the Baptist, situated in to 'Westminster Abbey, but seems to have first acquired im­ the High street and rebuilt in 1822 at an expense of portance by the building of the castle, in which William the £14,040 17s. 3d. of which £1,005 was snbscribed by the King Norman is said to have lived. In 1276 it was made a free and Royal Family, is an edifice of freestone in a nondescript borough, and from the year 1302 (though not uninterrup­ style of modern uothi