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OAXINGTON, properly Hockington1 the place being really 1315. In a garden near the church are the graves of named after the Hoeings, one of the royal tribes of three Puritan ministers, Joseph Oddy 1687, Francis Hol­ Frisia mentioned in Beowulf and "The Travellers' Song," crufL 1692, and Henry Osland I7II- There are Baptist is a parish and village with a station on the St. Ives and ami Primitive Mebhodist chapels. The manor of Hock­ Cambridge line of the Great Eastern railway, 64~ miles ington was given in 946 by its owner, Turketyl or Thur­ from London and 5 north-west from Cambridge, in the aytel, chancellor of King Edred, to Crowland Abbey; it Western division of the county, hundred of Northstow, was devastated by the Danes in 1009, but the buildings union of Chesterton, petty sessional division and county were restored by Abbot Brittimer in rox8-48: the manor eourt district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Chesterton and rectory remained in the possession of Crowland Abbey and archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. The church of St. till the surrender of the monastery December 8, 1539; in Andrew is a large edifice of stone in the Early English 1557 it was purchased by Queens' College, Cambridge. style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and The chief landowners are Queens' College, Cambridge, an embattled western tower containing 4 bells, of which who are lords of the manor, the trustees of the late H. J. the treble and third were cast in 1655 and the tenor in Adeane esq. (d. 1870) and John Linton esq. of Cambridge. r656, all three by Miles Graye, of Colchester; the second The soil is stiff loam, and the subsoil, clay. Wheat, is dated 1748 ~ the south porch was destroyed in 1842: barley, beans, peas, potatoes and turnips are the chief the church retains an aneient stone font consisting of a crops. The acreage of the entire civil parish is r,692; rudely arcaded basin, supported on five shafts, and there rateable value, £2,650; the population in 1891 was 425. are three massive stone comn lids, supposed to date from Westwick is a hamlet of this parish. half a mile north· about 1350; these were found under the fioor, and one east, in the hundred and union of Chesterton and Oak­ -bears a fioriated cross :both aisles originally had chantries ington eecle1.iastical parish. The area is 240 acres ; rate­ at the east end, and .the north aisle still retains two able value, £473; the population in I8gi was 55· niches: the tower, very well built of rubble masonry, with Parish Clerk, George Doggett. Barnack stone quoins, belongs to the Early Decorated Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Ann Willson, postmistress. Let- period: the church was restored in 1885, at a cost of ters received through Cambridge, arrive at 7.20 a.m.; £r,ooo, under the direction of W. M. Fawcett esq. M.A. dispatched at 6.35 p.m. The nearest money order &; of Jesus College, Cambridge, architect, and affords 250 telegraph otlice is at Cottenham. Postal orders are sittings. The register dates from the year 1561, The issued here, but not paid living is a vicarage, net yearly value. £rso, with residence National School (mixed), erected in x8JI, for 172 chil- and including 91 acres of glebe, in the gift of Queens' dren; average attendance, 76; Miss Edith Chandler, College, Cambridge, and held .since 1893 by the Rev. John mistress ·, Jervis M.A. of that college. The list of vicars dates from Railway Station, George Orman, station master Jervis Rev. J{}hn M.A. Vicarage Doggett William, ·Shoe maker Pink Horaoe, beer retailer Morris Miss Fea.kes- Thomas, farmer & poulterer · Pridgeon Charles, butcher, & White Morris William, Westwick Giovetti Augustus, market poardener Horse P.H Reynolds Miss Ha.rradine Joshua, market gardener Sa vidge Frank, butcher & beer retailr COMMERCIAL. 'Hepher Samuel, bricklayer Scruby Alex. Joseph, Plough &; Har- Burton Stephen, farmer Mitchell William, wheelwright row P.H · Charles KnJightly, Lion & J..a.mb P.H Morri.s Robert:. Tibbit, faxmer Smith Alfred, boor retailer Cock Isaac, farmer, Weostwick hall Morris Waiter, farmer Smith John, Harvest Home P.H Oooke 'rhoma.s, farmer, Manor farm Neal Herbert, butOher & beer retailer T'homps·on George, jobbing gard€ner Doggett .A:bert, farmer . Papworth Charles, miller (steam & Wii:son Harry, builder Doggett George, parish clerk wind) & farmer Wills-on John, market gardener Doggett Herbert, farmer & coal mer Papworth Ernest Read, baker Willson Mary Ann (Mrs.), grOMelbourn, un:ion of Caxton and Arrington, county court 1891 was 68g. · -district of Cambridge, rural deanery of Barton and arch- WILL:VIOTTS DOWN lies north-east, and Hoback half deaconry and diocese of Ely. The church of St. Andrew a mile south-west. is a· building of stone and fiint, consisting of chancel, Parish Clerk, Augustus Day. nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower -conbaining a clock and 5 bells ~ the chancel is Perpendieu- Post Office. Thomas Russell, sub-postmaster. Letters lar and the nave Early English: in the chancel is an arrive from Royston at B a. m. & at I p.m. ; dispatched ·effigy of Dr. Jeremiah Radcliffe, one of the forty-seven .at 6 p.m. ; on sundays at 8.30 a.m. Postal Ol'ders are translators of the Bible in t6o8-Ir, buried here 4 March, issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order&. 1625: the church was repaired in 1883, at a cost of £949• telegraph office is at Arrington · 1mder the direction of Mr. William White, architect, of Schools:- London, when the roof was renewed in· oak, part of the A School Board of 5 members was formed June 25, 1883, old timber being re-incorporated; at the intersections of Rev. R. W. Whiston M.A. clerk to the board; W. G. the ribs is an interesting series of shields, bearing the Barton, Bourn, attendance officer arms of many of the principal eounty families painted in d £ distemper, but the blazonry being almost obliterated was Boar ' built in 1883• at a cost of 64°• for 100 children; restored from a record preserved in a manuscript at Wim- average attendance, 70; Mrs. R. Benstead, mistress pole Hall: there are 2 50 sittings. The register dates Endowed, rebuilt in 1853 on the old site, & endowed by from the year 1558. The living ·is a rectory, gross yearly Dr. John Coldbatch, a former vicar, in the year 1745• value £ 300, net £ 250, with residence and including 33 8~ & his sistel" Elizabeth Coldbatch; the income is £4o acres of glebe, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge, yearly, arising from the rent of two farms in Bedford· and held since r896 by th~ Rev. Robert Willmott Whiston shire, of 130 acres ; the school will hold go children; M.A. of that college. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Messrs. ~verage attendance, 6o; Wm. Chamberlain Lane, master Philip and Arthur Meyer have an extensive brewery and Carriers to Cambridge.-George Everett, Aaron Scott, maltings here. The Rev. Richard Bendyshe M.A. ~f Bar- Jonas Wilmott, mon. wed. & sat Bonnett; Mrs Huddles tone Geo. & SOIJls, wheel wrghts 'Millor Ellis & Edmn, farmers Meyer Arthur Hugh Huddlestone John, grocer, draper &o NewE-11 Oliver, blacksmith & beer ;retlt Meyer Philip Jnde :Mary .Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Northfield William, b€er retailer Summerlin Miss l\Iarshall Charles. shoe maker Oliver Sydney .Arthur, butcher Whiston ReV'. Robe.rt Willmott M. A. Merry Arthur & Edward, blacksmiths Page Alfred, farmer Rectory Merry John, carpenter IPalmer William Adelph, farmer COMMERCIAL. Merry JosephEdmund,WhiteHartP.H. ,Pea.roe Oha.rles, butcher Beisley Edward, farm bailiff w ReV', & carpenter Pedley Susan(Mrs. ),Fox& HoundsP.Il Richa.rd Bendyshe Mever Philip & .A.rthur, brewers, ma.lt- Rayner Robert, cShopkeeper 1 Breed Goor&re, beer retailer ·stars & spiritl merchants jRoads Harper, farmer, Malton farm Day Augustua, farmer Miller William Sheldrick, harness Russell Elizabeth (Mrs.), g-rocer &; Everett George, beer retailer &; carrier maker,assi,st.overseer & rate collctr, draper, Post office