DIRECTORY.] BERKSHIRE. SHIPPON. 151 light and chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, I p.m. Great Shefford is the nearest money order oflice & barley, oats and turnips. The area is I,069 acres; rateable I Hungerford nearest telegraph office value, £1,459; the populatIOn in I88I was !I5· The children of this place attend the school at Great Parish Clerk, Daniel New. or West Shefford. Letters via Great Shefford, delivered by foot messenger from Lambourne RS.O. at 9.30 a.m.; dispatchd at 5.30 CARRIERS between Newbury & Vtmbourne pass through Mooyaart Rev. Richd.Jas. M.A. Rectory I Hertcup esq. of Bungay, Suffolk, East I Durrant John, farm bailiff to William I Shefford farm I SHELLINGFORD is a village and parish 3 miles daws: in the churchyard are memorials to Dorothy Clayton, south-east from Faringdon, 2~ north-east from Uffington ob. 3rd October, 1658; Alice, wife of Richard Clayton, ob. junction on the Great Western railway, 7 east from High- 5th September, 1643 ; and a marble cross to Susan Du Pre, worth and 12 from Swindon, in the Northern division of the d. April 23rd, 1874: there are roD sittings, all being free. county, hundred of Ganfield, petty sessional division, union The register dates from the year 1558. The livmg is a rec­ and county court district of Faringdon, rura.l deanery of tory, gross yearly value derived from glebe £540, with resi­ the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and dioc3se dence, in the gift of Thomas Leinster Goodlake esq. J.P. and of Oxford. The church of St. Faith is an ancient structure held since 1848 by the Rev. Henry Ramus Du Pre B.A. of of Norman date, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch Exeter College, Oxford. There is a small Congregational and an embattled western tower with spire and containing chapel in the village. Kitemore, a handsome mansion in the 5 bells: the reredos is of oak, handsomely carved: in the French Gothic style, situated between Faringdon and Shel­ south wall of the chancel is a piscina and a tablet inscribed lingford, commands a fine view of White Horse hill and to John Packer, ob. 1682 : on the north side is a fine monu- scenery in the vicinity, and is the property of Thomas ment to Robert Packer, d. 4th April, 1731, and Maria, his Leinster Goodlake esq. J.P. lord of the manor and sole land­ wife: in the nave is a brass to Mary Knapp, ob. 23rd Sept. owner. The soil is sandy loam, stone brash and clay; sub­ 1621, and a splendid monument of marble with bust, to Sir soil, clay, sand and gravel. The crops are the usual cereals. Edward Hannes kt. physician to Queen Anne; another, The area is 1,761 acres; rateable value, £2,394; the popu­ with arms, is inscribed to William Flower, 2nd Viscount lation in 1881 was 258. Ashbrook, who died at· the Manor house 30th August, 1780; Parish Clerk, William Collier. and to William, 3rd Viscount, who died 6th January, 1802: Letters through Faringdon, which is the nearest money order Haines records brasses here to William de Blebury aud Isabel & telegt'aph office, arrive at 7 a.m his wife; and to Johan de Bleobury, priest, ob. 27th March, WALL Box cleared week days, 7. IS p.m.; sunday, 12. IS p.m 1372; in the window above was formerly his effigy kneeling. Xational School (mixed), erected in 1874, for 100 children; in a red vestment and purple hood: there are five stained win- average attendance, 50; Miss :Mary Fricker, mistress Du Pre Rev. Henry Ramus B.A.Rectory Hillier Caleb, farm bailiff to John Selfe Samuel Rolls, farmer, Wickwood Parry Llewelyn, Kitemore Carter esq. Sands farm I Sharpe Benjamin, farmer, Home fann CalvertThos. farmer,Little~ewbury frm Pinniger Wm.farm bailiff to C.& J.Rich Shewry Charles, carpenter Davis Ann (Mrs.),beer retlr. & shopkpr Rider William, blacksmith I SHINFIELD is a village and parish 4 miles south from pal landowners. The soil is gravel and clay; subsoil,. Reading, in the Southern division of the county, partly in gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The the hundred of Theale and partly in the hundred of Charl- entire area is 4,538 acres of land and 29 of water; rateable ton, union of Wokingham, petty sessional division and value, £9,371 ; the population, inclusive of Hartley Dummer county court district of Re&..ding, rural deanery of Reading, liberty, in I88I was 1,277. archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The river Clerk and Sexton, William Attawell. Loddon flows on the south-east. The church of St. Mary is POST OFFICE.-William Attawell, receiver. Letters arrive an ancient edifice of flint and brick, in the Early English from Reading at 7.50 a.m.; dispatched at 6. IS p.m. style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, north porch Swallowfield is the nearest money order & telegraph office and low embattled western tower containing 6 bells: in the POST OFFICE, Three Mile Cross.-Geor.2'e Bailey, receiver. church are several monllments: the seats are of oak and the ~ Letters arrive from Reading at 5.15 & II.30 a.m. & 2035 pulpit of carved oak: the east window is stained: the p.m. ; dispatched at 2.20 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays, arrive at church was completely restored in 1857, at a cost of £ 1,600: 5. 15 a.m.; dispatched at 7 p.m. Swallowfield is the there are 400 sittings, all of which are free. The register nearest money order & telegraph office dates from the year 1649. The living is a vicarage, gross WALL Box, Spencerswood.-Letters collected at 2 & 7025 yearly value from tithe rent-charge £202 and 26 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of p.m. ; sunday, 6.55 p.m Hereford, and held since 1867 by the Re". Henry Nassau Free School, built in 1707 & enlarged in 1860 by publicsub- Rynd M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The 1Vesleyan 1\1e- scription, for 100 children; average attendance, 90; it is thodists have a chapel at Three Mile Cross. The charities endowed with £100 yearly, left by Mr. William Piggott, are about £8 yearly for clothing. A branch of the Hyde a citizen of London, for 20 boys, who have new suits of family resided here in the seventeenth centnry, of which was I clothing on the 30th ::\Iay annually: there is a house for the Edward Hyde, yeoman of the wine cellar to James I. and I master, who receives £60 a year; Thomas Scarratt, Charles I. ; he died in 1663. Alexander Cobham Cobham master esg. J.P. of Shinfield Grange, who is lord of the manor, and I CARRIERS TO READT~G.-Beard, daily; Summer, tues. Richard Benyon esq. D.L., J.P. of Englefield, are the princi- thurs. fri. & sat.; Hunt, sat Shinfield. Butler Charles, Red Lion P.H Wren Henry Elandy, farmer Cobham Alexander Cobham J.P. Shin- Chapman Thos. E. farmer, Warrengate Th MOl C field grange Chase William, Black Boy P.R. ree 1 e ross. Cobham Capt. Alex. Wm. J.P. Manor ho Dopson 1ViIliam,beer retlr. Spencers wd : Adams George GodsonEdmundProbyn,HydeEnd lodge Goddard Charles, John & Henry, far- Gale Mrs. Elm Tree cottage Hulme Rev. George ~f.A. Shiof1eld grove mers, Church end Shrimpton William, LimE} Tree cottage Hunter Mrs. Trunkwell house Goddard George, farmer, Church lane Bailey George, saddler Marsh Mrs. Hyde End house Harrington Joseph, beer retailer Bromley Fanny & Margaret (Misses), McPherson John, Sussex lodge Hawkins William, farmer, Spencers wd bakers Mayne John Dawson, Goodrest HiI'd Alexander, shoe maker ChapmanDeborahJane(Mrs.),Swan P.li. Rynd Rev. Henry Nassau lILA. [vicar] Lucas GeOl·geD. farmer,Lane End farm Elliott George, beer retailer Thompson Mrs. Shinfield lodge Luft' William, beer retailer Grovel' William, carpenter COMlIfERCIALo North Richard, George & Dragon P.R Jones George, blacksmita Bailey Isaac, blacksmith PortsmonthChas. farmer,Spencers wood Jones George, saddler Barkshire James, fruit grower Stevens Henry, farmer, Cutbush MitfordTemperance HotelCMrs. Priscilla Beard Henry, farmcr, School green Stevens "\'Villiam, farmer, Parrott farm 1"hite, manageress) Beesley Thomas, grocer Stiff John, beer retailer Rapley James (Mrs.), grocer Body Richard, farmer, Hyde end White Arthur, blacksmith,Spencers wd Tame Henry, wheelwright SHIPPON is a township and ecclesiastical parish formed of Abingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford May 19th, 1865, out of the parish of St. Helen, Abingdon, I The chureh of St. ::\IIary Magdalene is a building of stone in mile north-west from Abingdon, in the Northern division of the Decorated style, from designs by the late Sir G. Gilbert the county, hundred of Hormer, petty sessional division, Scott R.A. : it was consecrated December, 1855, and consists union and county court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of chancel, nave, north porcb and a western turret with •