DIRECTORY. j BERKSHIRE. SANDHURST. 203 was for near~y twenty years the residence of His Royal Letters arrive from Hen1ey-on-Thames at 7 a.m. & r2.30 Highness Frederick Prince of Wales, father of George p.m.; dispatched 12.30 & 7 p.m. ; sundays, arrive 7 Ill.; the mansion, rebuilt by the ~ate J. Noble e·sq. in a.m.; dispatched, noon. Henley-on-Thames, 2 miles the French Italian style, is situated on the brow of a diSitant, is the nearest telegraph office ra'nge of hills, 300 feet above the level of 'the river Wall Letter :Box, Remenham Church, cleared at 6.20 Thames and in the centre of a well-wooded park of about a.m. & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, 6.20 a.m. :Bridge Wall 900 acres, which is entered by s-even lodges: Park P~ace Box, Remenham, cleared week days at 9.25 & II.Io a.m. is especially a.ttraotive on account of its picturesque 2.40, 3·35· 7.40 & 9· 15 p.m.; sundays at 6.50 p.m. scenery, which is saarcely to be equal1ed for t,he beauti- Aston Wall Box, cleared at 7 a.m. & 7 p.m. week days; ful and varied prospects which lit affords; to the east of sundays, at 7 p.m the mansion is a mag'nificent cedar planJted by his MajeS'I:y School (mixed), built in 1858, for 70 children; average George Ill. attendance, 68; William Baker, master Parish Clerk, Henry Woods. Infants' School, 'l'zywer loQdge, on Park Place estate, for 30 Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, chrildren; average al:ltendance, 22; Mis·s Fanny Tom.- Remenham Hill.-Frederick Sargeant, sub-postmaster. lin, mistress REMENH.A.M. attached ; good accommodation for E:deT Tlhoma,s Edward, Yew Gate PRIVATE BESIDENTS. boating & fishing parties, close to Hope Ma.jor-Gen.Jn.Edwd.R.A.Batlh lo Bradford Misses, .A.ston rise Hambledon lock & .A.ston ferry Hunter Curling, Ivy gate Broome Mrs. Remenham lodge Holloway Collin P. farm bailiff to the Noble Mrs. Park Place Caldicott Thos.Parker, Wilminster cott Hon. W. F. D. Smith M.P Paorker .A.rthur John Dohu Rev.Jn.RougierM . .A..The Rectry Leander Club (R. G. Gridl6y, hon.sec) Simmons William Anker, Wedmore lo Edwards-Moss Sir Jn. bart. Thamesfld Pigden Sarah .Ann (Miss), Carpenters' Wood Charles William Goldsworthy, Eveleigh Chas. John Davy, Wilmin· .Arms P.H Sunnyside ster pa.rk; & ro Park square west, Rogers John, engineer Regent's park, London NW Vidler William (exors. of), millers, COMMERCIAL. Frewin Miss, Thamesmead Marsh water mill Cawdle Thomas Harry, Five Horse Gordon Capt. Wm.Cleathe>r,.Aiston hall Warn.& John, locffismith 'Shoes hotel; good accommodation Hunt Henry .Arthur, Bird place Williams Joseph Hy. Two Brewers P.H for families, boating parties & Leaf Ed ward .A.rthur, The Nook R"""'"""""TH A..... HILL cyclists Rawlins James .Armstrong, Woodlands _.,_,.w:..L'- m_ • Dudley Isaac, baker &larle Miss, Hridge cottage AmElts Mrs. Underw:ood Everard Rev. Robt. Bagot Chester Wallis George, The Cottage, .A.ston .Ansell Re~ginald M.A. Re~nham Place school (boys) COMMERCIAL. Bell Herbert Booth, Remenham house Harrison .A.ndrew, builder & assistant Butler Edgar, .Angel P.H Davies Sidney, The Elms overseer Good'C'hild John As ton, Flower Pot Ever.a.rd Rev. Robt. :Bagot Chester Sargeant Fredk. builder & Post office hotel & bungalow of six rooms M.A. Remenham Place Stanton Geoil'ge, bailiff to Mrs. No·ble RUSCOMBE is a village a.nd parish, one mile from the: Bishop of Oxford, and held slince 1864 by the Rev. JO'hn Great Western railway station at Twyford, 6 miles east Henly M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Ruscombe South­ from Reading, 5 south from Henley a'nd 6~ west from bury is a pN'bend in Salis.bury Clathedral. A portion of Ma.id~nhead, in the Eastern diviSiion 0of the county, un~on the mansion and grounds of Stanlake Park, the property and petty sessional division of W

The church of St. James, repail'ed and restored in 1859 1 Haines Hill, Broad Hinton, is the chief landowner. The and 186o and again thoroughly restored in 1879 and' soil is mostly gravel; subsoil, gravel and clay. The t88o, at a ccivil parish formed by St. Nicholas, outside the municipal area of .A.bingdon. the County of Berks (Abingdon) Confirmation Order, 1894, The names of the residents are given with that tWokingham, n~ from Reading and 40 called respectively .A.mbarrow and Edgebarrow. Am­ from London, in the Eastern division of the county, hun- barrow, a large and well-built house, is the residence of dred o.f Sonning, pet'ty sesslional divisrion of Wokingham, Lieut.-Col. George Sheppard Harvey R.A., J.P. Long­ union of Easthampstead, county court district of Read- down Lodge is the seat of Thomas Mills esq. Sandhurst ing, ruml deanery of Sonning, archdeaoonry of Berks and Lodge, now in the occupation of Sir William James Farrer diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Michael is a 1 M.A., J.P., F.R.G.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. is the property of building of stone in the Early English style, restored Arthur Fraser Waiter esq. J.P. of Bear Wood, who is lord in 1864 at an expense of £1,3oo, and consists of of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is sandy; chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, north porch and subsoil, sand and gravel. The chief crops are barley and a western tower with spire containing 6 bells and a oats. The area of the old parish was 4,5o6 acres of land clock: the finely-carved font was executed by one of the and 30 of water; and the population in rBgr was 4•J48, daughters of the Rev. Henry Parsons, late rector: there including the Royal Military College. Sandhurst (apart is a brass to Richard Geale, ob. 16o8, his wife Eliza- from Crowthorn, which has since 1894 been made a civil be!th, four sons and five daughters, with effigies of all: parish), had in 1891 a population of 1,894, and the rate­ there are 250 sitt:ings. The register dates from the able value £7,759· year 1603. The living was declared a rectory Dec. 18, Parish Clerk, Herbert "·atts. r866; net income {,131, including residence and 34 acres Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Offic.-John Harper, since r88o by the Rev. the Hon. Randal Parsons M.A. ol sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Camberley at 7.20 Trinity College, Dublin. The Mission church of St. Mary, & II a. m.; dispatched at 9.25 a.m.• 1.45, 6.5 & 8.15 at Little Sandhurst, built in 1889 by the rector, at a cost p.m.; sunday delivery, 7.15 a.m.; dispatch, 4.25 p.m of £8oo, is an edif!.ce of red brick consisting of chancel, Pillar Box, CrO'Wthorne road, cleared at 9.30 a.m. 1.55 & nave, south porch and bell cote containing one bell; there 6.10 p.m.; sundays, 4·35 p.m are lSO sittings. The churchyard and commuted tithe Wall Boxes.-Near the Weil.lington Arms, cleared at ro t