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56 . BERKSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

barley and beans. The area is 4,426 acres of land and in a modified style of Early English ; the Asylum stands. 12 of water; rateable value, £r8,oo1; the population ill on an estate of 8o acres, extending from the Walling­ 1891 was 2,014, which included 58I in the Lunatic Asy­ ford road to the banks of the , forming lum, of whom 520 were patients. nearly a square; it was designed to hold 285 patients,, at a cost of £68,6oo, but has been enlarged for an. WINTERBROOK, 2 miles north-east, is a part of this parish. additional 324 patients at a cost of about £ss,ooo and Parish Clerk and Sexton, Job George Finch. is now in process of further enlargement; the numbel"' of patients is now (1899) 650, of whom 290 are males­ Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel & 360 females Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-(Railway Medical Superintendent, Jas. Wm. A. Murdoch M.B.,C.M. Sub-office. Letters should have R.S.O. Berks added). Assistant Medical Officers, Edwin Lindsey Dunn B.A., -Timothy Sawyer, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive M.B., B.Cb. & Thomas Leonard Johnston L.R.C.P. &. direct from London, 7 a.m. & 4.15 p.m.; despatched at S.Ed., L.F.P. & S.Glas 10.30 a.m., 4·15 & 7·I5 p.m Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Thomas Stewart Dyer B.A Wall Letter Boxes Clerk to the Committee of Visitors, Jn. Thornhill Morland Cholsey & Railway station, cleared at 4• 5.40 Steward &! Clerk of the Asylum, Moses Nich0lls & 9.40 p.m.; sundays, 9·45 p.m Housekeeper, Miss :Browne Winterbrook, cleared at 8.15 & n.s a.m. & 2.15, 5·55 & A school board of 5 members was formed 23 Dec. r875;; 7 p.m George .Frederick Slade, Wallingford, clerk to ths County Lunatic Asylum. board; .A.ugustus Green woad, attendance officer The County Lunatic Asylum is in this parish, although Board School (mixed), established in I875, for 210 chil­ called the Moulsford Asylum, it was opened in Sept. dren; average attendance, 70 boys, 6o girls &:. 70 in­ 1870, and occupies a position on the Wallingford fants; 1Yilliam Harvey, master; Miss Annie Worrall, road, three-quarters of a mile from Moulsford station mistress & 2 miles from the town of Wallingford; it is built of Cholsey & Moulsford Railway Station, Waiter Martin,. red brick relieved with stone & coloured brick dressings, station master CHOLSEY. Brooks William, beer retailer Silvester Hy. farmer, Kentwood frllll Carter John, bricklayer & farmer Smith Fletcher, farmer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Caudwell Gordon, farmer Smith J ames, boot maker .Arnould Mrs County Lunatic Asylum (James Stevenson Hy. farmer, Heathercroft Broad Miss William Aitken Murdoch M.B., C.M. Turnock Harry, beer retailer Cooper Rev. Thomas M.A. (vicar), (medical superintendent) W allin William, farmer, The Beeches Vicarage Cozens Stephen, jun. farmer, Manor Watts George, shopkeeper Dunn Edwin Lindsay Il.A., M.Il., farm Wyatt Geo. blacksmith & beer retail!!' B.Ch. County Lunatic Asylum Cozens Stephen Wellesley, farmer, Hawkins Henry J.P. Cranford house :Blackball farm & Offiands farm WINTERBROOK. Hensley Rev. Alfred M.A. Bucklands Eltham Alfred, Star inn P .H PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hooper J ames, The Cott~ge Finch Job, builder Bradford William, 6 Elmscroft J ohnston Thomas Leonard, Oounlty Freeman Mary .Ann (Mrs.), beer retlr Buckell Anthony, The Lawn Asylum Greenwood Augustus, school attend- Bunting Mrs Kent Horace, Cholsey mill ance officer Crook Chas. I Elmscroft, Winterbroog. Miller Fred, Chestnuts H-awkins Peter, dairyman Dodd Francis Miller Mrs. The Willows Hearmon Edward, Swan P.H Dunell Cyril, White Cross Moore Alfred IHenderson Helen (Miss), day school Faulkner Ml"s. lrinterbrook house~ Moore Miss (mixed) Gale Mrs. Elms Mur:loch James Wm. Aitken M.B., Hawse John, jun. Chequer's inn P.H Gilkes Miss, 3 Elmscroft C.M. County Lunatic Asylum How se John, farmer, East End farm Hill Mrs. 1'he Lodge Nicholls Moses, County LunaticAsylm Hunt Charles Hewett, farmer Paynton Oharles, 4 Elmscroft Taylor Mrs. River view Larkcom George, baker Shrubb Walter F ,Trollope Mrs. Highcrorft Lewis Chas. & Reuben, basket makrs Smith Miss Millard Henry, land surveyor & col- W eedon Francis Hedges, Quick Elm COMMERCIAL. lector of Queen's taxes Westley Mrs. 5 Elmscroft .A.bbott George, farmer, Hazel's farm Nicholls Moses, clerk &