156 SOUTH ~EWINGTON. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELLl's

SOUTH NEWINGTON is a viLage and parish on churchyard is the fragment of a cross of Early English the river Swere, and on the road from Banbury to Chip­ character. The register dates from the year 1538. The ping Norton, 2 miles south-west from Bloxham station on living is a vicarage, net yearly value £154, with resi­ the Banbury and Cheltenham branch of the Great West­ dence, in the gift of Exeter College, Oxford, and held ern railway, 6 south-west from Banbury, about 20 north­ since 1893 by the Rev. ChristDpher John Whitehead by-west from Oxford, and 7 north-east from Chipping M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a sm3ll Norton, in the Northern division of the county, hundred Primitive Methodist chapel here, also a Friends' Meet­ c-f Wootton, Wootto'n North petty sessional division, union ing house. Albert Brassey esq. J.P. of Heythrop Park, and county court district of Banbury, rural deanery of is lord of t be manor. The principal landowner~ are­ Deddington, archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The Exeter, Magdalen and New Colleges, Oxford. Tlie ~nil church of St. Peter is a handsome building of stone in is red loam and clay; subsoil, red ruck and clay. The the Norman, Early English and Later styles, consisting chief crops are wheah, barley and roots. The area is of chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch of Per­ 1,436 acres; rateable value, £2,009; the population in pendicular date, ornamented with carved figures and sur­ rgor was 250. mounted by battlements and crocketed pinnacles, and Parish Clerk, George Manning. a:1 embattled western tower, containing 5 bells: the Post & M. 0. 0., P. P., S. B. & A. & I. Office.-Mrs. chancel is Decorated and retains its piscina : the nave Elizabeth Pickering, sub-postmistress. Letters through arcades are Transition Norman and Early English: the Ban bury arrive at 7·55 a.m.; dispatched at 4·35 pm.; east end of each aisle forms a chapel, that on the no delivery on sunday. Telegraph office is at Blox­ south side is much enriched, and there are piscime: bam, 2~ miles distant there is a cylindrical Norman font with zig-zag mould­ ings: the chancel and nave roofs were removed in 1825 Elementary School (mixed), built in 1837 & holding and the lead sold to purchase slates : the aisle roofs about xoo children; average attendance, 34; Miss are of the 15th century: the two aisles were re-roofed La ura A. J ames, mistress in 1892-93, at a cost of [700, when several wall paint­ Carriers to &; from Banbury.-Stevens, to 'Plough,' man. ings were uncovered: there are 386 sittings: in the thurs. & sat Coob George : Colegrave Ralph, farmer Page Charles Timms, miller (water) Batten Mrs l Goodwin James, farmer Page George, dairyman

Whitehead Rev. Chris.Jn.M.A.(vicar) 1 Ilowes William, blacksmith • Page Jonas, farmer COMMERCIAL. · ~obbs George, Wykham Arms P.H. Stevens Fanny (Miss), grocer Adkins William, carpenter , & carpenter Stevens Reginald, carrier Blencowe Thomas, mason & shopkpr ~furrey Caleb, mason \Voolgrove George, dairy farmer Brown Edward, plumber & glazier Page. Thomas & Ernest, farmen \Voolgrove \Villiam, farmer

NEWNHAM MURREN is o. village and parish, bean- The living is a rectory united to the vicarages of North tifully situated on the banks of the Thames, 1 mil~ Stoke and Ipsden, 'North Stoke being the mother south-east from Wallingford te,:rwinal station on a branch church; joint net yearly value £470, in the gift of St. of the Great Western railway from Cholsey, and 14 miles John's College, Cambridge, and held since 1872 by the south-east from Oxford, in the Southern divilsion of tJhe Rev. Charles Stanwell M.A. formerly fellow of that count-y, hundred of Langtree, petty -se-ssional division of college, who ,resides at Ipsden vicarage. Here was Henley, union and county court dis,trict of Wallingford, formerly a leper hospital. Emery's charity of £8 ss. rural deanery of Henley and archdeaconry and diocese of yearly is for clothing. The church land produces 1os. s Oxford;. The ohurch of St. Mary is a small and plain year. Grim's Ditoh, a BriUl'lh work, extends along the structure of flint with stone dressings, originally of southern boundary of the parish to Nuffi.eld. William, Norman date, but altered by reconstruction in the Early He My Herbert esq. of .New"Dham House, is lord of the English period, and consisting of chancel, nave, south manor and princ'pal landowner. The soil varies; sub­ aisle, north porch and a western gable bell-cot contain- soil, gravel and chalk. The crops are wheat and barley. ing 2 bells: the chancel retains its original north and The area. is 1,841 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable south windows and has also a NormJ.n chancel arch, a value, £1,529; the population in 1901 was 197. trefoil-headed piscina and a double locker, and on the Sexton, James Egg-leton Wi~e. south side is a small circular Norman hagipscope: the Letters through Wallingford arrive at about 7 a.m. k nave is also of the same date, with an original doorway aTe dispatched f.rom Crowma,rsh Gifford at 11. io a. m. on the north side, but the south aisle is Decorated: & 7-45 p.m. Crowmarsh Gifford is the nearest money there is a Norman font, an Early English piscina and a order office & Wallingford, I mile dist'clnt, the nearest pulpit of Jacobean character: in the church is a brass, telegraph office · dated 1593: the church was completely restored in The children of this parish ahtend the school at Craw- l 849, and has 99 sittings. The register of baptisms marsh Gifford & at Nuffield, fo,r the higher portion of and burials dates from the year 1678 ; marriages, 1696. the parish Corbould-Ellis Cuthbert Frederick, Blissett Louisa (Mrs.), laundress Morris John Densham, farmer, Eng­ Newnham croft Brazil Thomas, farmer, Manor farm lish farm (postal address, Nettlebed, Goswell Wm. Ernest, Chiltern villa (postal address, Nettlebed, Henley- Henley-on-Thames) Herbert Wm. Henry, Newnham house on-Thames) Phillips George, builders' material Hadwin James, tailor merchant COMMERCIAL. Hammonds Edward A. grocer Pither W illiam, farmer King J. farmer (postal address, Rowden Jn.Douglas, farmer,Home fm Benns Charles, gardener to W. H. Nettle bed, Henley-on-Thames) Waiters James Nathaniel, Queen's Herbert esq I Head P.H

NEWTON PURCELL is a pari~h and village on the r 874, and the Lady Louisa (Scott) his wife, d. 29 Oct. road from Bicester to Buckingham on the borders of 1 873, and the latter to Thomas and Mary Armstrong: Bucks, with a !'tation called "Finmere." 54 miles from in the north wall is a monument surmounted by ~ London, on the Great CPntral railway, and about 5 miles bust to Gilbert Harrison, of Shelswell Park, d. 1790: north from Bicester station on the Bletchley and Oxford the church was thoroughly restored and repewed in branch of the London anu North Western railway, 4l 1875 at a cost of £87o, and affords 55 sittings. The south-west from Buckingham station on the Verney register dates from the year 168r. The living is a Junction and Banbury branch of the same line, 6 north­ rectory with Shelswell a.nnexoo', joint net yearly value Past from Bicester and 6o by road from London, in the £215, wilth residence and 28 acres of glebe, in the gift Mid division of the county, hundred and petty sessional of Edward Slater-Harrison esq. and held since 1897 by division of Ploughlry, union and county court district of t·he Rev. Ar-thur St. Qu.intJin .Aa-mstrong M.A. of Caiu~ Bicrster, rural deanery of Bicester and archdeaconry College, Cambridge. In r884 the Rev. John !Moode B.A­ and diocese of Oxford. "The church of St. Michael is an redo.r r&43-83, gave by deed in trust to vhe rector and" ancient building of stone, originally in the N arm an churchwardens the sum of £250 in ConiSolidated. 3 per period, and retains some features of that date and of Cents. £r of the yerurly interest to be given tD the se:s:­ the succeeding Ea.rly English, and consists of chancel, ton, and the ii"esidue to the deserving poor of Shelswell nave, south porch and a western turret containing a and Newton Purcell. Edward Sla.ter-Harrison esq. of clock and 2 bells : the north duurway is a fine example Shalswell Park, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. of Transition-Norman and has dog-tooth mouldings: The soil is stone brash; subsoil, clay. The chief cropg the lliscina is Early English: the east and west win­ are wheat, beans <,Jnd oats. The area i's 6o2 8(l!"E'tl; dows a.rp stained, the former erected in 1875, being a a5sesmble value, £649; the population in 1901 was I03· memorial to J. H. Slater-Hurison esq. d. 23 July, Parish Clerk, William Gaff.