DIRECTORY.] . BOYNE BILL. 35 l\1azey Edward, shoe maker R:-mt George & Co. grocers & bakers Robinson William, farmer Napper Freclerick, farmer Richardson Susan Jane (Miss), prh-ate Rumsey John. farmer Pepall George. watercress grower day school for children Saunders William Curtoys, farmer Pether Edward, carpenter Robinson Rd. farmer & miller (water) BOURTON is a township and ecclesiastical parish form9d, The Baptist chapel, built by the late Henry Tucker esq. of in 1867 out of the civil parish of Shrivenham, in the North-j Bourton House, was opened October 19th. 185I, by the late ern division of the county, hundred of Sluivenham, p3tty Hon. & Rev. B.1ptist W. Noel M.A. and will seat 250 persons. sessional division, union and county court district of Far- The late Messrs. John Baker and John Tucker built and ingdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, arch- endowed SIX almshouses; they are of stone, m the Pointed deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, thrce qnarters of style. Great quantities of fossils of various kinds have a mile south-by-west from Shrivenham station on the Great formerly been dug up in this village. In the centre of the ·Western railway, 6~ miles north-east from Swindon and village stands an ancient cross. Bourton House, a hand­ 7 south-west-by-south from Faringdon, situate on the Wilts some edifice, commanding extensive views, is the residence border. The Wilts and Berks canal pasS3s through. The of :\1rs. Tucker. Viscount Barrington is lord of the manor church of St. James, built by public subscription on a site and Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. Lawrence are principal land­ given by Thomas Tucker esq. who also contributed £500 owners. The soil is part loam and clay; subsoil, clay. to its erection, is an edifice of stone in the Decorated The chief crops are wheat, beans, oats, clover and turnips. style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and western The area is I,251 acres; rateable value, £4,797; the popu­ bell-gable containing 2 bells: the org-an, presented by the lation in 1881 was 284. present vicar, was opened ~Iay 22nd, 1881 : there are 130 Letters through Shrivenham RS.O. which is also the nearest sittings, all being- free. The register dates from the year money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m "1860. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £98, WALL LETTER Box cleared 7.20 p.m. week days only including 36 aeres of glebe. with residence, in the gift of the School, erected in 1842 atthe expense of the late John Baker, Lord Chancellor, and held since 1867 by the Rev. John Joseph Tucker, Henry Tucker & John Tncker, for 69 Batchelor Kearney ~r.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. children; average attendance, 58; John Phillips, master Batt :\:Irs Dixon Eleazer, blacksmith Phillips John, National schoolmaster Kearney Rev.John Batehelor M.A. [vicar] Dore William, farmer Povey Thomas, shopkeeper Mansfield Rev. Robert William[Baptist] Ellis Thomas, coal agent Richards Joseph, scripture reader Tucker Mrs. Bourton house Keevil Noah, farmer, Upper Bourton Hichens Thomas, farmer, Grove farm 'Vatson }oIl'S Keevil S::tmuel Carter, farmer Trueman "'illiam, wheelwright Lawrence Isaac, farm bailiff ·Wilson Abraham, head gardener to COMMERCIAL. Lea Charles, farm bailiff Mrs. Tucker Allaway John, farmer Locker Sarah (:\1rs.), shopkeeper Wilson Abraham (Mrs.), boot & shoe dlr Beasant J ames (Mrs.), dress maker I}IortimerJsph.thrashing machine ownr :BOXFORD-cum-WESTBROOK is a parish and the Berkshire Quaker who flpent a considerable time in village on the road to , 4 miles north-west from prison for refusing to pay tithes, resided here, and the cot­ Newbury, in the Southern division of the county, hundred tage in which he lived is still standing. On the road at the of Faircross, petty sessional division, union and county north end of the parish, conjectured to have been the Roman court district of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks, rural road from Spin