I>mECTORY.) . BURGBFIELD. 4.9 and six girls. Lady "Winchcombe left £6o, the interest sisting of chancel, nave, south purch and an eastern bell for the poor. There is an iron foundry in the village. turret containing one bell; it contains some monuments : Common, possessed of singular beauty, ex- to the Bunbury fam.ily, and on the south wa,U is a sun tends for upwards of 5 miles through the heart of the dial with the mooto, "Life as the shade doth fly and J6arish. At the lower, or East end, there is a fine avenue fade"; the chapel wa.s thoroughly res.tored in r855 by one mile in length, flanked by double rows of oaks planted the la.te Henry Mlill Bunbury esq. of Marlston House, in the days of Quem Anne amlJ George IlL ; also some fish under the direction of Mr. W. Blitterfield, architect. :ponds in the manor estate close by the site of the old The manor was once held by Richard Wightwick, eo­ Manor House, pulled down in 183o. The manor, which founder of Pembroke College, . G. W. Palmer belonged to Reading abbey, was. granted in 1539 to John esq. M.P., J.P. is lord of the manor; the co-heiresses of lVinchcombe, son of the famous clothier of that name, the late W. H. H. Hartley esq. are the chief landowners. known as "Jack of Newbury"; his son, Henry Marlston House, the residence ()f George William Palmer Winchcombe esq. of Bucklebury, was created a esq. M.P., J.P. is a. mansion of brick in the Elizabethan baronet in r66r and married Frances, daughter style, and was entirely rebuilt during 1895 and r8gg. of Thomas Howard, Earl of Berkshire; on his Bucklebury Place, the property and residence of tArthur death in 1667, the estate passed to his oon, Sir Sutton esq. is a brick mansion .standing in park-like Henry, 2nd bart. who married a. Miss Rolls, but dying grounds and commanding a fine view over the Kennet witlwut male is·sue in 1703, the baronetcy became extinct valley. and the property deV10lved on Franceos (Winchcombe ), Hawkridge is a liberty 1 mile north. Sir W. Cameron ViscouiJiteSIS Bo1ingbroke, and aft.eTwards through her Gull hart. M.P., J.P. of House, Newbury, is younger sisters passed to the Packer family; Henry Packer. lord of the manor. last maJ.e heir of that family, devised it to his sist-er's The Upper and Lower Commons are 1 mile south, the tSOn, W.inchcO'IILbe Henry Hartley esq. grand£ather of the Slade, 2 miles south-west, Westropp Green, 2~ west, and We ·w. H. H. Hartley esq. The co-heir-esses of the late Bucklebury Alley about 3 miles west. ·w. H. H. Hartley esq. and George William Palmer esq. Parisih Clerk, Richard Brown. M.P. are the chief landowners; the former are owners of Post O:ffice.-George Davis, sub-postmaster. Letters 1the manor of Bucklebury. The soil varies very much, bnt through Reading arrive at 8.so a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dis- is chiefly sand, clay and gravel; subsoil, clay, chalk and patched at 5· 15 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but ·gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is 6,121 acres of land and 9 of water ; rateable value, is at , miles distant .£4,365; the population ia rBgr was r,I51. 3 Marlston is a liberty 2 miles west by north. The Puhlic Elementnry Sphool, eroobed in 1874, £or 170 chapel, built by Sir Geo:ffrey Martel, a descendanrt of the children; average attendance, 95 ; Mrs. Britton, mist Taille.fers, Oounts of Angouleme, is a building of flirut Carriers.-Charles J ohnson & William Mitchell, to Read- ,and rubble, originally in the Kmman style and con- ing, on wed. & sat.; to Newbury, thurs (Those marked * have lett.ers ad- *Brown .Alfred John, Fir Trees P.H Layley George, farmer, & farm bailiff dressed via Newbury.) Brown John, farmer, Jewel's farm to the co-heiress of Bucklebury o.Gill Rev. Cecil Hope M.A. (vicar), *Burgess Henry, farmer, New farm estate, Copyhold farm Yicarage Butches Moses, farmer, Bucklebury ho *~orton Chas. farmer, Holly farm Jones Rev. John Price B..A.. (curate) Butler ·wm. farmer, Lower common Mossman Alice (Miss), parish nurse, Maskelyne J. Neville, Spring cottage Clift Jane (Mrs.), Bladebone P.H Glebe cottage ~->II!Palmer George William M.P., J.P. *Dance Jas. farmer, Sadgrove farm Patey David, grocer, Upper common Marlston house; & 36 Queen Ann's Davis George, sub-postmaster *Patey Isaac, dairyman, Sadgrove gate SW; & Reform, Devonshire *:Fisher William (Mrs.), buildr.Slade ·bottom & National Liberal clubs, London. Freeman George, farmer, *Patey Isaac, jun. farmer, Green's Telegrams " Hermitage" & Lower common Old farm ff'arry Mrs. Webley, The Cottage Grace George, farmer, Hillfoot fr;rm *Prio:r George, beer retailer -Button .A.rthur, Bucklebury Place *Gunter Charles, farmer, Marlston fm *Ratclifie Bobert Coles, farmer, Hill '\Vallis Rev. '\Vm. Marshall,Roselands Hedges .&; Son, iron founders, engin- House farm 4\Yeber Harry, Hawkridge house eers & agricultural implement mas Weaver Wm. farmer,Chapelbrow frm COMMERCIAL. *Hermon Henry, 'l'hree vrowns P.H & Lower farm Allum Edwin, boot & shoe maker Johnson Charles, carrier *Wilhams Thos. farmer,Tomlins frm ''*Barr Thos. brick ma. Hawkridge *Lailey Wm. bowl turner & farmer *Willsher William, farmer & bowl ~Barr .Ann (Mrs.), beer ret.Hawkridge Lailey Julia Elizabeth (Mrs.), Boot turner, Winchcombe farm Bastin Jasper, frmr.Home fm.Marlston inn (letters should be addressed ·Betteridge Wm. frmr. \Yotton's farm "," Reading :BURC,HETS GREEN, see Birchetts Green.

: is a parish, 2~ mHes south-eas-t from be-ing free. A new burial ground, adjoining the old ' station on the Grea.t Wesotern railway and 5 churchyard, w.a.s consecrated in 1886. The register dates south-west from Reading, in the Sourt.hern division of the from the year 1563. The living is a rectory, net yearly ·-e<>unty, hundred of Theale, Bradfield union, Reading value £6sg, with residence and 13 acres ()f glebe, in the peibty sessiona[ division and county court district, rural gift of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Taloot, and held since ·deanery of Bl'adfield, archdeaconry ·of Berks and diocese 1879 by the Rev. Dallas Oldfield Harington M . .A.. of St. ·-of Oxford. The river Kenn-et flows• on the north. The Alban Hall and Merton College, Oxford. The Mission c-hurch of the Virgin Mary, rebuilt at a cost of £2,500 room, Burghfield common, the property of the trustees of .and re-constructed in June 1843• is· an edifice of brick the late Horatio Bland esq. was formerly Mr. Bland's ·and st