I>mECTORY.) BERKSHIRE. 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 :Bucklebury 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, Oxford. 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 Frilsham 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 Yattendon, 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, Chapel row *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 "Stanford Dingley," Reading :BURC,HETS GREEN, see Birchetts Green. :BURGHFIELD is a parish, 2~ mHes south-eas-t from be-ing free. A new burial ground, adjoining the old 'Theale 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<Jne in the Romanesque style, consiSJt-ing of chance-l, museum. The collections are now in the museum at rebuilt in 1892, at a cost of _£2,ooo, entirely defrayed by Reading; in x886 it was re-seated by the trustees, and it the late Richard Benyon esq. of Englefield (d. 1897), Miss will now seat 200 perSOtiJ:s. There are also Wesley.an and Sopthia C. Thnrsby of Brighlton, and Arthur Rarvey Primitive M~hodist chapels. The Brightwell charity, · Thursby esq. D.L., J.P. of Culverlands, na.ve, transepts, for the apprenticeship ()f poor boys of the parish, now and an octagonal western tower with a smaH dome and yields an annual income of _£26 6s. 8d. There are three ·containing 6 bells ; at the west end is a stained window, other charities with an aggregate income of £27 yearly, ·prese-nted by the Rev. Henry Curtis Cherry M.A. rector which :iJs given to aged poor persons. There are three from 1827; the Rev. F. B. Boyd, late rector, -eresented the almshouses for widows, situated in the parish of church with five stained windDws; a. sh1ined window wa.s Tilehnrstt, bui1t and end()wed by the late Miss Mary ·also erected by tile Rev. Benjamin Bradney Bockett M.A. Lyne. The knightly family of Williamso resided here in vicar of Epsom (1839-83), in memory of his brother and the 16th century and subsequently the Pot'tenger family. 1 two sisters ; and another has been placed in the sout-h Culverlandls, the seat of Arthur Harvey Thursby esq. tralllSept by A.rthur Ifurvey Thnrsbr esq. D.L., J.P. of D.L., J.P. is situated in extensive and picturesque 'Cnlverlands, in mellli)ry of 'Iris father aud mo-ther ; the grounds, commanding a ma-gnificent view of about r5 oost window, placed in 1892 by Miss Sovhia Charlotte mile.s of undulating country; in x88r it was entirely · Thursby of Brighton, iSI a memorial to the Rev. Wm. Ford renovated and a new wing and stables added. High­ Thursby B.C.L. Tector of Burgh-Anton, Norf. (d. 1893) and woods, a very handsome residence, is the property and Eleanor 1\fary, ·hit; wife ; in the tower there are two stone residence of Mrs. Thursby; Hillfields is the residence of effigies and one .of ·oak, all o-f early darte ; a floor stone Henry George \Villink e-sq. J.P. Gilliat Hatfeild esq. of :·inscribed to the Rev. Garnans. Daunser M. A. x676, has been Morden Hall, Surrey, is lord of the man()r. The principal ffo1II'ld under the ·old chancel; there are 6o8 sit.tings, 402 landowners are James Herbert Benyon esq. of Englefield, BERK8. 4 .