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handsome communion table was given by Bishop Jewel: in in 1677-8, are now in the Harleian collection a\ the church was restored by subscription in 1.877 at a the British Museum, cost of £I,2oo, and has 165 sittings. The register dates By Local Government Board Order I8,177, dated March from the year I543• The living is a rectory, net yearly 25, 1885, two detached parts of parish, value £240, with residence and 14 acres of glebe, in the known as the Isle of Wight and Kennington Village, wen~ gift of A. 0. Whittington esq. and held since 1898 by the added to , and Great and Little Ducklings and Bay­ Rev. Benjamin George Collett Whittington, of St. Ed- worth have been transferred from Abingdon St. Nicholas mund Hall, , and Assoc.K.C.L. There is to Sunningwell, under the provisions of the "Divided a charity of the yearly value of about £43- arising partly Parishes Act." ..._ from land and partly from money in the funds, called Parish Clerk, Rev. H. C. Adams M.A. "Poor's Land Charity," the proceeds of which are de- Deputy Clerk and Sexton, James Honey. voted to the support of the poor. Colonel Disney's trus- Post Office.-Charles Thompson, sub-postmaster. Lette:rs tees are the lords of the manor and chief landowners. from Abingdon by messenger, arriving at 7 a.m. & The soil is cla.y, sand and limestone; subsoil, gravel. 12.30 p.m.; dispatched at 10 a.m. & 6.45 p.m. Th& The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and turnips. nearest money order office is at .Abingdon & telegraph The population in 1891 wa.s 243; the parish comprises offices, .Abingdon & Radley 1,331 acres; rateable value, £1,578. National School (mixed), erected in 1871, for 65 chil- is a hamlet half a mile north. Here resided dren, with teacher's house adjoining; average attend- Thomas Baskerville, son of Hannibal Baskerville esq. a anr:e, 59; Charles Thompson, master; Mrs. Elizabeth topographical writer whose MS. journals of his travels Ann Thompson, sewing mistress PRIVATE BESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Lanning Thos. Rogers,frmr.Bayworta Deane Dennis, farmer Silvester Frank, blacksmith & groc&l" lladcock Richard Gerring John, farmer Stanbridge Matilda & Son, farmers-. Galpm Henry Frank, Glenfield Badcock Richard (R. & W. Badcock), Church farm Green Ernest Henry, Brumcombe auctioneer, valuer, house & estate Thompson Charles, land surveyor. Goold James agent & farmer, Manor farm Post office Whittington Rev. Benjamin George Godfrey Charles, shopkeeper Wicks Thomas, builder & fatmer Collett .Assoc.K.C.L. Rectory Greening William, farmer

BUTTON COURTENAY (or Sutton Courtney) is a By Local Government Board Order, 2o,6go, dated March parish bounded on the north by the Thames, which 24, 1887, Rowstock Farm was transferred from SuttoD separates it from Oxfmdshire, 2 miles south from Cui­ Courtney to . ham station on the Didcot and Oxford branch of the Parish Clerk, Charles James Whiting. Great Western railway and 2! miles south-south-east from Abingdon, in the Northern division of the county, SUTTON WICK is a. township 2 miles west, near thB hundred of Ock, petty sessional division, union and river Ock, and is partly within the borough of Abingdon; county court district of Abingdon, rural deanery of Ab­ it comprises Upper and Lower Wick and Ody Hill. Abou"' ingdon, archdeaconry of Berks and . half a mile from Abingdon is the old race cours~ where­ The church of All Saints is a building of stone in the the Berks and Oxon Hunt steeplechases are held yearly. Norman and Gothic styles, consisting of chancel, nave of under National Hunt rules. The area of the township is four bays, aisles, north and south porches, and a western 1,286 acres of land and 20 of water; rateable value, tower containing 6 bells and a clock : there are 200 sit­ tings, the majority of which are free. The register dates £1,848; the population in 1891 was 345· from the year 1539· The living is a vicarage, with the Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel chapelry of Appleford annexed, joint net yearly value Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. Frederic'fi £290, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons Burson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through Abing­ of Windsor, and held since 1856 by the Rev. Richard don at 7 a.m. & I p.m. ; dispatched at 4·30 & 6.45 John Howard Rice M. A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There p.m.: sundays, n.25 a.m are Baptist and Congregational chapels. Almshouses for Wall Letter Box, Mill, cleared 10.45 a.m. & 4.30 & 6.55 six poor widows were founded and endowed in 1818, with p.m. ; sunday, 11.35 a.m. ; & near Plough P.H. cleared about 30s. per year each, by F. Elderfield esq.: the poor 6.30 p.m. ; sundays, 8.30 a.m.; Sutton Wick, cleared have also about £35 yearly from several other charities. 2 & 7.25 p.m. ; sundays, 4.20 p.m The ".Abbey.'' occupied by Mrs. Theobald Theobald, was A School Board of 5 members was formed 20 .Aug. 1874; formerly attached to the Abbey of Abingdon, being then Frank Turner, clerk to the board; Charles Jo-hn Whit. used as a hospital. Lord K.C.B., V. C. is owner ing, , attendance officer of the manor house. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late Edward Pullen esq. Louis Arthur National School, built in 1875, for 18o children; averag& Barrett esq. of Milton House, and William wuch esq. attendance, 125; Thomas Yeates, master; Miss G. The soil is clay, gravel and loam; subsoil, gravel. The ]4oss, mistress crops are wheat, barley and meado-w grass. The Carriers to :- area is 2,145 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable Abingdon & Culham-Charles Peckham, 'Broad Face/ value, [3,687; the population in r8gr was 843. daily; George Hedges, 'Old Bell,' daily · SUTTON COURTENAY. Carter John, boot maker R~ynolds .Alfred, beer retailer D'Almaine Han-y George William,The Carter William, bricklayer ~ismrtn Robertl, grccer & draper Gables Day Charles, builder, contractor, Tinson Benjamin, beer retailer & fal."I6 Lee Cecil, Walton house wheelwright, blacksmith, timber bailiff to Lord Wantage Lindsay Henry E. Manor house merchant & undertaker Turner Frank, farmer Louch Willia.m, The Laurels Hall Gains, grocer Whitehe~d John Samuel, Fish inn '1\J:ilne John A. The Croft Hanks 'fhomas, coal merchant Whiting Francis William, blacksmith Nunney Mrs Hedges George, Swan P.H Witts Priscilla (Mrs.), shopkeeper Rice Rev. Bich::lrd John Howard M.A. Herring George, sexton Vicarage Lambert Charle.