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A.shwell Mrs Beckett Elijah, blacksmith Lepper Alfred, jun. farmer Symes-Thompson Mrs. Finrnere ho Cotterell Frederick Augustus, baker Measey John, carman Trower Rev. Hy. Wm. M.A. Rectory Dickins & Hepworth, coal, cake & Stafford Charles, King's Head P.H COMMERCIAL. manure salt merchants, Station Stanley George, farmer, Glebe farm Barrett Corbett Charles, farmer, 'lhe Horwood Emrnanuel, carman Tredwell Jeffery, farmer, Bacon's ho Warren Lepper .Alfred, cattle dealer & farmer t.I'INSTOCK and FAWLER are townships in the that college. Vernon James Watney esq. of Cornbury of , and in r 86o were formed into Park, i~ lord of the manor and principal landowner. an ecclesiastical district. is on the road from In the village is a small W esleyan chapel, with school­ to Banbury, 2~ miles south from Charlbury room added in rgo2. There are charities of £3 and station on the Oxford and Worcester section of the £r r4s. 6d. for distribution in money. The so-il is stone Great Western railway, 5 north from lVitney and 6 brash; subsoil, brash rock. The chief crops a,re wheat, west from Woodstock, in the Northern division of the barley and roots. The area of Finst•ock only is 878 acres county, hundred of South Ban bury, petty sessional divi- of land and 5 of wat-er; ra•teable value •of Fin stock, sion of , union and county court district of £r,467; the p{)pulation (including 136 in 'Fawler) in 1901 , rural deanery of Chipping Norton and was 587. archdeaconry and . The river Even- Parish Clerk, Henry Hitchcock. lode flows hetween Finstock and Fawler, and is here Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .A.. & I. Office. J ames R. crossed by a bridge of one arch. Th~ c>hnrch of the Scott, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Charlbnry Holy Trinity is a small rectangular building of stone, S.O. & 7 a.m. & 2 p.m.; dispatched at ro-45 a.m. &; erected in 1841 on a site given by Francis Almeric, 1st 6.45 p. m. ; no delivery on sundays. Charlbury, 2~ Baron Churchill, and consists of cbanr.el, navA and miles distant, is the nearest telegraph cffice west-ern turret containing {)ne bell: the interior "Was Wall Letter Boxes.-Manl()r Farm, clt>ared n a.m. & 6.45 much improved and beautified in 1876, and in r9o6 a p.m. week days only & Fawler Mill, cleared at 6.50 chancel and vestry WeTS added, from designs by Mr. p.m. week days only S. S. StallwoDd, architect, of Reading, and furnished Elementary School (mixed), erected in r86o & enlarged & with a reredos of Caen stone, choir stalls of carved oak, improved in r8g5, for 154 children; average attendanoe, and flooring of Dev.onshire marble, at a cost of between 102 ; Harry William Powell, master; Miss Beatrice £2,ooo and £3,000: in 1877 six stained "Windows were Walton & Miss Emma Jane Smith, assistant mistresses erect-ed by the lat-e vicar in memory of his mother, who County Police, William Hat.haway, constable :~s i; 1!:~ ~~7~~~~!::a~~ ~~; ~~b!;:~ s~;i~~r ~~~~ Carrier to Woodstock, Waiter Edwards, fri.; Witney, Majt>sty Queen Victoria, June 2oth, r887: the east win- thurs. & Chipping Norbon, wed dow is also stained: the pulpit is a memorialilo Frances, F.A.WLER is a township, 1 ~ miles north-east, in the late Dowager Lady Churchill, d. 7 Jan. 1866. Then~ is civil parish of Charlbury, but united ecclesiastically a brass to Francis Nathaniel, Marquess Coynygham, d. with Finstock, 5 miles west from Woodstock and 5, July I7th, r876, and Jane,. Marchioness Conygham, d. north from Witney. Vernon James Witney esq. is lord of Jan. zBth, 18]6, erected by their daughter Jam~. Lady the manor of Finstock, and the Duke of Marlborough K.G. Churchill, A.D .. I877: there is also a brass nea'r thP is the principal landowner. Here are ironstone mines, not pulpit to F:rancis George, 2nd Ba.ron Churchill, d. 24 now being worked. The area is I,64B acres of land and 7 Nov. 1886, and alSin one to thA Rev. Alfred Redifer M. A. of water; Tateable value, £I,88 ; the population in late vicar, 1863-1902: the church affords 200 sittings. Igor was 6 . 7 .Adjoining the churchyard is a mausoleum of the du Cros 13 family. The registeT dates from the year 1842. T,he LeM:e.l's· through Oxford via Charlbury, a:rrive at 7 living is a vicarage, net yearly value £120, with resi- a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.40 p.m.; no sunday dence, in the gift of St. John's Oollege, Oxford, and collection. The nearest money order & telegraph office held since 1902 by the Rev. Albert Cary-Elwes M.A. {){ is at Charlbury FINSTOCK. Harris Frederick, carpenter & wheel- Shiner George, blacksmith

1 wrig-ht Tidmarsh Riley, farmer Cary-Elwe!l Rev. Albt. M . .A..(Vicarage) Hollyfield Charles, shopkeeper 1 Walton Waiter, beer retailer Robertson Mrs. Finstock hou'e Hollyfield N oah, pig killer F .A."\VLER. COMMERCB.L. Hollyfield William, farmer Alderton Frank, fumer Pratlt>y Charles, shopkeeper I (::\farked thus * receive their letters Benfield Waiter, Plough P.H Pratley Edward, haulier through Woodstock.) Bolton Hy. ·ward, farmer, Manor fm Langford Stephen, Crown P.H. & I Douthwaite Jn. Wm.farmer, Manor frm Dore Henry, !'hopkeeper shopkeeper , *Fowler Thos. farmer, Hill Barn farm Do re J ames, wheelwright & carpenter Oliver Charlotte (Mrs.), shopkeeper i Fowler William, shopkeeper Edwards Waiter, carrier & shopkpr Scott James Robt. saddler, Post off Hadland Joseph, farmer, Fawler mill Hadland Mark, farmer Shayl~r Frederick, boot & shoe maker. *Lamb George, farmer, Oaklands FOREST HILL with SHOTOVER is a civil there are 120 sittings. The register dates fr.om the year parish formed 17 April, 1883, ~~ miles north-west from 1564, and contains the entry, Jan. 28•th, 1625, of the Wheatley station on the Oxford and Princes Risborough baptism of Mary, daughter of Richard Powell, and after­ section of the Great Western railway, and 4 east from Ox- wards wife, in r645, of the poot Milton; she died in ford, in the Mid division of the county, hundred and petty 1651. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £120, sessional division of Bullingdon, union of Headington, with residence, in the gift