324 W.ARKTON. . [KELLY'S 1868 the church was restored and reseated and affords total length of the whole is estimated at 70 miles. The 200 sittings: the churchyard was enlarg"ed in 1867. Earl of Dalkeith is lord of the manor and principal The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a landowner. The soil is a mixture of limestone, clay and rectory, net yearly value from 248 acres of glebe red loam. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. £160, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Dalkeith, The area is 1,924 acres; rateable value, [x,B22; the and held since 1910 .by the Rev. Alfred James Whistler population in 1911 was 213. · M.A. of Emmanuel College, .Cambridge. The Church Sexton, James Patrick. • land of sa. xr. produces £6 IOS. yearly 0 Hunt's charity, now of £x yearly, derived from land left in Post O:ffice.-Harry Fredericl• Archer, sub-postma~ter. 1674 by Edward Hunt, is for distribution. ·Running Letters arrive through Kettering at 7 a.m. & fi.55 through this and the adjoining parishes of Weekley, p.m. Letter Box cleared week days only at 6.10 Geddington, Newton and Grafton Underwood, are p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is several noble avenues of trees, chiefly elm, planted by at Kettering, I~ miles distant John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (of the 1705 creation), Free School (mixed), built in x86g, at the expense of the who from this ft~.ct was known as " John the Planter; " late Duke of Buccleuch K.G. for Bo children; Mrs, one of these avenues is 3 miles in length, and the Bertha Drew, mistress Neal E. T Brett Robert Henry, farmer Morris Percy, baker Whistler Rev. Alfred James M.A. Davies Joseph Bernard, head gardener! Mutton William (Mrs.) ( exors. of), (rector), Rectory to the Earl of Dalkeith farmers & graziers COMMERCIAL. Dunkley Charles, farmer Turner Arthur, farmer Auchterlonie Alexander, fore-ster to James Lewis, smith the Earl of Dalkeith . W ARK WORTH is a village and parish, 2 miles east of the diocese. The register was included until 18o8 in from Banlmry, in the Southern division of the county, that of .Marston St. Lawrence, which dates from the Jmndred of King's Sutton, petty sessional division of years x663 and 1664. The living is a rectory, annexed .l:lrackley, union and county court district of , to the vicarage of Marston St. Lawrence, joint net yearly rural deanery of (third portion), archdeaconry of value [4oo, with residence, in the gift of John Alex­ Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. The river ander Blencowe esq. of Marston, and held since 1876 h.y .Cherwell separates this parish from Banbury, in Oxford- the Rev. Charles Edward Blencowe M . .A. of Wauham shire. Under the " Divided Parishes Act" the western College, Oxford, who resides at Marston. The Rev. ~ortion of the parish was amalgamated, March 25, 1884, William Wilfr-ed Nutter •Barker M. A. of Queens' Col­ :with the parish of Bodicote for union purposes, and under . lege CambridO"e, has been curate in charge since 1913, .the provisions of the " Local Government A.ct, 1888," was and 'resides at,.., 2 Dashwood road, Banbury. The Horton 0 t~a~sferred .April 1, 1889, to the_ county of Oxford fo~ all charity of £soo was founded in x869. by Mary Ann c1v1l purposes except that of Parhamentary representatwn. Horton, of Middleton Cheney, and is derived from. ':fhe churc~ of St: Mary, situated_ a little off the village, I money invested in £3 per Cent. Consols; the interest 1s an anCient edifice of stone, m the Decorated style, is expended in bread, fuel and blankets. Warkworth consisting of chancel, naye, with un~sually. lofty and Castle, taken down in 1Bo6, was for many generations graceful arcades, north aisle, south aisle with chap_el, occupied by the Chetwode-Holman and Eyre families, south porch and an embattled western tower with who had a Catholic chapel within its walls. John turret containing 2 -bells: the south aisle retains a Gother, a well-known Catholic writer of great eminence piscina with shelf: at the west end of the chapel in the 17th century, and Alban Butler, anoth~r is a monument of white and grey marble, inscribed learned Catholic divine and author of the "Lives of the to William Holman esq. but without date, and there are Saints " were successivelv chaplains here, and Dr. Chal­ othe~s to this family: there are brasses with effigies loner, 'vicar apostolic and in 1721 titular Catholic bishop to. S1~ Job~ <;Jhet_wode knt. lord of t~e ma~or, _ob. 1412, of Doberus, went from hence to the Old Douay College. w1th macnptwn m French; to Amab11la, h1s w1fe, after- Two ancient coats of arms of the Lvons and the Chet• :w~rds. wi_fe . of. Sir Thomas S~range, ob. 1430, wode families, carved in st-one, are preserved in the with mscnpt10n ~n French and ~atm_; ~ ~hn . Che!w~de, garden wall of Warkworth farm. The principal land­ soa of the precedmg, ob. 142.?, w1th simlbar mscnph~n, owners are John Henry Horton esq. who is lord of the and Margaret, daughter of SI~ John Chetwod~, and Wife manor, Colonel J. S. Forbes and the rector of Middle­ of John Brounyng esq•. who d1ed and was bu_n~d at Mel~ ton Cheney. The soil is various. The chief crops are bury, ob. 1420; there IS another bra~s to _Wilham Luds- wheat, barley and beans. The area is 1,329 acres; thorp, 1454: u~der the north arcade 1s a h1gh and !larro~ rateable value, [3,917 ; the population in I9II was 65. altar tomb, With the recumbent effigy of a kmght m Parish Clerk James Viccars. armour of the middle of the 14th century, representing Sir ' . . John de Lyons lmt. who was living in 1346; the north and . HUSCOT~, xl miles north-west, 1s a small ha~let south sides of the tomb are panelled and decorated with m the par_1shes of Chaco_mbe a11:d Warkworth, lJmg figures and pendent shield.:, and at the west end is a near t? , and s1tuated m the county of Ox­ kneeling figure under a canopied arch: within separate fordshne . .arches in the north wall of the north aisle are two very OVERTHORPE is a hamlet of Middleton Cheney, low tombs, one of which supports the figure of an armed with which the population and area are given, situated knight, exceedingly well sculptured, in the costume of a little to the north-west of Warkworth, under which the early 14th century, representing Sir John de Lyons the names are given. Overthorpe House is the resi­ knt. ob. 1312; on the other tomb is the recumbent effigy dence of Joseph Herbert Blacklock esq. J.P. of Margaret (Oakley), his wife, who was living in 1323: Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.45 a.m. & 12.15 & 6.10 the stained east window is a memorial to Miss Mary Ann p.m.; no collection on sundays Horton, lady of the manor, d. 19 July, 1869; and there The children of this parish attend Grimsbury & Middle- are a number of other stained windows: eighteen of the ton schools bench ends are curiously carved, and one of these, on • . . the north side, has a carving of the "Annunciation" in ~LD GRI~SBURY, with NETHER~?OTE, are m ~he which the archangel Gabriel appears in a complete p_ansh 6f Gnmsbur~, ~orthamptonshne, and eccles1as­ feathered suit: the font is of early date: the chancel t1cally. annexed . ~o Christ Church, South ~an~ury, Ox­ was rebuilt and the nave and aisles throughly restored fordsh1re, extendmg along the valley to the brzdge over in x86g at a cost of about £3 000 under the the Cherwell at Banbury, and now transferred to the direction' of the late 'Mr. Driver, whe~ a' new reredos, county of \)xford as from April ~· x88g, for all purposes organ chamber and north vestry were added, and a excel.'t.Parhamentary representatiOn, and form part of the cerved oak pulpit, reading desk and chancel fittings mumcipal boro~gh of Banb":ry a~ from ~ove_mber gth, erected: there are 18o sittings. The ancient churchyard x889. F~ll particulars are given m Kelly s Directory of was closed by order in Council in 1897• but a piece of . ground adjoining has been purchased and presented to Letters through Banbury. Grimsbury is the nearest the parish by J. H. Blacklock esq. of Overthorpe House, money order office, from which telegrams are dis· and it was consecrated March 26, 1897, by the lord bishop patched, but not delivered WARKWORTH. J ones William M. farmer & grazier, Blacklock Joseph Herbt. J.P. Over- COMMERCIAL. Warkworth hall thorpe house Mawle Lionel, farmer Coy Mrs A.dkins Henry, farmer Mawle Thomas, farmer Dumbleton Fredk. Wm. The Sycamores Dore Daniel, farmer, Franklow Knob Timms John, The Woodlands farm . COMMERCIAL. Harris James, beer retlr. Bowling grn OVERTHORPE. Cannon Matthew Henry, farmer Ireland Jas. 'Enoch, farmer ,Home frm A.rnold Frank, The Knoll 0 Oarter Charles, nurseryman