DIRECTORY. J OXFORDSHIRE. CULHAM. 91 Theological College (Rev. Canon John CUDDESDOl'i. I 1 COMMERCIAL. Bell Thomas, farmer, Manor farm Octavius Johnst()n M.A. principal) PRIVATE BESIDENTS. Bobart Waiter R. miller (water & Wing William Henry, Bat & Ball PH Oxford Right Rev.Lord Bishop of lJ.D. ilteam) (Charlei Gore) ( chaRcellor of the Burgess M. & Son, builders DENTON. most Noble Order of the Garter), Burrows Arthur,saddler & harness ma O'Malley Sir Edward Loughlin J.P., The Palace I Carter Jn. Fras. Three Compasses P.B M . A • D en t on h ouse Johnston Rev. Canon John Octavius,I Duver Wiliiam, carrier M.A. (vicar & principal of the Theo-, Gale Hubert John, farmer, Dove ho COMMERCIAL. logical college), The Vicarage :Hide Frank, gardener to the Theo- Bus well Ha.rry Geo. farmer, Dentoa Mott Mrs. The Old vic&rage I logical college ~anor farm Newton Rev. Henry Edward M.A. • Manley Edwin, gardener to the Theo- Ryman William, farmer (chaplain of the _TheologicalCollege) I ~ogical college . Sellar Thomas Richard, cowkee er P98rson Rev. Cyril GrPenwood M.A.I M1tchell Wait. Paul,statwner, Post off Turner Frederick. blacksmith P (vice-principal of the Theological 1 Mortimore Harry George, shopkeeper college) ! & carrier Sntcliffe Rev. Richard Wilton M.A. Reading & Recreation Room (R. W. (curate) Sutcliffe, sec) Wheeler Albert, farmer

CULHAM is a parish and village, bounded on the 7.25 p.m. ; sundays, I 1.25 a.m. Abingdon & Sutto11 aorth, south and west by the river Thames, which Courtney, both about I~ milell distant, are the nearest separates it from Berks, and has a station on the money order offices ; telegraph office at the railway Didcot and Oxford section of the Great Western railway, station, which is closed on sundays If miles east of the village, 3~ south-south-east from Wall Letter Box, Culham station, cleared at 7-30 a.m. Abingdon and 53 from London. The parish is in the & 12.15 & 7 p.m. ; EUndays, 10.55 a.m Southern division of the county, Dorchester hundred, Bnllingdon petty sessional divis.ion, Abingdon union and The Oxford Diocesan Training College for School Master~ county court district, rural deanery of Cuddesdon, arch­ here, standing in an elevated position about x mile deaoonry and diocese of Oxford. Culham bridge, which west from the Culham station, is a structure chiefly . Cl'OS!Itl8 the river Thames about half-a-mile north of the of local stone in the Decorated style, erected in 18511 Yillage, at a point where its ancient and modern channels by the late Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, nnioo, connects the parish with Abingdon ; it is sub­ 1846-6g, from designs by J. Clarke esq. at a cost uf •tantially built of stone, and was originally constructed {,2o,ooo, of which £rs,ooo was raised by private sub­ by the Guild of the Holy Cross in Abingdon, under scription; the building, opened in 1853, is intended 1 to contain 92 students, & is now (rgrr) full j it letters patent of Henry V. dated at Westminster, 23 1 June, 1416, in place of the previously used, but dan- · embraces, besides the students' apartments, a .oall, gerous ferry; the fabric still bears marks of the chapel & principal's residence, & attached to the college is a middle-class school, which serves as a attempt made 11 Jan. 1645, by General Gage to break it down, when Abingdon wa!l held for the Parliament by pradising ~hool for the students; a detached block Colonel Brown. The church of St. Paul, anciently dedi­ of buildings was added in 1903 at a further cost of cated to St. Andrew, was rebuilt a.s to the nave in 1852 £3,ooo, raised by private subscription, compr1sing in the Euly English style, and is an edifice of stone con­ students' recrPation room, science theatre & labora­ listing of chancel, nave, north aisle, south transept, tory; a Government grant of £53 p~r year per south porch and a Perpendicular embattled western ~tudent is allowed ; Rev. Arthur Richard Whitham tower, erected in 1710 and oontaining 3 bells: the chan­ :.\LA. of Magdalen College, Oxford, principal ; Richard cel was rebuilt in 1872, at the oast ()£ the late John L. Treble B.Sc. vice-principal & librarian; John S. Shaw Phillips esq. (d. 1893), and oontains a small Davis M.A. master of method; Edmund L. R. Eveth, trefoil-h98ded recess and a monument to Thomas Bury, Rev. Algernon Sidney Arrowsmith .Assoc.K.C.L. a member Nuneham Courtenay, Sandford-on-Thames & Stad- church. The register of baptisms and burials dates hampton. The area is 12,346 acres; rateable value, from the year 1638; marriages, 1639, and contains an March, 1911, £2o,644; the population in 1grr was entry, under date Oct. 10, r666, of a sum of £r 3s. 8d. 2,6r4 collected in aid of the suffere,rs by the Great Fire of Chairman Harry Gale Nuneham Courtena') Oxford London. The living is a disch<1rged vicarage, net yearly ' ' . ' value £232, including 6o acres of glebe, with residence, I OffiCials. in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 19I1 Clerk, Bromley Chall;enor, Stert street, Abingdon & 14 by the Rev. William John Oldfield D.D. of Christ New road, Oxford Church, Oxford, and prebendary of Lincoln. The poor's Treasurer, Isaac Westcombe, wndon County & West- 1liotment has been sold and the proceeds, amounting m~nster Bank Limited, Abingdon to over £2,000, invested in Consflls, the interest of Med1cal Officer of Health, 'Which ia di8tributed in fuel. Good fishing- may be had Sanitary Impector & Highway Surveyor, Sydney 0. in Sutton Mill pool, and for pike, below Culham lock. , Tompkins, Appleford, Abingdon Culham House, a substantial brick mansion, with exten­ live grounds, is the seat of Mrs. Shawe Phillips. John TERRITORIAL FORCE. Henley Shawe Phillips esq. is owner of the rectorial 4th Battalion Oxfordshire· & Buckinghamshire Light property, including glebe of about 16o acres. Mrs. 1 Infantry (Culham College Detachment, left half of Xorrell, of Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, who is ladv D Co.), Capt. T. S. W. F()x of the manor, and J. H. S. Phillips esq. are the prin-­ cipal landowners. The soil is gravel ; sub8oil, sand and Schools. elay. The chief cropll are wheat and barley. The area Culham College School, built in 1852; average attendance, il 1,!}64 acrea of land and 88 of water; rateable value. 48 ; Edmun(,). L. R. Evetts, master; R. R. Kimbell, £6,143; the population in I9II was 450. assistant m~ster · Parish Clerk, George Phipps. Elementary, built in 185o, for So children; average attendance, 63 ; Frederick Mitchell, master Poat Office.-Mrs. Ellen Burrows, sub-postmistress. Police Station, Albert Edward Croton, constable Letters throug-h .Abingdon arrive at 6.30 & 11.45 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 10.20 a.m. & r.3o, 2.15 & Railway Station, George Wm. Townsend, station master

1 Evetts Edmund L. R. (head master of MitchPll Frederick PRIVA.TK RESIDENTS. Culham College school & tutor of Oldfield Rev. Preb. William Arrowsmith Rev. Al2'ernon Sidney Training college) i D.D. (vicar). Vicara A~.K.C.L. Training college Kimbell Raymond R. (assistant j Phillips Mrs. Shawe, ~--" DaYU .lohn S., M.A. Training college J ma~ter), Culham College school