(OXFORD.) STEEPLE ASTON. 518 POST OFFICE

PosT OFFIC.E.-Jes~e French, postmaster. Letters tbrou~h C.A.RRIER.-Hayward, from Heyford, through to Banbury, Deddin~ton arrive at 9 a.m. & are dispatched at i past mon. & thurs 5 p.m STEEPLE ASTON with MJ:DDLE AS TON. the Rev. Joseph Burrows, :s.n., rector. There is one STEEPLE AsTON is a large and very pleasant vil1age, Charity school. The population, in 1851, was 707 ; the the scenery extremely picturesque, in the Hundred of amount of acreage 1,865, which is wood, arable and Wootton, 13 miles from Oxford, 7 north of Woodstock, pasture; soil, sand and clay. Charles Cottrel Dormer, and 4 from Deddington. The churcl1, dedicated to St. Esq., is lord of the manor. Peter, is of mixed architecture; the interior is handsome; MIDDLE AsTON is a hamlet to Steeple Aston, from the pews of ca"ed oak ; it has a splendid monument to which place it is distant I mile north, and is composed of Judge and Lady Page, the former notorious for his arbi­ two farms and a few cottages. Here is a Wesleyan chapel; trary conduct to prisoners, mentioned by Pope iu a sharp also a subscription Fire Enfline society, whose meetings satire. The living is a rectory, value .£580, in the diocese are holden at the HopcrofL's Holt Inn; Engine station, at of Oxford and presentation of Brasenose College, Oxford ; Steeple Aston. Steeple Astou, Burgess John, cow leech ISmith James, timber merchant GBNTRY. Carter John, farmer Southam Richd. tailor, draper&grocar Bowyer Henry Atkins, esq Co!es Benjamin. corn dealer Rtevens James, carpenter Burrows Rev. Joseph, B.D. Rectory Coles Thomas, fanner,Brazennosefarm Stevens Joseph, carpenter Creek Mr. Edmnnd Cross Charles, 'Red Lion,' & butcher Wall William, butcher Creek Miss Elizabeth Durran James, wheelwright & carpentr Wells William, shoemaker Durran Mr. William Fenemore Henry, pig dealer Willett Charles, farmer, Manor farm Gilks Mr. Joseph Fenemore Josepb, pig dealer WilliferJosph.' Hopcroft'&Holt/&farmr Hoare Mrs. Ann Gulliver Joseph, schoolmaster Wilson Edmund Consett, surgeon Jones Mrs. Elizabeth, the Lodge Harris Ricbd. musical instrument makr Wing William, farmer &. estate agent, Lechmere John, esq Hiorns Antbony, farmer & cattle dealer appraiser &c Newcombe Miss Charlotte Lardner Robert, shoemaker Woodford David, baker Prentice Mrs. Harriet Leonard Wm. plumber,painter&glazier Woodford Jobanna (Mrs.), shopkeeper TRADERS. Loucb John, baker & beer retailer Woodford William, butcher Allen Josepb, miller, Cuttle mill Nelson Thomas, watch & clock maker Middle Aston. Austin George, beer retailer Parsons Nathaniel, gardener TRADERS. Brain William, shoemaker Plumbe Frederick, blacksmith Cother Wm. farmer& grazier,Manorho Burgin William, coal merchant & beer Rogera Robert, blacksmith Lansbuary Josepb, shopkeeper retailer Skelton William Tanner, farrier Painter Joseph, farmer, the Grange PosT OPPICE.-Francis Durran, postmaster. Letters from Wesleyan Chapel, ministers various Woodstock arrive at 5 a.m. & are dispatched at 8 p.m Free School, J oseph Gnlliver, master INSURANCE AGENT.- Royal Farmers' Fire, Life ~ CARRIER.-Charles Needle, to Banbnry, mon. & thurs; Hail Property Protection Society, William Wing I to Oxford, wed. & sat ATTINGTON, a very small village and parish, 1 mile from Tetsworth and 3 from Tbame. The population, io 1851, was 14. Deverell James,farmer, Attington farm I Webb Esth,er (Mrs.)lfarmr.Attiogton bo I Letters through Tetsworth ZALDON TOOT.-See TooT BALDON. z.a.:r.sCOT:B is a hamlet in the parish of Wro:xton, in is a small neat edifice, in the decorated style of the Hundred of Bloxham and Union of Ban bury, about 5 architecture, with a tower. Here is a school on the miles north-west from Banbury, and 26 north-west from National system, and a small charity for the benefit of Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. :Mary Magdalene, the poor. Wells Mrs Gilkes Thomas. shopkeeper & shoemkr Pritcbard Thomas, snrgeon Aris Sarab (Mrs.), farmer Goldby Sarah (Miss), schoolmistress Quarterman Richard, carrier Bazely Benjamin, carrier Harris Henry, shopkeeper & butcher Taylor George, stonemason Bazley William, farmer Jilkes Thomas, baker & grocer Taylor William, farmer Draper George, blacksmith J'tfcGreal John Henry, surgeon Williams George, farmer Gardner John, farmer Miller James, farmer Williams William, farmer Gardner Richard, farmer Miller William, miller & farmer Letters through Baobury National School, Miss Sarab Goldby, mistress • CARRIER TO & PROM BANBURY.-Richard Quarterman, to 'Unicorn,' thurs ZAMPTON is a small market town, and is the centre and £30 per annum; also National schools forboys and of an ecclesiastical district, comprising the parish of girls, endowed with a school-room and £48 per annum, Bampton, the parish of Shifford, with tl1e hamlets of chiefly derived from land. Hampton is not incorporated; Aston and Lew, Brighthampton, Cote and Chimney, 14 there is a Board of Inspectors, appointed under the miles west of Oxford, and 71 from London, in the Watching and Lighting Act, who maintain one watchman Hundred of Hampton, deanery of Witney, and diocese of and a beadle. The only public building erected lately is Oxford, situate on the river Isis and several tributary the substantial Town HaU, in the centre of the town. The streams. The living is a vicarage or three portions, in the streets and the general appearance of the town have been gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter; the Rev. Cranley of late much improved. It is situate in an agricultural Lancelot Kerby, M.A., the Rev. Dacres Adams, M.A., district, and depends greatly for its prosperity on the rural dean, and the Rev. Ralpb Barnes, M • .A.., are the agricnltural interests. · 'fhe markets are held on Wednes• incumbents; the Rev. John Alien Giles, n.c.L., and the day, chiefly for grain; the farmers transact their business Rev. Frederick Newman, M.A., are the curates. The in the evening at the inns. The fairs are held, one on the church, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, is an ancient 26th of March, which is nearl}' obsolete, and a large fair cruciform building, surmounted with a spire, of the for horses on the 26th and 27th of August. Frederick Anglo·Norman style of architecture, with more recent Whitaker, Esq., has a fine modern mansion situate to the additions; there are a gateway and other trifling remains north-east of the town. The population, in I851, was of the castle, said to have belonged to King John. The I ,708; the parish contains, with its hamlets, I0,250 acres, Deanery (commonly so called) is a fine Elizabethan house, principally arable. The Rarl of Shrewsbury and Mrs. of which considerable portions remain. The Grammar Elizabeth Deuton are lord and lady of the manor, school is an old picturesque house. Here is a Baptist Bampton has several charities. chapel; also a GramJDar sc4oo1, e~Jdow~4 with a house AsToN and Co.o\TB are hamlets fp this parish,