10-!" LITTLEWORTH. BERKSHIRE. [.KELLY's

LITTLEWORTH is a small village, with the hamlets ro~d from Faringdon to Abingdon. Wadley Hou11e, the­ of Thrupp and Wadley, formed into an ecclesiastical residence of Geo. Adams esq. is an ancient mansion of parish in 1843, in the Northern division of the county, stone, in tJhe cen~re o1 a fine domain, once the pro­ hundred, union, petfy sessional division, civil parish and perty of the Abbey of Stanley lmperatricis, Wiltshire, county court district of Faringdon, rural deanery of the so called irom its foundress, the Empress Maud; the Vale of White Horse, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese estate passed in the reign of Henry VI. into the hands of Oxford. Littleworth is to the north of the road from of Oriel College, Oxford: at the period of the Reforma­ Faringdon t-o Abingdon, 2 miles north-east from Faring- tion the house was occupied by Sir Thomas Unton kt. don and 12! west from Abingdon, The church of the whose descendants resided here till the commencement Ascension is a small and plain modern building in the of the seventeenth century ; Queen Elizabeth visited i~ Early English style, consisting of chancel (added in in 1574 and King James in 1603. Adjoining the mansion 1876, at a cost of £1,450 ), nave, west porch and a turret is the Royal Prize farm, an establishment for the training (ln the western gable containing one bell: the east win- of young gentlemen in farming pursuits, and noted for dow is stained: there are 200 sittings. The register the breeding of Shire horses, short-horn cattle and Oxford . dates from the year 1839. The living is a vicarage, Down sheep. · .net income £r42, with residence, in the gift of the Provost Thrupp hamlet is 2 miles north-west on the banks of and scholars of Oriel College, Oxford, and held since r876 the Isis, which here divides the county from Oxfordshire. ~y EAST LOCKINGE is a parish about 2 miles east- handsome- mansion of red brick with sione dressings, ill! ,§outh-east from Wantage and 3 south-east from Wantage mixed styles, standing in beautiful grounds which have­ Road station on the main line of the Great W!>stern been very skilfully laid out~ The bOII'l's-e contains a fine· railway, which passes through a portion of the parish ; collection of pictures by old and modern masters, and it is in the Northern division of the county, hundred, other works of art. The ·soil is clay, chalk and loam; _petty sessional division, union and county court district subsoil, bloor sand, chalk 3nd cfralk nrln"f. The crops ar6' •Of Wantage, and in the rural deanery of Wantage, arch- the usual cereals. The parish, whicn includes the ·deaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. The church tithing of B~terton, comprises 2,072 acres m land and II • of All Saints is an edifice of stone in mixed styles, con- of water; meable value, £2,652; the- population in r88I -sisting of chancel nave of seven bays, north aisle, north was 330 and in 1891 was ~I in tile rim al'ld 325 in the :and south porches, with a fine Norman doorway, and an ecclesiastical parish. embattled western tower containing 4- bells; the church By Local Government, Board Order 211rrMff, dated March was restored and enlarged in 1886, at a cost of £3,000 by 24, 1ss 7, tqe namlet of West G:Lnge wa:!- kmsferred from L~rd '\Vantage, when an organ was provided; there are East Lockinge to Ardington. 280 siUings. The register dates from the year 1546. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £320, with residence, Deputy Pmsh Clerk and Sexton, .Jo:h:n Turner. in the gift of Lord Wantage K.G.B. and held since 1893 by Post O:flice.'-Richard Qt;rartermaiine-, sub-postmast~r. the Rev. James George Cornish M.A. of Hertford College, Letters 1..rrive from '\Vantage; deliveries commence at 7 Oxford. Snerd1s charity of [15 yearly is for the school; a.m. & 2 p.m.; sun. 7 s.m.; dispatdled a.t 10.20 a.m .. Aldworth's, of £6 provides £4 for the deserving poor, and & 7 p.m. ; sun. II a. m- J'ostal onle-rs are issued here,. £2 for the parish clerk; there is also poor's land of 7 but. not paid. The nea:re.<>t money order & telegraph acreS. In 1882 Lord Wantage erected a subscription read- office is at Ardingt{)n, Y mile distant . ing room for the inhabitants. Lockinge House, the seat National School (mixed), ereeted in 186t, & enlarged in of Col. Lord Wantage V.C., K.O.B. lord lieut. of the r8g8, for roo children; average ai;;endance, 63; Bertie. county, lord of ths manor and sole landowner, is a very Sydney E. Gibbs, master Wantage Col. Lord V. C., K.C.B. (lord Whittle Matthew Fyfe Wm. head grdnr.to Lord Wanta~ 1ient.), Lockinge house; & 2 Carl· COMMERCIAL. Gibbs Iler.tie Sydney E. ovgan.ist ton gardens & Oarlton, Travellers', Bushell James, head gamekeeper to Haliam John. stnd groom .St. Stephen's, Guards', Athemeum Lord Wantage "Ealilt Lockinge Club Room (He-mry & Grosvenor clubs, London S ·w Cooper Jn.house stevrard,Lockinge ho Prior, caretaker) · C,ornish Rev. Jas. Geo. M.A. (rector), Eady Charles Henry, as•si~hmt agent Prior James, ~rocer Rectory & 'farm stewa.rd to Lord Wantage Quartermaine Rd. blacksmith,Post oft -wEST LOCKINGE is a hamlet 2 miles east from The crops are wheat. barley and beans. The area is 'Wantage, in the Northern division of the county, hnn- 837 acres; ratooble value, £1,151; the population in 1881 , dred, parish, union, petty sessional division and county was 8o and in I8gi, was 75· · court district of Wantage: it consists of one farm and Lett~rs by foot post from Wantage arrive at 7 a.m. & ·a few cottages. Lord Wantage is the principal landowner. 2.30 p.m. Ardington is the nearest post, money order ·The soil is clay, blue sand and loam; subsoil, blue sand. & telegraph office, about 1} miles distant Brown John, fatmer "LONGCOT is a township of Shrivenham, and was with of chancel, nave, D()rth porch, and a massive western Fernham township formed into an ecclesiastical parish in tower, in the Renaissance style, erected in 1722 and con- 1846, pleasantly situated in the Vale of White Horse, 4 taining 6 bells: in the chan-cel is a memorial window miles west-south-west from Faringdon, 10 north-west and inscr~bed brass to Caroline Loui~n Har~nc. from Wantage and 3! miles west-by-north from "Gffington sister of the Rev. Edward Harenc, incumbent of station on the Great Western railwhy, in the Northern this church, who died in 1853: the churchyard af­ division of the county, hundred of Shrivenha.m, petty fords a magnificent ·view of White Horse Bill, sessional division, union and county court distrif't of and contains• memorials to the families of Bo-wles, F'aringdon, rural deanery of the Vale of White Horse, 166g-1858; Williams, 1766-18oo and Fereman; to Anne archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford. There is Combe, x68o; Anne Archand, 1693; and Richard Heavens, a branch of the Wilts and Berks canal to a wharf near 40 years clerk, and 36 years schoolmaster of the parish, the village, and a small tributary of the river Ock, rising 18_.,5; the church was thoroughly restored in 1897, and in Little Coxwell, bounds the parish on the south and affords 200 sittings. The register dates from the year west. The church of St. Mary, an edifice of stone, is 167o. The living is a vicarage, united with Femham, a good example of the Early English style, and consists joint net yearly value £ x8o, with residence, in the gift of •