Oxfordshire. Chipping Nor Ton
DIRI::CTOR Y. J OXFORDSHIRE. CHIPPING NOR TON. 79 w the memory of Col. Henry Dawkins M.P. (d. r864), Wall Letter Box cleared at 11.25 a.m. & 7.40 p.m. and Emma, his wife, by their four children. The rents , week days only of the poor's allotment of so acres, awarded in 1770, are devoted to the purchase of clothes, linen, bedding, Elementary School (mixed), erected & opened 9 Sept. fuel, tools, medical or other aid in sickness, food or 1901 a.t a. cost of £ r,ooo, for 6o children ; average other articles in kind, and other charitable purposes; attendance, so; Mrs. Jackson, mistress; Miss Edith Wright's charity of £3 I2S. is for bread, and Miss Daw- Insall, assistant mistress kins' charity is given in money; both being disbursed by the vicar and churchwardens of Chipping Norton. .A.t Cold Norron was once an Augustinian priory, founded Over Norton House, the property of William G. Dawkina by William Fitzalan in the reign of Henry II. and esq. and now the residence of Capt. Denis St. George dedicated to 1818. Mary the Virgin, John the Daly, is a mansion in the Tudor style, rebuilt in I879, Evangelist and S. Giles. In the reign of Henry VII. and st'anding in a well-wooded park of about go acres. it was escheated to the Crown, and subsequently pur William G. Dawkins esq. is lord of the manor. The chased by William Sirlith, bishop of Lincoln (I496- area is 2,344 acres; rateable value, £2,oo6; the popula 1514), by-whom it was given to Brasenose College, Ox tion in 1901 was 3so.
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