330 STR.ATTON .AUDLEY. OXFORDSHIRE. [KELL\'S Gosling Col. George J.P. Stratton Aud- Cox Charles, huntsman to the Bicester Palmer Charles, farm bailiff to John ley park hounds, The Kennels Blundell Leigh esq Kingscote John Bloomfield Deeley .Arthur, farmer Parli:er William, head gardener to Leigh John Blundell D.L. Manor ho Elliot Charles, gardener to Col. John Blundell Leigh esq Oswell Rev. William Henry LLoyd- George Gosling Phillips Joseph, blacksmith M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Golding Walter, gamekeeper to Col. Phipps Frank H. farmer, Elm farm Young George Archibald Wallace, George Gosling Sop er Frederick Jas. Red Lion P.H Stratton Audley hall House George, stud groom to the Stevens Fras. Archibald, carpenter Templer J ohn,miller (steam & water) ' Bicester hounds COMMERCIAL. Lane William, farm bailiff to William Treadwell William, farmer Eusby Edward, Plough P.H B. Deeley esq Wearing William, stud groom to Cattell William Arthur, baker & grocer ~ orton Alfred, carrier George A. W. Young esq Clarke George, gardener to George Nort,on Willia.m, farm bailiff to Col. .A. W. Young esq Geo. Gosling, Stra.tton .Audley park

• STUDLEY, see Horton·t:um-Studley.

SW,A.LCLIFFE is a village and parish on the road poor. Christopher Cooke's charity of £4 annually is .from Banbury to Shipston-Bloxham station on the Banbury and Cheltenham a fiat top to the north of the village are the remains of section of the Great Western railway, 5! south-west from Madmarston Gamp, a British work, pentagonal in shape, Banbury nnd about 23 north-west from Oxford, in the and covering an area of more than 5 aore~. .A.t Lower Northern division of the county, hundred, union and Lea, the residence of Ronald H . .A. Holbech esq. is pre­ county court district of Banbury, Banbury and Bloxham served a large collection of Roman coins, found at various petty sessiDnal divrsion, rural deanery of Deddington, times on that farm, IUld· there is a subterranoon passage archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford. The church of SS. leading from ths house to the Madmarston camp. Pete:~; arid Panl is a large edifice uf stone in mixed styles, Swalclifie Park, of about so acres, the residence of F. consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, ais-les, south W. B. Gubbins esq. is the property of Wenman Aubrey porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock Wykeham-Mmgrave esq. of Thame Park, who is lord of and 6 bells and a sanctus bell in a turret with crocketed the manor, and with New College, Oxford, and the pinnacles on the east gable of the nave: the chancel is Misses Forster, is the principal landowner. The soil ia Ea.rly English and ;re~ains three elegant sedilia and a light red sand and brash; subsoil, rock and sandstone. piscina under an arcade: on the sout·h sid·e is a priest's The crops are general. The area of the parish is 1,6]9 dour a~d l.n the angle a low-side window: at the ex­ acres; rateable value, £1,929; the population in I<)OI ternal south angle is a small Early English blocked was 255 in the civil and 755 in the ecclesiastical parish .. ~oorway and a round arch with dog-tooth ornament: Sexton, George Kaye. the rood-loft door remains, and a screen of Perpen­ Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephone Call Office (for places dicular date, with traces of painting and gilding: in the within a limited distance ).-Miss Patience Wells, sub· chancel are stones inscribed to William Loggin, gent. r postmistress. Letters through Banbury arrive at 7 1635; Sarah, wife of John Loggin, 1767; John Loggin, & 11.40 a.m.; dispatched at II-45 B.m. & 5.40 p.m 1677, and John Loggin A.M. fellow of New College, Oxon, ..,icar here and rector of Marston Sicca, Glos, r6g8-1731 ; Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1852, to hold 70 William Mayo M.A. vicar 1679-1734, and Maria his wife, children ; average attendance, 37; Miss Ade, mistress 1717; ·the Rev. John Caswell, 46 years vicar, r8o8, and Carrier to & from 1lanbury.--George Haynes, to the Elizabeth his wife, 1772, snd two children, 1761-6; there 'Fox' is also a brass to Thomas Merriott B.C.L. vic:n, r624, . until his death, 19 July, 1662; the pulpit and reading EPWELL is a township and village in tlhe civil parish clesk were given by .A.nne, widow of William Wykeham of Swalcliffe, situated in a hillv. district , on fhe border .esq. in 1639, and there are some pews with the date 1637 : of Warwickshire, 7 miles west-north-west fr·om Banbury the nave is of four bays, the north arcade being compose-d and 3~ from the village of Swalcliffe. The church of of three Norman arches and one wider arch of Early St. Anne, which stands on a rising ground west of the Englis.h .character: the so nth arcade is Tran~Bition Nor­ villags and wa,s originally Early English, is s small man: the south aisle dates from about 1280 and con­ building of stone, now chiefly of th€ Decorated and tains two recessed arches in the wall, on clustered Perpendicular periods, consisting of chancel, nave, sout-h -5hafts ; R monument in a Late Classic 11tyle to John, aisle or chapel and an embattled 14th century tower on Hawten, gent. of The Lee, 1598 ; a table tomb with the south side, forming a poroh and containing 3 bells: shields of arms, below a mural mSibford Gower. The Primi· Harris, 1635, and mural t.ablets to the family of Wal­ tive Methodist ohapel here will seat 150 persons. Tht>re ford, 1807-41 : a few old benches remain: in the nave, is a fuel allotment of ro acres for the poor of this town­ .above the arcade-s, are two apparently Saxon windvws, ship, producing £14 yearly, and the chapel land yields ~eeply splsyed and now opening into the aisles ; here £5 a year for repairs. Mr. John H. N. Page is lord of '1llw are various mural monuments of the Wykehams, 1 the manor. The principal landowners are Miss HartlPy, 1751-98: the south pmch is eleg-ant Early English~ a of Banbury, New College, Gxford, and the vicar. The bandsome rood screen remains, nnd the church has wil is light and sandy. The crops are O'eneral. The timber roofs throughout: all the windows, some of area is, 1,139 acres; rateable value, £1,414; the popn· which are memorials, are of mOO ern stained g:ass: the lation in 1901 was 217. -church was restored in I 854-5 bv subscriptions and e Post Office.-Edwin Turnel", sub-postmaster. Letters local rate, and affords 300 .sittings. The register of through Ban bury arrive at g. 15 a.m.; dispatched at baptisms and burials dates from the ye-ar 1558; mar- I 3-45 p.m.; no delivery on Sunday. Sibford Gower i~ ri11ges, 1567. The living is a vicarage, with Shutford the nearest money order office, 2' miles dista11t, .t annexed, joint net yearly value {,224. with residence, S·henington, 2 miles distant, the nearest telegr9pb in the gift of New College, Oxford, and held since 1904 Dffice lly the Rev. Thomas Jordan Moulder M.A. of Balliol Elementary School (mixed), for 100 children: average College, Oxford. attendance, 31; Mrs . .Alice Clavdon mistress John toggin's charitv gives [3 yearly to thi~ parish, . . .. ' Carrier to & from Banburv.-Edwin Turner, 1 T.,Dl- di-~tJributed in bread. The rent of the common land pro­ • duces about £5 yearly, which is given in coal to the perance,' man. thurs. & sat