DIRE :TORY, J BERKSHIRE. CRIEVELEY. 59

diocese of Oxford; these· townships lie to th~ south East Chailow Elementary school (mixed), built in z856 & of the Great Western railway, which has a station enlarged 1892, & again in 1899, for ISO children; here ; th" Wilts and Berks canal passes through. East Miss Ethel Beatrice Vince, mistress Challow is one mile west from Wantage. The church WEST CHAI.LOW is 2~ miles north-west from of St. Nicolas is a small edifice of stone, consisting Wantage. The church of St. Lanrence is a plain struc­ of chancel, nave, south aisle, and a small tower (built ture chiefly in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles. in 1884) and containing 2 bells and a clock added in and consisting of chancel, nave, north porch of wood I9II, in commemoration of the coronation of His and an Early English bell-cot on the western gable, Majesty King George V. ; the Decorated east window, of three lights, has flowing tracery; the chancel arch containing 2 bells ; the chancel is Perpendicular and is Early English, and the nave is separated from the has a pre-Reformation screen; the north doorway is aiEie by an arcade of three good arches of the s•me 1 ransition Norman, and the porch Perpendicular; the period; the aisle is modern; the west doorway is church was restored in 1892 at a cost of £415 ; the modern, but has an Early English stoup on the south communion plate includes a pre-Reformation patea and side; the font is plain and cylindrieal ; the church a chalice of the 17th century ; there are 66 sittings. was enlarged and restored in I858, when many details The register dates from the year 1653. Neerly opposite of the old building were destroyed, and much of its the vicarage house is an old house, called " The Col­ beauty marred : there are 165 sittings. The register lege," perhaps originally tbe abode of a priest. L&dy datea from the year 1712. The living is a vicarage, net Wantage is lady of the manor and chief laadowaer. The soil is strong clay; subsoil, blue clay. The ocops yearly value £235, with 9 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held since Igoo are wheat, beans, oats and turnips. The area is r,o7o by the Rev. Henry .Tames Moore Sanders, Assoc. of acres ; rateable value, £3,377; the populatioa iR IQ If King's College, London. Here is a Mission hall. was 209. There formerly existed 'between this village and Wan­ By Local Government Board Order 2o,68Denchworth ; some of to West Challow. the stones, it is said, may be seen in a paved pathway Post k Telephone Call Office, East Challow.-Frsnklin east of the church. At Woodhill is an old house, occu­ Barnett, sub-postmaster. Letters througll Waatage pied by Mr. Sharpe, and containing an ancient fire­ arrive at 6.-45 a.m. &; 12.5 p.m. ; dispatched at 8 place, over which are the initials of Richard and Mary k II.I5 a.m. & 5.30 k 7.40 p.m.; sunday, ro.3o a.m. Bray, and the dats 1676. Here are the extensive Telegrams di!patched, but not delivered. Wa.atage is works of Messrs. Nalder and Nalder Limited, for the tbe nearest money order &; telegraph office, 1 mile manufacture of agricultural implements. Stepben distant, for delivery William M. Silver esq. is lord of the manor; the Post Office, West Challow.-James HermaH, &ub•post• Ecclesiastical Commissioners and W. B. Wasbrough esq. mas\er. Letters through Wantage arrive at 7·45" a.m. are t.he principal landowners. The area of East Chal!ow &; 1a.3o p.m.; dispatched at. 7·-45 k II a.m. & 12.30. ~s z,657 acre&; rateable value, £6,139; the population 5·'5 &; 7·"5 p.m.; sunday, 10.5 a.m. Childrey, half a ln 19II was 490· mile distant, is the nearest money order & telegraplo office . The population of the ecclesiastical parish in 19II Challow Station Wall Bo::r, cleared at 4·45 & 8.55 p.m. ; was sax. sunday, 10.30 a. m By Local Government Board Order 20,68g, dated The children of West Challow attend the oehools at March 24, I887, Warman cottages &c. were tran,;ferred East Chal!ow k Childrey from Letcombe Regis to East Challow. Challow Station.-Archibald Claude Drew, station .mastr EAST CHALLOW. Harris Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper WEST CHALLOW. Bennett Waiter Lovegrove, Hedge hill Harris John William, sanitary in­ (Marked thus • po•tal address Kirkpatrick William Hy. Kirklands spector & surveyor to Wantage Faringdon.) Nalder Edward William Rural District Council, No. I dis­ Sanders Rev. Henry Jatneo Moor& Reynolds Mrs. Challow park trict, Rock cottage A. K.C. (vicar), Vicarage Stroud Miss, Sbirley cottage ffoare Henry, nurseryman Burson Joshua John, farmer, Manor Wallis Arthur John, Kirklands Jefl'eries Chas. farmer, Marsh farm farm & Cornhill farm Lovegrove Jsph. Goodlake Arms P.H *Cook Harry John T. Prince of Midwinter Hedley David, horse dealr Wales P.H COll1lE1!0IA.L. Mofl'att Alice (Mrs.), boarding house *Frogley Wm. farmer, Petwick farm Alder Brook, general dealer Monk Selina (Mrs.), Coach k Horses Glover George, farmer, Coppice lease Ball Alfred, painter, Challow road P.H Herman J ames, tobacconist Frogley Charles Herbert ( exors. of), Nalder & Nalder Limited,agricultural *Hiett William, Leather Battle P.H farmers, East Challow house & mechanical engineers *Langford R. S. & Sons Limited,coal, Frond Leonard, farmer, Canal farm Sharpe Dennis, farmer, Woodbill frm hav & straw & seed mers. Station Griffin Elizabeth (Mrs.), haulier, Simmons Oharles, haulie.r • *Too.mer John & Sons Limited, coal Challow road merchants, Challow station West Daniel James, farmer,Garlands CHARLTON, see Wantage. CHARNEY, or CHAltNEY :SASSETT, see Longworth. CHIEVELEY is a parish and village with the surrounded by elms, affords a fine view of the downs chapelries of Oare and Winterbourne and the tithings towards tbe west, and contains a massive tomb to of Cnrridge and Snelsmore, in the Southern division of Elizabeth, wife of Charles Long, ob. 1st Jan. r76'l, and the county, hundred of Faircross, petty sessional divi­ others to the families of Rathband, Halcomb, eney, sion, union and county court district of Newbury, and Basing, Preston, and Smallbone, and to Joseph Whit.e, in the rural deanery of Newbury, archdeaconry of Berks H years parish clerk, d. 14 June, 1871: the chancel and diocese of O::rford. Chieveley is on the road from was restored in 1902 at the cost of the ISt and last Newbnry to Abingdon, 5 miles north from Newbury, 22 Baron St. Helier P.C., G.C.B. (d. 1905): there are from O::rford and 2 north-east from Hermitage station on 6oo sittings. The register dates from the year 156o. the Didcot and Newbury branch of the Great Western The living is a consolidated vicarage, net yearly ~alue railway. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a plain £737• including 220 acres of glebe, with reoidence, building of rubble stone, partly in the Early English in the gift of Robert B. Attlee esq. of Westcott, style, with same traces of Norman, and consists of Putney S.W. and held since 1909 by the Rev. Bernard chancel, nave of five bays, north aisle, south porch and Henry Bravery Attlee M.A., B.D. of Merton College, an embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 Oxford. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist and bells: the east windows are stained: in the chancel and Wesleyan chapels. Several bequests and endowments at the west end are various memorials to the Pocock have been left for the poor, amounting to £4o yearly, family, and other memorials to Lncy Fincher, oh. 22nd hesides £35 for educational purposes and a church March, r667-8, and Catherine Stephens, d. 12th Oct. charity producing £75 yearly. Arlington Manor, the r86o; Rev. George Wyld, 48 years rector, d. New seat of James Ashton Fairhurst esq. M . .!. is a fin~ Year's day, 1837; and to Robert Hillman, gent. 1748; mansion of stone, standing on a slig-ht elevation in the the nave was rebuilt in 1873, from thP plans of Mr. midst of a well-wooded country. The principal land­ J. W. Hugall, architect: in the chancel is an ancient owners are Edward J. S. Wasey esq. J.P. who is lord l>ood frame from which the Lenten veil was anciently of the manor, William .Arthur Mount esq. M.P., J.P., augpended : the churchyard, to which half an aere, the J. A. Fairhurst esq. M.A. and Oscar W. Rayuer esq. gift of W. Fisher esq. was added in the year r894, is The soil is sandy loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief