DIRECTORY.] . NEWBURY. 121 the middle of the 15th century. A gabled house, also "for faithful services in her dangers." By purchase~ in Northbrook street, where the pilasters and mouldings Hampstead Marshall and Benham-Valence became the­ with egg and tongue ornament, are most skilfully property of Sir William Craven kt. Lord Mayor of Lon­ rendered, is particularly noticeable. The house in which don in r6rr, and ancestl)r of the noble family of Craven, Lord Falkland was quartered before the first battle of in whose possession it still remains. Newbury is yet standing in Cheap street, and the room The area is 1,242 acres; assessable value, £38,6o5; the­ in which he partook of the Sacrament very early on the population in 18gr was 7,ro2, including 241 officers and. morning of the fight is still in existence, at the rear of inmates in the workhouse. the premises, in Faikland court. The most interesting Verger, John Edgar Stillman. srecimen of old buiUing;; that connect the town of New­ Apparitor, St. John the Evangelist, George Green. Lury witJ1 the palmy days of the clothing trade is the S.PEE~HA~!LA:SD forms part of the municipal Jacobean Cloth Hall, near the Market place: the upper borough of New bury on the north; it is a separate and part is suppmted by oak columns or piers, the interven­ ecclesiastical , formed Sept. 14th, 1844, from the ing Sfaces being closed up with brickwork splayed on of Speen. The church of St. Mary, erected either side of the pillars, and above is a bold cornice on in r 83o, is an edifice of stone in the Decorated style, large projecting brackets richly carved with grotesque consisting o: chancel, nave, and north and south porches heads. and a turret containing 2 bells: it was enlarged iu I 879 The soil on the banks of the Kennet forms water by the addition of a new chancel, designed by the late­ meadows in which beds of peat occur from 5 to 15 feet G. E. Street esq. R.A. and the remainder of the building thick; and when burnt the ashes form a valuable fer­ has been partly remodelled, at a total cost of £7,ooo; a tiliser: in these peat beds very many natural and arti­ peculiarity of this church is that it stands due north and. ficial antiquities have been discovered, a very complete south, and is said to have been the first church in the account of which is given in the " Transactions of the built on a new site since the Reforma­ Newbury District Field Club," vol. I872-5. tion: there are 789 sittings, 200 being free. The register­ The manor, on the accession of the Normans, fell to dates from the year 183I. The living is a vicarage, net the Earl of Perche, whose successor, Thomas, was slain yearly value £3oo, with residence, in the gift of the at the battle of :Lincoln in I2I7. The Bishop of Chalons, Bishop of Oxtord, and held since I875 by the Rev­ his heir, sold it to William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. Joseph Games Gibbs M.A. of Trinity College, Cam­ Queen Elizabeth gave it with Benham-Valence to John bridge and surrogate. The population in I89I was z,ogs .. Baptiste Castillion, a Piedmontese of her Privy Chamber, Church caretaker, Mr. Langton. OFFICIAL EST.ABLISH-'IE~TS, LOCAL I~STITUTIOXS &c. Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel sundays, 10 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Cheap street. not paid -William Henry Edwards, postmaster. Open daily, Pillar Letter Boxes at Station road, Bartholomew street,. except sundays, from 7 a.m. till 9 p.m.; sundays, for London road, Donnington square, road, The stamps & telegraph business only, from 8 a.m. till Bridge, Northbrook street & lVhite House (London road} 10 a.m & Stroud Green & Eastfields, lVestfields Dispatch. COUNTY MAGISTR_iTES FOR NE\YBURY PETTY Letters for Newbury & neighbourhood posted till 5·50 SESSIOXiL DIVISION. a.m. for rural posts & 6.40 a. m. for town; London & Tull .Albert Richard esq. D.L. Crookham house, Newbury,. t.own beyond, Reading & West of , 8.55 a.m. ; chairman Bath, Bristol & West of England, Reading, London & Jeune Right Hon. Sir Francis Henry K.C.n., M.A., D.C.L. London forward & , second post, I I a.m. ; ~-\.rlington manor, Kewbury East & "\Vest Ilsley, Compton Hermitage & Hampstead Scott Sir Francis David Sibbald bart. The Firs, Newbury Norris, second post, ro. 15 a. m. ; & Marl­ Archer-Houblon Col. George B. Hallingbury Place,_ boro', 11.45 a.m. ; London & towns in the north-east & Bishop's Stortford south-east divisions of the county, 1.55 p.m. ; (letters Baxendale Lloyd Harry esq. lodge, Newbury posted before 11 a.m. are delivered in Henler, Slough Best Marmaduke Head esq. Donnington grove, Newbury & Southall the same evening ; Reading as late as 5· ro Bingham Alfred John esq. Salder Hill ho. Speen, Newbury p.m. delivered same evening) ; also for Hungerford Eyre Henry John Andrews esq. Hall Dene, Guildford & Reading, north-western counties, Scotland & Ireland, Greene Benjamin Buck esq. house, Reading for delivery by first post in morning, 5. ro p.m. ; Michel­ Martin-Atkins Ernest Edwin esq. Down End, , dever Station & south & south-west of England, 7· ro New bury p.m. ; Birmingham, Midland & Northern counties & for Matthews Stephen esq. M . .i. Hill house, Newbury third town delivery, 4· ro p.m. ; London, Basingstoke, Mount William George esq. M.P., D.L., M.A. \Yasing Hungerford, Abingdon, Oxford &c. & "\Vest of England Place, Reading & South Wales (all parts), 8 p.m.; London & towns Mount William Arthur esq. \Yasing Place, Reading beyond; also Reading, Henley, Windsor, Maidenhead, Ricardo Lieut.-Col. Gerald Craven, Donnington, Newbury Slough & Southall, 9.30 p.m.; 4th town delivery 6.10 St. John Lieut.-Col. Edward John. Slinfold, Horsbam p.m. & letters posted till 6.50 p.m. are delivered same Slocock Charles Samuel esq. M.A. United University- night in Oxford. Sundays-Letters for Newbury & club, London SW neighbourhood posted till 5·50 a.m.; Hungerford & Southby Arthur esq. Aldem Bridge house, Newbury \Vest of England & South Wales; Micheldever Station Valpy Robert Harris esq. Enborne lodge, Newbury & south & south-west of England; London & towns The Mayor of Newbury & the chairman, for the time­ beyond; also Reading, Abingdon, Maidenhead, Walling­ being, of the Newbury Rural District Council, are e:x­ ford, Aylesbury &c. 6.30 p.m. all parts ofllcio magistrates Delivery. Clerk, F. Quekett Louch, Market place London & cross posts, 7 a.m.; London, Reading, Hunger­ Assistant Uerk, 1Yilliam Robert Pettifer, Market place ford & north & north-western counties, II.30 a.m.; Meet at the Municipal buildings, at 12 o'clock every­ London & Reading, 4.15 p.m.; London, Reading, Bath, thursday. Bristol, Devizes & Marlborough, 6.15 p.m. The office The places in the ~ewbury division are :-, Box­ is closed on sundays from IO a.m. Sunday delivery, ford, , , Bright-Waltham, Chie­ 7 a.m veley, , Enborne, , Greenham, Hamp­ Telegraph Office is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. ; sundays, stead Marshall, Hampstead ~orris,Leckhampstead,Midg­ 8 a.m. to Io p.m ham, ,Sandleford,Shaw-cum-Donningtcn,S.hef­ Town Sub Post & M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity• & Insurance ford East, Sheffcrd West, Speen, ,_ Office, Broadway, Speenhamland.-T. J. Freeman, sub· Thatcham, 1Vasing, "\Velford, "\Vinterbonrne, Wool­ postmaster. Bo:x closes at 5· IS, 8.25 & 10.35 a.m. hampton, 12.55• 3.30, 5·35• 6.30, 6.40, 8.2o & 8.50 p.m.; sundays, 5·35 p.m. Telegrams can be only handed in at this BOROUGH MAGISTRATES. office & telegraph money orders are issued, but not paid The Mayor & Recorder Town Sub Post Office, Shaw road.-Tom Rester, sub­ Coldicutt Frederick J. Welldale, Newtown road postmaster. Box cleared 7·40 a.m., 12.10, 6.50 & 8.5 Dolton Henry, Kendrick house p.m. ; sundays, 5·15 p.m Elliott Josepb, Northbrook street Town Sub Post, M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Hanington Harman Skinner, Northbrook street Office, St. John's, Derby road.-Arthur Floyd, sub­ Hemsted S. N ewbury postmaster. :&Jx closes at 8.15 & 10.30 a.m., r.15, H()pson Joseph, Northbrook street 3.4o, 5.30, 6.30, 7· 5 & 8. IO p.m. ; sundays, 5.20 p.m Jackson James Porteus, Lindum villas, St. John's road! Town Sub Post Office, .-Ellis John Ed­ Jackson A. Market place wards, sub-postmaster. Collections 12.45 & 6. 15 p.m. ; Knight Stephen, Holland house, Newbury