58 DlDCOT. BERKSHIRE. [KELLY'S houses have been built, forming a new village, which being Parish Clerk, George Robey. within the parish of Hagbourne, is known as North Hagbourne, or Didcot Xew Town, which see. The Lydalls POST & MONEY ORDER & ANNUITY OFFICE & Savings Bank or Lydells, who resided here in the seventeenth century, (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Berks recorded their pedigree and arms at the visitation of 1664 : added).-John William Sbeppard, postmaster. Letters Robert LydeIl, mentioned above, who married Martha, arrive by rail at 5.30 a.m. & 1 p.m. ; dispatched at 2.30 p.m. & 9.30 p.m. Telegraph office at station daughter of John Collins, of Betterton, being then 45. Colonel Lord Wantage v.c., K.C.B. is lord of the manor Assistant Overseer, H. B. Bush, Long Wittenham and principal landowner. The soil is chiefly clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The Church School (mixed), built for 64 children; average area is 1,120 acres of good arable and meadow land; attendanLe, 58; Mrs. Martha Skyrme, mistress rateable value, £7,014; the population in 1881 was 373. Railway Station, Christopher Henry E,'ans, station master
Allson Carl. B!enheim hou8e 1Davis George, farmer, New House farm Hobbs George Collins, coal &c. merch~ Ashworth Rev. John Ashworth M.A. Davis George, jun. carman Leech Benjamin, farmer [rectorJ Didcot Corn Bxchange Co. Limited (H. Napper George (Mrs.), farmer C3MMERCIAL. B. Bush, Long Wittenham, s~c) Napper WiIIiam, farmer Allan James pfrs.), WhIte Hart P.R DreweGeorge Augustus, Junction hotel Pr,ror John Thomas, grocer & draper Appleford Ann Christian (Miss),shopkpr & refreshment contractor, Station Shippen Hannah (Mrs.), Royal Oak P.B Blissett John, blacksmith IEvans Christopher Hy. station master Smith Henry, farmer Copeland E. S. &J. coal &c. merchants, GilIett & Co. (of Abingdon), bankers, Turner James, farmer Railway station \ (open market days 12 till I p.m) Williams William, Queen's Arms P.H Danbe John Hurst, Prince of Wales Great Western Provender Stores (John commercial hotel I Adams, manager)
DRAYTON is a parish in the Northern division of the register dates from 1754, the earlier ones having been county, hundred of Ock, petty sessional division, nnion and destroyed at the great fire of Drayton in the year 1780. The county court district of Abingdon, rnral deanery of Abing- living is a vicarage, separated from St. Helen, Abingdon, by don, archdeaconry of Berks and diocese of Oxford, 2~ miles Order in Council, November 4th, 1867; net yearly value south-west-by-south from Abingdon, I! miles north from £145, with residence, in the gift of Lord Wantage v.c., Steventon station on the Great Western railway, on the R.e.B., and held since 1878 by the Rev. Francis Edward borders of Oxfordshire and near the road from Abingdon to Robinson M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, J.P. for Berks Newbury. The Wilts and Berks canal passes through this and diocesan inspector of schools, Here are Baptist and parish. The church of St. Peter is a building of stone, con- Wesleyan chapels. The charities amount to about £22 sistingof chancel,nave,south porchand an embattled western yearly, and there are five cottages: for the poor at a very tower, containing 8 bells; the chancel was erected in 1872, small rent. Part of the Manor House, an ancient mansion, chiefly at the cost of the late vicar, and has a stained window was formerly a Catholic chapel, but is now used as a lumber representing The Crucifixion: the south porch, added in I room. Lord Wantage v.c., R.C.B., who is lord of the 1879, is furnished with parapets of carved stone, and in the manor, and Messrs. Caudwell and Dewe are principal land pavement is the following inscription inlaid in lead, "Keep owners. The soil is loamy and clay; subsoil, gravel and thy foot when thou goest to the house of God:" these clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and turnips. improvements were effected under the superintendence of The area is 1,950 acres; rateable value, £3,214; the Mr. E. Dolby, architect, of Abingdon: the font is plain population in 1881 was 622. cylindrical work of Xorman date; in the north wall of the Parish Clerk William Webb. lady chapel there is an aumbry, and in the south wall a '. , credence and piscina; there are also two other' piscinre in POST OFFICE( RaIlway Sub Office. Lette~s should ha, e R.S:O. the church: in digging a vault in the church in the year Berks added).-Rob.ert. Mattock, recelVer. Letters arrIve 1814 the workmen came upon some elaborate and beautiful 7"30 a.m. & I p.m. , dlspatc.hed. at 1.50 ~.m. & 7·30 p.m. old carvings in alabaster, representing The Betrayal, The The nearest ,money o~der office IS at Steventon R. S. o. & Scourging, The Crucifixion (now missing) and The Entomb- telegraph office at Abmgdon ment of Our Saviour, the. Adoration and The Annuncia- Parochial School (boys, girls & infants), built in 1874, for tion: the churchyard cross 'was restored in 1871: there are 130 children; total average attendance, 134; Miss l\Iary 200 sittings, about half being free. The earliest existing Ann Joyce & Mrs. Emma Clarke, mistresses Brewer George Brewer George, fruit dealer Lyford James, farmer & landowner~ Caudwell Charles, Manor house Brewer George, jun. Red Lion P.R Manor farm Cheer Miss, Drayton villa Brewer Joseph, fruiterer Mattock Robert, carpenter & deputy Deacon The Misses, The Limes Brooker Arthur, baker & grocer registrar for the Sutton Courtney Dunsdon James Caladine John, farm bailiff to Charles district, & post office Hyde Mrs. Caudwell esq. XevilIe James, wheelwright Lyford Misses, Gothic cottage Caudwell Charles, farmer & landowner, NorrintonBartholomew,frmr.&brick ma Robinson Rev. Francis Edward M.A.,J. P. Manor house Rust Martha C~Irs.), Wheat Sheaf P.R Vicarage Curtis Geor~e, beer retailer (out door) Wadsworth Richard, sacking maker Stone The Misses Dewe ThosNewton, farmer & landowner Winter James, shoe maker COMMERcrAL. Frost Albert, farmer, Gilborne's farm Winterbourne Charles, New Drayton Beesley James, fruiterer & potato dlr Hyde Jesse, blacksmith laundry Bishop Rebecca (Mrs.), farmer James John, shopkeeper Woodley James, cattle dealer Bradfield William Edwd. miller (water) Jones William, butcher & coal dealer DRY SANDFORD is an ecclesiastical parish formed in Sheepstead, is lord of the manor, and the principal land 1867 out of the civil parish of St. Helen, AbinQ'don, 3 miles owners are Benjamin Henry Morland esq. J.P. of Sheepstead, north-west from that town, in the NOl'thern division of the and Thomas F. Shepherd esq. The soil is various; subsoil. county, Abingdon petty sessional division, union and count~· bra~h. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats and root court district, Abingdon rural deanery, Berks archdeaconry crops. The entire area is 730 acres; the entire population and Oxford diocese; it includes COTHILL, i mIle south, a in 1881 was 273. hamlet in the ci,'il parish of Marcham, and is called Dry Parish Clerk & Sexton, Richard King. Sandford to distinguish it from Sandford-on-Thames (Oxon), only 5 miles distant. The church of St. Helen, consecrated POST OFFICE, Cothill.-George Ashfield, sub-postmaster. in 1855, is a building of stone in the Early English style, Letters from Abingdon by messenger, arriving at 7 a.m, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret & 12.30 p.m.; returning at 12.30 & 6.30 p.m. Marcham containing 2 bells; in the church is a marble tablet to :\lr8. is the nearest mOIley order office & Abingdon the nearest Mutrie, a considerable benefactrf'ss to the parish: there are telegraph office 170 sittings, 140 being free. The register dates from the Dry Sandford WALL Box cleared 6.15 p.m. weekdays & 1.15 year 1855. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £79. a.m. sundays net yearly value £172, with 9 acres of glebe, in the t!ift of Endowed School (mixed), erected in 1869, for 45 children; the Bishop of Oxford, and held since 1878 b:r the R,w. Henry average attendance, 37; the school is partly supported by William McCreery RA. of Trinity Collegf', Dublin, who subscription; Miss 1.\1al'y Louisa Smith, mistress resides at Oxford. 'The Rev. 13enjamin ~lorland M.A. of CARRIER 'f0 ABI::\GDON-\,\'illiam Bosbury, mono & fri