DIRECTORY.J SURREY. WEYBRIDGE. 455 Wills Charles Joseph, Westcott house Edwards Sara.h (Mrs.), refreshment rooms Ruffell Lizzie (Miss), ladies' school Wood Miss, W estcott hill Elliott Mary (MI'B.), shopkeeper Ryde Arthur, blacksmith Freela.ndJohn, fa.rmer, Coom'lefarm SebMtian C'..erald Noel Boyd M.B.c.s.Eng., COMMERCI.U.. Graysmark William, gardener toR. Bar· L.R.C.P.LOnd. physician & surgeon, Alb&n:v Cottage Home (Mii!9 Martha clay esq SpringfiPld Wailer, matron) Hunt George Albert, fly proprietor Shaw Charlotte (Mrs.), apart:s. The Mount .Arthur George J. joiner Jeater Henry & Sons, plumbers Skilton Frederick C. boot repairer Balchin A. & Sons, butcher;; Johnson John, beer retailer & furniture dlr Smith Annie (Miss), district nurse Balchin Frederick Jolm, grocer Landowners Ltd. Rookery estate office Surrey Trading Co. Limited, grocers Beacham George, Crown P.B Lewry William Robert, carrier Tucker Lucy M. (l'tirs.), Prince of Wales P.B Cannon Eliza. (l\Irs. ), shopkeeper Malll.lfield John & James, carmen Vince Frederick, boot repairer Canter Andrew John, builder )fason Henry Stephen, baker Wakeford Percy J. confectioner Capital & Counties Bank Limited (sub. Nightingale Alfred, beer retailer Walton Oscar, gardener to A. Brooke esq branch) (open. fri. from 11 to 3.30); Overington Oliver Arthur, coal merchant Westcott Cotiee & Reading Rooms draw on head office, 39 Threadneedle Pannell William, dairy Woodnutt Edward Henry, beer retailer street, London E c .Rose Waiter John, photographer WESTON GREEN, see Thames Ditton. WEYBRIDGE with OATLANDS PARK. WEYBRIDGE is a town and parish, with a station on the acres in extent, and are managed by 12 trus'ees (uader a scheme London and South Western railway, 19 miles from London, of the Charity Commissioners), who meet twice a year; the 8! west-south-west from Kingston and 3 south-east from holders pay 4d.. a rod yearly, and the rents are distributed in Chertsey, in the North Western division of the county, first coals a.nnua.lly among the poor of the village ; Mr. William division of Elmbridge hundred, Chertsey petty sessional Orchard is clerk to the trustees. In this parish and partly in division, union and county I'Ourt district, rural deanery of Byfleet is the racing track of the Brooklands Automobile Emly, archdeaconry of Surrey and diocese of Winchester. Racing Club, which has been laid out on the estate of H. F. The Ba& ngstoke canal and river Wey here form their junction Locke King esq. at an estimated cost of £150,000. The with tht> Thame.s below Shepperton lock. Under the provisions cement track is a pt>ar-shaped course 2! miles round and 103 f the "Lo al Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. feet wide and will admit of ten cal'8 abreast. The track was 73, Weybridge is governed by an Urban District Council of opened July 6th, 1907. Oatlands Lodge, the seat of the Hon. 12 members, formed in 1894. The village is supplied with gas Sir Charles Swinfen Ea.dy, Justice of the High Court, is a by the Walton-on-Thames and Weybridge Gas Co. from works mansion in the Italian style ; in the grounds are two groups at Walton, and with water by the West Surrey Water Co. of yew trees, planted by Queen Elizabeth, and the space The church of St. James, t>rected in 1847-8, is of stone in the between the groups is popularly known as " Queen Elizabeth's Pointed Gothic style, and has a tower with spire 175 feet in bow shot." Brooklands is the seat of Hugh Fortescue Locke height and containing a clock and 8 bells : the east window King esq. J.P. ; Noirmont of Patrick Riddell; and Field Place, and most of the other windows are stained, and there are many of Mrs. Y ool ; other principal residences are Bartropps, ancient and curious brasses, removed from the old church, Oakfield and Weybridga Park. Henry Edwards Paine esq. a.nd some m dern monuments, includin~S one by Sir F. Chantrey of Chertsey, is lord of the manor. The principal landowners to H.R.H. the Duchess of York, d. 6 Aug. 1820, whose remains are Hugh Fortescue Locke King esq. Sir C. Swinfen Eady, are deposited in a vault in the churchyard : the chancel John Alan Clutton-Brock esq. and 1\frs. Henry Yool The soil was rebuilt in 1890 : the church affords 1,000 sittings. is sand ; subsoil, gravel. The area is 1,330 acres of land The register dates from the year 1625. The living is a and 41 of water; rateable value, £69,447; the population in rectory, net yearly value £320, with 50 acres of glebe and 1901 was 5,329 and in 1911, 6,286. residen e, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since Parish Clerk, Thomas Ha.wkins. 1903 by the Rev. Spencer Richard Arthur Bull<>r M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford. St. l\Iichael and All Angels, OATLANDS PARK is an ecclesiastical parish, formed erected in 1874 as a chapel of ease, is a structure of brick 15 ,January, 1869, very pleasantly situated between Walton· in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave and aisles, and on-Thames and \Yeybridge, 1 mile north-west from Walton· has sittm~ for 550 persons, half being free. In the Port. on-Thames Railway station. The church of St. Mary, mere Park di"trict is a large 1\Iission room, holding 350 persons. erected in 1861, at a cost of between £4,000 and £5,000 The Cathohc church, dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo, and since enlarged at a cost of £3,000, is a building of stone was built by Mrs. Taylor, and adjoins Waverley House; in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, beneath the chapel, in a tomb, were temporarily deposited south porch, and a tower containing 8 bells inserted in 1913: the rema·ns of Louis Philippe, .King of the French, who died the tower was erected in 1905, from designs by Jl.'lr. Compton 26 Aug. 1850, and Amelie, his Queen, who died 24 March, Hall, architect, as a memorial to Mr. G. T. Woodrooffe, a 1866, and also the Dur>hess of Orleans, the Duchess de Ne m ours former resident in this parish, at a cost of £2,500, left for this and the Due de Conde ; the bodies of the Orleans familv, purpose by his stepson, Mr. H. G. Burgess ; there are 14 With. the exception of that of the Duchess de Nemours,- memorial windows, a finely carved pulpit of stone and marble, were removed to the family burying place at Dreux in France, and a marble reredos, presented as a memorial to the late Rev. in 1876 ; the Comte de Paris, who died at Stowe House, George Bowes Watson M.A. vicar here 18715-87, d. 1891. Bucks, 8 Sept. was here buried 12 Sept. 1894; there is a The register dates from the year 1861. The living is a residence for the prieat attached to the church. The Congre­ vicarage, net yearly value £420, derived chiefly from pew gational chapel, erected in 1864, is a cruciform building of rents, in the gift of the Bishop of \Vhchester, and held since stone in the Decorated style, with a tower and spire rising 1887 by the Rev. John Hands Townsend M.A. of Trinit:f to a he ght of 90 feet, and has sittings for 480 persons ; there College, Oxford, chaplain to the Jietropolitan Convalescent is also a Wesleyan chapeL The Meeting House of the Plymouth Institution and rural dean of Emly. The parish room was Brethr n, erected in 1873, has sittings for 80 persons, and built in 1887. The Working l\fen's Club was erected in 1884 J.P. there ~re Evangelistic and Gospel :Mission rooms. The ou a site presented by F. B. T. M. Coutts esq. Oatlands cemetery is 3 acres in extent, and has two mortuary chapels (formerly the seat of Frederick Duke of York & Albany K.G. under one roof and a residence lodge for the curator ; it is (d. 1827), and afterwards of Lord Francis Egerton) is an ex­ under the control of the Urban District Council. Holstein ceedingly beautiful domain, commanding delightful views over Hall and As3embly Rooms were opened Jan. 19, 1905, as a the river and valley of the Thames, with Windsor Castle tower­ public hall for dramatic performances, concerts, meetings ing in the distance : the mansion is now the Oa.tlands Park &c. ; the hall will hold 800 per3ons. Hotel, and stands upon elPvatoo terrace land, with a dry The Technical Institute, in Church street, was erected in gravelly subsoil: the hotel includes a dining saloon, 88 feet 1912, at a cost of £4,440, and is under the control of the Urban by 40 feet, and there are livery stables and motor garage at­ District Council. tached: in the grounds is a grotto, a magnificent structure of The Village Hall, in Princes road, built in 1883, is used for shell work, con'!tructed about 1747 by Henry Pelham-Clinton concerts &c. A Watermen's Regatta is held here yearly in K.G. 9th Earl of Lincoln, at a cost of about £40,000: a September. Here are some remains of a palace built by Henry father and his two sons are said to have been employed upon VIII. several of the gateways and undl'rground pas'<ages it for upward'! of twenty yPars: it consists of three chambers remaimng entire : the ground-;, formerly part of the park, are of elaborate Pxecution leading by passages into each other; now occupied as a private nursery ground and fruit garden.