Contents

Acknowledgements  2

Foreword  3

Florence Davidson and family- a biography  4

Introduction   7

The History of Tadley  9

Bibliography  60

Jndex  61

Acknowledgements

Tadley anti District History Society (TADS) had expre  ed a dc ire to re-publish Florence n.widson's book on a numbr  of occasions. We Me grateful for funding from Basingstoke and Deam·Borough Council which finall} enabled us to start work on the project.
llowcvcr, re-publication would not have been possible without copyright permission to re-print. It was .1 difficult search, made particularly so by Florence and her sisters' lack of immedintc reiJtiws. Our main debt of grntitude goes to Joy Watts, who we thank most sincerely for granting the copyright to TADS. I Jere we mu:.t ,tlso thank Gill Cooper for aiding w. in our search for Pearl and sub!)equently Jor.
A book of this kind could not have been produced without the
help of numerous people and the Project Tc.tm (Peggy Anscom be, Bob Hrown, Ian Burn, Pal Galvin, !leather  Lawn, Carol Stevens and Derek Ward) arc indchlt.!d to those who have given so generously of tlll'ir time and knowledge.
We wil>h to offer parti o.ular thank!. to the following people:
jean Rurn for re-typing the original text, m,tde especially difrkult beca use of its odditie" in l>pelling, punc.tuotion and grammar; Ali'>Oll Burn and Vickie Ward \vho so diligently checked nnd proof­ read the book and Sylvia Wood for her patnstaking transcription
of John  lulford\ will. Wt: also thank Barbara Applin, Revd Peter Cooper, Guy Elliott, Vii. Latson, Grace impson. Ken Smallbone, John Owen Smjth and Iris St<lnley.
We abo gratefu l ly record the ready assistance of the staff at
the following libraries and archival repositories: AWE, the British Libr<Jq, the Public Record Office ( Kew), llampshire Record Office, Uni\crsit) of Reading I  ibraT)• Basingstokc Library, Hampshire i\luseum Service:,, the WilliMuseum, Winchester Local Studies
I  ibrary, Readjng Local Studies Library, Iadley Ubrary, Ncwhurr
Library and the Probate Office (London).
l·inally, thank you Florence for your original hook, wtthout which there would be no new edition!

2.

Foreword

Jn 1999 TadJcy and District l l1story Society (TADS)  published Around Tndley - fact and fnb/1!, an encyclopaedia of information about  Iadley and the surrounding area. During 1997-98, when
we were researching n1aterial for the book, we asked local people
for help and information. We kept being refered to Florence Davidson's The History ofTtulley, published in 1913. We  were shown but never allowed keep, several old re-typed editions of this long out of print publication. One almost felt as if the
Antique!> Roadshow came to T.H.Ilc}' someone would produce a copy for examination and valuation!
Over recent years TADS has tried to keep the memor}' of the book alive by suggesting re-publication, whilst at the same time rec;carching the life of its author, Florence Davidson.
In 2007 Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council publicised a scheme of grants awarded for projects promoting the heritage of the Borough. TADS thought a proper new edition of the book might be a suitable project for consideration. We discusst.:d the purpose of the reprint and how we might add to the original. Eventually it was decided that we should seek to make more people aware of this historic document by imprm ing the
prc-.cntation, while adding to it with comments, background
information and where necessary modern interpretations. As part of the project copies of the book will be donated l<> local schools to encourage the younger generation to take a greater interest in the history of their pan of the Borough.
Our thanks go to Ba ingstoke and Deane Borough Council
for their financial backing which has given us the freedom to undertake additional research and produce such a professional edition. We hope rou enjo) florence's book.
Tadley nnd Districtllistory Socit>t)'. 2008

J

Florence Davidson
and family- a biography

Florence Alexandrina Grieg Davidson (1857-1955) was born
in the United States of America, the youngest of six daughters born to Mary and William Jarvis Davidson. Her mother was American but William was born in Scolland in 1813- 14. His occupation  in 1850 is recorded as a merchant. He had obviously
·ved in America for some time prior to this as their eldest
daughter, Mary, was born there in 18.p.Some time between 1860 and 1871 the family moved to England as the 1871 census shows Mary and William with five daughters and two servants lliving
in Nottingham. rn 1868 daughter Mary had married Augustus Bolle de Ia Salle. No record of Mary, Augustus and their three children are found after 18S1. Following the death of her father, in 1876, Florence, her mother and the other four unmarried
sisters: Lucy, Jessie, Charlotte and Lillias Campbell, moved south to Portsmouth. Jn 1882 Lucy married Peter McQuid and by a strange coincidence when Peter died in 1909 the address on his will and probate was 'The Laurels', Basingstoke.
The main recorded place of residence for Florence, her
three sisters and their mother, remained in Portsmouth. In
1904 their mother, Mary, died aged 84 years. The sisters were 'of independent means' haviJlg inherited income and property in the United States. No doubt  to occupy their time and intellect, J.:lorence and Lillias took up \.vriting. The British Library catalogue records 19 fiction and non-fiction  titles written by
Lillias, with later re-prints of some books. Her first, Hints to lady
travellers at home and nEn·oncl, was published in 1889. One other book attributed to her is in the Devon collection of children's books at Exeter Library. Her writings continued  to be published right up to 1935, the year after her death.

THE  HISTORY OF T-\DLEY by Florence Davidson ......_,

Possibly inspired by her sisters' achievements, Florence had what is believed to be her first book, King Alfred's Winchester:
the Ancient Capital of England, published in 1899. She developed a passion for the history of north  Hampshire, perhaps due in part to the fact that Lillias had a country house in Pamber Road, Silchester known as 'Cole Byron'. Jack Lambden (1904-99) lived near 'Cole Byron' as a boy and recalled that he, with other local lads, would go there to weed Miss Davidson's garden, for which they were paid. This is supported by a reference in The Book ofSilchester by James Thomson c1915 (vol1 page 150), where
he states"...Miss Lillias Campbell Davidson and Miss Amy
McLaren, both well-known authoresses, have country houses in Silchester". It would seem probable that Florence spent much of her time in this area writing a succession of local histories.
Florence and her four elder sisters remained dose  throughout their lives, all residing in Hampshire. Each lived to a venerable age: Lucy died in 1929 (aged 84 years), Lillias in 1934 (aged So years), Jessie in 1936 (aged 88 years) and Charlotte in 1944 (aged
94 years). When Florence left Hampshire we do not know, but
she later moved to Exeter where she died in a nursing home on
13 April1955. What such a prolific and enthusiastic local historian did for the forty years following her last known publication
in 1914-15 is not known. Her book The Romance of Children's
Games now lodged, like her sister's book, at Exeter Library, may have been written later. It has, however, become apparent, through  recently acquired letters sent by Florence, that by 1927 she was living in Exeter. At the age of 70 and conscious of the wealth of research material in her possession, it appears that over the next few years she dispatched documents to relevant interested parties, libraries and archival repositories. Florence
is buried in Exeter Higher Cemetery, Heavitree. Sadly no headstone  marks the site of her grave and no obituary was submitted to either the Exeter or Portsmouth local newspaper.
In the years prior to her move to Exeter, Florence lived in Southsea, where her sisters Jessie and Lillias lived at the time of their deaths. The sole beneficiary of Florence's will was Pearl (Montagu  Lowe) Jones of 8 St Ronan's Road, Southsea. We believe Pearl may have been a housemaid or companion to Florence, and perhaps also her sisters.

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THE HisTORY OF TADLEY by Florence Davidson

To obtain the copyright to re-publish The History ofTadley, we took advice from the executors of her probate, The National Westminster Bank, who confirmed that we should contact
Pearl (Montagu Lowe) Jones or her executors/relatives. After considerable research the necessary permission was granted by Joy Montagu Hazelhurst Watts, a first cousin to Pearl who had died in 1989.

We have been able to identify a considerable number of
Florence's published works:
King Alfred's Winchester: the ancient capital of England (Reprinted from 'The Englishwoman's Magazine'); Warren & Son, Winchester, 1899.
The history of Monk Sherborne parish; Monk Sherborne  and
Pamber parish magazine, 1907-08.

Monk Sherborne: a history of the parish and priory; C E Symonds, Basingstoke, 1909.
The history of the Benedictine Priory of Monk Sherborne; Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archeological Society, vol vii pt 1 (pp 101-109), 1914.
A research manuscript for Monk Sherborne is lodged at
HRO. 94M71 PZ5. It is not attributed to any author but TADS informed  them in 2007 it was believed to be written by FD 	it has the same typed hallmark as the Silchester MS.
The history ofSilchester, Cl9IO; typewritten copy.

A research manuscript for the two Silchester books is in the Local studies library at Reading - copy in TADS archive. Probable date 1910.Annotations confirmed in text -1913/1930. The history ofTadley/The history ofTadley parish; C E Symonds,
Basingstoke, 1913.

The history of Silchester parish, 1914; typewritten copy.

The quaker burial grounds at Baughurst; Proceedings of the
Hampshire Field Club and Archeological Society, vol vii, 1914.

The romance of children's games; typewritten copy.

Lodged at Exeter Library; part of the Devon Collection of early
(pre 1840) children's books.

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Introduction

This book was probably the last of Florence Davidson's local histories  to be published. ln it she  places the history  of Tad ley within  the context of events  that were occurring locally, nationally and  internationally.
It is a simplistic historical  document, written  more as an interesting read than as a reference source. It contains a considerable amount of information, some  more  historically accurate than  the rest, which has been used over the years by the local population to regale family and friends.
With  the decision to re-print this history, leaving the original text unaltered, came the necessity to clarify and expand  certain aspects of her work. The book is laid out with the original text on the right, odd  numbered pages, with selected words and
phrases  highlighted in red. Opposite, on  the illustrated pages, are the explanatory notes. To maximise the space for these notes, the authors name  has been simplified to 'FD'.
Some  words and  phrases  may occur  more than once  i n the text. It has not always been possible to include an explanation at their first mention as some  pages contain far more information than others.
There are throughout the text a number of spelling  oddities
which we have tried  to correct  or explain, where possible  via the notes. For example, on  page 22, FO refers to 'slates' when we believe she means 'slats' but on page 44 we can find no
meaning or alternative for the word 'bough'. All punctuation and
grammatical errors remain as origina lly typed.
Florence  used a mix of primary and secondary source material but did  not include a bibUography  to identify  these. They have only become apparent via ongoing research carried out by TAOS. We have added  a bibliography which we hope, will enable  readers  to pursue  further their own  research of the
history  ofTadJey.

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the tnpp:ng of locally grown Willow
wOII'ded11 good ln<or<•e ror Tadley m!'O dnd women
mast ThP ir1J11\ (nuand < corns> of
0c1k, t,.   h .tnrl oth·forest  trees
rude Cr.:k'  roughltOf un ktifully
b. It
UIUVf'nlty of Rt'adtng CJ<cavat•ons at Sikht'Ul'r, Sumtnt'r 2004   '.deyand Dtsrr.ct HSuJty

Calk!va Atrebdlum meamng Place or town 111 tilt' woods of the Atr · was an Iron and then Roman
I. founded byAtrtbat
trollC probably bl>tween 50 and 10
BC It K •1 '"ll11h<.ml archaeologt<al sill' h!«clil •',unltke most othl'l Rorn.m town\ tn Bnla•n.11 was lornpl(•IPiy .tbandonedalter they k.>lt  md Woh  never bwll over The lollnwy ungonalty Nv•• been chosen
IJC'<atM11 w.n hkb.'fl and pro:ec IP-<1
by 11s enwonmer11, a gra.-el sour
CJVefloolmg the I oddon Va l'y  about
90 mctll!'S abolle $('1) le---e!  w :it
commandlf19 V eM roea<.t and
$0Uth and the rriy aceover level
ground from the IM!St  Large scale
Pxplor.BtiOII ul Ca eva ltf}l be9an
tn  1866 wtl.h further  wa<k  111 1892
The 5111! was re-buried 111 1908-09
IIJrnp hlre County Counc1l bought
till' Rorn,lll Town  Ill'10 1979. SIOCI' whto a h'\(WCh programlll!' by thu rv of Read•ng has been ooqOtng wtth annual arthaeoiog cal uncll'rullen dunng the summer

The History of Tadley

To trace the history of the Parish, I  must go back many hundreds of years, when  there was no church  and  no houses  in the village and when all this part of Hampshire was a dense forest that reached  from Windsor to far beyond  the borders of Berkshire. The trees grew thickly together, oak, birch and elm being grown on the low lands,  while fir and  beech was found  on the higher ground. The underwood was so thick that it was very difficult
to force ones way through it, as there was no one  to thin  it and cut down  the old timber, while the many streams and marshes in it overflowed  after rain and  made the way quite  impassable. In these marsh  meadows and on the sides of the streams the withcy(willows) grew in abundance. All kinds of wild and savage animals which are not found  to-day  in England  lived
in the overgrown forest. Wolves used to prowl through the underbush, great wild boars with huge tusks fed on the fallen beech mast, while badgers and wild cats li ved on  the banks and in the trees. The few people who were in this part of Hampshire lived outside of the forest on  the Downs near  Basingstoke and kingsclcre, in rude huts made of the branches of oak and  birch, and the first paths tha t were made through Pamber Forest were the foot tracks that led  from one of these groups of huts to another, and  many of them are the same that you walk over
to-day. These  people were very savage and  wild, living on  Lhe
game they caughL or killed with their bows and arrows, and dressing in the skins of the animals they had eaten .
Then  the Romans came to .England and conquered  it,
building a large city al Silchester, where the remains  of houses and Temples have been found  inside the old city walls which we can still see to-day.
These  Roman  people who over ran a great part of England
brought many  things into our country that were w1known before, but which are very common now. The tlritish  sheep

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Thl' ear aest rfferenc:e  to lddley IS In909 AD lh  WiiS to a wooa iMliCtt was gr.oen as pano' :he M.tno!' of  rton to fr tnest.Jn.the
BtS!lOP of W•nchestet It rs beheved
to relatf" to the tnore recent plate
'   namto Br hopswood The early relt'rCiltt'i  to T.Jdly places  •t at rnod••rn f',tmber End By the twelfth centurv •I Is r >fened to as the manor of Tad r:y bin '"ter becomes the
I'NllOf of W tnfo«< 01Wtord In
th  f fteenth century the manor o'
WyfOfd and the wood at idd!e)'.
.t5o referred toas 't!dley P<Y< • pa$Sed trtto the hands ol 1M l.udlow famtly W11h whom they remamed

unt I 1641 Thl' med;eva  s:e of the VIllage of Tad!t_oy IS bell<?o'fd '0 be nearf'e•ers Churchnadley Place wrth evldence or ao e¥1y
settlement rn 1t1rs area documer ted
From the !>(1\/l'nteenthcentury.for oiPJliOtJ!Illlh•ly 250 yea1s.the Vlllagl' w.1s IO{ijteflln what 1s now the South ladl1•y Cons.ervallOII Area Gradually
11 C•lliiiiCfl'<l northwards d though Its
!JIOW\h WM flO!Stgf\lftC.JIIIUnlll II"'
d   elopment of Aldermaston .Jirl.eld
n World War II .and the subsequent
IJUildlfl9 of the Atomte V.eapons
Rcsea!Ch Et AWRE (oow
AWE)

WELCOME	TO
TADLEY
Please drive  carefully

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4s	ntt   'lUih-eastern Europe, they
tv  J 	1ly aeld•C.   ke 0dvour
qu10ce A fC low fru•l natM! to the
E ·'Cl!'"'    North  AfrtCil and Iran Round
or pe r  IMptd the fruit IS arom<tttc.
wry h,ud clntl tdrt, and nch In
tam	•tf p ,•rtrr1 It 	'Pd to O'lc'l'e conle  1   1ery loqueurs dl d jclffi mulberr es Fru1wlth a similar
e to the! blaCr.befry

ffi Alcrnes art> U'..ua.'ly ea!en r;m
01 c.an be IMd1n the same wirf bla01lerrlt'$
AngJo.Suons lhe people wflO
oved In England d;. nng tnt periOd
of £ niJIISh hrstory  b<>twi'£'11 Ute
dt-p; IIUH' olthe Rom ns an<1 1066 lim}!' Gr•rrn.tllll !>eltlerIncluded Angle•'.md <..1•oos, and Jutes who "11'- d 10 lio mpsh 11
'Welcome to Tadlro..d srgn on tl<h ter Road, Autumn 2007; T.ldlt')' 4l!ld D Wicr H Stey SotiPiy

T1111 llhTlii\Y 111 ·1 \1>11' l1;'  Florence Davidson·

were all horned like rams, the Romans introducing the breed of hornless sheep such as we find on all our farms at the present time.They also brought  pheasants into the country and showed the Hampshire people how to weave baskets from the witheys, and to make their pottery on a wheel, as before this time it
had all been shaped  by hand. Besides this they planted in our neighbourhood fruit and other trees not seen here before. Pear, damson, cherry and peach, mcdlers quince  mulberries and figs. Walnut trees, poplars, chestnuts, sycamores, peas, radishes and box were all introduced  by them, wh ile the grape ,ines that grow up the cottages, and the laurels that border our gardens we
owe to them as well. The Romans stayed on in England for some
300 years, and while they were here, about the year 313 A.D. Christianity was proclaimed as the religion of the country, but the vast majority  of the people remained heathen as they
had been before, worshipping many strange Gods, such as the sun, moon, th e rivers, the springs and the trees. The Romans left England early in the year 400 A.D.,  and soon after this the
country  was conquered  by a race of Saxon people from Europe, who on settling here were called Anglo-Saxons. They were
a strong set of men with blue eyes, fair hair and fair skin, who thinned  the forests and built settlements on their borders. Tad ley most likely had its beginning in these days, as the word "ley" is
a Saxon word and means a clearing made in a wood as a pasture
for cattJe. Some of the names of the fields in the parish date back to these far off days, such as "Picked" which is the Saxon Pickt
a pointed or triangular  piece of land, and which we still have in
Picked Close and Picked meadow.
The clearing in the Forest at TadJey (which is also spell as Tederlei, Tithcrley and Tuderley in very old books and maps) must a t first have been a very small one, and the few people who were here had only turf huts to Live in, that had no windows,
the smoke coming out a hole in the roof. Oxen were used to
plough the land, with often eight oxen harnessed to one plough. In harvest time onl y the heads of the corn were cut off by hand, and the straw was gatJ1ered afterwards. As time went on the country  became more civilized, the Saxons were conquered
by the Normans, a race of people who came from France, and

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,.  -... thn 'rowo or surroyal
..,  t     P    ar
rector of Overton t . a
b)' a patron In
tl  til..                ur;0\lefton was  n
east pariSh to adiTUIIISter  It was oftl'll
g.ven to the 89top'5 Ml or dlapla n
.-.ho would fbe away from
the pariSh As a Comt'q\lcncc tlt'
would appoot a Y1Caf to tak"c
of the aff.JJrs ol ttl!! pari$)! lhti rs
supported by rccord\ which  t.ltl! that lhc care of the p.rnsh of Ovcftol\ With M"'))  wr. tn the lt<int.li of 11 vicar
from 1303 10 1799
Vicar Ong•rw'ty 1mH1o\ler appo!ntl'd
by on ab cnh'i! rector The vocar or,ly receowd tht'srnIlothltvt•)tatl;,
wool and non·rNt:aluop. wher   .t\
the rt<IOI recetved all p.trr lo tllht•\
Pa th, bffdge and strtoon• In Polmbcr
rorcm, Aut umn 2001           mJ
{)ulfl(l Hc:.tOtr          I)

A  78 a<re (193 haal rra of ancoent
serrn-lliltural woodland v.tldl was
ted a lOClll Nature RI'SeM'
tn 1980 bv aqr,  ml'T1t betwl't'lllhl'
current owners, the lknyoo lr t.
and Basln toke aod OC!allP Borough
Counca !llf.PBCl It was once pmt of
the RoydlForlof Wtndr but rn.tny areds Wet<' goftL>d iiWoJY untollt w.ls no longer contonuous horn  1l<l1l '''-'' to
Wond!lar In c 1535 ftl•my VIII <tr.lntrd
the <JOIIt'rnOr\hop of P11mlwr for t
to Sor Wtllf,lftt P ulet, tter  to bt><:ome
thl.' ht M,llqUtnt Woothestrr By
1610 the fou?St w.J\ no lo119er a royo l
huntonQ ground - ldmes I havinq sold
11 to John Wa il'r It wa\ !<Old aga n
soon o ht'!Warllto Wtlbam Paul t.
the 4th MarQU6 of Wrnchesh., In
1635 John P.tu'.et.the Slit Marc!IM.
purchased Eng!ef: ld Houw and 50
llle owoershlp ol the lorc:.tltecame
part ot '!le EnglefJeld Emte  Incl7 5
Mary, widow of Pow: It Paule!)
Wng·e.t1'l.'mM.'d Rothard  Benyon of Gdea Hall, b :. Today the fort IS tllilnaged by the Hampsh:re "idlifc
Trmt on ! of B&OBC who have
leased : lrom ItS owners

1111  ll1 1tlln "' I'"' H lry Flort!IICe Dnvidson ,...._.

more spaces  were cleared  in Pa mber Forest, which at that  time was full of all kinds of game. Stags; deer; wild boars and hares abounded. The forest then extended  as far as Windsor Castle
and was Crown property. Our  kings in those far off days used to
hw1t there, and  King John  had a bunting lodge quite close- at Kingsdcre. Indeed, in the parish Tadley Place House  is always spoken of as a hunting lodge of this King, but no authority can be found for this. If it was the case however, the house  then standing has gone long ago, long before the present  house was even begun.
The  right  to bunt and shoot the game i_n  the Royal forests was only given to friends of the King, and  poaching was forbidden and very severely punished. I f a man killed a stag or wild boar
he had  his eyes put out. If he chased a hart or a hare he was
flogged and sent  to jail in Winchester for a yea r. None of the farmers or villagers were allowed to keep a dog for fear of their killing the game. This was a very hard law as there were no police in those days and everyone  had to safe-gua rd their own  house and property, and a dog was a great protection against  thieves. Wol ves, badgers and  wild cats were found  in Pamber Forest, and they made great havoc among the farmers' sheep  and cocks and hens. As the country became  more populated, roads were made
in differen t parts of the parish, and  the highroad  to Basingstoke
was widened.
The first mention that we have of the parish  is in 1253, when a Henry Fitz Stephen  had to appear in the Court House at Winchester for having  broken  into a wood at Tadley, (Taddele) belonging to a Winchester clergyman, and cut down  his trees without permission.We are not told what his punishment
was, but in those days it was certain to have been a very heavy
one. We can find no mention of the year in which  the parish church  of St. Peter's was built, but we find in 1286 that  the
Manor  and Church ofTadley, and the Manors of Wolverton and Bcdhampton, with other  lands, belonged to Reginald  Fitz Piers, so that  the Church must  have been built before this time. But
it has been so rebuilt and added  to and  restored  since then that hardly any of the originaJ church  remains. The rector of Overton was also Vicar ofTadley from the ea rl iest times, and

IJ

A. Grade hlisted tMid ng m Church
Road What. 1f anyth1119    ealSied
on the s,.te pnor to the Ellzaooth.tn
stvlto house now l:.nown aT.tdlcy Place 1!. not dearly doeumenlf!d A retl'rence, made1n the Lit<' n netl"!Mth centUI)', to ts PXtenswe found.ltJons
the garden aod m other pam
of the groundM>uld llldiC.ate 11
considerable ana probably splend cl
bu•ld nq The manor of Wylord and
I<Jnd at T.tdlcy Cdm< In to tl  Ludlow lumlly c1500 At orne "< CJ•' durrntJ tn n xt <.entury, dur to •t tyll', we
ould a sum" that Tadltoy P1.1cl' Wo\S Dill  I   Only lhc T hapc>f1NSt wmg of the Ollg lldl Tudol hcltM rl'mcltOS
ThiS has typiCalstone-mu!!toned
windows and II\Side al<lrQQ stono
I replace With mov ding\ and Oorrc columns betleved to 1M.> 01  t• na  Most of the references to f<ld·l')' Pl.:ict' nrc
anoc• t!OO to the ty!anmca!llt•nry
ludlow(1577-16391 Upon tusde•!h
hi!. son and hetr, Edmund lnheri!l d the esla'e 1M COIM.')'Cd  the manor of \'MOtdfTad!ey Ill Joseph 81<1grO!Vl! (of Read;ng m 1641 Cou!d this havt! been     II('IJ of the many debts that
his lather had mcurred dum19 hiS ltfml!Tle? lvluch of the ho111e 	s to have fallm rnto dJSrep< u 10 the ensUing ye.1rs and by the end of the S(.>l."enteenth century rt had passed
to the W•thers/Hd,$ Bc.lch  family  In
the  'Jteenth centUIY ilWl/19 Wa\
added on the 'M!SI Throuyt101;1
the mneteenth century records rl'ler
to •t 01\Jv au farm In 1920It 1!. once
agarn recOtded by niltne and iS il
pnvatc t('!>tCk'nce

s-Ited down the meat  for  winter
An	feedt · 'l 	"' Wtlltl"l In hdy a td )llo"' were u:...:.l up  Ammah v.'t'fe ktllcd <>If  wed
by week,so thdt the meat could be salll.'d nrn.1 P'C icd,    though otlal had Ill tv- e 1,.... fr"Sh In mild wt!ath<-r the b	co  <1 b •lept longer
great fair 	1888 only two Ia rs
w reI>    J h d. on 13 July ,md II
Octobl'r, dnd the!.e ltd SIOflfte\l by
1905 The Mtclldelrrt.tlew In October wdtrcldlltOndlly  ij l1111nq latr, but by
thl111M    ! W<l'lli!,O a J)leoUUfl! fdtf
wt•' t urgrour•d   ltriKIIOI'IS ro may
t o v	•n n·fernng to the latter
Black Death  , name tor the
bl 	ltC pWg\14! pandcfllic
\'h  • •:lt..ont.all'd Europe m the multi  ol the fourteenth century "'d fi!C"'frrd l tnt :rva!s unllltt e
p olldc  lnt    >I1664 65
Congletons S.•l10 lJ<' an error,
17  tt 	'l(!fm.nton E:stclte
P..-  .:l •u      "01\greve famdy wtth whom 11rl'mcllfled unt   the deathof Wilham Congrl'Yt!tn 1843
EMl view ofToldlt')'   I! Wtth two I.O.es, 11pprox t9l(b. T.dtylllldOtstriet wapboOJ;.

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in those days, and down  to the middle  of the last century, the Service in the Church was performed by a priest appointed  by him for that  purpose.
In these days, and  for many hundred of years later, a bell used to be rung from  the Church Tower each day at sundown, after which all fires and lights had to be put out br law, so that people went to bed with the sun, and  rose again at the break of day to go to work  in the fields. The men  usually did all the hard work on  the land, while the women  stayed at home, ground the corn for bread, salted down the meat  for wi nter  use, brewed  the home-made cider, and  wove the wool of the sheep into cloth  for the use of their families, ,md  to l.ell in the town. There were no schools for the children, so no one wuld read or write, and as there  were no shops they had to lay in their stores  for the year
at the great  fair which waheld annually at Basingstoke, on  the
same date  that it is held to-day.
The game in Pambcr Forest was  trictly preserved  for the
usc of the King, but a great deal of poaching went on  in the old days. In 1343, John Copcrure (Cooper) and  Richard  Twyhere, ofTadley, were put  in prison  in Winchester Castle for kiiJing
a young deer  in the  rorest. A few years after this date, a terrible plague, called  the Black Death , raged throughout England,
and  was very bad in the villages round Basingstokc, in Tadley,
Pamber, etc. Entire families died of it in a few hours, and  there were hardly enough people left to bury  the dead  or to do  the work of the farms,  which lay desolated. No Services were held in the Church and  no wheat was sown.
A Sir John  Peechc held land in Tadley at this time, and  in the next century john Benham  owned   Iadley Place. His grand:,on William  was the owner in 1468. One of William's daughters, called Joan , married William attc  More, ofWycfords, a family well known  in the county at that  time. The descendants of this William 13enham ofTadlcy Place are still to be found in Pamber
I Ieath and  the neighbouring villages. Many years after, another Joan More of Wycfords, married a William Ludlow, and she seems  to have brought Tadley Place into  the Ludlow  family, in whose possession it remained till it passed to the Searle family,
then b)' purchase to the Conglctons of Aldermal.ton, in 1822,

IS

Oakley Hall Formerly H.!ll Pl.1<e  An
e 9h•   nth century Geo«J.an manor
.ov><: near 0.1!rton. ong M!ly owned
bot George W1thet II pas5t'd to the
HbBeach family .n 1832 WI !elm
W1ther Bramston Beach tohented t
- t8St: In 1860 the top  floor was
,ud,	nd	ts made
Vine     mel A Tudor house built
bo	I1500·20 In  I569 [laabeth I and tne Due de B"oo, Amb.Hsadof to the Kmg of France.wcr Pntcna1ncd
I  at the Vync by W     m. the 3rd lord
...;,"\.,
Wyef ords S.tuat!.'d at the south of
t      o•   nalmanor of Tadley the
nam  ts der Vlod from If;(! Anglo
Saxon 'W•tlotg ordi' m an ng w !loW
lord it was used In Nrly r('(Oids
as a dcl   uon of thf! southern
boundary of the pariS/1 The Mml' was subsequently 11pphcd to a f.mn and butld1ngs. oC IT!IIe south west of the ford-Wyl!ford Hoult' and farm

w.,,t,e tam

A rema•nmy  butldong of the Pfrv•ous ludlow m•nor lit Hdl  veull, September 2007,T..ct    llnd Dtstoct
Hrl:ary Soat ty 	Thr,	ly helo pos uon
of mportance under the Pl.&ntagenct
K111ys otnd later hP.Id CIVIol ffoces throughout southern [ngl.snd  The

i 	t!:

lud'-0\V\ had land at Maden &old  rv
Wtth a manor a:Hill Dever   nearby
le.latbleorreartneaunmsiolvltahlrtsamr anor  The
t	tomh was
removed from the Church of the
ptiOtl of the V g  Mary at H  Oevc!oD when tt dcxcd 101984 and placl'd Illthe B.!th Chapel en
Loogbndge Oeveri IChurch  The tOIT'h bt•ars tt11ee !TI(!doevalsh1elds wtnch display the armCrei!tcd by
-      !JA!I:f UK! mantag('S of thl    pcnetauon5
:.'!!	of the family  Thrs lllducles those of
W     m who married Joan de Ia More of \Wford ciSOO 11M began the ludlow l•nks w ttl Tadlry 11 wathe.r
grand!>On,£tiward.who was •.nrghte-d
by Ehzal eth I at BaW19 How! 111 1601
and Meldest son,Hcoly(l577·1639)
':	who Is mot assoco.ucd W•t!l Tadlf!"t
!JI!! r,	"j Pl<Ke H<'nry mamed Lethe!' (lucy)
Wl' l. d,tughtrr of lord  de ta Warre
It 1 now!I tf Jl they lhld lit lt>il\1
1\W !.Om, (0   nd	t.•nty, and
mote than one CJaU'Iht(!r 1he Nml'
HeotY ludlow  togc:twr with that
of hiS son.Henry.IIPJ>P..Uri'<tlJii!rly
1n St,•te P.1p11between I t>J I  and
1639 for fa lurt• to appear before the Coundto answer chlltgcs of
opPfor to pay thetr ckobu Henry Sl'fiiOI even ta i'd to PollY h1s son fd•nund Jllowanc•>s due to rum. whtth resulted 10 Edmund bl'1ng lfiiiJfrsone<l. presumably for debt
On  14 NtM!mbcfl6).4 there are
ksted l;ve artiCles of mil.d m&liiOU<s
.tnd oppresSIOO complaul('d of by Ralph l liter and di"RFS otr•M poor inhab1tants ot Tadley'

1111 I hSitJR' or-  I  \Ill ' by 1-lor<' llf Dantls11n·-·

and finally to the llkks Beaches - of Oakley Hall, who are
the present owners, though the property is now in the market and will very likely pa l! into other hands before ''cry long. The Ben hams, who were the ownerat one time, were a well­
known Berkshire family, landowners and sheriffs of the county
in their prosperity. The ludJows came from Willshire, and one of the family, Edmund I udlow, signed the death warrant of King Charles the first, but he never lived here, though he was the owner ofTadley Place. A Henry Ludlow, who owned the property in 1587, was very unpopular in the pari1.h. Ile pulled down twelve houses on h1s land, turning the occupiers out
into the roads. He raised all his rents and oppressed not only the poor, but his young nephew, Richard Dawtry, to whom he was Guardian. This was an idiot son of his sister, and he not only took all his money away but cruell}' iiJ-treated him as well.
Henry ludlow's ghost was said to haunt Tadley Place until a few years ago.
Tadley place was built about the time that it came into the possession of the ludlow family, and must have taken the place of an earlier building. Sir Edmund Ludlow, one of its earliest owners. was knigh ted in 1601 by Queen Elizabeth at Basing, when she was making a royaJ tour through H ampshire, and went on from there to stay at the Vine, in Sherborne St. John.
Formerly Tadley Place was much !urger than it i:. at present, and was built in the form or the letter E, with a fine oak staircase and
oak panelled doors and rooms, with stained glaswindows with the Ludlow and Benham coats of arms in them. But aU this was removed by the Ludlows when the house wasold, and the oak panelling and staircase were taken out, and one wing <1nd other rooms pulled down when the I licks Beach family came into possession of the property. There ihowever a fine fireplace still left, and one can trace a walled up entrance to a no'' filled up underground  passage that tradition says once led to Wyeford. There in story that a h<1m used once to hang in the kitchen at Tadley Place where it had been for more years than the owners could count. While it was here aU was quiet in the house.but when it was removed to an outhouse .11J  kinds of mysteriou noises were heard in the house ns of a man wi th a heavy 1read

t;

Tadl eye

In the l'l'ldnurance of George ludlow.Esqurre.pa$tor.-
lomedow ....	............. WuuJm Apleton, tn sture •
Ac')'OOid Harnton 10 pa ture 160 ac.an medow
Henry Pnor,1unr. •n pa\:we
Rl(llard Cole-;, 10 pa$tl.lfl'
RIChard Shon!tand,m p ture
Aooot Sllll, n pasture  ...
In m!'dow..
Thorn.ls Pnor. an pasture
Henry f>no•. sen.•  an pas1urc .... Rtct'aard Shcff•lde,an p.J lure    ..
Wadov1Lawndett 1n pa'tute . Ra•fe f>tlgllm, '"pasture Richard w.:her. '" medO\•. H\19h Ouff•n. 10 pasture
ltm common of pasture

........ 200t!C

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ac
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1111 d(
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lOO( il(
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MS by W<llterMoney. publilh«J m 1901./ac:=ocr J
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20..weeb·old Vvtlidl tldve begun to
I.Jy Pullet5 am more p odutiM!
than older laY'ng hPn.often
p oduc•ng eggs for an ent•rc  year.
wh1le hens only ldy for ·• to SPVen
months.

f""'·

bushels A m<:cJ)ure of Cilp.!Oty  for
c oro,	hqutds elc,equ.JIto 36 4
ht(8 gallons)
A royal purveyance, tS75 ltm<w83M76/Pll  II.JJ7'!P',htre RecONJOffKe

who led a horse upstairs and along the corridors. A tenant at last decided to cook the ham, but it had to be chopped up with an axe, and was as hard as iron and uneatable. And the noises went on worse than ever. But for many years nothing has been either seen or heard about the house.
A Windmill once stood close to the house, but all vestiages of
it have long ago passed away. Only names of fields, such as Great Windmill Mcadow, Little Windmill Close, and Combe House Windmill remain to show where thb old mill once stood. It was here that the corn was all ground that was reaped b)' the Tadley farmers and villagers.
One of the former owners ofTadley Place, Edmund Ludlow, (a descendant of Colonel Ludlow, the Regicide), was very anxious to marry a lady with a fortune of £1o,ooo, so he promised to pay two of his friends .f.;o each if they could find him a lady with this amoum of money, and though they found the lady, a Miss Elizabeth Thomas, with this fortune, whom he married, he ccms to have objected to pay them the £50 he had promised.
In 1575  I find a list of aU Tadlcy l.md owners who had to provide food for the Royal Household of Queen Elinbeth  on payment of a small sum of money. Certain men called purveyors went round the country to collect this food, and in out of the
way placethey often stole the food and kept the money for themselves. Trtclley had to supply a certain number of geese and pullets, and so many bushels of wheat, and we find that George Ludlow ofTadley Place, (who at that time owned 200
acres of pasture and 20 acres of meadow), Regnold llannington, llenry and Richard Prior, Richard Coles, William Appleton, Hugh Duffin, Widow Lawncleet, Ralfc Pilgrim, Richard
Sheffield, William Shoreland, Robert Still and Richard Wither, are the landowners in Tadley, and between them they had to find rhis provision. The Hanningtons were at one time a family of wealth and position in the Village. Regnold l lannington, spoken of above, had a daughter Margaret, who married
Mr. Bye, of Basingstoke, and it was her son who put up the
rnonument to his uncle, Mr. Hannington (who died in 1602), in
Bramley Church.The  Priors were an old Tadley family, owning

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John ro.e (1516-871 "'"a wT•ter and lmmChlord don who !led to the! conttncn1tn the retgn of Ma!)l I
and developed John  Ba e\ sc.heme>
of colli!CIJilQ the hrstOI)' otanii·Pilnal martvn. ptOd•Jc•n'l I m (1554) alahll work and (1563) the English 'Am
and Monument ·.complete wllh
gr1iy PICtufl'S. a lthmore P.fle<.tJYl' lex tx?•ng rare on En hl>11ProtesWtt hl•'llliUte Quickly Ndmamcd
fo•e\ Boo of MclrtyTs', '' wa5 a
huge publl$11mg WCCI!$$, runnmg
10 enlarged P!f,t10ns, and IS still ICIVliluable for lhe1nfonna11 tiM preS<.'Ned,Uepile Its otl'lious bi.n It had a profound1mpact on tne [flt]h\11
ProtP'.Wlt outlook Foxe wunusuoll
111 th•·   · t nlh centu!)l IOf believ•ng
Iholt bwn•ng people was a bad ;de
Iht• Hdnmngton famtly 111/t!d '" ldOII.'V  tor many generatiOflS John Hanningron. a fl!llow of New College Oxford was born "' tad cy Accord1119
to Fou.•.he and John Planin<'Y. another fellow at Nt'V> Co!lege. were rea!ou\ P.-. tiFoxe states
that "PI.lnl:nev. sdlolar somet me to
Ma!Vta (v.ho wrote the 8ool: of the C1ossl,IS convnonly reported and nown  to them of that un•VffSity to have drowned  himself Ill thE rrvef about Rr.wley.a1 Odcrd.•mno 1556
the othl'l '" a wellabout Rome.or as some do say  o1t Padua.and so be1ng both drowned were both tall'n ul) Wllh CI\ICif,,es (as 1t IS s.atd of some) hang ng about the.r noctcs •

Bishops Wood , >re dtl!sewral
I·  fo    t'll(C10 8 111           I Wood.the
I   , throug ""''L'll.' book Its name
IS derrved from a 909 AD chaner
ll'lhcn a wood at 'ladanlec ge'(ladieyJ
wa5 QIVI!fl to 8.-.hol> fnd (L'l) Mtan by
(mg Edw ••d If· · C    er
wfulwelght (·    page 31
Broas11               ·lmi/y held land '"
r!'f    - -9 ....)Urhood panshes
Spyers The location Elmhurst  IS
n   11h1 to be msleading  from
fudc r•pllon •     ead•ng from
e., n<J\toke towctrds Afdermaston on
tho ('.d\1  " < nd oth«.>r sources, n wa
1Jrobably lhe ,Hea now n< med Sp1ers
Cadt<J«nt to BroolGrecpn •n
Bowmon· P')Cid tt r('lcrred     to as
'Sp res Gt                  t861 census
Le hrne Heathe   lt>n descnptlOn c• the name •   ts         e.nh  Legal L.11A'l. uwd  bV SCJ DeS and     up to
1731, <tdopted Le'a\ the meanmg ·
The' On toe lddley tothe map(IB40)
•	Upper 8drn lfl'ollh anc:J lower Barn Heath fields WNe fO•ned to Churclt Road by 11 )trop of ..nd whrch would I'<!  •  .,. '? tne loca11011 of the! property r·aw	·jU\1 8drn Heath'
slates • Is thought FO may have
m. ....    !b
lllu•tt•llon from Fo· ·s Boot.. of
Martyr), Urwets1ty of Rt!>!dmg Libt<JI)

I111  I fl,l.,ln 111  I'111 1 r l1y Norellfl' Dm•idso11 ,...    ,

Bishops Wood  (now  Elmhurst ), and they also had  much  land in  the neighbourhood. But as time went on they becarne very poor, had to seU their land, and  have now entirely died out  of the parish. The Withers came from Dean and owned  land in Tadley till quite  recently. The Appletons are still here, and  there  may be descendants of the others living in the village stilJ.
In 1532 farmers in the parish  were paying 2d. a dozen  for crows heads, and  pork was sold at Y2d. a pound  and  veal at the same  price. Ln 1588 complaint was made in Basingstoke  that bakers from  the neighbouring villages were bringing bread  to seU in the town, that  was under  the lawful weight. We find lhat William Stevens ofTadley was doing  this, and an order was given making  him pay a fine, and  binding him to bake proper weight of bread  for the future. On April 25th,1560, a William
Sheffelde ofTadley, (or Sheffield), a tanner, gives his son  Richard land, which at that  time he was living on himself, with a garden, etc, ten acres in all, called Brocas and Spycrs (now  known  as Elmhurst ). This land lay next to the King's Highway leading
from  Basingstoke towards AJdermaston on the east, and  the
land of the Bishop of Winchester on the west, and  upon  the land known  as Lc Barne Heathe on  the south. In 1566 f find mention of the famil y ofHannington who lived in the Parish. A son of theirs, called John, was born  here and went to New
College, Oxford, where he took  his degree. He was a clever young man, but while travelling in Italy he was drowned in a well near Rome. We read of his death  in Foxe's Book of Martyrs. In 1600, Sir Robert  Hannington and  Elcnor his wife, brought a suit into Cow·t about their rights to certain  lands at Tadley, which  they
had bought of Willia m Marshall, and of John  Hobson, Esq. and his wife Elizabeth. Queen  Elizabeth stayed at the Vine in 1601, and no doubt the Tadley villagers would go out  to see her as she was met by a magnificent cavalcade of nobleman on Silchester Common on her way to Sherborne St. John.
The old Parish Church is dedicated  to St. Peter, but as I  have said it is not  known  when it was built, though  a Church existed here from early days.It was restored and almost  entirely re-built in the middle and end of the 1600. The brick tower is dated 1685, with small  windows a t the top that have slates let in them  for

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Till) d;ofate oat pulptiS ou:
ol kl't'Jlll19 athe rough  hewn 1 mtx!rl ol the chu:ch and :s sulnW\t.alIts p.mellng r;more
il ln 10 !holt '""" to ill(' me walls of
an EI1Zdb  th.Jr  I>OUW  The canopy Of
soundu·19 boo. rd  11.S purpose be1nq to help Cell ry <t  spc.lker\ vo1ce tow.trd the dUdlr•ntc, typ1f1t's tis date 1n the Cornrnonwrdilh penod.  wher1 grl'lll ernpha  Wol\  p..,.l-d on 16tPn1ng to
long nnons and read1ng Uleoiogocal
worts, ('l,J)eOa Jy Puntan
worshtppm

KtOSIIC  F0 suggt'SU llte5e letters rn;rl
1 of an acrosllC -a woro
pu 	v.l'l!!lt' c:ett.lltl  le:ters m a poem
are c<tcd to lorrn another word or
\1	Or 11111 they 1ust a random
'''' \ ol   ·ttl·t ,,
b1er A c.un UJor moveable frame
thdll\ IN'<I lor bedllll<l o cofhn
St. Thom11s' Day 'Thomas•ng· Of Gr.  'ru)' d·  IV  21 Dl'll!mber, when poo..	n,ot    .. With chddren, ttampcd the netghbourhooo for gofts of money or food 10 'keep a good Chnstm.u  lhe WOfd  gooding  15 recO!Oc!d M N!ly as 1560  There IS no
• '"  -ornpnor tol.ne
etol-, • 	• I
William Mothe 	ga,-e Thr
te    m ""''	J. r Ollt' roof for trA pout nt frt..,  rt.r. dt'reiiCt, that  hed bulid•n9,'Mot1House·,adJdCf'ntto Tht• Grt't!fl, w,t\ d• mohshed on 1966
ilrtd rcploKI'I'l wnh x modern fi.Jts.
lnt4!roor of  Peter·Church w<th canopy on left hand ide,TtJdley i1nd DisfiiCI Ho5ootot.)

1'111  l lhlnlt\ or l'\111 n by Fforenct• David son·-·

light and air> instead of having wood slates which are more usual.
The gilt weather vane on the tower is in the shape of a cock, (the attribute of St. Peter), and  is supported by a finely worked stand of old iron  work. The Chancel  is of brick and  the Nave of stone, whiJe the porch of brick at the south entrance was put  up in 1689. The Rev. Joseph Westwood was rector of Overton, with the Chapel  ofTadley at that date. The entrance to the porch  is made of old oak, with roses carved  in the two angles over the door, while the oak door  into the church  is old and  thick and
has a curious handJe and lock. There is a fine old pulpit  with the
date 1650 inside the door. It has carved panels and  there is a very old fashioned canopy over it, dating  from the same  time as the puJpit. This pulpit  was put  up at the time of the commonwealth, and  is very interesting for this reason as there arc not  many of this date in the county. The  north  door  has been dosed, and
there is a window in the chancel  that has been waJled up.
At the west end of the Church  is a gallery, with a fine oak staircase leading  to it, that is about the same date as the pulpit. There are axe hewn oak benches  in the gallery where the choir used always t() sit in old times. There is a good  peal of three  bells. One is dated 1669, another 1618, with the name of Henry Knight as its maker.The third  bell has a very quaint inscription on  it, formed of letters upside down  and many of them  backwards as well, that  make no sense at all. It is supposed Lo have been used simply  as an ornament by some  workmen who could  not read,
or it may be an acrostic, which so far has not been found out,  it
reads,
'l::-i:1NAO::IKS:1VOABIRK. M X.

which has caused many guesses to be made as to its meaning. It is not dated, but it is evidently older  than  the other  two. There is an old burial  bier  in the Church which is stilJ in use. On
the  wall of the Church is a brass recording a legacy left by Mr
Sympson of Monk Sherborne in 1674, of money to be given to the parish "as long as the world shall endure:'It was to be given on St. Thomas' Day to the poor, in sums  varying  from 6d. to 3/-. Another  legacy to the Parish was given in 1739 by Mr. William Mothc "from his land  there,'' he living at Sherborne StJohn.
In the churchyard are very few really old gravestones, though

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Situ< ttod llpproxomatcly 14 S km south I!Mt ol ladley, BMong Hou'>e IS noted for the bloody ever.uof Its three yea
S1e9<' dur•no the Eng $11 CMI War
llihistory da•es from tile e'ol":enth
CMtuf)'when W 	m the (OflQlJefOf
ll!Warded O'le of hts ma:n 'IVIJPOI1ers, the de Poet family from Normand-j Wl'th lcmd and property m Hampshire Centures later the etate passed
to th  WI!Atthy Paulet !nmdy lrom
Someuet  In the soxtet'flth century Wllll.lm P.ou  t.wlto I.Jier became  lhP hrt Milrtllil\ of Wont hester, rebuolt Basmg Hou  l'
By 16-ll tt(' fog sh (!VII War betwrcn the Royal6ts (5UPPOnl!fs of Charles 0 a d theParbamentarrans
1        reached B.wng oow OWI'ed by
w oam's descend.Jn• John Paule:.
who heldBasing House for :ht>
Royalist Cli!M Although the Parliamentauans tried to \!orm 11 on severa OCCMIOm,  the M<1ftiUis refuwd to surrl!lllkr Jlwn, 1n 1645CI'Oil'lWe I woth a huge arrny and   noc arms I:Je\l  'j)ed   th11 hou\e  fhe Royalrsts IOU<Jht to thlao.t but I'Vent\Jillly the MM!lUI\ wa\  tal en prosonPr and the wllole pld<e lilfl"'C >l>d  Parliament
then doothat 'the House.gamson and wallS at Ba\!llg be 1onh-.-. :h
sl ghted llnd demoiGtled
Cromwcli'J)ared tile [•e of John
Pallet \'Ala fled to f ranee On
his retUtn to England after  the
R tocatJOn  he INed at Eng!erieo
Hau1e. VM! propeny of hiS wo'e
srte of Basng fi0u5e v.as returned
:o the Pdulet fany by Charles a
Hampshre County Counolpurch.ned
the rwnl'd Sllll tn 1975

b1t11e of Newbury A ba:tle of
the fng'-!Sh CMI Wa: fought on
27 October 1&14 tn Speen, adjOining
Nt'Yoilury 1nBerlshire It was tought
clo•'' 10 the"''" r-' 'h{> •· bank>
of Nt •v.hury, whk It tooplace 1n
late '>£'1ltl•rntwr of the preVIOUS year
llo<'  ornb1rwd o rm•es of Parloa nt
1nt11c tt•d 1 t • II(.JI uefPal on 1he
f«iydhh u••t fat cd :o ga1n any
tratl'Q c advao1a9c

hog A c.awa'.ed boar
Small  Pox  An acute.contag;ous
d.v> "' charaud by pomp!es on
th· 	which contam pus (fXAh.IIC$1
carrier Io 11tld t on to thiS  ldXo serv•ce
th· <•lrn· r wood dlo;o collect and cllolowr CJO<><h for (li)IOmers  A local WfltN  hh•11t'd  the earners C<111 10 ,, Wold 1/v Sl Wi190fl
Entrance to 81"ng House,Terry
Hunt,: TJdJcoy Mid Oistri<.r H. ;ory Sooery

1'111 111 1"11\" 111  I\111	/1y Flort'IICC l>rwidson·....._.

burials must  have taken place here for centuries. One  reason for this is that  tombstones before t6oo were almost unknown, and another is that in this part of Hampshire it used to be the custom to place only wood slabs at the head of the graves, and as a natural  consequence they have long since perished. The oldest stones in the graveyard  are to the families of Prior;  Hide; Thorpe; West; Curtis; Elliot; Kimber and Butler.
In 1644 Tad ley (spelt Tadlow in maps of that date)  people must have had a chance of seeing King Charles  the First, as he slept at Kingsclere with  his army in October of that  year, just before the second  battle of Newbury took place, when Tadley, with every other  village in the neighbomhood, had to provide food for the hungry troops, till to quote an account  of what  took place,"There was hardly a sheep or hog, or any wheat, oats or hay, left for man to eat in all the districts round about." There were frequent marchings too of the King's regiments through the Parish from  Aldermaston to Basing I louse  with provisions and ammunition. We have no Parish Registers as early as 1600 or we might  have found  the names of villagers who died of the great plague in 1666, which raged all about Basingstoke and carried
off so many of the parishioners of Monk Sherborne and  Parnber, people having  to be buried  as they died, the infection  was so terrible.
In 1694 there was a terrible outbreak of SmaiJ Pox in the County, and very many died from  it. There  were no infectious hospitals  at that time, and  vaccination was unknown, so people had to be nursed  at home, and those who did not die from  it were scarred with its marks while they lived. ln 1697 a great
frost prevailed  over England, that began at Christmas and did not break  until March  of the following year, so that the Tadley farmers could  nol begin work in their fields till ApriL All roads in the parish  were very ill kept and  fulJ of ruts, while:: the Janes were quite impassible with mud for anyone except in a cart  or
on a horse  to attempt to pass through them. I ndeed, carts often stuck fast in the narrower  lanes at the beginning of the winter and could  not  be moved till the spring, when  the mud  had dried a little. There were no shops  even at this time in the village
and everyone  had to walk or go by carrier into  Basingstoke or

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pedler (pedlar) A person who travelledIrom placE' to place W1th small goods for sale
curate A clergyman who a s•sts a rector or vicar Htstoncally. not a
'h1gh-born'person The curate would
be sent to Tadley due. probably, to rts Slle and considerable d1stance from Overton
parchment A thrn matenalmade
from calf,sheep or goat sk1n It IS

d1stu1d from  leather 1n that IllS not tanned,but stretched, raped and dned under tens1on  F1ner qual1ty parchment Icalled vellum Used 1n b•bl1cal ttmes lor the Gospels and many other 1mportant documents throughout hiStory
Exterior of St Peters Church, Autumn 2007, Tad'•'Y and Dtstfla Htslory So..-   ty

St Peter's Church  IS a Grade l hsted build1ng In the Doomsoay book (1086) Tadley Church IS probably one of two churches Included under Overton. It could be assumed that a church and settlement ex1sted at an earher date m v•ew of documt.>nted references to owner\ of land at
Tadley from 909AD The next specific reference to a church IS rn 1286 when Andrew Hotot IS re<orded as Cl'Nmng the manor and church at Tadley. Only the nave would appear
to date from thiS pt>nod.The crude
ft•nland mortar walls,over two
feet  th1Ck,are now covered With
roughcast The east chanceland
west  tower  extens1ons are both

of bnck The greater panof the church seems to have been rebutlt, or undergone refurbishment,m the
late seventeenth and early e.ghteenth centuni!S Th•s 1S also when there 1s
recorded vtllage ildlv•ty on the v•Cll11ty
of Tadley Place. When.'" 1634, Henry Ludlow.os reported1n State Papers ahavmg pulled down the
church houS£' " .•the rent thereof went towards the reparnng ol the Pansh Church" Further restoratron was undertaken rn 1877,about the time that Tadlcy had rts f1!\lresident re<tor,Edmund Saulez There was no organ at St Peters untrl1970 Pnor
to thrs a chorr and later musrc1ans led
the congregation from the gallery at

the west end The churchwarden'S
.1ccounts for 176 ·1891 record the purchase/donation of variou) instruments· 1n 1796·97 a bassoon.
1802 a hoboy (hautboy or hoboe. later oboe), 1804 a clannet, 1808 a
flute and another bassoon rn 18I 0
The bell frames were replaced by new ones m1956 and the bells are now only tolled,not rung. to avoid damage to the tower In the spnng
of 1998 Ihe ong•nal,but rotten, floor JOISts were replaced and new noor boards la1d.Before thrs could  be undertaken an archaeologiCalsurvey was earned out to ensure there had been no bunals

·1111  I h mH' n1  I'.\PII Y /IJ' FlorCIICC Dnvittso11 ........_.

Newbury  to get what  they wanted, or they could sometimes get a few things from a passing  pedler.
Until the middle of the last century Tadley was not a Parish Church, but only what is caJled a Chapelry in the gift of the Rectors of Overton, being spoken  of as "Overton with the Chapel of Tad ley.'' The Patron  of Overton has always been  the Bishop of Winchester, who continued to be the Patron  ofTadley after it was made a parish  of its own, and entirely severed  from the Mother  Church of Overton, which was done in the middle
of t8oo. In old days the Rector of Overton either  came over once or twice in the year to hold a service in Tadley Church, or more often sent one of his curates to take occasional  Sunday Service and  to perform all baptisms, marriages and  burials. These curates never lived in the viJiage, but rode over from Overton
as they were wanted. It was not till the year 1668 that we find
Tadley spoken of as a Vicarage, and  it was not tiU late in 1700
that any of the curates who came here to take the duty  were ever residents. Overton is a very old parish, and  we have the names
of its rectors since 1247. Philip de Luci is the first rector  whose name I have found, who was rector in 1247. The first curate of Tadley whose  name is given as such was the Rev. William Dee Best, who was here from 1775 to 1782.This is the reason  that
tilJ very recent  years there was no Rectory house, as the curates
who came  here for duty either  lived at Overton  or put up in the village here in a cottage.When they only came over for Sunday duty, they generally stayed with Mr. Prior, who lived at Bishops Wood House, ( now Elmhurst). One  must remember that Tadley in those days was only a mere scattered  hamlet,  with but very
few inhabitants.
The  parish  registers go back to 1686 for baptisms; to 1691 for marriages, and  to 1695 for burials. The books are rather  ragged, bound in parchment covers, with many missing leaves. ln one of the early register:; are these verses,"Pray learn to live. For you
no that  you must die. Pray learn to live as well as I." And they are signed  Nicholas Wheat. The first baptisms are those of Joseph Sympson and  George Englcfield in 1683, and George  Benham  in
1685. Among the first marriages are those of R.oberl Masson  and
Helen  Right, 1691. WiJliarn Pilcher and Evis Kimber, 1682. John

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The term ufor somron..who
ma epall ns  A patten a htstoncal tl'lm for a woodenshoe. clog.
o ae or ndal tiMt has a ra wd wn.sole mounted on wood
strtps, a metal pi,Jte or a metal nng Th•• shoe tNOuld bP fleld on the foot by mPans of leather or cloth bands Thrathe shoe to n<redse the weare!\hl'tght, .sometmleS by as
mu<h as 10 tms, to factht<lte walkmg
on mud .tncl ftlth It was the ptacltce
of the day to th!ow refuse.lndUd•ng th•  contents 01 chamber pots.
tnto the street  Dunng  tne Mtddle
Ages both ml?n and \'JOmen wore pattens outdoors or •n publiC places over th" th•n soled shoe'of  the
day. MN1 cnntrnul'd to 'M.'ar them
for worktng purposes labounng or
farmtngl'tc for n>any years However,
tl<ordshow  tht>tr cOiltJOued  use
by women1n mul.ltly condttlons unttl the n•nl:'ti!Cilth,or even the early IW(>r.ttl'thcentury The name
1 1 to deftllt' lrom th!' old French
Yo«d pahl, rneanmg a hoof or paw

yeoman In tl'irS contl'xt.after the
t•fl n th , ntury,a term applied to it
IT' '" won ong h1s own mall estate .Jnd
wo  tcls a iR-<'holder
/  freeholders frt: hold property
Wil\ not ltrd to the customs of the
m.1nor Aft!"< 1 662 a freeholder could "' 'hang" hrS · noghts seMCe' lor a P<!Vffil'f\1of money for Ins
,•...,.,...-_ _,.-, land Ploperty worth 40s or more
a llt'ar qualof,ed a fret>holder to
$C'!Ve on )UOeS .md vote for shtre reprC'>('Ota:
'A Modwtfe gomg to a labour',
1811.(reference 10405441) Sciet>ce
M..rsetlfnfSd<v!f. r! 8 SOo:k>ry l'lctute !Jb(.,Y

1111  llt'>llliiY "' 'I'"' Y  by Florence Dm·idscm ·-·

Englefield and Elizabeth  Englefield, 1691. Francis Dicker and Judy West, 1692. Thomas Prior  and Mary Tayler, 1699. Thomas Hood and Jane Munger, 1701. Thomas Young to Elizabeth Appleton, 1705; Edward Phillips  to Dinah  Angliss, February
16th, 1705. Benjamin Benhem  ro Martha  Englefield; October
2oth, 1718. John Sympson to Ann West, 1727. Mathew Cripps to Dinah  Pocock, 1725. Richard  Barlow lo Mary Hunl,1755; Edward Parish  (Patten maker) to Abashai Buruch, 1758. William  Barlow (yeoman) to Mary Stacey, 1761. and  Dayjd Crips ( Hoop  maker) to Hannah Hasker, 1768.
Among the first burials  are those of Richard  Mattingley and Ann Harmswor th in 1695, and  the register slates  that  they were buried  in woollen.This was in accordance with a new law
that had been  recently passed by King Charles  I r. The woollen
industry in England  was in a very bad state, and  to encourage and revive it the King ordered  that all people must be buried  in woollen grave clothes and  not in linen ones as had always been the custom  before this Lime. If they failed to do this they were
fined f.s, and the money  was given to the poor. The following
names also occur  in the registers about this time. Lovegrove, Webb and James in 1700. John  Harmsworth in 1722; Giles, 1764; Cullom, 1772; Lipscombe, 1811; names as familiar  now as then
in the Parish. ln these registers one  notes the terribly  frequent
deaths  of very Uttle ch iJdrcn of a few days or weeks old. Six or seven babies in one family dying before they were three  years
old. This  was owing  to the lack of proper  san itation and  fresh air
in cottages, and  ignorance of the right way to bring up a young child.
In 1705, at the General  Election  for Parliament, the candidates
for Hampshire were Thomas Jcrvoise, Esq., Robert  Chandler, Esq., and Thomas Lewis, Esq . The only  people in Tadley who had a vote at that time were the following freeholders: Ralph West; WiUiam Cross; William Tubb and John Corderoy.
In 1703 great stormswept over England, and a terrible hurricane devastated this part of the cou ntry, doing much damage in Pamber  Forest and  blowing down  many fine trees.
In 1712 a standard weight of bread was ordered by Government, and Tadley bakers had  to see that  their penny loaves weighed

.1.9

Communion Plate

ounus and pounds  "'ounce IS a unn ol •                   olj)p:Q_>ll'lli!tely t rams and a pouna       COtlSI$lS  o•
.Vft\ tlf 0 453  !l
gu• • 1	      ""was worth 2ls Surlat fever A <ont.l<JIOIJS d•sea5e d    nq	d by fever and a 5Cariet
<OIOU!t'(f   I n ra\h
footpads A h•I]IIWuyman who rob
on loot
Commun1on Plat!!' photographed m
St P•ut·Chl"(h, Autumn 2007.   dley
and Dis!na H410ty Sol..

Th1\ Con11nunllJrl Pldte, compnsmq 11
rlt.llltt•and 111dtch111g paten,  a1e both
1n obed 'The g•fol  f W ham
Cu1ate 1780 Tcldley Hants' and art>
'tillmU\e too..y lhew  Assay Man;  or
date  ttl'f, confirms tha:thl'y    c
made tn london <'!titer 111 1740
01 1780  It IS 1)0\sib:C the se: rrli1y
hoM! ongtnC !ly included. <}$ was uwal,
ewer$ for wtne and watt'!' a'ld a PY•
(a to hold Hte commun on ,•,all!f) w,,pnor to these 	15 un•nown but \t Petl'f\. a Simple rural chwl.h, woukl prob.lbly have held only P<'Wit·r w wh However, much early
dP.Cor.tllve tlnd v.Jiuable commumon pl,lte w.1dcSl!Oylod dunng the Re!OIIIldhon and Commonwealth IJ('fiOd

I au  Ill loR' "' lAili I' I•J' Hort'IICt: f>m·11L<t>11 ·-    ·

six ounces, twopenny one!., one pound and three ow1ces; and their one and sixpenny loaves must be from eleven to fourteen pounds. The villagers, as a rule, baked all their bread at home, and the farmers brewed their own ale, which was thin and sharp in taste. Cider, too, was drunk in the cottages.
Wood was burnt for all fires as coal was hard to get and very expensive.
We find a notice in the Parish registers on March 30th,
1776, that a woman called Ann Thorp, living at Stratfieldsaye, paid halfa guinea for permission lo bury her son in Tad ley churchyard, he being brought to Tadley on a Sunday. The reason for this was that her family had formerly lived in the parish.
In L78l the Rev. W. Dec Best, who was cu rate here, received
£1 1s for permission to bury William Butler and Thomas Webb, (this latter was an infant ), they living at Oakley. But as they both belonged to the same family, and the two burials were on the same day, Mr. Dee Best gave the guinea back to the person who had brought the bodies i n his cart for such a long way.
The Rev. W. Dee Best, who was curate here from 1n5 to 1782, seems to have been much liked. lie married a Miss Harriet Anne Wilder, of Nunhide, and he also gave the fine Communion
Plate to the Church which is still in use. This plate was made by
a well -known London Silversmi th of the day, and is of very good design. In qRs the serviceat the Parish Church were undertaken for some yearhy the Rev. Eusibius Lloyd, who was also curate of Silchester where he lived for twenty )ears.Scarlet fe,•er wavery bad in Tadley and all the villages round about in t763, and there were many deaths from il. There were no infectious hospitals at this time, so everyone had to be nursed at home, and the only treatment for this fever wns to give the patient very hot drinks,
tie a piece of red cloth round their neck, and leave them to
sleep and liYe with other people in the same hou e.exactly as if they were well. The year 1772 was rema rkable for its mildness in Tadlcy, roses and cherry trees being in fuJI bloom on Boxing Day. At this time corn sold for 6s. ;d. in the market at Winchester.
In the winter of 1772 the country about here was infested by
footpads, and it was dangerous for anyone to be out <llone even in the daytime, as many very terrible: murders and robberies were commillcd between here and Basingstoke. I n 1n5 Tadley,

Jl

,Post chaise	] 	Post

A t-cha•'.e wafat tr.J I"ng 01 ple<J>ure C<JIII"9"·e1H>rt h•rl'd from lit<l<! (IIUl) 10 \tig(l (Inn),or drawn by h!red hofses II was used  on the "'9hlee'ntt• and earbef ha I ollhe n:ncternth C{'llluriCS for c:arrymg paswngen or rna   In England rt
usu¥!v Nd41closed body With scau
for two10 four pt'nOnS, the drrvcr or
tclioo ridng on (In(' ol the The word 'chacomes from the Frendl word for cha r
In the I 784  •tolmrl'Directory"
pnnled by J Sadler, Mary Mart n of
the MaidE>nl eild Inn andhc•sc Olltce (Post  ChMel  and Thomas Robins of the Crown Inn and Post House!Post Chase   4te unc1tr   lake

smuggling Tl   tl!lport ng or
or111  I goock ilk'9oly W•thoul
jl. ) T  Ill of  v,tOIJ) dUIICS  The d\nms cllllfged on forl!lgn11!1JIQfls such .n tobacco, WlllC. proof -sp:TtiS, tea Md
sugar from the S  eenlh 10 ntneteenth
cr.ntur es made smuggl;ng a pro'tab!"
ri d.lngffot6 terpnse contra nd The term used for
sm;   •	• tlrOhilltted goods
gellon,quan A quart u a umt
Of C	ly ·     t IS apptOJUmatcly
1 14 • l>t. olllJ a g;tfloo con%1S of
4 quarts or o1 S6 ktres
'Pmt',ci84S(rl!'f 10317901) Some!' MIN'IItTIISclf!fJCP t.SOoery T'lciiKI' Libl;,ry

1111 llr,mll\" m IAlii n' ,,,.Flon•nc·, l>m·idwu ·---·

with all the other villages in the neighbourhood, felt the  hock
of an earthquake, and L776 was long remembered by the farmers as one of the flnest harvests the country had ever known. [n
this same year a great deal of smuggling went on aJI along
the Hampshi re coasts, and contraband goods, such as spirits, lace and tobacco were brought by night from Basingstokc and Winchester, as farTadley, where the}' were hidden for safe keeping in the many vaults and cellars which arc still to be found under the larger houses in the village.
At this time, anyone coming from Basingstoke and
vVinchester as far as Tad ley by post  haise , had to pay 10rl a mile for one horse, 1/4 for two horses and 1/6 for four horses. Wages were very low in Tadley at the end of 1700, labourers getting u/­ to 14/- in the summer and only 10/-  to 1 2/- during the winter time. Domcsti1. servants were P<lic.l from £.3 to £9 a year. Bread was selling for 1/l a gallon and potatoes could be had to 1 '2d
a pound.
I n 1795 bread went up to 2/J a gallon and all other food increased so in price that it was almost impossible for the villagers to live on their 10/- a week.Tea was five shillings
a pound, so that the people drank instead cider and sour home­ brewed beer at all their meals. ugar was seven pence a pound, so honey was used instead. Milk however was 2d. a quart. Glass was so heavily taxed that pewter mugs were uscc.l to drink out
of, while 2/6 was paid for si x of the very commonc:-.t china cups and saucers. Candles were 50 dear and so taxed that the Tadley people burnt rush lights that they made at home of the pith of the rush and melted grease, and that gave such a feeble light that a woman could hardly see to sew or cook by it. Lcllcrs came
from Basingstokc by mounted postman, who delivered his letters when it best suited himself. But the postage was very different from what it is now. A letter cost 1/4 for the first ounce and 8d.
for every half ounce after, so unless it was a matter of life and
death no cottager ever rece1vcd or sent a letter.Women made all the :,traw hats for thei r families from straw that they ga thered in the harvest field, which they plaited into differen t shapes.
I have been able to learn a great deal of the histoq• of
the Parish during the last century from some of the older

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Mr.Skrnn""he RI!Vd John S  Mer
• 	,, t·    o'  ilmerton  m Somerset
frorh 1 OuO-39 tit> waulso an
armttur antlquark!llaod artrrarolog t who produced a con$iderabl!! number o·JOurnals of both hrs wort  nd treach profusely llusuated With wat('f(olour illustra• OIU  On page
39 FO g:ves a grapt,c d('S(tiPtron
of a  •etch made dunng hiS putney
'"""'llr."" T H15 JOUrnals are
OO'J	1·1e Br.trsh lJbrary
postllron (postilbon) The na!lll! giVCn
to t1   M<   on the ncar or left h.111d
J	;e: drawrng a co< chwhcfc
'""'1.'   no coachman.al\0 lnown as
"	lboy
breeches Shon troufa tcned
t b !low the nee, thill Wfre v.otn
t11 	n; used espeoa!ly tor riding or
coo   dtl'S\
T.tdley Prtmttoe Method!\!Ch.rpel, Main Ro.td Tadley,l!drly 19001; ldl.t  y
1/JO<>Jti('IWI 	IJC   I

-             .        -
.old ,Chapel
lr.

Believed to refer to too PnmrtM! Methotfut Chapel m M.Jin Road whiCh was bl;  t rn 1859 The
Socrety of Prrm trw. Metho<lt1ti w.n
formed tn 1812 a brc.. aw,ry se<l
from trad•tiOflcllMethod11m whose
appe.tltotrura.agncullura
commuMres They sought to
r  capture the £>arty  f re of th
religoon Wllh camp meetltl!J\ and r(!V!Val.rddr ses, whrch r.uu ted m
rh >m soon betng JIOwn as 'Ranu•r s·

parishioners, among them, the late Mrs.Saunderand the late Mr. James, who have told me many things about  Tadley in old days, and  what  the lives of the grandfathers and great
grandfathers of the villagers were in the early days of 1800. The viiJagc in those days was a very much smaller  one  than  it is
to-day, and  except the old Parish Church, Elmhurst ( Bishops
Wood  House  then ) and  two or three farm  house:., there
were only a few scattered cottages  in the place and a few huts thatched with heather that were hidden  among the gorse on  the Common. And there was the little old Chapel dose to the road to Basingstoke. All the cottages  were thatched at this period  as well as Bishopswood House, and  the risk of fire was very great. The  roads were in a terrible state, and a Mr.Skinner, who has left an account of his passing  through Tadley in 1821, says,"The
roads are so rutty, I have uever scc11 worse': The high road  to
Basingstoke  was kept in better  repair, but  the mud  in winter  was so bad that  you could  not cross the Common except in a large farm  wagon, and  the lanes and  bye-ways were quite impassable on foot in winter  time. Everyone wore pattens then, and  they were made  in an old house  in the parish, and in the parish registers in 1758 we have the name of Edward  Parish, Patten maker, but  the trade  is now extinct. At last the roads became dangerous, and  as there was no real road across the Common  it was decided  70 years ago to make good  roads all over the parish, but as no one  in the place knew how to make them, a road
maker  came from  Wooton  Ba sct and lived in the village, and made aiJ the roads, the villagers working under  him.
Eighty years ago the populalion was 404, now there are over 1327 people  in the parish, while the number of houses
has increased  by two-thirds. Well-built cottages  have taken  the
place of the old mud  thatched huts where the labouring men of a hundred years ago lived and  brought up Lheir families.  Carters on the farms at this time drove six horses  to each wagon,  and a very pret t y sight  it must  have been to sec the well-kept, powerful horses, each one wearing a high collar  hung  with
beUs, passing along the roads. A private post chaise  to hold four
used to run  through the parish  from  the Angel at Basingstoke to the Hinds Head at Alderma ton. The horses were ridden by
a postilion, dressed  in leather  breeches, a green coat, high boots

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The co!l«tion of left-over crops tram farmers fafter tht'Y hlt..e bt'en hafwsted  or from fed; "ret> n as no1fCO!l(JtT1ICall prof<lable to h.mt!st In many Pc'llishes the Sian and  finish
of th  t:me allawt'd for glec111tng was
announced by the dlurth bells The contributton th.rt gg made 10 lhe rncomc of a labourmg famrly
could 1.1(! •   Oll>H!l-rtlble  An rnc:lustuou f.1m1ly tou cl gath•·r two bushels (sl't' page 18). rd mcm· It was gencrc fly uppc»ed llwt thp landown!'r had no ught  to prP.YCnt gleanmg but many
COIJr1caarcxe due to the practice

Mr  Rogers shop A. b.lkery and
g. nt•r.ol  turf.' Woi   I  •piby Mr RogPr
on the ;ote now oc'uprec:l by houses at
,..-....,.,.:.. thr• nurlh tunrtron of The  Grl'('f'l anc:l
· ·111 "'1ft11lltoy H,tt
furubushes The old name lor got)l'O
bl '' 	1  ore sp ny )t>llow-
,......,.n llowt'lo:J	uUS   Vf!fV prol fiC Olllht'
commons aiOUlld thl' area
smock A loose shin le CMra  v.11m
by 1	JI'IYS.made •rom a CO¥Se
ty
pitch fork     lonQ-handled two-
' lr  •  •P•tchlng and wrnmg

=-.... .-

IV	J   fJ'>IV
bean setting Oro,Jplng beans rnto
dr lh111 d prep.ut•rl l•etd An un;krlk-d
dnd b.tthol tkonq Job whoch lor this
rt•,hon Wtl\ 111. .1- ulted to chrldren
Women •nd choldren  gleanrng'.
£riC Guy oM l!<'lml of Eng!isn Rur.J
Lift>.. Unimslly of  /Wd;ng

T111 ll1srnRY or I'.\ Ill EY  by Florence  Davidso11 .--....-

and a green cap, the sa me as postilions wear to-day. The price
of the chaise was 1/- a mile, and it cost 10/- to go from one place to the other.The public coach ran through  the parish by the highroad, and stopped  at every mile post to take up passengers and also at all the Inns on the way. There was no regular carrier from the village till many years later, though carriers' carts
passed through  the village from neighbouring  parishes.
The village has altered very much in eighty years. Where Mr. Rogers shop  now stands was a house with a thatched barn in front of it. And most of the cottages were lost to sight in the thick high furze bushes which in those days covered all the Common. The heather was cut and used for thatching and broom making. Mr.Skinner, whom I have quoted before as driving through Tadley in 1821, came across one of these heather gatherers and made a pretty water-colour sketch of her, which
1 have seen in his journal. This woman told him she bad just been cutting heather  on Tadley Common, and both she and her two children were bare legged and very poor. The mother wore
a brown dress with very short sleeves and a small black hat with
a bl ue handkerchief tied over it. She carried a huge bundle of heather over her shoulder, tied to a long stick. Her little boy was in a smock and carried a pi tch fork, while the little girl was in rags. The present almshouses were two very old tumble-down cottages in bad repair. There was no school at that time, as
soon as the boys and girls were old enough they were sent into the fields to earn a little money by bean setting, stone picking, and gleaning. The stones had to be piled into regular heaps of
a certain size in height and width, and a quick worker could earn
1/3 a day by this work. The stones were afterwards used for road mending.
G leaning  was always a very busy time, as a whole family could easily glean a sack full of corn a day, which was often the only
way that the children ever tasted bread, as flour was far too dear
to buy, as after the battle of Waterloo, food of all kinds was most expensive for many years. The women and gi rls wore aprons when they gleaned, which they held up to hold the short  pieces of wheat in, while the longer ones they carried in their hands. They put the loose grains as they picked them up into a pocket

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hopp1ng
fa
5e!:.·	...lP1)1C'll09 '" the Altoo area They were paid by the bushel oaqe 18) which p:OVldcd a
SOU!Cc of additJona ncome
riou •  IOWil.l\ the labourer\ Rl!'t'Ott

-·

t	"'l 0

. the recognrsen

:

Bel10refer 10 till! Pnory School, adj<!Cent to Pamber Priory OriQ•nally a Church of England school, rt wa\
built 1t1 1850 from local bnd.alld flint and Could cKCOITltllOd<!le  I 00 pvpds The build ng win bad:Y damaged by
f te 111 1916  and the bcautJful sta ned
gl.m and lead ltgtll w•ndol.vo>, which ca'l be >en 1n IIe photograph. wcr£> destroyed tn1987, a\ a r£>Sult ot lathng numbers. Ramsdell School mcrgd W1tllthP P110ry School

(J.jtw I    I	•e 1830-31
trt nsported 1-<         rly 500 people, mainly '	· lt'ln and eastern

-..J

.,...., ....,....,....,  Eng!.m..	1     ed to Austra!!.l fol!o-Mng w labourcn ReYol: k\!11W.ggltlS. age 19  from Monl

WM

imprisone

1

5.herborne	d for Ills
nt
...,.._.;,....U'Ioo	school wu opened  at Ramsdell
A l'c  ! "' SC.hool opened ltl 1877
, ,, .p._..("101' 120 pUpils, but therc
were also two o•hef small,ptiVaW hoots •n the Vllla!'J<' at th1s tame CrocuCon.lge, lcltt>r known c1s M• s Doves hool, dnd lhe V1lld,lclter Hopt' 1-jouw 'Unleo Hec th •s now not a tl)(ogntSf!d place name but may
r..:1  r ,,.. '\alterHeath, Wet He<Jth 01'
S 	.., 1eath
clothes piM Nowadays more
ly lnown as clothes pegs
The Prloty School from • Terry Hunt pomard, Pfe 1916,T.Jd!eyMid t:lritlict HlS1aty Socrry

T111 I I 1 ,.OK\  01 l ,\1!1 1' IJy FlurellCI!  J>avidso11 ,--.__.

that hung  round their waists. In the summer aU the men  used
to go away haymaking, generally  to Homsey Green and  Church End . As soon  as the hay was gathered  they went harvesting, and later on with the whole of their families they went hopping, going to Allon, Farnham, Alresford and  the hop gardens in those neighbourhoods, as their fathers and grandfathers had gone  before them. There  were fewer workers in those  days and
more  hops were grown, so that a large family could  make a very good sum of money at the bins. In 1827 there were riots all over England  to oppose the bringing in of machinery for farm work, such  as reaping  machines, etc., and a press-gang went a ll over the country districts breaking and  burning all these machines and forcing  the farm  labourers to join them. Not many  joined  from Tadley however, and  the press-ga ng that was in these parts were caught by the military  a t the White Lamb, at Ewhursl, and  man)' of them sent  to prison  and others transported.
The village children  had no school  to go to at this time. The
only teaching  that  they got was by going  to a cottage  where an old woman  lived, and  paying her twopence a week for each child to be taught  to read. They used to sit close about her on  low stools, and she showed  them  their letters in a very large print Bible, pointing out  each one with a pointed  stick till they  knew
it by heart. They were never shown  how to write, nor could they
read writing, and as soon  as they could read after a fashion  (onJy knowing the easiest words)  they left the Dame's School, i.e. when they were seven or eight. Soon after this time however a little school was opened at RamsdeU, and the children  from  Little Heath, whose  parents were anxious for them to be taught, used
to walk over there evCI)' day. When  Pamber Schoot ..vas built some 6o years ago, the Tad ley child ren of the better off villagers were sent  there. But as all the little girls had their curls cu t off just above their  necks the first day they went there  many of the
Tadley children cried so much about  this that  their fathers  would
not let them  go again, and  they had to learn  to read as best they might. The chief  trade  in Tadley in those days was besides  patten and  broom making, the making of clothes pins and  thatching. Clothes pins are still made  but they are few in comparison to what used to be made  years ago when they were turned out  by

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Notes 	I

-
Fighting Cocks

Silk mills •t Overton Overton  h.1d fOUt mha• the ume of the Doorrlsd4; Sunley1n 1086 01\t;' one silk mtllrs
r«orlrTlpOrtam enough  to be maried on a 1791 map olHampslwe In 18391!  loyed 37 <iduits,mar ly womt'll,and 77 ctuldren.lt was rlt•molt'llli)d tn 1848 A cross-<:ountry JOurnt'Y from Tadlcy to the mdl would
pro Mhly bt! tn exces01  I 5 km Walknef irs lee:.;ted appro.•rmate!y o 71     .,	of the A3.:o T.ldley to.__ ,;)tole road  JUSl nonh ol
w ,.·  dfarm
Follet's F•rm Probably the Sl:e of £1m
rdt'll Centre at End
llps<ombe's Piau The land and
propcrty to the ret!f of 'The F>g!tmg Coch' rs known to have been owned ana OC:C\Jpted by tt!! LJpscombeS

until the early tw•·ntrcth century lrpscomlw.s .rre 11ho u'Corded at SLJu•\ ft rnHttt lil 1 871
f ore at Thl' r1ghtm9 ((){ks. 1903; H.tm{!Yiim1-.'iM<Jms SetVIce
- f1]()()3 400 4}7

locatt'<J at the junttiOO of Wmston
Avmut" ana we A340 road :o
8Minc]>tol;e AlIlpj:JfOl<IITkltely
10 30 t11n on 1 Julv 1903, the
ongna! tha!Ched Inn,outbuildongs
and most of the newly  bwlt broel.:
Mid structure adpntng  the road
caught fm!, probabty gn.ted by a
• from the wa}h ho J)e l11e   111
oll'l effort to pr('YI.'flt the  read of 111e
lloJmes men <lrmbed onto the roof and tou• off the th,Jtch dunng whrch tlrr•landiOid lhomas Benham.W•1S rnjured lhr> Sasmq to'e ltre bng,Jdr were atlt'ndmg another tnddenl and Ia eel tOamveuntdabout12 15 pm, by whiCh l!mt! wtually the whole Site had been dellfortunately, the premrses wert' Insured and r :
by the ownm, M.Jy  & Co. ttd  m
the fdwardlan st)1e seen today  'The
f rghtmg Cod:s'cJos.eo m S(l1WJ9 2006

1"111   llhlOilY tll 'I Al>l.n by Florena: Dm•idson .-.......

thousands. As to thatching it is dying out  too, as the Insurance is so much  higher  on a thatched house th<m one with tiles, and  at the present  time when the thatch  wears out  it iseldom renewed, though  it is much  warmer than any other  kind of roof.
The Rectors of Overton, as T have said, were Rectors of Tad ley as weU in former days. One of these, a Mr. Williams, was well­ known  in the parish, and  his son was killed at Ash Hill from
his gun going off as he reached  up to pick nuts off a bank on the side of a road as he came  home  from shooting. This caused a great deal of sympathy in the village here. There  used to be silk mills at Overton , and some of the Tadley people used to work in them,  but these have been done away with for many
years. I was told by an old inhabitant that he remembered when Walkners firs was a cornfield, and  he told me that  many other places had changed as well. This was at the time that a Mr. Thorpe was living at FoUett's Farm. All brewing  used to be done at home,  but the beer and  ale was seldom  drunk by the people themselves, but sold  to their neighbours who had no brewhouse. Life was very rough, and a great deal of fighting  went on on Saturday nights on the hill below the "Fighting Cocks" (which got its name  from this cause). Five to eight couples  used to fight at a time, and  the road from the top of the hill to the bridge on the Sherborne (o r Basingstoke)  road was covered with  them.
Any man  who was a stra nger to the place would  have been very
roughly  handled  had he tried  to pass through them  while the fig ht was going on, or who went into  the Inn for a drink. There was a great deal of apple growing in the parish in former years, as cider was so much made at home. Al what is now known  as lipscombe's Place, the orchard was so prolific that it was no uncommon thing  to gather 160  bushels of apples in the season.
The parish  has always been a great place for Market Gardeners. The gardeners made a pratice in those days of buying from  the smaller ones, and  taking what they thus obtained
into Basingstoke to sell in the market  or to the shops that
they suppl ied. The gardens  were well managed  and  produced a good supply  of vegetables. There  was no Rectory till quite recent  times, and as a rule the clergy who came from Overton to take the services  put  up at Bishops Wood !louse with Mr.

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HIStOfa ly, lv'.4f   Day was a ce'.ebfatJOO
o1 ttJto comtng of Spong andSummet
h the t riE'St  nown re'<>renceo
12.:0 :lad:"ln•the-Green'!chimney
SV.'tCP w01'11!' of many May
D.l'! trad tJOnS that evolved Duti.tng
01 D Pfl!ng IOeYon It Cornw 	locds
& lao es (HertfOfdshare).weanng and
gMng gar ond1 al'ld   more I'Tl()(jp•n
1 mt'S Maypoleos and May QueePS
'Jac ·m  th••·Ctll'en' ht appeared'" thl! 1770\ .mel was ma.nly an urban custom Cluto the predomonanc£> of chm111cys Hleafy garb probably evolvl'd from the May oarland theme Tilt monlit!collected would see him througtl the lean months of
summer lhimn trade was poor  By thE'
late n.netE>Cnth re:tUf)' May Day had
becOme SynonytllOII$ w.:ilsocia'.JSt sympa	In many p;aces march13 andspe«hcs replaced thl! wnple romanuc Ctk'bfa•.ons an the
1920\ Tacl cy School bflefly rN!Ved tn£>
trad.uon ol uownmg a May Queen and d.mctng uround cJ Maypole
I

Bllrn Close loc.11t'<i  111 Church Road.
o1  -h 1ft Wdlto thP. north of St Peter'l.
C r     • o   lld Edmund Saulez r •dl"d
u  ,, • om  1878
tith•  1e tenth part o'the aMua
r 	of tilt lcJnd (corn. oau. hay.
I ;)I 	l lhfo tenth (l)W

i

.p.g , wool and non-<PrecJI
crops t.alen as a ta• tor the suppon

(.	' i 	f 	J

of the ChUtch	regv A legal
obligatlOn m England by the etghltl

the   ent

century Tilt T1thc CornmuratJOn Act
of t8t '"'ll'o1!rted	of
"'.;'   IC.i...t:'\.	lltht•.1nto  nnual rent.
shock At hllf\IC Itame a group of corn
.hravt''stood up w1th th!'lr head
tog..•th<'l  Alw referred to as a  tool.
Iadley M•y Oay. 1925,TMIJf'ji and
D<Sttkr History S'o<rl)

1"111  llr.'IIIK\ 111  'I,,,,r' U)' Floreua• Dm•idscm .--.....

Prior.The first house to be used as a Rectory was what is now Barn CJose. It was only a small collage, but Mr. SauJez, who was Rector many years ago, bought it and used it as a Rectory House. Before this time it was only a very poor place. May Day
was always kept in the village 6o years ago by the sweeps dressing up in green bushes trimmed with streamers of coloured paper, and going from house to house to collect a little money. They used to dance on the green and sing a song about May Day, that was very old indeed. People did not keep as many horses and ponies as they do now in the viUage. There was not enough work for a Blacksmith, so one used 10 come over once a week from Baughurst to do any shoeing that might be wanted. Once a year the tithe feast used to be held at Bishops Wood House, and it
was always a day of great rejoicing after the harvest had been
gathered in. The Rector always had the tenth shock for his tithe, so in cutting a field every tenth shock was marked with a green bough, so when the field was cleared the Rector's shocks could
be ca rted away without further trouble. And as a rule there was always a tiny shock left in the field when all the rest was carted away as a present for the birds.
In looking over some oi the Parish Registers of from so to 6o yea rs ago, T  have come across a great many names that are very
fa miliar ones in the vi llage to-day, very likely the grandparents
or grea t-grandparen ts of those who live here now. Among the marriages that took place in 1837 and the years following, these may be oi interest to the parishioners. In 1837, George Anglais was married to Hannah Hedgcock, (he was a broom maker by trade). Benjamin Benham to Eli za Tull.ln 1839, we have the marriage of William Watson to Sarah Harmsworth, and in
184t, Thomas  ichardson to Harriet Mills. In 1842 James Nash to Mary Ann Giles. At this time, as there was no school in the village, very few people could write, so in these ea rlier marriages we find as a rule that people only put their mark on to the registers. Many of the marks are most distinctive and out of the common, and wouJd be known at once again as having been made by one particular person.This was done on purpose so
that each person's mark then was as easi ly recognised as their signa ture is today.

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p ·;

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.,.;     mandatory 1n England and Wale1n 	Include the chapelry of Tadley until

n

- -- - j{,	• Par.sh records  hrst became	Most of early reg.sters fOf Overton
1538 In that year an Injunction Wi!S	a separate ecdeslaStiCaf parish was
w -co.,(    L'\ -                 ft._  •ssued requ1nng every church to keep	formed m 1878
a book or reg1ster to record the date 	The copoes of the early reg1sters
I') {

tt

.--_	'	of each weddmg,bapt1sm and bunal,	for the Independent Chapel.n Tadley
\- 	7, 	togPther with the names of tho e 	are held on mocrofilm at the National
r_   ·	m. rrled,bapt•sed or bur1ed.	Atch1ves  The early Methodist
.Cl ;,,(,	Severalhundred English reg1sters	regiSters c11e held by the orcwt or the

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""'"""'.!  ,....._	6 mclud1ng a f ew complete sets from	or cliCUit.
- 1538 to the prnt day	Current and recent reqtsters will,
""	t 0.r.  (,,  Older reg•sters for the Anglican	1n most ca . sun be held by thl'

11.,._..,..

1 churches In Tadley (St Pete . 	mcumbent Some of them have been
-- ;::o--'		=t2(£il..:t.St Paul'$, St Mary's North Tadley and 	transcnbed locally and sent to the o   .,?	,._. ,_.   I.J...  Hampsh1re County Record OHtee

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<)   ""J'd,.9•	'"1 ..:._h  m;;J't	   _,......

'<... L .,..,...,..6    (	or l..ot:h.- ,J?., 1  \l.J	h1•
o. 	•	c	'  .AA""-..,iiii;O"-...-•

l111  lft,Jou\·or  I\IIUl /J)• Fiort?llccDnvidsoll·-·

The villagers always walked to the Parish Church to be married, never thinking of driving, and the day was one of great rejoicing. [f the bride was a good cook she allowed no one else
to make the weddjng cake, while the wedding dress was made by
her own hands as well as the linen  that she provided  for the new house. This was all made by hand, as sewing machines had not been invented  so long ago. If the married couple were popular
in the village, or sung in the choir, the ringers always gave them
a peal as they came out  of church, and  in return  the ringers were asked to the wedding feast. May was then  thought (as it is now) to be an unluck.-y month for marriages, and we seldom  find that one  took  place in this month.
The bapt ismal registers contain  many familiar  names. T  give
a list of some of them  beginning in 1822, as of interest  to their children, g rand ch ildren and great-grandchildren, now living in lhe parish.ln 1822, Isaac, son of Richard and  Phoebe Mills, was baptised; and  in the same year I find the name of Mary Ann, the daughter of Abraham  and Jane Giles; and William, son of John and  Betty Hawkins. In t823, the name of James, son of William and Ann Cr ips; and William, son of Elizabeth
a nd John Sau nders. In 1136 the baptisms include the  names of Henry, son of Henry and Dorcas Simpson; and George, son  of Cha rles and Sarah  Allen. In 1837, Anne, daughter of James and Hannah Benham. In t838, Jane, daughter of Abram and  Elizabeth Cottrell;  and  Martha, daughter of George and Hannah Anglais. ln 1843, David, so n of Henry and Sarah Stroud. In 1844, Ca roline, daughter of Richard and Anne Ham. The baptisms of twins  was not at all uncommon, and  lhe baptisms  always took  place on
a Su nday, as the parents  being at work all the week, this was the
most convenient time to bring their  babies to Church. It was
very unusual for children to have more  than one Christian name given to them. The custom of giving more names than one has only become genera] within  the last few years.
From the burial registers I have taken the following  names,
as I think  the people  in the village may be interested to read them. [n 1830 were buried  James Crips, aged 76;1831, Mary Monger, 78; 1832, Leah Harmsworth, 9 months; Jane Bowman,
2 years and Sara h Bowman, 1 year were both buried  on  the same

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Few of tilt! he d\·ones t.lnOifl9 rn S<tu m St Piller's churchyard are as upnght Md  clt?dl a' thesto of Mary But1C'1, IJulll'l:l 26 SE'ptPmbl'r 1823
and hl'l hu.b.llld John,burred
25 O<tober 1827 Early graves CIIE.' gencorally loonc:t on the south Slde or the church and closE.' to ·neporch.
the I\Ofth ide reg dE'd as the 'Devd's Side The   rt.cst recocded bona at StPeter's ts that of .FM." on
1S October 1659.w.dow oi Nicholas No recons e.  n of where m thEo churthyattl she  :es In common
woth mcKt early chutches yf!w 11ees
grow In the churchyard A refere!l(e
'" the late n1nctecnth CPntury to a Yt'W tree wtiO'ot' uunk was 18ft 111 dr.HnPter lc•Jdione to assume rt was rtpl<tcl'd woth 0111' or more of the four trc.es prt lly QIOWI'l!! No proof
exr ts to cool111 or deny tl'>e many wpcrs 1101\) regard.ng their plaotJng, a though the following custom rs alluded to by Ccw..on m 1o1S3  that
the braroches of the 'f!!W,grown 111 tofiSCCI'I!I!d ground were earned m Palm Sunday procewons probably mote common known.
th.n 'Jf'W an efas!JC' wood was
IHI!d tor bows, rt wds 'e<J<l'ded as an emblem ot gr pf and graiJng arum; ls are cll'lelrl'd dlltr toIts poiSOnous
natu111  S.nc r• Dec.ernber 2004 burral now tae pi;c r• rn the newly oe.Jted ladlt>y Ceru  ll'fV on the oppas.tt• rdP
of Church Road

some of this family went to
AuJtrolla Bad h.orvests rn 1816 and
1818 pi    thr• t.oge urwmploymC>ro
Hl   ,J by t:• )()!drerreturnmg from
the NapoiCIOiliC Wars,led  to large
sc    l.'flll9rlltoOn  later. n lhe 183Ch,a se<ond wave of mass unem 'TTIC.'fll cauwd bv the InCreased use o; rnrchanluuoo m  try and farm:ng It'd 10 lurther cmagtCI!JOn.  The matn countnf!oS jl('Op!e Ctn!Qrated to were Amero Canad.1 and Auwaloa
Throwthoot the E'c rly n•neteenth (l'ntury t' l'f.rl publ•r.atoOns actM'Iy I' !<OUt 191'Cf ClllltjldiiOO and 1'1 1831 tim N,utor tl Colonrutron SocrNy walo<rnt rf to fund t"mogrants Ss
" d<1\·Wob ChMged With repayment beg nntn<J .titer four years Tllls w w.n   ttiC.'n offwt aga!l151 thl'
cost of their p.nsage lhe unemploveod
poor Wl!lt' more of a problem lhey v.1lm a burd<!non the PatlSh wtuch wa\ leen 10  dof them <Aa tmilJratoOn but who was to fund
It1 Most of the proposed  schemes
rnvolvt!d bolrll'oWJg' from the Poor
Rate and to quote-·   anyone not
..... '., _,..,  ol!)rf't'l"lJ  to go hould be dtonl ood poor
rfllof'l" Tht!St! l'mtgrants were known
.....a.cn•·.-..... ....,_  il\ 'W<Hr.ml' P•IS ·ngers
Ht•utont• of Mury and John Butler,
St Potl'r'\ O•urth; January 2008
and OislrK r Hlsloty Sodt!ty

day, April 8T u. There must have been some epidemic in the village to account for this. In the same year were buried Ann Barlow, 73; Sarah Engld1eJd, 34; }Jmes West, 5 months, and
David Prior, of Bishops Wood I louse, aged 84. I n t833, Susannah
Crips, on Jul y 215'1, aged so; and on J uly 24TH, John Crips, aged
64. 1834, Martha Chapman,85; James Barlow, 84, and Mary
Engleficld, aged 86, ""'ere buried.
I n the same year we have the burial of Jane Kew, who died at the age of 28. lt is interesting to know that some of this family went to Au tralia many years ago and settled there. They arc now trying hard to trace what has become of the family of Kcw!) that they sprung from. 1837, Lucy Harmsworth, aged 70; 1838, Caroline Stacey died, aged 84. 1840 there were two funerals
o n the same day, on February the 6th, Martha Bowmao and Thomas Hedges, a rather unusual event for a small village. In 1841 we have the hurial of Hantl.lh Welch. In 1847 there is
the acc.ount of the funeral of a lillie girl of only two years old,
Mary Ann Nash, who was d1·owncd, poor little thing, by falHng into a hole where water was lying. The custom so general in Hampshire of putting wooden crosses or headstone to the
graves in the parish graveyard is the rea on that there are so few memorials of the dead to be seen there before the end of 1700. The rain and the sun so soon destroy them, and there is nothing left to mc1rk the spot where former generations lie buried.
In 1844 we find the burial of David Harmsworth, aged 90. The Harmsworths were a very tong-li ved famit)', and Tadtey must have been as he.11thy a place in those days as it is now, for we find the burials in the Church registers of -,o very many old people, So being a common age, and many lived some years longer. }ames Harmsworth, the brother of David, died in 1847 at the age of 8o. James Harmsworth had formerly been Parish Clerk, and he died very suddenly in the Church Porch on
Whit-Sunday. The long waJk to the Parih Church must have
been very tiring to old people, and to walk up- hilt on a warm day very trying for the heart. It was a daughter-in-law of James Harmsworth, calted Jane, who was such a remarkable woman, and so welt-known to the older people of the village.She had
been a Jane Pen ford, ofTadley Place, and married George

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Nnlt of W.t  rloo A battle.tougtn In f	ISIS. markmg the end of thQ ffilWars Napoleon wdcfeat<'d by the armoes o• Bntam M "' "'"  und<'r Ihe COtl'lll'ldllO ot
tt   Ou t of Wei "\jtOO
press-gang A t.ody of ml.'n employlld
to forcP mn lr11o serviCe rn the army
or n.IVy
alm houses 1he were tabiiShl!d
frorr th" It >th c 1!!11ury '" Bma.n. t;.pro. 	.,pla<e of r ldenct> for pcJOr. old and d  tressed folk The first recorded aln\'.house foundf'dbv
ong Athehtan.and the	In
e• tenc:e IS the Hospct.al of St Cross
In Wmchester. founded orca 990 AD
lhe refereoce here 15 presumed to be!
Mothe's Hou\e t'«' fJd9e 21)

rfl  ..-dl,j hooprnc:ung wen an imporUnt loca woodland llldustry, second to bloom matmg Tilt> te m
'white hoop rna mg spea:ical!y appl;ed to wa h·twtuch Wl'fl' basally by wt·ng a 	CiiSit m ha f horuont.llly Ebe\mere m the south of England dum19 the n nett't'nth century, hoop mco'rng
wa\ probably the foremo-;t wood Jnd cr.th It IS r l(Ord•thdt  n 1897 rn Sus'>t'• alone there were 368 coopers
!he hoofJCt or cooper made  d nng or
orcul.u b.lnd lm holdrng togt!ther the
St.M!$ 11\ed lor Cd   sand tuThese hoops wt:rc tashtooed mainly horn ash ex hue!rod> t!li!'were spit and shiNed so •hat each hoop rt> bark on 001.' sldt> An e.peri('O(ed hoopcould prodo< e 300-400 hoops   a rr day Tht>y
were not ...,.,durable In use and
reQIIIre<i tt'f)la( ng IN)Quently Tht'
,.. h r• ca ti. when cOf'lllllete .,.,,.,e
>td mo tfy lor the Udn tron of dry QOOd) ,n d.-erse as grocent-S to gunpowdN I hey W!'re also used
IOtliOIII'Q \f1d ltdn\portrng liquor
1M" du:.trJ oolln the early
lWCfll•t Lll Ctntury \\' >en ron l'looi>S
rep:aced the wooden ones.

rill III>Tilll\' 01  lAIIII' /If Flort'IICC: Dm·iti10II ,_.

I larmsworth in October, 1826. Both :-.he and her husband came of old Tadley families. Mrs. Harmsworth was a woman of
great buisness qualities, and not long afler her marriage was made Assistant Over:-.cer and Collector of Taxes, both of which offices she filled remarkably well. She then became one of the Churchwarden:., and was made the Parish Clerk. She alway:. used to sit inside of the Communion  Rails in the Church, and took part in all the services with great attenLion to her duties. She was also postmistress, and used to bring the letters to Church with
her on a Sunday morning and deliver them to their owners, to
save the trouble of taking them the next day.She lived to a great age, dying in 1891, when she was 85. ller brother-in-law William llarmsworth,  who married Jane West in 1849, was the old postman who used to bring the lcller<> from Monk Sherborne in a donkey cart, and cleared the letter box before there was a post office.
There was a terrible thunder storm in the parish about eighty
years ago. It came on while all the: villagers were in the harvest field, and there were many narrow escapes from injury from the lightening. It did great damage in the place, and a great number of trees were struck and thrown down at Mr. Prior's place, Bishops Wood (now Elmhurst). The Priors were a family of wealth and positjon in the parish, where they had lived for some hundreds of yea rs.
One of the trades which flourished 40 or so years ago was
called white hoop making. John I lam was a very well-known maker of these wa.!.h-tubs.They used to be made in sets of eight, from the size of a wash basin up to the largest and heaviest
tubs. They were most difficult to handle when they were full on accou nt of their weight, and many accidents used to take place from trus cause. At the battle of Waterloo voluntecn, were asked for to fight in the army, or be ready for defence in case of the feared invasion of England by the French, which was expected
to happen any day. If a man vol umecred, he was given £5, but a grea t many who would not do this were forced to go, and in that case they got nothing. A villager called James wa:-. one of
these men who was forced to go by the press-gang, but before he left England victory was declared and he came home again. His grandson has latel}' died in the almshoml!s.  Flour at the time of

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To make om brooms, the
be ·rndkl'r or broom sqwre cuu
orstandiii<J btrch by thl' iKH?
•n cll.tumn,tor cutt•ng  It\ wtntl'r
Alter cuthnQ tht> IWI<r; arl' bOund Into bundiM thl'n transported to the broom yard Stdd ed carefully, thy are leitlor sevPral months to l'aloOn  The btreh \ ready for use
when the twrgs "'e hard but phabk>
Hondlare also  and ore
cutlengltts of a$h,(hMtnut,hme or

Crimean War     '>3·56) Ongrna!ly a o-.pute berwet.'n Pand Turkeyo
O'olet the guard mp of Holy PI¥
1n Jerusalem; Br.tarn and France atf•eo
With TurkPy  A hug" loss of hfe was
su ta1ned by an \Ides TI1e Crtmt'ol
was a maJor .upplter of wheat
Copse worlt  coppterng) A system of tn   fafl'l'   Q  ..n h encouriiQ I'W!W
.;hoots Cvpprc< .. used accordmg

hazl'l.sh,wed srnooth The mak1ng of the brOOITI'II\  ally startd1n
the spting  !her\! were many famtiH$
malJil<) brooms m thl' area Sadly the last txoom \qutre 10 the town, Arthur Nash. dll'd 1n 2004 Hp was awdrded th" Royc1l Wc rant 111 1 999,
Ihe embk·m  now proudly d•splayed
on thl' house  m whtCh he rved
Severill televosl()llprogrammt'w. e
mdde of h rn clernoMtr.u.ng Ius s ill.
lll<ludlng one tor Jc1panese tell'VISIOtl

to •tS type  harel 'or hurdleslbilrrr•l malang cht.>Stnut for fposts.
oal< tor CN'ler posts and IU b.ul cmd
b•rch lor Ill om blooms Kempshott Park l'h4> e.uly manor house a hunt1nq lodrw used by the Prin<e Rooq<>nt (1811·20). wa replaced 111 1 J74 With a br cl.
ma1l51011  Only the grounch rema n.
row home to 8 1e Goff Club

The brooms go all over the country, even to the go rdenof Buc 1ngham Palace The besoms for the Harry Potter Mm  Tht> Order of the l'ttoenox· Cdlllt> from hos broom yard tn Tad ey Broom ma• '19 IS d•\played on thtt
Slqn at 'Th\·Broom $qUire\ HOIE'I
In Sdcht'$t<.'r Ro.td It shows Arthur lbelow) worl,ong at h1s craft. thus comm rottong an •mportant industry m the  town

Puritans A rel rous grOUP rn the suctaoth  nd se;;ent th centurl6 seekmg to pur1fy worsh<p or all ceremony It evofrom discontent wnh the E.hzab<•than Rehg ous Settlement. thought to be too
•ocltned tOWt ld Roman Cathctlrcr '"
Arthur Na\h In hrs workshop,lim
published 1n 1998.AV.i Aldmn.111on

war in 1815 went up to 2/4 a gallon, and living in the country was so expensive that many Tadley and Pamber people emigrated to America.
At the time of the Crimean War in 1855, food went up to almost famine prices, bread being 1/6 to 2/- a gaUon, which was far higher for the time than in 1815. The people in the village about here used burnt bread as a substitute for tea, as the Iauer was too expensive to buy, coal wac; seldom or never seen at Tadlcy, wood being burnt entirely. The trades in the parbh, with the exception of those that have dacd out, are much the same
to-day as they were then. There was copse work in cold weather
for the men, who also made hoops and brooms. Of these
hitter thousands were made in the year and sen t as a rule to the North of England, where they were used in the iron foundries and mines. They made them of birch and heather, and a good workman could finish many of these in a week. Many yea rs
ago there was a heavy duty on all spirits brought into England,
and much c;muggling went on all down the H ampshire wasts. A certai n man who had an Inn at the ga te of Kcmpshott Park, was a receiver of this smuggled brandy, which he hid in his cellars till it was wanted. This mctn bought these birch brooms that were made at Tadley in great numbers to send to the North and when he heard that the Customs Officers were in the
neighbourhood, he either let the kegs of spirits down a well close
to his house or sent them out to fadlcy by night in the empty carts in which the men had brought in their brooms. The barrels were hurried out in the darknc:>s, and either stored underground or in the wells, till aU danger was over, then they were packed under the next load of brooms that were going into Ba ingstoke
a nd given back to their ownca·a t  the fnn. Ten shi llings to one pound was given for running this risk (a terrible one in those days) and if caught in the act, a smuggler was either put to death or transported for Life to Australia to the convict settlements that used to be there.
Tadley Chapel was founded at the time of the Puritan ejection. This Puritan ejection of 1662 is often mis-understood. The Clergy had been deprived of their livings with grcot ignomany and hardships by the Puritans, often being in such
great poverty that it was impossible for them to su pport their

Sl

weekly prayer meetings

\   i'! FO1tnterpretauon a: till>                 Vl1ligl!ofandrts
event1of 1662 may have applied to           worsh:pperThe lfldeopendel:s. Tad:cy In f«t. 2000 (lloncontormrsu          nw cChurch of deryv rtflned toconsent to the                 Engl.md and w. mergew;th
entire contents of lt'?  'Book of                    tPr hytenan Churth of Engl.tnd
Common Pra r·(Act  of Unoformol)l)               on 1'112 to lll!(omo> the Umted
and M msult were erected from thE'!•	Refurm('(f Churt/1  R torohon wor IMnqs Althou!Jh.leg lty,d•sseotong	wa\ undertdkt•n '" the early 1960s cf!!lgy who {Onhnued to preach Wl're 	w•th" srrVKI! of re·d<'dtcauon on thl'
ltdble to prose<utoon,Nonconlorm,.t          l June 1962  ThP or•g•n.JImmt5ter'\ prdyl'f mcetong; w rc toleratM and             rC!!>rdcnw fell onto dtYepair and wd bv 16891!was possoble 10 IK.e1XP a              rebu•lt tn 1791. 'The Manse', m
ufor publte worship	M.lnse lane was sold 111 till> 19805
TheOld Met!!Jng 11'1 Maithouse                    and the current cot' IS 111 R.lmpton·s
lane ll!mVed tiS cerufate on :ne          M adow  The Old M(!£'bng IS now

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.: Octobrr 1718 and so 1t1e <hurch	•Citade n liited budd ng wnnin the was now wlllun thP hean o!the 	SoiJth T.td!ey ConservatiOn ArN
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Doe's Lane     !llNily named a•:er a
.   nry .·.        r .. :!there ltiSnowan
tc  tcml<ln or Mdlthouse lane. named aftet the mall holM that formerly
.....,......u o    traded thl'le
Engrovtng lrorn 'Some Account of thl'
VJIIagl! of T<1dley'" H•mpshire and of the lndt'IX'ndenl Church There· (1861), by D•mrel8t"nham.

,	lilt llbiiiU\ •u  I\Ill I\' [,y  floreuce/Jm•idson•-·
families. When  King Charles JI came to the Throne he rightly
re-instated these Clerg}' who had been turned out  for no just cause.This was in 1662, and  those men who hnd been given livings by the Triers of Oliver Cromwell,  thought it very hard and strange that  they should  be asked to retire. After the rightful Rector was again appointed to his old parish, some  of the
people who had worshipped w1der the minister  appointed by Oliver Cromwell, preferred  to hold weekly prayer meetings to com ing to the Church. As time went on any minister  who might be in the neighbourhood would be asked to come and  preach
to them. The  Rev. Joseph Tate was one of the first ministers to come here and speak to the people. This was somewhere about
1680. In 1696, the Rev. Thomas Overy was asked to take the services, which at that  time were held in the room  of a house called "Gardi ners." Mr. Overy was a Clergyman of the Church of England,  but had given up his living at the Restoration. Some yea rs after  this, the room  at Gardiners was too small  to hold all the people  who came  to these meeti11gs, and  it was decided  to build a place of worship in Does' Lane.The Rev. Joseph Tate was now the minister  and  helped to build a small meeting  house  between 1718 and 1719. This first building was plain l y built or brick, with a gallery on three sides, and would hold about 350 people. A great deal of interest was taken in
building this chapel, and a woman  named  Excellor Hextal, who
lived in or near  the parish, became so enthusiastic about it, that not being able to give much  towa rds its completion herself, she went to London  and coUected funds  for it there. This was a far greater  undertaking in those days than it would be now. The original  trust deed  bears the  names  of Robert  West and  Edmund Benl1am, of Tadley, and  names of people living al Overton and Basingstoke.  Besides the Meeting House itself, there was a small buria l  ground and a house for the minister and his family, with
a garden  attached.
There  was a great deal of opposition to the building of this Chapel, and a magistrate who lived near tried  to stop  all work on it and rode over to prevent  the work being carried on, but he wa.':>  thrown  from  his horse and  broke his leg, and  before
he was out of the house aga in the work was finished.  Mr. Tate
died in 1724, and  by his special  request, was buried  under  the

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Notes

M A  A Master oi Arts In Scotland
IS •n acad fill( d('g ee m f.ne aru.
hurNn:oes.SON! ie enCes 01 theology awatdl'd by iht> four anoent UllM'rs.ues Unl ke the Oxondge MA, the Sconoh MA os awarded With the
s. rnr vw•r•• ot honouas Brotlsh
undt•rqr. Juaw d<>grees. eg MA
(ltonr,) Upfk!lSt>cond Cldss'. preferment A IX>\IIooo,appoontffil"nt, o    '' Qlv>I'Q	dvancemem,as or
1 "Cif  , oJf  prl.' l

In 1790 at the age of 37 Samuel Browne \\as tnVIted by the much d mn Shcd group of IJVe Tadley wonh Plll!ll to mmoSter to them
11the Old Mec!ung Ot.e to
rniSundmIMdmgs With Ule prri."IOUS
mlrusterrlw.n1811 before he was
offtCIIIIy QIVCI1the offiCe Ou1109 his eartv p.11torshlp 12 more membefs joinfd the coogreg.uoon The po em
.tnd "1".11 nttmbl'• ur ht\ worshoppers
!111'•1111 th.llIll' dod hts famrly led d
ltU\J<llhfe, whtch •what probably led
John Mulfo•d lo leave hom mooPy tn
t .woll tn  1814   Hewa\ one of the
earhest localauthors 'lhe Protesta'lt Youths lrntructo:  was publ6hed In londonlnl798 and  n 1805John l&Kas of B.lsingsto*;e publtshed hiS bool. 'Travels of a Seet.·fruth   Tt.s
wasa symbolic narracomparable
to Bunyan's 'PIIgnms f>ro9:ess   In
the boo'- T.ldlev Ylll.lgt>bedr
a faont lel'lllbldnce to local places
To dt•fr.ttlhe tosl 11m p<•ntong wa•
!.p()O Ort•d \iy over 200 subscrober'
tn<ludlflr) Sl?llt!r,Jil,ltlley resodents
Mr ltr kC'r, Mo\ Mcly.Mr D Pnor nd Mr Andrem. A corlY of thr; book IS on lh'-' Idle bools 'ectlon of the Bllto h Library

I111  !Its 1IIRY  Ol· I\nil \ lly rloreun• Dnvitl5clll .--..J

Communion pew that stood  in front of the pulpil.ln 1720 he was very ill, and a collection of £3 was made in Newbury for him, in one of the Chapels, as it was said that his need was great. He was succeeded by Mr. Innis Pearce, who was the son of a well-known London  man, and always very sickly. There
is still a letter  to be seen from his Aunt Lo his Father, in which
she says:"We were very much saddened to read of the sickness and weakness of dear little I nnis, we do hope his life may be
spared  to make him  a living monument of God's  mercy".  He
was minister  here for 36 years, and died in 1761. Al first his wife and  two children  had with himself only £12 a year to live on.
He had nine children  afterwards, and to support them  he often took duty  in the neighbourhood, for which  he was paid. He was an M.A.of Edinburgh, and though offered  preferment in the Church of England  by a friend of his, he felt it his duty to refuse, as he said he was much  needed at Tadley. Mr. Pearse wrote and published  volumes of poetry, hymns and sermons, which he
sold  to help to maintain his wife and children. He wrote  in all
two thousand volumes  of sermons, all in a very clear hand, and without any abbreviations. After his death  his widow gave five volumes  that had belonged  to him for the usc of the Tadley Meeting. However, these volumes  were taken away by one of the Trustees of the Meeting, who cut them  up into  wrappers for the goods he sold in his shop. ln  182.2 there was only one  volume
left, rescued  just as it was being torn  up. The next minister was John Stevens, who came in 1762 and died  in 1765. Most of the baptisms of the congregation Look place at Newbury at this time. Mr. Stevens was followed by a Welshman called Prince. He did  not live here, but at Beenha m and Sulham, in which  places he preached  as well as in Tadley. Mr. William Cooper came  to the Meeting next, leaving in 1780, and died in Essex in 1814. Dr.
John Duncan, a Scotchman, succeeded  him, bul  he was not liked by the congregation, and  when he took to admitting members
of the community who were not approved by the rest of the congregation, a great many people left and went lo Newbury instead. A Mr. Henry Llewellyn Jones came about  1783, but only stayed a year. A Mr. Aquila Jones succeeded  him, but was only here a short time. The Rev.Sa muel Browne, who had worked
among the people for some time, was appointed minister in

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Sunday School Begun by Robert
111 1785 :a prOVIde a baSIC
veneta! t'Ciucauon Sunday SChools sprNd, llol1tlCW!Iy amo Noo· c:onrormt churches.ano by 1851

.m.

rly I V'l It'·ds olthl" 5·14 iJ91!
rar	xl•'<l
pew rtnu Pent p.11d tor a pev.1  or
\llllrl(l 1n  J church In rural panshe
the arliN hlp of a p..w often passed
th t14t of  1 fc rm or cottage
day school   •     c>.U'I"'SIO'l to the Old
I 4 	•Q	It   about  1840, IHII
..1 .-1 '" • f If!schoolroom' I!v.as
probably classt'd as a Br :&1School
In 1801 Joseph Lancas:er l.:mled  a SOCiety which was later l:ncM1aThe B • "	fort'1gn School Soot!ty,
inly bJNonton'ormtm hundrtth year A posyble error by rr  he Mcl ttng House WciS  granted
'' ll(l'fl-.t 	1 7• 8  194 years before
\t W 	Wflllnq 11'1  1912

-i.lll

Somerset House liXdtNI1n thl'
Strand , nd  •v('l'lw)klng the Thames, t ot Oll!f . ,, t...1ld .g was the t m Ren.a sance palace m England 11 was bu t belwl'en 1Sol7·50 •or the Lord Protector following
his execu<.JOI'I  t wen g:.-en the
Pri!ICI!SS	(Queen Elaabt"   IJ and a suett!SSIOf1 of roy  ty It was demolished 10 1775 and replact'CI With the present but!d:19 built :or the NallY Ottoce Between 1836 1973 Somerset
Hoo w.n the rrpos.tory lor birth,
tn.lrfiO'l" aoo cfr•.tth ce•t•focates;mo t
or those wcordo u!now held at the
N t•nnal Archrves at KI:'W,Surrey 11 I\
r-t: w    v1suI artcentre
0 0.0.   tor of  Orilllllty  I·Mtoroe:ally, In·     9t m dOCtorate Qranted by "un   > IY  I' ld\'fl:rfiecl a
Yot!o was kcensed to teadl Ct-omt.an
tht!olog"f
consumption OB T culosls rs an
tnfectlOV\ d.sc.,wlliCh nodules
- t t:lc!s  formin the body tzsSue anrl d   troy 11 II   ua lllfectS thto lung-puiiTIOndry tu uor
<onsumptoon

In lll'r I•II! a deE-ply rei'9'0VS man whns(o 11MrlP. SUIVII!t:5 tn the rodd n1.rned Mulford\ Hill Lottie IS known of thl\ vwll l.nown man It IS thought that illf.muly roots may not he •n
r.nllt y FD sayS people  eo 'wile. hrs family were ar.d where hecame lrom"7Certatnlyby t841 oolyal Mullords are recordt'd locally. m the pattshesot  Pamller and Btam!ey.and nooe ltll.ldlt'y By far the rnmt are n Bc<l.snue and Sornerwt 1:IS C}el1(!l  lly lrr.plocd that he died .,Wey but.
Jt tfl<o tlfllf! he made his w  • he rfSioed m !Ia\  oke The e>.ten docum.   I nor only rec01beQut-m
to 'roor r• •lu1v1 \ c nd the chap;:•
ho hiJIII' but .110 to vanous rehq1ous SOCil'lit<\,  fr lends, who Included Revd SamuC'I Browne.lilt> grandson of Jot n Wtutburn, hiS patnter,his carpenter
e c.  Many condttJOfls were anacht'CI
to his tx>Quesn eq money left to the poor of the B<lle and Mortmer Chapek was •   not to ltl<Xe 'e;r.by
th 	01 of tnd "ero>rU or bad
character"  TIM!vMd descnp!IOO
as 111..11 parntcd of hm here appears
In st'W'r<'llsources   It was prob.1bly orr t•M'Iy taei n from the obituary l'l'lllted in,, Re.1d1nQ ni?WSpc!PI!f
In 18111 Mid  wh1ch subsequently
.tppP..III'd 1n Tilt> T1mes on 27 January
181 I It Wol\ srJ! wt ·•h beforr• John
Muf!01d could be bu11ed due to the
rcwt>a!her mJclnuaty 18M

1111 l l hl<HtY<II   l111•11     byfiCircnreDrn·rdson...---

1790. He found  the Meeting House  very neglected, and  the whole of the members needing a resident and  religious pastor. I lis daughter, Miss Browne, in 1810 started  the first Sunday Schoo) ever held in connection with the Chapel, and she and her father worked  most carefully among the people. He died  in 1826, and was buried in the aisle of the Meeting House. He left. his family
ill -provided for. This was no wonder  when aU he had was £40 a year which came  from a few subscriptions, pew rents and  a mortgage, and often  it was much  Jess. The Rev. George  Jennings carne, after his death, in 1827. He was very energetic, and as
the membership had increased  he raised funds, and  in 1828 he enlarged  the Chapel, adding a hundred more scats, and after
a time, eighty  more  members were added  to the community.
Mr. Jennings started  the first day school ever opened in Tadley, which replaced  the old Dame's School  where the children were taught  before. Mr. Jennings  was here till1862. Tn1912 was the hundredth year since the Meeting House  was started, and

the two-hundred and  fiftieth year since the Community was first formed. lt was decided  to renovate the Meeting House  as
a memorial of its foundation. The register of births and  deaths dates from q88 to 1835, and  is in Somerset House, London. Besides the graves in the Chapel  there are many old stones in the graveyard. To the Rev. Innis  Pearce, D.D., born  in London,
educated in Edinburgh, Pastor here in 1724. His widow, Anne, is buried  with him. There are several stones  lo the family of Webb, six children  of Elisha and Judith Webb. Mary died 1805, Joseph,
1805, Laeitia, 1805, all within  the space of two months, and  none of them over the age of seven. Joshua died, aged 3, in 1893; this verse is on the stone: "Sleep softly, sweet blest babe, here freed from  pain'The Wcbbs must have been a very sickly family,
as there is a stone also to a son Thomas, who died, aged 17, in
1819 of consumption , and a married  daughter, Martha Adams, who died aged 26."Short was her pilgrimage below, and  few
her wedded  years'There are graves to people from Padworth, Newbury, etc., who were members of the Community.
These notes on the Parish  history  would not be complete without an account of a very well known  Tadley character who lived here during a great part of 1700, and lhe early years of
1800. This was John  Mulford, who was born  in October, 1720,

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The COI'Igreg<JllOM chapc at
Mortimer""rna w<s IJOin out of
the great  t'Yolf19Ch<a rt"VrVal m the l.lte
e ghtt<"'lth cer>tury John Wtutburn, a
turf-culler and convfrt,held n hrs ccttage untt m I 798 John MuiiOfd f NrKcd tne bu ld:ng of the
cNpcl The pt liCensed f01
v.'Ot"SI'IIprn  ltmbcr of that In
I 80S  twas enlarged to accommodate the ever growu  g congregatton, d«}d:n at Jot>n Mu ford\ e•pense.and by the
181.0S 300 people Irom all ar()l,'f1CI
r11gularly attended servrc.-s thPr£• He
also bwll11 hnu<l' lor the Mrn tP.r and provrdl'd nn aiiOW•lnre of £20 a year toward'hrs \upport
In 1826 thr·Rt•o  drng Ev.tngclrcaf Soc rely. whrch h.td b 't'n tl'l>POilS•ble for the tl>iJPCI, cea >d to txrt  Tlw
SUIVMiliJI! lhandr!O II OVef, 101 a nommal sum.to the tru'>lrol
the Counof Conne:<;on. whose
property  t 1\'I'NIOS to 1M dd)'
FrOIO 1872  the chapel h'<l no settled  tot ano by the 1960i tt was rn wch a badstate of repa r tha: tile trustees d<'Cidcd to dose the now
unsafe bvrld'"(l  rn 1980 the
Department of the Envlronmer>lgavt!
11 Grade I ISI ng WIXb(>gan rn 1991
on r IOitf\!.1 the ch.'l[l('lto rts l01mer
glory at a cost of nso 000  Following
redi:'d<eatton n 19'H,a ri!Sident pastor
was rmta ('(f rn 199S

tr1velllng people A term. together

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With Hawle.PcdJ.m and Roman es
1I.M0 d!denlloCtCeitihlflyotnIMthihe ntonetJ...ee(d!l'allbtlode,
c nlu"Y II fillY or may not denote

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qyp.y (luqrn		alms Rrh,..f  c]rvc•n out of p 1y to thl' poor from Ittsrtl!l!nlh centLuy v,1gro1rv.y WiJ'> Wtrtly controllt>d .Jnd

Pof \'t·h•1e1(hautmrcwh ,•IrlleStodr•blrfrd<du•l·lntowktn·odwe11 lhrs •  fus to l"'Q91119 or r oquests from InSlot

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,,.,.._£...... mole Qtche  r01n t     ekwnlh
1
sl;ins ' WQUIO hoM! been a profr
ocecncu• pot.oo 1.1,tool"ucpautogh1t0l0Otpethltesotro
make the front panels of a wcllStcoal alone In t    mnc!teenlh century gencra•.ons ot mole! cat<hefs are recorded Molch Is posed a danger to horses aod rtdcrs, caule and agrtCUhu•almach nery
Mortr We\t End (h.JJ>4!l Autumn 2008 T4dJey lind Dtszricf His:Oty Sodety

IllI lll'ill\1!\ Ill r . \llll \' by FlorCIICC Dm·idsoll ,...._,

and  was remarkable for his many eccentricities. His family lived
a long time in the parish, and he had the blood of the "travelling people" in his veinof which he was enormously proud. He was
a fine looking man, and was very vain of a long beard  which reached  nearly to his knees, and which in his later days was snow white. He dressed  in d1e most expensive clothing which  he wore with the greatest care for many years at a time. He was a rich man, though  no one knew where or how he got his fortune.
He was most generous in charity and  religious objects, seldom
turning from  his door  any who asked his alms, but he was frugal to a degree  in his house  and kitchen. He would hardl y spend
a penny on his house or table, grudgi ng money spent  on aU but actual necessities. As he g rew older  he lived alone  in his house almost as a hermit. He never married, and would never  have anything to do with  his relations.
People used to ask MuJford who his family were and  where he
came from, and his answer was aJways the same,"My ancestors were mole catchers to William the Conqueror, and  my coat
of arms  has three moles, and three mole skins on it." He was constant in his attendance at Chapel, and  was taught to think of religious  things  by a minister  called John Whitburn. It was during his life time that he built two Chapels and  two houses
for their ministers, who preached  there at his sole expense. One of these Chapels was at Basingstoke, the other  on Mortimer Common, on the borders of Padworth  Parish, where constant services are still held. lt was Mulford's great wish  to die suddenl y, and  tJ1is happened on January 7th, 1814, when  he died in his
chai r without pain at the advanced  age of 94· He had just before been standing at his window, as he walked about the room  and he remarked to those about him,"What a fine day for gossiping people to go about and say Old Mulford  is dead." He left
£2o,ooo, which  was to be divided  between his poor  relatives and the Chapels  he built. He is buried  in the graveyard  of the Chapel he built on Mortimer Common, and this is tJ1c epitaph on the stone, "Gone to know more, adore  more, love more; Christ Victorious, Satan  Vanqu ished; Here earth  take thy part of John Mulford."

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60

Index

Atl.tm.\l•nh 7
\l.lmn..s1on   l .ll. !i.J All<'ll. Ch•rleo. Jml ';tr.h 4
Alkn.lOtuf"S< 45
,\lrc•tnrd   J<l
,\hun l(J
.\mcfiCJ  51
:\nl:l.:tt>. (.._"''ll' 11
;\11 11. "·<.iOOII\< .md ll.lllllolh   IS
\nKI.ti.Manh.l  1:\
.\nglt\.>, Dinah  )9
.\n  lo·  IXMS 11
.\t•rkt<>n.Uu..btth ··

n••

.\rrl<> on.''<lli<un  19
.\J•r•leh>lb,	.?1
.\,h Hill  41
:\u•tr.ali.l  47,!il

B
IIJJ>I"nul rtgist r. 4
ll.rlo".Ann  17 llarltn-.J•m•., ll.uklw, RJ--h.trd N l\.lrlow, Wilh•m  29
8.1rn < Ju.c,  oiJ
8.1'111!1  I;
ll.1.>tnlft>u....• :;
li.Nil!NO <"   ,13,1, 1'1,21.25,
II. H.35. 1.1. Sl. ·I
liJll hunt  -II lkdh.tmplon  I  \ lk n!l.m 5.5
llt-nham   17
1\tnh•m.Anne.-  ·I
lknh.nll, lkn1.unin I'
!Wnh.un, fdmund 'il
lknlwn.G'"''8" !I
lknh m.Jam ..an.lll.:tnruh   I';
lknhJm.)Nn  I
ll<nh.nn, luhn   I ' lknh.tm. Willi.:tm  I llcnh•m' 17
lknhcn1, lkn,amtn  N
11•-11••1' nfWm..hc,h·r !l• ..l7
llt•hl>p\ \\(}I,.J 21,...,
lluh<•t''\\',lt>IJIIuu...- 17,,S, II.
-13.47
ll"h"r•"'lO<I ""'"• y;
lllo ,k IkJLh  I:>
S..wm.m.)Jn< H l lwman, \l.mha lw.•nt.ro, "ar,th  45 llnxmgD•r  .11 llurni<)' Chur<h  1•1
Hm<.>< and   pwr•  I
8tunc. \hss  57
Rrownc, Rc'· '>amucl 1!\
Burw · •..tcr>
lluru.;h, AN.•Iw  !9

llutln !
lltJ!It•t, \\ •llwnt  .11
ll <.  lr 111
c
CN.ndltr, Rull\:t t 2<1
C!l.pnun.M.rtlu 7
C  hrhlm.l•  !S Chur.h I u<.l   <'I l.oJ.,,, l kh•r.l  IIJ
Comh<•linu.... wmJmlll  I
l.ongltll•n•   I;
t no......,-,\\ tlh•m   '\ c·nrcmrc, h•hn t:o l..urd..-n'\. lnhn .!tJ
<-<"lr<ll,\hum •r>tl FJ11..bcth H
<:.Ou rcll, IAnc  J'i
Crim<•n \\,tt    I
< npp-. l.tlh<"  ·1
I nr-.ll.wiJ  !<I
( 11p\.l.tn1<    15
!r11l>. luhn  I t
<"rit"·'"".n n.1h  17
l nr-. Wtlllam m.t ''"" 5
Lrnm <t·ll.Pll\cr  '1.\
uo<.•,Wtllum   N
Cull"'" 2'1
C.41rti"  5

J)
[>•m,·\ -...-hool \•1, 7 llJWin, Rt.h,,rd l>e3n(;-l !I
Ike a.-,,,!{,.,.\\'  11
l>t:t•!k>t, R<'\ 1\'olh•m  !7
.t.. Lud.Ph•hr  27
Ui,lcr, fr.tn•••  2<
r>v..-•t •.,.. s.1
Dulhn, llugh  1'1
r>u.,.,•n.flr John  y;

l'.onhqu.c  .IJ
hlmhur  th  '7
IJhnl  ><;
FlmhuN !1,1.'.3!1, I tngltttcl.l.l lttJhcth  l'l I ngldickl 1;,,.,1!" :!7 fngldidJ.Iuhn  Zi I·ngklidtl. \IJrth.t 2<1
I nt:lclidd. \l.tr) 7
I n!lldidd, r.oh  17
h'n
Ewchur-1  3'1

l•mh.am J'l
lilt l'kr"lt.."'\\n.al.l  I I
hll'tcphcn.lltnt)   U

l nllcu'o  l •un 11

r.,,.,·

lh ·knl  M•nw!o    I

l.JrJin-.·r, !'1
Gm<'ntl il<'di<UI  "
Giln  29
t:tln. \hrJhJm .•nJ '·""'  1;.
<;ik• \nn M.u y  H
l il,.... !l.loll) ·\Ill)   15
(iJL".H \111& l/
(,rJV\'I.Jr.l. \II'Cil'r·,Lh ur,h   .'
I orc,ll l'IJ Ue l5
t.rc.AI  WinJmtll lllc  dtm I'I

II ll•m.C:ar.ll·n   1 ll.un, lo•hn ,,,,.  IIi
11.11 n. Rldo.u,t  onJ ;\nne 4io ll.tnnlllj\I<UI     I
ll.lnnno lnn,Ju hn  21
IIJnninglnn, MM}tolrct  I 'I
IIJnnm tun,lkt!l'k>IJ 1'1
IIJnn•n hlll, \If Ruberl  11
llAIIIHIII(IIlh• I" II.Jnn\wt,nh. \nn   'I IIAflll\\\nrth,I>J\IJ  t; IIJrm'""rth, l r.•r17
H.1rm'"''r1h. l.un ..,  I" IIJrm•W<Hth. luhn   <I lf•rm\\<UIIh.l <.lh h ll,unhwmth.l uw  4i
ll''"n'""nh.Mr>  19 ll"'m"•unh, \.ouh I' ll.rtnwourlh.W!ll!.lrll 49 ll.ul.r.ll•nfl.lh

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ll.n. in•,lnhn 1\ctl\· 15 ll.o...l.•n•.\\ 	4S Ht·<.l!:.<" .ll.mn.oh  43
II< Is'"• I hmn.o'  I i
ltrnl} ltulln" 17
I k•t.tl, hu·llt>r '.I
u;, .lt...h 11
IIi<• II<·••he>  17 lliJt ! •

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hurrtt.lnc." i'l

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l.tm•.Mr• I;
knninj;'· Rn <:Cur ..- !i7 kl'\u1><, J'humAI !II Jvnn,o\qttriA  S
lonc,.llonrr li<'>dhn 55

61

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l.. mJ..JtoU Park  5I K •v, ).tnc  17 t.:1mber, b>  l7
Kimber l.muh· 25
Kintt'•lli th":'!'  11
King Charlc'I  17, Z5
Kin!( t h.1rk"II 19,   '
Kin; )tllm 13
Km -..ler9, IJ, 25
1-.nighl, Henry !.\

L
l.1unclcct.Wi,Jo"  J I.e llarnc tk.llhc 11
Lcwi,, I  hmn•' 2') Lip,.:nmbe Z<J Lip,<t•mb.!'> l'la,<  II
1 iult """'h 39 lnrJWindmill ( lo'<' 19 llovd, Rt>v l'u"hiu• 31
1 tlntlon     ;
L<'Vq;rtWI' N l.mllo"  15,1' l.udl<"'. <...>lunl  19
I udl nw.fcdmund 1•, I')
l.udlm•··t.L>orge  I'I
l.udluw, 1-!enn· 17
l.mtlnw,Sir Edmund  17
1 udlnw.Willi.1m   IS

1
l.rkr &·•rtlcnmg 41
M4"hJJI, Wilham ll
Morrl'l'·Rt>< l. u!  I
\IJ\\1111, Robert Z
\1JIIinglc}• RklwJ 19
\l•y  Day H
Mn•ttng l l uu...- 't.l. 57
Mills. 1-!arricl  41
'l.lilb,I">J," 15
\lilh, Ro h.ud oUld  l'hnch
\lonllt'r, Marr  -15
Mnnl, Sherborne  n. !5, 1\1
M••r .Jo•n  15
MtJf\·,WiUoam Jtl<   15
Mnrrimcr Commt>n S'l
\lothc, \\"IJ!IJm  3
Mulford,  Jnho1  S7.59
Mungt•r,)Jnt  29

J\h,)JIIIL.., 3
1\., h.M.!.tf \nn  ·17
1\cwhurt  !5,!7,55,57
New College,U<l,ml  21
Nnrman•  II Nunbid.-  ll

0
0.1\.k-y .I I OJI.IC)·11•11  I1
O•crrtln  13,23.17 41,53
0\'<'f)'. R.-v••,hi>lll.t\  5J
p
PRd <<lrlh  ?..5')
P,1mh.:r  15, 15
P mhcr Rm·;t 9, 1 .15,.!9
P mbcr ll<>Jth  1'- l'.amhr !>d11xol  _\Y

l'.tmh, Ech••rd !'.1, 35 l'.•rish r<g <tcr' 17,Jl, 43
1\!dr-:c, 1\nnS7
Pearce, Ut•\·. lnnts 55,57
P<:ars.:.Anne 55
Peed•.'''John  15
P nlurd, Jane 47
Phillip,,l:.dward N
l'id..cd Close  II
11o<kcd Mr-adnw I  I
I'Kkl  II
11llcher, WHIIam  27
l'ilgnm. ltJIIc 1 9
J>oa,hlllj:
Po.:tKk, !>mJh .29
l'ron,c 5
Prom, l>avid 47
l'o illf,l knrv anJ Rklhtrd  19 l'riM, fho,;, 29
l'roor lilmilv IY. 2'i. 27,41 .4 l'uritan C)l liUO  51
Q
Queen UiJ.I\>c:l h 17, I'!, ll

ltanL..tlell  39
Rcctol'll of Ovcnun  !7
Rcgis1er ul honl"•nd Jeath' 57
lltch,•rdxm. I hnm.u    .l
Ri ho, I klcn  27 ltugt·r>.Mr  li
1\nm•n' '-J. II

'Jut.:z.Mt H
'>.mnders,l.hrah.:th and l< hn
5
SJundcro..Mr. JS
Saunucr., William 45
Sc•rlcl fe1cr 31
Sc.lrlc r.onull 15
Shdldde. \  !liam  21
Shdliclc.l.ltichard 1'1
Sherborne {nr lla,mg"okel
Ro.1<l ·II
:>herbnrnd>tlnhn  17, H.l.l Shor<•IJtl<l.Woll am l Sikht"'tCI  9.JI
Sildlc,ler Lommtlll 11
Simp">n.l knq   IS
SniiJl\tln, Henrv .mJ Duf(.IS 45
S onncr, Mr  35, 17
mallpox <•uthr<.ok  15
Smuggling 5I
'llluggling J.'
Sonll"N:I lltllle.londnn  57
5tJ\,;C), ( JftlhiW .f..
StJLC)'.MJt)'  l Sre\Cn,, John ;5 h'\CO\., Mr. 55
tov n•.William !I
\!ill, Robell  1 9
'tnm•s Z'J Stl'<'ter  21 ll'ctco'oChur<h 1 3,!1 lr.llfidJS,I)'L' 31
St roud, D.IYod -15
!muud,!lenry anJ !>.II'Jh  45
1 hnm.1.•' Day  } I
Sulh.mll 55
SumlJy s huol   ''
)lllp>OD, Jnhn 11

\)'mp<un, Juwph  17
s.·mp..m. \lr 1J

T
·l.t,ldclc 1.'
lo dlcy <.narcI 1
!dJicv Chur.h
StPeter\ thurch  !.7
'Iadley Comont>n 37
Tadley M<'<'ling 55
Tadlcy  1'1•<<' 13. 15.17. 19,4 7
Tadluw l5
'l.ll<'· lkv   l<>!oeph  53
l J)lcr,Mary  lY
1i·derJ,;  I  I
I he Angel 35
'I he HinJ> lfc.td 35
I he \Vhitd Jnlb, 39
Thomas, lli1abcth  19
Thnrp.Ann Jl
Thorpe.Mr.   I
1h<ll f" IJmily  25
Totlwrlc1·  II
lubh, WiUiam J\1
lud,.,lcy 11
Tuii.Eli1a H Twyhcrc, 1(,.h.uJ  15

\'yne  17.21

W.!ll,net"> for1 ·II
Waterloo.llaulc uf 37,49
Wal"'II.11'1II1Jnl  H
w bb  l'J
Wd>h, Ut>h.1ami Jutlnh S7
Wchb, Jo>cph 57
\\'chit, Jo\hua  57
1\d>b, Lacilla 57
\\chb,!vlary  57
Webb.ThomJ, H, 57
Welch,H.•nnah  47
Wcst,Ann 19
\\' 1. Jan'k'>  -17
\\"e-;t, i.liiC ·19
w. t. Judy 29
Wc>t, k.•lph 2\1
w,.,,,lt,,.,.,rl 5.1
w,.,., lamil1 !5
1\.-twood;ftc• )nleph  n
Wh<at, Nidwl.l>  17
Wbitburn, John S\1
Whit< houp making ·19 ll'ild,·r.H.1rric1 Anne  .II Willi,miL, ;\1r   I
Willim  th< C".<> nquemr  59
\\ m<hc,lcr 13, J I , .1.1
w,n,hl lr  \...ullc 15
Wtnd>Ur 9
Windsor ( ,o<rk Ll
Wither, R•·h rd  19
Wuhcr-, I h< 21
With<y< 1Wlllt""l  'I
Wuh<rWrl  13
\1\'nuthtn B,1f.ol  3
Wyditrds  15.17

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