Appleton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Eaton.
Parish church: St. Lawrence
Parish registers begin: 1569
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Society of Friends/Quaker and Independent/Congregational.
Parishes adjacent to Appleton
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
APPLETON, a village and a parish in Abingdon district, Berks. The village stands near the Thames, 5 miles NW of Abingdon r. station; and has a post-office under Abingdon. The parish includes also the township of Eaton. Acres, 1,991. Real property, £2,820. Pop., 549. Houses, 121. The Fettiplaces had an old seat here, which is now reduced to a fragment. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £307. Patron, Magdalene College, Oxford. The church has tombs of the Fettiplaces, and a brass of a skeleton. A school has £16 from endowment, and other charities £35. Edmund Dickenson, the famous chemist and physician, born in 1624, was a native.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Appleton, 5 m. N.W. Abingdon. P. 496.
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850
Bankrupts
Below is a list of people that were declared bankrupt between 1820 and 1843 extracted from The Bankrupt Directory; George Elwick; London; Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; 1843.
Barrett Paulin; & John Sessions Barrett; Appleton, Berks, apoth. Nov. 6, 1829.
Directories
Appleton – Kelly’s Post Office Directory 1869 – Google Books
Appleton with Eaton Berkshire Cassey History Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1868
Appleton is a parish, in the hundred of Ock, union of Abingdon, and diocese of Oxford, situated about 5½ miles north-west from Abingdon, and 7 south-west from Oxford, bounded by the Thames on the west. The church of St. Lawrence is a plain structure, with nave, chancel, and square embattled tower containing ten very fine musical bells, which are deservedly much admired. There is an excellent band of change ringers. In the interior are several memorials to the families of the present and former lords of the manor. The living is a rectory, annual value £307, with residence, in the patronage of the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford. The Manor House is supposed to have .been built in the reign of Henry II.; it was formerly surrounded by a moat, part of which has lately been filled up. The manor of Appleton was anciently in the possession of the families of Fitz Warine, Caston, Petyt, and Fettyplace; it was purchased of the Hanleys by the ancestors of the late Robert James Southby, Esq. Here is a dissenting chapel and a free school for eight boys, which was endowed in 1604 by Sir R. Fettyplace. There are other charities connected with the parish, producing about £50 per annum.
The population in 1861 was 549; the parish, including the township of Eaton, comprises 1977 acres.
Post Office. — George White, receiver. Letters arrive from Abingdon at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. The nearest money-order office is at Abingdon. Letters through Abingdon.
APPLETON.
Butler Rev. William James, B.D.
Jones Mr. Jesse
Lowndes James B., Esq., Manor house
Bevers Edmund, surgeon-dentist
Bennett Alfred, builder, wheelwright, &c.
Bennett William, farmer
Busby James, shopkeeper, baker & farmer
Calvert Thomas, farmer
Clandfield William, farmer
Corbut Sarah, shopkeeper
Hollifield W. S., plumber, &c.
Hollifield — , carrier
Jones Jesse, jun., farmer
Kimber John, farmer, Manor farm
Lambourn Samuel, beer retailer
Tarrant Daniel, farmer
Webb Aaron, Plough inn
Webb William, farmer
White Frederic B., church bellhanger, bell founder, and church and turret clock maker
White George, Three Horseshoes, and blacksmith and post office
EATON.
Ashby John, farmer, Manor farm
Bye Richard, farmer
Godfrey William, farmer
Shepherd John, boot and shoemaker
Skinner Mary, Bells inn
Source: Edward Cassey and Co.’s History, Gazetteer and Directory of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 1868.
Parish Records
Berkshire Archives & Family History Groups
Berkshire Family History Society
Berkshire
England, Berkshire, Reading, Cemetery Records, 1843-1959
Wellington College Register 1859-1905
Abingdon Union Workhouse Census 1881
Bradfield Union Workhouse 1881
Easthampstead Union Workhouse 1881
Great Faringdon Union Workhouse 1881
Hungerford Union Workhouse 1881
Wallingford Union Workhouse 1881
Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Abingdon
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Oxford, Pre-1836 – Salisbury
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Abingdon
- Hundred: Ock
- Province: Canterbury
