Stoke Row 1864-1999

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The fascinating history of a Chiltern village from 1864, based on photographs and stories in "Dipping into the Wells", by kind permission of the author, Angela Spencer-Harper. Details of this illustrated book from: www.oldplace.free-online.co.uk. Click on any thumbnail to see enlarged photo. The photographs, part of the author's collection of nearly 2000, are © copyright. They may be copied and reproduced by educational establishments only. In all other circumstances prior permission must be obtained from the website editor.

Stoke Row 1864-1999

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Title	sh021
Description	The Maharajah of Benares in Stoke Row, c1865. Photo courtesy of Catherine Hope. In about 1850 the Lieutenant-Governor of the North Western Provinces, Edward Anderdon Reade, a squire's son from near Stoke Row, was in Benares discussing with the Maharajah water shortages that were common in both northern India and the Chilterns. Some ten years later the Maharajah offered to set up a charity to help the people of Stoke Row who at that time ran short of water in the hot and dry summer months. Stoke Row and neighbouring Highmoor are small villages, deep in the beech woods of south Oxfordshire, roughly midway between Henley-on-Thames to the east and Wallingford to the west.
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Title	sh014
Description	The Maharajah's benefaction paid for this well which was opened in May 1864. This 1910 photo, courtesy of Doris Long, shows the well-keeper, Mrs Hewitt, who was custodian from 1878 until she died.
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Title	sh010
Description	Three generations of the Wixen family bringing home water from the well in about 1928. They had to walk almost a mile to Rose Cottage, illustrated later. Photo courtesy of Arthur Wixen.
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Title	sh015
Description	The Wells family and its donkey from nearby Highmoor. Photo (c1910) courtesy of Louisa Stevens.
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