WILTSHIRE - 1895

88 DEVIZES. \YILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Devizes Cnion. Lessee of Devizes Green & Collector of Fair Tolls, Henry

Board day, tues. fortnightly, at 1Vorkhouse, 11.30 a.m Taylor, 36 Estcourt &treet

The union contains the following places :-AU Cannings, Superintendent of Devizes Division Constabulary &

Allington, Alton Barnes, Beechingstoke, Bishop's Can- Deputy Chief Constable, William Baldwin, head quar..

nings, Bromham, Great Cheverell, Little Cheverell, ter·s, Bath road
Chirton, Chittoe, Easterton, Erlest(1ke, Etchilhampton, Treasurer for the County, Capital & Counties Bank,.

:Fullaway, Marke·t Lavington, West lJavington, Marden, Market place

:Marston, Patney, Potterne, Poulshot, Rowde, St. James, Places of Worship, with times of services.
St. John the Baptist (Devizes), St. Mary the Virgin
(Devizes), Stanton St. Bernard, Stert, Urchfont & St. John the Baptist Church, Rev. John Hart TIUiges
D.D. rector; Rev. John Gosse Locke, curate; n a.m.
Worton. The populatiion of the u:ruion in 18g1 wa.s & 6.30 p.m.; fri. 7 p.m
19,744; rateable value in I894, £104,758; 'aJ"ea 62,762
acres St. Mary the Virgin Church is attached to St. John's;

Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Fredk. 11 a.m. 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m
Mat1hew Lush, 5 St. John's c~mrt
St. Peter's Church, Rev. Arthur Charles Devas M.A.

Treasurer, Henry Sand·ell, Wilts & Dorset Banking Co vicar; Rev. William Harvie Weekes, curate; 8 a.m.

Collector to the Guardians, J. J. Dring, Magistrates' II a.m. & 6.30 p.m
office, 34 St. John s·treet St. James' Church, Southbroom, Rev. Charles Edward

Relieving Officers, 1·St district, James John Dowse, 35 Benedict Barnwell M.A. vicar; Rev. Frank Elch1)

Long street, Devizes; 2nd district, James Glass, West Skyrme M.A. curate; 8 & n a.m. & 6.30 p.m
Lavington St. J•os.eph's Catholic, St. Joseph's place, Rev. Joseph-

Yaccination Officers, James John Dowse, 35 Long street, Bouvard (C.S.F. de Sal-es), priest; mass, 7.30 &, 10.30

Devizes; & James Glass, West Lavington a.m. vespers, instruction & benediction, 6.30 p.m. ;

Medical Officers·, No. I district, Edward Nicolls· Carless holy days, mass, 7·30 & 10 a.m. & even. service, 7·3U

.M. B., C. l\1. u Long stroot, Devizes ; Nos. 2 -& 6 dis- p. m. ; daily, mass, 7 &, 7. 30 a. m. ; fri. benediction,

triots, Leonard Raby M.D. Craven house, Exchange 7·3° p.m

place, Devizes; No. 3 dis-trict, George S. A. Waylen, Baptis•t, Maryport s·treet, Rev. Charles Hemington; 10.30

41 Long s•treet, Devizes; No. 4 district, Samuel Fredk. a.m. & 6 p.m. ; wed. & fri. 7 p.m

Holloway L.R.C.P.Lond. Urchfont; No. 5 district, The Brethren, Couch lane; II a.m. & 6.30 p.m

Henry Colman L.R.C.P.Lond. Pewsey; No. 7 district, Congvegational, Northgate street, Rev. William Darwent,.

IJohn Selfe Lush, Market Lavington II a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; tues. & fri. 7.30 p.m

Public. V~ccinalt<>rs, X?s. r, 2, 4 ~ 6. distriots, sau; e as ~ew Baptist, Sheep street,. Rev. Henry Oakley; 10.30

Medica. Officers; 2'\o. 3 & 5 d1strwts, G.eorge t;. A. a.m. & 6 p.m.; tues. & fn at 7 p.m

Waylen, 41 Long street, Devizes; Xo. 7 dis·trict, Wm. '\Vesleyan, .Xew Park street, Rev. Alfred G. Burrell;

Henry Lush. l\Iarket Lavington 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m

Superrin.tendent RegiBitrar, Frederick ~Iat.thew Lush, 5 Young ~Ien's Chris-tian Association, High street; sun.

St. John's court, Devizes; deputy, W. Lush, 5 St. 8.30 p.m
Salvation Army, Commercial road; sun. 7.30 & II a.m~
John's court

RegliSitrars of Births & Deaths, Devizes sub-dist-rict, Jas. & 3 & 6.30 p.m.; week days, 8 p.m

John Dowse, 35 Long street, Devizes; deputy, James Schools

J~mobh-dni·sDtrriinctg,, 34 St. John s.tree·t, Devizes; Lavington ·
J ame•s Glass, 'Vest LaYington; deputy, Government School of Science & Art, held in the grand.

Mrs. Glass, West Lavington jury room of t·he Assize Court with a branch class at-

Registrar of Marriages, J ames SJhoehpnpaDrdri,n·gw, ic3k4, St. John the Town Hall ; workshops, Northgate street; John
st. Devizes; deputy, Oliver Devizes Ashley Randell, honorary sec.; Tracy Tratman, art

Workhouse, a building of brick, built in I837• & will hold master; John Atkinson, science master

3laoiin;inGmeaot-regse; Rev. Frank ElCJho Skyrme M.A. chap- Boys' Town, l\Iaryport street, built in 1882, for 210 chil-
1Vaylen, medical officer; Henry Jackson dren; average attendance, 120; William H. Lowman..

Hassall, master; Mrs. Mary Tibbit.ts Hassall, matron master; George Pile, assistant master
Girls' Town, Sheep street, erected for 150 children;

School Att,endance Committee. average attendance, 93 ; Miss Be,ssie Medland, miSitress-

Infants' Town, Sheep street, built for 200 children;
Consists of 12 members, 4 ex-officio & 8 are elected average attendance, 123; Miss Maria Up'ham, mistres~J

annually; meets at the 1Vorkhouse, monthly at 12.30 p.m St. Peter's (mixed), built in I87o, for 140 children;.

Clerk, Fredk. Matthew Lush, 5 St. John's court, Devizes avel'age attendance, go; S. tVhi:te, master ; Miss Far-

.A!ttendance Officers, James John Dowse, 35 Long street, ley, assistant mistress

Devizes; & James Glass, West Lavington Southbroom Xational, The Gl'een, established 1834, &

largeiy rebuilt in I 894, at a cost of about £soo, fo:r-

Rural District Council. I65 boys, 134 girls & 160 infants; averag-e attendance,
I28 boys, 127 girls & 112 infants; George 'Valter

::\feets at the Workhouse fortnightly (tues.) at I2 noon. ~Riaispse r, ma s~Itaegr!!;"s,~Iiinsfsa Emma Seabrio-ht, mistress;
Mary nts' mis ess "'
Clerk, William Lush, 5 St. John's court, Devizes tr
Treasurer, Henry Sandell, 'Yilts & Dorset Banking C<>.
Catholic (Middle Class School), conducted by the Sisters:
Limited, Devizes
Medical Officer of Health, George Swithin Adee Waylen of St. Jos-eph

L.R.C.P.Lond. 41 Long street, Devjzes Ca.tholic, St. Joseph's place. which is under government
Sanitary Inspector, James :Moses Butcher, Calcote,
inspection ; average attendance, II4 ; conducted by th6'

Sisters of St. J oseph

near Devizes Newspapers.

Surveyor of High>vays, John Benger, Potterne Wick Devizes & Wilts Advertiser, thursday, Russell D. Gill-

Public Officers. man, printer & publisher, I9 Brittox. See advert
Devizes & ·wiJotshire Gazette, thursday, Geo. Simpson..

Clerk to the Munioipal Charity Trustees, David Owen jun. proprietor & publisher, I3 Market place

F.C.A. 31 Long street, Devizes Wiltshire Telegraph, saturday, George Simpson, jun~

.Assistant Overseers, St. John's, Henry :Korman, 20 printer & publisher, 13 Market place

Southbroom place, Devizes; St. l\Iarv's. Alfred Henry Railway.

Brunker; St. James', James E. Hopkins; Row de, Great Western
Charles John Lewis

Certifying Factory Surgeon, Henry John ~Iackay ~LD. Omnibus to meet the arrival & departure of every traia

I I Long street from the Bear hotel, Market place

Chief Constable of the County, Capt. Sterne R.N. Head Goods Agents by appointment to Great West-ern Rail·

qnarrters, Bath road way, Sainsbury Brothers; parcels & goods receiving:

Clerk t<> the Committee of Visitors of County Lunatic offtce, N orthga.te street

Asylum, J oseph Thornthwaite J ackson B. A. 33 St. Sntton & Co. William Henry Bush, agent, Wine street

John street Globe Parcels Express, H. B. West, agent ,

Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes for the Devizes Carriers.
Division, Joseph Jackson M.A. 33 St. John street vVith the places they go to, bns they start from & dayg

Colleotors of Taxes, St. John's, George Pile. Woodbine of departure.

cottage, 'l'he Green; St. l\Iary's, Henry Brownlee

West, Maryport street; St. Ja.mes's, Herbert Sains- .All Cannings-G. Swanborough, 'Three Crowns,' thurs.

bury, London road & sat

Dt>puty Coroner for Middle Division of County, Edward Allington-Crook, 'Three Crowns,' thnrs

Nicolls Carless l\I.B. 11 Long street Alton-Brown, ' Black Swan,' thnrs

DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. DEVIZES. 89

.A.lton Barnes Tasker, 'Three Crowns,' thurs. ; W. Monkton-Nash, ' Crown,' thurs

Swanborough, 'Three Crowns,' tues. & thurs Netheravon-King, ' Crown,' thurs. ; Sawyer, ' Black

.A.mes·bury~Sawyer, ' Black Swan,' thurs Swan,' thurs

.A.vebury-Nash, 'Crown,' thurs. ; Gilbert, 'Black Swan,' Oare Brown, 'Black Swan,' thurs

thurs Patney_,smith, 'Crown,' thurs.; Charles Vallis, 'New

Beckhampton-Nasih, ' Crown,' thurs. ; P{)pe, ' Three Market tavern,' thurs

Crowns,' thurs. ; Gilbert, 'Black Swan,' thurs Potterne-Phmips, 'Elm Tree,' thnrs. ; Potter, 'Elm

Beechings.toke-Charles Vallis, 'New MarkMi tav.' thurs Tree,' daily; Brist{)we, 'Elm Tree,' thurs.; Mabbett..

Berwick Bassett--Nas·h, 'Crown,' thurs ' Crown,' thurs

Br31tton-David Wheeler, 'Crown,' thurs Rowde-Woodford, 'Crown,' thurs. & sat.; Strange,

Broad Hinton-Nash, ' Crown,' thurs ' Pelican,' thurs. ; Harris, ' Black Swan,' thurs

Bromham~Wood·ford, 'Crown,' thurs. & sat.; Strange, Rushall--Gidd.ings, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat. ; Dawes,

' Pelican,' thurs ' Crowl!l,' thurs. & sat

Bulkington--Golden, ' Crown,' thurs Salisbury-Eyres, 'Black Swan,' mon. & thurs. ; Lawes,

Calne James, 'Pelican,' thurs.; Wilkins, 'Pelican,' ' Pelican,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; Shergold, 'Three

•thurs. ; Woodford, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat Crowns,' thurs. ; Ferris, ' Black Swan,' thurs. ; Smith,

Charlton---G-iddings, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat 'Black Swan.' thurs

Cheverell-Sarnuel Bristowe, ' Elm Tree,' thurs. ; & Gid- Sandy Lane-Woodford, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat

dlings, thurs. ' Elm Tree' Savernake-Head, 'Cross Keys,' thurs

Cheverell, Great-Wheeler, ' Crown,' thurs Seend-Tucker, 'Black S'Wllln,' thurs

Chippenh~m-Harris, 'Black Swan,' thurs. ; Wilkins, ~hr~w.ton-Lawes, 'Pelican,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Sher-

' Pelioan,' thurs gold, ' Three Crowns,' thurs. ; Smith, ' Crown,' thurs. ;.

Chirton-Wedge, 'WU:lit.e Bear,' t-hurs.; Charles Vallis, Ferris, 'Black Swan,' thnrs
Stanton~rook, 'Three Crowns,' thurs.; W. Swan-
' New Market tavern,' thurs

Chisenbury-Dawes, ' Or·own,' thurs. & sat borough, ' Three Crowns,' tues. & thurs

Ohibterne Smith, ' Black Swan,' thurs Stapleford-Lawes, ' Pelican,' mon. thurs. & sat

Chit·toe-Strange, ' Pelican,' thurs Swindon-Nash, ' Crown,' thurs. ; "\Vilkins, 'Pelican/

Codford-Smith, ' Black Swan,' thurs thurs

Cono-ck-Giddings, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat Tilshead-Lawes, 'Pelican,' mon. thurs. & sat.; Mab-

Coombe-King, ' Crown,· thurs. ; Dawes, ' Crown,' thurs. bet·t, ' Crown,' thurs.; Smith, 'Black Swan; thurs
Tinhead-Wheeler, ' Crown,' thurs
& sat
Trowbridge Davis, ' Lamb,' mon. & thurs
Coate S. Burry, 'Three Crowns,' thurs Upav·on~Giddings, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat. ; Dawes,
Coulst<ln-David \Vheeler, ' Crown,' thurs
Easterton-Potter, 'Elm Tree,' daily ' Crown,' thurs. & sat
Edington-Wheeler, ' Crown,' thurs
Enford-King, 'Crown,' thurs. ; Sawyer, 'Black Swan,' Urchfont--Snook, 'White Bear,' thurs. & sat. ; Robert
Giddings, thurs

thurs.; Dawes, 'Crown,' thurs. & sat '"~arminster-Smith, ' Black Swan,' thurs

.Erlestok·e \Vheeler, 'Crown,' thurs \Vesbbrook-Strange, 'Pelican,' thurs

Figheldean-Eyres, ' Crown,' mon. & thurs. ; King. \Vest KenneH-Pope, 'Three Crowns,' thurs
West Lavington-Davis, 'Lamb,' mon. & thurs.; Lawes,
' Crown,' thurs

Fittleton-Sawyer, 'Black Swan,' thurs 'Pelican,' mon. thurs. & sat. ; Potter, 'Elm Tree.' dly

Raxon-King, 'Crown,' thurs.; Sawyer, 'Black Swan,' \Vilcot-Head, ' Cross Keys,' thurs. ; Brown, 'Black
Swan,' thurs
thurs

Hedding.ton-\Voodford, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat Wilsf.ord-Giddings, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat

Heytes.bury-Smit.h, 'Blark Swan,' thurs \Vilton--~Lawes, ' Pelican,' mon. thurs. & sat

Horton-Crook, ' Three Crowns,' thurs \Vinterbourne Ba.sset.t-1'\ash, ' Crown,' thurs

Huis'h-Browa1, 'Black Swan,' thurs Wirrterbourne Stoke-Lawes, 'Pelican,' mon. thurs. & sal>

Imber-Meaden, ' Elm Tree,' thnrs \V<Yrt<Qn-Phillips, ' Elm Tree,' thurs

~Ianningford-Giddings, ' Crown,' thurs. & sat. ; ·wedge, Wroughton-N'flsh, ' Crown,' thurs

'\Yhit•e Bear; thurs 'Vater Conveyance.
).Iarket Lavington-Potter, 'Elm Tree,' daily

~Iarlborough-Pope, 'Three Crowns,' thurs Boats to & from Bristol, Bath, Bradford-on-.A.von &

).Iarston-Phillips, ' Elm Tree,' thurs Devizes wharf four times a week, & to Hungerford &

~Ielksham-Tucker, 'Black Swan,' thurs Newbury occasionally, Gerrish & Co. Limited

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Browrn Wm. Hy. Beechciroft, Ba:th irOad Dickeats'Cm .A.lfd. The Rockery, Bath rd

Abra.hams Thos. 2 Beulah vils.Bath rd Burges· Rev. John Har·t D.D. (rector Dring Ja•s. John., Devizes wick

.&d·ams .A.lbert Henry, Belle vue north & surl'Ogate & chaplairu to the Dunning Mrs. 2 Bath road

.Ambrose Briga.de-Surgeon John B..A.., county asylum), 39 Long street Eade Vincent H. Fernleigh, Hillworth

M.D. Southga<te lo. Potterne road BurreU Rev. .A.lf.red G. (Wesleyan), Ellen William, 44 Long street

~<\n!stie Edward' Benj. 31 Marke.t place 5 'Jirafalga.r place, BatJh Toad Ewart Mi:>s, Broadlea.S<

.Anstie Edwrurdl Louis, Ha.dJeigh cot- Burrows Mr.s. Dunkirk Ferris John, 64 New Park street

tage, St. .Toseph~s· place Busb Miss, Merton villa, London road Fox: .Tn. Russell, Mattisfont,London rd

.A.nstie Thomas Brown, 2I Korthgate st Brush Wm. Hy. 3 S{)uthbroom t-errace Frost John Toogood, Meath lodge..

Anna;ru Mrs. 45 Long street Butcher Mrs. P:rospect house, Bath rd Potterne !l'Oad

Ash James, I8 Norbhgate· street Butcher William HeTITy, 36 St. John st Ghoreton Thel\Iis.ses,I7 Southbromn pl

Baker Hemy, 27 Long street Caird Rt. Henryson, Southbroom ho Giddings Edrwin James, 28 St. Jolmst

Ba.rnwell Rev. Chrus. Edwa.rd Benedict CarlesS! Edward!Nicolls M.B.u Long st Giddings Frederick Wm. 28 St. John st

M.A. (vicar of St. James & chap- Oha.n.dler T'hos.Melbonrne villa,Bath rd Giddings Mrs. 28 St. John street

lain to tihe (rt,NisOIT), Southbroom Clairk MisS>e·SI, P·ros.pect house, Bath rd Gillman Charles, Tresco, London road

Bartlholomew Jn, Smith, The. Moorlnd1s Collingwood: Col. Henry, Elm lodge, Gillman RusseH D. 3 Estcourt ter

Beake George, 4 Southbroom terrace London road IGodfrey Erne·st' .Tames, I Beulah viHas..

Beresford Edwyn H. County a.sylum CoLstoill Charles Edward Hungerford Bath road

Bidwell Miss, 47 New Pairk streelt .A.tlbol M.P., D.L., J.P. (Hon. Lieut.- G()'()dman Edrwd.20heltnhm.vls.Bat'h rd

Biggs Mrs. I Northgate street Col. 2JJ.d Vol. Batt. WiltS' Regt. ), Gray Alfred Murray, I7 Market place

Billingham Frank Ge<Jrge, .Avon cot- Roundway park ;r& Carlt{)n, Arthur's Gundry John, 3 Church walk

ta.ge, Lower wharl & Wellington clubs, London SW Gundry Richard Rickley, Hillwortb!

Billington J'flmes, 42 Lomg street Cook Edwd. W3ldon lo. Devizes wick Guy William, 5 Monday Market street

Booker Edlward, 33 Long street Cooke Mi.ss, 20 Long street Hadow Jame-s Remington, Park cottge
Borgino Mtrs. 39 N~w Park street Courteen Ren.ry Eversley, Potterne rd. Hamlen. Miss, Dunkirk

Bound Mrs. 34 Long street Coward Edwaxd•, Roundway Hampton Charles He•nry, Springfield.,

Bouvard Rev. Joseph (Catholic), St. Cunnington. Misses, Southgate east, Castle grounds

Joseph's place Potterne 'l'Oad Hancock Fre'dk. Sortain, St. John .st

Bowe•s John Ireland (medical 1mperin- Cu'llilington Mrs. Southgate home, Harrison Misses,z Eastfield, LondO'll rd

tendent), County asylum Potte:rne road HaxtJ Alfred, 27 & 28 Brittox

BrockmaJll Lieut.-Col. W. L. (staff- Darwent Rev. Wm. (Cong.), High st Hall't Charles Fredk. J.P. The Breach,.

paymstr. .A..P.D.), I Southgate vils. Dee Frdk.Jas. 2 Clift{)n vih. Bath rd Potterne road

Potterne road Devas: Rev. .A.rthur Ohas. :\1..1. (vic~r Hayward Tom,r Trafalgar pl. Bath rd

Brown .A.lbert, I3 Long street of St. Peter's & ohapJ.ain of H.~I. Helms Thomas Shinner, South view

Brown Henry, Lyecrolt, Bath road prison), Tlhe Vicarage, Bath road villas, St. Joseph·s place

Brown Mns. J. Hillworth Dewdtney The. :.\Esses, Rockdene, Pot- Hemington Rev. Chs. (Bap. ),Ostl. grnds

Brown ~Irs. \Villiam, Castle grounds. terneJ road ,Henrry ~Irs. 35 New Park street

90 DEV1ZES. WILTSHIRE. (KELLY's

Holloway Josephl William, Canal side Owen Da.vid F.C.A. 31 Long street Sloper Mrs. 8 Lon~ street

Holloway Mi~Ss, 21 Long street Oxford Cecil Hamilton, Ca.stle grnd's Smith Rev. Alfd. Chas. M.A. Old park

Hopkins. Thos. Carnal, 41 St. JohiT st Palmer MiSISO, Verecroft, Long street Smith George, Norbhgate house

Hull Miss, 15 High street Parsons Charles, Red1ynch,Potterne rd Smith George T. Northgate house

Hya.tt Miss, Hartmoor Patient Miss, I Albion place Sm~th John, 66 New Park street

lsborn Ernest Oharle•s, I Cheltenham Payne Oapt. Alexander Vaughan, Be:le Smith Miss, 2 ~orthgate street

villas, Batlh road Vue south, Bath roa.d Smit1h Miss, The Elms

Jookson J'sph.M.A.Eastcro.ft iho.Long st Peace Mrs. Beaulieu, St. Joseph's pl Springford John, 46 Long street

Jackson Joseph Thovnthwaite B.A. 38 Pearce William, 6 Estoourt te•rrace StanMmib William jnn. J.P. Brow•

Long .st·reet Penfold Artb.. 2 Tra.f811gar pl. Bath rd fort, Bath road

Jarws Miss, 1 Monday Market !Meet Phillips. Peter Pattie,5 Southbroom ter Steve111s Edward (Government a.uditor

Joy Mrs. I2 Long street Phipp James, 32 Long ·S'treet for Wiltshire district), Nursteed lo

Joy Mirs. Roundway Pryor George Wi:lia.Jil, 19 Long street Stle!VemJS MisSI, 3 Trafalgar pl. Bath rd

Ka.yns Ayliff,I Ormond vls. London rd Pugh Samuel Sargent, Heathcote Stevens Richard, The Retreat, Bath rd

Keeling William Edward, I6 High st house, The Green Stewart Edward Hinton, South View

!Koodrew Thomas, 4 Lam·sdowne grove PUITier Miss·, Ohurch walk villa•s, St. Joseph's place

Knight Miss, 18 Long •street Raby Leonard M.D. Craven house, Te<t:Jt Jos<eph, 4 Tll"afalgar pl. &tb. road

Lane Cecil Bertram, I Southbroom ter Exchange place Thorp W. Edward Fenwick, Sabathu,

Lansdowne Rohd.3Trafalga.r pl.Bath rd Randell Albert Joseph (Capt. 2nd Wilt•s Bath: road

Large Miss, The Is~and VoL Ba.tt. & in13kuctor of mus- Tratman Tracy,BelleVue nol'th,Bath rd

Leeds Misses, 65 New Park street ketry), Exchange place Tye Thoma.s Wailer, 45 Market place

Locke Rev. J-ohn Gosse (curate of SS. Randell John Ashley (hon. major 2nd Walliker Herbt. John, 5 Estcourt ter

John's & Mary'.s), 39 Long street Vol.Batt.WiltsiRegt.), 2 Exchange pl Ward! Henry 0. Devizes wick
Ward ~Irs. I Cli'fton villas, Bath road
Lolllg William, London il'oad Raymon.d Mrs. Ca•Sitle ground.s

Long Willia.m Henry, I Estoourt ter Renidell John, I6 Long ,street Wayle111 Heo. Swithin Ad:ee, 41 Long st

Lowe Mr.,. 14 High street Reynolds Frank, Beech cot.Castl.grnds Waylen Miss, 3 Northgate street

Lu.sk Frdk.Matthew,Rock>ley,Londn.•rd, Rich Sir Charles H. Stuart bart. Waylen Mrs. I Lall!sdowne grove

Mackay Hy. Jn. M.D., C.M. ro Long 1St I Devizes castle Webb Arthur, 27 Bridewell st.reet

MMllling William, Belvidere Bobbins F·redc. Spitalcroft, London rd Weekes Rev. William Harvie (cumte

MrunShaJl :A.rtfhur, Bram.dlon. Pal!"k dale 1 Roberts Alfred, 2 Southbroom te;rrace of St. Peter's), Bengal, Bath rood

Ma.:rshall John'IIhos. M.I.L.S. Park dale Rose Wm. I Eastfield, London road Weeks Mrs. 31 St. Jo!hn street

Mayow Rev.Mayow WyneJ.l M. A. Brae- Rumsey D. G. Wilson, 30 Long street \Welham Mrs. Sheep street

side, Bath il"Oad Sainsbury Hy.Jn.Oakle.y,St.Joseph's pl West :Mrs. 3 Albion place
Mead George Hy. 2 ~Ionday Markets~ Sainsbury Herbert., 2 Ormond villas, WestoDJ Wm. The Retreat, Bath roa;d

Meek M-ex.aJuder Grant B.A., J.P. llill- London road- \Wheeler William D. 2 La.nsdowne gro

worth house Sainsbury Ml's. Stourton, London rd Wlhci>te Thom13.9 HeJnry, 2 A:bion p!>a.oe,

Meek Henry Edgar, Hillworth Sainsbury Wm. Edward,6Northgate st Sli:dmoutibJ stre<ert
Meek The ~Iisses, The Ark
1

Sandell Hy. The Bank ho. 38 Market pl Wild George, 4 Estcourt terrace

~fillwaters :Mrs. 9 Long &t•reet 1Sargent Richd. Belle monte,Pottrne.rd \WW~lil~din:s\1rsT.ho4s.EsSt.iclvoaunrut st,erTrahcee Isl~nd
:Mullings Richard Benoni, Woodville, Saunder.s Miss., 19 Northga.te street
Simps.on George, jun. Longcroft IWillis J oseph, Hazlecroft, Oaen h1ll
Potterne road

Mulling;; 'IIhos. J. L'.smore,Potte!'nerd Simpson Mrs. I7 Long street IWilshin John, I Market place

Neate M.bt. Edwd·. Perry, 28 Long st Sims William, 24 St. John .street Wilson James· M.A., M.B., C.M.

Nunn Edwin, Laurel cot. Potte·rne rd Skyrme Rev. Frank Elcho M.A.(curate County a.sylum

Oakley Rev. Henry (Baptist), Stan- of St. Jam91s), St.A.rvans,Pottrne.rd 11\'Vitfuers Mitss, 47 Long street

~ord villa, Potterne road ,Sloper ~Jaslp''hl.e~rIaKrl. er2,6 3 Lansdowne gro Wooloway Miss, 29 Long st.reet
Offer Dnl. Archard, Fair vw.London rd.Sloper Bat!h road lYoung Henry, 14 St. John street

COMMERCIAL. on ground floor, with separate entrance; pos·ting of
every description; 'bus & flys meet all trains '(F.

Abr:liham George, grocer, 27 New Park street Reynolds, proprietor), Market place

Abraham Jabez, shopkeeper, London road Beauchamp l<'rancis, chief clerk & superintendent county

.&bra:ham Thomas, station master, Railway station constabulary; head-quarters, Bath road

Adams Albert Hy. coach & carriage bldr. The Nursery Beaven George & Son, boot & shoe makers, 6 Wine st

Adarns Frederick William, baker, 2 High street Benger Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 34 Sheep street

Alfoil"d Thomas, tinsmith, 52 Sheep street Bennett & Cole (Misses), principals of the High School

Ansltie E. & W. tobacco & snuff mfrs. 29 Market place for Girls, Castle grounds

Arter Alice (Mrs.), fishmonger, IS Maryport street Bennett Ada (Miss),young gentlemen·s schl. I2 Market pl

Ash Henrv, builder, contractor, general mason, plas- Bennett James, shopkeeper, 32 Sheep street

t~rer, til~r & undertaker; estimates given for re- Bennet.t Wm. furniture brkr. & bill poster, 9 St. John st

modelling old, laying in new system of drainage &c. Beresford Edwyn Henry L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng.

Northg3!te street. See advert assistant medical officer, County Asylum

.A.s1hley Henrv & George, hauliers, 8 New Park street Best Ka.te (:\1iss), dress maker, 42 New Park street

Ashley Thamas, shopkeeper, 18 Sidmouth street Bick John, Fox & Hounds P.H. Nursteed

Assiz.e Cou:M.s (Charles Lloyd, caretaker), NDrthgate st Bidwell Elizabeth Anne (Miss), ladies' school (boarding),

Aymer Jona.h, shopkeeper, r8 Southend - Brownston house, New Park street

Baker & Son, general drapers & outfitters, 7 Lit. Brittox Biggs & Co. watch makers & jewellers, 29 Brittox

Baker William, furniture dealer, 52 New Park street Biggs Lewis, agent for the West of En~land, also Nor-

Baldwin William, superintendent of Devizes constabulary wich & London Accident Insurance Co.'s Capital &

div-ision & deputy chief constable ; head quarttJrs, Counties Bank

Bath road Billingham Frank George, borough surveyor, sanitary

Banbury \Villiam Stenlake (late H. Musse.lwhite), trunk, inspector, & inspector of common lodging houses,

portmanteau. saddlery & harness maker; repain in officer under the Explosives Act, & hon. sec. Devizea

all its branches executed on the premises at the coal charity; offices, 15 Market place

shortest notice, 2 Wine street Blllington James William & Frank, grocers & provision

Barlow Joseph, grocer & baker, 22 Bridewell street dealers, 36 Market place

Barnes Charles Robert, school attendance officer, r Bird F. & Co. coal merchants (Alfred Hinxman, agent),

Rainscombe terrace, Bath road 12 High street; depot, G. W. Railway station

Barnett Albert Edward (es.tab1ished a cen~ury), family 1 Blair Robert T. Crown hotel, St. John street Britbox
butcher, gen~ral purveyQr. & farmer, 58 No:t~gate st Blencowe Emily Margt.
(Mrs.), pork butcher, ~4
Barnham. & Kirby (The :Misses), young ladies school, Bolland Frank, machinist, 40 & 41 New Park street

Vale VIew house, Long street Bolland George, boot maker, q Church walk

Bateson Conservative Club (C. E. H. A. Colston esq. Bolwell James, ·west & William Edward, printers, New

1\I.P., D.L., J.P. president; James Turner, sec. ; Park street

Joseph Bailey, steward), New Park street Bolwell Ann (Mrs.), printer & stationer, 44 New Park st

Bat·t Joseph George, fishmonger, 3 Little Britt-ox Bolwell James, Cross KeYs P.H. 13 ~Ionday Market st

Bazley Frank M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgeon, 5 Estcourt st Bolwell James, plumber & painter, 58 New Park street

Beake Alfred, hair dresser, 74 New Park street Bones William Arthnr, watch maker, r7! Maryport st. &

Bear flrat-claaa family & commercial hotel bookseller, 20 Sidmouth ~treet

Free Proprietary House, sitnated in theMark.e.t pl. ; Booker Edward, corn merch·mt. C'astle lane

central & nearest the station, he.adquarters C.T.C.; Boulter Alfred w·miam, boot maker & grindery dealer,

billiard. smoking & bath roo::r1s; prin1te sitting rooms I4 Maryport street

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Borough Police Station (Thos. Lane, inspector),Town hall Colonial Meat Co. (The), meat salesmen (John Witt,

Bourne J oseph, farmer, Old Park farm manager), 5 Brittox

Bowden William, Tegistered lodging house, The Nursery Convent (The Sisters of St. Joseph), St. Joseph's place

Bowden William, Wagon & Horses P.H. The Nursery Coombs Louia (Mrs.), stay maker, I Melbourne place,

Bowes John Ireland, medical supel"intendent of the The Nursery

county lunatic asylum, County asylum Cooper William, dyer & cleaner, 25 St. John street

Bowsher Alfred, ironmonger, IO Market place Corn Exchange (Henry Taplin, collctr. of tolls),Market pl

I3owsher Chal'les, grocer, IS Sheep street County Court Office (Joseph Thornthwaite Jackson B.A.

Box William, brick & tile merchan.t, The Town Wharf registrar), 34 St. John street

BBore•vwces & Son, builders, ~ew P ar k street County Lunatic Asylum (John Ire~and Bowes, medical
ter tioner, 8 Si dmouth supt.; James Wilson M.A., M.B., C.M. & Edwyn H.
. Hl\eIanrryv• , confec laundr es s, 24 Sout street Ileresford L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S.Eng. assistant medical
(::\Irs. ), hbroom
Bridewell place officers; Rev. John Hart Burges D.D. chaplain; Ed-

Bridewell William, bookbinder, 20 Sidmouth street
British & Foreign Bible Society Depot (Charles Gillman, ward Baverstock Merriman, treasurer; Joseph T.
Jackson, clerk to the visitors; James Turner, clerk
jun.), I9 Brittox
to asylum
Brown & May, engineers, Estcourt street
Brown George, builder, contractor & building material Coward Edward, farmer, Roundway

merchant &c. 2 Long street Coward 'Villiam, county court bailiff, 13 St. John street

Brown George, practical tailor & trouser maker, repairs, Cox Benjamin Jas. chimney sweeper, I7 Bridewell street

alterations, cleaning, pressing &c. ; liveries made to Cox Thomas, chimney sweeper, IS Monday Market street
Creea & Company Limited, domestic machinery
order ; 26 Maryport street

Brunker Alfred Henry, poor rate collector, house & manufacturers, Northgate street
general agent & assistant overseer for St. Mary's, 38 Cripps Henry, chemist, 37 ~Iarket place
Crown First Class Family & Commercial Hotel & Post-
New Park street

Budd ·walter1 complete house furnisher & carpet ware- ing Rouse (Robert Thomas Blair, proprietor), St. John
houseman, estimates given; repairs in all branches, & street, within 3 minutes of the G. W. Railway station

sewing machine agent, 5 High street Cruse Jacob, market gardener, Nursteed

Bunyar .John, furniture dealer, 27 Sidmout•h street Cunnington William & Sons, wholesale & retail wine &

Burbidge Joseph, pork butcher, 4 Sidmouth stTeet spirit merchants, importers & bonders; offices, Wine

Burden Thomas, market gardener, Nursteed street; bonded stores, The Wharf ; London office, 2

Burt William Henry (Mrs.), ironmonger, 4I Market pl Lime street square E C

Bush "\Villiam Henry, printer, rate collector for the urban Cunnington Capt. Edward Benjamin Howard, Capt. of

sanitary authority & agent for Sutton's parcels de- C Co. Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) 2nd

livery, 5 Wine street Volunteer Battalion; hon. sec. of Wilts Rifle Associa-

Butcher William Henry, agent to East Wi:ts Central tion; President of Devizes Cyclist Club & hon. curator

Liberal Association, 36 St. .John street of museum

Ilutler Isaac, farmer, "Cpper Old Park farm Dallaway John, saddler, 21 High street

Ilutler John Spackman, farmer, Roundway Dallimore Waiter (of Bristol), surgeon, 12a, Long street

Capital & Counties Bank Lim. (branch) (John Wilshin, Davies Mary Ann (Miss), pianoforte dealer & music

manager; hours, IO till 3 mon. tues. fri. & sat. ; wed. seller, 59 Northgate street

10 to I ; market days, thurs. IO to 5 ; I Market pi. ; Davies Sarah S. (.Miss), ladies' school, 14 Long street

draw on head office, 39 Threadneedle st. London E C Davis "\Yilliam, grocer, I2 Sidmouth street

Carless & Mackay, physicians & surgeons, u Long street Dean Henry, The Dolphin P.H. 6o Northgate street

Carless Edward Nicolls :M.B., C.M. (firm, Carless & Deverell Frank, shopkeeper, 3 Sidmouth street

Mackay), surgeon, medical officer of H.M.'s prison, Deverell Lydia (Mrs.), baker & confectioner, 67 & 68

medical officer of health & public vaccinator for No. New Park street

I district, deputy coroner for middle division d Devizes Cemetery (Thomas C. Hopkins, clerk to the

county & surgeon lieut.-col. 2nd Yol. Batt. Wilts burial board; George Pinchen, keeper), Ilelvidere

Regiment, II Long street Devizes Cottage Hospital & Provident Dispensary (T. B.

Carpenter "\Villiam, provision dealer, 34 Avon terrace Anstie, consulting surgeon; E. N. Carless. M. B., G. S.

Carter Saml. Jas. & Co. tailors & drapers, I I Marypcn st A. Waylen, Alfred M. Gray & Henry John Mackay,

Carter Charles Gregory, grocer & tea dealer & agent surgeons; J. Wilshin, treas.; :Miss E. F. N. Mac-

for W. & A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit merchants, donald, matron; David Owen, hon. sec. ; 0. Sheppard,

Post office, 4 Estcourt street assistant sec.), New Park road

Carter .Jn. enginr. of Devizes waterwrks.Bishop Cannings Devizes Cycling Club (Capt. Edward Il. H. Cunnington,

Castle First Class Family & Commercial Hotel president); head quarters, Bell inn, The Green

A Posting House, within 5 minutes' walk (11 Devizes Dairy & Farmers' Supply Co. Lim. (Joshua

G.W ..R. ; billiards &c. ; good c;ommercial & smoking Hampton, manager), 48 Long street; (branch) (Henry

rooms ; address, The Manageress Thomas Chivers, agent), 8 Estcourt street

Catley George, corn dealer, 3 Sourthbroom place Devizes & District School Teachers' Association (W. H.

Challis Arthur, shopkeeper, II New l'ark street Lawman, sec.), Town schools

Chalmers Sarah (Mrs.), stationer & attendant at the Devizes Gas & Water Works (Joseph William Holloway,

museum, 25 Long street manager for the corporation), Canal side

Chandler J ames, dispensing chemist, 7 Sidmouth street Devizes Literary & Scientific Institution (C. E. H. A.

Chandler John, coach builder, I Southbroom place Colston esq. M.P., D.L., J.P. president; Fredk. H.

Chandlers & Co. maltsters & hop merchants ; office, Hayward, librn. ; hours, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. ), 5 St.John st

Northgate street Devizes Prosecution Society (Messrs. Meek, Jackson &

Chauning George, pianoforte dealer, music seller & in- Jackson, treasurers), 33 & 34 St. John street

surance agent, SI Northgate street Devizes Soup Kitchen (J. A. Randell, hon. sec.), Mrkt. ho

Chivers A. & ~- dress makers & milliners, 30 St. J ohu st Devizes Sunday School Union (E. B. Anstie, treasurer ;

C'hivers Henry & Giles, plumbers, 30 St. John street Samuel James Carter, sec.), Maryport street

Chlvera .Jabez, builder, contractor, undertaker, timber Devizes & Wilts Advertiser (R. D. Gillman, printer, pro-

merchant &c. ; workshops & office, Sidmouth street prietor & publisher ; published thurs. ), 19 Brittox.

Chivers Sarah Lonisa (Mrs.), fruiterer, 9 Brittox See advertisement

Chivers William Edward, builder, contractor & under- Devlzea A Wiltshire Gazette (George Simpson, jun.

taker (contracts taken for every description of work), printer, proprietor & publisher; published thursday),

29 Sheep street 13 Market place ; contracts taken for every description

Church Library, at Hurry & Pearson's, Wine street (Rev. of printing

A. B. Thynne, of Seend, sec. & treasurer) Devizes Workmen's Club (Frank Golding, sec.), Odd-

Clack Henry, gardener to C. E. H. A. Colston esq. fellows' hall, Maryport street

M.P. Roundway Dodge Augustus, boot & shoe factor, 3 Brittox

Clappen Joseph, general outfitter, clothing & boot ware- Donell Edward, wheelwright, 49 Northgate street

houseman; usual discount given to clubs & charities, Douse Jas. John, pork butcher, 42 & 43 Northgate st

4 Wine street & 24 High street Dowse Henry, dairy farmer, 2 Church walk

Clarke Chas. Walker, stationer&photographer, 32Mrkt. pl Dowse James John, registrar of births & deaths for De-

Clarke Edwin Henry, furniture broker, 16 Sidmouth st vizes sub-district & relieving vaccination & school

Cole Mary & Elizh. (Misses), dress mas. 26 Sidmouth st attendance officer, 35 Long street

Cole Clara (Miss), school, see Bennett & Cole Dowse John, cattle dealer, 14 Sutton place

Cole Frederick, gun maker, 14 Market place Dring James John, solicitor's clerk, clerk to borough

Cole Thomas, watch maker &c. 6 Sidmouth street magistrates, chief clerk of the county court, registrar

Coleman !?rank, refreshment rooms, 17 Sidmouth street of marriages & deputy registrar of births & deaths for

Coles Herbert B. hairdrssr. & tobacconist, 33 Market pl Devizes sub-district, 34 St. John street

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Draper George, fishmonger, 59 New Park street Hicks Jane Lawrence (Miss),refrshmnt. rms.g Lit.Britto:s

Drew John Frederick (established over half a century), Hill Jane & Elizh. (Misses), dress mas. 3 Estcouri it

wholesale & retail corn, flour, hay, straw, seed, manure, Hill Richard, plumber & house decorator, 23 Market pl

moss litter & hop merchant, linseed & other feeding Hill Walter, chemist, 25 Brittox

cakes; calf meal, malt, hops &c. sole agent for Th01·- Hinxman Alfred, agent for F. Bird & Co. coal merchants.

ley's food, Market place & Exchange place 12 High street; depot, G. W. Railway station

Dunkerton Frederick, shoeing smith, New Park street Hiscock Charles, grocer & carpenter, 9 Sidmouth street
Dunning William, clerk at H. M.'s prison, 2 Bath road Hitchens Mary Ann (Mrs.), wardrobe dealer, 28 Sheep s~

Eades Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress, Dunkirk Hix Nehemiah, ironmonger, 22 High street

Earle Vincent H. agent tu Provident Clerks' Fire, Life & Hockley James Henry, grocer & baker, 15 New Park st
Accident Association, & the Accidents Insuran~ l)o. Hodges Jane (Mrs.), fishing tackle & fancy dealer, 5

Capital & Counties Bank; residence, Fernleigh Sidmouth street

Edwards Eugenius, fishmonger, 9 High street Holloway Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 9 Northgate st

Edwards Thomas Roberts, chemist, 20 Brittox Holloway J oseph William, manager Devizes Gas & Water

Edwards Thomas Stanley, chimney sweepr. 25 Sheep 11t works, Canal side

Edwards William, shopkeeper, 27 Sheep street Honey James, house decorator, 4 & 5 Northgate street

Ellen & Son, lime burners, London road Hopkins James Elliott, New Market tavern, & assistant

Ellen Joseph, lime burner, 7 Estcourt street overseer of St. James', 7 l\Iarket place

Ellen Richd. Thos. baker & confectioner, 21 Market pl Hopkins Thomas Carnal, solicitor, clerk of the peace &

Evans James, Great Western inn, Exchange place clerk to the Devizes burial board & to the feoffees of St.

Evans James William, butcher, II St. John street Mary's parish, & stamp distributor for Devizes district,

Everelt Charles Elias, farmer & cowkeeper, Lower Park 41 St. John street

farm, Old park Howse & Son, grocers, provision dealers, wine & spirit

Fairburn Dan, inland revenue officer, 15 Long street merchants, ale & porter dealers, bottlers of Guinness's

Farley Eliza (Mrs.), tailor, 5 Market place stout & Bass's Burton beer, 1 Little Brittox

Ferris Edward (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 4 Monday Market st Hunt Job, manager to W. H. 1\lead, wholesale grocer,

Few Adelaide (Mrs.), dairy &c. see Springford & Few 36 Monday Market street

Fielding Robert, boot maker, 25 The Nursery Hurry & Pearson, booksellers, printers & stationers, 4

Figgins Elizabeth (Mrs.), grngrcr. 14 Monday Market lit St..John street

Figgins George, grocer, 36 The Nursery Hussey Hy. M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgn. 36 Kew Park street

Figgins 1Vm. grocer & provision dealer, 15 Estcourt st Hutchens John, greengrocer, 21a, Market place-

Ford Thomas, plumber, 16 Southbroom place Hutton Mary Jane (Mrs.), milliner, 7 Melbourne place.

Fowler John, tailor, 22 Maryport street The Nursery

Freemasons' Hall (C. R. Barnes, tyler),Morris la.Long st Infant Day Nursery (Mrs. 'Wm. Brown, lady supt.; Mrs.

Frost John Toogood, general draper, see Sloper & Frost Fanny E. Brown, matron), The Grange, Bridewell st

Fry James, miller (wtr.), Drew's Pond mills, Potterne rd Inland Revenue Office (Excise branch) (Thomas Kendrew.

Gerrett G·eorge, shoe maker, 6o New Park street supervisor; Dan Fairburn & Thos. H. Gilbert, officers),

Gerrish & Co. Lim. (branch) (William 1J1cKenson, 14 High street

manager), canal carriers, The Town wharf International Tea Co. (Arthur Wm. Godfrey, manager).

Gibbons John & Son, bath chair proprietors & shoe re- 3~ Brittox

pairers, 4 & 5 Bridewell street Jackson Joseph ~LA. solicitor, clerk to the county magis-

Giddings Edwin James, wine & spirit merchant &c.; trates & commissioner for oaths (firm, Meek, Jackson

offices, 28 St. John street & bonded stores, Wharf & Jackson), 33 & 34 St. John street

Giddings Richard, plumber, 27 Maryport street Jackson Joseph Thornthwaite B.A. (firm, Meek, Jackson

Gilbert Thomas Hart, inland revenue officer, 18 South- & Jackson), solicitor, town clerk, clerk to urban sani-

broom place tary authority & to school attendance committee, regis-

Gillman Russell D. printer & publisher of the "Devizes & trar & high bailiff of county court, clerk to commis-

1Vilts .Advertiser," 19 Brittox. See advertisement sioners of taxes & to visiting committee Wilts county

Gillman Charles jun. printer, bookseller &c. 19 Brittox asylum, 33 & 34 St. John street

Globe Parcel Express Co. (Henry Brownlee West, agent), Jefferies Edward & Alfred, pork butchers, 9 Maryport sl

12 Maryport street Johnson Henry Joseph, watch maker & jeweller, I Mary-.

Godwin Frederick, cheese factor, St. John street port street & 35 ~Ionday Market street

Government School of Science & Art (Tracy Tratman, Jolliffe Henry, wedding & funeral carriag~ proprietor,

art master; John Atkinson, science master; John job & posting master, Long street

Ashley Randell, hon. sec.), held at the Assize courh Jones Wm. whitesmith & Old Crown P.H. 19 New Park st

Gray Alfred Murray L.R.C.P. & L.R.C.S.Edin., L.F.P.S. Keeling William Edward, dentist, 10 High street

Glas. physician & surgeon, hon. surgeon to Devizes Kelley William, confectioner, 6 Cyprus ter. Northgat.e st

Cottage Hospital & to the G. W. Railway Provident Kendrew Thos. supervisor inland rev. office, 14 High s•

Society; local hon. sec. to the Medical Defence Kennet & Avon Canal (G. W. Railway Co.) (Francis Bald-

'Cnion & medical referee to the United Kingdom Pro- ing, agent; Charles Frederic Hart, district engineer);

vident Institution & other societies, 17 Market place office, Korthgate street

Green Edward, Black Horse P.H. 25 Bath road King David, coal merchant & haulier, go New Park street

Greenland .A.nne M. (Miss), L.R.A.M. teacher of music, King James, watch & clock repairer, 91 New Park street

2 Brittox King Thomas, gardener to Sir Charles H. Stuart Rich

Greenland David, pianofrte. dlr. & music seller, 2 Brittox hart. The Castle grounds

Griffin William John, Queen's Head P.H. Dunkirk King William, 1Vhite Hart P.H. 9 New Park street

Hadwell Sarah Ann (Mrs.), laundress, 28 Southbrm. pi Kirby Georgina (Miss), young ladies' school, see Barn-

Haines Arthur John, commercial traveller, 17 High street ham & Kirby

Hambley Richard, butcher, 13 Sidmouth street Knee 1Valter, grocer & baker, 11 Southbroom place

Hampton Joshua, farmer, Cherry Hill farm Knight Mary (Mrs.), toy & fancy repository, 20 Market pl

Hancock Frederick Sortain (firm, Norris k Hancock), Knott Geo. Hy. monumental mason, 75a, New Park street

solicitor & commissioner for oaths, 16 Market place Lambert Tom, refreshment rooms, 8 High liltreet

:S:arding Henry, shopkeeper, 3 New Park street · Lane Thomas, inspector of weights & measures & police

Harris Charles EJward, grocer, & agent for W. & A. inspector, 24 Long street

Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit merchants, so Long street Laver Edward, reporter & sec. of Liberal club, Rotherstne

Harris James, haulier, canal carrier, wheelwright, tim- Lavlngton Thomas, auctioneer, valuer, surveyor &

ber dealer & farmer, The Town wharf; & Rotherstone land & estate agent & agent for the Scottish Widow11'

Harrison Misses, ladies' school, 2 Eastfield, London road Life & London & Lancashire ]<'ire offices, Market place;

Harrison Stephen, farm bailiff & gamekeeper to C. E. H. & at Marlborough

A. Colston esq. ~LP. Swiss cottage, Roundway Lemon William, fancy repository, 8 Brittox

Hart Charles Frederic C.E., J.P. district engineer, Lewis Charles John, farmer & assistant overseer, Parkdale

Kennet & Avon canal (G. W. Railway Co. ), The terrace, Caen hill

Breach, Potterne road Lewis Thomas Cowley, grocer, 3 Maryport street

Hartland William, butcher, 13 Brittox Liberal Club (Edward Laver, sec.; Mrs. Rebecca. Kain,

jHaslehurst Samuel Henry, watch maker, 22 Market pl caretaker), St. John street
Hassall Henry Jackson, master of Devizes workhouse Long William, manure & cake merchant, London road

Hawkins George, dairyman, Caen hill Lucas James Vernon, linen draper & high constable, 43 &

Hayward Ann & Hannah (The Misses), fancy repository, 44 Market place & 10 Little Brittox

8 Little Brittox Lush Frederick Matthew, solicitor, clerk to the board of

Hayward George, carpenter, 4.5 New Park street guardians &school attendance&assessment committees,.

Hayward Tom, photographer, 8 Maryport street supt. registrar of Devizes union & clerk to the Great.

Hickman Wm. grocer & tea dealer, 46 & 47 Northgate st Cheverell school board, 5 St. John's court

DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. DEVIZES. 93

Lush William, clerk to the rural district council, St. Phillips James, tinplate worker, I3 Northgate street

John's court Phipp Ja.mes Wm. & Son, coal factors & merchants; offices

Mackay Henry John 1\I.D., C.M. surgeon, 11ee Carless & depots, 25 Maryport street & Railway yard

& Mackay Phipp Charles William, Three Crowns inn & brewer,

McMahon Emily (Mrs.), dress ma. 4 Church wlk. The Grn Maryport street

Maggs Mary (Miss), mistress of Southbroom infant Phipp Jas. Frdk. organist of St. 1\Iary's, 25 Maryport st

school, School house Pile Ge()rge, assistant master of boys' town school & col-

Marshall John Thomas M.I.L.S. solicitor & coiilmissioner lector of taxes for St. John's, Woodbine cot. The Green

to administer oaths, 35 St. John street Pinchen George, cemetery attendant, Cemetery lodge

Marshall J oseph, fancy dealer & sewing machine agent, Porter Louis, sewing machine agent, I4 Sidmouth street

28 Sidmouth street Portsmouth Henry, farmer, Nursteed

Marshman Henry, boot maker, 4 Estcourt crescent Portsmouth James, Lamb inn, 20 St. John street

Marshment Jas. dairymn. & frmr. Hartmoor, Hillworth Price Ezra & Sons, pianoforte & organ warehouse & music

Marvin Alfd. ·wm. corn merchant & farmer, Jump farm sellers, Handel house, Sidmouth st. ; & at Yeovil &

Marvin Sarah Ann (.Mrs.), Royal Oak inn, 43 Nw. Park st Bournemouth

Maslen Clara (.Mrs.), midwife, I3 Bridewell street Pritchard John R. tailor, breeches maker, hosier, hatter

l\bslen Levi, bricklayer & general builder, sanitary work & woollen draper, I Brittox

effectually carried out, I3 Bridewell street Pugh Samuel Sargent, school (boarding & day), Heath-

Maslen Thomas, shopkeeper, 92 New Park street cote house, The Green

May Chas. Neale, portable engine mfr. see Brown & May Pullars' Dye Works (Perth) (Hy. Brownlee West, agent),

Mead Charles, greengrocer, II Northgate street 12 Maryport street

Mead G. H. wholesale & retail grocer, 36 Monday Market Raby Leonard M.R.C.S.Eng., M.B. (2nd Class Honors) &

street & 16 Brittox; stores, 76 New Park street M.D.Durh. physician & surgeon, medical officer &

Meadows William, confectioner, Io Estcourt street public vaccinator for the 2nd & 6th districts of the De-

j1feek, .Tackson & J ackson, solicitors, 33 & 34 St. John st vizes union, medical officer to the Independent Lodge of

Merriman Edward Baverstock, treasurer & clerk to the Oddfellows, Hearts of Oak, Rechabites & other societies,

-v·isitors, County asylum & to the post office, Devizes, medical referee to the
Norwich Union Life Insurance Society, Craven house,
Merritt Benjamin, chimney sweeper, so Sheep street
Exchange place
Merritt W illiam, greengrocer, 6 Maryport street
Moore Ann (~Irs.) & Florence Elizabeth (.Miss), dress Radcliffe Peter Delme, solicitor, & perpetual cvmmissioner

makers, Estcourt street & agent for the Norwich 'C'nion Life & The Alliance Life

.Morris Percy J. dealer in pianos, harmoniums & all other & !''ire offices, 6 St. John street
musical instruments, practical tuner & repairer of all Uaine James jun. boot & shoe maker, 57 Northgate street
Randell .John Ashley, architect & surveyor, auctioneer,
kinds of instruments, 9 Market place. See advert
appraiser, estate & general commission agent, agent ilo
Morris Percy James, Pelican P.H. 9 Market place.
Mothers' Nursing Home (Mrs. Edward Anstie, lady the Wilts & Western Benefit Building Society & to the

founder; Mrs. Ann Wiltshire, matron), 28 Bridewell st Royal Insurnnce Co. hon. sec. Government School of
Mould & Sons, seedsmen & nurserymen, 17 St. John Science & Art & Technical Education committee, Ex-
change place
street & 'rhe Nursery

Mullings James, basket·& sieve maker, The Nursery Read William, shopkeeper & boot maker, 53 Sheep street

Mullings Richard Benoni, builder & brick, tile & pipe Religious Tract Society Deposit()ry (Charles Gillman,
jun. ), 19 Brittox
maker, The Island

Munday Rbt. sen. shopkpr. & apartments, 16 St. John st Rendell Frank, plumber, 29 St. John street
Munday Rbt. jun. rag mer. & marine str. dlr. New Park st Rendell Marian (Miss), dress maker, 3 Long street
Reynolds Frank, see Bear Ist class family & commrcl. hotl
Myles Henry, Black Swan hotel, Market place

Nash James, New inn, 2 Southgate, Potterne road Robbins Joseph & Son, linen drapers, x6 Maryport street

Neate Brothers, shoeing smiths, 13 Estcourt street Robbins Amelia (Miss), apartments, St. Joseph place

Neate Charles E. & Son, upholsterers, cabinet makers, Uobbins William, outfitter, 14a, Estcourt street
carpet & bedding warehousemen, antique furniture Romain Charles, upholsterer, 35 Market place
dealers, auctioneers, valuers, undertakers, furniture Remain J()hn, builder, The Nursery

removers & estate agents, 24 Maryport street; & at Rose .John & Son (established 1847), family butchers

High street, Pewsey & purveyors t() the Queen; corned beef, pickled

Neate Arthur Perry, shopkeeper, 2 Southbroom place tongues; families waited on for orders daily, 2r, 22 &

Neate Thos. Perry, Rising Sun P.H. 1 Southbroom place 23 Sidmouth street

New Moses, coal dealer & greengrocer, I Estcourt street Rose Alice (Miss), dress maker, 17 Northgate street

Norris & Hancock, solicitors, I6 Market place Rose Edwin, painter, Gains lane

North ·wilts Church Magazine (Hurry & Pearson, printers Rowden \Villiam James, auctioneer, valuer, house, land

& publishers), 4 St. John street & estate agent, 44 Market place; & at Upavon

North Wilts Club ((H.Kent Norris, hon. sec.; John Davies, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry (Prince of Wales'

steward), 27 St. John street Own Regiment) (A Squadron) (Hon. Major Sir A.

North Wilts Dairy Co. Lim. (David Owen F.C.A. sec.), Neeld bart. commanding; Capt. J. R. G. Gwatkin,

Pans lan~ second in command; Sergt.-Major A. LaJWrence, drill

Nott John George, Southbroom Brewery tap, town crier, instructor)

beadle & bill poster, 14 Southbroom place Rumsey D. G. Wilson, principal & head master of \Yils-

Oddfellows Hall (Frank Matthews, hall kpr.), Maryport st ford House school, 30 Long street

'Odey Henry, Unicorn P.H. 10 Sidmouth street Rutter Emanuel, sexton of St. Mary's, Commercial road

Offer Albt. Jas. prinher & stationer, 34 New Park street Sainsbury Brothers, coal, slate, salt & artificial manure

'Offer Daniel Archard, corn mer. Fair view, London road merchants, brick & tile manufacturers &c. Bridg-

'()ffer George, carpenter, 29 Southbroom place water tiles & Staffordshire glazed pipes, agents to

O'Reilly Thomas George, general draper, 4 High street the Great Western Railway Co. ; offices, 7 & 26

Ovven Davld F.C.A. chartered accountant, sec. to the Northgate street & Railway station

Wilts Friendly Society, actuary of savings bank, clerk Sainsbury Alfred, painter, 22 St. John street

to charity trustees, & agt. to the Commercial Union Sainsbury Herbert, coal & corn mer. The Town wharf

Assur. Co.; offices, 3I Long st. & I8 St. John street Sainsbury Herbert, collector of taxes for St. James, 2

{)xford Cecil Hamilton, dist. auditor's clerk. Castle grnds Ormond villa.s, London road

l'almer Lucy Fanny (Miss), school for young ladies, Vere- St. Bartholomew's Home (Orphanage) (Miss Smith,

croft, Long street lady founder; Mrs. Elizabeth Sumner, matron), Old pk

l'almer Mark, confectioner, 52 Long street Salmon Charles, stone mason, 45 Estcourt street

Parker Lewis J. dentist, 26 Market place Salter Joseph, cooper, 54 & 55 New Park street

l'arsons Brothers, tailors, 3 St. John street Sandell Henry, manager of the Wilts & Dorset Bank

Parsons Alfred, earthenware dealer, 40 St. John street Lim. treasurer for the borough, union, burial board

'Part Charles Joseph, baker, Caen hill & ruraJ. district council, 38 Market place

Pavey Elizh. (Mrs.), china dealer, IO Northgate street Sargent Richard, commsn. agt. Belle Monte, Potterne rd

l'earce James Thomas, basket maker, Io Maryport street Savings Bank (David Owen F. C. A. actuary), 18 St.

Pearce Job, refreshment rooms, IS Sidmouth street John street; ()pen every monday 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. &

Penny Bank (David Owen F.C.A. sec.), open every mon- every thursday from II a.m. to 1 p.m

day, 6 to 7 p.m. 18 St. John street Seabright Emma (Miss), mistress of Southbroom girls'

Jlearson William, printer, see Hurry & Pearson school, School house ·

Perkins Charles Guy, ironmonger, 3 Wine street Self William, tinsmith & sergeant-at-mace, 43 Sheep st

Perry Edward, King's Arms P.H. 94 New Park street Selft> George, sh()pkeeper, 24 Sidmouth street

P-eters Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 4a, Church walk Shadwell AnnMarv(Mrs.), apartments.x8 Southbroom Tll

Pettitt Arth. Jas. grocer & baker, 9 Monday Market st Shadwell John, jobbing gardener, I8 Southbroom place

' 94 DEVIZES. WILTSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Sheppard Caroline (Miss), apartments, 21 St. John st. D Co. Capt. A. J. Randell, commandants; Color-Sergt.

Sheppard Ernest, .Artichoke P.H. 5 The Nursery E. Southwood, drill instructor); .Armoury, Town hall;

Sheppard Oliver, assistant sec. to Devizes Cottage Hos- orderly room, 32 St. John street

pital & deputy registrar of marriages, Devizes wick Wadworth & Co. Limited (John Smith Bartholomew &

Simpson & Son, grocers, 42 Market place Henry Edgar Meek, managing directors), brewers,

Simpson George jun. proprietor of the "Devizes & Wilt- maltsters, & aerated water manufacturers, Northgate

shire Gazette & Wiltshire Telegraph," 13 Market pl brewery & wine & spirit merchants, IS St. John street

Singer Manufacturing Co. (Louis Porter, agent), 14 Walker J. W. & W.W.grocers & prov.dlrs.x & 2St.John st

Sidmouth street Ward Jabez Paul, house decorator, 6 Brittox

Sloper & Frost, general drapers (wholesale & retail), Ward Henry C. clerk & steward of County Lunatic

costumiers, milliners, dress & mantle makers, ladies' .Asylum, Devizes wick

& children's outfitters, complete house furnishers, Warner Elizh. (Mrs.), dealer in brushes, 8 Market place

cabinet makers, upholsterers, furniture removers & Waylen Andrew, grooor, tea dealer, provision dealer &

funeral furnishers; makers of Sloper's patent folding furniture warehouse, Supply -stores, 37 New Park st

seats & tables, & S~oper's patent telephones, II, 12, Waylen George Swithin Adee L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon,

14 & IS Brittox medical officer to the workhouse & No. 3 district &;

Sloper M. & Co. outfitters & drapers, 32 & 33 Maryport public vaccinator for 3 & S districts, Devizes union,

street & I7 Brittox & medical officer of health to the rural district council,

Sly William, saddler, 10 High street 41 Long street

Smart SidneyStodhart,Nag's Head P.H. 77 New Park st Webb Annie & Charlotte (Misses), aparts. 7 High street

Smith W. H. & Son (London), booksellers & news Welch Chas. parish clerk, St. James', 36a, Estcourt st

agents, Railway station Wells Samuel, grocer & dairyman, 19 Market place

Smith .A.lex. Gough (of Melksham), solicitor & commis- West of England Sack Hiring Co. Limited (James Honey,

sioner for oaths, 7 High st. ;, attendance on thursdays agent), 4 & 5 Northgate street

SmithGeo.agt. to the Sun Fire & Life offices,Northgate ho West Henry Brownlee, watch & clock maker, jeweller &

Smith George T. auctioneer, valuer & house & estate dealer in china, glass & earthenware, agent for Globe

agent; offices, 4 Market piace Parcel Express Co. Pullar's dye works, Perth, &c. &;

Smith James Arthur, watch maker, 34 Market place collector of taxes for St. Mary's, 12 Maryport street

Smith Thos. Richd. Hare & Hounds P .H. Southend West Waiter, British Lion P.H. 9 Estcourt street

Snelgrove William, shopkeeper, 15 Northgate street Weston Francis, baker, 56 Northgate street

Snow Frances Ann (Miss), laundress, 25 Southbroom pl Weston Henry, hair dresser & tobacconist, I7 Maryport st

Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (depot Wheatland EmilyRachel (Miss), boot ma. 29 Maryport st

of) (Hurry & Pearson), 4 St. John street Wheeler Thomas & Son, tailors, 13 High street

Soul Elizabeth McNab (Miss), ladies' & children's out- Wheeler William James, confectioner, 10 Monday Mar-

fitter, I3 Maryport street ket street & 7 Maryport street

Sperring Edwin, boot maker, I8 Rotherstone White Lion Inn (W. R. Sudweeks & Son, proprietors),

Springford & Few, dairymen & fruiterers, 43 Long street N orthgate street

Springford 'Frederick, machinist, 5 Long street White Charles Marcus, dairv farmer, Ox ho. Dunkirk

Springford William H. farmer, Southleigh, Potterne rd White Geo. Edward, Prince of Wales P.H. 3 Sheep st

Springford vVilliam Henry, machinist, SI Long street White Thomas Henry, machinist, wholesale & retail

Stacey Henry Charles, baker & White Bear P.H. Mon- furnishing & bui:ders' ironmonger, bellhanger, gas-

day ;\iarket street fitter, tinplate worker & agriculturaL implement agent

Stamp Office (Thos.C.Hopkins,distrbtr.), 4I St. John st (every description of dairy utensils supplied), 2 Sid-

Stephenson Thomas Benjamin, wire worker & apart- mouth street; & at Market Lavington

ments, 23 St. John street Whitmarsh James Bennett, Elm Tree P.H. 1 Long st

Sterne Capt. Robert R.N. chief constable county con- Wild George, brewer & aerated water manufacturer &

stabulary; head quarters, Bath road Bell inn, Estcourt brewery, 24 Estcourt street

Stevens Fanny & Mary (Misses), milliners & dress mas. Wilkinson Henry John, photographic artist; sitters have

31 Maryport street satisfaction guaranteed, 3 High street

Stevens .A.melia (Miss), umbrella maker, 10 St. John st Williams Frank, florist & tomato grower, 40 Market pi

Stevens George, boot & shoe maker, 2 New Park street Williams John, mealman & sef'dsman, 16 Northgate st

Stevens William, baker, 57 New Park street Williams Mary Ann (Mrs.), dress ma. 27 Southbroom pl

Stone Thomas, carpenter & joiner, 4 North.gate street Willis Brothers, coach builders, 27 Market place

Stratton James & Sons (of Melksham), whoiesale grocers, Willis J oseph (Mrs.), dress maker, 22 Southbroom place

76 New Park street Willis William, leather merchant, 26 Brittox

Street Ed·ward, glover, 18 Market place Wllsford House School (D. G. Wilson Rumsey, prin-

Strong John, meal & corn dealer, 42 Sheep street cipal), for boarders, daily & weekly boarders & daily

Strong Jonas, baker & confectioner, 7 Brittox & ~ pupils, 30 Long street

Little Brittox Wihhin Jolm, manager of Capital & Counties Bank Lim.

Sudweeks & Son, job & posting masters, wedding, treasurer to Devizes Cottage Hospital, also Local

funeral carriage & fly proprietors, saddle horses, brakes .Auxiliary Bible Society & agent to the Standard Life

&c. on short notice; open car, hearses &c.; agents by & Norwich Union Fire Insurance Cos. I Market place

appointment to G. W. railway; telegraphic address, Wilson Charles S. linen draper, (established over two

Sudweeks, Devizes; Bear hotel livery & bait stables centurties), 37 & 38 St. .John street

& White Lion commercial inn, Northgate street Wihon James M.A., M.B., C.M. assistant medical officer~

Smnner James, blacksmith, New Park street County Asylum

Sutton David William, coach builder, Gains lane Wilts &; Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch of) (Hy.

Talbot Alfred Charles, general draper, 2 Maryport st Sandell, manager), 38 Market place; draw on London

Tanner Ruth (Mrs.), boot & shoe maker, 22 & 23 Brittox & Westminster Bank Limited, London E C
Tap~in Henry, plumber & house decorator & collector Wilts Discharged Prisoners' .Aid Society (Rev. A. C.

of market & corn tolls, Brittox Devas M.A. sec)

Taplin Henry (Mrs.), baker & confectioner, 21 Brittox Wilts Rifle Association (Capt. Edward Benjamin Howard

Taylor Harry, plasterer & collctr. of fair tolls,36Estcrt.st Cunnington, hon. sec)

Thomas Harry Wil1iam, shopkeeper, I3 Sheep street Wiltshire .A.rchreological & Natural History Magazine.
Thorp w. Edward Fenwlck .A..C.A. chartered ac- published half yearly (Hurry & Pearson, printers &

countant; agent to the Westminster Fire office & sec. publishers), 4 St. John street

& treasurer to Devizes fire brigade ; offices, 14 High st Wiltshire .A.rchreological & Natural History Society (Rev.

Town Hall, John George Nott, beadle, St. John street E. H. Goddard M.A. & H. E. Medlicott esq. J.P. hon.

Townsend Frederick, nurseryman & florist, 27 Bath rd secs.; David Owen F.O..A.. financial sec.; Capt. Edwd.

Trimnell Hannah (Mrs.), refreshment rooms, 6 Market pi Benjamin Howard Cunnington & .A.lbert B. Fisher

Trolloy Thomas, postmaster, Market place J.P. hon. curators; W. H. Bell, hon. librarian);

Trotman Cornelius, supt. Prudential Insurance Co. museum & library, Long street

Limited, 2 Estcourt street Wiltshire Auxiliary British & Foreign Bible Society

Trumper Henry, commercial traveller, 27 Rotherstone (Charles Gillman, jun. agent), I9 Brittox

Tye Thomas Waller, manager to J. W. & W. W. Walker, Wiltsbire Friendly Society (David Owen F.O..A. actuary

I & 2 St. John street & sec.) ; offices, 3I Long street

Tytherleigh Charles Ernest (Mrs.), baby linen ware- Wiltshire Telegraph (George Simpson, jun. printer &
publisher; published sat.), I3 Market place
house, 18 Brittox
Wiltshire Times & Trowbridge .Advertiser (B. Lansdown
Vaisey Sarah (Miss), apartments, IS High stl'i!et
Volunteer Battalion (2nd) (Duke of Edinburgh's) Wilt- & Son~, publishers; pub. fri. for sat.), Market place
shire R~giment (C Co., Capt. E. B. H. Cunnington & & at Chippenham, Trowbridge & Warmiuster

DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. DINTON. 95

Wiltshire Cornelius, house decorator, 46 New Park st Wood John, boot maker, 21 Rotherstone

Wiltshire Eleazar, hair drssr. & tobcnst. 25 Sidmouth st ·wordley Edwd. Rd. refreshment rooms, 75 New Park st

Wiltshire Jesre, house decorator & picture frame maker, "\Vragg Adam, coal merchant, The Town wharf

1 Sidmouth street Yearsley Edwin, linen drpr. & outfitter, 30 & 31 Brittox·

Wiltshire William, shopkeeper, 78 New Park street Young Men's Christian Association (Williarn G. Guy.

Winterson Charlotte (Miss), haberdasher,14 Northgate st t;ec. ), High street

Witcornb Mary Ann (Mrs.), toy dlr. & confctnr. wBrittox Young Henry, hair drssr. & tobcnst. 4 Little Brittox

DILTON is a parish, formed .in 1894, it having been in this parish and partly in Corsley. The church of SS.

an ecclesiastical parish known as Dilton: Marsh since. 1845, Philip and I.Tame.g, a chapel of ea1~e to Holy Trinity parish

out ()If the parish of Wes•tbury; it is 2 miles south-west church, is a small stone building, erected by a subscrip-

from the West-bury station on the Salislbury branch of tion in 1867, and consists of chancel, nave, south por.ch

the Great Wes-tern railway, 3~ nQrth-west froiil War- and a srmall western beLfry CQntaining 2 bells: the chan.

minster and r.~ ·south-east ·from Bath, in the Western eel and! nave are paved wtith encaustic tiles: the reredos

divistion of tlhe county, "\Ves.tbury and Whorwellsdon is of Caen sbone and bears a representation of the Four

union, county court district 1Qf Wesl!bury, petty ses-sional Evange:its•t•s: tlhere i.s a stone puLpit: the seats, which

dlivision of 'frowbl'idge, hundred' of Westlbury, rural are of oak and all open, will seat 130 persons. Here is

deanery ()[ Wylye· (Heytesbury portion) and Salisbury a Congregational and! a Baptist ohapel.

arohdeaconry and diocese. Holy Trinity churoh, built F..!.m"\V:OOD, 2 miles north, and Short Street, half a
in the year r•B44, is a large and very fine cruciform Nor- mile south, are hamlets in the d'istrict of Dilton.
man .stone structure, consisting of apsidal ohancel, nave
and trans·epts and north porch, with laTge square central Sexton, William Hinton.

emba.ttled! tl()wer oontainting one bell and a clock : in the Post Office, Dilbon.~frs. Eliza Greenland, sub-postmis~

sout1h transept i:s, an organ: lin the north aisle is a tTess. !Letters arrive froan "\Vestbury at 7 a.m. & 3.30

sta!inedJ window, put in 'by the officers of the 7th Hus- p.m. ; dispabched at 12.45 & 6.55 p.m. The nearest

sars, in 1887, a•& a memorial to Major Phipps, whQ died mone•y order office is at "\Yestbury Leigh, telegraph

at Cairo on returning frOill the expedition for the relief office is at "\Vestbury. Postal orders are issued here,

of General Gordon: it represents " The Good Centurion:" but not paid

the east window was erected in 1885 1by friends, to Chas. P.ost Office, Ohaopmans·lade.-Francis SeLman, sub-post-

Paul Phllipps esq. and his wife: in 1893 a small west win- master. Letters arrive from "\Vest1bury at 8.10 a.m.

dow, in memory of [Mi1ss :Sarah Bailey, late schoolmis- & 3·45 p.m. ; dispatched at 12.10 p.m. & 6.15 p.m. ;

tress, was erected !by pulblio .subscriptions: tihere are sit- & 10 a. m. on sunday1s. "\Vesl!bury is the nearest tele-

tings flor 6oo persons. Tlhe regtister dates from the year graph office, "\Vesbburry Leigh the nearest money ol'der

1844· Tlhe living is a vicarage, gross yeaTly value £284, office. Postal orders are issued! here, but nQt paid

net £239, including 4 acres of glebe, with residence, in Letters for Fairwood through! 'Vestbury, .which is aLso

the gift of the Bishop Otf Salisbury, and held since 1879 the nearest telegra1ph office, arrive at 7 a.m. The

by the Rev. CharleiS, HQlt Wilson iM.A. of Merton College, nearest money ord:er office is Westlbury Leigh

Oxford. •Ohalcot, the ·seat of C:ha:rles· Nic<hola·s Paul Schools.

Phi.pps esq. D.L., J.P. is a noble .structure of red bl'ick Nati{mal, Dilton (mixed), for 200 C'hild'ren; ave•rage at-
and: stune, pleasantly •Situated amid an und:ula.ting park tendance, IIIO; Geol'ge Welbster, master; :Mrs. Web~

of about 250 acres, on the high road to Frome and ster, rnistrfliS'S

aiOOut 2 miles south-west from "\Vesbbury statiQn. Cihas. National, Chapmanslade (mixed), 1built in 1s 75~,fafrograrseot
Nicholas Paul Phipps esq. and the iMarqm%•s of Bath are children; average attendance, 5?; Mi ss

the principal landowners. The soil is· sand and clay; Ware, rnistres•s

subsoil, chalk and marl. •The area is 2,989 acres; rate- British, Dilton (mixed), 'built in 1865, & en:arged in
able value, £8,6g8; the population in 1891 was 1,218. 1ss4, fQr 133 children; average attendance, 120; ~f·iss

CBI.!.PM'-L~SLADE, nearly 3 .moles south-west, i.s partly :Ma·rgaret M~Niven, mistres1s

DILTON. Gunstone Joshua, boot & shoe maker Dickenson Edmund Henry, Eden frm

Dew Benjamin Hill John, beer retailer Gr~n George (Evangelist)

Finch Mrs. The Firs Hill Reuben, farmer, Short street

Johnson Rev. Albert Elijah (Baptist) Hopkins John, beer retailoer COMMERCIAL.

Johnson Rev. Jas. Tuke M.A. (curate) JQnes Elias, farmer, Five Lords farm

Oxeniharn Hugh, Fairwood hou.s•e (~etters through J.<'rome) Biggs Harry, tailor

Phipp.s Char:es 1'\ichola.s Paul D.L., Jones Louis Albert & Ernest Thoma.:>, Cross William James, carpenter

J.:P. Chalcot farmers, Dilton Marsh farm Dredge Henry, blacksmith

Wilson Rev. Charles Holt M..A.. Jones Francis Clemoot, beer retailer Durin George, cowkeeper

Vicarage Lidbury David, cowke·eper Dunning Alfred J os·eph, painter

Woods GeQrge Henry, Fern cottage l\Iarshman Jn. shoe ma. & shopkeeper Eyre.s William, shopkee:per & plumber

COMMERCIAL. l\Iillard· Mark, baker & shopkeeper Ford Edward James, Three Horse

Adam Eli, grocer, baker & farmer .Millard .Tames, shopkeeper Shoes P.H

.A.xford Benjamin, farmeiJ', FairwQod Parsons Thoma,s• & Sons, builders Fowler Thos. frmr. Dead ~raid's farm

Bailey Selina. (Mrs.), s•lwpkeeper Pearce J o·seph & Son, farmers, Red- Hill J ames, ·wheelwrights' J_rms

Beak & Son, grocers pit house Lewis Charles, farmer

Brown Geo. ThiQs. clerk of works to Pearce Loui>a (~Irs.), 'Veavers' :\Ierritt Robert, blacksmith
~iintey Eliza (~Irs. ), mrkt. gardener
C. N. P. Phipps esq. Coldstream vi! Arms P.H

Bull Jame.s, farm bailiff to C. N. P. Pearce Wm. farmer, Clay Cross farm Parfitt Charles, farmer

Phipps esq. Chalcot Home farm Roberts Jacob, farmer Parfitt l\Iaria pir>. ), mrkt. gard•ener

Ca.se Robert, farmer, Petticoat lane Sims Job, farmer, Black d.og Prangley George, butcher &, farmer

Chard Job, farmer T·oop Chas. CIQal haulier, Petticoat la S.e'man Francis, shopkeeper, Post off

CharltQn J<'redk. farmer, Tennis corner Webb J ehu (Mrs.), shopkeeper & bkr Shepherd J oseph, beer retailer

Edwards Charles, market gardener Wheeler Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper Sims Jarne.s, farmer

Farthing A.lfl'ed, farmer, J.<'airwood "\Vright James Marshall, profeswr oi Stone JIQhn, mason

Frands Robert Noakes, farmer, musiC, Rose v11la Stone Samuel, shopkeeper

Bremeridge farm CHAP~UNSLADE. Tanner Charles, farmer, The Gr .ve
Garl'ett Edwin, fa.rmer, & George inn 'l'aylor Edward, farmer

Greenland! Eliza (Mrs.),draper, Post off Allard Wil:iam "\Vest Moses, carpenter

DINTON is a parish and village, on .the river Nadder, paired and re-seated in oak in r876, under Mr. Butter-

witJh a station on t-he main line of the London and South field, at a cost of £2,ooo: the !font ~s of Pm·beck marble:
We:!tern railway, 8 miles west from Salisbury, 5~ west there are 279 sit!Jings. The par1sh registeTs are com-
from Wilton, and 92 from London by railway, in the plete from the first year of Queen Elizabeth (1558):
Southern divtision of tlie oounty, hundred of Warminster, they contain the !baptism of Henry Lawes, the musician,
petby sessional division of Salisbury andl Arnesbury, Wtil· January 11st, 1tioo, and of Edward Hyde, tihe fiT<st Earl

ton union, Salisbury county court district, a.-ural deanery of O:.arendon, Fe<bruary 22nd, 1608, who was born here :

of Cha2.ke (Chalke portion), archdeaconry of Sarum and the Hydes were for many years lay Tectors and patrons

diocese 'Of Salislbury. The church of St. Ll\fary the Virgin of the livin1g: the last possessor, !Robert Hyde, died

is a handsome stone !building in the Transition Norman, 1725, a. Fellocw of Mlagdalen College, and bequeathed the
Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular tstyles, is rect<lrial rights and the patronage to his college. The
cruc:iJform, having chancel, nave and transepts, porclh, living lis a vicarage, with the chapelry of Te:ffont Magna

with a square embattled tower rising from the inter- annexed, tithe rent £367, average £28o, net inciQme
section, with 6 fine-toned bell~ and clock, and was re- £2oo, in tihe gift of the president and sciwlars of ~fag-

96 DINTON. WILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S

dalen Co[ege, OxJord, who are lay rectors, and held font Magna chapelry, is 4,o68 acres; rateable va:ue,

since 1886 by the Rev. John Heslop Audland M.A. and £3,918; bhe population in 1891 wa.s 413. '

late Demy of that college. There are also about 30 Parish Clerk, Tom Wright.
acres• of gleibe, Q\f which about 4 acres 'belon~ t.J the Po·st, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Insurance
Dean and Canons of Windsor. Dinbon House, the seat i& Annuity Office. George Cuff, su'b-postJma,ster. Let-

of William Wyndlham esq. B.A., D.L., J.P. is a large t.ers through Salisbury, arrive, at 5 a.m. & 3.20 p.m.;
handsome stone 'building, comm11nding extenscive views dispatched at 4.30 & 7·4J5 p.m.; sundaY's, dispatched

of the surrounding country. The Earl of Pembroke, 7·45 p.m

who is lord of tlhe manor, and! W'i:liam 'Wyndham esq. Public Elementary Sohool was built in 1•875 by voluntary

are tJhe principal land1owners. rr'he soil is clay, chalk contributdons, at a. cost of nearly £goo, on a site given

and greensand!; su:hSQil, same ; many of the meadoW's lby t.he Eal'l of Pembroke, for n 1 children; average at-

are irrigated. Tihe chief crops are wheat, ba.rley, hay tendance, 90; John Croome, jun. master; Mrs. Lucy

and apples; cider is largely made ; there is also much Oroome, tnlistress

daciry farming, butter and cheese are made, and milk Railway Station, Waiter Kount, station roaster

is •sent to the London market. The area, including Tef- Oarrier.-Hilbberd, to Sali.silmry, tues. & sat

Audland Rev. Jn. Heslop M.A. (vicar) Cuff George, beer retailer Jukes Goorge, farmer

Mabon Stephen Cuff John, grocer & farmer Jukes Sophia (Mrs·.), Wyndham Arms

lryndham William B.A., D.L., J.P. Darling David, bailiff to William hotel & posting hous-e

Dinton house Wyndham e.5q King Letitia A. (Mrs.), farmer

COliMERCIAL. Douty Harriet (:Miss), embroiderer King William, farmer

Dunn Alfred, farmer Lane George, tailor

Baker George, smith Francis William, farmer Lane John, grocer

Clark James, painter & g:azier <Trr-.y George, miller (water) & corn Parfitt Martha Pirs. ), laundress

Croome John, registrar of births, dea:er; & at Barford St. Martin Wright 'l'om, carpenter
deaths & marriag.:;; for Bi~hopston Hart G-eorge, farmer
Yeates Emanuel, shoe maker

district J esse Samuel, grocer

DITC:S:ERIDGE (or Ditteridge) i5 a parish and small regist·er dates from tlb.e year 15'84. The living is a l"ec-
village, and is now, by the Divid-ed Pari~lb.es Act, attached
tory, tithe rent-charge £86, average £63, net yearly
to Box for civil purposes, and is on the Somersetshire
value £58, including 26 acres of glebe, in the gift of '\Y.
border of .the county, half a mile north from Box station R. Nortlhey esq. and' held sfince 1893 by the Rev. Oharles
Nioholas Nagel M.A. by Abp. of Oant. who res•ides at
on the Swindon and Bath ,section {)f the Great "'.estern Bath. The residence of Mrs. Nimmo is a quaint old
building, with a small chapel or cell, and is supposed to
railway, 6 miles nortlh-east from Bath and 7 south-west
from Chippenham, in the North Western division of the have been a resting place for monks. Lieut.-Col. George
county, 'hundred, union, pe.tty ,sessional diviiE~on and Wilbraham Northey, of Ashley Manor, Box;, is lord of the
manor and! the principal landowner. f.['he soil is part
county court district. ·of •Ch·ip[>enhailll, rural deanery of clay and part rock; .su!bsoil, rock. ~he chief crops are
Ohippenham, arohdea0onry of Bristol and diocese of
wheat and barley. 'l'he area is 365 acres; rateable
Gloucester and: Bristol. The church of St. Christopher value included with IBox; the population in 1891 was 124.

is an ancient edifice of stone in tJhe Norman style, con- Parish Clerk, William Spencer.
~isting of ohancel, nave, south porch and a bell gable over
t•he chancel arch, conta[ning one ·bell : there is a curious Letters through Chipperuham, arrive a.t 7.30 a.m.; H1e
nearest money order & ·telegraph office is at Box
Dld font: the whole of the buildcing was restored in 1859
and stained gla.Es put in all the windows, •chiefly at the The children of this p:ace attend the school at Box

expense of the late rector: there are xoo sittings. The

Ximmo Mrs. Aleomb~

DONHEAD ST. ANDREW is a parish and strag- making is carried on hel"e. The country abounds with

gling village, 3 miles south-ea·st from the Semley station green sandstone, used for building purpose!!, and with

.on the Salisbury and Y eovil branch of the London and fossils peculiar to that fornnation. The remains of the

South ·western railway, 16 miles west from Salisbury ancient castle of Ward'Our, Ferne House, the •seat of Sir

and 4 north-ea·st from Shaftesbury, in the Southern Thomas Fraser Grove 1bart. D.L., J.P. and Donhead

division of the county, hundred of Dunworth, Ti~bury Lodge, the residence of Waiter Edward King esq. J.P.

petty .sessional division and union, Sh'<llftesbury county are within this parish. Lord Arundell of Wardour, who

court district, rural deanery of Chalke (Tisbury portion), is lord of the manor, and Sir T. F. Grove bart. are the
archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury. The river Don principal landowners. The soil is principally a sandy

rises in Donhead St. Mary and flows through Donhead loam and clay, with some chalk and down land; subsoil,

St. Andrew to Tisbury, turning five mills in its course; stony. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans

it then joins the river Nadder. The church of St. An- and pasturage. The are'<' is 2,828 acres of land and 20

drew, which lies in a deep hollow, is an ancient structuTe of water; rateable value, £4,009; the population in 1891

in the Perpendicular style, built of the green sandstone was 688.

of the district, and consists of a chancel and nave of six Eaoston Basse-tt, about 2 miles south-east, is an isolated
bays, with aisles, the south aisle built in 1826, south and detached hamlet, formerly •belonging to this parish,

Jlorch and a western tower, with_an embaottled parapet, but was annexed to the parish of Berwick St. John by
adorned with pinnacles and containing 4 bells and a Local Government Board Order in 1884.
clock; the chancel, rebuilt in 1838, contains four
handsome stained windows : the whole of the church Parish OleTk, Samuel Rowell.

was re-seated in 1876: the tower is at present Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Expre•ss Delivery & Annuity

being restored, at a cost of about £8oo, defrayed & Insurance Office, Whitesand CToss.-Henry Futcher,

:privately: there are 220 sittings. The register dat.es sub-postmaster. Letters from Salisbury, arrive, on

from the year 1645. The living is a rectory, avemge week days, 6 >a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; sunday•s, 6 a.m. ;
tithe rent-charge £583, gross yeai'ly va~ue £6so, net dispatched, week days, n a.m. & 6.45 p.m. Wall

£6oo, including 12 acres of glebe, with residence, in the Letter Box, Tisbury road, cleared at 10.30 a.m. & 5.50

gift of the Rev. Horace Edward Cha-pman M.A. and held p.m. ; sundays, 9 a.m

since 1891 by the Rev. John Givens Kirkaldy Baskett B.A. Schools.
-<>f Trinity College, Dublin. There is a charity of the yearly
Sxe6as.A4ndn.ubiteieins,g the interest of £th2e84 128. 3d. National, built in x88o, adjoining the church, at a cost
bequeathed by Rev. of £4oo, for xoo children; Bowles charity, of
w.value of £7

Old South
Bowles, a former rector of this parish, for the support of £7 x6s. 4d. yearly, is applied to the suppol't of the

education. Grove's oharity of £8 ss. yearly, derived school; average attendance, 6o; Hy. Charlton, master
found~d
from Consols, was by wpialrl isx8he4~o, the income to Infants', built in 1870, by the Rev. Robert Burr Bourne,
be equally divided 'between the of Donhead St. a former rector, for so children; average attendance,

Mary, Donhead St. Andrew and Berwick St. John, and is 28; Miss Wort, mistress

given as a bonus to the village clothing club. Brick Carrier to Salisbury.-George Ingram, tuesday

Ba•kett Rev. John Givens Kirkaldy Dewey Charles, The Laurels Bown Henry Charles, Castle hotel

B.A. (rector) King Waiter Edwd., J.P. Donh't!ad lo Bunter William, farmer
Cadley Henry, farm bailiff to Lord
Blucke Frederick H. Rowberry Jeffrey James Loader, The Fir.s

Chapman Rev. Rorace Edward M.A. Parmiter Joseph P. St. Andrew's ho Arundel

Donhead house COMMERCIAL. Dewey Sidney, veterinary surgeon

Charlton Henry Blucke Frederick Henry M.R.C.S. Dewey Thomas, blacksmith

Grove Sir Thomas Fraser bart., D.L., Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon & Ingram George Henry, registrar of

J.P. Fern house; & Army & Navy medical officer & public vaccinator births, deaths- & marriages for the

& National Liberal clubs, London of Donhead district, Tisbury union Tisbury union, No. 2 district

DIRECTORY.] 'VILTSHIRE. DONHEAD ST. MARY. 97

Harder William, grocer 1Lawes Howard Gauntlett, miller Swain Frederick, New inn

Jeffery Henry, sheep dealer & farmer, (water), Kelleway's & Reckit's mills Woodford Joseph, farm bailiff to Sir

·west end Sharp James, farmer & miller Thomas F. Grove

Jeffery John, farmer, Arundell farm (water), West End mill Woodrow William, brick & tile manu-
Sharp Joseph John, grocer & draper facturer & farmer
King Thomas, farmer

Lawes Frederick George, tea d.ealer Spicer Th()mas, farmer & dealer

DONHEAD ST. MARY is a parish, adjoining the R. Shaw-Stewart hart. Lord Arundell of "·ardour, Sir

parish of Donhead St. Andrew, being half a mile east, Thomas Fraser Grove bart. Sir R. G. Gly:n hart.

3 south-east from Semley station on the. Salisbury and and Reginald Benett Graves-Knyfton esq. also own

Yeovil branch of the South Western railway and 4 north- land. 'fhis· parish is very fertile, and is celebrated

e11.st from Shaftes'bury, in the Southern division of the for its corn and down l!llild; the higher parts are of a

county, Dunworth hundred, Tisbury and Mere petty diversified character, rising into bold and lofty eminences,

sessional division and Tisbury union, Shaftesbury county partly covered with woods, and here and there crossed

court district, rural deanery of Chalke (Tisbury portion), by deep ravines, or combes, in: one of which, called

and archdooconry and diocese of Salisbury. The river Chilver Combe Bottom, in the hamlet of Ashgrove, is a

Don rises in this parish. The church of St. Mary the burial ground for the Society orf Friends: according to

Virgin, standing on an eminence called Church Hill, war; the register, which is preserved in the parish church of

originally a rude Norman structure, consis'ting of small Donhead St. Mary, the first interment took place in

chancel and nave: of this, only part of the walls and 1078, and the last in 1746: although not used for mftny

font remain: towards the beginning of .the 13th century the [ years, yet the right to the land is kept up by periodical

church was enlarged and modified,arches being cut through visitations. The soil is ·S~mdy; subsoil, stony. The chief

the Norman walls, apparently at two different periods, 1 crops are wheat, barley, oats and p'<lsture. The area is

a. clerestory added· as well as aisles, and a large chancel 5,218 acres; rateable value, £6,207; the population in

attached: about a century 1ater a stone porch was built 1 1891 was 1,207 in the civil and 1,237 in the ecclesiastical

1

at the south entrance: in the year 1400 the present : parish.

western embattled tower was erected and ornamented [ By Local Government Board Order detached parts of

with pinnacles, and now contains 6 bells: a few years Donhead S·t. Mary parish were in 1884 tramferroo to
later the north and south chancel. aisles were added: 1 Donhead St. Andrew.
the church was again th·Jroughly restored in the year 1 Ludwell hamlet is 2 miles south, on the road from

1885 at a cost of £2,ooo, of which sum £I,ooo was left. Shaft>esbury to Salisbury.
by the late rector, ·the Rev. R. W. Blackmore., the re- 1 In Oharlton tithing and manor, 2! miles SQUth, is a.

mainder raised by voluntary contributions: there are chapel of ease, erected in 1839, for the use of parishioners

four stained windows to the memory af the Rev. R. W. resident in this district, and also of Ludwell and Bird

Blackrnore and his parents and the late Mrs. Dunston: · Bush: it is a square stone building, consisting of nave

the church will seat 250 persons. Tlhe regist·er date:;o with two towers at the we.st end, with one bell; also a

from the year 1678. The living is a rectory, with the porch at the south entrance: the Rev. John Harris

chapehy of Charlton annexed, average tithe rent-charge, Arund·ell M.A. of New College, Oxford, has been curatt~

£875, joint grvss yearly value £995, net £784, including in charge eince 1893.

59 acres of gle1be, with r·esidence, in the gift of New Higher, Middle and Lower Coombe are hamlets, 2

Co:lege, Oxford, and held since 1882 by the Rev. Walter miles, 1! and 1 mile south.

Francis Short M.A. late fellow of that college, and rural Parish Clerk for Donhead St. Mary, Frederick Bridle.

d-ean of Tisbury portion.. There is a Wesleyan Methodist Post Office, Ludwell.-Mrs. Ch>ai"lotte· Scammell sub-
chapel, and at Bird Bush a Congregational chapel, and a postmistres·s. Letters received through Salis<b~ry, at
chap.el for Primitive Methodis~s at Ludwell. Grove's 7·3S a.m . .& 4.30 p.m.; dispatched at 8.30 a.m & 6.15
char1ty of £24 IS~· ;early, denv~d from £900 C~n~ols, p.m. Postal orders are issued· here, but not paid.

was founded by :v1ll m 1840, and IS to be equally d1v1doo The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Don-

between the par1sh-es of Donhead St. Mary and St. An- head St. Andrew. Wall Lett-er Box in the villa()'e

drew, and Berwick St. John, and is applied in clothing. eleared at 11.30 & 5.40 p.m.; sund-ay.;, 8 a.m "' '

Mrs. Jones Bateman's charity vf £15 ye-arly is also for Sch0018 ·
clothing. The remains of a RDman encampment, called
• Castle Rings, are on Ticklepath Hill, whence there is A School Board was formed May II, 1874, consisting of

sn extensive and almost panoramic view of the sur- 5 members; L. Smith, TiS'bury, clerk to the boord &

rounding country. Donhead HaH, the seat of John Du attendance officer

Boulay esq. D.L., J.P. was iJmilt by the celebrat-ed Board, Donhead St. Mary (mixed'), built in 1875, for 100

painter Sir Godfrey Kneller, who formerly resided here. children; aV'erage attendance, so; Mrs. Curnow, mist

Coomibe House, a handsome mansion, built of the looal Board, Ludwell (mixed), wi!th res-idence for the master

green sandstone, with facings of red Farley stone, is the & mistress, was built in 187S, for ISO children; aver-

11eat of Mark Hall!bury Beaufoy esq. M.P., J.P. 'Win- age attendlltnce, 140; William Nobbs, master; Mis.s

oombe Park is the seat of Charles William Gordon esq. Honniball, mistress·

Lord Arundell of Wardour is lord of the manor. The The two s<:hools were built at a cost of about £4,000

principal landowners are· Charles "-illiam Gordon esq. Carrier.-George Ingram, to Salislbury, tues.; to Shaf-
M. H. Beaufoy eosq. M.P. and J. Du Bonlay esq. Sir M. tesbury, sat.; returning same d•ays

DONHEAD ST MARY Jeffe~y G~rge, farmer Randell John, blacksmith
·· Jenkms Eh, farmer Richards Henry, farmer

Beaufoy Mark Hanbury :M.P., J.P. Miles Charle.!!, miller LUDWELL.
Coombs house; & 87 South Lam- MuEens Chas. carpenter & rake mkr

beth road, London SW Offord Mary (Mrs.) Roval Oak l'.ll Arundell Rev. John Harris M.A.
Du Uoulay Major Digby, Donhead hall Pond John, farmer,' Uo~mbe farm
(curate)

Du BouiayJn.,D.~.• J.P. Donhead hall Rees George, Rising ~un l'.H. & tailor COMMERCIAL.

Dunston Freder1ck Warburton J.P. Roberts Rice, tailor Barter Ebenezer, butcht>r, & Grove

Burltons Russell William Henry, b:acksmith Arms P.H

Gordlon Charles Wm. Wincombe park Sharp Thomas farmer & haUlifr Dewey Samuel, shopkeeper

Pike John Sharpe James,' miller (water) Gatehouse Thomas Edwin, tailor lit

Short Rev. Waiter Francis M.A. Tanner Eden, baker & shopkeeper woollen da-aper

(rector & rural dean), Rectory Tanner Henry, plumber &c Gatehouse 1.Yilliam, Commercial trav

COMMERCIAL. Tanner Herbert William, wheel- Gra.y John "Wheeler, Lamb inn, &
plumber & hou~>e decorator
BMrett George, farmer wright, carpenter & builder
Hayter ll-eorge, farmer
Barrett J oseph, farmer, Waterside Thompson George, ~~tone mason
Kid.dle John, painter &c
Barrett William, farmer Trowbridge John, farmer

Brockway Joseph, boot & shoe maker ·woods Thomas, beer retailer Lawes Saml. ha,ulier, steam sawyer,

Burden & Son, wheelwright Wyatt Wir:.iam, baker & shopkeeper & propriet(}r Qf steam rollers &

Burton .Albert, farmer CHARLTON. thre,~hing machines
Burt Thomas, farmer Russell Jn. Edwd•. builder & whlwrght

Burton Edmund, farmer Best Lieut.-Col.Gco., J.P. Char:tcmho Oxford Edward, farmer, Birdbush

Evans Charles Silvester M.A., :M. B., Aish Albert, farmer Scammell Charlotte (Mrs.), baker &

B. 0. surgeon Farmer John, builder draper, Post ()ffice

Gouldi Edwin, farmer, Lower Bury Hall J{)hn Wheeler, farmer Sharpe Henry (Mrs.), farmer

Court farm Ing:am Henry, farmer Sharpe Henry Samuel, farmer

Hallett William, painter & glazier Ma1dment Samuel, baker Tatchell Nehemiah, harness maker

WILTS. 7

98 DOWNT0:-1. "'"II...TSHIRE. [ KEL~Y'i!

DOWNTON is a pari5h, formerly a market town, work remains, much in its original stat.e, and at one horn

giving name to the hundred, situated in a vale, watered of the inner crescent the grass terraces of the ancient

by the Upper AvDn in three channels, with a station on meeting place are still perfect. The Moot now forms the
the Salisbury and Dorche•ster section of the LDndon and garden of E. P. Sq11arey esq. On a high hill, overlook-
South Western rail~"'Sy, 7 miles south-east-by-south from ing Downton from th~ other side Df the valley, is an

Salisbury, and go from London, in the Southern division entrenched area, called Olerlbury Camp. Cerdric, the
of the county, peHy sessional d~vision of Salisbury and Saxon, gained •the· battle of Cerdic's Fmd, or Charford,
Amesbury, Alderbury union, ~alisbury county court in the mead'Ows below Downton, in A.D, 519. The Earl

district, rural deanery of "\Vilton, archdeaconry of Sarum of RadnDr is lmd of the manor. 'l'he principal land-

and diocese of !Salisbury. 'l'he place is of considerable owners are the Earl of R.l;ldnor, Earl Nelson, William
antiquity, and form~rly returned two members to Parlia-
ment, but wa.s dis!lranchised 'by .the RefDrm Act in 1832. Eyre l\Iatcham e·sq. Mrs. Morrison, and the governing
The church of St. Lawl"enoo was restored in 186o: it is body of Winchester College; the latter hold the grea~
tithes. The soil is alluvial, chalk and gravel; subsoil,
a large cruc1form Hint and ·stone structure of mixed chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips.

architecture, d·atin.g from tne 12th century: it consists The area is 12,405 acres of land, and go of water; rate-

of fine chancel of the 14th century, nave, aisles, south able value, £x4,o5o; the population in 1891 was 3,430 in

porch, and north and south transept.s: rising from the the civil and 2,151 in the ecclesiastical parish.

intersootiDn is a square, massive embattled tower, with Parish Clerk, Edward Plas<kett.

four pinnacles, and containing a clock and 6 bells : the The ti·things are Church, .East Downton and Wick, I

tower, which had been raised, has been reduced to its mile we·st. Langley Wood, fmmerly extra-parochial, iil

origiool height: the church contains monuments to the now a parish in the union of Alderbury; the population

Duncombe family ; the principal are ihose of Anthony, in x8g1 was 15; ra'teable value, £126. ·

Lord Feversham, Df DDwn•tDn, who died in 1763, and of Charlton and Hedlynch are ecclesiastical parishes,

Sir Charles Duncombe, who died in 17II : a lych-gate formed from Downton, and will be found under separate

was erected in 1894, wlth money left for the purpose by headings.

the late Rev. Canon Payne, former vicar of the parish: Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity
there are 700 sittings. The regist•er dates from the year
15gg. The living is a vica;rage, with the chapelry of & Insurance Office.-James NichDlas, sub-postmaster.
Nunton annexed, average tithe rent-charge £5g2, gross Lett·ers arrive from Salisbury at 4.25 a.m. & 2 p.m. ;
delivered at 7 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. ; dispatched at I~
yearly value £614, net £zoo, including 4 acres of glebe, noon & 7.30 p.m
Post Office, CrDss Roads.-William Moody, sub-post-
in the gift of Winchester College, and held since 1882 by master. Letters arrive from S'alisbury, 4·45 a.m. & dis-
the Rev. Arthur Du Boulay Hill M.A. of :M'agdalen patched II.IS a.m. & 7·55 p.m.; •SUndays, 7.10 p.m
Pillar Boxes.-Boro' Cross,· cleared at 11.20 a.m. & 7.50
College, Oxford. A church is in course of erection at p.m.; Salisbury road, 11.15 a.m. & 7·45 p.m.; Down-
Morgan's Vale, and is endowed with £4,000, by the late ton station, 7 p.m
Rev. vV. Ferryman, in addition to £2,ooo for the expense
of building. South Lane Baptist chapel is a substantial Public Officers.
building in ~ plain Italian style, el"ected in 1857: the
interior is chaste and elegant, and will accommodate
about 350 persons. There are also chapels for Methodists Certifying Factory Surgeon & Medical Officer & Public
and W esleyans. A Burial Board, consisting of 6 mem- Vaccinator, :ND. 2 District, Alderbury union, George
bers, was formed in March, 1885, and the churchyard William Whiteley L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S
extended. Hel"e are paper and corn mills, and a tan Assistant Overseer, Charles Mat'thews
yard. Malting is also carried Dn to a comiderable extent, Clerk tD the Burial Board, Hamilton Fulton
and there is brick-making and lime-burning. Here is a Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Downton Sub-
reading room well supplied with dai:y papers and litera- district & Relieving & Vaocination Officer, No. 2 dis-
ture. The market ha.s long ·been discontinued, but two trict, A~derbury Union, Edward F. Norton

11nnual fairs are still held, on the 23rd April and 2nd SchoDls.
<October, principally for horses, sheep and cattle. The The CommiS>sioners have decided to close the Free

charities are: Stockman's charity, of £7o yearly, derived School, & after making the schoolmaster some recom-
from a farm in White parish, left in 1626, by William pense, devote the funds to some scheme not yet de-

Stockman, {)I[ D<lwnton, fDr distribution to those who are cided on
surcharged with children; Wood•land's charity of £45 A SchoDl Board of seven members was formed 19 Oct.
yearly, left in 1882, by Johll! Woodlands esq. of Downton, 18g3, & has 'taken over the two British schools hitherto
for distribution among the aged poor of both sexes ; existing; Charles "\V. West, clerk to the board
Noyes's charity, derived from the interest of £2oo, left Board (boys), built in 1840, ifor 16o children; average
in 1784 by Mrs. Emma Noy'es, to be given to the schools attendanc~, 120; Mr. John G. Northover, master
·Of Charlton and Downt<ln ; Clarke's charity, derived from Board (girls & infants), built in 1846; average attend-
the interest Df £goo, left in 1878 by Archdeacon Lis- ance, go ; Miss Ellen Minty, mis'tress
combe Clarke, a former vi·car of Downton, to be divided National (girls & infants), with re·sidence for mistress;
betwe,en the National schools <lf DDwnton and Redlynch.
Barford Park is in this parish, 300 acres in extent: a built in 1846, for 130 children; average attendance,
go; Miss Julia Hooker, mistress
large house, bearing the same name, fDrm·erly stood in Infant, l\Iorgan's Vale, built in 1869; average attendance,
the park, and was the residence of the Dnncombe 6o; Miss Frances Woodford, mis•tress
family. An earthwork of considerable dimensions has
existed in Downton from an early period, which from its Railway Station, JDhn S. Lever, station master

position, cDmmandedJ the river Avon and the valley Carriers to:-

through which it flows: the name-the Moot-points to Salisbury-Po<lre, Harrington, Webb & llickman, tues.

its having been used: by the Saxons for their Folk thurs. & sat
Mote, or Parliament: a d<luble crescent-shaped earth- Southampton-Hickman, every wed

DOWNTON. COMMERCIAL. Fulford George, shopkeeper
I :Futcher James, tailor
Alford Andrew, blacksmith

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bailey Henry, blacksmith Gillingham & Son, grocers
Bailey John, carpenter Goulding George, boot & shoe maker

lleach Capt. Archibald Hicks, Wick ho Batchelor Jane (Mrs. ),King'sArms P.H Green George, carpenter

Bradburne Fredk. Ashe J.P. Lyburn Brand George, shopkeeper Green William, farmer
Gregory Chas. ironmonger & groc~r
Collier J'ames W. Meadowside Ohalk William, carpenter

Dyer John, The Headlands Cleave Jas. Milton, boot & shoe maker Gywer James (Mrs.), coal dealer,

Evans Rev. William (Baptist) Collier James W. wool stapler Downton station

Floyer Rev. John Kestall B.A. (curate) Downer Isaac, tea dealer Harding Charles, corn & hay merchant

Hill Rev. .Arthur Du Boulay M.A. Dunmort> George Hy. chemist, & agent Harrison Frank, shpkpr. Morgan's vale

(vicar) for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine & Harwood Chas. Three Horse Shoes inn
Hill Mrs. The Parsonage
Squarey Elias Pitts, The Moot spirit merchants Hickman Geo. shopkpr. Morgan's vale

Durdle Waiter, boot & shoe maker Hickman Henry, shopkeeper & carrier

Strachan Georgel Arbuthnot, The Duxson Thomas "\V. The Bull Commer- Hickman Waiter, miller (water), Mor-
I gan's vale
WaiTen cial hotel

'Taunton H. Percy, Red house Eastman Henry& George,wicker chair, Hunt Amos, wheelwright

Terrell Arthur A'Beckett table, flower stand & basket makers Jenkins John M. plumber

Trill Mrs. The Vinery Fanstone Eliza (Mrs.), sho~keeper & Jones William, baker & grocer

Whitchurch Miss G. B. Fairfield house harness maker Matthews Charles, broker & general

Whitchurch Mrs. Springfield house Ford Charles, bootmaker house furnisher

Wbiteley George William, Hamilt.on Ford Olive (Mrs.), dressmaker Milford Henry, metal worker
Mitchell Chas. builder, Morgan's vale
house Frampton Caleb R. builder

JDIRECTORY. WILTSHIRE. 99DuRRIXGTO~.

Mitchell James, shopkeepet Parsons John, farmer Street William. fam1er, Wick fartn

Mitchell Samuel, grocer & baker Parsons Pete'r J oseph, draper & cooper Taunton H. Percy, Parsonage farm

Moody John, chimney sweeper Parse Frank, tanner Taunton John, farmer

Morris Samuel M. decorator Penn Charles, grocer, 1\Iorgan's vale Taunton Silas .J. farmer

Morton John, seedsman & florist Philpott John, working jeweller Waring Thomas, bootmaker, Woodfalls

Mussell Betty (Mrs.), shopkeeper Plaskett. Edward, tailor ·warner Mark, farmer, W oodfalls

M ussell Barriet (Mrs.), shopkeeper Plaskett Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Whiteley Geo. Wm., L.R.C.P.Edin.~

Newman George, shopkeeper Provident Dispensary (George William M.R.C.S. surgeon, & medical officer

Newman Henry, boot & shoe maker Whiteley L.R.C.P.Edin., M.R.C.S. & public vaccinator, No 2 district1
Newton Charles. butcher. Woodfalls
medical officer). .Alderbury union & certifying factory

Nicholas James, draper, Post office Ralph Harry, boot maker surgeon

Noake .Albert Edward, miller (water) Rampling .Ambrose E. New Inn P.H Wiggins, Teape & Co. paper makers

Norton Edward F. registrar of births, Read Charles William,butcher & White Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited

deaths & marriages, Downton sub- Horse hotel (agency), attendance on friday from

district & relieving & vaccination Read Henry, draper II till2.30; draw on London & West•

officer, No. 2 dist. .Alderbury union Read John, farmer, New court minster Bank Limited, London E 0

Noyce .Alma (Mrs.), shirt maker Reading Room (George Fulford, sec) Woodford Mary J. (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Noyce Henry, basket maker Sims Henry, blacksmith "\'Voodford John, draper & grocer

DRAYCOT CERNE is a parish and small village 3 cemetery of about a quarter of an acre, formed by

miles north from Chippenham station on the Swindon the late Earl Cowley, has one mortiUary chapel; it is
and Bath section of the Great Western railway, and 7 under the control of a Burial Board of 3 members,

south from Malme·sbury, in the North Western division Charities of £rs yearly, derived from charges on land
of the county, hundred of Malmesbury, Chippenham left by the Long family, are distributed in bread and
petty !!essional division, union and county court dis- fuel. Draycot House, a large mansion .of stone. stand-
trict, rural deanery of ChippBnham, archdeaconry of ing in a park of 2I7 acres, stocked with deer, is the seat
Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The of Earl Cowley J.P. who is lord of the manor and prin-
church of St. James is an ancient edifice of stone, cipal landowner: Henry Richard, the first Earl Cowley

chie.tly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, K.G. succeeded to this property in I863 by gift of the
nave, north porch, and a. Perpendicular western tower, fifth and last Earl of Mornington, who died at Paris,
containing one large bell and a clock with chimes, pre- 25th July in that year. The soil is a rich loam; sub-
sented by the Cowley family: the chancel is conjectured soil, partly gravel. The chief crops are barley, witl.t
to have been the original church, and retains the tomb pasture lands. The area is 9I I acres ; rateable value,

of the supposed founder: there is a fine brass to Sir £I,374; the population in I89I was I47·
Edward Cerne and memorials to the Long family: the Parish Clerk, Henry Hull.
font is Decorated, and there are some good stained win-
dows: there are about I IO sittings. The register dates Letters through Chippenham, arrive at 3.40 p.m. Sut-
from the year I69o. The living is a rectory, yearly ton Benger is the nearest money order & telegraph
value from tithe rent-charge £28o, average £2r3, net office. Pillar Box against Draycot Park cleared at
£238, including 56 acres of glebe, with residence, in the 10. IS a. m. & 7.40 p.m
gift of Earl Cowley, and held since 1891 by the Rev.
Richard Neville B..A. of Trinity Collegll, Dublin. A School (mixed), average attendance, 17; it is supported
by Lady Cowley, & has a house & garden for the
mistress; Miss Louisa Limbrick, mistress

Cowley Earl J.P. Draycot house; & 33 COMMERCIAL. Cemetery (John Edward Bona, clerk to
the burial board)
Lowndes sq. & Turf & Marlborough
Fear Henry Thomas, farmer
clubs, London S W Banks Thomas, farmer
Ody George, farmer, Lake farm
Neville Rev. Richd. Edwd. B..A. Rectry Bond Jn. Edwd. farmer, ::Kables farm

DURNFORD is a parish and village, pleasantly situ- Salisbury, and held since r849 by the Rev. John Newton
ated in the vale of .Avon, on the east side of the river, Hinxman M..A. of Trinity College, Oxford. Durnford

4 miles east-by-north from Porton station on the main was a Roman settlement. Ogbury Camp is close by,
line of the London and South Western railway, 2~ and there are many barrows. Durnford Manor House,
south from .Amesbury, 6 north from Salisbury, in the belonging to John Pinckney esq. is situated here. The
Southern division of the county, hundred and union of Earl of Malmesbury is lord of the manor of Great Durn-
Amesbury, petty sessional division of Salisbury and ford; James Swayne esq. of Wilton, Edward Hinxman
.Amesbury, Salisbury county court district, rural deanery esq. of Little Durnford, and Thomas Staples esq. of
of .Amesbury ( Amesbury portion), archdeaconry of Alderbury, are chief landowners. The soil is light and
Sarum, and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. chalky; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat,

.Andrew is an anci'3nt structure of flint and stone, in barley and oats. The area. is 2,924 acres of land and
the Norman and Early English style, consisting of 29 of watet; rateable value, £2,2I8; in r89I the popu-
chancel, nave, and north and south porches, with square lation was 380.
embattled western tower containing 5 bells : the chancel .At Little Durnford, 3 miles north from Salisbury, is
arch, porch, doorways and font are Norman: in the the mansion and estate of Edward Hinxman esq.
east end of the chancel are two aumbries: in the chancel D.L., J.P.

attached by a chain to an ancient reading desk is "A Netton is a hamlet, I mile south, where there is a

defense of the Apologie of the· Churche of Englande,'' Wesleyan chapel; Salterton hamlet (or Salteston), 2

by John Jewel, Bishop of Sarisburie, printed in Fleete !Outh; Newtown hamlet, 21 south.
streate, r6 Sept. I57I : the pulpit, which is of carved Sexton & Parish Clerk, Samuel Beckley.
oak, is dated I619: there are some remains of ancient Post Office.-Mr. John Newman, sub-postmaster. Let-

stained glass in the nave: in the chancel is a brass to ters through Salisbury arrive at 6.30 a. m. & dis-

Edward and Mary Young, ob. 1607 and their 6 sons and patched at 6.20 p.m.; sundays at 4.30 p.m. Postal
8 daughters: in I883 the church was renovated and the orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
open seats and pulpit were restored at the sole expense money order & telegraph office is at Am esbury
of Thomas Staples esq. of .Alderbury: there are sittings National Schools, Netton (mixed), built in r87o, with
for 150 persons. The register dates from the year I574· residence, for 68 children; average attendance, 43 ~
The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £79, Miss .Alice Newman, mistress

gross yearly value £28I, net £264, including 30 acres Carriers.-Frederick Newman & E. Paul Miller, of

of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Netton, to Salisbury, tues. & sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Raper Wm. Frank, Black Horse P.H
Sparey Henry, farmer, Netton
Green Harry, farmer, Salterton

Hinxman Rev. John Newton M..A. Maton .Arthur, dairyman Tinham .Arthur, carpenter, Salterton

(vicar), Vicarage Mead Mary (Mrs.), Crown P.H. Netton Thorn '\Villiam, farmer & overseer,

Hinxman Edward D.L., J.P. Little Miller Edwin Paul, carrier, Netton Church farm

Durnford house Newman Frederick, carrier, Netton Thorn William Fredk. rate collector

Kane Mrs Newman John, shopkeeper, Post office for Durnford parish

King Mrs. Hermitage, Little Durnford Packer James Cross, farmer Thornton Rt. baker & shopkpr. Netton

Pinckney .Tohn, Manor house, Great Pile Richard, farmer, Netton "\'Varren Frederick. farmer

Durnford Powell Thomas, carpenter
IDURRINGTON is a parish and village on the river main line of the London and South Western railway, 2
Avon, 6 miles north-by-west from Porton station on the north from Amesbury and IO north from Salisbury, in

WILTS. 7'111

100 DtJRRINGTON. 'VIL'l'SHIRE. [KELLY'S

the Southern division of the county, .Amesbury hundred nominal value 12s. yearly, to the oldest communicants.
and union, petty sessional division of Salisbury and On the downs are many barrows, among which is

.Amesbury, Salisbury- county court district, rural deanery Kn,ighton Long Barrow. To the south is the great
of .Amesbury (.Amesbury portion), archdeaconry of Sa- British station called Durrington Walls. The manor is

'l'nm, and diocese of Salisbury. The church of .All held by the Warden and Fellows of Winchester College,

Saints is a. building of flint and stone, consisting <Jf and the East End manor is held by Sir Richard Poore

chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, and western tower hart. under the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The

with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 bells : the principal landowners are Sir Richard Poore hart. Mrs.
Bouth aisle is Norman: the church was rebuilt in 1851, Fowle, Ernest Rawlence and E. P. Squarey esqs. Thos.

with the exception of the tower, which is Perpendicular; Jenner esq. and Winchester College. The soil is light
the remainder is in the Early English style; a Norman and chalky; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat,
arcade has been retained: there are four memorial win- barley and oats ; the area is 2,602 acres of land and u
dows to the late rector, the Rev. R. Webb M.A. and of water; rateable value, £1,706; the population in

three others are also stained : in the chancel is a cano- 1891 was 393·
pied double piscina with credence over, and in the south Parish Clerk, Andrew Spreadbury.

aisle is a piscina: the pulpit, choir stalls and many Post Office.-Mrs. Emma Thomas, sub-postmistress.
benches are of ancient carved oak: there are 300 sit- Letters through Salisbury via .Amesbury, arrive at 6

tings. The register dates from the year 1591. The a.m. & 1.45 p.m. ; dispatched at II a.m. & 6.45 p.m. ;
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £236, net sundays at 4·5 p.m. Postal orders are issued here,
yearly value about £2oo, in the gift of the Dean and but not paid. Amesbury is the nearest money order

Chapter of Winchester, and held since 1863 by the Rev. & telegraph office
Ch&rles Snelling Ruddle, Theol.Assoc. of King's College, National School (mixed), built in 1850 for 75 children;
London, and rural dean of Amesbury portion. Alien's average attendance, 64; Miss Caroline Marks, mistress

charity is 2os. yearly, derived from rent charge left in Carriers to Sali!'bury.-Thomas Rivers, tues. thurs. &
Y714 by Thomas Allen, of this parish, and Alt's charity, sat. ; Herbert Toomer, tues. thurs. & sat

Fowle. Mrs. Manor house Cooper Thomas, blacksmith ~ay John, farmer & overseer, Wood-
Jenner Mrs. Henry
Dyke Robert, farm bailiff to Messrs. ford's farm

Petheram Sir William Corner Q.C. Rawlence & Squarey Rose James, dairyman

Durrington house Gardiner Joseph, boot & shoe maker Sandell Williain, farmer

:Ruddle Rev. Chas. Snelling T.A.K.C.L. Hams Henry, carpenter Smith Frank, butcher

(rector & rural dean), Rectory Harris John, coal merchant & ma- Thomas :Mark, machine owner

Smith Miss, Woodford cottage chine owner Toomer Allan, blacksmith

COMMERCIAL. Hollins S~·dney William, butcher Toomer Frank, carpenter

Bailey William James, builder Hollins William Oliver, Stonehenge inn Toomer Gilbert, baker, grocer & pro-

Burden .Jas. carpenter & wheelwright Jenner Thomas Henry \Yilliam, far- vision dlr. wagonnette & trap for hire

Carter ·william, grocer & draper mer, Collin's farm ·wheeler Stephen, Plough inn; pleasant

Coles Frederick, farm bailiff to Mrs. Jenner William, farmer drives to Stonehenge & Wiltshira

Fowle, Acton cottages . Ranger Mark, shopkeeper Down11

EARL STOKE, see Erlestoke.

EASTERTON is an ecclesiastical parish, 7 miles management of Charles Hitchcock l\LD. and Mrs. Hitch-
south from Devizes station on the Newbury and Bath C'ock. The principal landowners are Captain George
section of the Great \Vestern railway, formed in 1875 Henry Lamb, John \Yilliam Morgan Williams esq. and

from the parish of Market Lavington, consisting of the the Rev. Charles F. W. T. Williams M.A. (St. John's
tithings of Easterton, l:astcott and Fiddington, in the College, Cambridge). The soil is loam; subsoil, greeR
Eastern division of the county, Swanborough hundred, sand. The chief crops are corn and roots. The area is
Devizes petty sessional division, union and county court 1,596 acres; rateable value, £1,803; the population m
district, rural deanery of Potterne (Potterne portion), 1891 was 582.
archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The Sexton, Henry Carter.
church of St. Barnabas, erected in 1875, is a building of Post Office.-Arthur Webb Draper, sub-postmaster. Let-
red brick, in the Early English style, consisting of ters arrive from Devizes at 6.30 a.m. & 5.20 p.m. ;.
chancel, nave, south porch and western turret contain- dispatched at 8.55 a.m. & 7.15 p.m. week days; sun-
ing one bell: there are about 150 sittings. The register days, letters arrive at 7.18 a.m. & dispatched at 9
dates from the year 1875. The living is a vicarage, a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.
gross yearly value £3oo, net £255, with residence, in the The nearest money order & telegraph office is Market
gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since 1895 by Lavington
the Rev. Gilbert Alfred King B.A. of Mer~on National School (mixed), built in 1877, at a. cost of
College, Oxford. Here is a chapel for w·esleyans. At £4oo, for go children; average attendance, 50; Mrs.
Fiddington is a private lunatic asylum, under the Redstone, mistress

Hitchcock Charles M.D. Fiddington ho Cooper James, market gardener Hughes Charles, farmer, Halstead frm

King Rev. Gilbert Alfred B.A.Vicarage Corp James, Royal Oak P.H ~Iaynard Enos, blacksmith

Mayor Mrs E Dowse Robert, farmer, Eastcott Palmer Seymour, farmer, Eastcott

Saunders Samuel, The Hollies Draper Arthur Webb, grocer & draper, Pike Sidney, carpenter

Winch Henry, Manor house, Eastcott Post office Plank J ames, market gardener

Draper David, market gardener Price Geo. market gardnr. & horse dlr

COMMERCIAL. Draper John, market gardener Saimbury John, farmer
Drewett James, market gardener Sannders Samuel, fruit preserve manu-

Alford Edward, market gardener Fiddler Jost>ph, market gardener facturer, The Hollies

.Andrews Henry, market gardener Hitchcock Charles M.D. private luna- Rhergold Robert, market gardener

Andrews Wm. farmer, Willoughby's fm tic asylum, Fiddington house Snook Richard, market gardener

Cooke Peter, farmer, Eastcott Hobbs James, market gardener

EASTON is a village and parish, 3 miles south-west refusing to imperil the escape of the wounded, wen•
from Savernake Junction station on the Berks and Rants down with the ship on the 19th June, 1864, in the 26th
extension branch of the Great Western railway, 3 west year of his age: the church was restored and reseated in
from Grafton station of the Midland and South Western 1855, and repaired in 1879, and in 1884 was greatl)r
Junction railway, 3, east from Pewsey, and 7 south-by- altered, improved and beautified, at the expense of
east from Marlborough, in the Eastern division of the Ernest, Marquess of .Ailesbury: the chancel was raised
county, Kinwardstone hundred, Everleigh and Pewsey and paved with tesselated tiles, and four stained win-
petty sessional division, Pewsey nnion, Marlborough dows inserted: there are 28c:; sittings. The register
county court district, rural deanery of Marlborough dates from the year 1580. The living is a donative,
(Pewsey portion), archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of gross yearly value £170; net £135, in the gift of the
Salisbury. The church of the Holy Trinity is a debased Marquess of .Ailesbury; the Rev. Thomas Kemm hall
Gothic flint and stone building, built by Edward Earl of been in charge sin<'e 1895. Here is a. small Wesleyaa
Hertford in the year 1591, and consists of chancel, chapel. The charities amount to £21, for annual dis-

nave, north porch and a tower containing 3 bells: there tribution among the poor, viz.: William Francis, mer-
are 6 stained windows: the east window and a white chant, a citizen of London, bequeathed in 1805 the sum
marble tablet were erected to David Herbert Llewellyn, of £soo; the Rev. J. T. Lawes bequeathed, in 182~,.
youngest son of a late vi<'ar, who was surgeon of the £IOo. There. are also two clothing clubs, one fOol"
Confederate war steamer Alabama, -and after her engage- mothers, the other for children, to which the sum of
ment with the Federal steamer Kear~age off Cherbonrg. £t5 as bonus is given annually. In the reign of Henry

D:mECTORY.] "~I LTSHIRE. EDINGTOY. 101

IlL and about 1240, a priory was founded here by Post Oflice.-William Bailey, sub-postmaster. Letters
Stephen, Archdeacon of Salisbury; at the dissolution from l\Iarlborough arrive at 8.10 a.m. & 3.50 p.m. ;
sundays at 8.10 a.m.; dispatched at 10.30 a. m.
it was valued at £ss qs. 4d. and the remains and site & S·35 p.m.; sundays at 10.35 a.m. Postal
wer~ given to the Seymours : the foundations can still orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
be traced. The Marquess of Ailesbury is lord of the money order & telegraph office is at Burbage
manor and sole landowner. The soil i11 loam and clay;
subsoil, chalky. The chief crops are wheat, oatlt', barley National School (mixed), erected in 1873, at a cost cf
and turnips. The area is 2,140 acres; rateable value, about £soo, for go children; average attendance, 52;
Henry Victor Scales, master
£I,S2I; the. population in 1891 was 332.
Godsbury is a barrow 2 miles north. On Easton Hill Police Constable, Benjamin Robinson

is a large barrow, or small camp, and there are other Carrier.-John Aldridge, of )Vootton Rivers, to Marl-
barrows and some remarkable terraces on the downs. borough, tues. & sat

Parish Clerk, Alfred Brookes.

Kemm Rev. Thomas, Vicarage Collins Harry Hearne, farmer Pt>arce Henry, wheelwright & carpentr

COMMERCIAL. Crouch Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Price Enos, Bruce's Arms inn, proprie-

Bailey 'William, shoe ma. Post office Follett Ellen (Miss), farmer tor & whip of the late Hope coach
Brooks Alfred, carpenter
Butt Edgar George, dairyman Goddard Noah, farmer Powell John Thomas, farmer
Chandler Thomas, blacksmith
Coles Jane (Miss), dressmaker Haines James Smith, farmer Price Zebedee, farmer & thrashing

Howse Waiter James, grocer & baker machine owner, Coneygarth

Mills Henry, farm bailiff to Mr. John Scales Victor Henry, rate collector

Thomas Powell Stagg Harriet (Miss), dressmaker

EASTON GREY is a village and parish, on the road charities are £4 yearly. 1'here are some Roman re-
from Malmesbury to Chipping Sodbury, 3~ miles west- mains in this parish: one station is on t.he Roman road,
by-north from l\Ialmesbury terminal station on a branch at \Yhite Walls, and the other near Bransd<>wn Hill.
of the Gr·eat Western railway, 10 north-west from Chip- Easton Grey House is the seat of Thomas Graham
penham and about 4 south from Tetbury, in the :North Smith esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor, and with Capt.
Western div-ision of the county, hundred of Chipp€nham, Goorge Holford. of Weston Birt House, are the principal
Malmesbury petty sessional division, union and county landowners. The soil is sandy and loamy; subsDil,
oourt district, rural deanery of l\lalmesbury, archdea- stone. '!'he chief crops are grass. The area is 1,029
conry of Bristol and diorese of Gloucester and Bristol. acres; rateable value, £1,743; the population in 1891
Th·e church (dedication not known) is a stone building in was 127.
mixed styles, and consists of a stone chancel and nave,
south porch, with embattled western tower containing 3 Parish Clerk, Mark Skinner.
bells, and was, with the exc.ept-ion of the tower, rebuilt Post & Telegraph Offire.-Frederick Tilling, sub-post-
in 1836: there are 270 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1725. '!'he living is a rect·ory, average tithe master. Let.ters through .Ma~mesbury arrive at 6.45
a.m.; dispatched at 7.10 p.m. Sherston is the nearest
rent-oharge £211, net yearly value £zso, including 25 money order office
Nat.ional School (mixed), with residence !llbtached for the
acres of glebe, with residence, in the g-ift of the Rev. mistress, was built at the expense of the late rect<>r &
Richard Haking, and held since 1882 by the Rev. Charles his wife, for 8o childrelt; average aJttendance, 40;
Tas1sell Reed M.A. who is also vicar of Norton. The Miss Alice Everett, mistress

Reed Rev. Charles Tassell M.A. Rectry Smith Thomas Graham J.P. Easton Rice Jas. bailiff to T. G. Smith esq

Sloper Thomas Grey house Tilling Fredk. miller (water), Post oil

Stubbins William 1Rice Frederick, carpenter

E:B:BESBORNE WAKE is a par1sh and village, 5 residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and

miles south from Tisbury station on the Salisbury and held since 1861 by the Rev. Tupper Carey M.A. of Chriilt

Yoovil line of the South Weirtern railway, 11 south-west Church, Oxford, rural dean of Chalke and also rector of

from Salisbury, 9 south-west from Wilt<>n and 9 east F~field Bavant. Here is a Congregational chapel. The

from Shaftesbury, in the Southern division of the Earl of Pembroke is lord of the manor and the principal

county, hundred of Chalke, Salisbury and Amesbury landowner. The soil is chalk; subsoil, chalk and flint.

p€tty sessional division, "\Vilt<>n union, Salisbury county The chief crops are barley, wheat and oats. The area is

court district, Chalke rural deanery (Chalke port~on), 2,700 acres; rateable value, £I,22o; the population in

arohdeaoonry of Sarum and diocese of Salisbury: it 1891 was 244.

tr.kes the name of Ebbesborne from the brook Ebele, Parish Clerk, Samuel Moxham
Post & M. 0. 0., s. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
which runs through the parish, and the adjunct Wake,
from former lords of the manor. The church of St. "\Yill~am Duck:es, sub-postmaster. Letters through
.John the Baptist is built of stone in the Early En~lish Salisbury, via Broadchalk, arrive 6. 40 a.m. ; <1ispatched
6o.f5ficpe .mis. ; sundays, l9k. a.m. The nearest telegraph
8tyle, and was rest-ored in 1877 at a cost of about at Broadcha 30
£1,6oo: it oonsists of chancel and nave, separated bv 8

wooden screen, with a western tower, terminating in Wall Letter Box, West End, cleared at 5.50 p.m. & 9. 15
battlements, containing 5 bells, and bearing the arms of a.m. on sundays

the Wake family: there is a south porch, which is the
only entrance: the tracery in the windows is handsome: Xat·ional Sch<>ol (mixed), with 8 residence for the mis-

there are seats for about 130 people: the church plate tress, built in 1851, for So children; average attend-
contains a. chalice of the year 1520. The register dates ance, 33; Mrs. Louisa Y<>ung, mistress

fr<>m the year 1653. The living is a vicarage. gro!>·s Carrier.-Samuel Moxiham, to SalisbUII'y, tues. & sat.

yearly value £210, net £6o, with 46 acres of glebe, and returns same day

Oa.Ny Rev. Tupper M.A.(vicar & rural Benjafield Heorg-e (Mrs.), fanner Rebbeck Edward Hayward, farmer,

dloont}, Thoe~ V•icarage Co-operative Society Limited• (Wm. West End farm
Rebbeck Ed'w:ard1Hayward:
Throkles, manager) Y011ng Edlwoardl T. blacksmith

Selby Rev. Leice:Siter M.A. (curate) Mox:hattn Samud, cwrrieor Youngo Sara'h (Mrs.), beer retailer

EDINGTON is a parish, on the road from West.bury ancient and modern, is one of the 17th century to Sir
to Devizes, 3! miles north-east from Westbury station Edward Lewys: in the south transept is an ancient tomb

on the Salisbury branch of the Great Western railway, cont.ainilllg the effigy of a. m<>nk in full canonicals, which

and 6 south-east from Trowbridge, in the Western divi- cannot be identified, and a fine group by Sir F. Chan-
t~ion <>f the county, hundred and petty sessional division trey, representing the death-bed of Sir Simon R. B.
of W'horwellsdown, Westbury and Whorwellsdown union. Taylor hart. d. 1815: the oo~ern and wesotern windows

W estbury county court di!ftrict. Potterne rural deanery are magnificent ; and to the east of no.rth transept is a

(Portterne portion), archdeac<>nry of Wilts and diocese of fine stained windoow of the 14th century: this transept

Salisbury. The church of St. Mary, St. Katherine and was evidently used in the old monastery as a Lady
All Saints, considered the {)nly perfecli monastic church Chapel, dedioated to St. Mary the Virgin, as in 8 niche
remaining in the county, is a large and magnificent in the wall there was formerly a figure of the Virgin,

cruciforn1 stone structure, and one of the earliest exam- and the lily is S<till to be seen painted on the wall: there
ples of the transition from Decorated to Perpendicular, is a handsome piscins in the same wall, and the rood
and was erected by William of Edyngdon in 1361 : it has screen is still surmounted by the rood loft: the windows
a chancel. clere!Jtoried nave, divided from the aisles by of the north aisle retain a great deal of the original
arcades of six lofty arche! on each side, north and south sotained glass, indicating where the cloisteN f<>rmerly

transepts, a fine embattled tower rising from the inter- wl>re, by the height of the window;;: in 1889 a dioce!l'<ln
..ection, oontainiong 6 bells, and a south porch, ov~r which committee was formed with the Bishop at its head, who

i1 a parvise of two stories: among the monuments, both thoroughly restored and beautified the church, the sum

102 EDING1'0:N. WILTSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

of £],boo being spent on the nave alone; the chancel manor, lay impropriator and principal landowner. The

was also restored by the patron, at a cost of about soil is green sand; subsoil, chalk with some clay. The

£z,ooo: a noticeable feature in the restoration is the chief crops are wheat and some land in pasture, and

return to the original design of the architect, William there ate numero.1s apple orchards. 'fhe area is 5,705
of Edyngdon, Bishop of Winchester ; the chancel being aores; rateable value, £5,183; the population in 189t
the monas-tic church, the nave the people's churrh: the wa<J 846, indud~ng its adjuncts.
chancel is now used for daily prayer, the nave for ser~ West Coulston tithing is 2 miles east; Tinhead tith-
vioos on Sunday and holy days·: the nave as now ing, half a mile east; Baynt-on is I~ miles nol'th-ea,;t.
arranged, oontains seating for 300 persons : the church Parish Clerk, George Carr.
will hold about I,ooo. The register dates from the year Sexton, Stephen Drewett.
1695. The living is a vicarage, rent-charge J.,3o. net Pos.t Oifice.-Alfred Ashley, sub-postma.Siter. Letters

yearly value £165, with residence, in the gift of Simon arrive by messenger through Wesobbury at 7.25 a.m. k.

Watson-Taylor esq. and held since 1890 by the Rev. 3.30 p.m. ; dispatched 12.20 & 6.35 ; sundays at I0.35
George Edward Long. ·william •lf Edyngdon, a native a.m. Postal ordevs are issued here, but not paid.
of this place, reaohed the dignities of Bi~hop of Win- The neare:>t money order & telegraph office is at
chester, Lord Treasurer and Chancellor of England in BrU~tton

the reign of Edward Ill. and founded here, in 1358, at Wall Letter Box. at Ti111head, cleared at 12.10 et 6.25

the instance of the Black Prince, a monastery of Bon- p.m. ; snnday, 10.25 a.m

hommes of the Augustine order, of which nothing re- A. School Board of <: members was formed 8 Dec. 1875•
mains but the present parish church ; the manor for the un~ted district of Edilllgton & East Coulston;

anciently belonged to the Abbey of Romsey, and on the John He-nry Hooper Hillman, Westbury, clerk to the

diss·olutiDn of monasteries t.he land was granted to board; George Baldwin, attendance officer

Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudeley, and subsequently t,o Board School, Tinhead, buil>t in 1877, at a cost of £r.ooa,

William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester. Simon for 120 children; average at-tendance, 120; Edward

Watson-Taylor esq. of Erlestoke Park, is lord of the J. Fle•tcher, master

EDIXGTO:N. Oram James, baker Outting John, Lamb inn
Brent Georg-e, Luccomb house
0!'1am WJelriellmilahm.:,lisrihmoro.o&~monaak.serrte·ry grdns Drewett Ja.mes, b:a:clusmith makers
Potter Flooks Isaa.c & Son, hoa:rn.es.s

Long Reov. Geo. Ed'\\13.rd, Vicarage Price John, frurmer Hamcock Georg'e, grocer

COMMERCIAL. Sbokes Geonge, shopkeeper Hamcock George, jUIIJ. carriell"
Hartopp .Alick Wil:i~m, la:nd age111t to
Aslhley .AJ:,fred, sib.:opkee;per, Post office vY'he•e:er David, carri€r

.Axfoi'd Lsa,ac, tlhatcher Wheeler James, builder Simon Wattson-Ta.ylorr esq

&C.dwin Geor~;e, fall'tller & school a,t- BA.YNTON. Hurle J1oseph, fall'mer
tendance officer ~filler Jolhn, carpenter & wheelwright

Brri.cker Rioha.rd', farmer, Housecrof•t Lewis Wm.EQ:is,frmr. Up.Baynton farm Pepler John Crook & Philip, farmeris

Bristow Framk Edward·, Old W'hite Pal'!fot't J'8JID.es. & Oharles Edwall'd·, fa.r- Rame William, accountant

Ho11~ P.H. & as•sistan•t overseer mers, Lower Baynton farm Ruddlloe Rober{J J10ihn, fatrmeor

OrooSI Wm. Hy. farmer, :Manor farm Stokes Wm. slme maker & ;~;hopkeeper

Deans Edwd. farmer, Sout.hdown farm TINHEA.D. WEIST OOULSTON.

iELolloway Jl3illles, lfa.rmer & roo.d cntrctr Batt:Jha,rd Hemry, ironmonger, draper,

Hurle John, Plough inn boot & ~Shoe d'ealer & blacksmith Permtt. ~Lcs. Woodland1s

Lrune F1rederick, road contractor Broe•acll· Jdhn, fariiiLer, Hurst farm Burgesrs A.nlll C:~fi,g·s ), shopkeeper

·~fiill.& He•rbert, farmer Cullimore George Leonall'd, farmer & Hai:.eo RlichardJ Oram, Bell inn

Newm.a:n Jas. John, farmer & miller miller (wrut'€r) Pike Josepih, carpenter & wheelwright

(wat-er), C.h!uroh farm Cullimore Giles Edgar sen. George inn Wicks J.oohn, farmerr"

ll!ISEY (with the tithing of Water Eaton) is a pansh Rev. William .t'hilpot A.nderson B.A.. of Jesus College~

on the river Thames, 2 miles east from Cricklade sta- Cambridge, who resides at Latton. The Earl of St.

t!ion on the Midland and South 'Vestern Junction rail- Germans is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The

way, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of soil is clay and loam; subsoil, clay. The land is mostly

Highwortoh, petty sessional division of Cricklade, Crick- pasture. The area of Eisey tithing is 590 acres, the

Jade and '\Yootton Bassett union, county court district of population in 1891 was 128; of Water Eaton, 1,84q

Swindon, rural deanery of Cricklade, arehdeaconry of acres; combined rateable value, [2,131.

l3ris·tol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The Parish Clerk, David Sandell.
ohurch of St. Moary is a small st.one building in the
Perpendicular ~·tyle, consi!ifting of chaoncel and nave. south Letters throagh CriPklade, which is the nearest money
order & telegraph office, arrive by messenger afl
porch with small turret on the west gable containing 8.45 a.m
one bell, and will seat 150. The register dates from ~hP
~ea~ 1571. 'fhe living- is a vicarage, annexed to that of The nearest Lebter Bo:x is at Cricklade; dispatches at
Latton, average hthe renrt-chial'ge £r17, joint gross 11.40 a.m. 3·45 & 9.30 p.m

yearly value [230, ne.t £200, with residence, in the l!ift Eisey is in the school district of Latton & Water Eaton

of the Earl of St. Germans, and held since 1891 by th£> in that of Castle Eaton

.

Ga.ntlett David, farmer, Water Ea.ton !'Ruck Hemry, fail'ffier, A.lix farm; et at\ Ga.u.tlett '\Vm.Roger, frmr. Waltr.Eaton

Garul!leobt Jolhn, farmer, Water Ea.ton Down A.mpney Webb John, farm~'!', Water Eaton

ENFORD (or A\•enford, as it stands between Upavon derived from £86 9s. sd. New £3 per cent. Annuitiea

and 1\'ethemvon, on the river Avon) is a parish 6~ miles left in 1615 by ~Irs. Genever Baskervci.lle_ is dis-tributed

from Woodhorough station on the Newbury and Bath in bread to the " second ,. poor of the parish triennially '
.t~edion of the Great Wesl:el'n railway, 7 south from the l\Innday charity, of the amount of 17s. derived from
J>ewsey and 12 south-east from Devizes, in the EastE-rn £28 6s. nd. £3 per cent. Consols left in 1810 by
d.ivlision o.f the oounty, hu:ndred of Elstub and Everleigh, William Mnnday, of Ooombe, is distributed in bread to
petty sessional division of Everleigh and Pewsey, Pewsey all the poor of the tithing of Coombe. Several barrows
union, Dev:izes county court district, rural deanery of are observable in the fields and downs or this parishf

Potterne (Enford portion), archdeaconry of Wilts and and in the grounds of Chisenbury Priory tnay be traced
diocese of Sali·sbury. The church of All Saints or St. what is oalled the Gladiator's Wa:k. Ambrose D. Hus•
M.argoarPt is a structure of flint and quarried stone, in sey-Freke esq. is lord of the manor of Compton; M.
the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, with Baden esq. is lord of the manor of Long Street. The
aisles of four bays. south porch and a square embatiled principal landowners are Sir Edmund A.ntrobUA bart. bf
western tower, containing a clock and 5 bells: the Amesbury Abbey, lord of the manors of Enford and

church was repaired 1825-1831; in 1892 ;it was thoroug,hly Fifield; Ambrose D. Hussey-Freke esq. (}{ Hannington

restored at a cost of £. I,soo; a reredos was ~inted and Hall, Highwortlh, the Earl of Normanton, Major Poor~

presented by l'Irs. R. Hus.sey-Frelue, and a brass lectern M. Baden esq. the Ecrlesiastical Commissioners and Sot.
given by Mrs. Cusse at the same time : there are 300 Kat·harine's Hospital, London. The soil is lig!lt and
sitbings. The register dates from the year 1631. The chalky ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat.
living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge {.3, net barley and oa·ts. 'l'he area is 7,88o acl'es, including thl!t
yearly value [140, with residence, in the gift of Christ'!i tithing of Fifiald; rateable value, [3,788 ~ the population

Hospital, London, and held since 1891 by the Rev. in 1891 was Boo in the civil, and 753 in the ecclesiastical
George A.tkinson Crossle M.A. of )!Iagdalene College, parish.
Cambridge. The Baptists occupy a place of wor~hip The tithings in tJhe parish are Fifield, I mile sont~
here belonging to Sir Edmund .Antrobus hart. The and Compton on the west side of the river and Eas.t
&skerville ciharity, of the amount of £2 I IS. xod. Chisenbury, I mile north by east; West Chisenbnry, i

JJ)IBEOTO:ay I WILTSHIRE~ 103

mile north by west ; Coombe, r mile south; Littlecott, but not paid. The nearest money order & tele~11ph

eaS<t adjoining; Long Street, south, adjoining, on the office is at Upavon

east side of the river. Parochial School, built in 1830, & additional room in 1.87:l,

Parish Clerk, Joses Carter. for 200 ohildren; average attendance, 130; Joseph K.
Eagles, maSiter; Mrs. Eagles, mistress ; an endowment

Pos•t Office.-~iiss Annie Sheppard, sub-postmistr~ss. of £17 r6s. 4d. yearly. provided by the Rev. John

Letters -arrive from Pewsey S.O. at 8.15 a.m.; dis- Prince, a former vicar, for the Sunday school

patched at 5.15 p.m. Pos.tal orders are issued here, Carrier.-Henry Daw, to ~vizes, thurs

ENFORD. CHISENBVRY. BwShell John, fanner

Arnrold! Lewin & George, f!11li1Ilers Bus.hell Thos. s'hiOpkeepe;r & farmer
Fe<ltlham ~fiary("Wrs.),"Wh1te Swan P.R
Crossle Rev. Goo..Atkillloon :M.A.(vicar) Ga.rdlnle'l" William bla.cksmi:tlh
.Jenner Robt. ~r. Ch~serubury KIDg_WaHer ~omas, carpenter,wheel-
COMMERCIAL. JIID!llings George, beer retailer Priory :wr1ght, b~de.r & contracto~
\Veeks Thos.plumbe•r, painter & g:azier
Oarter J oses, g'I"OCer & baker -"lizen Edwm, carpenter & bmlder
LITTLEOOTT. Neeth Herbert Ed'ward, farmer
Carter 'I1hooHrs, boot & shoe maker
Oumplen Waiter Ja.s·. assist. overseer

Hlollmes Henry, black~mith (Letters• arriv•e thl'ough Upavon.) CO:MPTON.
Nwslh J'61ffiel&, shopkeeper Daw Henry, shopkeeper & carrieif

Rawlins George, boot & shoe maker Fletclher Wiilliam J ames,miller(water), Hussey-Freke Raufe. J.P
Sargeal't IHieiii!ry, farm balker & farmer
bailiff to S. W.

Flarmer esq. Enford farm :\foore Frank Robbins, farmer COO:\>UlE.

FIFIELD. .J.'Ihil':imore Wm. blacksmith & beer rdlll"
King William, baker & miller (water)
LONG STREET.
Drewea.bt Albert, grocer & baker Maten EuS!Vace Bertram, farm ell".

Illl!S Josep'Jl, fa.rmer Mortimer George, Th€ Grange Coomibe farm

ERLESTOKE is a parish and small and very pretty Simon Watson-Taylor esq. and his son, is a Domest:~o

village, on the road from Westbury to Devizes, 7 miles Gothic building of brick and stone. Simon WatSDn-

north-east from 'Ve~tbury station on the Salisbury Taylor esq. D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and principal

branch of the Great Western railway, and 7 south-west landowner ; his seat, Erlestoke Park, is a nob:e stone-

from Devizes, in the Eastern division of the county, struoture in the Roman style, occupying a lofty position

~lelksham hundred, Devizes petty s·es·sional division, facing the north, and commands an extensive view of

union and county court district, rural deanery of Pot- woodland scenery: at the rear is the long eleV'ated range

terne (Pattern poi'tion), a,rchdeaoonry of ·wilts and dio- of Salisbury Plain : the park cJf 200 acres is well tim-

cese of Sali<sbury. The ohurch of St. Saviour, rebuilt hered, and stocked with deer: it contains eight lakes-

r 88o, in the Perpendicular sty1e, is within Erlestoke with cascades. The s·oil is varied. in the southern part

Park: it consists of a chancel, nave, north and south it is chalk, middle par.t, greensand, and northern part,.

transepts, and vestry and a central emha.ttled tower, loam and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and

with pointed roof, containing 6 bells: the whole of the oaJts. The area is 3,023 acres; rateable value, j,1,9E7;

wall facing exteTnally and internally is of wrought Bath the population in 1891 was 261.

stone, and the seatings ar·e of pitch pine, except the Barish Clerk, James Brown.
choir seats, whidh are of English oak: the architect was
the late G. E. Street R.A. : it was the gift of the late .
Lady Ha.nnah Charlotte "Wi31tson-Taylor: there are sittings
Post Office. John Sumner, sub-postmaster. Letters by
for 187 persons. The regi.ster dates from the year r68r.
The living is a,vica:r:age, gross yearly value£213, net £rgs, messenge.r through Devizes, arriv.e at 7.20 a.m. & 5.50
including 38! acres of glebe, with res·idence, in the g-ift
of Simon Watson-Taylor esq. and held since r8go bv the p.m. & dispatched at 7·55 a. m. & 6.2o p.m. ; 8.•:::
a.m. on sundays. Littleton Pannel is the nearest

money order, & Market Lavingoton nearest telegraph
offic.e

Rev. Charles William Ridley M.A. of University College, Nwtional School (mixed), enlarg-ed in 1893, for 70 chil-·

Oxford. The vicarage, erected in 1877 at the cost of dren; average attendance, 41; Mrs. N. Legge, m!i.st

R<idley !WIV. Olms. ·wm. ~LA. Vicarage COMMERCIAL. Smnner John, bkacksmitih, Post office

Wat'slon-Tiaylor Simon ~LA., D.L., .T.P. Alford' Ja:me.s, carpenter Tyler Edith Jane & Evelyn Elizabeth

ErleoSJtoke park Ball Robert, farmer, Pudnell farm (:M.iss~s), shopkeeper-s

Watron-Ta.ylor George Simon Arthur Bourne· Samlllel, farmer, Manor farm Tyler Jn.George&D:ragon P.H.&fanner·

M.A., J.'P. Erles•toke park Hollo•way Jo'h11, jun. fa.rmer & baker Tyler NelscJ.n, caTpenter

ETCHILHAMPTON is a tithing and vi~lage in the and held since 1893 by the Rev. Bennet George Johns-
parish of All Cannings, 3 miles east-by-south frum M. A. who resides at All Cannings. The charities

Devizes s-tation, on the Great ·western milway, in the include that of Messrs. Dorchester, bequeathed in 1730,.

EaiStern division of the county, hundred of Swan- and amounting to £2o 2s. yearly, that of Edward

borough, and petty sessional division, union and county Bailey, left in r8r4, amountin~ to £63; both sums are

court district of Devizes, and in the rural deanery of invested in £2! per Cent. Consols, and the interest

Avebury (Cannings portion), archdeaconry of Wilts annually distributed, at the discretion of the rector
and• diocese of Sali~bury. The church of St. Andll"ew and churchwardens; a sum of £4.'> was in or about
is a. small but ancient structure of grey ~;tone, in the 1884 bequeathed by the Rev. H. Methuen, son of a

Early English style, consisting of chancel, n;:ve, south former re.ctor, for the poor. Mrs. Drax is lady of the
porch and a. western turret containing 2 bells: in the manor and owns the principal portion of the land.
chancel is 3111 ancient monument of stone, with full- The soil is green sand; subsoil, chalk and cla.y. The
sized figures of a knight in armour, and a lady by his chief crops are corn and some land in pasture. The area
side, probably of the time of Edward Ill. ; the chancel is included with the parish of All Ca.nnings ; mte.able
was restored in r868: the east and west windows. are value, £1,207; the population in 1891 was 172.
Decorated, and both are stained, the former erected by
Parish Clerk, Thomas Giddings.

Thomas Plumptre Metlmen; the f{)nt is late Norman, Letters through Devizes, which is the nearest money
standing on a modern stem and ba•se : there are 120 order & telegraph office, at 8 n•.m. Pillar Letter Box
sittings. The register dates from the year 1630. The cleared at 6.30 p.m. & 1.20 p.m. on sundays
living is a chapelry, annexed to the redory of All tannings,
average tithe ;·ent-ch;arge J.,9oo, joint gross yearly National School (mixed), built in 1831, & rebuilt in
1873, for 36 children; average attendance, 35; Miss
value £914, net [570, in the gift- of Lord Ashburton, CroS>S, mistress

May Mu. Etohi~hamptQil house ·Btrmkworth - , farmer, Tinkfield farm Godwin Ed'Wiin,ca~nter & b:acksmith

Cox Edwin, baker Hall \Villiam, market gardene!T
Cox Tom, car7penter
COMMERCIAL, 'Vesmon Henry, faTIDer

Be!Try Va.Ienltine Isaac,farmer(of Stert) C<Jx William, bl:acksmith Weston Robert, faifmer

Bracher George, cattle dealer Crees Ben~. Whlite, farmer, Manor frm Wtitchell Stephe'lll, market gardener

EVERLEIGH (or Everley) is a. village and parish, junction railway, and 9 south from Mmrlborough: it is
divided into two portions, viz. Upper and Lower, or
in the Eastern division of the county, in Elstub
East and West Everleigh, half a mile asunder and
p:easantly situated on the road from Devizes to Audover, hundred, Everleigh and Pewsey petty sessional division,
5 miles south-ea~St from Pewsey station, on the Great Pewsey uni{)n, MarlbO'l"ough county court district, rural
Western. railway, 4! north-west from Ludgershall d€an.ery of Marlborough (Pewsey portion), arch-
station, 2~ across the Downs and 3! by road to Colling- doooonry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The
boume Ducis station, on the Midland and South Western church of St. Peter, erected in 1813, with the rectory,
at a cost of £14,ooo, is a. Gothic structure t~f Bath

... 101 EVERLEIGH• V{ILTSHIRE. [KELLY's

stone, consisting of a chancel and nave with oak doors County Magistrates for EYerleigh & Pewsey Petty
a.nd seats, S{)Uth porch and a square embattled western Sessional DiYision.
tower with pinnacle-s and 6 bells : there are monuments
to the founder, Francis Dugdale Astley esq. and the Awdry Rev. Wi:liam Henry M.A. Rectory, Ludgershall,
late Sir John DugdaJe and Lady A>-tley, aaso Sir J<'ra.ncis
Dugdale Astley, 2nd bart.and lady : the east window is Andover, chairman
in the Perpendicular style, and wa;;; in 1873 filled with
stained glass by the late Sir John Dugdale Astley, in Pleydell-Bouverie Rev. the Hon. Canon Bertrand M.A.
memory of his parents, Sir Francis D. and Lady
Astley: the ancient font of the original church remains, Rectory, Pewst>y ·
and, from the ornament upon it, is of the Transition
period from the Norman to the Early English style, Davidson Col. Alexander Chorley, West Stowell, Pewsey
about II25 : an organ was added in 1879, at a. cost of
£130: there are :;zoo sittings. The r-egister dates from :Fowle William Hugh esq. B.A. Chute lodge, Chute
A.D. 1598. The living is a rectory, a<verage tithe rent-
charge £519, net income £385, with residence and 18 Forest, Andover
acres of glebe, in the gift of Sir F. E. G. .Astley-Corbett
bart. and held since 1877 by the Rev. Anthony Aylmer Hodgson . Rev. Canon' John Dryden M. A. Rectory,
AstJey B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. There are
several interesting British remain9 in this neigh- Collingblmrne Ducis, Marlborough
bourhood. Everleigh Manor, a.t present (1895) un-
occupied, is the property of Sir Francis Edmund Hussey-Freke Raufe esq. D.L.Hannington hall,Highworth
George Astley-Corbett bart. lord d the manor and
sole landowner. The soil is chalky loam; subsoil, Knowles George esq. M.A., LL.M. Syrencot, Amesbury
ehalk. The chief crops are whea.t, ba.rley and oats.
Rogers- Fras. E. Newman esq. Rainscomb house, Pewsey
The area. is 3,370 acres ; rateable value, £ 1,6oo ; the
Rowden William James, Upavon, Pewsey
J:!Opulation in 1891 was 344·
Waddington Col. William, Figheldean ho. Amesbury
Parish Clerk, Michael Gale.
Clerk to the Magistrates, Stephen B. Dixon, Pewsey
Letters from Marlborough, via Collingbourne Ducis,
arrive at 8.30 a.m. Money orders are issued but not The bench sits at the " Crown " hote-l, Everleigh, on the
paid here; telegraph office at Collingbourne station la!>t frida.y, & at Pewsey on the second friday
in each month, each day at 11 a.m. List of parishes in
Wall Letter Box clmreq at 5·45 p.m.; sundays, 10 a.m the EYerleigh & Pewsey division-Alton Priors, Charl-
ton, Chut~. Chute Forest, Collin~bourne Duci1;., Colling-
bourne Kingstone, Easton, Enford, Everleigh, Fi~hel­
dean, Fittleton, Huish, Ludgershall, Manningford
Abbotts., Manningford Bruce, Manningford Bohune,
Milstone, Milton, Nethera.von, North Newnton, North
Tidworth, Pewsey, Rushall, Upavon, Wilsford, Wilcott,
Woodborough & Wootton Rivers

National School (mixed), with house for mistress, bui!t
in 1844, for 70 children; avera.ge attendance, 6o;

Mis& Hopkins

.!Js-tley Rev.Anthny.AylmerB.A.Rectory :Martin Frederick, foreman to C. W. Lewis Thomas John, farmer & The

Kimber Jesse, blacksmith. Curtis esq. Ho.me farm Crown family hotel & posting house

Gilbert William, head' gamekeeper to Nut'h .A.rthur, fa,rmer, Lower house Strong Jas·.Jirmr. Lower Everleigh frm

C. W. Curtis esq Nuth Benj. (~ir.s·.), farmer, Lower ho

F ARLEY is a parish, 4 miles north-west from West Earl of Ilchest-er, who i& lord of the manor. The soil is

Dean station on the Sarlisbury branch of the South clay; subsoil, gravel and cha<lk. The chief crops are

Western railway and 6 east from Salisbury, in the wheat, ba.rley and oats.

Southern division of the county, hundred and union of Parish Clerk, Reuben Williams.

Alderbury, Salisbury and Amesbury petty sessional Post Office. Miss Naomi Pragnell, sub-postmistress.
division, county court district of S:a~isbury, Amesbury Letters t·hrough Sa-lisbury, arriYe at 7· 10 a.m.;
rural deanery (Alderbury portion), archdeaconry of dispatched at 6.15 p.m. Post•a~ orders are issued here

Sarum and diocese of Salisbury. The church of All but not paid. The nearest money order office is at

Saints is a cruciform brick building, in the Jacobean West Dean & the telegraph office at Dean Railway
style, consisting of chancel, nave and transepts, south stl3ttion

porch, with tower containing one bell, and was erected Nationa.l School, for go children; average attendance,

by Stephen Fox, in 1688, to replace "an ancient ruined 6o; there is a. resid>ence for the master adjoining the
schools; Arthur T. Freeman, master
chapel,, on another site: it has six stained windows
and 1!1< ha,ndsome reredos of Caen stone, marble, alabaster PITTON is a chapelry and township, 4 miles north-
and mosaics, and contains several fine monuments, one

in the nave by the younger Westmacott, and in the west from West Dean station and 6 north-east from

north transept those of the founder, Sir Stephen Fox, Salisbury. The church of St. Peter is a modern
his two wives ~nd one of his sons, whose bodies (with building of flint with stone dressings, consisting of
those of many of his descendants belonging to the two chancel, nave, north transept and low belfry (with 3
noble families of tlchester and Holland) lie in the vault bell-s) on the south Slide, through which is the entrance:

beneath; there iS1 a marble tablet in the church to it ha<s seats for 150, all free. The liYing is annexed to

Charles James Fox, which records his buriaJ in West- Farley. The Wesleyans haYe a chapel here. The Earl

minster Abbey: the church wa•s restorPd in f1r9o7m4, and of Ilchester is lord of the manor. The area of Farley
has sittings for 161. The register dates the and Pit-ton is 2,087 acres; rateable. value, £1,984; the

year 1665. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry population in 1891 was 489.

of Pitton annexed, average tithe rent-charge £79• joint Post Office. Arthur Parsons, sub-postmaster. Letters

net yea,rly value £220, with 81 acres of glebe, in the from Salisbury, arrive a.t 8.15 a.m.; dispatched at
5.40 p.m. The nearest money nrrler offi·~" i~ at
gift of the Earl of Ilchester, and held since 1883 by the
Rev. Thomas Julius HenderS{)n M.A. of Wadham Wint.erslow. Winterbourne Gunner is the nearest

College, Oxford, who is also warden of Farley hospita.l. telegraph office
A Wesleya.n chapel was erected in 1883. Farley National Schoo~ (mixed), built in 1850, for So children;
Hospital, for three poor men and as many aged average attendance, 6o; Geor~e Taylor, master

women, was founded by Sir Stephen Fox in 1682. T!le Carriers to Salisbury. Tom Collins & Lewis White,

principal landowners are the Eax.l of Radnor and the tues. & sat

F.!.RLEY. Pragnell Egbert, build·er, contractor Collins M'ark, wood dealer

t& -wheelwright EyreSl & Sons (late Bricant & Son),

Hende11son Rev. 'Dhomas Julius M.A. Read' George, beet· rptai:er builders, :Smit•hs & whPelwrights

(vicar), Farley wardenry Reake-s Edward, gamekeeper to Earl Go:d!intg Demn~is, farmer

Cook GeOII'ge, bla.ck.s:mith of Ilche51ter Par~ons Art'hur, PoSit office

Parsons Ed-win, ft~o~•mer William.s Erne.s.t, farmer Pitt & Sons, wheehvrighttS & smiths

Parsons Emanuel, farmer Sea ward S<teplhe~ fail'meil'

Parsons George, fa.rmer PrrroN. Wbite .J1osohua, currie·r

Pamons Herbert, cM"rier 'Wihitlock Ma.ry Ann. (:M11s. ), farmer

Phillips Joslhlua, bricklayer Ga.rnis§ R.e!V. Thomas J., M.A. (cur- lVlh.itlock Uriallr, shopkeeper

Philpottlt Step!he~ shoe maker ate-in-dha:rtge)

FIFIELD BAV ANT is a parish, 5 miles south from the parish. The church of St. Martin is a bui~ding of
Dinton station on the main line of the London and South stone, consist~ng of nave only, and: is very small, havintg

Western railway and 10 90uth-west from Sali!fuury, in only 40 sittings. The register dates from the year 1610.
t•he Southern division of the county, hundred• of Chalke,
petty sessional division of Salistbury and Amesbury, W~l- The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £no,
ton union, .Sali!lbury county court di&t'l"icl, rural deanery
of Ohalke (Ohalke portion), a:rehdeaconry of :Sarum, and gross yearly value £164, net £7o, with 20 acres of

di-oce3e of Salisbury; the ·Ohalke stream flows through glebe, jn the gift of the Marques.s of Bath, and held

since 1861 by the Rev. Tupper Carey M.A. of Chrisia

Church, Oxford, who is also vicar of, and res:des a.t, Eb-

DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. FITTLETON. 105

besborne Wake. Tlhe Marquess of Bath iF.S.A. is lord Letters from Salisbury, via London Elm. The nearest
money order office .ils at Bl"oad Chalke &i telegraph
of the manor and! principal land'Owner. The soil is office at Dinton
ohalk; subsoil, sam.e. The chief crops are wheat, bar~ey
and oa.ts. The area lis 1,143 acres; rateable value, Wall Box cleared at 4·35 p.m.; no collection on sunday3
The children of the parish attend th.e ,gochool at Eblbes-
£764; the population in 1891 was 43·
Parish Clerk, 'I1homas Spencer. borne Wake

Arn·old Charles, farmer

FIGHELDEAN is a parish and village on the river of the family of the Dyke Poores, is at present occupied

Avon, 9 mHes north-'by-west •from Porton station on the by George Knowles esq. J.P.: Figheldean Rouse is the

main line of the Lcmd'on and 1Soutlh Western railway, 4 residence of Col. William Waddington J.P. 'l"he princi~

north from A•meSibury and 12 north from Salisbury, in pal landowners are the tru5tees of E. D. Poore esq. who

the Southern division of the county, hundred and union are lords of the manor, Sir Ric'hard Poore bart. the Rt.

of Ameslbury, pet.ty •s·essional division of Everleigh and Hon. Sir Michael E. Hicks-Beach ha.rt. :\LP., P.C. and

PeWlsey, Salislbury county court district, .rural deanery of A. .Rawlins esq. The soil is light and chalky; subsoil,

Amesbury (.Ameslbury portion), avchdeaoonry of Sarum, chalk. Tl1e chief crops are wheat, bar~ey, oats and tur..

and diocese of Salisbury. l'fhe· churoh of .St. ~iohael, nips. T!he area is 5,265 acres of land and! 16 of water;

standing in a picturesque spot, iis a very ancient build- rateruble value, £2,772; ·in 1891 the population was 472.

ing ·of flint and stone, in t!he Norman and! Ear:y English Ablington hamlet is haltf a mile south-east; Alton a.

!Styles, and is supposed to have 'been huilt eairly in the quarter of a mile south, on the west side of the river
reign: of 1Stephen: it was substantially restored in 186:: Avon.

lt consi1st.s of chancel, clerestor.ie~ nave of four bays, Parish CleTk, .A.lbert Dobson.

aisles, s·outh porch and square western tower conta·ining Post Office.__,:Mrs. Emma '\Vhatley, suJb-postmistress.

a clock and 3 bells : the east and four other windows Lett.er~ through .S.alislbUiry, arrive at 6.10 a.m. & 3
p.m.; dispatched at 9·45 a.m. &i 6.1'5 p.m.; sundays,
are stained: in the chancel are several monuments to
the Poore 1bmily : the porch contains• two ancient figures arrive at 6.10 a. m. ; di9pa.li~hed, 3.40 p.m. Postal

of Crusaders, discovered in a field near the adjoining orders are 1ssued here, but not paid. Netheravon is
the nearest money ·order & telegraph office.
village of Milst()n : in the chancel are an anoient piscina
Wall Letter Box, Ablington, cleared at 10.5 a.m. & 6
and credence: a 'Part of ,tJhe .staircal~e to the rood loft
p.m. ;. sundaY's at 3· ro p.m
rema-in~ in the north a~sle: there aTe sittings for 228 Nrutional School (mixed), a. handsome build•ing, with tresi-

persons. The. register dates lfrom the year 166o. The dence for mistr.ess, the gift of two rparishioners, erected
in 1858, for 96 children; average attendance, 74;
living is a. vi·carage, average tithe rent-charge £242, Miss Frances Dunford, mistress

gross yearly value £381, net £265, including 2! acres of Carriers.

glebe, with residence, in the g}lf.t of .the Bishop of Salis-

bury, and Phreilmd itsi-vineceMe1t•8h7o9d~bsyt the Rev. Francis Raikes.
iHere is a c'hrupel, built in 1882. .A

Teading room was erooted: an x8gi, the gift of George PhiEp Eyres, to Salisbury, on tuels. & .sat. ; Devizes, on
Knowles. esq. for the use of the parish: it has a well thurs. Robert S.a;wyer, to 'Salis.'bury, tues. tJlmrs. &i

furnis•hed lilbrary and games. 'S)'wencot Rouse, the seat 11a.t

FIGHiELDE.A...t.~. Neate Ernest Ry. farmer, Knighton ' Slh!eppard Nias, blacklmlith

Knowles George ::\'LA., LL.~'L. Pe·a.rce Jame.s, fa.rmer, Ohoulston farm 1-Vtheeler Simon, ~hoe makell'
Syrenoot hou'Se
J.P. (Lebters S'honld be adldres:sedNether-
Pay Edwal"d'
Raiikes R•ev. F·rancis, Vicarage avon., Salisbury) ABLI~GTON.
Waddingltcm CoL Williazm J.P.
Pickard: Amn (~hs. ), groce-r &i bakell"
heddeatll !house
Ha.rris Jacob, miller (water) Ra;wlins FrMlk, farmer, .Alton Magns Oollins J olm, fM"mer

Fig- Reading Room (Sydney Rawlings.,sec) Eyores Plhilip, carrier

Humming Robt·. V.farmr..Alto111 Parva R'aiWlins' Alfreldr, farmer & cart:tle dealr

Sawyer George, Wiheats.hea-f P.H Rawlins Sidlney, cathle dealer

-FISHERTON ANGER, see Salisburv.
FISHERTON-DE-LA-MERE is a parish and vil-\ of Salisbury by lapse, and held since 1.S93 by the Rev.
lage on the Wylye, 1! miles north-west irom Wylye sta- . Robert Blakis·ton M..A.. of St. Peter's Ool:ege, Camibridge.

tion on tlhe Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth branch of Fisherton Delamer·e Rouse is the property and residence

the Great Western railway, and 12 west from SaliSJbury, of 1Mrs. Birch. W. H. Pettey el>q. is lord of the manor

in the Southern divi.sion of the county, Wilton union, and principal landowner. T:he soil is light loam; sub-
'Warmim.ter hundred: and petty sessional division, Sal~s- soil, chalk and flint. The ch~ei crops are wheat, oats

bury oounty court district, rural deanery of Wylye · and 'barley. The area is 2,861 acres; rateable valu&

(Wy.Iye portion), arch<deaJCoMy Qf Sa.rum and diocese of· £2,290; the population in 1891 was 291.
Salisbury. 'J'Ihe church of 'St. Nicholas was rebuilt, ex~ Ba.pton is dlivided •from Fisherton 'by the river Wylye,

cept the tower, in 1833, and a. chancel, in the Early Eng- I which is crossed lby a bridge of four arches at Wy-ve. r

ilish style, was added <in .place of the original in 1862: it mile south-east. The trustees of the late Joseph D. Willis

consists of chancel, nave, and .a square em'battled south- 1 esq. are lords of the manor and principal landowners.
ern tower, with pinnacles- at the angles, containing 5 Letters tlhrough Bath, via Codford St. :Mary, arrive at

bells: the lower por.tion of the tower forms a south 7· 15 a.m. & '5· 1'5 p.m. IWylye is the nearest money
poroh: t!here are xgo ·Si~tings. The reg~oter dates from order & telegraph office. Wall Let.ter Box cleared at

the year 15•61. The living is s vicarage, average tithe 6 p.m. ; sundays, 8.15 a.m

rent-charge £w6, gross £144• net £11o, including 22 Paroohial School (mixed), with residence, ibuilt dn 1865,

acres of gletbe, with resideiiiCe, in the gift of the trustees for 6o children; average attendance, 49; Miss Caro-

of the Rev. T. Ra.tc:iffe B.D. but pro hac vice, the Bi:shop line Ra:l, mistress

Artindale1 Rdbert Henry, The Manor Dyer ::\fary Ann(~lrs. ),slwpkpr.Bapton Pe<t'l:ey Wi:.liam, Parry, farmer & milleu-

Bir.ch Frs. Fisherton, Delamere house Fl:n1t Lewis, shopkeeper (water), The 'Ma.nor farm

Blakiston Rev. Robi~rt M..A.. Vicarage Gray Edwin, farm bailiff to W. H. We-bb Tom, farm bailiff to the trus-

Cormsh Ja1s. Wm. dairyman, Bapton Pettey esq tae.3' of J. D. Willis esq. Bapton

Cornish William Philip, dairyman FurneU Henry, blacksmH!h

FITTLETON is. a parish and village 10 miles north- Pearse, ob. 1868: the south-east window in the chancel
by-west fi'Olll. Porton ·statlion on the main line of .the Lon- is stained, to the memory of the Rev. Thomas Pearse,
don and Soutlh Was-tern railway and 8 south from Wood- db. 1885: the .font is ~orman: in the chanoel is
borough station on the Great Western ra.ilway, 14 north an altar tomb wibh brasses to iRoger Kay, 1612: the nave
from Sa.li!fuury, and I'3 ·sou.l!h-east lfrom Devizes, in the was restored in 11878 : there are xgs sittings. The regis-
Ea.stern division of the county, hundred of Elstub and ter dates from the year 1623. The living is a rectory,
Everleigh, p-etty sessional division of FJVerleigh and yearly value commuted tithe rent-chal'ge £461, average
Pewsey, Pewsey union, Devizes county court district, £344• net income £312, with residence and 30 acre& of
rural deanery of Pott.erne (Enford portion), arohdeaoconry glebe land, in the gift of Magdalen College, Oxford, and
of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. !The church of All held since 1886 by the •Rev. Waiter Hercules Kewley

Saints is a building of flint and stone, in the Decorated M.A. and fOTmerly chap:ain of that college. There are
end Early English styles, consistin~ of a small C'hancel, the following charities yearly, Mr. Clerk's, £12; Rev.
clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles and south porch, Roger Kay's, £2; T. Jay's, £4; and Mrs. Buckenham's,
with a we~tern tower and spire containing 5 bells: it £2 .Jos. partly f()r the school and partly- for the poor, and
contains stweral monuments to the Beach family : the payment lfor t,wo sermons to be preached. The Rt.
east window is stained in memory of the Rev. W. Hon. Sir M. E. Ricks-Beach bart. P.C.• M.P. is lord of

106 FITTLETOS. "riLTSHIRE. [ KELLY's

the manor and principal landowner. The soil is light Endowed :Kational School, built in 1735, !& addiHomH
and chaJky; su1bsoil, chalk. 'fhe chief crops are wheat, room added in 1872, for 120 children; average atten-
bar~ey and oatr>. IT!he area is 3,179 acres; ratea.ble value, dance, 66; & supported cin par.t iby the endowment

£I,'?JI2; the population in 1891 was 328. above menti:oned; Mrs. Sophia E. Capel, mistress

tHaxton (or Hacldeston) is a tithing adjoining.

Sexton, Geol'ge Hiscock. Carriers to
• Letters, through ~far~bo<rough, .arrive at 9 a.m. &

through Netheravon, .AmeSbury, 4.25 p.m. Nether- Dsvizes----4Rolbert Sawyer, thurs

avon ,is tJhe nearest money order & telegraph office. Salisbury-Jtdbert Sawyer, tues. thurs. & 1sat

Wall Letter Box cleared at 10 a.m. & 4.25 p.m Salis'bury-iHe11JeTt Toomer, tues. .thurs. & sat

Kewley Rev. WaHer Hercules :M..A. Dawes George, head1 grurden.er to the Sa~wyer Robeo:t, shopkpr. & carrier

Rootory Rt. Hon. Sir rM. E. Hickis-Beach S:heppard. Samue~, farmer

COMMERCIAL. hart. P.C., M.P. Taplin Diana (MiSis-), slhopkeeper

13urry George, farmer, Fibtle.ton house Harris Alfred, farmer Tilley Ht'lnry, tailor

J<'ordJer J'Oilm, boot & shoe maker Rowe!:J. Lucy (~rs. ), shopkeeper Toomer He·rbe.rt, carrier

Hale Alfr~', plnmber Notley Hy. Ohas•. farrmer, Haxton h~ Yootes Isaac, thatcher

FONTHILL :BISHOP (or Bishop's Fonl:ihi[) is a small charity, dispensed by the rector and churohwar•

village and! parish, 3 miles north 1rom ,the Tisbury sta- dens. The Bishop of Wdnches"ter is lord oi the mattv:::-.

tion on the .Salisbury and: Yeovil ibranch of the London .A1fred L\iorrison esq. Fonthill Hou:,e, Fonthill Gifforo, is

and South Western railway, 14 we:st from Salisbury, and principal landowner. r.I':b.e soil is chalky loam; subsoil,

10 north-east from. lSha.ftesbury, in the Southern division chalk and stone. rrhe chief •crops are whea,t, barley,

of the count'Y, Downton hundred, TisbuTy petty ses·sional oats and some land in pasturage. The area is 1,733

c:llivision and union, IS'haltesbury county court district, acres; ratea·ble value, [1,072; the population in 1891

Ohalk rural deanery ('Thslbury portion), archdea.conry and was 165.

diocese of Sa1islbury. 'The church o.f All 'Saints is a pure Sexton, ifames Buckland.

cruciform stone structure, about 700 years old, origin· Post Office.-Fredi Smith, 1S'U'b-postma~ter. Letters from

ally in the :Kmman style, and oonl>i:;ting of chancel, SaliS~bury 'by mail c.art, arrive at 5·55 a.m.; di>-

nave and two transepts and south porch: its tower rises patched at 6.55 p.m. The nearest m·oney order & tele-

from the centre of the ibuilding and contains 2 bells: in graph office is- at Hindon

1871 the chancel was rebu.ilt at the expense of the latP Wall Letter Box, Sa:islbury road, clearPd a.t 6.40 p.m

rector, and the whole church was- thoroughly restored Free t:::;chool .for 16 poor children, end10wed with £10

in 1•879 at the cost of 'fih()ma.s• Sheldon esq. of Clevedon, annually, left rby .Abijah rClark, in the year 1847, the

\his brother, Mr. \Yyatt. rbeing the architect: there are cost of erectinl! the schoolhouse being defrayed by

125 s-ittings. Tlhe register.,. date from the year 1754. voluntary contrilbut.ions, has of late yeaTs ibeen formed

T.he living is a rectory, avera.ge tithe rent-charge [197, ·by the Oharity Commissioners into a National school.

gross yearly value [206, net £160, including 4~ acre. to hold· 6o children; average attendance, 4'5; & is sup·

of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bi8hop of Ox- parted in part by the endowment of A'bijah Clark, the

ford, and held since 1•892 'by the Rev. \v;i:Iiam Middleton government grant & subscription; :\1iss Mary Uphill,

Bone M.A. of Pembroke College, OXJford. Tlhere is a tnistress lKemp Thos. Jas. King's .A:rm·s P.H

Bone Rev. Wm.:MididletDn M..A.Rec•tD•ry jBairn('S Henry, dairymam

Chermsci!de Mlvs. Kingstea·d Ooombs George Percival, farmer Smith· Fred, grocer, Post office

FONTHILL GIFFORD is a parish, 2 miles from Sir J\Iichael l&o'bert Shaw-Stewart bart. and held since

Tis'bury station on the Salisbury and Yeovil branch of 1886 by the Rev. William iHenry Lewis M..A. of Lincoln
the London and Sout•h Western railway, :6 west from College, OxJord'. He~Te i'S a Congregational chapel. In

Saliisbury, and 9! north-east from .Sha:ftesibu:ry, in the the neighbourhDod are the downs, now nearly covered with

Southern division of the county, Dunworth hundred, woods aud pastures: it was here, on the side of o.ne of
Tis-bury petty se1ssional division and union, Shaftes'bury these natural elevations, that the late Mr. Beckford erected
county court district, Chalke rural deanery (Tisbut'y that mode.rn display of architectural grandeur called Fon~

portion), al"chdeaoonry and dioce;se of Salisbury. The hill .A.blbey, whioh ;had a magnificent octangular tower,

adjunct Gifford seems to have come from a family that full 300 feet high, visilble ·from an eminenee at 20 miles'
held this with 14 other manors in Wilts soon after the distance on the London road, 4 mi:es before entering the
Conquest. ..A stream which rises in the parish flows ci.ty of Sa1is'b.ury: the rbuild·ing,. when standing, excited

onwardis to Tisibury, thence to Saiis'bury. The church great curiosity, but it had unfortunately more preten-
of the .Holy Trinity, 'built in 1'866, at the cost o·f the tiousnes·s than solid~ty, for soon after it had passed into
late Marquess of Westminster, stands on the site of the the hand's· of John \Farquha.r esq. of 'London, the central
chuTc:h built by .Alderman Beckford, and the style of .tower, on account of its defective foundati{)ns. came to
architecture is that of •France in the earlier part of the t,he ground on 1St. Thomas' Day, 1825, levelling in it•s
qth century: it has chance[ with apsidal end, nave, fall the whQile of the western part Olf the .A.hbey: the

north and south transepts, porches and a vestry pro- structure was never repaired, but was soon after sold
jeding on the north ·slide: at the south-west angle i.s a and the ruins removed. The estate and land in the

tower containing one bell, Wlith pinnacles and spire: the pal'ish is now divided, .AHredJ Morrison esq. possessing
interior is lined with fine white Bath stone, ornamented the old park and :Sir M. tR. Shaw-.Stewart bart. the re-

breast h·igh with a .string-course of .greenstone; two equal maining portion of ther>e beautiful grounds, inc~uding

arohes, supported by columns of Devonshire marb:e, with the site on which stood the .Aibbey, near which the
f!culiptured capitals of freestone, .separate the transepts Marquess of \Yes.tminster erected .J:he 'Present splendid
from the nave, and the ohancel arclh :iJs, supported by Fonthill .Ablbey, the seat {)f Sir ~iichael Robert Shaw-

columns of green Irish marble, the arch being groined, Stewart. bart. D.L., J.P. 'Fonthill House, the seat of
with moulded ribs springing from PuT'beck marible .Alfred 1Morrison esq. D.L., J.P., F.R.G.'S. is seated ~n

columns; the apse has fine Eall'ly English windows: park-like grounds containing a large lake. Tlhe soil in
there are two ~inquefoil windows on the north side of some parts is •sand and in others· heavy clay land; sub-

the chancel, and' at the west end, albove two Early :Eng- soil, clay and gravel and chalk. The chief crops are
lish windows, divided lby a !buttress, 1s a nne cucular whea.t, barley, oat;; and ·SOme land in pa,>turage. Th,e

stained window: the pulpit, which lis of alabaster, reJst- area is 964 acres; rateable value, [2,01 8; the popula-

ing on a •bas·e Olf marlble, sculptured' with the heads of tion in 1891 was 427·

the lfour Evangelists, and the /font, which is of freestone, Wall Letter Box cleared at Q a.m. & 6.20 p.m. ; sunday11,

supported 'by a column of green ma!"ble, were given by 9.30 a.n1. Letters from Salisbury, via Tisbury, wh.ich

Alfred MorrisDn esq. of Fonthill House. The date of is also the nearest money order & telegraph office, ar•
foundation stone of the old C'hurch, built into the wall of rive at 8 a.m. & 5 p.m
the vest:ry of the new, is May 18th, 1748. The regtis.ter Na:tional 'School (mixed), built in 1867, & a new c:aS's
dates from the year 1518. The living is a rectory, aver- room added 188g, for 8o children; average attendance,
age tithe rent-charge £240, gr01~s yearly value £278, net 57; & supported ·by Sir Michael Robert & Lady Octav.ia

£240, with 38 a·cres of glelbe and residence, in the gift of Shaw-iStewart; Miss Clara H. Henville, mjstress

Lewis• Rev. William Hy. 'M..A. Rectory Tucker Surg.-:MajGr Thos. Jvhn, Dean Sihaw-lS•tewa.rt Waiter Richard, farmea-,

Morrison Ai:frred. F.R.G.S., D.L., J.P. ilrouse (P101stal address, Hindon) Bmwick fa:rm

Foothill house Oouge John., iheadl gamekeeper to Tibt EdrgaT, Becklford Arms hotel,

S!h8iw S.tewa:rt Sir Michael Robt. hart. .Alfred' Morrisoo esq brewer, malt.ster & farmer

D.L., J.P. Fo.nthill albbey Jesty John Jesse, road surveyor & West Jlames, furestell' to Silr Michael

Shaw-Ste•wrurt Waiter Richal'd J.P. .samtall'y linspecttor Robert Shaw-Stewart bart

Berwick bQIIlse Baker Saml. cal'pelllter & wheelwll'iglht WhitJtfl.e Wm.Dampier,fanner,Stop frm

DffiECTORY.J WILTSHIRE. FROXFIELD. 107

FOSBUltY is a hamlet and eccles!astiool parish, pars·onage hous.e was built by the late R. C. L. Bevan

formed in 1856 out of the parishe~ of Tidcombe and esq. :F•osbury Manor is the seat of Francis .Augustus

Shalbourne (Berb), s! mjles s~mth from Grafton station Bevan esq. who is the sole landowner. The soil is light;

on the Midland and South Wes>tern Junotion railway, subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley
and 6 south from Bedwyn station on the Newbury and and turnips. The area is 2,6oo aores ; the population in
Devizes section of the Great Western railway, and about 1891 was 122 in Wilts, and 133 in Berks.
6 south-west from Hungerford; in the Eastern division Parish Clerk, Fosbury, John Rolfe.
of the county, Kinwardstone hundred, Marlborough pettr
sessional division, Hungel'fOTd union and county oourt Post Office.-Mrs. Elizabeth Hoare, sub-po!rtmisltress.
district, rural deanery of Marlborouglh (Pewsey portion), , Letters from Hungerf.ord, arrive rut 8 a.m.; dis-
e.rc'hdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. Christ pwtched at 4.30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here,
Church, built and endowed by the la.te R. C. L. Bevan but not paid. The nearest money order office is at Shal·
esq. is a handsome &tructure of flint and stone, in the bourne & telegraph offices at Bedwyn & Burbage

Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave and Parish SCJhool (mixed), with residence, built by the late
sout•h porch, with a western tower and spire, containing R. C. L. Bev-an esq. in 1851, for 120 children; average
one bell and clock: there ar.e 250 sibtings. The register attendance, 8o
dates from the year 1856.. The living is a perpetual There is also a free lending library with 450 volumes
curacy, net yearly value £240, with residence, in the attached to the school
gif·t of trustees, and held by the Rev. Alfred George Oarrier.-.A. Dopson, to Hungerford, wed. & sat. ; to
Lawe M. A. of Corpus Ghristi colleg·e, Cambridge: the Andover, fri

Bevan Fras. Augustus, Fosbury manor\Westmacott George Richard, steward JWallis Archibald, Fosbury farm
Lawe Rev. .Alfd. Geo. M.A. Parsonage t-o F . .A. Bevan esq

FOVANT is a parish and village, ~ mileS' south-w~st 1 College, Oxford. Here is a Congregational chapel. A

from Dinton ·station on the Salisbury and Yeovil branch Church Hall was erected here in 1885, given by the Rev.
of the London and South Western railway and 7 west Alfred Ear:e, on a site granted by the Earl of Pembroke,
from Wilton, in the Southern divislion of the county, availab:e for all church purposes, also for the use of
hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, Salisbury and Ames- working men in the village for reading and recreation.
bury petty sessional division, Salisbury county court The Earl of Pembrol•e is lord of the manor and chief
district, Wilton union, Ohalke rural deanery (Chalke landowner. The soil is loam; subsoi~, chalk and flint.
portion), archdeaconry of Sarum, and diocese of Salis- The chief crops are wheat, oats, and barley. The area
bury. The church of St. George is an ancient Norman is 2,076 acres; rateable value, £2,727; the population
stone structure : it has a doub:e chancel, nave of four in 1891 was 506.
bays, aisJ.es~ a fine challlceJl door, and a tower at the Parish Clerk, George Futcher.
west-ern extremity, terminating in battlements, contain-
ing 5 bells, and has a striking stained east window to Post Office.-Thomas Lever, sub-postmaster. Letters

the memory of Lord Herbert of Lea, also two other from Salisbury are delivered at 6 a. m.; dispatched
stained windows in the chancel and one at the west end at 7.40 p.m. on week days; 7.40 sundays. Postal
given by contributions raised in the parish : the in- orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
terior ·waSI refitted with open benches, and re-decorated money order & telegraph office is at Dinton
in 1863: it will seat about 300 persons. The register Wall Letter Box, Fovant Elm, cleared at 6.45 p.m.
dates from the year 1541. The living is a rectory, week days; 12 noon on sundays
average tithe rent-charge £411, gross yearly value National Schoo1 (mixed), built in 1847, for 150 children;
£441, net about £350, including 48 acres of g:ebe, with average attendance, 68 ; Miss Georgina Fussell, mist
residenoe, in the gift of the Earl of Pembroke, and held Carriers to Salisbury.-George Read, tues & sat.; Hy.
since 1890 by the Rev. Alfred Earle M.A. of Magdalen Jarvis, tues. & sat

Clay Challoner, Manor house Cole Fdk. Hy. Pembroke Arms P.H Jarvis Henry, blacksmith & carrier

Earle Rev. Alfred M.A. (rector) Cowdry Rhoda (Mrs.),baker & shopkpr Lever Alfred, carpenter & builder

Foyle John, tailor Lever Sidney, blacksmith & carpenter

COMMERCIAL. l<'utcher George, farmer & parish Lever Thomas,postmaster & carpenter

Bracher Eliza (Mrs.), dairykeeper clerk, East farm Read Geo. Cross Keys P.H. & carrier

Clay Challoner L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon, Fukher James, farmer, West farm Read Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper

& medical officer & public vaccinator Green Jas. Chas. butcher & farmer Simper Thomas, farmer

Fovant dist.Wilton union, Manor ho Hitchings J olm, watercress grower

FOXLEY is a small village and parish, bounded on living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £111, gross

the north by the river Avon, 3 miles south-west from yearly value £194, net £170, with residence, in the
Ma~mesbury terminal station on a branch of the Great gift of Lord Lilford, and held since 1892 by the Rev.
Western railway and 10 north-west from Chippenham, George Lewis Pitt B.A. of University College, Durham,
in tbe North Western division of the county, hundred,
uwho is also rector of Bremilham. Lord Lilford owns the
union, petty sessional divis.ion and county court district
of Malmesbury, rural deanery of Malmesbury, archdea- manor and is the principal landowner. The soil
conry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. brashy; subsOtil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, bar-
ley and roots. The area is 720 acres·; rateable value,
The church (dedicat.ion not known) is a stone building
consisting of a chancel, nave with north chapel, south £772; the population in 1891 was g6.
Parish Clerk, Arthur Scutts.

porch, and a square western tower containing one bell: Letters through Malmesbury, which is the nearest money

two stained windows have been placed in the chancel to order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m
the Rev. William Carter, many years curate of the

parish, and to members of his family: the chapel con- Wall Letter Box, cleared at II-45 a. m

tainSJ a memorial to the Ayliffe family: there are 170 National School, for 30 children; average attendanc~.

sittings. The register dates from the year 1715. The 20; Mis.s. Emily Rooke, mistress

Pitt Rev. Geo. Lewis B.A. Rector I Goodfield John, Royal Oak P.H I Warner Edward, farm-er
.
FROXFil!:LD is a straggling parish, on the Bath the Marquess of Ailesbury, who is lord of the manor,
road and the Berkshire border, 2! miles west-by-south and Francis William Leyborne-Popham esq. of Littlecote,

from llungerford station, on the Great Western rail- Ramsbury. The soil is gravel; subsoil, flinty. The

way, and 7 east from Marlborough, in the eastern divi- chief crops are wheat, barley and oats; the area is

sion of the county, hundred of Kinwardstone, petty ses- 2,214 acres; rateable va~ue, £1,864; the population in

saonal divis.ion of Marlborough and Ramsbury, Hunger- 1891 was 390.

ford union and county court district, rural deanery of Hughditch, x! miles north-west, Oakhill, i south-east,
Marlborough (Marlborough portion), archdeaconry of
Wilts and diocese of Salisbury; the Kennet and Avon and Rudge, I west, are tithings of Froxfield.

canal pa~ses through here. The church of All Saints, Pal'ish Clerk, John Humphries.

standing on an eminence west of the village, is a brick Somerset Hospital (Almshouses).
building, in the Early English style, consisting of a

chancel with low tile roof and wooden belfry and 2 bells : Froxfield is most notable for the almshouses, or Somer-

there are xso sittings. The register dates from the set Hospital, founded in 1686 by Sarah, Duchess

year 1561. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value Dowager of Somerset, who bequeathed landed & othe:r

£:.:46, net £230, with 51 acres of glebe and residence, property for its erection & for the maintenance of 30

in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held widows; 20 apartments were added to the building in

since 188o by the Rev. Robert Canning Stiles M.A. of 1773, & the revenues, having since increased, enable

Brasenose College, Oxford. The principal landowners are the trust~es to afford asylum. with an allowance of

108 fROXF1ELD, 'YILTSHIRE. (KELLY's

£36 each yearly, to so widows: owing to the depre- List (A). Lay.-H. N. Goddard esq. Clyffe tnanor.
ciation of the value of agricultural produce only 21 Wootton Bassett; G. C. Walker-Heneage esq. Camp-

widows, with an allowance of [26 each annually, al'e ton Bassett, Calne; A. L. Goddard esq. The Lawn,
now (1894) afforded asylums: the building is an Swindon; Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood, Calne;
oblong quadrangle, with small chapel within it, erected C. E. H. A. Colston esq. M.P. Roundway park,
by Thomas, formerly Earl of Ailesbury, the minister Devizes; W. H. Long esq. M.P. 97 Eaton place, Lon-
of which has an annual stipend of £so: 30 widows of don S.W.; Major Walker-Heneage V.C. Compton
laymen & 20 widows of clergymen, from different Bassett, Calne; G. T. J. Sotheron-Estcourt esq. Est-
parts of England, within ISO miles of London, are court, Tetbury; Marquess of Ailesbury, 36 Eaton
eligible to this charity: the trustees, 12 in number, place, London SW; Francis William Leyborne-
-who are chosen from the nobility & ,gentry of the .Popham esq. Littlecote; Fitzroy P. Goddard esq. The
county, nominate the steward & chaplain of the es- Lawn, Swindon; J. C. P. Calley esq. Burderop park,
tablishment. Swindon

Lay Widows.-The Trustees will present as vacancies List (B.), Clergy & M.anor.-H. N. Goddard esq.; Lieu-
occur, according to the rotation in list (A). Wilts, tenant-Colonel Marques.s of Ailesbury, 36 Eaton
Berks & Somerset, S; London & Westminster, S; place, London SW; A, L. Goddard esq.; Mar-
counties at large, any place within 1so miles of quess of Lansdowne; J. C. P. Calley esq.; G. C.
London, except Wilts, Berks & Somerset, 10 ; & Walker-Heneage esq.; Major Walker-Heneage V.C.;
according to the rotation in list (B). Manors of G. T. J. Sotheron-Estcourt esq.; C. E. H. A. Colston
Froxfield, Huish & Shaw, Broad-Town, Wootton esq. M.P.; F. W. Leyborne-Popham esq.; F. P.
Rivers & Thornhill, in Wilts, 10; total lay widows 30 Goddard· esq. ; W. H. Long esq. M.P

Clergy Widows.-The Trustees will present according Chaplain, Rev. R. C. Stiles
to the list (B). Wilts, Berks & Somerset, IO; Officiating Minister, Rev. H. F. Grove M.A
London & 'Westminster, S; counties at large (see Medical Officer, J. B. Maurice M.D. Marlborough
Steward, E. B. Merriman, Marlborough
above), 5 ; total clergy widows........................... 20
Post Office.-William Naish, sub-postmaster. Letters
_ arrive by foot post from Hungerford, the nearest
money order & telegraph office, at 7 a.m. & dis-
Total number of widows ............ 50 patched at 6.30 p.m. Pos•tal orders are issued here,
but not paid
lYidows eligible for nominations must be such as shall
be settled in some parish within the district from Wall Box, outside Hospital, cleared at xo.IO a.m. &
whence they are to be selected, or 6.30 p.m. ; sundays 12.s p.m

·whose last place of residence shall have usually been Parochial School (mixed), rebuilt in I88S, for 6o chil-
within such district for the space of forty days pre- dren; average attendance, 4S ; George Capener, mastr
vious to the vacancy
Carrier, between Hungerford & Marlboro'. passes tues.
.As the trustees present in rotation, application to them & sat

individually is the only mode of obtaining a nomination Carrier to Hungerford, mon. wed. fri. & sat. C. Holmes

.Bleeck Mrs. William, Rectory home Beard Howard, carpenter Humphries Jn. blksmth.& parish clerk
Naish Wm. bricklayer & baker,Post off
Chaplin Henry, Rudge Brooks: Matthew, farmer, Oakhill Piggott Alfred, farmer, Rudge
Redman Thomas, farmer, Manor
Redman John Chamberlain William, farmer, Rudge Savage Samuel, grocer & draper
Wise Edmund, saddler & harness ma
Stiles Rev. Robt. Canning M.A. (vicar) Cox George, farmer, Rudge

COMMERCIAL. Holmes Charles, carrier

13eard Elizabeth (Mrs.), Pelican P.H Holmes Edward, brick~ayer

FUGGLESTONE ST. PETER (commonly called architecture, and consists of chancel, nave, and a small
Foulstone) is a village, adjoining Wilton, at the junction wooden turret: the chancel windows are stained: there
of the riv·ers Wiley and Naddar, 3 miles wes·t from are 30 sittings: the rectory house, where George
Salisbury, in the Southern division of the county, hun- Herbert lived for 2' years as: rector until his death in
dred of Branch and Dole, petty sessional division of 1632, is prettily situated on the banks at the junction
Salisbury and Amesbury, Wilton union, Salisbury county
court district., Wilton rural deanery, archdeaconry of of the rivers Naddar and Willey: in the grounds is a.
Sarum, and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St.
Peter is a small ·sione building, consisting of chancel, medlar tree, said to have been planted by George
nave, south porch, and a small western turret containing Herbert, and on the front of the house is the following
3 bells: it was repaired about 1848, and has 70 sittings. inscription, composed by him:-
'The register dates from the year IS68. The living is a
rectory, with the chapelry of Bemerton annexed, average "If thou chance for to find
tithe rent-charge [420, joint gross yearly value £412, A new house to thy mind
net [14o, with residencP- and 4 acre.s of glebe, in the And built without thy cost,
gift of the Earl of Pembroke, and held since IBgo by Be good to the poor,
the Rev. Francis Warre M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford, As God gives thee store,
canon and prebendary of Salisbury, and surrogate. St. And then my labour's not lost."
Giles' Hospital, founded in the I2th century by Adeliza,
e;econd wife of Henry I. for the reception of lepers, com- Bemerton Lodge, the seat of William Corbin Finch M.D.
prises five cottages in the occupation of three brethren is a handsome mansion in the Italian style, prettily
and two sisters, with an income of £g8, distributed in situated in extensive and well-kept grounds; it contains
money amongst the brethren and sisters. St. Mary marble busts by Noble of T. R. H. the Prince and
Magdalen's Hospital, with an income of £I4S yearly, Princess of ·waleSA, and a good selection of pictures,
consists of six cottages, for six superannuated ·!ervants amongst others a very fine one by Rubens, subject,
" The Garden of the Hesperides," and a landscape by
of the Earl of Pembroke, who is lord of the manor and Cuyp, subject, "Evening:" H. R. H. the Prince of
Wales stayed here eight days during the autumn man-
the principal landowner. The soil is alluvial and clay; reuvres in September, I872·
subsoil, gravel and chalk. The chief crops are wheat,
Quidhampton is a hamlet half-way between Bemerton
barley and green crops. The area is 1,778 acres of and FuggleSAtone.
1and and 40 of water; rateable value, £8,482 ; the popu- Letters through Salisbury, arrive at 8 & II.30 a.m. &
1ation in x8gx wa.g, I,o6o.
6. IS p.m. The nearest money order offices are at
Parish Clerk, John Ewence. Fisherton & Wilton & telegraph office at Wilton
BEMERTON is a chapelry, I mile from Salisbury. St.
John's church was erected in 186o: it is a stone build- Post Office, Bemerton.-Mrs. Eliza. Wilson, sub-postmis-
tress. Letters dispatched at 12·S0• 4·S0 & 8.so p.m.
in!? in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, Fisherton is the nearest money order office, & Salis-
nave of three bays, aisles, s~mth porch and -squa.re bury station the nearest telegraph office
tower, having a turret on the north-west angle contain-
Wall Letter Box, Lower road.-Collections, 7 a.m.;
ing a set of tubular bells: the cost was about £s,ooo:
it was erected by subscription as a memorial to George 12·4S & 6. 2S p.m. ; sundays 7 a. m
Herbert: there are 2so sittin.gs: the old church of St. National School, with residence for master & mistress,
.Andrew, in which he officiated, was restored in 1866
and is used for daily service: it is in a mixed style of erected in 187o, chiefly at the expense of the Earl of
Pembroke, for 140 children; average attendance, I3S;
Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Hibberd, master & mistress

FUGGLESTONE ST. PETER. Taunton Silas John, farmer Andrews Mrs. x Rose cottages.
Best Mrs. Montgomery terrace
Ni11;hting-ale Miss, The Mount BEMERTON. Bouffler George

Challisr Thomas, head gardener to the PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bradley William
Carwardine Miss
Earl of Pembroke Alexander Edward

t>ffi~CTORY.] WILTSHIRE. EAST GRAFTON. 109

Collier Rev. John Thomas Taylor Edmund White Joshua, baker

Farrant George Herbert Tutt Samuel Y. 4 Lansdowne Wilson Eliza (Mrs.), grocer & post oft'

Farrant Mrs Warre Rev. Francis M.A. (prebendary Wilson Wm.Bishop,HalfWayHouse P.H

Farrant Misses, Manor house of Sarum), The Rectory Yates James, farmer, Brickbat farm

Finch Wm. Corbin M.D. Bemerton lo White Charles, Blenheim house

Hansars· H. Luke, The Hermitage Wilton Col. Wm. H. Stamon, Tower ho QUIDHAMPTON.
Lipscombe Miss

Major Weston COMMERCIAL. Topp John H. P. Poplar villa

Malpas Mrs. Montgomery terrace Deacon & Bundy, brick makers Andrewes Mrs. shopkeeper

Pern Frederick, 9 Montgomery terrace Farrant Geo. Herbert, corn merchant Coombes St.ephen, 'l'he Bell P.H

Powell John Alexander Tyndale J.P. Kellow Richard W. builder Crebo Peter Toms, shopkeeper

Riversfield Kelsey Chas. tax coll. 3 Stanhope vils Everett Thomas, White Horse P.H

Read William, Albert villas Longman Henry P. shopkeeper Fry J osiah, grocer

Ross Alexander Major Edward Herbert, assist.overseer Lampard John, grocer

Sly Mrs. Stanhope villa Stockmar Fraulein, teacher of German, Pinchin Charles, farmer

Staples George, 2 Stanhope villas Gorringe road Tabor John, carpenter

Sweatman Miss, Myrtle cottage Smith George, nurseryman Young Alfred, blacksmith

FYFIELD is a parish and small village on the road gross yearly value £470, net £350, including 234 acres
from Marlborough to Bath and on the river Kennet, 3 of glebe. with residence, in the gift of Sir Henry Bruce

miles west from Marlborough terminal station on a Meux hart. and held since 1875 by the Rev. Frederick

branch of the Great Western railway, in the Eastern William Welburn. of Jesus College, Cambridge, who re-

division of the county, Elstub hundred and county court sides at West Overton. On the downs are a cromlech
district, petty S~essional division of Marlborough and and other Iberian remains. Sir Henry Bruce Meux
Ramsey, Mar1borough union, rural deanery of Avebury hart. of Dauntsey, is lord of the manor and principal

(Cannings portion), archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese landowner. The soil is loamy; subsoil, chalky. The

of Salisbury. The church of St. Nicholas is an o:d chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is 1,087

stone building in the Early English style: it has chancel, acres; rateable value, £766; the population in 1891
which has been restored, nave of three bays, wuth aisle was· 152.

and ancient embattled western tower with four pinnacles Sextoness, Mrs. Ann ·waite.
Wall Letter Box.-C~eared at 7·5 p.m. week days &
and 3 bells, and porch: the front of the gallery is of oak,
beautifully carved, representing the Crucifixion, Resur- 11.15 a.m. on sundays. Letters through Marlborough,
rection and Ascension: there are 200 sittings. The arrive at 7.30 & 10.55 a.m. The nearest money order
register dates from the year 1682. The living is a & telegraph office is at West Overton
vicarage, which, together with the chapelry of Alton National Schools have been built for this parish & Over-
Priors, is annexed to the vicarage of West Overton, joint ton at Lockeridge (see ·west Overton)

Crees Harry Victor, farm bai:iff to Bishop William, shopkeeper Smith George, blacksmith & Fighting

Messrs. B. W. Crees & Sons, Fyfield Cartwright Geo.stone mason& coal dlr Cocks P.H

farm Crump Thomas John, farmer

GARSDON is a scattered village and parish, 5! miles made here. Sir Lawrence Washington purchased th~
west from Minety station on the Swindon and Glou- manor of Garsdon from the Moody family, about r64o.
In this parish is an old mansion, formerly the residence
cester section, and z! north-east from Malmesbury ter- of Sir Lawrence ·washington, and afterwards of the first
Earl Ferrers, who married Elizabeth, the granddaughter
minal station, on a branch of the Great Western railway, of Sir Lawrence ·washington; in this parish church there
on the North Western division of the county, hundred, are the graves of five members of the Washington
petty sessional division, union and county court district family, from which family the descent of George Wash-
of Malmesbury, rural deanery of Malmesbury, arch- ington, the· American patriot, is traced ; it was ulso
deaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. from the English branch of the family that the American
The church of All Saints, pleasantly situate on an emi- stars and stripes were originated, as they constituted a;
nence, is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, portion of the family coat of arms: it appears from
nave with south porch, and a square embattled western Aubrey's Collections, that King Henry VIII. falling
tower, with pinnacles, containing a peal of Harrington's from his horse when he was hawking, fell on his !,cad
tubular bells: in the church are the remains of a monu- in the mud, with which being fat and heavy he had
mental slab to Sir Lawrence Washington knt. (ancestor been suffocated to death, had he not been timely re-
of George ·washington, the American patriot), who was lieved by his footman Moody, for which service, after th&
buried here in 1643: the communion plate, consisting dissolution of the abbeys, he gave him the manor of
of a flagon, two chalices and one paten of massive silver, Garsdon; a portion of the manor house still remains.
bears the date 1684, the. gift of Lady Pargiter, widow and is used as a farmhouse. The Earl of Suffolk and
of Sir Lawrence Washington, presented the year before Berkshire is lord of the manor and the principal land-
her decease; each piece bears the following inscription, owner. The soil is loamy; subsoil, stones and clay.
The land is chiefly pasture. The area is 1,089 acres;
" This was given by the Lady Pargiter to Garsden rateable value, £1,407; the population in 1891 was 141.
church: shee was formerly wife to Lawrence 'Washington
esq. who both lye buryed here:" there are 180 sittings. Parish Clerk, John Slade.

The register dates from the year I737· The living is a Letters through Malmesbury, which is the nearest money
rectory, with the vicarage of Lea annexed, average tithe order & telegraph office, arrive at 8 a.m. Wall Letter
Box, cleared at 7-20 p.m. during summer, 6.50 p.m.
rent-charge £zo8, joint yearly value £359. net ,£3o8, winter, week days only

including 6r acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift The children of this parish attend the school at Lea.
of H. H. Balton esq. of Newchurch, Lancs. and held

since 1892 by the Rev. Reynell Wreford Hay M.A. of
Christ's College, Cambridge. The Primitive Methodist~;

have a chapel here. Pottery, bricks and drain pipes are

Hay Rev. Reynell Wreford M.A.Rectry FranciS' Ann (Miss), farmer,Heath frm Stoneham Thos. shopkeeper & mason

COMMERCIAl,. Hayes William Orchard, farmer Stratton & Kaynes, millers (water &

Panting John Edward, brick, tile,drain Sisum Charles, farmer, Manor farm steam) & machinists (agricultural)"

pipe, flower & chimney pot manufac- Stokes Leonard Pascho, farmer, Vincent William, haulier

turer, Garsden brick works; & at Park farm Young George, farmer

Malmesbury. See advertisement Stoneham Henry, shopkeeper

EAST GRAFTON, formerly a hamlet, but since 1894- the Midland and South Western Junction railway, and
a civil parish, it having been formed into an. eccle- is about 7 miles south-east from Marlborough. The
siastical parish, from Great Bedwyn, 1844, together church of St. Nicholas, at East Grafton, a modern stone
with West Grafton, Marten, Wilton, Wexcombe, Wolf- building in the Norman style, the site and endowment of

hall, and part of Kinwardstone. Crofton (here are which were given by the 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury,
pumping works connected with the Kennet and Avon consists of chancel, nave of four bays, west porch, aisles.
canal), and Wexcombe (the property of William Corbin and western tower containing 2 bells: there are 300

Finch M.D. 1,707 acres in extent), 3 miles south from sittings. The register dates from the year 1844. The-

Great Bedwyn, are included in this parish. The parish living is a vicarage, net yearly value £zoo, in the gift of

is in the Eastern division of the county, Kinwardstone the vicar of Great Bedwyn, and held since 1884 by the
hundred, Marlborough petty sessional division, Hunger- Rev. Edward Murray Salmon M.A. of Jesus College,
ford union and county court district, rural deanery of Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Wilton and
Marlborough (Pk"!wsey portion), archdeaconry of Wilts a Primitive Methodist chapel at Wexcombe. Wulfhall

and diocese of Salisbury. East Grafton has a station on I or Wolf Hall, was the ancient seat of the Seymours, t•r

•

110 EAST GRAFTON. WILTSHIRE.

St. Maurs, one of whom, Sir John Seymour, who diecl master. Letters for East Grafton, Wilton & Crofto~
in 1536, had three children, all of whom became I·e- arrive from Marlborough, through Bnrbage ; delivered
markable-viz.: Jane Seymour, Queen of Henry VIII.; 7.30 a.m.; box closes 6.30 p.m. week days, 10 a.m,
Edward Seymour, the Protector, beheaded; and Admiral sundays. Postal orders are issued here~ but not paid,
Thomas Seymour1 who married Katharine Parr, widow The nearest telegraph & money order office is at
of Henry VIII. and was subsequently also beheaded ; Burbage
Jane Seymour was married at Wulfhall in 1536. Henry
VIII. and his entire court visited Wulf~all in 1539. The Wall Letter llox, near East Grafton station, cleared
hall is now occupied by Lord Charles Frederick Brude- 6.35 p.m.; sundays, 10 a.m
nell-Bruce J.P. The principal landowners are the Mar-
quess of Ailesbury, Charles Fanshawe esq. and William National School (mixed), East Grafton, built in 184o,
Corbin Finch M.D. The population in 1891 was 739·
for 120 children ; average attendance, 75 ; Henry
Wexcombe is 2 miles south-east. Here is a barrow,
called Long Barrow. Falkner, maste::-

Parish Clerk, Elijah Lovelock. Midlar.d & South Western Junction Railway Station,
Grafton, William John Choules, station master

Carriers.-Allan Leigh, from East Grafton to Marl-
borough, sat & Hungerford wed. ; Frederick Beavis!

Post Office, East Grafton. James Doggett, sub-post- Marlborough, sat

EAST GRA.FTON. Gee James, farmer, Suddan farm WEXCOMBE.

:Brudenell-Bruce Lord Charles Fredk. WEST GRAFTON. Finch William Corbin M.D
Dixon George, blacksmith
j J.P. Wolfhall Clarke Catherine (Miss), farmer Finch Cobin, farmer
Salmon Rev. Edwd.Murray M.A. (vicar) Cox Reuben, haulier
WILTON.

COMMERCIAL. Norris "\Villiam, farmer Batt Zabulon, farmer

.Astley Ernest Jn.saddler & harness ma CROFTON. Colthursrt, Symons & Co. brick, tile &
llooy James, farmer
pottery works (Zabulon Lee, mgr.),

llurrough "'\Villiam Henry, carpenter Bevis Frederick, farmer & carrier Dodsdown yard
Carter Elizabeth (Mrs.) (exors. of the Edwards Charles, farmer EdwardsCharlt.(Mrs.),frmr.Manor frm

late), farmer Kimber George, potato dealer Goddard David, boot & shoe shop
Daney Sarah (~Irs. ), grocer&prov.mer Tull Charles shopkeeper
Hoare Eli, grocer & baker
Davis Nellie (Miss), dress maker ' Lewis James & John, farmers

Dixon George, blacksmith MARTEN. Munday Fredk. farmer & horse dealer
Rutt David, grocer & baker
Doggett James, grocer, tea dealer & Barnes W~ll~am, Nag's Head P.H Shefford James, Swan P.H. & farmer,

provision merchant, Post office maltster & contractor

Farmer Samuel William, farmer Butler Wllham, farmer

Gauntlett George, farmer, Manor frm Farmer George, carpenter &c Shepherd James, blacksmith

EAST GRIMSTEAD, see West Dean.

WEST GRIMSTEAD is a village and parish, 3! ford. The Earl of Radnor is lord of the manor and
miles west from West Dean station on the Salisbury principal landowner. The soil is sand and clay; sub-
branch of the London and South Western railway, and soil, same. The chief crops are wheat, barley and

5 east-south-east from Salisbury, in the Southern divi- turnips. The area is 1,445 acres; rateable . value,
sion of the county, hundred and union of .Alderbury, £1,522; the population in x8gx was 215.
Salisbury and Amesbury petty sessional division, Salis-
Sexton, .Andrew .Andrews.

bury county court district, rural deanery of .Amesbury Post Office.-David Mussell, sub-postmaster. Letters
(.Alderbury portion), archdeaconry of Sarum, and dio-
cese of Salisbury. The church (dedication unknown) is from Salisbury, arrive at a8.r3e0 a.m. ; dispatched at
a small ancient stone and flint edifice, in the Norman issued here, but not
style, consisting of chancel, nave, and belfry with 2 p5.a1i5d. p.m. Postal orders
bells : there are 200 sittings. The register dates from . The nearest money order office is at West
the year 1717. The living is a rectory, average tithe
rent-charge £2oo, gross yearly value £ 220, net £ 170, Dean & telegraph office is at Alderbury
including zo acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift
Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1850, for 6o chil-
dren; average attendance, 40; Mrs. Albert Mussell,

mistress

of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since 1864 by the Carrier to Salisbury.-Hopkins' cart, tues. & sat. re-
Rev. Edward Brace Martin M.A. of Exeter College, Ox- turning same day

Martin Rev. Edwd.Brace M.A.(rector) Gumbleton Wm. Spring Cottage inn Mnssell Ann (Mrs.), farmf'r
Penn John Steven, baker & grocer
Capp Joseph, head gamekeeper to the Harding William, farmer Read David (Mrs.), farmer
Tubb & Son, cattle dealers & farmer's
Earl of Radnor D.L., J.P Hewett Edwin, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Hopkins. Edmund, baker & carrier

Fulford Mary (Mrs.), farmer Light Mark Thomas, farmer

GRITTLETON is a parish and village, on the road income £250, with residence, in the gift of Sir A. W.
from Malmesbury to Chipping Sodbury, 6 miles north- Neeld hart. and held since r864 by the Rev. Henry
west from Chippenham station on the Swindon and Bath Kearney Boldero M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge.
section of the Great Western railway, and 7 south-west The Baptists have a place of worship here. Grittleton
from Malmesbury, in the North Western division of the House, the seat of Sir Algernon William Neeld hart.
county, hundred of Damerham north, Chippenham M.A., J.P. who is lord of the manor and owner of r.ll
union, petty sessional division and county court district, the land, is a handsome building, erectea about 1856,
rural deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of Bristql and contains a fine collection of paintings and statuary.
and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of The soil is loamy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are
St. Mary is an ancient structure, in the Norman, Early wheat, barley, roots and grass. The area is 2,007
English and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave of acres ; rateable value, £2,305; the population in x8gt
four bays, aisles, porch and a western embattled tower was 360.
with pinnacles containing 5 bells, which were re-hung in Sexton, Henry Warren.
1888 at the expense of the late Sir John Nee:d hart. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
who also restored the church in xB65 entirely at his Miss Lucy Butler, receiver. Letters through Chip-

own cost: the stained east window is a memorial to penham at 7.40 a. m. & 4·55 p.m. ;· dispatched at 9.40

Joseph Neeld esq. and there are other stained windows a.:.;n. & 7·5 p.m.; no mails on sundays,., The nearest

to Col. and Mrs. Boldero, Mrs. Dickson, mother of Lady telegraph office is at Yatton Keynell

Neeld, and to other members of the family: the south Wall Letter Box, Foscott, cleared at 9.50 a. m. & 7.20

aisle was restored in 1892, and a stained east window p.m. week days only
added by Lady Neeld, in memory of her husband, Sir School (mixed), built in 1858 by the Rev. T. :B. Lan-
John Neeld bart. (d. r8gr): a stone pulpit was removed caster, in memory of the Rev. William Way Burne,
from the church at Leigh-de-la-Mere and placed here; for many years rector of this parish, for 8o children &
the old oak one, of the 17th century. was given to the enlarged in 1893, at the expense of the ).larish, for 120;

church at Baulking, Berks: there are sittings for x8o average attendance, 76; the school is chiefly sup-
persons. The register dates from the year 1573. The ported by Sir Algernon William Neeld hart. ; Miss

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £314• net Mary Foote, mistress

Boldero Rev. Hy. Kearney M.A.Rectry Neeld Sir.AlgernonWilliam bart.M.A., COMMERCIAL,

Hunt Rev. Alfred Georgp Arthur Noel J.P. Gnttleton house
B.A. (curate) Broom William, boot maker

DIRECTO~Y.] "\YILTSIDRE. HARDENHUISH. 111

Gough Henry, farmer, New Foscott Pike Sidney, farmer~ Manor farm Snell Jane (Mrs.), laundress

Hall Joseph, carpenter & blacksmith Scott John & Co. grocers & drapers Thompson Mary (Mrs.), dress maker

Hiscock Fras. farmer, upper Foscott Se:man Jacob, farmer, Clapcote Tilley George, boot & shoe maker

Kent Edward Jason, harness maker & SIPith Samuel, plasterer & tiler Whale George, tailor

Red Lion P.H Storrar Robert, estate agent to Sir Woodman Caroline (Mrs. ),drt>ss maker

Kington George, farmer, !\ewlands Algernon William Neeld hart

HAM is a village and parish, on the Berkshire border, of Winchester are lords of the manor. John Canning
4 miles south from Hungerford station on the Great esq. and Henry Deacon ·woodman esq. of the Manor
Western railway, and II south-east from Marlborough, House, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay;
in the Eastern division of the county, Elstub hundred, subsoil, sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats
petty sessional division of Marlborough and Ramsbury, and swedes. The area is 1,6o5 acres; rateable value,
Hungerford union and county court district, rural £I,23I; the population in I89I was 241.
deanery of Marlborough (Pewsey portion), archdeaconry
of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The church of All Sexton, John Haines.
Saints is a small plain structure of stone, in the Early Post Oflice.-Mrs. Prudence Pettit, sub-postmistress.
English style, and consists of chancel, nave, north porch
and square granite tower with pinnacles, containing 5 Letters arrive by foot post from Hungerford at 7-IS
bells : there are sittings for 200 persons. The. register
dates from the year I530. The living is a rectory, a.m. & dispatched at 5·35 p.m. week days only. Postal

orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
money order office is at Shalbourne & telegraph office
at Hungerford

gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £403, average Parochial School (mixed), with residence attached, built
£3I5, net income £270, including 20 acres of glebe, in I874, & supported by the rector & principal resi-
with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and dents; the building is in the Early English style; this

held since I864 by the Rev. ·Charles Sumner Burder school will hold 6o children; average attendance, SI;
M. A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. The Dean and Chapter the cost of the building was £400; Jas. Kavanagh, mast

Burder Rev.Chas.SumnerM.A.(rector) Francis Thos. Crown & Anchor P.H Pettit Prudence (Mrs.), post office
Whale Geo. carpenter & wheelwright
Hewitt William, The Spray Haines John, sexton Woodman Henry Deacon J.P. farmer

Woodman Hy. Deacon J.P. Manor ho Hercomb Geo. blacksmith & shopkpr & landowner, l\Ianor house

W oodman 1\Iisses, The Laurels Martin Thomas, farmer

HANKERTON is a village and parish, 4 miles west to £I2 yearly. The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire is
from Minety station on the Swindon and Gloucester sec- lord of th~ manor and principal landowner. The soil is
tion and 4 north-east from Malmesbury terminal station
on a branch of the Great ·western railway, in the North sandy and loamy; subsoil, clay and flints. The parish
Western division of the county, Malmesbury union, hun-
dred, petty sessional division and county court district, consists chiefly of pasture lands. The area is 2,I34
acres; rateable value, £2,485; the population in I8gx

was 335·

rural deanery of Malmesbury, archdeaconry of Bristol Cloatley is a tithing half a mile east; Bishoper, 2 miles
and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of east.
the Holy Cross is an ancient fabric of stone, in the Early
English style, consisting of nave, south porch and a fine Parish Clerk, David Cooper.

lofty western tower with 4 bells: there are sittings for Post Office. John Smith, sub-postmaster. Letters ar-
230 persons. The register dates from the year I699· rive from Malmesbury at 6.45 a.m. ; dispatched at
The living is a vicarage, commuted tithe rent-charge 6.35 p.m.; November to March at 6 p.m. Crudwell is
£280, average £2I3, net income £204, with IS acres of the nearest money order & telegraph office

glebe and residence, in the gift of the rector of Crudwell, National School (mixed), built in I86o, with house for
and held since I864 by the· Rev. William John Buckland mistress, for IOO children; average attendance, 54;
M.A. of ·worcester College, Oxford. The charities amount Mrs. Jane ·wait, mistress

Buckland Rev. lYm. John M.A. (vicar) Chivers Joseph, carrier Plnmmer Charles, farmer, Cloatley

Cole John, farmer, Cloatley Read Jonathan, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Hayward John, tiler & plasterer Shewring Albert, farmer

Beale Albert, haulier Hughes William, hurdle maker Smith John, basket maker, Post office

Beale James, farmer Knapp Francis, farmer Tanner Thomas, farmer, Cloatley

Branston Geo. farmer, Hankerton fld l\Iathews Bryant, farmer Vincent Lewin, farmer & blacksmith

Chamberlain Maurice John, farmer Norgrove George, shopkeeper \Vait William, whitesmith •

HANNINGTON is a village and parish, bounded on the widows of the second poor, partly in clothes amongst
the north by the river Thames, which here separates the the general poor, and partly in the apprenticing of boys.
county from Gloucestershire, with a station one mile Hannington Hall, the noble seat of Ambrose Denis Hussey,
south from the village on the Swindon and Highworth Freke esq. D.L., J.P. lord of the manor and principal
branch of the Great ·western railway, 2 miles north-west landowner, is in the Elizabethan style, and commands ex-
tensive views of the neighbouring country. The soil is
from Highworth, 7 north-east from Swindon and 78 from clay and gravel; subsoil, gravel. The crops are of the
usual kind, the land being principally in pasture. The
London, in the Northern division of the county, Highworth
hundred, Highworth and Swindon union, Swindon county area is 2,5I8 acres; rateable value, £3,582; the popu-

court distri9t and petty sessional division, rural deanery lation in I89I was 295.
of Cricklade, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of Glou-
Hannington "\Yick is a hamlet x mile north.
caster and Bristol. The church of St. John the Baptist
is a stone edifice in the Early English and Perpendicular p · h Cl k Alf d S "th '
styles, consisting of chancel and nave, south porch and aris &r • re mi ·

west embattled tower, containing 5 bells: the church Post Oflice.-Mrs. Isabella Bailey, sub-postmistress. Let-
contains several monuments, principally to the! Freke ters from Swindon through Highworth, arrive at 6.30
family: the chancel contains a fine reredos and a stained
window: in the south porch is a Norman doorway with a.m.; dispatched at 7·I5 p.m. week days & 7 a. m.
dog"s tooth ornaments: the interior was restored and re-
seated in I87I and has 300 sittings. The register dates sundays. Highworth is the nearest money order office.
from the year I57I. The living is a vicarage, average Highworth is the nearest telegraph office for delivery
tithe rent-charge £34, gross yearly value £II7, net £89, & the railway station for the collection of telegrams
including 6o acres of glebe, in the gift of A. D. Hussey- Parochial School (mixed), built for 6o children; average
Freke esq. and held since I848 by the Rev. Ja.mes Burn attendance, 47; Miss Ellen Lloyd, mistress
Smeaton B. A. of Queen's College, Oxford. There are Railway Station, James Bishop, station master
several charities, distributed yearly, partly in money to Carriers.-Goorge Bullock, Kempsford, through to Swin-
don; Thomas Stroud, Kempsford, through to High·
worth & Swindon

Hussey-Freke Ambrose Denis D.L., Eddolls Albt. farmer & overseer, Wick Russell James, farmer

J.P., M.A. Hannington hall Eddolls Arthur, farmer, Nell farm Smith Alfred, boot maker

Smeaton Rev. Jas. Burn B.A. Vicarage Farnlow Herbert,farm bailiff toMessrs. Snook John, miller (steam & water),

Snook Herbert, Wick Hart & Pullen, Hill farm Byde mill

Higgins J ames, farmer, Pound farm Smith Agnes (Mrs.), beer retailer

COMMERCIAL. Kinch Charles, sen. farmer, Wick Webb Charles, farmer, Manor farm

Archard George, farmer, Wick Kinch Charles, jun. farmer, Wick Webb Hy. James, Jolly Tar inn

Austin Lucy (Miss), shopkeeper Norman Frederick, gamekeeper to A. Webb James, farmer, Boxedge farm

Bailey Isabella (Mrs.), statnr. Post off D. Hussey-Freke esq Willis Alfred, mason

Hourton David, farmer Reading Room (Alfre~ Willis, sec)

B:ARDENHUISH is a. parish and small village, tl \don and Bath section of the Great Western railway, in

miles north-west from Chippenham station on the Swin· the North Western division of the county, hundred, petty

112 HAR Dl!.:~HUISH. WILTSHIRE. [ KELLY's

sessional division, union and county court district of held since 1891 by the Rev. James Loy, Lic.Theol. of the
Chippenham, rural deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconcy University of Durham. Edmund Henry Clutterbuck B.A.,

of llristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The J.P. now occupies the mansion in Hardenhuish Park,
church of St. Nicholas, erected in 1779, is a building of which extends over 30 acres. The manor belongs to the
stone, in the Romanesque style, from designs by Mr. Clutterbuck family, who are the principal landowners.
Wood, architect, of Bath, and consists of nave and apse: The soil is a rich loam; subsoil, sandy clay. The chief
there are monuments to David Ricardo M.P. the well- crops areJ wheat and barley. The area is 474 acres,; rate-

known political economist, who died at Gatcomb Park, able value, £993; the population in 1891 was 99, in-
Gloucester, nth Sept. 1823, and to other members of the eluding 8 in St. Paul, Chippenham.
Ricardo and Clutterbuck families: John Thorpe M. A. .A. part of this parish is within the ecclesiastical parish
the antiquary, who died at Chippenham, 2nd August, of St. Paul, Chippenham.
1792, is •buried here: there are 110 sittings. The register Letters arrive from Chippenham at 7 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.
dates from the year 1730. The living is a discharged The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Chip-
rectory, commuted tithe rent-charge £go, average £68, penham
net income £75• including 5 acres of glebe, with resi- The children of this place attend St. Paul's schools, Chip-
deuce, in the gift of Edmund Henry Clutterbuck esq. and penham

Clutterbuck .Edmund Hy. B.A., J.P. Loy Rev. James, Lic.Theo. Rectory Porter ·wm. Hart, farmer & cattle dlr

Hardenhuish p:uk :\foore Edward, farmer, Lower farm Rudman William, farm bailiff to E.

Fussell Edward Ge::>rge Pike Hy. James, farmer, Upper farm H. Clutterbuck esq

EAST HARNHAM ir. a village and ecclesiastical age tithe rent-charge [35, joint gross yearly value about
parish, formed in 1855 out of the civil parish of Britford, [300, net income [256, in the gift of the Bishop of Salis-
on the south hank of the Avon, connected with Salisbury bury, who has one turn in three, and the vicar of Britford.
and held since 1891 by the Rev. Geoffry Hill M.A. of
by a stone bridge of 10 arches, built by Bishop Bingham Exeter Colle~e, Oxford. The Earl of Radnor is chief
in the year 1244, over which the Exeter road is carri~d, landowner. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk.
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Caw- The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, clover and roots.
den and Cadworth, union of Alderbury, county court di~­ The population in 1891 was 790, including 242 officers and
trict of Salisbury, Salisbury and Amesbury petty ses- inmates in Alderbury workhouse.
sional division, Chalke rural deanery (Cha:ke portion),
and archdeaconry and diocese· of Salisbury. The church Parish Clerk, Thomas Bolwell.
of All Saints is in the Decorated style and was built in
1854 of stone and cut flint, with Bath stone dressing-: Town Sub-Post & M. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance
it has chancel, nave, organ and vestry chamber on the
north, and a handsome porch on the south, with stone gable Office.-J. Bidwell, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive
belfry at the west end containing one bell: the east win- from Salisbury at 7 & 11.30 a. m.; dispatched at 8.45,
dow is stained as also is the south window in the chancel, 9.50 & 11.35 a.m. & 2·5o, 4.25, 6.20, 8.55 & 10.15 p.m.;
sunday, 8.55 p.m The nearest telegraph office is at
windows in the nave north and south, and two at the Salisbury

'\1est end. The register dates from the year 1854. The National School, erected in 1862, for 8o children; average
living is a vicarage, with West Harnham annexed, aver- attendance, 45; Miss Annie Mary Hayter, mistress

Greenwood Capt. Hy. Powys, The Cliff COJ\L\IERCIAL. Delieate Peter, blacksmith
Musselwhite Frederick, farmer
Greenwood Thomas, The Cliff Bedford Alfred George, nurseryman Rogers Henry, whiting manufacturer
Waite Thos. Jas. Rose & Crown P.H
Hill Rev. Geoffry M..A.. Vicarage Case George, Swan P.H
Whapshare Charles George, baker
Olding Mrs Cookman George, assistant oversee!'

Williams Sidney, Harnham house Curtis Henry, boot & shoe maker

WEST HARNHAM is a scattered village and parish, reconstructed on ancient lines and it contains several old
or chapelry, now annexed to East Harnham, 1 mile south- inscriptions: the tower is on the north side, and is
west from Salisbury, in the Southern division of the entered from the nave by a doorway, of Norman date:
county, union of Alderbury, hundred of Cawden and Cad- the lower stage of the tower is of stone and the upper
worth, county court district of Salisbury, Salisbury and part brick and contain~ 2 bells, of which one is of very
Amesbury petty sessional division, Chalke rural deanery curious shape and sound: there are sittings in the church
and Salisbury archdeaconry and diocese. The parochial for 1gb persons. The register dates from the year 1567
chapel of St. George is an ancient structure of stone, and contains several curious and quaint entries. West
flint and brick, dating from about the 12th century, and Harnham, formerly a Decanal Peculiar annexed to Coombe
rather unwisely restored by Mr. Wyatt in 1873, when the Bissett, was, by Order in Council dated! 26th August,
Rev. H. S. Pollard was vicar of Coombe and Harnham; x88x, and gazetted 6th September, 1881, separated from
it consists of nave and chancel, with a square tower on Coombe Bissett and annexed for ecclesiastical purposes
the north and a chapel and porch on the south: the chan- to the vicarage of East Harnham. The value is £2o
eel is entered by a fine Decorated chancel arch and con- y8arly, derived from the lessee of the prebendal estate of
tains some remarkable corbels, a good piscina and a Coombe and Harnham which formerly constituted the en-
Norman window: the east end has been entirely rebuilt: dowment of the prebendal stall of that name in Salisbury
the sanctuary is adorned with five paintings, the gift of cathedral, and held since 1891 by the Rev. Geoffry Hill

.A.. Weigall esq. of the Close, Salisbury: the nave has a M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, who resides at East
Norman window on the north and the bowl of an Early Harnham. The Earl of Pembroke, who is lord of the
English font: at the ,south-east corner is a remarkable manor, F. M. E. Jervoise esq. Frederick Richard Hunt

structure, said to be the remains of an ancient stone esq. and Mrs. Fitzgerald are the landowners, and the Earl
altar on which the south pillar of the chancel arch is of Radnor is lessee of the prebendal estate. The soil is
built: behind it are considerable traces of an ancient wall chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are
painting in a niche: the south chapel (formerly called the wheat, barley, oats, clover and roots. The area is 1,158
Jervoise chapel) contains a good piscina and a splayed acres of land and 21 of water; rateable value, £1,759;
"Leper's" window, through which the High Altar could the population in 1891 was 254.

be seen from the porch before the altar was moved east- Parish Clerk, James Whitlock.

wards: two corbels in the east wall of the chapel are Letters through Salisbury, which is the nearest money
adorned with an "Entombment" and a "Presentation," order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 & II. 3o a.m
carved in oak, the gift of the Rev. G. H. Bourne D.C.L.
sub-dean of the cathedral: the chapel now contains the Wall Letter Box cleared at 8.15 & II a.m. & 7·50 p.m.;
sunday, 8.45 a.m
fine old Jacobean oak altar-table which formerly stood
Parochial School, built in 1862, for 6o children; average
in the chancel: a screen of Jacobean oak divides the chapel attendance, 40; Mrs. Sarah Chick, mistress
from the nave: the south porch is modern, said •to be

Gregory Henry George Dear Samuel, Three Crowns P.H Sutton William, farmer
Waters James John Caines, farmer
Wing George Moore Edwin, farmer

Crook John Castle, parchment manufr Sanger James, tallow chandler

HEDDINGTON is a parish 3 miles south from Calne north porch and a western embattled tower with pinna-
terllllinal station, and 7 north from Devizes station by cles, containing 5 bells : the east window is 8tained:

road, on the Great Western railway, in the North West- there are tablets to the Rev. James Thomas Du Boulay,.
ern division of the county, Calne hundred, uniDn, county ob. 1836. and Henry Rogers M. A. ob. 166g: a floor stone
couTt dilstrict and petty sessional division, rural deanery to the Rev. Francis Rogers, ob. 18oo, and a bra.ss to
of Avebury (Avebury portion), archdeaooncy of Wilts and Goorge John Majendie M.A. ob. 1842: there are 180
diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Andrew is a build- r.;ittings. The regisster dates fl'Oill the year 1538. The
living is a rectory, yearly value from tithe rent-('harge
ing of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of
£:z68, average £204, gross income £215, net £Igo, in-
chancel, clerestoried nave of three bays, aisles, vestry,

• WILTSHIRE. HEYTESBURY. 113

DffiECTORY.]

eluding 15 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Heddington was Verlucio, a. Roman station, as coins have
and held since 1853 by the Rev. Francis Houssemayne
been found in the ruins of ancient buildings in the
Du Boula.y M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Here is a vicinity. The principal landowners are Capt. John Ed-
round Philip Spicer, of Spye Park, Chittoe, The Misses
place of worship for Wesleyans. The charities are £26 Clark, Rev. F. H. •Du IBoulay M.A. Rev. C. J. P. Eyre
M.A. of St. Leonard's-on-Sea and the Rev. E. Rogers
yearly, including Pea;rce's and an unknown, consisting of
M.A. of Thames Ditton. The soil is clay; subsoil, chalk.
3 houses, producing £7 ws. yearly, with interest on The chief crops are corn and pas£ure. The area is 1,sso
acres; r&teable value, [2,064; the population in 1891
£so, invested in stock, and applied in gifts of was 316.

money: Peplar's (founded by deed in 1837), of [3oo,

invested in stock and producing £8 yearly for gifts

in money, provisions and clothing; there are also

Pearce's and Clark's charities, founded by will in 1839 and Sexton, Henry Hunt.
r8ss. particulars of which are not reported. The Work-
man's Clul:JI was built in r88r, at a cost of £6oo, part of Post & M. 0. 0., S. B., & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
which' sum was raised by subscriptions; it has reading
and other rooms, with a CDffee bar and a fives court and Mrs. Elizabeth Clifford, sub-poSitmis-tress. Letters
quoit ground attached; df,lily and weekly papers are arrive from Ollne, which is the nearest telegraph office
supplied. The ancient earthwork, sepa;rating the Belgic at 8 a.m. & 7 p.m. ; dispatched at 8 a.m. & 7 p.m. ;
and aboriginal tribes, called the Willnsdyke, commencing no delivery or dispa.tch on sunday. Pillar Letter Box,
on the banks of the Severn, passed through Spye Park at Heddington Wick, cleared at 7.10 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.
in the adjoining paris-h of Chitt()e, and thence to the
from Feb. 27f;h to Oct. 3oth; & from the rst Nov. to

Feb. 2]1h at 7.10 a.m. & S-30 p.m. week days only

north of Heddington: the Roman road from Bath' to National School (mixed), built in 1830, for 6o children;
Marlborough also ran through this parish, and followed average attendanec, so; Mrs. Sarah Jane Knowley,
for some dist.ance the track of the "\Vansdyke. Near mistress; Miss Jessie Jay, assistant mistress

Clark Misses, The Splatt Cole Thomas G. farmer Hughes Thomas, farmer & beer retlr

Du Boulay Rev. Francis Houssemayne Duck George Thomas, blacksmith Hunt J. & Sons, crpntrs. & whlwrghts

M.A. Rectory Dyke Isaac (Mrs.), farm£'r Hunt Henry, carpenter & wheelwright

Trevelyan Edward, Heddiington house Fell Christian (Miss), dress & stay ma Manners Caleb, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Grainger John, meat saleman Norman Charles James, shoe n:aker

Brown Henry, farmer, Marsh end Hillier Matthew, farmer Perrett Henry James, farmer, Hed-

Burbidge Albert, baker &bacon curer Hughes Charles Hy. farmer & dealer dington Manor farm

Chivers Alfred Mark, farmer Hughes Frank, farmer & haulier Pocock Henry James, farmer

Clifford Elizabeth (Mrs.), post office Hughes• Isaac, farmer & assistant over- l>mvi9 -, be.er retailer

Cook Philip William, family grocer, seer, Bell farm Spackman William, farmer

baker & bookseller, & agent for Hughes Louisa (Miss), dress maker Workmen's Club (Mrs. Elizh. Clifford,

Hamlin's poultry food Hughes Reuben, farmer caretaker)

HEYTES:BURY and TYTHERINGTON.

HEYTESBURY is a parish, formerly a market town, Here is a very ancient hospital or almshouse, founded by
consisting prinoipally of one s.treet, on the banks of the Lady Hungerford, for twelve poor men, one woman, and

river Wylye and borders of Salisbury plain, with a sta- a custos, who is appointed by the dean and chapter and
tion on the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth branch of chancellor of Sailisbury, must be in holy orders and act
the Great "\Ves•tern railway, 118 miles from London, 18 as chaplain. The Rev. W. J. Swayne 1\:l.A. vicar, has

north-west from Salisbury and 4 south-east from War- held the office since 1883. On Cotley Hill, north-west of
mins.ter, in the Western division of the county, hundred the town, is a tumulus, surrounded by an entrenchment,
of its own name, Warrnins·ter union, petty sessional divi- 480 feet in diamelter. About a quarter of a mile nortJ1~
s•ion and county court di9triot, rural deanery of "\Vylye west from Knook Castle is Howls Barrow, and on the

(Heytesbury portion), archdeaconry of Sarum and dio- north bank of the Wylye, Golden Barrow. Close to

cese of Salisbury: it was a prescriptive borough, Bowls Barrow, waterwDrks were established in 1894, con-
gcverned by a bailiff and burgesses, and s·ent two mem- sis·ting of a deep well and a reservoir, with wind engine
bers to Parliament till disfranchised by the Reform Act. and pumps to supply the p.arish of Heytesbury with
The market is discontinued, but an annual fair is still water. There is a similar installation for the water
held on the 14th of May. The church of SS. Peter and supply at Tytherington. Near the town is Heytesbury
Paul was collegiate, and had, until recently, four pre- House, the seat of Lord Heytesbury J.P. ; the house is
bends : it is a s.pacious crucifQ.rm edifice, chiefly Early a square stone building, partly rebuilt about 1784,
Enghsh, and consists of clere&toried chancel with aisles, 9tanding in a well-wooded park of 95 acres containing
north and south transepts, clerestoried nave of four bays some good specimens of lime, cedar and beech. LDrd
and aisJes, south enrtronce porch and low square central Heytesbury is lord of the manor and sole owner of the
tower: the columns of the nave, which had fallen much parish. The soil is light; subsoil, chalk and stone.
out of the perpendicular, have been rebuilt, and also a The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is
part of the tower, which contains a fine peal of 6 bells 4,762 acres; mtewble value, [4.340; the population in
and a clDck: some Early English arches and columns, 1891 was 826.

l.ong hidden behind the plaster of the walls in the chan- 'I'yt.herington, about I mile south from Heytesbury, is

eel, hav.e been opened and repaired, and the aisles which a hanlllet, and formerly a prebend in the collegiate

fcrmerly exiS'ted rebuilt, and the high pitch of the church of Heyiesbury. The church of St. James is a

original roof restored: the cost of these works consider- plain old stone building in the Early Decorated style,
soably exceeded £~,ooo: the north transept has a stone

scr~en be~ween 1t .and the nave : there are s~veral
about 19 feet wide and feet long, with stone covered
roof and western bell cot cont·aining one bell: the ill"

st.amed wmdows ; one at the e_aster? end,. the gift of terior is fitted with open benches, and will seat about 70
Lady He~tesbury,_ and a memorial wmdDw m the north 1 people. It was restored in 1892. The population and

transept 1s the gift of the Hon. l\frs. Robert Daly, the area are included with Heytesbury.

daughter of the first Lord Heytesbury: there are also Parish Clerk of Hevtp;;burv James Trowhrid"'e.
memorial windows to the late Lord Heytes.bury, his Parish Olerk of T,·therin"'t;n William Hanco~k.
eldest son, the Hon. William L. A. Court, and the late · "' '

vicar, the Rev. John Knight M.A. : the whole church Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity

has been reseated wiih open benches seating 450. ThE' & Insurance Office (Sub-Office. Letters should have

regi!Jter dates from the year 1653· The living is a S.O. Wilts added).-Henry Bartlett, postmaster. Let-

vicarage, with that of Knook annexed, joint yoorly value 1:ers arrive by mail cart from Bat•h at 7 a.m. & 4.40

from the tithe rent-charge [2o6, grDss income £4oo, p.m. Letters dispatched 10.2S a.m. 1.20 & 7·4S p.m.;

net [290. with residen~e, in the gift of the BishDp of on sundays arrive at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.4.) p.m

Salisbury, and held since r883 by the Rev. William John Wall Box at Tytherington, cleared at 7.30 a.m. & 6.20

Swayne M.A. of CDrpus Christi college, Oxford. The p.m.; sunday, 7.30 a.m

Vicarage House was built in 1894, on a portion of land National School (mixed), built in 1835, with residence,

conveyed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the for 200 children; average attendance, 120; Arthur J.

vicar, in lieu of and in substitution for £"3 per annum H. Wrig-ht, master; Mrs. Arthur Wright, mistress

of the yearly stipend of [2oo, payable by the Ecclesia,;;- Railway Sta.tion, Charles Richards, station master

tical Commis&.ioners. Here is a Congregational chapel. Carrier to "\oVarminster.-George King, daily

Heyt~sbury Lord D.L., J.P. Heytes- Hitchcock Misses, Swallow cliffe Swayne Rev. William Jn. M..A.. (vicar

bury house Longman Rev. Frdk. (Congregational) & custos of hospital)

1Uackmore Jeremiah Sainsbury Miss Taylor Rev. Arth. Fredk. (curate)

Hinton Hammond Tooke M.B Swayne Henry Wilce Mrs

WILTS. 8

•

114 EEYTESBU,JlY 'VILTSHIHE. [KELLY's

.

COMMERCIAL, Furnell Mark, insurance =tgent Lines Louisa (Mrs.), butcher & poul..

Adlam Henry James, grocer & poors Haines Joseph, shopkeeper terer, Tytherington

rate collector Heytesbury Water Co. Lim. (R. ll. H. Marks Eliza (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Ashman Michael, plumber, glazier & Eden, manager), Ea:>t Hill house J\Iarshman Thomas, miller (water)

painter, & Angel inn Hancock Wm. shoe maker &i parish Merchant Eli, dairyman

Barnes Jn.Brown,shopkpr.Tythcringtn clerk, Tytherington Muspratt J osiah, tailor

Bartlett Hy. postmaster & insur. agent Harford Annie (Mrs.), dress maker Musselwhite Thomas, farm bailiff ·to

Bass Robert, grocer Hibberd Bros. grocer~! &; dr&.pers Lord Heytesbury,.

Batt Thos. farmer, West Hill farm Hinton Hammoo.d Tooke M.B., C.M. Parham Geo. farmer, •rytberington

lHackmore Alfd. Chas. butcher & frmr surg. & med. off. & publi.c vaccina- Parker John, farmer, Parsonage farm

Case Percy Harry,farmr.Tytherington tor & factory srurg!lon, Heytesbury Parker Saml. farmer, Parsonage farm

Coffee Tavern(Mrs.MaryFox,mangrss) district, Warminster union Percival Wm. ma~. to Hibberdl Bros

Convalescent Home (Miss Leech, lady Holoran Thomas Dennis, managing Pike Edwd. farmer & coal merchant

superintendent) clerk to Hobert H. IT. Eden Ralph George, tailor

Dyer Charles, blacksmith Ingram Sidney, saddler Rendall Albt. Red Lion P.H. & fa1·mer

Eden Robert Hildyard Henley, land Jones William, gadennr to Lord Searchfield Sidney, bldr. & cabinet ma

agt. toLord Heytesbury,East Hill ho Heytesbury Sims George, smith & farrier

Ev(;l'ley Elizh. (Mrs.),bakr.Tytheringtn King George, carrier Snelgrove Sarah (Mrs.), apartments

Feltham Charles, estate foreman to King Richard, farmer Sweet Isaac, boot maker

Lord Heytesbury Kitley Edward, shoe maker Trowbridge James, parish ch:rk of

I<'oulston Uichd. 'Nm. relieving offieer, Laurence Sarah (Mrs.), rlress maker Heytesbury

No. 2 district, Warmin.>ter mjon Lines Gideon, baker & grocer Whatley Mary (Miss), dress maker

REYWOOD is a small village and ecclesiastical paris-h, in 1890, at a cost of £r,4oo, defrayed by the Eccles.ias-
formed in 1849 out of the civil parish of West.bury, 1 tical Comm~ssioners. Heywood House is the seat of The
mile north-eas·t from Westbury station on the Salisbury Right Hon. Lord Justice Sir Henry Charles Lopes P.C.•

branch of the Great Western railway, and 4 miles south D.L., J.P. Sir J\Lassey Lopes bart. is lord of the manor

from Trowbridge, in the Western division of the county, of Westbnry, which includes Heywood, Edward E. Porter
Westbnry and Whorwellsdown union, hundred and county esq. of East Hill, Frrome, and William Henry Laverton

court district of Westbury, petty sessional division of esq. of Leightonl House, and Lord Justice Lopes are the
Trowbridge, rural deanery of Wylye (Heytesbury por- principal landowners. The soil &nd subsoil are heavy

tion), archdeaoonry of Sarum and diocese of Salisbury. clay. The land is principally pasture and corn. The

The church of the Holy Trinity is of stone, in the Deco- population in 1891 was 465; rateable is included with
rated style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch Westbury.
and aisles, divided from the nave by three arches resting Hawkeridge is a hamlet 1~ miles north-west. Here is
on cylindrical piers, with a small western open bell cot, a small Congregational chapel.

containing 3 bells: the pulpit is of Caen stone, and at Sexton, George Carr.

the north-west end of the nave is an organ: the church Letters through Westbury, which is the nearest money
was built and endowed with £32 a year by the late order & telegraph office, arrive at 8.30 a.m. Pillar Box,.

Henry Gaisford Gibbs Ludlow esq. and will seat .zso. at Heywaod (near the church), cleared at 8.5 a.m. &

'l'he register dates from the year 1849. The living is a 7 p.m.; sundays, at 8.5 a.m

vicarage, gross yearly value £zgo, net [,28o, with 3! National School (mixed), erected in 1836, with residence

acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of three trus- for mistress, by the late Henry G. G. Ludlow esq. of
tees, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Samuel Hemy this parish; it will hold roo children; average at-

Pemberton '\Yhittuck. The vicarag.e house was ereoted tendance, 65 ; Mrs. Elizabeth Pike, mistress

HEYWOOD. Bourne James, farmer HAWKERIDGE.

Bricker Richard, jun. farmer, Fullin- Doel Edward farmer

Lopes Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sir Henry bridge farm Francis Edwd.farmer,Hawkeridge frm

Charles P.C., D.L., J.P. (a Lord Creese Sidney, farmer, Apsley farm Maby Edward Herbert, farmer,Hawke-

Justice of appeal), Heywood hC'use Moore Charles George, farmer ridge.fa.rm

Whittuck Rev. Samuel Henry Pem- Richards -, farmer, Horsecroft Pike Hy. John, farmer, Brook house

berton (vicar) Stafford Samuel, fa,rmer, Home farm Pike James, farmer, Lodgewood
Ruddle Tom Albert, RoyaJ. Oak P.H
Beak Wm.miller(water),Blenches mill

HIGHWAY is a parish, 4?i miles north-east from memory of the late Bishop of Gibraltar, formerly arch-

Calne and 5 south from Wootton Bassett, belonging to deacon of Wilts and rector -of the pa.rish: there are 100

the hundred of Potterne and Oannings, though looally sittings. The register dates from the year r664. The

in the hundred of Calne, North-Western division of the living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Bremhill.

county, union, petty sessional division and county coul't gross joint yearly value £632, net [385, in the gift of

district of Calne, rural deanery of Avebury (A.vebury the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since r868 by the Rev.

portion), arohdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. Edward Paroisslien Eddrup M.A. of Wadham College,

By an order of the Wiltshire County Council, confirmed Oxford, canon and prebend·ary of Salisbury and rural

by Local Government Board Order, which came into dean of Avebury, who resides at Bremhill. Capt. Louis

operation March 25, r89o, this parish was amalgamated Charles Henry Tonge R.N. is lord of the manor and

with the parish of Hillmarton for civil purposes. The principal landowner. The soil is pa:Dtly -on the ohalk;

church of St. Peter was rebuilt in 1867, at the sole ex- suhsoil, clay in the lower lands. The chief crop$ are

pense of the late rector, Archdeacon Harris, in the Ea-rly wheat and pasture land.

English style, from plans by W. Butterfield esq. : it Parish Clerk, John Pouting.

consists of chancel, nave, south porch and western turret Lett,ers through Calne, which is the nearest money order

with one bell: the old screen ood wooden beam, and an & telegraph office, arrive at 8 a.m. Wall Letter Box,

early :Xorman door remaining in the outer wall, and the at Clevancy, cleared at 6.15 p.m. week days only

old font have been preserved: on Easter day, 1879, a The children Df this place attend the schools at Hil·

stained window was placed in the east end, to the marton & Compt-on Bassett

Bodman Benjamin, farmer I Godwin George, farmer I Lewis Henry, hurdle maker
•

HIGHWORTH is a small union town and parish, and weSitern tower, with pinnacles, oontaining 8 bells and 8
terminus of the Swindon !llnd Highworth branch of the clock: on the south-eastern side is a chapel belonging

Great Western railway, and is on the road from Swindon to the ancient family of the Warnefords, and there are

to Lechlade, 76 miles from London, 6 from Farringdon, s·evel'al stained windows, among which is one to H.R.H.

9 north-east from Swiudon and 7! east from Cricklade, Prince Consort inserted !lit the expense of memoors of

in the Nort,hern division of the county, union of High- the Society of Odd Fellows: there are sittings for 650

worth, hundred of Highworth, Swindon county court dis- pevs()ns: the register dates from the year I539· The

trict and petty sessional diwsion, rural deanery of Crick- living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Sevenhampton

Jade, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester annexed, average tithe rent-charge £z8o, joint net
and Bristol. The town, in consequence of its elevated yearly value [,3oo, including too acres of glebe, with

situation, near the Vale of White Horse, commands a residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester and

fine view of the surrounding country, of which the Br.istol, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Francis CharJes

scenery is picturesque, and the neighbourhood is con- Master. Here are Congregational, W.eSileyan, Da:r;tist

f!idered very healthy: it is lighted with gas by a and Primitive Methodist chapels. A cemetery Of about
Company. The church of S<t. Michael is a Perpendicular ~ acre& wa& formed in r867, at a cost of £r,15o, with

structure of stone, consisting of chancel, nave of five one mortuary ohapel, and consecrated 1870, when it was

bays, south porch, aisles and transepts, and embattled first opened for burials : it is under the control of a

DIMCTO.RY.] WILTSHIRE. E:IGHWORTH. lltl

bllrial board of 9 members. For particulars of High- 1 Public Establishments.
Wtlrth 'Union, see Swindon. l<'ormerly the markets and I C'...emetery, Jn. Saml. Jenkins, clerk to the burial board!
fairs ~re well attended, atl.d business tQ a considerable Fire Brigade, Thomas Henry Hill, superintendent

extent carried on here, but the Great Western railway Inland Revenue Office, Saraoen's Head commercial inn

has materially interfered with its prosperity. The fairs Po1ioo. Station, Westrop, Richard Evans, se.rgt. in charge-

are held August I3th for catJtle, and October nth for Public Officers.

cattle and hiring of servants, and a market every fourth .!Jssisrtant Overseer, John Berr:iman Smith, Vicarage lane
"\\~e~nesday. '!here are numerous charities in this Clerk to the Commissioners of Land, Assessed, Property

par1sh, amountmg ta £3~0 yearly, under t~e conrorol _of & Income Tax, Rob_t. Reginald Elwell, Cricklade st

a body of trustees,_ ll:ppomted by the Charity Commis- Medical Officer & Public Vaccinattor, No. I district,
s~oner~. James Wllham Crowdy esq_. of Herne Bay, Highworth Union, John Rowat M.D. High srtreet
I\.ent, IS lord of the manor, and the ~hie£ lan~o_wners are 1 Relieving Officer,_ No_. I district, &_ R:egistrar of Bi;rth~ &

the Hon. Dunoombe Pleydell-Bouvene, Coleshill House, Jkaths & Vaccmatwn Officer, H1g1hworth Sub-Distnct,

A. D. Hussey-Freke esq. Edgar Hanbury esq. Easrtrop High-worth Union, Henry Trenfield, Brewery street
Grange, and the trustees of. t~e late Robert Hanbury
esq. of Poles, Ware. The sml IS loam, stone brash and Town Crier, Jeremiah J<Ohn Croome, Swindon street
clay; subsoil, limest{)ne. The chi·ef crops are wheat, . . . .
~laces, of ·worship, With times_ of servires.
St.. M1chael s Church, Rev. Fr~nc1s Charles Master,
barley and beans. The area is 8,399 acres of land and VIO~r; li a. m. & 6.3o p.m. ; druly prayer, 1o a. m
30 of water; rateable value, £zo,097 · The populat~on Baptist, 1C:·3° a.m. & 6 p.m. ; thnrs. 6.3o p.m
Co!lg7~gat·wnal, R~v. J. T. Bennett ~mon. & thurs. 7 p.m
in I89I was 2,576 in the civil, and 2,169 in the eccle-
sias•tical parish.

Eastrop, half a mile south; Wesrtrop, one mile west; Pnmltive Methodist, thnrs. 6.30 p.m
and Sevenhampton, ~~ runes south, are tithings in this "\Vesleyan, tues. 6.30 p.m
.
parish. A School Board of .5 me~bers was formed Apnl 28:'
Broad Blunsdon, formerly a hamlet of thi_s parish, has 1894; _Robe['t Regu~ald Elwell, clerk to the board,
been forrmed into a separate ecclesiastical parish, and Frederick Drew! Swmdo~ st:r;eet, attendance officer .
nnder the Divirned Parishes .Act is now, for civil purpos·es, Bo~rd School (miXed), bmlt m 1835· ~nlarged I866 to·
I 1ts present capacity, for . 400 ch1ldr_en; average
in Lilttle Blunsdon. See Blunsdon St. .Artdrew.
South Marston, a hamlet, is now separated ecclesias• I attend<ance, I_I3 boys, I32 g~rls & ~oo m~ants;. John
Samuel Jenkms, maste~; Miss Anme Evans, mistress .
tically from Highworth. See Mars·ton South.

Parish Clerk, John Drew. . . Oarners to:-
C[rences•ter-13Izley, every nwn
Post, M. 0. & 1'. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity F·aJ!'Iingdon-Brown, every wed
F·aring&on-Bizley, tues
& Insurance Office. J•ames John Smith, postmaster. Leohlade-Bizley, fri
Lebter'S arrive from London & all parts, through Swin- MJoredon-Hiett, wed
Oxford-Brown, to Faringdon & thence to Oxford on wed
don; first delivery commences at 6.45 a. m.; second Swindon-Bizley, every thurs. & sat
WanJtage-Brown, every wed
delivery commences at 2.40 p.m.; dispatched at 11.45 Great Western Railway, Robert Perrett, station mastm~
a.m. & 8.45 p.m.; sunday, 8.45 p.m
"\Vall Lett-er Box, E.astrop, cleared 7·45 p.m. ; sun. 7·45
a.m

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Capital & Counti~s Bank Lim. (sub- Hill Joseph, ironmonger, High street
branch) (Thomas Byrch, manager), Hill Joseph, seedsman, High street

Adams James, Swindon street weds. II.30 to 4, High street; draw Humphries George, Freke Arms P.H.

Arkell James, West Hill house on head office, 39 Threadneedle st. Swanboro'

Bennett Rev. James Thomas (Co11gre- London EO Jefferies Chas. Roberb, ;;r')cel', High st
gational)~ The Manse
Chambers G. (Miss), temperance hotl. Jefferies Edmund James, market gar-

Bathe Mrs. Westrop terrace High street dener, Eastrop

Brunsden Miss, West hill Clack Alfred Edwin, grocer, High l't Jenkins John Samuel, derk to t·urial

Church Jn. Grundy, Westrop terrace Clack Richard W. beer retlr. Westrop board, The Laurels

Denner Mrs. Westrop Clarke Richard H. beer retailer Jones Elisha, tin worker, :Eastrop
Dore Mi~ses, Westrop terrace County of Gloucester Bank Limited Jones Jc~er-h, baker, High street

Elwell Robt. Reginald, Hampton ldg (agency) (Lyttelton Etty, manager), Jones John Henry, tailor, Eastrop
Fullerton Rev.Edwd~Appleton (curate) opened wednesdays only, 11 to 4, King & Queen commercial betel &
Hambidge Franci!i,.Henry, The Limes High ~treet; draw on London & posting house (James Eggleton),

Hanbury Edgar J.P. Eastrop grange Westmin$ter Bank Lim. London EC High street

Hunter George, Swindon street Croome Jeremiah John, bill poster & Knapp Thomas, bricklayer, Westrop

Lalor Alfred D. Swindon street town crier, Swindon street Lalor Alfred D.,M.R.C.V.S. veterinary·

Lamb Mrs. Brewery street Curtis George, grocer, Market place surgeon, Swindon street

Lea Mrs. Swindon street Curtis William, stone mason, High st Lay Jacob, plumber, High street
Looker John, Sheep street Davis Wm. Jesse,cabinet ma.High st Lewis Thomas Sadler, Fishes inn~

::\!aster Rev. Francis Charles (vicar), Dearing William, tailor, Westrop Swindon street

Highworth house Dixon Albt. Edwd, decorator, High st Little Joseph, plasterer, Eastrop
Pedley Miss, Sheap street Drew Fredk. Thos. painter, Swind0n ~t Mapson John, baker, Hig·h street
Pedley Mrs•. Westrop terrace Drew Harriett Ellen (Miss), mi~Jiner, liapsonJsph.watch & clock ma.High st:.
Pedley Randle, Sheep <>treP.t Marsh George, draper, ~Iarket place
Swindon street

Read Mrs. Westrop _terrace Drew John, carpenter, Swindon s:;l'eet Mathews .John, draper, High stre£:t
Rowat John M.D. High street Dnnn Edwin, beer retlr. Swindon st ~files James, farmer, Eastrop

Slol?er Gerrad 07by J.P.. Westrop ho Easley James, boot maker, Swind.:m st Mills John, horse dlr. Cherry orchard
Sm~th Jo~m Ber~Iman, VIcarage lane Eggleton James, King & Queen corn- Morse John, baker, Swindon street
Sm~th Miss, ~wm.don street
mercial hotel & posting ho. High st Newport David, baker, Swindon street

Smith Mrs. H1li VIew . Elwell Robert Reginald, solicitor, & Oriental Fibre Mat & :Matting Co.

1Vebb John, Gloucester ho. H1gh st commissioner to administer oaths & Vorda works

"\Vhiteman Jesse, High street clerk to commissioners of taxes, & Packer Thomas, shopkeeper, 1¥est.I·op-

COl:lMERCIAL. clerk to Highworth school bollrd & Painter Mary Jane (Mrs.),apartments,

Alexander .!lbt. beer retlr. Market pl steward of the manor of Shrivenh.lm Swindon street

Archer Jn. chimney swpr. Westrop & Great Faringdon Peapell Wm. Webb, baker, E<~strop

Austin. T.hom&s, baker, Swindon street Evans Rchd. sergeant of police,W~strp Pedley Randle, brewers' agt. SLeep st

Baker .Jas. Shaylor, bake,r, Sheep st Frankis Robert, rope ma. Swindon st Perrett Robert, station mastel'

Baker John Chas. watch ma. High st Gas Works (Robert Jefferies, engi;ieer Perry Martba (Mrs.), grocer. High st

Ballard Edwin, chemist, Market. pl & manager), Westrop Perry:. Thomas, builder~ kitchen ranges

Barrett Ernest Hy. draper, High st Gilbert Alfred, flys, wagonettes, dog & tiled grates fixed on the most ap-

Barrett Joseph. builder, '\Vestrop carts & saddle horses for hire, & cc.al proved style, High street

Baughn William, thatcher; The 1Vragg merchant, High street Pimm Alfred, beer retailer, Sheep st

Bennett Henry, saddler, High street· Harris Rchd. Priddy, farmer, ·westrop Pinnegar Thomas, farmer, Wes-crop

Bizley Sml. & Son,carriers,Brewery st Hawkins Wm. tchr. of music,We>ttrop PrinceThos.boot &. shoe ma. ·ricamge la

Brunsden Chas.The Saracen'sHead htl Higgs 13ros. tailors, Market place Pruce Henry, hair dresser, High st

Brunsden Jn. Hy. grocer, High street Higgs Ellen & Lois (Misso3s), d1·ess Pullen Wm. boot & shoe ma. High st

Burton & Gleed, grocers, High street makers, High street Reynolds Emma (Mrs.), rr,illiner,

Cemetery (John Saml. Jenkins, clerk Hill Thomas Hy. & Son, wheelwrights, High street

to the burial board) Brewery street Rixon Chas. coal merchant, Swindon st

WILTS. 8$

116 HIGHWOBTH. WILTSHIRE. [KELLY's

Rouse Joseph, rope maker, High street Thomas Jsph. Chas. builder, Sheep st Whiteman Wm.Jn.farmr.Church frm

Rowat John M.D. surgeon & medieal Tovey Harvey, baker, High street Wilkins Edmund,beer rtlr.Swindo:1 st

officer & public vaccinator, No. I Trenfield Henry, relieving .Jfficer, No. Wilkins Ruth (Miss), dress n:uker,

district, Highworth union, High st 1 district, & registrar of Lirths & Swindon street

Russell James, farmer, Nort:hle'lze deaths & vaccination officer, High- Willis Arthur, grocer, & agent for W.

Smith Ann (Miss), baker, Swindon st worth sub-dist.rict,Highworth union, & A. Gilbey Limited, wine & sririt

Smith Jas. shopkeeper, Swindon st Brewery street merchants, High street

Smith James John, stationer, printer, Vines Jacob Smith, farmer, Hampton Willis Isaac, beer retailer, We;;trDp

& postmaster, High street Wadley & Holloway, brew~rs, Sun Willoughby Clarence, cooper, Sheep st

Smith John, carpenter, High street brewery Willoughby Robt. beer rtlr.Swindon st

Smith John Berriman, assistant over- Webb George Hamlet, private S('t.ool, Woodbridge William George, :$addler.

seer & brick & tile ma. Vicarage la Swindon street High street

Smith Sarah (Mrs.), Rose & Crown W estell Edwd. farmer, Fresden fatm Woolford Thos. carpntr.Cherry orC'brd

P.H. Swindon street Westell Peter, farmer, Friar's farm Working Men's Club, Reading Room

Spindloe William & Son, ironmongers, Wheeler Jesse, blacksmith, Swindon st & Coffee tavern (Reuben H.ickards,

High street Wheeler Wm. carpenter, Market pl manager), High street

Stallard Chas. Red Lion P.H. Sheep st White Edwd. farmer, Common farm Yeates George, /butcher, High street

Thomas Hannah EliMe.beth (Miss), White Jane (Mrs.), confectioner, Yeates Henry (Mrs.), but<>her,High st

ladies' school, Lassington house Swindon street

HILMARTON is a parish, on the road from Calne· to chapel at Goatacre tithing, I! miles north, in this parish,

Wootton Basse'tt, 3 miles ·north-north-east from Calne and 'the Baptlis'tos have a chapel here. J-acob's charity of
terminal .station on a branch of the Great Western rail- £Io yearly is for the second poor, and the interest of

way, 7 south-west from Wootton BaSJsett, in the North- £3oo .stock is for religious ·education. Here is a reading
Western division of the county, hundred ()If Kingsbridge, room, with a library of 6o volumes, ibuilt in 1892 by the
Calne union, petty sessional diVlision and county court lord of the manor, and managed by a committee of
-district, rural deanery of Avebury (Avelbury portion), working men. There is also a reading :room at Goat-
archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of '8alisbury. The acre. Here are five almshouses, erected by the late
..church 'Of St. Lawrence consist-s of chancel, nave of four William Poynder esq. lord of the manor of Hilmarton,
bays, north aisle, south porch and! organ chamber, and a in the year I8]7, and end{}wed with £3,ooo £2! per
.square embattJed western tower, •surmounted· by four cent. Consols to provide 6s. per we·ek for five inmates,
pinnacles and containing 6 bells, one of which is new, the eligible at the age of 65 yool'ls, wh'O have worked on the
rest of old da'te; these· were in I885 rehung and retuned estate. The principal landowners are Sir John Poynder
and put in complete repair lhY' .subscription, and a Dickson-Poynder lbart. M.P. who is [ord of the manor
chiming apparatus added: in I84o th·e tower was partly and lay impmpriator, Wtorceslter and Magdalen Colleges,
rebuilt: the windows of the nave are all of the Perpen- Oxford, Thomas Pinnegar esq. Mr. W. A. A. Large, Miss
-dicular pe11iod, probably about Henry VI.'s time: the Henly land Mrs. Charles Bridges, daughters of the late
nave is separated from the aisle by columns of the· Early Mrs. Henly, and the executors 'Of the late Messrs. R. and
English order, and the chancel is entered from the aisle S. Stiles. The soil is· Oxford clay, oolitic,. except Cle-
through an opening of unusual character in the buttress veancy district, which is on the chalk and greensand;

..of the chancel areh; and a ·S'tone screen separates the subsoil of Goatacre is coral rag, of Hilmarton other
chancel from the nave: the chancel windows· are all forms of oolite; large drainage operations ihave been
Perpendicular, two being stained, the east window, a carried on by the late Mr. Poynder and the. trustees of
memorial to W. H. Poynder, the north window to Mrs. his estates. The area is 4,582 acres; rateable value,

:Elizabeth Goddard, wife of the Rev. Canon Goddard: in £5,553; the population of t'he civil parish in I8gi
the aisle, 'towards the east end, is a founder's tomb, and was Bro.
near it a; memorial window of three lights to the Rev. Beversbrook, I mile south, and Catcombe, I mile
I<'rancis Fisher, a former vicar, and to the left of this a north, are tithings, Cleveancy, 2 !miles east, and Goat-

two-light windD'W to Isabella. Poynder: the chief manu- acre, r! miles north, are hamlets; a district called New

ments in the church are those of Oalley, Quintan, and of Zeal:and forms part of Goatacre.

Thomas Poynd·er esq. who partly restored the church Highway was, by an order of the Wilt·shire County
(1840), his son, Thomas H. A. Poynd·er esq. and Mrs. Council, confirmed by Local Government Board order,
.M. A. Poynder: the seating is chiefly of old oak, of hand- which came intQ operation March 25, I8go, joined to
·some carved pattern: the old chained: bible, with wooden Hilmarton for civil purposes, and will be found under a
binding, was well Testored by the· Rev. F. Fisher, who separate· heading.
found it in the parish che·st in a neglee'ted state, the Sexton, William Jennings.
original chain still attached, and it has been replaced at Post Office.-James Wiltshire, ·sub-postmaster. Letters
the chancel arch: the late Mr. Street, tlJ.e eminent arrive• through Calne at 7.ro a.m. & dispatched at 7
architect, at the cost. of the lute William H. Poynder, p.m. The nearest money Qrder & telegraph office is at
restored almost the whole church, and added an organ Calne. Postal orders· are issued here, but not paid
·chamiber to the south of the chancel: the church was Wall Letter Box, Gaatacre·, cleared week days only at
re-opened on the 24th February, r88r, and has 250 6.30 p.m.; & 5.30 p.m. in winter; no mail on sundays
sittings. The register dtates from the year I645· The Wall Letter Box, Cleveancy, cleared at 6.I5 p.m.; no
living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £376, net £235, mail on ·sunday
including 5 acres of glebe, with residence·, in the gift School (mixed\ built in 185I, for I22 children, with
of the ·Crown, and held: ·since I892 by the Rev. Ralph house fur mas1ter; averoge lllt'tendance, II3; Charles
-walker M.A. of All Souls College, Oxford. The Con- Albert Smith, master; (Mr·s. Smith, mistress
.gregationalists. and Primitive Methodists have each a Carrier.-Adam Wllkins, G'oaoocre, to Devizes, thurs

HILMARTON. Godwin Herbert Maundrell, hrm£>r, Henly Miss

Lower Pen farm Large Robert

Fry Fred, Lower Littlecot farm Keevil John, farmer, Rodwell COMMERCIAL.

Hayward Wm. Pierce, Hilmarton ldg Mail John, stone mason, Cleveancy Bishop Joseph (Mrs.), baker
Walker Rev. Ralph M.A. Vic'l.rage Musty Joseph, gardener to the Rev. Blackman James, farmer
Ralph Walker M.A Eattell George, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Pile Francis, farmer, Manor farm Eattell John, carpenter
Pincott Bros. farmers, Cleveancv Eattell Luke (Mrs.), farmer
Prior John, farmer, Cleveancy hou~e Eattell Tom, farmer
Archard James, tailor

Baker William, farmer, Marsh farm Reading Room (Chas. Albert Smith, Eattell William, estate carpenter

Blackman Edward, gamekeeper to Sir hon. sec) Lewis Jasper, gam~~eper to Sir J. P.

Jn. Dickson-Poynder bart. M.P. Pen Rummjng Thos. assesstYr & collector of Diokson-Poy.nder bart M.P. New

Bodman Benj. farmer, Littlecot frm taxes & assist. overseer, & carpentr Zooiand

lJolter Richard, farmers,Catcomb frm Rumming Wm. frmr. & miller(water) Read Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper

"£ridges Charles, farmer, CO"o"dgt! farm Stevens Robert, blacksmith Taylor Fred, grocer & wholesale butter

Bryant James, estate carpenter · Wright Isaac, farmr.BeversbNJk bo & potato dealer & general haulier,

C'omley George, blacksmith,Clev£>ancy Wiltshire Jas.baiker & grocer, Post off New Zealand

I<'erris Jas. farmer, Whitcomb farm Windsor Chas. dairyman, Spellma.n!! Taylor James, shoe•maker

Ferris Thomas Messiter, farmer, Cor- Tugwell John, haulier

ton farm GOATACRE. Wilkins Adam, farmer

Hcbbs Emma (Mrs.),Duke inn, & frmr Boulter Samuel, New Zealand Wiltshire James, farmer

HILPERTON is a. parish and pleasant village, on the \ fi'ODl. Trowbridge station on the Saliebury branch of the
road from TroW'br~ge to Melksham, I! miles north-east Great Western railway, 4 south-west from Melksham,

DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. HINDON. 117

and 3 !'!Outh-east from Bradford, in the Western division J.P.; Wyke House, an ancient mansion in the Eliza-

of th6' county, hundred and union of Melksham, petty bethan style, and standing in a park of 24 acres, is the

sessional division and county court district of Trow- seat of Wi'lliam Perkins Clark esq. J.P. The land

bridge, rural deanery of Potterne (Bradford portion), belongs ·principally to Waiter Hume Long esq. M.P. of

archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The Rood .Ashton House, who is lord of the mamn, and Sir

Kennet and .Avon canal pass through the parish and W. R. Brown, of Highfield. The soil is clay; subS'Oil,

have a wharf at Hilperton Marsh. The village is lighted gravel, shallow ;rock and clay. The land is chiefly in
with gas by the British Gas Light Co. Limited from pa.sture. The area is 1,202 acres; rateable value,

works at Trowbridge. The church of St. Michael is a £3,719; the population in 1891 was I,OII.

plain ·stone building in the Decorated style, consisting of Hilperton Marsh is a hamiet half a mile north-west
chancel and nave (which were re·built in 1854), south (letters should be addressed Hilperton Marsh, Trow-
porch, with square western tower, surmounted by a low bridge).

spire and containing 4 bells and clock: a new vestry and Parish Clerk, .Alexander Fillis.

choir stalls were added in 1892: theTe are two stained Post & Telegraph & Express Delivery Office.-Edwin
windows: there are 2oo sittings. The register dates Samuel Rawlings, sub-postmas'ter. Letters are re-
frDm the year 1694. The living is a rectmy, with that ceived through Trowbridge, arrive at 7 a.m. & 4.30
of Whaddon annexed, avernge tithe rent-charge £271, p.m.; sunday, 7 a.m.; & are dispatched at 10 a.m. &
gross joint yearly value £401, net £321, with glebe
(£126) and residence, in the gift of Waiter Hume Long 7·35 p.m.; sunday, 10 a.m. Postal orders are issued
esq. M.P. and held since 1888 by the Rev. Samuel here, but not paid. The nearest m'Oney order office is
Theodore Wood M..A., B.C.L. of Christ Church, Oxford. at Hilperton road, Trowbridge

St. Mary's-in-t·he-Marsh chapel of ease is a plain iron Wall Le•tter .Box, Hilperton Marsh, cleared at 10.25 a.m.
building, with sittings for xoo persons, erected October, & 1.40 & 7.25 p.m.; sundays, 10.25 a.m

1889. There is a Baptist chapel, built in r8o6, to hold National School (mixed), erected in 1875, with residence

zso, and a Wesleyan chapel, buil't in 1890, to hold 300. for master, for 170 children; average attendance, 124;

Highfield, a 1arge mansion in the Renaiss-ance style, and .Albert James Witcombe, master; Mrs. Witcomlbe,mist

pleasantly placed, is the s·eat of Sir William Roger Brown Carriers to Trowbridge pass through daily

Ball Mrs. Yew villa Clement William, tailor Manners Henry, beer retailer

Brown Sir Wm. Roger J.P. Highfield Feltham Samuel, farmer Messiter .Ann (Mrs.),beer retailer, Hil-

Bush John J ones, The Grange Fillis .Alexander, smith perton Marsh

Cla;rk Hrbt.The Poplal's,Hilpertn.Mrsh Ford Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker Miles Mary (Miss), dress maker

Clal'k Wm. Perkins J.P. Wyke house, Gibbs George, King's .Arms P.H. Miles Thomas, boot maker

Hilperton Marsh Hilperton Marsh Mitchell John, jobbing gardener

Dell Rev. Geo. Richd. M..A. (curat·e) Ginns William, tailor Mortimex Jn. hwkr. Hilperton Marsh

Edwards Mrs. Hilperton house Grant George, farmer & hay & straw North Wilts Dairy Co. Limited

Hargreaves Mrs. Oriel lodge merchant, Lower Paxcroft Orchard David, blacksmith

Reeve Miss, Bleak house Greenhill Reuben Usher, farmer, Pearce Jas. cowkpr. Hilperton Marsh

Wood Rev. Samuel Theodore M.A., Hilperton Marsh Pike .Amor, farmer, Ohuroh farm

B.C.L. Rectory . Gumm Frederick, dairyman & farmer Pike Jsph. jun. frmr. Hilperton. Marsh

COMMERCIAL. Hawkins Arth. dairymn.Hilpertn.Mrsh Pinchin George, farmer, Manor farm

Baker Elizh. (Mrs.), baker & grocer Helps Emma (:Mrs.), laundress Rawlings Edwin Samuel,grocer, baker

Benzie Benj. boot ma.Hilperton Marsh Hiscock Waltr. Isaac, whelwt. & smith & salt merchant, Post office

Bird .A.. H. & S. ooal & corn mer- Hudd Ja.me.s, seedsman & florist, Scott Emma Maria (Miss), grocr.&bkr

chants & barge owners, Wharf, Hil- Hilperton Marsh · Simons David, carpenter

perton Marsh Hunt Henry Ja,s. Lion & Fiddle P.H Simons DaV'id, jun. baker & grocer

Brown Jamoo & Son, farmers & road Jones Harry, beer ret. Hilperton Mrsh Stokes William John, shopkeeper &

contractors Linzey Levi, plasterer flori,st, Hilperton Marsh

Brown John Everett, builder, timber Little John, farmer, Upper Paxcroft Waiters .Albt. & .Arth.seedsmen&florsts

merchant & tinpla.te box maker Longstreet Frederick, pig dealer Wetherall Jas. Three Horseshoes P.H

Bulson Mary (Mrs.), laundress Matthews Charles, carpenter Wheeler Benj.carpenter,HilpeTtn.Mrsh

HINDON is a parish, mostly cDmprised in one straight by the· Rev. Henry Waiter <Taylor M ..A. of Magdalen

street, nearly a quart-er of a mile in length, on a Hall, Oxford. Here is a chapel for Primitive Methodists.

gradual acclivity, on the high road frDm Salisbury to James .Ames esq. late• of Hindon, surgeon, who died

Taunton, 3! miles north-west from Tisbury station on June 9th, 1828, left by will £ro annually to the poor of

the Salisbury and' Yeovil branch of the South Western this parish for ever, to be distributed by the overseers

railway, 7 miles east from ~Iere, 16 west from Salis<bury in bread and clothing on Christmas Eve. The· market

and 8 north-'by-ea·st from Shaftesbury, in the S•outhern formerly held QD Thursday has become obsolete, but

division of the county, hundred of Downton, Tisbury fairs are still held on the 27th of May and 2gth of

and Mere petty sessional division, Tisbury union, Shaf- OclooeT. The town is chiefly the property of Sir

tesbury c<mnty court district, rural deanery of Chalk Michaei Rolbert Shaw-Stewart hart. and .Alfred· Morrison

(Ti:sbury portion), and archd>e!I!C<mry and diocese of esq. The soil is light chalky loam; subsoil, chalk and
Salisbury. This was an ancient Parliamentary borough flint. The chief crops are wheat, !barley, oats &c. and
by prescription, and pnssessed a lDcal government, having
a bailiff and ·burge·sses, and returned two members to pasturage. The area is 212 acres; rateable value, £793;
Parliament, but was disfranchised at the passing of the the population in 1891 was 495·

Reform .Act in 1832. On Holy Thursday, July 2nd, Parish Clerk, George Beckett.
1755, two-thirds of the· tmm were de.stroyed by fire.
Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Expres~ Delivery & .Annuity

The houses are built chiefly of stone, raised from the & Insurance Office.-Mrs. .Ann Plank, postmistress.
quarry at Tisbury, in this locality. The church of St. Letters arrive via Salisbury by cross road mail cart,
JQhn the Baptist, built in 1871, at the cost of Richard, & are delivered at 7 a.m. & 3.40 p.m.; dispatched at

the late Marquess of We.stminster, on the site of the I I a.m. & 6.40 p.m, by same conveyance on week days

old church, which was built in the reign of Queen Mary & 6.40 p.m. on sundays

(probably albout 1555), and endowed with £75 yearly, Public Officers.
is of early French architecture, ·built of Chilmark stDne
with Bath stone dressings, and consist·s .of chancel, nave, Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Hindon District,

aisl~, with vestry on the south ·Side, with square Tisbury Union, Joseph Charles Blythe L.R.C.S. &
western tower and spire containing 6 bells (the bells L.R.C.P.Edin. Southbridge house

having been removed from the old church) and clDck: Relieving; Officer, No. 1 District, Tisbury Union, School
there are two entrances, one at the western end, and a
south entrance porch: the chancel is paved with en- Attendance Officer, Reg-istrar of Births & Deaths, Vac-
caustic tiles, and contains a fine circular window of good cination Officer, Hindon Sub-District, & Collector to
design, with three others of stained glass, to the the Guardians, J ames Isaac

memory of the late Marquess: the nave is divided from School.

the aisles by arches resting on cylindrical piers: thP National School (mixed & infants), for 141 children;
pulpit is of carved oak and the font of Bath stone, and average attendance, 86 boys & girls & 58 infants; John
Frederick Lang, master; Miss Caroline Lang, infants'
o. lectern has been added in memory of J. G. and T. mistress
Carriers.
Hacker: the church is sealted with open benches and
will hold 400 people: the Qrgan cost over £2oo. The Mrs. Maxy .Ann Hull, from Tisbury to Warudnsier, fuurs.

register dates frDm the year 1595. The living is a

rect{)ry, average £52, gross yearly value £183, net £179,
in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1886 returning t!ame day; Becke'tt, to Salisbury, tues

118 BINDON. WILTSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Blythe Joseph Chas. Southridge house B:ythe Joseph Charles L.R.C.S. & Hacker Wm. Lamb inn, & farmer

Norriss Stephen L.R.C.P.Edin., L.S.A.. physician & Kemp Jn. Grosvenor.A.rmsP.H.&farmer

Reece Rev. William B. A. (rector Qf surgeon, & medical office!!." & public Perrett E:izabeth (Mrs.), grocer

Pertwood) vaccinator, Kindon district, Tisbury Perrett George, butcher & dealer

Taylor Rev. Hy.Walt.M.A.TheRectory union, Southridge house Pittman Oornelius, butcher

Tucker Thomas J. Dean house Bye George, mason Ranger ThDmtts Edward, baker

Coombs Albert, shoeing smith Raw:ings & Son, grocers & drapers

COMMERCIAL. Davis Alfred, insurance agent Raw:ings Emma Louisa (Miss),corn &

Beckett George & Son, basket makers Dunford James, wheelwright seed stores & bacon curer

& parish clerk Isaac James, relieving officer,No. r dis- Ruddock John, cooper

Beckett J-ames, shopkeeper trict, Tisbury union & attendanct~ Staples William Probert, farmel',

Beckett Mary Ann (Mrs.), furmer & officer to the rural school attendance Hawking down

carrier committee, registrar of births & Swyer Charles, blacksmith

Bell Henry, shDe maker de·aths & vaccination officer, Rindon Truelock George, baker

Bevis Henry Freemantle, tai~or sub-distric·t, Tisbury union, & col- Vigor William, butcher

Bevis William Freemantle, mason lector t.o guardians White Edward, coal dealer

HINTON PARVA (or Little Hinton) is a village, since r89o by the Rev. Robert Edward Richards M.A. of

township and parish, 4 miles soOuth-west from Shriven- Trinity College, Cambridge. Batt's charity of £9 4s. 8d.
ham station on the Reading and Swindon section of the 1 yearly, derived from l~nd and Conwls, left in 1785, is
Great Western railway, 5 north-east from Chise~don sta- for coals; John Brown's charity of £5 12s. 8d. yearly,
tion on the Midland and South •Western Junction rail- I and Ook·er's charity of £zz IIS. yearly, is for the support

way and 6 east from Swindon, in the Northern division of .schools; John Wil'Son left £r38 in r884, which is

.of the county, Elstub <and Everley hundred, Highworth invested in £2! per cent. Consols, and is for coals. 'Jl:e

and Swindon union, Swindon county court district and trustees of the late Henry Tucker are lords of the manor
petty sessional divis'ion, rural deanery of Cricklade, arch-: and principal ~andowners. The SDil is Iimesione ar.d

deaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. 1 chalk; subsoil, clay. The chief crop is wheat; the

The church of St. Anne is a plain but interesting struc- lower lands, grass. The area is 2,r6r acres; rateable

ture, of stone, having chancel, nave of two bays, with value, £2,126; the· population in 1891 was 273.
1

clerestory, aisles, porch and a low western tower con- !I Parish Clerk, William Peapell.

taining 4 bells: the nave is Transition Norman, the Offic.e.-Solomon ~ong, sub-postmaster. Letters
chancel Decorated: the aisles, clerestory and porch are: Post
Late Perpendicular: the font ibears a curious allegorical! are rece1v~d from Shnvenham R.S.~. (Berks) a~ ,7. 15

carving, which has never been fully explained: the oldest a.m. & drspatched at 6.25 p.m. Brshopstone 1s the

monument i's dated I630: the whole building switatsingres-. I~ nearest money order & telegraph office the RPv. T.
stored in 186o at a cost of £6so, and has 102 Coker's School (boys & girls), endowed by
The registel' dates from the year 1654. The Hving is a Coker in 1777; the present ·buildings were constra~ted

rectory, average tithe rent-charge £396, yearly value l!1 r849 on a site given by the Dean & Chapter of

.£340, net £3or, with 2 acres bf glebe and residence, in Winchester, for go children; average attendance, 35;

the gift of the Bishop G.f Gloucester and Bristol, held Mi>;; Eliza Saunders, mistress

l3rown Miss, The Grove Butler John H. farm bailiff to Henry Long Solomon, grocer, Post office

Cannon William B Kinneir esq. Up. Earlscourt farm Mifiin Benj. farmer, Somerset farm
Richards Rev. Robert Edward M.A. Fowler John, farmer
l'vliflin Ernest B. coal dealer

(rector), Rectory Gee Abraham, pig dealer Parsons Frederiok James, farmer,

Tucker William Hy. Manor house Gibhs Ephraim, roact contractor Marsh fa.rm

Wrigley Jo~:;iah, South View cottage Gray Stephen, thatcher Peapell Wm. carpenter & parish clexk

COMMERCIAL. Greenaway Arthur, dairy farmer, Povey Richard (Mrs.), dress maker

Adams .A.nthony, carpenter Lower Earlscourt farm Rickards Waiter, farm bailiff to T.

Adams .A.nthony Thos. blacksmith Higgins Jsph. dairy frmr.Earlscrt.frm Anger esq

Anger Thomas, farmer Jeans Hy. Wm. frmr. Hill Manor frm Robinson James, carrier

Archer Rebecca (~rs.), milliner King Frederick, farmer Saunders Washington, farmer

ROLT, a civil parish, constituted 1895, and an eccle- consecrated July 13th, r894, by the Bishop of Salhbury.

siastical parish, formed in r846 out of Bradford, with Woolstapling and leather manufacturing is carried Gn by

a junction station on the Great 'Western railway, Messrs. J. and T. Booven, and there are also works for
2~ miles north-east from Bradford, 3 north from Trow- bedding and wire mattress manufacturing, and a steam

bridge, 3 south-west from Melksham and 94 from Lon- laundry. A substantial stone ,building was erected in

don by rail, in the 'Vestern division of the county, civil r873 for a reading room, and a ibilliard room added in
parish, hundred, union, petty sessional division and 1893. A coffee tavern has been opened at the expense of

county court district of Bradford, rural deanery of Miss S. Chapman, of this ;village. Halt Manor House

Potterne· (Bradford portion), archdeaconry of Wilts and stands in a park of 45 acres, and is the seat of Major

. diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Cat·herine is an Thomas Henry Burton Forster, who is lord of the man{)l',

ancient stone ·structure, and consists of chancel, nave, and, with GeorQ"e L. Palmer esq. and Mrs. Alexander,

aisles and north porch, with square western embattled are the principal landowners. The soil is rich J.oam ;
saddle-back tower and 5 bells: there is a curious old subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat and

Norman font, dating from the 1r2th century: the east pas'ture. The area is 1,320 acres; the population in r891

wind•ow and one in the south aisle are stained, the former was 907.

being in memory of Miss E. Maekay: the porch was Sexton, James Stokes.
erected by Miss Chapman, as a memorial of Robert
Chapman esq. : the chureh was re'stored in r8gr, at a P{Jst, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity

cost of £2,300, under the direction uf Mr. 0. E. Pant- & Insurance Office.-John Harding, sub-postmaster.

ing, of Mal'lhorough: a new chancel has been built, new Letters through Trowbridge arrive at 7 & rr.rs a.m.
ro'ofs hav~ been put upon the nave and aisles, the nave & 5.15 p.m.; sunday, 7 a.m. & are dO.spatched at 9·55

l'aised <II feet, new .arcades lbuilit, and the whole floor a.m. & r. ro & 6.55 p.m.; sunday, 9·55 a.m. \Vall
paved w~th tiles :'the oak pulpit was erected in celebration Lettel' Box, Melksham road, cleared at 9·45 a.m. &

of the vicar completing 25 years' residence: there are 6.55 p.m.; sundays, 9·55 a.m

276 sittings. The register dates from the year I575· Schools.

The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £rJ4, N'atJonal (mixed), built in 1834· for I6o children; aver-
a"'e attendance, 100; Frederick E. Green, master; Mrs.
gross yearly value £322• net £ 275, in the gift of the ""
Pilley, mistress
Dean and Chapter of Bristol, and held since 1865 by the
Rev Herbert Henry Moseley B.A.. of St. John's College, British, opened in r88o & enlarged in IB94• for 226 chil-
Cambridge. Here is a CongregatJi'Onal ,chapel, built in

r88o, at a cost of £2,2oo, to hold soo, the old chapel dren; average attendance, Ioo; James. William Moore,
being converted into a sch'Dol. A. cemetery of half an master
acre wns formed in r893, at a cost of £zoo; it is under Railway Station, Samuel Chalk, station master

the control of a burial board of 7 members, and was Police Constable, George .Allsopp

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Beaven Edwin Oharles, Arboyne Dibben Miss, Stanbridge house

Beaven Fdk. Thos. J.P. The Retreat England Robert

Adley Chas. Coles M.I.C.E.Springfiehl Beaven Miss, Prospect cottage Forst.er Major ThC>mas Henry Burton,

Alexander Mrs. Glan-yr-afon Chapman Miss, Phyllis cettage Halt 1\ianor house

Bass MrSI. F.ir lawn Cooper Mrs. Ham terrace Green Thomas, Melksham road

Beaven .A.Ibert J ames, The Elms Dalley John Lambert, Halt house Ingo:d Johnson, Ingleside

DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. IIUISH. 119

Moseley Rev. Herbt. Hy. B.A.Vicarage Coffee Tavern (~Irs. Harriet Stead- Perritt Wm. Jas. farmer, Hunts hall
Purnell Mrs. FourWlOOds common man, manageress)
Pike J ames, farmer, :Blackacre

Sartain Miss, Laurel cottage Denning Ellen (Mrs.), farmer Pocock Elijah, cowkpr. Melksham rd

SartJalin Ml'S'. Bridge terrace Deverell William, Three Lions P.H. Pullen John, tobacconist

Sawtell John, Spa house brewer & timber merchant Reading Room (James William Moore,

Sawtell Thomas, The Green DrewCI!:t J acob, carter hon. seo)

Stribling Rev. Samuel Barber (Cong) Edwaros Frank, carter Ricketts George M. White Hart P.H.

Trent ~Iatthew Henry, Berry cottage Eng~and Edith (Miss), dress maker & farmer

Trueman Mrs England lfrederick, farmer Rudman Samuel, wheelwright

Uncles :Miss, Sunnyside Ewence Ava'rina (Miss), dress maker SawtellJn.bedding& wire mattressmfr

Versturme Col. Adolphus Halkett, Hard:ing John, grocer, Post office Scott J ames, plasterer

The Court Haroing Harry,blacksmith&metal wrkr Sheppard William, New inn

Hart Thomas, boot. maker Smith Het~bert, plumber

COMMERCIAL. Hiscocks Joon, farmer Taylor Albert, butcher

Alexander Edward,fa:rmer,Glan~yr-afon Hopkins Thos. baker & 'Corn dealer Tucker Saml. farmer, ~fanor farm

Bailey John, shopkeeper & boot dealer I House Edmund Charles, baker West Wilts Hygienic Steam Laundry

Beaven James & Thos. leather manu- Hunt Emily (Mrs.),farmer,Ga.stons fro Co. Lim. (D. Owen, sec)

facturers, glove mas. & woolstaplers King James, farmer, Bradleys Williams Alfd. dairyman&tomato grwr

Eird A. H. & S. coal merchants Lupton David, shopkpr. & news agent Williams Charles, carter

Oemetery (James '\Villiam Moore,clerk Milsom James, shoe maker Williams J oseph, carter

to the board) Moon Anna Ma:ria (Mrs.), draper Yeo Elizh. Ann (Mrs.), drpr.&confctnr

Ohapman James, carpenter Moore Jas. Wm.clerk to the burial brd

HOMINGTON is a parish, on the river Chalke, 3 Bissett, average tithe rent-charge £ng, net income

miles s<outh-west-by-south from Salisbury, in the £243, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Richard John

Southern division of the county, hundred of Cawden and Milner M.A. of ExeteT Oollege, Oxford, who resides at

Oadworth, Aldel.ibury union, Salisbury CQunty court dis- Coombe Bissett. The Earl of Radnor is lord of the

trict, Salisbury and Amesbury petty sessional division, manor and principal landowner. The soil is chalk and

rural deanery of Chalke (Chalke portion), archdeaconry gravel; ·subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat,

of Sarum and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. barley and turnips. The area is I,043 acres; rateable

Mary the Virgin consists of a chancel, a nave· Qf three value, £r,r25; the population in I·8gr was 220.

bays, with aisles, and a tower on the south side con- Parish Clerk, George Cas·e.

taining one bell: the .building (of flint and stone) is Letters from Salisbury, via Coombe Bissett, arrive at 8

mainly in the Early English style, with later additions, a.m. Salis.bury is the nearest money order & tele•

t)le nave still retaining its original high-pitched roof: graph uffice. Wall L~tter Box cleared at 6.30 p.m.;

the church was restored in I 86o: there are abQut 200 sundays, S.r5 a. m

sittings. The register dates from r636. The living is The children of the parish attend the school at Coombe

Ia perpetual curacy united to the vicarage of Coombe Bissett \Moody William, shopkeeper

Corbin Dennett Geo. Homington ho Main Edmund, farmer
:Morris David Morris George, carpenter

:a:ORNINGSHAM is a parish on the borders of 1 to as many poor women, being natives of this parish

Somersetshire, 4~ miles south-west from Warminster I as the sa.me residue should at the rates nforesaid be

station on the Salisbury branch of the Great Western sufficient to pay. Taylor's charity of £Io yearly,
railway, 5~ south-e~a,st-by-south from Frame, in the arising from land in various parts, iSI for food: Cray's

Southern division of the county, Heytesbury hundred, charity of £2o yearly is to pay 3 school-dames for in·

Warminster union, petty sessional division and county structing the children of the poor in reading in this
court district, rural deanery of Wylye (Heytesbury parish; the income arises from 14 acres of kmd at
portion), Sarum a,rchdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury. Kin!;ston Deverill. Longleat, the soot of the Marquess
The church of St. John the Baptist was rebuilt, except of Bath, on the north of this village, is in this parish,
the tower, in 1844, at the expense of the Ma.rchioness of for civil purposes, but ecclesiastically in that of LDng-
13ath: it is a stone building in the Early English s•tyle, bridge Deverill; the Marquess is lord of the manor and
CUld has chancel, naiVe, north porch, aisles, which are principal l-andowner. The soil is light sandy and some
connected with the nave by arcades, suppQl'ted by six clay; subsoil, part gna.vel and part chalk. The chief
Pointed arches: the roof is of oak: there are three crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 3,367
stained windows and an ornamental stone pulpit; the acres; rateta.ble value, £4,000; the population in r8gx
old squa.re western tower has minarets rising at each was 862.
angle, and contains 6 bells: the church will seat about Parish Clerk, Robert Trollope.

425 persons. The register datest from the year I56I. Post & Teleg-raph & Express Delivery Office.-Mis$

The living is a vicarage, yearly vaJue from tithe rent- Elizabeth Maxfield, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive
charge £8o, net income £258, with residence and 50 by messenger from Wa.rminster at 8.35 a.m.; dis-
acres of glebe, in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, patched at c:: p.m. Postal orders are is.sued here but
'}nd held since 1858 by the Rev. James John Jacob M.A. not paid. The neall'est money order office is at Maiden
of Emma.nucl Oollege, Cambridge, canon and prebendary Bradley. Wall Letter Box at the church, cleared at
of Salisbury and rural dean of Heytesbury portion. 9 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. week days & 9 a.m. on sundays
Here is a Congregational chapel, built in r666, with Nattional School, built in 1844, with residence for master.

300 sittings. William Archer e.sq. of Windlesham Hall, by the late Marquess of Bath, & enlarged in r8g2 for
Surrey, by will d!a·ted June gth. 1843, gave £I,ooo, the 150 children; average attendance, 125; Thomas
Welborn, master
interest of which, after providing for the keeping in Oarrierrs. James Doel to Frome, wed. & sat.; Joseph
Adlam, to Frome, wed.; to Warminster on sat.
repair of a. tomb and its railings in the churchyard,
the residue to be applied in the payment of sums of 2s. returning san1e day

weekly each to as many poor men, and rs. weekly each

EaU Rev. George (Congregational) Bothwell James, surgeon, & medical Marsh Edward, wood turner
:Bothwell James, Holywell house officer & public vaccinator & regis- Murch Matthew, grocer

Bramble Miss trar of births & deaths, Longbridge Philip Robert, woodward to the Mar•

Caudwe11 Rev. Edmund Schuyler Deverill district, Warminster uniQn, quesSt of :Bath

Sutton M. A. (curate) Ifulywell house Pickford Elijah William, farmer•

..lacob Rev. Canon James John M.A. Chinn & Thorn, butchers, & Bath Woodhouse farm ,

(vicar & rural dean) Arms hotel Pope John, farmer, Manor farm

COMMERCIAL. Doel James, carrier Read Frederick, police sergeant
Adlam Joseph, wood dealer
Harding Joseph; auot.ioneer, :Bayc:iffe. Reading Room (John Mathews, sec)

Adlam Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper (Postal address, Maiden Bradley) Smith Sidney, boot maker

Andrews J. G. miller (water) & farmr Haskell Cupit, blacksmith Thorne Waiter, chair maker

Earker Richard, bakel" Hinton Joseph, farm& Trollope Josiah, head gardener to tha

Earnes David, farmer Horsey Jas. Chas. dairyman, :Baycliffe Marquess of Bath

Beauchamp Chas. Wm. beer retailer Hulbert John Henry, grocer &c Whitmarsh Oharles, tailor
Wilkins Edward, market gardener
Chapman George, shopkeeper Long William Oscar, dairyman

HUISH (or Hewish) is ta. village and parish amongst Eastern division of the county, Swanborough hundred,

the downs, :; miles north-weSit of Pewsey station on Everleigh and Pewsey petty sessiolllal division, Pew~y
the Berks and Hanh extensiQn of the Great Western union, Ma.rlborough county court district, rural deanery

bilway and 5 south-west from Marlborough in the of Marlborough (Pewsey portion), archdeaconry of Wilts

120 HUISH. '\VILTSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Nicholas a, Primitive Methodist chapel here which will hold so.
is a pltain stone building, in the Early English style,
consisting of chancel, nave a.nd south porch : an organ In the parish are an ancient camp and several barrow~
eh amber with vestry was built and the church The trustees of Somerset Hospital, Froxfield, are lords
completely restored in 1879, at a cost of £I,oso: there of the manor and sole landowners. The soil is clay;
is a turret with one bell: there art 120 sittings. The subsoil, chalky. The chief crops are wheat, barley and
register dates from the year 16oo. The living is a oats. The area is 750 acres; rateable value, £432; tha
population in 1891 was us.
rectory, average tithe rent-charge £148, gross yera.rly
Parish Clerk, James Gale.

value £175, net £120, with residence, and 24 acres Letters delivered at 7 a.m. The postal address, Pewsey
of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of Somerset Hospital, S 0. The nearest money order & telegraph office is

Froxfield, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Hubert at Pewsey. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 6.50 p.m.;.
Farquharson Grove M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford, sundays at 11.so a.m

and minister of Somerset Hospital, Froxfield. There is The .school for the paxish is. situate at Oare

Grove Rev. Hubert Farquharson M.A.I Tasker Tihoma.s, black1mith, wheel-~ Skinner Thomas, grocer & baker

Rectory wright & carpenter Young George, farmer, :Manor farm

HULLAVINGTON is a• village and parish, 5 miles centre is n, representation of Our Saviour on the Cross,.

south-west from Malmesbury terminal station, on a with an angel on each side receiving the blood in a

branch of the Great Western railway and 7 north-by- chalice; the rest is covered with figures of saints,.

west from Chippenham, in the North Western division cherubin full of eyes, and fleurs-de-lys. Here aret

of the county, MiaJmesbury union, county court district, Baptist, Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.

petty s•es·sionaa division and hundred (except the tithing Green's charity is of £5 2s. yearly, £3 2s. of which is.

of Surrendel, which is in the hundred of Chippenham), for the education of poor children. The manorial rights •

rura! deanery of Malmesbury, archdeaconry of Bristol and rectorial tithes, as• well aJS most of the land, belong

and diocese. of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of to Eton College: Sir Algernon W. Neeld bart. is lessee

St. Mtary is a stone building, consisting of a chancel, under the college. The soil is brashy, on rock. The-

nave of three ba.ys, aisles, embattled western tower, chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area' is

rebuilt in 188o, containing 2 bellS!, and south porch; it 3,071 acres; rateable value, £3,317; the population

was restored in 1871: the interior shows marks of con- in 1891 W3>S 543· ·

siderable antiquity: the porch, arches, columns and Surrendel is a tithing, x! miles1 west.

other parts are Transition Norman : the chancel window Parish Clerk, Richard Wicks.
is 3J three-light lancet: the north aisle contains some

very good Early Englis•h windows of three lights, with Posro Offioo. William Fry, sub-pos:tmaster, Le.tters

Kington .stone shafts: there are 300 sittings. The through Chippenham, arrive 8.15 a.m.; dispatched

register dates from the year 1694· The living is a. 6.10 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.

vicarage, 3JVerage tithe rent-charge £,127, gross yearly The nearest money order office is Grittleton & telegraph

value £267, net £237, including 84 acres of glebe, with office Sherston

residence, in the gift, of Eton College, and held since A School Board of 5 members was formed 19 July,.

1893 by the Rev. George Yonge M.A. of Trinity Hall, 1886, J. A. Clarke, Malmesbury, clerk to the board

Cambridge. A very curious1 piece of medireval em- . Board School (mixed), erected for Ioo children; averaga-

broidery, ori~inally a chasuble, tand preserved in the attendance, 75; J. R. Eatell, master

vicarage, has• on a brown satin ground various em- Carr~er. Mrs. Phrebe Templeman, to Chippenham,.

bellishments worked in gold and silver thread; in the tues. & fri

Brown Merideth, Hullavington house Broom John, jun. farmer Miles Richard, shopkeeper

Knapp Joseph Clarke Wm. Jonas, Queen's Head inn Millard Lindley James, farmer

Painter Caleb, Darley house Fry Philip, gamekeeper to Sir A. Payne Henry, fal"'ller

Painter Miss, Darley house Neeld bart Pritchard Worthy, farmer, Bradfield

Yonge Rev. George ~LA. (vicar) Fry William, shopkeeper, Post office Ralph Joseph, Star inn

Goulding Alfred, farmer, Fur Leaze Sealy Max, blacksmith

CO:IIMERCIAL. Greenman Albert, farmer Stevens Sarah (Mrs.), fal"'ller

Haddrell Joseph, jun. carpenter Tanner Henry, haulier
Templeman Phreb~ (Mrs.), shop-
Ayres Ephraim, saddler Harry William, jun. farmer

Beak Robert Ge,o. furmj:lr, Surrenrlel Hill Edward, farmer keeper & carrier

Broom George, fal'mer Hulbert Thomas, carpenter Tuck Thomas, shoe maker

Broom John, farmer Mann George, shopkeeper Wicks George, hurdle maker

IDMISTON is a parish and scattered village, in the Joseph Waters and Mr. Lawrence. The soil is a light
Bourne valley, and extending to the Hampshire border, loam on chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are
1 mile north from Porton station on the main line \1f wheat, barley and oats. The area is 5,331 acres of land
the London and South Western railway, 4! south- and 10 of water; rateable value £4,076; the population
east from Amesbury, and 6 north-east from Salisbury, of the entire parish in 1891 was 508.
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Al-
derbury, Amesbury union, Salisbury county court dis- Porton is a parochial chapelry, village and station on
trict, petty sessional division of Salisbury and Amesbury,
Amesbury rural deanery (Amesbury portion), arch- the South Western railway, a mile south of Idmiston_
The church of St. Nicholas was rebuilt of flint stone ou
deaconry of Sarum, and diocese of Salisbury. The a new site and consecrated in 1877; the site was given
church of All Saints is an ancient structure of flint with by I. A. Ingram esq. and the church built from a
stone dressings restored in 1867, consisting of chancel design given by Mr. J. L. Pearson, of London, and con-
and nave of three bays and aisles, north porch, with a sists of chancel and nave with south porch and bellcote
western square tower and spire containing 4 bells, sup- at the west end containing 2 bells : there is also a
posed to have been considerably altered in the reign of burial ground attached. The register dates from the
Henry VII. : the chancel is Early English; the nave and year 1813.
aisles are Tudor; clerestory and roof are Perpendicular:
in the nave is a monument of the family of Rowbach, Parish Clerk, William Moxham.
dated 1633, and several marble tablets of the Bowle
family: the east and west windows are stained : the Gomeldon is a tithing, three-quarters of a mile south
chancel and each of the aisles has a piscina : in the from Porton.
south aisle is a part of the rood staircase : there are 150
sittings. The register dates from the year I577· The Shripple is a tithing, about 4! miles east, the whole of
living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Porton an- which now belongs to the parish of Winterslow.
nexed, gross yearly value £304, net £2go, in the gift d
the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since 1862 by the Rev. Ford, a tithing, 4 miles east, has now been added to.
William Dowding M.A. of Merton College, Oxford.
Laverstock parish.
:aowle's charity of £3 7s. 10d. yearly, derived from
Letters through Salisbury, arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest
bequests left in 1835 by Rev. John Bowle, of Salisbury, money order & telegraph office is at Winterborne
is for the poor. The chief landowners are the Earl of Gunner. Wall Letter Box, Idmiston, cleared at 5.50
Normanton, who is lord of the manor, Alfred Morrison p.m. & at Porton II a.m. & 6 p.m

esq. of Fonthill House, I. A. Ingram esq. Capt. Thomas, National School, Idmiston (mixed), built in 1868 & en-
larged in 1~74, for So children; average attendance-,.
53; Miss Bella White, mistress; Miss Sarah Anne
Grass, assistant mistress

Railway Station, Porton, Charles Fanner, station master

IDM~ IS TON Annetts SI. farmer, Parsonage farm Mitchell George, boot & shoe maker
·
Bacon Reginald Jas. frmr. Manor frm Mowland Frank, blacksmith

Powding Rev. William M.A. (vicar) Dale Anthony John, Plough P.H Targett Wm. frmr. Hale & West frms

.., WILTSHIRE. KEEVIL. 121
DIRECTORY.j

PORTON. Targett Ernest, farmer, Church farm GOMELDON.
'Newens Mrs Targett Henry George Wright,farmer,

Cusse Harriet (Mrs.),refres.hment rms Birdlymes farm Horne Chas.frm.bariliff to H.Young esq

Horner Edwin, grocer & draper White Herbert, blacksmith Pocock Edwin, farmer

Noyce Thomas, beer ret. & shopkeepr White Richd. farmr. baker & mealmn Waters Joseph, farmer & landowner

:IMBER is a parish, 6 miles east-by-north from War- Bishop -of Salisbury, and held since 1885 by the Rev.
minster station, 7 south-east from Westbury station, and James Hugh Pearson M.A. of Hertford College, Oxford.
7 north-east-by-east from Heytesbury station, all on Here is a place of worship for Baptists. The principal
~he Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth branch of the Great landowners are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who
Western railway, in the Western division of the county, are lords of the manor, the Duchess of Cleveland, the
Swanborough hundred, Warminster union, petty ses- trustees of Mrs. Tinker and William Heathcote Seagram
sional division and county court district, rural deanery esq. The soil is flinty; subsoil, chalk. The chief

of Potterne (Potterne portion), archdeaconry of Wilts crops are wheat, oats, barley and pasture. The area is
and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Giles is a 3,on acres; rateable value, £1,445; the population .in
stone building, in the Decorated and Perpendicular 1891 was 292.
styles, consisting of chancel, nave of 3 bays, aisles, north
porch, and a western embattled tower, with pinnacles, Parish Clerk, James Carter.
Letters arrive by foot messenger at g.15 a.m. through
containing 5 bells: there is a piscina at the east end of
Bath, via Codford St. Mary, which is the nearest
the south aisle, and in the porch a mutilated stoup: money order & telegraph office. Wall Letter Box

there are two stone effigies representing Crusaders, one cleared at 4.20 p.m. & in Nov. Dec. & Jan. at 3·So
being in a 14th century arched and cusped recess in the p.m. week days only
south aisle: the font is Early Norman, with herring
Schools.

bone sculpture round the top: the chancel was rebuilt National (mixed), erected in r876, for 6o children;
in 1849, at a cost of £630 ws. by the Marquess of Bath: average attendance, 32 ; Miss Charlotte Price, mistress
the church has 200 sittings. The register dates from
the year 1709. The living is a vicarage, average tithe British, erected r858, for so children; average attend-
rent-charge £IIo, gross yearly value £232, net £220, ance 21; mistress (vacant)

Carrier.-E. Meaden, to Devizes, thurs. to Warmin-

including glebe (£15), with residence, in the gift of the ster, sat

Pearson Rev. Jas. Hugh M.A.Vicarage Dean Edward Henry, farmer & miller Meaden Henry, boot & shoe-maker

COMMERCIAL. (wind), Manor farm Meaden J ohn,carpenter & wheelwright

Daniel Jane (Miss), shopkeeper Goddard John, Bell inn Nash William, blacksmith

Dean Williatm Robert, farmer Hooper William Pearce, farmer Pearce Samuel, gamekeeper, Ladywell

Frioker Edward, farmer Meaden Emanuel, shopkeepr. & carrier Staples Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper

:INGLESHAM is a small village and parish, on the chamfered base, and monolithic shaft about 7 feet long.

borders of Berks, 3 miles north from Highworth ter- The register dates from the year 1589. The living is
mina} station on a branch from Swindon of the Great a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £rs6, gross yearly
Western railway, and 9 north-by-east from Swindon, in value £236, net £186, with glebe (£74) and residence,
the Northern division of the county, hundred of High- in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and
worth, Swindon petty sessional division and county held since 1857 by the Rev. George Woodberry Spooner
court district, Highworth and Swindon union, rural B.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. There is a charity d
deanery of Cricklade, archdeaconry of Bristol and dio- £1 yearly, bequeathed by the. late Jane Bray, of Shilton,

cese of Gloucester and Bristol. A small part of this expended in clothing for two poor persons in Lower

parish was formerly in Berks, but by Act z and 3 Inglesham, not chargeable to the parish. The manorial
rights are divided, and there are a number of small
William IV. cap. 64, was transferred to this county. landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, stone brash.
The church of St. John the Baptist is a small ancient The parish contains 1,238 acres of land; rateable value,
structure of stone, in the Early English style, and con- [2,148; the population in 189r was rrg, including part
sists of chancel, nave of two bays, aisles, south porch

and western belfry containing 2 bells : the chancel wall of Coleshill.
above the communion table shows signs of colour, and By an order dated March 25, 1883, a detached part of
there are remains of a large fresco beneath the white-
wash: in front of the communion table are floor tablets Coleshill (Berks), in Faringdon union, known as Lynt
Farm, was amalgamated with this parish.
to Robert Babb (a former vicar) and his wife, A.D. r6g9,
and a large black marble slab, from which a life-size Letters through Lechlade (Sub-Office), which is the
brass, representing an armed knight, has been removed: nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 6.30
the church was partly reroofed and the remaining high a.m. Wall Box at Upper Inglesham cleared at 7 p.m.
week days only
pews lowered in 1892: there are 8o sittings: the "lJ
village cross, in excellent preservation, still stands in National School (mixed), built in 1870, with residence
for mistress, for so children ; average attendance, 12 ;
the churchyard, and consists of three steps, octagonal
Mrs. Frederick Kinch, mistress

Spooner Rev. George Woodberry B.A. Kinch William, farm bailiff to Mr. Maundrell Harry, farmer, Lynt farm

(vicar), Lower Inglesham Wm. Jenner Kinch, Low. Ingleshm Reynolds Jasper, farmer

Eddolls Ranleigh, farmer, Lynt bridge Kinch William Jenner, farmer & over- Smith Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Kinch Joseph, farmer seer, CoHege farm Smith Theophilus, carpenter

KEEV:IL is a parish, 5 miles south from Melksham for six poor men and six poor women of the parishes of

station, and s east from Trowbridge station on the Great Keevil, Edington and Steeple Ashton. An iron hall was

Western railway, in the Western division of the county, erected in 1892 by Col. John W. Wallington C.B., J.P. for

hundred and petty sessional division of Whorwellsdown, concerts, entertainments &c. Keevil Manor House, an

Westbury and Whorwhellsdown union, Trowbridge ancient mansion, in the Elizabethan style, is the resi-

county court district, rural deanery of Potterne (Pot- dence of Col. John Williams Wallington C.B., J.P.

terne portion), archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of William W. B. Beach esq. M.P. of Oakley Hall, Basing-

Salisbury. The church of St. Leonard is a plain stone stoke, Hampshire, is lord of the manor and the principal

structure, in mixed styles, having chancel, nave of six landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay and brash.

bays, and south aisle, south porch and a square em- The land is nearly all in pasture, the remainder wheat,

battled western tower with clock and 6 bells : here are barley and oats. The area is 2,883 acres; rateable

several monuments-to John J. Harris, citizen and alder- value, £4,397; the population in 1891 was 384.

man of London, dated 1657; the Blagden family, 1730; Bulkington, a tithing of this parish and now an eccle-
Jane Talbot, 1768; William Gaisford, 17S4; William siastical parish, will be found under a separate heading.
Beach, 1741; brasses to Jane Flower, dated 1662;
Stephen Cox, 1761; John Halkens, r689; Roger Jorden, l'arish Clerk, George Wilkins.
1669; Roger Blagden, 1687; and Eliza Gaisford, 1720:
Post Office.-Mrs. Mary Bodman, sub-postmistress. Let~

the east window is stained, erected in memory of the ters through Trowbridge arrive at 8.s a.m. & 6.15

Rev. George Thomas Chamberlaine M.A. (1858): there p.m. ; sun. 8.5 a.m. ; dispatched at 9·S a.m. & 6.30
are 320 sittings. The register dates from the year p m. ; sun. 10 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but

I559· The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent- not paid. Steeple Ashton is the nearest money orde:r

charge £77• gross yearly value £26o, in the gift of the & telegraph office

Dean and Can{)ns of Winchester, and held since 1839 National School (mixed), erected in 1869, for 95 chil-

by the Rev. William Henry Chamberlaine M.A. of Wor- dren; average attendance, 6o; Samuel Cooke, !llaster

cester College, Oxford. The Wesleyans have a chapel Carriers to Trowbridge.-Frederick Gumm & Thomas

here, built about 1844, to hold 200. In 18s2 George Gilbert, wed. & sat

Tayler left £3,000, the interest of which is to buy brea:l Police Constable, Gerard Osman

122 KEEVIL. ·'WILTSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

Chamberlain~ Rev. Edward M..A..(vicar Collett Hy. Jn. baker & shopkeeper Orchard Edward, Rose & Crown P.H.

of Bulkington), Blagden house Ellis Thomas, farmer, Burst farm & builder

.chamb~rlaine Rerv. Wil:iam Henry, Ghey Henry, farmer, Church farm Pocock John, farmer, Westwood farm

M..A.. (vicar) Ghey Samuel, farmer, Wick Leaze Rickard Henry, carpenter

Kenrick Mrs. Talboys Gilbert Thomas, carrier Rogers George, Lamb inn

"\Vallington Col. Jolhn Williams C.B., Gumm Fredk. carrier & mrkt. gardnr Tucker Martin, farmer, Long Leaze

J.P. Manor house Hobbs William, farmer Watts John, farmer, Pyett's farm

COMMERCIAL. Matthews Jane (:Mrs.), farmr.Mere fm White Jas. farmer, Pinkney's farm

Brewer George, farmer Miness Betsy (Mrs.). dress maker White William, farmer & thatcher

Brown James, farmer, Woodhouse frm Miness William, stone mason Wilts Friendly Society (Keevil branch)

Burgess Charles, shopkeeper Newman William. farmer (W. S. Tucker, sec)

ButcherThos.millr.(watr.),Baldham ml Orchard Dnl. Beach Arms P.H.&smit'h Witt Elizh. (Mrs.), baker & shopkpr

KELLAWAYS with AVON.

KELL.A.W.A.YS (or Tytherton Kelways) is a parish and resides at Chippenham. Earl Cowley is lord of the manor

small village, on the east bank of the river Avon, 3 miles and principal landowner. The soil is clay and graveil;

north-east from Chippenham station on the Swindon and subsoil, clayey. The chief crops are wheat and beans,

Bath section of the Great Western railway, in the North but with a considerable proportion of pasture land. The

Western division of the county, Chippenham hundred, area is 161 acres; rateableJ value, [369; the population

union, petty sessional division and county court district, in 1B91 was 29.

rural deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of Bristol and Avon is a parish, formerly extra-parochial, and is
situated on the river Avon, 3~ miles north-east from
diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St.
Giles is a mod_ern building of stone, cons~s~ing only of a Chippenham and half a mile north from Kellaway. The
Ismall nave, w~th; a western tu~ret contammg one bell: £ 26 5 ;
area wisaJs6190acr e s; rateable value, the population in
there are 55 sittmgs. The register dates from the year 18gr
rB15. The living is a rectory, £t7it9h•enreetn£t-3c4h~airngcelu£d4in7g• ·
average [34, gross yearly value LetterS! t-hrough Chippenham, which is the nearest money

22J acres of glebe in the parish of Melksham, in the order & telegraph office, arrive at B a. m

gift of Sir .A.lgernon William Neeld bart. and held since Wall Letter Box, cleared at 6.30 p.m

1BB4 by the Rev. John Rich M..A.. hon. canon of Bristol The children of this place attend the school at East

and rural dean of Ohippenham, who is also vicar of and Tytherton .

Curtis John, farmer, Kellaways mill \Richmond Herbert, miller (water), !Long Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer
Fry Thomas, farmer, Avon farm, Avon Kellaways mill

XEM:SLE is a parish and scattered village, 4 miles of 1\Iichael Biddulph esq. 1\-LP., D,L., J.P. who is lord of
south-west from Cirencester, B north-east from Malmes~ the manor, and with William !'rice Jones esq. the princi-
bury and 91 from London, in the North Western division pal landowner. The soil is stone brash and clay; sub~

of the county, Malmesbury hundred and petty sessional soil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley,
division, Cirencester union and county court district, oats, beans and turnips. The area is 3,05B acres of land

rural deanery of Malmesbury, archdeaconry of Bristol and 20 of water; rateable value, [5,t123; the population
in rB91 was 482.
and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. One of the sources
of t~e Thames ~s in this p~rish.. Here is the ju~ction Ewell (or Ewen) is a hamlet 1 mile east. Elm Green
statwn of the C1rencester hne With that from Swm~on is the residence of "\Villiam Price J ones esq.
to Gloucester and Cheltenham. The church of All Samts
is an ancient stone fabric, in the Early English style, . ..
Pansh Clerk, Richard Chfford.

consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, mor~ Post, Telegraph & Express Delivery Office.-Charles
tuary chapel, south porch and western tower containing Saunders, sub-postmaster. Letters through Ciren•

5 bells, and surmounted by a steeple 120 feet Jn height: cester arrive at B.15 a.m. & are dispatched at 5·45 &
B.30 p.m.; sunday 6.ro p.m. Postal orders are issued
it contains an ancient tomb of a Knight Templar and some here, but not paid. Cirencester is the nearest money
order office; also a telegraph office is at the railway
interesting monuments : in the mortuary chapel is a
curious triple window of the 13th century, said to have

been brought from Salisbury cathedral: the porch, re- station for dispatch
markably large, was built in the time of Henry IlL: over Railway Station, Kemble Junction, Jeremiah Greenaway,
the entran~ door is a beautiful Norman arch with the
chevron ornament: the whole church was rebuilt in rB77, station master
and has 250 sittings. The register dates from the year .A. School Board of 5 members was formed 15th Sept.

1BB8; J. Dallman, clerk to the boardl&attendance officer

1679. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £250, Board School (mixed), erected in 1873, for 90 children, &
net £230, arising from glebe, in the gift of Michael Bid- enlarged in r89o for 130, with house for mistress;..

dulph esq. M.P. and held since r86I by the Rev. Richard average attendance, BB; Miss Elizabeth Reed, mistress;

Bowell Taylor M..A.. of Trinity College, Oxford. The Miss .A.gnes Smale, infants' mistress; Miss Florence

charities amount to about [30 yearly for the poor not re- Moffatt Lewis, assistant mistress
ceiving parochial relief. Kemble Manor House is the seat Carrier to Cirencester.~Thos. Morton, mon. wed. & fri

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Mort{)n Edmund, gardener to W. Price

Beak Daniel, farmer Jones esq. Ewen

Eiddulph Michael M.P., D.L., J.P. Beak Harry Howell, coal merchant Morton Thomas, newsagPnt

Manor house; & 19 Ennismore gar- Compton Raymond, carpenter, Ewen Painter Thomas, farmer, Ewen

dens & Reform & Brooks' clubs, Compton vVilliam, carpenter Parker Edwin, stone mason, Ewen

London SW Compton William Harry, butcher Sargeant .A.nnie Ruth (Miss), miller

Cunard Cyril, The Limes Dallman John, foreman to M. Bid- (water), Kemble mill
Gouldsmith Jesse Devenish
dulph esq. M.P Saunders Chas. blacksmith, Post office

Jones William Price, Elm green Davis John & Co. drapers & grocers Saunders Eliza Matilda(Miss),shopkp1,'

Taylor Rev. Richd. Howell M..A..(vicar) .Tasques Thomas, shopkeeper Saunders .John, assistant overseer

Veasey Alfred M..A.. (curate) Morton Maurice, haulier & frmr.Ewen Winchcombe Geo. Coffee Tavern statu

EAST KENNETT is a parish and village on the river manuel College, Cambridge. Richard Fisher esq. is lord

Kennett, 5 miles west-by-south-west from Marlborough of the manor and Phief landowner. There is a village

terminal station on a branch of the Great Western railway, dispensary and hospital, with two beds, and parish room,

in the Eastern division of the county, Selkley hundred, erected in 18B3, and opened on 13th N{)vember in that;

petty sessional division of Marlborough and Ramsbury, year: the room will seat 100 persons. The soil is loamy;

Marlborough union and county court district, rural subsoil, chalky. The chief crops are wheat, barley and

deanery of .A.vebury (Cannings portion), archdeaconry of oats. The area is BoB acres; rateable value, £3o1i the

'Vilts and diocese of Salisbury. Christ church, is a population in 1891 was 70.

stone building, in the Early English style, consisting of Parish Clerk, Charles Ellis.
chancel and nave, an embattled western square tower
with pinnacles, surmounted by a stone spire &nd contain- Wall Letter Box cleared at ro a.m. & 6.10 p.m. week
ing 5 bells and south porch, and was restored in rB64, days; 10.20 a. m. on sundays. Letters are delivered
principally through the liberality ot the Matthews family : by foot post from Marlborough at B a.m. & 5 p.m. ,; th~
nearest telegraph office&money order office is at Overtn
there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the year

1620. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £125, School, connected with the church, built in 1857, for 30

with residence, in the gift of Richard Fisher esq. and he~d children ; average attMJ.dance, 22 ; Miss Elizabetlh

since rBB4 by the Rev. John Edward Wilson M..A.. of Em• Strong Spreadbury, mistress

lWilson Rev. John Edward 1\I..A..(vicar) jDi~pensary (Thomas Hotatio Haydon, El~s Charles, pig dealer
Brown Thomas Strange, fanrPr surgeon) Webb George Thomas, blacksmith

JDIRECTORY. WILTSHIRE. ltNOOK. 123

"'XINGTON ST. MICHAEL i~ a parish 3 miles north- I stand the remains of a house of Benedictine nuns, dedi-
north..west fro.m Chippenham station on the Swindon and I cated to St. Mary, and now occupied as a farm house:

Bath section of the Great ·western railway, comprising in the terraced garden stone coffins have been found,
the tithings of Kington St. Michael, Kington Langley and and in the old hedges grow a. number of barberry trees,
Easton Piercy, in the North Western division of the "which 'tis likely," says Aubrey, "the nuns used for
county, hundred of Damerham north, Chippenham union, confections." The cross stood at ths north end of the

petty sessional division and county court district, rural Yillage, " where," according to the same writer, " there

deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of Bristol and dio- was a little market for fish, eggs, butter and such small
cese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. Michael gear." The old manor house was taken down in r863
is an ancient structure, consisting of chancel, nave of and a mansion built by Herbert Prodgers esq. J.P. in

three bays, aisles, south porch and a lofty western 1;ower which all the carving of the old manor house. was worked
of debased character, containing 6 bells, which have been ·into to the north front of the new one. The manor belonged
l"ehung at a cost of £go, defrayed by the vicar and land- to the Abbot of Glastonbury and the manorial rights are
owners: the chancel arch is a fine example of Norman new held in thirds by the descendants of Sir Charles

work: there is a memorial window to Aubrey and Britton, Snell, knighted in r6r6, whose ar.cestor became possessed
the antiquaries, and another to the Rev. Edward Rowland- of the. church lands at the Reformation. The largest
sol)., curate of the parish for eighteen years; other win- landowners are Sir Algernon ·wm. Neeld bart. of Grittleton,

dows are stained as memorials: the reredos was presented Earl Cowley, of Draycot Cerne, Waiter Coleman esq. of

by the vicar; the church, including the chancel, was re- Langley Fitzurse, and Herbert Prodgers esq. The soil
stored in 1857-8, and has 280 sittings. The register dates is corn brash; subsoil, forest marble. The land is arable

from October 6th, 1563. In 1582 the following memo- and pasture; a wood, called Heywood, extends over the
randa appear:-" Here the plague begam, 4th May," and south of the parish. The parish contains 2,411 acres;
·"here the plague ended, 6th August." The living is rateable value, £2,683; the population in 1891 was, 438

a vicarage, yearly value from tithe rent-charge £450, in the civil and 426 in the ecclesiastical parish. A small

average £343, gross income £363, net £282, including 20 portion of this parish is within the ecclesiastical parish of

acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl St. Paul. Sea Chippenham.
Cowley J.P. and held since 1856 by the Rev. Edward · Easton Piercy is a tithing half a mile north-west, with
Charles Awdry B.A. of St. Catherine's College, Cam- a population of 20 in 1891: it contains four small farms,
bridge. Here is a Congregational chapel. Newman's and once had a chapel with graveyard and cross: the fine
charity of £6 a year, and Taylor's of £r, are distributed old manor house has been now converted into a farm

on St. Thomas' Day (Dec. 21), and Woodroffe's, £r ros. house; at Lower Easton, John Aubrey, the distinguished

on 1\Iichaelmas Day: Bowerman's, of £5, is payable from antiquary, was born, 3rd November, r6z6.

Christ's Hospital to the school: six almshouses, of two Kington Langley, or Langley Fitzurse, a tithing and
rooms each, were built and endowed by Alderman Lyte hamlet of this parish, has been formed into a separate

in 1675, for poor men; Thomas White's gift of £zoo is ecclesiastical parish. See Langley Fitzurse.
also applied to the further maintenance of this charity. Parish Clerk, Charles Dyer.
In r664 William Woodroffe, yeoman, of Chippenham, Post Office.-Charles Dyer, sub-postmaster. Letters

left 30s. a year "in remembrance," as he recites in his through Chippenham arrive at 8 a.m. & 3.50 p.m. ;
will, "of God's mercy in preserving me in a wonderful dispatched at 10 a. m. & 6.20 p.m. ; sunday, dispatched
manner from drowning at Peckingell Bridge;" for this
i!Um a sermon is to be preached yearly, in which the at 8.55 a. m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid.

The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Chip-

minister shall excite the people to be mindful of mercies penham
received and thankful for the same. John Britton, the National School (mixed), with master's house, built
eminent antiquary and topographer, was born here 7th
chiefly at the cost of Herbert Prodgers esq. J.P. in 1866,
July, 1771. The chief farms are Heywood, Lodge, Easton
for roo children; average attendance, 76; Thomas G.

Piers, Swinley and the Priory; on the last-named estate Davis, master

Awdry Rev.Edwd. Chas. B.A.Vicarage. Cole Job, farmer, Easton Piercy Sealy James & Albert, blacksmiths &

Mascall Miss Dyer Charles, wheelwright carpenters & wheelwrights

Prodgers Herbert J.P. Kington house HiscockElizh.Anne(Mrs. ),Moors'hall fm Slade Andw. farmr. & carrier,Cromhall

Hitchings James, farmer, Lodge frm Swain John, shopkeeper

COli:MERCIAL. MartinHbt.White Hart P.H.&blcksmth Tanner Luke, mason

Aland Thos.& Co. beer rtlrs.& maltstrs Pike Waiter, farmer White James, farmer
Whittle lYilliam, farmer
Aland Robert, baker & shopkeeper Robins Louis, farmer, Easton Willis Charles, shopkeeper

Blake William, farmer, Easton Sage Charles, farmer

Buckland Edwd. frmr.New Priory frm Sealy Michael John, tailor lViltshire John, farmer, Swinley

WEST KINGTON is a parish and village on the College, Dublin. Here is a Baptist chapel, and the

borders of Gloucestershire, 8 miles north from Box Plymouth Brethren have a meeting room. The principal
station on the Swindon and Bath section of the Great landowners are Captain Sir Gerald )Villiam Henry Cod-
l'\~estern railway, and 9 west-north-west from Chippen- rington bart. of Doddington Park, Chipping Sodbury,
,ham, in the Korth ·western division of the county, who is the lord of the manor, the Warden and Fellows
hundred, union, petty sessional division and county of New College, Oxford, Edward Chaddock Lowndes

court district of Chippenham, rural deanery of Chippen- esq. of Castle Combe, and Thomas Greenwood esq.
ham, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester T~e soil is corn brash ; subsoil, rock. The chief crops

and Bristol. The Box river, falling into the Avon at are wheat and barley. The area is 2,424 acres; rate-

Box, flows through the parish. The church of St. able value, £2,029; the population in 189r was 280.
1\Iary is an ancient cruciform building of stone, in the Mountain Bower, three-quarters of a mile south, a
Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, tran-
septs, south porch, with Norman door, and an embat- small hamlet, is partly in this parish and partly in
tled western tower with pinnacles, containing 4 beils: that of North Wraxall.
there are about 240 sittingi!'. The register dates from Letters through Chippenham arrive at 7 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Marshfield is the nearest money order &. telegraph

the year I754· The living is a rectory, tithe rent- office. Wall Letter Box cleared at 7·45 a.m. & 7.10

charge £536, average £4o8, net yearly value £350, in- p.m. ; sunday, 7·45 a.m

eluding 65 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of National School (mixed) (date not known), for 6o chil-

the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and held since dren ; average attendance, 29; Miss Mary Farmiloe,

r887 by the Rev. James Perceval Myles M.A. of Trinity mistress

l'RIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Hulbert Mary (Miss), dress maker
Isaac Henry, blacksmith
Greenwood Thomas Russell Isaac, haulier
Rus;;ell John Cook, baker &c
Lynes Rev. John G. T. C. (late curate Brookman Charles, mason Sherbourne Henry, carpPnter
Webb Frederick Alfred, farmer
of Burton Nettleton), Latimer lodge Qomly John, farmer Wright '\Yilliam, farmer

MYles Rev. Jas. Perceval M.A.Rectorv Greader Frederick, farmer
00

Sherbourne John Greader Mary (Mrs.), farmer

Winstone Robert Owen William Greenwood William, farmer

KNOOK is a parish and village on the banks of the The church of St. Margaret is a S'Dlall ancient stone
river Wylye, 1 mile south-east from Heytesbury station structure, in mixed styles: it has a Norman chancel,
on the Salisbury branch of .lf:he Great Western railway, nave and north porch, surmounted by a belfry with one
'fl.nd 5 miles south-east from tYarminster, in the Wewern bell: the church was thoroughly restored in r882:
divi.sion of the county, Warminster union, pettr ses- there are Ioo sittings. The register dates from the
sional division and county court di"trict, hundred of year r687. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of
Heytesbury, rural deanery of Wylye (Heytesbury por- Heytesbury, joint yearly value from tithe rent-charge
tion), Sarum a.rchdeaconry and diocese of Sali"bury. £206, gross income £4oo, net £290, in the gift of the

124 KNOOK. WILTSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Bishop of Salisbury, and held since r883 by the Rev. some is light, other clay; subsoil, chalk and stone. The
William John Swayne M.A. of Corpus Christi college, chief crops are -wheat, oats and barley. The area is
Oxford, who resides at Heytesbury. Knook Castle is an
earthwork on tlhe brow of an eminence, about 2 miles 1,423 acres; rateable value, {,673; the population in
northward of Heytesbury; near it is Old Ditch, which,
1891 was 106.

Anstrow Hill, 2 miles north-east, wu a Roman estab-

commencing at Westbury Leigh, stretches, with few lishment. ·
interruptions, across Salis.bury Plain to Durnford on the
Parish Clerk, James Trowbridge.
river Avon. The site of two villages, which were con-
nected by means of Old Ditch, is pointed out on Letter-s arrive from Bath, via Upton Lovell, at 8.30
Knook Down; the spot is marked by great cavities and
irregularities of ground. Lord Heytesbury is lord of a.m. & 6.15 p.m. The nearest money order & tele-
the manor and sole landowner. The soil is various,
graph office is at Heytesbury. Wall Letter Box

cleared at 6.15 p.m.; sundays 8.50 a.m

The children of this place attend the school at Heytesbury

Gifford James Brown & Samuel, farmers'

EAST KNOYLE is a pari$ 3! miles north from Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles I. and Dean of Windsor,
Semley station on the Salisbury and Yeovil section of was the rector of this parish, having been instituted
the London and South- Western railway, 5 east-by- thereto in 1623. The Bishop of Winchester is lord of
south from Mere and 6 north from Shaftesbury, in the the manor. The Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham J.P. of
Southern division of the county, in Downtown hundred, Cloudes House, and Miss Seymour, of Knoyle House,
Shaftesbury county court dis,trict, Mere union, and Tis- are the largest landowners'. The soil is partly light
bury petty sessional division, rural deanery of Chalke loam and pa.rtly stiff loam; ·subsoil, chalky. The chief
(Tisbury portion), archdeaconry of Sarnm, and diocese crops are wheat, barley, and oats and pasture land.

of Salisbury. The Church of St. Mary, pleasantly seated The area is 5,352 acres; rateable value, £6,187; the
on a rising ground, is of stone, in the Early English population in 189r was 956 in the civil and 920 in the
and Perpendicular styles, and crucifor:rn, cons[sting of ecclesiastical parish.
chancel, which is internally decorated with some very
fine specimens of plaster work, nave of two bays, with Milton, 1! miles north, Green, ! mile north-west, and
aisles and transept, and south porch: the tower, 66 feet Upton, r mile north-west, are outlying hamlets. By an
high, stands at the west end of the church, and is order dated March 25, a portion of Pertwood parish
turreted and embattled, and contains a porch, a clock was for civil purposes amalgamated with this parish,
and 6 bells; the church and chancel have been restored the remainder being added to Sutton Verney.
in memory of Charles· Richard Sumner, Bishop of Win-
chester (1827-69): there are sittings for 345 persons. Parish Clerk, Frederick Snook.
The parish register dates from the year 1538. The liv- Post & M. 0. 0., S. B., & Annuity & Insurance Office.
ing is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £69r, gross
yearly value £891, net £484, including 107 acres of --Samuel Burton, ,sub-postmaster. Lette* arrive
glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of from Salisbury, at 7 a.m. & 2.45 p.m. & 7 a.m. on
Oxford, and held since 1865 by the Rev. Robert Newman sunday;s'; dispatched at 11.40 a.m. & 6.10 p.m. on
Milford M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. Here are Con- week days & 6.10 p.m. on suudays. The nearest. tele-
gregational and Primitive Methodist chapels. The chari- graph office is at Hindon
ties for distribution amount to about £58 yearly, de- National School, built in '1873, of Tisbury & Ham Hill-
rived from lands situated in the parish, and left in last stone, in the Byzantian style, at a cost of £1,ooo,
200 years by Doctors Shaw, Trippett and Mr. Compt.on. raised by voluntary contributions, which has an
endowment of £9 9s. yearly; the east & west -win-
East Knoyle claims the honour of being the birthplace dows are of Ham Hill stone, with elegant tracery in-
of Sir Christopher Wren, who was born on the 2oth troduced; & the school will hold 200 children; aver-
of October, 1632_; his father, Doctor Christopher Wren,
age attendance, mixed 89, infants 46; Miss Prances
Woodcock, head mistress; Miss Abegale Grant, in-
fants' mistre&SJ

Cross Mrs Bath Thomas, blacksmith Lush John, farmer, New Leaze

Gray Mrs. Bathhampton Burton Samuel, shopkeeper, Post offic& Mathews Lucius, baker

Milford Rev. Robert Newman M.A. Dowding Thomas, farmer, Leigh farm Ricketts George, carpenter, Green

(rector), Rectory Drew James, farmer, Lugmarsh Ricketts Jane (Mrs.), farmer,Uuderhill

Russell Charles T. Prospect house F1etcher James, shopkeeper, Milton Sanger J oseph, carpenter

Seymour Miss, Knoyle house Gange George, farmer, Lower Leigh Scammell ·wm. farmer, Summerleaze

Wyndham The Hon. Percy Scawen J.P. Harrison Henry (Mrs.), farmer Snook Frederick, shoe maker

Cloudes house Jacob Albert, farmer, The Moors Snook James, carpenter

CO:MMERCIAL. Jay Stephen, farmer, Friars Hayes Smith Frederick, grocer

Alford William, harness maker King Charles, Seymour Arms hotel Staples 'l'homas, farmer, Milton

Arnold Fredk. dairyman, Chapel farm King Henry, farmer, Upton Woodley Charles, farmer, Holloway

WEST KNOYLE is a parish si north-east from acres of glebe, in the gift of the Earl of Pembroke, and
held since r882 by the Rev. Samuel Wareing Mangin
Gillingham station on the Salisbury and Yeovil section B.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. There is a charity
of the London and South Western railway, 3 miles east of £16 a year, left by Christopher Willoughby esq. fo:r
four poor widows who do not receive parochial aid.
from Mere and 7 north from Shaftesbury, in the The ancient pari·sh stocks at the entrance to the church
Southern division of the county, Mere hundred and
union, Tisbury petty ses·sional division, Shafte~·bury

county court district, rural deanery of Chalke (Tisbury are still to be seen here. At the north-east of and close
portion), archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury. The to the church, was formerly the residence of the Wil-

church, of which the dedication is unknown, is an loughby family, pulled down about 1745, the terraces of
edifice of stone in the Early English style, and was re- which still remain. Sir H. H. A. Hoare hart. of Stour-
built A. D. 1878, except the tower: it is 76 feet long and head House, Stourton, is lord of the manor and sole
17 feet wide, and consists of a chancel and nave, with a landowner. The soil borders on the chalky stratum,

vestry and organ-chamber on the north side, south porch and is principally of stiff loam clay. The land is' partly
and a Perpendicular embattled western tower with pin- pasture land and partly arable, growing wheat, oats
nacles containing 5 bells; it is handsome and well fitted, and barley. The area is 1,906 acres; rateable value,

with a reredos and chancel seats of carved oak, an £1,566; the population in 1891 was 158.
organ and some stained windows; there are some tab- Parish Clerk, James Gray.
lets to the Willoughby family: the church has sittings Letters through Bath, delivered at 9.30 a.m. Wall

for no persons. The register dates from the year Letter Box cleared at 5.15 p.m.; sunday, II a.m.
1718, those of earlier date having been burnt. The The neairest money order & telegraph office is Mere

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £325, gross National School (mixed), built in 1874, for so children;

yearly value £378, net {,310, with residence, and 43 average attendance, 29; Miss Mangin, mistress

Broadway Isaac, The Cottage Austin Alex. farmer, Oxleaze farm Mathews Samuel (Mrs.), baker & grocr

Mangin Rev. Samuel Wareing B.A. Broadway John, farmr. Broad Mead fm Riddick Thomas, cowkeeper

Rectory Flower Thomas, farmer, Manor farm Welch George, farmer, West hill

Andrews William, farmer, Bush farm ·

LACOCK is a parish and village, formerly a market division, union and county court district of Chippenham,
town, on the river Avon, 3 miles north from Melksham rural deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of Bristol~
station, and 3 south-east from Corsham station, both and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; a branch of the
on the Swindon and Salisbury line of the Great Western
railway and 4 south from Chippenham, in the North Berks and Wilts canal runs through the parish. The
Western divis[on of the county, hundred, petty sessional Roman road passes through and forms the Southern

boundary of the parish. The church of St. Cyl'iac is

DIRECTORY.] ' \ I1 L T S H I R E . LITTLE LANGFORD. 125

\

an ancient Gothic stone structure, in good repair, con- Evelyn Gladstone esq. and Herbert James Harris esq.
sisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, transepts are the principal landowners. The arable and pasture
and west porch, with an embattled western tower, sur- land are about equal; the ·parish being situated in the

mounted by a spire with pinnacles, containing a. clock rich valley of the Avon. The area is 3,589 acres;
and 6 bells: in the church are numerous monuments rateable value, £9,135; the population in 1891 was
to the families of Baynard and Montague, for many 1,179 in the civil and 909 in the ecclesiastical parish.

years the owners of Lackham; also in the Talbot chapel, Notton is a hamlet in this parish.

to Sir W. Sherington and Sir John Talbot: there is a Bowden Hill, also a hamlet, has been formed into an
small organ: the church has 562 sittings. The register ecclesiastical parish and will be found under a separate
dates fr(}m the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, heading.

average tithe rent-charge £253, net yearly value £270, Parish Clerk, John Smart.

with residence, and 5 acres of glebe, in the gift of

Charles Henry Talbot esq. and held since 1878 by the Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity
Rev. John Paley B.A. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. & Insurance Office.-John Austin, sub-postmaster.
Here. is a Wesleyan and Congregational chapel. A hand- Lettel'SI from Chippenham, delivery commences at 7

some hall has been erected (1889) by the l!>Cal Oddfellows, a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 2.15

which will hold 300 persons. Hulbert's charity of £2 & 10 p.m

12s. yearly is for bread, and Bailey's, of £5, for flannel; Sub-Post Office, Sandy Lane. Letters through Chippen-

Fussell's charity (between £4o and £so annually) for the ham, delivery at 8.15 a.m. & 4 p.m. ; dispatched ali

poor generally, and Dr. Bailey's charity, for warm cloth- 9 a.m. & 7 p.m.; sundays, delivery at 8.15 a.m.;

ing, ab(}ut £9 annually. Lac(}ck Abbey, formerly the dispatched at 9 p.m. Postal orders are issued here,
seat of William Henry Talbot esq. well known as one of but not paid. Bromham is the nearest money order

the inventors of photography, but now the seat of Chas. & telegraph office

Henry Talb(}t J.P. was originally a nunnery, founded Wall Letter Boxes, Notton, cleared at 10.45 a.m. 3 p.m.
by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, in the year 1232. Other & 7·45 p.m. week days, sundays 8 a.m.; & Ray
seats are Lackham House, Mrs. Taylor; Notton House, Bridge, 8.15 a.m. & 2.35 & 7.30 p.m.; sundays 9 a.m
Lady Awdry; Notton Lodge, Rev. Canon Young. The
parish contains two manors, that of Lacock, held by National School (mixed), built in 1864, for 300 children;
average attendance, 192; & supported by voluntary

Charles Henry Talbot esq.; and Lackham, he:d by contributions & grant; James Wild, master; Mrs.
George L. Palmer esq. of Trowbridge, who, with John Elizabeth Simco, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brinkworth Wm. baker & corn factor Minty William, farmer, Catridge farm

Awdry Lady, Notton house Butcher Richard, Rising Sun P.H Morrell John, slater & plasterer

Baker George Rose Coffee Tavern (Wm.John March,propr) Perrett Sidney, farmer, Showell farm

Crisp James Henry, The Grange Cole Isaac, farmer, Luckham farm Phelps Joseph, ironmonger & assessor

Dolland Rev. Hy. Burgh M.A. (curate) Crisp James Henry, surgeon,& medical of taxes

Eyres Edwin, Ray bridge officer & public vaccinator, Lacock Pitt. Jane (Miss), shopkeeper

Fortune James district, Chippenham union Pocock Wm.Hy.farmr.Cuckoo Bush fm

Gale William Croker Frederick, timber merchant & Pocock William Jas. farmer, New farm

Kingsford Flavius Josephus, Bewley vil farmer, Naish hill Ring Matilda (Mrs.), farrier & smith •

Paley Rev. John B.A. Vicarage Croker Nicholas, farmer, Nethermore Rowlett Charles, Red Lion inn

Perkins Rev. Ephraim Henry, East- Edmonds John, tailor Say Henry, farmer, Stroud farm

bourne house Eyres Edwin, miller (water), Ray mill Say Henry Edward, farmer, Mill farm

Phelps Mrs. Greengate house Fennell Henry, hurdle maker Selman James, chair maker

Steevens John, Tower house Frapwell Rose (Miss), dress maker Smart Jo'hn, chair ma. & parish clerk

Talbot Chas. Hy. J.P. Lacock abbey FryEmma Jane(Mrs.),farmer,Raybdge Strange Henry, Carpenters' Arms P.H

Tanner Alfred James Fry James, farmer, Manor farm Tanner William Alfred,grocer & draper

Taylor Mrs. Lackham house Hunt Edmnd.Coulimore,toy & fncy dlr & coal merchant

Yockney William, Notton Jenkins & Webb, plumbers Taylor & Son, coal merchants

Young Rev. Canon Edward Mallet, Joyce Waiter, baker Taylor James, farmer, Notton

Notton lodge Keen William, smith Taylor William, boot & shoe maker

COMMERCIAL. Kingsford Flavius Josephus, brewer & Warren Julia Jane (Miss), draper &c

Anstey John, farmer, Great Notton frm maltster Webb Arthur, plumber, see Jenkins

Austin Henry, draper & grocer Knee Mary (Miss), grocer &c & Webb

Austin James, butcher Lacock Agricultural Society (Henry Webb Eli, boot & shoe maker

Austin John, assistant overseer & col- Austin, hon. sec) West-on Caleb, boot & shoe maker

lector of poor rates & assessor & Latham Eli, baker & grocer Wheeler Ellen (Miss), private school

collector of taxes, Post office Latham Harriet (Mrs.), grocer Wheeler Robert, farmer, Whitehall frm
Wilts Friendly Society (James Henry
Eanks Esther (Miss) & Frederick, March Wm. John, Coffee tavern
Crisp, surgeon; Mrs. Simco, clerk)
masons & builders Mattingley G. & F. saddlers &c Wiltshire Chas. carpenter & buildr. &c

Beer Albert, George inn Milsom George, farmer, Wick farm

LANDFORD i~ a parish, bordering on Hampshire, held since 1885 by the Rev. William Mills Dewe B.A. of
on a branch of the river Test, 6 miles south from Dean Clare College, Cambridge. Landford House is the pro-
perty of the Rev. the Hon. John Horatio Nelson M.A.
station on the Eastleigh and Salisbury branch of the rector of Shaw, near Newbury, who is lord of the manor,
I.cndon and South Western railway, 10 south-east from
and with Henry J. Wigram esq. of Northlands, are
Salisbury, and 7 west from Romsey, in the Southern principal landowners. The soil is chiefly gravel; sub-
soil, sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat,
division of the county, Frustfield hundred, Alderbury barley and turnips. The area is 1,717 acres; rateable
union, Salisbury county court district, Salisbury and

Amesbury petty sessional division, rural deanery of

Amesbury (Alderbury portion), and Salisbury arch- value, £1,576; the population in 1891 was 231.
<deaconry and diocese. The church of St. Andrew was Sexton, William King.
rebuilt in 1858 of brick and stone, at a cost of £r,5oo:
it is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
Reuben Moody, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from
nave, south transept, north porch and western bell turret Salisbury at 7·45 a.m. & 3·45 p.m. ; dispatched at
with 3 bells: there are 180 sittings. The register dates 6 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Bramshaw
from the year 1671. The living is a rectory, gross
National School, with residence for the master & mis-
yearly value £255, net £181, with residence and 103
acres of glebe, in the gift of Earl Nelson D.L., J.P. and tress, for 81 children; average attendance, 69; John
Stacey, master; Mrs. Stacey, mistress

13ridge Waiter S. Landford cottage Wigram Henry J. Northlands Moody Reuben, shopkeeper & post off
Reynolds Frank, farmer
<Jrossley Mrs. Landford house Turk Giles, farm bailiff to the Rev. the

"Dewe Rev. Wm. Mills B.A. Rectory COMMERCIAL. Hon. John Horatio Nelson M.A
Weeks James, farmer
'Smith Rev. Orlando S. Landford lodge Cooper John, farmer

'Thomas George Nunn, Brooklands Moody John, farmer

LITTLE LANGFORD is a village and parish, 2 The church of St. Nicolas is a small cruciform building
miles north-west from Wishford station on the Salisbury of flint and stone, in the Norman, Early English and
branch of the Great Western railway, 9 north-west from Decorated styles, rebuilt, after the model of the ancient
Salisbury, in the Southern division of the county, bun- edifice, in 1864, consisting of chancel, south chantry
d..-ed of Branch and Dole, Salisbury and Amesbury chapel and nave, south porch and a central turret con-
petty sessional division, Wilton union, Salisbury county taining one bell, and will seat about 70 persons. The
court district, rural deanery of Wylye (Wylye portion), register dates from the year 1699. The living is a
a1.1d archdeaconry of Sarum and diocese of Salisbury. rectory, average tithe rent-charge .£108, gross yearly

126 LITTLE LANGFORD. "\VILTSHIRE. (KELLY'S

lvalue £u8, net £10s, including 7 acres of g:ebe, with paGrirsohv, e~l~eymiWleosodn,o formerly extra-parochial, is now a
rth-west, where a small school-chapel.
residence, in the gift of the Earl of Pembroke, and held
since 1892 by the Rev. Charles Stratford :Barle B..A.. of has been erected (1867) by the Earl of Pembroke, who is-

the University of Durham. The Earl of Pembroke is the chief landowner. In the neighbourhood .are some

lord of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is ancient entrenchments. The area is 9S8 acres; rateable

light loam; subsoil, chalk and flint. The chief crops value, £672; the population in 189t was 6a.

are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 958 acres;

rateable value, £873; the population in 1891 was 62. School, for so children; average attendance, '12; & sup-

Letters from Bath, via Steeple-Langford, arrive at 6.30 ported by the Earl of Pembroke J.P.; Miss Lampard,

.a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph offices mistress

arG at Wylye

Earle Rev. Chas.Stratford B.A.(rector) Compton Jn. farmer, Groveley wood 31atthews Fras.W.frmr.Groveley wood

Andrews Henry, farmer 1

STEEPLE LANGFORD is a parish and village, for bread and clothing. Lord Ashburton is lord of the
situated on the river Wylye and on the road from War- manor. The Duke of Somerset, Eton College and Wil-
minster to Salisbury, 9 miles north-west from Salis- liam Wyndham esq. .of Dinton House, Salisbury, and
bury and 2 east from Wylye station on the Wilts, Somer- Miss Moody, are the principal landowners. The soil is
set and Weymouth branch of the Great Western railway, light loam; subsoil, chalk and flint. The chief crops
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 3,896 acreS>
Branch and Dole, Wilton union, Salisbury petty sessional rateable value, £2,949; the population in 1891 was 468.
division and county court district, rural deanery (•f
Wylye (Wylye portion), archdeaconry of Sarum and Great and Little Bathampton (or Bedhampton) form a
diocese of Salisburv. The church of All Saints is a tithing, one mile west.
stone building, in the Early English style, consisting of
a chancel, nave of three bays, south porch and north Hanging Langford tithing is half a mile south, where
aisle, with square tower surmounted by a spire, and is a Primitive Methodist chapel. On the downs is the
containing 4 bells : the chancel arch has a hagioscope : it large and perfect British camp called Yarnborough
was restored, and a vestry and organ chamber added, Castle, within which a sheep fair is held annually on
in 1875, at a cost of about £x,soo, raised by subscrip- October 4th. William Wyndham esq. is lord of the
tions, and will seat about 290 persons. The register manor of Hanging Langford.
dates from the year r674. The living is a rectory,
yearly commuted tithe rent-charge £668, average £491, Parish Clerk, John Whatley.
net income £416, including s6 acres of glebe and resi- Post Office.-Mrs. Martha Shergold, sub-postmistress.
dence, in the gift of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, and
held since 1873 by the Rev. George Hext B.D. late Letters arrive from Bath at 6.40 a.m. ; dispatched at
fellow and tutor of that college. Coates' charity of £roo 6.30 p.m. week days & S-30 p.m. sundays. The nearest
Consols, left in r8S4· the dividend on which to be dis- money order & telegraph office is at Wylye
tributed on the rsth of January, yearly, amongst the Wall Box at Hanging Langford, cleared at 6 p.m. week
Sunday School children. Dame Mervyn's charity of days only
£8 ss. left in xs8r, charged on lands at Bathampton, i& National School (mixed), built in r86o, with master's
house, for rrs children; average attendance, 78;
George Rays, master; Miss Elizabeth Mitchell, mist
Carrier.-Thring, Warminster, sat. ; & Salisbury, tues.
& fri

STEEPLE LAXGFORD. Doughty Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Powell Thos. Davis, farmer, Manor frm
Mitchell John, wheelwright Smith George, shopkeeper

Bull Rev...,.Theodore (curate) Shergold Martha (Mrs.), sub-postmist Thring Agnes (Mrs.), Railway tavern

Hext Rev. George B.D. Rectory Thring Emma(Mrs.),carrier & shopkpr B "THA.MPTON.
Parsons William
~

Baker Henry, beer retailer HANGING LANGFORD. (Letters should be addressed via

Bell George, harness maker Billett Gerald, carpenter & builder Wylye, Bath.)

Chalker Charles, farmer, Manor farm Giles George, farmer Chalker Wm. Jn. frmr. Lit.. Bathmptn

Chilcob Robert, miller (water) Miles Harry, blacksmith Gay Geo. Frank, farmr. Gt. Bthmptn

LANGLEY BURRELL is a parish and scattered Cobham. The Cobham arms (a chevron with three
village, on the river Avon and on the road fr0m Chip- stars) appear on the ceiling of the nave, and to this
penham to Swindon, r~ miles north from Chippenham family is traditionally ascribed the building, or, more
station on the Swindon and Bath section of the Great correctly, the repairing of the church. In 1460 Ralpb
Western railway, 7 south from Malmesbury and II~ Neville, Earl of Westmorland, in right of his wife, Mar-
north from Devizes, in the North Western division of garet Cobham, held the property. In 1469 Langley
the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union 'lnd Burrell had passed to Edward de Burgh, second Baron
county court district of Chippenham, rural deanery of de Burgh of Gainsborough, on his marriage with .A.nne,
Chippenham, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of daughter of Sir Thomas Cobham. The manor was sold
Gloucester and Bristol. By an Order of the Local in I56S by the de Burghs to John Read, and in the
Government Board, dated Sept. 29th, 1894, Langley twentieth of Elizabeth, IS78, was discharged from feudal
Burrell has been divided into two parishes, one being homage to the Earls of Salisbury. In r6or, Henry
called Langley Burrell Within, and included in the muni- White, then owner of Grittleton, bought the manor,
cipal borough of Chippenham; the other, known as and about x66o his grandson sold it to Samuel Ashe esq.
Langley Burrell Without, which is entitled to a parish in whose family it has remained ever since. The church
council. The Burrells (anciently Borel) were, at the of St. Peter is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel,
time of the Survey, tenants under Edward, Earl of with south chantry, nave of three bays, north aisle, south

Salisbury, and they held the manor till about the year porch, with parvise, reached by a winding stair, and a.

1300: in a document of the date 1240, John Borel1 or western embattled tower containing 4 bells 1 the nave
Burel, one of the family, conveyed to the Abbot :Jf and portions of the chancel ar~ Early English, the tower
Glastonbury " one croft in the 'Village of Langlegh Decorated, and the north aisle and south chantry Per-
Burel which is called Penicroft." This name is still J.n pendicular: against the west wall of the tower formerly
existence in the parish, in connection with ground near stood a slab bearing male and female heads, and now
Peckingell Mead ; probably at a later date two farms, placed under a mural canopy: there a-re 2-46 sittings.
consisting of II5 .acres, called Peckingel, were detached The register dates from the year 1607. The living is-
from Langley Burrell, and granted by one of the Borels a rectory, tithe rent-charge £235• average £176, gross
to the Abbot of Glastonbul}y, who attached them to his yearly value £390, net £3431 including xu acres of
manor at Langley, the name of a district which in glebe, with residence, in the gift of the representatives
William the Conqueror's reign included Langley Fitz- of the late Rev. Robert M. Ashe, and held since 1879
urse and Kington St. Michael. Peckingel farms, with by the Rev. John Jeremiah Daniell J.P. Wilts. l\Iaud
the Barrow farm (formerly in Slaughterford), and other Heath, described in old deeds as of Langiey Burrell, in
portions of Chippenham, Hardenhuish and Langley Fitz- 1474 gave houses and land in and near Chippenham, fol'
urse, by the United Parishes Act of r884, have now been the making and maintenance of a "causey," or stoned
absorbed into Langley Burrell. In A.D. 1304, the manor path, from Bremhill to Chippenham; this is 4~ miles
belonged to Sir John Delamere, who, with Alice his long, and it is endowed with property in Chippenham to
wife, obtained a license for an oratory in the "manor the annual value of between £Ioo and £200 ~ the iron
of Langley and Lye;" his last presentation to this bridge <>ver the Avon at Kellaways was constructed about
church was in 1342. In 1343 Thomas, Lord Berkeley, 1870 with money raised on this trust; and the long
purchased the manor and advowson of Sir J. Delamere, pathway there raised on numerous arches is maintained
and gave them in the same year, with £2,ooo in money, from the same fund. In the year r6s2 a book was

to his daughter Joan, on her marriage with Sir Reginald written by Edward Stokes esq. of Tytherton Lucas, en-

.JDIBIOTQRY WILTSHIRE, L.ATTON. 127

titled, "The Wiltshire Rant, being a narrative of the rock Jied to several unsuccessful attempts to find• coal
most unparallelled prophane actings, counterfeit repeat- in this formation. The soil is· clayey and sandy loam~

ings and evil speakings of Thomas Webbe, late pretended and the land is chiefly in pasture. The area is r,833
minister of Langley Burrial:" this pamphlet, of which acres; rateable value, £13,902; the population in r89r
some copies are still in existence, contains an astounding was. 1,445. of whom 994 a.re contained in the parish
revelation of profanity and licentiousness: for his scan- within Chippenham.

dalous life Webb was ejected in r6sr and committed to Sexton, John Cozens.
prison: escaping conviction he brought false charges Parish Clerk, St. Paul's, Thomas Selman, jun.
against the magistrate- who committed him, which lf:d Posli Office.-Henry Heeremans, sub-postmaster. Let-
to the publication of Mr. Stokes' book: in the novel of ters arrive from Chippenham at 7 a.m. & 1.30 p.m.;
"Woodstock," Scott has pourtrayed just such a charac- sundays. 7 a.m.; dispatched at ro.3o a.m. & 7.25
ter as Webb, in Tomkins, the preaching soldier and p.m.; sunday dispatch at 9 a.m. Postal orders are

Fifth Monarchy man. Miss Ashe is lady of the manor issued here, but not paid. Chippenham is the nearest
and the principal landowner. In a field on Peckingell money order & telegraph office
Parish School (mixed), built in r844, with residence for
farm was discovered some time since a peculiar oolitic mistress, for so children ; average attendance, 45 ; &
limestone, with characteristic fossils. The appearance
supported by Miss Ashe; Mrs. Cecilia Wheeler, mist
of a bituminous shale in the Oxford clay above this

(For other residents,see Chippenham.) COMMERCIAL. Green Hy. farmer, Jackson's farm
Brinkworth Jas. Sl. farmer, Peckingell Heereman Henry, Post office

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bryant Bros. farmers, Ba.rrow farm Knight Jacob, farmer

Ashe Miss, Langley house Bryant George Alien Wayle, farmer, Lessiter Benjamin, farmer

Brock Lancelot de Laumarez, Langley Home farm Matt.hews Harriet & Alice (:Misses),

green Collett Henry & Co. brewers & spirit farmers, Rawlins farm

Daniell Rev. Jn. Jeremiah J.P.Rectory merchants, Langley brewery Rich H. C. farmer & cattle dealer

Goldney Francis Bennett,Langley lodg Dolman Charles, beer retailer Smith John, farmer, Thornhill

Lawrence Mrs. Langley cottage Fry Emma (Mrs.), farmer Web'ber Oale'b, farmr.Peckingell farm

LANGLEY FITZURSE (in Doomsday Book Lange- mains. A chapel, dedicated to St. Peter, once stood in
the village, but in r67o had been converted into a pri-
leghe; anciently, Langley Fearne; recently, K'mgtoa vate dwelling; in that year the bell was still preserved
Langley) is a tithing, hamlet, and ecclesiastical parish, at Fitzurse House. The village revel was kept on the
formed in part out of the parish of Kington St. Michael, Sunday following St. Peter's day, and was, as Aubrey
on the road frolD Chippenham to Malmesbury, 2! miles records, "one of t.he eminentest feasts in these parts."
north-by-east from Ohippenham station on the Swindon
Waiter T. Coleman esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor,
and Bath section of the Great Western railway, 6 south and whose family have been settled in Langley for
from Malmesbury, in the North-Western division of the many generations, and Earl Oowley, are the largest
county, hundred of Damerham north, Chippenham proprietors. The village is situated on a high tablelanJ
union, petty sessional division and county court dis- of sand, with a subsoil of Oxford clay, and incloses an
trict, rural deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of open common of 30 acres ; the land is principally in
Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and .Bristol. 'I'he
pasture. The area is r,498 acres; rateable value,
church of St.. Peter, built in r855, is an edifice of stone £2.5'97; the population in r89r was 556.
in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave,
vestry, south porch and a small western turret, contain- Parish Clerk, Thomas Humphries.
in~ one bell: the east window is stained: there are 230
sj.ttings. The register dates from th~ year rBss. The Post Office.-George Little, sub-postmaster. Letters
are received through Chippenham at 7· 10 a.m. & 2.10
living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £I28, net £Ioo,
in the gift of the vi'Car of Kington St. Michael, and held p.m. ; dispatched at I0.35 a.m. & 7·5 p.m.; sundays,
since r87r by the Rev. Charles Clarke, of'Hertford Col- dispatched at 9·35 a.m. Postal orders are issued here,
but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph
lege, Oxford: the great tithe, amounting to £ro3 a
year, is held by Earl Cowley. Here are Baptist and offices are at Chippenham & Sutton Benger
Primitive Methodist chapels. The chief farms are South- Wall Letter Box, cleared at 10.45 a.m. & 7 p.m.;

sea, Whitelands, and Fitzurse: the last was once the sundays, 9.30 a.m
property of the family whose name it bears, and in
later times of Ralph, Lord Hopton of Stratton, Corn- National School (mixed), built in r856, with house for
wall, who died in r652: an old house, with a moat, re-
mistress, for 71 children; enlarged in I886, for 95

children; average attendance, 79; Mrs. Sarah Jane
Little, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Martin A.nn (Mrs.), blacksmith
G.ai'ke Rev. Charles (vicar)
Coleman Waiter Thomlinson J.P Ashe Jeremiah, grocer &c Parnell Giles, shopkeeper
Day William
Drake Francis Bath Thos. farmr. Whitelands farJU Reeve John, farmer
Knight Thomas
Penny Mrs Beavington James, carpenter Salter James, carpenter
Porter Mrs. Hart
Smith Henry Brinkworth Jas. farmer, Peckingell Salter Thos. carpenter & wheelwright
White Albert Wesley
Bryant Arthur Jas. & Thos. farmers Smith & Elliott, masons

Ourt.is Henry, baker & beer rehtiler Smith Robert, farm bailiff to Earl

Guppy Albin, horse dealer Cklwley, South Sea farm

Holder Eli, timber merohant & farmer Webber Ohinles, farmer, Peckingell
Humphries Geo. florist & nurseryman Wes~ Henry, Plough P.H

LATTON is a village and parish, on the river Churn gross yearly value £230, net £2oo, with residence,
in the gift of the EarJ of St. Germans, and held sinceo
and the Thames and Severn canal, at its junction with r891 by the Rev. William Philpot Anderson B.A. of
the North Wilts canal, I~ miles north-west from Crick- Jesus College, Cambridge. The charities are £rr
lade sro.tion, on the Midland and South Western Junction yearly, derived from rent of land, which is yearly divided
railway, in the Northern division of the county, among the poor who are not in receipt. of parochial
Highworth hundred, Cricklade petty sessional division, relief. In straightening the watercourse a few ye-ars ago
union of Cricklade and Wootton Bassett, rural doonery a Roman road was discovered, with tesselated pave-
of Oricklade, l!rirchde.aconry of Bristol, and diocese of ments, a. coffin, and a number of Roman coins, On the
GkmceS!ter and Bristol. The ehurch of St. John the Cirencester rgad is an ancient stone cross. The Earl
Baptist is a Norman structure of stone with additions of St. Germans is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
in later styles; it consists of modern chancel, nave with The soil is olay and grawel. The chief crops are wheat,
very fine oak or· teak roof, and transepts, south porch, barley and !roots. The area is r,786 acres of land and
having Norman doorway with chevron ornament, and 33 of 'water; rateaible value, £2,oB4; the population in
embattled "Western tower, containing 5 bells: in the
189r -was 218.
choir and at the west end under the tower ere fine West Fields is three-quarters of a mile north-west.
Norman arches: the tower is a ~ery good specimen of Parish Clerk, John Compton.
Norman architecture: in the nave are several memorial
windows to members of the- Boodon family, and on the Wall Letter Box, cleared at 7.20 p.m.; sunday, 9.30
south side of the chancel are two memoria~ windows
to members of the Habgood family: thexe are 220 a.m. Letters through Crickmde, which is the nearest
sittings. The r~gister dates from the year I576. The
money ()rder & telegraph office, arrive at 7 a.m
living is a ~icarage, with thtat of Tisey annexed, joint
National Schools (mixed), rebuilt 1873, for roo children;

average attendance, 65 ; Ed-waa.-d Challis, master

Anderson Rev. William Philpot B.A. Lane Miss, Croft house Hewer Francis, coal merchant
Howse Jn.frmr.Street & Westfield fms
(vicar) Smith Miss, Tb.e Limes Howse Sarah (Miss), fa,rmer

Beadon Miss, The Corner COMMERCIAL. Keylock Georg-e, farmer, Court farm

Habgood Joseph, Mill house Challis Edward, ~ssistant o-yerse~r

128 LATTON. WILTSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Keylock James, farmer Pedley Jsph.Hewer, farmer,Clmrch fm Radway Ohas. Ballenger, frmr.Mill ho
M!llbbatt Robert, blacksmith
Messenger Edward, boot maker Radway Charles, farmer Roseblade John, mason & shopkeeper

LAVERSTOCK is a parish on the banks of the river Cathedral, and resides· at S'3Jisbury. Laverstock House
Bourne, about r mile north-east from Salisbury, in the is a large private lunatic asylum capable of holding 70
Southern division of the county, hundred and union of pa.tients, of both sexes, J. Haynes esq. and H. J. Manning
Alderbury, SoaJisbury and Amesbury petty sessional esq. being the licencees: it was rebuilt about r854, and
division, Salisbury county court district, Amesbury is now a very complete establishment, surrounded by
rural deanery (Alderbury porticm), ond1 Salisbury r2 acres of well wooded land. Mrs. King Wyndham is
archdeaconry and diocese. The church of St. Andrew lady of the manor and chief l!31lldowner. The soil is
is an edifice, in the Early Decorated style, of stone and light loam; subsoil, cha.lk. The chief crops a;re wheat
eut flint, with Bath stone' dressings, erected near the and barley. The area is 1,723 acres of land and ro of
site of the old church at a cost of £2,353: it has a water; ratea.ble value, including Ford, £3,305 ; the
chancel, nave of three ba~s and south aisle, south porch population in 1891 was 420, including 57 inmates in the
and western turret containing 2 bells : the east and asylum.
south windows are stained: there ail'e 250 sittings : in Ford is a tithing about 2 miles north, and Petersfinger

the churchyard, which has been enlarged, stands a portion a hamlet a,bout a mile south.

of a buttress of the old church, and in the porch is a
marble monument belonging to the Bathurst family. Post Office.-Charles Uphill, receiver. Letters received
The register dates from the year 1726. The living is a from Salisbury (the nearest money order & telegraph
perpetual curacy, in the gift of the Vicars Choral of office), by foot post, at II.30 a.m.; dispatched 7·40
Salisbury, yearly value £270, subject to a payment of p.m. ; sundays, rr.3o a.m. Wall Box, Petersfinger;

£170 to the retired incumbent, net £6o, and held since collections, 2 & 6.30 p.m

r889 by the Rev. Herbert Cromwell Bush M.A. of Hert- National School, built in r888, for 84 children; average
ford College, Oxford, who is Vicar Choral of Salisbury attendance, 63; Miss Katherine Shergold, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Manning Hy.John B.A., M.R.C.S.Eng.
supt.of lunatic asylum,Laverstock ho
Everard Miss, The Hall
Haynes Joseph, The Avenue Barber Nathaniel, blacksmith Rattue David, beer retailer
Hobbs Francis R. The Cottage
Manning Henry John B.A Blake Charles, farmer & landowner Sainsby Elizabeth (Mr.s.), laundress
Neal Herbert, The Hill
Read James, Petersfinger Blake Edward, miller (water) Salter Mark, farmer
Staples Thomas Henry, Belmont
Stokes Robert, Burroughs hill Gibbs Bridge.r & Sons, farmers, Ford Saunders William, builder

Griffin Edward, miller (water), Ford Spearing Thomas, dairyman, Belmont

Hunt Jas. frmr. & assist. oversr.Ford Still Thomas P. wool<>tapler

LaverSitock House Lunatic Asylum Trollope Luke, baker, Ford

(Hy.Jn.Manning B.A.,M.R.C.S.supt) Warren James & Ernest, farmers

MARKET LAVINGTON or EAST LAVING- Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St. AS!3,ph, was born here in

'l'ON is a parish and smaill town plea1santly situated in r674, his father having been vicar of the parish, and at

a. fertile valley, at the base of the chalk hill, which forms his death, in 1733, he bequeathed £200 for the benefit
the northern boundary of Salisbury Plain, and consists of the poor. In 1795 Thoma,s Sainsbury esq. bequeathed

principally of one street, 6 miles south from Devizes £2oo in the £3 per Cent. Consols, to be expended in

.station, on the Great Western railway, rg north-west bread for the poor of the parish at Easter and Christmas

from Salisbury and go from London, in the Eastern eve; and in 1796 William Sainsbury esq. made a, similar

division of the county, Swanborough hundred, Devizes bequest: a like amount has been bequeathed by Miss

petty sessional division, union and county court district, Maria Sainsbury, a relative of the above. Sarah

rural deanery of Potterne (Potterne portion), arch- Stobbart left by will, in r864, £360, the interest to be

deaconry of Wilts and dioceSe of Salisbury. A market expended in fuel. In 1865 a. substantial building called

was formerly held on Wednesday, but is now dis- the Workmen's Hall was erected, with funds left by
continued. The church of St. Mary is an ancient Edward Sanders esq. of Bath: in it there are a coffee

structure of Bath stone in the Decorated and room, where refreshments may be purchased, a reading

Perpendicular styles·, standing on an eminence west of room, which is well supplied with newspapers, also a

the town and consis,ts of chancel, clerest<Jried nave of small library. The trustees of the lmte the Right Hon.

two OOIJS, aisles, south porch and an embattled western Edward Pleydell-Bouverie P.C. ail'e lords of the manor

tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells, and principal landowners : Manor House, the occasional

which were reca,st in r876 at a cost of £22o : the west resldence of Marquise de Lavalette, is a, modern

window and the tower are in the Perpendicular style; Elizabethan red brick building, beautifully situated in

the vestry and south porch are Early Decorated, and extensive grounds. The soil is rich loam, with a sub-

the remainder of the church of later Decorated soil of groonsand and some chalk. The land is largely

character; the east end of the north aisle was formerly pasture, but in those parts of the pall'ish most distant

a chantry chapel, dedicated to SS. Mary, Katherine and from the town it is arable. The area. is 3,125 acres;

Marga,ret, and its piscina still remains : in 1349 Robert rateable value, £5,244; the population in r891 was

de la. Mere presented this chantry chapel, and his relative r,o35· in the civil and 897 in the ecclesiastical parish.

Sir Waiter Eeauchamp kt. in his will dated 1429, desires Parish Clerk, William Mullings.

that his body shall be buried here : his son William Easterton tithing, three-qu:mrters of a mile north-east,

Beauchamp, Lord St. Amand ob. 1457, alsG in his will, is now an ecclesiastical parish, and will be found under

makes a like request; the spiral stone stair, entered by a separate heading.

a doorway from this chapel, opens into the nave at the Fiddington, formerly pa.rt of West Lavington, has been

north-east corner, from which the ancient rood-loft wa.s ap- added to this parish for civil purposes ; it is in the
proached, but Dll traces of which have ~ong since vanished ; ecclesiastical parish of Easterron.

in the vestry is a curious Holy Water stoup of ancient Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., Express Delivery & Annuity

workmanship, now under a piscina niche: during the & Insurance Office.-Thomas B. Morris, sub-post-

rebuilding of the chancel in 186!l this stoup with a master. Letters acrive from Devizes & axe delivered

.quantity of Norman carving (now built into a string at 7 a. m. & 4· 15 p.m. ; dispatcned thereto at g.25

course in the south porch) were discovered in the east a1.m. & 8 p.m. Sundays, letters delivered at 7 a.m.

wall of the nave and the chancel aTch ; this seems to & axe dispatched at 8 p.m. Money order & savings

prove the existence of a. Norman structure on the same bank business transacted from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ;

-site ; the chancel contains a. credence and hagioscope ; saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m

in 1878 a. reredos of Caen stone, marble and alabaster Inland Revenue Office, High street, John McPherson,

was added by Mrs. Pearson, widow of the Rev. T. officer

Pea,rson, formerly vicar of this parish; the east window Volunteers.

is stained, as are slso three others in the church : there 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire
are several mural tablets, some of which are to the Regiment), (E Co. ), Guy Stephenson, captain; Bobert
Sainsbury family : the church WaiS restored and a burial Bevis, serg.-instructor
ground added in r862 : there are 380 sittings. The
register dates from the year r673. The living is a National School (mixed), erected in 1845• at a cost of

vicarage, tithe rent-chail'ge £3ro, average £236, net £62o & enlarged in 187I, for 200 children; average
yearly value £3oo, with 30 acreS! of glebe and residence,
in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, attendance, boys so, girls 6o k so infants; John
Oxford, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Edward Duck, ma1ster; Miss Ma!l'tha Brown, mistress

Carriers to

Blacksrone Cokayne Frith B.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. Devizes Potter, omnibus, daily

Here are Congregational and Baptist chapels. Dr. Trowbridge Da.vis, sat

DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. WEST LAVI~GTON. 1.29

PIUVATE RESIDENTS. Chapman William, market gardener Pinchen Jas.frmr. & horticultural bldr

de Lavalette Marquise, Manor house Chinnock Miss,priv.day &boarding schl Pinchen Jn.bricklyr. & markt. gardnr

Dowse Mrs Clelford John, market gardener Pinchin William, general irGnmonger

Frith Rev. Edwd. Blackstone Cokayne Coleman William Henry, boot maker Potter Edwin, carrier

B.A. (vicar) Oolonial Meat Co.; & at Devizes Sainsbury John, farmer

Giddings John Cooper Jacob,market gardener, farmer Self Tom, estete bailiff to the exors.

Hay Hon. Mrs. Samuel, Clyffe hall & coal merchant of the Right Hon. Edward Pleydell-

Kite John Draper & Co. grocers Bouverie, Russell mill

Lowe Rev. William (Congregational) Draper ALfred, market gardener Slade George William, farmer

Lush John Selfe, Ivy cottage Draper Frank, carpenter Sumner Louisa (Mrs.), baker & grocr

Lush William Henry, Prospect house Glass Harriet (Mrs.), farmer Tarrant William, chimney sweeper

Pleydell-Bouverie Miss Grist Oliver, farmer, ·west Park Volunteer Battalion (2nd) Duke of

Saunders The Misses Gye James, carpenter Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment

Sperring Mrs Holliday Alfred Thomas, boot maker (C Co. Capt. Guy Stephenson, cam-

Stone 1\'frs Hopkins William, builder &c mandant; Rt. Bevis, sergt. instrctr)

Welch James, Spring villa Hurle Albert, market gardener \Vadman Robert, farmer

Welch Mrs. Beech house Kidner George, butcher Wadman ·william, farmer

coMMERCIAL. King John, p:umber & painter Walton Arth. Morgan, draper & grocer

Alexander Richard, King's Arms P.H Lush Wm. Hy. & Jn. Selfe, surgeom Welch James, sec. to the Wilts Agri-

Ashley George, grocer Lush John Selfe,medical officer for No. cultural Association & clerk to the
7 district, Devizes union,& see Lush Governors of the Dauntsey charity~
Axford Annie {Miss), dress maker

Baker John, whitesmith, ironmonger, William Henry & John Selfe Spring villa

& assistant overseer for Market McPherson John, excise officer Welch 2\fary (Miss), teacher of musio

Lavington & Easterton Mead John, boot maker Whitchurch M. bookseller

Bevis Rt. sergt.-instructr.toVolunteers Me.rrett John, shoeing smith Whitchurch Thos. Henry, drug dealer

Bones William Arthur, watch maker; Miles Thomas, New Inn P.H \Vhite. Thomas Henry,engineer & agri-

& at Devizes Morris Thos. Blakely, drpr.Post office cultural implement maker; & at

Box William, briek & tile maker Mullings William, basket mali.er Sidmouth street, Devizes

Brown George, miller (water) Munday Henry, fishmonger &c Wiltshire Agricultural Association,

Brown William Hy. market gardener Neate James, brewer & spirit merchnt (James ·welch, sec)

Burgess Alfred, photographer Notton Alfred George, baker Winterson William, Black Dog P.H

Butcher Reuben, farmer, & Volunteer Oram Robert., bricklayer IWorkmen's Hall (Samuel Saunders
sec. ; Chas. Seratchley, hall keeper) .
Arms P.H Palmer Alfred, builder

Canning Henry, plumber Perrett Geo. servants' registry O"ffice Yeatman James, Green Dragon P.H

WEST LAVINGT':>N (or Bishop's Lavingt·on) is a Fiddington, formerly in this parish, is now included in

parish, 6 miles south from Devizes station on the Great the parish of Market Lavington, and for church purposes

Western railway, and I mile south-west-by-south from in the ecclesiastical parish of Easterton.

Market Lavington, in the Eastern division of the county, Gore, in Domesd•ay oolled "Gar.e," was a tithing of·

hundred of Potterne and Cannings, Devizes union, petty Market Lavington, but there is no evidence to show that

sessional division and county court dis·trict, rural dean- it was ever a parish, but it has been since March, I884,

ery of Potterne (PO'tterne portion), archdeaconry of Wil.ts in West Lavington parish. It is about 2 mtiles south of

and diocese of Salisbury. The churoh of .All Saints is a West Lavington, and at a spot about 400 Y'ards from

structure of grey stone, chiefly in the Early English where the roads cross.ed, known as "St. John a'Gores,"·

style (the pillars of the north aisle being of the Tran- formerly stood a chantry chapel, ue1~ea1ed to St. Jc~n,.

sitional period), and consisting of chancel, clerestoried to which, in I347• one Robert de Heghtredbury was:
nave, aisles, transepts, south-eastern chapel, north porc•h, instituted pries·t, and in 1359 it is mentioned in a deed

with a square embattled Q:.ower, with tuN et, and oo.ntruining o.f composition between the vicar of Market Lavington

a peal of 6 bells and a clock, and was repaired and ·and the Monastery of Edingdon. No tr·aces of it now

beautified in 1847, at an exp.ense of about £I,6oo: there exist.

is a piscina in the chancel and another in the chapel : Littleton Pannell, half a mile north-west, is a tithing-.
the east window is stained, as are eight others in the The trustees of the lat-e~ Rt. Hon. H. E. Pleydell-Bouverie

church: there is a fine alabas•ter m{)nument, wit.h r.e- P.C., J.P. are the principal landowners.

cumbent effigy, in the south transept to Henry Danvers: Parish Clerk, Noah Sainsbury.

there are sittings for about 300 persons. The register Sexton, Jam·es Stow.
dates from the year I595· The living is a vicarage,

gross yearly value £360, net £275, with residence, in Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance OffiC'e, .

the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held sl.nce I8g2 Littleton Pannell.-Edward Hart Hillier, sub-post- ·
by the Rev. Riohard 1Vinstanley Alls{)pp LL.B. of Em- mast·er. Letters from Devizes, arrive at 5.40 a.m. &.

manuel College, Oambridge. Here is a Baptist ohapel. 3·30 p.m.; disprutched at 9·35 a.m. & 4 & 8.12 p.m..

There are Io almshouses endowed by Alderman Daunt- The nearest telegraph office is at Market Lavington

sey, who was born here in the 15th century, and three Sub-PoS>t Office, West Lavingll:on. J•3!Illes Mead. sub--
others called "South Bank," and endowed by Lord pos.tmaSiter. Box closes 9.20 a.m. & 7.40 p.m. Postal
·orders are isued here, but not paid. Littleton Pannell
Churchill, built in I 499 ; rebuilt in 1s31. A large Agricul- is the nearest mQney order office, & Market Lavington.

tural College, for 100 boarders and day scholars1, was -the neares.t telegraph office

opened in I895; the building cost about £w,ooo, derived

from the accumulated funds of the " Dauntsey " charity, Schools.

out of which certain scholarships are provided; well fitted .
laboratories have been built and there are IS acres of End{)wed Grammar, endowed m I542 by Alderman·

land for experimentS!. Lord Churchill, with the Ecclesias- Dauntsey; George French Smith, master

tical Commissioners, are joint lords of the manor of ·west Parochial (mixed), erected in I854• for 200 children;

Lavington and principaJ proprietors. The soil is rich average arotendance, I20 ; Mrs. Marian Mead, mis--

!oam; subsoil, greensand. The chief cTops are corn and tress ; Miss l\Iinnie Brewer, assistant mistress

root.;. Thl' are~ is 6,823 acres; rateal,le value, £5.22o; Carriers to Dev.izes.-Potter, omnibus daily; Davis,.

the population in I89I was I,o88. thurs. & to Trowbridge, sat

.Allsopp Rev. Rd. Winsta~ey LL.B. Borer John, baker, Littleton Glass James, relieViing officer 2nd di-s--

Vicarage Brewer Mary (Mr<!.), beer retailer trict & registrar of birthSI & deaths,

Edwards Mrs Brown Geo. market gardnr. Littleton Bromham sub-district,Devizes union

Heath Miss Brown Isabella. (Mrs.), farmer Grammar Sehool (George French

Hildebrand Mrs.West Lavington house Brown Joon, miller (water),Littletn.ml Smith, head master)

Mead Daniel Burridge Thos. miller (water,Hurst ml Grist Herbert., miller (water), Wood-

Pomroy Oharles, Littlet()n Butcher Thos. (Mrs.),lfarmer, Littleton bridge mill

Wilson-Long Frederick B.A. (head Chapman Stphn. mrkt. grdnr.Littletn Hillier Edwd. Hart, grocer, Post off

master, Agricultural College) Cook Sidney, farmer, Gore Cross farm Hinton John, farm ba-iliff to Mr.Haines

COMMERCIAL. Davis Edwin, grocer & baker Hooper Bros. farmers, Cornbury farm
Kelloway Ann (Mrs.), blacksmith
.Agricultural College (Fr~k. Wi:son- Davis Thomas, coffee house

Long B.A. head! maJster) Davis Thomas, carrier, Littleton Lush Edward George, farmer

Baish James, market gardnr.Littleton Draper Maurice, saddler, Littleton Mead Daniel, builder

Baker James, tailor Durdin Harry Ashton, grocr.Littleton Mead Jas. grocer & poor's rate collector

Baker Jsph. shopkeeper & blac}iSilllith Giddings J{lmes, market gardener & agent to Lord Churchill & steward

Bartlett Enos, Bridge inn Giddings Thos.mrkt. grdnr. Lit!let()n of the manor of West Lavington

WILTS. 9

130 WEST LAVINGTON'. WILTSHIRE. (KELLY'B

Mead .Elizh. (Mrs.),Horse&Jockey P.]l Sainsbury Stephen, market gardener Smith Henry, Churohill's .Krms P.H

Neate .Alfred, farmer Sainsbury William, miller (water), Smith John, cooper, Littleton '

Nosworthy John, farmer, Litt1eton West Lavington mill Stephens Robert, saddler, Littleton

Pinchin Samuel, Wheatshea.f P.H Saunders Jas. shoe maker, Littleton Titt Henry James, shoe maker

SainS'bury Jn.bldr. & wheelwt..Littletn Sawyer Willia:m Thomas, farmer Winterson William, Black Dog P.H

Sainsbury Noah,bricklyr.&parish clerk Shore James, carpenter & wheelwright Woods Thomas, market gardener

LEA is a pleasant village and parish, 2 miles south-east chapel at Cleverton. Mill's charity of £6 is for distri-
from Malmesbury terminal Slt6tion, on a branch of the
Greart; Wes•tern roailway, in the North Western division of bution yearly. .A. small stream runs through the parish,
tho county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and
county court district Qf Malmesbury, rural deanery of ou which is a corn mill. The principal1andowner is the
Malmesbury, archdeaoonry of Bristol and diocese of
G1oucester and Bristol. The church of St. Giles, Earl of Pembroke, who is lord of the manor. The soil
originally an ancient Gothic fabric of Sltone, was entirely
rebuilt in 188o: it oonsisrts of chancel, nave of five bays, is sandy; subsoil, clay. The parish consists chiefly of

aisles, south poroh and emoba;Vtled western tower contain- pasture ktnd. The area is 1,646 acres; rabeable value,
ing 5 fine old bells, but now unfit for use, the east wall
and tower being the only portions of the old building [2,598; the population in 189I w.as 450.
remaining: there are 250 sibtings. The register dates
Cleav·erton (or Cleve.r.ton) hamlet is 1! miles eas·t.
from the year I754· 'l'he living is a vicarage, annexed
·to the reotory of Garsdon, average tithe rent-charge Parish Clerk, John Slade.
.£2o8, joint gross yearly value £369, net £3o8, with 6r
acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of H. H. Bolton Post Office.-Mrs. Jane Srtinchoombe, sub-postmistr~s.s.
e~q. of Newchurch, Lancs. and held since r892 by the
Rev. Reynell Wreford Hay M.A. of Christ's College, Leters through l\Ialmesbury, arrive at 7.2o a.m. ; dis-
Cambridge, who resides at Garsdon. Here is a Con-
grega.Monal chapel, and the Primitive Me.thodists have a mpaotncheyedoardt e7r. 20 tpe.lmeg.;mpwhill!otfefri,ce6.i4s5apt .mM.a The nearest
& lmesbury

National School, built in 1872, with house for mast-er &

mi9tress, for 150 children; average attendartce, 93 ;
James .A.llen, master; Miss Kate .A.llen, infants' mist

Carriers to:-

Tetbury & Str.oud-Stephen Gay, fri. returning the same
day; Henry Hitchings, to & from Clevert-on, fri. re-
turning the same day

Forrester William, Lea cottage Barnes Alfred, Travellers' Rest inn, Reading Room (J. Alien, sec)

Garlick Mrs Cleverton Reeve DaV'id, farmer, Manor farm

Gay Jesse Bidmead Jas. farmr.Winkworth farm Rich John, hay & straw merchant &

Harding Rich~rd Gay Stephen, grocer & baker Mttle dea:er, Brills court

"Keene Miss, Cornwall cottage Hale William, cowkeeper RichmondEliza(Mrs.),Rose&Crown iiln

Millard Mrs. Coombe villa Hayes Annie (MisSl), farmer Scott Elizah, cowkeeper

Reeve David Hitchings Abel, mil:er (water & Slade Frank, baker & grocer

Reeve Mrs steam), Crab mill Smart Henry, farmer

Rich John, Brills court. Hitchings Henry, butcher & carrier Stinchcombe George, b:acksmith

COMMERCIAL. Hitchings James, wheelwright Stinchcombe Jane (MrSl. ), Post office

Alsopp George, pig dealer Huggins William, thatcher Weeks Wm. farmer, Cleverton farm

Bailey John Henry, registrar of births Knapp Edwin, builder Whale Thos. florist, Cowbridge road

& deaths for the dist.ofMalmesbury Porter Thomas, carpenter Wo{)dward Joseph, cowkeeper

. Barnes Alfd. Crow's Nest P.H.Clevertn Porter William, carpenter Woody Ann(Miss)&Wm.frmrs.Clevertn

LEIGH DELAM.ERE is a parish, 5 miles north-wPst 1 Griottleton estate, built and endowed by the late Jos~ph

from Chippenham station on the Great Western railway, Neeld esq. The name of the parish is derived from the

and 7 south-west from Malmesbury, in the North Western knightly family of Delamere, who sold the est.at.e before

division of the county, hundred, petty sessional divi- the year r369. Sir Algernon William Keeld .hart.· M.A.

sion, union and county court district of Chippenham. of Grittleton, is lord of the manor and owns nearly the

rural deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of Bristol whole of the parish. The soil, being on the forest

and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The parish in- marble, is various; subsoil, clay. The chief crops ar(•

· eludes the hamlet of Sevington, I mile south-west from wheat, barley and beans, with a large proportion of

the church. Tlhe church of St. Margaret, entirely re- pasture land. The area is r,2r3 acres; rateable value,

built in r846, at the sole expense of the late Joseph £r,IOg; the population in I891 was rrr.

2\eeld esq. of Grittleton House, is an edifice of stone, in Sexton Thomas Gunning.
the Early Eng1ish and later styles, consisting of chancel, '

nave of three bays, aisles, south p{)rch and a peculiar Letters arrive from Chippenham to Leigh Delamere at

bell~turret rising from the eastern gable of the nave and 7.30 a.m. & 7 p.m

containing one bell: there are se'"81ral stained windows, Wall Letter Box, Leigh Delamere, cleared at 7 p.m. ;

and the churoh has sittings for 150 pers9ns. The sundays, 7· ro a. m

Tegister dates from the year I7II. The living is a Wall Letter Box, S·evingt.on, cleared at 7.25 p.m.; sun-

rectory,_ average tithe rent-dharge £178, gross yearly days, 7.30 a.m. Le;tters arrive at Sevington from

value £224, net £159, with 40 acres of glebe, and resi- Chippenham at 7 a.m. & 4.30 p.m. The neareg,t

dence, in the gift of Sir .A.lgernon "\VIilliam Neeld bart. money order & telegraph office is at Yatton Keynell

and held since 1891 by the Rev. "\Villiam "\Vynn Lloyd. School, Sevington (mixed), built in 1847, for 20 chil-

Close to the church is an almshouse, consisting of six dren; average attendance, 10; & supported by Lady

sets of apartments for aged servants, and others on the I Neeld; Miss Elizabeth Squire, mistress

LEIGH DELA.MERE. SEVIKGTON. Jenner Henry, farmer
Lloyd Rev. William Wynn, rector Barrmgton George, drill proprietor Kidd .Alfred, market gardener
Drake Thomas, farmer, Manor farm Gough Catherine (Mrs.), farmer

LIDDINGTON (or Lyddington) is a pretty village Rev. William Baker Pitt. There is a chapel for Wes•

and parish, on the road from Swindon to Hungerford, 4 leyans. A Parochial Hall for public meetings was

miles south-east from Swindon station on the Great erected in x884, upon the Rectory grounds, at a cost of

"\Veste;rn railway, 2 nortJh-oost from Ohisledon station on £rso, and will seat Ioo pers•ons. Liddington Castle is a

the Midland and South West-ern Junction railway, and large entrenchment or mound, about a mile south. The

8~ north-east from Marlborough, in the Northern divi- old Manor House, an Elizabethan building, is an obiect

sion of the county, hundred of .Kingsbridge, Highworth of interest and is now used as a farmhouse. The Duke

and Swindon union, Swindon county oourt dis.trict and of Marlborough, who is lord of the manor, and the Dean

petty sessional division, rural doonery of Cricklade, arch- and Chapter of Westminster are chief landowners. The

deaoonry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and soil is chalk and greensand; subsoil, clay. The land is

Bristol. The church of .All Saints is an ancient stone chiefly in pasture. The area is 2,537 acres ; rateab~e

building, in the Early English style, consisting of ohan- value, [2,615 ; the population in 189I '\'\·as 380.

eel, nave of three bays and north a~s~e, south porch, Liddington Wick, ~~ miles north-west; Medburn,
square emba~tled western tower oo~tammg S bel}s: the quarter of a mile south-west; and Liddington Warren,

church contams an old stone font: m the north a1sle a;re 2 miles south-east, are hamlets here.
tombs, supposed to be to the memory of abbesses of
Sha.ftesbury, one of whom is said to have been the Sexton, Edwin Ba.teman.

founder of the churoh: £I,ooo has been spent in general Post Office.--James Cook, sub-postmaster. Letter~

repairs and improvement during the years 1882 to I88g: through Swindon, arrive at 8.20 a.m. & dispatched

there are 200 sittings. Th~ register dwt-es from the year 6. Io p.m. Wanbo-rough is the nearest money ord.er &

.~:6g2. The living is a. prebendal :rectory and vicarage, Ohisledon railway station the nearest telegraph office

&verage tithe rent-charge £266, net yearly value £sso. National School (mixed), built about 1845• with resi•
with 183! acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of dence for mistress, for go children; average attend·

the Duke of Marlborough, and held since 1882 by the ance, 65 ; Miss Ellen Hiscock, mistl'es-s

DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. l.ITTLETO~ DREW. 131

Dougall Keir Johnson, Ml\nor house . Carter James, miller (water) Morse Paul, relieving officer, No. 2

Pitt Rev. '\Villiam Baker (prebendary Dodge Charles; shopkeeper district Highworth & Swindon union

& rector) Dougall Keir Johnson, horse trainer, New Young, carpenter

Whiting John, Myrtle house Manor house• Perrin Phillip, Sun inn

Whiting John Jas. Wilmott, Myrtle ho Fowler Stephen, carrier Smith James, farmer, Liddington wick

COlfMEBCIAL. Handy Chas. Edwd. corn & meal mer (postal address, Coate, Swindon)

Helyer Jn. Shaw, lndownr. ·warren fro Sutton Jasper, farmer, Manor farm

Adams Wm. farmer, Moorleaze farm Hughes Jasper, farmer, Medbourn Young Brook, farmer & assistant over•

l3ush Frederick James, Bell inn Looker Charles, thatcher seer, Parsonage, farm

LIMPLEY STOKE is a small pictul'esque village 1 Angel Angel-Smith B.A. of Queens' Colleg<e, Cambridge.

with a station on the Salisbury, Weymouth and Bath 1 The Bapllist chapel was built in IBIS, and will hold IOO.

branch of the Great Western railway, in the civil parish , Here is the site of a Roman camp. The industries here

!of Bradford, and was in I846 with Winsley formed into · are a s·aw mill, an india rubber factory and quarrying
an ecclesiastical parish: the village is 3! miles west for frell'Stone. In the village is a Hydropathic establish·
from Bradford, 4~ south-east from Bat•h and 103 laid out grounds of I4
from Iment, standing in beautifully

London, bounded on all sides but one by Somersetshire, acres in extent, and three minutes' from the railway

and remarkable for its romantic and beautifu~ scenery; s•tation: it was founded in the year I86o as a health

it is in the Western division of the county, hundred, I res·ort, and has picturesque surroundings, with the

petty s-essional division, union and county court district I advantage of a climat.e remarkably equable in tempera-
of Bradford-on-Avon, rural deanery of Potterne (Brad- ! ture and mild in winter; there are every kind of bath

.ford portion), archde.aconry of Wilts and diocese of : and massage given under the direction of a resident

.Salisbury. The houses are dotted about on the side of . physician; amusements in the shape of musical enter-

a steep hill overlooking the valley of the river Avon, : tainments are frequently given, and there are facilities

which skirts the village on one side and 'separates it ' for tennis and boating.

from 1Vinsley, and over which is a bridge of three There is also a Reformatory for girls under fifteen

arches; higher up the riv-er is a viaduct, partly in this y•ears of age, who have been eonvil.cted of petty offences:

county and partly in that of Somersetshire, carrying the this institution was eertified January gth, I86r. The soil

Kennet and Av·on canal over the river and the railway. is stony brash; subsoil, freestone. Crops, wheat, barley

On the crown of the hill is the small church of St. Mary and roots. The area, including Winsley, is 3,247 acres;

the Virgin, which is of stone and of Norman foundation, the population in r8gr of the ecclesiastical district of

consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and square t.ower "\Vinslev and Limpley Stoke was I,rsr, including 65 in
at the west end, surmount·ed by a com•cal sp1• re, con- the Ref• ormatorv.
taining one b~ll, the date. on wh~ch is I$96: over the "\Vinsley will be found under a separafe head.
s.oh_ancel arch IS a. oamparule, which up hll I78] oon- : Post, M. 0. & T. 0., B., Express Delivery & Annuity
tamed 2 be~ls, "'!hwh were ti:en soJd =. the old No:rnan & Insurance Office.-William Henry Weston, sub-post-
south door. IS bull~ up: thea-e IS an ancient Perpend_J.Cular (&cal9le. rrss
stone pulpit, pal"tmlly fo_rmed b~ an arch~d recess m the ,msaou.nmanls.y.t)e7;(rc..4ad5lli!5:LpH1e.J'smattt.ceohrneslPdym)a,ar·rtc&iev1ls3e0.•.Id4tS0hisrppaoa..ummtgch.h.;e&dBsau22tn..hJ~3. o0a9t&&a7.8Bm.2.p.0rs.
wall, so that only tw? s1des proJect,_ but It has not be~~ p.m.;
~sed for many years. the ?hurch Will sea,t I20 person~ . m
m the churchyard a.r·e thirteen Anglo-Norman tombs,
ranging from the I 2th to the 13th centuries. The 1 Wall Let>ter Box, Upper L1mpley, cleared at 2.20 & 7.30
register dates from the year r707. The living is a I p.m. week days only

vicarage annexed to "\Vinsley, of the joint ne·t yearly Naltional School (mixed), built in r845, for 78 children;

value of [23I, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of av·erage ruttendance, sr; ~Iiss Fanny Chamberlain, mi:.t

Bristol, and held since I892 by the Rev. Reg<inald "\Valter 1 Railway Station, Albert Edmard Ham, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. tMeech Francis W. Winyatt lodge Liddiard James, coal dealer & carter

Marked thus *receive letters through Poole Rev. Richard M.A. The Fir.il Liddiard Joseph, carter

Monkton Combe, Bath. Quartley Mrs Limpley Stoke Hydropathic Co. Lim.
Simmons Graham, The Rocks (Charles Jo.seph Whitby M. D., resi-

Marked thus t receive letters through Whitby Charles Joseph M.D dent physician; Mrs.Money,mngrs)

,Freshford, Bath. Male James, Hop Pole P.H

Angel-Smith Rev. Reginald Waiter COMMERCIAL. Morgan John Henry, beer retailer

Angel B.A. (vicar) Alien Emma (Miss), apartments,Stoke Kew Frank, builder

Barrett Rev. James Salter (chaplain Hill house Newman George, farmer

of Reformatory) Bath Stone Firms Limited, quarry Northey Stone Co. Lim. quarry ownrs

Begbie Mrs. The Villa owners & stone merchants Reading Room (Ernest Aust, sec)

*Coole Alfred, Vale view Bowles Frank, mrkt. grdnr. Murhill Reformatory (Canon Bond, Steeple

Curtis Alfred Barwick, Chatley house Bray Fredk. farmer, Top farm Ashton, Trowbridge, hon. sec.;

Greaves Mrs. ·woodlands Gulliver Isaac, farmer, Prospect place SistSJr Annie Crake, lady supt)

*Harrison The Misses, Waterhouse Gullock William James,farmer (postal Townsend Henry, stone carver

tHayward Johnson Frederick, Aroona address, Midford, Bath) \Veston William Henry, stationer &

*Hayward The Misses, Millbrook cot Hadley Wm. Pearce, india rubbr.manf newS! ag-ent, Post office

King Austin, Rowas lodge Hathaway Henry, tailor & apartments Whitby Charles Joseph l\LD. (re;;id?nt

tLaugharne M:is,s, Avonhurst Holbrow William James, timber mer. physician of the Limpley Stoke fly-

Loch Mrs. Rockfield cottage & saw mills, Avon mills dropathic Co. Lim)

Lush Mrs. Avonside Hutton Joseph Ward,coal dealer & crtr Wilkins John, grocer & beer retailer

.

LITTLETON DREW is a parish and village on the and Bristol, and held sincE> 1875 by the Rev. Charles
Gloucestershire border, 7~ miles north-west from Chip- Henry Davis M.A. of "\'Yadham College, Oxford, and

penham station on the Great Western railway, and IO surrogate. The Duke of Beaufort P.C., K.G. is lord of

south-west from Malmesbury, .in the North Western the manor and principal land!owner. Sir Algcrnon

division of the county, Chippenham hundred, union, "\Villiam Neeld hart. is also a landowner. The soil is

petty sessional division and county court district, rural clayey; subsoil, clay. The greater part of the parish is

dear.ery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of Bristol and pasture land. The area is 417 acres.; rateable value,

diocese of Gloucester and BristoL The church of All £I,oio; the population in 189I was I72.

Saints is a building of stone, in the Decorated and Per- The Gib, I mile south, Dunley, and West Dunley, I
pendicular styles, consisting of a chancel, nave, north mile south-east, are hamlets of the parish.
porch and a central embattled tower containing 3 bells :
in the church is an altar tomb with recumbent effigy, Parish Clerk, William Hulbert.

supposed to be that of a lady of the Drew family, which Letters throug-h Chippenham, delivered about 8 a.m. &

came here during the time of the conquest, from which 7.15 p.m. The nearest money_: order & te1egraph office

the parish derives its adjunct: there are So sittings. is at Badminton. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 7·40

The re.gister dates from the year 1706. The living is a a.m. & 7·I5 f·m

rectory, tithe rent-charge commuted at £1.20, average National Schoo (mixed), with residence for mistress,

£93. net yearly value {I3o, including 68 acres of glebet erected about I845, for 46 children; average attend-

with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Gloucester ance, 34; Mrs. Frances Smith, mistress

Davis Rev. Charles Henry M.A. (rec- Clark David, but~her, Gib Gibbs John, farmer, Gib

to11 & surrogate), Rectory Daniels Arthur, farmer Gibbs William~ haulier~ Gib
Chappell Jas. farmer, Townsend farm Dring Francis, farmer, Chur~h farm Goulstone Henry, farmer

WILTS. 9*

132 LITTLETON DREW. " 1ILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Greenman John, saddler & farmer,Gib Hall Henry, miller (water) Porter Hannah (Mr:s. ),The Plough P.H
Hall Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer, West Porter Francis, butcher
\ Spackm9.TI John, boot maker
Dunley

L UCKINGTON is a village and parish, adjoining the The Particular :Baptist chapel here was built in 1866.

county of Gloucester, about 7 miles south-west from The cha.rit.ies are in the hands of the Charity Commiii-
Malmesbury ter::ninal station on a branch of the Great sioners and are as follows :-For repairs and uses o~
·western railway, and ro north-west from Chippenham,
in the North Western division of the county, hundred the church, £I2 yearly; for Sunday school, £5 yearly;
of Chippenham, Malmesbury union, petty sessional
division and county court district, rural deanery of Fitzherbert Woodroffe's charity of £I I2S. 9d. The
Malmesbury, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of principal landowner is the Duke of Beaufort K.G. The
Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. Mary is a
structure of ·stone, built in the 12th century; it has a present rector is lord of the manor. The soil is rich
chancel, c4antry chapel, nave of three bays, south aisle, loam; subsoil, clay. Most of the land is grazing; and
north and south porches and a square embattled western
the crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is

I,S85 acres; rateable value, £2,677; the population in

189I was 394·
Sexton, William Palmer.

tower containing 4 bells: the chantry chapel wa.s re- Post Office.-Henry Boulton, sub-postmaster. Letten

stored and the chancel rebuilt in I872 'by Rev. G. L. from Chippenha m arrive at 7.1s a.m.; dispatched at
Ottley, by whom also the churchyard was enlarged and nearest money order & telegraph office
boundary walls and gates erected, the pari·sh contri- 7is. 1 0 p. m. er The
buting £2o towards the expense of the latter : the nave t Sh ston. Postal orders are issued here, buw
a
not paid

was re-seated and restored under the late rector in A School :Board of 5 members was formed 4 November.
rti8n8g4s,. when an organ was also added: there are 300 sit-
The register dates from the year 1s 73. The I872; Alfred Day, chairman; J. A. Clarke, Malmes•

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-cha.rge £222, net bury, clerk to the board

yearly value £244, with residence, and 4S acres of glebe, Board School (mixed), erected in I874, for 70 children;

in the gift of G. F. Otley esq. and held since I887 by infants' ~oom a~ded illl 1894; average attendance, 55 ;

the Rev. Thomas Nicholas Raymond James, of St. Bees. Mrs. Pngg, mu;;tress

Day Alfred, Sladbrook villa Boulton Thomas, farmer Pegler Jacob, OH f~hip inn

Elsip James Cook George, blacksmith & Be:l inn Sherbol'lle Richard, carpenter

James Rev. Thomas :Nicholas Ray- Frankham Francis, farmer Smith Thomas, flarmer

mond, Rectory Gent Thomas, fannel" SneU Edward, shopkeeper

Holborow Albert. Danl. Bennett, farmr Sparrow Frederick, fm·mer, I~rol•k ho

COMMERCIAL, Jones Matilda. (Mrs.),iarmer,Court fm Spencer Walt. Edrward, farmer, Alien
Limbrick Geo. farmer, Hebden farm Grove farm

Andrews 'l'homas, jun. earrier Milsom Robert, farmer & hauiier Stinchcomb ~artin, farmel."

Bennett John, f:.rmt.-r Milsom William, farmer Tanner James, brick & tile manufactr

Boulton Henry, shopkeeper & post off Newth George, farmer, Sandy farm Wheeler Peter, farmer

L UDGERSHALL is a parish and village, situated held since I872 by the Rev. William Henry Awdry M.A.
in a hollow, bounded on the ·south-west by an extensive of Exeter College, Oxford, J.P. The Baptists have a

open country and contiguous to the borders of Chute place of worship here. A fair is held here on July 25,

forest and the Hampshire boundary and Collingbourne but is almost obso:ete. £IS from Henry Smith's charity
woods, with a station on the Midland and South Western and £I2 from Everett's charity, are distributed yearly~

Junction railway, 7 miles north-west from Andover, 17 Blake's charity, £r ss. yearly. On the summit of Sid-

miles north-east from Salisbury, and 73 from London, bury Hill is a, large space of ground in the complete

in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Ames- form of a heart, surrounded by tumuli. There are
bury, Everleigh and Pewsey petty sessional division, some remains of a castle, built soon after the Norman

Pewsey union, Andover county court district, Ames- conquest, in which the Empress Maud took refuge in

bury rural deanery (.Amesbury portion), archdeaconry her flight from Stephen. In the village are the remains

of Sarum and diocese of Salisbury: this was formerly of the ancient market cross. Biddesden House, with
a marke.t town of considerab~e importance, and an an- park and gardens, the ·Seat of T. J. E. Metcalfe esq.

cient parliamentary borough, now disfranchised. There is situated a mile and a half east of the village; it was

is a curious old market cross in the village, the sub- built by General Webb, who served under the famous
jects of the four sides being the " Command to St. Duke of Marlborough, and it was for some time the
Peter," "The Three Maries," the "Crucifixion" and the residence of the Duke of Chandos. Nathaniel Young
"Ascension." The church of St.. James is an ancient esq. who is lord of the manor, and Charles Everett esq.

structure of flint and stone, having chancel, nave, south are chief landowners. The soil is very light; subsoil,

porch and embattled western square tower, with four chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and
pinnacles, containing S bells and clock and transept: the turnips. The area is 1,773 acres; rateable value,

tower was raised in I87I in memory of Richard Thomas £1,837; the population in 1891 was 476.

Everett, by his widow; the chancel, in the Early Eng- Parish Clerk William Crouch.

lish style, was· restored in 1873, and the nave re-seated '

in 1874, Mr. Pearson, architect: there are some Nor- Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

man windows and doorways: in the east window are Thomas Meaby, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by

the arms of Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury: near foot post from Andover at 7.40 a. m.; dispatched at

the south porch is a niche containing two effigies in a 5.30 p.m.; there is also a delivery to callers at noon.

recumbent position, with a costly monument of stone, The telegraph office is at the railway £tation

erected in I5S8, to Sir Richard and Lady Brydges, an- National School (mixed), held in a lofty & capacious
cestors of the Dukes of Chandos: it is surmounted room, built by Messrs. Everett in I856, in memory of

by a coat of arms, and interspersed with various designs their sister, for 100 children; average attendance,

in ancient carving: this magnificent tomb has been 92 ; Mrs. Blanche Crouch, mistress. Additional class

partially restored: there are 300 sittings, 240 for adults rooms are now (1894) being built, to acCOJllmodate

and 6o for children. The registers date from the year 30 more children
I6og, and are in Latin till the year I62o. The living Carrier.-George Beams, to Andover, fri. & to Salis-

is a rectory, tithes commuted a.t £427, average £334• bury, tues
net income £287, in the gift of E. M. Awdry esq. and Railway Station, Alfred Ford Newman, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Berry Henry Norris, farmer, maltster Me~by Thomas,grocer & baker,Post off

& hop nwrchant Hill Alfred Hy. inland revenue officer

Awdry Rev.Wm.Hy. M.A.,J.P.(rector) Blackmore Alfred, butcher Mead Mortimer Spicer, wheelwright

Carpente-r Mrs Blarkmore George, tailor Norris Hy. Crown inn,brewr.& maltstr

Fawcett Lieut.-Col. Rowland Hill Brackstone Charles, marine store dlr PipPr Wm.& Jn.farmers,Biddesden fm

Metcalfe T. J. E. Biddesden house Brangwin John Curtis, grocer, draper P'lrdue Frederick, bricklayer

::vratthews Mrs & baker Weeks Kate (Miss), Prince of Wales

Selfe Miss Collins William, Crown ir:n, brewer & & Railway inn & posting house, &

'Williamson Herbert Holdrich maltster brewer & coal merC'hant

Young Nathaniel, Castle Manor farm Crouch William, blacksmith & assit. Westlake Ebenezer, draper & grocer

COMMERCIAL. overseer Wilhamson HerbertH1ld1•ich M.R.C.S.

Annetts James, gror·el' & l•aker Eves Arthur, pork butcher Eng. surgeon & medical officer &
Baiden Robert, boot & shoe maker
Beams George, coal d·~aler & carrier Fox John Joseph, tailor & press public vacc·inator, No. 5 district

correspondent Pewsey union

Hutchins William, cattle dealer

DIRECTORY.) WILTSHIRE. LYDIARD TREGOZE. 133

LYDIARD (or Liddiard 1\lillicent) is a village and the year 1697. The living is a rectory, average tithe

parish, 2 miles south from Purton st.ation on the Swin- rent-charge £378, gross yearly value £498, net £4o5,
don and Gloucester branch of the Great Western rail- in the gift of Pembroke College, Oxford, and held since

way, 3 north-north-east from Wootton Bassett and 5 1881 by the Rev. Arthur Cardinal Saunders M.A. of
west-by-north from S;windon, in the Northern division that college. Ancestors of Whitfie:d were rectors of
of the county, Highworth hundred, petty sessional divi- this parish twice in succession about 1632. Here is a
sion of Cricklade, Cricklade and Wootton Bassett union, chapel for Primitive Methodist·s, also one at Shaw. Here
-county court district of Swindon, rural deanery of is a charity, known as "Cleoburey's Charity," of £100,
Cricklade, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of Glou- left by the Rev. Christopher Cleoburey, former rector
~ester and Bristol. The church of All Saints is in the of this parish, to be given on St. Thomas' day to the
Later English style, with chancel, nave of six bays, poor of the parish in the form of coals and blankets.
south aisle, south porch and western tower, with pin- Edmund Story-Maskelyne esq. is lord of the manor. The

nacles, containing 5 bells : the . nave was built in the principal landowners are the Ea_rl of Shaftesbury, Vis•
~:eign of Henry VI.; the aisle, of a later date, is sup- count Bolingbroke, James H. Sadler esq. David Stephen
posed to have been built by a family of the name of White and J oses Ba.dcock esqrs. The soil is oolite-
Russell, under a licence granted by the king to the De brash, with deep clay on the lower grounds, as in the
Clintons, who were then lords of the manor: in the Braydon district ; subsoil, clay. The land is chiefly in

church is a Norman font, which is depicted in .Atkin's pasture. The area is 2,224 acres; rateable value,

''Ancient Fonts of England:" the church was thoroughly £4,599; the population in 1891 was 912.
repaired and re-pewed in the years 184r and 1842: in Parish Clerk, William Wheeler.
I<l7o the chancel was lengthened, oak choir stalls and Post Office.-Charles Ricks, sub-postmaster. Letters
reredos erected, and a vestry and organ chamber thrown arrive from Swindon at 3·35 a.m.; dispatched at 6.5

out on the north side: the whole floor was laid with p.m. Purton is the nearest money order & telegraph
Godwin's encaustic tiles : during the alterations re- office
mains were found of a Norman stoup and of Lancet National School (boys & girls), with residence for master.
windows, which last were probably removed when the built in 1864, on a site given by the Rev. Henry
prej!ent Perpendicular windows were inserted; the T. Streeton, for 130 children & enlarged in 1886 by

church has 250 sittings: there is an ancient dilapidated an additional class room to hold 150 ; average at-
stone cross in the churchyard. The register dates from tendance, 133; Frank "\Villiam Drew, master

Badcock .loses Clarke James, farmer Painter William, farmer

Carpenter John, ~tone lane Clarke John, grocer ParsonS/ John, grocer

Kibblewhite Misses Cole .Tohn Thomas, farm~r, Shaw Peer Thomas, carpenter

Knapp .John, Greatfield hon~e Cole Jonathan, !armer Plummer Edward, farmer

Sadller JaJSJ. Hy., J.P. Lydiard house Cole Stephen Edward, farmer Prince William, farmer

Saunders Rev. Arthur Cardinal M.A. Cowley William, farmer Ricks Charles,rate collector,Pcst office

Rectory Edwards Thoonas, greengrocer Rudler John, Sun inn

Stoneh>lm William Fisher Henry, farmer Saunders Thos.greengrocer, Greatfield

Stratton Jasper, Beaumont villa Giddins John, smith Simpkins Wm. greengrocer,The Green

Warman Mrs Greenaway Robert, market ga-.:der.er Slade Edmond Hercules, farmer.

COMMERCIAL. Hinton John, grocer Church farm

Beasant J0hn, carpenter Hollick William, !1aulier & coal dealer Tuck Charles, haulier

Bond George, market gardener Hughes James, farmer, Roughmoor Turk William, farmer

Bourton Henry, heer ret.ailer Morse Job, farmer 'Wicks 'VVilliam, carpenter

~rter Henry, shopkeeper, Shaw Newman Edwin, shoe maker Wheeler '\<Villiam, carpenter

LYDIARD TREGOZE is a village and parish, 3 be expended in the purchase of blankets, which are dis-

miles north-east from Wootton Bassett station on the tributed at Christmas to the deserving poor who are not

.Swindon and Bath section of the Great Western railway, in receipt of parochial relief, by the rector and church•

and 4 west-by-north from Swindon, in the Northern wardens. From a very early time this place has been

division of the county, union of Cricklade and Wootton the property of the St. John family, Viscount Boling-

Bassett, hundred of Kingsbridge, petty sessional division broke, whose mansion and park, of about 160 acres,

oi Cricklade, county court district of Swindon, rural with a lake about 12 acres, are near the church. Basset

deanery of Cricklade, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese Down House, in this parish, is the seat of Mervin Herbert

of Gloucester and Bristol. The Wilts and Berks canal Nevil Story-Maskelyne esq. M.A., F.R.S., D.L., J.P.

and the Great Western railway passes through the In Midghall is an estate formerly belonging to the

parish. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice .Abbey of Stanley, near Chippenham, which is tithe

of stone, in the Later English style, with a chancel, free on payment of a modus. Viscount Bolingbroke is

nave and aisles, south porch and a. square tower, with lord of the manor of the tithing of Hook, and Sir Henry

pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the south aisle was built Bruce Meux hart. of the tithing of Midghall. The prin-

in r663 by the Bolingbroke family, to whom there are cipal landowners are Viscount Bolingbroke, Sir Henry

some handsome monuments: the church underwent a Bruce Meux hart. the Charter House, the Earl of

repair about 1846: the eastern window is a beautiful Clarendon and Pembroke College, Oxford. The soil is

specimen of stained glass, by Van Eyke's, of the time principally stone brash, interspersed with clay; sub-

of Charles II. representing St. John the Baptist and soil, clay. The chief crops are grass. The area is

the Evangelists, and a genealogical tree of the Boling- 5,935 acres; :rateable value, £'9,921; the population in

broke St. John family: in the chancel is a pedigree of 1891 was 731.

the same family from the Conquest, splendidly illumin- Hook iWs oaohttaomn leBta3ssmetitl.es west on the road from Crick-
ated; there is also a monument to Sir John St. John lade to
and his two wives and family: the church has about
320 sittings. The register dates from the year 168o. Sexton, John Hunt.

The living is a rectory, tithes commuted at £595. Pillar Letter Box cleared at 7.25 p.m. week days & 7.25

average £445, net income £345. with 96 acres of glebe, p.m. on sundays

1llld residence, in the gift of Viscount Bolingbroke, and Pillar Letter Box, Rectory gate, cleared at 6.40 p.m.

held since 1885 by the Rev. Henry George Baily M..A. week days; 11.10 a.m. sundays

of Christ's College, Cambridge. Here is a PrimitiVP Letters through Swindon for the eastern part of the

Methodist chapel. The churchyard being closed, a parish arrive at 8 a.m. & through Wootton Bassett

cemetery was opened at H<>ok, the land being given by for the west. Purton is the nearest money order &

Viscount Bolingbroke, and is 2 acres in extent: it is tele.graph office

under the control of the Parish Council. Here is National School (mixed), built in 1856, for 140 children;

a charity arising from the interest of £7oo Con- averag-e attendance, 110; Frederick Leighton, ma"Ster;

eols, left by the Rev. R. Miles, a former rector, to Mrs. Leighton, mistress; Miss Trille, infants' mistress

Marked thus * receive their lettel's *Weight Samuel, Hook *Drury Henry, general dealer, Hook

through Wootton Bassett. COMMERCIAL. *Drury Will iam, cat t le deale r gricul•
a
*Edmonda Edwln Hugh,

Baily Rev. Henry Geo. M.A. Rectory Archer Robert, farmer, Padbrooks tural machinist, Hook

Bolingbroke Viscornt D.L. Lydiard Barnes Edward James, carpenter, Hay *Edwards Arthur, farmer, Hook farm

park; & White's club, London SW Lane wharf Ellison William, farmer, Studley

Story-Maskelyne Mervin HerbertNevil *Collingbourne William, farmer, Bal- *Habgood Joseph, blacksmith

M.A., F.R.S., D.L., .J.P. Basset lard's ash Hale Owen, farmer, Creeches

Down house ; & Athenreum & Collins George, farmer, Binknoll farm *Hale William, farmer

Erooks's clubs, London SW *Drury Charles, cattle dealer, Braydon Harding John, farmer. Wick farm

134 LYDIARD TREG07.E. WILTSHIRE.

liart Alien, bailiff to )Iervin H. N. Nutland William, dairyman *Strange George, wood deal~

Story-Maskelyne esq. M.P *Ody George, farm~, Wickfield *Strange Jnlia (Miss), farmer, Man-

lliscock Harry, gamekeeper to Vis- Ody Nelson, farmer nington house

count Bolingbroke *Ody Waiter, farmer, Flaxlands *Theobald James, wood dealer

•Hitchcock Frances (Mrs.), Baling- Ody Wm. farmer, Church Hill farm Titcomb William Oliver,farmer, Chad-

brokE!! Arms P.H. Hook Phillips Hy. farmPr, Red House farm dington farm

lliHitchcock Norman, baker, Hook Phillips John, farme..: *Tuck Frederick, farmer, liighgate

*HJward WaiterS. beer retailer,Hook *Price Charles, wheelwright *Walker William, farm bailiff to G.

*Hughes Sydney, farmer, Marsh *Price George, iarmer \\-nite esq. Flaxlands

Kinehin W!rt. far.ner, Windmill east Rebbeck William, farmer *White Humphrey, farmer, :Midghall

Kinchin William Plnmnwr, farmer *Slade Hercnles, frmr.Spittleboro' fm Wilkins Henry, shoe maker

Large Charles J ames, farmer *Smith Charles, beer retailer Willis Ernest, farmer, Can coutt

*Manners Frank, farmer, Marsh farm

J:,.YNE HAM. is: s village and parish, on the road from landowners. The soil is corn brash; subsoil, sand. The
chief crops are grass and wheat. The area is 3,283 acres,
Wootton Bassett to Calne, 3t miles south-west from of which about one half is arable and the other pasture;
Wootton Bassett station on the Swindon and Bath section rateable value, £5,084; the population in 189I was I,012,
including part of Bradenstoke-cum-Clack. The popula-
of the Great Western railway, and 6 north from Calne, in tion of the ecclesiastical parish in 1891 was 626.
the Northern division of the county, Cricklade and Woot-
Littlecott, I mile south-east; Barrowend, I east; Pres~
ton Bassett union, K.ingsbridge hundred, Calne county ton, I south-east and West Tockenhem1 2 west, are
court district, petty sessional division of Cricklade, rural tithings.

deanery of Avebury (Avebury portion), archdeaconry of Parish Clerk, William 1\Iatthews.
Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The Wilts and Berks Post Office.-George Hiskins, sub-postmaster. Letters

canal passes within half a mile north of the parish. The through Chippenham at 7·50 a. m. ; dispatched at 6.5
church of St. Michael is an ancient stone edifice, in the p.m. by foot messenger to Sutton Benger. Postal
Perpendicular style~ it has a. nave, south aisle, south orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money
order & telegraph office is at Bradenstoke
porch and a low embattled tower containing 5 bells, and
Schools.
contains a monument to the Walker or Heneage family:
it was restored in 1863 by the lord of the manor and

parishioners, at a cost of nearly £3,ooo, and has 250 sit-

tings. The register dates from the year r653. The living A school, endowed by Ralph Broome, in 1716, with 25
is a vicarage, gross yearly value £147, net £140, with
residence, in the gift of Major Clement Walker-Heneage acres of land, producing about £4o .yearly. is now
V.C. and held since 1888 by the Rev. Maitland Edward merged in the National school
Snepp, of King's College, London. Charities amounting National (mixed), with residence, built in 1862, for xoo
to about £6o yearly, arising from land at Brinkworth children; average attendance, 98; Thomas Willoughby,
and Coates are distributed. Major Clement Walker- master; Mrs. Rebecca Willoughby, mistress

Heneage V.C. of Compton House, Compton Bassett,is lord Carriers to:

of the manor and principal landowner. The Earl of Radnor Devizes-Henry Simpkins, on thurs

and Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder hart. M.P. are also Swindon-Hy. Simpkins, sat.; Jas. Franklin, thurs. & sd

Marked thus * receive their lelters Freegard Samuel, farmer, Pound frm Lloyd Lorenzo Jn.agricultrl.machinst
through Wootton Bass~tt.
Freeth JohnEddolls, fal'Iller, Preston *Matthews John, farmer, Manor farm

Snl:lPP Rev. Maitland Edward (vicar) Fry Frank, farmer, Lyneham court Miffin vYilliam B. farmer, Churoh frm
Vookins EdJward, Lyne~1am house
GodiWin Da,vid, farwffi', Presto'lll Pocock Arthur, farmer, Freegrove frm
Wild Winiam J Godwin Frank, carpenter & hurdle ma *Seymour John, farm bailiff to E.

Hathway Edwin, farmer, Shaw M:mndrell esq

COMMERCIAL. Hathway Jas. White Hart P.H.& baker *Sharps Robert Joseph, farmer,

Hathway Harry, i'armer, Preston Middle Hill farm

Elli& Edgar .John, grocer & draper Hillier Fredk. bricklayer & mason Simpkins Henry, shopkeeper & carrier

l<'e•rris Moses, pig dealer Hiskins George, farmer *Wild William, agent for Major C.

*Freegard John, frmr. Tockenham crt Hodges 'Villiam Henry, farmer · vValker-Heneage, Manor house

iMADDINGTON is a parish and village, on the road acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Bishop

from Salisbury to Devizes, 6 miles north from Wishford of Salisbury, and held since 1851 by the Rev. Frederick

f!tation on the Salisbury branch of the Great Western Bennett l\l.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, canon and pre---

railway, 6 west from Amesbury and II north-west from bendary of Salisbury. The Tooker and Woodro:ffe chari-

Salisbury, in the Southern division of the county, hun- ties amount to £7 ns. 6d. yearly. There are many

dred of Branchand Dole, .Amesbury union, Salisbury ancient remains on the neighbouring downs. Leonard

oounty court district, petty sessional division of Salisbury James Maton esq. who is lord of the manor, the Dean and

and Amesbury, rural deanery of Wylye (Wylye portion), Chapter of Salisbury, Mrs. Erle-Erle Drax, J. Sandon

archdeaconry of Sarum and diocese of Salisbury ; Shrew- and John Ingram esqrs. are the principal landowners. The

ton, Rollstone and Maddington form one town, with three soil is a light loam on chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief

churches. The church of St. Mary is an ancient struc- crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 3,957

ture of flint and stone, in the Early English style, with acres; rateable value, £r,g88; the populatioru in 1891

Late Perpendicular additions, consisting of chancel, nave was 343·

of five bays, south aisle, transept and north porch, with Parish Clerk, Samuel Blake.

square embattled western tawer, with pinnacles, clock Letters received through Shrewton arrive at 7·30 & 9·3()

and 3 bells :the nave was restored and repewed in 1846 and a.m. Shrewton is the nearest money order & telegraph

the chancel rebuilt in 1852: the east and two otherwindows office

are stained: there are 100 sittings. The register dates The National School is in Shrewton

from the year 1651. The living is a vicarage, united to Carriers.-George Ketley, to Salisbury, tues. & sat.; to

Shrewton by Order in Council in 1870, average tithe rent- Devizes, thurs. ; Harry Hibberd, to Salisbury, tues.

charge £163, gross yearly value £276, net £zro, with 30 thurs. & sat

llartlett Rev. Richard Grosvenor :M..A. Pearce .Joseph John trict, Amesbury union &:, medical

(curate) COMMERCIAL. officer of health, .AmesLut-y rural

Bennett Rev. Canon Frederick. l\I.A. .Andrews Richard, farmer sanitary district ·
· (vicar & canon & prebendary of Brown James, butcher JudJ Wil~iam, photc>grapher

Salisbury), Vicarage ' Eddowes Charles, surgeon, registrar Maynard L·manna (1\lrs. ), tly proprtr

Eddowes Charles of births & deaths & medical oflicer Melsome George, farmer

Kilmister Mrs & public vaccinator, Oreheston dis- Windsor Fredt3riek, blacksmith

MAIDEN BRADLEY is a parish, on the Somerset- village runs north and south, and stands between :Bradley
t~bire border, 5 miles west from Witham station on the Knoll nnd Brinsdown. The church of Al~ Saints~ built
Bath and Yeovil section of the Great 'Vestern railway,
of stone and turreted, was founded in the reign of
7 north-west from Warminster, 6 north from Mere and 6
Richard II.: the architecture is of a mixed character,
a~outh from Frome, in thevVestern division of the county,
being the work of various times: jt has & cha:noel, nave
Warminster petty sessional division, Mere union and hun- of fr.ur bays, aisles. south porch and we~;tern tower, oE>n.ot

dred, Frome county court district, rural deanery of Wylye taining 5 bells: th'3 chancel has a stained window, subject
"The Conversion of St. Paul," the gift of th& ;r~th Duke
(Heytesbury portion), archdeaconry and diocese of Salis- ·)f Somerset: here is the tom}:> of ~he ael~bra~ed 1:li:r ~d­

bury. The Roman road from Uphill, in Somerset, to Old ward Seymonr bart. Speaker- of the llou.se of CommQns
Sarum, in this county~ is conjectured to have pursued
z:early a straight lin~ through Maiden Bracllt-y. The in 1678: the west window, representing the various

DIRECTO!lY.] WILTSHIRE. MALMESBURY. 135

of Christian charity, is to the meme:ry of l\Iichael John consisting of arable, pasture and down land; rateable
Festing esq. forty-two years resident in this parish: en value, £4,242; the population in 1891 was 6o6.

organ chamber on the north side of the chancel was added Yarnfield tithing is a. part of Maiden Bradley parish,
in 1884, at a cost of £402, defrayed by the present vicar,
and an organ built in z885, the cost raised by subscrip- although in the county <lf Somerset: it is on the north•
west part of Bradley, and is called a manor; it was once
tions: in 1884 the vestry was enlarged at the expense of
the present vicar: in 1891 the chancel was relaid with new the property of Edmund Ludlow, a. Lieutenant-General,
tiles and in 1893 a. new reredos added, the frame of oak
and the panels richly painted by Mrs. Hanson, wife of born at Maiden Bradley z6r6-17, commander of the forces
the vicar: there are 280 sittings : the railings enclosing in Ireland and one of Charles I. judges, high sheriff 1645,
and died in exile at Vevay, 1693 1 it is supposed that the
the church walk adjoining the road, were erected by the house, formerly the Somerset Arms, was once the resi-

late Duke .of Somerset. The register dates from the year dence of this family; it contains a very fine old oak fire-

r662. The living is a. vicarage, gross yearly value £185, place, beautifully carved. The area is I,!;l34 acres; rate-
net about £t6o, with 10 acres of glebe, and residence,
in the gift of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 1883 able value, £996.
by the Rev. Edward Kington Hanson M.A. of Pembroke Parish Clerk, Charles Adlam.
C<lllege, Oxford. Here is a Congregational chapel. Thomas
Taylor, by his will dated September 14th, 1621, left £150, Post, M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insura.nce Office.-
and Mrs. Brent, by her will, about the year 1797, £roo, Alfred Holbrook, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from
now producing £8 ros. which is distributed in fuel and Bath & are delivered at 5·45 a.. m. & 7 p.m.; dispatched
at 8.10 p.m.; sundays at 8.10 p.m. The nearest tale-
clothing. In a valley to the north-east there was formerly graph office is at Horningsham

a priory, also an hospital for poor leprous females, ad- National School (mixed), with residence for master; fol'

joining the church, founded in the reign of King Stephen; 1:30 children; average attendance, 94; James Henry

the portion of the old priory remaining is now used as a :Matthews, master. This has been enlarged & improved
stable. A fine fountain, in stone, was erected in 1891 by
the 14th Duke of Somerset. Bradley House, a stone at a cost of £320
edifice, close to the church, is the seat of the Duke of
Carriers.
Somerset, who is lord of the' manor, and owns the whole Hooper, from Mere, passes through to Frome, mon. re-
parish with a trifling exception. The soil is sandy loam;
subsoil, chalk and greenstone. The chief crops are wheat, turning same day
Mees, from Zeals to Frome, mon. & wed. returning-
oats, barley with pasturage. The area is 3,308 acres,
same days
Francis Ta.yler, from Maiden Bradley to Frome, wed. &

t!lat; to Warminster, sat. returning same days

Meedon, from Deverill to Frome, wed. returning same day-

SO!II1erset Duke of, Bradlley house; & Carder Thomas, clerk of works to thl' Jefferys Stephen,farmer, Newmead fro

Army & Navy & Wellington clubs, Duke of Somerset . Jefferys Alfred H. farmer,Church fm

London SW Compton Hy. Jas. farmer, l'nory frm Loclc~ William, Somerset Arms P.H

Groom George Dewdney Thomas, carpenter Matthews Frederick C. 6state office

Hanson Rev. Edward Kington ~LA. Doman Alfred & Sons, timber & coal Miles Stephen, butter & poultry dealer·

(vicar), Vicarage merchants Salvidge Harriett (Mrs.), Kates Bench

Hartopp A. 'V Doman Joseph, ~oal dealer & haulier farm

coMMERCIAL. Dyke 'Vm.frmr.Grange f:rm.r arnfleld Salvidge Henry C. farmer, Kates

Baker Henry J. blacksmith Golton George, 15amekl'.leper to the Bench farm

Beaven Stephen, fa,·mer, :Manor farm, Duke of Som~r;;et Tayler Francis, carrier

Farmfield Harding Jas.Allen,frmr.Rodmend frm Vallis Thos. Henry, farmer, Perry fro

Bradley Stores (S~ph.Gibbons,mngr.), Hartopp A. W. steward to the Duke Walton John & Co. general warehouse-.

grocers, tea :lealel'S, drapers, out• of Somerset men; & at Mere & Sedghill. See

fitters &c Hughes Caroline (Mrs.), haker advertisement

1\:IALMESBUI{Y,

\V IT H W E 8 T P 0 R T S T. l\1 A R Y..

MALMESBURY is an ancient municipal borough, market \ or King's Heath, given to the inhabitants by Athelstan,.

town and parish, and the head of a county court district and containing over soo acres, inclosed under the pro-

and petty sessional division, with a terminal station on visions of an Act of Parliament passed in 1821, according

a branch from Dauntsey of the Great Western railway, to which every freeman in the borough is entitled to

and is IO miles north from Chippenham, 11 south~west possess one allotment, and every capital burgess a plot

from Cirencester, 5 south-east from Tetbury, and 92 of from 8 to 15 acres; the highest part of the common

from London, in the North ·western division of the is called Shade Hill.

county, :Malmesbury hundred, rural deanery of :Malmes- The hr1rongh comprised three parishes, the Abbey dis-

bury, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester trict, St. Paul's and St. Mary 1Vestport.

and Bristol. The town is pleasantly situated on a bold lly an Order of the County Couro.cll, rlaled July roth,

eminence, and nearly surrounded by the converging 1894, the two latter parishes were altered and made

branches of the Lower Avon, over which there are six into four parishes, being called St. Paul's Within ancl

bridges: it consists of one principal street, called High St. Paul's Without, St. Mary's Westport Within and St.

street, crossed at the top by Oxford street and Glou- Mary's 1Vestport Without.

caster street, leading to Westport St. Mary. 'lhe abbey church of St. Mary and St. Aldhelm occu-

The borough was incorporated by King Athelstan, and pies a fine site on the crest of a hill or elevated plateau

was formerly governed, under a charter of William Ill. ' north of the town, and, as now standing, consists only of

by a high steward, an alderman and 12 capital burgesses, six bays of the nave and north aisle, and seven bays of

but under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations the south aisle, with the south porch: the central and

Act, I883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 18), it received a new western towers have been destroyed, but in the church-

Charter of Incorporation in July, r885, and is now ·yard is a detached tower, with spire, originally belong-

governed by a mayor, 4 aldermen and 12 councillors, ing to the removed church of St. Paul, and containing a

who also act as the Urban Sanitary Authority: the clock and 5 bells: of the eastern portion of the church,

borough returned two members to ihe Parliament rf including the transept, nothing now remains, save three

1295 and 1298-9, and continued to do so, with some of the piers of the central tower, and a fragment of

Iinterruptions, until the passing of the " Reform Act, the west wall of the south transept: the three western

1832," by which the number was reduced to one, and bays of the nave have also entirely disappeared, with the
by the "Redistribution of Seats Act, r885," (48 & 49 exception of a part of the south-west angle, including

Vict. c. 23), the representation was merged into that of ' three stages of an arcaded stair turret: the existing

the county. The town is lighted with gas, from works portion of the nave has arcades of pointed arches, with

belonging to the Malmesbury Gas & Coke Co., and is bold but plain moldings, carried on cylindrical piers, 5

supplied with water by the Malmesbury Water Works feet in diameter, with scalloped capping: the triforium

Co. Limited. consists in each bay of one large semi-circular arch, on

The town was twice burnt by the Danes, and during dwarf shafts, apd enriched with zigzag molding, and

the Civil War, in the time of Charles I. was garrisoned er:closing an arcade of four small arches: the clerestory

for the King. who visited it, remaining one night~ in is Decorated, and has an elegant traceried window of

1643 : .aoutl).w~;st of the town is Malmesbury Common, three lights in each bay ; the roof is vaulted, the prin-

136 M!LMESBURY. WILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S

cipal ribs springing from the base of the clerestory, erected in 1886, seats 400 persons, and has a school..

which, as well as the triforium, has a mural passage: room adjoining.
projecting from the triforium, at the fourth bay from The Cemetery at Westport, of 2! acres, was formed
the present east end is a square watching loft, of Late in r884 at a cost of £2,ooo, including a mortuary

Perpendicular date, with plain square windows and a chapel, and a house for the keeper: it is under the

battlemented cresting: the east end of the nave, now control of a Burial Board of 12 members.

bailt up, includes the western piers and semi-circular The Town Hall is a plain rectangular building. The

arch of the crossing, and across it stands the stone municipal insignia comprise tW(>· pairs of maces and four

rood screen, also of Late Perpendicular date, and II ft. borough seals. The earlier pair, dating from about

6 in. in height: it has a central doorway, now blocked, 1645, are of silver parcel-gilt and have plain shafts,

and an embattled cornice, enriched with the royal arms with beaded bands in the centre and at the foot, and

of Henry VI. the pomegranate, rose, and portcullis also seal-shaped foot knops, engraved with the borough

badges, and the Stafford knot; and above is hung a arms: the heads are semi-globular, and their surfaces

large painting of " The Raising of Lazarus," presented are divided by plain vertical bands into four spaces,

by the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire : the easternmost ornamented with the national emblems: surrounding

bay of the nave now forms a presbytery, with prayer the flat tops, on which are the royal arms of the

desk on the north and pulpit on the south side, under Stuarts, is a cresting, and an open arched crown sur-

a sounding board : the corresponding bays of the aisles, mounted by an orb and cross. The latter pair, pre-

enclosed by traceried screens, form chapels or vestries, sented in 1703 by Thomas Boucher and Edward Paunce-

and that on the south side has, between it and the fort esqs. representatives of the borough in Parliament,

presbytery, a panelled altar tomb, bearing a robed were made at that date by Francis Garthorne, and are

effigy, crowned, the head resting under an elaborately of silver-gilt : the shafts, engraved with a spiral vine

wrought canopy, and the feet on a lion; this tomb _is pattern, have encircling beaded bands in the centre and

commonly known as that of King Athelstan, but it is at the base, and large spreading foot knops bearing the

said that the head of the figure, and that of the lion, are names and arms of the donors, and the arms of the

· later than the rest of the work: in the northern chapel town: scrolled brackets support the heads, which are

is a mural monument to Thomas Stumpe, d. 1698, and adorned with foliaged winged figures. royal badges, and

some specimens of am:ient floor tiles, recovered from the the initials A. R. and have a cresting of crosses and

site of the choir: the present western bay of the church fleurs-de-lis, and open-arched crowns with orb and cross.

is crossed by a gallery, in which the organ now stands, Of the four seals, the earliest, of the r6th or 17th cen-

and ·under it is the font: the oak seats are panelled, and tury, is of brass, and bears the arms of the borough and

exhibit the well known " linen " pattern; the ends are a legend, and the others are similar.

richly-carved with scroll ornament,and have carved peppy The market is held on the third Wednesday in every

heads: the south porch includes the original Norman month for cattle.

porch and the later Decorated work enclosing it; the In the old Market place is an octagonal stone market

former is deeply recessed, and its various orders are cross, built in the reign of Henry VII. with flying

completely covered with carved work of the most elabo- buttresses and pinnacles, surmounted by an octagonal

rate character; three of these illustrate, within a series turret, richly sculptured, and surrounded with niches

of vesica-shaped spaces formed by intertwining fillets, all containing figures in bas relief, one of which repre-

the principal events narrated in the Old and New Tes- sents the " Crucifixion;" the cross was restored in 1883

tament, from the "Creation" to the "Pentecost;" and at an expense of £140, raised by subscriptions, £wo

the minor orders are adorned with fl.oriated and inter- being given by the lord of the manor.

laced patterns; the inner doorway itself is similarly There are branches here of the Capital and Counties

treated, and has a highly enriched tympanum, with a Bank Lim. and the Wilts and Dorset Banking Co. Lim.

figu;re of Our Lord in Majesty, and attendant angels, There are two breweries and a silk manufactory.

and on the right is a holy water stoup; the intervening Pillow lace is still made here, though not so extensively

porch, 17 by 12 feet, is arcaded, and has on each side as formerly. There are three good hotels, the " King's

seated figures, with angels above them : the exterior Arms," the "Bell," and the "George," and a tem-

walls of the aisles retain portions of the interlaced perance hotel.

Norman arcading which ran along between the but- The B Squadron Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry

tresses, and below the windows: most of the Norman and the A Company of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion,

windows remain, but one bay in the north aisle and two Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment) have their

in the south aisle have been filled with large Decorated head quarters in the town.

windows, containing tracery of singular design; and the The Police Station is in Gastons lane, and the Fire

bay on the north side is also gabled and vaulted: an Brigade Station in Ingram street.

elegant pierced p-arapet surmounts all the walls and is The Cottage Hospital, near the Market Cross, was

continued round the porch, which has a stair turret <:.n erected in 1893, at a cost of £1,2oo, and is supported by

the east side and double buttresses at the angles : the public subscription. It contains 5 beds, and has already

pinnacles and flying buttresses rising above the aisles (1895) benefited 43 persons, 31 in-patients and 12 our-

were added on the reconstruction of the clerestory and patients.

the vaulting of the nave : the present west wall, built The Charities given by order of the Corporation of

up at the third bay from the original west front, is Malmesbury, June 22, 1629, comprise £2o ss. yearly

pierced by a large window of six lights, flanked by issuing out of the lands of the burgesses, £ro yearly

strong buttresses: the church was repaired in 1822-3, for the support of a free school, and £xo for maintain-

and affords r,roo sittings. The register, which is in ing poor widows in an almshouse. Robert Arch left, by

good preservation, dates from 1590. The living is a will, in 1634, two houses, gardens and 11 acres of land

vicarage, with the vicarage of St. Mary W estport annexed, at Lea and Malmesbury, the rents of which are to he

joint gross yearly value £5oo, net £324, in the gift of applied for the good of the borough. Henry Grayle, l•f

the trustees of the late Rev. Charles Kemble and the Malmesbury, left by deed of trust £ro yearly issuing

Lord Chancellor, and held since 1874 by the Rev. George from an estate at Somerford Magna, for apprenticing

Windsor Tucker M.A. of Trinity College, Oxford, and poor children of Malmesbury. Michael ·weeks left in

surrogat.t~. 1695 a farm house and 48 acres of land at Somerford,

The church of St. Mary Westport is a building of £ro for support of burgesses' school, £ro for the sup-
stone in mixed styles, and consists of chancel, nave, port of almshouses, and £t to the vicar for preaching
aisles, south porch, and a western turret containing one an annual sermon. Elizabeth Hodges, of Shipton Moyne,
bell : the nave is divided from the aisles by an arcade of left in 1723 £3o yearly from estates at Leonard Stanley,
six arches : there are 230 sittings. The register dates Cam, Stinchcombe and Berkeley, Glos.; the Court d
Chancery, in 1730, ordered that a new school should be
from the year 1678.
established wherein 15 boys, being children of poor
The Catholic chapel, dedicated to St. Aldhelm, in parents in Malmesbury, should be educated, and also
Cross Hayes, was built in 1875, and has 120 sittings.
assigned £ro for the benefit of poor housekeepers in
The Congregational church at Westport St. Mary, re- Malmesbury not receiving alms. Joseph Cullurne, in
built at a cost of £2,ooo, has ·sittings for soo persons; 1764, left £20 yearly from an estate at Cleverton, to be
attached is a vestry and a schoolroom holding 400
children. shared as follows :-£ro a year to the poor of Malmes-

The Congregational church at Westport St. :!\Iary, re- bury, £5 yearly to the poor of Westport, and £x yearly

to the poor of Burton Hill, to be distributed on the tst
stored in 1885, at a cost of over [300, and has 350 of January in sums not exceeding ss. to each family, £t
sittings.
for an annual sermon at the abbey on the 12th of

The Calvinistic Baptist chapel, Abbey row, erected in March, £x for a dinner for the trustees on same day,

1802, will seat 170. The Primitive Methodist chapel, xos. to the distributor of this benefaction and £t ros.

Bristol street, was erected in 1856, and seats 130 per- to Sarah Hughes ; this last-named sum is now divided

sons. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Oxford street, between the above three parishes. Ann Rowles, of

DIRECTORY.) WILTSHIRE. MALMESBURY. 137

Malmesbury, left in 1774 £10o £3 per Cent. Consols, • now in use is about 95 feet long. The monastic build-

two-thirds of the interest to be paid yearly to the ings were on the north side, and the vaulted doorway

churchwardens of Malmesbury, and to be given by them leading from the east end of the north aisle into the
t-o the poor on Good Friday, and one-third to the 1, cloister is still extant, and retains its Norman arch,

churchwardens of Westport, to be distributed in like with later additions: but of the buildings themselves

manner. Edmund Wayte, of Malmesbury, in r66r, left nothing now remains, save an undercroft forming the

I£4 yearly, issuing out of Canopps mill, Malmesbury, £2 base of a Tudor house, standing north-east of the church.
to be given to the poor of l\Ialmesbury, £r to the poor I The ihistorian, William Df !Malmes'bury, born in Somer•
of Burton Hill, and £r to the poor of Westport. William setshire, c. 1095, was precentor of the a.bbey chureh,
.Arnold, of Bristol, left by will, 1778, £400 to purchase I and died here in 1142 or II43· The celebrated! philo-

stock in Government funds; and accordingly in 1785 sopher, Thomas Ho'blbes, was born here, r5 .April, rs88,

£576 r2s. rod. capital stock of Reduced £3 per Cent. and the house in which he is supp-osed to ihave resided

Annnities were purchased, and the interest is distri- is still standing near the Westpor.t church :he died at

buted in bread to the poor of Malmesbury at the dis- J:lardwick Ha:l, Derbyshire, 4 Dec. r67'9, at the age of

cretion of the trustees. 91, and in the church of .Ault HucknaH, Derbyshire,

The Benedictine Abbey of Malmesbury is said to have where he was buried, there is a tomb tD his ~emory.

been founded in the 6th century, by Aldhelm, bishop of Mary :Chandler, a poetess, was also lborn here m r687,
and died at ~ath, II S~t. I745·
Sherborne 705-9, on the site of a cell established here ..
by Marldulph, a Scottish missionary, whose pupil he had The tCYWn g-1ves the title o~ Earl to .the 'Harns fam1ly.
b~en; it was afterwards richly endowed by the Saxon ·Oole 'Pa~k IS the ·S~at of V1scount Trafalgar D.L., J.P.

kmgs, and especially by .Athelstan King of England The ma nNsowrbnhswtaicnkdsismlaa~yp_aorfkthoef 47 acres. MalmeSJbury
925-40, who gave to the abbey both lands and many Lady manor of
valuabl.e relics: King John in I2I5 gave to Abbot Loring and vVe:stport. The l?rmcipal landowners are ~he Earl
of tSuffolk and Berkshire, the Earl of Radnm, .Sir R. ~·
the ·Castle of Malmesbury to furnish materials for works

then in progress, and in the same century the abbot Pollen bart. of Rodbourne, Audley Lovell esq. and Damel .

received the mitre. Bishop Aldhelm, on his death, was Beak esq.

brought from Sherborne, and here interred, and King The area uf .Malmesbury is 5,142, and Westport 4,341

Athelstan was buried before the high altar .A. D. 940. acres; ra.tealble values, MalmeSibury £II,I67; .Abbey,

At the Dissolution there were 22 monks, and revenues £622; vVestport St. Mary, £4,631; the population of

estimated at £8o3 yearly; the buildings were then sold the municipal borough in r891 was 2,964, which includes

for £r,5oo to William Stumpe, a wealthy clothier, who St. Paul Within, 1,229; Malmesbury .Abbey parish, Il9;

pulled down the eastern portion of the church, but pre- Westport St. Mary Within, 1,555; and Brokenborough

sented the remainder to the inhabitants for a parish Within, 6r.

church; the building appears to have been originally Burton Hill, or Bourton Hill, is a bithinO' and suburb

somewhat over 300 feet _in lengt~, an~ had a central of Malmes~ury; Milbourn, a suburb arndl t~thing, nor.th-

tower, 40 feet square, with a spue smd to have been east; Whitohuroh, half a mile north; Hyam, r! miJe;s

21 feet higher than that of Salisbury: there was also a west; Hallcombe and .Ar·ches, ha1f a mile s·outih · Cra•b

tower of equal dimensions at the west end, built over Mill, I mile east; tCowlbridge, r mile south-east;' Thorn

tile first two bays of the nave; the total interior len~th Hill, r mile .south-west

of the nave, when perfect, was 150 feet; the portwn Parish Clerk of St. Paul, Mrs. William Croom.e.
•

OFFIOIAL ESTABLIS'HMIJ'JNTS, LOCAL INS.TITUTIONS &c.

Post, 'M. 0. & T. 0., S. B.,. Express Delivery & Insuranc-e Clerk to the Magistrates, William Stephens Jones,

& .Annuity Office.-l\iis.s iRuth Bartlett, postmistress High street
Maih arrive at 4.40 a.m. I& at 12. ro noon & 6.20 p.m.
Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall the first tuesday
!The rst delivery of letters commences at 7 a.m., the in each month, at 12 noon. The .following places are
included in t<he Petty !Sessional division : .Alderton,
2nd at r p.m. ·& 3rd at 6.30 p.m.; on sundays at 7 Ashley, Brinkworth, Brokenborough Within & Without,
only Charlton, Orudwell, Dauntsey, Easton Grey, I•'oxley,
Garsdon, Hankerton, Hullavington, Kemble, Lea &
• Cleverton, Long Newnton, Luckington, Malmesbury,
.Abbey, St. Paul's MaJmesbury Within & St. Paul's
The box closes for the dispatch o.f letters as follows:- Without, Minety, Norton, Oaksey, Poole Keynes, Siler-
rst dispatch to London & South, 8.3s I& 10.40 a.m.; ston Magna, Sherston Parva, Somerford Magna, Somer-
tNorth & •South post, 2.3s p.m.; a:l parts, 6.30 p.m.; ford Parva, Sopworth, Wl'stport Within & Westport
•last dispatch to London & all parts, 8.30 p.m. with Without

extra stamp till 8.40, but letters for all the villages in- CORPORATION.
cluded in the Malmesbury postaJ dlistrict may ibe posted
r894-9S ·
at any hour of :the night until 5 a.m. next morning

& those for Tet'bury till Io p.m

Wall Letter Boxes, Bristol street, cleared, 10.20 a.m

r·2. rs p.m. 2.25, '5. 5o & 8 p.m. ; !:Ln"ai·1wary st at"wn, ro. rs

a.m. 12.20 & 2.30 p.m. 5·45 t& 8. ro p.m. ; Burton Rill,

ro.3o a.m. 12.20, 2.30, 5·45 & 7·45 p.m Mayor, Councillor Joseph Moore.
Parcels Post. rs•t dispatch of parce1s 8.23 & 10.30 a.m.; Deput·y Mayor, .Alderman Henry Garlick.

2nd 2.25 p.m. ; 3rd 6.30 p.m. ; t& 4th 8 p.m. rst de- IAldermen.
~ "11" F
livery 7 a.m. ; 2nd r p.m.; & 3rd 6.30 p.m +J p oo1e WI Iam orrester
Money Orders are granted & paid! from 9 to 6; saturdays , oseph Henry Garlick

until 8 p.m. Po:stal Notes until 9 p.m. The hours I tJohn Alexander

for savings bank business are the same Counci:Iors.

The Telegraph business iSJ conducted ibet<Ween the hours *Henry Jones 4fCharles Miller

Qf 8 a.m. & 8 p.m.; on ·sundays ifrom 8 to ro a.m *Jacob Jefferies ~William Woodman

The post office ci.s closed at 9 p.m. every evening; & on· *Thomas L. Hinwood tAyliffe Pearce Bishop

sund-a.y~ at 10 a.m *Josepil Moore tHenry Farrant

OOUXTY MAGIS'I"RAJI"ES FOR M.ALM!ESBURY PETTY I ~William ~onting tFrederick Ball
tJohn Gee Bartlett
S'ESSIONIAL DIVISIO~. ~rank Pnce

Marked thus * retire in r895.

Suffolk & Berkshire Earl of, ChaTlton park, Malmesbury, Marked thus ~ re~ire in r896.
· Marked thus :t: retire in 1897.
chairman

Meux Sir Henry Bruce bart. Dauntsey Manor house, Marked thus t retire in r89-8.
Ma.rkoo .tihus § retire in 1gor.
Chippenham
PD:len Sir R:d· Hungerford 1bart. Rod>bourne, Malmesbury
Trafalgar Vlscount, D.L. Cole park, Ma~es-bury . Mayor's .AuditQr, Ayliffe Pearce BishDp.

Elective .Auditors, R. W. Look1stone & W. T. Clark.
B~tt Rev. Walt. Wm. Arthur M..A. Th~ Vicarage, Mmety ' The Corporation meet at tlhe Council chambers, Silver

Hmwoo.d Thoma_s L. esq. Malmesbury street, on the second tuesday in every month at rr a.m.
Luce C~a~les Rlch~.rd esq. Halcombe, M~lmesbury The quarterly meetings are held at the same time &
L~ce 1VIll.Iam Holhs esq. :r'he Knoll, MB: mesbury
iMiles MaJor Charles Napu~r, Burton Hill, Malmesbury place except in March & November, when the meet-
PoblloeunrOneh,arMlae~smJeDslhbnuHryungerford esq. The Orchards, Rod- ings are on MarCih rst & November gth

. •.

Officers of the 'Corporabion & Urban Samtary Authonty.

Smith Thomas Gra!ham esq. Easton Grey, Malmesbury Town Clerk & Clerk to the Urban Sanitary .Authority,

TurnQr Col. iWyatt Willia.m, Pinkney park, Malmes-bury Montagu Henry Ohutblb, Cross Hayes

Sotmeron-Estcourt George Thomas John esq. D.L. Deputy Town Clerk, Alfred W. Ohubb, Cross Hayes

Estcourt. Tetbury Treasurer, Henry Hewer, High street