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Book; Hyde farm is also mentioned. One of the Saxon at 6.45 p.m. ; sundays, 6 p.m. Postal orders are issued queens was called Elfl.eda of Domerham, or Damer'ham. here, but not paid. The nearest money order office is Parish aerk, George Tiller. at Rockbourne National School (mixed), built in r857; for 120 children; Post &; T. Offi.ce.-G. Staples, sub-postmaster. Letters average attendance, ror; W. Douglass, master arrive from Salisbury at 6 a.m. & 3.50 p.m.; delivered Carriers to Salisbury.-Hy. Vincent & Waiter Jerrard, at 7 a. m. in summer & 7.30 a.m. in winter; dispatched tues. & sat. returning same days Berney .Algernon H Coombs Waiter, farmer, Court farm Staples Mary (Mrs.), dress maker Bruce Ernesb K. The Cottage Elliott George, farmer,Lopshill & Hyde Stevens Sydney, farmer, Bowlesbury Owen Rev. William M.A. Vicarage Holman Clara (Mrs.), Compasses inn Taylor David, farmer, Knoll far~ W allis \Villiam Ingra.uu William. ins-urance agent Tiller Francis, sooe maker Jerrn.rd Waiter, carrier Tiller George, wheelwrigh~ COMMERCIAL. Marsh John & Sons, grocers & bakers Tiller Philip, shopkeeper Berney Algernon H. agent to Eyre Nation Thomas (Mrs.), dresSI maker Vincent Henry, carrier Ooote esq Percy John & Charles, blacksmiths Wallis William, fa.rmer & auctioneer Britten Gwrge, shopkt-eper & farmer Read Charles, farmer, Lopshill farm Whlte Geu. beer retailer & blacksmith Bush Abraham, wood dealer Scamell James, miller (water) & frmr White George jun. farmer CoJ.Iborne Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer Staples Geo. shoe maker, Post office EAST DEAN is a parish on the Wiltshire border ot Rev. John Passmore May M.A. of St. John's College, the county, r mile east from West Dean station on the Cambridge, who resides at Lockerley. The Rev. Edward Salisbury branch of the South Western railway and 7 Stephen Williams M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford, has north-west from Romsey, in the New Forest division of been curate in charge since r862, and resides rut· West Dean. the county, Romsey union, petty sessional division and The Hon. Henry Dugdale Curzon M.A., D.L., J.P. of county court district, Thorngate hundred, rural deanery East Dean House, who is lord of the manor, and Capt. of RomSily and archdeaconry and diDcese of Winchester. William Henry' Baring, Holbury was anciently a ture, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, manor of itself, and was given by Edward VI. to Queen nave, north porch, and a wooden belfry at the west Elvina. Many Roman relics, have been found here. The end containing one bell: the church was restored soil is loam and clay; suihsDil, chalk and clay. The in r8g5, at a cost of £360, and affords go sit- chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is tings. The register dates from the year r682; pre- r,o73 acres; rateable value, £r,6Br; the population in vious to this date it was included with the register r8gr was rg6. of St. John's, Lockerley. By an Order in Council (Dec. Parish Clerk, Henry Gambling. 1884) the chapelries of Lockerley and East Dean were Letters are received through Salisbury at 8 a.m. The separated from the parish of Mott'isfont, and together nearest money order & telegraph office is at Lockerley, constituted a separate parish, perpetual curacy and r mile distant benefice, named "The Perpetual Curacy of Lockerley Wall Letter Box cleared at B a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; sun- with East Dean." The living is a chapelry, annexed to day, 8 a.m the rectory of Lockerley, joint net yearly value School (mixed), built in 1855, for 6o children; average £2ro, with 3! acres of glebe, in the gift of Capt. F • .T. attendance, 2~; is supported by voluntary contribu- Dalgety, of Lockerley Hall, and held since 1893 by the tions; Mrs . .Annie Jerrett, mistress }larked thus * receive their lett~rs COMMERCIAL. Langridge Edwin Jas. assist. overseer through Roms-ey. *Clark George Ernest, coal dealer Langridge Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), frmr *Cox Thomas, Dean gate *Coornbs Newton, practical cycle en- Langridge William Thomas, brewer, Curzon the Hon. Henry Dugdale M . .A., gineer, agent & repairer beer retailer, mall;ste·r & farmer J.P., D.JJ. East Dean house *Fmch Joseph, fanner, Dean gate Lavington James Arnold, farmer Jerrett Mrs Hodges John Isaac, frmr. Park faiM1fim *White Edwin Charles Richard, miller Parkinson The Misses Jerrett Tom Robert, farmer (water) & farmer, Holbury mlll PRIOR'S DEAN is a parish 5 miles north-west from r a font provided; further restorations were carried out Petersfield and 4 north-west from Liss station on the m r884: there are 8o sittings: in the churchyard is a direct Portsmouth line of the London and South Wes- large box tree and a yew tree. The register dates from tern railway, in the Eastern division of the county, 1538. The benefice is a chapelry, annexed to the rectory hundred of East Meon, Petersfield petty sessional divi- of Oolmer, joint net income £rso, with 26 acres of glebe, sion, union and county court district, and in the rural in the gift of and held since 1852 by the Rev. Thomas deanery of Petersfielu and archdeaoonry and diocese of Hervey' M . .A. of Clare College, Cambridge, who resides Winchester. The neighbouring scenery is wild and ro- at Calmer. Goleigh Farm is the property of Winchester mantic. The church (name unknown) is a small but College. The manor (some particulars of which are ancient building of stone in the Norman and Early given under Colmer) and nearly the whole of the parish English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, belong to Sir Henry Alfred Joseph Tichborne hart. J.P., and a belfry containing 2 bells: the fabric retains a Nor- D.L. The old Manor House was once the seat of the man doorway: on the north side of the chancel is a Tichborne family. The soil varies from a stiff clay to tomb of marble and alabaster with kneeling effigies, to very light soil; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat Elizabeth Tichborne and her children; and on the south and oats. The area is r,5g6 acres of arable land; rateable side a monument with busts, to Sir John Compton, value, .f.6r5; the population in rBgr was II3. knighted by James I. in 1625, and Dame Bl'idget his Parish Clerk, Elijah Kemp. wife, 1634, erected by their grandson Tichborne Compton Letters through Petersfield arrive at 8 a.m. The nearest esq. to whom the're is likewise a monument with bust; money order & telegraph office is at Petersfield, a dis- he died in r657: the chancel also retains a brass to John tance of 5 miles Compton and Joan his wife, r6o5: the church was\ The children of this place attend Colmore & Hawkley restored in r857, when a new chancel arch was built and schools Brown Charlotte (::'lfrs. ), Wmte Hlorsej Mundy Phoobe Emma (Mrs.), farme:;:o, J Kemp John, cow keeper P.H. & .shopkeeper Manor farm WEST DEAN is a parish, partly in Hants but principally in Wilts, and particulars will be found in Kelly's Directory of the latter county.

DEANE is a parish and pleasant village, on the 1 the church was reseated in r865, and in 1895 various im­ road from Basing-stoke to 1Yhitchurch, 2 miles east provemPnts were made, at a total cost of £45o; and it from Overton station and Il south-west from Oakley now affords 100 sittings. The register dates from the station on the Andover and Salisbury branch of the year r65g. The livin~ is a rectory, net yearly value £2oo, South Western railway, and 6 wed from Basingstoke, in with 76 acves of glebe, and residence, in the gift of W. the .Northern division of the county, Basingstoke union, W. B. Beach esq. and held since r893 by the Rev. William petty sessional division and county -court district. Over- Francis Dashwood Lang M. A. of Wadham Colleg-e, Ox­ ton hundred, rural deanery of Basingstoke and arch- ford. The fathor of Miss Jane Austen the authoress deaconry and diocese of \Vinchester. The church of .All was rector of Deane for some years. W. Bramston left Saints, rebuilt in r8r8, is a small edifice, consisting d in 1826 J:n yearly for the ornamental repairs of this chancel and nave, south porch and a western em battled church. There is a charge on the manor of .A she of tower with 4 pinnac!es containing 5 bells: the east about £7o yearly for the support of two aged persons window contains Belgian g-lass: there are monuments to of this parish in the almshouse at Basingstoke. There the Bramston, Wither and Harwood families and others: is also a clothing charity for this and the adjoining