60 CHERHILL. . (KELLY'S by the Rev. Septimus Firman Th.Assoc. K.C.L. On was 259. The area of the ecclesiastical , which the side of a chalk hill in this parish is the figure of was enlarged by Order in Council, August 14, r879, by a horse, 157 feet long, cut out of the tulf, and executed the addition of a portion of parish, is 2,021 acres,. in r7So under the direction and at the expense of with a population in rgor of 320. Christopher Allsop esq. an eminent surgeon of Calne, Oldborough, r mile south, was a British encampmen•~ and being on the highest land between London and subsequently occupied and enlarged by the Saxona; Bath it is visible at the distance of between 20 and Labour-in-Vain Hill is half a mile west; Marsh Lane, 30 miles; there are several sin1ilar figures in the half a mile north-west. county : on the hill is a column, 125 feet high, erected by Parish Clerk, Stephen Clifford. Henry, 3rtl Marquess of Lansdowne, to commemorate Post Office.-Alan J ames RawLngs, sub·postmaster. the birth of H.M. the Ki•g as Prince of Wales, 9 Nov. Letters through Calne arri\'e at 7·'5 a.m. ""0.5 p.m. ~ r84r. )iajor Godfrey C. Wallier-Heneage M.V.O. who dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 7·45 p.m. No mail on sun­ is lord of the manor, and the .Marquess of Lansdowne days. The nearest money order office is at Calne, & K.G., P.C., G.C.M.G. are the principal landowners. Yatesbury, 2 miles distant, the nearest telegraph The soil is chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are office wheat and oats. The area of the is r,847 Elementary School (mixed), built in r847, for 83 chil­ acres; rateable value, £1,458; the population in rgor [ dren; a'\·erage attenUauce, 54; ).frs. Griffin, mi~tress Finnan Rev. Septimus A.K.C.L. Grose James, farmer, )lanor farm & Rawlings William, farmer, Upper frm Rectory Elm Tree farm Rumming Ernest, farmer Pottow William, shopkeeper & farmer Scott Henry, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Rawlinj!s Alan J ames, shopkeeper & Smith John, mason to .Major Walker­ postm<~ster Heneage Barter John, farmer 'Rawlings Edwrl. farmer, Lower farm Stephens Henry, farmer, Mill farm Croker George Jas, 111ack Hor;:e P.H. Rawlings Harry, assistant overseer Woodward Stephen, farmer,Whyre fm Duck Isaac Strong, farmer,Bell farm 1 Rawlings Reginald, mealman is a parish r! miles from held for this and the neighbouring villages of , West Lavingtun station, on the London and Weymouth Coulston, Edington, Tinhead and Mars ton: George S. A. line, and si south from station, of the Great Watson-Taylor esq. of Edestoke park, president. Towns­ Western railway, in the Eastern division of the county, end's charity of £8 yearly, derived from land in the hundred of Swanborough, D~vizes petty sessional divi- parish of Easterton, is for clothing and bread. Towns­ sion, union and county court district-, rural deanery of end's educational charity of £6 yearly, derived from Potterne (Potterne portion), archdeaconry of Wilts and invested funds and land in this parish and Marston, is diocese of Salisburv. The church of St. Peter is an now applied in providing prizes for scholars of the Sunday ancient edifice of stone, mainly in the Early English and school and day school. The Manor House, an ancient Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north structure in good preservation, has an interesting de­ transept, south porch, and an embattled western tower, \ached courthouse with cells underneath: it is now the with turret, containing 5 bells and an ancient clock, re- 1 residence of Mrs. Bayntun Starky- George S. A. Wat­ modelled in r897 in commemoration of the late Queen's son-Taylor esq. of Erlestoke Park, is lord of the manor Diamond Jubilee: in the chancel is an ancient piscina and and principal landowner. The soil throughout the parish two small deeply splayed lancets, filled with stained glass is variable, producing good crops of grain and roots; sub­ in memory of the Rev. Edward Gwmer, rector of this soil, green sand. The area is 1,845 acres; rateable parish for 20 years, and who died in 1883: there is a value, £2,or8; the population in rgor was 376. handsome marble monument in the north transept to Sexton, William Orchard. James Townsend, d. '750, and wife; and a tablet in Post Ollice.-Herbert John Batchelor, sub-postmaster. the nave to Sir James Stonehouse hart. d. 1795: the Letters through Littleton Panell S.O. arrive at 6.50 transept was repaired in 16gg, and the church restored a.m. & 4·45 p.m.; dispatched at 8.35 a.m. & 7 p.m. and reseated in r868 at a cost of about £soo; it has Erlestoke, r~ mil<>s distant, is the nearest money 158 sittings. The register dates from the year r633. The order & telegraph office living is a rectOTy, net yearly value £rgs, with 339 acres Elementary School (mixed), built in r844 & subsequently of ~le be and residence, in the gift of trustees. and beld enlarged, for roo children; average attendance, 66 ~ since r8g2 by the Rev. John Henry Burn Assoc.K.C.L. ::O.liss Honora K. Hemswell, mistress Here is a Baptist chapel; in July, '90?· a site was Carriers to Devizes-DaYid Wheeler, thurs. from Edisg- Mcured for a new chapel. .A.n annual flower show is ton & Isaac Whiting, thurs. from the village Burn Rev. John Henry A.K.C.L. The Chap man James, farmer Reynolds J ames, The Bell inn Rectorv Colemnn Jas. )files, grocer & farmer Rogers Edward, cheese ma. & farmer Dutch Miss, Glebe farm Dean Hugh, farmer Self Edward, market gardener Pearce William, Ashleigh villa /Dunford Geoffrey, millwright Self Harry, millwright Starky ::O.lrs. Bayntun, Manor house Gilbert Edward, market gardener Turner Alhert, farmer Lancaster William, bell manufacturer Whiting Abraham, farmer COMMERCIAL. for 'beep & cattle Whiting Isaac, farmer & carrier Batchelor William, shopkeeper I Price Edward, farmer, Manor farm

LITTLE CHEVERELL is a parish, r mile west­ .).Ielksham, and held since r868 by the Rev. William south-west from Lavington station and 6~ south from Pawley Nichoh 1\f.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. Devizes station on the Great Western railway, in the Charles .A.wdry esq. of Shaw Hill, is lord

CHICKLADE is a village and parish, 6 miles north- I Shaftesbury county court district, rural deanery of Chalke west from Tisbury station on the and Yeovil (Tishury portion), archdeaconry of Sarum and diocese branch of the South Western railway. r6 west from Salis- of Salisbury. The church of All Sain•s, rebuilt in 1832, bury, and ro~ north-east from Shaftesbury, in the is of stone, and consists of chancel. nave and a low square Southern division of the county, Dunworth hundred, Tis- western turret, containing one bell: the church was bury and Mere petty sessional division, Tisbury union, restored in 1894 by ::O.irs . .Alfred Morrison, and will seat