DIRECTORY,] WILTSHIRE. HOLT • 119 • travellers. The market formerly held on Thursday has Public Officers. become obsolete, but a fair is still held on the 29th of Medical Officer &; Public Vaccinator, Hindon District, October. The town is almost wholly the property of Tisbury Union, J HINTON, see Steeple Ashton. • LITTLE HINTON (or Hinton Parva) is a village, Charles Edward Perkins. Batt's charity of £g 4s. 8d. township and parish, 3 miles south-west from Shriven· yearly, derived from land and Consols, left in 1785, is barn station on the Reading and Swindon section of the for coals; John Brown's charity of £5 I2S. Sd. yearly, Great Western railway, 5 north-east fr .HOLT is a civil parish, constituted r8g4, by Local seats 360. A cemet~ry of half an acre was formed in Government Board Order No. 32, n8, and an ecclesiasti r8g3, at a cost of £2oo; it is under the control of a ~al parish, formed in r846 out of Bradford-on-Avun, with burial board of 7 members, and was consecrated July a junction station on the Great Western railway, 2~ 13th, 1894• by the Bishop of Salisbury. Woolstapling miles east from Bradford, 3 north from 'l'rowbridge, 3 and leather manufacturing is carried on by Messrs. J. t~outh·west from Melksham and 94 from London by rail, and T. Heaven, and there are also works for feather in the Western division of the county, hundred, union, purifying and for the manufacbure of bedding and wire petty sessional division and county court district of mattresses, and a d..,.m laundry. The Reading Room, Bradford, rural deanery of Potterne (Bradford portion), erected in 1873, on a site presented by T. B. W. Forster .archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The esq. has an attached billiard room, added in 1893· A ~hurch of St. Catherine is an edifice of stone, consisting coffee tavern has been opened at the expeme of Miss -of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and an embattled S. Chapman, of this village. Halt Manor House, stand western saddle-back tower containing 5 bells: the Nor ing in a park of 65 acres, is the seat of Lt.-Col. Thoma.s. man font dates from the 12th century: the east ami Henry Burton Forster J.P. who is lord of the manor. west windows and one in the south aisle are stained : Lt.-Col. Forster J.P. Georgeo Llewellen Palmer B'lq. J.P. the porch was erected by Miss Cbapman, as a memorial of Lackham Park, Chippenham, and Mrs. Alexander are to Robert Chapman esq. : the church was rebuilt in the principal landowners. The soil is rich loam ; sub r8gr, at a cost of £2,300, under the direction of Mr. C. soil, gravel and clay. The land is chie:ll.y pasture. The E. Panting, of Marlborough, and affords 276 sittings. area is 1,308 acres of land and 6 of water; rateable The register dates from the year I575· The living is a value, £6,143; the popul.1tion in rgor was 915. vicarage, net yearly value £241, in the gift of ths Dean Sexton, Samuel Stokes. and Chapter of Bristol, and held since 1901 by the Rev. Post, M. 0., T., S. B., A. & I. Office.-Miss Mary G-eorge Augustus Seymour Metford M.A. of St. Mary Harding, sub-postmistress. Lett€rs through Trovr Hall, Oxford, who is also rector of Great Chalfield. The bridge arrive at 7 & II.Io a.m. & 4.5o p.m.; ~unday, Congregational chapel, built in r88o, at a cost of £2,2oo, 7 a. m. & are dispatched at ro a.m. & 1 & 7.10 p.m.;