522 STOKE CHARITY. . [KELLY'S

STOKE CHARITY is a parish and village, about r~ and Chapter of , and held since r892 by th& miles from Sutton Scotney st.ation, on the Didcot, New­ Rev. Champion Welbank Streatfeild B . .A.. of Trinity 0:>1- bury and Winchester line of the Great Western railway, lege, Oxford. Hy. .Tohn Elwes esq. .T.P., F.Z.S., F.L.S. of 4 miles south-west from Micheldever station on the ColesbournP park, Gloucestershire, is lord of the manor llasingstoke and Winchester 11ection of the London and and principal landowner. The soil is loam; subsoil, chalk. South Western railway and 7 north from Winchester, The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips The in the Western division of the county, hundred of Bud­ area is r,839 acres; rateable value, £,1,679; the popula· dlesgate, Winchester union, petty sessional division and t~on in 1891 was 138. county court district, and in the rural deanery, arch­ Sexton, William Child. deaconry and . .A. tributary of the Test flows through the parish. The church of St. Post Office.-Mrs. .Alice Child, sub-postmistress. Dis- Michael is an ancient edifice of flint, in the Norman patched at 9·35 a.m. ..& 6.55 p.m. week days & 10.25 ~tyle, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north a.m. sunduys. Letters through Micheldever Station, aisle, south porch, and a tower with low shingled spire, arrive at 7.15 a.m. & 1.20 p.m. The nearest money containing 3 bells : in the church are some remarkable orclPr offic~ is at Sutton Scotney & telegraph office a~ tombs ; there are 9o sittings. The regiilter dates from the the Railway station there, 2 miles distant year I5-fi. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £230, Parochial School, built in IBIS, for g6 children; average with re<;idence and r8 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean attendance, 28 ; Miss M. S. Harding, mistress Streatfeild Rev. Champion 'Velbank Cordery Bros. farmers, ·west Stoke frm/ Walker .Alfred E. farmer, Stoke farm B..A.. (rector) Hillary Wm. Frdk. shopkpr. & builder

NORTH STONEHAM is a parish, I~ miles south- Edmund Thomas Leighton esq. is pleasantly situated in west from (late ) station on the well-woorled grounds of about xoo acres in extent. Red London and South ·western railway, and 4 north-north- Lodge, the property and residence of Robert Cbatfield .east from , in the New Forest divi!ion of Hankinsun esq. .T.P. is a modern mansion, situated in the county, hundJred of , Stoneham union, tastefully laid-out grounds of about 29 acres. .Tohn E. North Southampton petty sessional division and county .A. Willis-Fleming esq. .T.P. of Chilworth Manor, is lord court district, rural deanery of Southampton and arch- of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is red loam; deaconry and diocese of Winchester. The river Itchen sub-soil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, passes near the parish. The church of St. Nicolas is oats, barley and meadow. The area is 5,020 acres of land a building of stone in the Early English and Perpen- and 36 of wat('r; rateable value, £17o541 ; the population tdicular styles, consisting of nave of five bays, double in r8gi W'lS I,569. aisles, north porch and a low embattled tower, with is a village, on the road from Fareham to pinnacle<>, containing a clock & 6 bells: the windows , I mile south, and the hamlets of North End, It throughout are stained; those east and west containing miles north, and Bassett, I~ miles south-west, are all religious subjects and those north and south displaying in the parish of , excepting a portion of armorial bearings of connection! of the Fleming family: Swaythling, which is in the parish of ; the church contains the remains of the celebrated Lord the naml'S of the residents are given under South Hawke, Vice-Admiral of Great Britain, who died at Stoneham. "Sunbury, Middlesex, October I7, I78I, and to whose Parish Clerk, Edward Mundy. memory there is a monument: there is also an elaborate Post Office. James Cox, .sub-postmaster. Letters- monument to Sir Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief .Tustice through Southampton, received at 8.15 a.m. & 2 p.m. &i