522 STOKE CHARITY. HAMPSHIRE. [KELLY'S
STOKE CHARITY is a parish and village, about r~ and Chapter of Winchester, 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 diocese of Winchester. .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 Eastleigh (late Bishopstoke) 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 Southampton, in the New Forest divi!ion of Hankinsun esq. .T.P. is a modern mansion, situated in the county, hundJred of Mansbridge, 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 Swaythling is a village, on the road from Fareham to pinnacle<>, containing a clock & 6 bells: the windows Romsey, 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 North Stoneham, excepting a portion of armorial bearings of connection! of the Fleming family: Swaythling, which is in the parish of South Stoneham; 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