204 SO:\lERFORD KEYNES. '\VILTSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Oatrid~e Edwin, farmer & carpenter Shipton Elizabeth (Mrs.), dressmaker, Thatcher John, carrier Peer 1'Valter. market gardener & grocer W estmacott Thomas, baker & beer ret Radway Charles, wheelwright Shipton Harry, farmer, carpenter & White George Joseph, Bakers' Arms Post office P.H. & butcher LITTLE SOMERFORD is a parish and small vil­ of Mri!. Sarah Brown, and held since 1893 by the Rev. lage, on the river .Avon and on the road from :Malmes­ Richard Garlicke Brown M . .A. of Lincoln College, Oxford. burv to Swindon, three quarters of a mile north from The principal landowners are the representatives of the the • Somerford statwn0 on the Malmesbury branch of the late Rev. H. Wightwick, who are lords of the manor, and Great Western railway and 3 miles south-east from Stephen Kemble, Cowbridge Bouse, :Malmesbury. The :Malmesbury, in the North Western division of the soil is sandy ; subsoil, gravel and clay; the land iil county, hundred, union, petty sessional division and chiefly in pasture. The area is 1,333 acres; rateable county court district of :Malmesbury, rural deanery of value, £2,509; the population in 1891 was 339· :Malmesbury, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese l)f Parish Clerk, Jesse Woodman. Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. John the Baptist is an ancient fabric of stone, in the Early English Post Office.-Mrs. Louisa Woodman, sub-postmistre11s. style, consisting of a chancel, nave, south porch and Letters arrive from Chippenham, delivered at 7.15 embattled western square tower with pinnacles and 3 a.m. & 3.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 9·5 p.m. Postal bells and a clock, and has several stained windows : orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest there are 270 sittings. The register dates from the money order & telegraph office is at Great Somerford latter part of the 17th century. The living is a rectory, National School (mixed), built in 1868, with residence average tithe rent-charge £196, gross yearly value for mistress, for roo children ; average attendance, £275, net £250, including 31 acres of glebe, in the gift 66 ; Miss Mary Croome, mistress Brown Rev. Rchd.Garlicke M . .A.(rectr) Day John, carpenter Reeves .Alfred, farmer Tyler Roper, Kingscote Harding Wm. farmer, Maundit Pk.frm Reynolds Robert Charles, farmer Heel: William, Three Crowns P.H Sealy Sarah (Mrs.), farmer CO::IIMERCIAL. Hi~gs Henry, farmer Sloper 'Yilliam, assistant· overseer Higgs Thomas, blacksmith Teagle 'Vm.auctionr.farmr.& cattle dlr Barnes Daniel, farmer, East end Keene Joseph, maltster & baker Teagle lYilliam Richard, auctioneer, Barnes Mary (:~Irs. ), farmer Manner 'Villiam .Arthur, horse dea!er farmer & cattle dealer Bryant Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress Pickforrl Charles Henry, farmer W oodman Charles, baker Collingbourne Frederick, cowkeeper Preddy John, shopkeeper 'Voodman Frederick, mason Crees John, farmer, Church farm Preddy William, King's Head P.H Woodman Louisa (Mrs.), Post office SOPWORTH is a village and parish, on the Glou­ Duke of Beaufort K.G. and held since 1894 by the Rev. cestershire border of the county, 7 miles west from Mal­ Lorenzo Hartstonge-Weld M . .A. of Trinity College, mesbury terminal station, and about 6;\ south-west from Dublin. The Duke of. Beaufort K.G. is lord of the Tetbury terminal station, both branches of the Great manor and the principal landowner. The soil is hrash; Western railway, and 12 north-west 'from Chippenham, subsoil, rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley and in the North 'Ve~tern division of the county, hundred roots. The area is 947 acres; rateable value, £1,137; of Chippenham, Malmesbury union, petty sessional divi­ the population in 1891 was 139. sion and county court district, rural deanery of Malmes­ Deputy Parish Clerk, .<\lfred Neill. bury, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. Mary is a small struc- Post Office.-Mrs Mary Milsom, sub-postmistress. Let- tore of stone, in the I3th century Gothic style, consist- ters through Chippenham, delivered at 8.45 a.m. Box ing of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, south cleared at 6.30 p.m. week days & 9·5 a.m. sundays. porch and a western tower with 2 bells: the east win- Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Did- dow is stained : there are 125 sittings. The register marton is the nearest money order & telegraph office dates from the year 1697. The living is a rectory, School (mixed), erected in r86o, with residence for average tithe rent-charge £131, net yearly value £2oo, mistress, for 6o children; average attendance, 22; wit.h 75 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Miss Jane Knight, mistress Bennett Miss Humphries Edwin, blacksmith ,Neems William, farmer Hartstonge-Weld: Rev. Lorenzo l\I..A. ~Iilsom Mary (Mrs.) shopkeeper & Witche:l Thomas Raglan, farmer Rt>ctory Post office 1 lVookey Dennis, fal'IDer :Bell William, carpenter Xea:e Ethelbert, haulier !Young Daniel Richard, George inn STANDLYNCH (formerly extra-parochial) is a formerly the property of H. Dawkins esq. after which it parish, 2 miles north from Downton station on the Salis- was named Trafalgar House : it is a large brick mansion, bury and Dorchester section of the London and South and the park and pleasure grounds, which are well­ Western railway, and 6 south-east-by-south from Salis- wooded, and extend over an area of Bo acres, are watered bury, in the Southern division of the county, Downton bv the river .Avon: from the higher grounds, on the hundred, Salisbury and .Amesbury petty sessional divi- eastern side, the prospect is very fine and varied. Upon sion, .Alderbury union, Salisbury county court district, the death of the first Earl Nelson, in February, 1835, he rural deanery of Wilton, archdeaconry and diocese of was succeeded in the title and estate, pursuant to the Salisbury. The church, founded II47• is a very small patent, by his nephew, Thomas Bolton, who assumed the edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of name and arms of Nelson; he, dying in 1835, was sue­ chancel, nave, south porch, and a turret containing one ceeded by his eldest son, Horatio, now Earl Nelson D.L., bell: there are 6o sittings: the duty is taken by the J.P. born in 1823, who is lord of the manor and owns all Rev. Charles Lepage Sanders, vicar of Charlton, and the land. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. chaplain to Earl Nelson. The trustees appointed by The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The Act of Parliament for purchasing an estate to be area is 703 acres of land and 10 of water; rateable annexed to the title of Earl Nelson (conferred on the value, £784; the population in 1891 was 72. brother of the illustrious .Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Letters through Salisbury, arrive at 8 a.m. & 3 p.m. in r8o5) bought (in 1814) Standlynch House and Park, Downton is the nearest money order & telegraph office Nelson Right Hon. Earl D.L., J.P. Nelson Countess Taunton Robert Silas, farmer & miller Trafalgar house; & Carlton club, ~elson Hon. Thoma.S' Horatio (water) London SW Taunton John William, farmer STANTON FITZWARREN is a village and parish, and 4 bells: in 1865 it was reseated and otherwise re­ with a station on the Swindon and Highworth branch paired, at a cost of £1,ooo: in the chancel is a beautiful of the Great Western railway, 5 miles north from Swin­ Norman arch, which is much admired for its design and don, 2 south-west from Highworth, and 77 from Lon­ workmanship : there is also a very old font, surrounded don, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of with figures in bas-re!ief, emblematical of the Christian Highworth and Swindon, union of Highworth and Swin­ virtues trampling on the vicell : the east window is a don, Swindon county court district and petty sessional memorial to Dr. Trenchard, 1865: the chancel retains a division, rural deanery of Cricklade, archdeaconry of piscina and credence : in the chancel 1s a brass to Robert lJristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, The Hippisley, 1691, also brasses to 'fhomas Hippisley, a church of St. Leonard, which is surrounded by trees former rector, 1706: in 1891" a finely-carved communion and evergreen shrubs, is a structure of stone in the table was erected, and in 1892 the nave was lengthened, Early English and Decorated styles, consisting of chan­ the church reseated, and a handsome screen added, the ce~. nave, with a square embattled tower, with pin­ whole costing upwards of £Boo: a new vestry was built; nacles, on the north side of the chancel, having a clock in 1894, at the cost of J . .Ashfordby-Trenchard esq.;