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purchased the manQr and advowson of Sir J. Dela.mere, but without success. The soil is clayey and sandy loam, .and gave them in the same year, with [.2,ooo in money, and the land is chiefly in pasture. The area of Langley to his daughter Joan, on her marriage with Sir Reginald Burrell Without is 1,803 acres of land and 9 of water; Oobham. In 1.4-60 Ralph Neville, EaTl of Westmorland, in rateable value, [.8,588; the popula;tion in 1901 was 496 righ~ of his wife, Margare~ Oobham, held the property. in the civil and 336 in the ecclesiastical parish. In 1469 Langley Burrell had passed to Edward de Burgh, Sexton, Hugh Jefferies. second Baron de iBurgh of Gainsborough, on his marriage Post Office. John Hiscocks, sub-postmaster. Letters with .A.nne, da.ughter of Sir Thomas Cobham. The manor arrive from at 7 a. m. & x.;rs p.m. ; sun- was soid in 1565 by the de Burghs to John Read, and in the days, 7 a.m.; dispatched at 1x. 35 a•. m. & 7.45 p.m.; twentieth of Elizabeth, 1578, was discharged from feudal sundays, dispatched at 9.45 a.m. Ohippenha.m is the bomage to the Earls of Salisbury. In x6o1, Henry nearest money order & telegraph office White, then owner of Grittleton, bought the manor, Wall Boxes, ·Brewery, cleared at 1 ~. a.m. & .40 and about 166o his grandson sold it to Samuel Ashe esq. d & p h'll30 h 1 7 · · h · d · . p.m.; sun ays, 9·35 a.m.; ew 1 ouse, c ea.red .in wlwse f am1 1y It as remame ever smce. M1ss .!she ..:~~ · d f h d h · . d I a.t II.4o a.m. & p.m.; sunt=ys, 10.5 a.m IS 1a y o t e manor an t e prmmpa1 1an owner. n a 7.50 • field on Peckingell farm a peculiar oolitic limestone, with Elementary School (mixed), built in 1844, with residence -charaC'teristic fossils, has been met with. The appearance for mistress, & enlarged in 1902, for 55 children ; of a bituminous shale in the Oxford clay above this average attendance, 54 ; & supported by Miss .A.she; rock led to several attempts to find coal in this formation, Mrs. A. C. Sharp, mistress Marked thus * receive letters through Lawrence Richard, Langley cottage COMMERCIAL. Chippenham. Neeld Lieut.-Col. Mortimer Graham Barnes Henry, farmer, Manor farm (late 17th Lancers), Langley lodge Brinkworth Harry, farmer, Peckingell ' PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Pearce Ralph, BreweTy house llryant Thomas, farmer, Home farm .A.she Miss, Langley house Pope Rev. Andrew M.A. (rector), Harding Thos. farmer, Rawlings farm Brock Lancelot de Laumarez, Lang- Rectory , Knight William F. farmer ley green Terrell George M.P. Avon house; & Lessiter Benjamin, farmer Dawson William 38 Albion street, Hyde park W ; Payne William, farmer, Barrow farm Dickson Mrs. Pewhill house Carlton club SW & Royal Thames Pearce Ralph, brewer, Langley brwrt *Hinder Arthur Robert, Panolbion, Yacht club W, London Sharp Edwd. J. farmer, Marsh farm Malmesbury road *Wheeler Francis, Greenway park • Smith Robert, farmer, Thornhill

'*Hiscocks Thos. Svlvandelle,• Malmes- . Tasker George, beer retailer · bury road lwehber Walter Wm. frmr. Peckingell LANGLEY FITZURSE, see .

LATTON-CUM-EISEY. I LlTTON is· a village and parish, on the river Churn coffin, and a number of R::~man coins were discovered. and the Thames and Severn canal, at its junction with On the Cirencestm- road is an ancient stone cross, ten the North Wilts canal, r! miles north-west from Crick- feet in height. The Earl of St. Germans is lord of the lade station, on the Midland and South Western Junction manor and sole land'owner. The soil is clay and gravel. railway, in the Northern division of the county, The chief crops are wheat, barley ru1d roots. The com­ Highworth hundred, Cricklade petty sessional division, bined area is 4,288 a.cres of land and 53 of water; Cricklade and Wootton Bassett union, and in Cricklade rateable value, [.3,536; the population of Latkon with l'ural deanery, North Wilts archdeaconry and Bristol Eisey in 19II wr...s 364. diocese. By an order of the County Council, confirmed Parish Clerk, John Compton. by the Local Government Board in 1897, thQ parish of Post Office. John Roseblade, sub-postma~ter. Letters Eisey (including the tithing of Water Eaton) is now through Cricklade, arrive at 6.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. & amalgamated with Latton. The church of St. John the are dispatched at 9.30 a.m. &; 8 p.m. week days; Baptist is a building of stone in the Norman and later sundays, 9.3:> a.m. Cricklade, x! miles distant, is the styles, consisting of modern chancel, nave, transepts, nen~st money order & telegraph office south porch, and an embattled western towel*, containing Elementarv Schools (mixed), rebuilt I 87:~. for 100 chil- • 5 bells: the chancel, arch, tower and south doorway are dr6'n; average attendance, so; Miss Bertha M. Luxton, Norman: in the nave are several memorial windows to mistress · members of the Beadon family, and in the chancel are EISEY is a village on the river Thames, 2 miles east .(:)thers to the Habgood family: there are x8o sittings. The from Cricklade station on th~ Midland and South register dates from the year 1576. The living is a vicar- Western Junction railway. The church of St. Mary is age, with that of Eisey annexed, joint net yearly value a smaJl building of stone in ·the Perpendicular style. 1.,250, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of l::lt. Ger- consisting of chancel, nave, south pQ.rch and a small mans, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Charles Rhodes turret on the western ga.ble containing one bell: the Gott M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. The charities chui'ch ;.fiords 100 sittings. The register dates from the amount to £n yearly, derived from the rent of land, year 15.71. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that of which is yearly divided among such of the poor as are Latton. The Earl of St. Germans is lord of the manor not in receipt of parochial ;relief. A Men's Club room, and chief landowner. Water Eaton is a1 tithing in the gift of the Earl of St. Germans, was opened in 1910. Latton parish. In straightening the- watercours-e a few years ago a. Eisey is in the school district of Latton & Water Eatoa Roman road, some remains of tesselated pavements, a in that of Castle Eaton • Edmonds .Albert, farmer, Mill house Roseblade John, shopkeeper,. Post off L.lTTOX. IHowse John, farmer, Street farm EISEY. Beadon Charles J. Upcott · Keylock Geo. Hy. farmer, Court frm Horton Hy. Jn. farmer, Eisey farm Beadon Miss, The Corner Keylock William, farmer, Elm farm Rickards John, jun. farmer, .A.lix frm Gott Rev. Charles Rhodes M . .l.(vicar) 1 Kmnett Charles, farmer, Manor farm Lane Miss, The Cruft Maslin Martha (Mrs.~, farmer · W .!TEU E.lTO~. Wimpenny Mn•. The Limes [Men's Club Room (Edward Challis, Griggs Elisha Henry, private school ' Challis Ed" ard, assistant overseer & hon. sec) ·:Jantlett David, farmr. Seven Bridges collector of rates & taxes Nash Daniel, blacksmith Gantlett John, farmer, Manor farm 1 Dennis Sydney, farmer, Church farm Panting Thomas, farmer, Westfl£d Winning Al~d. Jn. farmer, North frm LAVERSTOCK is a parish on the hanks oJf the river of a buttress of the old church. The register dates from Bourne, about I mile north-east from Salisbury, in the the year 1726. The living is a perpetual curacy, in, the Southern division of the county, hundred of Alderbury, g-ift of the Vicars Choral of Salisbury, net yearly value Salisbury and Amesbury petty sessional division, Salis- £I75• and held since 1901 by the Rev. Arthur Erneirl. bury union and county court district, Amesbury rural Aldworth M . .A. of Wore~ster CGllege, Oxford, who deanery (.Alderbury portion), and Salisbury archdeaconry resides at Milford. Mrs. Wyndham-Long, of Co.rhamp­ and diocese. The church of St. Andrew, erected near the ton, Rants, is lady of the manor and -chief landowner. site of the old church at a cost of £2,353, is an edifice of The soil is light loam; ·subsoil, chal,k. · The chief crops stone and cut flint, with Bath stone dressings, and con-