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272 WILTOY. WILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S Wilton Public House Trust Co. Ltd. Wilts & Dol"Set Banking Co. Limited :Mathevrson, drill instructor), The Bell P.H. Ditchampton (agency)(open on mondays & thurs Square Wilton Royal Carpet Factory days from 2 till 3.30 ), Market place; Woolrich Harry, hair dresser & to Co. Limited (The), manufac dr&w on London & Westminster bacconist, )\ orth street turen of real Axminster, "\Vilton & Bank Limited. Lond<Jn E C Wright Thos. corn merchant,North "' Brussels carpets, Royal carpet Wiltshire (1st) Volunteer Rifle Carp• works. TA "Carpets, Wilton;" (H Co. Capt. Rohert Hastingo Telephone, 0192 Wilton Kendle ; Color-Sergt. John Smith WILY, see Wylye. WINKFIELD (or Wingfield) is a scattered village 1 Wingfield House is the seat of Sir Vincent Henry Pen Bnd parish, situated on the Somersetshire border, 1 mile alver Caillard kt. J.P. The chief landowners are Siv east from the river Frame, 2 miles south-west from 1 Vincent H. P. Caillard J.P. the Rev. Charl<>s Hare Trowbridge station on the Great Western railway and 2§ I Simpkinson De Wesselow M.A. of Bognor, Sussex, and south from Bradford-on-Avon, in the Western division W. H. Laverton esq. of We•tbury. The soil is friable of the county, Bradford petty sessional division, bun- clay; subsoil, gravel. The land is chiefly pasture, but dred and union, Trowhridge county court district, Pot- some wheat is grown. The area is 1,381 acres of land terne rural deanery (Bradford portion), archdeaconry and 8 of water; rateable value, £2,279; the population of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. in 1901 was 277 in the civil and 295 in the ecclesiastical Mary is a ~mall but ancient edifice of stone, in the Per- parish. pendicular style, consisting- of chancel, nave, north tr~n- Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, s~pt, south por.ch, and an embattled western tower w1th r882," detached parts of Rowley have been trans pmnacles contammg 3 bells: the church was enlarged ferred to Farleigh Hungerford Bradford-on-Avon and in r86r ~y the add1tion of .a north transept, a~ a cost Westwood. ' ' of £ IIo, and affords 1,8o sitting•: The register da~es Rowley is 8 tithing. from the year. r65+· 'Iho hvmg IS a rectory.• net m- Sextoness, Mrs. Charlotte Harris. come £16o, w1th 18 acres of glebe and res1dence, m Police Constable John Chandler. the gift of trustees, and held since 1899 by the Rev. ' Richard Earle B. A. of C<Jrpus C.:hristi college, Cam- Post, T. 0. & E. D. Office.-James Hill, sub-postmaster. bridge. The Baptist chapel, built in 1sg6, will scat 150 Letters arrive through Trowbridge at 7·5 a.m. & 6 persons. '!'here are two chariti~s, one of the annual p.m.; dispatched at 9·"5 a. m. & 6.55 p.m. week days value of £4, for apprenticing boys; the other, of the only; no sunday delivery. Postal orders are issued unnual value of £ 2 ros. to be distributed among the poor and paid here. The nearest money order office is ab of the parish. ~Iidway ~Ianor Hanse was the residence of Trowbridge Lieut.-Gen. Henry Shrapnel R.A. the inventor in 1785 Wall Letter Box, Malt house, cleared at 9.20 a.m. & of the shell which bea"s his name: Jle died 13th March, 6.45 p.m. week days only 1842: on the pillars of the park gates are carved the Elementary School (mixed), built in 1852, for 66 chil names <Jf 23 battles won with the Shrapnel shell. 1 dren; average attendance, 50; ~Iiss Rose Hall, mist Marked * postal address Bradford- *Couch George Tucker, farmer, Rumming Thoma.s, farmer, Trowle on-Avon. Oxtail farm, Midway & beer retlr Reading Room (Sidney Couch, mgr} *Baynton Hy. Summers.~Iidway manr Couch John Albcrt, farmer, Swans- Wadman James, co,.-keeper Caillard Sir Vincent Henry Penalver brook *""adman John Hockey, miller J.P. Wingfield house Evans Tom, gamekeeper to W. H. ('~<ater), Stowford mill Clark Thomas Hcrbert, The Green Laverton esq. J.P Windell Thomas, farmer, Pomeroy Earle Rev. Richard B.A. Rectory *Greenhill Edward, farmer, Stowford Woods Frederick William, farmer, 'Voods Mrs. The Willows Gumm Albert, farmer, Romsey oak Church farm Hill James, shopkeeper, Post office Woods Ho...-ard, farmer, Belle Couer CO!IDlEJICT&L. Moore Sarah (Mrs.), laundre-ss (resides Trowbridge) Couch Albert, baker *Pike Thomas, farmer, Snarlton farm WINSLEY CUM TURLEIGH is a civil parish con- all rights, for £1,716 qs.: the sanatorium was opene<f etituted out of that of Bradford-on-Avon in 1895. with 16 patients 16 Dec. 1904. Near the church is a Winsley is a scattered village, and together with Limpley s.rnall gorge in the hillside called "Danes-bottom," Stoke was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in r846 : it where, according to tradition, a battle was fought be is 1 mile north-east from Limpley Stoke station of the tween the invaders and the troops of Alfred the Great. Trowbridge and Bath section of the Great Western rail- Atwood's charity of £17 yearly, derived from fundeJ way, and 2 west from Bradford-on-Avon, in the Western property, is for distribution in money. The inhabitants division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, are employed chiefly in agriculture and in working in union, and county court district of Bradford-on-Avon, the freestone quarries. At Avoncliff is the pumping deanery of Potterne (Bradford portion), archdeaconry of station of the Bradford Waterworks. Winsley Corner Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The Kennet and Avon is the seat of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Poore hart. canal passes through the parish. The church of St. C.V.O. The soil is chiefly stony brash; subsoil, free Nicholas, in the centre of the village, was r~built of stone stone; the crops are barley, oats, wheat and roots. The in r84r, in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, area is 1,940 acres; rateable value, £4,88o; the popu nave, south porch: the old tower, which stood at the lation in 1901 was 638. west end of the former church, and contains a clock and Limpley Stoke will be found under a separate headin!l"- 3 bells, is now detached: there are sittina:s for 250. The Turleigh or Turley, is a hamlet half a mile south-east. register dates from the year 1724. Winsley is a vicarage, Parish Clerk, James Forster. with Limpley Stoke annexed, joint net yearly value Pos11 Office, Winsley.-Mrs. H. Garish, sub-postmistress. [234, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol, Letters through Bradford-on-Avon arrive at 7 a. m. & and held since 1892 by the Rev. Reginald Waiter Angel 6.30 p.m.; sunday, 7 a. m.; dispatched at 7.10 a.m. Angel-Smith B.A. of Queen's C<Jllege, Cambridge and & 7.15 p.m.; sunday, 7·IO a.m. Limpley Stoke, z surrogate, who resides at Limpley Stoke. The Wesleyan miles distant, is the nearest telegraph & money ordel" chapel, rebuilt in 1902, has 100 sit.tings. Here i·s a office Sanatorium, built in 1903-4 at a cost of £32,739. f"r Post Office, Turleigh.-:\irs. Kattlety, sub-postmistress- consumptive patients from the counties of Wilts, Letters through Bradford-on-Avon arrive at 6.45 a.m. Gloucester and Somerset and the City of Bristol: the & 6.15 p.m. ; sundays, 6.45 a. m. ; dispatched 6.50 building, designed by Messrs. Silcock and Reay, archi- p.m. Bradford-on-Avon is t•he nearest money order & tects, of Bath, is intended to receive 6o patients, and telegraph office there are also 8 chiUets, the gift of ~Ir. Samuel Elementary School (mixed), built in 1866 & enlarged in lVhite, of Dorset House, Clifton: the site, in Murhill 1894, for 130 children; average attendance, 120; Quarry, is 46 acree in extent, and was purchased, with Robert Beasley, master Brinckman Major R. Murhill house Poore Vice-Admiral Sir Richard hart_ WI.NSLEY. Carver Mrs. Winsley house C.V.O. Winslev Corner PB1VATE BESIDENTS. Creighton Miss, The Sanatorium Richards Miss, The Sanatorium Letters for the Sanatorium & Mnr Cornwall Rev. Allan Kingscote M.A. Taylor Charles, Bleak house hill must be addressed Limp!ey Burghope Townroe E. Dunbar L.R.C.P.Lond. Stoke. Edmonds Richard, Lambourne house The Sanatorium Applegate Sidney, Rowas lodge (let- Grieves MI'S. Woodland.s COMMEBCIAL. ters via Limpley Stoke) Knatchhull E. W., J.P. Manor house Bath Stone Firms Co. Ltd. quarry Bowyer Miss, Ivy house owners .