208 SUTrON BENGER. WILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S Earl Cowley is lord of the manor and the chief landowner. Hannah .A.rundel, sub-postmistress. Letters from Chip- The soil is various; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are penham arrive at 3·45 a. m.; delivered at 7 a.m. & 2nd wheat, barley and oats ; there is also a considerable delivery at 3·35 p.m. ; sundays at 7 a.m. ; dispatched amounli of pasture land. The area is 1,280 acres ; rate- at ro a.m. & 9.30 p.m. ; sundays, 9.30 p.m able value, £2,492; the population in 1891 was 354. National School (mixed), built about 1835 & enlarged in Parish Clerk, Frederick Bray. 1875, for 65 children; average attendance, so; Miss • Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Expres:s Delivery, Annie Billingham, mistress; Miss Nellie Taylor, assis- Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Oftice. - ~Iiss tant mistress Dawson Rev. Richard M.A. Vicarage Bray Henry, carpenter &: public vaccinator, Sutton Benger Garlike James Percie Bray Robert, blacksmith district, Chippenham union Hull Joseph Britton Alfred, baker Gregory Joseph William, wheelwright Hull Miss Bromsgrove Thomas, shopkeeper Hull Richard & Joseph, wholesale win& Hull Richard Drake Francis, farmer, .Manor farm & spirit mers. grocers & bacon curers Mesiter Richard Fry John, farmer Humphries Tom, butcher Rich Charles Gartside Frank, draper Lea John, farmer Sainsbury Mrs Garlike .Tames Percie L.R.C.P.Edin. Miles Charle~. plumber ::\I.R.C.S.Eng. surgeon, registrar of Sharp Edward, Wellesley Arms P.H CO:l!MERCIAL. births & deaths of sub-district of Vi' est George, tailor Bond J ames, farmer Christian Malford & medical officer

BUTTON MANDEVILLE is a parish, about 2~ value £r6o, with 44 acres of glebe, in the gift of William miles from the Dinton and Tisbury stations on the Salis- Wyndham esq. and held since r897 by the Rev. William bury and Yeovil branch of the South Western railway, II Willimott ~I.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. The miles- west from Salisbury, ro north-east from Shaftes- interest of £76 invested in Consols, left in 1854 by the bury and 8 west from Wilton, in the Southern divi- late Mr;:. :Mary Bracher (formerly of thi& parish), is for sion of the county, Cawdon and Cadworth hundred and coals to be distributed to the needy poor. The greater part Tisbury petty sessional division, Tisbury union, Shaftes- of the parish is the property of William Wyndham esq. of bury county court district, rural deanery of Chalke (Tis- Dinton House, who is lord of the manor. The soil varies bury portion), archdeaconry of Sarum and diocese of very much, being partly chalk and partly greensand loam, Salisbury. 'fhe church of All Saints is an ancient edifice and in one part stone brash and clay. The chief crops are­ of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, wheat, beans, oats and barley. The area is 1,323 acres; north transept, south porch and a western tower containing rat!'able -value, £2,253; the population in 1891 was 204- 3 bells: the back of the old oak pulpit, which has been Wall Letter Box, cleared at 6.30 p.m.; sundays, 9 a.m. preserved', has cut on it the initials of the churchwardens Letters through Salisbury to Fovant, arrive at 7·301 and its date (1631): the chancel was repaired in 185o, The nearest money order & telegraph offices are at and the church was rebuilt with the exception of the toner Fonnt, about 1 mile distant in 1862: the church will hold 150 persons: in the church- National School (mixed), with residence for mistress, yard is a fine yew tree, planted 1765. The register dates built in 1875, for 6o children; average attendance, 25; from the year 1654. The living is a rectory, net yearly :\Iiss Elizabeth Roper, mistress Willimott Rev. "\Yilliam M.A. Rectory Goodfellow Hy. Wm. Cribbage Hut inn Miles William, farmer & miller (wate11} Bracher Tom, carpenter Green J~mes C. butcher /;:, fanner Yates Eli, farmer, Church farm Coombs Daniel, farmer

BUTTON VENY is a village and parish, 2 mile3 J. X. Parham, Waiter :\Iitchell, Francis S. Long, Robert1 south-west from Heytesbury station, on the Westbury Alfred Long, James Long, Robert Elling, Joseph and Salisbury branch of the Great Western railway and 3 Smith, and T. P. Bartholomew,and the trustees of the late­ south-east-by-south from Warminster, in the Western Mr. John D. Randall. The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, chalk and stone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and union and county court district of Warminster, rural barle~·. The area is 4,104 acres of land and 7 of water; deanery of "\Vylye (Heytesbury portion), archdeaconry of rateable value, [,3,881; the population in 1891 was 723 m, Sarum and diocese of Salisbury. The old church of St. the civil and 720 in the ecclesiastical parish. Leonard, a building of the Early English period, consisted By a Local Government Board Order (16,468), dated of chancel, nave and aisles, but is now in ruins. The MarC'h 25, r885, a portion of Pertwood parish in Mere church of St. John the Evangelist, erected in 1867-8 by union was for civil purposes amalgamated with this parish, the Everett family as a memorial to J oseph Everett esq. thd to the parish. of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, south porch, vestry Little Sutton is a hamlet, half a mile south-east, and a central tower, with a spire, containing 6 bells re- where there is a Primitive Methodist chapel. moved from the old church: there are several stained Sexton, 1Villiam B. Barter. windows, and a brass to the Rev. George Francis Syden- Post Oftice.-Mrs. Jane Hinton, sub-postmisttress. Let- ham Powell B.A. 33 years rector here (d. 1888): the ters arrive by messenger from Warminster at 8.5 church will seat 400. The register dates from the year a.m. & 2 p.m. ; dispatched at 9.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m, 1653.The living is a rectory, net yearly value £370, arising week days; delivery on sundays, 8.5 a. m. ; dis- from 81_') acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift vf patched 9.30 a.m. Postal orders are issued! here, but Major Clement Walker-Heneage V.C. and reld since 1896 not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph offices by the Rev. Arthur Joseph Everett M.A. of Clare College, are at Heytesbury & Warminster, about 3 miles distant Cambridge. Here is a Congregational chapel and aWes- 1Yall Letter :Box cleared at 9·40 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. week kyan Mission Hall, and at Little Sutton is a Primitive da~·s & 9.40 a.m. on sundays Methodist chapel. Greenhill House, the property of Col. Lttters for Little Sutton through Heytesbury S.O. Wilt!', John F. Everett J.P. of The Close, Salisbury, is occupied arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m by Henry William Harris esq. Tlle kennels of the South Schools. and West Wilts Subscription Fox Hounds are in this National (mixed), built in 1872, for roo children; aver>- parish; Percy J. Browne esq. J.P. of Zeals House, is ag-e attendance, 84; Clement George Morgan, master; master. 1bere ar-3 no manorial rights, but the land is Mrs. Amy L. Snelgrove, mistress divided among numerous freeholders, the principal of Congregational (mixed), built in 1869, for 8o children;.. whom are the l\Iarqness of Bath, Lord Heytesbury, Capt. average attendance, 24; Miss Edith Hibberd, mistress Arthur Howard Southey, of Eastleigh Court, Bishopstrow, Carriers to "'\Varminster.-Isaac Norris, daily & Uriah Col. John FT"ederick Everett and Messrs. John J. Estridge, Lapham, sat Marked thus * have their letters * Ashbv Geo. Wm. frmr. Little Sutton Daniells George, farmer & haulier, through Heytesbury S.O. Wilfs. Ashby' Herbt. Coombs, Woolpack inn Best's lane Creaton Mrs !.xford Ann (Mrs.), laundress Draper Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Estridge John Julius, Church farm Ball John Thomas, baker & grocer Elling Robert, woolstapler, The Knap Everett Rev. Arthnr Jsph.M.A.Rectory Barter Bros. wheelwrights, carpenters Estridge John Julius, farmer & land- Harris Henry William, Greenhill house & undertakers owner, Church farm Parham James Nowlson Barter WilliamBailey, blacksmith Everley James, gardener to Henry *Sparkes William Henry,Little Sutton Brown William James, carpenter William Harris esq Varnon Rev.Frederick(Congregational) Butcher William, miller (water), Hinton J ane (Mrs.), shopkpr. Post off COMMERCIAL. Job's mill; & at Bishopstrow Judd Henry, Bell inn Andrews James, beer retailer Cleverly Henry, shoe maker Lapham Uriah, coal mer. & carrier­ Andre-ws William, farmer Cooper George, thatcher Lines Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper