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(afterwards James IT.) with Anne Hyde took placa 3 Rural District Council. Sept. r66o, although other authorities give Worcester :Meets at Workhouse, after Guardians' meeting. House as the scene of the event; the Hinton estate is Clerk, Edward Roy Longcroft, Havant now held by Hyde Salmon Whalley-Tooker esq. J.P. Treasurer, William Grant, who is a lineal descendant in the female line: the man· Medical Officer of Health, Charles Nash L.R.C.P.Lond. sion, erected in 1868, on the site of old Hinton House, is Tlie Yews, a building of flint stone, pleasantly situated and com­ Sanitary Inspector & Road Surveyor, Charles Clark, manding some extensive views. Bere Forest is partly within the parish. Hyde Salmon Whalley-Tooker esq. Catherington Union. J.P. of Hinton Daubnay, who holds the manorial rights, Board day, alternate tuesday.s, at the workhouse, Sir .Arthur Henry Clarke-Jervoise hart. of Horndean park, and George .Alexander Gale esq. are the principal The nnion comprises the following places :-, landowners. The soil varies from a loam and chalk to Catherington, Chalton, Claufield, ldsworth, & Water­ stiff clay; .subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are looville; area, 13,145 acres; rateable value in 1898, wheat, barley and oats. The parish and hamlets contain £r5,62B; the population of the union in 1891 was 2,990 s.q.o acres; rateable value, £6,456; the population of Clerk to the Guardians & .Assessment Committee, Ed­ th9 civll parish in r8gt was I,fi3, including part of Den­ ward Roy Longcroft, Havant .Dlead and 23 officers and inmates of the Workhouse at Treasurer, William Grant, High street, Portsmouth Horndean. The population of the ecclesiastical parish in Relieving & Vaccination Officer, John Shaft Stares, The .t:Bgr was 1,309. Cottage, Love Dean Love Dean is rl miles south-west; Hinton is I mile Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Charles Nash west; Youlls, I mile south; Wicock and Longwood, 2 L.R.C.P.Lond. The Yews, Horndean miles south; all these places are tithings. Letters arrive Superintendent Registrar, Henry Thomas Bettsworth, 7.30; Wall Box clear6·1 1o.I5 a.m. & 7.15 p.m. Horndean Wall Letter Box, Hol'I!dean Hill, cleared at II.30 a.m. & Horndean Sub-district, Registrar of Births, Deaths & 7·45 p.m Marriages, John Shaft Stares, Love Doon ,.Post, M. 0. &: T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Workhouse, Horndean, to hold ~oo inmates, Charles Post, S. B. & Insurance & .Annuity Office, Horndean.­ Nash, medical officer; George E. Westbrooke, master; Charles .Albert Bettesworth, postmaster. (Letters Mrs. Letitia Westbrooke, matron should haveR.S.O. Rants added).-Letters arrive at 5·5 School .Attendance Committee. a.m. & r2.5o p.m.; dispatched at I2.40 & 8 p.m. for Meets at Workhouse, after Guardians' meeting. London & all parts (sunday box closes at 5 p.m.). Clerk, Edward Roy Longcroft, Havant .Money orders are granted & paid from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m .Attendance Officer, John Shaft Stares -wall Letter Box, Catherington, cleared at II.5 a.m. & Schools. 6.40 p.m.; sundays, ro.rs a.m This parish is a contributory districb to Clanfield School Post Office, .-William George Grant, sub-post­ Board, sending 4 members master. Letters arrive from Cosham R.S.O. at 4.50 National (girls & infants), built in 185I, for roo chil­ a.m. & 12.35 p.m.; dispatched I & 8.30 p.m.; sunday, dren; average attendance, roo; Mrs. E. Baker, mist arrive 4·So; dispatched s.rs. Postal orders are issued National, Horndean (boys & infants), built in r86o, for I04 here, but not paid. W aterlooville is the nearest money children ; average attendance, 100 ; Geo. Carter, master order & telegraph office, 2 miles distant Carriers to Portsmouth.-Hy. Coles, daily (except wed.) O.A.THgRINGTON. HORNDEAN. Hawkins Frederick, butcher . Hedgcock George, wheelwright Ash George W allace, Durley house Bowyer Herbert West field Lan.gu'isih Richard, boot & shoe maker Barnes Albert Willia.m Still J.P. St. Fr~denck, JO

CHALTON (or Chalkton) is a parish on the Sussex much improved in 1879 and 189-z: there are 150 sittings. border, 4 miles north from Rowland's Castle station on Th·~ regi,;ters, including Idsworth, date from 1538; they the direct Portsmouth line of the London and South have been well kept, and are particularly clear and legible Western railway, 5! south from and 6 north thrcughont. Thl} living is a consolidated rectory, formed from Havant, in the Eastern division of the county, in 1767, and consisting of Clanfield and Chalton, with the hundred of Finch Dean, Petersfield petty sessional divi- chapelry of Idsworth annex.,d, net yearly value £460, in­ sion and county court district, Catherington union, rural I clvding 18 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of deanery of Petersfield and archdeaconry and diocese of Mrs. Pearson Strange, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Winchester. The church of St. Michael is an ancient Wi1liam RobPrt Pean m Strange, of Pembroke College, structure of flint and stone, in the Early English style, I1 Oxford. On the downs are many barrows. The manor consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and an embattled of Chalton appean to be co-extensive with the upper half western tower, partly covered with ivy, and containing 3 of the Finchde..,n hundred, which has an area of ro,s6o \Jells: the chancel retains a low-side windo-w: in r8g6 a acres, and c nsists of th.:o parishes of Ohalton, Olanfield, new or1, n was provided by Harry Cla.rke Jervoise esq. at Catherington, Idsworth and Elendworth, formerly known a cost pf upwards of £230: the church was re-Eeated ani as the "Five Manors." Sir .Arthur Henry Clarke-Jervoise