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DOG MERSFIELD. Hobbs James, land steward to .Major . PILCOT. St. John-Mildmay Major Sir Henry Sir Henry P. St. John-Mildmay,1 Burrows Thomas, blacksmith Paulet hart. J.P.Dogmersfield park hart. Dogmersfield Proctor George, farmer, Pilcot f!ll'm Farmer Rev. Malcolm Stuart M . .A.. Onslo_w Ro_bert G. head gardener to Terry George, grocer (rector), Rectory M~Jor Su Henry Paulet St. John- Vass Elgy ()ollins, Queen's Head P.H M1ldmay bart. Dogmersfield park Ward Chas. Edwd. jobbing carpente1·: COMMERCIAL. · Tubb James, gamekeeper to Major Bowyer Henry, farmer, Grubb's farm Sir .tt. P. St. John-Mildmay bart DBOXFORD (Q.l' Drokin;;ford) is a· parish and small Salmon .Admiral of the Fleet Sir Nowell V.C., G.C.B. town, pleasantly situated on the river !dean, and is the Southsea h~ad nf a union and petty sessional division, with a Butler Capt. Thomas Dacres M.V.O. Bury lodge.. station on the .Mean Valley line of the London and Hambledon, Cosham South Western railway, 4! miles east from Bishop's Campbell-Wyndham-Long Walter Vansittart esq. Cor- Waltham and 8 north-north-east from Fareham, in the hampton house, Bishop's Waltha.m Eastern division of the county, hundred and county Cholmondeley Capt. Reginald Harry, Preshaw houser court district of Bishop's Waltham, rural deanery of Upham, Bishop's Waltham and archdeaconry and diocese of Christian Frederick Henry esq. Midlington, Droxford . The church of St. Mary and A.ll Saints Giffard Vice-Admiral George .Augustus C.M.G. High- is a building of stone and flint, in the Norman, Early field, Bishop's Waltham English and later styles, consisting of chancel, nave of 1 J enner Lt.-Col. .Albert Victor D.S.O. Greenwood .. four bays, south and north aisles with chapels, south Bishop's Waltham porch and an embattled western t{)wer, with turret, Long Waiter esq. The Halt, Preshaw, Bishop's Waltha.m. containino- 4 bells and a clock: the chancel arch and the Macrae Chas. Colin esq. ho.Bis-hop'l! Waltha.m north and south doorways are Norman, and the nave Randolph Maj. Chas. Foyle, Kitnocks, , Botley areades Early English: a mixed style of architecture Whalley-Tooker Edward esq. Litheys ·hill, Hambledon,. pervades the remainder of the building : in the north Cosham ai~le is the recumbent stone effigy of a lady, supposed Woods Col. William, park, Bishop's Waltha.m to have been found in "Palace Meadow," in this parish, The chairman, for the time being, of the Droxford Rural about 1820: the stained east window was presented by District Council, is an ex-officio magistrate Capt. C. J ackson R.N. : the brass eagle lectern was Cle~k to the Magistrates, Charles Richards Gunner,. the gift of the late R. R. Goodla.d esq. of Hill Place, Bishop's Waltham in 1875, in memory of Emma, his wife : a library of Petty Sessions are held at the Court hou~e every alter- ancient theological books, formerly in the church, is ':ate thur~day, at 12 noon. !he fol~o~~ng pl~s ~e- now kept at the roctory: the church was repaired and mcluded m the Petty Sessw_nal DlVlswn: BlShop s repewed in 1847: in 1872 it was redored at a cost of Waltham, , Cnrdndge, Droxford, ,. about £Boo, and again in 1903 at a cost of about £7oo, Exton, Hambledon, Meonstoke, , Swanmorer when three piscin~. an aumbry and the staircase to ! ,. Upham.' Warnford & _West Mean the rood loft were discovered: there are 400 sittings, County Pohce Statwn, Wm ..Padw1ck,sergt. & I constable one half of which are appropriated. The register of I marriages and burials dates from the year r633; bap- DROXFORD RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. tisrru;, 1635. The living is a rectory, net yearly value Meets at the Workhouse every second tuesday at 12 about [430, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop noon. of Winchester, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Jacob Chairman, Richard Westbrook esq. North End house~ Stephenson M.A. of London University, hon. canon of Droxford Winchester and chaplain to Droxford Union. The Clerk, Henry Godfrey Pearson, Bishop's Waltham Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1886. Here is Treasurer, Charles Richards Gunner, Bishop's Walt.ham a Hour mill. A. lodge of the Independent Order of Odd- Medical Officer of Health, EdgarCourtney Pern M.R.C.S- fellows, Manchester Unity, 6,374, "Loyal Pride of the Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Droxfwd Valley," meets at the White Hmse inn the fourth Sllnitary Inspector, Bertie Stock, Bishop's Waltham Monday in every month. The charities, amounting to Surveyor, Arthur V. Carter, Droxford [13 13s. yearly, are distributed to the widows and aged poor of the parishes of Droxford, and Shed- DROXFORD UNION. field on St. Thomas' Day. The poor parishioners have 'T'he union comprises the following parishes :-!Bishop' iF the dividend of £215 2! per Cent. Stock, purchased Waltham, Corhampton, Curdridge, Droxford, Durley. with [168 left by John Dee, John .Arthu.r and the Rev. Exton, Hambledon, Meonstoke, Shedfield, Sobertonp James Cutler about t'he middle of the 18th century. Swanmore, Upham, Warnford & West Mean. Th~ TJu.•re is also a charity called the "Boucher charity." area of the union is 48,647 acres; rateable value. The kennels of the Hambledon Foxhounds are in this Lady Day, I9II, £67,856; the population in 1901- parish; Capt. W. P. Standish, master. Hazelholt Park, was 11, 77a the property and residence of Mrs. Coke-Ta.ylor, is Board day, fortnightly, on tuesdays, at the Board room pleasantly situated in the parish in grounds of 283 Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Richard West- acres. The principal landowners are the Eccles:iast.ical brook, North t-nd, Droxford Commissionel's, who are lords of the manor, the trustees Clerk to the Guardians·& .Assessment Committee (which- of the late F. J. Minchin esq. W. V. Campbell- meets every alternate board day), Henry Godfrey- Wyndham-Long esq. of Corhampton House, Bishop's Pearson, Bishop's Waltham Waltham, Mrs. Coke-Taylor, Mrs. Bashford, of Soberton, Treasurer,. Charles Richards Gunner, Bishop's Waltham and W. H. Myers esq. of Swanmore House, Bishop's 1 Relieving Officer & Collector to the Guardians for th&- Waltham. The soil is chalky; subsoil, chalk, stone, Union, Thomas Edward Crouch, Droxford flint and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, Vaccination Officers, the Registrars of Births & Deaths barley and some land in pasturage. The area is 2,426 Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Bishop's WaUham- II.Cl'e& of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £3,252; district, Clande Philip Hemming M.R.C.S.Eng. the population in 1901 was 498, including 6 officers and Bishop's Waltham; Droxford & Soberton districts .. 70 inmates of the workhouse. Edgar Courtney Pern M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R. C.P.Lond. Droxford ; Hambledcn district, Edwin Emest William- HILL· h isCl a tithing,k Oh 2 milesC south-west. Roe M ....R c s Eng., L ...R c P.Lond. Ham hi edon; Westc P lll'lS er • ar1 es ou~ens. Mean distFrict, George William Butler M.R.C.S.Eng .•. Post, M. 0. & T. Offioe.-M1ss Martha Westbrook, sub- L.R.O.P.Edin. Meonstoke postmistress. Letters through Bis·hop'~ Waltham, ! The Workhouse, built in r837, will hold 133 inmates; Rants, arrive at 5·45 a. m. & I p.m. ; dispatched at ' average, 70; Rev. Canon Jacob Stephenson M.A. chap- 9.15 a.m. & 12.10, 2.10 & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, lain; Edgar C. Pern M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. ro.5o a. m medical officer; William Marsh, master; Mrs. Marsh,_ Wall Letter Bcxes.-Midlington, cleared at 6.30 a.m. & matron 6.45 p.m.; sundays. 10.30 a.m.; May Hill, cleared Superintenden·t Registrar, Henry Godfrey Pea.rson ... at 9:3P a. m. & 2.30 & 6.45 p.m.; sundays, 10 a.m. ; Bishop's Waltham; deputy, Charles Titchener,_ Stabon, clea~d at 8.55 a.m. & r.3o & 6 p.m. ; sun- Bishop's Waltbam ... days, 7-40 a.m.; Station road, cleared at 8.30 a.m. & . Registrars of Births & Deaths, !Bishop's Waltham 11nb- 1.5o & 5·45 p.m. ; sundays, 8.30 a. m J district. C. G. Bulstrode, Bishop's Waltham; deputy,.. Mrs. Bulstrode, Bishop's Waltham; Hambledon sub- COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE DROXFORD district, Thomas Ed"'ard Crouch, Droxford; deputy,.. DIVISION. Georga Taylor, Droxford; West Mean t~nb-district, Myel'9 William Henry esq. D.L. S"'anmore house. .Abram Rice Martin, West Mean; deputy, Mrs. Mar- Bishop's Waltham, chairman . tin,