DIREC'l'0RY.] '. BlUNKWORTH. 41 owners are the Marquess of LansdDwne, whD is lord of patched on sundays at 9 a.m. The nearest money the manor, Lord HoughtDn and Sir John Poynder order & teil.egraph office is at Ohippenham. Postal Dic.kson-Poynder bart. M.P. The .soil is the Oxford c:ay orders are issued here, but not paid and calcareous grit of the upper oolite, presenting varieties of loam, brash and clay; subsoil, sand, clay Schools. and stone brash. The chief crops are whewt, barley and Xa.tional, built for Bo children; average attendance, 45; beans. The area is 5,665 acres; rateable value, misress (vacant) £Io,on; the population in 1891 was I,ogo in the civil Lady Lansdowne's, Foxha.m, lbuilt for 108 children; and 1,048 in the ecclesiastical parish. Part of this average a.ttendance, 47; Miss Oatherine H. Potter,mist parish has been added to the ecc:esiastical parish of Brittish, East Tytherton, ·erected in 1871, for 6o chil­ Derry Hill. dren; average at.tendance, 40; Miss Edith Swaine,mist Charlcote tithing, 1! miles north. Sperthill (Spirt·hoill, or Spurthill), tithing, 2 miles FOXH..lM is a chapelry, 6 miles nort!h-west from north-by-east. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. and 5 miles north-east-by-east frn nnllP

B:RlNXWO:RTH with GRITTENHAM. ERINKWORTH is a parish and village, pleasantly situ­ year, gross income £goo, net £8oo, with 146 acres of ated on the high road from Swindon to Malmesbury glebe and residence, in the gift of Pembroke College, and watered by a tributary of the .Avon, 5 miles north­ Oxford, and held since 1861 by the Rev. William de west from Wootton Bassett station, on the Reading and Quetteville M . .A. formerly fellow of that college. There Eath section of the Great ·western railway, and 6 south­ is a chapel of ease, built in Callow Hill lane in 1889, to east from Malmesbury, in the North Western divisinn seat So persons. Here are Congregational and Primitive • of the county, hundred, union, petty sessional division Methodist chapels. The churchyard was closed as a and county court district of ~Ialmesbury, rural deanery burial ground by Order in Council in October, 1887, of Malmesbury, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of and a cemetery formed close by, the cost of which, Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. Michael and £350, was defrayed out of the rates; it is under the All .Angels is an ancient stone structure in the Early control of a burial board of 9 members. The charities English style, consisting of a chancel, nave, aisles, south are £,15 a year, devised by the will of the late Mr. porch, and a square embattled western tower containing Weeks: £xo of this are given in shillings to the poor 5 bells: the chancel has been (1889) restored by the of the parish, and £5 are paid at Christmas for the rector at a cost of £700 ~ there are two hagioscopes free instruction of ten poor children: £7 19s. 8d. the · and an ancient communion table in this church: there second charity, consists of the dividends arising from are 320 sittings. The register dates from the year sums invested in the funds, which, under the will of the 1653. The living is a rectory, in the gift of Pembroke late Mrs. Hannah Nicholls, are to be expended in the College, Oxford; tithe rent-charge commuted £742 a purchase of blankets to be distributed to the poor.