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Pigot Lady, Little Woolpits Capital & Counties Bank Ltd. (sub-branch) Institute & Re&ding Room (William Rigby Willia.m, Ewhurst Place (open 11 a.m. to 3p.m. fridays), draw on Randall, caretaker) Sartorius Major-Gen. Euston Henry v.o., head office,39 Threadneedlest.Londn EO Jay Edward, farmer, Buildings farm 0.11. Hurtwood, Ho1mbnry (letters Carpenter Fred, baker Jones Thoma.'!, Bull's Head P.H through Dorking) _ Cheeseman Henry, draper &c Kendall Brothers, cycle manufactlll"('.rs Sissons David, May banks Coldman Bros. shoemakers & fly proprs Ledger Geo. blacksmith & assist. nvF Soulsby Ba..qil Harrington F.S.A.. Heath Cumber George & Thomas, carpenters tLewis WilliamGeorge,farmer,Duke's frm house, Pitch hill Delves Frederick J. hairdresser .!Uedstead Wi.11iam, blacksmith Stephen..'l Henry, Northland Ditton ,James, butcher Percy Henry, farmer, Coneyhurst Stephens Michael, Coverwood Ede W. & E. A. grocers · tPort William., builder Stewart Miss, Holmcroft Endersby William, coach builder t Reeves Edwin, builder Taylor Leonard Campbell, Bramshott, Etherington Henry, farmer, Yards farm tRenma.nt Middleton, farmer, Sansoms Pitch hill Ewhurst Golf Club (George John'iton, tSaddler James, farlll('r, Pollingfold farm Thoma.'l Wyndham, Brookhurst hon. sec) Saunders Samuel, builder & contractor Topham Fmnk W. F Farleigh Hy. farmer, Lower Breach farm Stephens Henry, farmer, Northlands Walker 1\Irs Farmer John, farmer, Gadbridge farm Tett William, farm bailiff to H. L. Webb Wa.lter, Malquoi~ Fuller Albert, greengrocer Doulton esq. Woolpit farm tGreenfield William, beer retailer Tidy J ames, chimney sweeper COMMERCIAL. tHampshire Joseph, grocer Topham Frank W. F. artist Ansell Job, carrier Hampshire Mrs. Rebecca, poulterer Weller George, farmer, Rumbeam's & Bone Charles, The Crown !'.H tHampshire William, frmr.Hill House frm Plough farms Hull Fredk. farmer, Somersbury's farm F AIRMILE, see Cobham. FARI.EY (or Farleigh) is a parish on the Kentish bordei The poor have £2 10s. Od. yearly from a charity left by will ofthe county, 2! miles north-e.ast from the Upper Warlingharn dated April 24th, 1627, by Henry Smith, of Wandsworth., and station, on the main line of the London, Brighton and South alderman of London, who died 30 .Jan. 1628. The principal Coast railway, 4 miles south-ea.<~t from Croydon, in the North landowners are the Warden and Fellows of Merton C-ollege, Eastern division of the county, Tandridge hundred, Godstone Oxford (who hold the manorial rights) and H. A. Daniell esq. petty sessional divis~on and union, Croydon county court of Chelsham. The soil is chalk and clay and subsoil clay. district., rural deanery of Caterham, a.rchdeaconry of Kingston The chief crops are corn, wheat, and oats. The area is 1,051 and dioooee of Southwark. The church of St. Mary is of stone acres; rateable value, £865; the population in 1911 was 98. and flint in the Norman and Early English styles, and has a turret containin~ one bell: in the chancel is a brass t-o John Post & M.. 0. Office.-Albert Scattergood, sub-postmaster. Brook, ob. 149.'), an1l Anne his wife: there are 100 sittings. Lt>tters received through Whyteleafe arrive at 8.45 a.m. & The re£ister dates from the year 1678. The livin11: is a rectory, 1.15 p.m. & dispatched at 8.45 a.m. & 3.30 & 6.50 p.m. net yearly Yalue £130, with residence and 29 acres of glebe, Wa.rlingham, 1 mile distant, is the nearest telegraph office in the gift of :Merton CollPge, Oxford, and held since 1908 by The school is in Chelsham parish & will hold 110 children; the Rev. Henry Ma.rshall Soott B. A. of Durham University. average attendance, 92; Miss Sarah A. Richmond, mistress Soott Rev. Henry Marshall B.A. [rector], COMMERCIAL. Scattergood Albert, grocer, Post office Rectory Bailey Brothers, fanners Scott Charles, fa.rmer, Elm farm Stimpson George, Moorcroft Richard'3on Colin, farmer, Farley court F ARNCOMBE, see . F A R N 11 A l\1 FARNHAM is a pat".ish, market and union town, head ot a affords 1,360 sittings. The complete register dates from May, county court district, ln the South Western division of the 1539. The living is a vicarage and rectory, net yearly value county, hundred of its own name-, and in the rural deanery £500, with residence, in the gift of the , of Farnham, Surrey a.rchdeaconry, and diocese of Winchester, and held since 1912 by the Rev. John Macleod Campbell on the Hampshire border of the county, on the Portsmouth Crum M.A. of New College, Oxford, and chaplain of the union. road, and on the rive-r Wey, over which there are. two bridges, The church ot St. James, in East street, a _chapel of ease with a station on a branch of the J,ondon and South Western to the parish church, and built in 1876, at a cost of £4,000, is railway, 10 miles west from Guildford, 38 miles from London of stone in the Gothic style, and has a turret and a stained by road and 371 by railway. The parish includes the tithings window : there are about 350 f!ittings. of , Badshotlea, Rnnfold, Runwick, Hale, The Reformed Episcopal ChW'ch of in South Bourne and . Farnham sent members to Parliament street has about 180 sittings. in the time of Edward II. St. Polycarp's Catholio Church, in Bear lane, will seat The "Local Government Act, 1858" (21 and 22 Vict. about 120 persons. c. 98), was adopted here 27 July, 1866, but the town is now There is also a Congregational chapel, founded in 1792, governed by an Urban District Council of 12 members, under and rebuilt in 1872, and seating 550 persons; and Baptist, the provisions of the " Local Government Act, 1894: " (56 Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels. and 57 Vict. c. 73). An extensive sewage scheme wM carried out a. bout 1888 at a cost of £17,850, the pumping The Farnham Church House, in Union road, was erected in sta.tion being on the Guildford road. • 1909 from designs by Mr. Richard Preston, architect, at a cost of £2,800. The foundation stone was laid 15th May. 1909, On Aprillst, 1902, Farnham civil parish and Urban District by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the building was opened were extended by Local Government Board Order No. 43,079, by H.R.H. The Duchess o(Albany, November 20th, 1909. to include part of Farnham Rural parish. In pursuam•e of Section 1, of the Act of 1894, by Local The Cemetery, in West street, is about 6 acres in extent Government Board Order in that year, the ancient parish and has two small mortuary chapels and a sexton·,. lodge; of Farnham has been divided into Urban and Rural portions, part of the Cemetery is reserved for Catholics; it is under the the former consisting of that part in the Urban District area. control of a Joint Burial Committee of ten members. At the same time the civil parish of \Vaverley was annexed The Farnham Urban District Council offices in South street, to the Rural parish. erected in 1901 at a cost of about £5,000, are of red brick The town is lighted with gas by the Fa.rnham Gas & Elec· with Bath stone facings, and contain council chamber, clerk's tricity Co. from works erected "in 1834 in Enst street, and is and surveyor's offices, with a depot in the rear and fire engine supplied with water by the Fa.rnham Water Co. Limited, station adjoining. from gravitation works at Heathy park and from tube wells The Exchange, in Castle street, was ererted in 1865, in sunk in the greensand at the pumping station in Darvill's place of the old market house, by the " Farnham Market lane. The Victoria. reservoir, opened in 1897, on St. Thomas's House and Town Hall Company Limited," at a cost, in· hill, will hold 600,000 gallons. eluding site, of £S,OOO, and includes a Market Hall or Corn The parish church of St. Andrew, built in the reign of Exchange, with offices, shops and assembly room<~; at the Stephen a.s a. chapel of ease to Waverley , is an edifice corner of the building is a tower, 88 feet high, containing a in the Norman, Early English and Perpendicular styles, four-dial clock, presented by Samuel Xicholson esq. late of and has an embattled tower containing 8 bells and a clock Waverley Abbey. The general market is held on Monday. with chimes : the church was restorf'd in 1862 at a cost of that for corn at the Exchange, and for cattle in South street. £4,500, and in 1865 the tower was restored at a cost of £1,650; Fairs are helrl on the lOth May, 24th June and lOth November. great improvements and additions were also effected in A cattle show is aL'io held here annually in December. 1886, at a cost of about £2,000 : the monuments include one The princtpal hotel is the "Bush," attached to which to William Cobbett M.P. who died 18th June, 1835, and there are beautiful gardens and grounds, extending over several are several stained windows, and a. memorial erected in 1905 acres of land, and which Thackeray mentions in the " to soldiers killed during the South African war : the church ginians " as being over 300 years old ; there ......

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