• 26 . . (KELLY's 8.40 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. week days; 9-45 a. m. on sun­ the united parishes of Beechingstoke, Manningboro' clays. 'l'he nearest money order & telegraph office is Bohen, North Newnton & Woodboro' at Woodborough Carrier to Devizes.-Charles Vallis, thurs. returning National School, built by Lord Normanton in r883, for 1 same day :McNiven Charles, Puckshipton · Brownjohn William, foreman to Edwd, Hillier Thomas, butcher :McNiven Edward, Manor house MoNiven esq Wootton Josiah, shopkeeper Shackleton Rev. Matthw. M.A.Rectory Eavis Robert, farmer, Broad St. farm . BEMERTON is a village and , extending opposite side of the road, and has a garden sloping to one mile west and adjoimng the City of , on the , close to which is a medlar tree, said the river Nadder, in the Southern division of the countv,• t.o have been planted by Herbert, and on the front of the hundred of Branch and Dole, petty sessional division of house is the following inscription, composed by him:- Salisbury and Amesbury, Wilton union, Salisbury county " If thou chance for to find court district, rural deanery of Wilton, archdeaconry of .A. new house to thy mind Sarum and diocese of Salisbury. Until the year r894 .And built without thy cost, Fugglestone St. Peter was the ciYil parish, Bemerton Be good to the poor, and Quidhamp1on respectively a chapelry and , As God gives thee store, but in that year, under the provisions of the Local And then my labour's not lost." Government .Act of 1894, the County Council made an Order, dated July wth, constituting Bemerton as the Bemerton Lodge, the seat of William Corbin Finch M.D. civil parish, including part of Fugglestone St. Peter, the is a handsome mansion in the Italian style, prettily remainder of that place being- placed under the juris­ situated in extensive and well-kept grounds; it contains diction of the Corporation of Wilton. The church of St. marble busts by Noble of T. R. H. the Prince and Peter, at Fugglestone, is a small building of stone, con­ Princess of Wales, and a good selection of pictures by old sisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a small wes­ masters and others, including Rubens and Cuyp. H.R.H. tern turret containin~ 3 bells: it was repaired about the Prince of Wales stayed here eight days during the 1848, and has 70 sittings. The register dates from the autumn manreuvres in September, I 872. year 1568. The living of Fug-glestone is a rectory, with Quidhampton is a hamlet half-way between Bemerton the chapelry of Bemert-on annexed, average joint net and Fugglestone. The soil is alluvial and clay ; subsoil. yearly value £312, with residence and 4 acres of glebe, gravel and chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and in the gift Qf the Earl of Pembroke, and held since I8go green crops. The area. is 1,778 acres of land and 40 of by the Rev. Francisl,-arre l\1..1. of Balliol Collegr, Ox­ water; rateable value, £8,717; the population in 1891 ford, canon and prebendary of Salisbury, and surrogate. was r,o6o. St. John's church, at Bemerton, erected in 186o, at a Parish Clerk, William Viney. cost of :tbout [5,ooo, as a memorial to , Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T.M.O., S. B., Express Deliveryr the poet, sometime rector here, is a building of stone in Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Eliza the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave of Wilson, sub-postmistress. Letters through Salisbury three bays, aisles, south porch and a tower containing arrive at 8 & II.30 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; dispatched at a set of tubular bells : there are 250 sittings : the old 7-55 & ro a.m. & 3, 5, 6.30, 8.20 & 9-50 p.m church of St. 'Andrew, in which Herbert officiated, and now used flor week day services, is supposed to have Wall Letter Box, Lower road.-Dollections, 8 & ro a.m. bren erected about the year 1408, and consists of chancel, & 3-I5, 6.45, 8.Io & 9-40 p.m.; sundays, 8.15 p.m nave, and a small wooden turret : the chancel windows National School, with residence for master & mistres!!r are stained : it was restored in I 866 and I 896, and affords erected in 1870, chiefly at the expense of the Earl of 30 sittings : the rectory house, where George Herbert Pembroke, for 140 children; average attendance, 140 ; Eved for 2i years, until his death in 1632, stands on the ~fr. & l\Irs. Frederick Harris, master & mistress IlEMERTON. Roe Septimus, r Stanhope villas J efferis Charles, grocer Ross ~t\.!exander Noble Frank, assistant overseer PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Sharp William, 2 Alexandra villas White Joshua, baker .Alexander Edward Smith Thomas GeoJrge Wilson Eliza (Mrs.), grocer & post off Andrews Mrs. 1 Rose cottages Squarey ~ewell Pitt Wilson Wm.Bishop,HalfWayHouse P.H Boufiler George, '\Yilton road Staples George, 2 Stanhope villas Bradley William, Wilton road Sweatman Miss, Myrtle cottage QUIDHAl\fPTON. Eray Mrs. Red house Targett Henry, Balfour villa Shipley Rev. William Samuel B.A Davey Hy. Augustus, I Cranborne viis, Taylor Edmund Dickinson Stratton James, Poplar villa Farrant Mrs. )fayfield "·arre Rev. Francis M . .A.. (canon of Coombes Stephen, The Bell P.H Finch Wm. Corbin M.D. Bemerton lo Sarum), The Rectory Crebo William, baker Lipscomb Miss ·welch John, Meadow view Fry Reginald Frank, grocer Major Edward Herbert White Charles, Blenheim house Garbnd Thomas, dairyman Poole Lieut.-Col. Edwin, Tower house Windley Rev. Francis B.A. (curate), Lampard John, grocer Pople J esse, 2 Cranborne villas Clarpnce lodge Tabor John, carpenter Powell John .Alexander Tvndale• J.P. Williams John, White Horse P.H Riversfield COMMERCIAL. Young Alfred, blacksmith Read William, Albert villas 1 Deacon & Bundy, brick makers Young .Alfred John, blacksmith :BERWICK ::BASSETT (or Barwick Bassett) is a Ebenezer A.nderson M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford. township and parish, 9 miles north-west from Mad­ Sir Henry Bruce Meux hart. of Dauntsey, who is lord borough and 7 south-by-east from Wootton Bassett sta­ of the manor, and Lord Lilford, are the principal land­ tion, in the Eastern division of the county, Calne hundred, owners. The soil is loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chiet Marlborough union, petty sessional division and county crops are wheat, oats and beans. The area is 1,390 court district, rural deanery of Avebury (Avebury por­ acres; rateable value, £63o; the population in 1891 tion), archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. was r65. The church of St. Nicbolas is an edifice of stone, in the Parish Clerk, George Davis. Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south Post Office. John James Couzens, sub-postmaster. Let­ porch, aml a turret with cupola containing 3 bells: in ters by foot post from Swindon, arrive at 8.30 a.m. ; the chancel is a brass, with effigy and a Latin inscription dispatched at 5·55 p.m.; sunday delivery, 8.30 a.m.; to William Bailey, priest, 1427 : the east window has some dispatched, Io.ro a.m. Postal orders are issued here, stained glass and there is an ancient font and carved oak but not paid. The nearest money order office is at rood screen : the church was repaired and re-seated in Broad Hinton, & telegraph office at Avebury, 3 miles 1857, and affords 150 sittings. The register dates flrom distant the year 1674. The living is a vicarage, with Winter­ The children of this parish attend the National school at bourne Monkton annexed, net yearly value £283, in­ Winterbourne Bassett clndin~ 37 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of National School (mixed), with house for mistress, built the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since 1886 by the Rev . in 1847, is now (r8g8) closed .Anderson Rev.Ebenezer M.A. Vicarage Couzens John James, baker, grocer & Tanner Francis, farmer Roynon Richard (exors. of), farmer beer retailer, Post office

BERWICK ST. J'AMES is a parish and villa~e, 8 sessional division of Salisbury and Amesbury, Wilton miles north-west from Salisbury and 3 north from Wish- union, Salisbury county court district, rural deanery of ford station on the Great Western railway, in the Southern Wyly (Wyly portion) and archdeaconry and diocese of division of the county, hundred of Branch and Dole, petty Salisbury. The church of St. James is a building of