282 WROGGHTON. WILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S Codrington. Elcombe Hall is the residence of Mrs. The School Board formed in 1877 was dissolved by Underwood-Fisher. The Dean and Chapter of Win the Education Act of 1902, & the School~ are now con che.ter and Mrs. Codrington are lords of the manor. trolled by a Board of Managers; H. Copleston, Much of the land belongs to the Charter House, London. Wroughton, clerk & attendance officer The soil is clay, sand and marl; subsoil, clay. The Schools. chief crops are grass, wheat, barley and roots. The area is 7,099 acres of land and r6 of water; rateable Elementary (Endowed), built in r867, for 176 children; value, £14,514; the population in r9or was 2,448. average attendance, 128; & supported in part by an endowment of £2o yearly; John Morton, master Overtown tithing is one mile south-east; Elcombe Elementary (girls), built in 1878, at a cost of £2,200, for tithing, one mHe west; Sa.!throp tithing, 2 miles south 156 children; average attendance, 133; Miss Bray is west; Westlecott tithing, 2 mile,. north. the principal mistress, & ha• a residence attached to Parish Clerk, Richard Austin. the schoolroom Post, :M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office.-John Elementary (infants), opened in 1877, for 200 children; Pickett, postmaster. Letters through Swindon, arrive average attendance, 135; Miss Et bel Mitchell, miotress at 5 a.m. & r.rs p.m. & dispatched at 2.ro & 8.25 Carriers.-Fred C PRIVATJ!: BKSID:RNTS. Fall Arthur, grocer' Panting Sotheran, farmer Codrington M~s. Wroughton house Farmer Wm. farmer, Moormead frm Porter Goorge, carpenter Dismorr Henry Bntram Ferris Francis, farmer, Salthrop farm Prowse Charles & Son, saddlers Hastings Hon. Auhrey, Barcelona ha French Samu,.l, be<>r retailer Prow•e James Charles, ironmonger & Leader Thomas Richard, Fairwater h<> Gilling John, farmt'r, Duck's farm insurance agent Toomer Fras. Wm.Fanner,Woodhams Gordon Arthur, h WYL YE (or Wily) is a parish and village, on the There is a Congregational chapel, erected in r86o, .,..ith river Wylye, or Wily, with a sta.tion on the Salisbury r5o sittings. The charities amount to £25 yearly, and Westbury branch of the Grea.t Western railway, 6 arisint; from land and bequests. There is a. Hall used miles south-east from Heytesburv, 10 south-east from for meetings and entertainment·s, capable of seating WaTminster, 12 north-wt>st from Sali.s bury and 96 fron1 r5o persons, and connected ,.·ith it is a reading room. London, II6 bv rail, in the Southern division of the There are some ancient camps near here, one of ...-hich eounty, hundred' of Branch and Dole. Warminster petty is called "Belbury." The Earl of Pembroke and Mont J;essional diviSion, Wilton union, Salisbury county court gomery P.C., G.C.V.O. is lord of the manor and the district. rural deanery of Wvlye (Wylye portion), arch principal landowner. The •oil is light loam; snh,oil, deaconrv• of Sarum and diocese of Sa!isburv.• The chalk and flint. The chief crop• are wheat, oats and church of St. Mary the Virgin, rebuilt in 1844, is an barley. The area is 2,305 acre• of land and 9 of water; edifice of stone in the Perpendicular &tvle, consisting rateable value, £2,459; the population in 19or .,.as 411. <>f chancel, ·nave, north aisle, south porch and an em Deptford is a tithing, half a mile north, the proper~y battled western tower, "·ith pinnacles, containing a of the Duke of Somerset. clock and 4 bells, 3 of which have the following ornament• Sexton, Henry Haskell. e.nd inscription~ respectively: "1587, G-Pve Thanks tu God"; 1697, and a