[WILTS.] ALDERTON. 6 PGST OFFIC,;E PosT OFFICE.-David Parsom, receiver, Farley. Letters National' School, Oeorge Burden, master; Mrs. Mary arrive from at i past 9 a.m. & are dispatched · Frost, mistress at 4 p.m. ALDER.TON, a township, village, and parish, in Chip­ eh urch, •dedicated to St. Giles, unrlerwen t considerable pen ham Hundred and Union, North Wilts, 9 repairs about 1845, .and a spire has been adde8. ~ Here is a miles north-west from Chipenham, and 7~ south-west from school for boys and girls, supported 1Jy J. Neeld, Esq. Malmesbury. The living is a perp~tual curacy, valued at The area of the parish is I ,600 acres, and the populltion £80, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, and the pre­ 182. sentation of Joseph Neeld, Esq., who is lord of the manor; DuNLEY is g rliiles south-east. the Rev. Fraucis Goddard, ;\LA., is the incumbent. The Goddard Rev. Francis, M.A Kington John, farmer White Jane (Mrs.), Charity eclwol TRADERS. Kin~ton John Beard, farmer · mistres~ All pass William, beer retailer Sargent Daniel, farmer Letters through ~ The Bristow Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer & Spencer William, farmer nP.arest money order office i~ at shopkeeper Tanner William, blacksmith 1\Ialmesbury Hulauce Isaac, stonemason Weller John, farmer

ALI.INGTON, near , i!'! a township, parisl1, B.A., is the curate. The church has been rebuilt, and was and village, 4 miles east-south-east from A mesbury, and consecrated in 1851 j it is ~ small edifice, comprising a 8~ miles from Salisbury north-east, in the Amesbury chancel and nave, embracing the Norman, early English, Hundred and Union, diocese of Salisbury, South Wilts. and perpendicular styles of architecture. Here is a smalt The living is a rectory, value £236, in the gift of Lord Primitive Methodist chapel. In 1851, the population was Craven; the Rev. Fulwar William Fowle, M.A., is the 88; the acreage, 936. J. H. C. Wyndham, Esq., is lord present incumbent; the Rev. Alfred Vaughan Waiters, of the manor. Waiters Rev. Alfred Vaughan, B.A IEyles William, New inn Letters through Amesbury, which is Banting Robert, farmer Horne James, farmer Ialso the nearest money order office CAR RIER-John Young, to Salisbury, tuesday, thursda.y & saturday

ALI.INGTON, near , is a parish and village, parish for the management of its parochial affairs. It situated 5 miles north-east of Devizes, ll south-west of contains 1,153 acres of land, and a population of 190. l!Iarlborough, in the Swanborough Hundred, diocese of Here is a chapel for the Baptists, and a :Free school sup• Sarum, and the division and Union of Devizes; it is also port~::d by that denomination. The Earl of Ilchester ii a tithing in the adjoining parish of Allcannings, and within lord of the manor. the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of that place, but a separate TuC'kwell Mr. Jo~hua, Carby Godwin James, farmer Stevens John, mason Eurgess Henry, farmer Morley Simon, shopkeeper Letters through Devizes, which 48 Dowse Robert, carpenter Parry Joseph, farmer also the nearest money order office CARRIER-Morley, to Devizes, thursday; to Bath, through , wednesday & saturday

ALTON BABNES and ALTON Pl\IOR.S. chancel, but no tower; there are 2 bells. Here- is a . ALTON BARNES is a township, parish, and small village, Parochial school. The lordship of the manor is vested' in adjoining Alton Priors, in the Swanborough Hundred, the authorities of New College, O:xon. Union and division of Devizes, South Wilts, and diocese ALTON PRIORS is a township, small village and chapelry, of Sarum, situate near the Kennet and Avon canal, 7 miles in the parish ofOverton, Hundred of Elstub and Everley, east of Devizes, 7 south-west of Marlborough; containing Pewsey Union, South Wilts, situated near the Kennet and l ,053 acres of land, and a population of 17 5. The living A \·on canal, 7 miles east of Devizes, 8 south-west from is a rectory, ~alue £320, with 40 acres of glebe land, in Marlborough, and 4 north-west from Pewsey. The living the gift of New College, Oxford. The incumbent is the is a vicarage annexed to that of Overton. The area ofthe Rev. David Williams, B.(l.L.; the Rev. Charl~s Dundas pariah is 2,530 acres, and the population 253•. Everett, M.A., is the curate. Tbe church, repaired in WEsT STOWELL is a tithing; Heney Street is half a 1842, is a small and anciE>nt etructure, having a nave and mile south. On the downs, to the north, are barrows. Alton Barnes. Huntley 'Yilliam, carpenter Gidd ings Charles, farmer, West Sto)Vell Everett Rev. Charles Dundas, M.A. Smith Gideon, parish clerk Simpkin~ James Oeorge, farmer [curatej YoHng James, farmer Tasker Thomas, grocer Williams Rev. David, B.C.L. [rector] Alton Priors. Letters received through Pews~y, TRADERS. Tanner John, esq. Stowell house which is also the nearest money order Bridgman l\Iary (Mrs.), mistress of TRADERS. office Parochial school Gale Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper

ALVEDISTON, a township and parish, in the Hun- turnpike-road to Salisbury and London. The living of dred of Chalk, 14 miles we~t of Salisbury, 7 east of Alvediston is a ~icarage, incorporated with Broad Chalk Shuftesbury, and 8~ south-east of Hindon, in the Tisbury and Bower Chalk, in the patrona~e of King's College, Union, Hindon division, Salisbury bishopric, South Wilts. CambridgE'. The great or rectorial tithes are taken by the Alvediston is difficult of access by carriages, as it lies for College; tl1e value of Alvediston alone is £400 yearly; the most part in a deep bottom or hollow, on the left of the value of the smaller, or vicarial, titl1es for Alvediston, the turnp1ke-road leading from Salisbury to Shaftesbury, taken separately, is £80 annually; the incumbent is the from which the ~o~sual mode of approach by pedestrians is Rev. Stephen Hawtrey, M.A., who is not a resident in the the aseent by means of foot holes, in the almost perpen- pari~h. The church of the Blessed Virgin l\lary, an anti­ dicular northern side of White Sheet hill; the great quated structure, has a nave, chancel, and a tower con• exertion consequent upon which is compensated by the tainiDg 3 bells; the font is of great antiquity, said to be beautiful commanding view of the surrounding country Norman. The population, in 1851, was 278; there are obtained, before making a. nearly sudden descent on the 2,564 acres of corn and down land. The Earl of Pem­ opposite side of the hill into Alvediston below. In this broke is lord of the manor. neighbourhood begins a lofty down, known as White NoRTHAMPTON, or Norington, is 1 mile west; Trough, Sheet Hill, extending till it nearly reaches the city of half a mile south-west; .Eicombe, half a mile south; Salisbury, a distance of 15 miles. On the st:mmit of this Manwood, 1~ miles south. Near this h\tter place is a hill, and along the wlJOie of its length; formerly ran the barrow. Par ham J an1es, esq Mat hews Henry, smith . Letters are received through Swallow'- Brown George, farmer Mull ins Wiiliam, shopkeeper & carrier cliff', via Salisbury. The n~arest money Comhes John, parish clerk Rogers Joseph (Mrs.), farmer order office is at S!1aftesbury C4RRIER-William 1\Iullina, to Salisbury, tuesday; &. Shaftesbury, ~aturday, returning same days