DlHECTORY,J GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 217 Rev. Thomas Rowlan-d Pugh, of Oxford University. Mr. Letters through Northleach arrive at 7-30 a.m. & 5 p.m. John Aubrey Handy is lord of the manor and chief land Wall Letter Box cleared at 5-5 p.m. The nearest owner. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, rock. The money order & telegraph office is at Northleach, 1 chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The mile distant area is 1,431 acres; rateable value, £593; the popula Public Elementary School (mixed), built in I867, for 35 tion in 19rr was rz6 in the civil and rgg in the eccle children; average attendance, 21; Mrs. Annie Earle,. siastical parish. mistress Bagnal! Miss Pugh Rev. Thomas Rowland (rector),JHandy John Aubrey, farmer The Rectorv • HANHAM is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1842 is an ancient building of stone in the Elizabethan style. from the parish of Bit ton, Gloucestershire; it extends commanding a fine view of the surrounding country. two miles alvng the north bank of the river Avon and Hanham Court, the property of Philip William Poole is 2 miles north-west from Bitton station on the Mid Carlyon-Britton esq. F .S.A.., D.L., J .P. of 43 Bedford land railway and 4 south-east from Bristol, in the square, London W C, and occupied by Pierre John de Southern division of the county, Warmley and Keynsham Carteret esq. J.P. is an ancient and picturesque man union, Lawford's Uate petty sessional division, Bristol sion, dating in part from late Norman or early Planta county court district, rural deanery of Bitton and arch genet times. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in deaconry and diocese of Bristol. Hanham Abbots parish the manufacture of boots and shoes. Here is a colhery. church, formerly a chapel of ease to the church of St. Frederick Edward Whittuck esq. is lord of the manor. Mary at Bitton, stands within the grounds of Hanham John Llewellin esq. of Hazelands, Devizes, P. W. P. Court, and structurally attached to the mansion; it is a Carlyon-Britton esq. George Hare Leonard esq. Mrs. E. building of stone of the early part of the 13th century, Jefferies, of Harefield Hall, Willsbridge, Joseph Charles and consists of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, Tay !or esq. and the trustees of the late Richard Haynes north porch and an embattled western tower, with esq. are the principal landowners. The area is-chapelry. pinnacles, containing one bell, inscribed with the name r,2r2 acres; parish, I,247 acres; rateable value of the of St. George, to whom the church was probably dedi parish, £3,653; the population in 19II was 2,018. cated: the font is Norman: the church was extensively renovated in rgo9, under the direction of Mr. Bligh Sexton, Parish Church, William Bush. Hanham Bond, architect, and reopened in June of that year : Abbots, Mrs. C. Baker. there are ISO sittings. The original registers of Post, M. 0. &; T. Office.-Samuel Burgess, sub-post baptisms and marriages only, and dating from rs86, master. Letters through Bristol delivered at 7 & Il are in the custody of the vicar of Bitton. The modern a.m. & 3 & 5-45 p.m.; dispatched at 8.30 & ro a.m. register dates from the year r8r5. The living is a & 2, 5-35. 7-30 & ro.15 p.m.; sundays, delivered 8.30 perpetual curacy, net yearly value £250, with residence, a.m.; dispatched, 4-35 p.m in the gift of the vicar of Bitton, and held since 1906 Wall Letter Box, Hanham Green, cleared 9-5 a.m. &. bv• the Rev. Chamberlen William Walker. Christ 5 p.m. week days only Church, now the parish church, is a rectangular County Police Station, Charles Williams, sergeant, & 3 building of stone, erect~d in 1842, and consists of constables chancel, nave, rurth and south porches and a western turret containing 2 bells: the stone pulpit was erected in SCHOOLS. r894 by the parishioners and others in memory of the Rev. Public Elementary (mixed & infants), built in r84r, for William Fry B.A. vicar 1843-93: the brass eagle lectern 384 children; average attendance, 180 boys &; girls lt. was the gift of Mr. Fry's family: the church was re 100 infants; Alfred Evans, master; ~Iiss Mary "r lllis,. seated in r878, at the sole expense of W. H. Atchley mistress esq. and in r8gr was considerably enlarged, at a cost of £r,6oo, and will now seat 55o p~rsons. The register Samuel White Council (mixed & infants), built in 1859 &; dates from the year 1842 . 'lhe John Wesley Memorial enlarged in I