[WILTS.] FITTLETON. 56 POST Oi<'F1CE

:E":ETTLETON is 8 township, parish and village, 14 small chancel, with 8 tower, steeple and 5 bells. In the m1les north from Salisbury, 14 south-east from Devizes, inside are several monuments to the memory of the 14 south from 1\farlborough, and 14 east from Andov~r, Beuch family. Sir E. M. Hicks Beach, Bart., is lord of in the Hundred of Elstub and Everleigh, Pewsey Union, the manor. The acrea:ze is 2,272, and the population diocese of Sali!~bury, and archdeaconry of Wilts. The 380. '!'here is a small endowed school on the Nationnl Jiving is 8 rectory, in the girt of M agdalen College, Oxford, system. of the annual value of £500. The church consists of a HAXTON, or Hackleston, is a tithing. TRADERS. Harri!.l Felix, farmer Sheppard Mary( Mrs. ),ba ker&shopkeepr Andrews Magnus Francis, M.D.surgeon Kilmister Gt'orge, farmer Letters through Amesbury, wh1ch is Brown John San~er, bricklayer Kilmister William, farmer, Fittleton I1also the near~>st money order office Porder John, boot & shoe maker Rawlings David, shopkeeper CARRIERs-Matthew Knight, to Salisbury, on tnesday; School, GeorgeBrown, master; Miss Ellen Wilkins, mbtress to Marlborough, on saturday; John Tackle, to Salisbury, Assessor, George Brown on tuesday & saturday, to Devizes, on thur~day

:E'ONTB%LL B:ESHOP 6. :I"ONTH:ELL G:EE':E"O:RD. William Co:xe Radcliffe, M.A., is the incumbent. The FoNTHILL BISHOP is a township, village and parish, 14 church, built by the late William Beckford, E~q., alder­ miles west of Salisbury, 2 north-east of Hindon, in Down­ man of London, is in the form of a Grecian temple, with ton Hundred, Tisbury Union, Salisbnry diocese, South a pediment supported by four pillars; it has a tower with Wilts. The living is a rectory, value £350, in the gift of a dome and 1 bell. 'l'here iR some arable land, but the the Bishop of Winchester; the incumbent is the Rev. greater part is down. There is a National school for boys Simon Webber, M.A. The church is a cruciform structure, and girls. In the neighbourhood, where once stood the about 600 years old, and has a tower with 2 be11s. The Abbey of Fonthill, are the downs, now nearly co\·er~d population is 189 ; there is about 1,658 acres of land, with woodf!l and pastures. It was on the side of one of mostly arable. The Bishop of Winchester is the lord of these natural elevations that the late Mr. Beck ford erected the manor. There is a small charity dispeneed by the that modern display of archit(ctural grandeur-Fouthill churchwardens. The Free school is endowed with £10 Abbey, \vhich had a lofty and mngnificeut octangular annually for tl1e instruction of 16 poor children, left by tower, full 300 fret high, and could be seen from an A bijah Clark, an agricultural labourer. The school-house emiuence at 20 miles distance on the London road, 4 miles was built about seven years aso by voluntary contri­ before entering the city of Salisbury. The scene of magni­ butions. ficence which was displayed when this building was SJand­ FoNTHILL GIFFORD, 1 ~ miles east of Hindon, and 16 ing excited great curi(Jsity; but that extraordinary object west of Salisbury. The name of Gifford seems to have bad more beauty than ~olidity, for soon after it passed come from the name of a family that held this manor, into the hands of John Farquhar, EEq., of London, it with 14 other manors in Wilts, soon after the Conquest. came to the ground on St. 'J'hom11s's day, 1825, with a This parish contains only a few scattered houses; it is in crash which WIIS heard a.s far off as Hindon (2 miles Dunworth Hundred, Tisbury Union, South Wilts. The distant), levelling in its conrse the whole of the western acreage is 1,977; population 442. The 1\'Iarqui!l of West­ part of the Abbey. Fonthill Abbey wus never repaired, lninster is lord of the manor. There ia a stream calletl but t~oon after sold and the ruins removed. 'l'hc estate is Foothill River, which rises in the parish and flows onward now divided, Jarues Morrison, Esq., possessing the old to Tisbury, thence to Salisbury; on its banks a cloth park, on which stands the Pavilion, which has been factory was established, in 1824, by George Mortimore, altered as one of his seats; the Marquis of Westminster Esq.; the factory is still standing, but the works have possesses the remaining portion of these beautiful grounds, ceased for several years. The liTing is a rectory, in the including the site on which stood the Abbey. gift of the Marquis of Westminster, value £320; the Rev. ronthlll Bishop. Gattrell Richard, carpenter Norriss George, 'King's Arms' GENTRY. Gattrell Richard Samuel, butcher Pain Job, grocf'r & parish clerk Tarjlett :Mr. John Gattrell Samuel, New inn, & assessed Perrett Richard, carrier Webber Rev. Simon, M.A.. [incumbent] tax collector, Chicklade bottom Self Henry, farmer TRADERS. Hacker Daniel, shopkeeper Spencer Henry, farmer & overseer Farrant l.Uatilda (1.\liss),mistress of schl Harvey Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wilkins Henry, gunmaker CARRIER TO:- J SHAPTESBURY-Richard Perrett, saturday, returning SALisBURY-Richard Perrett, tues. returning same day same day ronthlll Gl:lf'ord. Cole Job, gardener Ovens James, baker GENTRY. Cook Mills, mh.tress of National school Titt Stephen, 'Beckford Arms,' & Morrison Alfred, esq. Foothill house Doggercll Noah, gamekeeper to the brewer Radcliffe Rev. William Coxe, M.A. Marquis of' Westminster Vincent Jonatban, farmer Spencer Richard, esq Harris John, tmperintendent of police Whittle William, farmer TRADERS. N ewbury J olm, parish clerk Letters through Hindon, which is also Bell Edward, farmer, Berwick farm Rubie John Parsons, bailiff to the Mar- the m:arest money order office Bbhop Ambrose, smith 1 quis of Westminster, Home farm :E'OVANT is a township, parish and village, 10 miles Baker, M.A. The church of St. George has a handsome west of Salisbury, 7 west of Wilton, and 105 from London, square tower and 3 bells. The population of this village, in the Hundred of Cawden and Cad worth, Wilton Union, in 1851, waR 631; acreage, 2,160. South Wilts. The living is a rectory, value £490, in the PENTHURST is half a mile west; Chiselbury, 2 miles gift of the Earl of Pembroke; the rector is the Rev. south-east. \Vellesley P. Pigott, ~I.A.; the curate is the Rev. George Baker Rev. Garge, M.A. FoylP William & idward, tailors N orris William, 'Cross Keys' Everett Misses Futcher Aaron, maltster & farmer Simper Henry, quarry master Lever Mrs Futcher James, farmer Smith William, 'Pembroke ATms/ Ward William, esq Futcher James,jun. farmer posting hutue, & brewer TRADERS. Goodfellow Thomas, carrier Turner Alexander, shoemaker & parish Best John, baker & currier Jay William, draper & grocer clerk Brown Stt>phen, miller Le,·er George, carpenter & builder Toomer Henry, grocer Coombs William, carrier Lever John, postmaster 'Vard Williall), surgeon

PosT OPFICE.-John Lever, receiver. Letters arrive from CoACHEs-Two from Sali~bury to Shaftesbury & back, Salisbury at 10 min. past 6 a.m., & delivered at 7 a.m. & daily; one (mail) to Yeovil & back, daily 4 p.m.; di~patched 12 noon, and i to 8 p.m. The nearest CARRIERs TO SALISBURY-William Coombes & Thomas money order offices are at Salisbury & Hindon 1 Goodfellow, tuesday & saturday