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Harris George, baker k beer retailer' Manners Emma (Mi~s), shopkeeper :Marsh John, farmer, Manor farm Hazell Alfred, farmer :MarSHampshire, and barley and turnips. The area is 6,316 acres; rateable on the road to Southampton, is zi miles south from value, £5,693; in 1891 the population was 1,037· West Dean s·tation on the Salisbury branch of the Lon Earldoms, 3 miles south, formerly extra-parochial, is don and South Western railway, and 7 south-east from now a parish with 37 inhabit·ants in 18gr. The area is Salisbury, in the Southern division of the county, 788 acres ; rateabJe value, £416. F:rusrt:field hundred, Alderbury union, Salisbury county Melchet Park was formerly extra-parochial, but is court disrt.rict, Salisbury and .Ame·sbury petty sessional now a parish in Romsey union and .Alderbury hundred. division, rural deanery of Amesbury (.Mderbury portion), Melchet Park is the seat of Louisa Lady .Ashburton; the a.rchdeaconry of Sarum, and diooese of Salisbury. The mansion is a noble edifice of the Composite order, built church of .All Saints is an edifice of flint and stone, in of red brick, reliev-ed with freestone, surrounded with mix·ed styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, lawns and shrubberies, in a park of 539 acres, com aisles, north porch, with a small we·stern wooden belfry, manding an extensive view of the surrounding scenery. containing a clock and 3 bells: in it are several monu The area of the parish is 830 acres; rateable value. ments to the Eyre and St. Barbe families : conside-rable £643; the popula,tion in 18gr was 37· improvem·ents were made in the interior in 1869-70: it contains memorial windows to the Bristow family: there Oowesfield, 2 miles east, Oowesfield Loveries, Alder ar.e 300 sitt·ings. The register dates from the year 1559. ton (or .Alderston), half-a-mile north, Whelpley, r mile The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £140, west-by-north, and Cowesfield Esturmy are tithings. gross yearly value £150, net £120, with glebe (£4) and Plarish Olerk, George Beauchamp. residence, in the gift of Mrs. Durie, and held since r 893 Post & M. 0. 0., 8~ B. & .Annuity & Insurance Offioe. by t·he Rev. Julian Pattisson, of Corpus Christi college, Isaac Woodford, sub-posltima9ter. Leobters from Salis Cambridge. Hel'e is a place of worship for 'Vesleyans bury via Downton at 7.50 a.m. & 3 p.m. from Dean; and Primitive Methodists. Charities to the amount of dispatched at 6.10 p.m. ; sun days, letters arriv.e, 7.50 £6 ros. yearly 3Jre distributed in clothing. Broxmore a.m. ; dispa1tohed 10.45 a.m. The nearest telegraph House, the residence of Mrs. Durie, is an elegant and ·Office is at Dean railway station spacious building, and the grounds and scenery around Pillar Letter Box, CQwesfield, 5·45 p.m. & g.15 a.m. sun the house are beautiful and picturesque. Brickworth National School (mixed), built in 1846, for 160 children; House, the property of Earl Nelson, is now occupied by average wttendance, 120; & supported in part by an J·ames .Al·exander Sh.il'll'eff esq. Cowesfield House, tlhe •endowment; William Henry Williams, master; Miss seat of William Frederic Lawr.ence esq. M.P., J.P. stands Emma Olements, mistresS' on the southern slope of the Dean Hill, and commands extensive views over the country, including the New Carriers to:- Forest and the Isle of Wight. Earl Nelson, who is lord Sa1isbury-Lampard, Fulford, J erred & P.enn, tues. of the manor;. Mrs. Durie, Mr. Laurence and Mr. Fort thurs. & sat. ; returning same days a11e the principal landowners. The soil is chalk, sand Southampton-Elkins' cart, tnes. & fri. returning same and gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chie-f crops are whe'
