7 48 BROAD TOWN. . [KELLY S Crofton Rev. Henry Francis )'[.A.' Brewer William, blacksmith Matthews Ellen (Mrs.), farmer

Vicarage j Chesterman Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer :Miles Ebenezer, farmer, Cut marsh

Eatwell Charles, Springfield house 1 Dash Edg-ar, Queen's Head P.H 1\liles Thomas, carpenter Hart William :Gilmore Frederick, shoe maker Ody John (Mrs.), farmer, Hambrook. Hart Sam!. ( exers. of), brewers Palm er George, thatcher · COMMEllCIAL. Hasler Henry, assi•tant overseer Parsons Alice (Mrs.), farmer Bathe A. & H. grocers, & post office Henley George, cattle dealer Parsons Victor, farmer, Thornhill Bathe Maurice, pig dealer Linzey Wm. farmer, Broad Town lane Pri~ Wm. Sam. farmer, Manor farm Beckenham John, market gardener Little John, farmer Simmonds Julia Emma (Miss),shopkpr Bond Glen, farmer, Bynoll Maskell John, farmer, Barn hill Tuck Edward James, farmer, Lower Bown Arthur, baker Maskell John, jun. farmer, East farm Ham farm

:BROKEN:BOROUGH is a village and parish on the lege, Oxford, w ha resides at Oharlton. There is "' river Ingleburn, and adjoining , about 3! Primitive )iethodist chapel, erected in I 873. The miles south-east from Tetbury and I~ north-west from Union Workhouse is in this parish. The :Malmesbury terminal station of a branch of the Great Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire is lord of t•he manor and Western railway, in the North-Western division of the chief landowner. The soil is brashy; subsoil, clay. county, , petty sessional division, The chief crops a.re wheat, barley and roots. The area union and county court district, and in Malmesbury of the parish is 2,625 acres of land and 9 of water; rural deanery, Nol'th Wilts archdeaconry and Bristol rateable value, £2,484; the population in 1901 was 317• diocese. By an order of ·the County Council, dated including the otlicers and inmates in the ~almesbury July Io, I894, was made into two workhouse. parishes called Brokenborough Within, and included Quobwell is three-quarters of a mile east. By an in the Malmesbury Urban District and Brokenborough Order dated March 25, I884, a part of Bremilliam parish Without, within the Malmesbury Rural District. The was amalgamated with this pansh. church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone Parish Clerk, Joseph Wood. in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave Post Office.-){iss Alica E. Gladwin, sub-postmistres!;. north aisle, north porch and a small wooden turret : Letters through )ialmesbury arrive at 7.50 a.m. ; dis­ there are sittings for 200 persons. The register dates patched at 7·45 a.m. & 7.25 p.m.; no sunday delivery. from the year I778. The living is a. chapelry, annexed Malmesbury, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money to the vicarage of Charlton, joint. net yearly Vjjlue £384, order &; telegraph oflice inc\t,ding 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift Wall Letter Box, cleared 8.5 a.m. & 7·45 p.m. daily of the Lord Chancellor, and held ,.Once 1876 by tbe Rev. School, built for 40 children; average attendance, 20; J uhn Ferdinando Collins YI.A. of Cmpus Christi col- )liss Alice E. Glad win, mistress :Xeeld Rear-Admiral Reginald Run­ Fry Harry,Red Bull P.H. Sherston rd Mapson Chas. farmer, Upper Foss fro dell, Twatley house Gladwin Thomas & Paul, blacksmiths, Mills Francis, baker Post office Pincott Thomas, butcher COMMEllCIAL. Guest George, farmer, Bell farm Sell wood lllartba (~lrs. ), farmer. Bailey John, farmer Guest Henry E. farmer, Brokenboro' Brook farm Baldwin Henry, farmer, Boakley farm Taylor :virs. farmer, Hyam park Beale Georg8, Rose & Crown P.H Knapp Charles Hy. farmer,Foss farm Wakefield Fredk. Cooper's Arms ina Cove Ebenezer, farmer Large Thomas, farmer Wood S tephen, farmer, Gilboa :BROMHAM is a parish, 3 miles north-east from Seend of which contain tablets to Sir Edward Baynton kt. ob. station on the Newburv and Bath section of the Great r67o; Henry Baynton, ob. r6gi; and John Baynt-un, ob. Western railway, 4 north-west from and 4 east- 1716; and there is another to Lady .A.nne Wilmot, ob. by-north from , in the Eastern division of the r7o3, besides many memorials to various members of county, PotJterne hundred, Devizes petty sessional divi- t.he Baynton family: the chapel has a stained east win­ sion, union and county court district, rural deanery of dow, erected in memory of John Bayntun Starky, who Avebury (Cannings portion), archdllaconry of Wilts and died in Australia, by his widow: the transept has a ~iocese of . The ancient houses of the village, stone-grained roof, with a long pendant in the centre: built of timber and brick, are ranged irregularly on the porch is embattled, and on the west is a stair lead­ the east ~ide, facing the church. The church of St. ing to a parvise above: three windows on the north side Nicholas, is a building of stone in the Lancet and of the chancel are stained: on hhe tower is a curious Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave of figure of a skeleton, cut into the north wall, and near it, four bays, -south a.isle, south transept, south-eastern surrounded by a scroll, a skull and cross-bones, with chapel, south porch and an embattled central tower the inscription, "Death is swallowed up in victori": in with octagonal spire, no feet in height, containing the churchyard rest the remains of Thomas Moore, the a clock and 6 bells, hung at a cost of £6oo: the poet, who died at Sloperton Cottage, Chittoe, 25th :Feb. chancel was entirely rebuilt in I865 in the Lancet r852, and above tbe grave rises a fine Celtic cross. style, at the cost of tbe rector: it retains a. credence erected in Nov. Igo6, through the efforts of the Rev. with trefoil-headed arch, and a hagioscope: the reredoo .A.. S. Hartigan 1\LA. then curute here: it is of Ballina­ IS arcaded, and has marble shafts: the rest ?f the sloe limestone, I8 feet in height, on a base 7 ft. 6 in. 1 ch«rch. Is Perpendw~lar: the c_hapel, which IS the by 4 feet. and cost £232: at the base are inscriptions, most mteresbmg portwn, was built by Richard Beau- one being a verse from Moore's poems and the other ,. champ. 2nd Baron S_t. Amand (d. I5o8), who ~otmded quctation from Byron: the west window, by Constable, ~herem a chantry dedicated to St: Mary and St. Nicholas : of Cambridge, was erected br subscription to his It has. an emba~tled parapet, ":"Ith crocketed pmnacles, memory, and there is a plain slab over the grave of panellmg and sh1elds _of ar~s: m t_he centre o! I he _east his two children: )lrs. ~loo re, relict of the poet, was wall, above the roof, 1s a nchly designed cano[ll.ed mche, also bnried here in the year 1865, and is commemorated th~ flat ceiling_ is divided into thirty-two compartme!lts. by tbe stained east window: the interior was restored pamted and g!lt, and profusely decorated, and a~ramst and renewed and a stone pulpit and readino- desk _, tbe east wall is a canopied niche, and there are sedilia, eTected about r843: there are 400 sittings. The :'egiste~ formed in the sill of a window on the south side: the dates from tbe year I.)66. The living is a rectory, net chapel opens to the chancel by two lofty Perpen.Iicular yearly value £438, includinc- 6o acre;; of glebe, with arches, a similar one communicating with the transept: residence, in the gift of Lieut. -Col. .A.lbert Edward in the centre of the chapel stands a large tomb, with a R.A.. of Soulderne ::'lianor, Banbury, and held full lengt-h recumbent effigy of a knight in armour, in since r907 by the Rev. John Leofric de Bnckenhold excellent preservation, representing Sir Roger Tocote•, or Thorold ~I. A. of New College, Oxford. Here are Touchet, who married the widow of William Eeauchamp, Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist and Primitive ::.retbodist ISt baron St. Amand (d. 1457): there is also a canopied chapels. On a gentle declivity, at the lower part tomb to his wife Elizabeth, and on an upright slab of the village, is an almshouse of six tenements, within the canopy is a brass kneeling effigy of a female with a Latin inscription recording its foundation in in the costume of the period (circa I49o), and a repre· the year 1612 (wth James I.), by a member of the sentation of the Holy Trinity, formerly in a matrix Bayntun family. Roman remains have been discovered above: immediately opposite, against the south wall, is here from time to time: in 1840, the late ,T. S. Money a canopied tomb to Sir Edward Baynton kt. ob. 1578, esq. F.S.A. found portions of a Roman villa, including with brass effigies of himself, his two wives, and two part of a tesselated pavement, baths, pottery, two urns, out of three children, all kneeling; and on the floor is containing human bones, and various Roman coins. S,i. a brass effigy of John Baynton, ob. ISI6, cousin and beir Ediths, the residence of John Fisher esq. is a modern of Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Lord St. Am and: beneath mamion of st