Directory. Poulshot. (Wilts.]

DIRECTORY. 93 POULSHOT. (WILTS.] Stev<lns Stephen, miller, Potterne mill Watts Mnry (Mrs.), 'King's Armt,' & Wicks James, miller, Rangebourne mill Trimbling A bner, farmer postmistress Wilkins John, farmer Warman William, baker & grocer Weeks Robert, farmer Wiltshire John, farmer Watts James, bricklayer Weeks Thomas, farmer .PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Mary Watts, receiver. Letters re-~ .l past 7 p.m. The nearest money order office is at ceived from Devizes at 7 a.m. & dispatched thereto at Devizes National School, Charles Wiltshire, master (&organist) CARRIERS PASSING THROUGH POTTERNE :- CoACH-Aurora, from Cuippenham & Devizes, passes Axford, from Lavington to Devizes, monda.y, & thence to through to Salisbury, tuesday, thursday &. saturday, Salisbury; to Devizes, thursday 2 afternoon; returns monday, wednesday & friday, 2 aft Draper, from Market La.vington to Devizes, every day except sunday PO'ULSBOT is a township, parish, and village, 3 miles mile south of tbe village, is an ancient Gothic structure, south-wet~t of Devizes, 7 south-east of Melk~ham, in having a nave, chancel, and a stone tower, recently built Potterne and Cannings Hundred, Salisbury bishopric, by the present rector, containing 3 bells. The living is and the Union and division of Devizes. The houses a rectory, valued at £460, with 80 acre~ of glebe land composing the village stand in irregular detached groups, attached, in the !rift of the Bishop of Sarum; the incum interspersed with trees, on the edge of an extensive green, bent is the Rev. William Fisher, M.A., who is also one of of an oblong form, having the high road running through the canons of Salisbury Cathedral. Here is a National the centre. The parish contains 1,534 acres of land, school. Walter Long, Esq., is the lord of the manor. and the population, in 1851, was 335. The church, 1 Fisher Rev. William, M.A. [rector] Hampton James, farmer Moore Samuel, farmer TRADERS. Lavington Frederick, farmer Parsons William, baker Box William, farmer & ironfounder Lavington Thoma~. farmer Potter Thomas, farmer Burbage Andrew, farmer Lewis Thomas, Ram:n inn Reynold~ J a11e (M r~.), farmPr Clark John, carpenter Long James, sexton Stagg Emma (Miss), farmer Dyke George, farmer Long Waiter, farmer Stagg William, dairyman Dyke John, fc~rmer Moore James, farmer White William, miller Hacker Jobn, shoemaker Moore Moses, farmer PosT OPFICE.-William Pat·sons, postmaster. Letters Nat·i.onnl Scho1l, Jas. Pearce, master(& parish clerk); Jane through Devizes, arrive 10 a.m. & dispatched ~ pu.8t Pearce, mistress 5 ,p.m. The nearest money order office is at Devizes PB.ESBUTE is a parish forming part of Marlborougb, In the interior of the church is a black marble font, in in the Hundred of El cot, containing a population of which it is supposed that King- John and Edward the 1,227. The church, which has recently heen rebuilt, is Black Prince were baptized. The living is a vicarage, a handsome edifice in the early English style, with value £170 per annum, in the patronage of the Bishop of square tower, and stands in a field about one mile from Salisbury; the vicar is the Rev. Townley Ward Dowding, tbe Market-place, Marlborough; but the parish is widely M.A. Here is a National school for boys and girls. The scattered iu farms and patches for several miles around. hamlets of Manton and Clatford belong to this parish. GENTRY. Cundell George, farmer Penny Cornelius, carpenter & beer re- Dowding Rev. Towuley Ward, M. A. Fidler Alexander, blacksmith, Manton tailer, Manton [vicar] Fowles Danl. farmer,Clatford park farm Ricbardson John,National schoolmaster · FleussMr.Hen.Plough cottage,Clatford Freeman Jacob, 'Roebuck' SellwoodChas. boot & shoe mak.Manton Reeve ~onah, esq. Axbolme villa Gundry John, farmer, Clatford Smith John, shopkeeper, Man ton Turner Mrs. Preshute house Jordan John, blacksmith & beer re- Tuck Thomas, carpenter, Manton TRADERS. tailer, Man ton Tyrrell Georg-e, farmer, Man ton Andrews John Clark, farmer, Wick farm J oyce 'l'hos. carpenter & wheelwright Went worth Saml. farmer, Temple farm Blake Mary (Mrs.),' Marquis of Ailes- Keable Henry, farmer, Man ton White fieorge, miller & farmer, Man ton bury Arms,' Clatford Lyne Robert, farmer, Barton farm Letters through Marlborough, whirh Brin~den John, miller, Elcot mill Newman Robert, carpenter, l\lanton is also the nearest money order office Carter James, farmer North John, tailor, Manton Church, Rev. Townley Ward Dowding, M.A. vicar I National School, John Richardson, master PUR.TON, a de:.perate battle was fought between the Royalists and with PUB.TON STOK.E & Hamlet of BR.AYDON. Parliamentary forces. To the west of Purton is the ham PuRTON is a tGwnship, parish, village, and railway station, let of BRAYDON 1 or BRADON, with 54 inhabitants and in the Union ofCricklade and Wootton Bassett, Highworth 1 ,478 acres, once a forest, until the fifth year of the reign HundrEd, North Wilts, Sli miles from London, 4 north of Charles II., when it was di3afforested, and in lieu of the north-east from Wootton Bassctt, 6 north-west from right of· feeding their cattle in the forest and of picking Swindon, and 4 from Cricklade, containing 2,087 inha wood, the rent of 25 acres of land at Purton Stoke was bitants and 7,878 acres. 1'he village is pleasantly situated given to the poor the first Thursday after the 6th of upon a rising grouud, commanding beautiful and extensive January; the sums vary from 15s. to £4; the poor when views of the surrounding country. The houses chiefly once admitted receive the charity for life. Nevil Maske belong to the better classes of inhabitants. The Chelten lyne, Esq., who died about 1789, left £5 to the poor, aud ham branch of the Great Western railway passes near to a payment of I Os. to a minister for preaching a sermon on the village, and has a station hel'e; the Wilts and Berks Good Friday; fur the last 50 years it has been distributeil canal passes through the parish. The living is a vicarage, to all the poor who attend church on Good Friday in shil value £700, in the gift of Lord ShaftesliUry; the glebe lings and sixpences, when a sermon is preuched, and the comprises 52 or 53 acres. The church is a large and hand present vicar allows the lOs. to be distributed with £5 his some structure, in the Gothic style, with two towers, own gift. Francis G leed left £200 to be given to the poor containing 5 bells, the eastern one rising at the intersec not receiving parochial aid, not lc?ss or more than lOs. tion of the nave and chancel, which has a lofty spire ; it Here is also Hiscock's charity, given away on Good Friday. contains monuments to the families of Ashley Cooper and Fairs are held on the Tuesday before May 6th and the Dr. Maskelyne, astronomer royal, who was buried here in Friday after September 19th. The Union workhouse is 1811; the Rev. John Mervin Prower is the incumbent, here. and the Rev. Digby Octavus Cotes !s the curate. Here STOKE, or PuR TON STOKE, is a hamlet; Quarry is are places of worship for Independents l!nd Primitive half a mile north-east; Widham, 1 mile north; Red Methodists. Mrs. Miriam Stephens, in 1723, bequeathed Street, l mile south-west; Dogridge, l mile west; Peven a rent-charge of £16 IOs. for the support of a Free schooL Hill, ll miles north-west; Ringsbnry Camp, 2 miles Here is also a school conducted on \he National system. south-west ; Green Hill, 3 miles south-west; .Battle N eu the village is a Roman camp with a double ditch, the Lake, 2 miles west; Parkgate, 2 miles north; West OLHer one very perfect j and at &d Street, iu the parisbJ M arsb, 2 miles uorth-west; Cow Street an!ll3eptbam, ~ .

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