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DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. WESTBVRY. 249 amount to £2oo yearly. John Matravers esq. by will, The division embraces the hundred of Westbury. Petty dated z6th April, I8I4, gave to his trustees £I,ooo, free Sessions are held at the Town Hall on the second man of legacy duty, to purchase clothing for 20 poor women day in each month, at II a.m. & also on every monday residing in Westbury. This place gives the title of baron at II a.m. under the Criminal Justice Act to the family of Bethell. Leighton House, the seat of William Henry Laverton esq. J.P. is a mansion Westbury Rural District Council. of stone, standing in beautiful park-like grounds, com Meets at the Board room every alternate tues. at I2 noon. manding fine and extensive views of the Downs and sur Clerk, John CaEaway, Church street, Westbury rounding country. The chief landowners are the Right Treasurer, W. E. Gunning, Wilts & Dorset Bank,Westbury Hon. Sir Massey Lopes hart. P.C. who is the lord of Medical Officer of Health, Waiter Hugo Re<ld, Warminste:L> the manor and hundred, the Rt. Hon. Lord Ludlow P.C. of road, West bury Heywood House, William Henry Laverton esq. of Leigh Sanitary Inspector, William Henry Stanley, Westbury ton, Charles N. P. Phipps esq. of Cha:cot, Westbury, and Public Establishments. Edward Endymion Porter esq. of East Hill, Rodden, Cemetery, Bratton road, Thomas U. Pinniger, clerk Frome- The soil is green sand; subsoil, gault or dark to the Burial Board; .Albin Randall, The Lodge, supt clay. The parish contains IO,o7o acres, principally pas Cottage Hospital, Edward Peter Shorland M.R.C.S.Eng., ture, arable and down land and I3 of water; rateable Wa~ter Hugo Reed M.R.C.S.Eng. & Edward Trevo:r value, £I6,6gi; the populatio_n of t~e parish, with Lei_gh Shorland L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng.medical officers; and Dilton in 189I was 5.634· mcludmg 67 officers and m Edgar Bartlett, hon. sec mates in the workhouse, and of the ecclesiastical parish County Court, His Honor Judge Gardiner; John of All Saints, 3·337· Callaway, registrar & high bailiff; Wi[iam Cor Sexton, William Hart. nish, sub-bailiff. The Court is held every alter nate month in the Town Hall, at 10 a.m.; WESTBURY LEIGH is a large hamlet I mile south the following places are within its jurisdiction :-Bayn west, with some good old houses. The chapel of ease ton, Bratton, Brook, Chapmanslade, Coniston (East) & here, erected in I88o, is a building of stone in mixed Coniston (West), Edington, Dilton & Dilton Marsh, styles, consisting of chance:, nave, south aisle, south Hawkeridge, Heywood, Hisomley, Short Street, Stand porch and a tower, added in 188g, at the south-west angle erwick (Wilts), Tinhead, Westbury & Westbury Leigh and CQntaining one bell: there are 300 sittings. Here For Bankruptcy purposes this court is included in that are also two Baptist chapels. of Frome; Edward Gustavus Clarke, Bank chambers, Corn street, Bristol, official receiver CHALFORD is a small hamlet I mile south. Certified Bailiff under the "Law of Distress Amendment DILTON is a chapelry, in the parish of and annexed to Act," Wil_I~am Cor~ish, Alfrl':d street, Westbury the vicarage of Westbury, containing a few houses, about Co_unty to.l~e Stat~o~i Maristow street, John Daly, 2 miles south-west from the town of Westbury, and 3 1 mspec or, 4 cons a es . north-west from Warminster. The chapel of St. Mary, I Town Hall, Market place, Wilham Cormsh, keeper standing at the foot of a hill, is a small but ancient build- Volunteers. ing of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, 1st Wiltshire Rifl.es (G Co.), Drill Hall; Sergeant John nave, south porch and a small turret with spire contain- Burrows, instructor ing one bell: there 100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1585. John Wilkins' charity, of £go 1Vestbury & Whorwelldown Union. yearly, arising from invested property left in 1729, Board day, tuesday, fortnightly at II a.m. at th6 is for clothing, and the Castley charity, of £I5 Workhouse. yearly, for bread and clothing for the inhabitants The union comprises the foJowing places: West Ashton,. of the chape:ry. C. N. P. Phipps esq. is lord of the manor Bratton, Heywood, Dilton Marsh, North Bradley, Bu:k of Dilton. ington, East Coulston, Edington, Hinton, Keevil, South Dilton Marsh, Bratton and Heywood are ecclesiastical wick, Steeple Ash ton & Westbury. The population of parishes formed out of Westbury, and will be found under the union in 1891 was Io,I66; area, 31,567 acres; rate their respective headings. able va~ue in 1898, £67,885 Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, John Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Callaway, Church street, Westbury Delivery, Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Treasurer, W. E. Gunning, Wilts & Dorset Bank,Westbury Office, Edward street. Miss Amelia Eyers, post Relieving & Vaccination Officers & Collectors to the Guar... mistress. Mails arrive from London & a:l parts, dians, .No. 1 district, George Pugh, West bury; :!Xo. :a are delivered at 7 a.m.; (Ist day) mail arrives from district, A~fred Hall, North Brad1ey Lcmdon & all parts of the United Kingdom (excepting Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. I district, the counties of Somerset, Devon&Cornwall & neighbour Edward Peter Shor:and M.R.C.S.Eng. Church street, ing towns) & foreign countries at 11.35 a.m.; London Westbury; No. 2 district, Nicholas Vincent "\Vise (2nd day), I2.45 p.m.; London (3rd day), Bath, Bris L.R.C.P.Irel. Trowbridge; No. 3 district, George tol, Ireland, Wilts, Frome &c. 4 p.m. Box closes 10. Io Christopher Tayler M. D. Trowbridge; No. 4 district, a.m. (1st day) Wiltshire, Frome, Wells &c. at 1.50 George Gooden Parsons L.R.C.P.Lond. Bratton p.m.; London (2nd day), Reading, Swindon &c.; North Superintendent Registrar, John Callaway, Church street,. of England, Ireland & Scotland, Southampton & South Westbury; deputy, Henry Broome Pinniger, Church West of England, Bath, 2.45 p.m.; Salisbury, 8.50 street, Westbury , p.m.; last dispatch to London & all parts 8.20 p.m. or Registrars of Births & Deaths, Bradley sub-district, Alfd. with extra stamp till 8.45 p.m. On sunday there is Hall, North Bradley; Westbury sub-district, Edwarci only one delivery of letters at 7 a.m. & one dispatch at Peter Shorland, Church street; deputy, Miss Beatrice 8.20 p.m. Telegraph office open 8 till 8 ; sundays, E. Shorland 8 till Io a.m Registrar of Marriages, John Henry Hooper Hillman,. Post & M. 0. 0. & S. B. Westbury Leigh. Mrs. Sarah Westbury; deputy, Charles Paine, Westbury Jane Lanfear, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Workhouse, a building of brick, & will hold 340 inmates; Westbury at 6.25 a. m. & 2.40 p.m.; dispatched at I. ro Edward Peter Shorland, medical officer; Rev. Sidney & 7·I5 p.m.; sundays, II a.m Dugdale M. A. chaplain; Edgar 0. Gutteridgl', master; Wall Letter Boxes, Warminster road, cleared at 9·45 a.m. Mrs. Mary Gutteridge, matron & 1.35 & 7.50 p.m.; Alfred street, cleared 9·55 a.m. & School Attendance Committee. r.45 & 8 p.m. ; Beerswell, cleared 9.50 a.m. & 1.40 & Meets at the Board room everv• alternate tues. at 12 noon • 7·55 p.m. ; Westbury Leigh, cleared I2.50 & 7·5 p.m. ; Clerk, John Cal~away, Church street, Westbury Chalford, cleared 1.20 & 7·40 p.m.; & Railway station, Attendance Officers, the Relieving Officers cleared at I2.I5 & 7.30 p.m Public Officers. County Magistrates for Westbury Petty Sessional Division. Clerk to Commissioners of Taxes for Trowbridge Divisioa & to the Burial Board, John Callaway, Church street Ludlow Rt. Hon. Lord P.C., D.L. Heywood house, West- Collector of Poors Rates, Hy. Robt. Watts, Maristowe st bury, chairman Town Crier, John Gray, Fore street Phipps Chas. Nicholas Paul esq. D.L.Cha:cot ho.Westbury Laverton Wm. Henry esq. D.L. Leighton house, Westbury Places of Worship, with times of services. Porter Edward Endymion, East hill, Frome All Saints' Parish Church, The Rev. Sidney Dugdale M.A Bosanquet Eustace F. Steep:e Ashton house, Trowbridge vicar; 8 & 11 a. m. & 6.30 p.m. & daily, II a.m. & The chairman of the Rural District Council for the time 5·30 p.m being, is an ex-officio magistrate Chapel of Ease, Westbury Leigh. Rev. Charles Wood ?\LA. Clerk to the Magistrates, John Callaway, Church street curate; 7·30 & n a.m. & 6.30 p.m. & daily, 5.30 p.m .