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,Wall Letter Box cleared at 10.15 a.m. 1.20 &; 7.15 p.m. IElementary School (mixed), built in 1880, for 100 child- week day,s &; 10.IS a.m. sundays ren; average attendance, 59; Miss Laura Barnes, mist PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. (Fdk. Blake William, farmer, ~taverton farm .2idley Rev. Stuart Oliver M.A.(vicar), Rogers, manager) Bond James, Old Bear mu Vicarage Barnett Albert, stone mason Couzens Frank, farmer Rogers Donald, Wood villa Bazley Thos. M.R.C.V.S.L. vet. surgn STEEPLE ASHTON is a large village and parish, 4 t-he parishes of , Edington and Steeple Ashton. milflS eaS't from 'Drowbridge station on the Great Western The Right Hon. WaIter Hume Long P.C., M.P. of II rnil"W1l.y, 5 S{)utlh from MelkS'ham, in the WEli&tern division Ennismore Gardens, London S.W. is lord of the manor of the county, hundred and petty sesSlional divislion of and principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay WhorweI1sdoWlIl, W6stbury union, oo1lllity court district and stones. The chief crops are wheat and roots, with of Trowbridg·e, rurnl doonery of Potteme (Bradford por- a large proport,ion of land in pasture. The area of trion), archdeaconry oi WiLts and diocese of Salisbury. Steeple Ashton is 2,831 acres; rateable value, £4,9°2; The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a building of stone and the population in 1901 was 650 in the civil and I 390 in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, in the ecclesiastical parish. ' lrisles, north and south porches, and an 'embattled western .., . .. . tower containing a clock and 7 bells: the chancel was HI~TON IS a tlthmg ID thIS. parIsh, 11 mIles. north. erected in 1853: the stained east window is a memorial ~e~e IS' a Wesleya.n ~~apel, bUilt. about 1864, ~Ith 100 to WaIter Long esq.; the west window was filled with sIttmgs, and a. PrImItIve MethodI~t ohapel, built about stained glass in 1879, and the other windows contain 1859, and holding 60. Th~ ar~a IS 676 acres; rateable "fraO'ments of ancient stained glas·s: there are marble value, £1.,21 5; the populatIOn ID 1901 was 152 . mo~uments to the Hon. Thomas Beach, 1774; and Helen, West Ash~, ~ tithin~ of ~teep~e Ashton and a se­ 'his wife, 1771; to John Smith, 1775; Anne Cary, 1772 ; para0 eccles13stlCal pansh, IS gtven under anmher William Long, 1783; Henry Long, 1672; Richard Long, headI~g. 1708 ; John Long, 1796; and brasses to the Right Pan>S