(Wilts.] Semley. 480 Post Office
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(WILTS.] SEMLEY. 480 POST OFFICE SEMLZY is a township, parish, and railway station on structure, has a nave and chancel, with a square tower, tur the Salisbury and Yeovil line, 20 miles south-west of Salis reted and embattled, containing 4 bells; at each corner are bury, 4 south of Hindon, and 3 north of Shaftesbury, pinnacles. In 1846 the ehurch was repaired and beautified, running nearly east and west, and lying in a beautiful when a handsome font, made from Tisbury stone, was pre valley; there is a richly-wooded country in the background sented by Miss Bennet, of Pyt House. The living is a rec on the north, and the Dorsetshire hills are seen in the dis tory, valued at .£665, with residenee1 in the gift;. of Christ tance stretching along its front on the south; it is in Chalke Church, Oxford; the incumbent is tne Rev. Henry Hall, hundred, Tisbury union, Hindon division, South Wilts, instituted into this rectory in 1856. The earliest ~ate of the diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of Salisbury, and deanery register is 1657. There is a National school for boys and of Chalke, containing 699 inhabitants, and 2,646 acres of girls. Lord Arundell of W ardour is lord of the manor. corn and pasture land. The church, an ancient cruciform PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Burt Hugh, farmer, Hook farm Morgan Robert, farmer, Bowman's farm Hall Rev. Henry [incumbent] Burton William, farmer, Conduit farm Perry George1 farmer, Hatt's farm King Rev. Tl10mas [Baptist] Clark Samuel, farmer, Share & Savage Pike James, tarmer COMMERCIAL. farms Pike John, faJ"mer, Curtain farm Baker Robert, fanner, Chalcott's farm Ford John, farmer, Oysters farm Pike William, farmer, Amberleaze farm Baker Thomas, shopkeeper Gray John, shoemaker Pike William, jun. farmer, Whitebridge Boring Robert, smith Harding John, New inn farm Bracher Edward, post office Haynes Edward, farmer Rogers Ell, shopkeeper Bracher John, farmer, Malthouse farm Holloway Thos.fanner, Westwoodfurm Rogers John, shoemaker Bracher Henry, farmer, Broad Oak frm Hull Charles, farmer, East End farm Shipman John, smith Brown Thomas, farmer, Knipe's farm James Geo~, butcher Street James, farmer, Chnrchgreen &m .Burden Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper Maidment Elias, shopkeeper Vincent Charles, farmer, Seynear's fa1m Burden Jonah, carpenter Merchant John, parish clerk Woodford John, farmer, Marsh farm PosT OFFICE.-Edward Bracher, receiver. Letters arrive from Shaftesbnry at 11 a.m. & dispatched at 3 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Shaftesbury lfational School, Miss Mary Clarkson, mistre.."S J CARRIERS from Tisbury to Shaftesbury SZVENHAMPTON is a hamlet and tithing in the parish The chapel of St. Andrew is a neat structure, with square and union of Highworth, Cricklade Parliamentary borough, tower, and contains 5 bells; it is a chapelry attached to the South Wilts, distant from it 1! mile south, 4 north-west of vicarage ofHighworth. Population, in 1851,205. Shrivenham station, and 75t from London, diocese of Glou- Fryar's Mill is 1 mile east; Wameford, half a mile south cester and Bristol, archdeaconry of Bristol and deanery of east; Round Robbing, ll mile north-east; Maggot Mill, 2 Cricklade. The whole of the property of this hamlet belongs miles north-west. to Lady Wetherell Warneford, who is lady of the manor. W ameford Lady W ethera11 Edginton Thomas, farmer Whiting George, grocer & teadealer Chillingworth Richard, farmer Hewer William, farmer Letters through Highworth, which is Davis Samuel, farmer Lane Frederick, farmer also the nearest money order office SHALBODB.N is a township, parish, and remote village, 110 acres of glebe land, in the patronage of the Dean and in the hundred of Kingswardstone, diocese of Oxford, 1 Canons of Windsor; the Rev. John Gore~ M.A., is the Hungerford union, pleasantly situated in a valley protected 1 present incumbent. Here is a National school. erected at on the north, east and south by hills as far as the eye can the sole expense of Thomas Kingston, Esq. The principal reach; it is distant from Hungerford 4 miles south, and 10 landowners are the Marquis of Ailesbury, Rev. T. P. south-east from Marlborough, on the borders of Berks, a Mitcbell, and Thomas Kingston, Esq. portion of which is in that county; it contains5,35f) acres of SHALBOURN WILTS includes the tithings of Oxenwood, land, viz., inSbalbourn,Berks, 2,000; Shalbourn, Wilts, 1,110; with 1,695 acres and 190 inhabitants; N ewtown, with 1.110 Oxenwood, 1,695; the population, in 1851, was 1,0".23, chiefly acres and 58 inhabitants. Oxenwood was a detached part of engaged in agricultural pursuits. The church of St. Michael Berks until 20th Oetober, 1844, when it was annexed to is an ancient edifice, with square tower, in good repair; the I Wilts; Bagshot hamlet is in Shalbourn Riever, half a mile living is a vicarage, with residence, value £439 yearly, with south. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. BlandyFrederick farmer,Prosperousfrm Massey Richard, Red Lion Gore Rev. John, M.A. [vicar] Bendy George, King's Arms Phillips George, farmer Kingston Thomas, esq Briant Richard, miller & farmer Phillips George, funner, Burge heath :Mitchell Rev. Thomas P. Stanton house Briant William, grocer Phillips Jesse, wheelwright COMMERCIAL. Cannon Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Phillips Venus, shoemaker Aldridge Henry & John, blacksmiths Cundell Francis, farmer, East court Pike .Alfred, farmer, Newton farm Aslett Thomas, fanner, Bagshot Dodson George, blacksmith Reeves Catherine (Mrs.), farmer Baker Thomas & Amos, farmers, Revers Goddard George, blacksmith, Oxenwood Rush Charles, Plough Barnes Jolm, farmer, West court Hawkins Ernest, shopkeeper Self Henry, farmer, Oxenwood Barnes William, farmer, Oxenwood Hutchins Richard, Bagshot Oak Smallbone John, fanner, Folly farm Baverstock Comelius, farmer Levy John, tailor Waters Frederick, miller Baverstock Cornelius, carpenter Levy William, National schoolmaster Westmacott John, saddler& harness ma. Baverstock William, butcher May Thomas, farmer Whale George, boot & shoe maker PosT OFFICE.-Pillar letter-box in the village. Letters arrive by foot post from Hungerford at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. Nearest money order office is at Hungerford SBA:R.NCOTT, or SHORNCOTE, is a township and small Rev. John Greenly, M.A., is the incumbent, who resides at parish, 3 miles south from Cirencester, and north of Minety Salisbury; the Rev. William Bartraro, M.A., is the curate. station, in the hundred of Cricklade, diocese of Gloucester Here is a small parish church, All Saints. The ~opulation and Bristol, archdeaconry of Bristol, and deanery of Crick is 29; the area. in acres, about485. Joseph 1tlill, &q., owns Jade, Cirencester union, .North Wilts. The livin~ is a rectory, nearly all the property. - Baker, Esq., is lord of the value £150 per annum, with residence, including 35 acres manor. of glebe, in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor; the Skuse Robert, farmer I Taylor Thomas, farmer f Weeks Renben, parish clerk • Letters through Cricklade, which is also the nearest money order office SH::E:k:R.:rNGTOX is a township and parish on the river tronage of the Rev. Prebendary Arthur Fane, B.A., to whom Wily, in the hundred of Branch and Dole, and Warminster the manor beloDg!J; the Rev. }lason Anderson is the in union, South Wilts, 7l miles south-east from Wanninster cumbent. The church of St. Michaelis a smallediflce, with station, 121! from London, and 4 &om Heytesbury, diocese a bell turret; its east and west windows are finely deco and archdeaconry of Salisbury, and deanery of Wylye. The rated. Population, in 1851, 189 ; acreage, 1,280 ; rateable living is a rectory, value £238, with residence, in the pa- value, .£1,023. On the downs are some ancient relics. Anderson Rev. Mason, Rectory Alford John, mil1er Everett Cornelius, parish clerk coMl'JERCIAL. Alford Thomas, farmer Letters through Heytesbury, which Alford James, farmer Axford Henry, shopkeeper is also the nearest money order office SH::E:D.STOX MAGNA 6. SB::E::R.STOX :PA:R.VA. west-by-south from Malmesbury, and about 5l south-we~t SHERSTO:Jf MAGNA, or Great Sherston, a township, large from Tetbury, in Chippenham hundred, union of Malmes village, and parish, situated on the river Avon, o• miles bury, North Wilts, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, &reh-.