[WILTS.] WILSFORD. • 658 [POST OFFICE Pope Richard, boot & shoe maker Newman William, Braycot Jeeves Thomas, farmer & cattle dealer Watts James, farm bailiff to Thomas COMMERCIAL. • Newman William, farmer, Draycot frm H. Redman, esq. Manor farm Atkins Robert, land surveyor Parfitt Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper, & Bridgeman William, carpenter post office Oare. Fidler George, blacksmith Penny Cornelius, carpenter Goodman Edward, Oare house Hancock James, Mompes8on's A.rm, Rowe Charles, shopkeeper & baker Goodman Miss, Oare house HintonJohn, farmer Spackman John, shoe maker , WILSFORD (with LAKE), near Amesbury, is a parish was erected by one of his ancestors in the reign of Queen and village, in the Southern division of the county, Ames­ Elizabeth, and is a beautiful specimen of the style of the bury union, Underditch hundred, Salisbury county court period; it is picturesquely situated, embosomed in woods; district, dioce!1e and l'!rchdeaconry of Salisbury, and rural the park contains some flne elm trees. Wilsford House is deanery ofAmesbury, 2~ miles south-west from Amesbury, a handsome mansion, the property of Robert Loder, esq.• and n north from Salisbury, situated on the river Avon. and residence of Capt. T. G. Gilling-. The Rev. Edward The church ofSt. Michael was rebuilt, with the exception Duke is lord ofthe manor of Lake, and Robert Loder, esq., ofthe tower, in1858, at the sole expense ofGiles Loder, esq.: is lord of the manor of Wilsford. The soil is light and it has a chancel and nave, and contains monuments to the chalky; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, Duke family. The register dates from 1618. The living is and oats. The area is 1,591 acres; ~TOSS estimated rental, a vicarage, with that of Woodford annexed, joint yearly £1,707; rateable value, £1,545; the population in 1871 value £428, with residence at Woodford, in tIle gift of the was 162- Bishop of the diocese, and held by the Rev. Robert Money Parish Cle1'k, J ames Aldridge. Chatfield, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a Mixed school, supported by the Rev. Edward Duke, M.A., Letters through Salisbury. The nearest money order office and Robert Loder, esq. On the downs are many barrows. is Amesbury Lake House, the seat of the Rev. Edwal'd Duke, 11.A., .LP., lJfixed School, Miss Martha Cuff, mistress Duke Rev. Edward, M,A., J .P. Lake ho , COM MERCIAL. IRumming Wm. farmer, Wilsford faror GilIing Capt. Thos. Gilling-,Wilsford ho Brock John, miller, Lake Sidford Georg'e, farmer, Lake farm WILSFORD (or WILLESFORD), near Pewsey, is a able value, £1,726; and the population in 1871 was 241, 'Village and parish, in the Northern division of the county, and in Manningford Bohune tithing, 1,305 acres; gross. Pewsey union, Swanborough hundred, Devizescounty court rental, .£2,01l t rateable value, £1,773; and a population district, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of Wilts, and of 265. rural deanery of Potterne, situated on the river Avon, about MANNINGFORD BOHUNE is a hamlet and tithing, 2 6 miles south-west from Pewsey, and 7 south-east from miles east. Here is a chapel of ease, a stone building, with Devizes: the nearest railway station is at Woodborough, chancel, nave, and south Jlorch, bell turret and I bell. The 2~ miles north. The church of St. Nicholas is an ancient Rev. Edwin Georg-e Wyld, B.A., is the curate in charge. structure, consisting of chancel and nave, with l'I. square There is also a Baptist chapel. tower, and contains a pulpit dating from the early part of Parish Clerk, Robert Gilbert. the 17th century. The register dates from the :\,ear 1588. The living is a vicarage, annual value £242, with residence, Letters through l\farlhoro', via Manningford. The nearest in the presentation of 8t. Nicholas's Hospital, Salisbury, money order office is Upavon. There is a PILLAR Box and held b~ the Rev. William Francis RaymoJld, M.A., ofSt. cleared at 5.5 p.m. & on sundays at 12 noon Peter's College, Cambridge. SirJohn Dugdale Astley, bart., CARRIERS:- M.P., who is lord of the manor, and Mrs. Hayward, are the Thomas Fuller, to Devizes, tuesday & thursday principal landowners. The soil and subsoil are green sand, Maurice Mortimer, from Manningford Rohune to Devizes, with some clay. The chief crops are wheat. The area of thursday; to Marlborough, saturday Wilsford tithing is 1,692 acres; gross rental, .£1,904; rate- National School (mixed), Thomas Stone, master Chamberlain Edwin, shopkeeper Bennett John, market gardener Wilsford. Gardener James, boot & shoe maker Brown James, blacksmith Hayward William Pierce Hayward WilIiam Pierce, farmer Ferris Samuel, dairyman Hearn Rev. Henry, B.A. [curate in Oram Thomas, jun. smith & farrier Ferris Thomas H, farmer charg-e], Vicarage Sharp Robert, shopkeeper & beer reUr Gale Henry B. Seven Star8, & farmer Large Mrs Mortimer Maurice, carrier Large WiJliam Manningford Bohune. Neville John, boys' day school Ferris Thomas H Oram Thomas, farrier COMMERCIAL. COMMERCIAL. Strong George, shopkeeper Chamberlain Charles, miller & fllrmer Akerman Henry, tea dealer WILTON is a parliamentary borough, union town, and Albutga, hi~ widow, succeeded in raising this oratory into parish, with a station on the 80uth-Western and Great a priory. King Alfred, after defeating the Danes, erected a Western railways, and is situate near the confluence of the nunnery and transferred it to the ~isters of the priory. rivers Nadder and Wylye, in the Southern division of the Editha, daughter of Earl Godwin, and the virgin wife of county, Branch and Dole hundred, Salisbury countv court Edward the Confessor, was educated here, and Maud queen district, diocese and archdeaconry of Salisbury, and rural of Henry 1., passed her early days between Romseyt and deanery of Wilton, 3 miles north-west from Sali~bury, and this house. Wilton was the head of the diocese during the 86 from London. The town is supposed by Baxter to have 10th and 11 th centuries: the episcopal see was transferred been the Caer Guilo, or capital of the British prince Caroi· to Sarum by William the Conqueror, which caused the lius, and subsequently an important seat of the West Saxons. decliIJ6 of Wilton. The borough first sent two members to T1Je derivation ofits name depends entirely upon tradition; Parliament in 23rd Edward L, but by the Reform Act the by some it is asserted to have been the chief town in the numberwas reduced to one. The parliamentary borough com­ county during the Saxon era, and that" Wilts town" haB prises twelve parishes besides Wilton, and parts of six other been compounded into" WiltoD," whilst other" attribute parishes: the town is governed by a high steward, mayor, the name to the fact of its standing on the banks ofthe river recorder, aldermen, and burgesses, of whom the mayor and Wylye, the name of which has ileen partly used to distinguish recorder for the time bein~ are magi8trates. The late Lord it: it was certainly an important place previous to the Herbert of Lea built, in 1844, the church of S~. Mary and Norman accession: in 871 King' Alfred fought a battle Nicholas in lieu of the old one; the expens~ which was against the Danes, who, although ultimately successful, entirely defrayed hy himself,isestimated to havebeen between sued for peace here, but in 1003 WiltOIl was partially devas- £3/),000 and £40,000: it is in the Romanesque style, the tated by Sweyn, Kin~ of Denmark: in 1143 it was taken east front raised on a terrace approached by a flight of possession of by King Stephen, who, however, was com- steps; the central entrance of this front is throngh a deeply pelled to vacate it by the army of the Empress Matilda, by recessed porch within a rich archway, abovewhich is a large whom it was destroyed by fire; it was afterwarrls rebuilt, elaborate rose window: the campanile tower, 100 feet high, and, in 1579, visited by Queen Elizabeth: in lG03 it was for containing [j bells, at the south· east angle, is connected with a time the residence of the conrt. WHton was at a "ery the building by a cloister, with elaboratt'ly carved open remote period tIle seat of a monastery; Wulstan, Earl of arches: beneath the communion taille the floor is composeO Wiltshire, is 8/lid to ha,oe commenced this foundation by of Italian ag;ates and marble; tluHeiling over this as well a!t the:erection of an oratory: tllirty years afttr his death the chancel and altar-piece, is beautifully illuminated ill.