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courts, bowling greens &c. together with stabling and garage: Henry of Rlois, brother of King Stephen and Btshop of Win. the hotel has recently been redecorated throughout ; the other chester,'. 1129-74, and was reputed a powerful fortress: at hotel is the " Railway." different periods it sustained several sieges and during the The Police Station is in Union road. last was taken by the Parliamentary forces, under Sir William The E Company 5th Tcrritoria.l Battalion t.he Queen's (R.oyal Wailer: the anciPnt but ruined keep still remains in the West Surrey Regiment) have a. drill hall in Bear lane, and episcopal garden, and is now (1913) undergoing careful repair. number about 120 men. The Home Park, of about 300 acres, and containing a. fine herd • The Voluntef'r Fire Brigade comprises .a superintendent, of deer, is watered by a feeder of the Wey. On the south assistant superintendent and 21 men; the engine house is bank of the river W ey, at the foot of a hill, which bounds the in South street. · heath between and Waverley, are Moor Park and The Farnham Working Men's Conservative Club occupies house, the property and residence of W. A. Soa.mes esq. ; the the premises known as Ivy House, in Downing street, whet·e house was formerly called " Compton Hall : " the park contains it h~ commodious rooms and well laid out grounds : it now about 200 acres, and the meadows, plantations and gardens cover numberc; about 350 members. 450 acres : the estate was purchased by Sir Wm. Temple and was the last retreat of that able scholar and statesman, who died The I... iberal Club in South street has a library of over 3,000 here 27th January, 1698-9; here als.J Dean Swift wrote many volumes and about 200 members. of his works: adjoining the grounds is a house once the The Farnham Institut~ in South street, opened in 1891, residence of Miss Johnson, whom Swift celebrated by the ctmtains billiard, reading and recreation rooms, and a library name of " Stella ; " it is still known as " Stella's Cottage : " of about 1,500 volumes: there are now about 450 members. the gardens, of which he speaks so highly, have since been The Farnham Social Club in South street, established about modernized. On the estate are Mother Ludlam's and Foot's 1880, has about 30 members. caves. Trimmer's Cottage Hospital, East str~et, waJ established in Near here are the remains of earthworks, called "Cresar's 1895, and contains 8 beds and two cots: the number of Camp," believed to have been a Roman permanent camp,. patients in 1912 was 86. Roman coins were found here in 1828 by C. E. Lefroy esq. Farnham Joint Isolation Hospital• is at . and in 1866 a quantity of sestertii and other coins of the Emperors Diocletian, Constantine, Alexander Severus and Windsor's Almshonses, standing on the ea.Mt side of Domitian, were discovered by Mr. J. Harafane Dowsett. street, are eight in number and were erected in 1619 in honour The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the hundred of thP Holy Trinity for eight poor personc; of the Church of Farnham ; the courts are held. at the Rush hotel. • of England, by Andrew Windsor, of Bentley; the inmates The principal landowners are W. A. Soames esq. of Moor ori~rinally received 20d. per week, paid out of the rent of Park, and the exors. of the late R and C. Trimmer. a. farm at Buscot, Berks. but the addition of several other The area of Farnham parish and Urban District is 1,106 bequests has enabled the trustees to increase this amount acres of land and 8 of water; rateable value, £45,815; the to 8, 6 pAr week each, besides a grant of £2 at Christmas for population in 1901 was 6,401, and in 1911, 7,365, including the purchase of coals; the charity is managed by six trustees. 31· officials and 436 inmates in the workhouse, and 6,368 in Five almshouses were erected in Mead lane by the late the t>cclesiastical parish, which includes parts of Fa.rnham Mr. Sampson, but were not endowed. There are also eight and Farnham Rural civil parishes. almshouses in West street, built in 1893 and endowed bv th!l • By an Order in Council, gazetted June 11, 1912, part of late George Trimmer esq. the endowment being augmented the ecclesiastical parish of St. John the Evangelist, Hale, to the extent of £4,000 by the late Messrs. R.. G. and C. E. containing a population in 1911 of 1,102, was tranRferred to Trimmer; each inmate receives lOs. weekly ; adjoining these St. Andrew, Farnham, ecclesiastical parish. · almshouses are eight others, erected and endowed in 1906 by The area of Farnham Rural parish is 9,489 acres, part the late Mr. George McDonald, each inmate receiving 8s. of which is under hops, the upper greensand here being weekly. Other charitjes, producing £160 yearly, are for suitable for their growth, and 57 of water; rateable value, distri buti on. £44,781; population in 1901, 8,181, and in 19ll, 9,265. William Cobbett M.P. the eminent political writer, was Parish Clerk, William Cleeves. born at the "Jolly Farmer" public--house in this town, COMPTON, about I! mile'! .. uuth-east and neat' Waverley, 9th March, 1762; he died at Normandy, in Surrey, and is is in this parish, on the bank of the Brook, which runs from buried opposite the north door of the parish church here. the Holt. to through Moor Park, where it joins the Farnham Castle i9 the residence of the Right Rev. the rivBr \Vey · the place contains a fpw scattered houses to the Lord Bishop of , prelate of the Order of the Garter, west of \Vaverley, and a small mission room in connection di()('esan of 'Vinchester, of the Isle of Wight and the Chanm•l with the parish church. Isles, and third in rank among the bishops of England. The car.tle is se-ated north of the town and contains some ancient RUNFOLD is a tithing in the parish of Famham, 1! miles Norman work; it is !'laid to have been founded in 1129 by north-east from the town, on the road to . · OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic E. D. Office (Head Office), 107 VRBAN DISTRICT COUXCIL West street.-Frederick William Charley, postmaster Offices, Sonth street. Money Orders, Savings Bank, Insurance &c.-The money Meetings held the first tuesday in each month at 7 p. m. order office & savings bank are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m Members. Express Delivery business, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m Chairman, Edgar Kempson. Telegraph.-Messages may be sent from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. & Retire in April, 1914. from 8.30 to 10 a.m. on sundays George Ethelbert Aldridge I John Henry Goddard Arthur James Barnard Edgar Kem.pson Letters & Parcels delivered at 7 & 10 a.m. & 3.15 & 7.10 p.m Retire in April, 1915. Letters are dispatched at3, 5.45, 8.10, 8.40, 9.15, 9.40, 10.15, 11.5, 11.25 & 11.45 a.m. & 12.30, 1.25, 2.15, 3.20, 5.30, 6, Geo'"ge Baigent Charles E. Borelli 6.45, 7.30, 8, 8.25, 8.40, 9.45, 10.50 & 11.45 p.m. on week Hamilton K. Bentall . Thomas Mitchell days & 5.45 a.m. & 8 p.m. on sundays, Good Friday & Retire in April, 1916. Christmas Dc~.y. On Bank holidays 8.25, 8.40, 9.45 & 10.50 p.m William Thomas Coleman Jorn Robert Nash Arthur J ames Figg • Thomas Patterson Town delivPries take place at 7 & 10 a..m. & 3.15 & 7.10 Officers. p.m. (the 7.10 p.m. delivery suspended on wednesdays) Clerk, James W. Wright, South street Town Sub-Post & :M. 0. Offices :- Treasurer, George E. Alexander, Capital & CountiM Bank, 75 Castle street · 56 East street.-Thomas Morris, sub-postmaster. Box Mediual Officer of Health, Samuel Geo. Sloman M.R.c.s.Eng., cleared 8.25 & 10.40 a.m. & 12.10, 2.20, 2.45, 6.25, 7.25 L.R.C.P.Lond. 39 We&t street & 9.20 p.m.; sundays, 12 noon & 7.40 p.m Surveyor & Sanitary Inspector, Robt. Wm. CasR, South Ridgway road.-Reuben R. Rlackmore, sub-postmaster. Box Collector, Alfred E. Tborp, 8 & 9 Downing street cleared 8 & 10.35 a.m. & 12.15, 2.~0, 6.15, 7.20 & 8.35 p.m.; sundays, 12.15 & 6.50 p.m JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE FARNHAM DIVISION. Station road.-Hubert Rose Robins, sub-postmaster. Box cleared 8.10, 10.40 & 11.30 a.m. & 2.1.'\, 6.15, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. ; Howard Robert Mowbray esq. D.L. Rodsall Manor, Shacldll' sundays, 6.55 p.m ford, , chairman Anderson Rupert Darnleyesq. D.L. , Farnham Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Runfolrl.-Miss Louisa Lunn, sub­ Bacon Kenrick Verulam esq. The Lodge, Hale, Farnham postmistress. Letters through Farnham arrive at 6.20 & B11teman Richard esq. Foxhurst, Ash Vale, Ash. 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