84:4 ALDER TON. . [KELLY'S Harding Joseph, jun. dairyman IParsons Stephen, farmer White Thomas, blacksmith Lucas Charles, farmer Sparey Henry, Three Crowns P.H ALDERTON is a village and parish on the Gloucester- hart. D.L., J.P. of Grittleton, ii lord of the manor and sole shire border, 9 miles north-west from Chippenham railway landowner. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops station and 8 south-west from Malmesbury, in the North are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 1,587 acres; Western division of the county, Chippenham hundred, rateable value, £1,506; the population in 1881 was 125. Malmesbury petty sessional division, union and county court DuNLEY is rl miles south-east. distrid, rural deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of Parish Clerk, The Vicar. Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. Giles underwent considerable repair about 1 845; it is of PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Jane Watts, postmistress. Letters stone, in the Early English style, and has a chanccl,nave,south through Chippenham, at7.15a.m.; dispatched at 6.10 p.m. aisle,. north transept, south porch and spire with 5 bells: there Badminton is the nearest money order & telegraph office are 270 sittings. The register dates from the year r6o6. The School, built in 1845, for 100 children ; average attendance~ living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £150, in the gift of 53; & has an endowment of £1o yearly, chargeable Sir John Neeld bart. and held since 1875 by the Rev. Jo11ephus on the Neeld estates, &liberally supported by Sir J. Neeld Glover D.D. St. John's College, Cambridge. Sir J. Neeld & the vicar; Miss Emma l\Iary Stafford, mistress Glover Rev. Josephus D. D. [vicar] Hulance Thomas, stone mason Spencer Ernest, farmer COMMERCIAL. Hulance William, shopkeeper & beer ret Spencer William Ernest, farmer AlpassSusannh.(l\Irs.),beer ret.&shpkpr Kington John, farmer Watts Jane (Mrs.), post office mistress Cook George, blaeksmith KingtonJn.Beard(Mrs.),frmr.New frm Wheeler Stephen Llewellyn, farmer, Ford John, shopkeeper Maidment George, farmer Townfield & Alderton Grove farms is a parish and village, situated in a this parish. Lord Ashburton is lord of the manor and plain, in the midst of a remarkably well-cultivated district, 5 principal landowner. The soil is heavy loam ; subsoil, chalk miles east from and 4 north-west from Wood- and clay. The entire parish contains 5,483 acres of land; borough station, on the Great 'Vestern railway,in the Eastern rateable value of All Cannings, £3,359; and in I88r, Boo divi~ion of the county, hundred of Swanborough, Devizes inhabitants, of whom 493 are in All Cannings tithing, 137 petty sessional division, union and county court district, in Allington tithing, and 170 in Etchilhampton tithing, .Aveburyrural deaneryCaunings portion, Wiltsarchdeaconry which see. and Salisbury diocese. The Kennet and Avon canal passes Allington tithing is half a mile north, and has a through here. The church of St. Anne is an ancient cruci- Baptist chapel. Rybury Camp, on Clifford's Hill, 1t miles form building of grey stone, in the Early English style, con- north-east, is supposed to be of Early English origin; and sisting of a chancel, north and south transepts, nave of three the downs surrounding the village are dotted with many bays, aisles, north and south porches and a central tower, barrows. Rateable value, £855 . with a plain parapet and turret, and containing 5 bells and Parish Clerk, James Tilley. clock: the chancel has been restored in the Early English style, under the superintendence of Mr. Thomas Henry Fullaway (or FULLWAY), formerly extra-parochial, is Wyatt, architect; it has a wooden groined roof supported by now a parish in the union and county court district of shafts of Devonshire marble, and a reredos of carved alabas- Devizes, 2i" miles east-by-south from Devizes. The soil is ter: the east window and five others are all memorials, the heavy clay. The chief crops are c8'l'eals. The area is re­ last of which, ins3rted in 1879 to the Hitchcock family, is a turned with All Cannings; rateable value, £268; the popu· splendid specimen by Hardman; the subjects are all of an lation in x881 was II. agricultural character: there are about 350 sittings, most PosT 0FFICE.-Mx:s. Martha Maslen, receiver. Letters of which are unappropriated. The register dates from the through Devizes, delivered at 9.10 a.m.; box closes at year I579· The living is a rectory, with the chapelry of 5.40 p.m.; on sundays letters are received at g.Io a.m. & Etchilhampton annexed, joint yearly value from tithe rent- dispatched at 10.25 a. m. The nearest money order office charge £1,2041 gross £1,243, including 36~ acres of glebe, is at Devizes, & nearest telegraph office at Woodborough with residence, in the gift of Lord Ashburton, and held since railway station. There is a WALL Box at Allington, IB69 by the Rev. Edmund May M.A. of Merton College, cleared at 5.50 p.m. & on sundays at Io.so a.m Oxford. There are charities of the yearly value of £16, and National School (mixed), with matron's residence, for no a sum of £go, bequeathed in or about 1884 by the Rev. H. children; average attendance, 90; Miss Wills, mistress Methuen, a son of a former rector, for the poor. St. Ann's CARRIERS TO DEVIZES.-George Swanborough, to ' Three Hill fair, August 6th, for cattle and sheep, is held within Crowns,' every thurs. & sat All Cannings. Maslen James, farmer . 1Burgess Henry, farmer Butler Rev, Thomas Lcurate] Maslen Martha(Mrs.),grocer,Post office Hillier James, blacksmith Glass Miss Nash John, blacksmith Hiscock Charles, grocer & carpenter Nutland -, farmer Instone George Audley, farm bailiff to Hitch~ock Miss MayRev.Edmund M.A.[rector],Rectory Page John, farmer the Earl of Ilchester Taylor Simon Waiter, Prospect house Stevens Jonathan, shopkeeper & farmer Parry Francis, farmer Swanborough George, carrier Wells Edwin, farmer COMMERCIAL. Tayler Simon Walter, farmer Benger Joseph, King's Arms P.H Wiltshire David & Joseph, farmers Fullaway. Burry Edward, carpenter Allington. Butts -, dairy farmer Crees Sidney, farmer, Manor farm Benjamin Miss Croome James, farmer Maslen Charles, shoe maker Porter Rev. Edwin [Baptist] Wiltshire William, dairy farmer ALLINGTON (near Amesbury) is a parish and "V'illage, 4 a rectory, gross yearly value £265, including . 37 acres of miles east-south-east from Amesbury, 8~ north-east from glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Craven, and Salisbmy, and 2~ north from Porton station on the South held since 1887 by the Rev. Charles David Crawley M.A. of Western railway, in the Southern division of the county, Christ Church, Oxford. Here is a small Primitive Methodist Amesbury hundred and union, petty sessional division of chapel. Mrs. King Wyndham is lady of the manor. The Salisbury e.nd Amesbury, Salisbury county court district, principal landowners are the trustees of the late James Amesbury rural deanery Amesbury portion and arch- Borne esq. and the Amesbury charity trustees. The soil is deaconry and diocese of Salisbury. The Bourne flows light loam on chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are through the parish. The church of St. John the Baptist wheat, barley and oats. The area is 955 acres; rateable has been rebuilt, and was consecrated in 1851 : it is a value, £Bs8; the population in I88r was 84. small edifice of flint with stone dressings, embracing the Parish Clerk, James Coleman. Norman, Early English and Perpendicular styles, and Letters through Salisbury, arrive at 8.30 a. m.; Amesbury is comprises a chancel and nave, with square tower at the south- the nearest money order & telegraph office. WALL LETTER west corner and 3 bells; the entrance is through the base Box, cleared at 5.30 p.m of the tower : the east window is stained : there are xoo sit- The children of this parish attend Boscombe school tings. The register dates from the year 1655. The living is CARRIER TO SALISBURY.-Penney, tues. & sat Crawley Rev.Charles David M. A. Rectory llorne Charles, farmer, Manor farm IPhilpott Alfred, farmer Burnett Charles, beer retailer Borne James Robt. farmer, West farm .ALTON BARNES (or BERNERS) is a parish and small division, union and county court district of Devizes and village adjoining Alton Priors, situated near the Kennet and rural deanery of Avebury Cannings portion, archdeaconry Avon canal, 7 miles east from Devizes, 7 south-west from of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Mary Marlborough, 4 north-west from Pewsey and 2 north from is a small ancient structure of stone and plaster, having a Woodborough station on the Berks and Rants Extension chancel and nave, but no tower: there are 2 bells: the east branch of the Great Western railway, in the Eastern division window is stained, and there is a good mural tablet dated of the county~ hundred of Swanborough, petty sessional x685: there are 100 sittings. The register dates from the