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DIRECTOR\". J HAMPSHIRE. J'AMBER. 299 area is 1,288 acres of land and 12 of water; assessable & 2.15 p.m.; dispatched at IIl3Q •.m. & 7.20 p.m. ~Value, £795; the population in xgox "tas x:.B. Alresford, z miles distant, is the nearest money ord~ Parish Clerk, John Dicker. &. telegraph ()ffice rl .Pott Office.-Mis11 Emma Elizabeth MeJ!senger, IUb-post Elementary School (mixed), ion ga children;" avera~ mistress. Letters arrive from Alresford at .6.45 a.m . attendance, 30; Miss Emma Payne, xnistres~t. • • PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Stowell Rev. Hugh Frederick La Mr-ssenger C'aleb, carpenter Galvayne Mrs. E. The Lodge lVIothe M.A. (rector), Rectory Tanner !Ienry, !arm bailiff tq 'N:'r~t. Hewson Mrs. Ovington park COMMERCIAL. Hewson, Ovington down ' Jordan George Powell, East Lane oat Dicker John,gardener to Mrs.Hewson Wa.lden Raymond, tarmer,Borough frn Stevens Mrs. Barleydown house Hannam Fra.ncis, Bush inn 1 OWER, see Copythorne. OWSLEBURY iB a parish and pleasant village, 4 a retired part of the mansion, in an old oak chest. which miles !outh-east from Shawford &tatlon on the London closed upon her with a secret spring, a.nd ill which, after and South Western a.nd Great Western railways, 5 south the lapse of many years, her mouldering remaine wer.e by-east from Winchester a.nd 6 north from Bishop's W alt eventually discovered. Longwood house is the property ham, in the Western division of the county, hundred of and residence of the Earl of Northesk D.L., J.P.. -The Fawley, petty sessional division, union and county court principal landowners are the Earl of Nurthesk~ Capt. district of Winchester, and in the rural deanery, archdea William Pery Standish, J. H. Cordery esq. and Corpu~ conry and diocese of Winchester. The church of St. Christi College, Oxford. The soil is chalk; l!!Ubsoil. Andrew is a small building of flint and rubble, consisting chalk. The chief crops are wheat, l,Jarley, oats, turnips of 13th century chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and a and sainfoin, The are~ is 5·399 acres of land and 14 .{)f weste-rn tower containing 6 bells : there are three stained water; rateable value, £4,536; ·the pbpulation 'of the windows: the church affords 200 sittings : in 189o the civil parish in 1901 w-as 789, including part of Colde:O tower was rebuilt by tb.e Earl of Northesk, and the rest Common, and of the ecclesiastical, 514. of the church restored by public subscription, at a cost uf £940! the communion plate includes a chalice dated B-\. YBRIDGE, rl; miles east, is in this parish. I552- The register dates from the year r678. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £ 150, with resi- Fisher's Pond, Crowd Hill and Hensting a-re hamlets in dence, in the gift of the vicar of Twyford, and held Owslebury parish, but in Golden Common ecclesiastical since rgn by the Rev. Lancelot Melvill Haslope ~LA. of parish, which see. Merton College, Oxford. There is a Primitive Metho- Parish Clerk, William Lee. dist chapel at Baybridge, in this parish. The eL.ly Post, M.. 0. & 'f. Office.-Mrs. Ellen Taylor, sub-post- charity is Mrs . .Alice Long's, of about [,25 yearly value. mistress. Letters through Winchester arrive at 7 Marwell Hall, the property and residence of Capt. a.m. & 12.50 p.m.; dispatched at I-45 & 7-I5 p.m.;. William Pcry Standish J.P. is pleasantly situated in well- sundays, II.I5 _a.m . wooded grounds of 7 acres: the mansion was rebuilt The school was built in 1832 with money left by th& about r8x6, but the two east wings date from the early Countess of Northesk, the vicar giving the land; it part of the 14th century: it was once the residence of was converted into a Council school on certain con- the Seymours, and afterwards of the Dacre family: ditions in 187:., & will hold roo children; average at.:. connected wit D. the old hall is a tradition of the un~ tendance, go; George William Pierce, master (resi- timely death of a young lady,· who, having withdrawn dence adjoining) herself from her companions in the course of some pastime Carriers to Winchester.-William Lee & Robert Bunney~ or amusement, and to elude their search, took refuge in mon. wed. fri. & sat - PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Baker Caroline (Mrs.), shopkeeper 'Heath Joshua, farme-r, Lower White- Haslope Rev. Lancelot Melvill M.A. Bone Waiter, beer retaile-r, Hensting flood farm (vicar), Vicarage Bunney Robert,carrier & wheelwright Hunt Henry, brick maker (letter~ Lucas Richd.MacDonald, Baybridge hl Burridge Robt. Churchill, blacksmith through Twyford, Winchester) Northesk Earl of D.L., J.P. Longwood Butcher George, farmer Lavington James Montague, farmer~ house; & 6 Hans crescent. London Carnegie Hon. Douglas George, land Bottom farm SW agent to Earl of Northesk, Rose Lee William, carrier Ormerod James H. Greenhill Hill cottage Paic& James. farmer, Rowhay tal'm RoL!'ers Mrs. Marwell manor Chandler Ernest William, beer retlr Palmer Charles, fa,rmer, Boyles farm Seth-Smith Ernest, Blackdown house Dennett John, gamekeeper to Earl of Plowman Fredk. frmr. Low.Baybridge- (letters through Up ham) N orthesk Sargent Frank, Ship inn Standish Capt. William Pery J.P. Mar Fraud Joseph, stone mason Singleton James, farmer, Hensting well hall Glasspool Frank, beer retailer Vidler Goorge, farmer, Whitefiood Standish Mrs. Marwell lodge Goggs James, farmer, Hill farm White Charles, fa-rmer & dairyman .. Welsh William, Owslebury house Guy A!:thur, beer retailer & farmer Marwell farm Hatt Brothers, farmers, Kennel farm, Winkworth James, carpenter COJIIMERCIAL. Hensting (letters through East- Working Men's Club (George W_ Anstey Robert, farmer, Lower farm leigh, Rants) j Pierce, sec) P AMBER is a scattered parish, 6 miles north-west The soil is clay -and gravel. The crops are wheat.. from Basingstoke station on the South Western main line barley, beans, peas and roots. The area is 2,182 acres to Southampton, in the Northern division of the county, of land and 3 of water; rateable value, {,2,176; the Basingstoke hundred, petty sessional division, union and population in rgo1 was 678. connty court district, -rural deanery of Silchester and LITTLE LO~DON is r mile north-east. archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. There is no parish church: the old chapel of the Benedictine priory Post Office, Pamber Heath.-William Benham, sub-post of Monk Sherborne (to which place this parish is an m:J.ster. Letters th-rough Basillgstoke delivered at 9' nexed for ecclesiastical purposes and which irtands a.m. & 2 p.m. ; sundays, 9 a.m.; dispatched, 9-3Q close to the parish boundary) has served since the time a.m. & 5 p_m.; sundays, r1.5 a.tn. Silcheste~ is the of Edward IV. as the parish church of Pamber; in nearest money order & telegraph office addition there is a Mission church, and a parsonage, Wall Letter Box, Pamber Green, cleared at II-45 B.n;t. erected by the late Richard Benyon esq. on Pamber & 6.20 p.m..; sundayst ~~-30 a.m. Wall ;Lettet; Bo~ .. Heath, for the benefit of the parishioners at that end near Smithy, cleared at 1t.5d a.m. & 6.30 p.'m.; sun of the parish, and in Little London there is a Mission days, II. 4Q a. m. Pillar Let.ter ~ox, near Primitive church used for divine service on Sunday ; there is Methodist chapel, cleared at 7-40 a.m. & 5-15 p.n::i. ~ also a Primitive Methodist chapel. The charities are : sundays, Il'.2o a.m Simpson's, [,2 1os. and Adam de Port's, £1 3s. 4d. The children -of this parish attend the schools at Sil which are distributed among the poor of the parish. chester, Tadley & Monk Sherborne There is no manor; the land is all freehold. J a mea Carriers to Basingstoke. A-rthur Monger, sat.-; William Herbert Benyon esq. of Englefield House, Reading, and Stamp, Wt>d. & sat. & .Alfred Lipscombe, from Taql.ey_, Major A. W. Hicks-Beach J.P. are chief landowners. wed. & sat (Marked thus t receive their 1etters Digges La Touche Re"\1. Everard M.A., Waldron Mrs. lmpston!! eottage~ through Bramley, Basingstoke.) Litt.D. (curate), Parsonage, Pamber Pamber Heath tDaly Nolan, Holly Bush HPath Wiggett Henry, The White bous~ de Marylski Col. Robert, Hill house, Oppe Mrs. Pamber Heath Pamber Heath Little London I Payne Miss, The Cotta.ge,Pamber Hth • .