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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 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 . The church of St. Christi College, . 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 station on the South Western main line barley, beans, peas and roots. The area is 2,182 acres to , 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 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, Heath.-William Benham, sub-post­ of (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, , 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, & 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

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