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DIRECTORY.] WILTSHIRE. CASTLE COMBE. 51 porch and a turret with one bell: there are sittings for So p.m. ; dispatchoo at g.2o a.m. & 7 p.m. ; no mail ou persons. The register dates from the year I757· sundays. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Calne The church of St. Mary, Calstone Wellington, is of Bath stone, in the Late Perpendicular style, consisting of Pillar Letter Box, Blacklands Cross roads, cleared at chancel, nave, north porch and an embattled western 9·35 a. m. & 7· •s p.m tower containing one bell: it was thoroughly restored Elementary School, built in r87o, for so children ; aver at a COSt of £1,300 in 1885, when two new bells age attendance, 42; Miss Sarah E. Scarlett, mistress were added: there are 100 sittings. The register dates from the year r76o. The living is a rectory, the two QUEMERFORD is a tithing, 1 mile south-east. Holy ha>ing been annexed November znd, I88o, joint net yearly Trinity chapel of ease here, erected principally at the value £259, including 70 acres of glebe, with residence, expense of the Rev. J. Guthrie, late vicar, is a building in the alternate gift of the Marquess of Lansdowne and of native stone in the Gothic style, consisting of trustees of the late Mrs. Macdonald, and held since chancel, nave and organ chamber, and affords 230 sit 1902 by the Rev. Oswald Addenbrocke Holden M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel, tings: attached is a cemetery of two acres. The Ply erected in r866. A reading room was built in r883 mouth Brethren have also a meeting room here, by Lord Fitzmaurice, to which is attached a free lending erected in r86o, and enlarged in r866 to seat 200 per library: the whole is supported by local subscriptions. sons. Whetham, z! miles east ; Stockley, 2 south. Blacklands, af 150 acres, is a well-wooded demesne, where there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, and part watered by the river Marden : the mansion is now of Studley, 2! north-west, with a Wesleyan chapel, are occupied by William Bolland Treacher esq. J.P. and hamlets and tithings. The ecclesiastical parish of Commander R. Murray Rumsey R.N., I.S.O. The Mar D~rry Hill includes a portion of the parish of Cain& quess of Lansdowne K.G., P.C., G.C.M.G. who is lord Without. Bowood will be found under a separat& of the manor of Calstone Wellington, the Earl of heading. Crewe P.C. Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder bart. Post Office, Quemerford.-Charles Butler, sub-post D.S.O., M.P. of Hartham and the trustees of Henry master. Letters arrive from Calne at 6.20 & n.3<> Brown esq. are the principal landowners. The soil is a.m. & 5 p.m.; dispatched at 9·55 a..m. & r2.5 & 7·4<> rich loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat p.m. No sunday delivery. Calne, r mile distant, is th& and oats. and some land in pasture. The area is g, 832 nearest money order & telegraph office acres of land and 62 of water; a5sessable value, Pillar Letter Box, near Havle farm, cleared 10 a. m. &; £II,393; the population in Igor was 1,887. • 7·45 p.m Parish Clerk, Caleb Green. Holy Trinity School, Quemerford, built in r867, for 128 Post Office, Calstone.-Frederick Bowsher, sub-post- j children; average attendance, us ; Henry Blackford. master. Letters arrive from Calne at 7 a.m. & 6.40 master BLACKLAND. QUEl\fERFORD. Gough John, carpenter Rumsey Commander R.:'I'Iurray R.N., PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hillier Frank, farmer,Quemerlord !m Holmes Henry, shopkeeper I. S.O. Blaoklands Carpenter William, '~1elrose villa Horton J ane (Mrs.), grocer Treacher William Bolland J.P. Black Heaven J ames, Prospect house lands Bodman Miss, Park View house ~ewman Ernest, farrner, Hayle farm Pound Brothers, millers (water &i COYMERCIAL. Ilewer Mrs steam), Upper & Lower Quemer Barnes James, farmer, Park farm Higgs William H ford mills Blackford Henry, cow keep"r Pound Ed win, Wessington Pnl!en Alfred, baker Brown George, farrner~ Spray's farm Pound John, Fairfields Sackstone Thomas H. insurance agent Lock Abraham, miller (water), Black- Williams John, Quemerford villa land mill Ward Wm. farmer, Blackland farm COMMERCIAL. STOCKLEY. Audley George, Talbot inn Cole Percy, farmer, Stockley farm CALSTONE WELLINGTON. Blackford Henry, collector of poor's Dew John W. farmer, Scott's farm Holden Rev. Oswald Addenbrooke:M.A. rates & assistant overseer, Quemer Ruddle John, farmer, Willow brook Rectory ford school Anstey John Henry (Mrs.), farmer, Blackord William, beer retailer South farm Bodman John Wilberforce, farmer, STCDLEY. Bowsher Frooerick, builder, Post office Quemerford Common farm Angell John Benedict Oliver,Romsey ho Bristow John. ffiiller (water & steam) Bridges .Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Rough Fortune J ames, farmer Bnll Daniel, farmer Leaze farm Wiltshire Thomas, farmer Green Edwin, whiting maker Cleverly George, smith & farrier C.Iaundrell Hill, farmer, Wellington & Cue .Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper WHETHAM. East farms Elliott William, wheelwright Reading- Room & Library (Frederick Godfrey John, surveyor to Rural Dis- Gee James Wm. (exors. of), farmers Bowsher, sec. & librarian) trict Council, Quemerford house CASTLE COMBE is a parish 3 miles south of Bad family: there are sittings for 430 persons. The register minton station, 6 north-west from Chippenham station, dates from the year 1653. The living is a rectory, net. 6 north from Corsham station, all on the Great Western yearly value £258, including 26 acres of glebe, but with railway, and 10, north-east from Bath, in the Northern out residence, in the gift uf Edward Chaddock Lowndes division of the county, Chippenham hundred, petty ses esq. and held since 1902 by the Rev. Clement Hugh sional division, union and county court district~ and Banning M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Here is a in Chippenham rural deanery, North Wilts archdeaconry Congrega,tional chapel founded in r743, seating 200 and and Bristol diocese. The church of St. Andrew is a Calvinistic .Baptist chapel. A fair is held here on a building of stone in the Early English and Perpen May 4th. In the village is a fine specimen of an dicular styles, consisting of chancel with clerestoried ancient market cross, consi~ting of a square stone ai;les and na Ye of three bays, aisles, south porch and pedestal raised upon two steps and ornamented with an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, 85 feet in sunk quatrefoiled panels, bearing shields and roses heig-ht, and containing 2 bells and a clock: the lower alternately; from this springs a slender shalt capped stag-e of the tower forms the principal entrance : the by a finial: at each angle of the platform is a massive body of the church was built, temp. Richard II. I377 to •tone pier, about six feet high. supporting the wooden 1399. and the tower in the first hall of the rsth cen lintels of a pyramidal ruof, covered with tiles. On the tury: the stained west window was the gift of the late Castle Hill are the remains of a British encarnpmen• rector, the .Rev. R. C. Christie LL.B. ; under the and the ruins of a castle built in the reign of Henry II. belfry is a stone groined ceiling of very elegant design: The great Roman road, called the Fossway, leading from the chancel arch is decorated with the figures of saints Bath to Cirencester, skirts the north-western limit of upon pedestals under canopies: in the gable is a stained the manor; the property was held by the Scrape family rose window, and the east window, consisting of four from the 14th century, but is now held by Edward Early English lancets, is also filled with richly stained Chaddock Lowndes esq. M.A., D.L., J.P. lord of the glass, as well as all the remaining windows, 16 in manor, who resides at Castle Combe Manor House. The number; one of these, in the Lady chapel, represents soil is brash; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, the arms of the lords who successively held the manor: barley and oats. The area is r,492 acres; rateable value. there is an altar-tomb, with a recumbent effigy of one £ r.76g ; the population in rgo1 was 357· of the De D unstan villes, d. 1270, ancestors of the Scrape Parish Clerk, \Tilliam GingelL .