IJIHECTORY. J . RAMSBURY. 169 Clark J oseph, farmer · Richens Samuel, shopkeeper Cook Benjamin, farmer Ties Charles J. farmer Scott Thos. dairyman, The Creameries Godwin Jasper, farmer lles William, farmer Taylor Joseph, farmer Habgood Robt. Jas.farmer, Battle lake Large IlPnjamin, farmer Titcomb William & Simeon, farmers, Haskins Wm. farmer, Parkgate farm Mace John, farmer Stoke common Ponting Ern est, farmer, High farm Painter George, farmer Woolford Joseph, farmer Panting Harry, farmer Panting Henry, Bell inn P.H BRAYDON. Punting James, beer retailer Panting Samuel William, farmer Barton Robert, farmer Walker George, farmer, Bury hill B.AMSBURY is a parish and village, formerly a Seymour, Francis C. Batson and Thomn White Waldron market town, and is pleasantly situated on the banks of esqrs. of Eastridge. The soil is clay; subsoil, chalk. the , 5 miles north-west from The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The station on the Newbury and Devizes section of the Great area is 9,742 acres; rateable value, £8,895; and the popu­ Western railway, and 6 north-east from Marlborough, in ~ation of the entire parish in 1891 was 2,164. A:xford, 3 the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Rams- miles south-west; Eastridge, 2 miles north-east; Rams­ bury, petty sessional division of Marlborough and Rams- bury Town; Whittonditch, 1 mile north-east, are tithings. bury, union and county court district of Hungerford, At Axford theil'e. is a chapel of ease. rural deanery of Marlborough (Marlborough portion), Parish Clerk, Joseph Franklin. archdeaconry of Wilts and . The Po~t. M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, houses are situated principally in one long street. The Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Offi.ce.-Mrs. Annie church of the Holy Cross is an ancient building of stone, Pinniger, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive by mail in the Norman 11nd Early English styles, consisting of cart from Hungerford, delivered at 7 a.m.; also at 3.15 chancel with" Darell" chapel, nave of four bays, with cle- p.m. ; box closes at ro.rs a. m. & 6.45 p.m.; letters restory, aisles, south porch, and an embattled western dispatched at ro.2o a.m. & 6.55 p.m. Telegraph busi- tower, with pinnac:es, containing 6 bells: the monuments ness 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; sundays, 8 to 10 a.m. only. include one to Sir William Jones, attorney-general temp. Money order business 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wall Letter Charles II. ; in the chancel in frontJ of the communion Box at Wittonditch, cle~ued at 6 p.m. Letters fo.r Ax- table is a tomb t.o William de St. John, with an inscrip. ford through Marlborough. Wall Letter Box, Stone tion in Norman French, and there is a stone. slab to Lane, Axford, cleared at 7 p.m. on week days & 8 a.m. William de St. John, with the date 1322: in the Darell on sundays chapel is a tomb of Purbeck marble, assigned to William Public Officers. Darell, sub-treasurer of and sheriff <>f Wilts, Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, srd District, Hnn­ temp. Richard II. : another tomb is probably that of Sir gerferd Union, James Wilkie Burman M.D George Darell, of L:ttlecote, son of the above: the church Assistant Overseer & Collector of Taxes, Joseph Franklin was thoroughly restored in 1897-8, and affords 350 sit­ Sanitary Inspector to Hungerford Rural District Council, tings. The register dates frDm the year 1678. The living Joseph Pinniger is a vicar:1ge, net yearly value £498, including 66 acres of Superintendent Registrar for Hungerford District, Wil­ glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Baroness Burdett­ liam Jas. Phelps; deputy superintendent, Wm.A.Ayers Coutts, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Weston Brock­ lesby Davis M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Schools. ~urrogate. Here are Congregat:onal, Wesleyan 1Uld Primi­ A School Board of 5 members was established 16 Sept. tive Methodist chapels, and barracks for the Salvation 1872, who meet at the schoolhouse first tuesday in the Army. Cattle fairs are held here on May 14th and month at 7 p.m. the district comprising the entire October 16th. Rarnsbury Manor House, the seat of Sir parish; schools have been built, together with masters' Francis Burdett bart. J.P. stands in a park of 100 acxes, & mistresses' residences, at a cost of about £4,000; through which the river Kennet flows, expanding into a William .Tames Phelps, clerk to the board; Edwin broad sheet : it is bounded on the south-east by extensive Rosier, attendance officer fir plantations: the original house was at one time a seat Board (boys), Ramsbury, built in 1874, for 150 chil­ of the Bishops of Salisbury, butJ was exchanged with one dren; average attendance, 96; Thos. Orchard, master of the Ea!'ls of Pembroke and taken down some time before 1672, and the present building erect'ed from the Board (mixed), Axford, built in 1874, for 75 children; designs of Wt>bb, an architect, of that period. Littlecote average attendance, 43; Thomas Jenkins, master Park is occupied by Vernon James Watney esq.; the Board (infants), built in r874, for r2o children; average mansion is a fine spec:men of a Tudor manor house, attendance, 91; Miss .Annie WooHO