32 BERWICK ST. JAMES. "' ILTSHIRE. Wyly (Wyly portion) and archdeaconry and diocese of manor and principal landowner. The soil is light and Salisbury. The church of St. James is a building uf ' ch:1lky; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are "heat, flint and stone, in the Norman and Early English styles, barley and oats. The area is 2,497 acres; rateable consisting of chancel, north porch, clerestoried nave, 'value, [1,320; population in 19II, 173. north and south chapels and a Norman embattled western Parish Ulerk, Tom Kitley. tower containing 4 bells: the font is also Norman: the Post Oflice.-Tom Kitley, sub-postmaster. Letters east window is stained, and above it is an ancient wall through Salisbury, via Wilton, ar;;oive at 5.40 a.m. &I painting: there is a piscina in the south chapel: the 1.35 p.m.; dispatched at 11.10 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; church affords 70 sittings. The register dates from the sundays, arrivt~ at 5.40 a.m. & dispatched 7·5 p.m. year 1700. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value The nearest money order office is at Shrewton, 3 [54, including 15 acres of glebe and residence, in the miles distant; telegraph office at Stapleford, 2 miles gift of Lord Furness, of West Hartlepool, and held since 1 distant 1913 by the Rev. Philip Melancthon Mulholland M ..A. Elementary School (mixed), built in 1856, for so chil- of University College, Durham, who is also vicar of dren; Mrs. Louisa Eyres, mistress and resides at Stapleford. Lord Furness is lord of the Carrier.-Dewe, tues. thurs. & sat Awdry Delme Hy. Seymour, .Ass~Iton COMMERCIAL. Kitley Tom, grocer, Post office Swayne John Montague J.P Coles Thomas Newbery, farmer, \-hles .Albert, blacksmith Manor House farm Warren John fi-eorge, farmer Keel George Feltham, Boot inn

BERWICK ST. JOHN is a parish and village, 14 1 endowment for the upkeep of the churchyard, founded miles south-west from Salisbury, 6~ south from Tisbury by the widow of Mr. J. Je:ffery in his memory. On a station on the Salisbury and Yeovil branch of the South lofty ridge in this parish is a strong earthwork or Western railway and 6 east from Shaftesbury, in the fortification, known as Winklebury, or Vespasian's camp Southern division of the county, Chalke hundred, Tis- (supposed, however, to be of earlier date than the Roman bury and Mere petty sessional division, Tisbury union, invasion); it commands a view over Dorsetshire, the Shaftesbury county cO'Urt district an.d rural deanery of Downs and a portion of Hampshire, as far as the Ohal~e (Ti~bnry portion), archdeaconry of Sarum and Needles, off the Isle of Wight: the rich forest of Cran­ diocese of SaliSibury. The church of St. John the bourne Chase occupies the foreground, and the unin­ Baptist is an Early ·English cruciform edifice of :stone, terrupted view w be obtained over Wiltshire is fiDJely consisting of chancel, nave and transepts, and a finely and beautifully varied. Rushmore is the property and ornamented low square central tower, terminating in residence of Alexander Edward Lane-F<>x Pitt-Rivers battlements, of tihe date of Henry VII. and containing 6 esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor. .A K. Charlesworth bells and clock: there are monuments to the Grove and esq. is a large landowner here. The soil is sandy; other families of distinction, and effigies, clad in also upon the downs chalk and flint. The chief crops mail, within mural arches, of Sir John Husey and are wheat, oats, barley and much land in pasture. Sir Robert Lucie: a stone coffin was found during the There are 4,569 acres of arable and down land and restoration of the church in 186r : the stained east window extensive woods; rateable value, [3,ooo; the popula­ is a memorial to the family of Rev. 0. A. Griffitb M.A. tion in 19I1 was 368 in the civil and and 332 in the rector 1842-Bo, to whom there is also a memorial window ecclesiastical parish. in the chancel, besides one to the Rev. Arthur Kemble By Local Government Board Order r6,476, dated M.A. rector 1880-99 and others to the Foot, Grove and March 24, r884, a detached portion of the parish of Gilbert families : the curfew is tolled every evening, Donhead St. .Andrew was transferred to :Berwick St. from September 10th to March :::oth, a bequest for this John for civil purposes. purpose having been left by the Rev_ John Gane in his Parish Clerk. Rev. William Goodchild M . .A. (rector). will bearing date July 29th, 1731: there are 270 sittings. Post & M. 0. Office.-William Henry Chown, sub-po~ot- The register dates from the year I559· The living is a master. Letters arrive from Salisbury at 8 a.m. & rectory, n~t yearly value [310, including 54 acres of 3·55 p.m.; sundays, 7·45 a.m.; dispatched at 9·55 glebe, with residence, in the gift of New College, Ox- a.m. & 5.25 p.m.; sundays, 8.45 a.m. & 5.20 p.m. ford, and held since 1899 by the Rev. William Good- Donhead St. .Andrew, 2 miles distant, is the nearest child M.A. and late scholar of that college. There are teleg-raph office Wesleyan and Baptist chapels. .A small sum left for the Wall Letter Box cleared 10 a. m. & 5.30 p.m.; sundays, benefit of the parish by a former Lord Rivers, and 8.45 a.m Foot's charity of £2 13s. are distributed iill money to National School, built on glebe land, in 1835, at the the poor; the Grove charity of £7 Ios. yearly, was left expense of the then rector, for 70 children; Mrs. for the support of the clothing club. There is a small Sarah L. Filley, schoolmistress Harnes Miss, Dormers Davis James, head gardener to Alex- Manley Herbert E. head gardener to Dineley Mrs. The Priory ander Edward Lane-Fox Pitt- Charles J. Sturdy esa. Ferne gdns. Goodchild Rev. Wm. M.A. Rectory Rivers esq. J.P. (letters through (letters thro' Donhead St . .!ndrew) Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers Alexander Tollard Royal) Stretch Walt. insur. agent, Water st Edward J.P. Rushmore (postal 1 Follett Wm. farmer, Easton farm Sweating Frederick, head gamekeeper address, Salisbury) IFollett Wm. Thos. assistant overseer to Alexander Edward Lane-Fox COMMERCIAL. Hull Alfred G. farmer, Higher Brid- Pitt-Rivers esq. J.P. (letters thro' Antell Charles W. farmer I more (letters thro' Tollard Royal) Tollard Royal) Arnold Waiter, farmer, Upton fam1 Isgar Frederick James, farmer Taylor William Joseph, Talbot inn P~H Bartlett Tom, grocer !James Ernest, farmer, Low. Bridmore \Veeks John, farmer • BERWICK ST. LEONARD is a parish, on the road Octavia Shaw-Stewart, and held since 1914 by the Rev. from Salisbury w Wincanhm, 4 miles north-wesrt from Richard Wilton Sutcli:ffe M.A. of St. John's College, Tisbury station Qll the Salisbury and Yeovil branch of Oxford, who is also rector of Bishop's Fonthill, where he the South Western railway, 15 west from Sali&bury and resides. Hugh Morrison esq. D.L., J.P. is lord of the ni north-east from Shaftesbury, in the Southern division manor and owns the whole of the parish. The soil is of the county, Dunworth hundred, Tisbury petty ses- light chalky; subsoil, chalk and flint. The chief crops ~ional division and union, Shaft~sbury county court dis- are wheat, barley, oats and pasturage. The area is 1,144 trict, rural deanery of Ohal.k (Tisbury port•ion), arch- acres; rateable value, [522; the population in 19II deaconry of Sarum and diocese of Salisbury. The church was 77 in the civil parish and 237 in the ecclesiastical of St. Leonard, restored in 186o, at the cost of the late parish. Alfred Morrison esq. is a building of stone and flint in Parish Clerk, Andrew Harris. the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and on the north side a tower, 25 feet high, with 2 bells: Letters through Salisbury, via Fonthill Bishop, arrive at there are I!Ome ancient monuments, including one to the 8.30 a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Hindon How family, dated r645: the church affords So sittings. • The register dates from the year 1723. The living is a There is no school; the children attend at FoothilJ rectory, net yearly value £75• in the gift of Lady Bishop Green William, farmer BIDDESTONE is e. village, divided formerly into I county, hundred, petty se®s:ional division, county court twQ parishes, viz. St. Peter and St. Nicholas, bnt district and union of Chippenham, and in the rural amalgamated by a Local Government Board order March deanery of Chippenham, archdeaconry of North Wilts 25, r884; the parish is 2! miles nortili from Corsham and diocese of Bristol. The church of St. Nichola& is station on the Great W astern railway and 4 west from an ancient edifi()e of stone in the Norman style, con­ Chipp9'11ham, in the Norbh Western divi&ion of the sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a curious old