[WILTS.] KINGSTON DEVERILL. 414 POST OFFICE

Torquay, Devon; the Rev. John Powell is the incumbent. acres, 1,735; rateable value, £3,204. The church was rebuilt in 1842 by subscription. The Duke RAY HILL is 2 miles west. of Somerset is lord of the manor. Population, in 1851, 122; COMMERCIA r.. ICross George, farmer J e:fferys Edward, farmer Clifford John Hale, farmer & miller Garrett .A.lex. carrier & butter dealer IPrince Richard, parish clerk Letters through Warminster, which is also the nearest money order office CARRIER.-Garrett's cart, to Warminster, monday 8r friday; Heytesbury, thursday; Trowbridge, through Westbury,. friday; Shaftesbury, saturday X:INGSTON DEVER:a.:L is a township, parish, and Bath; the present incumbent is the Rev. David Malcolm village, situated 31 miles north-north-east from the town of Clerk, :M.A. The church of St. Mary has been recently rebuilt; Mere, 7 south of Warminster, and 121 from London, partly it is a handsome structure, in Early Decorated style; the in the hundred of Amesbury, and in the hundred of Mere, tower, being in good condition, was not taken down; in it in Hindon division and Mere union, South Wilts, diocese is a good peal of 6 bells, but none of them older than 1731. and arcbdeaconry of Salisbury,and deanery ofWylye. The Near the church a large and elegant rectory is nmv being population, in 1851, was 402; and there are 2,636 acres, erected. Here is the charity of Eleanor Hurle, of this consi..ting of down and corn land. The village is situated in parish, widow, who gave £50, in 1688, to be laid out in a a valley, with lofty downs on either side, running from east piere of land, the profit thereof to remain to the poor for to west; the nei~hbourhood is considered to be·very healthy ever. 'I'here are in this parish 14 acres ofland, belonging and agreeable. The Roman road from Uphill, in Somerset, to the Charity school at Horningsham, called the School to Old Sarum, passed through Kingston Deverill, then pur­ lands. In a meadow to the west, and bounding the church~ sued its course over the Downs till it crossed the Shaftes~ yard, are traces of some ancient building, but what it was bury and Wnrminster road near 'the sixth milestone. The is not known. Here is a National school, and a Wesleya1,1 Marquis of Bath and George Pope, Esq., are landowners, 1\Iethodist chapel. and the former is also lord .of the manor. The living is a NEWMEAD and Rodmead are in this township. rectory, valued at £300, in the patronage of the 1\Iarquis of PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Pope George, farmer & landowner,. Clerk Rev .David Malcolm, M .A. [rector] Burleton John, Crown inn Manor farm. Pope George, esq Crane Winifred (Miss), fatmer Rabbetts Charles, shopkeeper Maxwell James, parish clerk & sexton Tugdey George, shopkeeper & carrier PosT OFFICE.-George Tugdey, re~eiver. Letters arrive National School, Miss Mary Marshall, mistress from Warminster at 10·30 a.m.; dispatched at 4·15 p.m.; CARRIER TO WARMINBTER-George Tug·dey, tuesday,. on sundays at 10·55 a.m. The nearest money order office thursday & saturday is at Mere :LONG:BRIDGE DEVElU:L:L with C::R.OCXEK­ amidst pleasant woods and scenery, with wide prospects TON, a parish in South Damerham hundred and Warmin­ over the adjacent country. Sir John Thynne, the founder, ster union, South Wilts, 3 miles south from Warminster died in 1580, and was buried in the church of this parish, station, ll7 from London, 4 west from Heytesbury, and 8 where a monument was erected to his memory in the south-east from Frome, diocese and archdeaconry of Salis­ chancel ; at the time of his decease part of the interior was bury, and deanery of Wylye. The living is a vicarage, with left unfinished, and his son did not live to complete the the chapelries of ~Ionckton Deverill and Crockerton annexed, works: his descendant, Thomas Thynne, who was shot in joint annual value £350, with residence, in the patronage of his coach in Palll\fall in 1682, formed the road to }'t•ome, the Marquis of .Bath, to whom the manor belongs; Rev. which is planted with elms, and the whole was completed 'Vm. David 1\Iorrice, l\I.A., is the incumbent and rural by the first Viscount Weymouth. Alterations were made in dean. The church of St. Peter and St. Paul is very the disposition of the grounds by Thomas, third Viscount ancient, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel; in it is a Weymouth, when the gardens were remodelled by " Capa­ mausoleum, the burial-place of the Bath family. Here are bility Brown." The late Marquis of Bath built the northern also National schools for boys and girls, a place of worship front, &om designs by Sir Jeffery Wyat:ville, and the man­ for Primitive Methodists, and almshonses tor six men and sion now forms a parallelogram, 220 feet by 180 in dimen­ two women. Population of Longbridge Deverill, with sion, built entirely of freestone, and with a principal entrance Crockerton, in 1851, 1.378; area in acres, 4,142; rateable on the southern front; the hall is grand and imposing in value, £4,603. Crockerton shear water lake, 40 acres in its appearance, rising to the height of two stories ; the extent, is on the domain of the Marquis of Bath. - On the ceiling is :flat, with spandril brackets and pendants, and at downs are intrenchments. the lower end is a richly-carved screen; the staircase con­ LONGLEAT HousE, in this parish, was erected on the tains a central flight of oaken steps, ten feet wide, with two site of a priory of Black Canons, by Sir John Thynne; the returns, and is adapted to the style and magnitude of the foundation was laid in January, 1567, and 12 years were building; it is lighted by an octagonal lantern, 15 feet in spent before it was completed; it is traditionally asserted diameter, rising from a coved ceiling, enriched with ara­ that the model was obtained from Italy, and that John of besque foliage. The height of the ground floor is 15 feet, Padua was the architect. The house is spacious and magni~ the next 18, and the third story 12 feet. A fine collection of ficent, standing in a park 12 miles in circumference, watered family portraits adorns the principal apartments. by a branch of the river Frome~ well stocked with timber, PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Maxfield Charles, shopkeeper & parish Prince Richard, farmer, & collector of Bath Most Hon. the Marquis of, Long- clerk taxes for Crockerton leat house l\Iaxfield William, farmer Smith Egbert, black8mith M orrice Rev. William David, M.A. 1\Iaxfield William, shopkeeper Smith Henry. builder & carpenter, &; [vicar] ·· Parfitt Edmund, farmer coJlector of taxes Parker Henry, shopkeeper Snelgro"Ve Gem·ge, f.'lrmer COMMERCIAL. Parker Snsanna (1\II-s.) blacksmith Turner John, tailor & beer retailer Dufosee William Bames, George Pitman John, boot & shoe maker Woodro:ffe Thomas, schoolmaster & col- Dyer George, postmaster Randall John, farmer & landowner lector of poor rates PosT 0FFICE.-George Dyer, receiver. Letters arrive by Natwnal School, Henry Hicks, master; .Mrs. Susan Dud- . messenger from Warminster at 9 a.m.; dispatched at den, mistress 5·55 p.m.; on sundays at 11·55 a.m. The nearest money CARRIER.-Garrett's cart to Trowbridge, through West­ order office is at Warminster bury, :friday; fihaftesbury, saturday; Warminster, mon- day & friday; & Heytesbury, thursday. . MONCXTON :DEVE'R.rt.L is a townsllip, parish and streams, it passes on to Downton, into Hampshire, finally straggling village, in a deep gleUy amidst the Wiltshire hills, falling into the sea at Christchurch. The livil•g is a vicarage, 21 miles north~west of Salisbury, 5 north-west of Hindon, incorporated with Longbridge Deverill, in the gift of the 6 south of W arminster, and 120 from London, in the bun- Marquis of Bath; the incumbent is the Rev. W. D. M orrice, dred of Damerham South, the diocese and arcbhdeaconry of M.A. The church will seat about 200; it was rebuilt a few Salisbury, and deanery of Wylye, and in the Mere union, years since, excepting the tower, which is of a square fonn, situated _on a stream called the Deverill, which rises at and contains 2 bells. The Old Manor House, with the arms Kingston Deverill, 1 mile south-west of this village, passing quartered over the doorway, fonnerly the residence of the through Brixton Deverill, Hill Deverill, and Longbridge Coker family, stands in the centre of the village. The 1 Deverill; it then takes iis course by Bishopstrow and I parish of Monckton Deverill contain!! 1,735 acres, and 202. Heytesbury on to Salisbury, where, uniting with other I people. The Marquis of Bath is lord of the manor. Here