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COMMERCIAL. - r Cranham John & Fredk. builders 'Lowe Waiter, cab proprietor Adam John Law M.B. & C.M.Aberd., Cranham Charles, beer retailer Lusted Henry Lewis, cycle maker, F.R.C.S.Eng. physician & surgeon, Davis Thomas, blacksmith Hawley motor & cycle works Milestone house Ellis James, White Hart hotel. T A Pauer William M.R.-O.V.S. ~eterinary Atkins William, beer retailer "Ellis, Blackwater ; " T N 4 (Cam- surgeon, The Villa Bourne Stephen, chimney sweeper berley) Poole .Alexander Gordon, s-hopl•eeper Brant James, assistant overseer & Fowles J oseph, butcher Price Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper clerk to Parish Council Girdler Ernest, Red Lion P.H Rixon Richard, boot maker Bridge Memorial Workmen's Club Great Western Coal Co. (Thomas Robinson Elizabeth (Mrs.),tobacconisl (Major J. Boyce, hon. sec. & treas) Goddard, agent), Station Squires George J. plumber Chatt George, grocer, Post office Holland Robt. be& ret. Starve .Acre Surrage William, Royal Swan P.H Chatt Harry (Mrs.), corn merchant James Job, carman _ Trowell Richard, boot maker Cope Arthur, tailor Lawrence Frederick, teacher of music Urch Benjamin, draper HA YLING ISLAND, si.tuated between I.angston West Town Post & M. 0. Office.-Harry Woodward, sub· and Chichester harbours, is 4 miles long and contains postmaster. Letters through arrive at 8 a.m. 10 square miles; it comprises the parishes of North & 2 p.m.; sundays, 8 a. m.; dispatched at 9.40 a.m. and South Hayling, in the Southern division· of the & 1.5 & 7·5 p.m.; sundays, 5 p.m. county, hundred of Bosmere, union of Havant, pett.y is the nearest telegraph office, r mile distant sessional division of Fareham, county court Post & M. 0. Office, G~ Lie Head, South Hayling.- district, rural deanery of Havant and archdeaconry and Walter Edwin Jones, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive diocese of . The island is connected with from Havant at 7.10 a. m. & 2.30 p.m.; sundays, 7.10 the main land by a swing bridge, erected in r824, and a.m.; dispatched 9·55 & 11.40 a.m. & J.Io p.m.; repaired in r859, and is lighted with gas, and there is sundays, 5-50 p.m. Hayling Island is the neares~ also a passenger ferry from Sinah to Cum berland Fort telegraph office, I mile dista.Pt and Soathsea. Po8t Office, East Stoke.-.Albert Apps, sub-postmaster. SOUTH HAYLING is a parish, small watering place Letters arrive 8.5 a.m. & 2.10 p.m.; sundays, B.5 and village, with a station on a branch from Havant of a. m. ; dispatched 9· 15 a. m. & 6.z5 p.m. ; sunday~t, the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, 5 miles 4· 'iS p.m south from Havant, 13 east by road from Portsmouth Post Office, Manor road.-Mrs. Ellen King, sub-post- and 72 from London. The firm sands extend 5 miles mistress. Letters arrive at 6 & 11.40 a.m. & 8 from east to west, along the shore of the English p.m. ; dispatched 9-30 a.m. & nz.3o & 7.20 p.m. ; Channel. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a sundays, 5-30 p.m. West Town is the nearest money building of stone, in the Early English style, consisting order office & Hayling Island the nearest telegraph of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a central tower office, I mile distant with spire, containing one bell: the font is Nor man and Coast Guard Station, Alfred Bignell, chief boatman in in the chancel is a double piscina: there are eight charge, & 3 men stained windows: a new organ was presented in 1 goo Elementary School (mixed), built in r87s-6, for 200 by C. J. Park esq. as a. memorial to his wife: the children, & enlarged in rgoo, for 260 children; aver-, church was restored, with the exception of the chancel, age attendance, 232; .Albert Edward Logan, master in r86g: in r88S a vestry was added on the north side Railway Station & Postal Telegraph Office, George of the chancel: in r893 the chancel was restored, and Langridge, station clerk in 1892 four of the nave piers were reset and heating Carriers to Havant & Portsmouth. Herbel't Goldring . apparatus fixed at a <'.ost of £500 : there are 340 sit- North, tues. & fri.; George Colebrook, tues. & thun.;. tings. The register dates from the year 1571- The Ernest James Slydell, mon. & fri ~ living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of North Omnibus from Royal hotel to meet all trains Hayling annexed, joint gross yearly value £ 200, with 27 Hayling Island Ferry (George Owen Spraggs, lessee); acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. R. F. boats cross the harbour for Southsea when required ...... Clarke, and held since r88g by the Rev. Charles Henry NORTH RA YLING is a parish and village, with a Clarke B.A. of the University of Oxford. Here is a station on a branch from Havant of the London, Congregational chapel, built in r888 and seating 200, Brighton and South Coast railway, 2! miles south from and at Elm Grove is a Free Church Mission house. Havant and 72 by road and 68 ~y railway from London. The Victoria Hall, erected in 1897, and seating 400 The church of St. Peter is an ancient structure of :flint, persons, is available for dramatic performances and in the Early English style, consisting of chancel. nave, entertainments. The· National Life Boat Imrlitution has aisles, no:rth transept, north and south porches and an a life boat here, superintended by a local committee. eastern turret, with spire, containing 3 bells: it was About a mile from the church is an ancient moated restored, except the chancel, in r88r, at a cost of £r,ooo, encampment called "Tournerbury." Here was once a all the ancient features of the building being oorefully Benadictine priory, founded in the reign of Henry I. preserved: the stained west window was inserted in and one of the alien possessions of the .Abbey of 1902 as a memorial to the date W. 0. TnrnBr esq. ;._ Jumieges, in Normandy: it was bestowed on the .Abbey there are 200 sittings. The register dates from. the of Shene, and at the suppression of the monasteries year 157r. The living is a. perpetual curacy annexed to by Henry VIII. belonged to the College of .!.rundel: the vicarage of South Hayling. St. Peter's Institute, the dovecote at the Manor House is almost the only St{)ke, erected in rgo(i, a.t a cost of about £4oo, is used vestige remaining. The freedom from toll and ma.rket for religious and social purposes. There is a Congre­ tillage ground, granted to the tenants of the manor gational chapel at STOKE. Water works were corn­ under various charters, from that of Henry I. and pleted in rgox at Stoke by the South Hayling Water downwards, is 5till preserved t{) the inhabitants. The Co. Ltd. : the water is derived from a fissure in the principal landowners are the trust~es of the late J. C. chalk and rises to within 30 feet of the ground level, Park esq. who are lords of the manor of Hayling the depth of the well being 2os feet; the tower reser­ Island, the trustees of trhe late Frederick Padwick esq. voir, standing at a height of 73 feet, has a capacity of Capt. George S. Lynch-Staunton, of Purbrook, and 20,000 gallons, and there are two other reservoirs with Edward McEuen esq. The Hayling Golf Club has about a. capacity of 5o,ooo gallons each. The principal Iand- 200 members; the links are on the beach common: ovrners are the truS'tees of Mr. F. Padwi~k and MrB". there is also a Ladies' Golf Club. The salterns here, Ma.ria Carpenter Turner. The soil is a deep and rich mentioned in Domesday Book, continued to be wo1;ked loam; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, until a recent date. The principal hotel is the barley and oats. The area i& r,312 acres of land and "Royal," facing the sea. The soil is loam; subsoil, 42 of water, 187 of tidal water and r,oBs of foreshore; gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat and oats. ratooble value, £2,666; t'b.e population in rgor wa.~~ 279. The area is 2,581 acres of land, 27 of water, 349 of and in rgii Was 465. tidal water and 1,877 of foreshore; rateable value, Post Office, Stoke. Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler, sub-post- £ u,44o; the population in 1901 was r ,334, and 1911 mistress. Letters arrive at 6.4_r; a.m. & 12. IS p.m. wa11 r ,828, including the coastguard station. t.hrough Havant; dispatched at ro. 15 a.m. & 7.25 Sexton, Thoma!'l Bower8. p.m.; sundays, (i p.m. Havant, :1 miles distant, is Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office, the nearest money orde:r & telegraph office Hayling Island.-Miss Caroline Jenman, sub-post- Wall Letter Box, near the church, North Ha.yling, mistress. Letters through Havant arrive at 6.ro & cleared at 8 ..r; a.m. & 7- rs p.m. ; sundaya, 8.5 a. m n.5o a.m. & 7 p.m.; dispatched at 9-35 a.m. 12 !JOOn Wall Letter Box, Station road, cleared 10.25 a.m. & & 12.55 & 7 p.m.; on sundays at 5.20 p.m . 7.50 p.m.; l!llndays, 6.xo p.m SOt;TH HAYLING. Alien Miss, Forest view llatchelnr Miss, t: Roseneath villa~ PRIVATE RESIDENT~. Arbuthnot Major Archibald E. rwest- Ba~ti'Jl' Mrs. 4 Se& View terrace Adam11 Horace, Sinah ~lla field meadow Bird Douglas, Littlemead -~