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PRIVATE. RESIDENTS. A.kerman Herbert, farmer, Broad Humphries William John, rate col­ Lane farm lector, assistant overseer & school­ Armstrong ~Iajor Allau, Badbury ho A.mor Jasper & Son, bakers, Cleeve master Awdry Rev. Ectw. Seymour B.A. Bourne William (Mrs.), farmer, Lye William, Bell inn P.H Manor cottage Mitchell" s farm Marsh William, market gardener Awdry Robert Frank, Devere cottage Bracher Wm. farmer, Turner's farm Mayell Thomas, mason Ballantyne Miss, Dial house Brimble Albert S. boot & shoe dealer Merrett Jacob, farmer, Berhills farm Bell William Heward D.L., J.P., Butcher Thomas Weeks, miller ~ ewman Step hen George, farmer, F.G.S., F.S.A. Cleeve house (water), BalCiham mills Row farm Boulton Misses Cook Edward George, jobmaster Noad Henley & Wi!li1m, millers Dickins Frederick Victor C.B., M.B., Cattle Frederick, farmer, Pile farm (water), Seend head B.Sc. Seend lodge Crees Erot her~, farmers Parfitt William, Barge inn Fry J ames, Se end Head house Cre~se Jennie (Mr.:;.), farmer, Seeud Payne Alfred, head gardener to E. Haigh Hedley William Langley, Fer- p. Park farm :::lchomberg esq. J .P rum Towers Deverall Alfd. Wm.farmer, Perrett George, farmer Hutchinson Miss Dowty William J oseph, coal merchnt Phillips James, farmer Jones Mrs. Coryton, Seend Cleeve Durham Francis, grocer Porter Sarah (.Miss), grocer Llewellyn Capt. Hoel D.S.O. Martins- Dyke Robert, farmer Rawlings Albert, dealer lade cottage · Earle J oseph, carpent~r Rawlings Lot, insur. agt.Seend Cleeve Ludlow-Bruges Mrs. Little Axbridge Mackay Lt.-Col. Jas. J.P. Manor ho Edwards Agnes (Miss),private school, Ra"lings William, Brewery inn Seend Cleeve RJse Ernest Jno. cycle dealer Preston Waiter R. Seend park Escott William, boat proprietor Salter Waiter James, baker Robertson Mrs Saunders Capt.Wm.Douglas,White ho Farr J ames, farrier Sims William, shopkeeper Schomberg Arthur Fear Aaron, farmer Smith William J. farmer, Inmarst. Schomberg Edmund Clerke D.L., Ferris John (Mrs.), farmer, Seend row Trueman George, farmer J.P. Seend house Fry J ames, farmer Trnem:m "\Villiam, sawyer Schomberg Misses Griffin William J. New inn P.H Tucker Martha (Mrs.), grocer Thynne Rev. Canon Arthur Barugh Gumm Albert, Thornham farm Tyler John, farmer, Inmarsh M.A. Vicarage Harford Aaron Noah, fa~er, Thorn- Vine Bertha & Elizabeth (Misses), Turner J ames, The Brow ham farm farmers, Seend row Hillier J ames, carpenter Webb Frank, farmer COMMERCIAL. Holde!l 1\Irs. coal mer. Seend Cleeve Willshire J oseph Edward, deputy Akerman Adelaide (Mrs.), farmer, Ho skins Henry, builder clerk & sexton Moiety farm Hughes John, potato dealer Edwin, farmer, Egypt frm A.kerman Albert Edward, farmer, llumphries W. G. A. stationer, & Wiltshire Herbert, farmer Seend Cleeve post office is a on the road The workhouse for and union is from Melksham to Warminster, with a halt for the situated in this parish; for particulars see Trowbridge rail motors, about three-quarters of a mile north from or Melksham. The Duke of Somerset, who is lord of the village (in the parish of Melksham Without), 2~ the manor, and Julian Charles Gaisford St. Lawrenc& miles south from Melksham station and 3! west from esq. of Offington, Worthing, Sussex, are the principal Trowbridge station on the , in the landowners. The soil is loam and stone prash; ~ubsoil, Western division of the county, hundred of Whorwells- clay. The land is mostly pasture and a little arable. down, Trowbridge and Melksham union, Melksham The area is I,I7I acres of land (inclutling Littleton petty sessional division and county court district, rural tithing) and Io of water; rateable value, including deanery of (Bradford portion), archdeaconry Whaddon, £3,358; the population in 1901 was 437, in­ of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The Wilts and eluding 16 officers and I39 inmates of the Melksham Berks canal here joins the . Union house. The chapel of St. Georga is a building of stone in the By an Order of the County Council, dated August 7, Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, north 1 894, pursuant to sec. 36 of the "Local Government Act, porch and a turret at the west end containing one 1 a94 ., (56 and 57 Vict. eh. 73 ), the parish of Whaddon bell: inside the porch is a curious, but much worn, was amalgamated with Semington for civil purposes, th& inscription in Norman French: the church was restored two being known as Semington. in 186o, and a new chancel erected, and a vestry added Parish Clerk & Sexton, George Ritchens. in 1877: there are I6o sittings. The register dates I Police Constable James Henry William Wells. from the year 1586. The living is a chapelry, annexed ' · to the vicarage of Steeple Ashton, joint net yearly value J Post & 11. 0. Office.~Henr~ James Stockwell, s~b-post- £467, including 14 acres of gleJ:>e, with residence, in master. Letters are rece1ved through Trow?ndge at the gift of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and held 7·30 a.m. & 5· IS p.m.; sundays, 7.30 a.m. ; d1spatched since 1897 by the Rev. Edward Pons()nby Knubley M.A. at 9·35 a.m. & 6.50 .p.m. week days & 9·35 a.m. on of that college, who resides at Steeple Ashton; the sundays. Melksham 1s the nearest telegraph office Rev. Alfred William Watt has been curate since Igu, Elementary School (mixed), built in 1859, & enlarged and he is also chaplain to Trowbridge Union. There in I 8g8, for 72 children ; average attendance, 68; :tdi~s is a Wesleyan l'hapel here, built in 1884, to seat ISc. .Millicent Dowse, mistress Ashby John, Homefield Ball William, farmer, New house Hawkins Richard Simon, farmer, Brown Thomas, Brookside Rerrett William, farmE-r, Littleton Littlemarsh Bruges William, Semington house Bishop Jas. carpntr. & wheelwright Jefferys William, frrrmer, Manor & Keevil Mrs. Highfield Burbidge Geo. pig dealer, Littleton Church farms Kno:x, George J.P. Brooklyn house Burbidge John, farmer, Littlemarsh .Tefferys William Ghey, farmer Redman John, Highfield Butt Charles, potter, Penny plat Little Albert Blake, farmers, Pax- Sylvester Frederick Arthur Percy, Cattle Albert, farmer, N ewtown croft farm Homefield house ' Cattle John, farmer, Park MoJre Harry, Somerset Arms P.H Watt Rev. Alfred William (curate, & Crockett Arthur Orlando, mast:>r of Noad James & Son, millers (water) chaplain to Trowbridge union), worli:house !& frmrs. Littleton Wood; & Seend Parsonage Dallimore Thomas, beer retailer Noad Walt. frmr. Littleton Mill farm COllMERCIAI.. Fivash Alfred George, blacksmith Stockwell Henry Jams~, grocer &. Bailey Stephen William, farmer, Flower Frederick B. farmer, Littleton I assistant overseer, Po'lt 0'ffi~e Stranger's corner 1 Hancock Henry, poulterer SEMLEY is a parish, running nearly east and west, in the distance stretching along it'S front in the south. and lying in a beautiful val~ey, with station, 1! miles The old church of St. Leonard, an ancient cruciform from the church, on the Salisbury and Yeovil branch of structure, was pulled down in January, 1874, and the the London and South 'Vestern railwav,• 20 miles south- present building erected in 1875, at the expense of the we;,t from Salisbury, 6 south-east from Mere, 3 north Dowager Marchioness of Westminster: it is of stone, in from Shaftesbury and IOI from London, in the Southern the Early Decorated style, and consists of chancel with division of the county, Chalke hundred, Tisbury union, south aisle, nave of four bays, south aisle and a lofty em­ Shaftesbury county court district, Tisbury and Mere battled western tower with clock and 6 bells : there is a petty sessional division, rural deanery of Chalke (Tisbury F.tained window in the chancel to the Rev. Henry Hall M.A. portion). archdeaconry of Sa rum, and diocese of Salis­ and others to Arthur and Lucy Fane, the late Vere Fane bury. There is a richly-wooded country in the back­ Benett-Stanford esq. to John Edward Benett, of Pyt ground on the north, and the Dorsetshire hills are seen House, to seven officers killed at the Gate Pa, in New