DIRECTORY.] .105 HURSTBOUaNE PRIORS. [HANTS.] Riddle Eliza (Mrs.), beer retailer, Sibsey William, contractor, Netle)' cliff Slade Richard, butcher Batlocks common Simmons Charles, lodging house, Net­ Steadman James, Red Lion Sellwood Wm. beerretlr. Batlocks comn ley cliff Trodd Benjamin, blacksmith, Newton HUNTON is a parochial chapelry, about 3 miles west archdeacon and canon of Winchester. Robert Pitter, esq., from Micheldever station, in the Northern division of the is the owner and occupier of the whole of the parish. The county, union, petty sessional division and county court soil is loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, district of Winchester, hundred of Buddlesgate, rural barley, oats and turnips. The area is 1,033 acres; gross deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The estimated rental £1,177 ; rateable value, £1,112; the popu­ church of St. James is a small structure, repaired in 1865 at lation in 1871 was 92. a cost of£700: it consists of nave only, with a small tower Sexton, J ames Miles. containing 1 bell. The register dates from the year 1564. The living is annexed to the benefice of Crawley, the tithes having been commuted into rent charge, in value £190, in Letters from Micheldever station, which is the nearest money the patronage of Queen's College, Oxford, and held by the order office Ven. Philip Jacob, M.A., ofCorpusChristi College, Oxford, Parochial School, Miss Elizabeth Cole, mistress Pitter Mrs I Pitter Robert I Holdaway Eliza (Mrs.),miIler&shopkpr HURSLEY is a village and parish, and head of a union, gross estimated rental, £12,161; rateable value, £10,911 ; 4~ miles south-west from Winchester, 6~ north-east from and the population in 1871 was 1,434. Romsey, and 74 from London, in the Northern division AMP FIELD is an ecclesiastical parish formed from this Qf the county, Buddlesgate hundred, Winchester petty parish, and will be found under a separate heading. sessional division and county court district, and in the rural PITT, STANDON and POTKILN are also in this parish. deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, situated Silkstead is a hamlet, partly in Hursley parish and on the high road from Winchester to Romsey. The church partly in that of Compton, containing only one small farm of All Saints is a handsome stone building, in the Decorated house and a few labourers' cottages. style: it consists of chancel, nave, and aisles, and has a PITT is a hamlet, consisting of two farms and a few rower at the west end containing 5 bells and clock, and sur­ labourers' cottages, about 3 miles from Hursley. Here is a mounted by an octagonal spire: the whole of the windows school chapel, the gift of Miss Yonge; the Rev. James G. are filled with stained glass. The earliest rep;ister dates Young, M.A., and the Rev. Thomas Harold Frederick Hickes, from 1599-1600. The living is a vicarage, with the M.A., curate of Hursley, are the officiating ministers. chapelry of Otterbourne annexed, joint annual value £440, ~ift Parish Clerk, James Bunce. with good residence, in the of Rt. Hon. Sir William Pitt School Chapel Clerk, Henry Miles. Heathcote, bart., and held by the Rev. James Gavin Young, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. Here are two POST OFFICE, Hursley.-Henry Plumridge, postmaster. National schools for boys and girls. The Union Work- Letters arrive by foot post from Winchester at 8 a.m.; house is situated nearly in the centre of the village; the . dispatched at 6.30 p.m. The nearest money order office union comprises Farley Chamberlayne, Hursley, North is at Winchester Baddesley, and Otterbourne. Hursley Park, with its large INSURANCE AGENT.-Sun, J. Smith, Romsey and elegant mansion, is the seat of the Rt. Hon. Sir William Hursley Union.-The board meet the last tuesday in the Heathcote, bart., D.C.L., D.L.: the park is richly wooded month. Rt. Hon. Sir WilIiam Heathcote, bart. chair- and well stocked with deer, and surrounded for many miles man; Julian B. Yonge; J.P. vice-chairman; Rev. James by plantations and scenery of considerable beauty. The Gavin Young, M.A. chaplain; Henry C. Selwood, M.D. Rt. Hon. Sir William Heathcote, bart., D.C.L., D.L., is lord medical officer; Henry Plumridge, clerk; Thomas of the manor. The principal landowners are the Rev. Jobn Apedaile, collector of rates &: assistant overseer; John White and Thomas Chamberlayne, esq., J.P. Beckley's Hicks, collector of rates for Otterbourne & inspector of charity, founded in 1864, with an income of £100, is for nuisances for Hursley; John Smith, surveyor to the high- five widows or widowers. The soil is clay; subsoil, partly way board; J ames Reynolds, relieving officer; George clay and cllalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, Readhead, governor of the union house; Mrs. Maria turnips, peas and a few hops. The area is 10,726 acres; Readhead, matron Hursley. Bailey Henry, farmer, Shawland farm Robinson Edwin, tailor Bacon MajorFrancis Kendrick,Ronners Barton Hy.farmer,Pitt &: NewhilI farms Selwood Henry C. M.D. surgeon Bailey William Hayes John, toll col!ector,Standon gate Stratton Jas. farmer, Merdon &: Sout Chamberlayne Thos. J.P. Cranbury pk H!cks Robert, Dolphin, &; wheelwright Lynch farms &: at Lower Chilcomb Heathcote Rt. Hon. Sir William bart. Kmggate Charles, grocer, baker, meal- Taylor William, pig dealer D.e.L., D.L. Hursley park' man &: provision merchant Westbrook Henry' Etheridge, butcher Hickes Rev. Thomas Harold Frederick, Lonnen Fredk. farmer, Silkstead farm Whitelock Geo. (Mrs.),wood & coal dlr M.A. [curate] Maynard John, farmer, Fieldhousefarm Whitmarsh Gilbert, shoe maker Selwood Henry C. M.D Morley Charles, hlacksmith Wild George, blacksmith Simeon Mrs. Capt. North End house Murray James J. land steward to Rt. Wild William, saddler &: harness maker Spranger Rev. Robert Jefferies, M.A. Hon. Sir William Heathcote, hart Wilson &: Lord, filrmers, Upper Stan~ Southend house Penton George, baker &c don farm Young Rev. James Gavin,M.A.Vicarage Pinnick Henry, baker, grocer & farmer Apedaile Thomas, King's Headinn, &: Plumridge Henry, clerk to the board of Pitt. farmer &: collector of rates &c. &: guardians, post office & stationer Barton Henry, farmer assistant overseer Reynolds J ames, relieving officer Robins Thomas, farmer HURSTBOURNE PRIORS is a parish, in the Arthur Raggett Cole, B.D., of Wadham College, Oxford, is Northern division of the county,Whitchurch union, Evingar curate in charge. There is a school for boys and girls, sup­ hundred, Kingsclere petty sessional division, Andovercounty ported by the Earl of Portsmouth and the cllildren's pence, eourt district, diocese and nrchdeaconry of Winchester, and aided by a Government grant. Hereis a paper mill. Hurst­ rural deanery of Andover north-western division, 62 miles bourne House, the seat of the Earl of Portsmouth, stands from London, and 2! south-west from Whitchurch station. on an eminence in a beautifully wooded park, in which are The river Bourne, a tributary of the Test, runs through the about 600 deer; it is'a largeplain building, surrounded byfine parish. The church ofSt. Andrew was restored in1870, at the gardens. The Earl 'of Portsmouth is lord of the manor and sole expense of Isaac Newton, 5th Earl of Portsmouth; it is chief landowner. The soil is partly clay, the rest light; sub­ a beautiful Rtructure of Norman architecture, with a fine soil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, and Norman archway leading into a side chapel; there is also a turnips. The area is 3,132 acres; rateable value, £3,870 Norman western doorway, nave, chancel, and an embattled 12s. 5d.; tbe population in 1871 was 384. -square tower with a fine peal of 6 bells: the font is of Parish Clerk, George Bennett. 'Caen stone, finely carved: in the chancel is a monument of Robert Oxenbrigge and his wife, with recumbent figures and Latin inscription, date 1705. The register dates from the POST OFPICE.-Edward Golding, receiver. Letters from year 1832. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Micheldever station are delivered at 7.15 a.m. & 3 p.m.; St. Mary Bourne, the tithes have been commutedfor £220, in dispatched at 12.30 & 7 p.m.; on sundays at 11.15 a.m. the gift of the Bishop of Winchester and held by the Rev. The nearest money order office is at Whitchurch S. J. I. Lockhart, M.At, of Lincoln Cohege, Oxford; the Rev. School, Jas.Thos. Edsell,mastr.; Mrs. Caroline Edsell, mistrs 8 ..