162 EASTLIACB MARTIN, . (KELLl 's

Letters through , Glos. arrive at 7.30 a.m. & Public Elementary School (mixed), for this parish & 2.30 p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.45 pm. Eastleach Turville, erected, with master's residence, Filkins, 3 miles distant, i• the nearest telegraph in r864, for r2o children; average attendance, 40 boys office & Eastleach Turville the nearest money order & girls & 24 infants; ~'lrs. Ellen Taylor, mistress; office Miss Bundy, infants' mistress Dimsdale Robert, Ravenshill COMMERCIAL. Wright Rev. William Herbert Thos. Luker John, farmer M . .A. Rectory White George, farmer, Fyfield EASTLEACH TURVILLE is a parish and village, from Norfolk to Cornwall, and intersects this parish. on the , 4 miles north from Lechlade statmn The trustees of the late Gardner Sebastian Bazley esq. on the East Gloucestershire branch of the Great Western are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The railway, 13 east-by-north from and 10, soil is brash; subsoil, rock. The chief crops are wheat, sonbh-east from , in the Eastern division of the barley and oats. The area is 2,779 acres of land and 5 county, hundred of Brightwells Barrow, petty of water; rateable value, £ r,465; the population in sessional division, N orthleach union and county court dis· I9II was 34r. trict, rural deanery of Fairford, archdeaconry of Ciren• Sexton, Charles Andrews. cester and diocese of . The church of St . .An· drew, erected in or about the 12th century, is a building Post & M. 0. O:ffice.-Mrs . .Annie :Richens, sub-postmis· of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, tress. Letters arrive from Lechlade, Glo'stersh. at 7·5 nave, north transept, a very fine south porch and a western a.m. & 2.20 p.m.; dispatched at 9·55 a.m. k 6.55 saddle-back tower containing 2 bells : there are 120 sit­ p.m.; sunday~, arrive at 7-45 a. m.; dispatched at 9.25 tings. The register dates' from the year r654. The living a.m. Filkins (Oxon), 3 miles distant, is the nearest is a vicarage consolidated by Order in Council with the telegraph office rectory of Eastleach Martin, which see. Here is a The children of this parish attend the Public Elementary Primitive Methodist chapel. Howe's charity of 128. school erected at Eastleach Martin for the use of botb yearly is distributed in bread. The ancient Roman and parishes .Anglo-Saxon highway, known as ".Akeman Street," ran COMMERCIAL. Hoskins Wm. Eastleach Downs farm Mace Thos. farmer, The Manor farm Adams Thomas, haulier Howard Harold, baker & farmer Pell>son Harry, farmer & overseer Bowles Albert, Victoria inn Lawry Ellen (Miss), farmer, Macawnj Ricbards William T. farmer, Maca· Deacon Thomas, general dealer farm roni Downs farm Flower Show (C. Tovey, sec) Longford Ma1k, boot maker 'felling Frank, grocer EBLEY, see Cainscross. , or Ebberton, a village and parish, on 1679 : the church was thoroughly restored in 1875·6, a5 the road from Campden to Shipston-on-Stour and extend­ a cost of £2,839: there are 250 sittings. The regisLer ing to the Warwickshire border, is I Inile east from dates from the year 1568. The living is a vicarage, ne• station on the Oxford and Worcester yearly value £8o, with residence, in the gift of trusteeo, section of the Great Western railway, 3 I north-east from and held since 1899 by the Rev. William Joynson Gloucester, 5 west from Shipston-on-Stour and about go Guerrier M . .A. of Worcester College, Oxford. William from London, in the Eastern division of Uhe county, upper Keyt esq. a member of a family who were landowners in division of the hundred of Kiftsgate, petty sessional divi­ this parish for several centuries, bequeathed in r632 the Bion of Campden, union and county court district of milk of ten milch kine to the poor, which is still distri· • Shipston-on-Stour, rural deanery of Campden, archdea­ buted from May 21st to November 12th in each year. conry of Cirencester and diocese of Gloucester. Earl Fortescue K.C.B. is lord of the manor, and Mr. This place has bestowed the title of viscount on the John James, of Whitchurch, Warwickshire, is lay rector Portescue family, Earls l<'ortescue. The church of St. and the principal landowner. The soil is stout loam; Eadburgha is a bnilding of stone chiefly in the Norman subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, pasture, style, ~onsisting of chancel, nave of three bays, south beans, barley and roots. The area is 2,974 acres; rate­ aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower with able value, £2,840; the population in I9II was 505. pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: ths south door­ way of the church is a fine example of Norman work: on HIDCOTE BOYCE, ~~ miles north-west, and CHAR· the north side of the chancel within the communion rails INGWORTH, I mile south-east, are hamlets, both of is an altar-tomb with recumbent effigy in robes to Sir which are mentioned in Domesday Book. John Fortescue, "a great luminary of the law," appointed Parish Clerk, George Taylor. Chief Justice of the King's Bench 25th January, r442: he was a zealous supporter of the house of Lancaster, Post & T. Office.-Higford Keyte, sub-postmaster. Let· and as one of those engaged in the battle of Towton, 2 gth ters arrive from Campden, Glo'stersh. at 7.25 a.m. & March, 1461, suffered attainder and the confiscation of 3·55 p.m.; dispatched 9·45 a.m. & 5.40 p.m.; no his estates; and about , 463 was for some time an exile delivery on sunday. Campden, 2~ miles distant, is in France with Margaret of .Anjou; after the battle of the nearest money order office , 4th May, 1471, his attainder was reversed Wall Letter Boxes.-Hidcote Boyce, cleared at 7 a.m. & and he was allowed to retire to his manor at Ebrington, 3 & 5.30 p.m. week days only; Charingworth, cleared where he died subsequent to 1476, at the age of 90: in at 7·45 a.m. & 4.r5 p.m the south aisle is an ancient altar-tomb to the Keyt Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with master's family, the date being obliterated; other memorials to house, in r843, for roo children; average attendance, this family include one with two marble busts to Sir 89; Alfred Percy Clennett, master Jonathan Keyt, created a baronet 22nd December, J615o, Carriers.--Joseph Williams & Sons, to Stratford-on- for his services dming the great rebellion; he died 26th .Avon, fri.; John Gregary, to Stratford-on-.Avon, tri. August, 1662: the pulpit of carved oak bears the date & D. & T. Woodward, to Shipston-on-Stour, sat EBRINGTON. Keyte Higford, cowkeeper, Post of! Woodward David & Thomas, carriers Clark John Henry, Battledene Keyte John, haulier HIDCOTE OOYCE. . Guerrier Rev. William Joynson M.A. Page William Ernest N. Ebrington Wright Maj.Warren R.A.Hidcote vale (vicar), Vicarage .Arms P.H Baldwyn Thomas, farmer Sands Mahlon Alanson, Manor house Passey .Albert John, miller (water) Fletcher Alfred, boot repairer Peart Sidney, farmer, Marfurlong Righton Fredk. & Waiter, farmers COMMERCIAL. Righton James, farmer, Longmoor Spencer .Arthur James, farmer Bridges Henry, hlackismith Stanley Samuel & Sons, farmers Gray James Cooper, shopkeeper Stanley Sidney Samuel, farmer CHARINGWORTH Gregory John, carrier Tay:or George, shoe maker Blackwell Samuel Fredk. Baker, frmr Hawcutt Thomas, farmer Turberville Harriet (Mrs.), shopkpr Fisher Thomas Henry, farmer James John, farmer, Hill farm Williams Joseph & Sons, carriers Fisher Thomas Marshall, farmer THE EDGE is a tithing and village, I mile west from ter archdeaconry and diocese. The church of St. John , 3 east from Haresfield station on the Midland the Baptist, built in 1866, is a building of stone in the railway and 3 north from , and was formed into Perpendicular style, comisting of chancel, nave of three an ecclesiastical district from the parishes of Painswick, bay•, north aisle, south porch and a western tower Harescombe, Haresfield and Brookthorpe, June 17, 1873; containing one bell: the stained east window and one it is in the Mid division of the county, Stroud and Whit- ther in the chancel are memorials to the Wilton family, minster unions, Stroud county court d1strict and petty and were placed in r866; the stained west window was sessional d1vision, and Bisley rural deanery and Glouces- erected in 1878: in 1899 the church was thoroughly