' 1038 OPHAVEN. . (KELLY'S market was granted by Henry II. in :r:2r6; and in the reign turnips. The area is 3,329 acres; rateable value, [2,367; of Edward I. in 1272, Hugh de Spenser procured a charter of the population in 188 I was 484. free warren. Here were formerly two annual fairs and a Parish Clerk, Henry Meade. market; all are discontinued. Here was once a Benedictine PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office. priory, a cell to the Abbey of Fontanelle, in Normandy, after- -Joseph King, sub-postmaster. Letters through Marl- wards granted by Henry VI. to the monastery of Ivychurch, borough, arrive at 6.50 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.30 p.m in exchange for lands in Clarendon Park. The principal National School (mixed), erected at the cost of the parish, landowners are Captain James Fane Alexander, who is lord for 77 children; average attendance, 65; Miss Ellen of the manor, and King's College, Cambridge, who own the Hayward Green, mistress great tithes, and W. H. Alexander esq. The soil is chalky CARRIER.-L('.vi Giddens, to & from every thms. & loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and sat Bonner John Bonner John, Ship inn, & butchAr Lewis James, blacksmith Hobbs Miss Burfitt.John,registrar of births & deaths, Lawrence Charles Hinds L.R.C.P.Edin. Lawrence Charles Hinds, The Firs relieving & vaccination officer & col- surgeon, & medical officer & public Masterton Mrs lector to the guardians for Nether- vacc. 4th dist. union, The Firs Mitchell J. A. The Cottage avon district, Pewsey union MeadeHy.sddlr.&hrnss.ma.&pari10h clrk Pearce Mrs. Charles Carter Henry John, grocer & draper Newman James, baker & grocer Rowden William James, Weddington Chisman Geo. farmer & miller (water) Ridgley Absalom(Mrs. ),baker&shopkpr Smith James Cook Edward, shopkeeper Rowden John, farmer, Manor farm Windle Rev. Henry Edward [vicar] Davis John, bricklayer Rowden William James, farmer & auc- COMMERCIAL. Fuller Jane (Mrs.), grocer & baker tioneer,Weddington frm.;&atDevizes _Alexander John, farmer King John, shoe maker Warren John, baker & shopkeeper _.Bailey Emanuel,carpenter&wheelwright KingJsph.shopkpr. &shoe ma. Post offi~e Yates Alfred, Antelope P.H - (in Domesday spelt Love!), is a Lord Chancellor, and held since I874 by the Rev. Herbert parish and small village, on the banks of the Wylye, s! Frederic Crockett B. A. of Trinity College, Oxford. There is miles south-east from , I~ south-east-by-south a factory here, employing about 120 persons, in which from and I north-west from station woollen cloths are made. Col. John Frederick Everett J.P . . ~n the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth branch of the Mrs. Ingram and T. K. Harding esq. are the principalland­ Great Western railway, in the Western division of the owners; the land is all freehold. The soil is chalky; subsoil, county, Heytesbury hundred, Warminster petty sessional chalk and flint; the chief crops are wheat, oats and barley; .division, union and county court district, rural deanery of the area is 1,4ooacres; rateable value, £1,776; the popnla­ Wylye Heytesbury portion, archdeaconry of Sarum and tion in 1881 was 207. ..d_iocese of . The church (dedication not known, Parish Clerk, Edwin Hancock. but believed to be St. Peter) is a small edifice, built in mixed PosT OFFICE.-Edwin Hancock, receiver. Letters arrive styles of architecture, consisting of a chancel, nave, north by mail cart from Ba.th at 6. 15 a.m.; dispatched at 7.30 and south porches, and low square tower with 3 bells: a p.m & 6. 39 p.m. on sundays. The nearest money order small window in the chancel is Early Norman: on a stone in & telegraph office is at Heytesbury the wall over the south porch is the date 1632, which is supposed to signify the date of its restoration : the building WALL Box, near the Mill, cleared at 7 p.m.; sundays was again restored in 1833: it will seat about 150 persons. 6.Io p.m The register dates from the year 17I2. The living is a rec- Parochial School (mixed), erected in 187I ,with an endowment tory, gross yearly value from tithe rent-charge £325, in- of £15 yearly, for 6o children; average attendance, 58; eluding 25 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Mrs. McCall, mistress Crockett Rev. Herbt.Fredc.B.A..Rectory Fryer Mark, manager of cloth mills I Pike George, shopkeeper Dyke James Gray John, dairyman Upton Lovell Manufacturing Co. woollen Ransome Richard Hancock Edwin, carpenter & parish cloth manufL·s.(MarkFryer,manager) :Burton Jsph.farm bailiff to Mrs.Ingram clerk, post office Whatley William, grocer Clark John, farmer, Manor farm UP TON SCUDAMORE is a parish, 2 miles north from 'frowbridge, about 7 miles distant : that town is supplied Warminster and 2! south-west from Westbury, in the with pure water from these springs. The principal land­ Western division of the county, hundred, union, petty ses­ owners are the Marquess of Bath, the trustees of the late sional division and county court district of Warminster, William Temple, W. A. Mackinnon, Charles Nicholas Paul rural deanery of Wylye Heytesbury portion, archdeaconry Phipps esq. D.L., J.P. of Chalcot, Westbury, and William and diocese of Salisbury. The church of St. Mary the Henry Laverton esq. J.P. of Leighton, Westbury. The soil Virgin, in the Early English style, was restored in 1859: it is a strong loam; subsoil, marl. The chief crops are wheat · ·.Consists of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle,north porch and some land in pasture; the area is 2,493 acres; rateable and a western embattled tower with clock having 4 dials, and 3 value, £2,710; the population in 188I was 3I2. bells, one of which weighs about 9 cwt.; it was the tenor and THOULSTON is a tithing, 2 miles north-west; Non­ only remaining one of a peal of three, and in 1882 the late RIDGE, a tithing, 1 mile south-west ; Fulmar, I mile south­ rector added the two new bells at his own expense: the west. church contains a curious font of Norman date and two mutilated effigies of the Scudamores, the family who were Sexton, William Parker. the chief owners of the parish from the Conquest to the Letters through Warminster, arrive at 7 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. "Taign of Edward Ill.: there are 180 sittings. The register The nearest money order offices are at Warminster, West­ dates from the year 1654. The living is a rectory, tithe rent­ bury & Westbury Leigh. The nearest telegraph office is charge £490, gross yearly value £511, including 22~ acres of at W arminster glebe, with residence, in the gift of Queen's College, Oxford, PILLAR Box, cleared at 7.15 a.m. & 6.45 p.m. on week days and held since 1888 by the Rev. Robert Powley M.A. of that & 9 a. m. on sundays ·.-college. Here is a chapel for Baptists. At Brss, t mile National School (mixed), built in 1856, for 8o children; north, are the sources of the small river Biss, which flows to average attendance, 45 ; Miss Anne Foster, mistress Home James Bourne Robert H. surveyor to War- Pearce Godwin, farmer, Millards farm ~Powley Rev. Robert M.A. Rectory minster Highway Board Pearce John, maltster Beal Rd. Hoskin,farmer, N orridge farm Daniels Elizabeth (Mrs.), Angel inn Pullin Fredk. farmer, Keyfords farm Bourne Richard, farmer J ones Albert Ed ward, farmer Singer Daniel, farmer, Thoulstone farm (or EncHFONT) is a parish and village, 5 the south transept in memory of Miss Hallilay, one put np 'miles south-east from Devizes station and 4~ south-west by subscription by the parishioners in 1858, the other in the from W oodborough station, in the Eastern division of the same year by her non-resident friends ; there are also other .county, , Devizes union, county court stained windows : the font seems to be coeval with the district and petty sessional division, Potterne rural deanery church : in the year I 864 the building was entirely re-seated, Enford portion, Wilts archdeaconry and Salisbury diocese. and sittings for 8o additional persons provided, the gallery The church of St. Michael, repaired in 1840 at a cost of removed, the organ repaired and improved, and the chancel £ I,ooo,is an ancient structure of grey stone, in the Decorated beauf ified, the whole costing between£700 and £Boo, raised style, having a chancel, nave of two bays, aisles and north by subscription ; at the time of this restoration the whole of transept, south porch and square tower at the western ex- the seats in the nave were made free, and the seats in the aisles tremity, with a turret and embattled parapet, ornamented alone are now appropriated: there are about 6oo sittings: with pinnacles, and containing a clock and 8 bells: there is also, since I86I, the vicarage house and grounds have been a. good organ: the nave is separated from the aisles by much enlarged and impr!lved, at a cost of upwards of £550. Pointed arches, supported by pillars: the chancel is large, The register dates from the reign of Henry VIII. The living is and has a groined roof: there are two stained windows in a vicarage, with the chapelry of Stert annexed, gross yearly