DIRECTORY.] . MANNINGFORD JlRGCE • 149 . Thompson Robert, blacksmith, St. John's st.reet Wilkins Kate (Mrs.), Volunteer inn, High street "' Thrush Charles, glass & china dealer, High street Williams Rose Hannah (Mrs.), dress maker, Ingram st Town Hall (J. H. Fielder, lessee) Willsdon Thomas, tobacconist, High street Tugwell Julia (Mrs.), baker, Abbey row Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited (branch) (Francis Waite Ch::1rles, cycle agent, Gloucester street John Compton, manager), High street; draw on

Walker James, beer retailer, Foxley road London Countv• & Westminster Bank Limited, Loth- Walker James, watch maker & jeweller, High street bury, London E C . Wallace Alfred, White Lion P.H. Gloucester street Woodman Edwin, boot maker, Abbey row ' Water Works (Borough) (Herbert Ratcliffe, engineer), Woodman William, baker & grocer, Triangle Holloway Woodward Frederick, Rose & Crown P.H. High street Watts Arthur, saddler, Gloucester street Yarnold Frederick William, watch maker, Gloucestel' st Weaver Samuel Augustus, farmer, Whitchurch farm Ye Olde Belle, FamliJr & Residential Hotel (Joseph Weeks Frederick, plumber, High street Moore, proprietor); forage contractor to the nobility Weeks William, beer retailer, Honefair & gentry; loose boxes for hunters, Abbey row West Waiter, farmer, Grange farm, Burton hill • Yorkshire Insurance Co. Limited (fire, life & Whiting Samuel B. tailor, Gloucester street ~ccident) (established 1824) (James D. Curtis, resident Wilkins Henry, mason, High street inspector), High street. T N 27 Wilkins James H. hair dresser, Triangle Young Men's Christian Association (Rev. H. J. Neve Wilkins Joseph, chimney sweeper, High street Crouch, pres.; Jas. Alfred Jones, sec.), Market cross Wilkins Joseph, marine store dealer, Oxford street MANNINGFORD ABBOTTS (or Abbas) is a small eluding 15 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of parish with a few houses, and is 2 miles south-west Mrs. Pawley Smith, and held since 1908 by the Rev. from Pew!ley station 0f the Great Western railway, and 8 Henry Alfred Colthurst Tomkins. B.A. of Trinity College, south from Marlborough, in the F:astern division of the Cambridge. The principal landowners are the Governors county, hundred of Swanborough, Everleigh and of St. Thomas' Hospital, the trustees of Capt. Wynd­ petty sessional division, Pewsey union, Marlborough ham, Aubrey William Freeman Wilson esq. and Alex­ county court district, rural deanery of Marlborough ander Grant Meek esq. of . The soil is sand (Pewsey portion), archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of and clay; subs_oil, chalky. The chief crops are wheat, Salisbury. The church, name unknown, but rebuilt in oats, barley and turnips. The area is 919 acres; rate-- . 1864, is an edifice of stone, in the Early English style, con- able value, £1,327; the population in 1901 was 108. sisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western bell Sexton, Charles Lewis. gable, with 2 bells, one of which was recast in 1896, and there is a piscina on the south side of the chancel and Wall Letter Box, cleared at u.4o a.m. & 6 p.m.; sun-- three marble tablets to members of the Astley family: day, 9 a. m. Letters through Pewsey, Wilts, arrive- there is an exquisite pre-Reformation chalice: the church at 7.30 a.m. Pewsey is the nearest money order & has 120 sittings. 'fhe register dates from the year telegraph office, 2 miles distant 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £2oo, in- The school for this parish is at Manningford Bruce

Cook .Alfred, South view COMMERCIAL. Oliver E. Keene M.S.A. architect, Evorett Col. Edwin Awdry, The Butts .lmor William, farmer Manor house Stagg Thomas W. Malt House farm Broomham Fred, farmer, Rose cottage Simper Herbert, farmer, Lower farm Tomkins Rev. Henry Alfred Colthurst Butcher George James, farmer, Ware Waiter T. Ltd. nurserymen B.A. (rector), Rectory Manningford mills

'MANNINGFORD BOHUN is a parish, 2~ miles Wilsford. Here are two- Particular Eaptist chapels, one south-east from Woodborough station on the Berks and built in 1809 and seating 70, and the other built in 1842 Hants extension branch of the Great Western railway, 3 with so sittings. The Earl of Normanton is lord of south-west from Pewsey and 9i east-by-south from the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is Devizes, in the Eastern division of the county, Swan­ clay and chalky ; subsoil, chalk and greensand. The borough hundred, petty sessional division of Everleigh chief crops are wheat, ba.rley, oats, beans and roots. and Pewsey, Pewsey union, Marlborough county court The area is 1,233 acres; rateable value, £1,549, and the district, rural deanery of Potterne (Enford portion), population in 1901 was 229. archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The Parish Clerk, Alfred Coles. church of All Saints is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch Letters through Pewsey, Wilts, arrive at 7 a.m. & 3 and a western turret containing one bell : there are p.m. The nearest monry order & telegraph office is three stained windows and 154 sittings. The living is a at Manningford Bruce chapelry annexed to- the vicarage of Wilsford, joint net Wall Letter Box, Cross -roads, cleared II.Io a.m. & 6.55 yearly value £192, including 2 acres of glebe, with resi­ p.m. ; sunday, 10.55 a.m dence, in the ~ift of the master of St. Nicholas' Hospital, The children of this place attend the schools at Manning­ Salisbury, and held since 1881 by the Rev. William Wrixon ford Bruce, Rushall & W oodborough • Keating M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who resides at Police Constable, Joseph Nash •••

(Marked * postal adJress w· ooduoro', COMMERCIAL. . *Strong George, baker & shopkeepe:t Pewsev ) Peacock .Rosa (Mrs.), Seven Stars mn Ware Waiter •r. Ltd. nurserymen · · Stratton F. & Co. farmers & steam Wells Henry, farmer, Ivy cottage Stratton Frank J.P. Manor house plough & thrashing machine owners MANNINGFOR.D BRUCE (which derives its name and held since 1892 by the Rev. Edward Tanqueray B. A. from the old baronial family of Braose) is a small villagt­ of Cambridge University. Manningford Bruce ManoT and parish, 2! miles south-west from Pewsey station of House is the residence of Capt. the Hon. Chandos the Great Western railway, and ro east-by-south from Graham Gore-Langton, and stands in a park of about Devizes, in the Eastern division of the county, Swan­ 12 acres. The principal landowner is Alexander Grant­ borough hundred, Everleigh and Pewsey petty sess.jonal MePk esq. who. is lord of the manor. The soil is sand, division, Pewsey union, l\Iarlborongh county court dis­ clay and peat; subsoil, chalky. The .chief crops are _ trict, rural deanery of Marlborough (Pewsey portion), wheat, barley and beans. The area Js 1,o85 acres; archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The rateable value, [1,334; the population in 1901 was 237. • church of St. Peter, a building of rubble faced with Parish Clerk, Thomas Powell. flint, and ori!!'inally of Early Norman date, consists of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch, and a. western belfry Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Georgina Clements, sub­ of wood, containing 2 bells : three of the windo.ws a-re postmistress. The postal addr~ss, Pewsey, Wilts. stained, and there are several mural tablets, including­ Letters arrive at 6.35 a.m. & 2.45 p.m. ; sundays, 7·5 one in the chancel to Ma.ry Nicholas, wife o-f the then a.m. ; dispatched at rr.35 a.m. & 6.40 p.m.; sundays, lord of the' manor, who, with her sister Jane, was 6.35 p.m instrumental in preserving the life of Charles 11. after Wall Letter Box, Townsend, cleared 11.25 a.m. & 6.15 his defea~ at Worcester, &p. 3, 1651 : a curious old p.m.; sundays, 9.15 a.m pewter fbgon and two dishes, dated 1727, are pre­ served in the church: the church was restored in 1882, ElPmentary School (mixed), for the parishes of Man­ nnder the direction of the late Mr. J. L. Pearson R.A. ningford Abbotts. Manning-ford Bruce & part of Man­ and affords roo sittings. The register dates from tht• ningford Bohun, built in 184r, & .enlarged in 1873, for year 1657. The living is a rectory, net income £r7o, 8o children ; average attendance, 75 ; Mrs. Hannah 1rith 8 acres of glebe and house, in the g.ift of trustees, Jane Gadsden, mistress