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Dennia Charles, beer retailer Moohurst Robert, beer retailer, Lower 8-Wvens Thomas, carrier & builder Rural District Isolation Willingdon Tayl'or Thomas, carpenter Hospital (MiiS Mary Ackland,matrn) Mewett Frederick Elam, ahopkeeper, Thomas George & Son, bakers &; Freoch Frederick James, plumber Railway .11tation millers (wind)

Geering Albert, laundry7 Orchard cot Mewett Richard, fa.rmer, Rippington& Thorpe Henry, tobacconist Harvey H. &:; Sons, greengrocers Miller James, boot & shoe maker Timson Alfred Cook, baker · t Henty Hrot. park kpr. Hampden park Norman Leonard M.A.boys' brdng.achl T:raver.s-Smith Victor Edwin B..A.} Hilton Robert (Mrs.), farmer Over Edward Thomas, Red Lion corn- M.D., B.Gh.Dub. physician & sur- Holmwood Leonard., upholsterer, Rail· mercial inn geon, Flint hou~ way station O:xley William, baket, & refreshment Vine Jameos William, butcher Hounsell William George, boot maker, rooms, Post office *Waghorn Ja.mBA, .anitary inspector Station road Prior St~hen, fa'I"IIl bailiff to F. Free-· (postal address, ) Hntchings Hy. Alfd. grocer & draper man-Thom~ioa e.sq. !M.P Waghorn Louis- James, decorator,Rail- Lftach Tho!llas, gardenu to F. Free­ Read Brothers, farmers, Dann farm way station ma.n-Thomas esq. M.P., J.P Russell !Wbell't, ironmonger & smith Willard Richd. & Sons, mrkt. gardnra M.adge Thomas, oowkeeper, The Spots Seymour John Sa.mson, wheelwright Willingdon Golf Club (John S. Cum- Stevens Daniel, farmer, Meaobants ing, &ec) Willingdon Steami.armdry,Railway fJtn WILMINGTON iR a village and pa.rit!h on a declivity I cellar, •23 feet .!!quare, with a central pillar. The Greeu of the Downs, 2~ miles s-outh-east from Berwick station or Long .Man of Wilmington was originally a very rude on the and Hastin~ line of the London, and ·narrDw outline of a man cut in ,the turf on the side Brighton and South Coast railway, .g south-east from of ·the chalk ·downs; this figure, .supposed to have repre­ and 6 north-west from Ea11tbourne, in the sented a husbandman, has been. renewed, and the outline Southern division of the county, Peve·nsey ,rape, Long- marked with white •bruck, under the direction of the bridge hundred, petty sessional divisi-on, East- Sussex .A.rchmological &ciety; it was again ll"enewed in bourne union, Lewes and Eastbourne county court dis- 1893; there is a similar ·figure ·.on .a ·hill near Cerm~. trict, rural deanery -of l'evensey (fir!!~ division), arch- Aboas, Dorsetlihire. The Duke of Devonshire K.G. who ' d~a.conry of Lewes and diocese of 'Chichestor. The is lord of the man()J', J. E. A. Gwynne esq. of Folking­ church of SS. Mary and Peter is of stone, -with p()J'tions top, iH. M. Simmons esq. of Eastbourne, and Robert. of Norman date, aJld has a tower with spire· containing 3 Lambe esq. .of Blatchington Oourt, are the principal bells: the church was restored in 1883 at a cost of landowners. The soil is chalk and clay; ·subsoil, chalk. £2,ooo: there are 220 sitJtings: .in the churchyard is a The chief crops are wheat and oats. The area is 1,585 magnificent yew tree. The regist611" dates from the year acres; ratellible value, £2,663; the population in 1901 1538. The !living is a vicarage, net yearly value £72, was 212. . . witJh reaidence and 9 acres -of glebe, in the gift of the Sexton Arthur Mockett. Duke of Devonshire K.G. and held since 1897 by the Rev. . ' . . Clemerltl Edward Shera.rd M . .A.. of Jesn!l College, Cam- Post Offi.ce.-Mls!l Ann .A.de, sub-postm1stres~. Letters bridge, who is also vioor of Lullington. Here are .the through PO'lega;te R.~. 0. by foot post, arr'!Ve at 7·Sa . ruins {)f ~ •Benedictine priory founded .in 11088 by the a.m. & 2 ·4~ p.m. ; dispatched at 8 a. m. & 6. 15 p.m. ; ' . h ' f h ·th sundays, d1spat.ched g.3o a.m. The nearest anoney E a.r I n f M oreton, .t e gateway, o the ·15t century, WI d & t h ffi · t p t ·1 di 00. t fl.anking turrets, still exist!!; .otJher remains serve as a or e.r e1 egrap 0 ce IS a 0 1ega e, 3 ·ill! es s n farm house, inoluding the former porter's lodge, with s Public .Elem.enta.ry School (mixe·d), for 75 children; grained roof, now used as a parlour, and a crypt or average attendance, 39; Miss Kate Seymour, mi!!!tress Johnson George, Street End Bradford Henry, cowkeeper Page Charlie, poultry farmer Sherard Rev. Clement Edward M . .!.. Carpenter Charles, coal & corn dea}er Simmons Frank, wheelwright , (vicar), Vicarage Crowhu:rst Calvin, -vet·erinary surgeon Simmons Harry, farmer COMMERCIAL. Foord Harry, farmer, Priory farm Tolhurst James, baker & grocer !de Ann ()fiss'), grocer, Post office Geall Ebene-zer, tea gardens Wordley William, ~ gardens Adil Philip, ca.,penter Lavender Fredk.IWm.B.liack Horse P .H Wright Emily (!Mrs.) & Sons, farmers WINCHELSE-4 ({rom "gwent-che11el-ey," words 11ig- Seats Act, 1885" (48 and 49 Vict. c. 23). It is a nifyingl the theaping up of shingled banks (chese.1) on borough by prescription, and is governed by a mayor the ~Seaward edge of the muddy .fl.at!5) is a smal'l cor- and jurats, who formerly held courta of general session porate town, a cinque port, and formerly a seaport, on and gaol delivery. The town ia lighted with oil during the road from Rye to , with a station on \he the winte,r montlu!, and is ~upplied with water by the Ashford and Hastings section of the South Eastern and Rye Rural. District Council, and an efficient system of Chatham railw!LY• 6g miles from London brid_ge, 3 ~outh- dr11-ina~~ was carried out in 1892. Th~ .ch.urchea Df. west from Rye and 8 north-east from Hastmgs, m the St. Glles and St. Leonard have long 11mce ceased ta Eastern division of the county, rape of Hastings, Rye exist. The church of St. Thomas a Becket, originally ra l petty sessional division, union and county court dis- large and beautiful building of stone, consists paw only trict, and i_n tJhe :rural deanery of Hastings ( div. 2 ), arch- of the choir, a spacious and lofty chancel, principally of the deaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. Portions ot Early English and Decorated periods, and remainl! of the the parishes of , Broomhill and are in the transepts, with a west porch and a western turret con­ juri!!diotion and liberties of Wincheb;ea, ·which, in the taining one bell; all traces of the nave have disappeared~ old Englis!h times, was a place of som.e importa.nce, and there are two canopied tombs of stone and marble to was granted by Edwaro .the Confes!!or to t'he M