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• ~ • ., ., ' l . ~· r • J ' ~ BROAD TOWN:' WILTSHIHE. [KELLY'S r .,, :._~ ..-., • • bu.il~~ Here' are frimitive ¥eth9dist and Wesleyan os~ Office, - Hen.ry Bathe, sub-pps4q.ast:er. 1 J..et*e,ra chapels. the prlncipallandownE)rs are Braseno,e .College, ,r through Swinqon arrjvl\ a~ 6.45 a.m.. & 1 I~ no~;~ Oxford, the trustees of the Broad· Town C·harity, Vis d~spatc4ed at 7,20 p.m..; no sund~ ,dehvery, ,..Br~;~Ad countess Bolingbroke, the li.ev! ;Edward ·n. Goddard 1 'Hinton, 2 miles dis~ant, is the nearest money or~ ~' M.A. vicar of Cliffe Pypard, and Mr. J. E. G. Bradford. telegraph pffice. , t 1 Thl) soil js clay; subsoil, white ston.e. The chief crops Wall ~ett611' Box, Broad Town lane, cleared .at jl.2Ji P·lllt are wheat, oats and turnips, and pasture land. The ~chool (mixed), with residence for tbe mistteSil, ~rected area is 2,040 acres;. rateable value, £3,347; the popu- by the late Rev. A• .T. W. Morrisop, vicar~ for 9'> lation in 1901 was 433· ' · children, & enlarged, in 1892, by the, addition of a Parish Clerk, John .Archer. ~ Class-room; average attendance, 83; Miss Edith Mary· Stocker, mistress . , , ! . Crofton Rev. Henry Francis :M.A Bond Glen, farmer, Bynoll Maull John Wm. Queoen's Head P.'H·"' Vicarage · r Brewer William, blacksmith Miles Catherine' (Mrs.), carpenter Darling Stephen, Thornicroft Che.sterman Elizabeth (Mr9. ), farmer Ody Elizh .. (Mrs.), farmer, Hambrook.. Eatwell Charles, Springfield house Chesterman Richard Arthur, farmer Palmer George, thatcher Hopgood Charles Henley George, cattle dealer Parsons Alice (Mrs.), farmer • Linzey Wm. farmer, Broad Town lane Parsons Victor, farmer, Thornhili 1 t COMHEBCIAL. ' Little John, farmer, Broad Town frm Price Frances Emma (Mrs.}, farmer,. .Armstrong Walter Richard, farmer, Manners Frank, farmer, Cotmarsh Manor farm , . Barn hill ' . Maskell .Tohn, jun. farmer, East farm Telling Julia Emma {Mrs.), shopkpr Bathe A. & H. grocers, & post office Matt'hews Ellen (Mrs.), farmer Tuck Edward Jas:- farmer, Ham frm • • BROKENBOROUGH is a village and parish on the at Charlton. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, river lngleburn, and adjoining Gloucestershire, about 3~ erected in 1873. The Malmesbury Union Workhouse hr miles south-east from Tetbury and Ii north-west from in this parish. The Earl of Suffolk and B£'rkshire is. Malmesbury terminal station of a branch of the Great lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is. Western railway, in the North-Western division of the brashy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat,. county, Malmesbury hundred, petty sessional division, barley and roots. The area of the parish is 2,625 acres union and county court dis·trict, and in MaJ.mesbury of hmd and 9 of wate'r; rateable value, £2,523; the rural deanery, North WHts a·rchdeaconry and Bristol population in 1901 was 317, including the officers and diocese. By an .order of othe County Council, dated· inmates in the Malmesbury workhouse. · July IO, 1894• Brokenborough was ·made into two . QUOBWELL is three-quarters of a mile east. Ey an parishes called Brokenborough Within, and included Order dated March , , a part of Bremilham parish in the Malmesbury Urban. District and Brokenborough 25 1884 Without, within the Malmesbury Rural District. The was ~ma 1gamated with this parish. · church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone Parish Clerk, Joseph Wood. in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, Post Office. Miss Alica E. Gladwin, iub-postmistres&-~ nort~ aisle, north porch and a ..smaU wooden turret: Letters through Malmesbury ~~Xrive a.t 7.50 a. m.; d.is- there are sittings fDr 200 persons .• Tbe register dates patched at 7·45 a.m. & 7.25 p.m.; no sunday delivery-1 from the year I 778. The living is a chapelry, annexed ' Malmesbury, 2 miles distant, is the nearest mone!J' to the vicarage of Charlton, joint net yearly value £345, order & telegraph office including- 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift Wall Letter Box, cleared -a.,; a.m. &;· 7·45 p.m. daily , o( the Lord Chancellor, and held since I9IO by the Rev. School, built for 40 children; average attendance. 18; 1 Herhert .A.rthur Woodhouse, of St. •Aidans, who resides Miss .Alice E, Gladwin, mistress • • I Neeld Rear-Admiral Reginald Run- Gladwin Edward Papl, blacksmith Mills 'Francis, baker 4ell, Twatley house · Guest George, farmer, Bell farm Pincott Thomas, butcher - • · Guest Henry E. farmer, Brokenboro' Sellwood Martha (Mrs.), farmer, COV\fEBC.:IAL. farm . Brook farm :9ailey John, farmer Hunt Frank, Cooper's Arms inn Taylor Elizh. (Mrs.), frtur. Hywn pk Baldwin Henry, farmer, Boakley Knapp Charles Hy. farmer,Foss farm Taylor George, Rose I& Crown P.H Cove Ebenezer, farmer Large Arthur, farmer • Wood Stephen, farmer, Gilboa Fry Harry,Red Bull P.H. Sherston ;rd Mapson Chas. farmer, 'Upper Foss fm ; . BROMHAM is a parish, 3 miles north-east from Seend within the canopy is a brass kneeling effigy of a female station on the Newbury and Bath section of 'the Great in the costume .of the period (circa 1490). and a repre Western railway, 4 north-west from Devizes and 4 east- :«entation df the Holy Trinity, formerly in a matrix by-north from Melksha.m, in the Eastern division of the above: immediately opposite, agains-t the south wall, is county, PotJterne hundred, Devizes petty sessional divi- 1t canopied tomb to Sir Edward Baynton kt. ob. I578, sion, union and county court district, rural deanery of with brass effigies of himself, his two wives. and tw~ Avebury (Oannings portion), archdeaoonry of Wilts and ?Ut of three children, all kneeling; and on the floor is diocese of Salisbury. The ancient houses of the village. a brass effigy of John Baynton, ob. 1516, cousin and heir built of timber a.nd brick, are ranged irregularly on of Richard Beauchamp, 2nd Lord St. Amand: the east -side, facing the church. The church of St. the east window of this t'hapel are five recesses. thre& Nibholas is a building of stone in the Lancet and of which contain tablets to Sir Edward Baynton kt. ob. Perpendicula'r 'styles,' con'S'isting o: dhancel, nave of r67o; Henry Bayn'J;.on, ob. r69r; and John Baynton, ob. four . bays, south aisle, south transept, · south-eastern IJI6; and there is another to Lady Anne Wilmot, ob. chapel, south porch and an embattled central tower t703, besides many memorials to various memhers of with octagonal spire, I 10 feet in height, containing the Baynton family: the chapel has a stained east win a clock and 6 beHs, ihung at a cost of £6oo: the dow, erected in memory of John Bayntun Starky, whoo chancel was entirely rebuilt. in I865. in the Lancet died in Aus.tralia, ;by his widow: the transept has a style, at J;ihe cost of the rector: it retains a credence stone-groined roof, ,with a long pendant in the centre: with trefoil-headed arch, and a hagiQscope: the rered06 the porch is embattled, and on the west i~ a stair lead is arcaded, -and has marble shafts : the rest of the ing to a parvise above: three windows on the north side chureh is Perpendicular: the chapel, which is the of the chancel are .stained: on the tower is a curious most interesting portion, was built by Richard Beau- figure of a skeleton, cut into the north wall, and near it. champ, 2nd Baron St. Amand (d. 1508), who fou:r.ded ~urrounded by a scroll, a skull and cross-bones, with therein a chantry dedicated to St. Mary and St. Nicholas: the inscription, " Death is swallowed up in victori ": iD . it .has an embattled par.apet, with crocketed pinnacles, the churchyard rest the remains of Thomas Moore, the panelling and shields of arms : in the centre of the east poet, wh{) died at Slope.rton Cottage, Chittoe, 2~th Feb. wall, above the roof, is a richly designed canopied niche, I852, and above the grave rises a fine Celtic cross. the flat ceiling is divided int.o thirty-two compartments. erected in Nov. rgo6, through the efforts of the Rev. painted .and gilt, and profusely decorated, and against A. S. Hartigan M.A. then curate here: it is Of BaUina• the east wall is a canopied niche, and there are sedilia, sloe limestone, IB feet in height, Gn a base 7 ft. 6 in. formed in the sill of a window on the south side: the by 4 feet, and cost £232: at th~ base are inscriptions, chapel opens to the chancel by two lofty Perpen.licular one being a verse from Moore's poems and the other 11 arches, a similar one communicating with the transept: qucrta.tion from Byron: the west window, by Constable, in the centre of the chapel stands a large tomb, ~ith a of Cambridge, was· erected by subscription to his full length recumbent effigy of a knight in at"'llour, in memory, and there is a plain slab over the grave of excellent preservation, representing Sir Roger Tocote11, or his two children : Ml"S. Moo.re, relict of the poet, was Touchet, who married the widow of William Deauchamp. also buried here in the year 1865, and is commemorated Jst baron St. Amand (d. 1457): there is also ~ canopied by the stained east window: in rgo8 a stained glass tomb to his wife Elizabeth, and on an upright slab window was erected in the nave to the memory of the • .