• DIRECTORY.] 263 EAST WOODHAY. [HANTS.] - Hawkins John, carpenter Permain John William & Waiter, Roe WiIliam, carpenter Herbert HRl-vey, painter, plumber &c drapers, grocers, china dealers, meal Smith W. thatcher HoarEdwardWilliam,SaddleTs' Arms, men & english & foreign wine mer Turner Mrs. blacksmith & harn~ss maker chants, a~ents to the Liverpool &Lon Wheeler George, basket & sieve maker Lanfear T. farm bailiff to J. Canning don & Globe Insurance Company Willis Julian, L.R.C.P., M.R.e.S. lIur- MonkWilliam, shoe maker, &post office Pitter John, farmer, Norton geon, & registrar of births & deaths, Palmer William, miller Roe James, White Swan 1st Winchester district
WOOD GREEN (formerly extra-parochial) is now 8 £367; rateahle value, £288; the population in 1871 wall parish, in the Southern division of the county, hundred, 336. union, and county court district of Fordin~bridge, 3 miles north-east from Fordingbridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapel; also the remains of 11 ca:,itle, supposed to have been a Roman Letters are received through Salisbury. The nearest money fortification. The area is :35 acres; gross estimated rental, order office is. at Fordingbridge COMMERCIAL. Mist Charles, shoe maker & shopkeeper Witt James, shopkeeper Crooke William, dairymau Poulton James, shopkeeper Wort Albert, shopkeeper Hobbs John, beer retailer Trim George, H orse ~ Groom
WOODOOTT is a parish, containing two farm houses M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge. Here is a Parochial and a few scattered cottages, 8 miles south-west from New school, supported by the Earl of Carnarvon. Woodcott bury station, 5 north-we:,it from Whitchurch, in the was formerly the residence of the Kingsmill family; the Northern division of the county, hundl'eu of Pastrow, remains of the mansion are still to be seen. The Earl of Kingsclere petty sessional division and union, Newbury Carnarvon is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. county court district, diocese anti archdeaconry of Win The soil is rather heavy j llubilOil, chalk. The chief crops che"ter, and rural deanery of Andover north-western are wheat, oats and turnips. The area is 1,350 acres; gros. division. The church (name unknown) is a small fabric, estimated rental, £93~; rateable value, .£887; the popula and was rebuilt in 170J, and restored in 1853, apparently tion in 1871 was 74. from the ruins of the old ooe, and within the walls of the Parish Clerk, Daniel Pearce. fiame. The registers are very old,and were originally kept in Latin, the English portion commencing- in 1590. The living Letters through Newbury. The nearest money order office is a donative, annual value £20, iu the gift of the Earl of is at Hurstbourne Tarrant Carnarvon, and held by the Rev. Richard John Burton, Parochial School, Mrs. Eliza Summerbee, mistress Freemantle Jesse, farmer, Lower Woodcott I Horn Wm. farm bailiff to Earl of Carnarvon, Up. Woodcott
EAST WOODHAY is an extensive paris., 6 miles also, undf'r the Enclosure Act, 40 acres of (land, vested in south-west from N ewbury statiou, and 58 from London, in trustees, the produce of which iil directed to be distributed the Northern division of the county, hundred of Eving-ar, annually in fuel for the benefit of the poor: a part of the Kin~8Clere union and petty sessional division, Newbury land has beeu sold, under the direction of the Charity Com '~ount:r court district, diocese and archdl'aconry of Win missioners, and the money invested in the fuuds. The chester, and rural deanery of Anuover north-eastern principal landowners are the Earl of Carnarvon, who is lord division: it is pleasantly situated on the confines of the of the manor, Messrs. Hull, Rev. N. 1. Ridley, M.A., Rev. .county, near Berkshire: the river Eun bounds it on the M. Vavasour, Hon. J. K. Howard, John Lindsey, esq., A. north-west, and the beautiful park and grounds of the Earl B. Heath, esq., trustees of - Sloper, F. G. Saunders, esq., .of Carnarvon on the south-east. The parish ha~ been and John Forster, esq. The soil is various. The chief lorreatly improved within the last few years by the erection of crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 4,966 acres; somehaudsome uetached villas. East Woodhay wasformerly gross estimated rental, £11,264; rateable value, £9,544; .a residence of the Bishops of Winchpster, who had a palace the population of the whole parish in 1871 was 1,494• here, on the spot now called the Park; the Bishops Ken, WooltonHill is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1850. Hooper, and Louth (afterwards Bishop of London) were The church of St. Thomas, consecrated in October, 1849, is formerly incumbents of this parish. The church of St. in the Early Englhh style, and consists of chaucel, nave, Martin wa!l rebuilt in 1822, at the charge ofthe ratepayers: north aisle, with a spire and 5 bells, and contains sitting-s in 1850 the chancel was rebuilt and ornamented, I\t the for 400 persons: the chancel window is of stained glass. ~xpense of the rector and a few friends: the church is in the The register dates from the year 1849. The living- is a i)ld Eng-lish style, has a squ9,re tower at the west, through vicarage, yearly "alue £100 and pew rents, with 12~ acres of which is the principal entrance, and contains a peal of 5 glebe, in the gift of the rector of East Woodhay, and held bells and a clock with chimes, presented hy Lady Louisa by the Rev. Denis Times Moore, M.A., of Exeter College, Howard, of Hazl'lby House: the interior consists of chancel Oxford. National schools, in connection with this church, and nave, containing a handsome mltrble monument, with were established in 1850. The population of the ecclesiastical the figures erect, of Edwar
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