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Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, Wall Letter Boxes.-~[udgedown, cleared at 8.55 a.m. & 1882," Nine Elms, a detached part of Iron Acton, was 4.30 p.m. week days only; Dyer's lane, cleared 9·I5 transferred to Alveston. a.m. & 4-I5 p.m.; Latteridge, cleared 8.30 a. m. & 6 p.m Police Station, Joseph Bateman, police constable LATTERIDGE is a hamlet, I~ miles north-west. Public Elementary School, erected in 1873-4 by sub scription, on a site given by the late rector, the Rev. Sexton, .Albert Fugill. John Salter, for 160 children; average attendance, Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Elizabeth S. Fugill, sub 62 boys, 54 girls & 40 infants; Jarnes Charles Heddon, postmi"tress. Letters arrive through Bristol at 6. I5 master; Miss Gertrude E. Miller, asiistant mistress a.m. & 2.r5 & 6.15 p.m.; dispatched at 10.45 a. m. & Railway Station, Henry George Cooper, station master 3.50 & 3.ro p.m.; dispatched on sundays at 4·45 p.m Carrier to Bristol.-Wyatt, from Wotton-under-Edge, tues. thurs. & sat IRON ACTON. Cullimore George, beer retailer Selman Arthur, farmer ~Dyer (\farked th u~ t receive letters through Waiter, beer retailer Shepherd Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Yate, Glos.) ~Forest William George, baker Shepherd Wm. frmr. Robinswood farm Fugill Albert Steplhen, oarpenter Smith Frederick George, farmer, PI
KEMBLE is a parish and scattered village, 4 miles Duncan Keith Macpherson. The parish is partly sup south-west from Cirencester, with a station on the Great plied with water from a well belonging to the Great Western railway, 9 north-east from Malmesbury and 91 'Vestern Railway Company. The charities amount to from London, in the Eastern division of Gloucester- about [3o yearly for the poor not receiving parochial shire, and, for parliamentary purposes, Northern divi- relief. Lord Biddulph D.L., J.P. who is lord of the sion of Wiltshire, Cirencester hundred and petty ses- manor, and William Price Jones esq. are the principal sional division, Cirencester union and county court dis- landowners. The soil is stone brash and clay; subsoil, trict, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Cirencester and gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, diocese of Gloucester. The parish was formerly in oats, beans and turnips. The area is 3,302 aares of Wiltshire, but from rst .April, 1897, was annexed to the land and 2o of water; rateable valne, [5,5o4; the county of Gloucester by an Order of the Local Govern· population in 191I was 528. ment Board, dated 3oth April, r8g6, which Order wa• • confirmed by the Local Government Board'• Provisional EWELL (or Ewen) is a hamlet, I mile east. Elm Orders >Confirmation (No. 13) Act, r89fi. One of the !:Treen is the residence of Richard Denison Cumberland sources of the Thames is in this parish. The church of Jones esq. J.P. who is also a landowner . .All Saints, rebuilt in r877-8, at a cost of [2,ooo, is an Sexton, George Dance. edifice in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Wilfred H. Hager, sub-post- nave of two bays, north aisle and south transept, mor- master. Letters through Cirencester arrive at 6.50 tuary chapel, south porch and a western tower con- & 10.40 a.m. & are dispatched at 6. 10 a.m. & 8 tainin<>~ 5 bells, and surmounted by a spire 120 feet in p.m.; sun d ay, 6 p.n1.; no d e 1·1very on sund ay height : in the church is an ancient tomb of a Knight Wall Letter Box, at Ewen, cleared at 7. r5 a.m. & 6 Templar and some interesting monuments, and in the p.m. in summer & 5· 15 p.m. in winter mortuary chapel is a curious triple window of the r3th century, said to have been brought from Salisbury Railway Station, Kemble Junction, John Boyd, station cathedral: the porch, which is unusually large, was master built in the time of Henry III. (I2r6-72): over the en- Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in r873, for trance is a beautiful Norman arch with the chevron go children, & enlarged in I89o for 130, & again in ornament: the church has 250 sittings. The register Igoo, for I 50 children, with house for the master; dates from the year r679. The living is a vicarage, average attendance, 85; Harry Bridgewater, master net yearly value [192, arising from glebe, in the gift Carrier to Cirencester.---Joseph A. Telling, man. & fri of Lord Biddulph, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Constable in charge, Henry William Hiron
PRIV.iTE RESIDENTS. 1 COMMERCIAL. 1 Gascoigne Herbert, blacksmith Biddulph Lord D.L., J.P. Manor Alien Charles, gardener to Lord. Isaacs Edward, gardener to R. D. house; & 19 Ennismore gardens & Hiddulph i Cumberland-Jones esq. J.P. Ewen
Reform & Br<>oks's clubs,LondonSW Barnes Tom. grocer, Ewen 1 Kemble & Dist,rict Co-<>perative So- Cumberland-.Tones Richard Denison Barton Charles, farm bailiff to Lord I ciety Ltd. (Jn. Percy Brewer, mgr) J.P. Elm Green Biddulph . Sargeant Annie Ruth (Miss), miller Cuninghame Wi!liam John, Ewen ha Compton Raymond, carpenter, Ewen (water), Kemble mill Macpherson Rev. Duncan Keith, Compton Williarn Henry, butcher Strange Percy, coffee tavern Vicarage Cowley Clements, farmer, Ewen Telling Joseph A. carrier & farmer Mas