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DIRECTORY.] 29 . [HANTS.] free chapel, and therein likewise to instruct youth in WINKJ,EBURY is a large circular camp, 2 miles north~ literature. . . west. Among the eminent natives of tlds place may be noticed Verger, John Hall. Jobn de Basingstoke, a distinguished scholar of the thir­ teenth century, and Archdeacon' of Leicester about the Jear 1230; also Sir J ames Lancaster, an eminent navigator in the EASTROP next BASINGSTOKE (of whicll it may be reign of Elizabeth; Dr. Joseph Warton, F.R.S., who was considered a suburb) is a parish, adjoining the town on head master of Winchester College; and his brother, the the east, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, Rev. Thomas Warton, B.D., professor of poetry at the union, petty sessional division and county court district of University of Oxford and poet laureate: the father of the Basing-stoke, diocese and archdeaconryof Winchester, and Wartons was vicar of Basingstoke, also professor of poetry rural deanery of Basingstoke south-western division. The in the above university; his remains lie in the chancel of church of St. Mary is supposed to be an ancient structure, the church. though no records have been preserved to fix its exact About a mile south is Hackwood House, a large handsome date: it was formerly one of the smallest in the diocese, mansion, the seat of Lord Bolton, which was designed by but in the year 1835 it was enlarged by elongation, through lnigo J ones: it 8tamls in a well-wooded park of about 700 the liberality of the late Lord Bolton and others-personal acres, stocked with deer, and abounding with fine old oak, friends of the late rector. The register dates from the ,ear beech and other timber trees. 1750. The living is a discharged rectory, in the gift 0 the The Corporation are lords of the manor, and there are Rev. W. R. Workman, A.M., of Worcester College, Oxford, numerous landowners. . the present incumbent: the tithes have been commuted The soil is chiefly loam; the subsoil is chalk. The land for a rent-charge of £85. Part of Hackwood House and is mostly arable, producing abundant crops of sainfoin, tur­ park are in this parish. Lord Bolton, who is lord of the nips, wheat, barley and oats. manor, and with Mrs. Russell Apletre, are the principal The area is 4,036 acres, about 107 of which are common, landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, chalk. The chief restricted to certain householders of the town; gross esti­ crops are roots, sainfoin, wheat, barley, and oats. The area mated rental, £30,237; rateable value. £25,144; the popu­ is 438 acres; gross estimated rental, £1,227; rateable lation of the municipal borough and parish in 1871 was value, £1,063; the population in 1871 was 113. 5,574, and of the union, 18,105. Parish Clerk, James Fisher. . , Official Establishments, Local Institutions, &c. POST &; MONEY ORDER OFFICE, Savings Bank & INSURANCE AGENTS :- Government Annuity & Insurance Office.-Miss Jane Atlas, L. L. Redgrove, Wote street (fire onlj) Curtis, postmistress City of Glasgow Life, G. Gage, Hackwood road Box closes for dispatch to London, country & abroad at Clerical, Medical ~ General Life, G. Lear, New street 9.20 a.m. & 3.55 & 9.45 p.m.; to Reading &; West of County Fire, A. White, Winchester street at 7.45 p.m Economic Life, H. Downs, Winchester street The deliveries commence at 7 & 11 a.m. & 5 p.m. Money Imperial, H. E. Raynbird, Wote street order office & savings bank open from 9 till 6; saturdays Law Union, J. Smith, Winchester street • 9 till 8. Telegraph office open 7 till 9; sundays, 8 till Legal §r General Lifll ~ Accident, H. Fowler, Hamp­ 10a.m shire Bankinlt Company PILLAR BOXEs-Winchester st.; Sarum rd. &; Church st Liverpool ~ London ~ Globe, W. C. Dixon, New road; POSTAL 'I'EJ,EGRAPH OFFICES at railway stations H. Fowler, Bank; H. ~I. Powell, London 8t COUNTY MAGISTRATES, BASUIGSTOKE DIVISION:- Manchester Fire, C. R. Haslam, Wote street Sclater WilIiam Lutley, esq. Chairman, Hoddington Midland Fire ~ Life. J. B. Soper, Market place house, Odiham Mutual Life ~ Hailstorm, J. B. Soper, ~Iarket place Beach William Wither Bramston, esq. M.P. Oakley hall, Norwich Union, W. Glover, London street Basingstoke . Phamix Fire, Davis & Stephens Bolton The Right Hon. Lord, Hackwood park, Basingstoke Provident Life, A. White, Winchester street; Richard Chute William Lyde Wi/rgett, esq. The Vyne, Basingstoke Adams, Winchester street J ervoise Fras. J ervoise ElIis, esq. ho. Basingstoke Provincial, Lodwidge & Kingdon, Market place Portal Wyndham Spencer, esq. Malshanger, Basinf.!,'stoke Railway Passengers', Downs & Awbery, Winchester st Rycroft Sir Nelson, bart. park, Basingstoke Royal, Frederick Temple, Church street; H. Rutt, London Warren Major Richard Pelham, house & County Bank Fitzgerald Richard Purefoy, esq. North hall, Preston Royal Exchange, S. Chamller, Church street Candover Royal Farmers', Downs & Aubery, Winchester street Bates Edward, esq. M.P., D.L. Many Down park Scottish Equitable, G. B. Musselwhite, New street Clerks to the Magistrates for the Dimsion, Messrs. Scottish Imperial, J. Wheeler, Churcb street Lamb & Brooks, solicitors, Basingstoke Sun, J. W. Lamb Petty Sessions for the division are held at Basingstoke, Standard Life, Henry Rutt, London & County Bank every alternate wednesday, at the Town hall, at 12 o'clock Temperance, R. Adams at noon Whittington Life, J. Jibb, SydenlJam place, New road MAGISTRATES OF THE BOROUGH :-The Mayor, Robert PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS:- Skeat Bulbert, Charles Webb, Henry Downs, Richard Borough Police Station, New st. Mark Hibberd, suprtdt Wallis & Robert Archer Davis Cemetery, J ames Barter, registrar Clerk, Samuel Chandler Corn E:xchange, Wote street CORPORATION. County Court, Patrick Marcellinus Leonard, esq. judge; l'r'Iayor-William PistelI. - Maconochie, esq. deputy judge; John Workman Lamb, registrar; Thomas Beard, hi~h bailiff Aldermen. Inland Revenue Office, Wote street, George Robbins & Charles Webb I Arthur Wallis Thomas Skinner, officers Henry Portsmouth Stamp ~ Legacy Duty Office, Charles Joseph Jacob, Common Councillors. sub-distributor John Dew John Charles Pittman Curtis Town Hall, Charles Cookman, keeper Richard Knight Alfred Tyrrell, PUBLIC OFFICERS :- John Wathen Lodwidge Edward Taplin Assistant Overseer, James Smith John Fencott John Portsmouth Clerk to Board oj' Guardians ~ to Highway Board, Henry AlIen Henry Mills Powell George Lear Thomas Moore Clerk to Urban Sanitary Authority, Wm. Hy. Bayley Town Clm'k, William Henry Bayley Collector qf Urban Sanitary Rates, Hel'l.ry Ackland Borough Surveyor, James H. Moore. County Coroner, S. Clarke, esq. solicitor, \Vllitchurch Registrar ofBirths, Deaths ~ Jlf'arriages (Basingstoke CHARITY TRUSTEES. divi'3ion), Luke Longman Redgrove • (Appointed by the Lord Chancellor.) Relieving Officer (Basingstoke district), Wm. Lord Curtis Rev. J. E. Millard, D.D Richard Wallis Sheriff'S Officer, John Moore, High street, Andover Rev. William Ring Work- John May Superintendent Registrar, George Lear; Deputy,Henry man, M.A Alfred Kent J ames Thatcher Henry Downs Robert Skeat Hulbert Superintendent of Fire Brigade, James Burgess Soper Charles Webb Tax Collector ~ Collector of Poor Rates, James Smith Clerk, WiIliam Henry BayleJ Town C'l'ier, John Luxford, Goat lane