East Meon. Ha~Pshire
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EAST MEON. HA~PSHIRE. (KELLY'B and. some land in pasture. The are& is 8,8rB acre& Wall Letter- Boxes.-Drayton, cleared at II a.m. & 6.50 of land and 5 of water ; rateable vaJue, £6,032 ; the p.m.; sundays, u noon; Coombe Cross, cleared at 9 p()pulatiun in r<>o:r was r,o5B in the civil and I,Oiof. in a..m. & 6.30. p.m. ; sundays, 9 a.m. ; Hordean, cleared, the ecclesiastical paris'h. at B a. m_ & 6.50 p.m. week days only; Lythe honse, cleared at 8.• 15 a..m. & 6.r5 p.m.; snndays, B.rs a.m.J OXENBOURNE, a tithing, r mil& south-east; Lower farm, cleared at 8.45 a. m. & 6.45 p.m.; Bun_· COOMBE, 2 miles south-west; Riplington, ri miles days, 8.45 a.m north-west ; and: Peak, 2i north-west. On the downs are many 'barrows, a.nd on Old Winchester Hill is a Elementary School (mixed), built about 184o, for 149 camp. children i average attendance, 150; there is a small Langrish, Ramsdean and part of Bordean titbings house for the master; Fred Tomlinson, master form the civil parish of Langrish, which will be found Carriers to: under a separate heading. Sexton, Henry Coles. Petersfield-William Stone, from West Meon, passe~ Post, M. 0. & T: Office. Alfred Smith, sub-postmaster. through on mon. wed. & fri Letters through Petersfield arrive at .rs a.m. & 2 _25 Portsmouth---George Noble White, every tues. thurs . .t; . h 7d sat, returning same day; Jas. Crocker, mon. wed, & fri p.m.; sun d ay,. 7-IS a.m.; d1spatc e at II.Io a.m. & 7 p.m.; on sundays dispatched a.t r:a.Io p.m Police Constable, Edwa.rd Steel~ (Marked thus * receive letters Birch Francis .Tulian Laurence, land Legg Albert, registrar of births & through West Meon.) steward to William G. Nicholson deaths, East Meon sub-district,; (MaTked thus t receive letters eEq. M.P. Upper Bordean mon. 9 to II a.m.; wed. 5 to 7 through Horndean.) Blackman Ernest, boot repairer p.m.; fri. 2.30 to 4.30 p.m Blackman John, farmer.. Drayton Long Samuel, butcher PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Broadvray .A.lbert, farmer, Lythe ho Lufi William, George P.H Broadway Geo. farmer, Tigvrell farm Martin Abram Rice, saddler Coles David, Glenthorne Challen Henry, farmer, Park farm M a tier Grace (Mrs. ),teacher of music Hassell Thornton, O:xenbourn Cobbett Thomas William, photo- Merritt Lucy Ann (Mrs.), cattle dlr Gallup Henry Curtis, Bereleigh ho grapher, Drayton Mullins Henry, gamekeeper to H. (l .Tones Edward Thomas L.R.C.P.Lond. Coles Henry, lruilder Gallup esq Whit-e house Crowley & Co. brewery stores Noyce Bros. farmers, Whitewool frm "*Le Roy-Lewis Col. Herman D.S.O., Darvill George, farmer, Court farm Parsons Jocelyn, farmer. Rookham lo B.A., F.R.G.S., D.L,, J.P. West-· D<myer Joseph, New inn Parsons Stephen, grocer &c. tree bury house Dicker Walt. dairy frmr.Belmont frm Savage & Parsons Martin Gerald, Coombe cross East Meon Church Institute (Arth. *Parkins Joseph, gardener to Col. H. Masters Rev. Thomas Heywood M.A. Warren, treasurer) Le Roy-Lewis D.S.O., D.L., J'.P. (vicar, k University tutor),Vicarage Fisher Geo. (Mrs.), laundry,Copse ho Westbury gardens Mead Frank (Congregational Evan- Gordon Ernest, farmer, Church farm Pink Alfred Edward, dairy farmer, gelist) Hobbs James, blacksmith Church cottage MerPitt Mrs. Brooklyn tHorn Wm. •Edwd.farmr.Hyden farm Potter Edgar, shopkeeper 'Thomas Misses, Colchenna J ames Alfred, gamekeeper to Col. Prior W illiam, gardener to H. G. Vinn Mrs. J. Drayton house Herman Le Roy-Lewis D.S.O., D.L. Gallup esq. Bereleigh Williams George, Tel-El-Ke'bir J.P. Peake Robb & Martin, game breeders, J:;ms Edwd. Thomas M.R.C.S.Eng., Coombe Game farm COMMERCIAL. L R.C.P.Lond. surgeon, & medical Savage & Parsons, grocers .Aburrow E. & Sons, blacksmiths, officer & public vaccinator for No. 1 Silk George, miller (water), Frog- Drayton · district, Petersfield union,White ho more mill .Appleford John, gardener to Rev. T. Kille Arthur, r-arpenter Silvester Hy. Wm. farmer, Peake frm H. Masters M.A. vicar Kille Geo. carpenter,Orchard cottage Simms Harry, grocer & baker .Atkinson George,- farmer, South farm Lambert Albert, farmer, Frogmore Singleton Edwd. farmer, Lower farm :Bagg Frank, farmer, Pitham hill J,ambert Eva (Mrs.), farmer, Dun- Smith Alfred, grocer, &; post office Eerry Henry, farmer, Oxenbourne; combe farm Warren Arthur, grocer & at Langrish Lambert Hope, fanner, Pastures frm Warren Bert, game dealer, Wildhem ' Wren Isaac, farmer, Riplington • WE,ST MEON is a large village and parish, with a lending library of 35fJ volumes for the use of the parish;; :Station of its own on the recently-opened Mean Valley Mrs. Johnsun,' of Winchester, is lady of the manor. The branch of the Lond'm and South Western railway, 8~ principal landowners are Gol. H. Le Roy-Lewis D.S.O. miles north-east from Bishop's Waltham tenrdnal sta- of Westbury House, East Meon, CoL William Graham tion and a west-north-west 1rom Petersfield station on Nicholson M.P. uf Basing Park, Col. W. Woods, of l.Jranches of the same railway, in the Eastern division of Warnford Park, and P. Coats esq. The soil is various; the county, Meon Stoke hundred, Droxford uni<Jn a.nd subs'oil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats petty sessional clivisi.:m, Bishop's Waltham county court and roots. The area is 3,773 acres; rateable value. district, rural dea.n•}ry of Petersfield, and archdeaconry £3,643;. the population in 1901 was 950. :and diocese of Winchester. The church of St. John the Sexton, Joseph Charles Trodd. :Eva~gelist is un elegant edifice of dressed flint with Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Edward Tulley, sub-post- stone dressings, in the Decorated style, rebuilt in 1846, master. Letters arrive from Petersfield at 8 a.m. k -principally at th.-~ expense of the V en. H. V. Bailey 3·5 p.m. ~ dispatched at ro.3o a. m. & 6.20 p.m. jr E.D. a. former rector, and consisting of chancel, nave, sundays, arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispat<:hed at 11.30 a.m · ai~le11, organ chamber, large south porch and an em- Pillar Letter Box, East Enrl, cleared at 10.35 a.m. & battled western towPr with turTet containing 8 bells: 6.25 p.m. ; sun days, I I.3-J a.m the whole r,f the windowS> are staimd : there are soo Elemf'nta.ry Sc'hool (mixed), with a small endowment, sittings. The register dates from the year 1542. The derived from the rents of three c<Jttages & a smithy, living is a Tectory, net income £350, including- 20 acres in the villa.ge & left hy the late Miss Touchett, of of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Ex ton, 3.bout the year 1846, & now producing an Winchester, and hel!l sine~ 1899 by the Rev. Robert average income of about £3o yearly; the school build· Rcrbert Fair M.A. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. ings_ were erected in 1B5z, also at the sole expense of Here is a small undenominational chapel. The site of the late Miss Touchett, for 148 children ; average the village cross, wilic'h formerly stood at the top of attendance, 140 ; with a residence for the ma~ter; the vilbge, is now inclosed and furnished with seats Fr11nk D. Alien, master for the use of the old people of the village. On this County Police, Victor Albert Burden, constable site a ha.nd1iomB cross was erected in rgor by the late Carriers : Rev. R. Gandy M.A. in memory -Df his father and Richard Weeks, to Winchester, wed. & ~at. returna- mother. The Queen Victoria. Institute was e-rected in same day tB97 at a cost of £4oo, as a memorial tJf Her lata Willia.tn StonP, to Pete.rsfield, mon. wed. & fri. retnrn.a Majesty's lon[! TI'ign. 'I here js a clothing, coal and 11 1me day shoe club, under the management of the rector, al~(.) a Railway Station, William Burgess Ward, station ma8ter PRIVATH BRSIDENTS. Dietz Georg~ Deare, Wolverton Hoare Miss, Hall place Allchin Miss , Dow11on Frank Withers, East -end Johnson H11bert ;Edwyn M.B .• Ch.B. Atkins Misses.: Beaconsfield Dutton Mis~, Elm croft Holm~wood Ballington. Harol<f E. The Grange Fai~ Rev. Robe:rt Herbert M. A. (ree• Jones Edward Thomas, The Gorge Cramer Hei"roann J. W~stwood .cbt tor). Rectory 1 Lewi~r Mr~J. William Daviet Darid Rhys, Court manor & Higgins Charles, Pursers ~ RogeT!I Julia:b. C. The CMars .