[WILTs.r KNOOK. 438· POST OFFICE Helps George, farmer, Haywood's farm Sheppard Mr. Charles Tucket' Charles, shoemaker Hendon Charles, White Hart COMMERCIAL. TDTk William, farmer, White land J ones John, mealman Ash Jeremiah, shopkeeper Watson.JaiDes, fal'IMr· Little William, farmer Ash J oseph, shoemaker 'West x;ngton• Nicholls Edward, farmer, Priory farm Cole Saul, baker & postmaster .Read John, esq Pike Thomas, farmer Davis John, farmer COMMERCIAL, Reeves Sarah (Mrs.),farmer,Lodge farm Gale Benjamin, ba.lrer & shopkeeper Alien Francis Thomas, :furmer Rumming David, baker Hadrill Benjamin, carpenter Brookman Charles1 mason Sealy James, blacksmi~h, & parish cle:rk Harford Thomas, farmer Grede Frederick, farmer Smith Henry, blacksiDith Kington Benjamin, farmer Greewood Edwin, shoemaker Tucker Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lane Maria (Mrs.), maltster &shopkpr Isaac Elias, blacksmith K.ingtou Langley.. Millard James,farmer James Henry, shopkeeper PRIVATE RESIDENTS. ParnellArthur, beerretailer Keen Philip, farmer Coleman Waiter, esq Pinniger William, blacksmith N owell Harry, farmer Daniel ReY. John J. B •.A, [curate] Porter John Hart, Plough Russell John, carrier,miller&shopkeeper Lane William B. esq . Salter Sarah (Miss), farmer SherbourneJ ohn,carpenter&wbeelwrght Pearce Francis, esq Selman George, farmer Letters throogh Chippeubam, which Robinson Mrs Sebnan Richard, wheelwright is the nearest money on!er oftice CARRIER To BATH-John Russell, on friday; returns the same day KNOOX, a township, parish, and village, on the banks of miles northward of Heytesbury; near it is Old Ditch, the Wiley, in the hundred of Heytesbury, diocese and arch­ which, commencing at W estlmry Leigb, stretches, with deaconry of Salisbury, and deanery of Wylye, Wa.."''ninster few interruptions, across Salisbury Plain to Durnford, on union, South Wilts, is distant 1 mile south-east &om the river Avon. The site of two villageS', which were con­ Heytesbury, 5 south-east from Warminster; and 119 &om nected by means of Old Ditch, is pointed out on Knook London. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to that Down; the spot is marked by great cavities and irregu­ of Heytesbury, annual value £350, in the gift of the larities of ground. Population, in 1851, 2.52-; area in acres,. Bishop of Salisbury; the Rev. John Knight, M.A., is the 1,502; and rateable value, .£1 ,568. incumbent. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. Knook AxsTROW HILL, 2 miles north-east, was a Roman esta­ Castle is an earthwork on the brow of an eminence,~ about 2 blishment. COMMERCIAL. Searchfield William, carpenter Letters through Heytesbury, which Everly John, shopkeeper & beer retailer Williams Joseph, parish clerk is the nearest money orde:r office Flower Thomas, fu.rmer Wills Richard Sidman, f&.rmer

EAST and 'WES'r Kl\TOYLE. tional and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The Bis . f EAST KNOYLE contains 5,558 acres of arable and pasture Winchester is lord of the m8.llor. o land, and is a township and parish in Downton hundred, WEST KN()YLE is 19 miles west of Salisbury 3 east is diocese and archdeaeoury of Salisbury, and deanery of Mere, 4 west of Hindon, and 6 north of Sllaft~bury, and G Chalke, 1\Iere union, Hindon division, South Wilts, and entirely the property of Sir Hugh Hoare, of Stourhead, wh Salisbury bishopric. l\lrs. Jane Seymour, residing within is also lord of the maoor. There are 1,913 acres. of land' the parish, is the largest proprietor of lands, and a consider­ which is pasture and arable, with some woodlandd ; the soil able portion of the remainder is freehold or copyhold of in­ is of a chalky stratum and stiff loam clay. The population heritance. The population, in 1851, was I,llO. The village is 180. It is in Mere hundred and union and the Hindon is 18 miles south-west of Salisbury, .2 south of Hindon, 5 division. The church is 66 feet long and 16 feet wide, con­ east-by-south of Mere and f) north of Shaftesbury, and is sisting of a nave and chancel ; the latter is I talianised, and considered to be one of the most pleasant and healthy in the painted and decorated with cherubin. There is- an inscrip­ southern part of Wiltshire. East Knoyle claims the honour tion over the door within the church recording that in 1739, of being the birth-place of the celebrated architect Sir Richard Willoughby, Esq., of this parish, embellished the Christopher Wren; he was born on the 20th October, 1632, altar and chancel, in sacred memory ot' his ancestors, whose and there is a house pointed out as that in which the event bones are there deposited. The tower stands at the west took place; l1is father was the rector of this parish, having end of the church; it is turreted and ornamented wilh pin­ been instituted therein in 1623. The parish register dates nacles, and contains 5 bells. The living is a vicarage, and from tbe year 1538. The living is a rectory, of the yearly the great tithes are impropriated; the value of the vicarage worth of £800, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of is £152 annually; incumbent, the Rev. James Walter Car­ Winchester; the incumbent is the Rev. Crosbie Morgell, dew, M.A.; it is in the- gift of the Rev. Joseph Sarruel M.A. The church of St. Mary is pleasantly situated on a Stockwell, as prebendary of Newnton, and ultimately of the rising ground; the nave has been newly built; the edifice Earl of Pembroke. There is a charity of £It> a·year, left of stone, and in the shape of a cross ; the tower, containing by Christopber Willoughby, Esq., to tour poor widows who 6 bells, is 66 feet high, .stands at the west end of the church, do not receive parochial aid. The register dates from the and is turreted and embattled. Here is a National school early part of the eighteenth century, having· previously been for boys and girls, erected in 1838. Here is a Congrega- destroyed by fire. There is a lending library for the parish at the National schoolroom. East Knoyle. Getley James Moore, beer retailer Snook Thomas, shoemaker 1\Iorgell Rev. Crosbie, M.A Harrison William, fanner Stacey Thomas, farmer Seymour Mrs. Jane, Knoyle house HasL'\m William, draper & grocer Stodart Hugh, land steward COMMERCIAL. Mead John, sub-postmaster Vigor Alfred, farm~r Aplin William, farmer Ovens George, farmer Wig'lllore James, farmer Ball Henry, Seymour Arms Perman Henry, smith Wigmore William, farmer Barnard Daniel, Black Horse, brewer Perry John, baker & farmer 'West K.noyle. & horsebreaker Perry William, miller CardewRev. James Waiter, M.A.[vicnrj Best Charles, shopkeeper Raishley John, farmer COMMERCIAL. Brickell Charles, grocer Raishley William, farmer Ayles Jolm, farmer, Carey's farm Brothers WilHam John, tailor Sanger Edward, farmer Feltham J ames, c~trpenter Burbidge Geo. shoemaker & parish clerk Sanger Joseph, farmer Gough Thomas, farmer, West farm Burbidge William, baker Sanger Robert, farmer & shoemaker Hazard Henry, smith Burton Isaac, beer retailer Scammell Charles, farmer Mathews Samuel, baker & grocer Carbon Jeremiah, farmer Snook Henry, farmer Mead John, parish clerk Carbon Joseph, farmer~ Knoyle down Snook J ames, carpenter Mitchell John, farmer, Park farm Cuff Alfred, carrier & butcher Snook J ames, upbolsteret' Riddick John, tin-mer Elliott Charles, farmer Snook John, farmer Rumsey John, farmer, Manor farrb Gray James, farmer, Somerley farm Snook Thomas, carrier SangerNanny(Mrs.),beerretlr. & farmer PosT OFFICE.-John Mead, sub-postmaster. Letter.3 ar­ CARRIERS TO :- rive from Hindon at 8·30 a. m.; dispatched at 5·30 p.m SALISBURY-Alfred Cuff, tuesday & at 3 p.m. sunday. The nearest money order office is at SHAFTESBURY-A.lfred Cuff, saturday, & Richard Parratt Hindon (from Foothill Bishop) every Saturday National School, John Tanswell, master; Miss Mary Bur­ WARMINSTER-Thomas Snook, tuesday & saturday bidge, mistress