Wiltshire. [Kelly's

286 NORTH WRAXHALL~ WILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S FOBD. Croker Charles, White Hart P.H Long Row land J. cycle & motor Hillier William, butcher dealer, agent & repairer Long Harvey Holder Henry, hurdle maker Phillpott Frederick M. baker SOUTH WRAXALL, comprising the upper and record can be found of the exact time at which the lower villag.e, is a civil parish formed 1895 out of house was built; the armorial bearings, clearly put up Bradford-on-Avon, and an ecclesiastical parish consti- at a later period, consist of shields, sculptured on the tuted 1846, 3 miles north from Br.adford-on-.A.von, 3~ brackets, supporting the hall-roof, which, from their south from Box station on the Great Western railway style, cannot be anterior to the r.eign of Henry VII. or and 5 north-west from Trowbridge, in the Western VIII.: the roof itself, which is richly ornamented with division of the county, in the hundr.ed, petty sessional qnartrefoils between the principal rafters, seems coeval division, union and county court district of Bradford- with the exterior: the grand drawing-room, enlarged on-.A.von, rural deanery of Potterne (Bradford portion), during the reign of James I. contains a magnificent archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. The mantelpiece rising from the floor to the ceiling; the church of St. James is an ancient edifice of stone, in latter is richly traceried and has pendent bosses with the Early Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, five small carved statuettes, the. centre being supposed nave of four bays, north aisle, south chapel, south to represent Pan, and the others are inscribed Pru porch and a western tower with gabled turret contain- dentia, Arithmetica, Geometrica and Justicia; the ing 6 bells: there are several stained windows and panelling, like that of other apartments, being of oak : monuments to the Long family: a chancel screen of in the old guest chamber, tradition asserts that Sir wrought iron was erected in 1907, as a memorial to Waiter Long and Sir Waiter Raleigh used to smoke Edward Burbidge; th.e church was restored in r882, out of silver pipes, this being presum.ed to be the first and has 175 sittings. The register dates from the year house in which tobacco was used in England: during 1672. The living (including Atworth) was constituted the period 1900-02, the Manor House was completely a vicarage in 1866, net yearly value {,2oo, with 2 acres restored by E. Richardson Cox esq. J.P. whose resi of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and dence it is: the former private chapel near the mansion Chapter of Bristol, and held since I9II by the Rev. has been converted into a farm hous.e. Wraxall Lodge Joseph William James Pratt B.A. of the Royal Uni- is the residence of Colonel W. F. Hawkins C.M.G. v.ersity of Ireland. The Congregational chapel, built in The Right Hon. Waiter Hume Long P.C., M.P. is the 1844, will hold 100. .A. Church Institute and Reaaing chief landowner. The ar.ea is 1,694 acres; rateable Room was erected by subscriptions in 1903, for the use value, {,1,858; the population in 19u was 280. of the men and boys of the village. Charity.-A sum Sexton, William Harrison. of £I,ooo, given by .Tames Fnssell and Maria Matilda Post Office.-Mrs. William Harrison, sub-postmistress. Fussell, April 4th, 1874, has boon inv.ested, and now Letters a~rive from Bradford-on-.A.von at 8 a.m. & produces {,25 per annum, which is laid out in coals 5.30 p.m.; sundays at 8 a.m.; dispatched at g.2o and blankets, given away annually on the gth November a.m. & 7.10 p.m.; sundays at g.zo a.m. Bradford-on- to poor persons. South Wraxall Manor House is sup- Avon, 3 miles distant, is the nearest money ord-er &; posed to have been built somewhere about the 13th telegraph office. Parcels dispatched at 9 a.m. & 1.50 century; the first recorded possessor was Ro'bert Long, p.m who was in the commission of the peace in 1426, and Wall Letter .Box, Lower Village, cleared at 9.30 a.m. & M.P. for Wilts 1433, and it has remained in possession 7.20 p.m.; sundays at 9.30 p.m of his family ever since: the banqueting-hall, which is Elementary School (mixed), built in 1841, for 6o chil the most ancient portion of the building, has a finely- 1 dren; Miss E. M. Dovey, mistress; Miss Mand carved oak screen, and a fire-plaee dat-ed 1598 : no 1 Rudman, assistant mistress Cox E. Bichardson J .P. South Booy Daniel, carpenter Mortimer Thomas, blacksmith Wraxall manor Crees .Albert Isaac, farmer Overton Charles, farmer Hawkins Col. Waiter Francis C.'M.G. Harold Mary (Miss), dress maker Poole Leonard Bossiter, farmer,Conrt Wraxall lodge Hill Benjamin, farmer, Home farm Rudman Henry, market gardener Penon David George M. Wraxall ho 'Hillier Roland, market gardener Rudmau Thomas, farmer Pinchin Misses, The Yews 1 Hosjer Hubert, farmer, Norbin (let- Rndman William Lionel,frmr.Fnrlong Pratt Bev. Joseph William James ters should be addressed Atworth) Smith Thomas, blacksmith B . .A.. (vicar) Institute & Reading Room (Rev. Taylor Jn. Alfd. farmer, Manor farm COMMERCIAL. J. W. J. Pratt B..A.. sec) Tucker Frank, farm bailiff to W. H. Betteridge George, Long's Arms P.H. Liberal Club (William B. Smith, I Greenhill esq. Pond farm & grocer sec.; William Dorey, steward) , WROUGHTON is a parish and village, on th.e road Elcombe Hall is the residenc.e of Mrs. Underwood from Swindon to Devizes, 3 miles south from Swindon Fisher. The Dean and Chapter of Winchester and station on the Great Western railway, 6 east from William Frederick Codrington esq. are lords of the Wootton Ba.ssett and 9 north from Marlborough, in the manor. Most of the land belongs to the Charter House, Northern division of the county, in a detached portion London. The soil is clay, sand and marl; subsoil, of the hundred of Elstub and Everleigh, and partly in clay. The chief crops are grass, wheat, barley and Kingsbridge hundred and county court district, petty roots. The area is 7,099 acres of land and 16 of water; sessional division of Swindon, Swindon and Highworth rateable value, £14,784; the population in 19II was onion, and in Cricklade rural deanery, North Wilts 2,383. archdeaconry and Bristol dioc.ese. The church of St. John the Bapti~t and St. Helen is an ancient edifice of Overtown tithing is one mile south-east; Elcombe stone, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, tithing, one mile west; Salthrop tithing, 2 miles south south porch, and an embattled western tower with west; Westlecott tithing, 2 miles north. pinnacles containing 5 bells: there are several tablets Parish Clerk, The Vicar. to the Benet family, one dating from 1613, and seven stained windows, including one erected in 1898 by the Verger, Alfred Thomson. Pavy family, and another placed in 1907 to Mrs. Rae Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Expr.ess Delivery Office. and her daughter: a new oak roof was provided for William Pickett, postmaster. Letters through Swin the chancel in I88o, at a cost of [,550: the church don, .arrive at 5 a.m. & I p.m. & dispatched at 2.30 affords about 450 sittings: in the churchyard is a & 8.25 p.m fine old yew tree. The register dates from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage and r.ectory, net income Post Office, North Wroughton.-Robert James Honey, £307, with 46 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift sub-postmaster. Letters through Swindon are dis of the Bishop of Bristol, and held since I9II by the patched at 2.40 & 8.40 p.m.; sundays, 8.40 p.m. Rev . .A.rchibald Charles Clark-Kennedy M.A. of Selwyn The nearest money order & telegraph office is a~ College, Cambridge. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive Wroughton Methodist chapels. There are charities of £17, left in Wall Letter .Bo:xes.-Woodham house, cleared 2.25 & 1743 by Thomas Benet and his sister, Miss Elizabeth 7·So p.m.; Wroughton Hill, 8 p.m.; Overtown, Benet; the former left {,2o annually for the parish 7·35 p.m school and the £17 (before mentioned) being the interest of £300 invested in land; Miss Elizabeth Benet The School Board formed in 1877 was dissolved by left {,2oo, invested also in land, which brings in about the Education Act of 1902, & the Schools are now con £7• and is given to poor girls upon entering domestic trolled by a Board of Managers ; William Hancock, service. Here is a reservoir, built by a company, to Wroughton, correspondent; Joseph Davis, attendance ~m.pply Swindon Old and New Towns with water. officer .

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