Pigot & Co. Directory Extract 1830 Britford

SALISBURY, OLD SARUM AND NEIGHBOURHOODS.– or New Sarum is a large and ancient city, the See of a Bishop, 81 miles from the Metropolis; situate in a valley, near the conflux of three rivers, the Avon, the Nadder and the Willey. The erection of this city arose from the seizure of the castle, at Old Sarum, by King Stephen, which ever had formed a part of the possessions of the church; and a removal had been projected by Bishop Herbert Pauper in the reign of Richard I, which was not carried into execution till the time of Henry III, when the present Cathedral was begun by Bishop Richard Poore, which in the end occasioned the total removal of the inhabitants. The present appearance of Salisbury, if not elegant, may be considered as approaching to “the handsome;” its general aspect is neat, its streets remarkably clean and regular, and the principal ones possess the peculiar & pleasant advantage of having a stream of water run through them – a great comfort and convenience to the inhabitants. The municipal government is vested in a mayor, recorder, deputy-recorder, 24 aldermen 10 of whom, besides the mayor, recorder and deputy-recorder, and mayor for the year preceding, are justices of the peace, 30 common councilmen, and a town-clerk; the Earl of Pembroke is lord high steward of the city, and the Earl of Radnor recorder. Courts of assize are held here twice a year, sessions for the city as often as may be deemed necessary, and for the county every Easter; there is also a court which holds pleas of debt or land, called the ‘Court of record of pleas of the Bishop of Sarum,’ held in the town-hall the first Saturday in every month. This city sends two members to parliament, under a charter granted by the first Edward, in the 23 rd of his reign, when the right of voting was vested in the corporation, consisting of 52 members; the mayor is the recruiting officer, and the present representatives are the Hon. Capt. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, and Wadham Wyndham, Esquire. The manufactures of Salisbury were at one period important and various, consisting of cutlery and steel goods, fine flannels, woolen serges, kerseymeres, figured woolens for waistcoats, &c.; but nearly all these branches have become extinct, - its commerce now being but of a character chiefly retail and domestic, and applying the neighbouring country and smaller towns with the various shop-commodities: its general trade has been benefited since the construction of the canal, which opened a communication with the part of Southampton; but not in extent equivalent to the loss of its manufacturers.

Exclusive of the Cathedral, the other edifices for divine worship, and for charity, the Council-house may be noticed as the chief public building that ornaments this city: it is situate in the south-east corner of the market-place – was began in the year 1788, and completed in 1795; it was erected at the expense of the present Earl of Radnor, recorder of the city, who made this munificent present to the corporation. It is a square building, with a grand Doric portico at the entrance to the two courts of law on the west side. The principal entrance is on the north side, by a flight of stone steps. The building consists only one floor, on which are two courts, and other suitable offices and apartments. The county gaol, Fisherton, is a strong and commodious edifice, built in 1822, and cost between £28,000 and £30,000, for 70 prisoners, but will hold double that in number. The amusement of the inhabitants is sought in a neat theatre, open during the winter months; concerts and balls at the same season of the year, and horse-races in the summer – a most respectably attended meeting, which generally continues for three days. The press of Salisbury issues a newspaper, which is published every Sunday by Messrs. Brodie, entitled “The Salisbury and Winchester Journal;” a print of extensive circulation, and that has long sustained the character of a talented, spirited and impartial paper.

Of the places consecrated to divine worship, the CATHEDRAL, being the grand ornament of tis city, claims our first notice, It is an elegant, chaste and venerable pile, with a spire rising in the centre, erected in the year 1258, and dedicated to the Virgin Mary: the different styles of architecture which distinguish the spire, together with the higher part of the tower, from the rest of the structure, has often induced critical Judges of Gothic architecture to suspect that the spire was added to the tower at a period much posterior to the original building, but no probable conjecture has yet been offered to determine its proper age; the architecture of the present tower and its spire is quite in that style of building which began to be in fashion about the beginning of the 15th century. It is probably one of the most exquisite, regularly-built sanctuaries in the kingdom – and contains as many windows as there are days, as many marble shafts as there are hours, and as many doors as there are months in the year. Not many years since, this © OPC Project/2014/Jodi Fuller noble pile underwent a thorough repair, and the improvements in the choir are, perhaps, superior to the thing of the kind in Great Britain; the entrance is awfully striking, and the effects of the whole is considerably increased by its beautifully painted windows. From the centre of the roof, which is 116 feet high, rises a beautiful spire of freestone, the altitude of which is 410 feet from the ground, and esteemed the highest in the kingdom. The Right Rev. Thos. Burgess, D.D., is the present Lord Bishop. The ‘Close,’ forming a residence for the Bishop and Prebendaries, is a regular, spacious, and grand place of architecture. – Here the four other churches, in the city and suburbs, all of them handsome buildings; they are, St. Edmund’s, the living of which is in the gift of the Bishop; St. Thomas’s, in the presentation of the Dean and Chapter; St. Martin’s of which Wadham Wyndham, Esq., is the patron; and Fisherton church, in the same gift as St. Edmund’s. The dissenting places of worship are for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyan and primitive Methodists, Swedenborgians, and a chapter for Roman Catholics. The charitable institutions supported by the inhabitants of this most respectable city are numerous, and efficient in the benefits they dispense – the aged, sick and infirm poor feel their influence; and the instruction of youth engages a most liberal share of the attention of the benevolent. The first charity in consequence and utility is the infirmary, a large brick building, in the of Fisherton, erected in 1766; there are two lunatic asylums, one a Laverstock, the other at Fisherton, both humanely and ably conducted; there are, also, many sets of alms-houses and hospitals, some of which are very liberally endowed. The scholastic establishments comprise a city grammar-school, several parochial charity-schools, and others upon the national and Sunday plans. A mendacity society has been established some time with beneficial effects, and there are two well regulated workhouses. – Three miles south-east of Salisbury is ‘,” the venerable seat of the Earl of Radnor, formerly a place of considerable strength; two miles east are the ruins of Clarendon Palace, rendered famous in the days of Henry II; and near Salisbury is “Wilton House;’ the beautiful seat of the Earl of Pembroke.

The weekly markets are held of Tuesday and Saturday, and cattle-markets on every alternate Tuesday throughout the year. The fairs take place on the Tuesday after the 6 th January, for cattle and woolen cloth; Whit Monday and Tuesday after Weyhill fair, for hops, cheese, &c. By the returns to parliament for 1821, the three of the city, and the ‘Close’ liberty, contained together 8,763 inhabitants, and the parish of Fisherton Anger 1,253; total population of the city and suburbs, 10,016.

OLD SARUM, one mile from Salisbury, was originally a town or fortress of the Belgæ, and was apparently reduced by Vespasian. Its Roman appellation was Sorbiodunum, and it was one of the ten British cities admitted to the privileges of the Latian law; here, too, the Cathedral existed, previous to its removal to New Sarum. Of this celebrated place nothing now remains but its ruins which have a very august appearance, and its privilege of returning members to parliament, who are elected by the free-holders, being burgage-holders in number about seven of certain lands; the present members are James Alexander, Esquire, and the Right Hon. Stafford Canning.

POST OFFICE.- High street, Salisbury, Alexander Minty, Post Master.- Letters from LONDON arrive every morning Monday excepted at a quarter before five, and are despatched every evening Saturday excepted at half-past nine.- Letters from BRISTOL arrive every night at half-past twelve, and are despatched every morning at half-past one.- Letters from DEVONPORT arrive every night a t half-past nine, and are despatched every morning at a quarter before five.- Letters from PORTSMOUTH arrive every morning at half-past one, and are despatched every night at half-past 12.- Office open from six in the morning till 10 at night.

Public Buildings, &c. CATHEDRAL, CLOSE – The Right Reverend Thos. Burgess, D.D., Lord Bishop, Palace, Close BILLIARD ROOMS – Jane Blake, Winchester Street, Proprietor; and Charles Smith, Brown Street, Proprietor. COUNCIL HOUSE, Market Place – John March Hodding, Castle St, Town Clerk. EXCIST OFFICE, St. Ann St – Stephen Phillips, supervisor; William Ernorton?, Collector. FREEMASON’S HALL, Crane St – Wm. Gould, Keeper. GAOL FOR THE COUNTY, Fisherton Anger – Rev. Charles Henry Hodgson, Chaplain ; William Andrews, surgeon ; William and Mary Dowding, governor and governess. INFIRMARY, Fisherton Anger – John George and Richard Fowler, physicians ; Charles N. Smart, house surgeon and apothecary ; David Whitmarsh, secretary ; Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, matron. LIBRARY & READING ROOM, Market Place – Willliam Cooper, secretary ; James Harris, librarian. LUNATIC ASYLYM, Laverstock House, Laverstock – William Finch, M.D. and John Lacy, jun. superintendents and proprietors. LUNATIC ASYLUM, Fisherton Anger – Charles Finch, proprietor. MENDICITY HOUSE, Crane Bridge – William Farley, keeper. POOR HOUSE, Close – James Thomas Biddlecombe, governor. STAMP OFFICE, New Canal – William Bird & Chas. George Brodie, distributers.

©Wiltshire OPC Project/2014/Jodi Fuller THEATRE, New Street – John Penson, proprietor and manager. WORKHOUSE FOR THE CITY, Crane St – William and Charlotte Burbridge, governor and governess.

Coaches To LONDON, the Royal Mail from Exeter calls at the White Hart, every night at nine – and the Mail from Devon calls at the Black Horse, every night at a quarter before ten – the Age from Exeter calls at the Red Lion, every morning at four – the Light Salisbury, from the White Hart, every morning at eight – the Traveller, calls at the Black Horse, every night at eight – The Magnet from Weymouth calls at the White Hart and the Lamb, every alternate morning Sunday excepted at eleven – the Telegraph from Barnstable calls at the Black Horse, every night Sunday excepted at half-past twelve – and the Old Salisbury, from the Black Horse, every afternoon at five; all go through Andover, Basingstoke, Hertford Bridge, Bagshot, Egham &c. except the Age, which goes through Basingstoke, &c. To BARNSTABLE, the Telegraph from London calls at the Black Horse every night Sunday excepted at half-past twelve; goes thru’ Wincanton, Taunton, Wellington and South Molton. To BATH and BRISTOL, the Celebrity from Southampton calls at the White Hart, every afternoon at one, and the Rocket, every forenoon at eleven – and the York House from Portsmouth calls at the Antelope, every forenoon Sunday excepted at half-past eleven; all go through Warminster. To DEVIZES, the Royal Mail from London calls at the Black Horse, every afternoon at four; goes thru’ Shrewton, Tilshead, Lavington and Pottern. To DEVONPORT, the Royal Mail from London calls at the Black Horse, every morning at half-past four, goes thru’ Shaftsbury, Sherborne, Chard & Honiton. To EXETER, the Royal Mail from London calls at the White Hart, every morning at five – the Age, calls at the Red Lion, every morning at one; both go thru’ Blandford, Dorchester, Bridport and Honiton – and the Traveller, calls at the Black Horse, every morning at six, goes thru’ Shaftsbury, Sherborne, Yeovil, Crekerne & Honiton. To POOLE, the Accommodation, from the Black Horse, every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday morning at eight; goes thru’ Ringwood and Wimborne. To PORTSMOUTH, the York House from Bath & Bristol calls at the Antelope, every afternoon Sunday excepted at half-past one; goes through Romsey and Southampton. To SOUTHAMPTON, the Celerity from Bath and Bristol calls at the White Hart, every afternoon at two, and the Rocket, every afternoon at one; both go through Romsey. To WEYMOUTH, the Magnet from London calls at the White Hart and the Lamb, every alternate afternoon Sunday excepted at three; goes thru’ Blandford and Dorchester.

Carriers To LONDON, - Goodall, every Tuesday – John Knighton, from the Chough, every Thursday and Saturday morning – Russell and Co. every morning – and John Woolcott, every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday morning; all go through Andover, Whitchurch, Overton, Bassingstoke, Blackwater, Egham, Staines and Hounslow – Hugh Jones, every Tuesday morning – and Whitmarsh, Brown and Co. every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon; both go thru’ Stockbridge, Bassingstoke, &c. To AMESBURY, Jane Cove, from the Three Swans, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon. To ANDOVER, Henry Horne, from the Plume and Feathers, every Tues. afternoon. To APPLESHAW, - Smith, from the Cross Keys, every Tuesday forenoon. To BARFORD, - Uphill, from the Sun, every Tuesday, Thurs & Satur. Afternoon. To BASSINGSTOKE, Hugh Jones, every Tuesday, Wed. & Saturday morning. To BATH, Joseph Silcox, from the Goat, and Paul Wheatley, every Tuesday. To BATH and BRISTOL, - Applegate, from the Chough, every Tuesday morn. To BROAD CHALK, William Chizlot, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon. To BROUGHTON, James Dossel, from the Ship, every Tuesday afternoon – and – Noyse, from the Cross Keys, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. To CHICHESTER, Henry Hunt, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tuesday morning; goes thru’ Southampton. To CHILMARK, John Ingram, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon – and – Lewer, from the Bull, every Tuesday afternoon. To CHRISTCHURCH, Samuel Newman, from the Goat, every Tuesday and Saturday morning; thru’ Ringwood. To CLATFORD, Richard Adams, from the Running Horse, every Tues. afternoon.

©Wiltshire OPC Project/2014/Jodi Fuller To COMPTON, - Ploughman, from the King’s Head, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon – and William Raymond, from the Angel, every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon. To CRANBOURN, - Street, from the Plume of Feathers, every Tues. afternoon. To DAMARAM, James Street, from the Plume of Feathers, every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon. To DENTON, Foster & Waterbailey, from the King’s Head, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon. To DEPTFORD, - Cliff, from the Kings’ Head, every Tuesday afternoon. To DEVIZES, Joseph Franklin, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon – and Thomas Lapham, from the Chough, every Tuesday morning. To DOWNTON, George Weeks, from the Wool Pack, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon. To EXETER, Russell & Co.’s Vans and Waggons, every morning & afternoon; goes through Blandford, Dorchester, Bridport and Honiton. To FARLEY, - Roberts, from the Three Swans, and – Parsons, from the Wheat Sheaf, every Tues. & Sat. afternoon. To FONTHILL, Daniel Ingram, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tues, aft. To FORDINGBRIDGE, - Rouse, from the Cross Keys, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon. To FOVENT, Wm. Coombs, from the Three Swans, and – Goodfellow, from the Bull, every Tues. & Sat. afternoon. To FROME, James Smith, from the Catherine Wheel, every Tues. morning. To GODFORD, Henry Spaley, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tues. afternoon. To GOSPORT, Wm Taylor, from the Bell, every Tues.; thru’ Southampton. To HORTHESTON, W. Smith, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tuesday afternoon. To LANFORD, Wm. Pierce, from the King’s Head, every Tues. & Sat. afternoon. To LUDGERSHALL, Henry Boerns?, from the White Horse, every Tues. afternoon. To MARLBOROUGH, John George, from the Chough, every Tues. morning To MARTIN, - Dyke, from the Saracen’s Head, every Tuesday afternoon. To OXFORD, John Lambert, every Wednesday morning; thru’ Andover, &c. To PENTRIDGE, - Selwood, from the Cross Keys, every Tuesday afternoon. To PORTSMOUTH, Edward Hunt, from the Catherine Wheel, every Tuesday morning – and – Hayward, from the Bull, every Tuesday noon. To RINGWOOD, John Whitcher, from the Wool Pack, every Tues. & Fri. afternoon. To SEMLEY, - Breacher, from the Waggon & Horses, every Tues. afternoon. To SHIPDHAM, - Flen, from the White Horse, every Tuesday afternoon. To SHREWTON, - Miles, from the Sun, every Tuesday & Saturday afternoon. To SOUTHAMPTON, Compton and Blanchard, from the Goat – Edward Smith, from the Chough – and William Webb, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday; all go through Alderbury, Waddon, Romsey, &c. To STAPELANFORD, - Torrington, from the King’s Head, every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon. To TAFFENT, John Fitz, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every Tues. afternoon. To TAUNTON, Whitmash, Brown and Co. every Monday, Wed. & Fri. morning. To TAVENT, Thomas Bailey, from the Three Swans, every Tues. & Sat. afternoon. To TIDWORTH, - Burgess, from the White Horse, every Tuesday afternoon. To TISBURY, George Hood, from the Sun, and – Snow, from the Bull, every Tuesday afternoon. To TOLERD ROYAL, Charles Bennett, from the Lamb, every Tuesday afternoon. To TRUXTON, - Ashten, from the Wool Pack, every Tuesday forenoon. To WALLOP, William Bray, from the Plume and Feathers, every Tuesday and Saturday afternoon – Joseph Hillary, from the Ship, every Tues. afternoon. To WARMINSTER, John Proises, from the Wilton Arms, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoon. To WEST DEAN, Joseph Feltham, from the Plume of Feathers, every Tuesday afternoon. To WHITE PARISH, William Noyse, from the Bell, every Tuesday and Sat. To WILTON, Ann Wingrove, from the Shoulder of Mutton, every afternoon. To WIMBORNE, - Blandford, from the Wool Pack, every Tuesday forenoon.

©Wiltshire OPC Project/2014/Jodi Fuller To WINCANTON, John Knighton, from the Chough, every Tues. & Fri. morning. To WINCHESTER, Robert James, from the Green Dragon, and Henry Mason, from the Chough, every Tuesday and Friday morning. To WINTERBORN STOKE, - Kello, from the Shoulder of Mutton, and Joseph Pitt, every Tues. & Sat. afternoon. To WINTERSLOW, - Judd, from the Wool Pack, every Tues. & Sat. afternoon. To WISHARD, George Shergall, from the Sun, every Tues. Thurs. & Sat. afternoon.

Gentry/Private Residents

Surname Given Names Title Industry/Occupation Place/Parish Atkins Thomas Gentleman Crane Bridge Atkinson George Gentleman St. Ann Street Ayre Daniel Esq. Close Baker George Rev. Bemerton Ball Sophia Miss Town Mill Benson Edmund Rev. Close Biddlescomb James Thomas Gentleman Close Bouverie Frederick Pleydell The Honorable Rev. Close Bowles John Rev. Bedwin Street Bowles William Lisle Rev. Close Brodie Sarah Mrs. St. Ann Street Brodie William Bird Esq. Close Brown George Gentleman Castle Street Brown Thomas Gentleman Milford Burgess Thomas Right Rev., D.D. Lord Bishop of Salisbury Palace, Close Burroughs James Sir Laverstock Calder Amelia Lady Fisherton Anger Catherine Jane Mrs Endless Street Cave Thomas Gentleman New Street Chaplare William Gentleman Crane Street Coles Richard Gentleman New Stree