B4RTON S'fACEY. HAMESHIREi [«ELLY'S

:BARTON STACEY is a. parish and village on 'the yearly. The Roman road from· Winchester td MID-I­ river Test, 2 miles south from Longparish station on the borough runs through the parish, and in the neigh­ Basingstoke, Whitchurch and Fullerton branch of the bourhood are some ancient burrows. Drayton Par.k is London and South Western railway, ~ north-west from the residence of Llewellyn Edward Griffiths esq. Sutton Scotney tltation on the Didcot, Newbury and Michael Christopher M'Creagh-Thornhill esq. of Stanton Winchester line of the Great Western railway, and 6 in Peak, Derbys. is lord of the manor. The prin" south-east from Andover and 6 west from Micheldeve-r, cipal landowners are Robert Kirkman Hodgson eBransbury, Drayton and Newton Stacey, and is subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats in the We3tern division of t'he county, Barton Stacey and turnips. The area is 5,004 acres of land and 22 of hundred, Andover union, county court district and petty water; ratt>able value, [3,700; the population in rgor sessional division, and in the rural deanery of Stock­ was 525. · bridge and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. Post & T. Office.-Arilhur Froome, sub-postmaster (Sub• The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of Office. Letters should have Hants added). They flint and stone in the Early English and Perpendicular arrive at 2.55 a.m. & 4 p.m. & are delivered at 6 styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisle, transepts, south a.m. & 4 p.m.; diEpatched at ro a.m. & g.rs p.m.; porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, sundays, delivered at 6. IS a. m. Long-parish, 3 miles containing 5 bells : there is a memorial window, .distant, is the nearest money order office erected in 1877 and another in IB86: thEJ. pulpit and Wall Letter Boxes: Drayton Park gates, cleared at 9-30 lectern were presented by R. K. Hodgson esq. in p.m.; sundays, 9.20 p.m.; Rupert cottage, Newton memory of his uncle, J. Stewart Hodgson esq. of Gavel­ Stacey, xo.35 a.m. & 6.35 p.m. week days, Io.so a.m. acre: the church has been restored since I 873, at a sundays cost of £goo. and in . Igoo important structural repairs Police Constable, Frederick George Long were effected, at a cost of £250: a choir vestry was added in 1910 : there are 300 sittings. The register Endowed Free School, for I2 children, founded by dates from October 15, I7I3. The living is a vicarage, Elizabeth & Dorot•hy Wright, & now amalgamated net yearly value £Igo, with residence and 55 acres of with the Elementary school, built in I8 rg; it was glebe, in the gift of the DeHn and Chapter of Win­ burnt down in r886, but a new school was erected chester, and held since I()09 by the Rev. Arthur Charles in t1he same year, for roo children; average attend­ Franklin. The Primitive Methodist chapel here was I ance, 77 ; Miss L. J. Lutton, mistress built in I844· The charities left by Elizabeth and : Carrier to ·winchester.-Charles Webb from Earton Dorotby Wright and Jacob Hinksman amount to £38 ros. i StacPy, wed. & sat.; & to Andover, tues. & fri 'Waters Col. Walls court Hely-Hu tch­ builder & undertaker ; inventor &; PRIVATE RRSIDF:NTS. inson R.A., C.V.O., C.M.G. Church ~aker uf the patent "Combina­ Marked thus * should be addressed farm tion" cart as supplied to the King Stockbridge, Hants. COMMERCIAL. Prewett Mark, farmer, Hill farm Cochrane George Davis Waiter, blacksmith Punter Louisa Goddard (~rs.), shop-' Franklin Rev. Arthnr Charles (vicar), Farley Waiter, carpenter keeper . Vicarage Froome Arthur, baker, & sub-post- Sainsbury Thomas, Plough P.H Fraser Charles Hope, Barton cottage master Stidston Charles C. farmer, Erans- Gardiner Henry John, Moody's Down *Gay Thomas Edwin, farmer, ~ew- bury manor, Bransbury Griffiths Llewellyn Edward, Drayton ton Stacey Stringer Jn. Thos. beer ret. Bransbry park (postal address, Longparish) Judd Sir George (exors. of), farmers, Towler Francis John, Swan inn Judd Lady, Wades house Wades farm Webb Charles, carrier Pillans J ames .Mowbray, The ::VIill, Judd Edwd. Thos. farmer,Cocum frm Webb Henry, shopkeeper Bransbury Pitt Charles, builder, wheelwright, *Woodvine Henry, farmer, Newton *Tarbntt Percy, Rupert cottage blacksmith, van, c:ut & wagon Stacey BASING (or Old Basing) is a parish and considerable Basingstoke. The Hampshire County Council Farm village on the rive--r Loddon, 2 miles north-east from School was established in this parish in September, Basingstoke, in the Northe-rn division of the county, rgoo, comprising 6r acres ; the buildings include B' BClSingstoke hundred, petty sessional division, union and small farm house, a nt well was unearthed, slightly