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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 e<Jq. of each of which has a station on the London and South Longparish, M. C. M'Creagh-Thornh:ill esq. and the Western railway: it includes the tithings of Barton Governors of Winchester Col'lege. The soil is loam ; Stacey, Bransbury, 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 <hostel for I6 pupils, a. dairy, class c-ounty court district, and rural dean~y of Basingstoke rooms and other buildings : the primary object is to and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The p-rovide instruction in the science and practice of agri· South Westerr.. and the Basingstoke branch of the. Great culture and gardening; there is also a domestic branch Western railways and Basingstoke canal pass through for training girls in gene-ral housework and for giving the parish; ·a high embankment of the South Wesl;ern 1instruction in cookery, laundry and dairy work, fruit ia near the church. The church of St. Mary, originally preserving and jam making, and the management of Norman, is an ancient structure of flint and stone in poultry. Besides the Duke of Bolton's charity of £'24 the Early English stylB, consisting of chancel, nave, !yearly, left :in 1694, t.here are smaller charities left by aisles extending to the whole length of the nave and Henry Lamport, of this parish, the Upton !family and Bolton chapel, und an eastern embattled tower with William Barber, of this parish, and by Mr. Charles pinnacles, containing a clock and 2 bells: there is a Webb, of Basingstoke. Basing has been distinguished font of the 15th century, tombs of the Paulet family, as the scene of a sevBre battle fought in 871, between and among the monuments is on~ by Flaxman, to the Danes and the English, when the Jatter, under the Henry, sixt;h Duke of Bolton, Admiral of the White, command of Alfred and his brother, King Ethelred, who died 24th December, 1794: in the Bolton chapel were defeated. There appears to !have been a castle is a. brass reenrding the names of members of that here at some remote period, for in a grant made to the family who were interred in the vault from r682 to priory of Monks Sherborne, in the reign of Henry II. x863. The church was restored in IB74• under the mention is made of the Old Castle of Basing: this direction of T. H. Wyatt esq. architect, at a cost of appears to have been rebuilt in a magnificent style by £2,l3oo; some tiles of the 13th or 14th centuries were Sir William Paulet K.G. first Marquis of Winchester~ found during the pro-cess of the work in the flooring on the breaking out of the Civil War Basing House was of the church, as well as fragments of Norman carving: put into a state of defence, and garrisoned and held for the organ was provided in I878, at a cost of [414: four years, by John, the fifth Marquis of Winchest-er, there are sitti11gs for 6.Jo persons. The register dates for King Cha-rles I. (of whom there is a. full length from the year r655· The living is a vicarage, with portrait in tJhe house at Hackwood), but was carried that of Up-Nately onnexed: net income [379, with by storm by Oliver Cromwell, who destroyed the place: I2 acres of ,g-Jebe and residence, in the g"ift of the the area. of the works occupied 14! acres; the form President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was irregular, ditches very deep, the ramparts high and held S'ince I 864 by the Rev. Ro bert Falkner Hei!sey strong, as is evinced by the remains : the north gate M.A. formerly fellow and tutor of that college, and way and a portion of the outer wall and inner wall of helD, canon of Winchester. 'l'he vicarage house was citadel ar~ still standing-. Excavations made on the erect~ in I 866, by the patrona and the vicar, at a site by order of Lord Bolton have resulted up to the cost of between £2,ooo and [3,000. Here is a Primitive present time (r9rr) in laying bare a considerable por·~ Methodist chapel, built in 1867, and a Congregational tion of the foundations, including those of the gate• chapel, built in r8~8. The Union workhouse for Basing house, two 21quare and two round towers, the kitchens, stoke district., erected in 1836, stands in this pari11.h; ovens and a. large cellar: in the museum are seveTarr it is capable of rontaining 426 inmates, but at present male heads carved in stone, ammunition of small a.l}d (Ign) there are not more than 200; a. new infirmary large calibre used in the siege, ancient pottery, coins providing 85 beds was odded in r9oo; for particular~ see &c. In I907 an ancit>nt well was unearthed, slightly .