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Rouse Joseph, rope maker, High street Thomas Jsph. Chas. builder, Sheep st Whiteman Wm.Jn.farmr.Church frm Rowat John M.D. surgeon & medieal Tovey Harvey, baker, High street Wilkins Edmund,beer rtlr.Swindo:1 st officer & public vaccinator, No. I Trenfield Henry, relieving .Jfficer, No. Wilkins Ruth (Miss), dress n:uker, district, Highworth union, High st 1 district, & registrar of Lirths & street Russell James, farmer, Nort:hle'lze deaths & vaccination officer, High- Willis Arthur, grocer, & agent for W. Smith Ann (Miss), baker, Swindon st worth sub-dist.rict,Highworth union, & A. Gilbey Limited, wine & sririt Smith Jas. shopkeeper, Swindon st Brewery street merchants, High street Smith James John, stationer, printer, Vines Jacob Smith, farmer, Hampton Willis Isaac, beer retailer, We;;trDp & postmaster, High street Wadley & Holloway, brew~rs, Sun Willoughby Clarence, cooper, Sheep st Smith John, carpenter, High street brewery Willoughby Robt. beer rtlr.Swindon st Smith John Berriman, assistant over- Webb George Hamlet, private S('t.ool, Woodbridge William George, :$addler. seer & brick & tile ma. Vicarage la Swindon street High street Smith Sarah (Mrs.), Rose & Crown W estell Edwd. farmer, Fresden fatm Woolford Thos. carpntr.Cherry orC'brd P.H. Swindon street Westell Peter, farmer, Friar's farm Working Men's Club, Reading Room Spindloe William & Son, ironmongers, Wheeler Jesse, blacksmith, Swindon st & Coffee tavern (Reuben H.ickards, High street Wheeler Wm. carpenter, Market pl manager), High street Stallard Chas. Red Lion P.H. Sheep st White Edwd. farmer, Common farm Yeates George, /butcher, High street Thomas Hannah EliMe.beth (Miss), White Jane (Mrs.), confectioner, Yeates Henry (Mrs.), but<>her,High st ladies' school, Lassington house Swindon street is a parish, on the road from · to chapel at tithing, I! miles north, in this parish, Wootton Basse'tt, 3 miles ·north-north-east from Calne and 'the Baptlis'tos have a chapel here. J-acob's charity of terminal .station on a branch of the Great Western rail- £Io yearly is for the second poor, and the interest of way, 7 south-west from Wootton BaSJsett, in the North- £3oo .stock is for religious ·education. Here is a reading Western division of the county, hundred ()If Kingsbridge, room, with a library of 6o volumes, ibuilt in 1892 by the Calne union, petty sessional diVlision and county court lord of the manor, and managed by a committee of -district, rural deanery of Avebury (Avelbury portion), working men. There is also a reading :room at Goat­ archdeaconry of Wilts and diocese of '8alisbury. The acre. Here are five almshouses, erected by the late ..church 'Of St. Lawrence consist-s of chancel, nave of four William Poynder esq. lord of the manor of Hilmarton, bays, north aisle, south porch and! organ chamber, and a in the year I8]7, and end{}wed with £3,ooo £2! per .square embattJed western tower, •surmounted· by four cent. Consols to provide 6s. per we·ek for five inmates, pinnacles and containing 6 bells, one of which is new, the eligible at the age of 65 yool'ls, wh'O have worked on the rest of old da'te; these· were in I885 rehung and retuned estate. The principal landowners are Sir John Poynder and put in complete repair lhY' .subscription, and a Dickson-Poynder lbart. M.P. who is [ord of the manor chiming apparatus added: in I84o th·e tower was partly and lay impmpriator, Wtorceslter and Magdalen Colleges, rebuilt: the windows of the nave are all of the Perpen- Oxford, Thomas Pinnegar esq. Mr. W. A. A. Large, Miss -dicular pe11iod, probably about Henry VI.'s time: the Henly land Mrs. Charles Bridges, daughters of the late nave is separated from the aisle by columns of the· Early Mrs. Henly, and the executors 'Of the late Messrs. R. and English order, and the chancel is entered from the aisle S. Stiles. The soil is· Oxford clay, oolitic,. except Cle­ through an opening of unusual character in the buttress veancy district, which is on the chalk and greensand; ..of the chancel areh; and a ·S'tone screen separates the subsoil of Goatacre is coral rag, of Hilmarton other chancel from the nave: the chancel windows· are all forms of oolite; large drainage operations ihave been Perpendicular, two being stained, the east window, a carried on by the late Mr. Poynder and the. trustees of memorial to W. H. Poynder, the north window to Mrs. his estates. The area is 4,582 acres; rateable value, :Elizabeth Goddard, wife of the Rev. Canon Goddard: in £5,553; the population of t'he in I8gi the aisle, 'towards the east end, is a founder's tomb, and was Bro. near it a; memorial window of three lights to the Rev. Beversbrook, I mile south, and Catcombe, I mile I<'rancis Fisher, a former vicar, and to the left of this a north, are tithings, Cleveancy, 2 !miles east, and Goat­ two-light windD'W to Isabella. Poynder: the chief manu- acre, r! miles north, are hamlets; a district called New ments in the church are those of Oalley, Quintan, and of Zeal:and forms part of Goatacre. Thomas Poynd·er esq. who partly restored the church Highway was, by an order of the Wilt·shire County ( 1840 ), his son, Thomas H. A. Poynd·er esq. and Mrs. Council, confirmed by Local Government Board order, . M. A. Poynder: the seating is chiefly of old oak, of hand- which came intQ operation March 25, I8go, joined to ·some carved pattern: the old chained: bible, with wooden Hilmarton for civil purposes, and will be found under a binding, was well Testored by the· Rev. F. Fisher, who separate· heading. found it in the parish che·st in a neglee'ted state, the Sexton, William Jennings. original chain still attached, and it has been replaced at Post Office.-James Wiltshire, ·sub-postmaster. Letters the chancel arch: the late Mr. Street, tlJ.e eminent arrive• through Calne at 7.ro a.m. & dispatched at 7 architect, at the cost. of the lute William H. Poynder, p.m. The nearest money Qrder & telegraph office is at restored almost the whole church, and added an organ Calne. Postal orders· are issued here, but not paid ·chamiber to the south of the chancel: the church was Wall Letter Box, Gaatacre·, cleared week days only at re-opened on the 24th February, r88r, and has 250 6.30 p.m.; & 5.30 p.m. in winter; no mail on sundays sittings. The register dtates from the year I645· The Wall Letter Box, Cleveancy, cleared at 6.I5 p.m.; no living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £376, net £235, mail on ·sunday including 5 acres of glebe, with residence·, in the gift School (mixed\ built in 185I, for I22 children, with of the ·Crown, and held: ·since I892 by the Rev. Ralph house fur mas1ter; averoge lllt'tendance, II3; Charles -walker M.A. of All Souls College, Oxford. The Con- Albert Smith, master; (Mr·s. Smith, mistress .gregationalists. and Primitive Methodists have each a Carrier.-Adam Wllkins, G'oaoocre, to Devizes, thurs Godwin Herbert Maundrell, hrm£>r, Henly Miss HILMARTON. Lower Pen farm Large Robert Fry Fred, Lower Littlecot farm Keevil John, farmer, Rodwell COMMERCIAL. Hayward Wm. Pierce, Hilmarton ldg Mail John, stone mason, Cleveancy Bishop Joseph (Mrs.), baker Walker Rev. Ralph M.A. Vic'l.rage Musty Joseph, gardener to the Rev. Blackman James, farmer Ralph Walker M.A Eattell George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Pile Francis, farmer, Manor farm Eattell John, carpenter Pincott Bros. farmers, Cleveancv Eattell Luke (Mrs.), farmer Archard James, tailor Prior John, farmer, Cleveancy hou~e Eattell Tom, farmer Baker William, farmer, Marsh farm Reading Room (Chas. Albert Smith, Eattell William, estate carpenter Blackman Edward, gamekeeper to Sir hon. sec) Lewis Jasper, gam~~eper to Sir J. P. Jn. Dickson-Poynder bart. M.P. Pen Rummjng Thos. assesstYr & collector of Diokson-Poy.nder bart M.P. New Bodman Benj. farmer, Littlecot frm taxes & assist. overseer, & carpentr Zooiand lJolter Richard, farmers,Catcomb frm Rumming Wm. frmr. & miller(water) Read Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper "£ridges Charles, farmer, CO"o"dgt! farm Stevens Robert, blacksmith Taylor Fred, grocer & wholesale butter Bryant James, estate carpenter · Wright Isaac, farmr.BeversbNJk bo & potato dealer & general haulier, C'omley George, blacksmith,Clev£>ancy Wiltshire Jas.baiker & grocer, Post off New Zealand I<'erris Jas. farmer, Whitcomb farm Windsor Chas. dairyman, Spellma.n!! Taylor James, shoe•maker Ferris Thomas Messiter, farmer, Cor- Tugwell John, haulier ton farm GOATACRE. Wilkins Adam, farmer Hcbbs Emma (Mrs.),Duke inn, & frmr Boulter Samuel, New Zealand Wiltshire James, farmer HILPERTON is a. parish and pleasant village, on the \ fi'ODl. Trowbridge station on the Saliebury branch of the road from TroW'br~ge to Melksham, I! miles north-east Great Western railway, 4 south-west from Melksham,