WILTSHIRE. [KELLY's of Calne, and Held Since 1889 by the Rev

80 DERBY HILL. WILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S of Calne, and held since 1889 by the Rev. Alfred LoveD Bowood will be found under a separate heading. Scott M.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford. There is a Sexton, Henry Hillier. Primitive Methodist chapel here. The Working Men's Club and Institute here is largely supported by the Mar Post Office.-Samuel Elliott, sub-postmaster. Letters quess of Lansdowne K.G. and Lord Edmond G. Fitz received from Calne at 7.20 a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; delivered maurice M.P. Pewsham' House is the residence of Mrs. F. on the road to the post office only; dispatched at 9 E. Lysley. The landowners are the Marque,s of Lans a.m. & 7 p.m.; no mail on sundays. Postal orders are downe K.G., G.C.M.G. Lord Houghton, John Benedict issued here, l::ilt not paid. Calne is the nearest money Oliver Angell esq. of Rumsey House, Studley, and Gerard order & telegraph office, 3 miles distant Lysley esq. with others. The soil is sand and clay; sub Wall Letter Box, Studley, cleared at 7.10 p.m.; from ut t~oil, clay. The chief crops are the usual cereals and roots. Nov. to 29 Feb. 6.10 p.m.; no sunday collection The population of the parish in r8gr was 886; area of Pewsham is now 2,215 acres under the Divided Parish~s National School (mixed), built in 1872, for 150 children; Act; rateable value, £2,523. average attendance, II5; Robert W. T. Scutt, master (Marked thus * are in Ohippenham Chivers William, farmer, Spital farm Lewis Thomas, shoe makeT & 81ssisbant postal delivery.) Cole Daniel, farmer, Hazeland fa:rm oversoor, Sand cottage *Lysley Gerard, Pewsham house *Dunnett Lemon,George P.H.Sandy la *Pullen Wm.farmr.Middle Lo-dge tr:m Elliott Saml.wheelwright & post office Ridh RiChard, farmer, Loxwell fall'm *Lysley Mr~. Pewsham house Scott Rev. Alfred Lovell M.A. (vicar) FoorlJune Sa.rnh (M.-s. ), coal dealer Slade Edwa.rd, fa-rmer *Fry Jas. fam1er, Stanley Abbey farm Smith Geol'ge, The Soho P.H COMMERCIAL. *Hart Stphn. Edwd. farmr.Rook's nest Townsend 'Tihos. gu-eengrocer, Studley Bishop Luke, boat buildeT,Canal locks *Hart Wm. Whale, frmr.Low.Lodge fm Wiltshire Gad, butcher Brad:field Mary (Mrs.), baker Hayter John, La111sdowne Arms P.H Wiltshire Gideon (Mrs.), shopkeeper *Brinkwort'h George, Swan P.H *Holly John, blacksmith Wiltshire Nathan, market ga.rdener Eull Thos. market gardener, Studley *Knight Wm. farmr. Gt. Lodge farmjWorlcing Men's Club & Institute Carpenter Oharles, cabinet maker (Mongo Hrurt, sec) :SRIXTON DEVERILL (or Deverel) is a village and by the Rev. Alexander Gordon M.A. of Trinity College, parish, 4! miles south from Warminster station on the Oxford. Kmg's College, Cambridge, who are lords of the Salisbury branch of the Great Western railway, in the manor, and the Marquess of Bath are the landowners. ·western division of the county, Heytesbury hundred, The soil is chalky loam; subsoil, chalk and flint. The Warminster union, petty sessional division and county chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2,485 .court district, rural deanery of Wylye (Heytesbury por acres; rateable value, £1,082; the population in 1891 tion), archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury; the river was 112. Deverill (or Deverel) runs through the parish. The Sexton, Philip Dredge. church of St. Michael is a building of stone, in the Early Eng~ish style, restored and reseated and the chancel LPtters through Bath, viA Maiden Bradley, arrive at 8.15 lengthened 14 feet in r862: it consists of chancel, nave a.m. & through Warminster at 6 p.m. The nearest and a western tower with spire, containing one bell: money order & telegraph office is at Warminster, 4~ there are six stained windows: the church has sittings miles distant. Wall Letter Box cleared at 11.50 a.m. & for roo persons. The register dates from the year 1653. 6. ro p.m. & on sundays at ro a.m The living is a rectory, net income £210, with residence, The children of this parish attend the school at Long in the gift of the Bishop of Salisbury, and held since 1897 bridge Deverill Gordon Rev. Alexander M.A. Rectory ITucker Jona.than J Gagen Hy. John, farmer, Manor farm Pickford Mrs. White cliff Tucker Mrs. H. E Hoddinott John, shopkeeper & cowkpr HILL DEVERILL is a parish, on the river Wylye o: of the Marquess of Bath, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Deverill, 3t miles south from Warminster station on the Robert George Penny M.A. <lf Oriel College, Oxford, who :Salisbury branch of the Great Western railway, and 4 resides at Longbridge Deverill. The Duke of Somerset, south-west from Heytesbury, in the Western division of who is lord of the manor, and Charles Harris Stratton esq. the county, hundred of Heytesbury, Warminster union, are the landowners. The soil is both sand and chalk; petty sessional division and county court district, rural subsoil, chalk and flint. The chief crops are wheat, oats deanery of Wylye (Heytesbury portion), archdeaconry and barley. The area is 1,548 acres; rateable value, and diocese of Salisbury. The church of the Assumption £1,025; the population in 189r was III civil; 129 eccle of the Blessed Virgin Mary, rebuilt in 1843 in the Early siastical. English style, is a building of stone consisting of chancel, By Local Government Board Order r6,5r9, dated March nave and a small western turret containing one bell : 24, r884, Baycliffe was transferred from Hill Deverill to there is a tomb of the pre-Reformation period to the Lud Horningsham. low family, formerly lords of the manor: the nave was Sexton, Egbert Robert Smith, Longbridge Deverill. restored in 1897 by J. N. Powell esq. fellow of St. John's Letters through Bath, viA Maiden Bradley, arrive at 7·45 College, Oxford, in memory of his father, the Rev. Jrhn a.m. & through Warminster at 5.30 p.m. The nearest Powell B.A. vicar here 1858-97, and the chancel was re Letter Box. is at Longbridge Deverill, cleared at 12.25 -stored at the same time by the Ecclesiastical Commis & 6.5 p.m. & on sundays at 8.55 a.m. The nearest sioners: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from money order & telegraph office is at Warminster, 3 the year 1648. The living is a vicarage, annexed to that miles distant <lf Longbridge Deverill, with the chapelry of Cockerton, The children of this place attend the school at Long joint income £466, including 70 a.cres of glebe, in the gift bridge Deverill .Allard James, farmer & mill& (water)\ Stratton Charles Harris, landowner jJefferys Stiles Edwd. (rmr. Rye hill Gulliford Alfred, dairyman, Manor frm & farmer KINGSTON DEVERILL is a parish and village 4 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of the Marquess miles north-north-east from Mere, 6! south from War of Bath, and held since 1885 by the Rev. William Moore minster station on the Salisbury branch of the Great B.A. of St. John's College, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan Western railway and 9 south-east from Frame, in the Methodist chapel. Eleanor Hurle, of this parish, widow, Southern division of the county, partly in the hundred of in x688 gave £so to be laid out in land, the Arnesbury and partly in that of Mere, Warminster petty profit thereof to the poor for ever. There are -sessional division, Mere union, Frame county court dis in this parish 14 acres of land belonging to the trict, rural deanery of Wylye (Heytesbury portion), arch Charity school a.t Horningsham, called the School deaconry and diocese of Salisbury, situated in a valley, lands. The Roman road from Uphill, in Somerset, to running from east to west, with lofty downs on either Old Sarum, passed through Kingston Deverill, thence side. The river Deverill comes to the surface here after over the Downs till crossed by the Shaftesbury and War· having run for five miles underground from Kilmington. minster road near the sixth milestone. The Marquess The church of St. Mary, rebuilt with the exception of the of Bath, who is lord of the manor, and the rector tower, in 1847, is an edifice of stone, in the Early Deco are sole landowners. The soil is chalk, with some sand: rated style, and consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, subsoil, chalk and flint. The chief crops are wheat, oats south porch and a r5th century tower containing 6 bells: and barley. The area is 2,735 acres; rateable value, the east window and four others are stained, and the wesb £1,141; the population in 1891 was 234· window contains some ancient stained glass: there are Parish Clerk, Henry Maxfield. 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1706. The 1ivinl? is a rectory, united since r892 to the vicarage of Post Office. John Carpenter, snb-postma~ter. Letters Monckton Deverill, joint net yearly value £2oo, with 3So arrive from Bath at 7.Io a.m. & from Warminster at .

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