DIRELTORY. . HUR~fROURNE PRIO.KS. 253 - Arupfield is now a civil parish, formed from this HURSLEY UNION. parish, and will be found under a separate heading. Board day, the last tuesday in each month at 3 p.m. Wall Letter Box (Pitt), cleared at 7.15 & II-55 a.m. & 7.20 p.m. week days & 7· 15 a.m. sundays; letters The union comprises Ampfield, Baddesley (North), Far­ arrive from at 6.30 a.m. & 2 & 7 p.m ley Chamberlayne, Chandlersford, Jlnrsley & Otter­ Carriers.-William J ones, to , mon. & bourns. The population in rgor was 3,68o; area, thurs.; to Winchester, tues. & sat.; Waiter Gear, to 16,757 acres; rateable value, Lady Day, Igrr, £34•343 Winchester, wed. & sat Chairman of the Board of Guardians, Hon. George Wyldbore Hewitt, Field house, Hursley' HURSLEY RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Henry The parishes in the District are the same as in the White, 19 St. Peter street, Winchester & 73 Leigh Union. road, Council meets at the Hursley Guardians' Board room on Treasurer, Arthur E. Deane esq. banker, Winchester the last tuesday in each month at 4 p.m. Registrar of Births & Deaths & Relieving & Vaccination Chairman, Hon. George Wyldbore Hewitt, Field house, Officer for the Union, Charles Edward Scarr,. Hursley Hursley Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, John Lockhart Clerk, Henry White, St. Peter street, Winchester & 73 Liviogston M.D. Hursley Leigh road, Eastleigh Workhouse, to hold go inmates, Rev. Ren~ Piert~sene Treasurer, Arthur E. Dea.ne, banker, Winchester B.A. Chandlersford, chaplain; John Lockhart Living­ Medical Officer of Health, John Lockhart Livingston ston M.D., M.Ch. medical officer; John Arthur Barrell, M.D. Hursley master; Mrs. J. A. Barrell, matron Sanitary Inspector & Surveyor of Highways, H. C. Phillips, Chandlersford liURSLEY. Buckett John, butcher,see Westbrook Savage Archibald, clerk of works to & Buckett Sir G. A. Cooper bart PRIVATE BESIDRNTS. Bunn Robert, Dolphin P.H Scarr Charles Edward, relieving Chamberlayne Tankerville B.A., J.P. Compton Jas. farmr.Up.Standon frm officer & registrar of births &; (Hon. Lieut. R. N .R.), Cmnbury Cooper Charles, farmer deaths for the union park(letters through Otterbourne); Cooper George, cowkeeper, Silkstead Street Waiter, farmer & Carlton & Junior Carlton clubs, Elder James, head gardener to Sir Targett Alfred, carpenter, Standon London S W G. A. Cooper :hart Taylor William,wood dealer,Silkstead Cooper Sir George Alexander bart. Ewins William A. farm bailiff to Thorold, J ames E. land agent to Sir V.D., D.L., J.P. Hursley park Tankerville Chamberlayne esq G. A. Cooper bart. Merdon manor Dent Mrs. Joseph J. Dent, Bed housil Gear Waiter, carrier Westbrook & Buckett, butchen Dring Williaru A. The Cottage Hampton Thomas, farmer & assist- Wild Ernest Burton, saddler Floyd Capt. Sir Henry Robert Peel ant overseer, Batlake Wilson Albert, grocer hart. R.N. Northend house Jones Geo. Hy.stationer, & post office Hewitt Hon. Geo. Wyldbore, Field ho Kinggate Charles, grocer PITT. Hotham Capt. Algernon J. Sout'h Livingston John Lockhart M.D., Ly:rroh M.Ch. surgeon, & district medical Barlow William Wycliffe M.A., J.P. Keates Misses, South End house officer & public vaccinator, medi- Pitt manor . Livingston John Lockhart M.D cal officer to the workhouse & Talbot Frederick Wm. Manor farm Pnghe Rev. Thomas St. John Parry medical officer of ·health to the M.A. (vicar), Vicarage Rural District Council COMMERCIAL. Westbrook Hy. Etheridge,Standon ho Morgan Thomas, farmer, Silkstead Bailey Edward, huntsman to Hursley COMMERCIAL. Page Ellen (Mrs.), farmer, Ratlake hound~t Argyle Saml.schoolmaster & organist Pavey Herbert, shoeing smith Freeborn H. farmer Bailey Edwin, farmer, Shawland frm Plaice Henry James, King's Head P.II Hampton Evelyn, farm bailiff to F. Boniface John, farm bailiff to Sir G. Reader Charles, electrical engineer W. Talbot esq. Pitt vale A. Cooper hart. Home farm Reynolds Mary (Miss), farmer Stares Frank, house decorator HURSTBOURNE PRIORS is a parish and small since 1908 by the Rev. William Thomas Tovani, of St. village on the road from Basingstoke to Andover, I! Andrews University. The Wesleyan· chapel here will miles south-west from Hurstbourne station on the Lon- seat 100. Hurstbourne Park is the seat of the Earl of don and South Wes-tern railway, and 5 east-by-north Portsmouth J.P., D.L.; the mansion is a. gabled Jacobean from Andover, in the Western division of the county, edifice of red brick with stone mullioned windows, stand­ Whitchnrch union, Evingar hundred, Kingsclere petty ing on an eminence in a beautifully-wooded park of sessional division, Andover county court district, rural I,ooo acres stocked with deer. The Earl of Portsmouth deanery of Andover and archdeaconry and diocese of is lord of tbe manor and sole landowner. The rivers Winchester. The river Bourne, a tributary of the Test, Test and Bourne, which flow through this parish, aro flows through the parish. The church of St. Andrew is stocked with trout, and the fishing here is the best of an edifice of brick with stone dressings, in the Norman its kind in the south of England. The soil is principally 11tyle, consisting of cham::el with chapel, nave and an grave'l; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, embattled western tower, containing 6 bells: the en- barley, oats and turnips. The area is 3,226 acres of trance is through the ba8e of the tower: the west land and 23 of water; rateable value, £5.4I7; the papa­ doorway iB Norman: the font is of Caen stone, finely lation in 1901 was 341.

• carved: in the chancel is an altar tomb with recum- bent effigies to Robert Oxenbrigge and his wife, and a Sexton, George Cook. Latin inscription, dated 1705 : the church was restored Post Office.-George Cook, sub-postmaster. LetteTs from in 1870 at the cost of Isaac, 5th Earl of Portsmouth: in Whitchurch are delivered at 7 a. m. & r.so p.m.; 1906 a new organ was provided, and in 1907 the chancel dispatched at 11.35 a.m. & 7 p.m.; on sundays at n fioor was raised and new altar rail8, choir stalls and a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is prayer desk set up at the joint cost of the Cross trustees at Whitchurch, 2 miles distant and the parishioner~: there are 250 sittings, about Wall Letter Box, at Station, cleared at 8 & II.2o a.m. three-fo~rths of which are unappropriated. Th~ register & 6 p.m .. sundays, 8 a.m of baptiSms date~ from the year 1621 ; marnages and . ' . . • burial!!, 1504 . The living is a vicarage, with the Elerr;entary School (mixed), built m 1B55, for 100 chapelry of St. Mary Bourne annexed, joint net income children i averag~ attenrlomrP, fl4: "P.'I~Px Alien, master [250, in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester, and held Railway Station, Horatio Lrwis Taylnr, stAtion mB.Iter PBIVATB RESIDENTS. Savage George Henry, The Island Est~t<· Offil"<> nf th"' F.ul of Ports- Portsmouth Earl of M.A., F.S.A., Tovani Rev. William Thos. (vicar), mnnth rY.:rtmnnct T~nl"nrk. agent & D.L., J.P. Hurstbonrne park; Vica!'age cl.,rk of wnrk~l. ~pratsdn"n Eggesford house, North Devon & Wilkinson Wm. Fischer, Yew Tree Fl"rt Eli7<> ('\l~!l.), wat.,rcrr•!l grower Gnisa.chan, Heauly, N.B.; r6 Mans- cottage LP" Gf'o Ho-i·•e. fr•'lll". New Darn frm field Atreet W; Brooks's & Travel- Wyld Capt. William Hy. The Elms Ml'lhPr Genrg-P, fBrmPl" lers' clubs S W & Garrick club COMMKRCIAL. Nnnn UPn•·!!". Q'An•rkPPper to the WC, London Berry Richd. Jas. farmer, Falconer's E'\rl nf' Pnrt .. month Fellowes Mrs farm (letters through Andover) Perple's R•frr~hmPnt Hnu,.e Associa- Greene H. Plunkett, The Long house Broad John, builder, Spratsdown ti'