DIRECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. .. 23 ABENHA.LL, or .Abinghall, is a parish, on the road of the Lord Chancellor, and held einc& 19Io by the Rev, from Newnham to Mitcheldean, 2! miles south-west from Charles Richard Pollock, of St. Aidan's. The old school Longhope station on the Hereford, Ross and Gl()ncester is now used as a parish room. The hard red stone secl;ion of the Great Western railway and 5 north-west found here is used for building and monumental pur­ from Newnham, in the Forest of Dean division of the poses. The Wilderness is now the property of the. county, St. Briavels hunclred, union of Westbury-on• committee of Barnwood· House Asylum, Gloucester, Severn, Newnham county court district and petty ses- Maynard Willoughby Colchester-Wemyss esq. of West­ sional division, rural deanery of North Forest and arch- bury-on-Severn, is the chief landowner. The soil is deaconry and diocese of Gloucester. The church of sandy; subsoil, red sandstone. The chief crops are St. Michael and All Angels is an ancient building of oats, wheat, barley and roots. The area is 763 acres; stone in the Early English and Decorated styles, consist- rateable value, £I,4II; the population in 19u was I88 ing of chancel, nave of two bays, south aisle, south in the civil and 572 in the ecclesiastical parish. porch and a tower at the west end of the south aisle A detached part of the parish was transferred to Eas• containing 3 bells: the octagonal f

ABSON is a village, on the river Boyd, 2 miles north esq. are lords of the manor, and Mr. Batterbury, William• of the old road from Bath to Bristol, 8 miles east from Davy esq. J .P. of St. .Ann's, Burnham, Somerset, Mrs. Bristol, 7 north-west from Bath and 3 east-by-south Amos and Mrs. Warge are the chief landowners. The. from station on the Bristol and Birming­ soil is loamy; subsoil, chiefly rock. The chief crops are· ham section of the Midland railway. Wick with Abson wheat, barley and roots, with about one half pasture. form a dvil parish, in the .Southern division of the The area, including Wick, is 2,521 acres; rateable-· county, hundred, petty sessional division value, including Wick (given under a separate head), i" of Sodbury, union and county court £5,386; the population, including Wick, in 19II W?oli­ district, rural deanery of and archdeaconry and I,oo6 in the civil and 8Io in the ecclesiastical parish. diocese of Bristol. The church of St. James is an HOLBROOK, I mile south, is a hamlet, and BRIDGE~ ancient building of stone in the Early English style, GATE, or Bridge , is 1! miles south-west. consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an em­ Sexton, Henry Nicholls. battled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 6 Letters through Wick, Bristol, arrive at B.so 11.1n. &. bells, two being of pre-Reformation date : there are 4· 25 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office&· sittings for 120 persons. The register dates from the are at Wick & Pucklechurch, about. 2 miles distant year I687. The living is a chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Pucklechurch, joint net yearly value [38r, Wall Letter Box, Bridge Yate, cleared at 9 a.m. & 7· including so acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift p.m. week days only of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and is at present The children of this place attend the Public Elementary (1913) vacant. The trustees of the late James Tolmau school at Wick Boulton Fred, farmer, Church farm IMarshall Henry, farmer COMMERCIAL. Kembrey Frederick, farmer Nelms Gny, farmer, Gatherham Amos Frederick, farmer,Wilton farm IKembrey John, farmer Perry David, farmer, Collin's farm A.CTON TURVILLE is a parish and village, on Rev. James Richard Foster M.A. of St. John's College. the high road from Malmesbury to Bristol and on the Cambridge. Here is a Baptist chapel. The Duke of Wiltshire border, with a station (named Badminton) on Beaufort is lord of the manor and chief landowner. the South Wales main line of the Great Western rail­ The soil is principally a light loam ; subsoil, oolite. way, 8 miles east from Yate station on the Bristol and The chief crops are wheat, barley, root_s and oats. The· Birmingham section of the Midland railway, 6 east area is I,OI5 acres; rateable value, [2,2I5 ; population from Chipping Sodbury, 9~ from Chippenham and I3 in Igrr, 298. north from Bath, in the Southern division of the county, Parish Clerk, George Leonard. Grumbalds Ash hundred, Chipping Sodbury union and county court district, Sodbury petty sessional division, Post & M. 0. Office.-Miss Rehecca Baker, sub-post­ rural deanery of Hawkesbury and archdeaconry and mistress. Letters from Chippenham arrive at 4·30< diocese of Gloucester. The church of St. Mary, an a.m. & 3.50 p.m.; dispatched at 9·55 a.m. & 8.30 edifice of stone, in the Early English style, was almost p.m.; sunday, arrive at 4.30 a.m.; dispatched at 8.30 entirely rebuilt, with the exception of the hell turret p.m. The nearest telegraph offices are at Badminton and chancel arch, in 1853, under the direction of Mr. & Burton, each I mile distant Wyatt, architect; it now consists of chancel, nave, Church of England Public Elementary School (mixed), north aisle (added in I853), ~outh aisle, south porch erected, with residence for mistress, by the Duke of and a turret, placed between the chancel and nave, Beaufort, in 1862, & enlarged 1907• for 95 children; and containing one bell, cast in I853; the chancel was average attendance, 51 ; Miss .A. M. Pring, mistress restored by the Duke of Beaufort, and the rest of the CONVEYANCE. church at the expense of the parishioners, assisted by Hulbert's omnibus passes through from Chippenham to a grant from the Incorporated Church Building Society: Badminton, daily , in I9I2 the church was again renovated, a new organ installed and 6 stained glass memorial windows inserted : CARRIER TO BRISTOL.. there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the year Kington, from Sherston, mon. & thurs. ; returning tues. 1665. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £u6, & fri including 15 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift Badminton Station, G.W.R. Jabez Charlton, station of the Duke of Beaufort, and held since I9I3 by the master