WILTSHIRE.. (.KELLY'S

church 'Was built, temp. Richard 11. J.377 to 1399, and the 1 wooden lintels of • pyramidal11oof, covered with tiles. On tower in the first half of the 15tb century : the stained west ! thA Castle Hill are the remains of a British encampment and window was the gift of the late rector, the. Rev. R. C. [the ruins of a castle, built in the reign of Henry I. The Christie L_r.,B.: under the belfry is s stone groined ceiling of great Roman road, called the l''o.sswAY, leadin!{ from Bath

very elegant design : the chancel arch is decorated with the 1 to Cireucester, skirts the north-western limit of the manor; figures ol saints upon pedestals under canopies: in the gable the property was held by the Scrope family from the 13th is a beautiful stained rose window. and the east window, con~ century, but. is now held by Ed ward Chad dock Lowndes esq. sisting of four Early English lancets, is alsofilled with richly M.A.., D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor and residei at stained glass, as well as all the remaining windows, 16 in Castle Combe Manor House. The s()il ill! brash ; subsoil, number; one of these, in the Lady chapel, represents the clay. The chief crops are wheat. barley and oats. The area

arms of the lords who succesMively held the manor : there is is 11490 acres; rateable value, £2,.1-43 ; the population in aa altar-tomb, with a recumbent effigy of one of the De 1881 was 495· Dunstanvilles, d. n7o, ancestors of the Scrope family : there Parish Clerk, William Gingell. are sittings for 430 persons. The register dates from the year 1653. The living is a rectary, yearly value from tithe PosT OFFICE.-James King, receiver. Letters throu~h rent-charge £383, gross £400, including 25 acres of gleba, Chippenbam, delivered at 6.30 a.. m. & 3.40 p.m. ; dis- in the gift of Edward Chaddock Lowndes esq. and held since patched at 9.50 a.. m. & 9 p.m. 'fhe nearest money order x888 by the Rev. Charles Hnmphry llinchin lti.A.. of St. & telegraph office is at Yattou Keynell. Postal orders are Mary Hall, Oxford. Here are Congr~"'lltional and Calvin- issued here, but not paid istie Baptist chapels. A fair is held here on May 4th. In INSURANCE AuENT.-Northern, R. A. Watkins, Estate office the village is a fine specimen of an ancient market cross, consisting of a square stone pedestal raised upon two steps National School (mixed), average attendance of 81 children; and ornamented with sunk quatrefoiled panels, bearing the school is principally supported by Edward Chaddock shields and roses alternately; from this springs a. slender Lowndes esq. M.A., J.P., D.L.; Mrs. Sully, mistress shaft capped by a finial : at each angle of the platform is a CARRIERS TO BA.TH.-James Pullen, wed. & sat. & also massive stone pier, about six feet big~ supporting the George Snell, on the same days, & to Chippenham on fri Blake Benjamin 1 Fry Mark, farmer lRawlings Jobanna (Mrs.}, Foss inn Lowndes Edward Chaddock 1\I.A., J.P., Gale John Howell, relie;ing officer 2nd Snell G-eorge, baker D.L. Manor house dist. & registrar of births & deaths for Sudlow Algernon, surgeon & medical Minchin Rev. Charles Humphry M.A. Combesub-dist. ofChippenham union officer.& public vaccinator to the 3rd :Rectory Holborow Daniel Edward, farmer or Combe dist. of Chippenham union Sudlow Algernon Hillier Ann (Mrs.), farmer, West way Taylnr Frederick, plasterer & tiler Watkins Robert Arundel Hurley Henry, White Hart P.H. & baker Thompson Thomas, plumber &c King James 'fhomas, carpenter Turner James William, Castle inn COMMERCIAL. Melson George, plasterer & tiler Watkins Robert Arundel, estate ag-ent Arthurs Thomas, shopkeeper Nowell John, tallow chandler to E. C. Lowndes esq. The Shrubb Booy John, farmer Pinniger Rebecca (Mrs.), grocer Webb Edwin H. gardener to E. C. Brookman John, blacksmith Pullen James, carrier Lowndes esq Clark Isaac, shopkeeper Rawlings Henry, farmer, Gib Widcombe John Broome, shopkeeper CASTT.E EATON (or LA.TONs) is a village and parish, the Rev. Charles Reay Pughe M.A. of Worcester College, situated near the river Thames on the Gloucestershire border, Oxford. The interest of £roo, amounting to 55s. yearly, 4 miles east-by-north from Cricklade station, 8 north from left by John Hurst, in 1827, is distributed to the poor on Swindon and 5 north-west fromHighworth, in the Northern Good Friday. John Ar<:her esq. of Lushill House, wno is division of the county, Highworth hundred, petty sessional lord of the manor, and S1r Thomas Selby Tancred hart. c. E. division, union and county court district of Swindon, rnral 46 Inverness terrace, London w. are chief landowners. The deanery of Cricklade, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of soil is gravel. The chief crops are grass, wheat, barley and Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. MaEy is an edifice roots. The area is 1,964 acres of land and 15 of water; of stone in the Early English style, having chancel, nave of rateable value, £2,557 ; the populatio11 in 1881 was 323. three bays, north aisle and south porch, with Norman doQr- LusHILL (or Lush Hill) is a tithing, xi miles south-east~ way, having the chevron ornament, and square western BLACKFORD, mile east. tower, with pinnacles and battlements, containing 6 bells: 1 there is a fine octagonal bell turret over the chancel arch: PosT 0J<'FICE.-John Stratford, receiver. Letters through • in the tower is an ancient marble monument to Waiter Par- Fairford S.O. which is the nearest money order & teie- ker, of Lushill, who died 1664 : the stained east window is a graph office, arrive at 8.15 a. m. ; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. memorial to John Gandy esq. who died in 1s57, and three Letters for Lushill are received from Highwortb, which is other windows are stained : there is a fresco of the Virgin the nearest money order & telegraph office for Lushill, & and Child on the north wall~ there are sittings for 200 per- arrive at 8 a. m. Postal orders are issued here, but not sons. The register dates from the year 1549. The living paid is a rectory, gross yearly value £6so, including 89 acres of National School (mixed), built in 1855, for 8o children; glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since x883 by average attendance, 66; William Gibbon, master Archer John, Lushill house Bowles William, gardener to John Hardinge Absalom, farm bailiff to John Lewis l<'rancis, Bridge house Archer esq. Lushill Archer esq Pughe Rev. Charles Reay M.A.. Rectory Dowdeswell William, farm bailiff to Higgs John, Red Lion inn Akers Jn. Wm.maltstr.corn dealer&bakr Sir Thomas Selby Tancred hart StratfordJn.gro.&blacksmth.Post office Brindle John, carpenter GREAT CHALFIELD is a parish, 3 miles north-east specimens of Domestic Gothic architecture in England : from Bradford, 3 west from Melksham, 3~ from Trowbridge, it. was built in the reign of Henry VI. (about 146o) by about 1 ~ from Holt station on the Wilts and Somerset branch Thomas 'fropnelle : the barns and farm buildings on the of the Great Western railway and 9 east from Bath, in the right were built in Queen Elizabeth's time : it has been con­ Western division of the county, hundred, petty sessional verted into a farm residence. Within a century the last division, union and county court district of Bradford, -rural descendant of Thomas Tropnelle, an only son, being at deanery of Potterne Bradford portion, archdeaconry of man's estate, died by an accident while hunting ; he put a. Wilts and diocese of Salisbury. This pario;h has been added pair of dog-couples over his head, and leaping a hedge, the to Atworth for ci\'il purposes only; ecclesiastically it re­ end of the couple caught in a bough and kept him from the mains separate. The Gambrook flows through the parish. ground till he was strangled ; the motto of the family was, 'fhe church of All Saints, a small but ancient structure of "Le joug tyra bellement "-sadly prophetic of the end of the stone in the Early English style, consists of a chancel and last of this ancient and wealthy family. George Pargiter na,·e, west porch and has a steeple at the western end con­ J<'uller esq. M.P., J.P. is lord of the manor and sole landowner. taining one bell : a handsome stone screen separates the The soil is loam and brash; subsoil, clay. The lancl is chancel from the nave, and the east window is stained : chiefly used for corn and pasture. The parish contains 710 there are so sittings. The parish register commences iu the acres of arable and pasture land; rateable value, ,£720 ; year 1545 and has been kept in exact order down to the and a population in 1881 of 34· present time. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £144, net £120, in the gift of George Pargiter Fuller esq. The nearest LETTER Box is Holt. Letters through Trow­ M.P. and held since 1878 by the Rev. Edward Kingston M.A. bridge. 'fhe nearest money order offices are at Holt., of Caius College, Cambridge, who resides at Mclksham. Bradford & Melksham, equi-distant; tele,5raph office at The old Manor House is said by Walker ("Examples of Holt Gothic Architecture") to be one of the most interesting The children of this pb.ce attend the Atworth school Bailey James, farmer 1 Hisco::k James, miller (water) Pullea Thomas, farmer, Lenton farm