206 HYTHE. HAMPSHIRE. (KELLY'S Davies Cooke B.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. Here is a County Magistrates for Lymington & New Forest Pett,.- Congregational chapel. The Hythe Yacht Club was estab Sessional Division. lished in Jan. 1894; the club house, at the end of the Hythe Sub-Division. pier, is admirably placed for observing the races, and was :Miontagu Lord, Palace house, Beaulieu, SouthamptoJr,. extensively altered and enlarged at the close of 1894· chairman Races are held periodically during the summer mDibden, Sthmptn. seat of Robert Henry Hobart esq. C.B., J.P. Winterton Hobart Robert Henry esq. C.B. Langdown house, Hythe Hall is the property of Charles Lionel Fitzgerald esq.: the Jenkinson Henry 'rhos. John esq. Ower cottage, Fawley mansion, built in the early part of the present century, Roy WiJ.liam Gascoigne esq. Byams, Marchwood is in the Italian style, and overlooks Southampton Water Clerk to the Magistrates, Francis Henry Candy, 91 and the Solent. Andrew Cecil Drummond esq. of Cad High street, Southamptnn land, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil Petty Sessions are held at Police station on the last· is light sand; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, thursday in the month at II.30 a.m. The following barley and oats, also much pasturage. The area is 6oo places are included in Hythe sub-division :-Fawley.. acres; in I891 the pExbury & Lepe Langdown is a hamlet, I mile south-west, in Dibden Coastguard Station, George Mitchell, chief officer, &. parish. z men Sexton, Edward Manning. County Police Station,Sergt. Edwd. Hatcher, & I constable Odd Fellows' Hall, William Willett Browning, sec PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, Board School (mixed), established in I829 & enlarged! Parcel Post & Annuity & Insurance Office.-Henry Mar in 1876 & 1894; it was converted into a Board School! tell, sub-postmaster. Letters received through South in 1882, under Fawley School Board, & rebuilt with ampton. Letters delivered at 7 a.m. & 2 p.m. There master's house in 1894, at a cost of £2,000, & will hol Fitzgerald Chas. Lionel, Winterwn hall Drownen Albert Chris. shoeing fcrge Lane Thomas, shoeing forge Fry Frederick1 Br:ightville Bullen John Hewett L. surgeon & Langford Chas. greengrocer, lligh st German J\fiss medical officer, No. 3 district, :New Lawrence Alfred, baker Gibson George, 2 Verona cottage Forest union Lawrence Sarah (Mrs.), butcher, &. Giles William Foster Burgess Charles, pier toll collector Anchor & Hope P.H Henderson Mrs. The Grove Burrows John H. Drummond Arms Lewis Henry Langer, tailor Hobart Robert Henry C.B., J.P. Lang- hotel; cyclists accommodated; post- Ma-nning Edward, carpenter down house ing house &c Martell Henry, Post office Hudson Rear-Admiral Joseph Samuel Caton Mabel Florence .A.. (Miss), coll. Matthews Fdk. fishmonger & newsagnt Hughes Posthumous Waiter M.B. of poor rates, Pylewell villa. Moore & Son, grocers & agents for W. Winterton cottage Cole Chas. plumber, painter & glazier & A. Gilbey Lim. wine & spirit mers- KeiT .Alexander, The Grove Cole 1Villiam L. coffee tavern Moorman Wm. farmer, Frost Lane frm KeiT William James, Hythe houl!le O:Joper Henry, boot maker Murray Annie (Mrs.), beer retailer Linton-Hughes Mrs Curtis Samuel, beer retailer Musselwhite Frank, pier master Langford John, The Bungalow Elcock Marcia & Louisa (~lisses), Oatley James Sidney, shopkeeper Low Rev. Sampson B.A. (curate of shopkeepers Oddfellows' Hall (William Willetl St. John's), Pylewell house Etheridge Sarah (Mrs.), fancy repos Browning, sec) Milligan William, r Verona cottage Fletche:r James & Son, coal merchants Randall Samuel, yacht captain Pollard Capt. William Dattun John, Fry Fdk.registrar of births & deaths for Robins George, tobacconist Atheling villa Fawley sub-dist. New Forest union Taylor Edwin, baker & grocer Rawlings George, Prospect place German Henry, builder Vine Harry, saddler IBSLEY is a. parish ai!ld small village on the east bank 1654. The living is a. rectory annexed to the vicarage of the Avon, here crossed by a bridge of two arches, 3~ of Fordingbridge, joint net yearly value £340, including miles north from Ringwood and 4 south from Fording- 7! acres of glebe, in the gift of the Provost and Fellows bridge stations, both on ihe London and South West-ern of King's Cambridge, and held since IB79 by the Rev. railway, in the New Forest division of the county, Ring- William James Boys M . .A. late fellow of that college, and" wood petty -sessional division and union, Fordingbridge surrogate. Here is a Congregational chapel. Colthurst's· hundred and county court district, rural deanery of Christ charity of £ IO yearly is for bread and blankets, the dis Church and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The tribution being in the hands of the Rector. The Earl of" church of St. Martin is a small modern edifice of brick, NDrmanton is lord of the manor and principal landowner. consisting of nave, north and south porches and a western The soil is sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, turret containing one bell: in the church there is a curious barley, oats and turnips. The area. is I,774 acres of la:wl· stone monument to Sir John Constable and his lady, and I9 of water; rateable value, £I,133; the population dated I627, with their effigies kneeling under a canopy: in r891 was 221. on the chancel floor is a. brass to Edward Passion, dated South Gorley is a hamlet 1 mile north-ea.st r599: the oommunion plate includes a silver chalice and . · paten, supposed to have be8'.1 presented by Queen Mary: N ~wto wu and M!ockbeggar are a mile e.a.st ; Furze Hill there are sittings for 214 persons, of which 1s4 are free. a m1Ie north-east, on the Huckle brook. The churchyard was enlarged in I885 by the addition of Sexoon, Charle.t Head. about a quarter of an acre of land, presented by the late Post Office.-William Lyne, sub-postmaster. Letters re Earl of Normanton. The register dates from the yee.:r ceived from Bingwood at 7.30 a.m. & dispatched 7.30