DIRECTORY,] WILTSHIRE. BRI:'fKWORTH. 45 Fox Francis P. Dumb PGst inn Free Library k Reading Room Cole George, farmer Free Library & Reading Rooms (Jacob (William T"ine, sec.; Mrs. Eyles George, farmer Vines, sec. ; Jn. H. Palmer, librarn) Cle,·erly, librarian) Eyles Henry, farmer Freegard Francis, farmer, Bencroft Hillier George, farmer Free Library & Reading Room (W alte~ Freeth Francis J oseph, farmer, Knapp Charles, shopkeeper Pocock, hon. sec) Hanger Park farm Turk William Henry, farmer Grainger Joseph, beer retailer Freeth George (Mrs.), farmer, Lower Twine William, farmer H~ wkins George, farmer Whitley farm Hayes Edwin Orchard, farmE"r,. Fry l\rilliam, baker E.\.ST TYTHERTON. Cadenharn farm Hammond Robt. farmer, Cnderdown Collett William, Barn bridge Hayward Francis. farmer, Gotshill &. Hillier Alfred, farmer, Brernhill C0nnor Rev. James (Moravian) Stockham Marsh farms Fields farm Kewley John Matthews William, blacksmith Je:fferys Samuel, fanner, ~ash house 1 Rogers Misses Pegler Hy. (Mrs.), farmer, Elm frm Palmer John Huward, carpenter &' Broomfield James, baker & grocer Pocock Josiah, farmer, Cadnam manor wheelwright, & post office Cleverley Charles, farmer, Dick's farm Provis Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer Pavy Charles Thomas, miller (waoor), Goodway William, blacksmith SPIRT HILL. Hazeland mill Hollis Elizh. Mary (Miss), ladies' schl Ing William, farmer Pearce Albert, farmer, Hazeland farm Jefferys James, farmer J effervs Frederick, farmer, Side ruw • Pipkin John, farmer, Bencroft Kight Paul, shopkeeper ,Jcfferys Samuel, farmer, Nash house Pocock Albert William, Lower Minty Jn, Fras. farmr. Hare Street fm Turk Fredel'ick, farmer Hanger farm :X ewman Isaac, farmer Vines Jacob, fanner, Manor & Vicar- Robins Albert, post office WICK. age farms Spackman Edward, farmer Eatwell David, farmer Whale Wm. farmer, Stanley bridge Gale Alfred, farmer FOXHAl\1. Hillier Henry, farmer, Monument farm Amor Charles, Stockham marsh AVON. CHARLCOTE. Barnet John, farmer Am or J oseph, farmer Bussell Herbt. Jn. Charldote Hill fm Carpenter William, farmer, West end Fry Thomas, farmer, Avon farm BREMILHAM (or Cowage) wa! formerly a parish, church at Foxley. The register dates from the year but under the provisions of an order which came into 1790. The living is a rectory, annexed to th.at of Foxley operation March 25, 1884, was apportioned, for civil in r893, joint net yearly value £238, with residence, in. purpose!, between Brokenborough, Foxley and St. Mary the gift of Lord Lilford, and held since rgo2 by the Rev. Westport; it is on the river Avon, 2 miles west-south- Harry Launcelot Warneford B. A. of Hertford College. west from Malmesburv terminal station on a branch of Oxford, who resides at Foxley, and is also vicar of Nor­ the Great Western railway and 10 north-west from ton. Major George Lindsay Holford C.V.O., C.I.E. of Chippenham, in the ~orthern division of the county, Weston Birt House, Gloucestershire, is lord of the manot' Malmesbury hundred, petty sessional division, union and and the principal landowner. The soil is brashy; sub­ county court district, and in Malmesbury rural deanery, soil, clay. The chief crops are barley, roots and grass. North Wilts archdeaconry end diocese of Bristol. The The area and rateable value of this place is included church has been pulled down, but the ground is still in :Malmesbury and Foxley; the popnlation in 190~ u>ed as a cemetery, and there is a small stone building was 132. us~d as a mortuary chapel. The inhabitants attend the The children of this place attend the school at Foxley :BRINKWORTH with GRITTENHAM. BRINKWORTH is a parish and viiiage, pleasantly situ- of £7 1gs. 8d. consists of the dividend~ arising from sums ated on the high road from Swindon to Malmesbury inve;ted in the funds, which, under the will of the late and watered by a bributary of the Avon, with a station Mrs. Hannah Nicholls, are expended in the purchase of south of the village on the Wootton Bassett and Severn blankets to be distributed to the poor. Lady Winchcomb Tunnel branrh of the GrNt 'Vestern railway, 4 miles gave £r a year charge on land, for the purchase of books north from Dauntsey station and 5 miles north-west for the children of the poor. Penn's Lodge, 1' miles from Wootton Bassett station, on the same line, and 6 north-east, was once the property of the famous William south-east from Malrnesbury, in the ~orth Western Penn family. The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, who division of the county, hundred. union, petty sessional is lord of the manor, George L. Palmer esq. of Lacock, division and county court distrid of ~falmesbnry, and lord of the manor of the tithing of Grittenham, and the in the rural deanery of Malme><bury, archdeaconry of trustees of the late Charles Mills, ar<' the principal NJrth Wilts and diocese of Bristol. The church of St. landowners. The soil is clay; the land is principally in Michael and All Angels is an ancient building I pasture; the area is 6,045 acre• of land and 14 of of stone in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting water; rateable value, £12,486; the population in 1901 of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and an embattled was r,o99 with Grittenham. western t()wer containing a clock and 5 bells: Grittenham is a tilhing and manor, r mile south-west, there are two hagioscopes and an ancient communion and has a school-house, erected in 1864 by the late Lady table: the chancel was restored in r889 at a cost of Holland and licensed by the bishop, which will seat 6o £700, and again in 1903-7, at a further cost of £2,8oo: persons. the church affords 280 sittings. The register dates Parish Clerk, Henry Jennings. from the year r653. The living is a rectory, net yearly By Local Government Board Order 16,510, dated March value £586, including q6 acres of glebe and residence, 24, r888, Bryant's Farm was transferred from Danntsey in the gift of Pembroke College, Oxford, and held since parish to Brinkworth. 1896 by the Rev. Robert George Livingstone M.A. Railway Station, Alfred Barrington, station master formerly fellow of that college, hon. canon of Bristol, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B., A. & I. Office.-John Elliott, rural dea01 of Malmtsbury, and proctor in Con>ocation. sub-postmaster. Letters through Chippenham, de- Here is a Congregational chapel, founded in 1742, with livered at 7 a.m. & 12.30 p.m.; dispatched at ro a. m. r2o >ittings, and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The & 6.55 p.m. week dws only churchyard "as clo'"d as a burial ground by Order in Wall Letter Boxes.-Callow hill. cleared at 6.25 p. m. ; Council in October, r887, and a cemetery, ~ acres in Fritter's well, at 6.40 p.m. "eel< days only extent, formed close by, the cost of which, £350, was Wall Letter Box, Clitchbury, cleared 1.45 p.m defrayed by the sale of parish property; it is under the Elementary School, ere~ed in r86.S, with t~acher's resi- control of the burial committee of the Parish Council. dence, for 140 children; average attendance, 94 boys The charities include a sum of £rs a year, devised by the & girls & 48 infants; George Cross, master will of the late .Mr. Weeks, of which £1o is given in doles Lady Holland's Church of England School (mixed), Grit- t..o the poor of the parish, and £5 is paid at Christmas for tenham, built in r864. for 6o children; average attend- the free instruction of ten poor children: Nicholls's gift ance, 35; Miss Amy Hamblin, mistress Stratton Miss 'Chequer Edmund. wheelwright BRI~KWORTH. Wheeler Mrs Clifford Thomas Hubert, wheelwright Davies Rev. David Osborne (curate) COMMERCIAL. & agricultural machinist Day Frank. Brinkworth house .\.nstee Thomas, farmer Cuss Hubert Geo. frmr. Clitchburv fro Day Mrs. Brinkworth house Ayres Henry, baker Dickenson William, Suffolk ArmsP.R Hanks ~Irs. Boxbush house Barrington Alfred, station master Dixon Abner, cowkeeper Livingstone- Re""V. Canon Ro bert Bishop .J a cob, farmer, Sunday hill Dixon Henry, cowkeeper Geor(!e )LA. Rectorv Bmin Jabez, Three Crowns P.H Dykes Thomas. draper :M•"hall Rev. Arthur- (Primitive Cemetery (1\I. H. Chubb,l\lalmesbnry, Edwards William Clowes, farrier :lie hcdi<t , The :\hn<o c!e· k to tbe burial committee) EI!iott J1hn, grocer, &; post offic<' .