DJRECTORY.] HAMPSHIRE. STR.ATFIELDSAYE. 523 Fray Wm. dairyman, Red Lodge farm Kitcatt Alfred W. Bassett hotel Squibb William, market gardener Hampshire Hogs Cricket Club (A.. J. Misselbrook Tom, boot & shoe maker Weston John William, baker & grocer L. Hill, hon. sec.), Bonniecot Price Frederick, jobbing gardener Whitmarsh William, farm bailiff to J. Gannaway Frank. job master Richards Jas. carman, Clifton cottage L. Hill esq. Red Lodge farm Hamilton A.. farmer, Glen Eyre Richards Waiter, carman Working Men's Club & Reading Room Hansford Fdk. Chas. shopkpr. Post o:li Rogers Wm. Hy. Red Lodge nurseries F. H. Candy esq. hon. treas) Harris .Albert, carpenter SOUTH STONEHAM is a. large and fertile parish, J.P. is :::. mansion of red brick with stone dressings, 9D either side of tili.e Itchen, extending from 5 to 6 erected during the reign of Queen Anne, and is pleasantly miles north a.nd e3/9t-n10rrth-east fi"<lm. Southampton, and seated in grounds uo acres in extent, with 5 acres of including Be;vois valley, and also PorllS'Wood, on the water. The Grange is the property and residence of western side of the river, the latter forming e. portion of Miss Covey. The principal landowners are Sir Samuel t.he town and borough of SouthaJIIlpton: the parish also Montagu hart M.P., D.L., J.P. Tankerville Chamberlayne reaches down the eastern side of the Itchen, near Nor- esq. of West1Jn Grove, Woolston, and Cranbury Park, Mr. tham Bridge, and is in the Southern division of the John Gater, Miss Covey and Queen's College, Oxford. county, South Stoneham union, hundred of Mansbridge, The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The soil is &uthampton petty sessional division and county court sandy; subsoil, gravel and clay. The area is 8,007 acres, d!istrict, and in the rural deanery of Southampton and so of water, so of tidal water and r68 of foreshore; rate­ archdoo.conry and diocese of Winchester. 'Dhere is no able value, £7,275; the population in r89r was r8,740• of village of South Stoneham, the church and two or three which. g,862 are in Southampton muni'Oi1pal borough. 'IIhe adjacent hoUJSes being situ3Jted near tihe pleasant village population of the ecclesl:ta.stiCal parish 1>f St. Maxy in x8gr of Swaythlin~, which is mostly in this, but partly in w~s 832. North Stoneham pari.SJh, and is situated on the western Sextion, George Wells. bank of the river ItK:hen, with a stabion on the London Portswood, formerly in the civil parish of South Stone- and South Western railway. The church of St. Mary ham, has been added to the municipal borough of at Swaythling, is a small but ancient edifice of stone, in Southampton under the provisions of the " Southampton vhe Early English l'ityle, consisting of Chancel, na.ve, Borough Extension Act, r8g5," and with Bitteme is now t.raiJisepts and an embattled western tower containing 3 a civil parish. bells: there are 340 sittings. The regifrler dates from the year r663. The living is a vicarage, net income Post, M. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel £28g, with 20 acrPs of glebe and residence, in the gift Post, S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Swaytbling. of the rector of St. Mary, Southampton, and held -Vin('ent Giles, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from since r8g2 by the Rev. Jdhn Duguid Paton M.A.. of Southampton at 7 a.m. & 1.30 p.m.; sundays, 7·30 Queen's College, Oxford. The charities amount to £I8 a.m. ; & are dispatched at II-45 a.m. &; 2·35 & 9·25 ros. 4d. yearly, derived fro.m beneractions in 168o by p.m. ; sundays, Io.ro a.m Mr. James Serle, of A.llington, in t6Bg by the Rev. John Wall Letter Box, Swaythling station, cleared at 9.15 a.m. Dnmmer, rector of Hardwick, Bucks, by Mrs. Cra'bbe, 8.Io p.m. Sundays, xo.(S a.m of Highfield, ChQrles Twyn!am, of Porlswood, and by Schools. George Alexander Fullerton e~q. of Westwood, who in A School Board of 5 members was foriJDed I3 Aug. r88I, 1847 gave £360 in 3 per Cerut. Consols. South Stone- for the United District of South Stoneham, Bitterne & ham pari'!h contains part of the village of Swaythling and We<>t End; Thomas Vare, West End, clerk to the the tithings of Allington, Biarton, Pollock, Shamble<hurst board. The children attend the Board school at West and Portswood. South Stoneham House, the property End and residence of Sir Samuel Montagu bart. M.P., D.L., Railway Station, Swaythling, Arth. Binsted, station mstr SOUTH STONEHAM. Gorey William .Alfred, High road Day Henry Joseph, blacksmith Hine George S. Ismeer Giles Vincent, grocer & butcher & (Letters should be addressed Swayth- Jung Frederick H. High road post office ling, Southampton.) McCreight Hamilton Huband James, watch make!." Montagu Sir Samuel hart. l\l.P., D.L., Newnam William, Hazeldene Merringoon &; Co. grocers & drapers, J.P., F.S.A..South Stoneham house; Passmore Oba.diab, Richwood, High rd High road & r2 Kensington Palace gardens W & Ray Alexander Newton, The Lawn Mouland Charles William, shopkeepr Reform .& National Liberal clubs, Ray- Frederic, Woodmi11 Pitcher & Co. bakers, High road SW & City Liberal club, E 0 London Rayner Frederick J. The Shrubberies, Ray A. & F. millers (water), Wood Paton Rev. Jn. Duguid M. A. Vicarage High road mill; & at Southampton. See advt SWAYTHLING Tysoe Richard G.Geden lodge,High rd Selby Thomas, boot maker · 1Vestlake Richd. Springfield, The Lawn Sheppard Charles Freeman, fatmer. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Winship Samuel, Ellesdene Chennels farm Blathwayt William, Woodmead Wood William John, Stoneville Sheppard John Freeman, farmer. Bridger Miss, High road Woolfe Mrs. Park villa Swaythling farm Brinton William G. Linwood COMMERCIAL. Smith John H. butcher, High road Coates Robert C. The Cottage, High rd Baker Henry John, grocer Southampton Dairy Co. Limited (The) Covey Miss, The Grange Child John & Henry, wheelwrights Snmmerbee Charles B. dairyman Derham Peter, Grasmere Coley Elizh. (Mrs.),Masons' Arms P.H Welch Robert, Flemings Arms hotel Ford-Dun Ford, Brundene Cook James W. laundry White Jn. farm bailiff to Miss Covey Forder Thomas, 2 Richwood Dacre George, wheelwright Grange farm STRATFIELD MORTIMER is a parish, a small wholly in I!erks, and is given in Kelly"s Directory of that portion of which was in this county, but under the pro- county. visions of tht> "Local Government Act, 1894.'' it is now STRATFIELDSAYE is a pleasant village and parish monument, by Mr. G. G. Ad'ams, scul~r, was placed on the Berklshire border of the county, 3~ miles south- in the chancel to the Very Rev. the Hon. Gerald Wel­ east from Mortimer si11tiJon on the Reading and Basing- lesley, dean of Windsor: it includes a life-sized medal­ stoke bmnch of the Great Western ra!ilway, and 8 north- lion portrait of the dean in bold relief, and beneath an east from Basingstoke, in tille Northern division of the inscription and the a:rms of the famlily: there are sit­ county, hundred a[ Holdshot, Basingstoke petty sessional tings for 450 persons. The register dates from fue year division, union and county court district, rural deanery IS39· The living is a rectory, net yearly value £383, of Silohester, and archdeacomy and diocese of Winches- including 18 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of ter. The church of Sit. Mary tlhe Virgin, situated near the Duke of Wellington, and held since r878 by the Rev. the western exbr9Illity of the park, and rebuilt in r784, Horace Geo. Monro l\f.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. lis an edifice of flint in the form of a. Greek cross, con- An iron church was erected at Fair Oak in x88r as a chapel &sting .of chancel, n-ave, transepts, and a tower with of ease, at the sole expense of the rector. Charities of £.~1 cupola. containing 5 bells : in the south transept is a yearly value llll'e d.istdbuted in bread and 'Clolihing. The marble monument to Sir William Pitt, dated 1636, west Duke of WellingtOn is lord of the manor and chief hmd­ of which is a fine mfuoal taJblet by Flaxman, to George owner. iStratfield moo.m the field of the road or way, Pi'llt, first Baron Rivws of that family, who died 7th the ancienif; Roman road from Lond'OIIl to Silc'hester cross­ iMuy, r8o3: an organ was presented by the late Duke of ing the parisihes of that name, of whicll there are tlhree: Wellington K.G. in x867: in the Cihancel11.re two brosses the terminal name of this parish is derived from the dated 1558 and 1594 to the Dabridgecourt family; also furnily of Saye, who once held it, and from whom :it a mural monument af stone to Mr. Juohn Howsman, passed by marriage to Sir Nichokvs Da.bridgec'OU.rt, high rector of -thi.s- ohurcoh, 1626: in October, I883, a mural sheriff of tih.t:t county in othe reign of Richa'l'd n.: llhou~ .