364 WOTTON ST. MARY. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [Kl!:LLY'S Cole Wm. farmer, Drymeadow farm Lane .Joseph, market gardener &; fnnr. Smith Charles, huntsman t{) the Long­ Cook George Ernest, market gardener, Norman place ford beagles, The Hawthorns, Inns- Springfield Moffatt Henry, farmer, Innsworth &; worth lane Crump Frederick, farmer, Bridge frm Paygrove farms; res. Kingsholm, Smith Edwin, shoe ma. Barnwood road Gardn8'l' John, timber dealer, saw mills Gloucester Stroud George Thomas, Cross Keys &c. Barnwood road Murrell Thomas, farmer &; market inn, Ba;rnwood road Goscomb Henry, market gardener, gardooer, Innsworth Vick In.frmr.Wotton frm.Barnwood rd Innsworth Perks Hy. Thos. dairyman, Springfield Vines Frank Martin,frmr.Oxstall's frm Rolle Edwin, dairyman, S'Pringfield Smallman Geo. shopkeepr.Old Tram rd Williams Alfred (MiI"i.), laundress, linITis Chas.mrkt.grdnr.Springfield vI Smart Jas. clerk ID the parish council Innsworth lane Kilminster Ernest, builder, I Prospect Smart James (Mrs.), laundress, Lmg villa, Ormscroft road Leavens WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE is a. town and parish and free lending library of Boo volumes at the Town Hall. head of a petty sessional division, 2l miles east-by-north The Church Institute has also extensive premises, includ­ from Charfield station on the Bristol and Birmingham ing a. Ia.rge lecture hall and reading and recreation rooms. section of the Midland railway, 19 south-south-west from The market, formerly held! on Friday, Ihas now fallen into Gloucester, 19 north-east from Bristol, 12 south-west disuse; but a pleasure fair is held annually, on Sept. 25. from Stroud, and loB from London, in the Mid division There are tw.o banks and t.hree good hotels, "The Swan," of the county, upper division of the hundred of Berkeley, "The l"alcon" and the "White Lion." The charities Dursley union and county court district, in the rural produce about £1,200 yearly. The principal are Hugih deanery of Dursley and archdeaconry and diocese of Glou­ Perry's almshouires, founded in 1634 for six men and six cester. The name of the place is descriptive of its situa­ women, each having a. weekly allowance; Thomas Dawe's tion beneath the western edge of the Cotswold Hills: the almshouses, founded in 1722, for six poor people, each old town, which stood in the rear of the present town, receiving a weekly allowance and coal; the general was destroyed by fire in the time of King John; the site hospital, erected from accumulated funds derived chiefly is still known as "The Old Town": on the restoration from Hugh Perry's charity; Bearpacker's almshouses, of the town, a market and fair, with various municipal founded in 183B by Miss Ann Bearpacker, for five men privileges, were granted to Maurice Lord Berkeley by and five women, each receiving 3S. 6d. per week; and Henry Ill. The Oorporati.on was abolished under the Rowland Hill's almshouses, connected with the Congre­ Municipal Corporations Act, 46 and 47 Vie. cap. 18, 18B3, gational tabernacle here, and newly erected in 1887, for and its property is now in the hands of trust-ees. The 12 poor women, who receive 7s. each weekly in money and town is abundantly supplied with good water by gravita­ kind: a bequest of £1,000 was made in 1826 by Thomas tion from a reservoir, constructed in 1894, on land given Perry, to augment the income of Perry's h01spital; there by Lord Fitzhardinge, at a cost of £3,000. The church are also benefactions of 20S. yearly left by Robert Hale in of St. Mary the Virgin is a spacious edifice of ~tone, the 1578; land given by Hugh Venne in 1602, and by Robert tower of w.hich is in the Deoorated and the rest of the Hale in 1635; £1,000 left by Sir Jonathan Dawes in 1674­ building in the Perpendicular style: it oonsists of chancel, and £ IQ yearly left by Sir Richd. Venn. The parish, under c1erestoried nave of six bays, aisles, south porch, above an order of H.M. Charity Commissioners, also participated which is a priest's chamber, and massive western tower in the proceeds of the sale in 1887 of the Countess of with panelled and embattled parapet and crocketed pin­ Warwick's alms.houses in Chenies, Bucks, to which the nacles, and containing a clock and 8 bells, recast in 1756, parish had a right of presenbltion. There are also many and carillon chimes: on the north side of the church is smaller charities for bread and clothing. Bradley Court an ancient chapel of St. Katharine: the stained east is -the property of Mrs. Gregory. Lord Fitzhardinge, who window is a memorial to the Cooper family, and there is lord {)f the manor, Maj.-Gen. Robert Hale, of .Alderley, are other memorial windows to Anthony Adey and to J. C. Bengough esq. of The Ridge, and Mrs. Gregoryare Col. John Blagd.on Hale, of Bl'adley Court, a monumental the Iprincipal landowners. The parish contains, besides slab to Richard-de-W·otton, rector, 1320, and a. fine tomb the town of Wotton-under-Edge, the hamlets of Hunting­ of Purbeck marble, with two brasses to 'Thomas, 5th ford, 2 miles we!rt;, Sinwelll east, Bradley ! west, Symond~ Baron Berkeley, d. 1417, and Margaret (lady de L'Isle), shall, Coombe, I north-east and ·Wortley I south-east. his wife, d. 1392. The register dates from the year 1571. The area is 4,880 acres; rateable value, £II,992; the The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £190, including population in 1891 was 3,276 in the civil, and 3,257 in 20 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the dean the ecclesiastical parish. and canons of Christ Church, Oxford, and held since 18BI Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, by the Rev. Henry Sewell M.A. of Clare College, Cam­ 1882," Waterley Bottom, a ~tached part of North Nibley, bridge, and surrogate. The Congregational Tabernacle, has been amalgamated WIth Wotton-under-Edge, and Tabernacle Pitch, was erected in 17B3, rebuilt in IB50, some garden and land added from Owlpen, and by Local and has Boo 'sittings. The Congregational chapel, Old Government Board Order 14,746, March 25, 1883, part Town, erected in 1600, will seat 320 'persons. The Baptist of Swinhay Farm was transferred from 'Votton-under­ chapel, Rope walk, built in 1808, has 500 sittings. The Edge to North Nibley. Wesleyan chapel in Haw street, erected in 1805, has sit­ Sexton, William Window, The Cloud. - tings for 300 persons. There is a. reading room and a OFFIOIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOOAL INSTITUTIONS &;c. Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., S. B., Express Delivery, Parcels post, open from 9 a.m. to 2.40 p.m. &; from 3.30 Parcel Post &; Annuity &; Insurance Office. John Kryle p.m. to 5.50 p.m. after which time no parcels are Foxwell, postmaster received Outgoing Mails. Wall Letter Boxes.-Sinwell, cleared 10 a.m. &; 5.50 B . t I B th &; Gl t ( t Id t p.m.; sun. 12.30 p.m.; Coombe road, cleared 9·40 rlS 0 , a) L douce~ er, 10 ;.m. e.,~/\~&;' ~ ~p, a.m. 12.45 &; 6.5 p.m. week days only; CuIverhay, 10.5 t~·m.; on (on.'th usstex, uurrey, en as e)m cleared 9.50 a.m. 12.55 &; 6.10 p.m.; sun. 5.25 p.m.; coun les, I p.m. Wl ex ra T-" stamp, 1.20 p.m.; B dl ad 1 d &; 6 .. N th f E I d ra ey ro ,c eare 9.25 a.m. 12.30 p.m.; sun. Lonon,d GIoucest er, WaIWes, est 0l:I or 0 ng an , W rtl I ed . t I B k I &; DI 5.15 p.m.; 0 ey, c ear 5·45 p.m.; sun. 12.30 Irelan,d Se0tland &; abroa, d BrIS 0, er e ey urs ey, L t t Id&; 6 .l.d t 6 ) Lo d .. p.m. ; ong s ree·, c eare 9.50 a.m. 12·55 .10 6.20 p.m. (extra ~ . s amp, .40 p.m.; non. 0l:I London forward,West of England,Bristol & Bath,ID p.m p.m.; sun. 5.25 p.m COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR WOTTON-UNDER­ Incoming Mails. EDGE PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. Delivery by Delivery to Ducie Earl of, P.C., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. Tortworth court, • Letter Oarriers Callers Falfield R.S.O. chairman begins at begins at London, North &; West of Eng­ Moreton Lord D.L. Totworth court, Falfield R.S.O land, Gloucester, Bristol, Bengough John .Alan George esq. M.A. The Ridings, Berkeley, Wales, Scotland &; Wotton-under-Edge Bengough John Charles esq. D.L. Upton, Poole, Dorset Ireland 7. 0 a. m. 7.10 a. ID Gloocester, Bristol &; London.. ~'5D p.m. 2.50 p.m Dickenson .Alfred Ernest esq. Newark, Ozleworth,Wotton- under-Edge _ South of England &; London... 7. 0 p.m. 7. 0 p.m Gist Major Francis, Kingscote, Wotton-under-Edge Money orders are granted from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. &; until 8 Goodrich Wm. Wynne esq. Coombe lo.Wotton-under-Edge p.m. on saturdays Hale Mai.-Gen. Robt. .Alderley bouse, Wotton-under-Edge Telegraph business transacted on week days from 7 a.m. Phelps William esq. M.A. Chestal, Dursley to B p.m. &; on sundays from B a.m. to 10 B.m. from Rolt John William esq. Ozleworth pk. Wotton-under-Edge which time the office is closed for the day Treeby Alfred esq. M.A. The Warren, Wotton-under-Edge.