, - [WILTS.] WIN~~~~~~RNE J 662 LPOST 0 FFICE by the late Mr. Hitchcock, lay impropriator. Eo F. Pop­ WALL LETTER Box, near the school, cleared at 5.40 p.m. ham, esq., is lord of the manor, and the Rev. Freeman week days & 9,55 a.m. ,undays Wilson, principal landownet'. The chief crops are wheat, Letters through :Swindon, which is the nearest money order barley, oats and roots. The area is 1,840 acres; gross office estimated rental, £2,313; rateable value, £2,513; and the Parochial School, Miss Selina Brunner, mistress , population in 1871 was 244. CARRIER TO MARLROROUGH.-Peter Spackman, tnes· MONKTON PENNING is 1 mile east. day & saturday Parish Clerk, William Blake. , COMMERCIAL. Brown Henry, farmer Spackman Peter, beer retailer Se Ball John, shopkeeper & beer retailer Hewer Thomas, farmer carrier• Ball Richard, thatcher Read Henry, farmer Viveash Anne (Mrs.), farmer WINTERBOURNE STOKE is a townsbip, parish National school under Government superintendence. The and village, in the Southern division of the country, unipn of soil is light loam on chalk. I.ord Ashburton is lord of the Amesbury, hundred of Branch and Dole, Salisbury county manor and chief landowner. The chief crops are wheat, court district, diocese and archdeaconry of Salisbnry, and barley and oats. The area is 3,419 acres; rateable value, rural deanery of Wylye, 5 miles west from Amesbury, and £2,802; in 1871 the population was 293. 9 north from Salisbury. The church of St. Peter is an an­ The CONEGARTH (or Coneygore) is three quarters of a cient structure. in the Early EnKlish style: it consists of mile north. There are many barrows and earthworks, chancel, nave, south transept, and square central tower and among which is Long Barrow. 4 bells: there are two fine Norman doorways to the nave: Parish Clerk, J acob Grant. the arch into the !louth transept is of pure Early English detail: in the chancel is a g'ood piscina and credence, of POST OFFlCE.-Harr;r Dyer, receiver. Letters arrive from Early Decorated character. The register uates from 1558. Salisbury at 9.15 a.m. & from the West of England at The living is a vicarage, value £220, with residence, in the 9.15 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m. The nearest money gift of Lord Ashburton, and held by the Rev. Charles Law- order office is at Amesbury ford, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge. Here is a Miss Kate Dyer, mistress National.- School, Boyce Frederick, Manor house Chivers Thomas, Bell Polden William, cattle dealer & farmer Lawford Rev. Charles, M.A. Vicarage Dyer Harry, blacksmith. g-rocer & Smith Henry John, farmer,. Hill farm Boyce Frederick, farmer, Manor house post office Tucker Thomas, farmer , WINTERSLOW is a parish, in the Southern division attacked at the Pheasant Inn, or Winterslow Hut, by a of the county, hundred and union of Alderbury, Salisbury lioness, which had escaped from a caravan on its way to countycourt district,diocese and..archdeaconryof Salisbury, Salisbury fair. £30 is distributed yearly in money and and rural deanery of Amesbury, 7 miles north-east from clothing among the poor. Roche Court, the property Salisbury, on the road to Stockbridge and Winchester. The of the Dowager Countess Nelson, at present occupied by church of All Saints was handsomely restored and enlargoed C. W. Bell, ('sq., ,1.P., D.L., is at East Winterslow. Sir in 1851: it is of Mixed architecture, and has chancel, nave Thomas F. Grove, bart., who is lord of the manor of West and aisles, with embattled tower and low spire, with 4 bells Winterslow, and the Dowager Countess Nebon, who owns and an organ: there are some interesting monuments of the that of East Winterslow, are principal landowners. The 'Thistlethwaite family. The re~ister dates from 1598. The soil is chalk and clay; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops llre living is a rectory, tithe-rent charge £784, with residence wheat, barley and oats. The area is 4,698 acres; rateable and 56 acres of glebe, in the gift of the President and Fel- value, £4,677 ; and the population in 1871 was 924. lows of St. John's College, Oxford; the rector is the Rev. Parit5h Clerk, Helairs RimiDKtoH. Francis ArtbuF Powiss, M.A., of that college. There are . excellent schools and schoolmaster's house in connection POST OFPICE.-Henry Collard, receiver. Letters from with the National Society. On Winterslow Common there Salisbury arrive at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 4.30 p.w. was erected, in 1860, a chapel school in connection with the The nearest money order office is at Salisbury church, which is used for divine service on Sunday evenings: INSURANCE AGENT.-Sovereign Life, T. Hobbs it was built by subscription, at Bcostof £400. On October National School, Henry Collard, master 20th, 1816, one of the horses of the Exeter mail coach was CARRIER TO SALISRURY.-George Judd, tues. & sat East Winterslow. Pratt Jane. (~rs.), beer retailer Compton George, cattle dealer Roberts WIlham, shopkeeper Dear Joseph, butcher Se farmer Bell C. W. ,1.P. D.L. Roche court Rog-ers Lewis, blacksmith Hobbs James,blacksmith & beer retailer COMMERCIAL. Rogers Wm. carpenter & wheelwright Hobbs Thomas, shopkeeper Judd Richard, farmer Whitlock Anthony, farmer JlUld Richard William, Lion's Head, Judd William, farmer Young Benjamin, blacksmith Winterslow common Parsons Joseph, farmer King Herbert (Mrs.), farmer Tapper Maria (Mrs.), Crooked Billet West Winterslow. Knight Wm. shoe ma. Winterslow com Tucker Charles, carpenter PowissRev.FrancisArthur,M.A.[rector] Parsons Edward, farmer Walsh Rev. Henry W. [curate] Pearce Henry, farmer Middle Winterslow. COMMERCIAL. Ransom William, shoe maker, Common Judd Benjamin, shopkeeper Biggs Edwin, shopkeeper Rimington Belairs, carpenter Judd Georgoe, carrier Blawden John, Winterslow Hut Sheppard Richard, shoe maker,Common King George, farmer Clark Charles & David, bricklayers Whitlock William, farmer . Pearler Charles, cattle dealer Collins Thomas, wood dealer , Yeates Charles, shopkeeper, Common WISHFORD (or GREAT WrSHFORD) is a parish and (now £392) were bequeathed by Daniel Oland, the interest villag'e, within the parliamentary borough of Wilton, and of wbieh is applied to binding apprentices and purchasing station on the Great Western railway, on the \Vylye stream, them tools, with an allowance of beef and bread to ten poor in the Southern division of the county, Branch and Dole people at Christma!l Eve. The late rector (Rev. F. WiIliams) hundred, Wilton union, Salisbury county court district, beq ueatlled, in 1857, £250, the interest to be bestowed upon diocese and archdeaconry of Salisbury, and rural deanery of ten poor people on Christmas Eve. The Earl of Pembroke Wylye, 3 miles north from WiltOH, 6 north-west from Salis­ is lord of the manor and owns the entire parish. The soil is bury, and 102 from London. The church of St. Giles was gravel and chalk; subsoil, chalk. The chiefcrops are wheat, completely restored in 1864,: it consists of chancel, nave, barley and oats. The area is 598 acres; gross estimated aisles, and has a square embattled tower with ei~ht pinna­ rental, £2,488; rateable value, £2,222; and the population cles and 5 bells: it contains a very handsome monument in 1871 was 381. to Sir Richard Grobham, and also one to Sir Thomas Parish Clerk, George Petty. Bonham and his wife, dated 1469. The earliest register bears date 1558. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £430, with residence and 13 acres of glebe land, in the gift POST OFFICE.-Richard Scamell, receiver. Letters arrive of the Earl of Pembroke, and beld by the Rev. Edward Hill, from Wilton at 7.30 a.m.; delivered at 8 a.m.; dispatched M.A., of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. The school, endowed by at 6.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Wilton Sir It. Howe with £72 ~'early, is for the free education of 40 Endowed School, J ames Goodall, master; Mrs. Mary children. Sir Richard Grobham, formerly a lord of the Goodall, mistress manor, endowed in 1628 almshouses for 4 old men and a Railway Station, Jobn Still, station master housekeeper, each inmate receiving 8s. per week. £250 CARRIER TO SALISRURY.-Michael Petty, tues. & sat.