DffiECTORY.] GLOUCESTERSHIRE. STOW-ON-THE-WOLD. 301. • STOW-ON-THE-WOLD is 8 parish, small market purposes. There are also several useful dharities, amount­ and union town, head of a county court district and petty ing to £147 yearly, which is given in meat, coals and sessional division, on the old Roman Fosse way. 11 miles bread. Henry Ingles-Chamberlayne esq. is lord of the norbh from Stow-on-the-Wold station on the Oxford and manor and principal landowner. The area, including the Cheltenham section of the Great Western railway, 9 hamlets, is 3,13° acres; rateable value of Stow-on-the­ north-north-east from Northleach, 2S north-east from Wold, £3,25°; the population in 1891 was 1,204 civil, a.D1d Gloucester and 88 from London. in the Eastern division 1,878 ecclesiastical, and of the UI'ban District, 1,525. of the county, upper division of Slaughter hundred, rural DO~~IXGTON is a small hamlet It miles! north, and deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Cirencester and diocese cc,nsists of three farms, a brewery and a few cottages. of Gloucester. The town is irre~l1larly built 011 the sum­ The Baptist chapel here, erected in 1883, has sittings mit of a hill. and commands' extensive views: the houses for about 50 persons. Edward Egerton Leigh esq. J.P. are chiefly 'built of stone, which abounds in the neigh­ of Broadwell Manor House, is the principal landowner. bourhood. Rateable value, £1,127; the population in 1891 was Ill. The town is governed by an Urban District Council of nine members, formed under the provisions of the" Local MXUGERSBURY is a. hamlet half a mile south-east. Government Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vict. c. 73), in place Mau~er;;bury Manor, the seat of Henry Ingles-Chamber­ of the Local Board constituted June· 25, 1872: it is sup­ layne esq. J.P. lord of the manor, is a fine mansion of plied with water by the Council from the town well, and stone surrounded by pleBiSant grounds, from which ex­ is lighted with gas by a company. The church of St. tensive views may be obtained. Rateable value, £2,641 i Edward, said to have been built by Ailmore or lEthelmer, the population in 189I was 563, including 69 officers and Earl of Cornwall and Devon, in the reign of Ethelred, is inmates in the workhouse. a handsome and spacious edifice of stone, in the Norman, Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. R & Annuity & InSllrance Office Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles, con­ (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Gloucestershire sisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, transepts, added).-Miss F. M. Eaton, SUb-postmistress. Letters. north and ,south porches and an embattled tower on the are delivered at 7 & 8.15 a.m. &; Z-4S p.m.; dispatched south .side, with pinnacles. and containing a clock and 6 at ID.15 a.m. &; 6.10 &; 7.15 p.m. Sundays, letters are­ bells: the east and west windows ale stained, and there delivered at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m are ten other stained windows: in the chancel are sedilia Wall Letter Boxes, Maugersbury, cleared at 5.40 p.m.; & and a piscina with canopy, and in the north transept is Donnington, cleared at 5.20 p.m a memorial window to Major-General Raikes, d. 1880; COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR STOW PETTY SES­ there are several other memorials to members of the SIONAL DIVISION. Chamberlayne family, descendants of the Norman family Leigh Edward Egerton esq. Broadwell Manor house, Stow­ of Tankerville, including John Chamberlayne, 1677; John on-the-Wold Ohamberlayne, 1714; Rev. John Cbamberlayne, 1786, Rice The Hon. John Talbot, Oddington house, Stow-on- and Joseph Chamberlayne-Chamberlayne, 1874: Captain the-Wold Hastings Keyt, who waS' killed in a fight which took Arnold Col. Stanley, Adlestrop house, Chipping Norton place at Stow between the Royalists and Parliamentary By.lss Robart Nicholl esq. Wyck Hill, Stow-on-the-Wold forces in 1645, was buried in the chancel: in the nave Chamberlayne Henry Ingles- esq. Maugersbury manor,. is a large painting of the "Crucifixion," by Gaspard de Stow-on-the-Wold Crayer, a Flemish artist, dating 1610, and presented to Cox James esq. The Elms, Stow-on-the-Wold the church in 1838 by Joseph Chamberlayne-Chamber­ Moore George Fredk. esq. Bourton-on-the-Water R.S.O layne esq.: the church has been restored since 1873, at a Pratt Rev. Henry M., M.A. Rectory, Great Rissington, cost of £500, and affords sittings for 600 persons. The Bourton-on-the-Water R.S.O register dates from the year 1554. The living is a rectory, Heynolds John, Upper Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Wat.er gross yearly value £500, with residence, in the gift of and RS.O held since 1843 by the Rev. Robert William Hippisley Sartoris Alfred esq. Abbots Wood, Stow-on-the-Wold M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. and surrogate. There is Sartoris Francis ehas.esq.Abbots Wood,Stow-on-the-Wold a Baptist ·chapel, erected in 185~, with 300 sittings; a Thursby Piers esq. Broadwell Hill, Stow-on-the-Wold " Strict" Baptist chapel, built in 1841, and seating 50 Whitnwre Charl~ Algernon esq. M.P., M.A. Manor honse,. persons, and a. Wesleyan chapel, re-erected in 1863, and Lower Slaughter, Moreton-in-Marsh affording 150sittings. A Cemetery of 2 acres, situated at the south end of the town, was formed in 1856. at a Clerk to the Magistrates, Richard Gay Francis cost of £500, and is under the control of a joint burial Petty SessicjUs are held at the Petty Sessional Court every committee of ,seven members. The Masonic Hall. in alte!'nate thursday, at I p.m. The following places are­ Church street, is an edifice of stone and flint, in which included in the petty sessional divistion :-Adlestrop, the" Prince of Wales" lodge, No. 951, holds its meetings. Barrington (Great), Bledington, Bourton-on-the-Water, St. Edward's Hall. in the Market ,square, is a building Broadwell, Clapton, Condicote, Daylesford, Donnington, of stone, in the Elizabethan style, erected in 1878 from Eyford, Icomb, Longborough, Maugersbury, Naunton,. designs by Messrs. Medland and Son, architects, of Glou­ Notgrove, Oddington, Rissington (Great), Rissington cester, at a CQlSt of upwardS of £3,000, given by the Rev. (Little), Rissington (Wick), Sezincote, Slaughter (Up­ W. B. V. X. Pole RA. of Maidenhead, Rev. E. F. Witts per), Slaughter (Lower), Stow-on-the-Wold, Swell (Up­ M.A. late rector of Upper Slaughter, Rev. D. Royce M.A. per), Swell (Lower) & Westcote vicar of Nether Swell, and the late Charles S. Whitmore esq. Q. C.; it contains a billiard room, reading and news URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. room, a circulating library.of r,800 volumes, and a large Offices, St. Edward's Hall; meeting day, last tuesday in assembly room used for public meetings and entertain- the month, at 8 p.m. ments, holding 350 persons; here also is the armoury of Members. Gloucest~rshire the I Company, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Chairman, J ames Cox, sen. Rl.'giment. The police station, in which the petty sessions are held, is a building of stone, erected in 1869. The Vice-Chairman, Henry Hollis. stocks are still iStanding on the green. In the ~Iarket *Henry Hollis tWilliam Cox Howman square is an ancient cross, restored in 1&78 by public *Henry Teague tRobert Blizard "0 subscription, as a memorial to the late J. Chamberlayne­ *William Yearp tMark Hookham ;..-.;- Chamberlayne esq.; it consists of an octangular ba.se tJames Cox, sen tJohn Frederick Nichols: raised on four steps, from which rises a monolithic shaft tEdward Francis seven feet in height, snpporting a gabled head-stone with Marked thus • retire in April, 1898• four niches, inclosing carvings of the Crucifixion and Marked thus t retire in April, 1899­ figures of saints. and surmounted by a floriated cross. Marked thus ~ retire in April, A drinking fountain of local stone, at the north end of the 19°°· town, was presented in 1896 by Capt. Piers Thursby J.P. Officers. of Broadwell. During tIDe Great Rebellion, 1642-5, Stow Clerk, Henry Parker was once or twice the scene of conflicts, and on March Treasurer, James Cox, jnn. Capital &; Counties Bank 21st, 1645, a severe battle was fought on the Donnington Medical Officer of Health, Edwin Dening L.R.C.P.Ediu side of the town, when the Royalists were defeated with Surveyor, John Turner the loss of their general, Sir Jacob Astley, ancl 1,500 Sanitary Inspector, Joseph Vann men; King Charles I. slept here on May ]th, on his' way Collector, Thomas John Howman to reduce the town of Leicester. In 1604 Richard Shep­ DISTRICT illGHWAY BOABD. ham, citizen and merchant-tailor of London, built and endowed nine almshouses and a Free Grammar school: Meets at the Workhouse every fourth week at 8 p.~ th3 endowment now amounts to £39 8s. yearly, of which Clerk, Henry Parker sum £23 8S'. is ap}?ropriated t.o the poor persons resiCing Treasul'er, James Cox, ju!'. Capital &; Counties Bank in the almshouses: the school-room is used for parochial Surveyor, .A1bert Henry :Mau.i~.