220 STOCKTON. WILTSHIRE. [KELLY'S chalk and fiint. The chief crops are wheat, oats and days, 9 a.m. The ·nrarrst mnney Ol'der & relegraph barley. The area is 2,021 acres; rateable value, £2,380; office is at Codford St. Mary, about I mile distant the population in 1901 was 220. Elementary School (mixed), built in 1862, & in 1895 en­ Sexton, George Williams. larged, for 8o children; average attendance, 54; Miss Post Office. Joseph Roxbee, sub-postmaster. Letters Adah Elliott, mistre<:s received through Codford St. Mary, Wilts, arrive at Carrier. Fleming, to Wa'T"minster, sat. & Salisbury, OD tues. & !'at 8 a.m. & 4.10 p.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m.; sun- • PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Collins William George, gardener to FitzGerald Martin Vesey, Long hall Walton Misses, Dianas Ge()rge Knowles esq. J.P Gay Mrs. Manor farm & The Poplars, Barnard Waiter, gamekeeper to Geo. Cook Thomas, farmer Codford St. Mary Knowles esq. J.P Fleming Annie (Mrs.), carrier Knowles George M.A., LL.M., J.P. Bartrum Ernest Edward, estate Fleming George, beer retailer Stockton house steward t~ the Lord Bishop of W()r- Giles Henry Charles, blacksmith Pope Rev. Edward Jesty M.A.Rectory caster Woodford Hubert A.farmer,Glebe frm STOURTON parish was ()riginally partly in Somer- one of these facing each of the four streets. In 1633 set and partly in the Southern division of the county uf the cross was repaired and materially increased both in Wilts, 7 miles north-east from Wincanton station of elegance and height, by the erection of additional stages, the Somerset and Dorset railway, 6 norbh-west from at a cost of /.,207; the first of these contains, undeJ Witham Friary station on the Weymouth branch of the crocketed canopies, seated effigies of Ben. VI. Great Western railway (tlhe station generally used is Queen Elizabeth, Jas. I. and Chas. I.: in the stage Gillingham on the Salisbury and Yeovil branch of the above, which is similarly treated, are figures of cherubs, S. W.R. 6 miles), 25 miles west from Salisbury, and 12! supporting royal shie:ds of arms, encircled with the north-west from Shaftesbury, Tisbury petty sessional garter, and the whole terminates in a crocketed spirelet, division, hundred and nnion of Mere, county court dis- the square base of which is panelled and surrounded trict of Shaftesbury, rural deanery of Wylye (Heyte~- with miniature p'nra:cl9E, and the apex is finished with bury portion), archdeaconry of Sarum and diocese of a spreading finial and cruss fienry, the total height being Salisbury. The hamlets of Bonham and Brook or Gaspar, so feet: a.t the time the,e additions were made, the formerly in Somersetsbire, were transferred to Wiltshire cross was also enriched with colour and gilding, and this by the "Local Government Act, 1894·" The parish church was renewed in 1697: in 1733, the cross being then re­ of St. Peter is an edifice of stone in mixed styles, consisting garded as an obstruct ion was taken down, but shortly of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, north porch and a afterwards was set up anew on College Green, and so western tower containing 6 bells, the sixth having been remained until 1763, when it was finally removed a~ added in 1881: in 1878 the chancel was new roofed, fitted already stat.ed: in 1894-5 it was completely restored by with oak stalls and re-floored, a new east window and rere- Sir Henry H. A. Hoare bart. under the superintendence los being erected at the same time : the Hoare monumenb uf Mr. C. E. Pontiug, architect, of Marlborough, the old were also removed to the south aisle and an organ work being most carefully preserved; on the cross ther~ chamber and vestry built: there are many mem()rials . is now an inscription recording the principal incidents in of the Stourton family and several stained windows: its history. In the ornamental gardens of rhe mansion the church affords about 250 sittings. The register ~Stands an ancient well, and in the Six-Wells Valley, about dates from the year 1572, and t·here is a list of rector~ a mile higher up and near the !'lource of the river Stour, from 1316. The living is a rectory, net yearly value now stands a building formerly at the south-west corner £370, with 94 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of St. Peter's street, Bristol, and known as "St. Peter's of Sir Henry H. A. Hoare bart. and held since 1887 Pump,'" removed and placed here by Mr. Henry Hoare by the Rev. Herbert Poole King, of Pembroke College, in 1765. In the tithing or manor of Bonham stands an Oxford. There are several benefactions for the poor ancient Catholic chapel: it i!i! a plain building of stone of the parish, amounting to about £75 yearly The and in 188~ was repaired hy Lord Mowbrny and Stourton, Spread Eagle Hotel is an excellent family and posting to whom it belongs. In this neighbourhood, and on the .house. The name of the parish is supposed to be derived estate of Sir H. H. A. Hoare hart. though in the parish from the river Stour, which rises within its boundaries. of Sout.h Brew ham, Somerset, is Kingsettle Hill, on which, The family of Stourton, which is of high antiquity, once about 1766, a triangular tower, 150 feet in height, was possess-ed this andl tbe surrounding property: they were erected and dedicated t() Alfreri, the iilustrious monarch settled here before the Norman accession, but in 1720 the Jf the West Saxons; on the tower i!l a stone statue of the estates they had held for so many centuries were purchased king, underneath which is the following- inscription:­ by Henry Hoare esq. of London; Sir Henry Hugh "Alfred the Great, A.D. 379, on this summit, is supposed Arthur Hoare bart. J.P. of Stourhead, is the present to have erected his Standard against the Danish in­ possessor of this beautiful and ext.ensive demesne, lord vaders.'' The soil is sandy; subsoil, gravel, chalk and of the manor and principal landowner. In the pleasure flint. The land is chiefly pasturage. The area is 3,451 grounds, which are open to the public, stands the olrl acres of land, including the hamlet of Brook, otherwise Bristol High Cross, a beautiful and highly interesting Gaspar, and 46 of water; ratea.ble value, £3,277; the atructure, finally taken down in 1763, when its disjointed population in 1gn was 425 . fragments were deposited in the cathedral cloisters, and there remained until 1768, when they were presented by Post & T. 0. Office.-Mrs. Selina Jarie Shergold, sub- Dean Barton to Henry Hoare esq. who re-erected the postmistress. Letters arrive from Zeals, via Bath, cross where it now stands It was orig-inally set up delivered at 7 a.m. & 3·30 & 7 p.m. ; dispatched at in 1373, on the site of an earlier cross, at the spot 7.10 a.m. & 3.30 & 7 p.m. on week days; sundays, where the four principal streets of the city of Bristol- 10 a.m. The nearest rr:o:~ey order office is at Zeals, Corn street, Wine street, Broad street and High street 2 miles distant -:intersect each other, and then appears to have con- Wall Letter Box, Stourton lane, cleared at 6 30 p.m,; sisted of two stages with pinnacled buttresses at the sundays, 7.50 a.m angles, the upper portion being canopied and containing Elementary School (mixed), built in 1857, for 120 child- statues of King John, Hen. 111. Edw. Ill. and Edw. IV. ren; average attendance, 72; Franl{ Morgan, master Hoare Sir Henry Hugh Arthur bart. Bell Austin, farmer, Tucking mill J Hannam Charles & Sons, farmers, J.P. Stourhead Bird Henry, farmer, Glebe farm Search fa1m King Rev. Herhert Poole, Rectory Cresar George Thomas, estate agent Hannam James, farmer, .Manor farm COMMERCIAL. to Sir Henry H. A. Hoare bart 1 Richards Stephen & Son, dairymen, .A.dlam Herbert, Spread Eagle hotel Cook George, farmer, Gasperidge frm Coldcut farlli STRATFORD-SUB-CASTLE is a parish, on the wife of Admiral Lord Nelson, whom she married utb river Avon, 2 miles north-west from Salisbury, in the March, 1787, at the island ()f Nevis, West Indies: the Southern division of the county, Underditch hundred, church contains an hour glass, the iron frame of which ·Salisbury union, Salisbury county court district, petty 1 dates from the middle of the 16th century: there are sessional division of Salisbury and •Amesbury, rural over 200 sittings. The register dates from the year deanery of Wilton, archdeaC'onry of Sarnm and diocese 1(!54 and a churchwarden's account from the year of Salisbury. A small portion ()f the parish was in 1904 1 573· The living is a vicange, net yearly value £220, added w the municipal borough of Salisbury, but was with 2 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the not altered ecclesiastically. The church of St. Lawrence Dean and Chapter of Salisbury, and held since 19o6 by is a small but ancient building of fiint and stone, the Rev. William Harringt()n McCann Clarke B.D. of mainly in the Early English style, and consisting of Trinity College, Dublin. Mawarden Court, MW the chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western vicarage, is an interesting and historical house, the tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 2 bells: greater part of which dates from 1673. Thomas Pitt esq. tn the chancel is a mural tablet to Josiah Nisbet M.D.