DIRECTORY.] 'VILTSHIRE. CASTLE CO~IBE. 53 bourhood. Blackland Park, of rso acres, and well of native stone in the Gothic style, and consists of wooded, through which flows the river Marden, con­ chancel, nave and organ chamber, and affords 230 sit­ tains a very large oak tree: the mansion is the seat tings : attached is a cemetery of two acres. The Ply­ of Henry Browne esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor of mouth Brethren have a meeting room at Quemerford, Blackland. The Marquess of Lansdowne K.G., G.C.M.G. erected in r86o, and enlarged in r866 to seat 200 per­ lord of the manor of Calstone Wellington, Lord Hough­ sons. Whetham, 2~ miles east ; Stock:ey, 2 south, ton, Sir John Poynder Dickson-Poynder bart. M.P. of where there is a Primitive Methodist chapel, and part Hartham and Henry Browne esq. are the principal land­ of Studley, 2~ north-west, with a \Yesleyan chapel, are owners. The soil is rich loam; subsoil, cha:k. The hamlets and tithings. The ecclesiastical parish of chief crops are wheat and oats, and some land in pasture. Derry Hill includes a portion of the parish of Calne The area is 631 acres. Without. Bowood will be found under a separat-e Parish Clerk, · Caleb Green. heading. Post Office, Calstone.-Philip White, sub-postmaster. The area of the parish is 9,832 acres of land and 62 Letters arrive from Calne, at 7 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. to of water; rateab:e value, £17,067; the population in callers only; dispatched at 9.2s a. m. & 7 p.m. ; no 1891 was 2,023 mail on ·Sundays. The nearest money order & tele­ graph office is at Calne. Postal orders are issued Post Office, Quemerford'.-Charles Butler, sub-post­ here, but not paid master. Letters arrive from Calne at 6.20 a.m. & S-30 National School, built in 1870, for 50 children; average p.m.; dispatched at 9-SS a.m. & 7.40 p.m. Postal attendance, 43 ; Miss Sarah E. Scarlett, mistress orders are issued here, but not pa.id. Calne is the Quemerford is a tithing, r mile south-east. Holy nearest money order & telegraph office Trinity chapel of ease here, erected principally at the Holy Trinity School, Quemerford, built in r867, for 128 expense of the Rev. J. Guthrie, late vicar, is a building children; average attend. 123; Hy. Blackford, master BLACKL.A.ND. QUEMERFORD. Flooks Edward, Talbot inn Horton J ane (Mrs.), grocer Browne Henry J.P. Blackland park PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Barnes J an1es, farmer, Park farm Perrett Paul, tea dealer Bodman Misses, Park View house Pound Edwin, miller (water & steam) Blackford Henry, cowkeeper Bridges w·illiam, Melrose Bowsher Frederick, carpenter Pullen Alfred, baker Dawes Miss, Prospect house Reeves J oseph (Mrs.), shopkeeper Bowsher Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeep'lr Drew Miss, Percy villa Lock Abraham, miller (water), Black- Bumming Edwin, farmer, Gate fanu Gough John, Lansdowne cottage Wilcox John Chas. grdnr. & seedsmn land mill Hopper Miss Manners Caleb, farmer, Spra.y's farm Jordan Mrs Ward Henry, farmer, Blackland farm Kinnett Mrs STOC"KLEY. CALSTONE WELLINGTON. Solomon Miss Carpenter 1-Iary (Mrs.), farmer Hadow Rev. Geo.Randolph M.A. Retry Wood ward Ernle, Quemerford villa Duck Nathan, baker Gregory Tom, Guernsey villa COMMERCIAL. Huband David, general dealer Anstey Jn. Hy. farmer, South farm Blackford Henry, collector of poor's Maundrell John Henry, farmer Edwards John \Vesley, mop manufa.c- rates & assistant overseer, Quemer­ Rnddle John, farmer, 'Villow brook turer, Spray's mill ford school \\"heeler William, Cowleech Green Edwin, whiting maker Blackford Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Bodman John Wilberforce, farmer, Gregory John, miller (water & steam) STCDLEY. Long Aaron, wood-reeve to the Mar- Quemerford Common fann quess of Lansdowne Bush Alfred, shopkeeper .A.ngell John Benedict Oliver,Romsey ha. Maundrell Joseph, farmer, Wellington Bush Jacob, tea dealer & East farms Cleverly William, smith & farrier 'YYHETHAM. Reading Room & Library (John Wesley Dew John, farmer, Quemerford farm Edwards, sec. & librarian) Elliott William, wheelwright Gee J ames vVilliam, farmer CASTLE COMBE is a parish, 6 miles north-west Congregational and Calvinistic Baptist chapels. A fair from Chippenham ,station, 6 north from Corsham is held here on May 4th. In the village is a fine speci•· station, both on the Great 'Vestern railway, and 10~ men of an ancient market cross, consisting of a square­ north-east from Bath, in the Northern division of the stone pedestal raised upon two steps and ornamented county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and with sunk quatrefoiled panels, bearing shields and roses­ county court district of Chippenham, rural deanery of alternately; from this springs a slender shaft capped Chippenham, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of by a finial: at each angle of the platform is a ma.ssive· Gloucester and Bristol. The church of St. Andrew is stone pier, about six feet high, supporting the wooden a building of stone in the Early Engli~h and Perpendi­ linte:s of a pyramidal roof, covered with tiles. On the­ cular styles, consisting of chancel with clerestoried Castle Hill are the remains of a British encampment aisles and nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and and the ruins of a castle built in the reign of Henry L an embattled western tower, with pinnac:es, as feet in The great Roman road, called the Fossway, leading from height, and containing 2 bells and a clock : the lower Bath to Cirencester, skirts the north-west.ern limit of stage of the tower forms- the principal entrance: the the manor; the property was held by the Scrope family body of the church wa.s built, temp. Richard II. 1377 to from the 13th century, but now held by Edward 1399, and the tower in the first half of the 15th cen­ Chaddock Lowndes e~q. M.A., D.L .• J.P. lord of the tury: the stained west window was the gift of the late manor, who resides at Castle Combe Manor Ho-use. The rector, the Rev. R. C. Christie LL.B. ; under the soil is brash; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, belfry is a stone groined ceiling of very elegant design : barley and oats. 'Ihe area is 1,490 acres; rateable the chancel arch is decorated with the fiQ'ures of saints value. £2,262; the population in 1891 was 4S9· upon pedestals under canopies: in the gable is a beau­ Parish Clerk, William Gingell. tiful stained rose window, and the east window, consist­ Post Office.-James Thomas King, sub-postmaster. Let­ ing of four Early English lancets, is also filled with ters through Chippenham, delivered at 6.30 a.m. & richly stained glass, as well as all the remaining win­ 3.20 p.m. ; dispatched at 10.30 a.m. & 9.2 p.m. dows, 16 in number; one of these, in the Lady chapel, Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The represents the arms of the lords who successively he:d nearest money order & telegraph office is at Yatton the manor: there is an altar-tomb, with a recumbent Keynell. Wall Letter Box cleared at ro a.m. & 8 effigy of one of the De Dunstanvilles, d. 1270, ancestors p.m. ; no collection on sundays of the Scrope family: ther-e are sittings for 430 persons. The register dates from the year 1653. The living is Xational School (mixed), for ISo children; average at­ a rectory, yearly value from tithe rent-charge £383, tendance of 8 I children; the school is principally sup­ average £z86, net income £267, including 26 acres of ported by Edward Chaddock Lowndes esq. ; Mrs. glebe, in the gift of Edward Chaddock Lowndes esq. Kizabeth Sully, mistress and held since I893 by the Rev. Henry William Jukes Carrier to Bath.-George Snell, wed. & sat. & to Chip­ M.A. of Emmanuel College, CamJJridge. Here are penham on fri Crouch Mrs. Hillside house Gale John How ell, relieving officer 2nd COMMERCIAL. Jukes Rev. Hy. William M . .A. Rectory, district & registrar of births & deaths Lowndes Edward Chaddock M.A., J.P. Arthurs Anna Maria (Mrs.), shopkpr for Combe sub-district of Chippen­ D.L. Manor house Booy John, farmer ham union Sudlow Algernon Bradfield Thomas, miller (water) Hillier H(>nry, farmer, West way Tanner John Brinsdon Thomas, haulier & pig dealer Hurley Hy. Old '~"hite Hart P.H. & bkr Watkins Robert Arundel Brookman John, blacksmith Kidd Ellen (:'.Irs. ), blacksmith .