154 FAIRFORD. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. LKELLY'S 25 July, 1505; the figures include that of the knight, in OOUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR FAmFORD PETTY armour, his two wives and five children: on the wall near SESSIONAL DIVISION. is 80 brass with kneeling effigies of the same, and another Hicks-Beach The Right Hon. Sir Michael Edward bar~. ins,cription including Elizabeth, his second wife: iil this P.C., M.P., D.C.L., D.L. Netheravon house, Amesbury, chapel is also an altar tomb with recumbent effigie9 in chairman freestone, to Roger Lygon and Catherine, his wife, and Bazley Sir Thomag Sebastian bart. M.A., D.L. Hatherop shields of arms of Lygon impaling Dennys quartering . castle, Fairford S.O Corbett, Russell and de Georges : in the chancel is a. memo­ Archer Lieut.-Col. David, Lu.shill, Cricklade, Wilts rial to WilliaID Oldisworth, ob. 3 Oct. 1580, and to Mary Bazley Gardner S. esq. Hatherop castle, Fairford S.O (Austin), his wife; and '<Ilso a marble tablet to the Rev. Faulkner John esg. Benbow house, Kemvsford John Keble M.A. sometime vicar of CoIn St. Aldwyns nes Richard .A.lbert, Horiott, Kempsford nnd of Blewbury, Berks, and father of the author of the PrilJr-Wandesforde Henry Wallis esq. Lechlade manor. ~'Christian Year," and to other members of the family: Lechlade 08.0 in the church is a lectern with chain and padlock, to Tosswill WaIter Fox esq. Clayhill house, Lechlade S.O ~hich is attached an ancient copy of Calvin's "Institutes" Oerk to Magistrates, Alexander Hitchman Has and "The Whole Duty of Man," dated 1725: in 1889-91 Petty Sessions are held at the Police station second tues­ th13 church was thoroughly restored and the windows re­ day in each month at 11 a.m. The following places are leaded, at a cost of [A,750, defrayed by public subscrip­ in the Petty Sessional Division :-Bibury, CoIn Saint tion, including £25 given by H.M. the Queen: there are Aldwvns-, East Leach Martin, Ea.st Leach Turville, Fair­ sittings for 500 persvns. The register dates from 1641, ford, 'Hatherop, Kempsford, Lechlade, Mai.sey Hampton, The living is a. vicarage, net yearly value £200, with 30 Poulton, Quenington 0& Southrop acres of glebe and :residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester, ,and held since 1888 by the Rev. DISTRICT IDGRWAY BOARD. Francis Rohde Carbon.ell M.A. of Merton College, Oxford; attached to the benefice is a lectureship value £40 a year. Meets at the Petty Sessional Court on the 2lld tuesday Here is a Congregational chapel with 350 sittings; a in every month at 3 p.m. Primitive Methodis,t chapel, seating 100 persons; a Clerk, Alex. Hitchman nes Baptist chapel, built in 1723, with 300 '9ittings, and a Treasurer, J. Rawlins, Capital &; Counties Bank, Cirencstr Oalvinistic Baptist chapel, with sittings for 100 persons. Surveyor, William Yells, Horcott, Fairford 8.0 Lady Mico gave a. yearly rent of £5 48. to be laid out in bread, and distributed under the direction of the lord of PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. the manor; the Rev. Mr. 'Huntingdon, a sum of lOS. County Police Station, Wm. Hall, sergeant ~ 2 officers yearly, to be given in sixpenny loaves of bread to those l"airford Fire Brigade, John Woodward, captain; engine who attend church and do not'receive relief; Thomas house, Bridge street Morgan gave £100, which, together with £10 left by nural Hospital, Daniel TIes M.RC~S. &:; L.S.A. 0& Charles Robert Jenner, and £105 by Alexander Colston, was in­ TIarold Bloxsome L.R.C.IP. & L.R.O.'S.Edin. medical vested some years since in the purchase of the Pest-house officers; J. Ogdin March M.RC.S., L.RC.P.Lond. hon. and other property, the rents of which are distributed surgeon; Thomas de Li,>le Hardy, hon. sec.; :Miss among poor widows and otherS!: John Carter gave £350, Catherine Margaret Newby, matron the interest to be distributed to the poor in December; Miss Luckman, £98, the interest to be distributed in PUBLIC OFFICERS. February; Colonel Olney, £200, the interest to be yearly Assistant Overseer, George 'Simpson, Milton street expended in coals, clothing and blankets. By an Order of Medical Officers &:; Public VaccinatorS', NortWeach Union, the Charity Commissioners in March, 1867, these chari­ No. 3 District, 1St Division, Daniel 11e8, The Retreat; ties, which produced, in all, about £92 yearly, wel'e 2nd Division, Charles Harold Bloxsom L.R.C.P.Edin. amalgamated. The Fairford Cottage Hospital, estab­ G'roft house lished in 1867 and rebuilt in 1887 from designS' by Messrs. Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, East District, Ciren­ Waller, Son -and Hood, architects, of Gloucester, contains caster Union, Charles Harold Bloxsome L.R.C.P.Edin. 8 !beds, and the number of in-patients averages about 36 ; Croft house in 1893 there were 40 patientS'. Fairford Retreat is an Relieving Officer, Eastern District &:; Registrar of Births establishment for the reception and cure of persons of &:; Deaths, Fairford Sub-District, Cirencester Union, bcth sexes affiicted with mental disease, and has extensive John Wade grounds and garden9 adjoining. Milton Hall, let f(}r con­ certs, entertainments &c. will seat about 300. The Rev. PLACES OF WORSHIP, with Times, of Services. John Keble M.A. -author of the" Christian Year," was St. Mary's Parish Church, Rev. Francis Rohde Carbonell born here 25th April (St. Mark's Day), 1792, hiS! father M.A. vicar; Rev. Richard Hurl Wilmot M.A. curate; then being! vicar of CoIn St. Aldwyn's. Fairford includes JI a.m. &; 3 &:; 6 p.m.; daily, 8.30 a.m. &; 5.30 p.m one of the most celebrated trout fisheries in the West of Baptist, Rev. Arthur Robert Morgan; 10.30 a.m. & 6 England; inf(}rmation re!lpecting the angling may be ob­ p.m.; tues. 7 p.m tained at the "Bull," which is the principal hotel, and Calvinistic Baptist, 10.30 a.m. &; 3 p.m.; wed. 6 p.m tickets are issued at the discretion of the proprietor of Congregational, Rev. William H1orn; JI a.m. &; 6 p.m.'; the fisheries.. A fair for cattle is held the second Tuesday wed. 7.30 p.m in each month, and two annual fairs are held on May 14th Primitive Methodist, It a.m. & 5 p.m ane!. November 12th. Fairford Park, the property of Reginald Raymond-Barker esq. who is lord of the manor SCBiOOLS. and the principal landowner, is occupied by Col. George Endowed, founded by the Hon. Mrs. Farmer &; Miss Mary Charles Porter; the mansion, a stone building, stands in Barker in the year 1704, for 60 boys &; 60 girls; average a. walled park of about 500 acres, studded with stately attendance, 91 boys & 90 girls; the income from the elm trees and stocked with deer; the grounds are taste­ endowment amounts to about £240 yearly; John fully laid out and furnished with vineries and conserva­ Taylor, master; Mrs. Hartwell, mistress tories. The .s'Oil is light, mostly in tillage, in high per­ Vicar's (infants), built about 1872, &; enlarged in 1896, fection. The area is 4,012 acres; rateable value, £5,549; for 140 children; average attendance,85; Miss Henrietta, the population in 1891 was 1,463, including '42 in Fairford Hitchener, IDistress House Lunatic Asylum. Parish Clerk, Robert Kimber. C01\rvEYANCE. Post, M. O. AI; T. 0., S. B. 0& .Annuity &:; Insurance Office Coach leaves Bull hotel at 9.55 a.m. to meet 10.10 a.m. (Sub-Office. Letters for this place should have S.O. train from Oxford, thence to Cirence9ter, & returns at Gloucestershire added).-Augustus Edward Caldicott, 4.30 p.m.; also an omnibus to meet every train with postmaster. Letters AI; parcels from London &:; all parts the exception of the last, which train the omnibus1 will via Swindon, arrive by mail cart at 5.15 a.m. i& from meet only when ordered London &; Oxford at I.30 p.m.; dispatched by train to The Market 'Dus leaves the Bull hotel on monday on the Oxford at 10.20 a.m. &:; London &:; Oxford at 2.15 p.m. arrival of the 1.35 p.m. train for Cirencester, &; returns &; by mail cart to Swindon at 8.10 p.m. Box closes at at 5 p.m 9.50 a.m. AI; 2.10 & 7.50 p.m.; sunday,s, 7.50 p.m James Soarrott's Royal Mail cart leaves the Post office for Pillar Boxes, Milton End, cleared at 7.20 p.m. week days; Swindon every day at 8.10 p.m 12.20 p.m. on sundays; London road at 8.30 a.m. &:; Carrier.-Fl"ank R. Busby, to Oirencester daily 7.45 p.m. week days Railway Station, Thomas Pape, station master :PRIVATE ~ESIDENTS. Barton John, Keble house Carbonell Rev. Francis Rohde )1..1. Abbey EdwinAustinA.R.A.M(}rgan hall Bloxsome Chas. Harold, Croft house Vicarage Adams M'iss, Park villas Bowl Miss, The Crofts Coles William, High street Arkell William C<Jbbett, The Close Chivers Charles, Ce.fn house Dawson Miss, Croft terrace.