DIRECTORY,] WILTSHIRE. FROXFIELD, ](19 Hnth esq. who is sole landowner. The soil is light; sub- but not raid. The nearest telegraph office is at V ern- soil chalk. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and ham Dean & money order office at Oxenwood turnips. The area is 2,600 acres; the population in Elementary School (mixed), at Oxen wood (Berks); aver- I90I was I I9 in Wilts, and IJ2 in Berks. age attendance, 6o; J ames Greenwood, master; Mrs. Sexton, Henry Humphries. .\lary Greenwood, infants' mistress Post Oftiee.-:\lrs. Elizabeth Hoare, sub-postmiSot.ress There is also a free lending library with 500 volumes Letters from Hungerford, arrive at 7·55 a. m.; dis- Carrier.-A. Dorson, to Hungerfvrd, wed. & sat.; to patched at 5·30 p.m. Postal orders are issued here. Andover, fri Huth Alfred Henry, Fosbury manor · Parsloe Henry, farmer, Lower farm Watts Henry, head gamekeeper to A. Lawe Rev. .!lfd. Geo. M.A. Parsonage Wallis Chiterne (Mrs.), farmer H. Huth esq May William, farmer, Church farm ] FOV ANT is a parish and village, " miles south-west in r885, on a site granted by the Earl of Pembroke; it ios from Dinton station on the Salisbury and Yeovil branch available for all church purposes, and is also used by the of the London and South Western railway and 7 west working men in the village for reading and recreation. from Wilton, in the Southern divis·ion of the county, The Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery P.C., G.C.V.O. hundred of Cawden and Cadworth, Salisbury and .Ames- is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil i& bury petty sessional division, Salisbury county court loam; subsoil, chalk and flint. The chief crops are­ district, Wilton union, Chalke rural deanery (Chalke wheat. oats, and barley. The area is 2,I98 acres; rate­ portion), archdeaconry of Sarum, and diocese of Salis- able value, [2,459; the population in 190I was 4I5. bury. The church of St. George is an ancient Norman Parish Clerk, George Futcher. building of stone, consisting of chancel, with aisle, nave of Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & .A. & I. Office.-Mn. four bays, aisles, and an embattled western tower con- Catherine Parsons Goodfellow, sub-postmistress. Let- taming 5 bells: the east window is a memorial to Lord ters from Salisbury are delivered at 6 a. m. & I-45 Herbert of Lea, and there are three other stained windows: p.m. (callers only); dispatched at II.40 a. m. & 7.30 the interior was refitted in I·863, and will seat about 3oo p.m. on week days; 7 p.m. suru:lays persons. The rl'gister dates from the year I54I. The Wall Letter Box, Fovant Elm, cleared at 6.45 p.m. Jiving i~ a rectory, net yearly value [364, including 48 I week days; I2 noon on sundays acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of tha Earl of I Elementury School (mixed), built in I847• for 100 chil­ Pembroke, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Maitland dren; average attendance, 56; Miss Edith Pratt, mist Arthur Shorland M. A. of Wadham College, Oxford. Here Carriers to Salisbury.-George Read, tues & sat.; Hy, is a Congregational charel. The Church Hall was erected J arvis, tues. & sat PRIVATE llESIDENTS. Clay Challoner L.R.C.P. & S.Edin.l Hitchings Harry, watercress groweJ' Clay Challoner, Manor house surgeon, & medical officer & public ..Jarvis Henry, blacksmith & carrier Futcher Herbert Henry, Brookside vaccinator Fovant district, Wilton J.ever .Alfred, carrenter & builder Sanger Alfred, South bank union, Manor house Marshall Waiter, insurance agent Shorland Rev. Maitland A., M.A.(rctr) Cowdry Rhoda (Mrs.),baker & shopkpr Perrett Edwin, Cross Keys P.H Shorland Rev. William Henry M.A. Cross Robert, beer retailer Read Elizabeth (Mrs.), Pembroke Moor hill cottage Foyle Edward, boot maker Arms P.H. & carrier Futcher George, farmer & parish Read Mary Ann (Mrs.), shorkeeper COMMERCIAL. clerk, East farm Read Thomas, coal merchant Bracher Matthias, frmr. Jerrards frm Futcher James, farmer, West farm Simper Thomas, assistant overseer Buckeridge Horace, draper , Green Charles Morley, farmer "''itt .John, carpenter FOXLEY is a small village and pari>h, bounded on affords IOO sittings. The register dates from the year tbe north by the river .Avon, 3 miles south-west from 1715. The living is a rectory, with that of Bremilham Malmesbury terminal station on a branch of the Great- annexed in I893, joint net yearly value [238, with resi­ Western railway, 3~ north of Hullavington station and dence, in the gift of Lord Lilford, and held since 1902 IO north-west from Chippenham, in the North Western by the Rev. Harry Launcelot Warneford B.A. of Hert­ division of the county, )ialmesbury hundred, union, ford College, Oxford, who is also vicar of Norton. Lord petty sessional division and county court district, and Lilford owns the manor, and Col. W. W. Turner and in Malmesbury rural deanery, North Wilts archdeaconry Major George Lindsay Holford C.I.E., C.V.O. are the and Bristol diocese. The church (dedication not !mown) principal landowners. The soil is brashy; subsoil, clay. is a building of stone consisting of chancel, nave with The chief crops are whea.t, barley and roots. The area north charel, south porch, and a western tower contain- is I,I3I acres; rateable value, [692; the population in ing one bell: two stained windows have been placed in 190I was 108. the chancel to the Rev. William Carter, many yean Letters through Malmesbury, which is the nearest money curate of the parish, and to members of his family, and order & telegraph office, arrive at 6 a.m. & 1.30 p.m. there is another, presented in 1903 by C. R. Luce esq. Postman calls for letters at about 10 a.rn. & 7-30 p.m in memory of his son, who died in South .Africa, and Wall Letter Box, cleared at ro a.m. & 7-30 p.m there is a memorial to the .Ayliffe family: the church Elementary School, for 30 children; average attendance, . was restored in I903, at a cost of about [300, and 21; Mrs. Piper, miitress Warneford Rev. Harry Launcelot B . .!. I Clark Joseph, farmer l Eddols Ruth (Mrs.), Royal Oak P.B Rectory Daniels Alfred, farmer, Cowage FROXFIELD is a straggling parish, on the Bath Somerset Hospital (Almshouses).-These were founded in road and the Berkshire border, 2! miles west-by-south I686 by Sarah, Duchess Dowager of Somerset, for the from Hungerford station, on the Great Western rail- maintenance of 30 widows; 20 apartments were added way, and 7 east from 1\larlborough, in the eastern divi- to the building in I773, but only 16 widows, with an sion of the county, hundred of Kinwardstone, petty ses- allowance of [26 each annually, are now (r907) afforded ~;ional division of l\larlborough and Ramsbury, Hunger- asylum: the building is an oblong- quadrangle, with a ford union and county court district, rural deanery ol small chapel, erected b)' Thomas, Earl of Ai!esbury, and Marlborough (Marlborough portion), archdeaconry ol has a permanent chaplain with an annual stipend of £so: Wilts and diocese of Salisbury; the Ken net and .Avon 30 widows of laymen & 20 widows of clergymen, from canal passes through here. The church of .All Saints, different parts of England, within I5o miles of London, standing on an eminence west of the village, is a build- are eligib:e to this charitv: the trustees, 12 in number, i"g of flint, dating from the I2th century, consisting of who are chosen from the nobility & gentry of the a chancel with low tile roof and wooden belfry and " county, nominate the steward & chaplain of the es- bells: there are 130 sittings. The register dates from tablishment the year 1561. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Lay Widows.-The Trustees will present as vacancies value [248, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and occur, from the counties of Wilts, Berks & Sower- Canons of Windsor, and held since 1907 by the Rev. set, 5; London & Westminster, 5; counties at large, Mes.ing Rudkin Th.Assoc.K.C.L. The principal land- any rlace within ISO miles of London, except Wills. owners are th~ Marquess of Ailesbury, who is lord of Berks & Somerset, IO; & likewise from the Manors the manor. and Francis William Leyborne-Popham esq. of Froxfield, Huish & Shaw, Broad-Town, Wootton of Pen<ford, Som. The soil is gravel; subsoil, flinty. Rivers & Thornhill, in Wilts, IO; total lay widows 30 The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area Clergy Widows. - The Trustees will rresent is 2.286 acres; rateable value, £1,747; the population from the counties of Wilts. Berks & Somerset, ro; in 1gor was 326. London & Westminster, 5; counties at large (see Hnghditch, '' miles north-west, Oakhill. i south-east, previous), 5; total clergy widows ....................... 20 an:! Rudge, r north-west, are tithings of Froxfield. Sexton, Charlns 1'\aish. Total number of widows ............ 50 .