Lydiard Tregoze and Lydiard Millicent One Place Study
Lydiard Tregoze and Lydiard Millicent One Place Study
It was partially re-built in 1663 by the Bolingbroke family, some handsome monuments to members of that distinguished family being in the church. In 1846 the church again underwent repairs. The eastern window is a beautiful specimen of painted glass, by Van Ling, of the ………. Charles II., representing St. John the Baptist and the Evangelists, ….genealogical family tree of the St. John family; in the chancel is a pedigree of the same family from the Conquest, beautifully illuminated. There is also a beautiful monument to the memory of Sir John St. John and his two wives and family. The living is a rectory, annual value £628, with residence, in the gift of Viscount Bolingbroke, and held by the Rev. Giles Daubeney, of Brasenose College.
The delivery of letters in this Parish is from Swindon and Wootton Bassett; the Postal Address, therefore, should be "Lydiard Tregoze, Wootton Bassett," or "Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon," as the case may be. It will be easily seen which places are in the Swindon and which the Wootton Bassett delivery.
Lydiard (or Liddiard Millicent) is a village and parish, 2 miles south from Purton station on the Swindon and Gloucester branch of the Great Western railway, 3 north-north-east from Wootton Bassett and 5 west-by-north from Swindon, in the Northern division of the county, Highworth hundred, petty sessional division of Cricklade, Cricklade and Wootton Bassett union, county court district of Swindon, rural deanery of Cricklade, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church of All saints is in the Later English style, with chancel, nave of six bays, south aisle, south porch and western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the nave was built in the reign of Henry VI; the aisle, of a later date, is supposed to have been built by a family of the name of Russell, under a licence granted by the king to the De Clintons, who were then lords of the manor: in the church is a Norman font, which is depicted, in Atkin's "Ancient Fonts of England:" the church was thoroughly repaired and re-pewed in the years 1841 and 1842: in 1870 the chancel was lengthened, oak choir stalls and reredos erected, and a vestry and organ chamber thrown out on the north side: the whole floor was laid with Godwin's encaustic tiles: during the alterations remains were found of a Norman stoup and of Lancet windows, which last were probably removed when the present Perpendicular windows were inserted; the church has 250 sittings: there is an ancient dilapidated stone cross in the churchyard. The register dates from the year 1697. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £378, gross yearly value £498, net £405, in the gift of Pembroke College, Oxford, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Arthur Cardinal Saunders M.A. of that college. Ancestors of Whitfield were rectors of this parish twice in succession about 1632. Here is a chapel for Primitive Methodists, also one at Shaw. Here is a charity, known as "Cleoburey's Charity," of £100 left by the Rev. Christopher Cleoburey, former rector of this parish, to be given on St. Thomas' day to the poor of the parish in the form of coals and blankets. Edmund Story-Maskelyne esq. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are the Earl of Shaftesbury, Viscount Boingbroke, James H. Sadler esq. David Stephen White and Joses Badcock esqrs. The soil is colite brash, with deep clay on the lower grounds, as in the Braydon district; subsoil clay. The land is chiefly in pasture. The area is 2,224 acres; rateable value, £4,599; the population in 1891 was 912.
Parish Clerk, William Wheeler.
Post Office. - Charles Ricks, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Swindon at 3.35 a.m.; dispatched at 6.5 p.m. Purton is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
National School (boys & girls), with residence for master, built in 1864, on a site given by the Rev. Henry T. Streeton, for 130 children & enlarged in 1886 by an additional class room to hold 150; average attendance, 133; Frank William Drew, master.
Badcock Joses
Commercial
Beasant John, carpenter
Lydiard Tregoze is a village and parish, 3 miles north-east from Wootton Bassett station on the Swindon and Bath section of the Great Western railway, and 4 west-by-north from Swindon, in the Northern division of the county, union of Cricklade and Wootton Basset, hundred of Kingsbridge, petty sessional division of Cricklade, county court district of Swindon, rural deanery of Cricklade, archdeaconry of Bristol and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The Wilts and Berks canal and the Great Western railway passes through the parish. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of stone, in the Later English style, with a chancel, nave and aisles, south porch and a square tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the south aisle was built in 1663 by the Bolingbroke family, to whom there are some handsome monuments: the church underwent a repair about 1846: the eastern window is a beautiful specimen of stained glass, by Van Eyke's, of the time of Charles II representing St. John the Baptist, and the Evangelists, and a genealogical tree of the Bolingbroke St. John family: in the chancel is a pedigree of the same family from the Conquest, splendidly illuminated; there is also a monument to Sir John St. John and his two wives and family: the church has about 320 sittings. The register dates from the year 1680. The living is a rectory, tithes commuted at £595, average £445, net income £345, with 96 acres of glebe, and residence, in the gift of Viscount Bolingbroke and held since 1885 by the Rev. Henry George Baily, M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. The churchyard being closed, a cemetery was opened at Hook, the land being given by Viscount Bolingbroke, and is 2 acres in extent; it is under the control of the Parish Council. Here is a charity arising from the interest of £700 Consols, left by the Rev. R.Miles, a former rector, to be expended in the purchase of blankets, which are distributed at Christmas to the deserving poor who are not in receipt of parochial relief, by the rector, and churchwardens. From a very early time this place has been the property of the St. John family, Viscount Bolingbroke, whose mansion and park, of about 160 acres; with a lake about 12 acres, are near the church. Basset Down House, in this parish, is the seat of Mervin Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, esq. M.A., F.R.S., D.L., J.P. In Midghall is an estate formerly belonging to the Abbey of Stanley, near Chippenham, which is tithe free on payment of a modus. Viscount Bolingbroke is lord of the manor of the tithing of Hook, and Sir Henry Bruce Meux bart. of the tithing of Midghall. The principal landowners are Viscount Bolingbroke, Sir Henry Bruce Meux bart. the Charter House, the Earl of Clarendon and Pembroke College, Oxford. The soil is principally stone brash, interspersed with clay; sub-soil clay. The chief crops are grass. The area is 5,935 acres; rateable value, £9,921; the population in 1891 was 731.
Hook is a hamlet 3 miles west on the road from Cricklade to Wootton Bassett.
Sexton, John Hunt
Pillar Letter Box cleared at 7.25 p.m. week days & 7.25 p.m. on Sundays
Pillar Letter Box, Rectory gate, cleared at 6.40 p.m. week days; 11.10 a.m. Sundays
Letters through Swindon for the eastern part of the parish arrive at 8 a.m. & through Wootton Bassett for the west. Purton is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
National School (mixed), built in 1856, for 140 children; average attendance, 110; Frederick Leighton, master; Mrs. Leighton, mistress: Miss Trille, infants' mistress.
Marked thus * receive their letters through Wootton Bassett.
Baily Rev. Henry Geo. M.A. Rectory
COMMERCIAL
Archer Robert, Farmer, Padbrooks
This village is four miles from Swindon and three from Wootton Bassett. Lydiard Park, the seat of the Bolingbroke family, is situated in the village, the St. Johns Viscounts Bolingbroke having from a very early time been landowners in the parish. The church, which is near the Park of Lord Bolingbroke, is dedicated to St. Mary, and is an ancient edifice, in the Latter English style, with a handsome square tower.
Barnes, John, carpenter, Hay-lane, Swindon
Bradford, Richard, farmer, Midghall, Wootton Bassett
Candy, William, farmer, Studley, Swindon
Clark, Jonas, farmer, Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon
Day, Henry, farmer, Chaddington, Swindon
Daubeney, Rev. G., The Rectory, Swindon
Drury, Henry, dealer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Edmonds, Edwin, machinist, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Ellison, George, farmer, Chaddington Swindon
Ferris, Charles, farmer, Padbrooks, Swindon
Gleed, John, farmer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Hale, Isaac, farmer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Hale, Charles, dealer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Habgood, Joseph, blacksmith, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Hitchcock, Jesse, builder, Hook, Wootton Bassett
King, Miss Sarah, farmer, Blagrove, Swindon
Kinchin William, farmer, The Park, Swindon
Large, William, farmer, Toothill, Swindon
Love, Joseph, sen., hurdle maker, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Love, John, jun., hurdle maker, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Moulden, Henry, hawker, Flaxlands, Wootton Bassett
Mundee, John, farmer, Wickfield, Wootton Bassett
Storey-Maskelyne, Anthony Mervyn, gentleman, Bassett Down, Swindon
Ody, George, farmer, Shaw, Swindon
Ody, Nelson, Manor-farm, Lydiard Tregoze, Swindon
Ody, Walter, farmer, Flaxlands, Wootton Bassett
Plummer, William, farmer, Shaw, Swindon
Price, Mrs. Elizabeth, farmer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Price, Richard, farmer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Priddy, William, farmer, Spittleborough, Wootton Bassett
Purse, Thomas, beer retailer, Wickfield, Wootton Bassett
Rudler, Henry, Prince of Wales Inn, Coped Hall, Wootton Bassett
Rudler, Cornelius, farmer, The Marsh, Wootton Bassett
Rumming, Thomas, farmer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Smith, William, beer retailer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Strange, Richard, farmer, Mannington, Swindon
Swyer, George, assistant overseer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Tuck, Friend, farmer, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Turner, Thomas, house steward to Lord Bolingbroke, Hook, Wootton Bassett
Twine, George, farmer, Flaxlands, Wootton Bassett
Willis, John, farmer, Can Court, Swindon
Lydiard
Carpenter, John, Stone lane
Kibblewhite Misses,
Knapp John, Greatfield house
Sadler Jam. Hy., J.P. Lydiard house
Saunders Rev. Arthur Cardinal M.A. Rectory
Stoneham William
Stratton Jasper, Beaumont villa
Warman Mrs.
Bond George, Market gardener
Bourton Henry, beer retailer
Carter Henry, shopkeeper, Shaw
Clarke James, farmer
Clarke John, grocer
Cole John Thomas, farmer, Shaw
Cole Jonathan, farmer
Cole Stephen Edward, farmer
Cowley William, farmer
Edwards Thomas, greengrocer
Fisher Henry, farmer
Giddins John, smith
Greenaway Robert, market gardener
Hinton John, grocer
Hollick William, haulier & coal dealer
Hughes James, farmer, Roughmoor
Morse Job, farmer
Newman Edwin, shoe maker
Painter William, farmer
Parsons John, grocer
Peer Thomas, carpenter
Plummer Edward, farmer
Prince William, farmer
Ricks Charles, rate collector, Post office
Rudler John, Sun inn
Saunders Thos. Greengrocer, Greatfield
Simpkins Wm. Greengrocer, The Green
Slade Edmond Hercules, farmer, Church Farm
Tuck Charles, hauler
Turk William, farmer
Wicks William, carpenter
Wheeler William, carpenter
Lydiard Tregoze
Bolingbroke Viscount D.L. Lydiard park; & White's club, London SW
Story-Maskelyne Mervin Herbert Nevil M.A., F.R.S., D.L., J.P. Basset Down house; & Athenaeum & Brooks's clubs, London SW
*Weight Samuel, Hook
Barnes Edward James, carpenter, Hay Lane wharf
*Collingbourne William, farmer, Ballard's ash
Collins George, farmer, Binknoll farm
*Drury Charles, cattle dealer, Braydon
*Drury Henry, general dealer, Hook
*Drury William, cattle dealer
*Edmonds Edwin Hugh, agricultural machinist, Hook
*Edwards Arthur, farmer, Hook farm
Ellison William, farmer, Studley
*Habgood Joseph, blacksmith
Hale Owen, farmer, Creeches
*Hale William, farmer
Harding John, farmer, Wick farm
Hart Allen bailiff to Mervin H.N. Story-Maskelyne esq. M.P.
Hiscock Harry, gamekeeper to Viscount Bolingbroke
*Hitchcock Frances (Mrs.) Bolingbroke Arms P.H. Hook
*Hitchcock Norman, baker, Hook
*Howard Walter S. beer retailer, Hook
*Hughes Sydney, farmer, Marsh
Kinchin, Wm., farmer, Windmill east
Kinchin William Plummer, farmer
Large Charles James, farmer
*Manners Frank, farmer, Marsh farm
Nutland William, dairyman
*Ody George, farmer, Wickfield
Ody Nelson, farmer
*Ody Walter, farmer, Flaxlands
Ody Wm. Farmer, Church Hill farm
Phillips Hy., farmer, Red House farm
Phillips John, farmer
*Price Charles, wheelwright
*Price George, farmer
Rebbeck William, farmer
*Slade Hercules, famr. Spittleboro' fm
*Smith Charles, beer retailer
*Strange George, wood dealer
*Strange Julia (Miss), farmer, Mannington house
*Theobald James, wood dealer
Titcomb William Oliver, farmer, Chaddington farm
*Tuck Frederick, farmer, Highgate
*Walker William, farm bailiff to G. White esq. Flaxlands
*White Humphrey, farmer, Midghall
Wilkins Henry, shoe maker
Willis Ernest, farmer, Can Court