Stapleford, in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire.
Kelly’s Directory 1867
Stapleford is a parish and village, on the river Wiley, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Branch, Wilton union, Salisbury county court district, diocese and archdeaconry of Salisbury, and Wylye rural deanery, 7¼ miles north-west from Salisbury, 102 from London, and 4¼ north-west from Wilton.
The church of St. Mary is in the Norman style, has nave, chancel, south aisle, south transept, with porch, and a square embattled pinnacled tower on the north with 5 bells: it was restored in 1862. The register dates from 1637. The living is a vicarage, value £110, with residence, and about 1½ acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held by the Rev. Bracebridge Heming Hall, M.A., of St. John’s College, Cambridge.
The Wesleyans have a small chapel here. The lords of the manor are Lord Ashburton and Henry Seymour, Esq., M.P., who are also the principal landowners. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The population in 1861 was 260; the village extends over 2,015 acres of arable and meadow land.
Over Street is a quarter of a mile west.
Parish Clerk, George Williams.
Letters thro’ Wilton, which is the nearest money order office.
National School, Miss Gibson Knowles, mistress.
Carrier to Salisbury – Uriah Barnett, Tuesday and Friday.
Misses Baker.
Mr. James Godwin.
Rev. Bracebridge Heming Hall, M.A., Vicar.
Miss Powell.
Misses Saph.
Mr. Charles Young Saph.
Mrs. Young.
COMMERCIAL:
Uriah Barnett, farmer and carrier.
Henry Bennett, farmer, Manor Farm.
William Brown, farmer.
John Carter, shoe maker.
John Coombes, famer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dredge, farmer.
John Eyears, carpenter.
Joseph Grant, carpenter.
John Green, tailor.
George Harwood, farm bailiff to Mr. Joseph Harding.
Henry Holmes, blacksmith.
John Lovelace, New Inn.
Richard Perrott, Pelican.
Charles Rowden, watch and clock maker.
Charles Saph, farmer and maltster.
Charles Saph, junior, farmer.
Mrs. Fanny Scott, shopkeeper.
William Taylor, shopkeeper.
George Williams, parish clerk.
James Williams, nursery and seedsman and grocer.