Stapleford, in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire.
Kelly’s Directory 1880
Stapleford is a parish and village on the river Wylye, in the Southern division of the county, hundred of Branch, Wilton union, Salisbury county court district, Wylye rural deanery first portion, and Salisbury archdeaconry and diocese, 7¼ miles north-west from Salisbury, 102 from London, 4¼ north-west from Wilton, and 2 north from Wishford station, on the Great Western Railway.
The church of St. Mary is in the Norman style, has chancel, nave, south aisle, south transept, with porch, and a square embattled and pinnacled tower on the north with 5 bells: it was restored in 1862. The register dates from the year 1637. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £110, with residence and about 1½ acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Dean and Canon of Windsor and held by the Rev. Frederick William Macdonald, M.A., of Queen’s College, Oxford.
The Wesleyans have a small chapel here. The lords of the manor are Lord Ashburton and Alfred Danby Seymour esq., who are also the principal landowners. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are owners of the tithes. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 2,006 acres of arable and meadow land; rateable value, £2,408; and the population in 1871 was 241.
Over Street is a quarter of a mile west, on the opposite bank of the river.
Uppington is a hamlet 1 mile north.
Parish Clerk, George Williams.
Post Office – Joseph Grant, receiver. Letters arrive from Salisbury via Wilton at 8.00 a.m., dispatched at 5.55 p.m. in summer and 4.45 p.m. in winter; Sundays 11.10 a.m. Wilton is the nearest money order office.
National School, Miss Emily Townsend, mistress.
Miss Powell.
Rev. Frederick William Macdonald, M.A., Vicarage.
COMMERCIAL:
John Mathias Atkins, farmer and landowner.
Henry Bennett, farmer, Manor Farm.
Charles Brown, farmer.
John Brown, farmer.
Henry Alexander Cox, general dealer.
George Dudden, shopkeeper.
Joseph Grant, carpenter.
John Green, tailor.
John Holmes, blacksmith.
George Jukes, Pelican.
Thomas Lovelace, New Inn.
William Morris, farm bailiff to William John Smith, Esq.
Charles Rowden, watchmaker.
Abraham Saph, maltster.
Charles Saph, farmer.
William John Smith, Church Farm.
Mrs. Mary Taylor, shopkeeper.
George Williams, nursery and seedsman.