Stapleford, in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire.
Kelly’s Directory 1939
Stapleford is a parish and village on the river Wylye, 2 miles north from Wishford station on the Salisbury branch of the Great Western railway, 7¼ north-west from Salisbury and 4½ north-west from Wilton, in the Salisbury division of the county, hundred of Branch, Salisbury and Amesbury petty sessional division, rural district of Salisbury and Wilton, county court district of Salisbury, rural deanery of Wylye (Wylye portion), archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury. Electricity is available.
The church of St. Mary, dating from about 1160, is an edifice of flint and stone, in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, south transept, south porch, and an embattled tower on the north side with pinnacles and containing 5 bells: it was restored in 1869 and has 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1637. The living is a vicarage, united with that of Berwick St. James, joint net yearly value, £350, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Windsor, and held since 1913 by the Rev. Philip Melancthon Mulholland M.A. of University College, Durham.
There is a small Methodist chapel. J.V. Rank esq. is the owner of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 2,015 acres of arable and meadow land and 13 of water; the population in 1931 was 215.
Over Street is a quarter of a mile west, on the opposite bank of the river.
Uppington is a hamlet 1 mile north.
Post and T. Office. Letters through Salisbury. Wishord nearest M.O. office.
Conveyances – Omnibuses to Bath and Salisbury, daily; Shrewton, Monday, Tuesday and Friday.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS:
Noel. V. Sharpe Cannon, Druid’s Lodge.
Miss Beatrice Compton Ghey.
Rev. Philip Melancthon Mulholland, M.A. Vicar, Vicarage.
Frederick Pearce and Herbert Pearce, South House.
James Voase Rank, Druid’s Lodge.
Charles Rhind-Tutt, Brooklet.
Alfred Rigler, Southington.
Francis Robert Sclater, Druid’s Lodge.
Mrs. M. Wallis, Church Farm House.
Richard Wallis, Parsonage House.
COMMERCIAL:
William Henry Everett, motor garage.
Henry Grant & Sons, builders.
Thomas Frederick Key, farm bailiff to J.V. Rank, Esq., Druid’s Lodge Farm.
George James Lloyd, grocer.
Sidney Kilhams, Pelican Inn.
Frank Moore, farmer, Manor Farm.
Alfred Rigler, farmer.
Harold Rigler, farmer, Bridge Farm.
John Edmund Simper, thatcher.
Richard Wallis, farmer, Church Farm.