Stapleford, in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire.
Kelly’s Directory 1907
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 Southern division of the county, hundred of Branch, Salisbury and Amesbury petty sessional division, Wilton union, Salisbury county court district, Wylye rural deanery (Wylye portion), archdeaconry of Sarum and diocese of Salisbury.
The church of St. Mary 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 1862 and has 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1637. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value, £184, with residence and about 1½ acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and Canons of Windsor, and held since 1900 by the Rev. Walter Reece-Heal, who is also vicar of Berwick St. James.
There is a small Wesleyan chapel here. Sir Christopher Furness M.P. of Tunstall Court, West Hartlepool, and Miss Seymour, of East Knoyle, are owners of the manor and 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 2,015 acres of arable and meadow land and 13 of water; rateable value, £1,575; the population in 1901 was 247.
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 (deputy), George Barnett.
Post and T., E.D. and P.P. Office – Walter Waterman, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Salisbury via Wilton at 6.50 a.m. and 1.5 p.m.; dispatched at 11.15 a.m. and 6.25 p.m.; Sundays, 10.50 a.m. Wishford is the nearest money order office.
County Police Station, John Long, constable in charge.
Elementary School (mixed), with mistress’s residence, for 40 children; average attendance, 26; Miss Jane Garland, mistress.
Henry William Greenhill.
Mrs. Hamilton.
Ernest Masters.
Rev. Walter Reece-Heal, vicar, Vicarage.
COMMERCIAL:
Albert Blake, butcher.
Charles Brown, farmer.
Thomas Coles, farmer.
George Goddard, dairyman.
Mrs. Emily Grant, builder and wheelwright.
Edwin Holmes, blacksmith.
George Hooper, Pelican Inn.
George Lloyd, baker and grocer.
George Lock, New Inn.
William Mitchell, farmer.
Alfred Powell, farmer, Manor Farm.
Edmund James Simper, thatcher and dairyman.
George Wallis, agricultural engineer.
Mark Wallis, farmer, Church Farm.
Walter Waterman, shopkeeper and post office.
George Williams, nursery and seedsman.