Category: Brixton Deverill: Records Directories

Brixton Deverill Directory 1938:

Ernest George Allard, farmer, Woodcombe.
Alfred Beaven, sexton.
Edward Bourne, farmer, Humphrey’s Farm.
Frank Crump, Downside.
Archibald Charles Garrett, bailiff at Whitecliffe Farm.

Reverend C. Heath-Caldwell, The Rectory.
Major J. Houghton-Brown, Pertwood (lives at Hill Deverill).
Commander Reginald Jones, R.N., retired, Riverside.
Wilfred Long, farmer, Whitecliffe (lives at Marlow, Berks).

Miss Mabel Polden, carrier.
Mrs. Jane Polden, smallholder.
Mrs. Mary Screen, shopkeeper.
Charles Walker, farmer, Manor Farm.
Albert Wareham, bailiff at Manor Farm.

Brixton Deverill Directory 1922

Postal address: If posted at Warminster before 1 p.m.: Brixton Deverill, Warminster; after, Brixton Deverill, Bath.

Edward Bourne, farmer, Humphrey’s Farm.

Gilbert and Maurice Gagen.
W. Garrett, bailiff at Whitecliffe Farm.

William Hall, Lower Pertwood.
George and Edward Hamlett, farmers, Manor Farm.
Joseph Harding, Riversdale.

Wilfred Long, farmer, Whitecliffe Farm (lives at Lullington).

Daniel McGrath, police constable.
Frederick Miles, farmer.

Charles Polden, farmer and carrier.

Rev. A.T. Richardson, M.A., M.B.E., The Rectory.
George Rixon, sexton.

William Jesse Snook, farm foreman, Pertwood.
John M. Stratton, farmer, Pertwood (lives at Warminster).

Brixton Deverill Directory 1911:

Rev. A.F. Acton. Rectory.
R.H. Bourne. Humphrey’s Farm.
H.J. Gagen. Farmer. Manor Farm.
J. Harding. Riversdale.
J. Hoddinott. Farmer and shopkeeper.
C. Polden. Parish clerk and sexton.
E.H. Pope. Farmer. Whitecliffe Farm.

The Warminster Directory And Local And Village Guide 1900:

Brixton Deverill

Robert Hooper Bourne, farmer, Humphrey’s Farm.
Henry P. Cannon.
Henry John Gagen, farmer, Manor Farm.
Rev. Alexander Gordon, M.A., Rectory.

John Hoddinott, farmer and shopkeeper.
Mrs. Eliza Pickford, Whitecliffe Farm.
Edward Herbert Pope, farmer, Whitecliffe Farm.

J. Skeels, Riversdale.
Thomas Trollope, farmer, Ruddock’s Farm.
Jonathan Tucker.
Mr. Vaughan.

Kelly’s Directory 1848, Brixton Deverill:

Brixton Deverill, a parish in the Hundred of Heytesbury and Union of Warminster, distant 5 miles south from Warminster, 4 miles north-west from Hindon, and 5 north-east from Mere. The living is a rectory, value £260, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Salisbury and patronage of the Bishop; the Rev. William Barnes, M.A., is the present incumbent. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Here is a small National School, and a place of worship for Independent Methodists. Population, in 1841, was 197; area in acres, 2,447.

Gentry:
Rev. William Barnes, M.A. [magistrate].
Mrs. Sturgess.

Traders:
Jesse Brown, shopkeeper.
John Compton, farmer.
George Haskell, shoemaker. 
Justice Rawlings, machine maker.
Stephen Rawlings, farmer.
John Scott, farmer.
Richard Scott, farmer.
John Tucker, carpenter.
Jonathon Tucker, wheelwright.
Robert Tucker, carpenter.
William Tucker, wheelwright and farmer.

Letters received through Warminster Office.
National School, Miss Charlotte Ann Tucker, mistress.