A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
FARLEY, a chapelry in Alderbury parish, Wilts; near the Bishopstoke and Salisbury railway, 5 miles E of Salisbury. It has a post office under Salisbury. Real property, with Pitton, £2, 921. Rated property of F. alone, £695. Pop., 241. Houses, 62. This was the birthplace of Sir Stephen Fox, the founder of Chelsea hospital, and ancestor of the noble families of Ilchester and Holland. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Alderbury, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church was built by Sir Stephen Fox, and has a tablet to Charles James Fox; and the hospital contains a portrait of Sir Stephen, by Lely, and a monument to Henry Thomas, Earl of Ilchester, by the younger Westmacott.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Alderbury CP/AP Wiltshire AncC |
| Place: | Farley |
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