Transcription from Kelly’s Directory of Wiltshire, 1903
Fovant
is a parish
and village, 2 miles south-west from Dinton station in the Salisbury and Yeovil
Branch of the London and South western Railway and 7 west from Wilton, in the
Southern division of the county, hundred of Cawdon and Cadworth, Salisbury and
Amesbury petty sessional division, Salisbury County Court district, Wilton
Union, Chalke Rural deanery (Chalke portion), archdeaconry of Sarum, and diocese
of Salisbury. The Church of St George is an ancient Norman building of stone,
consisting of chancel with aisle, nave of four bays, aisles,
and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: the east window is a
Memorial to Lord Herbert of Lea, and there are three other stained windows; the
interior was refitted in 1863: and will seat about 300 persons.
The
register dates from the year 1541. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £300,
including 48 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of
Pembroke, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Maitland Arthur Shorland M.A. of
Wadham College Oxford. Here is a congregational chapel. A church hall was
erected in 1885, on a site granted by the Earl of Pembroke, it is available for
all church purposes, and is also used by the working men in the village for
reading and recreation.
The
Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery P.C. G.C.V.O is Lord of the Manor and chief
landowner. The soil is loam, subsoil, chalk and flint. The chief crops are
wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2198 acres, rateable value £2475, the
population in 1901 was 415.
Parish
Clerk, George Futcher.
Post
M.O. & T. O. , T.M.O, S.B., E.D., P.P., & A. & I.O.:- Thomas Lever,
sub postmaster. Letters from Salisbury are delivered at 6.30am, dispatched at
7.40 pm on weekdays, 7.10 Sundays.
Wall
Letter Box, Fovant Elm, cleared at 6.45 pm week days, 12 noon on Sundays.
Elementary
School (Mixed), built in 1847 for 100 children, average attendance 60; Mrs Edith
L. Turner, Mist.
Carriers
to Salisbury:- George Reed, Tues and Sat, Hy. Jarvis, Tues and Sat.
PRIVATE
RESIDENTS
Bell
Miss, The Cottage
Clay,
Challoner, Manor House
Shorland,
Rev. Maitland A. M.A. (Rector)
COMMERCIAL
Clay,
Challoner L.R.C.P. Edin, surgeon and medical officer and public vaccinator
Fovant Dist, Wilton Union, Manor House.
Cowdry,
Rhoda (Mrs) Baker and Shopkeeper
Foyle
Edward, Bootmaker
Foyle,
John, tailor
Futcher,
George, farmer and parish clerk, East Farm
Futcher
James, Farmer, West Farm
Hitchings,
John, watercress grower
Jarvis
Henry, Blacksmith and carrier
Lever,
Alfred, carpenter and builder
Lever
Alfred jun., Beer retailer
Lever
Thomas, Postmaster and carpenter
Perrett
Edwin, Cross Keys Public House
Read
Geo. Pembroke Arms Public House and carrier
Read Mary Ann (Mrs), shopkeeper
Witt
John, Carpenter