Transcription from Kelly’s Directory of Wiltshire, 1920    

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 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 Salisbury 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 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 church was restored in 1863 and will seat about 300 persons. The register dates from the year 1541. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £500  including 49 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Pembroke, and held since 1919 by the Rev. Robert Usher M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, F.L.S. Here is a congregational chapel. The church hall was erected in 1885, on a site granted by the Earl of Pembroke, it was destroyed by fire in 1908 but a new hall has since been erected in its place; it is available for all church purposes, and is also for used by the working men in the village for reading and recreation.

 The soil is loam, subsoil, chalk and flint. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2203 acres, rateable value £3198, the population in 1911 was 404.

Post, M.O. & T. Office:-  Letters from Salisbury.

Elementary school (Mixed), built in 1847 for 100 children,  Miss Edith Pratt Mistress.

Carriers to Salisbury:- George Reed, Tues.

Police Constable, Albert Edwin Burry

PRIVATE RESIDENTS

Clay,  Richd.Challoner Cobbe, Manor House

Cuff, Alfred John, Fishponds

Dover Major Herbert Basil R.E.

Usher Rev Robert M.A., F.L.S.(rector)

COMMERCIAL  

Marked * farm 150 acres or over

Bealing Frank P. , hairdresser

Bracher, Matthias, frmr Jerrards Farm  

Brown, Frederick E., Beer retailer

Clay, Ricd. Challoner Cobbe, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond. Physician and surgeon and medical officer and public vaccinator Fovant District, Wilton Union and Medical officer to Post Office, Manor House.  

*Combes, John, farmer East Farm

Goodfellow, William, Lamp oil dealer

*Hitchings, Harry, Farmer, West Farm

Jarvis Charles and Thos, Blacksmiths

Lever, Alfred, carpenter  

Lloyds Bank Ltd (Sub branch) (open Mon Wed and Fri 11am to 3pm); draw on head office, 71 Lombard Street, London E C 3.

London Joint City and Midland Bank Ltd (sub-branch); draw on head office 5 Threadneedle St London E C 2.

Mundy R. Cycle repairer

National Stores Co, Grocers

Perrett Edwin, Cross Keys Public House  

Raymond Arthur, Smallholder

Read Catherine (Mrs) Pembroke Arms Public House

*Ridout Thos. C.S., Farmer, Manor Farm

Targett Frank, Butcher

Targett Harry, mason

Turner James, coal merchant

Witt and Son, wheelwrights