Transcription from Kelly’s Directory of Wiltshire, 1911
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 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 £364, 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. 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
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 2077 acres, rateable value £2618, the
population in 1911 was 403.
Parish
Clerk, George Futcher.
Post,
M.O. & T. Office:- Mrs. Catherine Parsons-Goodfellow, sub postmistress.
Letters from Salisbury are delivered at 6am and 1.45pm, dispatched at 11.40 am
and 7.30pm on weekdays, 7pm Sundays. Postal orders are issued here, but not
paid. The nearest money order and telegraph office is at Dinton.
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 56; Miss
Edith Pratt Mist.
Carriers
to Salisbury:- George Reed, Tues and Sat., Charles and Thomas Jarvis, Tues &
Sat.
PRIVATE
RESIDENTS
Clay,
Challoner, Manor House
Peart,
Herbert Edward
Shorland
Rev Maitland A., M.A.(rctr)
Shorland
Rev William Henry M.A. Moorhill cottage
Staples,
William P, Brookside
COMMERCIAL
Bracher,
Matthias, frmr Jerrards Farm
Clay,
Challoner L.R.C.P. & S.Edin., surgeon and medical officer and public
vaccinator Fovant Dist, Wilton Union, Manor House.
Cowdry,
Rhoda (Mrs) Baker and Shopkeeper
Cross,
Robert, Beer retailer
Foyle,
Edward, Bootmaker
Futcher,
George, farmer and parish clerk, West Farm
Green
Charles Morley, Farmer
Hitchings,
Harry, watercress grower & Farmer, East Farm
Jarvis
Charles and Thomas, Blacksmiths and carriers
Jukes
Albert, Grocer
Lever,
Alfred, carpenter
Perrett
Edwin, Cross Keys Public House
Read
Thomas, Coal merchant
Simper
Thomas, Overseer
Targett
Frank, Butcher
Targett
Harry, mason
Witt
John and Son, wheelwrights