Transcription from Kelly’s Directory of Wiltshire, 1920
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