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Ancient Chapels, &c., in Oo. Wiits. 
probable that this portion of it had a little chapel for the 
convenience of an old manor house here, and of the neigh- 
bouring hamlet of West Ashton; both being at a considerable 
distance from the parish church. This is confirmed by the 
facts that in 1806, 1389, and 1391, in Inquisitions p. mortem, 
this place is called Chapel Ashton. There are no vestiges of 
building, but human bones have been found in “ The Wilder- 
ness,” part of the pleasure-ground at the back of Rood Ashton 
House. 
Rowtey: or Rowrey alids WirrenHAM. Two small adjoining 
manors bearing these names, anciently formed of themselves 
a small parish on the western border of co. Wilts, about 25 
miles west of Bradford on Avon. From Westwood, Wilts, 
in the parish of Bradford, there is a green lane leading to 
Farley Hungerford, co. Somerset. About half way between 
Westwood and Farley, tradition places the site both of the 
church, and of such few houses as formed the parish of Rowley, 
alids Wittenham. Another disused lane crosses the aforesaid 
green lane, and at the point of crossing, in the fields adjoining, 
may still be seen traces of foundations of houses, &e. The 
presentations to the Rectory of this annihilated little parish, 
are found in the Wilts Institutions under the name of Witten- 
ham. As a parish it was annihilated in this way. The in- 
habitants being very few, and their church very small and 
dilapidated, Walter Lord Hungerford, K.G., (temp. Hen. VI.) 
then owner of Farley Castle and all the neighbourhood, 
obtained leave to unite Rowley, which is in Wilts, to his other 
adjoining parish of Farley, which is in Somerset. Rowley 
accordingly now forms the Wiltshire part of the parish of 
Farley; the river Frome which there bounds the two counties, 
dividing them. A copy of Lord Hungerford’s deed of union 
is in my possession. There is a part of the adjoining parish 
of Winkfield, Wilts, which is also still called by the name of - 
Rowley. It is some stray part of the original Rowley, which 
through changes of ownership, and confusion of old titles, has — 
probably been lost to the parish of Farley: as the deed of ; 

