310 Ancient Chapels, &c., in Co. Wilts. 
church new, not many years before the Reformation: but 
there is no account of any chantry endowment. Of the name 
of this parish it may be observed that when Leland (1540) 
came here, there was a spire (afterwards destroyed) : and he 
says “The spired steeple of stone is very fayre and highe, and 
of that it is cawllyd Steple Assheton.”’ This appears to be 
wrong. It is called in ancient documents Ashton Forum, or 
Ashton Market. The real derivation therefore is Staple: as in 
the case of Market or Staple Lavington. 
Stoke Verpon: a hamlet in parish of Broad Chalk. A chapel 
of St. Luke is mentioned here by John Aubrey (1670), in his 
“MS. Remains of Gentilism,” p. 144. ‘The Foresters of New 
Forest in Hants, come annually to St. Luke’s Chapel at Stoke 
Verdon, with offerings, that their deer and cattle might be 
blest. I have a conceit that there might be dedicated and 
hung up in that chapell (now demolished), some hornes of 
stagges that were greater than ordinary: and the like at St. 
Luke’s Chapel at Turvey-Acton (Acton Turville), in Glouces- 
tershire, by the keepers and foresters of Kingswood Forest.” 
STRATFORD suB Castro, (Hundred of Underditch.) In the Survey 
of Chantries, 1 Edw. VI., “the Free Chappell of St. John’s 
under the castell of Old Sarum. in the parishe of Stratford. 
Richard Dunstall, aged 60 years, incumbent. Clear yearly 
value 12s.” Possibly the same as already mentioned under 
Sarum, Old, supra. 
Srratron Sr. Marcaret, (Hundred of Highworth.) Of an Alien 
Priory here, said by Bp. Tanner to have been given, 20 Hen. VI. 
to King’s College, Cambridge; little else seems to be known. 
SURRENDEN, in the parish of Hullavington, (Malmesbury Hundred.) 
Here are the remains of a better kind of house, built either 
by the Hamlyn or the Gore family, about A.D. 1560-70. It 
is now a solitary farm-house, between Alderton and Hul- 
lavington, belonging to Sir J. Neeld. Aubrey (1670) says, 
“the Church or Chapel remaines yet, but decayed.” There 
is now no trace or tradition of it, nor any documentary record 
whatsoever. 

