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censuses have shown an increase, Winterslow 

 being the only rural village near Salisbury to 

 do so. The whole construction of the place 

 has been altered, and has expanded on healthy 

 and sanitary lines. The holdings, with their 

 clean white cottages and small buildings, lie 

 either side of the two roads, giving a picturesque 

 and happy atmosphere to the locality. The 

 village has grown so as to adapt itself to 

 improved conditions and increased prosperity, 

 but still remains in every sense a rural village, 

 with agriculture its chief interest and chief 

 source of revenue. 



3. Maulden. 



{The Duke of Bedford.) 



In April 1910, the Duke of Bedford 

 announced the sale of the Great Farm, 

 Maulden, on his Woburn Estate, in Bedford- 

 shire. The original farmhouse and buildings, 

 and about seventy acres of land, were retained. 

 The remainder was cut up into small holdings, 

 varying in area from forty-three acres down to 

 one acre. The cost of adaptation was consider- 

 able, and a new road, about a mile and a quarter 



