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A Cyclone, or whirlwind, the effects of which were felt over a narrow path 

 from Chippenham to Slaughterford on the 24th August, 1903, is described 

 in that week's local papers. Trees were uprooted and twisted off, and 

 at Slaughterford roofs were stripped, tiles and other objects were carried 

 high up in the air, two sheets of corrugated iron being whirled off like 

 sheets of paper over the hill, and deposited a mile and a mile and a half 

 off respectively. 



The G-oatacre Anti Corn Law Meeting, held on January 



5th, 1846, and attended by nearly one thousand labourers, was reported 

 fully in The Times, and created a great impression. This report is re- 

 printed in full in the Gloucester Journal, Aug. 15th, 1903. 



Bradford-Oil- Avon Barn. The architecture is described in a 

 paper on mediaeval barns, by P. B. Andrews, in The Antiquary for July, 



\ 1903, p. 215, 216, with a ground-plan and interior view from photo. The 

 date of the building is put at 1330 — 50. Its length is given as 175 feet, 

 and its width as 34 feet 10 inches, outside, the height to the apex of the 

 the roof being 39 feet. 



"Wilton HOUSe. View and letterpress, pp. 91 — 97 in article on Historic 

 Mansions in the South- Western Counties, in Western Gazette Almanac, 

 1903. 



IiOngleat. View and letterpress as above, pp. 98 — 104. 



Ponthill. Lace in the collection of Mrs. Alfred Morrison, at Fonthill. 

 Article in Burlington Magazine, June, 1903, by M. Jourdain, pp. 95 — 103, 

 Three full-page plates comprising seventeen specimens. 



IiaCOCk Church. A good architectural history of the Church accom- 

 panies the account of the proceedings at the re-opening, on June 12th, 

 1903, after the re-building of the chancel as a memorial to Will. Henry 

 Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography, in the Devizes Gazette, June 

 18th, 1903. 



The HeyteSbury Family. The Devizes Gazette, August 20th, 1903. 

 has a notice on the descent of the manor and lordship of Heytesbury 

 from the Hungerfords to Henry Wheeler, who sold it to the Moore 

 family, of the Priory, Taunton. Sir Jasper Moore, of Heytesbury, and 

 Thomas, his father, were both high sheriffs of Wilts. The son of the 

 latter sold the property to Edward Ashe, Esq., of Halsted, Kent, a 

 London merchant, whose grand-daughter and heiress married Pierce 

 A'Court, of Ivychurch. Their grandson, Sir William Pierce Ashe A'Court, 

 was created a baronet in 1795, and died 1817 ; and his son, Sir William, 



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