HORFIELD is a parish and village in Clifton union, containing, by the census of 1861, 1746, and in 1871, 2985 inhabitants, and 1234 acres of land; in the deanery and archdeaconry of Bristol, diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, the lower division of Berkeley hundred, West Gloucestershire, near to the Ashley Hill Station on the Bristol and South Wales Union Railway; 2 miles north from Bristol. The rectory, in the incumbency of the Rev. Henry Haistwell Hardy, M.A., is valued at £300 per annum, with residence, and is in the patronage of the Bishop of the diocese. The church is a neat edifice, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, consisting of nave, chancel, north and south aisles, with tower containing five bells; it was rebuilt and enlarged in 1847. There are National Schools for children and infants of both sexes. The poor have charitable bequests producing £1 11s. per annum. A portion of this parish, with Bishopston, was, in compliance with the wishes of the inhabitants, formed into a district for the purposes of the Local Government Act, by order of the Secretary of State, dated 17th May, 1866. The Infantry Barracks here is capable of quartering 500 soldiers, to which is also attached a Military School for their children, in which the rector celebrates divine service on a Sunday. Bishop Monk's Horfield Trustees are lords of the manor. The rateable value of this parish is £13,078.

 

Clergy, Gentry, and Private Residents

COTTERELL Mr. Frederick Fowler, Horfield castle

HARDY Rev. Henry Haistwell, M.A., The Rectory

PERRIN Jonathan, Esq., Shrubbery lodge

WORLOCK Mr. Robert Montague, The Poplars, Hanham

 

Trades and Professions

ANDREWS Walter (firm of Edwin and Walter Andrews); h. Berkeley road

ATTWELL John, "Royal Oak"

BLOXHAM ____, shopkeeper

BRYANT William, beer retailer

COONAN Maurice, farmer, Horfield Down end

COX Mrs. Hester, farmer' Quab farm

COX William, farmer, Manor farm

DAVIES Richard, wheelwright and blacksmith

GRIFFITH F. S., builder and contractor

HOLE Miss Mary, National schoolmistress

HUNT William, farmer and beer retailer

MELHUISH John J., farmer, Home farm

MITCHELL Thomas, mason, Ambrose villa

MOORE William, shoemaker

NEALE John, farmer, Court farm

OFFER John, farmer

ORCHARD Mrs., laundress, Horfield villa

PEGLER Richard, beer retailer

PHILPOT Mrs. Elizabeth, shopkeeper

ROSLING Mrs. Mary, farmer, Berry Lane farm

ROSLING Reuben, beer retailer, Victoria place

ROSSER Thomas, grocer

SALTER Mrs. Hannah, beer retailer

SCHUBERT Henry, beer retailer

SCRIBBENS Edward, dairyman, St. Ann's cottage

SMITH George, beer retailer, Ashley down

SMITH William, farmer, Horfield Down end

SPURWAY James, baker and beer retailer

STIBBS John Edwin, National schoolmaster

WARREN James, "Wellington" hotel

WESTON George, haulier

WILLIAMS Giles, shopkeeper, Victoria place

Post Office and Postal Telegraph Office - William Adams, postmaster. Letters from Bristol arrice at 7 a.m. and 2 p.m.; dispatched at 9.45 a.m. and 5.21 p.m., on Sundays at 5.21 p.m. only. Money orders granted and paid and savings bank business transacted, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Telegraph Office - Open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on Sundays from 8 to 10 a.m.

Wall Letter Box - Cleared at 9.15 a.m. and 4.45 p.m., on week days only.

British Workman Reading and Refreshment Rooms - William Williams, manager.

National School (Boys), Edmonds' Trust - John Edwin Stibbs, master.

National (Girls) - Miss Mary Hole, mistress.

Military School - Sergeant Berkley Ginn, master; Mrs. Charlotte Cuthbertson, mistress.

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