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The Manor of Alderton 3rd edition
As ever, changes were made to the estates with the change in ownership –
within a year Audley Dallas sold the Red Lodge estate (3,000 acres) 507
Queen Victoria died on January 22 nd 1901. Five days later Alderton held a
memorial service for the late Queen, taken by the Rev. Hutchinson. The new
altar lights were first lit for this service 508 - the “two candles have been
lighted (sic) before every celebration of the holy communion ever since” 509 .
Later that year John Neeld’s widow, the Dowager Lady Harriet Elizabeth
Neeld, died at her house in Eaten Square in London, and was buried in the
family vault. 510
Given the relatively large amount of information generally available from the
mid nineteenth century onwards there appears to be remarkably little for
Alderton. It was, and still is, a small village tucked away from the main
thoroughfares and concerns of the area 511 . Some records can be found
however, often concerning the weather - of three such, the first dates from
1906, when the Rev Charles Hutchinson recorded that
On the night of Jan 5-6 1906 a violent hurricane of wind
blew down 3 elm trees in the vicarage garden one falling
diagonally across the churchyard gate smashing it and the
lamp an its stone pedestal besides doing irreparable injury
to the end (nearest the road) of the yew tree hedge
between the vicarage and the churchyard. Two large elms in
the small paddock belonging to the vicarage opposite the
vicars gate were also overthrown. 512
507 Devizes and Wilts Gazette Sept 26 1901 p6
508 Altar lights were only “legalised” after the Lincoln Agreement for their use, in
1890.
509 Goddard, Rev F et al Alderton alias Aldrington Parish Notices of Aldrington Parish
to be kept in the parish chest W&SHC 1678/8
510 Leigh Delamere Burials ibid buried 3 may 1901 aged 81
511 For which it is probably very grateful.
512 Hutchinson, Rev Charles, in Goddard, Rev F et al Alderton alias Aldrington Parish
Notices of Aldrington Parish to be kept in the parish chest W&SHC 1678/8
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