| FROYLE (UPPER and LOWER) form a parish on the road to Farnham, 5
miles west from Bentley station on the Alton branch of the South Western
railway, on the road to Farnham, 3 miles north-east from Alton, in
the Eastern division of the county, Alton union, hundred, county court
district and petty sessional division, rural deanery of Alton western
division and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The river Wey
runs through the parish. The church of St. Mary is a building of red brick and stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, and a square tower with clock and 6 bells: it was rebuilt in 1812, and the chancel was restored in 1847; the east window is filled with ancient heraldic glass; there are four stained windows in memory of various members of the Miller family; an organ was presented by Lady Miller in 1867. The register dates from the year 1750. The living is a discharged vicarage, yearly value £306, with residence, in the gift of Sir C.J. Hubert Miller bart. and held since 1876 by the Rev. Henry Castle Floud B.A.of Wadham College, Oxford. The iron church of St. Joseph is served by the clergy of St. Mary's. There is a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1862, at Lower Froyle. Froyle Park, a mansion standing in a well wooded park of 150 acres, and is the residence of Arthur Hardy Wood J.P., M.F.H.; it was entirely restored in 1867 by the late Sir C. H. Miller. Froyle House is the residence of Walter Theodore Edward Bentinck esq. The principal landowners are Sir C. J. Hubert Hayes Miller bart (who is lord of the manor), and Henry Burningham esq. The soil is clay; subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are hops and cereals. The area is 3665 acres; rateable value, £4,575; the population in 1881 was 764. Parish Clerk, Thomas Robinson. Coldrey, adjoining Froyle, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish,
with only two houses; its area is 195 acres, the property of George
John Duncan esq. who is lord of the manor; rateable value £407;
the population in 1881 was 22.
Post Office, Lower Froyle. James House, receiver. Letters received
through Alton; arrive at 8.20 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m.; sundays,
10.30 a.m. The nearest money order office and telegraph office is
at Bentley.
Post Office, Upper Froyle. Thomas Robinson, receiver. Letters received
through Alton, arrive 7.25 a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; dispatched 12.45
p.m. & 5.35 p.m. ; sundays, 12 noon. Bentley is the nearest money
order and telegraph office.
Church School, built in 1867 at the sole expense of the late Sir
C. H. Miller bart. for 120 children; average attendance, 108; John
Perry, master; Mrs. Isabella Perry, mistress. Three children of this
parish are entitled to be educated at the endowed grammar school,
Holybourne.
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