| FROYLE (UPPER and LOWER) form a parish on the road to Farnham, 3
miles west from Bentley station on the Alton branch of the South Western
railway, 3 miles north-east from .Alton, and 44 miles by road from
London, 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, north porch and a tower with pinnacles containing a clock and 6 bells: the east window and four others are stained, some being memorials to the Miller family: an organ was presented by Lady Miller in 1867: the church was rebuilt in 1812, and the chancel restored in 1847: the interior was reseated in 1888, and affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1690. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £185, with residence, in the gift of Sir C.J. Hubert Miller bart. and held by the Rev. Bridgman H. S. Lethbridge. The iron church of St. Joseph is served by the clergy of St. Mary's. The Wesleyan chapel, Lower Froyle, was erected in 1862. Froyle Place, a mansion standing in a well wooded park of 150 acres, is the residence of Captain Edward Henry Sawbridge; 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 Miller bart, of 32, Cliveden place, London, S.W. who is lord of the manor, and Henry Burningham esq. The soil is chay subsoil, chalk and clay. The chief crops are hops and cereals. The area is 3665 acres; rateable value, £3,205; the population in 1891 was 729. Parish Clerk, Thomas Robinson. Post Office, Lower Froyle. Walter Brownjohn, sub-postmaster. Letters
received through Alton; arrive at 8.5 a.m.; dispatched at 5.45 p.m.;
sundays, 11.55 a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The
nearest money order office is at Bentley, & telegraph office Upper
Bentley, 1 mile distant. Post & T.O. & Express Delivery Office, Upper Froyle. Thomas
Robinson, sub-postmaster. Letters received through Alton, arrive 7.25
a.m. & 12.30 p.m. ; dispatched 12.45 p.m. & 6 p.m. ; sundays,
12 noon. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest
money order office is at Holybourne. Church School, built in 1867 at the sole expense of the late Sir
C. H. Miller bart for 160 children; average attendance, 130; William
Downes, master; Mrs. Alice Downes, mistress ; Miss Emma Downes, infants
mistress,. Three children of this parish are entitled to be educated
at the endowed Free school, Holybourne.
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