Farley, Wiltshire

Description
Farley with Pitton, a parish in Wiltshire, 4 miles from Dean station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5 E of Salisbury. It has a post office under Salisbury; money order office, West Dean; telegraph office, Dean (R.S.) The area of Parley and Pitton is 2221 acres; population, 489. Parley was the birthplace of Sir Stephen Fox, the founder of Chelsea Hospital, and ancestor of the noble families of Ilchester and Holland. He also built and endowed an hospital at Farley. The living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Pitton annexed, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £276. Patron, the Earl of Ilchester. The church was built by Sir Stephen Fox, and has a tablet to Charles James Fox, and a monument to Henry Thomas, Earl of Ilche&ter, by the younger Westmacott; it was restored in 1874. The hospital at Parley contains a portrait of Sir Stephen, by Leiy. There is a Wesleyan chapel.