SOMERSETSHIRE - 1889

DIRECTORY.] . SOiVIERSETSHlRE. .CLEVEDO~. 179

Ballam . Sarah Ann (Miss), lodging Clevedon, Tickenham & Walton Disj.l Dudden Henry John, lodging house,

house, Esplanade house, Beach pensary (Stephen Skinner M.B., eh. M. Beach house, Beach

Ballefant Charles, lodging house, Flor- George Frederick PricoePizeyL.R.c.v. Dunford Henry, Oldinn,East Clevedon

ence villa, Sea Vale road Edin. & James Albert Frederick Saw- Durbin Daniel, tailor, Old street

Ballefant George, lodging house, & fly yer, surgeons), Old street Dyke Frederick, lodging house, Cave

proprietor, Bickley ho. Alexandra rd Clothier William, basket maker, Old st villa, Copse road

BarberCharlotte(Mrs. ),laundress,Old st Coles Alfd. Henry,tailor,Old Church rd Earle Sarah & Emma Jane (Misses),

BarrattMartha(Mrs. ),fly prop.sChapl.hl Coles Ann (Mrs.), lodging house, The ladies' school, Copse cottage,Copse rd

Bartlett Jn. lodg.bo.Somerset cot. Old st Elms, Princes road Edwards Geo. corn dlr. Old Church rd

BeachamJohn,flyprop.HallamHo.mews Colla.rd Edwin, jobbing gardener, Mel- Elston Harry, builder, Old Church road

Bellew Gilead Thomas, builder &cabinet bourne road English Theodore Hewitt, nurseryman

maker, Alexandra road CollardMary(Mrs. ),drss.ma.Melbrne.rd & florist, Car!ton ho. Lea Grove road

Bennet Andrew Dunster, carpenter, I Collins George, lodging house, Copse rd Ewen Edward, farm bailiff to Edward

Sidmouth villas, Queen's road Comley Henry, greengrocer & florist, Wills esq. Swiss vale, East Clevedon

Bennett John, plumber, East Clevedon Alexandra gardens Ewing John, lodging house, Elmfield,

Bennett · William, lodging house, Cook Constance(Miss),dress.ma.Ken rd Hill Side road

Penarth house, Albert road Cook Egbert, tailor, Ken road Ewings Richard, grocer,Old Church rd

BindingRobt.ldg.ho.Holmes view,Beach Cook Waiter, lodging house,& dairyman, Ficken Frederick, parish clerk of St.

Binding Thomas, carrier, Ken road The Gardens, Bellevue road Andrew, Old Church road

Biss Jane (Miss) & Brindall Ellen Caro- Coombs Theodore,baker, & refreshment Fishlock George, shoe maker,Copse road

line (Miss), lodging house, Stanley rooms, Ken road Fogaty Ann (Mrs.), lodging house,

house, Linden road Cooper Mary(Mrs. ),laundress,Griffin rd :Fa.scadale, The Gardens

BissThs.Hy.immrance agt.Melbournerd Cooper Mary(Mrs.),laundrss.Meadw.rd Ford Henry, dairyman, Ken road

Bla.ckmore James, grocer, Beach Cottage Hospital (Theodore Davis M.D., Ford William, dairyman, Ken road

Blackmore Kate (Mrs.), dress maker, F.R.c.s. Stephen SkinnerM.B., ch.M. Fortune Daniel, fishmonger & green-

Chapel hill George Frederick Price Pizey L.R.C.P. grocer, Old street

.Blick Sarah Jessie (Mrs.), lodging house Edin. & James Albert Fredk. Sawyer, Foster Mary (Mrs.), lodging house,

Scartbengwell, Bellevue road surgeons), Old street Nelson villa, Beach

.Bonham Edwd. lodging house, Hallam Cottle James, builder, & lodging house, Fowler Henry, tinplate worker, Ken rd

house, Elton road Stancliffe house, Wellington terrace Frost "\Vilham Durant, manager Wilts

BornJohn,lodg.ho.Stuart ho.Marine par Cottle Mary (Mrs.), lodging house, & Dorset BankingCo.Limited, Hillrd

Bourton John, lodging house, Griffin rd Garfield villa, Albert road Fry Harriet (Miss), dress maker, 2

.BowringEllen(Miss),dressma.Copse rd Cottle William, farmer, Dowlais farm Draycot villas, Old Church rd

Boxwell Thomas, lodging house, Pitt- Cox Bros. brokers & general furnishers, Fry Henry Charles, town clerk & clerk

vill villa, Albert road 2, 3 & 4 Lorne place, Old Church rd to local board, Bellevue road

Brak Emma (Mrs.), lodging house, Cox John Newton, marble mason, Old Ganniclifft Ann (Mrs.), gentlemen's

Esplanade house, Beach Church road hair;dresser,news agent & tobacconist,

Bridle Elizabeth (Mrs.), lodging house, Cox Louisa (Miss), ladies' school, High- Triangle

Osborne house, Elton road land cottage, Park road Ganniclifft Charles, lodging house, 8

Broad Henry Courtice, chemist & drug- Cox William, carriage builder, see Southbourne, Ken road

gist, Old Church road Knowles & Cox Ganniclifft William Henry, hair dresser,

Broad Isabella (Miss), lodging house, Coxhead Edward Longstone, manager Old Church road

Victoria house, Beach Stuckey's Banking Co. The Bank, Garland George, mason, Strode road

.Brooks Frank, shoe maker, & lodging Hill road Garratt Aaron, tly proprietor,& lodging

house, Ken road Crease James, boot & shoe maker, house, Sea Vale road

Bromfield Llewylln, builder, & lodging Old street Garratt Henry, lodging house, Stanley

house, Victoria villas, Copse road Croad Anne (Miss), lodging house, Rose- lodge, Sea Vale road

BryantGeorgeCrease,beerretlr.Triangle mont, Albert road Garratt Miss,private schl.Melbournerd

.Bryant William, farmer, Highdale farm CrookerSarah Ann (Miss),dress maker, 1 Gas Works (Henry Charles Fry, sec.;

Bull James, lodging house, &flyproprie- Griffin road Samuel Dawes, manager), Moor lane

tor, Seaton villa, Elton road Crump Charles, lodging house, Ash- George Thomas, hair dresser, Copse rd

Burgess Clement Geo. carpent. Copse rd leigh villas, Alexandra road Gibson John, dairyman, West End

Burt James, gardener to Robert Han- Culliford Thomas, refreshment rooms, Gloucestershire(Gloucester&Somerset)

cock esq. Salthouse, Old Church rd Apsley cottage, Beach Artillery Volunteers (1st) (No. 9

.Button Eustace, gentlemen's boarding Curtis Charles, lodging house, 18 South battery) (Capt. Sir Edmund Harry

school, Lewesfell, Elton road view, Ken road Elton hart.; Stephen Skinner, acting

Callaway Samuel, lodging house, Lyn- Daniels Henry, carpenter, West end surgeon), Drill hall, Albert road

mouth house, Copse road Davies James,plumber, &lodging house, Godding Oliver & Sons, painters,

Callow William, lodging house, Cold- Lyell house, Lea Grove road Chapel hill

ridge cottage, Old Church road Davis Benjamin, butcher, Alexandra rd Godding Edward, painter, Griffin road

Canter Gile9, greengrocer, Old street DavisTheodoreM.D.,F.R.c.s. physician, Godwin Mary (Mrs.), ladies' outfitter,

Caple Emily (Mrs.), lodging house, I .Beachcroft, Albert road Triangle

Lea Grove road Dawes .Alonzo,auctioneer,house & estate Gooding Ann (Mrs.), lodging house,

Carey Jas. Edwd. butcher,OldChurch rd agent, insurance agent & manager of Mount Pleasant, Victoria road

Cemetery (Henry Charles Fry, clerk; the Clevedon water works, Beach Gooding Caroline (Miss), lodging house,

John Gibson, sexton), Old Church rd Dawes Samuel, manager of gas works, Rodney house, Beach

.Challicomb Charles Edward, cabinet Moor lane GoodingJas. shopkeeper,Old Church rd

maker, Alexandra rd.& EastClevedon Dawkins John Walker, lodging house, Goodman William Henry, grocer, &

Chamberlain Henry, lodg. ho. Copse rd Copse road post office, East Clevedon

Charles David, grocer, Barrington Day Henry Charles Arundell, solicitor, Gough George, butcher, Old street

house, Hill road Gothic lodge, Prineess road Gough J oseph, lodging house, Charlevill,

Charles Nehemmh, toy & fancy reposi- Dean Anne (Miss), laundress,Stroderd Victoria road

tory, Cumberland house, Hill road Dean Henry, lodging house, Griffin rd Gould Ellen (Miss), lodging house, St.

Christ Church Convalescent Home (Rev. Deane Margaret (Miss), fancy repository Helena, Marine parade

E. Forbes M. A. hon. sec. & treas. ; S. & lending library, Hinton ho. Hill rd Gould Moses, plumber, Old street

Skinner M.B., ch.M. hon. physician; Depeursuige Adele (Madam), lodging Grant Thomas, chemist, Hill road

MissSeago,hon.lady supt. )Highdle.rd house, 4 Lea Grove road Green George,lodging house,Cambridge

Clarke George, lodging house, Ken rd Devonshire & Somersetshire Royal house, Elton road

Clevedon Boot Supplv (The), Hill road EngineerVolunteers (L Co.)(JamesP. Green Thomas, gasfitter, 2 Myrtle

Clevedon Club (The) ( W. F. Lang- Capell, captain), Drill hall, Moore la villas, Queen's road

worthy, sec. & Frederick Davies, I Dew Edward Thrissell L.D.s.R.c.s.Irel. Green William, sen. lodging house,

steward), Lindeu road surgeon dentist (attends tues. &fri.), Milford house, Albert road

Clevedon Grammar School fRev. John Melrose villa Green William Albert, builder & con-

Bailey A.C.P., master); Herbert Dilke Joseph, painter & glazier,St.lves, tractor, Queen's road

terrace Copse road Griffin SI. Bird, auctioneer, land, estate

Clevedon Mercury & Courier & Somer- Down Elizabeth Martba (Mrs.), beer & insurance agent,Enmore,Old street

setshire Advertiser (ClevedonPrinting retailer, Old street Hack Uha.s. fishmonger, Old Church rd

Co. Limited, proprietors; William Dredge James, lodging house,Ken road Hacker John, lodging house & coal mer-

IGeorge Sercombe, editor; published Drewett William Henry, painter & chant, Brunswick house, Beach
.saturday), Alexandra road decorator, Railway view Hagley Edward, linen draper, Hill road

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Hale Emma (Miss), lodging hom:e, Sis- KnightElizb. {Mrs. ),lanndress,Strode rd Neads William, laundry, Ken road

son lodge, Hallam road Knowles & Cox,carriage builders,Old st NewtonSarah(Mrs. ),laundrss.Strode rd

Hall John, lodging house, 2 Mount Knowles George William, surveyor & Nicholls Frederick, postmaster & sta-

Heber, Hill road inspector of nuisances to local board, tioner, Hill road

Hancock Chas. coal mer.Old Church rd Scarborough villa, Hill Side road Nicholaa John (Mrs.), lodging house,.

Hardwick Sarah Ann (Miss), dress Lang Sarah Ann (Mrs.), manageress of Dover house, Elton road

maker, Verandah villa, Old street public weighbridge, Old Church road Nichols Thomas,collector to local board,.

Hardwidge John, mason, Strode road Langford John, grocer, tea dealer & Clevedon cottage, East Clevedon

Hare Sophia (~:Irs. ),laundress, Glenlea, provision merchant, Assam tea ware- Nichols William Andrews, agent to

Hill Side road house, Old street Hall & Sons, brewers, Old street

Harris Caleb, boot & shoe maker & Langworthy William Frederick, soli- Norman James, builder, Griffin road

dealer, Triangle citor, see Baker & Langworthy Norman John, lodging house,Griffin rd

Harris Geo. blacksmith, East Clevedon LathamJas.Fras.boot& shoe ma.Hill rd Norman William, lodging ho.Griffin rd

Harris John, lodging house & fly pro- Lavington Fk. Wm. & Son, wine & spirit Norton Henry, lodging ho. Griffin road

prietor, Beach villa, Beach mers. (branch), Leighton ho. Hill rd O'Donoghue & Anson, solicitors, Ken

Harris William, blacksmith, Old street Leakey Geo.lodg.ho. Brook vale,Ken rd road ; attendance on fridays

Harrison Jane (Mrs.), lodging house, Lee George, fruiterer & greengrocer, O'Klemm Otto, manager Royal Pier

Down villa, Sea Vale road Warwick house, Hill road hotel, Beach

Hartree James, laundry, Ken road Lee James, carpenter, East Clevedon Osgood George&Son,chimney sweepers,.

Hartree Llewellyn, grocer & draper, Lee Mary (Miss), boot maker & dealer, Old Church road

Old Church road & Chapel hill Old Church road PalmerJas.bldr.2Hallam vils.Hallam rd

Hartree Llewellyn, lodg. ho. Copse rd Lee Theophilus, lodging house, Edge- Parker Frdk. baker & confectnr. Ken rd

Hartree Thomas, haulier, Ken road cumbe villa, Alexandra road Parkhurst Joseph, grocer,Alexandra rd

Hassell George, grocer & draper, East Lewis Elizabeth (Mrs.), lodging house, Parr Richard, scripture reader, Old st

Clevedon; & tailor, Hill road Wentworth house, Princes road Parsons Eliza (Mrs. ),frmr.Wrangle frm

Hawkins Jane (Mrs.), lodging house,2 Lewis Emily (Miss), ladies' school,Tin- ParsonsJas. fishmngr. &grngro.Copse rd

Coombe Hill villas, H1ghdale road tern villa, Woodland road ParsonsMary(Miss),dress ma. Griffin rd

Hayman & Little, dentists, 4 Bellel"ue Lewis William, lodging house, Birk- Parsons Waiter William, florist &green-

terrace, Bellevue road lands, Alexandra road grocer, Old Church road

Hayman Samuel Augustus, dentist, see Light Bros. locksmiths, Old Church rd Pearce Emily (Mrs.), dress ma. Ken rd

Hayman & Little Light Edwd. locksmith, see Light Bros Pendleton Chas. lodg. ho. Woodland rd

Hedges Fk.'fhos.beerret.Old Church rd Light Henry, locksmith, see Light Bros Pendleton Edwin,boot&shoe ma.Old st

Hedges John, blacksmith, Griffin road Lilly Charles, bathing machine pro- Perrett J ames, watch maker, I Regent's

Hedges John, shoe maker,East Clevedn prietor, Old Church road place, Hill road

Hedges William, painter, Queen's road Llewellyn Ynyr, chemist, & sub-post Perkins l<'rederick, grocer, Hiil road

Hembery William & Co. seedsmen & office, Triangle Perry Charles, photographer, Beach

corn factors, Old street Lock Robert, shoe maker,Railway view Peters William, tailor, Melbourne road

Hemmens Henry, lodging house,Acuba Lock Walt. (Mrs.), dress mkr. Triangle Pickering Alfred,lodging house,& piano-

villa, Woojland road Long George, lodging house, Dalwood forte tuner, Almeira, Bellevue road

Hemmens Henry, baker, Old street house, Victoria road Pickering George,lodging house, Arnn-

Hewlett Harry George,house decorater, Lovegrove J.R. & Co. agents for Anglo- del house, l<~lton road

Old Church road Bavarian Brewery Co Pike Kate (Miss), lodging house, Pine•

Hide Esther (Mrs. ),laundress,Strode rd Lovegrove John Robert, hair dresser, burst, Bellevue road

Hill Mary Jane & Margaret Antrea perfumer & stationer ; also branch Pinker Sarah (Mrs.), lodging house,.

(Misses),ladies' school, Hawkesbury, (established 1832), Central house, Tusker villa, Hallam road

Wellington terrace pianoforte & music seller ; residence, Pitts Mary (Mrs.), lodging house & re~

Hill Josiah, boot & shoe maker & Handel house, Hill road freshmnt.rms.Fairview,LeaGrove rd

dealer, Triangle Luff Mary (Mrs. ),lodging house,Apsley Pizey & Sawyer, surgeons, Highcliffe,.

Hill Phoobe (Mrs.),laundress,Strode rd building, Wellington terrace Copse rd. & 3 Lorne viis. Victoria rdl

Hill Thos. builder & dairyman, Old st Lye Sarah & Dorcas (Misses), lodging Pizey George Frederick Price L.R.C.P.
Edin. (firm,Pizey & Sawyer),surgeon~
Hingley John, lodging house, Brecon house, Norfolk house, Elton road

house, Victoria road Lye Sophia (Miss), lodging house, & medical officer & public vaccinator,

Hippesley John, coal dealer, Old street Richmond house, Elton road 9th district, Bedminster union, medi-

Hobday Edgar, watch ma. OldChurch rd Manship Wm. shoe maker, Meadow rd cal officer of health for Clevedon,local

Hoddell James & Co. auctioneers, Mants William, pier master, Beach board & certifying factory surgeon,

valuers, accountants, estate agents, Marchant Henry Ernest, professor of Highcliffe, Copse road

decorators &c. valuations for probate music, Drayton villa, Queen's road Pizey Henry Elliott, solicitor,Highdale

& transfer, Alexandra road MarineBaths(Thos. Baker,propr.), Beach villa, Sunnyside road

Hogg Chas. (Mrs.),laundress, Strode rd Market Hall (David Milburn, clerk), Plumney Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundres3,

Hollier Joseph, lodging house, Antwerp Alexandra road Clevedon park

villa, Cop!;e road Marks William, confectioner, Hill road Police Station (J oseph White,sergeant>~

Hollyman George, butcher, Old street Martin Jn. lodg.ho.Cecil vil.Marine par Old Church road

Hollyman Samuel,painter, Ea.Clevedon Mason John, gardener to Sir Edmund PomeroyBenjaminThomas, ironmonger~

HollymanWalt. painter,Low. Queen's rd Harry Elton bart. The Lodge, East Sheffield house, Hill road

Hook Tom, lodging house, Copse road Clevedon PowellClara (Mrs. ),lndrss.Ea. Clevedon

Hordle Frederick, ironmonger, Gloster May HenryEdward(Mrs.),dress maker, Probert Richard, draper & outfitter,

house, Hill road Mount Lebanon, Hill road grocer, tea dealer & provision mer-

Home John, sanatorium, Hallam hall, Maynard Ernest, lodg. ho. Sea Vale rd chant, & agent for W. & A. Gilbey~

Dial hill Melior Lucy (Mrs.), milliner & dress wine & spirit merchants, Triangle

Horsey Bernard, lodging house, Ashley maker, Auburn cottage, Triangle Public Hall (Hy.James,kpr.),Albert rd

house, Sunnyside road Merrifield Henry, lodging house, Oxford Pyke Sophia (Miss), dress ma. Ken rd

Huff William, lodging house,Grosvenor villa, Copse road Ralls James Charles (Mrs.), lodging

house, Victoria road 1\:Ierrifield William, saddler & harness house, Albion house, Beach

Hunter Brothers, general commission maker, Old Church road Ransford Arthur Harwood, stationer~

agents & accountants, 12 Chapel hill Middle Charles Robert, architect &land Royal library, Hill road

James Edward, dairyman, Ea.Clevedon agent to Sir E. H. Elton bart. Tyning- RansfordWm.chemist,Marine ho. Hill rd

Jobbins Jn. plumber, Olive lo. Copse rd field, Linden road Rawlings Geo. lodging ho. Chapel hill

Johnson-Browne EdwardFrancis,photo- Milburn David,lodging house,& market Rawson Abraham, lodging house, Fyvie,

grapher, Linden road clerk, 12 Southbourne, Ken road Hallam road

Joliffe George, lodging house, Ken road Miller Thoma'!, shopkeeper, Old street Reeves Henry, grocer & provision dlr.&.

Jones Henry Ernest, grocer, Triangle MooreEmma( Mrs.), drpr. OldChurch rd mineral water manufr. Strode road

Jones Waiter Henry, fishmngr.Triangle Moore William Thomas, battery-sergt.- Rich Brothers, refreshment house, &.

Jones William, fishmonger & game maj.& drill instructor,Old Church rd provision dealers, Chapel hill

dealer, Copse rond Morris Ellen (Mrs.), lodging house, Rich Edward, beer retailer, Copse road

Jupp James, lodging house, & station Rosedale, Lea Grove road Rich Solomon James, farmer, Rivulet.

master, Trescoe, Albert road Morris William, farmer, Strode farm, farm, Lower Queen's road

Kelly Ellinor & Charlotte (Misses), Victoria road Richards Jesse, lodging house, Ken rd

ladies' boarding school, Woodbury Mortimer Robert, lodging house, Grove Riden Edwd. lodg.ho. Lower Queen's rd

KiddeU John,farmr. Tutton frm.Ken rd cottage, Alexandra road Riden l<'rdk. blacksmith, Low. Queen's rd

Kingcoine Henry, coach painter & MurdockThomas,lodging house,Corsica Ringrose Charles John, plumber, Mose-

decorator, Triangle villa, Marine parade ley house, Hill road

Kirkpatrick Hy. Jas. ironmgr.Copse rd Mundy Miss, lodging hause, Copse rd Ringrose George, plumber, Sea Vale rd

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DIR.ECTORY.j

Ripley John William, auctioneer &c. see Stephens John, tailor, & lodging house, Type Albert, oil mer. lodging ho. & fly

Hoddell James & Co Tivoli lodge, Hill road proprietor,Cambridge vil.Hillside rd

Rossiter Frdk.Lewis,shoe ma.Griffin rd Stock Henry, grocer, Old Church road Varder William, carpenter, Old street

Royal PierHotel(Otto O'Kiemm),Beach Streetly John Albert, coal merchant, Veale Maria (Mrs.), lodg. ho. Copse rd

Rugman Thomas, lodging house, Win- Bognor house, Old Church road Vicarage Thos.wheelwt. Low. Queen's rd

ash house, Albert road Stuckey's Banking Co. (branch of) Village Hall Reading Room (Wbinfield

Sanderson Emma (Miss),lodging house, (Edward Longstone Cox:bead, mana- Robinson, bon. sec. & treas. ; Henry

Graaff Reinet, The Gardens ger), Hill road ; draw on Robarts, Parsons, ball keeper), Old street

Sapb Anna (Mrs.), lodging house, Lubbock & Co. London E c Virgo Wm.lodg. ho. Whiteball,Elton rd

Clarence house, Beach Stuckey Isaac George, lodging house, & Walker ErnestEmery,working jeweller,

Sargent Edmund, lodging house, Ar- fly proprietor, Eversea house, Beach 5 Coomb Hill villas, Highdale road

gyle house, Victoria road Stuckey Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodging Walker Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodging

Savinlsaac,lodg.ho.Hill cot.Clevedon pk house, Copse road house, Sandringham house, Beach

Sawyer James Albert Frederick, sur- Stuckey Thomas, general letterpress Wallis Charles, farmer, Hill View farm

geon, see Pizey & Sawyer, 3 Lorne printer; every description of printing Ware Alfred, lodging house, & house

villas, Victoria road promptly executed, The South Cleve- decorator, Adelaide house, Beach

S.eagrave Edward,baker & confectioner, don machine pnnting wrks.Queen's rd Ware Chas.lodg.ho.Enfield ho.Albert rd

Hillwood house, Hill road Stuckey Waiter, butcher, Old street Wareham Edwin James, bookseller,

Seckington Caleb Charles, painter, & Stuckey Wm. farmer, New House frm stationer & music seller, Victoria

lodging house, Copse road Stuckey William Young,lodging house, library, Hill road

Shaw Ernest, grocer & wine & beer re- & fly proprietor, Woodland road Warne Conway Gould, potters, The

tailer & butcher, Hill road & Old st Sturge Edward Young, bookbinder, Potteries, Strode road. See advert

Shawyer John, scripture reader, Alex- The Gardens, Bellevue road Water Works (Hy. Charles F.ry, sec)

andra road Summerhays James, lodging house, Watts Edwd.(Mrs.),lauodrss.Strode rd

Shopland John, lodging house, St. Edinburgh house, Bellevue road WattsJohn,lodg.ho.Wye vil.Marine par

Cypress, Queen's road Supply Co. (The), grocers, Triangle Weaver Richard, lodging house, Rock-

Shopland William, builder, Old street Sweet Francis, baker & confectioner, hampton, Marine parade

Shomey Arth. lodg. ho. 9 Chapel hill Alexandra road Webb Walt.Comish,upholsterer,Hill rd

Sh.orney Edwin, lodg. ho.Melbourne rd Sweet JosephFras.farmer,WestEnd frm Webber Geo. shoema. Old Church rd

Shorney Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker, Sweet Richard, farmer, Sea Wall farm Wedmore Elizabeth (Mrs.), lodging

9 Chapel hill Tanner Rcbd. bldr.Glen vil. Hillside rd house, Woodmount, Lea Grove road

Shorney Emma (Mrs.), dress maker, Tarr Henry, builder, Melbourne road Westlake William Gregory, boot & shoe

Melbourne road Thenisson Ellen (Mrs.), lodging house, maker & deputy registrar of mar-

Simpson Wm. earthenware dlr. Old st Melrose cottage, Hill road riages, Hill road

Sims James, lodging house, Copse rd Thomas Ellen Ann & Salmon Mary Whitemore Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer, &

Skidmore Martha (Miss), ladies' & Catherine (Misses), ladies' school, lodging house, Chandos house, Beach

children's outfitter, Hill road Marlborough house, Albert road Wickenden Alfred,confectioner, Regent

Skinner Stephen M. B., c. M. surgeon, ThomasEmily(Mrs.),coal mer. West end house, Hill road

Ferndale, Sea Vale road Thomas John, coal merchant, Ken rd Wilcox George, plasterer, Strode road

ffieeman William, timber merchant, see Thomas John (Mrs.), dress ma. Ken rd Willis Kate (Miss), gentlemen's school,

Woodman & Sleeman Thomas John, fancy draper, Lincoln Herbert house, Linden road

Smith Lucy (Miss), ladies' school, Bel- house, Hill road Wilts & Dorset Banking Co. Limited

grave house, Elton road Thurston George Henry, surgeon, (branch of) (William Durant Frost,

SomercombeWilliam George,joumalist, Woodbine villa, Copse road manager), Hill rd. ; draw on London

correspondent & editor of the " Cleve- Tindall Mary (Mrs.), lodging house, & Westminster Bank Lim. London E c

don Mercury & Courier" & "Somer- Apsley house, Beach Winstone William, farmer, Ken road

setshire Advertiser," Ste:;.m printing Tinkling William, farmer, Solesbury Woodington Sarah (Mrs.), lodging

works, Alexandra road farm, Old Church road · house, Waterloo house, Beach

Somerell WilliamEdwin,lodging house, Tipper Henry, assistant overseer & as- Woodman&Sleeman,timber merchants,

Lower Queen's road sessor& collector of income tax, school Old Church road

Somerton Ann Kate (Mrs.), dress & attendance officer, Bedminster union Woodman Elizabeth (Mrs.), midwife,

mantle m a. Alveston ho. Lea Grove rd & registrar of marriages, Ansford Old Church road

SomertonChas.lodg.ho.Tower ho.Beach villa, Linden road Wyatt Henry, gardener to Charles Hill

SomertonSarah(Mrs. ),cnfctur. Triangle Trickey Catherine(Miss),lodging house, esq. J .P. Strode road

Somerton Walter, professor of music, Hughenden, Hallam road Yard James & Son, linen drapers,

Alveston house, Lea Grove road Tripp Chas. beer retailer, East Clevedon London house, Hill road

~rangle Frederick, lodging house, Tripp Johu, laundry, Griffin road Yard Joseph Geo.coal mer.Sea Vale rd

Ropley house, Princes road TuckerElizh. (Mrs.),lodg.ho.Griffin rd Young George, town crier, Dial hill

Sprod Hy. lodg. ho.Osteud vi. Copse rd TurnerGeo.Chestermn.ironmngr.Old st YoungMen'sChristianAssociation(W.H.

Stacy James, lodging housP., Copse rd Tyler Wm. marine store dlr. Moor lane Greenwood,sec.); meeting rm.Ken rd

CLOFORD is a village and parish, situated on the high j born at Broadgrove farm, in the parish of Cloford, left£I,ooo

road from Bruton to Frome, 2 miles north-east from Wan- to women, natives of Cloford, upon their marriage: a new

strow station on the East Somerset branch of the Great scheme for the guidance of the trustees in the distribution of

Western railway, and 4 south-west from Frome, in the this charity was issued by the Charity Commissioners in

Flrome division of the county, hundred, petty sessional divi- 1862 : the present trustees are the vicar, churchwardens and

sion, union and county court district of Frome, rural deanery overseers of the parish of Cloford, ex-officio; the Earl of

of Frome, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Cork, J. F. F. Homer esq. and Richard Horner Paget esq.

Wells. The church of St. Mary is a building of stone, in the are appointed trustees by the Charity Commissioners. The

Third-Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, 1 present value of the charity is £42 IOS. yearly. John

vestry, and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, con- Francis Fortescue Horner esq. M.A., D.L., J.P. of Mells Park,

taining 2 bells: on the north side of the nave is the Horner who is lord of the manor, and the EarJ of Cork K.P., P.C.

oehapel, which contains an altar monument to Maures are the principal landowners. The soil is stiff clay ; the sub-

(Maurice) Horoer esq. ob. 1621, and a quaint monument to 1 soil is limestone. The principal part of the land is in pasture

.Sir George Homer knt. (1676), and his wife who survived for dairy purposes. The area is 1,929 acres; rateable value,

him some years: the reredos has in the centre a cross on £2,268; the population in 1881 was 197.

.a br~>Wn marble.g;ound, and on eithe~ side figures of ang~ls I Leighton is a hamlet, a mile and three quarters west;

bea.rmg censers. m 1874, the ~st wmdo~ w~s filled w1th here is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
.stamed glass, presented by the vicar and his Wife, represent-

ing scenes in the life of our Lord; the na,·e was rebuilt in Holwell is a hamlet, half a mile north.

11856, and the chancel in 1869, the latter from designs by Mr. Sexton, William Wheeler.

Woodyer, architect, at the cost of the late Rev. J. S. H. Letters received through Frome, arrive at 8.30 a.m. & 5 p.m.

Horner, then patron: there are sittings for 150 persons. WALL LETTER Box, National school, cleared at 8.40 a.m.

"The register dates from 1561. The living is a vicarage, aver- & 5· 10 p.m. on week days only. The nearest money order

age tithe rent-charge £122, net yearly value £165, including office is at Nunney & telegraph office is Frome

7 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of John Francis National School (mixed); it was originally the old vicarage,
1
Horner esq. and held since 1872 by the Rev. & in 1882 was substantially restored by John Francis F.
I:Fortescue 1

Richard George Boodle lii.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. In Horner esq. ; it will hold about go children; average

1797, Mr. Thomas Harris, alderman of Bristol, who was attendance, 45; Miss Mary Tyrrell, mistress

Cloford. 1 Bond William, farmer, Manor farm George William, spade & implement.

Boodle Rev. Richard George M.A. Clark William, farmer, New buildings handle maker

[vicar], Vicarage Crees Isaac, farmer, Cloford common Hillier George, mason

182 CLOFORD.,. .SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Small Isaae, famter, Postlebury farm Millard William, farmer Holwell.

Leighton. Vezey Edmund, hurdle maker Gerrett Thos. Bear inn, & lime burner

Gane John, farmer Toop Samuel, lime burner

CLOSWORTH is a parish and vill11ge, situated on the dates from the year 1685. ·1·. .,. living is a re0tory, tithes

road from Dorchester to Yeovil, on the river Yeo, and on the commuted at [160, with resident-, •tnd 12 acres of glebe, in
Dorsetshire border of the county, 2 miles south-east from the gift of Viscount Portman, and .1eld since 1876 by the-

t;..: Su~to:1 Bingham station, on the main line of the London Rev. John Algernon Lawrence LL.M. of Jesus Colle~e,

and South Western railway, and 4i south rrom Yeovil, in Cambridge. The only house of interest in the parish is the.

the Southern division of the county, Barwick, Hounds- Rectory, which bears date r6o5. Viscount Portman is lord
borough and Coker hundred, Yeovil petty sessional division, ot. • he manor and sole landowner. The soil and subsoil ar&
union and county court district, rural deanery of Merstna, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, roots and

archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. l'be some lmd in pasture. The area is 1,046 acres; rateable.
church of All Saints is a Perpendicular building of stu.:J, value, ,~(1,0<)8; the population in 1881 was 121.

consisting of chancel, nave, north porch, and an embattled Parish Clerk, Benjamin Tomkins.
western tower with pinnacles and containing 5 bells : there
are four stained windows: the church was completely WALL LETTER Box cleared at 4·45 p.m. Letters by foot
restored in 1875 by the widow of the Rev. Edward Bower, post from Sherborne arrive at 9.15 a.m. Yetminster is
late rector: there are sittings for 140 persons: in the the nearest money order office & Yeovil junction railway
churchyard is an ancient cross and a tomb to Thomas station the nearest telegraph office

Purdue, a bellfounder of repute, whose foundry stood where Church School (mixed), built in I8]I, for 40 children;

is now the rector's orchard; he died in 17n. The register average attendance, 35 ; Miss Margaret Holland, mistress

L:twrence Rev. Jn.Algernomr.A.Rectory' Dampney John, farmer, Manor farm 1 Tomkins Benjn. farmer & parish clerk
Newman John, dairyman, Chilwell I Wyatt William, farmer,Netherton farm
Abbott Daniel, farmer I

Clarke John, dairyman

CLUTTON is a. widely scattered village and parish, Farmborough, Farrington, Gurney, High Littleton, Hinton

situated on the high road from Bristol to Wells, with a Blewitt, Litton, Midsomer Norton, Nempnett, Norton

station on the North Somerset branch of the Great Western Hawkfield, Norton Malreward, Paulton, Publow, Radstock,

railway, ro miles S(luth from Bristol, 10 north-east from Stanton Drew, Ston Easton, Stowey, Timsbury, Ubley.

Wells and 10 south-west from Bath, in the Northern West Harptree & Widcombe ; the population of the union

division of the county, Clutton union, Temple Cloud petty in x88x was 23,646; rateable value, [123,813.

sessional division and county court district, Chew hundred, Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Edward

rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of H. Perrin, Temple Cloud

Bath and Wells. The church of St. Augustine is a fine Treasurer, J. C. Aiken, Stuckey's Bank, Bristol

building, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of Relieving & Vaccination Officers, No. I district, G. York.

chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an em• Midsomer Norton ; No. 2 district, Albert Hanney, Publow ~

battled western tower with pinnacles containing 5 bells : the No. 3 district, Enoch Salmon, East Harptree

tower is Norman, and an arch of the same period divides the Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Cameley district~

chancel and nave ; there is also a Norman arch in the porch ; Theodore Martin, Temple Cloud ; Chew Magna district,

the tower was rebuilt in 1728, and the church enlarged Edmund Thomas Hale L.R.C.P.Edin. Chew Magna; Clutton

and rebuilt in 1865, at a cost of [2,000, the Earl of district, Findlater Crang, Timsbury; Harptree district.

Warwick giving the sum of £300 and the remainder being William Frederick Lovell, Compton Martin ; Midsomer

raised by voluntary contributions and a rate : a gate with Norton district, Alexander Waugh L.R.c.P.Lond. Midsomer

pillars and lamp was erected in 1887, and in x888 the chancel Norton

was restored and decorated by the rector: the east window Superintendent Registrar, Edwd. H. Perrin, Temple Cloud~

is stained and there is an ancient font : there are sittings deputy, J. S. Dury, Temple Cloud

for 370 persons. The register dates from 1693 ; but is Registrars of Births & Death~, Chew Magna sub-district, C.

mutilated. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- H. Collins, Chew Magna; deputy, Thomas Milton, Chew

charge [258, net yearly value £350, including 56 acres of Magna; Clutton sub-district, Thomas Melhuish, High

glebe with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Warwick, and Littleton ; Harptree sub-district, W. ~'. Lovell, Compton

held since 1879 by the Rev. Albert Boudier, of Emmanuel Martin; deputy, Henry Kew, Compton Martin ; Midsomer

College, Cambridge. There are Congregational, Wesleyan Norton sub-district, Thomas Melhuish, jun. Midsomer

and Primitive Methodist chapels. Charities of £5, arising Norton; deputy, 'r. Maggs, Midsomer Norton
from a farm in Clare, in Suffolk, are distributed in bread to Registrar of Marriages, Augustus Bull, Temple Cloud

widows of the parish who are not receiving parish relief ; a Workhouse, situated under the brow of a hill, was erected in

benefaction of £6 Ss. arising from lands in the adjoining 1837, with stone from the neighbouring quarries, & will

parish of Hinton Blewett, is similarly distributed ; Trinder's hold 400 inmates; James Dury, master; Rev. H. H.

of £5 is for blankets, and Harris's of £5 for clothing. Here Olver, chaplain; Ernest Blacker L.R.C.P.Edin. medical
are collieries, stone quarries and a brewery ; brick. and tile officer; Mrs. Dury, matron; Miss Sarah E. E. Dury,.

making and lime burning are also earried on. The Earl of schoolmistress

Warwick is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The RuRAL SANITARY AuTHORITY. Coltham
soil is clay and sand ; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops Clerk, Edward H. Perrin, Temple Cloud
are wheat, barley, oats and roots, and there are several Treasurer, J. C. .Aiken, Stuckey's Bank, Bristol
dairy farms. The area is 1,560 acres; rateable value, Medical Officer of Health, George Wilson, 122

£4,138; the population in 1881 was x,o2o, including 143 Brow, Bristol
officers and inmates of the workhouse. Inspector of Nuisances, H. H. Purnell, Paulton

Parish Clerk, John Branch.

PosT 0FFJCE.-Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Coombs, postmistress. ScHOOL ATTENDANCE CoMMITTEE.

Letters arrive from Bristol at 7.10 a.m. & 1.5 p.m.; dis- Clerk, E. H. Perrin, Temple Cloud

patched at 5.25 p.m. ; sundays, open from 9 a.m. till 10 Attendance Officers, Enoch Salmon, East Harptree; A~

a. m.; dispatched 8.40 p.m. Temple Cloud is the nearest Hanney, Publow; T. Maggs, Midsomer Norton

money order & telegraph office INSURANCE AGENTs.-Sun J:t'ire, Rees-Mogg & Davy

CLUTTON UNION. National School (mixed & infants), founded in r728, en-

Board day, alternate fridays at II a.m. at the Board Room, larged in 187o & again enlarged in x885, for 175children;

Workhouse. average attendance, 130; & partly endowed; Edward

The Union comprises the following parishes :-Cameley, Westby, master; Miss Alderson & Miss George, assistant.

Camerton, Chelwood, Chew Magna, Chew Stoke, Chil- mistresses

compton, Clutton, Compton Martin, East Harptree, Railway Station, William Herbert Collins, station master

Boudier Rev. Albert, Rectory Bowdich Alfred, quarry owner (postal Earl of Warwick's Colliery (Egbert.

BoudierRev.Jn.Hervey[curate],Rectory address, Temple Cloud, Bristol) Spear, deputy manager), Grayfield.

Cook.Mrs. Gladstone villa Branch John, wheelwright (postal address,Temple Cloud,Bristl)

Hinton William Richd. Tynemore house Brodribb William, farmer Francis Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Lewis Mrs. Clutton house Carter Charles, corn miller (water), Gibbons Henry, farmer & assistant over

Lewis William, Hill Side house Cloud Hill mill (postal address, seer, Church farm

COMMERCIAL. 'l'emple Cloud, Bristol) Hill Edwin, grocer & baker

Attwood Richard, shopkeeper Church Temperance Society Club (Rev. Holbrook J:t'rederick, brick & tile maker

Blacker Sidney&Fred,statuary &masons Albert Boudier, president) Hunt William, shopkeeper

Blacker John, beer retailer Coombs Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), grocer, Lippiatt Lionel, farmer

Blacker William, fanner,North End frm & sub-post office Lewis Richard & Co. brewers, Cluttoii

Boulton Henry, grocer Doman James, farmer brewery, & coal proprietors .

JDIBECTORY. SOMERSETSHIRE.

Maggs George, wheelwright Perry Jacob, beer retailer Tiley Thomas, painter &c
Maggs William, watch maker Spencer Sarah (Miss), refreshment rms Tucker Charles, butcher
Middle George, shoe maker Taylor John, gamekeeper to the Earl of Vowles John, Warwick Arms P.H
Moore Henry, beer retailer Wheeler Frederick William, railway
Parfitt Samuel, mason Warwick
Parfrey Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper wagon builder ; & at Radstock
Perry Emma (Mrs.), dress maker Taylor Thomas, baker Young John, farmer
Tiley James, blacksmith

•

EAST COKER is a large parish ltnd village, 3 miles women and one man, who receive 3s. 6d. per week each.

south from Yeovil station on the Great ·western railway, The ancient manor house, now a farm house, retains some

and 1 mile north from Sutton Bingham station on the main interesting portions of the original building, erected in the

line of the London and South Western railway, in the Perpendicular period, including a spacious porch of two

Southern division of the county, Houndsborough, Barwick stories, with a large recessed and moulded entrance arch,

and Coker hundred, Yeovil petty sessional division, union and a square-headed two-light window above; there is a

and county court district, rural deanery of Merston, arch- similar window on one side of the porch ; and the main block

deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. St.Michael's has two lofty pointed windows formerly belonging to the

church is a Perpendicular building of stone, consisting of hall ; these are of two lights each, with transoms and trefoil

chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, transepts, north porch heads, and in the head of each window is a pentagonal

and an embattled tower at the east side of the north transept opening; the remainder of the hou&e has been much

with a pierced arcaded parapet and small pinnacles, and an modernised. In 1753 the foundations of a Roman villa and

elegant octagonal stair turret at the north-east angle rising tesselated pavement were discovered. Coker Court, the seat

abO\"e the parapet, and relieved by string courses continued of Horace Augustus Helyar esq. M.A., J.P. is situated on an

from the tower; it contains a clock and 8 bells : the stained eminence close to the church, overlooking a fine expanse of

west window is a memorial to George Bullock esq. D.L., J.P. country. North Coker House, the seat of George Troyte-

of North Coker house, d. 1885, and the east window to .Bullock esq. D.L., J.P. is a modern erection of Ham stone.

Maria Carolina (Grove) his wife, d. 2nd Feb. 1866: in the H. A. Helyar esq. M.A., J.P. and George Troyte-Bullock esq.

south transept is a memorial window to Emily Lucy (Port- are the principal landowners. The soil is sandy loam; the

man) 1st wife of George Troyte-Bullock esq. d. 8th Nov. subsoil is clay and sandy loam. The chief crops are wheat,

1856, aged I9: in the north transept are several mural beans, barley, roots and some land in pasture. The area is

tablets to the Bullock family, dating from I753; a brass to 2,078 acres; rateable value, £4,922; the population in 1881

George Bullock esq. mentioned above, and memorials to the was I 1029. annodrtNh,AIBSuHRT1iONno, r1thi ,
NoRTH COKE&, ! mile
Skinner family, 1769-18o6, and to Thomas Leaves, of north-west,
Pendomer, d. 1717, and his wife, d. I724; a memorial brass HoLYWELL, Ii north-west, are hamlets
has also been erected to the Rev. Rowland Huyshe, late in this parish.

vicar; the reredos was presented by the present Mrs. Troyte- Parish Clerk, Waiter Noble.

Bullock, who also partially reseated the church at her own Assistant Overseer, Jabez White.
expense : there are sittings for 434 persons. 'fhe register
dates from I56o. The livmg is a vicarage, average tithe PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

rent-charge £ 224, net yearly value £ 249, including 7 acres James Percy Collins, receiver. Letters from Yeovil arrive

of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter at 8 a. m. & 4 p.m.: dispatched at I-55 p.m. & 5 p.m. ;

of Exeter, and held since 1s77 by the Rev. Charles Powell snnday, 12.10 p.m. \VALL LETTER Box, Upper Coker,

B.A. of London University. The great tithes, commuted at cleared at 4·45 p.m. ; sunday, I2 noon

!.335, are in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Police Station, Nun Watts, constable

There is a mission room at Bnrton. The cemetery, one acre Parochial Elementary Schools (mixed & infants), for East

and a half in extent, with one mortuary chapel, was formed Coker, Pendomer & Sutton Bingham, built in I851, for 250
in 1877 at a. cost of £5551 and is under the control of a children; average attendance, 144; & supported in part
burial board of nine members. Here is a police station with by Horace Augustns Helyar esq. J.P.; William Sutters,

one constable. In the parish are almshouses for eleven master ; Miss Mary Ann Giles, mistress

Drake Felix, Devonshire cottage Cox Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer Mullins Maria (Mrs.), shopkpr. Hew bill
Helyar Horace Augustus M.A., J.P. Dampney Theophilus Tripe, farmer, Neal George, stone mason
Noble Walt. blacksmith & parish clerk
Coker court Bridge & Darvole farms Peach Matthew, farmer, Skinner's hill
Helyar Mrs. Coker court Delamont Thos. beer retailer, Hew hill Pearce Henry, farmer, Slade's farm
Neville Emanuel Dodge William, carpenter Perry Joseph. blacksmith
Powell Rev. Charles B.A. Vicarage DrakeFelix&Co.webbing&twinemanu- Perry William,fly proptr.Burton cottage
Troyte-Bullock George D.L., J.P. North Pudden Edwin, farmer
facturers; London office, IS Roman Pulman Tom, baker
Coker house Bath street, Newgate street E c Sansom Geo. Wm.farmer,Paviott's farm
Genge Wm. farmer, Wicket's Beer farm Stagg Henry, boot maker
COMMERCIAL. Groves Martha (Mrs.), ladies' school Stroud Charles Henry, farmer
Guppy Samuel, farmer, \Vestfield Trask Elijah, beer retailer
Bartlett John, farmer, Townsend farm Hackwell Charles, carpenter White Jabez, baker & miller (water) &
Caines Morgan, farm bailiff to G. Troyte- Harris William Henry, farmer, Burton
Harrison Lionel, farmer assistant overseer, East Coker mills
Bullock esq. D.L., J.P Helyar William, stone mason Woolmington John, farmer
Helyar William George, grocer Young Charles, boot maker
Cemetery (Rev. Charles Powell, hon. Hitchcock Mary (Mrs.), dairy Young Henry, boot maker
clerk to the burial board) Hooper Henry, boot maker Young Henry, jun. boot maker, Burton
Lane Charles, New inn
Collins James Percy, grocer, Post office
Cook William, farmer, Lyatts
Cox John, farmer, & registrar of births

& deaths for the sub-district of Coker

WEST COKER is a parish and village, situated on the M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Here is a small Wesleyan

high road from London to Exeter, 3 miles south-west from chapel, erected in 1839, and a meeting-room for the Brethren.
Yeovil station on the Great Western and London and South There is an almshouse, founded byWilliam Ruddock in 1719,
·western railways, in the Southern division of the county, for six poor persons, four of whom receive two shillings per

Houndsborough, Barwick and Coker hundred, Yeovil petty week each and one one shilling per week, the other having

sessional division, union and county court district, rural no pension; the other charities include Mrs. King's, of [,2

deanery of Merston, archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of yearly, for poor widows and spinsters; Rodbard's, consisting
Bath and Wells. The church of St. Martin is a building of of freehold land, let in 48 allotments at 7s. 6d. yearly each

stone in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular !!tyles, con- and Miss Sarah Moore's of £s yearly for teaching girls to

sisting of chancel with side chapels of two bays, nave of four read and sew. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the
bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled we.~tem tower manufacture of twine. A working men's reading room,

with pinnacles and containing 6 bells and a clock, erected in with a library of about 200 volumes, was re-opened in I882.
1887 at a cost of £Ioo, subscribed by the parishioners: there West Coker House, the residence of Col. Edmund Henry
are six stained windows, the east window commemorating Berkeley, is a large and handsome mansion, surrounded by
the restoration of the church in I864; two in the south aisle well laid-out grounds containing an ornamental sheet of

are memorials to Charles Podger (1864) and :Mrs. Susannah water. West Coker Manor House is an ancient building of
Chaffey Fussell (1859) respectively: there is a monument the 14th century and belonged to the Earls c,f Devon until
with kneeling figures to Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Sir about 16oo, when it was bought by John Portman esq. ; it
John Portman hart. and wife of John Bluet esq. of Holcombe, has been recently restored and is the property of Mr. Henry

and to Grace, his fourth daughter, who died unmarried: Talbot Moore, but is at present unoccupied. The Hon. Sir

there are sittings for 475 persons. The register dates from Spencer Cecil Brabawn Ponsonby-Fane K.C.B. Henry Talbot

I6g7. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge Moore esq. William Moore esq. and the trustees of the late

£312, with residence and 18 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Nicholson are the chief landowners. The soil is loam

aud held since 188o by the Rev. William La\lrence Cotter and sand; the subsoil is clay and sand. The chief crops.

184 WEST COKER. SO.:viERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

are wheat, barley, beans and pasture. The area is 1,367 arrive at 8 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m.; sunday, 1:0.30

acres; rateable value, £3,984; the population in 1881 was a.m. North Coker is the nearest telegraph office

946. Police Station, George Wedlake, constable

Sexton, Edward Hawkins. National School (mixed), built in 1875, for 190 children;

PosT & M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- average ~ttendance, 130 ; Mrs. Anne Mary Sleigh, mistress

Mrs. Sarah E. Templeman, receiver. Letters from Yeovil CARRIER TO YEOVIL.-Hockey, mon. wed. & fri

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bartlett Samuel Geo. farmer, Coker hill Harris John, b¥er

Aldworth Major Robert J.P. Westlake Budden George, cowkeeper, Camp Harris Thomas, baker
Cave Edwin, shoe maker Langdon George, inspector of nuisances
Beckton Mrs. West Coker cottage
Cave John, cowkeeper for Yeovil union
Berkeley Col. Edmund Henry (late Cave John, jun. grocer & draper Marks Joseph, boot maker

Co3t9tethr regt. ), West Coker house CoxAlfred,boot ma.&shopkpr. Coker hill Moore William, farmer
Rev. Wm. Laurence M.A. Rectory Crid.land Albert, saddler MuncktonWm.Hy.commercial traveller
Dawe William John, twine manufac- Newberry Joseph, farmer
Dawe William John, Millbrook house Newes Harriet (Mrs.), boot warehouse
turer, Millbrook works
Edie John M.D Patten Edward, farmer
Dodge John, beer retailer
Gould Job, The Laurels Podger Walt. Hy. baker &miller(water)
Eadie John M. D. surgeon, & medical & assistant overseer, West Coker mills
Herbert Arthur, Orchard villa officer & public vaccinator No. 2
district, Yeovil union Reading Room & Library (Rev.William
Lunn Rev.Alfd.[Umtarian],HewHill ho Laurence Cotter, sec)
Gale Richard, shopkeeper
Moore Henry Talbot RichardsWalt. water millr.HewHill mills
Gould Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker Templeman SarahE.(Mrs.),bakr.Post off
Moore Miss Gould Job, twine manufacturer, West Trew Arthur,commercial trav.Castleter

Moore William of f:ngland twine works Warr Henry, New inn
Watkins Frederick, grocer
wood Miss, Rectory Guppy Susan (Miss), Castle inn
Hallett Daniel, carpenter
COMMERCIAL. Harris James, baker

Andrews James, baker
Baker Ewanuel, twine manufacturer
Baker Israel, blacksmith

COLEFORD is a hamlet of Kilmersdon, situated in the chiefly employed for smelting purposes, the remainder being

centre of a large population, in a fertile agricultural and ex- used by gas companies, for which the coal is specially
tensive mining district, and, together with the hamlets of adapted owing to its illuminating power and coking pro-

Luckington, Lipyeate, Kilmersdon Common and Highbury, perties. Newbury House is the seat of the Right Hon. Lord

was formed, April 4, 1843, into a separate ecclesiastical Hobhouse P.c., K.c.s.I., c.I.E. The soil is a rich heavy

parish ; it is 3 miles south from Kilmersdon and 6 west from loam ; subsoil, mar! and blue lias stone. The land is chiefly

l<'rome, in l"rome division of the county, Kilmersdon hundred in pasture for dairy purposes. The area is r, 187 acres; the

and petty sessional division, Frome union and county court population of Coleford ecclesiastical parish in r88r was 1,586.

district, Midsomer Norton district of the rural deanery of PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
Merston, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and
Wells. The church, erected about r83r, is a modern build- Mrs. Louisa Robbins, receiver. Letters come through
ing of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel
and nave, south porch and an embattled tower with four Bath & are delivered at 7 a. m. & 4.30 p.m. ; box closes at
pinnacles, containing a clock and one bell, the latter brought 2 & 7.ro p.m. ; no sunday delivery
from Fonthill .Abbey: the church was entirely re-seated in WALL LETTER BoxEs.-Highbury, cleared at 2. ro & 7·5 p.m.
1885 and has sittings for 200 persons. The register dates & Upyeate cleared at 2. r5 & 7·35 p.m. week days only
INSURANCE AGENT.-Sun Fire, ·A. Foxwell, Highbury

from r83r. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £r2o, ScHOOLS:-
with residence, in t.he gift of the vicar of Kilmersdon, and National (mixed), built in 1834 & since enlarged, for 250

held since 1865 by the Rev. Thomas Pomeroy Leigh Yewens, children; average attendance, 110; Frederick George

of St. Bees. There are Weslevan and Primitive Methodist Close, master
<'hapels here. A Temperance hall was erected in 1 866, and National (infants), erected in r82o, for roo children; aver-

has one large room in which the Good Templars hold their age attendance, 65; Miss Hulbert, mistress

meetings; it is also used for lectures and occasional public Wesleyan (mixed & infants), erected in r865, for 170 chil-

meetings. The Working Men's Reading Rooms and Insti- dren; average attendance, 130; Arthur Goddard, master

tute were opened in December, r879. Coal is extensively CARRIER.-Theophilus Kirton, to Radstock, thurs.; Frome,
worked here by the Westbury Iron Company, by whom it is wed. & sat

Hobhouse Right Hon. Lord P.c.,x.c.s.r., Foxwel! Albert, stationer & printer, & Padfield Mary (Mrs.), grocer & draper

c. I.E. Newbury house deputy registrar of births, deaths & Padfield William, hair dresser

Cosh John marriages forKilmersdon sub-district, Parsons Charles, shopkeeper

Kenrick James Howard Highbury Reakes Paul, farmer, Hill ho. Lipyeate

Miller George, Flint houf'e Gilson George, dairy farmer, Lipyeate Robbins Louisa (Mrs.), grocer, baker, &

•.rurner Rev. John [Primiti-ve Methodist] Hambleton Richard, King's Head P.H agent for W. & A. Uilbey, wine &

Yewens Rev. Thomas Pomeroy Leigh, Hamblin Isaac, hardware dealer spirit merchants, Post office

Vicarage Hamblin Mercy (Mrs.), shopkeeper Sargent William Jame'l, miller (water)

COIIlMERCIAL. Hancock Edwin John, butcher Seymour Alban, shopkeeper

Adams Geo. mason & builder, Highbury Hancock Waiter, cashier at Westbury Spear Alfred, butcher

Arnold Zipporah (:Mrs.), shopkeeper Iron Co.'s collieries, Highbury Spiller John, beer retailer, Highbury

Ashman Richd. timber dealer, Lipyeate Harding John, farmer, Kilmersdon corn TemperanceHall&LectureRm. Highbury

~ryantAlfd.Anchor inn, &frmr.Lipyeate James Sarah (Mrs.), dairy farmer Timbury James, baker, Highbury

ButtonHarriett( Mrs. ),shopkpr.Highbry J ones John Marchent, shopkeeper & beer Tottle Thomas William, baker

Button James, butcher, Highbury ~eller, Highbury Treasure Albert, Greyhound P.H

Candy Geo. Torn, dairy frmr.Luckington KenrickJas.Howard, surgeon,& medical Watts Eliza (Mrs.), beer retailer, Kil-

Coleford&HighburyCo-operative Society officer to No. 6 district, Frome union mersdon common

Lim.(Evan Moore, maugr. ),Highbury King William, tailor, Highbury Westbury Iron Company's Collieries &

Cole~ZebedeeJn.grcr.&beer ret.Highbry KurtonTheo.Rose& Crown P.H.& carrier Limestone Quarries (John Batey,

Coombs Sarah (Mrs.), draper Langley Ann(Mrs. ),Eagle inn,Highbury • mining engineer & general manager;

CradockChristopher,frmr.Bennett's hill Mattick Jacob, farmer, Lipyeate Waiter Hancock cashier; Benjamin

Edgell Maria (:Mrs.), shopkeeper I Millard Edwin, farmer Martin, underground m:tnager; Jacob

Edgell Robert, farmer, Coleford farm Moon Timothy, baker, Highbury Martin, engineer), Newbury

Edgell Seward, watch maker Padfield Albert, grocer & baker Working Men's Reading Rooms & In-

FbrdChas.dairy&corn frmr.Cherry grdn ; Padfield Jas.carpntr.& shopkpr.Highbry stitute (Arthur Goddard, sec)

COMBE DOWN is an ecclesiastical parish, formed year r854. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £8o, in

Aug. 8, r854, out of Monkton Combe parish; it is 2i miles the gift of and held since 1877 by the Rev. Carr Glyn

south-east from Bath, in the Frome division of the county, Acworth M.A. fonnerly junior student of Christ Church,
east.ern division of the hundred of Bath I<'orum, Weston Oxford. 'fhe district has adopted the lighting and watching
petty sessional division, county court district of Bath, Keyns- Act, 1833 (3 and 4 Wm. IV. cap. 90), and five inspectors are
ham district of the rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of appointed. The principal landowners are the trustees of
llath and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of the Holy the late Rev. Canon Parfit D. D. and Mr. Frederick Vaughan-
Trinity, erected in r83_'), is a small edifice of stone in the Jenkins, of Combe Grove, Monkton Combe. The soil is
Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clayey; subsoil, stone. Here are some of the largest stone
nave, aisles, north and south porches and an embattled quarries in the neighbourhood ; the stone worked here and
western tower, with pinnacles and spire, containing a clock in the adjoining parts of Wiltshire under the denomination
and one bell: the chancel and aisles were added in r884: there of Bath stone, is sent to all parts of the kingdom and is
are sitl.ings for 473 persons. 1he register dates from the largely used in important J,mildings. The chief crops -are

DIRECTORY.,] .' COMBE HAY. 185

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.. SOMERSETSHIRE.

barley, oats & market produce. The area is 173 acres; the & S·IS & 8 p.m. ; the nearest te1egraph office is a1i
population in z88z was z,u6. Widcombe
National School (mixed), erected in 1840 & enlarged in
PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.- 1847, for 250 children; average attendance, 220 ; Henry
Henwood, master; Miss Emma Henwood, mistress
Henry Biggs Wren, postmaster. Letters from Bath arrive
at 7 a.m. & 2 p.m. ; dispatched to Bath at zo.zs a.m.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Thring Edmund J. H. Charlton villa HillHelen(Mrs. ),beer retlr. I Prospect pl

Ackland John Thos. I De Montalt place Treffry Miss, 2 Prior Park cottages Hillier Jas. market ga.rdnr. Trafalgar pi

Acworth Rev. Carr Glyn M.A. [vicar & TrevelyanRev.Edwn.M.A.Coombe Pk.vl Hinton Waiter, potato dlr. 3 Victoria pi

a.sst. insp.of schls. forBath],Vicarage Vincent Mrs. 2 Prior Park villas Holley Mark, coal dealer

Batchelor Mrs. Park villa . Wherrett William, Tyning house Howard Chas.M. A. prep. schl. Combe Io

Biden Mrs. Belmont villa Willis Mrs. 8 De Montalt place Jones Thomas, marketgardener,Horse-

Butcher Henry, I Clifton villas COMMERCIAL. combe vale

Carr Reg. Geo. M.A. 3 Claremont bldgs Alien Matilda (:Mrs.), dress maker Kellaway Jas. painter, near Post office

Chiffinch George, 5 Prior Park cottages Annely Thomas Bernerd,lodging house, Knott Richd. Hy. butcher, I Johnson pi

Cowan Mrs. Southfield villa 5 Isabella place Lane William Geo. dairyman,s Raby pl

Cruickshank George, Belmonthouse BarehamJames,dairyman, I Priory cots Love Edwin, quarry master

Daubeney Charles, The Brow Batchelor Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodging Magdalen Hospital (Miss Jane Quinton,

Davis Charles, Prospect house house, Park villa superintendent), Rock Hall house

Dibble James, Gladstone lodge Bathstone FirmsLimited,quarryowners MilesSarah(Mrs. ),laundrss.2 Priory cots

Dowling Mrs. 6 De Montalt place Bending James, tailor Miles William, Three Crowns P.H

Drewhurst Miss, Alma villa BodmanHenry,haulier,SonthParade cot Miner James, lodging ho. 4 Isabella pi

Dyer Mrs. 5 De Montalt place Bodman James Thomas, beer retailer Moore Joseph, grocer, Tyney place

Ellis Wm. Chas. Osmond, I Victoria pi Bodmau John, coal dealer Morgan Rose & Alice (Misses), dre~s

English William Josh, De Montalt ho Brooks Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer, makers, Oxford terrace

Fowler Rev. Fras. Wm. B. A. [chaplain I Raby place Morgan James, shoe maker, Oxford ter

of the Bath union], I Claremont bldgs Brown Fras.Jas.chemist,4 De Montaltpi Palmer Edward, boot ma. 3 Avenue pi

Franklin William, Combe villa Buck Geo.wood carver,3 Prior Park cots Pearce John, upholsterer, I Spring cots

:Fuller SidneyChas. Leedham,Carradale Clelford Elizabeth (Mrs.), milliner Riddle Frederick Denning, lodging ho.

Galindo Misses, 2 Stanley villas Clelford !<'rank, grocer 3 Isabella place

Gore Mrs. 7 De Montalt place Convalescent Home (Mrs. Anna Warr, Riddle Edwin, baker, Crossway cottage

Hanks Thomas, Prospect villa matron) Riddle James, grocer & baker

Hart Miss, Arnion lodge Cook John, butcher, 3 Prospect place Robbins Mary Ann (Mrs.), lodging ho.

Henley Mrs. Rose Mount villa Croker John, King William P.H 2 De Montalt place

Hiron Mrs. Freeman, I2 De Montalt pi Davis Charles, blacksmith Russell Edward, painter, I Berkeley pl

Hooper Mark Edward, 4 Rose mount Dainton Thomas, boot maker, Rock cots Russell Edwin, market gardener,Horse-

Howard Charles M.A. Combe lodge Dixon George, lodging house, 3 Park pl combe vale

Howard Mrs. Stanley, Welford villa Drew Thos. decorator,9 Lansdown view Singer Joseph, Hadley Arms P.H

Jeans Misses, r r De Montalt place Ellis&Lippet(Misses),drapers,4 Raby pi StennardHy.quaiTy master,rStanley vls

Kirk Mrs. 4 Prior Park cottages Ellis Henry, sculptor, 3 Rose mount Stennard William, stone mason

Leathart Miss, 3 De Montalt place Evans lsaac, haulier, Beckford cottages Sumison Henry, beer retailer & brewer

Lloyd Edward, Lake view Farr Jas. jobbing gardener,I North cots Tozer William, grocer & baker, & agent

Lundie Mrs. Livingston lodge Fisher George, builder for W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit mers

Mitchell Mrs. 9 De ~Iontalt place Ford John Lewis, carpenter, Tyney rd Tyler Julia (Miss), lodging house, I

Nash Charles, Welford villa FrancisWm.jobbing gardener,Eden cots Isabella place

NorthropRev.Wallace[Congregational], Franklin William, preparatory school Whitaker John Hector, cabinet manufr

2 Claremont buildings Gale George, builder Williams Albert, assistant inspector

Palethorpe Edward, Claremont house Godfrey Matilda (.Mrs.), coffee house, weights & measures, 2 Rose mount

Pope Miss, Grosvenor lodge Tyney road Williams Charles, butcher, I Avenue pl

Robinson Mrs. 2 lsabella place Gould Thomas, fly proprietor Williams Geo. coach bldr. Hightield pl

Rooke Misses, Breamore Grant Jas. (Mrs.), lodging ho. 2 Park pl "Williams Henry, grocer,I Sydenham ter

Shepperd An drew, Rutland villa Harril Charles Fredk.commercial school Williamstowe Rest Home (Mrs. Selina

Sloane Mrs. I Rose mount Henderson William, inspector S.P.C.A. Tucker, matron)

Stamp Jacob, Vale View house Edward's house Wolfe Henry, dairyman

Stephenson Joseph, Airedale cottage Hill Alric John, assistant overseer, I Wren Henry Biggs, grocer, & post office

Sumsion Charles, Woodbine place Prospect place

CO MBE ENGLISH, see ENGLISH CoMBE.

COMBE FLOREY is a small village and parish, I~ persons. The register dates from I566. The living is a
rectory, average tithe rent-charge £193, gross yearly value
miles north-west from Bishops Lydeard station on the West £333, including 70 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift
of the Lord Chancellor, and held since I85I by the Rev.
Somerset branch of the Great Western rail way, and 6~ Edward Ayshford Sanford M.A. of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, rural dean of Wellington district and prebendary of
miles north-west from Taunton, in the Western division of
Wells. There are charities of about £9 yearly value. Combe
the county, hundred of Taunton Dean, Bishops Lydeard
Florey House, now (1889) unoccupied, is a large building of
petty sessional division, Taunton union and county court stone, pleasantly situated on a commanding eminence near
the church. The manorial rights are the property of mem-
district, Wellington district of the rural deanery of Taunton, bers of the Helyar family. Sir Wroth Acland Lethbridge
hart. D.L., J.P. of Sandhill Park, Bishops Lydeard, is the
archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. principal landowner. The soil is a rich loam ; subsoil,
marl; and produces abundant crops of wheat, be:1ns, barley,
The church of SS. Peter and Paul is a small edifice of red mangolds, potatoes and turnips. The area of the parish is
1,352 acres; rateable value, £2,646; the population in x88I
sandstone, consisting of chanael, nave of four bays, north was 317.

aisle, south porch and an embattled western to\\er with Letters are received through Taunton at 6.45 a. m. Bishops
Lydeard is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
pinnacles containing 5 bells; the style is generally Late WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6.15 p.m. week days only

Decorated, but the tower and windows of the nave are Per- National &hool (mixed), erected about x8.t.8 &; since en-
larged at various times, for 64 children ; average attend-
pendicular ; the aisle is a modern work, very plain in style ance, 51; Sydney Brooks, master

.and originally built as a private chapel : in the chancel is a

stained window to the famous wit, Sydney Smith, rector of

this parish from 1829 till his death Feb. 22, 1845; and two

others to the Rev. Prowse Lethbridge, late rector, who died

in I85t : in the wall of the north aisle is a stone slab with

the following inscription in Lombardic lettering of the 13th

"+century to one of the nuns of Cannington, whose heart was
here immured, LE : QVER : DAME : MAVD DE : MER-

RIETE ; NONAYNE ; DE ; CANNYNTVNE;" the family of de

Merriete resided at Hestercombe: there are sittings for 200

.Sanford Rev. Edward Ayshford lii.A. Allercott Jn. miller (water),Combe mill Creed James, shopkeeper & blacksmith
[rector& prebndry. of VI ells],Rectory Baker Samuel, shopkeeper Knight John, blacksmith
Buncombe Edward, farmer Langdon Wm.T. shopkeeper, S:}ven Ash
COMMERCIAL. Burston William, farmer, Holford Rich Wm. Stag's Head P.H. Seven Ash
Cavill Thomas, shoe maker Skinner John, farmer, Yard farm
.Adams James, wheelwright, carpenter Cornish Robert, farmer, Pixford Welsh Frank, blacksmith, Seven Ash
& beer retailer

COMBE HAY is a parish and village, x! miles north of hundred of Wellow, Weston petty sessional division, county

Wellow station on the Homerset and Dorset railway, 4 miles court district and union of Bath, Midsomer Norton district

'South-west from Bath, in the Frome division of the county, of the rural deanery of Frome, archdeaconry of Wells,

186 COMBE BAY, SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

diocese of Bath and Wells. The Somersetshire coal canal held since x884 by the Rev. George English. Works

and a small tributary to the Avon passes through. 'fhe erected in this parish in x88x for the preparation of
church (name unknown) is an aqcient building of stone in "fuller's earth," of which there is an extensive bed, are still

the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of two being extended. The Roman fosse-way passes through the

bays, south aisle, vestry, north porch and an embattled parish. Leigh's charity of £6 13s. y~rly is for bread. Dr.

western tower, with pinnacles, containing 4 bells: the east John Cass Smart is lord of the manor and principal land-
window in the manorial apse was presented by Samuel owner and resides at the Manor House. Caisson House is

Butler esq. and another in the chancel by the vicar; the the residence of Samuel Evan Butler esq. .T.P. The soil is
west window was erected by Mrs. Barnard as a memorial to stone brash and clay ; the subsoil is stone. The chief crops

her husband, and on the south side are two windows, one are wheat, oats and barley, and about one-half pasture. The
placed by Mr. Webb commemorates his daughter and the acreage is r,on; rateable value, £r,688; the population in
other was given by Mr. Hill; all of these were inserted in 1821 was 184.
1876: in 1874 the church was thoroughly restored and the WALL LETTER Box cleared at 7 p. m. week days; sundays
south aisle and vestry added at the cost of S. Butler esq. : 7.15 a.m
there are sittings for 100 persons. The register dates from Letters through Bath, which is the nearest money order &
the year I539· The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 a.m

£250, net yearly value £28o, including 48 acres of glebe, National School (mixed), erected in x86g, for 45 children;

with residence, in the gift of the Rev. John G. Bingley, and average attendance, 23; Miss Mary Ann Wood, mistress

Butler Saml. Evan M.A., .T.P. Caisson ho Burridge George, beer retailer Heal Frederick, jun. plasterer
English Rev. George, Rectory
Smart Dr. John Cass, Manor house Combe Hay Fuller's EarthWorks(Saml. Hibbard Frederick, shoe maker'

COMMERCIAL. Butler& Sl.Evan Butler,joint owners) Hill William, farmer, Fortnight farm

Brown Henry, painter Fereman George, farmer, Rowley farm Purchase Edward, beer retailer
Bryant Enoch, farmer, Tunnel farm
Flower Charles, blacksmith Salter Ephraim, carpenter

Goodrop JohnMichael,farmer,Week frm J Weaver William, farmer, Fosse farm

Heal Frederick, farmer

COMBE MONKTON, see MoNKTON CoMBE.

COMBE ST. NICHOI.AS is a parish and village, 2~ visited the spot, some very good specimens of mosaic pave-

miles north-west from Chard station on the Great Western ment were disclosed, drawings of which are in the Taunton
railway, in the Bridgwater division of the county, hundred Museum; in an adjacent field a spear head and fibula were

of Kingsbury East, Ilminster petty sessional division, Chard found. Lime burning is carried on in the parish. A fair is
union and county court district, Crewkerne district of the held on the first Wednesday after December 10th, yearly,

rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton and for cattle and pedlery. The soil is various, clayey and
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Nicholas is an sandy in parts, and chalk and stone in parts; subsoil, chalk,
ancient building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, con- flint, sand and clay, and varies greatly. The chief crops
sisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles with eastern are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 4,098 acres; the

chapels, north transept, south porch and a battlemented rateable value, £7,083 ; the population in 1881 was I,I31.
western tower with pinnacles, containing a clock and 5 WADEFORD, half a mile south-east, BETHAM, Il west,
bells : the rood screen, tmce a fine work, has been removed CLAYHANGER, I mile north-east, and HAM, 2 miles north,
and placed behind the choir stalls : there are stone stair- are tithings. WADEFORD is supposed to derive its name
cases, formerly leading to the rood loft, on both sides of the from woad, a plant formerly grown for the dye obtained

church, thosb on the north side being in a small turret : in from it, used in dyeing cloth and for the manufacture of
the north and south chapels and in the chancel are piscinre, which there was once a mill here belonging to a Mr. Aplin.
and two hagioscopes remain in the chancel arch: the east Sticklepath, I mile north, Willhayne, half a' mile east, and
window is stained : beneath the belfry are two ancient Eleigh water, 2! east, are also places in this parish.

fonts ; one of these, constructed from a solid block of Ham Wadeford stream rises .about half-a-mile south-west of the
Hill stone, measures 7 feet 2 inches in circumference and 20 church, and is joined at Wadeford by the stream running
inches in diameter and is of very early date : there are two 1 from Combe Head, thus forming the head of the river Isle.
ancient monuments, dating respectively from 1644 and Parish Clerk, Francis Henry Dampier.
168o: the church was restored in 1863 and affords 450 Sexton, John Player.

Isittings. The registers date from 1678. The living is a PosT OFFICE, Combe St. Nicholas.-Francis Henry Dam-

Yicarage, average tithe rent-charge £339, net yearly value pier, receiver. Letters arrive from Chard at 7.15 a.m.;
£380, including 10 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift dispatched at 5.40 p.m. Chard is the nearest money order
of the Bishop of l3ath and Wells, and held since 1887 by the & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, but not

IRev. Arthur Cornford. There is a Baptist chapel at Wade- paid

ford. The late J. Wheadon esq. bequeathed £soo to the PosT OFFICE, Wadeford.-Henry John Badman, receiver.

poor of this parish, the dividend to be distributed annually Letters arrive from Chard at 6.40 a. m. ; dispatched at 6
on Christmas Eve, and the Feoffees' and other charities p.m. Chard is the nearest money ·order & telegraph

amount to about £2oo a year. A coffee and reading room office

was established in x883, in connection with the Mutual WALL LET'l'ER Box, Clayhanger, cleared at 5.30 p.m. week
Improvement Society, of which C. J. Elton esq. J.P. is the days only
president. Crickleaze, a mansion of white brick, in the Registrar of Births & Deaths for Chard St. Nicholas sub-
Gothic style, situated on an eminence commanding exten- district, Miss Hannah Aplin; deputy, William Watts,
sive views of the surrounding country, about half a mile Whitehall
north from White Staunton and one and a half north-west I Sanitary Inspector for Chard district of Chard Rural Sani-
from Combe, is the property of Sir Horace Davey Q.c., M.P. tary Authority, Robert Smith, Chard

and at present occupied by Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert esq. 1 Collector of Poor Rates, Edmund Symes
c S.I., c.I.E. The farmhouse at Weston is interesting, as ; ScHOOLS:-
having belonged to the Bonnor family. The Ecclesiastical National (mixed), Combe St. Nicholas, with a house for the
Commissioners are lords of the manor, principal landowners master, for 150 children; average attendance, 96: Charles

and owners of the great tithes. In a field at Higher Wade- Clark, master; Julia Frances Clark, girls' mistress
ford, in this parish, some interesting Roman remains form- Infants', a separate building, for 6o children; average at-
ing part of a Roman villa were discovered some years ago, tendance, 53 ; Elizabeth Guy, mistress
ltnd in 1866, when the Somersetshire Archreological Society ! CARRIER TO TAUNTON.-Francis Henry Dampier, sat

Combe St. Nicholas. COMMERCIAL. DampierFrancis Henry, farmer,carrier,

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Aplin Hannah (Miss), registrar of births shopkeeper, & post office

Blake Daniel, Willhayne & deaths for Combe St. Nicholas sub- Diment William, farmer, Ham
Blake Mrs. Willhayne
Brown Edward, Barley hill district Dnmmett Sydney, farmer, Longlie
Codrington Mrs. & Miss, Clayhanger
Cornford Rev. Arthur, Vicarage Bartlett Fredk. shoe maker & shopkeepr Follett James, George hotel
Cox Charles William, Combe dale
Cragie John M.D. Croft lodge Betty Richard, Green Dragon P.H Furber Henry, Golden Heart P.H
Dean John
Fowler John Bindon Robert, dairyman, Sticklepath Gardner William, farmer, Betham
Hayter Albert Henry
Hurford William, Baker's ball Bond James, farmer, Ridgeway field Gothard William, farmer, Ham
Ilbert Courtenay Peregrine, Crickleaze
Salter John R. Combe Head house Brown Frederick William, woollen cloth Hecks Mrs. & Sydney John, farmers,

manufacturer, Pudleigh mills Weston

Coate James, fellmonger &lime burner, Hobbs Ann(Mrs. ), laundress,Willhayne

Combehead Hobbs Ed win, painter &c. Willhayne

Coate William, grocer &provision dealer Lawrence Reuben, farmer, Combe head

Coffee & Reading Rooms (Cha.s. Clark, Lock James, farmer, Belcombe

sec.; Edmund Jas. Symes, manager) Locke Daniel, farmer

Counsell William, dairyman,Combe hill Marshall.I<'redk.farmer,StreetAsh farm

DIRECTORY.] SO:MERSETSHIRE. COMPTON DANDO,. 181

Marshall William, farmet", Ham Symes Edmund James, builder & assis- Zealley Arthur William
tant overseer
Martin John, blacksmith Zealley William Thomas
Pavy Fredk. & Jas. farmers, Willbayne Trout John, farmer, Combe hill COMMERCIAI ..
Phillips Samuel, farmer, Betham Turner Arthur, farmer, Clayhanger
Player Thomas, farmer, Scrapton Turner George, farmer, Eleigh water Badman Hy.Jn.gro.&ironmngr.Postofl\
Priddy Jacob, farmer, Sticklepath Watts Samuel, baker, Newtown Batten John, blacksmith
Pring Thomas, farmer, Whitehall Watts William, farmer & deputy regis- Batten Charlotte (Mrs.), milliner
Salway Emma(Mrs. ),farmr.Clayhanger
Shier John Henry, carpenter, Newtown trar of births & deaths, Whitehall Brown John W. woolstapler, Higher
Slade David, farmer, Ham Wilce Thomas, baker & farmer Wadeford
Smith William, poulterer &c.Freshmoor Willmott Mrs. farmer, Woolhayes
Spiller Ann (Mrs.), dairyman, Alterway Diment Emily (Mrs.), farmr.Langhams
Stone William, engineer & farmer~ Wadeford. Dyer Thomas, miller (water)
Owsley Arthur William, baker
Street .Ash farm Brown John, Higher Wadeford Pavey John, wheelwright
Summers Robt.saddler & harness maker Cox Miss Player John, Rising Sun P.H
Symes Waiter, carpenter &wheelwright Edwards Thomas, Higher Wadeford Stone George, farmer
Highmore William Domett Stone William, butcher
Zealley & Son,millers (water),Court mls

COMBWICH, see 0TTERHAMPTO~.

COMPTON BISHOP is a parish, 2 miles west-north- when first explored, was •splendidly ornamented on the roof

west from Axbridge, in the Wells division of the county, and sides with stalactites; some of the incrustations form
hundred of Winterstoke, petty sessional division, union, the most fantastic shapes; but it has unfortunately been

county court district, Axbridge district of the rural deanery rifled of its ornaments, and will now scarcely repay the trouble

and archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. of the descent. 'fhis manor derived its distinctive name
The \Tillage is pleasantly situated in a hollow at the southern from the Bishops of Bath and Wells, by whom it was

foot of the Mendip Hills, and open to those extensive moors possessed at the time of, or soon after, the Conquest: it was
which reach far away to Wells and Glastonbury: it extends sequestered during the reign of Edwa.rd VI. but subse-

eastward to Axbridge, the greater part of West street in quently obtained by the family of Prowse. Sir Charles
that town being within its limits, and on the south it is Mordaunt hart. D.L., J.P. of Walton hall, Warwick, is lord
bounded by the river .Axe. The church of St. Andrew is a of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is various; on

building of stone, in the Early Pointed style, consist- the hills rock, but on the low moors it is light and very
ing of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western fertilei producing early potatoes and other vegetables. The

tower with open battlement, containing 6 bells, cast in 1775: acreage is 2,535 ; rateable value, £4,646; the population in

in the chancel are remnants of ancient stained glass: the 1881 was 551, including 147 officers and inmates of Ax-

south doorway is a fine example of Norman work : in the bridge workhouse.

south aisle is a handsome monument to John Prowse esq. CRoss, which is a hamlet to this parish, formerly a noted

ob. r688 : the pulpit is a magnificent specimen of 16th station for the stage coaches, is a village on the Bristol

century carving: on the south side of the church stands an and Bridgwater road, immediately beneath the heights

ancient cross: the church was restored in 1852 and has of Mendip, half a mile west from Axbridge.

sittings for 300 persons. The register dates from 1641. Parish Clerk, Thomas Bawden.
The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £164,
ndeent cyee,airnlythvealguieft£o1f4toh,einBcilsuhdoipngof5Baactrhesaonfd glebe, with resi- Letters through .Axbridge R.S.O. via 'Veston-super-Mare,
Wells, and held arrive at 7 a.m. Axbridge is the nearest money order &

since 1848 by the Rev. William Littlehales M.A. of Exeter telegraph office

College, Oxford. In i1n6t6h9i,s Thomas Morse gave £ 26 yearly WALL LETTER BoxEs, Cross, cleared at 7.10 p.m. week
charged on his lands parish for ever, to be given one-
days & n.s a. m. sunday; & Compton Bishop, 6.45 p.m.

half at Christmas, the other at Easter, to five or six people week days only

of this parish of the greatest age and poverty, not receiving National School (mixed), restored in 1844, for 66 children;

weekly pay. Axbridge union workhouse is in this parish. average attendance, 47: William Cray, in 1728, gave seven
On a high ridge of hills to the south-west, well known as acres of land in the parish of Badgworth, the rents to be

"Crook's Peak," is a large natural cave called "Denny's applied to "teaching poor children of this parish in read-
Hole," the entrance to which is nearly perpendicular, the ing English until they shall be perfected therein;" this

roof expanding into a rough archway, forming a kind of endowment now produces £18 yearly & is applied in aid

ante-chamber to one of infinitely greater extent, which, of the school; Mrs. Louisa Smith, mistress

Browning Wm. Hy. Dnnnett cottage Butt John, farmer, Manor house Pople Edward, farmer, Newtown

Carpenter Rev. Henry [curate] Caple Charles, carpenter Say John, chimney sweeper, Cross

Collings Mrs. Cross Collings J. J. & W. E. brewers, maltsters Smith George, farmer

GrPy Mrs. Frampton house & hop merchants, Cross Smith Simon, butcher, Cross

Littlehales Rev. William M.A. Vicarage Cook John, New inn, & farmer, Cross Spratt Sandy, farmer, Wibbington farm

Parker John, Cross Curry Albert, farmer, Cross Starks Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Teek Henry T Hawkins George, farmer Teek Harry M. farmer

Teek Miss Keen Louisa (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Cross Tilley Charles, farmer, Compton house

Wade Henry, Cross Keen Robert, butter dealer Tilley Thomas, farmer, Cross

Wade Edward Fry, Cross Medlam James, horse breaker, Cross Toogood John, farmer, Bourton

Nipper Joseph, farmer, Dunnatt farm Toogood William, dairy farmer

COMMERCIAL. Parsons Geo. Edward,boot & shoe makr Vowles Charles, shopkeeper, Cross

Barrell Thomas, market gardener Poole Waiter, farmer Wade Edward, surgeon, Cross

Bawden Thomas, parish clerk & farmer Pople Albert, stone & lime merchant, Wade Edward Fry, solicitor, Cross

Burdge Richard, blacksmith, carpenter quarry owner, lime burner, assistant Willcox William, farmer, Rectory house

& dairy farmer, Cross overseer & farmer, Cross

COMPTON DANDO is a parish situated on the river is a small Wesleyan chapel. Harvey's charity of £n ss-

Chew, 8 miles south-east from Bristol, 8 west from Bath, 3i yearly is distributed. Francis William Leyborne-Popham

south from Keynsham and 2t east from Pensford station, esq. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil

in the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty ses- is in parts heavy; subsoil, clay and carboniferous strata.

sional division and union of Keynsham, county court district Most of the parish is pasture land. The parish contains

of Bristol, rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and 1,845 acres; rateable value, £2,537; the population in 18BI

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary is a was 328.
s!ll~ll building in the Gothic style .of the 14th century, con- wOOLLARD is a hamlet, partly in this parish and partly in

Sistmg of chancel, nave, n«;>rth .aisle, south P?r~h and an that of Publow. It consists of a few cotr.ages, and is divided
embattled western towe!, With_ pmna?les, cont~mmg a clock by the river Chew, here crossed by a stone bridge.
and~ bells: there are mne stamed wmdo:w~: m 1889 a new Parish Clerk John Cook.
heatmg apparatus was fixed : there are sittings for 120 per- '
sons. At the entrance to the churchyard is an ancient lych Pos.T 0FFICE.-John Weeks, sub-postmaster.. Letters ar-
r1ve from Saltford R.S.O. at 9.40 a. m.; diSpatched, 5
gate. The registers date from the year 1652, but are im-
perfect. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge p.m. week d~ys only. The nearest money order & tele-

£137, net yearly value £2oo, including 45 acres of glebe, graph office IS at Pensford

with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, National School (mixed), established in 1852, for 8o chil-

and held since 1887 by the Rev. Rees John Jeffreys. There dren; Mrs. Emelie Innes, mistress

Jeffreys Rev. Rees John, Vicarage Barnard .Alfred, farmer Buckingham George, farmer '
COMMERCIAL. Barns Sarah (Mrs.), baker Chappell George, baker & farmer
Bees Ezekiel, farmer Chiswell George, blacksmith
Alien George, farmer, Tucking mill
Baker Seth, mille:r (water) & farmer Brooks John, farmer, Mano:r farm Fra.ncis Henry, farmer,.New farm

'

188 COMPTON . D.ANDO. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY's

Harding EdwinNnth,farmer,Green frm Holbrow George, miller (water) Smith Charles, farmer
Higgins Rachael (Mrs.), beer retailer Seaward James, farmer Tbompson Farnham,fa,.,rmmer,Knoll farm
Hill Edward, farmer, Wick farm

COMPTON DUNDON is a parish, consisting of three William John Caparn, of St. .Aidans. .At Compton there is
villages (COMPTON, DuNDON and Lrl'TLETON), situated on a Congregational chapel. The charities are of small yearly
the high road from Somerton to Glastonbury, 5 miles south value. The Earl of llchester P.c. is lord of the manor and
from Glastonbury station on the Bumham branch of the principal landowner. The soil is loamy. The chief crops
Somerset and Dorset joint railway, and 3 north from are wheat, beans, barley and oats. The area is 2,568 acres;
Somerton, in the Eastern division of the county, Whitley rateable value, £3,663; the population in 188r was 574·

hundred, Somerton petty sessional divtsion, Langport union LITTLETON is 2 miles south ; CoMPTON, half a mile north-
and county court district. Ilchester district of the rural

deanery of Glastonbury, archdeaconry of Taunton and east.
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. .Andrew is an Letters, through Somerton, which is also the nearest money

ancient building of stone, in the Florid Gothic style, con- order & telegraph office, arrive at 10.45 a. m

.sisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and an embattled WALL LETTER Box at Compton, cleared :n.25 a.m.; also
western tower, containing 5 bells: there are sittings for 150 one at Dundon, cleared 11.45 a.m. week days only
persons. The register dates from 1682. The living is a Police Station C6mpton, John James, constable
vicarage, gross yearly value £300 and house, in the gift of National School (mixed), erected in r87r, for no children;
the Bishop of London, and held since 1873 by the Rev. average attendance, 67; James Swatridge, master

Compton. Wallis James, carpenter Dundon.
Rowland Mrs
White Albert, farmer Burrongh Mrs
COMMERCIAL.
Whit-e John (Mrs.), Hare & Hounds P.H Capam Rev. William J ohu, Vicarage

White Waiter, farmer Bartlett Obed, farmer, Hayes

Brewer Audrew, carpenter Witcomb Henry, farmer Cox Edward, wheelwright
Burt Emma (Mrs.), farmer Wright Tamson (Mrs.). shopkeeper Edwards Robert, farmer
Cousins Joseph, farmer & landowner Wych Edwin, blacksmith Gooden John, farmer
Edwards George, farmer Gooden Thomas (Mrs.), farmer
Edwards Mark, shopkeeper Littleton. Gooden William, farmer
Boon Frederick, Manor farm
Gooden John Fox, farmer Boon Joseph, farmer, Littleton house Green Mark, farmer, Hayes
Hobbs Joseph Edwin, farmer Boon Waiter farmer Merriott Daniel, farmer, Hayes
Merriott Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Hitchcock James, farmer Rogers Joseph, farmer, Hayes
Napper Robert, beer retailer Selway Worthey, farmer
Howland George, farmer Wych Edmund, blacksmith

CO MP TON-MARTIN is a parish and village, situated £236, net yearly value £280, including 30 acres of glebe,
on the north side of the Mendip Hills, on the road leading with house, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1884 by
from Bath to Weston-super-Mare, 7 miles north frQm Wells the Rev. John Wright Davidson, of St. Bees. The Rectory

and 6 west from Clutton station on theNorth Somerset branch house is pleasantly situated adjoining the church. There
of the Great Western railway, and II south from Bristol, in are charities of £n yearly value, derived from the rent of
the Northern division of the county, Chewton hundred, land situated in the parish of Blagdon, and distributed to
Clutton union, Temple Cloud petty sessional division and the poor yearly at Christmas. Bickfield farmhouse is sur-
eounty court district, Chew Magna district of the rural rounded by a moat, and is in the occupation of Mr. James
deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath Keel. 'fhe trustees for- Shedden esq. (a minor), who are
and Wells. The church of St. Michaelis an editice of stone, lords of the manor, Col. Edward Stock Hill c B., M.P. of
in various styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave Hazel manor, Ubley, and Charles Hill esq. J.P. of Clevedon
of four bays, north porch, aisles, and a fine embattled hall, Clevedon, are the principal landowners. The soil is red
western tower with four pinnacles and containing 6 bells : sand, resting on the mountain limestone. The chief crops
the vaulted roof of the chancel is a good example of Norman are wheat and some land in pasture. The acreage is 2,308;

work, and is divided into two bays by a massive arch, and rateable value, £3,955; the population in 1881 was 433·

has bold groining ribs springing from each angle of the MoRETON is a pleasant and picturesque hamlet 2 miles
roof and intersecting in the centre: at the east end of the north-east.
south aisle is a chapel, inclosed by a carved 'oak screen,
formerly belonging to Bickfield nunnery: the east and west PosT OFFICE.-Jn. Oliver, sub-postmaster. Letters through

windows and three others are stained: the font is Norman : Blagdon R.S.O. arrive at 9 a. m. ; dispatched at 3.50 p.m.

in the south aisle is a twisted column, beautifully carved & on sundays at 3·30 p.m. East Harptree is the nearest

and almost unique, and which many archreologists both of money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued

the United Kingdom and .America have specially examined : here but not paid

there are sittings for 240 persons. The register dates from National School (mixed), erected in 1843, for Bo children;
1559. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge average attendance, 47; Miss Alice Jane Goater, mistress

Davidson Rev. John Wright [rector] Gough John Knight, farmer Oliver John, grocer, provision dealer &
Lovell William Frederick HassellJsph.miller(water),Stratfrd.mls draper, Post office
Oliver Mark. Furlong cottage Keedwell George, farmer, Moreton
Wookey George Keel James, farmer, Bickfield farm Oakes George J. Ring of Bells P.H
Keel William, farmer, Manor farm Panes Francis, farmer
COMMERCIAL. Kew Henry, tailor, outfitter & draper & SampsonSusanna(Mrs.),frmr.Hurl's fm
.Baker Mary (Mrs.), butter dealer Smith Louisa (:Wrs. ), private school for
.Brown Hugh, dairy farmer, Home assistant overseer & deputy registrar
of births & deaths, Harptree sub-dist boys & girls, Highfield house
farm, Mendip hills Veal William, wheelwright
KingGeo.farmer, YewTree farm,Moretn
Cole Edward, farmer, Moreton Lovell William Frederick, surgeon, & Watts Henry, farmer
Durbin William, builder & farmer Welland William Thomas, farmer &
Dymock Dorothy (Mrs.), shopkeeper registrar of births & deaths for No. 1
market gardener, Highfield house
Dymock Joseph, shopkeeper Harptree sub-dist. & medical officer
Edgell William, farmer &publicvaccinator,Harptree district, Weston John, dairy fal'mer
Fox Samuel, Blue Bowl P.H Clutton union&certifying factry.surgn Williams George Henry, blacksmith

.COMPTON PAUNCEFOOT is a parish and village, house at each, in the gift of Bemard Husey Hunt esq. and

2~ miles east from Spal'kford station on the Wilts, Somerset held since 1839 by the Rev. Jam.es Senior M. A. of Emmanuel

and Weymouth bra.nch of the Great Western railway, 5 College, Cambridge. Compton Castle, the residence of

south from Castle Cary and 5 west from Wincanton, in the Dominick McG. Watson esq. is situated in beautiful grounds

Eastern division of the county, hundred of Catsash, Wincan- commanding extensive views of the neighbouring scenery.

ton petty sessional division, union and county court district, Bernard Husey Hunt esq. is lord of the manor, and sole

rural deanery of Cary, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese landowner. The soil is sandy loam ; and the subsoil is clay.

cf Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is The chief crops are grass and corn and orchard produce.

an ancient building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, The acreage is 672 ; rdteable value,£1,426 ; the population

oconsisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western in 188I was 185.

tower with spire containing 3 bells : there are six stained Parish Clerk, William Symes.

windows, including one presented in 1875 by Mrs. Wills- Letters from Bath, via North Cadbury, arrive at 7.30 a.m.
Sandford, as a memorial to her son : there are sittings for The nearest money order office is at North Cadbury, &
Castle Cary is the nearest telegraph office. WALL LETTER
100 persons. The register dates from the year 1559. The
living is a rectory, with t.hat of Blackford annexed, average Box, cleared at 6.40 p.m. ; sundays at 10.5 a. m
tithe rent-charge Compton Pauncefoot £139, Blackford

£130, joint gross yearly value £359, including 24 acres of National School(mixed), builtinr858, for 8o children; aver-

glebe at Blackford and 34 at Compton Pauncefoot, and a age attendance, 40; Miss Alice Chandler, mistress

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. CORP'J<:. 189

Watson Dominick McG. Comptoncastle ·Broadway Edmund, dairyman Symes Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Thorn William, miller (water)
Senior Rev. James M. A. Rectory Hayter William, farmer

.Atkins Thomas, blacksmith Read Noah, wheelwright & carpenter

CONGRESBURY is a large village and parish, con- from Ecclesiastical Commissioners £250, and house, in the

taining the hamlets of CADBURY and HRINSEA, alld also gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since 1867 by
HEwiSH, situated on the river Yeo, 9 miles east-north-east the Rev. Edward Henry PowellJK.A. of St. John's College.
from Weston-super-'Mare, 12 south-west from Bristol, 7~ Oxford. There are Wesleyan and Free Methodist chapels.
north from .Axbridge, and 2 south from Yatton, with a sta- and a meeting house for the Brethren. The charities are

tion on the Cheddar and Wells branch of the Great West-ern £5 yearly for bread. In the centre of the village stands a

railway, in the Wells division of the county, .Axbridge petty large cross. .A fair is held here on the first Monday after
sessional division, union and county court district, Winter- September 8th. Woodlands is the seat of Lieut.-Col.William
stoke hundred, in the Locking division of the rural deanery Long J.P. The trustees of the Bristol Blue Coat School are

of Axbridge, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and lords of the manor and the principal landowners. The soil

Wells. The church of St. .Andrew is a building of stone, in is light clay and marsh; subsoil various, stone and bog.
the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans and some land in
south transept, south porch, two small chapels, one of which pasturage. The area is 4,443 acres ; rateable value, £12,863 ~
contains a handsome monument to the Merle family, and an the population in 1881 was 1,185.

embattled western tower with pinnacles and spire, containing Sexton, St. .Andrew, Ephraim Blackmore.

a clock and 6 bells: the nave is divided from the chancel by PosT OFFICE, Congresbury (Railway Sub-Office. Letters

a richly carved oak screen: the font is of the 12th century: should have R.S.O. Somilrset added).-Charles Banwell,

the chancel retains its piscina, and there is a memorial sub-postmaster. Letters arrive at 7is,2t0hae.mn.ea&re1s.4t 5mpo.mne.y;
window to the late Rev. R. Maunsell Eyre, erected by the at the railway station.
present vicar : there are sittings for 500 persons. The re- dispatched atT5h.e3t5elpeg.mra.ph Yatton
order office. office is

gister dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

with the chapelry of Wick St. Lawrence annexed, average PosT OFFICE, Hewish (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should

tithe rent-charge £754, joint net yearly value £473, includ- have R.S.O. Somerset added).-Henry Light, sub-post-

ing n acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of trustees, master. Letters arrive at o6r. d55er a.m. ; dispatched at 6
and held since 1882 by the Rev. Robert Hedges Maunsell- p.m. The nearest money office is at Banwell &

Eyre M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. The Vicarage house, telegraph office at Congresbury railway station. Postal

a remarkable specimen of the 15th century domestic archi- orders are issued here, but not paid
tecture, was built by the trustees of Bishop Beckington (1465)
and has the arms of the see of Bath and Wells over the INSURANCE .AGENT.-County Fire & Provident Life, T.

porch. Congresbury St. Anne's is an ecclesiastical parish, Chapman, Hewish

formed June 30th, 1865, out of the parishes of Congresbury, ScHOOLS:-

Week St. Lawrence, Yatton, Hewstoke, Puxton and Banwell, National (mixed), erected in 1876, for 160 children; aver-

and is situate at HEWISH, about 2 miles west of St. .Andrew's ag-e attendance, 130; .Arthur Smith, master; Miss l\lary

church. The church of St. .Anne is an edifice of stone, in the Jane Cavill, infants' mistress

Gothic style, erected in 1865, and consists of lofty apsidal National, Hewish (mixed), erected in 1868, for 90 children;

chancel, transepts, nave and south porch: there is one bell, average attendance, 69; Miss Frances Chell, mistress

but the tower, when in course of construction it had reached CARRIER TO BRISTOL. Job Crew, Bear yard, Thomas

70 feet, fell down, and has not been rebuilt: therearesittings street, mon. wed. thurs. & sat. passing through Yatton

for 248 persons. The living is a vicarage, gross income 1 Railway Station, .Alfred Hayes, station master

Congresbury. Gooding Hannah (Mrs.), dress maker Say Henry, farmer

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Gough Mrs. farmer Say James, farmer, Brinsea farm .f.

.Adams Rev. Henry Frederick SpencAr Green Frederick, Ship & Castle P.H Sheppy Thomas & Son, corn millers

B.A.[curateofYatton chrch.],Hillside Hancock Prudence (Mrs.), farmer (water), & merchants

.Arney Mrs Hardwick Gabriel, farmer, Silver street Sheppy James, farmer, I wood

Gundry Joseph Hardwick John, farmer, Iwood Summers Thomas, refreshment rooms

Hardman Rev. James William LL.D. Hardwick John, farmer, Land Taylor Samuel, butcher

Cadbury house Harris William, farmer, Brinsea Thomas Alfred, beer retailer

Hutchinson Mrs Hayes .Alfred, station master Veal .Alfred, dairyman

Jaue William Hilman Charles, baker, corn & flour Vicarage William, farmer

Jefferies James, Yoe bank dealer & farmer Wall John, farmer, Brinsea

Long Lieut. -Col. WilliamJ. P. Woodlands J eunings Edwin, beer retailer Waiter John Henry, baker,miller(steam

Maunsell-Eyre Rev. Robert Hedges M.A. King Fredk. George, chimney sweeper & water), corn & flour dealer, Con-

Vicarage Lawrence Harry, farmer gresbury mill

Petvin Joseph, Rhodyate cottage Lawrence Thomas, farmer, Oak farm Wear Charles, beer & wine retailer

Pope James Lidbury Michael, baker & grocer WearSarah (Mrs.), beer retailer, Iwood

Sheppy Thom<ts Henry, Fern bank Light James, blacksmith Willett JuliaHannah(Mrs.),frmr.Iwood

Sholl Mrs. Kinburn house Lukins John, mason Winter John, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Macy Henry, farmer, Brinsea Young .Albert, farmer, Brinsea

Ball Charles, farmer Macy Joseph, farmer Hewish.

BoweringEdwin & Sarah(Miss),farmers Marks William, shopke-eper

Burdge Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Venus st Martin Fredk. corn. travllr.Rhodyate ho Powell Rev. Edward Henry M.A. St.

Burdge Samuel, farmer, Honey hall MitchinerEmma(Mrs.),grocer & draper Anne's vicarage

Cavill George, farmer Moody William, harness maker Champion .Albert, farmer

Cavill William, farmer, Brinsea Nash John, beer retailer Chapman Ellen (Mrs.), farmer

Champion Charles, shoe maker Nash Samuel, farmer Chapman Thomas, farmer

ChampionEdward,farmer,Church farm Osmond Thomas, farmer, Brinsea Chapman Waiter, farmer, Pool farm

Cox William, grocer & draper Parsons William, farmer Godfrey .Albert, beer retailer
Crew Job, beer retailer & carrier I Pitts John William (established 1874), Harding Stephen Martin, farmer

Davis Samuel, harness maker builder, contractor,sanitary plumber, Hurley Samuel, farmer

Day Oliver, carpenter gasfitter, bellhanger,housedecorator, Jones Edwin, farmer

Durbin .Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper painter, glazier, paperhanger &c. Knight James, beer retailer

EdwardsJas.&Lewis,farmers,Highwood Glan Yoe, Station road Light Henry, blacksmith, & pJst office

Edwards Edmund,farmer,Venus street Portch James, blacksmith Osmond .Arthur, farmer

Filer Edwin, tailor Porter Oliver, farmer, Lands farm

CORFE is a parish, 3! miles south from Taunton station, the chancel are mural monuments of marble to the Cooper

on the main line of the lTreat Western railway, in the Bridg- family, including one to Sir Frederick Grey Cooper hart. d.

water division of the county, Taunton hundred, petty ses- January 23, 1840 ; and a mural monument to Clifton Wheat
sional division, union and county court district, rural esq. of Rarton Grange, d. July 1o, 1807: there are sittings
deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath for 185 persons. The register dates from 1678. The living
and Wells. The church (dedication unknown) is a building is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £12, gross yearly value

of stone in the Transition-Norman style, and was very £145, with residence and 2 acres of glebe, in the gift of
successfully restored in 1844 by Mr. E. Ferray, diocesan Francis Wheat Newton esq. of Barton Grange, and held
architect, and re-enlarged and the tower rebuilt in 1858: it since 188o by the Rev. Thomas Crump B.A. of Wadham

consists of chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle and a College, Oxford. The poor's ground produces £7 6s. IOd.

tower at the north-west angle containing 4 bells: some of yearly. Francis Wheat Newton esq. .T.P. of Barton Grange,

the windows are stained, the east window being a memorial Pitminster, who is lord of the manor, Viscount Portm:ln and

to Dame Josepha Sophia Cooper, d. November 28, 1848 : m Robert Kinglake esq. .T.P. are the chief landowners. The

190 CORF_g. SO:\IERSETSHIRE. [KELLY'S

Isoil is loamy, red c;ay; subsoil, part clay, and in 'the more I Taunton, the nearest money order & telegraph office,

elevated parts limestone. The chief crops are wheat, oats, arrive at 8.Io a.m. Box cleared at 5·45 p.m

and there is some land in pasture. The acreage is I, I20; · Parocln.~l S?hool (m~.xed), to w~l.ch d Portman . a
the population in I88I was 385. Orchar
rateable value {,I 967. j IS
'' ' contr1butmg d1str1Ct, for 90 children; average attendance,

PosT 0FFICE.-James Manley, receiver. Letters through 79; George Brand, master
1

Codner John M.B. Woodside Codner John M.B.,C.M. surgeon,& medi- Lane Francis,relieving officer&registrar

Crump Rev. Thomas B. A. [vicarJ cal officer No. 7 district & public vac- of births & deaths for the Pitminster

Perry Henry, The Grove cinator, Corfe & St. Mary's without sub-district, Taunton union
Spencer JosephHoughton,Brookside cot
Young Edward Robert the Borough districts,Taunton union, Manley James, shopkeeper, Post office

COMMERCIAL. ·woodside Mutter Henry, shoe maker
Body Elizabeth (Miss), farmer
Bond Edwin, miller (water) Corfe Village Club (R. Huxtable, sec) Phillips Henry, farmer, Stone farm
Bond Richard, White Hart inn
Cawley Frank, blacksmith Dening Fras. Cornish, farmer, Hill frm Spiller William, farmer, Pickeridge frm

Dyer Henry, baker Stone Thos. farmer, Lower Corfe farm

Hutchings Robert, farmer, Hurless Westlake Thomas, farmer & lime burnr

Jennings Thomas, tailor Westlake Tom, farmer, Hrook farm

Leigh Misses, ladies' boarding school 1

CORSTON is a parish and village, situated on the road doc'Orated: there are sittings for 200 persons. The register

to Wells and bounded on the north by the river Avon, I dates from the year I569, and is more than usually curious.
mile south-east from Saltford station on the main line of the The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge [,I43, net

Great Western railway, and 4 miles west from Bath, in the yearly value £Iso, including 12 acres of glebe, with house,

Frome division of the county, Wellow hundred, Weston in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since

petty sessional division, union of Keynsham, Bath county I862 by the Rev. William Blake Doveton M.A. of Trinity
court district, Keynsham district of the rural deanery of College, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There are
Bath, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath and Wells. charities of [40 yearly value, for clothing. Earl Temple is
The church of All Saints is an ancient edifice of stone in the lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is

Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three stone brash ; the subsoil is stone. The chief crops are
bays, north aisle, north porch, vestry and a western tower wheat, oats and barley. The area is I 1190 acres; rateable
with low pointed roof containing one bell: there are several value, £3,947 ; the population in 188I was 385.
tablets to the Harington family, and stained windows to Parish Clerk, John Flower.
John Stuckey Lean esq. erected in 187o, and to Richard PosT 0FFICE.-Isaac Humphries, postmaster. Letters

Crawshay Hall esq. placed in I885 : in I865 the church was from Saltford R.S.O. arrive at 7.50 a.m. & 5.25 p.m. ;
enlarged, when the north aisle and porch were added, the dispatched at 4 & 7.40 p.m. ; sundays dispatched at g.25
vestry rebuilt, and. the roof thoroughly restored ; during the a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at
restoration a piscina, with cinque-foiled head and credence Twerton-on-Avon

shelf, was found built up in the western wall, and in the south National School (mixed), erected in I844, for 70 children;

wall a recess : the church is now (I88g) being repaired and average attendance, so ; Mrs. Anne Eliza Harrill, mistress

Bartel Frederick Louis, Corston lodge Britton James Capel, architect & sur- MortimoreJesse,markt.gardnr.Claysend
Britton James, Prospect villa veyor, Prospect villa Nicholas James, baker
Britton Mrs. Church cottage Osborne & Nicholds, horticulturists,
Brook Frank, farmer
Doveton Rev. Wm. BlakeM.A. Vicarage Avonwood
Hathway Misses Brooks Samborne, farmer, Aston hill Pointing Clara (Mrs.), dress maker
Fry David, The Cottage Brown Geo. jobbing grdnr. Pond's close Pointing Edward, carpenter
Maule Major-Gen. Henry Barlow R.A. Densley James, beer retailer Salmon Charles, market gardener
Densley J oseph, baker & grocer Scott Thomas, market gardener
Brookside Frappell William, farmer, Church farm
Taplin Robert, beer retailer
COMMERCIAL. Gregory Charles, farmer, Lower farm Tidcombe Thomas, Wheatsheaf P.H
Archer Alfred, jobbing gardener Humphrieslsaac,boot & shoe ma.Post off Watts George,farmer,Corston Field fMnnn
Bailey Albert, painter James Linus Bela, farmer, Manor farm Webber William, market gardener
Bennett William, carpenter Mercer George, farmer & butcher, Bay
Willis John Gale, farmer & maltster
Billett James, coal haulier Tree farm

CORTON DENHAM is a parish, 2i miles east from by the Rev. the Hon. Waiter Berkeley Portman B.A. of
Christ Church, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. 'fhe
Marston station and 3~ south-east from Sparkford station on charities amount to £2 I2S. yearly value, and are distribu-
the Great Western railway, 3~ north from Sherborne and 7i ted every Sunday in I2 penny loaves to the second poor.
north-east from Yeovil, in the Eastern division of the Some Roman remains and coins have been found at various
county, hundred of Horethorne, petty sessional division, times in different parts of the parish. Viscount Portman
union and county court distri~t of Wincanton, Milborne is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is
Port district of the rural deanery of Merston, archdeaconry sandy loam and clay; the subsoil, various, principally sand,
of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. clay and rock. The chief crops are wheat and barley, and
Andrew, built in I87o, near the site of the old church, .is an some laud in pasture. The area is 1,329 acres ; rateable value,
edifice of stone, in the Early Perpendicular style, consisting £2,051 ; the population in 188I was 389.

of apsidal chancel, nave of four bays, north aisle, south Parish Clerk, Frederick Beach.
porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles con-
taining 5 bells : the pulpit and font are of Bath stone : there

is a memorial window in the north aisle to John Heathcote L etters from Sherborne arrive daatys9. a.m. WALL LETTER
nBeoaxrecsltemaroendeyato5rdpe.rm&. week Queen Camel is the
Wyndham, d. 1852, and his wife, d. I878; and the four
windows of the apse are also stained: there are sittings for telegraph office
210 persons. The register dates from the year I538. The
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £318, net Parochial School (mixed), built in I845, at the expense of
yearly value £366, including 38 acres of glebe, with resi- Viscount Portman, for 90 children; average attendance,
44; Miss Annie Heitmann, mistress
dence, in the gift of Viscount Portman, and held since I86r

Portman the Rev. the Hon. ·waiter Croft Daniel, farmer, Corton wood Marsh Saml. Queen's ArmsP.H. & frmr

Berkeley B.A. Rectory Durrant John, shopkeeper Ryall Charles, dairyman

Hannam John Wadman, farmer, Bar- Ryall Thomas, road contractor
COMMERCIAL. ret's farm Sawtell Richard, farmer, Holway farm

Andrews Alfred, carpenter & builder Hole George, farmer, Whitcombe Smith Cornelius, shopkeeper

Brain John, farmer Hunt Isaiah, blacksmith

COSSINGTON is a pretty village and parish, 3~ miles the effigies is a marginal inscription : there are sittings for

north-east from Bridgwater, with station on the Bridgwater 16o persons. The register dates from the year I813 for

and Edington branch railway, in the Bridgwater division of baptisms and burials, and I837 for marriages; previous ones
the county, hundred of Whitley, petty sessional division, exist from the 16th century but are incomplete. The living
union and county court district of Bridgwater, rural deanery is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £r86, gross yearly
of Pawlett, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and value £234, including 55 acres of glebe, with residence, in
·wells. The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice of stone the gift of Edmund Greenhill Broderip esq. J.P. and held

in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, since 1876 by the Rev. Charles Edward Unwin B.A. of Wor-

.south porch and an embattled western tower containing a cester College, Oxford. 'fhere are charities of £9 I5S.

clock and 5 bells : there are two stained windows in the annual l·alue. In this parish is a chalybeate spring. Ed-
.nave and in the chancel is a brass with effigies (the male mund Greenhill Broderip esq. J.P. who is lord of the manor
effigy being in armour) to John Brent esq. lord of this and chief landowner, resides at the Manor House. The soil
·manor, ob. 1524, and Maude (Pansfote) bis wife; around is -red marl; subsoil, Yarious. The chief crops are oats,

DikECTORY.] SO~:IERSETSHIR~ C'OXLEY. 191

wheat, barley and green crops. The parish contains 1,375 dispatched at 8.55 p.m. The nearest money order office

acres of land; rateable value, £2,436; the population in is at Ediogton & telegraph office at Bridgwater

I881 was 227. National School (mixed), for 72 children; average attend-

IParish Clerk, Richard Greenfield Stagg. ance, 36 ; Miss Carolina Porter, mistress

PoST OFFICE.-Richard Greenfield Stagg, receiver. Letters CARRIER TO BRIDGWATER.-Gillard (from Catcott), mon.

arrive from Bridgwater at 4.16 a.m.; delivered at 7a.m.; wed. thurs. & sat

Broderip Edmund J.P. Manor house COMMERCIAL. Legg Ann (Mrs.), laundress
BroderipEdmundGreenhillJ.P.Manor ho Caswill George, blacksmith Mitchell Frederick, Cossington inn
Brown Miss, The Grove Colnet .Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Pitts Saml. threshing machine owner &c
Cook Mrs. The Grove Fry Thomas, farmer Reynolds William, farmer
Eades Frederick Hallett Wm. farm bailiff to .A. D. Gra- Roe Lot, farmer
Unwin Rev. Chas. EdwardB.A. Rectory Vowels Elias, farmer
Valiant Frederick, Cossington house ham esq Warner Frederick, carpenter
House .Allen, farmer

COTHELESTONE, or CoTHELSTONE, is a small parish of Somerton, but this title became extinct on the death of

situated ou the road from Bridgwater to Milverton, 2 miles Edward, 4th baron, in 1735. One of the wings of the house
north from Bishops Lydeard railway station on the West which had been destroyed was rebuilt about 1873, when
Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, and 7 north- other restorations were carried out; it is now a farm house,
west from Taunton, in the Western division of the county, occupied by Mr. Edwin Kidner, but the porter's lodge is
hundred of Taunton Dean, Bishops Lydeard petty sessional almost as perfect as when first built : not far from the house
division, Taunton union and county court district, Wellington is a remarkable old walnut tree, measuring 19 feet 3 inches
district of the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton, in girth and 6 feet 4 inches in circumference at 3 feet from
and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Thomas the ground: near this splendid tree is an ancient well, called
of Canterbury is a small and ancient edifice of stone in the "St. Agnes' well," surrounded by a worn stone canopy,
Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south covered with a variety of ferns and lichen. Cothelstone
chapel, south porch, and a small but massive embattled House, a mansion in the Greek Classic style and the seat of
western tower, containing 6 bells : supporting the two Charles Edward Jeffries Esdaile esq. J.P. was built in 1818,
arches which divide the nave from the south aisle or chapel and though situated in the parish of Bishops Lydeard, its
is a pillar of supposed Saxon date ; under one of these chief associations are with this parish : the front commands
arches is an altar tomb of stone, with recumbent effigies of a view of the TauntQn Vale and Blagdon Hills; on the north
a knight in armour and his lady : in the aisle is a similar are the Quantock Hills, and on the east side a beautifully
tomb, with two other recumbent male and female figures: wooded bill rises 125 feet above the level of the sea, on the
the church also contains some interesting monuments to the summit of which is a round tower, affording an extensive
Stawel family, who held the manor from the Conquest; one view over eleven counties. By a strange old custom preva-
of these in the chancel bears the date of 1603 and the other lent in the manor, certain tenements are held by payment of
to Sir John Stawel, is dated 1661 : there is also an ancient so many bushels of rye annually on Michaelmas Day, and
font: the church was extensively restored in 1864, and has the tenants are consequently known as "rye-renters."

sittings for So persons. The register dates from 166o. The Charles Edward Je:ffries Esdaile esq. J. P. is lord of the
living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £220, with residence, manor and chief landowner. The soil is a very rich loamy
in the gift of Charles E. J. Esdaile esq. J.P. and held since sand, and has a deep subsoil of loamy sand. The chief crops
1870 by the Rev. William Hexter T.A.K.C.L. Adjoining the are wheat, barley, oats and beans, with some good grazing
church is the old Manor house, a striking and interesting land. The area is 866 acres; rateable value, £x,510; the
building, and the former resrdence of the Stawels: it origin- population in 1881 was 133.
ally covered a large area, but during the Civil War, being Parish Clerk, Eli Evans.
then occupied by Sir John Stawel, a staunch royalist, it was Letters through Taunton arrive at 8 a.m. Bishops Lydeard
attacked and partially destroyed. Sir John Stawel's pro- is the nearest money order & telegraph office
perty was confiscated, but he lived to see the Restoration, Parish School (mixed), erected, with master's dwelling-
and his son, Ralph Stawel esq. in consideration of his father's house attached, in 1874, for 35 children; average atten-

loyalty, was created a peer Jan. zs, x683, as Baron Stawel, dance, 22; Mrs. S. Gayton, mistress

Hexter Rev. William T.A.K.C.L. [vicar] Gurnett James, head gamekeeper to C. 'NormanWilliam&Son,farmers & thresh-
Bond Thomas, farm steward to C. E.
E. J. Esdaile esq ing machine owners, Higher & Lower
J. Esdaile esq. J.P
Dening Thoma'l Cornish, farmer, Toul- Kidner Edwin, farmer, Cothelstone frm Cushuish farm

ton farm Kidner William,farmer,Fennington frm Sealey Mary (Miss), shopkeeper

Leakey John, wheelwright, Cushuish J

COXLEY is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Sep. 14, 1844, the Rev. Robert Ernest Wallis Ph. D. of the University of
Rostock, priest-vicar of Wells cathedral and surrogate.
from the civil parish of St. Cuthbert's Wells, ~~miles south
Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1878, and seating 100
from that city, with a station called Polsham on the Somer- persons. At Polsham there was formerly a palace of the
set and Dorset railway, and comprises the joint tithing of Bishops of Sherborne, which see, on the death of Elfwold,
CoxLEY and PoLSHAM, with HARTLAKE BRIDGE, CoxLEY 25th bishop, in 1o4r, was united to that of Wilton, Herman,
Wrcx, BARTERS HILL, CRANNELL and SouTHWAY, in the
nth bishop of Wilton, succeeding, but in 1056 he removed
Wells division of the county and petty sessional division and the united see to Salisbury. The population in 1881 was
county court district, Shepton Mallet district of the rural
619.
deanery of Pawlett., archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Parish Clerk (appointed annually), James Collins (188g).
Bath and Wells. Christ Church, built by subscription in
PosT OFFICE.- Jeremiah Salisbury, receiver. Letters
:x839, is a small edifice of stone in the Early English style, through \.Yells, the nearest money order & telegraph
consisting of chancel, nave, west porch and a western bell-
office, arrive at 6.30 a. m. ; dispatched at 6.15 p.m
cote containing one bell : the windows in the chancel are LETTER Box, Polsham, cleared at 5.50 week days only
~tained: the church will seat 300 persons. The register Board School (mixed), for 112 children; average attendance,
dates from the year 1839. The living is a vicarage,
71 ; Miss Margaret Gleaves, mistress
net yearly value £3oo, with residence, in the gift of the Railway Station, Polsham, George James, station master
vicar of St. Cuthbert's, Wells, and held since x863 by

Bowring Robert, Elm villa, Polsham Brinson Thomas, cowkeeper, Barters hi GunninghamJane &Mary(Misses),lndry

I<'rith Edward, Southway Brunt John, farmer, Polsham Gunningham John Serel, wheelwright

Hill Miss, Wick cottage Burridge Joseph, carpenter Hall Charles (Mrs.), Coxley Pound inn

Lax Robert, Polsham house Callow Robert, shoe maker, Wick Harding John Thomas, frmr.Harters hi

Salmon Henry, Coxley house 1 Carey Joseph, farmer, Wick Hole John, coach builder

Salmon Henry Charles, Coxley house Cattle Thomas, thatcher James George, station master,Polsham

Vowles Mrs. Elm villa, Polsham Coles Jn.corn miller(water),Coxley mill James Thomas,farmer,Southway house

Vowles Samuel, Elm villa, Polsham Collins James, farmer Keen Samuel, farmer, Crannell

'Yallis Rev. Robert Ernest Ph.D. [vicar Collins James, jun. farmer, Harters hill Lax Robert, farmer, Polsham

& surrogate], Vicarage Crossman Frances(Mrs. ), Blue Bowl inn Nurse Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Wick

'Welch John, Melsbury Doble Joseph, farmer, Hartlake bridge Nurse l<'rederick George, farmer, Wick

COMMERCIAL. Evett William Clarke, painter, \Vick Pike Edward, farmer

Adlain George, farmer, Polsham Francis Chas. beer ret. & grcr. &prov.dlr Pitman Charles, farmer, Garslade

Baker William, beer retailer FrancisEdwd.haulier&cowkpr. Vine frm Plenty John, farmer, 'Wick

:Bennett James, haulier Francis Edward, jun. haulier ::5alisbury Jeremiah, proprietor of dril

Bowring Rbt. land agt.Elm Yil.Polsham Frith Elizabeth (Mrs.),farmer,Polsham ling machines &c. Post office

Boyce Frederick, farmer l<'rith Robert, farmer, Polsham I1Salmon Henry Charles, corn merchant!
Boyce Mary (Mrs.), farmer Frith William, farmer, Polsham Shore Alfred, blacksmith

Boyce Thomas, farmer Gould Matthew, farmer_, Keen Hall frm Stott Thomas, farmer, Polsham

1U2 COXLEY. ..SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY's

Tucker Charles, farmer, Wick Watts John, wheelwright &c White Sarah (Mrs.), farmer,' Harters hl
Tucker Henry Lax, farmer, Polsham Welch John, farmer, Melsbury Wicks James, farmer, Polsham
Vincent William, farmer White James, farmer Wood Edward, boot & shoe maker

EAST CRANMORE is a parish, 4t mi1es east from West Cranmore. On a high hill on the Mendip range, and

Shepton Mallet, I mile east from West Cranmore station on in this parish, is a tower erected in 1862 by J. M. Paget esq.

the Witham and Wells branch of the Great Western railway, father of the present lord of the manor, and forming a con-
in the Frome division of the county, Frome hundred and spicuous object for many miles around : in the interior is a

county court district, Shepton Mallet union and petty ses- spiral staircase leading to two balconies, one half way up,

sional division, Shepton Mallet district of the rural deanery and the other at the top, from which extensive views can be
of Pawlett, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and obtained: the tower is open to the public on Mondays and
Wells. The church of St. James, erected on the site of the Thursdays. The interest of Jones' charity of £212, founded

old church in 1846, is a building of local freestone in the in 1787, and amounting to £6 7s. 9d. is distributed in cloth-

Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transept, ing st Christmas. Cranmore Hall is the seat of Lieut.-Col.

south porch, and a belfry with spire with one bell : the Sir Richard Horner Paget hart. M.P., D.L., .J.P. who is lord
stained east window was erected in 1846 in memory of Mrs. of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is sandy; the
Gough : there are sittings for 100 persons. The register subsoil is freestone and limestone. The land is principally
dates from 165s. The living is a chapelry, annexed together in pasture. The acreage is 980; rateable value, £1,377; the
wiLh those of West Cranmore and Downhead, to the vicarage population in 1881 was 131.
of Doulting, joint yearly value from tithe rent-charge and Parish Clerk, Arthur Moore.
IS5 acres of glebe £64o, net £466, with residence, in the
gift of J. F. Fortescue Horner esq. and held since 1867 by Letters received through Shepton Mallet via West Cranmore.
the Rev. James Hamilton, of Corpus Christi college, Cam- The nearest money order office is at Doulting

bridge. The Rev. Henry Owen Powell Jones M.A. of St. The children of this place attend the school at West Cran-
John's College, Cambridge, is curate in charge of East and more

Jones Rev. Henry Owen Powell lii.A. COMMERCU.L. Moore Arthur, gardener to Lieut.-Col.
[curate in charge &assistant diocesan Sir Richard Horner Paget hart. M.P.,
inspectr.of schools],Cranmore cottage Gould Edward, dairy farmer, Cold D.L., J.P
Harbour farm
Paget Lieut.-Col. Sir Richard Horner Wright George, bailiff to Lieut.-Col.
hart. lii.P., D.L., J.P. Cranmore ball; Hoddinott Jane (Mrs.),farmer,Western Sir Richard Horner Paget hart. M.P.,
& ss Queen Anne street w & Carlton farm
club s w London D.L., J.P
Hoddinott Frederic, farmer, Heale

WEST CRANMORE is a parish and village, with a these an output of roo,ooo tons of stone, lime and asphalte

station on the East Somerset branch of the Great Western is annually sold and delivered throughout the kingdom ; the

railway, 111 miles from London and 3~ east from Shepton stone is purely a local deposit of an extremely hard nature,

Mallet, in the Frome division of the county, Wells Forum in appearance much like granite; the gravel has special

hundred, Shepton Mallet petty sessional division and union, properties, and is largely used for carriage drives, side walks

Wells county court district, Shepton Mallet district of the &c. ; the asphalte is made by machine process, and the lime

rural deanery of Pawlett, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese is of the carboniferous strata and very productive (on slak-

of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Bartholomew is an ing). The various works afford employment to a consider-

ancient edifice of local freestone in the Early English style, able number of men. A great quantity of cheese and butter

consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisles, south is made here. South Hill House, the property of Colonel

porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles con- Edward Strode J.P. who is lord of the manor and sole land-

taining s bells: there are memorial windows to Admiral Sir owner, is a mansion of stone in the English Domestic style,

E. Chetham Strode K.C.B., K.C.H. d. 1862, Captain Julius situated in a well-wooded park, and is now the residence of

Strode, 14th Regiment, and of Lady Chetham Strode : in William Belgrave esq. The soil is sandy ; the subsoil is free-

the church is preserved an antique oaken bier, now used stone and limestone. The land is chiefly in pasture. The

only in the church ; it has the inscription : acreage is r,814; ·rateable value, {,2,920; the population in

" RICHARD DOLE r881 was 284.

CHURCHWARDEN," DEAN is a hamlet, half a mile north-north-east. Here is a

but no date: there are sittings for 180 persons. In the Wesleyan chapel.
churchyard is an ancient cross IS feet in height, and in
good preservation. The register dates from the year 1659. WATERLIP hamlet is r mile north-north-west.
The living is a chapelry, annexed, with those of East Cran- Parish Clerk, James Voysey.

more and Downhead, to the vicarage of Doulting, joint PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Caroline Thompson, receiver. Letters

yearly value from tithe rent-charge and ISS acres of glebe arrive from Shepton Mallet at 7.40 a. m. & 4 p.m. ; dis-

£64o, net £466, with residence, in the gift of J. F. Fortescue patched at S·50 p.m. The nearest money order office is

Horner esq. and held since 1867 by the Rev. James Hamilton, at Doulting & the telegraph office is at the railway station

of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. The Rev. Henry WALL LETTER Box, cleared on week days 5.30 p.m. ; sun-

Owen Powell Jones lii.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, days, no collect;on

is curate in charge of East and West Cranmore, and resides National 8chool, erected in 1840, for 70 children; average

at East Cranmore. The " Black Rock" stone quarries, and attendance, 6o ; Mrs. Witcombe, mistress

lime, gravel and asphalte works are situated here ; from Railway Station, George King, station master

Belgrave William ,South Hill house J Dowling Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Dean Lintern James, wheelwright, Dean

Hamblin John, Belle Vue Harding Richmond, farmer Martin Elias, bailiff to John Hoddinott

COliiMERCIAL. Hoddinott Sidney, farmer, Dean bottom esq. Harwood farm

Black Rock Stone, Lime, Road Stone, 1 Lane Waiter, boot & shoe maker, Dean Selway James, farmer, Burnt house

Gravel & Asphalte Works (William . Lintern Brothers, blacksmiths, wheel- Somers William, farmer, Alham farm

B. Beauchamp, proprietor; John 1 wrights & cheese press manufrs. Dean StrongCharles,Strode Arms P.H.&farmr

Hamblin, manager); & at Winsor Lintern Alfred William, assistant Trotman William, boot maker, Dean

hill, Shepton Mallet. See advert overseer & collector of income tax for YeomanRichd.farmr.&corn factor,Deau

Bown Jane (Miss), farmer, Dean bottom E. & W. Cranmore & Downhead

CREECH ST. MICHAEL (or CREEK ST. MrcHAEL, the church was restored in 1868, and has 3SO sittings: in ·
so named from the bend which the river takes at this place) the churchyard are two yew trees of great age. The register
is a parish and village, situated on the river Tone, about 3 dates from 1668. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge
miles east from Taunton station, on the Bristol and Exeter £383, net yearly value £380, with residence, in the gift of
section of the Great Western railway, in the Bridgwater and held since 1872 by the Rev. James Bownes M.A. of
division of the county, hundred of Andersfield, Taunton Trinity College, Cambridge. Here are Baptist and Wesleyan

petty sessional division, union and county court district, chapels. Dowlin's charity of £8 ss. yearly is for fuel. John
rural deaconry and archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese Wheadon, who died in 1862, bequeathed£250 to be invested
of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michael dates from in Consols, the interest arising therefrom to be distributed·
the 12th century, and is a building of stone, consisting of among the poor of the parish on December 24th, annually.
chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, and an embattled tower Court Barton, the property pf Mrs. Dunning, is an ancient
on the south side containing a clock and 5 bells : there IS a mansion : the north aisle of the church belongs to the Court;
curious old tomb to Robert Cuff, of this parish, ob. IS97• Barton estate. There are paper mills at Chard Junction,.

and tablets to the Sealey and Trivitt families: in a niche erected at a cost of about £3o,ooo by Messrs. A. and R.

over the west door is a singular representation of "The Sommerville. Mr. Edwin Howard, of "\Vellin.,o-ton, is lord of
Crucifixion," and on the side of the doorway is a figure of the manor; and Mrs. R. K. Mead-King, Col. Henry Bethune
St. Michael: the reading desk of carved oak is dated 1634: Patton J.P. of Stoke House, Stoke St. Mary; George Coombe

JDIRECTORY. SOMERSETSHIRE. CREWKERNE. 193

esq. and Mrs. Dunning are the chief landowners. The soil PosT 0FFICE.-Henry Philip Dykes, sub-postmaster. Letters

is rich loam; subsoil, clay, lo~m and sandstone. The chief arrive at 7 a.m. from Taunton, through Henlade & are

crops are wheat and barley, with rich grazing land. The dispatched at 6.30 p.m. The nearest money order & tele-

area is 2,250 acres; rateable value, £10,86o; the population 1 graph office is at Taunton. Postal orders are issued here,

in r88r was I, 163. but not paid

HEATHFIELD, I mile north, and ADSBOROUGH, 3 south,

are villages in this parish; and the hamlet of HAM, I mile National School (mixed), erected, with master's house, in

north, is partly in this parish and partly in North Curry. I873, for 2I2 children; average attendance, I24; William

Parish Clerk, James Totterdale. Hurrell, schoolmaster

Bownes Rev. James M.A. Vicarage Day John (Mrs.), farmer Mountstephens Charles, carpenter

Coulthurst Warren, Lyndenhurst, Ads- Day William, Star P.H. Adsborough Paulin William Bradshaw L.R.C.P.Edin.

borough Day Worthy, farmer, Long Aller surgeon & medical officer, No. 3 dist.

Dunning Mrs. Creech villa Diment James, White Horse P.H. Ham Taunton union

Mead Miss Drew Manara, butcher, Ham Pendry Jas. market gardnr. Long Allel"

Matthewsou James, Tone Bridge villa Drew Robert, farmer, Ham Perris Edward, basket maker, Ham

Paulin William Bradshaw Dunning Jn. Hy. farmer, Court Barton Rails Frederick, butcher

Sommerville Reginald, Curvalion house Dykes Henry Philip, grocer, Post office Richard Thomas, miller (water)

Wood Waiter, Charlton house Fry William, mason RichardsJn.Slocombe,farmr.LongAller

COMMERCIA,L. Godfrey Francis, farmer, Adsborough Sidwick Richard, shopkeeper

Barrington James,cattle dealer & farmer Heale Levi, farmer, Adsborough Smith Eli, Bell inn

Barrington William, farmer, Ham Hitchcock John, boot & shoe maker Smith Thomas, shopkeeper

Bobbett William (Mrs.), farmer Hopkins Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher Sommer\-ille A. & R. paper manufrs

Brass Charles Gordon, baker Howe Robert, shopkeeper Stevens Francis & William, blacksmiths

Brass Edward, mason Hunt Thomas, nurseryman Thorn Thomas, quarryman

Bras-1 Robert, mason Imber Henry, beer retailer, Ham Thresher Geo. shopkeeper, Adsborongh

Brass Thomas, tailor Kelland William Henry, tarmer Totterdell James, jun. carpenter

Brewer Geo. coal mer. & shopkpr. Ham Leach Geo. boot & shoe ma. Heathfield Trivitt Edwd.&Hy. Wm.frmrs.LongAllr

Cheston Wm. asst.overseer, Arundel ho Lock Frederick, baker Trott Charles, market gardener

Clode John, farmer Morris Charles, shopkeeper,Adsborongh Underwood Frederick, farmer

Coombe George, yeoman, Charlton Morris Clement, farmer, Walford farm Webber John, shopkeeper & carpenter

Day James, brewer Morris Frederick, farmer

CREWKERNE is a parish and market town, and head extent, with an additional four acres adjoining in reserve, is

of a petty sessional division and county court district, with situated at the top of Mount Pleasant, and about half a mile

a station about one mile south from the town on the London from the centre of the town, and was opened in I874: it

and South Western railway, I32 miles from London, 9 contains a superintendent's house and two mortuary

south-west from Yeovil, 8 east from Chard, 28 south-east chapels, connected by an arch supporting a bell turret and

from Taunton and 30 east-south-east from Wellington, in spire : it is under the contrel of a burial board of 9 members.

the Southern division of the county, hundred of Crewkerne, The manufacture of horsehair seating, sail cloth, webbing,

Chard union, rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of twine and shirts, gives employment to a considerable number

Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The town is of hands, and there is also a brewery. The police station is

.supplied with water by a company from reservoirs at in East street. The market is held on Wednesday and on

"Maiden Beech Tree," and a system of drainage has been Saturday; an annual fair on the 4th September, and a

-completed. The church of St. Bartholomew is a handsome monthly sale of cattle and sheep is held on Wednesday and

-cruciform building of stone, in the Decorated style, consisting frequently at shorter intervals on market days. The C Troop

of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, transepts, south porch, of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry and head quarters

and a lofty embattied central tower with angle turrets con- of G Company of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Prince Albert's

taimng a clock with chimes and 6 bells : this church is Somersetshire Light Infantry are stationed here. The chari-

believed to stand on the site of a church mentioned in ties are of the yearly value of £I2o, and there are two alms-

"Domesday," and dedicated to St. Stephen; all traces of the houses, the old almshouse having 8, and the new I2 inmate8.

Saxon church, and of any Norman building which may have The Hospital, founded by Mr. Robert Bird in I866, is sup-

succeeded it, are entirely gone, but evidences appear of a ported by public subscription and donations, and contains

ehurch of the I 3th century, and from certain peculiarities of I9 beds; patients pay from 2s. to 8s. weekly, but indigent

the place and arrangements, it would seem probable that the persons are not debarred from admission. Earl Poulett,

present church has portions of that church incorporated who is lord of the manor, Lord Portman, Col. Hussey, John

with it : there are remains of ancient stained glass in some James Poole esq. George Poole esq. Francis Henry Hooke esq.

of the windows: a memorial window was erected in I884 to of Clapton Court, Capt. Draper, Col. Mclntosh, B. J. M..

the Wills family, and in the north or archdeacon's aisle is Donne and P. T. Phelps esqs. are the chief landowners.

another, erected in I88o to the Rev. W. Breay, late vicar : the The highway leading from here to Chard (commencing at

church was generally restored, with the exception of the Roundham) is commonly called the backbone of the two

chancel, in I888, at a cost of £3,300, of which sum Major channels, and is the division of the watershed of the counties,

.Sparks, of Crewkerne, contributed £100: the church will the water on the south side of the road feeding the river Axe,

seat I,ooo persons. The register dates from 1585. The on the north the river Parrett, and flowing respectively to

living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £3oo, with residence, the English and Bristol channels. St. Reine's Hill, situated

in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, and held on the farm of William Penny esq. at Coombe, near here,

.since r884 by the Rev. Robert Holme M.A. late fellow of is the farthest point in this direction at which chalk is

Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, and surrogate. Christ obtainable. The soil is sand, with a subsoil of rock. The

church, situated in South street, and erected in 1854 as a hills in the south and south-west are chalk. The farms

-chapel of ease, is a building of stone in the Perpendicular consist of arable and pasture land. The parish contains

style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, north aiSle, 5,994 acres; rateable value, £26,rii; the population in I88I

north porch, and a turret containing one bell : the stained was 4,988.

window was erected in I886 by Major Sparks in memory of CLAPTON, 3 miles south-west ; CooMBE, 2i south-west ;
his wife: there are 450 sittings. The Baptist chapel, North EASTHAMS1 I mile east; FURLAND, I~ miles north-by-west,
street, founded in I82o, will seat 500 persons. The Bible and WooLMINSTONE1 2 south-west, are tithings in the parish.
Christian chapel, West street, erected in 1872, will hold I20 HEWISH is I~ miles south-west; here is school chapel in con-
persons. The Unitarian chapel, Hermitage street, erected
in 1733 and restored in I8n, has ISO sittings. The Wesleyan nection with St. Bartholomew's, erected in 1868, and seating
chapel, South street, built in 1872, has 400 sittings. The
Ioo persons.

.Brethren have a meeting room in East street, built in I863, ROUNDHAM is a hamlet, I mile west.

.and seating I2o persons. A public cemetery, four acres in Parish Clerk, John Sparks; deputy, George Holman.

Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c.

PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, London & all parts at 6.50 p.m.; Bridport, Beaminster,
East street.-Miss Ellen Budge, postmistress. Letters are Crewkerne (rural) at ro p.m. Town deliveries from all
dispatched to London, Yeovil, Salisbury, Bridport, Dor- parts at 7 a.m.; from Southampton & South West of
chester, Weymouth, Axminster, Honiton & Sidmouth at England at 7-45 a.m.; from London, North of England,
Scotland, Ireland, Exeter, Plymouth &c. at 3.20 p.m. ;
u.ro a.m.; to North of England, Ireland & Scotland,
West of England, Taunton, Chard &c. at I.50 p.m. ; to from Crewkerne (rural), Bridport & Beaminster at 7.30
p.m. Sunday, delivery at 7 a.m. ; dispatch for all parts,
Southampton & South West of England at 5.Io p.m. ; to

8. G. & B. 13

J.94 CBEWKERNE. SOl\1ERSETSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

6.50 p.m. Money orders are granted from 9 a.m. to 6 Certifying Factory Surgeon & Medical Officer & Public

p.m. ; on saturdays till 8 p.m. Telegrams received from Vaccinator, No. 7 District, Yeovil Union & Misterton Dis-

8 a.m. to 8 p.m trict, Beaminster Union, Charles Edward Alford, Market.

PosT OFFICE, Clapton.-John Churchill, receiver. Letters square

arrive from Crewkerne at 8.35 a. m. ; dispatched at 4.25 Clerk to the Highway Board & to the Trustees of the Old

p.m. ; neither arrival nor dispatch on sundays & New Almshouses, W. B. Sparks

WALL LETTER BoxEs.-Hermitagestreet, cleared 10.40a.m. Clerk to the Governors of the Grammar School, John

& 4.45 & 6.45 p.m. week days only; & Hewish, cleared at Sparks

8.30 a.m. & 4·45 p.m. week days only Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Crewkerne District,

CouNTY MAGIS'l'RATES FOR CREWKERNE PETTY SESSIONAL Chard Union, William Woolmington Webber L.R.C.P.Edin.
. DIVISION. Sheepmarket street
Registrar of ..lHrths & Deaths for Crewkerne Sub district,
Hoskins Henry William esq. M.A. North Perrott manor, John Marsh, Oxen lane; deputy, William Warren Marsh,
Crewkerne, chairman
Blacknell terrace
Blake Major Malachi Locke, Bridge ho. South Petherton S.O Registrar of Marriages, George Frederic Wills, East street;
Blake William esq. D.L. Bridge house, South Petherton S.O deputy, C. E. Alford, Market square
Body Wm. Trevelyan esq. Chedington court, near Crewkerne Relieving & Vaccination Officer for Crewkerne District, John

Body Capt. Wm. Trevelyan,Chedington court,nearCrewkerne Marsh, Oxen lane

Hoskins Col. Arthur Reginald R.A. King Ina's palace, South Surveyor of Roads & Inspector of Nuisances for th&

Petherton, llminster Crewkerne District, Frederick Brake, Townsend villa

Lean James esq. Oaklands, South Petherton S.O PLACES oF \\-•oRSHIP, with times of Services:-

Pester Major-Gen. Hugh Lowman, Fern lodge, Weston, Bath St. Bartholomew's Church, Church street, Rev. Robert.

Sawyer Lieut.-Col. Edward Sawyer, St. George's house, Holme M.A. vicar; Rev. Charles Barnes M A. & Rev.

near Crewkerne William Hope Dixon B.A. curates; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.;

Sparks Major William, Crewkerne wed. 11 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.; fri. 11 a.m. & on saints' days
Clerk to the Magistrates, John Sparks, East street Christ Church, 11 a.m. 3 p.m. & 6.30 p.m

Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall every saturday at School Church, Hewish, 2.45 p.m
n a.m. The following places are included in the Petty Baptist, North street, Rev. James Cruickshank, minister;
Sessional division :-Crewkerne, Haselbury Plucknett, JI a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; mon. & wed. 7-45 p.m.
Hinton St. George, Lopen, Merriott, Middle Chinnock, Brethren, East street, no stated minister; 10.45 a. m. &.
Misterton, North Perrott, Seaborough, Wayford & West 6.30 p.m
Chinnock
Bible Christian, West street, Rev. Elijah Fanll, minister;

INSURANCE AGENTS:- 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. & fri. 7.30 p.m
Alliance, William Alford, Market square
Commercial Union, George Parry, Wilts & Dorset Bank Unitarian, Hermitage street, no stated minister; II a. m.

Economic Life, J. Perry, Stuckey's Bank & 6.30 p.m
General, J. W. Munden, East street
Wmeisnlei•sytaenr,; South street, Rev. Richard Francis Broomfield,
10.45 a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m

Hand-in-Hand, A. Cooke, 2 Hermitage terrace ScHOOLS :--'
Norwich Union F1re, J. Perry
Phcenix Fire, G. R. Blake, Church street Crewkerne Free Grammar, Mount Pleasant, founded in
Provident Life, G. Parry, Wilts & Dorset Bank 1499 by John de Combe, treasurer of Exeter Cathedral,
Prudential, John Stembridge, Church street was reconstituted by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth
Reliance Mutual Life, W. D. Ewens, Gouldsbrook terrace
Rock Life, Sparks & Blake, East street ; & W. Farmer in I56o, & in 188o was reorganized by the Charity Com-
Royal Exchange, T. Palmer, Abbey street; & A. Hart missioners & new buildings erected on a site in the out-
Sun Fire, G. Parry, Wilts & Dorset Bank skirts of the town, commanding a very extensive view :
Union Fire & Life, S. H. Warren, Church street the schoolroom is adorned with stained windows to the
memory of the founder (John de Combe) & to the late
PUBLIC EsTABLISHMENTs :- Charles Penny D.D. some time head master; the former
was presented by Major Sparks & the latter by the
Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, William Alford, Market square, children of Dr. Penny: the school is available for 70
derk to the board ; William Clark, superintendent· boarders & has an endowment of £500 yearly, of which
County Court, Town hall, His Honor J ames Machonochie, about £104 is expended yearly in exhibitions &c.; these
judge; John Sparks, registrar; William Blencowe Sparks,
deputy registrar; Henry Nichol esq. treasurer; James include one of £6o, tenable for 3! years at any university,
Lacey, assistant bailiff. The county court is held in the
Town hall every month. The following places are within six scholarships of £10 & Foundation scholarships in the
form of exemption from fees. A swimming bath was
the county court jurisdiction :-Allowenshay, Ashcombe, erected in 1888, & adjoining are grounds which, including
Beerchapel, Cheddington (Dorset), Chillington, Chisel-
borough, Clapton, Cold Harbour, Combe Farm, Compton, the site, cover about 9 acres: Rev. Frederic Weller M.A.
Jesus College, Cambridge, head master, with 9 assistant
Corscombe, Crewkerne, Cudworth, Dinnington, Easthams, masters
Furland,Greenham, Haselbury Plucknett, Henley,Hewish, A School Board of seven members was formed December 2,

Hinton St.George, The Holts, Horn Ash,Kingstone Lopen, 1875, for the united district of Crewkerne & Wayford;
Laymore, Ludney, Merriott, Middle Chinnock, Misterton, William Alford, Market square, clerk to the board;
Mosterton (Dorset), North Perrott, Oathill, Roundham, William Phelps, West street, attendance officer
Seaborough, Seavington St. Mary & Seavington Abbott, Board (mixed), North street, erected in 1877, for 130
Seavington St. Michael, Severals - Lower, Shepton children; average attendance, 146; "\\.illiam Millard,
Beauchamp, Southcombe, South Harp, South Perrott
(Dorset), South Petherton, Stocklinch Magdalen, Stock- master; Miss Bertha Male, mistress; Miss Emily Roberts,
infants' mistress
linch Ottersey, Wayford, West Chinnock, West Dowlish, Clapton Board (mixed), under Crewkerne & Wayford
Wood Farm & Woolminstone Board ; erected in 1878, for 190 children ; average atten-
Certified Bailiffs under the Law of Distress Amendment dance, 120; William Joseph Munden, master
Act, 1888 :-James Lacey, Lyewater, Crewkerne; John National, West street (mixed & infants), erected in 1847 &
Vagg, South Petherton enlarged in 1871, for 270 boys, x8o girls & 230 infants ;
Hospital, South street, Charles Edward Alford, William average attendance, 170 boys, 165 girls & 150 infants ;
Woolmington WebberL.R.C.P.Edin. Francis ParsonsKitson Henrv Gould, master; Miss Jane White, mistress; Miss
L.R.C.P.LOnd. & Edward John Cave M. D. surgeons; George Louisa Margaret Smith, mistress ; Miss Rosina Ridge,
Ridsdale Blake, sec assistant mistress
Wesleyan (mixed), South street, erected in 188o & en·
Inland Revenue Office, Mount Pleasant, Edgar Octavius
Thomas, officer ' larged in 1887, for 105 children; average attendance, 104 ;
Police Station, East street, Joseph Holwill, sergeant & 2 Benjamin Gee, master

constables CONVEYANCE : -

Stamp Office, Miss Elizabeth Budge, Post office, East st Railway Rtation, John Faulkner, station master

Volunteer :Fire Brigade; engine house, Church street, Omnibus from the George hotel to the railway station to

George Slade, captain, & 14 men meet every train daily (except sundays)

VOLUNTEERS:- Omnibus from Bridport through Beaminster to Crewkerne

West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (C Troop), Major C. H. station & back, once daily

Elers; Sergeant-Major James Smith, drill instructor CARRIERS:-

Prince .Albert's Somersetshire Light Infantry,2nd Volunteer John Slade & Son, per London & South Western railway
Battalion (G Co.) ; armoury at Goulds ,Barton; Major company. Vans leave station, daily, at 9 a.m. for Bea-
John Perry; T. Matthews, drill instructor
minster .
P'UBLIC OFFICERS : -
Sutton & Co. Delh·ery Co. (ag~nt, John Stembridge),

Assistant Overseer, James Withers Munden, East street Church street

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. CREWKERNE. l95

PRIVAT' E RESIDENTS. 5am,on Rosa, Southfield ho. Gas lane Cave Edwd. Jn. M.D. surgn. Church st

Adams Mrs. Mount Pleasant Saunders Charles Francis, Market sq Chant Anthony, dairy, Haselbury road

Alford Charles Edward, Orchard house, Searle John, North street Chard James, farmer, Blackmore

East street Slade Benjamin, Lawn villa Chard Thomas Norman, boot manu-

Alford William, Ashlands house Slade John, Sheepmarket street facturer, Sheepmarket street

Atkinson Wm.Jsph.4HermitageLow.ter Smith James, Blacknell ChristopherFk.Geo.photographr. East st

Baker Miss, Abbey street Smith John Thomas, East street Churchill Chas.beer retailer,Roundham

Bargery George, Hermitage street Smith Solomon, Gould's Barton Clapp Thoma~, dairy, East street

Barnes Rev. Chas. M.A.[curate],East st Southcombe Evan, Market square ClarkMaryAnn(Mrs.),shopkpr.North st

Beatts James Nairn, North street Southcombe R. N orman,Market square Clark Nathl. watch ma. Sheepmarket st

Bishop Mrs. North street Sparks John, Bincombe house Clark Robert, wheelwright, & Antelope

Blake Edward Jarman, The Old House Sparks Maj. William D.L., J.P. East st inn, North street

Blake Geo. Ridsdale, West lo.Abbey st Stagg<James, East street ClarkeGeo.mason,2HermitageHighr.ter

Bond Joseph R. Abbey street Stembridge Alfred, East street Clarke Thomas, saddler, South street

Brewer John Martin, Mount Pleasant Stembridge Charles, Mount Pleasant Clift John, blacksmith, Abbey street

Broomfield Rev. Richard Francis [Wes- Stembridge Thomas, Church street Coles Thomas William, confectioner &

leyan], West End house Stoodley Frederick, Chards house corn dealer, Market square

Budge John, Fore St. house, Market sq Stringfellow Frederic John, East street Collard James, shopkeeper, Church st

Bullen Miss, Gouldsbrook house Thomas Edgar Octavius, Mt. Pleasant Collins Henry, blacksmith, Hewish

Cave Edward John M.D. Church street Tidcombe John James, Abbey street CookUriahL.(Mrs.),grocr.GouldsBartn

Cheeseman George, Church lane Tompsett John, Merefield ho. East st Coombes & Co. drapers, Market square

Churchill Edward, West street Tratt John, Jubilee villa, West street CoombesFk.landscape gardnr.Cousins la

Clark Miss, East street Warr Mrs. Church street Coombes Biliary (Mrs.),boarding house,

Clark Mrs. William, Church street Warren Samuel Hearn, Church street Sheepmarket street

Cooke Alfred, 2 Hermitage Lower ter WebberWm.Woolmingtn.Sheepmrkt.st Cooper Fredk. beer retlr.Vinney bridge

Crabb Thomas, Blacknell "WellerRev.Frederic M.A.(head master), County Court (His Horror James

CruickshankRev.Jas. [BaptistJ,North st Grammar school Machonochie, judge ; John Sparks,

Day Mrs. Mount Pleasant Wheatley James, East street registrar), Town hall

Dixon Rev. WilliamHopeB.A. [curate], Wicks Edmund, Church street Cranton Joel, dairy, Combe farm

Mount Pleasant Wills George Frederick, East street Crewkerne Cemetery (William .Alford,

Dodge James, South street Wills Mrs. East street clerk to the burial board ; William

Dodge John, Goulds Barton Wilson Robert, South street Clark, superintendent), Mt. Pleasant

Drayton Miss, West street Wyatt Mrs. Gouldsbrook house Crewkerne Conservative Club (WilHam

Elers Major Charles George, Elersleigh COMMERCIAL. Male, hon. sec.), Sheepmarket street

Elston William,7 Herll\itage Higher ter Adams Brothers, tanners & curriers, Crewkerne & District Industrial & Co-

Ewens Wm. Domett, Gouldsbrook ter Market place & North street operative Society Limited (James

Farmer Wm. Laniley ho. Mt. Pleasant Alford CharlesEdward M.R.c.s. surgeon, Dodge, sec.), Market square

Faull Rev. Elijah [Bible Christian], 3 & medical officer & public vaccinator, Crewkerne Gas & Coke Co. (John

Hermitage Lower terrace No. 7 district, Yeovil union & deputy Nicholls, manager), South street

Gee Benjamin, Blacknell terrace registrar of marriages, Misterton Crewkerne Hospital (Charles Edward

Gibbs John, West street district, Beaminster union, &certifying Alford,William Woolmington Webber

Gibbs Robert, West street 1 factory surgeon, Market square L.R.C.P. Edin. :Francis Par!1ons Kitson
Harp John, Blacknell terrace
Alford William, solicitor & clerk to the L.R.C.P. Lond. & Edward John Cave

Harp Solomon, Blacknell burial & Crewkerne & Wayford united M.n.surgeons; George Ridsdale Blake,

Hart Arthur, Church street district school boards, commissioner sec. ; Miss Emma Clarke, matron)

Haslock Char.les William, Abbey street for oaths, Market square Crewkerne Liberal Club(Benjamin Gee,

Haslock John Bird, Abbey street ArnoldAnnie(Mrs. ),drssma.Hermtge.st hon. sec.), Gould's Barton
Holman Eli, 3 Hermitage Higher ter Baker Thomas Edward M.R.C. v.s. vet- Crewkerne United Breweries Co. Lim.

Holman Thomas, Gould's Barton erinary surgeon, Market square Ashlands

Holme Rev. Robert M.A. Vicarage Banfield Samuel, baker, Hermitage st Crewkerne Water Supply Co. Limited,

Hooke Francis Henry, Clapton court Barrett Edwd. hairdressr. Gould'sBarton Church street

Hooper Mrs. near Merriott Barrett Saml. & Thos. butchers,South st Cridge Alfred, butcher

Hussey John, The Abbey Bartlett Priscilla (Mrs.), laundress, DalzeliEmma(Mrs.),girls' schl.Abbey st

Hutchings Mrs. Blacknell terrac,-e Vinney bridge Day Frederick Thomas, farmer, Hewish

Isaacs William Thomas, East street Bartlett Samuel, blacksmith, Gas lane Denman Henrietta Louisa (Mrs.),dres3-

James Miss, Gas lane Bartlett Thomas Francis, seedsman, maker & milliner, South street

James Mrs. Church street florist &c. Market square ; & corn & Denman Tom Fancourt, coachbuilder,

Jolliffe George Hilborne, Ashlands manure merchant at Haselbury East street

Jolliffe George Slade, Market place Beament Henry, farmer, Ashlands DrakeThos.butcber&dairy,Hermitage st

Kitson Francis Parsons, Belle-vue, Beament Mary Ann (Mrs.), butcher, Drake ·william, dairy, South street

Mount Pleasant Gould's Barton Draper Albert John, draper & milliner,

Lang Henry Pulsford, Clapton Beament Martha (Mrs.), White Hart Sheepmarket street

Langford James, Rose lane inn, East street Draper Richard, builder & contractor ;

Lewis Samuel R. Sheepmarket street Bennett Solomon, shopkeeper, North st estimates given for all kinds of build-

Lye John, Lawn villa, West street Bird Robert & Co. linen & woollen web ing work, Hermitage st. See advert

Male William, Mount Pleasant manufacturers, South street Drayton Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper,

Marsh William Warren, Blacknell te1· Bishop James, dairy, Clapton Hermitage street

Millard William, Mount Pleasant Bishop Mary Amelia (Mrs.), milliner, Duck John,posting master, South street

Munford Mrs. Gouldsbrook terrace Hermitage street DunnJoseph Andreas, plumbr. Church st

Munford Thomas, North street Bishop Roger, oil & marine store dealer, Dunster Abraham, confctnr. Market sq

Newick Samuel, Hinton villa South street Dyer Geo. Dix, beer ret. Vinney bridge

Nichols George, South street Bishop Waiter, marine store, South st Eason Robert, farmer, Broad shard

Nichols John, jun. South street Blake Edward Jarman, solicitor, see East Devon Mail (James Wheatley,

Osborne Henry, Blacknell Sparks J. & W. B. & Blake printer & publisher ; published thurs-

Palmer Thomas, Abbey street BlakeGeo.Ridsdale,accountant,Chrch.st day), South street

Parry George, Church street Bole George, colporteur, 6 Hermitage Edmonds Julian, corn. trav. Blacknell

Parson Richard, Poples Well Higher terrace Elston William Franklin, ironmonger,

Partridge John, Hermitage Lower ter Bond J oseph R. builder & contractor Sheepmarket street

Patridge John, Market place Booth George, mason, Blacknell terrace England Thomas, shopkeeper, North st

Payne Mrs. Church street Bowden Wm.chim.sweep,Gould's Bartn Ewens William Domett, cheese & corn

Penny William, Coombe Bowditch Wm. Rt. boot makr.South st factor, Gouldsbrook terrace

Perry Maj. John, Sheepmarket street Bradford & Sons, coal, timber & slate FalknerJn.station master,Railway statn

Perry The Misses, Sheepmarket street mers. West st. ; & at Railway station Fone John, tailor, Sheepmarket street

Philp John Henry, Tail Mill house Brake Frdk. road surveyr.Townsend vil Foot ·wmiam, dairy, East street

P.ittman Miss, Gould's Barton Budge Alfred, boot maker, Oxen lane Gale Ernest, farmer, Woolminstone

Poole George, Henley house Budge Alfred, farmer, Parsonage farm Gale George, farmer, l''urland

Poole John James, Henley house Bull Caroline(Mrs. ),day school,South st Garland Thos. Volunteer inn, North st

Prince Miss, Vinney bridge BurtHy.Wm.RoyalOakP.H.Hermitge.st Genge John, web, line & twine manu·

Raison Simeon, Hermitage street Caddey Edwd. baker & grocer, Clapton facturer of every description ; price

Richards Hugh Fras. Wm. Mt.Pleasant CatfordWm.Obadiah,chemist,Churchst list on application, Gas lane

• S. G. & B. 13•

196 CREWKERNE. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Gibbs John, agricultural implement Male Henry, shopkeeper, North street Slade & Son, agents for the London &

agent, West street Male Thomas, mason, Church lane South Western Railway Company,

Gibbs Lavinia (Mrs.), baker & confec- Manley John, miller (water), Hewish Sheepmarket street

tioner, Sheepmarket street Marsh John, relieving & vaccination SLADE BEN.JAMIN, architect & sur-

Gibbs Robert, agricultural implement officer, & registrar of births & deaths veyor, Lawn villa

manufacturer & dealer & manure for the Crewkerne district, Chard Slade John, farmer, Sheepmarketstreet
Blade Wm. blacksmith, Hermitage st
agent, West street; stores at Yeovil union, Oxen lane

&Langport Marsh Rohert, dairy, Lyewater Smith & Hart,canvas, matting, twine &

Gleave Elizabeth (Mrs.), Imperial Marsh William Warren, deputy regis- line manufacturers

coffee tavern, Sheepmarket street trar of births & deaths, Crewkerne Smith Henry, tailor, West street

Goodland William, Red Lion P.H. district, Blacknell terrace Smith John, miller (water), Haymore

Sheepmarket street Masters Rosina (Mrs.), grocer, 8 Her- Smith ·waiter, tailor, West street

GosneyAdam,photographr.Gouldsbrook mitage Higher terrace Smith William Gorbutt, The Cash

Gosney Charles, saddler, Market place Matthews Thomas William, drill in- drapery, millinery, dress, mantle,

Grammar School (Rev. Frederic Weller structor, Oxen lane hosiery & outfitting establishment,

M.A. head master), Mount Pleasant. Mattravers Wm. shoe ma. Hermitage st Sheepmarket street & Market square

See advertisement Meech Robert, farmer, East street Somerset County Mail &West of England

Greaves Joseph, chemist, East street MillerWalter,Queen's inn,Railway statu Express (James Wheatley, printer &

Harding William, blacksmith & wheel- Mitchell George Robt. beer retlr. West st publisher; published thurs. ),South st

wright, Roundham Morton James, beer retailer, South st Somerset Trading Co. coal, timber, slate

Harp Frank, grocer, Hermitage street Morton Willjam Wilce, baker & grocer, & general merchants (S. S. Sparks,

- Harrison John Mason, South street South street manager), Railway station

HART ARTHUR, web, rope, line & Munden James Withers, accountant, Southcombe Richard, shirt manufac-

twine manufacturer ; established assistant overseer & collector of turer, North street

1789; centenary 1889 taxes, East street Sparks J.&W.B.&Blake,solictors.East st

Havill Montague Williams, photogra- Munford Frank Edward, builder & Sparks John (firm, Sparks J. & W. B.

pher, Mount Pleasant shopkeeper, West street & Blake), solicitor·& clerk to the

Hayward Richard &Co. sail cloth manu- Munford Jas. temperance hotl.South st county magistrates & registrar of

factrs.North st.& Greenham,Wayford Munford John, watch makr. Market pl county court, East street

HAYWARD RICHARD &.SONS (J. H. Munford Thomas, plumber, glazier, gas Sparks William Blencowe M.A. oxon

Philp, manager), sail cloth, sail, & water fitter ; all kinds of pipes & (firm, Sparks J. & W. B. & Blake),

twine &web manufacturers, Tail mill fittings, gas, steam & water in stock ; solicitor & deputy registrar of county

Heal Theophilus, cabinet maker, Mar- plumber to the Crewkerne Water court & joint clerk to highway board,

ket square & East street Supply Co. by appointment, North st East street

HebditchWm.Benj. frmr. LowerSevera]s Newberry Elizabeth(Miss),china dealer, Spurdle John, blacksmith, Clapton

Hill Jas. Thos. boot maker, West street Market square Stagg Saml.Jn.Cross Keys P.H.Chard rd

Hoare John, carpenter, Abbey street Nicholls William Hy. grocer, Market sq Starr-Bowkett BuildingSociety,Nos.310,

HodgesSolomn.licensed hawkr. North st Old Samuel, coach builder, East street 465, 703(Geo.R.Blake,sec. ),Church st

HolmanAnn(Mrs.), lndrs. Vinney bridge Osborne Benj. farmer, Lower Easthams Steel Ann (Mrs.),fruiterer, Abbey street

Holman James, tailor, Victoria square Osborne Simeon, farmer, Haselbury rd Stembridge Jane (Miss), school, Westst
Holman Samuel, fruiterer, North street PalmerThomas, linen draper, Abbeyst Stembridge John, cabinet maker, agent

Holman Thos. shopkpr. Gould's Barton Parker Henry, farmer, Pye corner for Sutton & Co. & Prudential Assur-

Holt Hannah & Mary Ann (Misses), Parson Richard, school, Poples well ance, Church street

dress makers, East street Parsons John Spettigue, Swan family & Stembridge J oseph (Mrs.), tobacconist,

Holt Henry, basket maker, East street commercial hotel & posting house, Sheepmarket street

Hooke Francis Henry, farmer & land- Church street Stembridge Thos. cabinet ma. West st

owner, Clapton court Patridge Moses, draper, Market place Stone Stephen, farmer, Clapton

Hooper Sidney,markt.gardenr.South Rt Patridge Moses, carpenter, West street Stoodley Henry, mason, 1 Hermitage

Howe Hannah (Mrs.), glass & china Paul George, farmer, Hewish Higher terrace

dealer, Sheepmarket street Paull Chas. hair dresser, Market place Stringfellow Frederic John, surgeon

Howe William, painter, Sheepmarket st Paull Mary (Miss), dress mkr. West st dentist, East street

James Henry, farmer, Ford's croft PaullMary J ane (Mrs.) ,drs. m a. South st Stroud Sarah Ann (Miss), laundress,

Joliffe Geo. Slade, surgeon, Market pl Pavey William, baker, Gould's Barton South street

Joy Ann (Mrs.), butcher, North street Penny William, farmer & landowner, Stuckey's Banking Co. (H. W. Hoskins,

Joy Samuel, butcher, Sheepmarket st Coombe farm manager), Sheepmarket street

.Kitson Francis Parsons L. R. c. P. LOud. Perrin Joseph, farmer, Ellinge Symonds George, saddler, East street

surgeon, Belle-vue, Mount Pleasant Perry Bridget (Mrs.), midwife, Goulds- Taunton Shirt Manufacturing Co.

Lacey Eneas, carpenter, East street brook (branch) (H. Powell, man.), North st

Lacey Harriett (Miss), grocer, South st Pinney John, shoe maker, South street TaylorAlice(Mrs. ),drs.ma.Hermitage st

Lacey J ames, certified bailiff, Lyewater Plumbly James Hy. grocer, South st Taylor Annie (Miss), fancy repository,

Lacey James, boot maker, South street Poole J. J. & G. farmers &landowners, see Quick & Taylor

Lacey Waiter, Five Bells inn, Church la Henley house; & at Lodge farm Taylor George, plasterer, Gas lane

Lang Henry Pulsford, farmer, Court Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Taylor George, mason, West street

farm, Clapton Infantry, 2nd Volunteer Battalion Taylor James,Grapes inn, Church street

LarcombeThos. &Son, carters,Church st (G. Co.) (Major John Perry; 'f. Taylor Philadelphia (Mrs. ),King's Arms

Laycock Samuel & Sons, hair seating Matthews, drill instructor) inn, Market place

manufacturers ( Edward Churchill, Prince Charles, farmer, Roundham Taylor Thomas, china & glass dealer,

manager), North street Quick & Taylor (Misses), fancy reposi- Sheepmarket street

Leach Robert Arthur,carpenter,Barn st tory, Sheepmarket street Tebbs George, draper, Market square

LeachWilliam,beer ret.&cooper,Barn st Quick George,printer, Hermitage street Thresh Charles, reporter, East s re et

Leake Richard Francis, solicitor &com- Quick John, Nag's Head P.H. Market sq Tidcombe John Jas. solicitor, Abbey st

missioner for oaths, South street Rapson John, cabinet maker, Church st Tilley John, grocer, Market square

Lockyer Robert, miller (water), corn, ReaderGeo.farmer,Manor farm,Hewish Tompsett John, wholesale grocer, tea

cake, manure & genl. mer. Clapton Rendall Sampson, coal dlr.Hermitage st dealer, tallow chandler, provision, oil

Long Bartholomew, baker & confectnr, Rugg George,Georgefamily & commer- & wine &spirit merchant, &agent for

Abbey street cial hotel & posting house, Market sq W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirt mer-

Long David, shopkeeper, Hewish Saint Frederick,farmer,Higher Severals chants,Market square; &atHendford,

LovelessJn.butchr.&Crown inn, South st Saunders Charles Francis, solicitor & Yeovil

Lower Frank, printer, bookseller, sta- commissioner for oaths, Market Towt Jn.Wm.ironmngr. Sheepmarket st

tioner, news agent & bookbinder, square ; & at South Petherton Tracklsaiah,fishmonger,Sheepmarket st

relief stamping & engraving, circulat- Saunders Emma (Mrs.), laundress, Trenchard William, butcher, Church st

ing library, The Library Vinney bridge Tucker William, news agent, bill po.ster

Lowman Frank, tailor, West street Savings Bank (Miss A. E. Clark, ac- & town crier, Chards house

Lowman George, tailor, West street tuary) (open onsaturday, from 12 to Turner James, hair dresser, South st

Lye & Son, builders, East street 2), Sheepmarket street Vincent John, Blue Boy inn, & wheel-

Lye Thomas, grocer, Vinney bridge ScrivenEdwd.market gardener,North st wright, Clapton

Maiden Beech Tree Brick, Pipe, Tile & Scriven Joseph, butcher, West street Volunteer Fire Brigade (George Slade,

.. Pottery Works (proprietor, the Right Shepherd Alfred, painter, Chards house captain), Engine house, Church street

Hon. Earl Poulett ; communications Shutler Richard, farmer Warry& Gibbs,outfitters,Market square

to be addressed to the manager, Sibley Henry,plumber&glazier, South st Watson Wm. George, reporter, East st

Henry Charles Stembridge, Estate Sibley Thomas, painter, Church street Webber Mary (Miss), ladies' school,

office, Hinton St. George) Slade Jas. White Lion P .:u. Hermitage st South street

.JDIRECTORY SOMERSETSHIRE. 1 9 7CH.OSCO~BE.

Webber William Woolmington L.R.C.P. ·west Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (C. White Ben, shoe maker, 8 Hermitage

Edin. surgeon, & medical officer & Troop) (Major C. G. Elers; Sergeant- Higher terrace

public vaccinator, Nos. 1 & 2 Crew- Major James Smith, drill instructor) Willey Thomas Charles, boot maker,

kerne districts, Chard union, Sheep- Wheadon Edward, plumber, South Chard house

market street street WILTS &. DORSET BANKING CO.

Welchman Wm.f'.,.,rmmer. HigherEasthams Wheatley Florence (Miss), young ladies' LIMITED (George Parry, manager)

"'est of England Sack Co. Limited school, Church street (open daily from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. ;

(Somerset Trading Co. & Bradford & Wheatley James, printer & publisher saturdays till 4 p. m.), Market place ;

Sons, agents), Station of the " Somerset County Mail " & draw on London & Westminster Bank

West Somerset & Devon Shirt Manufac- "East Devon Mail," South street, & Limited, London E c

turing Co. (Samuel R. Lewis, man- auctioneer, West street Yard Saml. cabinet maker,Abbey street

ager), Abbey street; & at Honiton

CRICKET MALHERBIE is a parish and village, 2! for 8o persons. The register dates from 1732. The living

miles south from Ilminster station and 3 north-by-east is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £54• with residence and 26i

from Chard, in the Southern division of the county, acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Pitt, and held since 1888

hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, Ilminster petty sessional by the Rev. Frederick William Hotham M.A. of Queen's

division, union and county court district of Chard, Ilmins- College, Oxford. Cricket Court, a mansion of stone, is the

ter district of the rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry residence of Mrs. Pitt, who is lady of the manor and chief

of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church landowner: it is prettily situated and surrounded by well

of St. Mary Magdalene, rebuilt in 1855 at a cost of timbered grounds. The soil is flint and gravel. The crops

about £3,500, is an edifice of stone in the Pointed style, are wheat, barley, oats and there is some pasture. The

consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north transept, south area is 427 acres ; rateable value, £634 ; the population in

porch, and a small embattled western tower with spire 1881 was 53·

containing 5 bells : on the north side of the chancel is Parish Clerk, Charles Russell.

a brass tablet to the Pitt family, of Cricket Court, and Letters through Ilminster, which is the nearest money order

there are several stained windows: in the chancel is an & telegraph office, arrive at 7.30 a.m. Letters collected

altar tomb to Stephen Pit.t esq. and in the transept are two by the postman

handsome marble tablets to members of the same family : The children of this place attend the School at Knowle St.

the stone font has a richly carved canopy : there are sittings Giles

Hotham Rev. Fredk. Wm. lii.A. Rectory I Pitt Mrs. Cricket court I Norton William John, farmer

CRICKET ST. THOMAS is a parish and village, 5~ bridge, who resides at Winsham. From Whitedown is a

miles west from Crewkerne and 3i east from Chard, in the magnificent prospect, on the south being discernible the
Southern division of the county, hundred of South Pether- English channel and the Bristol channel on the north, with
ton, Ilminster pett.y sessional division, union and county the intermediate country spread out like a map. A fair is
court district of Chard, Chard district of the rural deanery held at Whitedown every Whit Monday and Tuesday for

of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath cattle and horses. Viscount Bridport is lord of the manor
and Wells. The church of St. Thomas is a small building and sole landowner. Cricket St. Thomas, the seat of Vis-
of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, count Bridport, Duke of Bronte K.C.B., D.L., l.P. is a
nave, small south transept assigned to the Bridport family mansion of Ham Hill stone, beautifully situated in a well-
and a western turret containing a clock and 3 bells : the wooded park of about 8oo acres, 14 acres of which are

lower stage of the turret serves as a porch : there are many pleasure grounds and gardens. The soil is stony ; subsoil,
handsome marble monuments and tablets to the Bridport chalk and sandstone. The farms chiefly consist of pasture
and Nelson families, several stained windows and sittings lands. The area is 707 acres; rateable value, £1,032; the
for 100 persons. The register dates from the year 1564. population in 1881 was 107.
The living is a rectory annexed to the vicarage of Winsham Parish Clerk, Henry Smith.

Aug. 26, 1879, average tithe rent-charge £363, joint net Letters through Chard arrive at 7 a.m. The nearest
yearly income £,265, including 6o acres of glebe, with resi- money order office is at Winsham & telegraph office at
deuce, in the gift of Viscount Bridport one turn, and the Chard

Bishop of Worcester two turns, and held since 1879 by the WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5.40 p.m
Re\·. Daniel Hall Spencer lii.A. of St. John's College, Cam- ·"!'he children of this place attend the school at Winsham

Bridport Viscount (Duke of Bronte, Aplin Thomas,farmer, Marshwood farm Lyon Septimus, head gardener to Vis-

in Sicily) K.C.B., D.L., l.P. Cricket Cole Emanuel, farmer count Brtdport

lodge; & 12 Wimpole street w & Hodder William, carpenter to Viscount Reynolds Thomas Weare, bailiff to Vis-

Carlton club, London s w Bridport, Puthill farm count Bridport, Parsonage

Hood Col. Hon. Arthur Wellington Matthews Waiter, head gamekeeper to

Alex. Nelson J.P. Cricket lodge Viscount Bridport

CROSCOMBE is a parish and village situated on the building of the 15th century, was formerly the hall of the

river Shippy, a tributary of the Brue, 2 miles west from Manor House of the Fortescue family: it has two Perpen-
Shepton Mallet and 3 south-east from Wells, in the Eastern dicular windows on each side, and the end wall exhibits

division of the county, hundred of Whitestone, county traces of the buttery hstch : between the windows is a good
court district of Wells, petty sessional division and union of corbel shaft with the arms of Fortescue: and attached to it
Shepton Mallet, rural deanery of Castle Cary, archdeaconry is a burial ground, covering over eight perches of land. The

of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells; it was formerly a charities are as follows :-Speed's charity, supporting two

place of importance and had a market granted by a charter widows, or single women, of not less than so years of age;
of Edward I. afterwards confirmed by Edward Ill. and Jacob Hicketts esq. late of Clifton, left the interest of

Henry IV. ; this privilege, falling into disuse for many £222 7s. wd. invested in the £3 per Cents. Lhe interest
years, was ultimately lost; it was, however, renewed at the (£6 13s. 4d.) to be distributed amongst the poor of the
solicitation of Hugh Fortescue esq. lord of the manor in parish; Mr. Samuel Hare gave £n2 13s. rod. to be invested

1728, but since then has been discontinued. A charter for in the £3 per Cents. one moiety of the interest (£3 7s. 6d.)

a fair was also granted by Edward I. which has now likewise to be divided amongst eight persons attending the parish
fallen into disuse. The church of St. Mary is an elegant ehurch, the other moiety to be expended in beautifyin5 the
edifice of Mendip lias, with dressings of Doulting stone, in church ; Ann Parsons gave ten shillings yearly to be dis-
the Early English style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried tributed amongst ten single women, payable out of a field,
nave of four bays, aisles, south porch, and an embattled called "Burleigh Field," part of Dungeon Farm; there is
western tower with crocketed pinnacles and spire and con- also Townsend's charity of £966 8s. 10d. the interest uf
taining a clock and 6 bells: the nave has a singularly fine which (£2B 19s. Iod.) is for fuel and clothing; George's

coved pointed roof, and on the north wall of the chancel, charity of £s a year, payable from a field at North

within panels, are shields bearing the arms of l''ortescue and Wootton, is for females not receiving parochial help. In the
other families : there are several monuments, and in the village is another ancient building, also of the 15th century,
south aisle are mural brasses to James Bisse, ob. Nov. x8, with a good square bay window in the upper storey, ceiled
r6o6, and to William Bisse, ob. June 18, 1625, with effigies of in stone and ornamented with scrolls along a moulded
both, and their wives and children kneeling at desks : in the cornice; the ceilings, fireplaces and wooden window frames

nave is a chandelier, presented in 1728 by Hugh Fortescue of this house are original, and there is a good octagonal

esq. : the church was enlarged in 1831 : there are sittings chimney. Near one angle of the house stands an ancient

for 520 persons. The register dates from I472. The living cross of stone 14 feet in height, consisting of a shaft with
is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £r68, net yearly finial rising from an octagonal base of three steps. Arthur

value £173, including 15 acres of glebe, with house, in the I<'ownes Somerville esq. J.P. of Dinder House, who is lord of
gift of Wylie's trustees, and held since 1877 by the Rev. the manor, Mrs. Wilson, Rev. Edward Batchelor, John Hill

Joseph Allott, of St Bees. The Baptist chapel here, a esq. and James Hall esq. are the chief landowners. Th:! soil

198 CROSCOMBE. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY'B

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is loamy, and the subsoil is lime!'tone. The land is chiefly order & telegrap'h office. Postal orders are issued here,

in pasture. The area is x,Su acres; rateable value, £414II; but not paid

the population in x881 was 576. National School, erected in 1872, partly from a sum of £450, •
MAESBURY, or MASBURY RING, CAMP or CAsTLE, the
left by Mr. Townsend for that purpose, who also endowed
remains of an ancient Belgo-British fortification, and an
object of much interest, is partly in this parish ; it incloses it with a further sum of £x,ooo, now yielding £39 yearly;
an area of about six acres, and is surrounded by a deep fosse
and vallum. the Rev. J. East, a former rector, left for the benefit of

THRUPE is a small hamlet I mile south. the school £2oo in £3 per Cents. & MlSS Esther Hartle-
PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Hester Ann Jones, receiver. Letters bury, sister of Rev. J. East, left £48 ss. in £3 perCents.;

arrive from Wells at 8 a. m. & 4 p.m. ; dispatched at u it will hold 6o boys, 6o girls & 40 infants; average atten-
a.m. & 5.30 p.m. Shepton Mallet is the nearest money
dance, 35 boys, 35 girls & 30 infants; Tom Ellis, master;

Miss B. Rudnedge, infants' mistress

Allott Rev. Joseph, Rectory Hall Jas. Rose& Crown P.H.& blacksmth Pike Maria (Mrs.), farmer, Thrupe
Clutterbuck JamPs Bennett M.D Jacobs William, Greyhound P.H Lane Higher farm
Miles George, Ashley house James John, farmer, Churchill farm
Rugg Jonas James Richard, butcher & cowkeeper Pike Thomas, farmer, Thrupe Lane
J onesHesterAnn (Mrs.), shpkpr. Post offi Lower farm
COMMERCIAL. Locke William, George inn
BakerGeo.Rchd.frmr.'fhrupeMarsh frm Miles Jn.Parfitt,corn dlr.& miller(watr) Radnedge Luke, carpenter
Baker Henry, road contractor Oatley l<'rederick, coal dealer Rugg Jonas, surveyor & farmer
Blinman William, stone mason Oatley John, coal dealer Say James, farmer
.Corp Henry, farmer, Thrupe Orledge Robert &Albert, millers (water Say Robert, blacksmith
Dupe William Henry, baker & corn dlr Voisey Henry, beer retailer
Gane George, grazier & cattle dealer & steam) WilcoxJoseph, boot maker
Gould George, shopkeeper Penny Henry, farmer, Dungeon farm Willis Robert, boot maker
Gould Geo.Edwn.accountant & rate coll Perry Robert, farmer Woodward Charles Peter, baker

CROWCOMBE is a parish and village, pleasantly sit- Oxford. Crowcombe Court, the seat of the Hon. Robert

uated on the road from Taunton to Minehead and on the Cranmer Trollope J.P. is pleasantly situated at the foot of

west of the Quantock Hills, with a station called Crow- the Quantock Hills and surrounded by fine lawns and
combe Heathfield 1 ~ miles south on the West Somerset beautiful pleasure grounds. The Hon. Robert Cranmer Trol-

branch of the Great Western railway, 172 by rail from lope J.P. and Capt. Sir Robert Grenville Harveybart. J.P. of

London, II north-west from Taunton and 8 north-east from Langley Park, Slough, Bucks, are lords of the manor and
Wiveliscombe, in the Western division of the county, hun- principal landowners. The soil is a sandy loam, with some

dred of Williton and Freemanors, Williton petty sessional clay; subsoil, marl and stone rush; and produces excellent
division, union and county court district, rural deanery of crops of wheat, beans, barley, mangolds, potatoes and tur-

Bridgwater, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath nips. The area is 31I77 acres; rateable value, £3,526; the

and Wells. The church of the Holy Ghost is an ancient population in x88I was 440.

edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of Parish Clerk, William Knott.

chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Susan Routley, receiver. Letters ar-

tower, with single pinnacle, containing a clock and 5 bells: rive from Taunton aotrdSear .mof.fi;cediisspaattchSetdogautm7b.4e5r p.m.
an octagonal spire, formerly on the tower, was destroyed by The nearest money ; the

lightning in I735 and never replaced: the seats are of oak, telegraph office is at the railway station. Postal orders
with carved ends, dated 1534, and there is also an ancient are issued here, but not paid
screen : the reredos is a memorial to Mrs. Boles, wife of the
Rev. James 'f. Boles M.A. late rector: the east window was Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1872, for 8o children;
placed in memory of Mr. Young, and there are mural average attendance, 55; & partially endowed from Dr.

monuments to the Carew family. The register dates from James' charity & in addition with funds left by the late

the year 164I. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- Miss Carew, for the education of IS boys, each of whom
receives one suit of clothes annually; William H. Bran-
gchleabreg,ew£i2th9r5e,sgidreonscsey, eianrtlhyevgailfuteo£f C3a5p6t,. iSnicrluRdoibnegr6t 3Garecnrevsilolef nam, master; Mrs. William H. Brannam, mistress

Harvey bart. of Langley Park, Slough, and held since I889 by Railway Station (Crowcombe Heathfield), Joseph Edwards,

the Rev. Charles Seymour Dupuis M.A. of Lincoln College, I station master

Carew CoventryWarrington- J.P.Crow- Collard John, farmer, Triscombe farm Jordan John, carpenter
combe cottage Knott Jesse, grocer & beer retailer
Duddridge John, carpenter KnottWm.rate colctr.&assistant ovrseer
Dupuis Rev. Chas.Seymour M.A.Rectry
Trollope Hon. Robert Cranmer J.P. Duddridge Joseph, carpenter Macey Charles, butcher
Milton Robert, blacksmith &wheelwrght
Crowcombe court Gaspar William, bailiff to Hon. Robert Stone James, boot & shoe maker
Young Mrs Stroud Frederick, tailor & shopkeeper
Cranmer Trollope J.P - Sweet Thomas, farmer, Water farm
COMMERCIAL. Sweeting Chas. Henry, baker & farmer
Gay James, steward to Hon. Robert Venn Thomas R.farmer,LowerHalsway
Baker George, farmer,Little Quantock
Beamer James, farmer, Hurley farm Cranmer Trollope J.p Weet<&h Charles, farmer,Lower Halsway
Beamer John, farmer, Roebuck farm Williams Robert, farmer, Roebuckgate
Biffin J ames, dairyman Gooding John, farmer, Flaxpool farm
Brewer James, fanner, Quark hill
Greed Charles, farmer, Lawford

Greed John, farmer, Flaxpool farm

Herniman Mark, blacksmith

Jennings Charles John,Carew Arms P.H

Jordan Charles, shopkeeper

CUCKLINGTON is a village and parish, situated on There are two small charities, amounting to £6 yearly, and

the slope of a hill, on the Dorsetshire border, 3 miles east a bequest of £2o yearly, by an ancestor of D. F. Grant-

from Wincanton station on the Somerset and Dorset,railway, Dalton esq. J.P. for the support of an organist and for repair-

in the Eastern division of the county, Norton Ferris hun- ing the organ. Shanks House is the seat of Dalton Foster

dred, Wincanton petty sessional division, union and county Grant-Dalton esq. F.R.G.s., J.P. William Phelips esq. D.L.,

court district, Bruton district of the rural deanery of Castle J.P. of Montacute House, Ilminster, is lord of the manor.

Cary, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. D. F. Grant-Dalton esq. J.P. and the representatives of Dr.

The church of St. Lawrence is an ancient building of stone, Surrage, are the principal landowners. The soil is very

in the Early English style, consisting of chanc.el, nave of variable; the subsoil on the hill is rock, and on the lowlands

two bays, aisles, transept, south porch and an embattled clay; the geological formation is coral rag. The land is

western tower, containing a clock and 5 bells : the church chiefly used for dairy purposes. The area is I,7o6 acres;

was generally restored in 188o by subscription, at a cost of rateable value, £2,979; the population in I88I was 269.

about £I,6oo, when the fine old organ by Flight was Parish Clerk, Henry Pitman.

repaired at a cost of nearly £300, and a beautiful memorial PosT OFFICE.-Sidney Day, receiver. Letters through Bath

pulpit of Belgian work erected in memory of the late rector : arrive at 7.40 a.m.; dispatched 5.30 p.m. week days only.
there are sittings for I40 persons. The register dates from 'fhe nearest money order & telegraph office is at Win-

1555· The living is a rectory, with that of Stoke Trister canton

annexed, average tithe rent-charge £su, joint net yearly
value £375, including 97 acres of glebe, with residence, in National School (mixed), erected in 1857, for 100 children;

the gift of William Phelips esq. and held since 1878 by the average attendance, so; & is endowed with £I ss. yearly;

Rev. James Phelips M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. Miss Mead, mistress

Grant-Dalton Dalton FosterF.R.G.S.,J.P. COMMERCIAL. Day John, shopkeeper
Fry James, beer retailer
Shanks house Arnold Clement, mason Harding Frederick Wm. farmer, Hale
Herridge Char!~, farmer, Clapton
Grant-Dalton Seymour, Shanks house Cross Joseph, farmer, Babwell

Phelips Rev. James M.A. Rectory Cross Samuel1 farmer

DIRECTORY.] SO~IERSETSHIRE. CURRY MALLET'!' • 19~

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Hine Edwin, blacksmith Pitman Henry, shoe maker Virgo William Phipps, farmer, Hale

Penny William Geo. farmer, Clinger Shute Job (Mrs.), shopkeeper White William, farmer, Depley

Perry Henry, farmer & assist. overseer Sprackling Hy. Geo. carpenter & builder Whittle John, farmer

·CUDWORTH ill a small parish and village, 5 miles west stored in 1889 by the vicar, at his own expense. A mag-

from Crewkerne, 4 miles north-east from Chard and 3 south- nificent view is obtainable from Windwhistle of both the

.east from llminster, where is the nearest railway station, in English and Bristol channels, with the count.ry spread out

the Southern division of the county, hundred of South between. Earl Poulett, who is lord of the manor, the

:Petherton, Ilminster petty sessional division, union of trustees of Robert Hull, the Wallbridge family and John

.Chard, Crewkerne county court district, Ilminster district Phelips esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is flint and

-of the rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taun- chalk; subsoil, chalk, stone and gravel, with a little loam,

ton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. The crops are wheat, barley, roots and some land in pas-

Michael is a small building of stone, in the Perpendicular ture. The area is 1,074 acres; rateable value, £1,537; the

:Style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and south population in 1881 .was 140.

.aisle, which is very old, and a western turret containing 2 Parish Clerk, Elijah Mathews.

• bells : there is an original piscina at the east end of the aisle Letters through Ilminster, which with Chard are the nearest

.and an ancient font: the church affords sittings for 150 money order offices, arrive at 8 a.m. Letterd collected

persons. The register dates from the year 1625. The by the postman on passing through

living is a vicarage, to which the vicarage of Chillington was A School Board of 5 members was formed March 6, 1875 ;

.annexed in 1886, joint yearly value £240, with house and J. Dunell, hon. clerk to the board; Robert Smith, Chard,

-one acre of land, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and 'Vells, attendance -:>fficer

.and held since 1886 by the Rev. Robert Francis Willis M.A. Board School (mixed), built in 1876 at a cost of £4oo, to

of Caius College, Cambridge. The Vicarage house, an hold 42 children ; average attendance, 27 ; Miss Charlotte

I.edifice of stone and brick, was built in 1634 and was re- Watkins, mistress

Willis Rev. Robert Francis M.A. Vicarage Dunell John & Benj. farmers, East farm I Singleton Samuel, Windwhist~e inn
.Broomfield Joseph, dairyman Miller John George, farmer I Wyatt Mrs. farmer, West farm

CULBONE, anciently called KITNORE, is a parish and font is Norman. The registers are imperfect, bllt date from

village, situated on the coast of the Bristol Channel, 9l miles 1686. The living is a rectory,tithe rent-charge £ 3o,net yearly

west from Minehead terminal station of the West Somerset value £52, including 35 acres of glebe, in the gift of Earl
.branch of the Great Western railway and 3 we&t from Por- Lovelace, and held since :.:887 by the Rev. Herbert Francis
lock, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Ramsay, who is also rector of Oare, and resides at Brendon.

Carhampton, Dunster petty sessional division, Williton The Earl of Lovelace is lord of the manor and chief land-

union and county court district, 1•ural deanery of Dunster, owner. The soil is stony peat ; subsoil, iron and hard

archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. stone. The acreage is 1,ooi, containing some excellent
The church of St. Culborne, situated in a secluded dell, is a grazing land; rateable value, £330; the population in x88x

very ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, and is one was 37·

of the smallest churches in England, being but 33 feet long Parish Clerk, Thomas Red.
and 12 wide : it consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a Letters r~ceived from Minehead & have to be sent for.
>tower with octagonal truncated spire, ~ontaining 2 bells : the Porlock is the nearest money order & telegraph office

.Red John, farmer, Broom street 1Richards Richard, farmer, Silcombe I Richards Thomas, farmer, Parsonage

.CURLAND is a small parish, 6 miles south-east from Curry Mallett and 10 at Curland, and house, in the gift of

'Taunton, 7! north-west from Chard and 2i south-west from the Duchy of Cornwall, and held since 1853 by the Rev.

Hatch Beauchamp station on the Chard branch of the Great Charles Leigh Pemberton M. A. of Trinity College,Cambridge,
Western railway, in the Bridgwater division of the county, who resides at Curry Mallett. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, petty sessional division, The rector of Curry Mallett is lord of the manor. The
union and county court district of Taunton, Ilminster dis- principal crops are wheat, oats, barley and teazles ; there

trict of the rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taun- are plantations of fir. The area is 712 acres; rateable value,

ton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of All Saints £659; the population in 1881 was 187.
is an unusually small structure of flint stone, consisting of Parish Clerk, Samuel Knight.

.chancel and nave and a western bell-cot containing one bell: PosT 0FFICE.-Mrs. Newton, receiver. Letters received

it was restored about 1870, and has sittings for 70 persons. through Taunton, arrive at 9-45 a. m.; dispatched at 4·45
The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year p.m. Hatch Beauchamp is the nearest money order office

1634; marriages from 1682. The living is a chapelry, an- & Hatch railway station the nearest telegraph office

nexed to the rectory of Curry Mallett, joint average yearly Parochial School (mixed), erected about 1854, for 6o chU-
value from tithe rent-charge £432, with 45 acres of glebe at dren; average attendance, 20; Mrs. Mary Knight, mist

COMMERCIAL. Grabham Christr. farmer & landowner Newton Chas.(Mrs.),shpkpr. Post office
Cottey George, farmer Greedy James, farmer Rowsell Henry, shopkeeper & baker

Cozens John, farmer Jewell John, boot & shoe maker Salter Wm. carpenter & wheelwright
Dicks John (Mrs.), farmer Knight Abraham, farmer Smith James, blacksmith

Dicks John, jun. hurdle maker Knight. John, shopkeeper Verrier John, confectioner
Dicks Joseph, farmer Knight Samuel, tailor & parish clerk Webb Richard, farmer
Dicks Reuben, farmer Lane James, farmer Webb Samuel, farmer

CURRY MALLETT is a village and parish, situated chapelry annexed, joint gross yearly value from tithe rent•

()n the river lie, 8 miles south-east from Taunton, 6 north- charge £432, with residence and 45 acres of glebe, in the gift
.north-west from Ilminster and 2f east from HatchBeauchamp of the Duchy of Cornwall, and held since 1853 by the Rev.
station on the Chard branch of the Great Western railway, Charles Leigh Pemberton M.A. of Trinity College, Cam·

in the Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of Abdick bridge. There is a Baptist chapel here. William Weaver,
and Bulstone, llminster petty sessional division, union and who died June 4, 1877, left £300 to be invested in Reduced 3
-county court district of Langport, Ilminster district of the per Cent. Annuities, the interest to be distributed in coal and
rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton, and money to such poor persons in this parish as are bona-fide
~iocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. James is a members ol the Church of England. The manorial rights
building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of and nearly the whole of the land belong to the Dochy of
.chancel, north chapel, nave of three bays, south aisle, south Cornwall. The soil is clayey, and the subsoil blue lias stone.
porch, and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The area is
in the north chapel, belonging to the family of Pyne, is a 1,650 acres; rateable value, £2,162; the population in 1881
mural monument, with kneeling figures, to John Pyne, ob. was 483.
1642: in the chancel is a mural monument to Ralph Mighill, Parish Clerk, William Cox.
ob. 1633; and in the south aisle a mural monument with PosT OFFICE, Alfred Musgrove, receiver.-Letters received
kneeling female figure, and an altar tomb with a rec~mbent through Taunton, arrive at 8.30 a. m. Box closed at 6.5
.effigy : the east window is a memorial to Sarah Elizh. p.m. The nearest money order office is at Hatch Beau-

I.Pemberton, d. 1852: the church was restored in 1879 and champ & telegraph office at Hatch railway station

-.:882 and has sittings for 200 persons. The register dates School (mixed), erected in 1857, for us children ; average

from the year 1653. The living is a rectory, with Curland attendance, 56; Miss Gale, mistress

:Pemberton Rev.Chas.Leigh M.A.Rectory Cox William, blacksmith Musgrove Alfred, wheelwright & shop-
COMMERCIAL. Glyde Albert, farmer & cattle dealer keeper, Post office
Glyde Edwin, farmer
.Allen Elizbth. (Mrs.), farmer, Wellenge Jeffery John, carpenter Musgrove Jacob, carrier & coal dealer
.Bicknell William, farmer Mead George (Mrs.), Bell P.H Musgrove Waiter, shopkeeper
.Board William, wheelwright Mead James, farmer Paul John, Rock House P.H
Churchill James, blacksmith Perry Samuel, farmer

200 CURRY MALLETT. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY's

Summerhayes Thomas, farmer & Vile Job, baker & farmer West Frederick, harness maker
Whaites Henry Alban, farmer
quarry owner Webber Ann (Mrs.), grocer

Taylor James, farmer

NORTH CURRY is a large parish, situated on the vicar and churchwardens, the parishes of West Hatch and

river Tone and on the main road from Taunton to Langport, Stoke St. Gregory also participating in the charit.y. New-

about 7 miles east from the former town and 9 south-south- port, in the tithing of Wrantage, formerly had the privileges:

east from Bridgwater. The nearest railway station is at of a corporate town: and a staff, or mace, supposed to have

Durston Junction, about 2 miles north-west, on the Bristol been connected with it, is now in the possession of Philip

and Exeter section of the main line of the Great Western Foster esq. of Newport House. An urn, containing Roman

railway. The parish is divided into four tithings, viz. silver coins of the Lower Empire was found here in the year·

CuRRY, LILLESDON, WRANTAGE and KNAPP, and is in the 1748. King John granted a market to this place, and it.

Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of North Curry, continued to be held twice a week until I84I, when it was

Taunton petty sessional division, union and county court discontinued. A fair for cattle is held here annually on the

district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton and first Tuesday in September. The Dean and Chapter of

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of SS. Peter and Wells, who are lords of the manor, Major Barrett, C. W. •

Paul is an ancient cruciform edifice of stone, chiefly in the Dare esq. Henry Powell Gore-Langton esq. J.P. of Hatch

Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four Beauchamp, Henry James Hellard esq. Phillip Foster esq.

bays, aisles, south transept, a fine south porch and a central and C. R. Morris esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is

octagonal tower containing a clock and 6 bells : the south rich mar! ; subsoil, marl. The chief crops are wheat, barley

transept belongs to the Decorated period, and in the north and beans, roots and some land in pasture. The parish con-

aisle is a doorway of Norman date ; in the north aisle is an tains afi area of 5,s72 acres; rateable value, £14,867; in

altar tomb with recumbent effigy, but without inscription or r88r the population was r,S99·

date: the nave was restored in r88r by the parishioners and KNAPP, Ii miles west, LILLESDON, 2 south-west, and
the chancel by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the whole
cost being about £8,ooo, including an organ and stained WRANTAGE, 2~ south, situated on the road from Langport
windows: there are sittings for Boo persons. The parish io Taunton are tithiugs.

register is in good preservation, and dates from IS39· The PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance

Jiving, formerly held with Stoke St. Gregory and West Office.-John Pocock Crease, postmaster. Letters arrive.
Hatch, is a discharged vicarage, net yearly value £3oo, with from Taunton at 6.3s a.m.; box closes for dispatch daily
residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and at 7.20 p.m. ; sundays at 9· IS a. m
held since 1877 by the Rev. Robert Charles Lathom Browne PosT OFFICE, Wrantage.-Robert Bellringer, sub-post-
M.A. of Downing College, Cambridge: the rectorial tithes master. Letters for Lillesdon & Wrantage do not pass
of this parish, amounting to £6so, belong to the Eccle- through North Curry post office, but are delivered direc'-
siastk:al Commissioners, who are lay rectors of North Curry, from Taunton at 6 a.m. & are dispatched at 8.30 p.m.
lay vicars and lay rectors of Stoke St. Gregory. There are Hatch Beauchamp is the nearest money order office &.
Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The charities amount to Hatch railway station the nearest telegraph office &.
£r4 yearly. There is an assembly-room for concerts and North Curry is the nearest for Knapp

public meetings, holding 250 persons. A curious custom INSURANCE AGENTS : -

was formerly observed here called the "Reeve's :Feast," Northern, F. I. Coombes, London house

which by a charter of King John, was provided by the Norwich Union Fire & Life, Morris, Son & Peard

Reeve, and certain other tenants of the manor, some finding West of England Fire & Life & Imperial Life, J. E. G-.

money and some wheat, in proportion to the value of tene- Sandford

ments held by them, on the day before Christmas, at which Police Station, Joseph Masters, acting sergeant in charge

certain other tenants, called "The Jack of Slough," and PUBLIC 0FJ<'ICERS : -

"The Jack of Knapp," were masters of the ceremonies, and Certifying Factory Surgeon & Medica] Officer & Pub]ic-

shad to distribute portions of three bullocks and some loaves Vaccinator, No. District, Taunton Union, Hugh Pengilly

of bread, provided by the Reeve for the time being, among Olivey, Trevarrick house

the tenants of the ma'nor, in quantities according to t.heir Clerk to West Sedgmoor & Stanmoor District Drainage

holdings, and after certain portions had been reserved for Board, John Erskine Grant Sandford

the feast, the remainder was distributed to the Becond poor Assistant Overseer, Frederick Isaac Coombes, London ho

of the parish. On the day after Christmas Day a feast was Relieving Officer, No. I District & Registrar of Births &.

held, when an effigy of King John was placed on the table, Deaths, North Curry Sub-district, Taunton Union, G. T~

serving as an ornament to an immense mince-pie; accord- Lewis

ing to the charter, a toast was drunk to the " mortal Stamp Distributor, John Pocock Crease, Post office

memory of King John," and liberty givell<a to continue ScHOOLs:-

drinking until two candles, each of I lb. weight, were burnt National, North Curry (mixed), erected in 1847 & enlarged

out: in order that this custom might not fall into disuse, a in I87o, for rso children; average attendance, 140;

tablet, giving an account of the ceremonies of this feast Josiah Warry, master; Mrs. Warry, mistress

many years ago was placed in the vestry, but the custom Parochial, Wrantage (mixed), erected in r88o, for 50.

was abolished about r86o, and the. sum provided is now children; average attendance, 45; Miss Fay, mistress

vested in the Charity Commissioners, and distributed by the CARRIER TO TAUNTON.-Mrs. M.A.Vile,everymon.wed.&sat

North Curry. Beel James Elihu, grocer & draper '

Jordan Thomas, baker

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bellringer James, farmer & thrashing Kite George Henry, solicitor, perpetual
machine proprietor commissioner & commissnr. for oaths
Barrett William J.P. Moredon
Barrett William, jun. Moredon Bellringer William, boot & shoe maker Langford Henry, Bird-in-Hand P.H. &.
Boucher Mrs. Windmill hill Burford James, blacksmith posting master
Browne Rev. Robert Charles Lathom Coate Daniel,farmer & withy merchant
Coat.e Geome,. farmer Lewis G. T. relieving officer & registra,or
M.A. The Vicarage Coombes 'Frederick Isaac, assistant of births & deaths
Dare Charles William, Foss cottage
Davis Mrs. Edward C. The Warren overseer, London house Lockyer Charles, fa.,.,rrrnner
Fry Rev. William [Baptist] Crease John Pocock, grocer & draper, Long John, tailor
Hellard Henry James, Helland Lumsdain Charles, corn dealer
Morris Cuthbert Rodham, Gwyon ho Post office MerrickMaryAnn(Mrs. ),farmer,Moor la.
Olivey Hugh Pengilly, Trevarrick ho Dare Charles, withy grower Morris, Son & Peard,auctioneers, estate
Peard John Grigg, Watleigh house Dare Robert, farmer, Nythe farm
Plowman Thomas Denman Eli, withy grower agents & surveyors ; & at Taunton
Robbs Mrs Denman Henry, carpenter Olivey Hugh Pengilly, surgeon, certify-
Sandford J n.Erskine Grant,Calmady ho Derrick Elizabeth (Mrs.), dress maker
Standfast Samuel Wright, The Laurels Duke IsaaC', baker ing factory surgeon & medical officer
'Wood Richard, The Elms Durham John, wheelwright & public vaccinator to North Curry-
Wyatt Charles, Gordon house Edwards James French, Angel commer- dist. of Taunton union, Trevarrick ho.
Pounsberry John, baker
cial inn, & farmer Reid James, tailor
Foster Geo. farmer&beer ret.New bridge Sandford John Erskine Grant, solicit(lr,.
& clerk to the West Sedgmoor &

COMMERCIAL. Foster James, tailor Stanmoor drainage boards & to I!~

Adams Emily (Mrs.), ladies' school Foster Joseph, farmer, Helland Abbotts school board, Calmady ho

AdamsMark,coach builder,whee]wrght. Giblett Thomas, grocer & draper Spearing John, farmer

builder &c. ; & shirt & collar maker Gillard Charles Salwav, harness maker Spearing Silas, farmer

..Andrews Robert, blacksmith Hamilton Emma (Miss), ladies' school Spearing William, farmer, Sedgmoor

Baker John, coach builder He11ard Hy.James,farmer,Helland farm Stone John, butcher

Barrington John, painter Hembrow Francis, fanner Taverner Frederick, bay & straw dealer

Barrington Robert., farmer, Huntham Insall Robert, harness maker Temlett James, brewer
1 Jacobs William, tailor Wallbutton Wm. wheelwgt. & carpentCl"
Batten Robert, butcher & farmer

DIRECTORY.] 801\'IERSETSHIRE. CURRY RIVEL. .201

WescombeSaml.farmer, PuryStreet frm Dare John, yoeman Bellringer Robert, farmer, Post office
White Owen, ironmonger Derham Thomas, beer retailer Berry Alfred, farmer
Wildren Edwin, boot & shoe maker Derham William, farmer Brinson Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Winter Charles, road contractor Derham William, jun. farmer
Wolfe Alfred, boys' private school Edwards William, farmer Coate Henry, farmer, Villa house
Foster Charles, withy grower Dinham James, wheelwright & beer ret.
Lillesdon. Lockyer Henry, farmer Ford James, shopkeeper
Mitchem Charles, farmer Foster John, farmer, Newport
Peard Mrs. Lillesdon court Mitchem George, farmer Goss William, grocer & draper
Brewer James, beer retailer Sharman Alfd.baker &coal dealer,Ham Kingslake John, miller (water & steam)~
Bulpin Thomas, farmer Simmons Henry, farmer
Greenslade Frederick Nelder, farmer Southwood John, farmer Newport
Jenkins John, boot & shoe maker Stephens Thomas, blacksmith Lockyer John, farmer, Newport
Lock William, farmer Tattle Charles, farmer Mead Samuel, butcher
Loud David, cattle dealer Woodman John, withy mer. & beer ret
Westacott William, farmer Parsons Charles, farmer, Newport
Whittle William, farmer Wrantage. Parsons Thomas, farmer & landowner
Shepherd Alfred, blacksmith
Knapp. Foster Philip, Newport house Spearing William, farmer
COMMERCIAL. Spiller Christopher, farmer
Mitchell Mrs Toogood Thomas, tailor
COMMERCIAL. Bellringer Albert, assistant overseer for Vile Wm. Hy. Wrantage inn, & saddler
West Hatch
Collier Frederick, corn miller (water & Whittle John, farmer
steam), Ham mills Yarde Daniel, cooper

CURRY RIVEL is a parish and populous village, situ- the residence of Sir William Pynsent, widower of one of the

ated on the side of a hill on the Taunton road, 2 miles two co-heiresses of the Jennings family, to whom the ancient.

west-south-west from Langport station on the Bristol and manor of Burton Pynsent belonged: Sir William bequeathed

Exeter railway, in the Southern division of the county, it to the fir::~t Lord Chatham, and the property, on the death

hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, Ilminster petty sessional of Lady Chatham, passed by sale to the Pinney family : on

division, Langport union and county court district, Ilmin- the estate is a monument erected to Sir William Pynsent by

ster district of the rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry Lord Chatham. Colonel William Pinney F.R.G.s., D.L., J.P.

of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of of Somerton Erleigh, Somerton, who is lord of the manor,

St. Andrew is a building of stone in the Early English style, Edwin Brooke Cely-Trevilian esq. J.P. of Midelney Place,

consisting of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch Drayton, Henry Powell Gore-Langton esq. J.P. of Hatch

and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells, of which Beauchamp, Edward Morrish esq. Charles Fry esq. Mrs.

the tenor was re-cast in May, 1887: in the chancel are some Granville Uttermare, Mrs. WaiLer Bagehot, of Herds Hill,.

fine early 13th century monuments: there are remains of Langport, and William Webber Munckton, of Stanchester

ancient glass in the north aisle windows, and the west win- House, Drayton, are the principal landowners. The soil is

dow is a memorial to Miss Pinney : in October, 188o, a clock clay and sand ; the subsoil, blue lias and limestone. The

was presented to the parish by Miss Gamlin, in memory of chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The acreage

W. ULtermare esq. : there are sittings for 450 persons, of is 4,68r: rateable value, £8,I87; the population in 1881

which 250 are free. The register dates from the year was 1,6o1.

1653. The living is a vicarage, with the rectory of Weston WICK, 2 miles north-east, and BuRTON, 2 south-west, are
annexed, yearly value £310, with residence, in the gift tithings in this parish.
of William Speke esq. and held since 1864 by the Rev.
Charles Marwood Speke Mules T.A.K.C.L. There is a Con- A portion of WESTMOOR, formerly extra-parochial, has.
gregational chapel at Wiltown. In 1886 a reading room was been annexed to this parish.

erected at the sole cost of Col. William Pinney J.P. of PosT, M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

Somerton Erleigh. Attwood's and Selway's charities are William Lock, sen. receiver. Letters arrive from Taunton

distributed in bread to the poor ; Miss Dinham's in blankets ; at 4.50 a. m. ; dispatched at 7·53 p.m. week days; sun-

and Alford's, of £20 yearly, in clothing. Rcbert Sewers esq. days 10 a. m. The nearest telegraph office is at Langport.

of Townsend House, who died July, 1873, by his will left WALL LETTER Box at Westport, cleared at':5.5o p.m. week

xos. to 30 poor people of this parish, to be given them by days; sundays 10 a. m

his trustees on Christmas Eve for ever. He also endowed INSURANCE AGENT.-Royal Exchange, J. Lang, Hambridg~

three free dame schools, only one of which now remains. mills

H1s sister, Miss Louisa Sewers, left £100, the interest to be Police Station, George Higgins, constable in charge

given yearly in coal. Quarries of limestone are worked in Voluntary School (mixed), erected in 1876, for 18o children;

this parish. Situated on the summit of a hill, about one average attendance, 107; Benjamin James Titford, master;.

mile west on the Taunton road, is Burton Pynsent, formerly Miss Harris, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Young Mrs. Golden hill Lang Henry Matthew, miller (steam &

AUord Miss, Heale COMMERCIAL. water), brewer, farmer, wine & spirit
Back Charles Augustus, The Yews merchant, maltster & manufacturer

Bowman Miss Bickle William, baker & corn factor of condimented cattle food, Ham-

Bumingham Major Henry, 'fownsend Billing Robert, blacksmith bridge mills & brewery

Coate Miss, Hanover house Buttle George, shoe maker Lang William, seed merchant

CuffMrs. OldMansion ho. BurtonPynsent Cable Eliza (Mrs.), school Lenton Samuel, wheelwright

Eames John, sen Calder John Edward, butcher Lock Charles, farmer, Hellard's farm

Edwards Faithful Champion James, shopkeeper Lock Charles George, butcher

Forbes Maj.-Gen. Hamilton, Heale ho Coate Henry, farmer &withy merchant, Lock Waiter, watch maker

Fry Charles, Wiltown Red Hill farm Lock Wm. sen. shopkpr. & post office

Gamlin Miss, The Elms Coggan John, farmer Marchant Richard, wheelwright

Hughes John Cridland -, farmer Miles Mary Ann (Mrs.), Bell inn

J ee J ames, 'I he Grange [Postal address, Cross John, cooper & grocer Morrish Edward, farmer & landowner

Langport R.S.OJ Cuff Thomas, farmer, Burton Pynsent Munckton Eliza (Mrs.), farmer,.

Lang Joseph, Wiltown Dyer James, plumber Arundell's farm

Lang Mrs. Hambridge mills Eames John, jun. farmer Munckton William Webber,jun. farmer,.

Lang William, The Beeches French Thomas, tailor Parsonage farm

Longman Mrs Fry William, farmer, Wiltown Payne Frank, tailor & grocer

Macnamara- Griffin Levi, farmer, Portway farm Pippen John, farmer

Mead John [Postal address, Langport R.S.O] Podger Thomas, carpenter

Morrish Edward, The Elms, Wiltown Grinter Henry, farmer Pope Robert, quarry owner, builder &

MtVes Rev. Charles Marwood Speke Grinter Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer contractor ; estimates given for a.U

T.A.K.C.L. Vicarage Guppy Job, painter building repairs ; blue stone, lime,

Munckton John Herepath Eliza (Mrs.), dress maker chalk lime, freestone, flint & sand ; &

Robertson Rev.George[Congregational] Hewett George Stacey, saddler at Chard

Rossiter Herbert Hughes John L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon & Reading Room (Geo. Key Weaver, sec}

Sewers Misses, Hanover house physician,& registrar of births, deaths Richards George, farmer

Stacey Mrs & marriages for the sub-district of Salway Henry, thatcher

Titford Benjamin James, 1 Mount ter Curry Rivel, & medical officer & Selley John Britton, draper, outfitter,.

Vickery Mrs. Townsend public vaccinator for 3A & B districts grocer, boot & shoe warehouse &.

Wheeler George, Holly cottage of Langport union general warehouseman

Wheller Henry, Combe Stock house Hurford Thomas, sanitary inspector, Small William, farmer, Wick

Wheller Mrs. Somerset villa Mount terrace Stacey Cb.arles, wheelwright

202 CURRY RIVEL. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Weaver George Key, farmer Webb Samuel Stephen, builder, con- Welch Joseph, farm bailiff, Pound farm
Weaver James, beer retailer
tractor & quarry owner Whebby Samuel, farmer
Weaver William Henry, boot maker
Webber Thomas, farmer, Park farm . Wheller George, carpenter, Wiltown

CUTCOMBE is a large parish and village, situated on of Dunkery Beacon, 1,708 feet high, stands in this parish,

the high road from Minehead to Exeter, 7 miles south-west and is the highest mountain in the Western counties. Philip
from Dunster station on the West Somerset branch of the Pleydell-Bonverie esq. D.L., J.P. of Brymore, Cannington, is
Great Western railway, and 6 south-west from Minehead, in lord of the manor, the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland

the We-tern division of the county, hundred of Carhampton, hart. P.C., F.R.G.s., D.L., J.P. of Killerton, Exeter, James
Dunster petty sessional division, union and county court Harvey Insole esq. of Chargot Lodge, Luxborough, William

district of Williton, rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry Rowe esq. and Thomas Ponsford esq. of Bardon, Williton,
of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of are chief landowners. The soil is of a sbeelety kind ; sub-
St. John, restored in 1862, when a south aisle was added, is soil hard stone, but not fit for building purposes. The crops
an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, con- are oats, turnips, and barley to a small extent. The acreage

sisting of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch, is 7,231 ; rateable value, £4,188; the population in I88I
and an embattled western tower containing s bells : the was s64.
capitals of the pillars are enriched with delicate carved work; LUCKWELL BRIDGE is a hamlet I~ miles south-west from
the pulpit is of stone, with carved panels ; and the reredos, the church.
also of stone, is beautifully sculptured with a group of "the On March 2s, 1883, a detached part of TIMBERSCOMBE,
Last Supper," after Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated painting: known as BL.A.DFOLD RocKs, was amalgamated with this
the font is of black marble : the church is lighted by 20 parish.
lamps presented by Captain Hugh Berners R.N.: the ringing Parish Clerk, John Bennett.
chamber is used as a vestcy: there are sittings for 400 per- PosT OFFICE, Wheddon Cross.-Charles Reed, sub-post-

sons. The registers date from I70S; the earliest are in master. Letters arrive from Dunster R.S.O. at 9·4S a.m.;
Latin. The living is a vicarage, with Luxborough chapelry dispatched at 3 p.m. The nearest money order office is at

annexed, average tithe rent-charge £341, net yearly value Winsford & telegraph office at Dunster. WALL Box in the
£2so, with residence at Cutcombe, in the gift of the Lord village, cleared at 2.50 p.m. week days only
Chancellor, and held since 1887 by the Rev. James Joseph Parochial School (mixed), founded by Richard Elsworth in

Large. Joyce's charity of about £2s yearly value, arising 1714, & endowed with £so yearly: a school-house, with

from the rent of lands, is distributed to the poor by the master's house, was erected in 1875, for 200 children;
trustees and churchwardens on Easter Monday. A portion average attendance, 64; Mr. John Hayes, master

Crockford Mrs. North Wheddon Crockford William, farmer, Thorne 1Pope Richard, farmer, Brendon hill

Dawson Major William Squirl, Pitleigh Escott William, farmer & landowner, Reed Charles, boot maker

Large Rev. James Joseph, Vicarage South Wheddon RichardsThos. miller(water),Westmills

Townend William Vincent, Steart Gregory Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Sage James, farmer, North Hawkwell

COMMERCIAL. ¥regory Frederic, veterinary surgeon Shapland John, wheelwright

Adams Frederick, farmer, Putham Lock. Samuel, farmer, Kersham Steer Wm. carpenter, Luckwell bridge

Baker Thomas, blacksmith Marsh John, farmer, Northcombe Tapp Jn. farmer, Lower ho.; & Ashwell

Baker Thomas, lime burner & farmer, Melhuish Robert, tailor & shopkeeper Thorne Edwin, farmer, Stowey farm

Couple cross Norman James, farmer, Higher house Trebble Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Bennett Jn.wheelwright,Wheddoncross Norman James, steward to Philip Tucker John, farmer, Stadfold Rocks

BurroughsRichd.(Mrs.),farmr.Oaktrow Pleydell-Bouverie esq. Watercombe Tucker Richard, farmer, Cuthorn

Crockford Eliza (Mrs.), Rest & Be I Norman Jas. Melhuish, grocer & draper Tudball Alexander, farmer, Edbrooks
Thankful P.H Norman John, butcher Tudball John, farmer, Blagdon

Crockford Gregory,farmer,Hawkingt.on Penny Henry, market gardener Tudball William, farmer, Coombleigh

Crockford Joseph, farmer, Hawkwell Pope Fanny (Mrs.), beer retailer Vickery Thomas, farmer, Old Stowey

DINDER is a parish, pleasantly situated between two' poses and the remainder distributed in money. The Rev.

ranges of hills called Lyatt and Dulcot, 2 miles east of Wells, William Somerville left by will, in 1799, the sum of £2oo in
and 3 west of Shepton Mallet, in the Wells division of the trust, the interest to be paid to the lord of the manor of

county, Wells petty sessional division, union and county Dinder for the establishment of a Sunday or other school and

court district, hundred of Wells Forum, Shepton Mallet dis- for annual charity to be distributed at Christmas. Dinder

trict of the rural deanery of Pawlett, archdeaconry of Wells House, a stone mansion, commanding some varied and pie-

and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michael turesque views, is the seat of Arthur Fownes Somerville esq.

is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting J.P. who is lord of the manor. Sharcombe, the seat of John

of chancel, nave of three bays, north aisle, south porch, and Frederick Hall esq. is a stone mansion, situated on an

an embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: eminence in ornamental and park-like grounds. The prin-

the octagonal font is of stone, with quatrefoil ornaments, cipallandowners are John Frederick Hall esq. and Arthur

and there is a curious stone pulpit of the Jacobean period, Fownes Somerville esq. J.P. The soil varies much; in some

dated 1621 : there are several monuments to the Somer- parts it is a red loam; the higher portion on the declivity of
ville family and others : the reredos is of alabaster: the Mendip is fair arable land. The acreage is r,o72; rateable

whole of the chancel windows, the west window and another value, £2,210; and the population in r88r was 207.

in the north aisle are stained: in 1872 the church was re- MASBURY CASTLE, a British encampment on the summit

.stored and re-seated, and the walls lined with freestone, at of the Mendip Hills, is partly in this parish and partly in

a cost of nearly £2,000: there are sittings for 126 persons. that of Croscombe.

The earliest existing registers date from r696, those kept Parish Clerk, Charles Chapple.
prior to that time having been destroyed. The living is a
rectory united to the Prebend of Dinder, average tithe rent- Letters through Wells, which is also the nearest money

charge £154, net yearly value £r7o, including 16 acres of order & telegraph office & savings bank, arrive at 8 a.m.

glebe, with house, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and & 4 p.m. PILLAR Box adjacent to the church, cleared

Wells, and held since 1883 by the Rev. William Michell M.A. at II.4o a.m. & 6.ro p.m. week days

of New College, Oxford. The charities consist of rents of National School (mixed), erected, with residence for the

land left by various individuals, together amounting to £21 mistress, in 18S1, for so children; average sttendance,

yearly, and of which about £13 is applied to church pur- 36; Miss Ellen Hewett, mistress

Foster Reginald Lowbridge, The Cottage Butt Charles Henry, farmer, Crapnell Lawrence Robert, dairyman ¥> A. F.

Hall John Frederick, Sharcombe Croom William, farmer, Lower farm Somerville esq. J.P

Michell Rev. William lii.A. Rectory Feltham William, gamekeeper to A. F. Norman William George, beer retailer

Somerville ArthurFownes J.P.Dinder ho Somerville esq. J.PI & stone mason

COMMERCIAL. Golding Job, gardener to I. F. Hall esq Orledge Robert & Albert, farmers,

Harding Ann (Mrs.), farmer Middle farm

Blinman George, stone mason J ames Thomas Lovell, farmer & assessor Woolley Ed win, estate carpenter to A.

Brook Isaac Norton, yeoman, Church of taxes I<'. Somerville esq. J.P

Hill house Jones Robert,dairyman to J. F. Hall esq

DINNINGTON is a parochial chapelry, situated on the of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of' chancel,

road between Ilminster and Crewkerne, 4~ miles north-west south porch and a western turret containing 2 bells : it was
from Crewkerne station on the main line of the London and restored in 1863 by the exertions of the rector, assisted by
'3outh Western railway, and 3! south-east from llminster, Earl Poulett: there are l'ittings for 130 persons. The
in the Southern division of the county, hundred of South register of baptisms dates from 1592; marriages, I7S2;
Petherton, petty sessional division of Ilminster, union of burials, 1733. The living is a chapt>lry, annexed to the rec-

Chard, county court district of Crewkerne, rural deanery of tory of Seavington St. Michael, joint net yearly value £320,

Crewkerne, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and house, in the gift of Earl Poulett, and held since 1861 by
and Wells. The chapel of St. Nicholas is a small building the Rev. Joseph Phelps Billing, of Sidney Sussex College

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. DODINGTON. 203

Cambridge (domestic chaplain to Earl Poulett), who resides roots. The area is 514 acres; rateable 'Value, £I,I6I; the

at Seavington. The Btble Christians have a chapel here. population in 1881 was 160.

Earl Poulett is lord of the manor and chief landowner; the Parish Clerk, Charles Brice,

other landowners are William Blake esq. D.L., .J.P. of Bridge Letters through Crewkerne arrive at 7·45 a.m. Hinton St

House, South Petherton, and the Rev. Joseph Phelps Billing, George is the nearest money order & telegraph office

rector of St. Michael wtth St. Mary, Seavington. The soil The children of this village attend the schools at Hinton St.

is light and sandy. The crops are flax, wheat, barley and George & Seavington St. Michael
•
Hayman George Henry, Pitt house Hooper Thomas, thatcher Slocombe Thos. farmer, Parsonage farm

Brice Charles, shopkeeper Hutchings Henry, farmer, Pitt farm Tozer Robert &Thomas, farmers, Pond-

Chick Noah, wheelwright Pal mer William, gamekeeper to Earl hayes

Hole George, shoe maker Poulett Wheadon Wm. farmer, Knotts farm

DITCHEAT is a village and parish, situated on the river charge £625, with residence and 86 acres of glebe, in the gift

Alham, which divides the hamlet of Alhampton from the of and held since 1861 by the Rev. William Marriott Leir

rest of the parish, and bounded on the south by the river M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. The rectory house is a

Brue, 1! miles south-west from Evercreech Junction station, fine building of stone, in the Gothic style, erected by Dean
and 2~ south-west from Evercreech station on the Somerset Gunthorp in 1473, who was then dean of Wells and rector

and Dorset railway, 2 miles north from Castle Cary station of Ditcheat: in the hall is an oak screen, whereon are

on the Frome and Yeovil section of the Great Western rail- inscribed the dates of successive rectors since 1433. Here is

way, and 11 south-east from Wells, in the Eastern division a Wesleyan chapel. Linsey cheese-cloth and bandages are

of the county, hundred of Whetstone, Shepton Mallet petty woven here, at works balonging to Mr. E. King. In a field,

sessional division and union, Wells county court district, at a short distance from the village, is a petrifying spring,
Shepton )lallet district of the rural deanery of Pawlet, arch- called the" Holy Well.' The m~nor h::mse is a handsome

deaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The structure of the 17th century. The soil and subsoil are

church of St. Mary Magdalene is an elegant edifice of blue various, principally clay and marl. The chief crops are
lias st.one, in the Perpendicular style with traces of earlier orchard produce and some land in p:1sture. 'fhe area is

work, and consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four 4,50:1A. oR. 24P. ; rateable value, £9,082; the population in
bays, aisles, transepts, south porch and an embattled central 1881 was 8o8.

tower, with a bold octagonal stair turret at the north-west Alhampton is a hamlet, one mile ani a h<J.lf south.
angle and small pinnacles, and containing a clock and 6
bells; the whole exterior is embattled, and the parapets of Wraxall is a h<J.mlet, one and a half west.
the nave and aisles are relieved hy crocketed pinnacles
Sutton is a hamlet, 2 south from th3 church.

springing from carved corbels along the string course; the Parish Clerk, John Francis.

sides and angles of the entire fabricarestronglybuttressed: PosT OFFICE.-William Bartlett, receiver. Letters by the
the church was originally Norman, and one small window of night mail should be designated through Bath, & by the

this period remains: in the 13th century the chancel was morning mail R.S. 0. Somerset should be added. Letters
enlarged, and in the following century, about 1350, bo~h arrive from Bath to Evercreech, thence by foot post

chancel and nave were raised, the former acquiring by this & are delivered at 7.30 a.m. & 3 p.m. ; dispatched at

change its double ranges of windows; on the parapet of the s.so p.m. ; & 11.20 a. m. on sundays. Evercreech is the
chancel are the initials of John Selwood, abbot of Glaston- nearest money order & telegraph office

bury 1456-93 : the piers and arches of the central tower WALL LET".rER Box, Arthur's Bridge, cleare:l at 6.5 p.m. ;

appear to belong to the Early Decorated period, and the sundays, 11.35 a.m.; & Alhampton, cleared at 5.30 p.m.;

lower stage has fan-traceried vaulting; access to the tower sunday, 11 a.m

is curiously obtained by a covered stair constructed on the Wraxall.-Letters through Shepton Mallet arrive at 9 a. m. ;
exterior east wall of the north transept, across the roof of WALL LETTER Box cleared at 4.40 p.m. ; sundays, 10.25

which the tower turret is then approached: the nave retains a. m

a fine tie beam roof, with some original colouring; the A School Board of 5 members was forme:! November g,

transept roofs are similar: the pulpit and reading-desk are 1874; G. E. Kingwell, Evercreech, clerk to the board &

Jacobean : a sun-dial remains in the porch ; and there are attendance officer
sittings for 300 persons: in the churchyard is an ancient Board School (mixed), built in 18741 at a cost of £1,3oo, for

stone cross 12 feet in height. The register dates from the 150 children ; average attendance, 98 ; Ueorge Thomas

year 1562. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- Norris, master; Mrs. Mary Johnston, infants' mistress

Ditcheat. Kynaston William, butcher & cattle dlr Pearce Henry John, farmer

Crocker Mrs Longman George, farmer, Ditcheat hill Pearce Jonas, butcher & beer retailer
Davis Mrs. Ringwell house Martin Eli, dairy farmer, Owley farm White James, blacksmith

Francis John Osborne Benj.Jn.dairy frmr.Cooth farm LookMr3 Sutton.
Gifford Thomas Roles William & Son, beer retailers &
Leir Rev. Wm. Marriott M.A. Rectory
Longman Miss coal dealers, Arthur's bridge Bartlett Geo.farmer, Low. Sutton farm
:Mullins John, Prospect house
Thompson John, Tunlake villa Stone James, baker & beer retailer Corpe John, dairy farmer
Turner Frederick Becker, Manor house
Thomas James, baker & grocer
coMMERCIAL. Welsh Christopher,farmer,Longhill frm Gibbs John, pig dealer
Look Geo.dairy & corn frmr.Sutton frm
Bacon Richard, plasterer
Beaton Henry, Arthur's Bridge inn, Alhampton. Wrax!tll.

Jeanes John
Oram John
[Letters through Shepton Mallet.]

Arthur's bridge COMMERCIAL. Golledge William, Kilkenny

Barber Thomas, dairy farmer, Merry- Bown Jas.dairy farmer, Alhampton frm Seager Mrs. Wraxall villa

land & Rectory farms Carter George, blacksmith COMMERCIAL.
Bennett John, carpenter & wheelwright
Bartlett Wm. draper & grocer, Post off Clothier Thomas, dairy farmer BrownWm.Geo.dairyfrmr.Bengrve.frm

Butt John Seward, dairy farmer, High- Creed Caroline (Mrs.), baker

bridge farm Dean Julia (Miss), ladies' school Corry William, shoe maker

Clark Colin, butcher & shopkeeper Hallett Mary Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Golledge John Cary. yeoman
Clark Edwin, carpenter
Hill George, beer retailer GolledgeStRphen,yeoman, YewTree frm

ClarkJas.farmer &cattledlr.Wards frm HoleEdwd.&Emanl.crpntrs.& whlwrgts Green Robert, blacksmith

Dyke Nathnl. dairy farmer, Manor frm Button Susan (Mrs.),butcher& shopkpr Grimstead John, farmer, Kilkenny

Hallett Henry, Manor Arms P.H Jeans John, farmer Hanham Robert, farmer

Hillard Charles, stone mason & carpntr Jones Isaac, miller (water) Huntley Joseph,beer retailer & shopkpr

HodgesWm.wheelwght.carpntr. &smth Longman Edward, farmer Longman Robt. farmer, Wraxall farm

King Edwin, manufacturer of cheese Longman William, farmer Oborne Jerrard,shopkeeper & beer retlr
cloth, apron linseys & cheese ban- Lumber Edward, beer retailer Vincent Thomas, dairy farmer, Lower

dages, Ditcheat factory Lumber John, shoe maker Wraxall farm

DODINGTON is a parish and village, situated on tt.e sisting of chancel with north aisle, nave, north porch and an

road from Minehead to Bridgwater, on the eastern side of embattled western tower with pinnacles containing 4 bells :
the Quantock Hills, xot miles west-north-west from Bridg- there is a transeptal chapel on the south side, formerly the

water and 7 east from Williton station on the West Somerset burial place of the Dodington family, and retaining a piscina :

branch of the Great Western railway, in the Western division the nave was restored and reseated in 1874: there are sit-
of the county, western division of Williton and Freemanors tings for 120 persons. The register dates from the year

hundred, Williton petty sessional division, union and county 1538. In the churchyard is a venerable yew tree. The living

court district. rural deanery of Bridgwater, archdeaconry of is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £74, net yearly value

Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. 'fhe church of All £6g, including 13 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of
Saints is a building of stone, in the Later English style, con- Sir Alex. B. P. Fuller-Acland-Hood. bart. aud held since 1888

204 . DODINGTO~. SO~iERSETSHIRE. [KELLY's

by the Rev. William Henry Parr Greswell M.A. of Brazenose chief crops are wheat and oats. The acreage is 543; rate-
College, Oxon. The ancient manor house, a good Elizabethan able value, £1,151; the population in 1881 was 91. On
mansion dating from 1581, stands close to the church and is March 25, 1884, a detached part of Holford, known as New-
in perfect preservation, retaining its minstrels' gallery, hall, was amalgamated with this parish.
chimney-pieces and other interesting features : in the win-
dows are the arms of Dodington, Ware, Stomton, Hewish Sexton, Ephraim Sellick.
and other families. Sir Alexander Bateman Periam Fuller- PosT OFFICE.-Ephraim Sellick, receiver. Letters arrive
Acland-Hood hart. D.L., J.P. of St. Andries, West Quantox-
head, is lord of the manor and sole landowner. Limestone from Bridgwater at 5.30 a.m. ; dispatched at 8.23 p.m.
is found ; a copper mine was formerly worked here, but is The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Nether
now disused. The soil is loamy, and the subsoil stone. The Stowey
The children of this parish attend the school at Dyche, in
the parish of Stringston

Greswell Rev. William Henry Parr M. A. Berry Thomas, farmer, Barnsworthy 1 Howe Robert, farmer

The Rectory Browning-, refreshment rooms,Castle / Sellick Ephraim, carpenter

Berry Alfred, farmer, Manor house Coffee tavern

DONYATT is a parish and village, situated on the river average tithe rent-charge £109, net yearly value £162, in-

lie, and on the road from Chard to Taunton, 2 miles south- eluding 31 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of

west from Ilminster, where is the nearest railway station, Richard Thomas Combe esq. J.P. and held since 1872 by the
and 3~ north from Chard, in the Bridgwater division of the Rev. Abraham Reece. There are almshouses for six persons.
county, hundred of Abdick and llulstone, llminster petty Richard Thomas Combe esq. J.P. of Earnshill, Hambridge,
sessional division, union and county court district of Chard, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is sandy
rural deanery of Crewkerne, archdeaoonry of Taunton and loam ; subsoil, clay. The crops are wheat, barley and beans.

diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Mary is an The area is 1,216 acres; rateable value, £2.340; the popu-

ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of lation in 1881 was 382.

chancel, nave, south porch and a western tower with turret Sexton, Eli Street.
containing a clock and 4 bells : the interior was restored in Letters through Ilminster, the nearest money order & tele
1862, at a cost of about £r,4oo, mainly defrayed by the late graph office, arrive at 8 a.m
Richard Thomas Combe esq. J.P.: a stained east window and WALL LETTER Box cleared 5.30 p.m. week days only
a reredos have since been erected and the chancel paved, at National School (mixed), erected in 1871 at the sole cost of
a cost of about £2oo: there are sittings for 340 persons. Richard Thomas Combe esq. J.P. for So children; average
The register dates from r669. The living is a rectory, attendance, 65; Mrs. Zeta Bradshaw, mistress

Farnham Frank, Waldron's j Burrough Richd. frmr.Dollan'sPool frm Langford John, baker

Hellier Frederick John, Park farm Crabb Henry, cooper Langford William, dairyman, Crock st

Hellier William, Manor hou~e Evans Joseph, dairyman Locock Emanuel, shopkeeper

Reece Rev. Abraham, Rectory Hawkin Frank, dairyman, Shave farm Moulton George, shopkeeper & carpntr

COMMERCIAL. Hellier FrederickJohn,farmer,Park frm Owens George, wheelwright
Baker Sam,farmr.& landowner,Stibbear Hellier William, farmer & land steward I Rogers James, G-eorge inn

Bowring Charles, butcher toR. T. Combe esq. Manor house Rogers Thomas, potter, Crock street

Bryant Charles J. miller (water), Hellier Wm. Harry, farmer, Crock st Rosewell James,dairyman,Dollan's pool

Donyatt mill Howard Thomas, farmer, Witney Virgin William, dairyman

DOULTING is a parish, 10 miles west-south-west from 23 feet in height. The register dates from 1563. The liv-

Frome, 7 east-south-east from Wells, and 2 east from Shep- ing is a vicarage with the chapelries of East and West Cran-
ton~Mallet station and 2 west from Cranmore station on the more and Downhead annexed, gross income from tithe rent-

Wells and East Somerset branch of the Great Western rail- charge and 155 acres of glebe £816, joint net yearly value
way, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of £466, with residence, in the gift of F. I. Homer esq. and

Whitesione, petty sessional division and uni0n of Shepton held since 1867 by the Rev. James Hamilton, of Corpus

Mallet, county court district of Wells, Shepton Mallet dis- Christi college, Cambridge. There is a Primitive Methodist

trict of the rural deanery of Pawlett, archdeaconry of chapel at Waterlip in this parish. The charities amount to

Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. about 1..,"5 yearly. Near the church is an ancient and exten-

Aldhelm is a large cruciform structure in the Early English, sive barn with a handsome roof, which formerly belonged to

Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel the Abbots of Glastonbury, and at Bodden are the remains:

with side chapels, nave, transepts, north and south porches, of an ancient roadside cross. There are several large quar-

and a central octagonal embattled tower, with graceful spire ries of fine white freestone in this parish, resembling that at

containing 6 bells : on the outside of the south porch are Bath, but of a harder nature and more durable ; from these
figures of St. Peter, St. John and St. Bartholomew: the quarries were supplied the materials for building Wells
reredos of Caen stone has in the centre a fine malachite Cathedral, St. Cuthbert's Church and the chief part of Gla~­
cross, and the niches on either side contain figures of St. tonbury Abbey. St. Andrew's quarries, situated on the
Aldhelm, St. Dunstan, St. David, St. Augustine, St.Columba glebe land and worked by Messrs. James Witcombe and Son.,
and St. Ethelburga : the east and west windows are stained ; are supposed to adjoin the spot from which the stone used

the latter was inserted by the Rev. E. M. Farquhar M. A. for building Wells Cathedral was drawn. Edge tools are

curate in charge here, 1873-83, in memory of Mary Ellerton, made here. Lieut.-Col. Sir Richard Horner Paget hart_
his wife: above this window is a small stained light in the M.P., D.L., J.P. Cranmore Hall, is lord of the manor and

gable, representing the "Crucifixion;" on the south side is chief landowner. The soil fs light loam ; subsoil, limestone,
a memorial window, erected in 1869 by the vicar to his freestone and clay. The land is chiefly in pasture. The
only daughter, and in the transepts are others to the Fussell area is 3,6oo acres; rateable value, £6,635; and the popu-
family: the roof is of oak, beautifully carved : the choir is lation in 1881 was 6o4.
separated from the nave by an oak screen ; and the choir BEARD HILL, BODDEN, CHELYNCH, FARNCOMBE, NEWMAN
stalls are also of oak: there are modern tablets and brasses STREET, PBIESTLEIGH and WA:IERLIP are hamlets in this
to the Paget, Ridley, Fox and Tucker families: in 1869 the parish.
church was restored and the tower and spire rebuilt, the PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. Annuity & Insurance Office.-Wm_
spire being replaced stone for stone ; the chancel was also re- John Marchant, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive through

built in the Decorated style, at the sole expense of the late Shepton Mallet at 6.55 a. m. & 4 p.m. ; & are dispatched

Rev. Prebendary Homer, then patron: there are sittings for at 6.10 p.m. Shepton Mallet is the nearest telegraph
320 persons. Within the Vicarage grounds rises a constant office
spring, called " St. Aldhelm's well," which forms the source Parochial School (mixed), for 100 children; average atten-
of the river Dulcote ; in the churchyard is a fine old cross, dance, 89 ; Mrs. Ruth Coombs, mistress

De Fraine Rev. George Henry LL.D. Creighton Charles, agricultural & dairy Marchant Wm. beer retailer & grocer

[vicar of Stoke St. Michael], Doult- farmer, Farncombe farm Moon James Edwd.coal dealer, Waterlipo

ing cottage Davis Arth.dairy farmr.Farncombe frm Osborn James,yeoman,Priestleigh farm

Hamilton Hev. James M.A. Vicarage Davis Herbert John, grazier & dairy Rideout Edwin, dairy farmer, Long

Trask William farmer, Hurlingpot farm Cross farm

coMMERCIAL. Dredge Eli7.a (Miss), Priestleigh inn Rowe Edwin, dairyman, Bodden

Ashman Henry Giles, dairy farmer, Herridge Chas. fanner, Whitstonefarm Salmon William, dairy farmer, Yondei"

Beacon farm Hill William Stott, dairy fam1er, Broad Broad Pool farm

Blake Gilbert, manager to C. Trask & Pool farm Selway William Jas. farmer,Newman st.

Sons, quarry owners Hodges Ann(Mrs. ),frmr.Thel\t!anor frm Stone Alfred, farmer, Bodden

Butt Waiter, shopkeeper Hodges James, builder,The Manor farm Swain Seth, cowkeeper, Windmills

Candy Charles,dairy farmer, Temple ho Hodges Joseph, grocer, Waterlip Tapp Jonathan, haulier, Faringdon

Candy Edward, fanner, Bodden Hoskins Robt.Jn.farmer,Beardhill farm Tapp Mark, farmer, Holcombe farm

Coombs Robert, edge tool maker Lambert Joseph, farmer, Lodge farm Trask Charles& Sons, stone merchants

CreightonChas.&Wm.frmrs.Farncombe Lane Amos, stone mason Treasure Theodore,Waggon&HorsesP.B

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JDIRECTORY. SOMERSETSHIRE. DOWNSIDE. 205

Vagg Jas. & Son, blacksmiths, Waterlip Witcombe Charles, stone mason Witcombe Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper
Wilcox Tom, hme burner, Priestleigh Witcombe Frank, monumental sculptor Witcombe Frederick Sidney, New inn,
Witcombe James & Son, Chelynch &
& wood carver, gravestones relettered Chelynch, & freestone quarry master,
freestone quarry masters, St. & all kinds of monumental work done St. Andrew's quarries
Andrew's quarries

DOWLISHWAKE (or EAST DowusH) is a parish and in the gift of William Speke esq. and held since x88x by the

village, 2 miles south-east from llminster, where is the Rev. Francis Howard Mules T.A.K.c. London. In the parish

nearest railway station, and 6 north-west from Crewkerne, is an excellent quarry of stone. William Speke esq. J.P. of

in the 8outhern division of the county, hundred of South Jordans, Ashill, is lord of the manor and chief landowner.

Petherton, Ilminster petty sessional division, county court The soil is stony ; subsoil, chip sand. The crops are wheat,

district and union of Chard, rural deanery of Crewkerne, barley, roots and pasture. The area, with West Dowlish, is

archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. 1,282 acres; rateable value, £2,484; the population in x88x

The church of St. Andrew is an edifice of Ham stone, in the was 345·
Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and
a central tower, containing a clock and 4 bells: in r866 a WEST DowLISH is a parish three quarters of a mile north-
memorial window and a handsome monument were placed west from Dowlishwake, and ecclesiastically annexed to it.
in the church to Capt. John Banning Speke, the great ex- The area, rateable value and population are included with
plorer and discoverer with Grant of some of the sources of the Dowlishwake.
Nile, who was accidentally shot Sept. 15, x864, and is buried
Parish Clerk, Robert Perry.

here; there are some other monuments and tablets, and a Letters through Ilminster, arrive at 7.30 a.m. The nearest

brass to the Speke family: the church was restored in 186o, money order & telegraph office is at Ilminster. WALL
and has 200 sittings. The register dates from about. x6oo. LETTER Box cleared 6.20 p.m. week days only

The living is a rectory, with that of West Dowlish annexed, National School (mixed), built in x84o, for xoo children;

tithe rent-charge £36o, with 34 acres of glebe and residence, average attendance, 75; Miss Annie Lucas, mistress

Duke James Jeffery, Park house ' Bowyer John, farmer, West Dowlish Huddy Edmund, farmer
Gange Mrs Bryant Richard, farmer, Bere mill Mullins William, farmer, West Dowlish
Mules Rev. Francis Howard [rector], Bryant William, miller (water), baker Norton George, gamekeeper to W.

Wakehill & provision merchant Speke esq. J.P
Churchill Joseph, blacksmith Norton John, butcher
COMMERCIAL. Duke James Jeffery, farmer Palmer Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer
Edwards James, baker Rowswell Charles, builder, contractor,
Amor Henry, New inn Huddy Alfred, farmer
.Bowerman Ithamar, Castle inn undertaker & wheelwright

DOWNHEAD is a small parish and straggling village, of glebe [640, net £466, with residence at Doulting, in the

.situated near the l<'rome and Shepton Mallet road, 2?! miles gift of J. F. Fortescue Horner esq. of Mells, and held since

north-east from Cranmore station on the Witham and Wells x867 by the Rev. James Hamilton, of Corpus Christi college,
branrh of the Great Western railway, and 5~ north-north- Cambridge : the Rev. George Augustus Mahon M.A. of Hart-

east from Shepton Mallet, in the Frome division of the ford College, Oxford, who is vicar of and resides at Leigh-

.county, Whitestone hundred, Shepton :Mallet petty sessional upon-Mendip, is curate in charge. Here is a Primitive

division and union, Frome county court district, Shepton Methodist chapel, erected in r863. Viscount Portman is
:Mallet district of the rural deanery of Pawlett, archdeaconry lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is light,

<lf Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of All on the limestone. The land is chiefly pasture for dairy

Saints is a building of stone of the Perpendicular period, purposes. The area is r,528A. 2R. 14P. ; rateable value,

.consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an em- £1,499; and the population in r88x was r78.
battled western tower, with pinnacles, covered with ivy and, Parish Clerk, James Barber.
.containing 3 bells : in 1882 the church (with the exception
()f the tower) was restored at the sole cost of Viscount Port- Letters through Shepton Mallet, Coleford being the nearest

man : there are sittings for 120 persons. The register dates money order office, arrive at 9.30 a. m. WALJ, Box cleared
from 1695. The living is a chapelry annexed together with at 4·30 p.m. week days only

~hose of East and West Cranmore to the vicarage of Doult- National School (mixed), erected in 1864, for 6o children;

ing, joint yearly value from tithe rent-charge and 155 acres a1erage attendance, 28 ; Miss Matilda Jane l3lackall, mist

Britten Charles, Tadhill inn, & dairy Britten Frank, shopkeeper Huntley Edmund, dairy farmer, Tadhill

farmer, Tadhill GreenStephn.dairy farmer,l\Ianor farm Huntley James, dairy farmer

.Britten Edmd.dairy farmer,Shute farm Hopes John, dairy farmer LewisRowland,dairy farmr.Green farm

DOWNSIDE is a scattered ecclesiastical parish, formed 1bell tower and spire, which when finished will be 280 feet

July 4th, x845, from the parish of Midsomer Norton, and high: the part of the church now in use is 120 feet from
.containing Downside, part of Chilcompton and the hamlets north to south, by about 70 from east to west, and 67
of BEN'l'ER and NETTLEBRIDGE: it is 3 miles south from feet high; it comprises north and south transepts, with the
Midsomer Norton, 5 north from Shepton Mallet, 8 north- chapels of the Blessed Sacrament, All Saints, St. Lawrence,
-east from Wells, 14 south-west from Bath, 18 south from the Angels, and the Lady chapel which, opened in July,
Bristol and half a mile south-west from Chilcompton station x888, occupies a position at the eastern extremity of the
<lo the Somerset and Dorset joint railway, in the Frome church, and is vaulted throughout with Ham Hill stone with
division of the county, petty sessional division of Kilmers- groin ribs of Bath stone; also in July, 1889, the large and
don, county court district of Clutton, Midsomer N orton beautiful chapels of St. Benedict and ~t. Isidore were
district of the rural deanery of Merston, archdeaconry of opened ; both are in the Perpendicular style, and the
Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. Christ Church, groined roofs are much enriched with carved bosses: in the
-erected in 1837-38, and consecrated in the latter year, is a grounds IS a spacious swimming bath, constructed for the use
.small building of stone, in the Gothic style, consisting of of the students by the Right Rev. Lord Petre, and adjacent is
.chancel and nave, west porch and a gable bell cot contain- a cricket ground. The chapels, with adjoining schools, are for
ing one bell : there are sittings for 272 persons, 216 of which use of the Catholics in the neighbourhood ; Mr. Chas. Hanson
.are free. The register dates from 1839. The living is a was the architect: in x888 new gas works were built and an
• vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £2r, net yearly value extensive system of water storage completed and the laundry
value £176, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Mid- entirely remodelled. Here is the colliery of the New Rock
.somer N orton, and held since r852 by the Rev. William Coal Company. The principal landowners are H.R.H. the
Leav M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. Here is a Wesleyan Duke of Cornwall, the Marquess of Bath F.s.A. the Eccle-
.chapel. St. Gregory's Monastery and College of the siastical Commissioners, Hyde Salmon Whalley Tooker esq.
English Benedictine Congregation, situated here, occupies .J.P. of Hinton Daubnay, Horndean, Hants, and the proprie-
.a pleasant position in a vale, on the high road from tors of St. Gregory's College. The soil is light loam; sub-
Bath to Shepton, the principal approach to it being by a soil, conglomerate stone. The land is entirely in pasture.

.carriage drive from Stratton-on-the-Fosse. The community The population in x88x wa.~ 6o1.

of St. Gregory's, when driven from their monastery at Douai Sexton, Harry Jones.
by the French revolution in 1793, retired to England with Letters through Chilcompton, via Bath arrive, at 7 a.m. ;
slender revenues, and after being generously supported by dispatched at 7.30 p.m. The nearest money order office
'the Smythes, of Acton Burnell, Shrewsbury, ultimately is at Stratton-on-the-:Fosse. Letters for Nettlebridge
.settled here in r814: the present college is a large and through Oakhill, via Bath
handsome building, in the Gothic style, erected in the years WALL LETTER Box at Nettlebridge cleared at 5·45 p.m. on

1823, 1856 and 1874: the refectory, 75 feet by 30, the week days only
.cloisters and one wing of the monastery were the first parts St. Gregory's Monastery, Very Rev. John Clement Fowler,
undertaken: in July, 1882, the transepts of the church were prior; Very Rev. John Alphonsus Morrall, sub-prior

opened for divine service, and works are still in progress for National School (mixed), erected in 1844, for 100 children;

the extension of the church and the completion of the loftf. average attendance, so; Mrs. Jane Jones, mistress

206 DOWNSIDE. S(J}lERSETSHIRE. (KELLY's

RESIDENTS AT ST. GREGORY's CATHOLIC, Knight Rev. William Osmund Andrews William, dairyman, Old

MONASTERY & COLLEGE. Morrall Very Rev. John Alphonsus Norton Hall farm

[Letters through Stratton-en-Fosse.] [sub-prior] Bown Isabel Winifred (Mrs.), dairy

Almond Rev. Thomas Leo New Rev. Henry Wilfred B.A farmer, Downside farm

Banckaert Rev. Florimond Conrad Suter Rev. Bernard Maurus Bown James, dairy farmer

Birt Rev. Henry Norbert Jones Emma (Mrs.),beerretlr.&haulier

Burton Rev. Thomas Aldhelm Benson Mrs • Martin John, Redan inn, & grocer
Butler Rev. Edward Cuthbert M.A Coles Frederick, The Grange New Rock Colliery (F. Spencer J.P.

Fowler Very Rev. Jn. Clement [prior] Leay Rev. William M.A. Vicarage proprietor; Dan Morgan, manager)

Fulton Rev. Francis Meinrad Plummer Mrs. Rock house Oram John, miller (water), Benter mill

Gasquet Rev. Francis Aidan Short John, Downside lt>dge Page Constance I. (Miss), home for

Geary Rev. William Gabriel Smith Mrs. Broadway young ladies of weak intellect, Down-

Borne Rev. Percy Ethelbert Turner Lt.-Col.Mansfield J.P.GlenView side lodge

Kendal Rev. John Edmund D.D COMMERCIAL. Savage Edwin, tailor, Oak cottage

Kindersley Rev. George ..Elred Ashman John, Naish's Cross inn Urch Wm.grocer &draper, Nettlebridge

DRAYCOT is a hamlet and ecclesiastical parish, formed Cheddar and the rector of Rodney Stoke alternately, and

March 25th, 1862, out of the parishes of Cheddar and held since 1888 by the Rev. Thomas Harold Frederick Hickes
Rodney Stoke, situated between those two villages, with a M. A. of Pembroke College, Oxford. There are Bible Christian

station on the Cheddar valley branch of the Great Western and Wesleyan chapels. There is a charity for the second
railway, about 4 miles east-south-east from Axbridge and poor of this district, of about £3oo a year; this includes
132 from London : the parish includes NYLAND with Cobley's charity of £32 for education. A fair is held here
BATCOMB, which are in Rodney Stoke civil parish and in on th~ second Monday in September. The land belongs to
Axbridge union, and is in the Wells division of the county, various small owners. The soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The
petty sessional division and union of Wells and county court land is chiefly in pasturage for dairy purposes. The area of
district of Axbridge, Axbridge district of the rural deanery the parish is 1,8oo acres, "and the population in 1881 was
and archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and 593; of which Nyland has 590 acres and 44 inhabitants;
Wells. The church of St. Peter, erected in I86o-I, and rateable value of Nyland, £1,833.
consecrated on the 1st of August, 1861, consists of apsidal Sexton, William Star.

chancel,with vestry, nave,transepts, withshorteasternaisles, PosT OFFICE.-Henry Spencer, sub-postmaster. Letters
south porch and a bell-cote on the eastern gable of the nave, received from Cheddar R.S.O. at 7 a.m.; dispatched at
containing 2 bells: the pulpit is of stone and the communion 7 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Cheddar.
table and lectern of oak : a font, of Caen stone and marble, The telegraph office is at the railway station. Postal
is richly carved, and has on its four sides figures in high orders are issued here, but not paid
relief emblematical of "Infancy," "Youth," "Manhood" INSURANCF. AGENT.-Lancashire, H. Spencer
and "Old Age :" there are four stained windows, three of Parochial School (mixed), built in 1866 on a portion of the
which are in the apse, and represent events in the life of glebe adjoining the churchyard, for 120 children; average
St. Peter: in 1887 the church was relighted with handsome attendance, 81; Thomas W. S. Sellick, master; Mrs. H.

brass lamps, at a cost of £35 : there are 240 sittings. 'l'he S. B. Sellick, mistress ; Miss E. Thackthwaite, infants'

living is a vicarage, net yearly value £266, including 6 mistress
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Railway Station, William Hallett, station master /

Harding Mrs Cooper George, boot & shoe maker Rood Charles, pork butcher

Hickes Rev. Thomas Harold Frederick Cooper George Sheldon, boot maker Sargent Alfred George, boot maker

M.A. The Vicarage Cooper Ellen(Mrs.),milliner & dress ma Smith John, farmer

Higgs Miss CourtArth.dairy frmr.&grazier,Nyland Spencer Edwin, farmer

Hill Robert Dove Daniel, coal merchant Spencer Frederick, farmer

Labdon Rev. Peter [Bible Christian] Edmunds William, painter &c Spencer Henry, auctioneer, Post office

Star George Gardiner Albert Hugh, tailor Spencer James, market gardener

Thompson Edmund Goodall James, farmer Standfield George, farmer

Toogood Mrs Grimstead George, farmer Star George, solicitor

Hann William, carpenter Star William, stone quarry owner

COMMERCIAL. Hill Edward (Mrs.), farmer 8ymes Edwin, blacksmith

Arney Edwin, farmer, Batcombe Hill James, farmer, Nyland Vowles Stephen, dairy farmer

Brown Thomas, tarmer Hill John, farmer Vowles Thomas, farmer

Bull James, farmer Lee Stephen, farmer Wall Joseph, farmer & market gardenr

Card Edward, cattle dealer Lukins Alfred, dairy farmer Watts Thos.&Son, stone quarry owners

Card Gilbert, cattle dealer Lukins Cornelius, butter dealer Watts George, mason

Chapman George Philip, quarry own::~r Lukins Henry, mason &c Watts Thomas, jun. mason & builder

Chappell William, sen. farmer Lukins Tom, mason & bldr. Myrtle cot Weeks Jesse, draper & grocer

Churches Edward, farmer & landowner Pearce Jonathan, Railway hotel ·weeks Samuel, farmer

Churches George, farmer Pimm William, blacksmith White John, baker

Churches Thomas, farmer Popham Henry, dairy farmer & grazier, Williams Geo. farmer & mark t. gardnr

ChurchesThos.jun.RedLionP.H.& farmr Far Nyland Williams Tom, market gardener &c

Collard Cornelius, butcher & shopkpr Reeves Thomas, wheelwright & farmer 1 Wyatt Joseph, market gardener

DRAYTON is a parish and village, situated on the river from the interest of £1oo, given by Mr. Hart in 1832.

Ile, which flows into the Parrett on the south-east side of Midelney Place, the seat of Edwin .H. Cely Trevilian esq.

parish, about a mile from the village, 2 miles south from .J.P. stands on rising ground to the north of the village, I

Langport station on the Dunston and Yeovil branch of the mile from Langport station, Great Western railway. The

Great Western railway, in the Southern division of the house, which has been lately built, is named after an old

county, Abdick and Bulston hundred, Ilminster petty ses- manor situated about I mile south of the village. Stan-

sional division, Langport union and county court district, chester House is the seat of William Webber Munckton esq. •

Ilminster district of the mral deanery of Dunster, arch- coroner for the Western division of Somerset. Edwin B.

deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The Cely-Trevilian esq. J.P. William "\Vebber Munckton esq. and

church of St. Catherine is an ancient building of stone, in Francis Meade Eastment esq. J.P. of Surbiton Hill, Surrey,

the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of three are the chief landowners.. The soil is chiefly clay and stone

bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled western rush in one part ; the subsoil, limestone. The crops are corn,

tower containing 5 bells : it formerly had a Norman porch pulse, flax, turnips, potatoes and mangold-wurtzel. The

which was replaced by one in the Perpendicular style: there acreage is 2, 166 ; rateable value, £3,254; the population

is a good east window containing stained glass representing in 1881 was 448.

the "Resurrection" and our Saviour as the "Good Shep Parish Clerk, James Woodborne.

herd:" the church has sittings for 23° persons. The regis- Letters through Curry Rivell & Taunton delivered at 7.30

ter date3 from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, a. m. ; dispatched Rativ6e.l4l5&pt.emle.graTphheonfefiacreeastt money order
gross yearly value £300• part paid by the Ecclesiastical office is at Curry Langport
Commissioners and the remainder from the rent of 47 acres
of glebe, with house, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of WALL LETfE.R Box cleared 6.40 p.m.; sundays Io.so a.m

Bristol, and held since 1848 by the Rev. Walter Alford M.A. Parish school (mixed), erected in 185o, for 100 children;

of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. There is a charity, derived average attendance, 42; Miss S. Matthews, mistress

Alford Rev. Waiter M.A. Vicarage Munckton William Webber (coroner of Trevilian Edwin B. Cely- .r.P. Midelney

Bull Benjamin, Stanchester cottage ·west Somerset), Stancbester house place [Postal address, Curry Rivel,
Matterson Maj.Wm.Key,Draytoncourt, Nor<q:~an Henry Burfol'l:l_,, '
'faunton} .

DIRECTORY.] SO.M ERSETSHiltE. ' 207DULVERTO~.

COMMERCIAL. Griffin John, furrier Purchase Henry,carpenter,wheelwright
Griffin Samuel, farmer & builder
Barber J ames, mason Harris James, Crown inn
Bishop Charles, farmer, Drayton farm Hunt Henry Major, farmer, Manor frm Sharman William, general dealer
Brownsey Frederick, baker
Burge George (Mrs.), farmer Jeffery William, farmer, Westover Small William, farmer
Coate Fanny (Mrs.), shopkeeper Lancaster James, boot maker Starkes Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Cordwent Richard, farmer Mead Joseph, farmer Trott Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Gillard John, carpenter Mead Thomas, farmer, Midelney Uttermare Richard, farmer, Bowdens
Griffin Edward, farmer Perren Frederick, butcher Vickery James, general dealer
Purchase Francis William, grocer Welch Robert, blacksmith

DULVERTON is a market and union town, head of a arrive & delivered at 7.40 a.m. & 3.15 p.m.; dispatched
petty sessional division and parish, situated on the ~t bank at 11.45 a.m. & 6.20 p.m

of the river Barle and bounded on the east by the r1ver Exe, COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR DULVERTON PETTY SESSIONAL
2 miles north-west from Dulverton station on the Devon
DIVISION.
and Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, 5 from Carnarvon Earl of K.P., P.c., D.C.L., D.L. 43 Portman
Bampton, 14 north from 'fiverton, 21 west from Taunton square, London w
and 189 from London; it is in the Western division of the Ebrington Viscount M.P. Castle hill, South Molton R.S.O.
county, hundred of Williton, county court district of Tiver- Devon
ton, rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of T~unton a~d Ferguson-Davie, Sir John Davie, hart. Bittiscombe manor,
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of All Samts, rebmlt Wiveliscombe
with the exception of the tower in 1855, at a cost of £~,2?0• Knight Col. Sir Frederic Wino K.C.B. Simonsbath, South
is a building of stone in the Decorated style, cons1stmg Molton R.S.O
of chancel, nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and an em- Leir Major William, Combehead, Hampton, Devon
battled western tower, containing a clock wit.h chimes and Locke Arthur Charles Edward esq. Northmoor house,
6 bells: the sth bell was brought from Barlynch priory, at Dulverton R.S.O
its dissolution A.D. 1536, and bears an invocatory legend to St. John-Mildmay Capt. Charles Beague, Hollam house,
the Virgin; the 6th bell was erected in 1883 as a memorial Dulverton R.S.O
to the late Samuel H. Warren, who had held a number of Vialls Major Hy. Thos. Castle grove, Hampton, North Devon
public offices for many years : in 1873-4 a reredos of Bath Clerk to the Magistrates, John Henry Bere, Dulverton
stone and an organ were erected at the cost of B. M. Collyns Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall every wed. at u a. m
esq. who also ga,·e illuminated plates, in memory of his de- The following places are included in the division :-Bromp-
ceased parents, and the sacrarium was also repaired at the ton Regis, Brushford, Dulverton, Exford, Exmoor, Exton,
expense of J. B. Collyns esq.: the tower coped with Ba~h Hawkridge, Skilgate, Upton, Winsford & Withypoole
stone, the gift of the Dowager Lady Carnarvon ; the pulp1t, INSURANCE AGENTS : -
desk and font removed and reset and a lectern set up : all Alliance, Robert Staddon
the windows are stained, those in the nave being given in Commercial Union, F. G. Ross
1885 by F. G. Williams esq.; the east window, erected in Economic Life, A. C. Richmond, Bank square
1864, is a memorial to the Beague family: there are others to Hand-in-Hand, W. W. Babb, High street
Henry, third Earl of Carnarvon ; the Dowager Countess of Liverpool, London & Globe, F. G. Ross
Carnaryon ; to William Trevor; George Hall Peppin and to Northern, J. Moore, High street
the Pearse family : there are 750 sittings. The register dates Provident Life, F. G. Ross
from the vear 1558. The living is a vicarage, average tithe Sun Fire, Charles William Nelder
rent-charge [349, grnss yearly value [415,including 52 acres Sun Fire & Life, R. Bere & Son
of glebe, with house, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of West of England Fire & Life, B. Bayley, Fore street
Wells, and held since 1872 by the Rev. Francis 'filney Ba.ssett
DULVERTON UNION.
M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, and prebendary of Wells.
The chapel of ease at Marsh Bridge is a building in the <Tothic Board day, every alternate saturday, at the Workhouse
style, erected at the sole cost of J. A. Locke esq. _J._P. and
consists of chancel, nave and a western turret contammg one at 11.30 a.m.
bell : four of the windows are stained: there are 6o sittings.
Here is a Congregational chapel, built in 1831, an~ afford- The Union comprises the.parishes of Brompton Regis, Brush-
ing 220 sittings. The town is compact and the neighbour-
hood is famed for its trout fishing, but still more for the red ford,Dulverton, Exford, Exton, Hawkridge,Huish Champ-
deer sheltered between this and Exmoor (once a royal
flower, Morebath (Devon), Skilgate, Upton, Winsford &
forest), in numbers sufficient for the use of a fine pack of
stag-hounds now under the management of Charles H. Withypoole; the population of the union in 1881 was 5,453;
Basset esq. Watermouth Castle, A. C. E. Locke esq. being
secretary to the hunt. The district is also hunted during the rateable value, £40,033 ..
season by several packs of fox hounds and harriers. The
Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Frane1s
.A troop of the West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry is stationed
Gordon Ross, Dulverton

Treasurer, Mason Allerton, National Provincial Bank,

Dulverton

Relieving & Vaccination Officer for the Union, John Stone,

Dulverton

Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. I district,

George Francis Sydenham, Battleton house, Dulverton;
here. The charities for distribution and educational pur- No. 2 district, George Robert Norris, Wiveliscombe ; No.
poses amount to £28 yearly. There is a Connty Police
station under the charge of a sergeant. A monthly catt~e 3 district, Thomas Archibald Guinness L.K.Q.c.P.Irel.
market (which is well attended by farmers and dealers) IS Hampton, Devon
Superintendent Registrar, l<'rancis Gordon Ross, Dulverton ;
held on the first Tuesday in each month, near the railway deputy, Richard Hammond, Workhouse, Dulye~n
station ; the market day is on Saturday. _A coach runs
during the season between Dulverton statwn and Lyn- Registrar of Births & Deaths, Dulverton sub-diStrict, John
Stone, Dulverton; deputy, John Moore, Dulverton
mouth, the route through the Exe valley and over Exmoor
being one of the most charming in England. Pixton Park Registrar of Marriages, John Stone, Dulverton; deputy;
John Moore, Dulverton
is one of the seats of the Earl of Carnarvon P.C., K.P., D.C.L., The Workhouse, situated near the river Barle & erected
D.L., J .P. ; the mansion, beautifully situated in a deer park in I855, at a cost of £4,000, is a building of stone,
extending over 150 acres, is now in the occupation of George available for about 64 inmates ; Richard Hammond,
Frederick White esq. J.P. of Porchester gate, London.
Combe is the residence of .M:aj.-Gen. James Kempt Couper; master ; George Francis Sydenham, medical officer ; Mrs.
Grace Hammond, matron; Miss Sophia Hammond,
Hollam House, of Mrs. Arthur St. John-Mildmay; North
Moor House, of Mrs. Locke. The Earl of Carnarvon, who schoolmistress

is the lord of the manor; the Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke RuRAL SANITARY AUTHORITY.

Acland bart. P.c. the Earl of Portsmouth n.r.. , J.P. Capt. Meeting at the Workhouse on alternate saturdays, after poor
law business; viz. for sanitary affairs at x p.m. ; school
Charles Beague St. John-Mildmay R.A., J.P. Mrs. Anstey,
Arthur Charles Edward Locke esq. J.P. Richard Bere esq. business at 2 p.m
Clerk, Francis Gordon Ross, Dulverlon
of The Lodge, Milverton, Rev. Beauchamp Kerr Warren Treasurer, Mason Allerton, National Provincial Bank,
Pearse M.A. rector of Ascot Heath, Berks, and Thomas Mar-
Dulverton
riott-Dodington esq. M.A., J.P. of Horsington House, are the Medical Officer of Health, E. J. Slade-King M.D. Ilfracombe
chief landowners. The area of the parish is 8,337 acres ; Inspector of Nuisances, E. Babb, Bishop's Nympton, Devon

rateable value, £7,405; the population in 1881 was 1,373, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE C...OMMITTEB.

including so officers and inmates of the workhouse.

Parish Clerk, George Daniel Prideaux. Clerk, Francis Gordon Ross, Dulverton
Attendance & Inquiry Officer, John Bevin, Winsford

PpsT, M. 0. & 'f. 0., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office PuBLIC EsTABLISHMENTS:-

(Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. Somer- County Police Station, Isaac Stark, sergeant in charge &

_set added).- Ed win Catford, sub-po.st~aster. Letters 1 constable.

208 • SOMERSETSHIRE. [K.ELLY's

DULVERTOY.

District Highway Board, Francis Gordon Ross, clerk Surveyor of Highways, Andrew Chas. Richmond, Ivy cott

West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (A troop), Capt. J. P. T. National School (mixed), enlarged in 1873 to hold 250

Alien; Sergeant-Major Frank Rapson, drill instructor children; average attendance, 130; Waiter Pritchard,

PuBLIC OFFICERS : - master; Miss Sarah Ann PoweJI, infants' mistress

Assessor of Queen's Taxes, Francis Gordon Ross Railway Station, John Burrows, station master

Certifying I<'actory Surgeon, George Francis Sydenham Omnibus from Red Lion hotel meets all trains

M.R.c.s. Battleton house CARRIER TO TIVERTON.-William Berry, from New inn,

Collector of Poor Rates, William Hawkins tues. & sat

Collector of Queen's Taxes, Robert Staddon RAILWAY CARRIER.-J. C. Wall

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bunt Petherick, brewer National Provincial Bank of England

Abbot Mrs. The Cottage Burnett Arthur, boot maker Limited (branch) (Mason Allerton,

Allerton Mason Carpenter Phillip, farmer, Gulland manager) ; draw on head office,

Arbery Mrs Catford Edwin,linen drapr.& post office Bishopsgate st. within, London E c

.Baker Miss, High street Catford George, farmer, Northcombe Nelder A. & Son, Carnarvon Arms

.Bayley Benjamin, Fore street Chanter Mark, blacksmith, maker & family hotel & posting house,Dulver-

.Bassett Rev. Prebendary Francis Tilney repairer of agricultural implements & ton station; excellent trout fishing

M.A Vicarage agent for principal manufacturers to visitors in the rivers Exe & Barle

Bere John Henry, Fore street Cockram William, farmer, Draydon Nicholas Robt. Rockhouse inn,& saddlr

Birch Mrs. The Retreat Collyns John Barrett&Robt.Jn.surgeons Norman .Tohn, farmer, Higher Chilcotts

Booker Miss Cottrell Benjamin, carpenter Page Robert, wheelwright & blacksmith

Catford Thomas Court James, boot maker Page William, coach builder

Clarke Frederick Court William, boot maker Parkhouse Elizabeth (Mrs.), New inn

Clarke James, Battleton cottage Darby Edward, farmer, Liscombe Parminter Edwin, tailor

Coleman Rev. JohnJamesM.A.[curate] Dobbs John, grocer & baker Parminter Thomas, carpenter

Coleman Mrs. Belmont Dulverton Weighbridge(William King, Prideaux George Daniel, plumber

CollynsJohn Barrett· proprietor) Pulsford Johnl<'rederick, painter

Collyns Robert John Edmonds Charles, Bridge inn Puttock Peter, carpenter & builder

{;ouper Maj.-Gen.James Kempt,Combe Edwards William, Boot inn Radley Richard, baker

Gorton Capt. Charles, The Green Fisher Eli, boot maker &grocer Rawle Richard, bailiff to The Rt. Hon.

Haines Rev. Samuel Charles,Woodleigh Fisher George Bowbeer, builder Sir T. D. Acland hart. Ashway

Harding Miss, Highercoombe Fisher Hannah (Mrs.), butcher Receiving Office (J. C. Wall, carrier)

Harding Mrs. Highercoombe Fisher Henry, shopkeeper Richmond Andrew Charles, surveyor of

Harding Mrs William, Hynham Fisher Matthew, baker highways, Ivy cottage

Hoyles James Follett Charles, saddler Ross Francis Gordon, accountant, clerk

King William Follett J.\tlary (Miss), lodging house to the board of guardians, rural

LockeArth.Chas.Edwd.J.P.Nth.Moor ho Frayne George, boot maker sanitary authority, district highway

Locke Mrs. Northmoor house Fry John, farmer, Old Shute board & school attendance committee

Marshall Benjamin Crosby Gage 'fhomas, grocer & superintendent registrar

Marsland Mrs German Henry, ironmonger, plumber Scott James, miller (water)

Pearse Mrs & painter Stacey George, watch maker

Price Rev. Hugh PenderelM.A. Jury German John Hill, photographer Staddon Robert, land agent, auctioneer,

Price Thomas, Jury Giles Wm. & Thos. farmers, Ashwick surveyor, valuer & agent for the

Ross Francis Gordon Glass Charles Henry, farmer, Broford Alliance Assurance Co.; & at Fore

Routh Randolph Stewart Arden, The Goodland W. & C. coal &c. merchants street, Bampton, Devon
Mount Govier Henry, blacksmith Stark Isaac, police sergeant

Rt. John-Mtldmay Capt. Charles Beague Gregory Thomas, news agent Stevens Charles, land agent to the Right
Hammond Richard, deputy-supt. regis- Hon. Earl of Carnarvon, Weir
R.A., J.P. Ho11am house
St. John-Mildmay Mrs.Arth.Hollam ho trar, Workhouse Stevens Robert, farmer, Old Bury

Scroggie Rev.Jas. [Plymouth Brethern] Harding Richard, farmer, Lower Chill- Stone John, registrar of births & deaths,

Sydenham George Francis, Battleton ho cott & Hynam & vaccination officer for Dulverton
Thorne Mrs Harding Webber Lewis,farmer,Higher- sub-district &relieving officer,& regis-

"White GeorgeFrederick D.L.,J.P. Pixton coombe trar of marriages for Dulverton union

park ; & Porchester gate w & Reform Hawkins William, builder & collector Sydenham George Francis M.R.c.s.

club 8 w London of poor rates surgeon, medical officer & public
vaccinator, No. I district, Dulverton
'Wicks Hev. John [Congregational],The Heath Edward, china & glass dealer

Manse Heath Ellen (Mrs.), china & glass dlr union, & certifying factory surgeon ;

·wise Edward, Woodlands Hepper Wm. Hoskin, farmer, Ashway medical officer to G. W. Railway,

COMMERCIAL. Hidon James, mason Battleton house
Hidon William, farmer, Beards Tarr John Hill, Lamb hotel

AllertonMason,manager of the National Hill William, farmer, Ashill Thorne Edwin, baker

Provincial Bank & treasurer to the Holcombe Elizabeth (Mrs.), boarding Thorne John, refreshment rooms

union & rural sanitary authority house, High street Turner William, grocer

Arnold George, farmer, Slade Holcombe John, water bailiff to Exe Tout George, White Horse P.H

Arscott John, farmer, Stream comb Conservators, High street Warren Robert, miller & baker, Manor

l3abb Waiter Webber, chemist & drug- Hooper John, farmer, Halscombe water mills

gist & news agent Huxtable William, dairy Westcott John, farmer, Cawkett ·

Baker Henry, farmer, 'I'arr Joyce John, farmer, Hele bridge West of England Iron, Timber & Char-

Bale Henry, shopkeeper King William, farmer coal Co.; telegraphic address," Marsh,

BAYLEY BEN.JAMIN, grocer &draper Liscombe Edwin, builder Dulverton Station;" Exe Bridge &

& general outfitter; dress making Lock Thos. & Son, farmers, Stockholm Bampton, Devon

under experienced management, Lock John Mackie,shopkeeper &butchr West Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry

family mourning, funerals furnished, Melhuish John, dairy, Colefords (A troop) (Capt. J. P. T. Alien:

Fore street Moore John, tailor & deputy registrar Sergeant-~lajor Frank Rapson, drill

Bere R. & Son,solicitors ; &at Milverton of births, deaths & marriages instructor)

Bere John Henry (firm, Bere R. & Son), Moyle Edmund Morcombe, Red Lion Westcott William, farmer, Clayford

solicitor. & clerk to justices & com- family & commercial hotel & posting Wood Mark William, builder

missioner for oaths house; & Angel hotel, Tiverton. See Yandle John Culverwell, farmer, Perry

Blake Abel, farmer, Willway advertll.ement

DUNDRY is a parish and village, Situated on a range of tower was built in the reign of Edward VI. by the Merchant

hills, or rather on one vast hill, 790 feet above the level of Venturers of Bristol, and being lofty and situated on so high
the sea, 5 miles south-west of Bristol and 3~ miles south- an eminence, forms a conspicuous object for many miles
east from Flax Bourton station on the main line of the Great round : all the windows are stained : in the churchyard

Western railway, in the Northern division of the county, stands an ancient cross raised on four stone steps; the total
hundred of Hartcliffe with Bedminster, Long Ashton petty height is about 24 feet : there are sittings for 220 persons.

sessional division, union of Bedminster, county court district The register dates 156o. The living is a vicarage, average
of Bristol, rural deanery of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and 1 tithe rent-charge £168, net yearly value £189, with resi-
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Michael, re- 1 dence and 3~ acres of glebe, in the gift of the vicar of Chew

built (with the exception of the tower) in 1861, is a sub- Magna, and held since 1887 by the Rev. John William
stantial edifice of s~one, consisting of ·chancel, nave, aisles, Gillett, of London University. Here is a Baptist chapel,
south porch and a fine embattled western tower of Perpen-~ built in 1828. The charities amount to £9 IOS. yearly. A
dicular date with pinnacles, and containing 6 bells: the fair is held on September 12th, yearly, for cattle, sheep &c.

JDlllliCTORY. SOl\IERSETSHIRE. DUNSTER. 209

lffere are quarries of freestone of a very durable character. • same time on sundays. The nearest money order & tele-

.John Colthurst esq. of Chew Court, Chew Magna, is lord of graph office is at Chew Magna. l'ostal orders are issued,

-the manor. The principal landowners are William Adlam but not paid

.esq. n.L., J.P., li'.S.A. of Chew Magna, and the Bristol WALL LETTER Dox, East Dundry, cleared at. 4 p.m.; &

Cllarity trustees. The soil is loamy; the subsoil is of oolite West Dundry, at 4.30 p.m

formation. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots, INSURANCE AGENTS : -

.and there is much pasture land. The area is 2,799 acres; County Fire, S. l3linman
aTateable value, £6,3o6; the population in J88I was s6s.
Imperial Fire, J. Shorland, The Grove

Parish Clerk, William Payton. · National School (mixed & infants), built in 1857, for 108

PosT OFFICE.-James Barnes, sub-postmaster, Letters children; average attendance, 66; Robert Moon, master;

from Bristol arrive at 7·45 a. m. ; dispatched at 4·45 p.m. ; Mrs. Mary Moon, mistress

>Gillett Rev. John William B.A. [vicar], Gallop George, farmer Marshall George, beer retailer
Vicarage Gallop William, farmer, Upton farm Marshall Geo. sen. farmr.Littleton farm
Gillett Alfred, farmer, Keedwell's farm Marshall Henry, farmer
Lndlow Edmund, Highridge house Golding John, Carpenters' Arms P.H Marshall John, farmer,Barrow common
Shorland James Hellier, The Grove Griffin Benjamin, farmer & landowner, Marshall William, farmer, Littleton
Pearce William, Dundry inn
COMMERCIAL. East Dundry

Ball Stephen, hay dealer Griffin Edwin, farmer, Littleton Pow William Ja.mes, Winford Arms l'.H
Griffin William, farmer & landowner j Pugh Waiter, butcher
Baston Charles (Mrs.), farmer

Battenbury John Edward, baker Hale Henry, blacksmith Read Charles, wheelwright

Jninman Samuel, assistant overseer Hardwick William,farmer,East Dundry Rich George, dairyman

Brock John, farmer, East Dundry · Harrison Joseph, fannAr, Hillside farm Sweet Wm. farmer, Folly House farm

Brock Jsph. Chas. farmr.Highridge frm Harwood Samuel, shopkeeper Walker Benjamin, dairy farmer

Clements Henry, mason Keedwell William, farmer Weaver James, farmer

Clements William, stone mason Knight Samuel, farmer, Walnut farm ·weaver John, farmer

Coleman Henry, market gardener Lovell Charles, jun. farmer, Littleton Weaver Michael, farmer, Grove farm

'Cox Alfred, boot & shoe maker Lucas Thomas, farmer, Upton farm, Webb Jabez, shoe maker

Gadd Albert, coffee rooms East Dundry

DUNKERTON is a village and parish, 5 miles south- with house, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1874 by the

west from Bath, 4 north-north-east from Radstock, 2 north- Rev. Gerard Ludlow Hallett LL.M. of Trinity Hall, Cam-

east from Camerton terminal station of a branch of the Great bridge. Here is a Baptist chapel. The principal land-

Western railway from Hallatrow, and 2~ north-west from owners are James Daniels and the trustees of the late

Wellow station on the Somerset and Dorset joint railway, Robert Cooke. The surface is hilly, and there are some fine

in the Frome division of the county, Wellow hundred, Wes- views from the high grounds. The soil is clayey; subsoil,

ton petty sessional divi!>ion, Bath union and county court stone. The crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans, but the

distdct, Midsomer Norton district of the rural deanery of land is chiefly pasture. The acreage is 1,233; rateable

Frome, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. value, £2,438 ; the population in x88r was 1,019.

The Somersetshire canal passes through, and a small rivulet The ecclesiastical parish of St. John's, Peasdown, was

waters part of the parish. The church of All Saints is a formed out of the parishes of Dunkerton, Wellow and

building of stone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, Camerton, Aug. u, 1874, and is given under a separate

consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled heading.

western tower with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: the corn- CARLINGCOT, 2 miles south-west, and TuNLEY, 2 west, are

munion table is of oak with richly carved panels of cedar: hamlets in this parish. •
all the windows are stained, and the east window is a Parish Clerk, James Lewis.

memorial to the Rev. Frederick Grosvenor, 25 years rector PosT OFI<'ICE.-James Lewis, postmaster. Letters from Bath

<lf the parish : the church contains some good specimens of arrive at 4· ro a. m. ; dispatched at 8. 55 p. m. The nearest

hammered ironwork : the church (with the exception of the money order office is at St. John's, Peasdown; Timsbury

-tower) was rebuilt in r859, and has sittings for 150 persons. is the nearest telegraph office. Postal address for Car-

The register of baptisms and marriages dates from 1748; lingcot is St. John's, Peasdown

burials, 1752. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge National School (mixed), erected in 1846, for 100 children;

£3r8, gross yearly value £410, including 48 acres of glebe 1 average attendance, 73; Miss Amelia Payne, mistress

Hallett Rev. Gerard Ludlow LL,M. Holvey Elijah, carpenter Pike John Fredk. farmer, North Hill ho

Rectory Humphreys Edward, haulier Skuse Susannah (Mrs.), beer retailer

COMMERCIAL. Love George, farmer Stamp Jesse, mason

Milburn Frederick, farmer, Ashgrove VaughanEdward,farmer&Crosswaysinn

•Cbivers Job, butcher & grocer, Tunley Parker Charles, blacksmith, Tunley Weaver Frederick Geo.King William P.H

·Cook Fredk. Chas. wheelwright, Tunley Pearce William, farmer, Carlingcot Weeks George, beer retailer

Daniels Harriet (Mrs.), farmer PerryFredkWm.farmr.Severcombefrm Weeks James, farmer

Gooding Benjamin, beer retailer Pickford Charles, farmer, Church farm ·weeks Samborne, farmer

>Gore John, Swan inn PickfordJames, farmer

DUNSTER, a market town and parish and head of a petty as to their respective rights in the church, it was directed by

'sessional division, situated on the high road from Minehead arbitrators that the latter should use the nave, constructing

to Williton, and bounded on the north by the Bristol a separate choir within it, and that the former should retain

·Channel, is 162 miles from London, 22 north-west from the choir proper and transepts ; this arrangement led to the

Taunton, 24 west from Bridgwater, and 2~ south-east from almost entire reconstruction of the fabric, the Norman

Minehead, with a station on the West Somerset branch of tower being removed and the present tower erected between

the Great Western railway, in the Western division of the the monastic and parochial sections of the church, the new

county, in the hundred of Carhampton, Williton union and transept thus forming a noble vestibule to the conventual

county court district1 rural deanery of Dunster, archdea- choir, the rood screen of which was erected under the
-conry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The eastern arch of the tower, and aisles of two bays were also

church of St. George, the eastern portion of which formed then added, and a small chantry erected on the north side :

the ancient priory church, is a long, low and irregular cruci- a little to the west of the western arch of the tower a large

form building of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, Norman arch, not now perfect, with lateral masonry, spans

but with some Norman portions and traces of Early English the nave and serves as the western limit of the presbytery,

work, and consists of choir of three bays with aisles, tran- which is now beneath the tower : the fine oak rood screen of

septs and north chantry, nave, aisles with arcades of four the old parochial church stretches across the east end of the

bays on the north side and six on the south, south porch and nave and its aisles, and has fourteen arches fitted with

a lofty central embattled tower 92 feet high, with diagonal! elaborate tracery, and attached to the south aisle is an

buttresses and slender crocketed pinnacles, and a battle- octagonal embattled tuuet containing the rood staircase : the

mented stair turret at the north-west angle; in the tower font is Perpendicular : in the monastic church, now a private

are 8 fine-toned bells and a clock with chimes : the whole chapel of the Luttrells, are several stately monuments to

.structure is about 180 feet in length, and during the later this family and others, including one of alabaster, with re-

history of the priory comprised two distinct churches, the cumbent effigies, to Sir Hugh Luttrell kt. ob. 143r, and

monastic and parochial, but up to the end of the xsth Catherine(Beaumont), his wife :therearememorialwindows

-century the church appears to have consisted of a Norman to Charles Edward Ledward, of HiH Park, Frankby,

nave with aisles, transepts, with small eastern chapels, Cheshire, d. 1875; one with inscription on brass to Richard

' massive central tower and an aisleless choir; in 1499, in Utten Todd, rs years rector of Dunster, erected by parish-
-consequence of a dispute between the monks and parishioners ioners and friends in 1886 ; four in the south aisle to 1\:lary

S. G. & B. 14

210 DUNSTER. SOMERS:ETSHIRE. (KELLY's

Ann Todd, il. 1872; Richard Utten Todd, d. 1886; Amelia keep, not now existing; the area, about 70 yards in length

Ann, widow of Sir Alexander Hood hart. of Wootton, d. at from north to south, by 35 yards wide, is now a bowling

Dunster Castle, 1883, erected by her daughter, Anne F. green, and has a summer house at the north-east with a.

Luttrell ; and to Emma Louisa, widow of Francis I<'ownes Perpendicular window: the north or lower ward is about

Luttrell, d. 188I, and Augusta Margaret, their eldest I26 yards in length from north-east to south-west, with a

daughter, d. r88o; in the chancel are two others bearing the mean width of 33 yards, and has an area of about hlalf an

arms of the Luttrell family, to Francis Fownes Luttrell, d. acre : the present castle stands at the extreme north-east

r862, erected by his widow and children; and Margaret quarter, upon the curtain wall, and occupies generally the-

Fownes Luttrell, d. r858 ; Harriet Fownes Luttrell, d. I87o, site of the domestic buildings of the ancient fortress : the-

and Thomas Fownes Luttrell, late vicar, d. 187I : the roof principal front, which faces south-west, and is embattled

is of oak, finely carved : the church is seated with beautifully throughout, derives considerable picturesqueness from the-

carved oak benches : the entire building was restored in irregularity of its plan and the varying character of

1875, at a cost of between £u,ooo and £I2,ooo, and re- its outline : the entrance is through a boldly projecting·
opened in September, 1876, principally at the expense of G. square tower, with a depressed moulded arch, over which

Fownes Luttrell esq. and partly by subscription, the are the carved arms of Luttrell with supporters and crest :

architect being the late G. E. Street esq. B.A. and has 370 on the north-west is a massive rectangular block with an

sittings, of which 320 are free. The registers date from the octagonal stair turret rising above the battlements and

year 156o, but the earliest are not perfect. The living is a finished with a pointed roof and vane: the mansion is:

vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £q;~, net yearly value generally three stories in height: in r869 large additions

£92, with house, in the gift of George Fownes Luttrell esq. were made to the Tudor portion. of the castle by the-

and held since x886 by the Rev. Geoffrey Barrington Simeon present owner, G. F. Luttrell esq. when the new structure-

ll.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel, on the north-west was erected, the north front and walls

built of stone in I 878, and seating 2so persons. A cemetery, restored or rebuilt and a terrace constructed : the gateway

2 acres in extent, situated near the church, was formed in of the lower ward, dating from the reign of Henry Ill.

188o, and is under the control of a Burial Board of five or Edward I. is 9 feet wide, with flanking towers, and

members. A Cottage Hospital was established here in 1867, has been recently restored ; in the last century it was

containing 7 beds, and is supported by voluntary contri- closed up, but was reopened on its restoration : the great

butions ; 38 in-patients and 167 out-patients were treated gate house, which forms the entrance to the castle from the

in 1888. Here is a County Police station, erected, with house town, and is still perfect, may date from the time of Richard

for the superintendent and sergeant, and a court-house, in II. ; it is a rectangular embattled building of three storiesp

1858. The Luttrell Arms hotel is an ancient house, with a with an arched and vaulted entrance about ro feet wide,

good Perpendicular porch, and the rooms have cinque-cento angle turrets and semi-hexagonal flanking turrets on the-

chimney pieces, ornamented ceilings and carvings. Visitors inside : the exterior front is strengthened by buttresses, and

to the hotel have the privilege of inspecting the castle on any over the archway, within a panel, are seven shields of the

day during the week. The old market hall, a building of arms of Luttrell, either singly or impaled, and two at present

some picturesqueness, was erected by George Luttrell, about blank: the first floor is divided into two rooms, the second

x589. The market day is the first Monday in the month, forms a single large chamber 47 feet by I6 feet 6 inches,

and is fairly attended. The great markets are on the second with an open timbered roof : the total width of this gate-

Friday in February, and on the Friday before 2oth house is 63 feet, it is 23 feet deep, and has a height of about

November. The Benedictine priory of St. George was 45 feet; below it, on the approach to the castle, another

founded here in the time of William I. by Sir William de gatehouse has been erected, projecting from the old curtain

Mohun, to whom the Conqueror had granted the Castle of wall: the fine and extensive park abounds in deer and game,

Dunster, together with 55 manors in this county, and was a and not far distant are the remains of an ancient camp, the

cell to Bath Abbey: some portions of the original Norman ramparts of which can be seen from the castle. G. Fownes

church exist in the present structure ; on the north side of Luttrell esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The

which stood the conventual buildings, but of these little now soil is various, but in all parts good ; the subsoil, sandstone

exists, and owing to the erection of houses on the site any and rock. The crops are mostly wheat, barley, turnips and

examination of it is nearly impossible : at the north-west oats. The acreage is 3,455 of land; rateable value, [4,893 ;

angle of the church are traces of a cloister, and adjoining the population in I88I was 1,126.

this is a building which retains a square-headed Perpendicular ALCOMBE is a hamlet, I mile north-west, with a post office

window and may have been the residence of the prior : in and several good residences. A small chapel of ease has

the farm buildings north of the church stands the priory been opened here, at which there are two serviceson Sunday_

dove-cot, with a mediooval door, and a wooden almonry and AVILL is 1 mile south-west; 8TANTON, 2 miles west,

barn also remain : the revenues at the DissolutiOn were HIGHER MARSH, half a mile north, and are small hamlets.

estimated at £37, there being then 4 monks only. On Parish Clerk, William Long.

Conegar Hill, at the othoc end of the town, a shell tower was PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., 8. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office

built by a former member of the Luttrell family: it is now (Railway Sub-Office. Let.ters should have R.S.O.

covered with ivy, and being on the summit of this steep hill, Somerset, added). - James White, sub-postmaster.

and surrounded by woodland, has a most picturesque ap- Letters arrive at 6.25 a.m. & 3.25 p.m. ; dispatched at

pearance from every point of view, and seiTes as a landmark u.25 a. m. & 6.20 p.m

to navigators of the Bristol channel. PosT OFFICE, Alcombe.-Letters through Dunster R.S.O.

Dunster Castle, the seat of George Fownes Luttrell esq. arrive at 8.25 a.m. & 4·I5 p.m. & are dispatched at

D.L., J.P. is a fortress of very considerable antiquity, and Io.25 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. Minebead is the nearest money

was formerly a military post of importance ; the hill or tor order & telegraph office

on which it is situated forms the north-east extremity of a WALL LETTER Box, near Forester's Arms hotel, cleared at

lofty ridge, from which, however, it stands detached ; to 5.20 p.m

the east stretches the park, a fine tract of meadow land CoUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR DUNSTE.R PETTY SESSIONAL
about a mile in width, through which, and skirting the foot DIVISION.
of the hill, flows the stream of the Avill; the town lies on
the west side : the history of the castle dates from the time Luttrell George Fownes esq. D.L. Dunster Castle, Dunster
of the Domesday Survey, when it was held by William de R.S.O. chairman
Moion, or Mohun, and it bad previously been the stronghold Acland Rt. Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke hart. P.c., F.R.G.s. •
of Aluric in the reign of the Confessor : in the reign of F.L.s., F.c.s. Holnicote, Taunton
Stepheu it was held by William de Mohun (d. rr65) for the Acland Chas. Thos. Dyke esq. M.P., M.A. Holnicote, Taunton
Empress l\Iatilda, who is said to have created him Earl of Battersby Worsley esq. Old Knowle, Dunster R.S.O
Dorset, and be was not improbably the builder of the keep : Blatbwayt George William esq. D.L. Porlock Weir, Taunton
the wall and towers defending the lower ward, the bases of Bosanquet Henry Anstyesq. lll.A. Clanville, Minehead R.S.O
which remain,were built in the latter half of ~e 13th century: Dobree Samuel esq. Minehead R.S.O
on the death of John, 2nd and last Baron de Mohun, about Gatchell Joseph esq. Alcombe house, Dunster R.S.O
1376, the castle and estates were sold by his widow Joane Lovelace Earl of, Ashley Combe, Minehead R.S.O
(Burghersh) to Elizabeth (Courtenay) widow of Sir Andrew Luttrell Capt. Alexander Fownes R.N. Edington, Bridgwater
Luttrell kt. of Chilton in this county, to whose descen- Clerk to the Magistrates, Thomas Joyce, Bardon
dants the castle has since belonged, and the greater Petty sessions are held at the court house on the first
part of the structure as it now stands is the work of Sir friday in each month except October, & last friday in
Hugh Luttrell and his successors: during the Civil war the September
Luttrells took a neutral part, but the castle was occupied The places in the petty sessional division are: Carhampton,
by the king's forces, under Col. Wyndham in I643, and in Culbone, Cutcombe, Dunster, Lucombe, Luxi:Jorough,
_1646 was beseiged by Blake, who forced its surrender in Minehead, Oare, Portock, Selworthy, Stoke Pero, Timbers-
April of that year, and a part of the fortifications was there- combe, Treborough, Withycombe & Wooton Courtney

upon dismantled: the castle precincts form an irregular oval, INSURANCE AGENTS : -

naturally divided into two wards ; the upper or south ward Not·wich Union Fire, J. Ridley

contains the summit of the hill, on which stood the polygonal Royal Fire & Life, Charles Bouchier Craze

JDIRECTORY. SOl\IERSETSHIRE. DURSTON. 211

PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS : - Registrar of Births & Deaths & Relieving Officer, James

Cemetery, Charles Francis Moss, clerk to the burial board _ Young

County Police Station, Patrick Ford Gerity, superintendent; Registrar of Marriages, James White

I acting sergeant & 5 men Superintendent of Police, Patrick Ford Gerity

Vil1age Hospital, Thomas Clark & Francis George Hayes, ScHOOLS:-

medical officers; Mrs. Jane Johnson, matron Mixed, erected with master's house in 1872, at the expense

PUBLIC OFFICERS:- of G. F. Luttrell esq. for 250 children ;-average attendance,

Clerk to the Burial Board, Charles Francis Moss 130; Charles Francis Moss, master
Inland Revenue Officer, James Holligan Wesleyan (mixed), built in 1825, & rebuilt in 1853, for 6o
children ; average attendance, 14 ; Miss Annie Brown,

Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Dunster District, mistress

Williton Union, Francis George Hayes Railway Station, Elias W. Salter, station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS, COMMERCIAL. HolliganJas.inland revenue off.Alcombe

Baker Thomas, Alcombe Adams Henry, tailor &grocer, Alcombe Jervis A. & J. bakers & confectioners; &

Bland Mrs. Cefn villa, Alcombe Adams Robert, farmer, Alcombe at Minehead. See advertisement

Boon Mrs. Alcombe Amor William Richard,grocer &draper Langdon John, wheelwright, Alcombe

Chalton Edward W. Alcombe Baker Michael, thatcher Latham William, posting master

Bartholomew Miriam (Miss),ladies' schl Letty Henry, iKcome tax collector
Cl~rke Capt. Thomas Edward J.P. Bartram Mary Jane (Miss), dress maker Locker Joseph, general dealer, Alcombe
Alcombe cote
Bond Samuel Orchard, butcher Long Robert, New inn
Cook George, Alcombe
Bryant Charles,market gardnr.Alcombe Manning Henry, Horse & Crooks P.H
Cook GeQrge, jun. Alcombe
Cemetery (Charles Francis Moss, clerk Mildon George, school, Alcombe
Conrtenay Hugh Leslie, Priory green
to the burial board) Mills Robert, shopkeeper
Davis James Herbert, Woodstock villa Chalton Edward W. artist, Alcombe Northcombe James, plumber, Alcombe
Doggett Mrs. Alcombe
Clark William, beer retailer · Northcombe William, plumber,Alcombe
Dunstan Mrs
Clarke Thomas E. inventor & patentee Penhall John, builder
Fairless Rev. Thomas J. [Wesleyan]
•of gas stoves, cooking & heating ap- Reading Rooms(Dl.Thorne,sec. ),High st
Gatchell Joseph J.P. Alcombe house
paratus, Alcombe cote, Alcombe. Ridler Jas. grocer, draper, & agent for
Giles Mrs. Alcombe
See advertisement W. & A. Gilbey, wine & spirit mers
Glass Francis, Ellicombe house
Cook George, road surveyor &inspector Risdon Geo. farmer,Higher Marsh farm
Haime Rev. Herbert W. [Wesleyan], of nuisances, Alcombe
Wesley place Salter Elias W. lodging house

Hayes Francis George Cording Waiter James,china & glass dlr Slater Helen (Mrs.), day school

Courtenay Hugh Leslie, land agent & Stuckey's Banking Co. (agency) (James
Hebblethwaite Rev. Ernest Presgrave steward to Geo. F. Luttrell esq. D.L., Ridler, agent); draw on Robarts,
M.A. LcurateJ
Hole Mrs. Alcombe house J.P. Manor offices Lubbock & Co. London
Hole Robert, Alcombe house
Cranstone George, grocer Timewell James, plumber
Craze Charles Bouchier, plumber, gas- I Thorne Daniel, clerk of the works to
J ohnson Hugh
fitter, bellhanger, decorator & hot & G. F. Luttrell esq. D.L., J.P
Jones Mrs. Alcombe
cold water engineer, agent for the Tudball John, carriage builder
Lock John, Alcombe
Royal Fire & Life Insurance Upham Chas.shpkpr.& post off.Alcombe
Ludlow Waiter, Rose bank, Alcombe Craze William, shoe maker
Vickery Jas.artst. TheHollyhcks.Alcmbe
Luttrell George Fownes D.L., J.P. Dun- Crocker James,watchmkr.& photogrphr Village Hospital (Thomas Clark L.R.c. P.

star castle Eames Henry, butcher Edin.& Fras.Geo. Hayes L.R.C.P.LOnd.

McCormick Miss Edmonds Harriett (Miss), milliner med. offs. ; L. C. Webber-Incledon,

Martin Miss, Highland house Edmonds Robert, farmer, Alcombe hon.sec. ; Mrs.Jane Johnson,matron).

Northcombe James, Alcombe Ell Samuel, chemist Wake James, saddler

Palmer Edwin, Hill side, Alcombe Elliott George, boot maker Watkins William Theodore, solicitor•.

Pavey Mrs. Alcombe Evered William, miller (water) Dunster lodge, Alcombe

Perkin Mrs Frost Henry, blacksmith Watts Wm. Hy. boot maker, Alcombe-

Poole Miss Geen George, seedsman White James, tailor

Purcell Mrs Gerity Patrick Ford, supt. of police WidlakeElizh.(Mrs.),LuttrellArmsP.H~

Rendle Thomas Graddon Mary (Mrs.), Britannia inn, family & commercial hotel & posting·

Ridler William, Alcombe Alcombe house ; carriages to meet every train

Simeon Rev. Geoffry Barrington M.A. Grabham Robert, blacksmith Widlake William, farmer, Kitswald

The Vicarage Groves John, farmer, Avill house Williams Albert, boot maker

Smith Timothy Hawker Richard John, baker Woolcott Thomas, tailor & registrar of

Staddon Mrs. Alcombe Hayes Francis George, surgeon, & medi- marriages, Post office

Todd Mrs. Alcombe lodge cal officer & public vaccinator, Dun- Yandle William, Foresters' Arms hotel,

Vickery J ames,TheHollyhocks, Alcombe ster district, Williton union commercial &tourist hotel ; 'bus meets.

Watkins William Theodore Pitt, Dun- Hine John, builder every train. See advertisement

ster lodge, Alcombe Hole Edward E. posting house Young James, reg. of births & deaths

Webber-Incledon Laurence Charles, Hole Robert, coal dealer for Dunster sub-dist. & relieving off.

The Dene Hole Thomas, builder for Dunster district, Williton union

.

DURLEIGH is a parish,~~ miles west-south-west from Berry, who is also vicar of Wembdon, where he resides.

Bridgwater station on the Bristol and Exeter section of the William Gooding esq. J.P. who resides at Durleigh Elms and
Great We3tern railway, in the Bridgwater division of the Col. Charles Kemeys Kemeys-Tynte D.L., J.P. of Halswell
county, hundred of Andersfield, Bridgwater petty sessional House, Goathurst, are the chief landowners. The soil is red
division, union and county court district, in the rural marl, loam and gravel; subsoil, various. The chief crops
deanery of Bridgwater, archdeaconry of Taunton and are wheat, barley and beans. The parish contains 713
diocese oi Bath and Wells. Part of this parish is within the acres; rateable value, £1,597; the population in 1881 was
borough of Bridgwater. The church (name unknown) is an 145·
ancient building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south Parish Clerk, Thomas Clarke.

porch and an embattled western tower with saddleback roof ·
containing 4 bells: the chancel arch is Norman: the church 'Letters from Bridgwater, which is also the nearest money

was restored in 1882, and affords sittings for lOO persons. order & telegraph office, arrive at 7· 20 a. m. & about 5 p.m

The register dates from the year t688. The living is a WALL LETTER Box, opposite the church, cleared at 7.2op.m

donative, yearly value about £25, in the gift of G. R. Hard- There is an infants' school, but the elder children attend the

ing esq. and held since 1889 by the Rev. William Frederic school at Bridgwater

GoodingEdwardEverardStratford,Elms Clarke Thomas, carpenter · Roe Jonas, farmer, Rexworthy

Gooding John Brand, Elms Culverwell William Thomas, farmer Talbot Richard & William, farmers,

Gooding William J.P. Elms Poole Charles, farmer & miller (water) West Bower farm

DURSTON is a parish and village, situated on the main ton union and county court district, rural deanery of Bridg-

road from Taunton to Wells, about 6 miles north-east from water, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and
Taunton and 6 south from Bridgwater and about 157 from Wells. The church of St. John, rebuilt about 1853, is an

London, with a station on the Bristol and Exeter section of edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of
the G-reat Western railway, at the junction of the branch to chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an embattled
Yeovil, in the Bridgwater division of the county, hundred of western tower with pinnacles containing 4 bells: in the
North Petherton, Bridgwater petty sessional division, Taun- tower is a mural monument to Thomas Gray esq. of Earl's

S. G. & B. 14"'

S•O.L\fERSETSHI.BE• [KELLY'g

Court, Kensington, and lluckland How;b, Durston, d. Sept. Parish Clerk, 1Ienr1· Bishop.

26, I82o : there are sittings for 230 persons. The register PosT 0FFlCE.-George Blackmore, receker. Letters arrh·e

dates from I7I2. The living is a vicarage, average tithe from Taunton by lettet' carrier at 8.35 a. m. who leaves at

rent-charge [143, net yearly value [150, in the gift of C5 .u5r rpy..m .T hTe ht eel engeraarpehs tofmficoeniesya tott'hdeerr aoiflfwicaey is at Nor th
station
Viscount Portman, and held since 1862 by the Rev. William
Smith Tomkins T.A.K.C.L. Viscount Portman is lord of the Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1853, for 70 children;
manor and principal landowner. The soil is clayey. The

chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area is 991 average attendance, 36; Miss L. A. Smith, mistress
acres; rateable >alue, £3,227; the population in x88x was Police Station, Edward Bacon, C'Ollstable

222. Railway Station, Henry Dunn, station master

Tomkins Rev. Wm. Smith T.A.K.C.L. Bond William, farmer, .Bnckland fann Kidner Jn.Champion,fanne:r~Lodgefrm

[vicar] Cousins Alban, butcher & farmer Wilkins Charlotte- (Miss), sbopkeeper
Kidner Samuel, Mountlands Wilkins Jame~, hoot & shoe make¥·
Day Edwin, farmer, Frog lane
Bishop Henry, wheelwright Day Henry, farmer~ Warre's farm Williams John, bntcb:er

Blackmore Henry George, blacksmith Hillman Edwin, farmer, Coglett farm

EARNSHILL, an ancient parish included in the ecclesiastical parish of Hambridge;.

EASTON is a picturesque hamlet and ecclesiastical parish, 1persons. The regis-ter dates from the year 1844. Th~ l1vi.ng"

Jonned September 14, 1844, from the civil parish of St. is a vicarage, yearly vafae £2oo, in the gift of the -.i~ar of"
2t'
Cuthbert's Wells, and surrounded by lofty hills, miles St. Cuthbert's WellS', and held since 1886 by the ReY". James·

· north~west from Wells, I mile south-east from Westbury Holderness M.A. of St. CatllParine's College, C'ambridger The•

station on the Cheddar Valley branch of the Great Western Wesleyan chapel, ereeted :iirJ 1831, is situatetf north-west of

railway, 5 south-east from Cheddar and 7 north from Glas- the V'illage. on the: road t0' Westbury. '.f'hlr populafWn im

tonbury, in the Wells division of the county, petty sessional 1881 was 252.

-division, union and county court district, Shepton Mallet Parish Clerk, W":d.Hnm j),wliing.

district of the rural deanery of Paw1ett, archdeaconry of
Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St.

a•·Paul, built in 1843, is an edifice of stone in the N orrnan

style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts and a turret con-
Letters through W~l.ls, wmcrn• is 1he nearest :money order &.
~egraph office, arrive ~45 a.m. PILL fiR Box cleared

6..15 p.m. week cfuys only

. tainin~ one bell~ the stained east window was pY'esented b-y National School (mixed), foo: !ro• children; WJrerage atten-

the late Mrs. Henry Green ; and there are sitting3 for 220 danee, 6o; Mrs. Mary D~ing, mistress

Holderness Rev. James M.A. [vicar], Cox Henry, :(in-mer, Ebbar farm Isaacs William, farmer
The Vicarage DowliDg William~ parish cle:k
Fowler George, shopli:eepe~r l<Saacs. WiJ.liam Phelps, faJJmer
Taylor ·wmiam Bennett Morgan,George. thatcher
Francis Frank, cowkeeper· l'rescott J()hn~ Jarmer
Vowles Albert Green Henry, dairy farrmetr ~hervey lfuuxy, shopkeepest &c
COMMERCIAL.
Hodges Robert, dairyman i!tarte Willmm"farmer
Baker Anne (Mrs.), Easton inn

EASTON-IN-GORDANO (commonly called ST. gift of the Bishop of. London~ and held since 1-867 by the·

GEORGE) is a village and parish 7 miles west-north-west Rev.. Arlhor Walkeu M.A•. of Thinity College,. Cambridge.

.from Bristol, and 1 mile west from Pill station on the Bristol The l'edory was b111ilt in x86g>, The charitiJs· are £x6

,and Portishead branch of the Great Western railway, in the yea:rJ!y. There is a hlewery at ll.adrway. St. «Peorge's Hill

Northern division of the county, Portbury hundred, Long i'S the- resi~nce of Hmry· John Mi'rebouse es<)j. J:P. Capt.

A.shton petty sessional division, Bedminster union, Bristol AntO!J.y ffibbs esq. J. p_ of. 'Ilyntetiiaid,_ W raxall, iS lord' of the.

county court district, Portishead district of the rural deanery manar. H. J. Mireh.use·esq. J_:u:. and Capt. &bert Henry

of Chew, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath and de Wint(')D D.L., J.P~ of, Graftonbmy, Heref~rd;. are the

Wells. The river Avon falls into the Bristol channel on the prinripa.llandowners. The chiei' crops are roo16, bariey and

north side of the parish. The church of St. George, rebuilt wheat. lml the land is:. chiefly in pastaue. The JOil is rather

with the exception of the tower in 1872, from designs by rich loom.; the subsoi: is clay. T.llle area is ~576 acres of

Mr. Ewan Christian, architect, of London, is a building of land and 33'S of water;; rat~ble'llad.~ [7,259·; the popula-

stone, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of six ba-ys, tion in x$81 was 2,0950 These figutll:es include l'ill, which is

p.~sl~!f, aouth porch and an embattled western tower witlt given setJOrately in thi&. work,

!our phJ.J.l.llcles containing a clock and 6 fine bells : the ParisJbl Clerk, Benjamin. Presrotlt...

..stained east window is a memorial to Cann de Winton esq. PosT 0.1'li'1CJ::.-Thomas S.. Bryan41,. :receiver. Letters,arrive
from Bristol at 6.s~Da.m. &4.#l·P·m.; dispatched at 6.15:
late of Clifton, and was erected by his son Herbert : aU the a.m. & 4· p.m. 'The nearest money ordes: & telegraph,

windows but two are stained : there are seyeral monuments office is at PilL :f"'6stal orde:n. are issued :r.ere, but not
paid
of the 17th century to the Morgan, Wilkins and De Winton

families : there are sittings for 350 persons. The register
dates from the year I559· The living is a rectory and

vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £228. net yearly value National School (miad), built :ra61),. to hold 100 children;:

£250, including 35 acres of glebe, with residence, in the average attendanee, 64, ; Miss- An~lina CA>8pe1", mistress

[Letters for Lod.way sho.uld be addressed Bryant Georgfl, King•s AnnsP.H Maggs John.,. farmer & dairyman

Lodway, Pill.] Bryant Samuel, beer retailer · Maggs Wm.carpenter &klilder,Lodway.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bryant Thomas SeymoUJ'~ earpenter. Mallock C1l6~:les, market gardener
Bannister Mrs. Restholme
Post office Nash Mary (M~:s.), fanwn:, Manor farm.

_l3eddoes Capt. Thos. Hy. Willoughby Champion Charles, market gardener Porter Sa.•uel,. market. ga.rdener
R.N. (inspector of lifeboats for the Clarke Hamilton William~ organist 111 Prescott :&njamin, raie ~oUector, a.ssis-

South Western district),Windham ho choir master of Christ church, Pill&. tant g.verseer & deputy registrar of
Hall William, Keswick house, Lodway St. George's, Easton in Gordantill,. birt~ deaths & marriage~ St.
Kempster -, Lodway house Ravensworth villa
Geurg&sub-diatri<tt~edminsterl.mion

Knight Joseph, The Laurels Dowswell Fanny (Miss), girls' school Prescotl George, carpenter
. Lace Rev. John William M. A. Vicarage Hall & Sons, brewers, maltsters & wine PrescoU.Thos~Geo.~rpenter & undertkr

Mirehouse Hy.John J.P.St.George's hill & spirit merchants, Lodway brewery Ross 'Richard Alexandei', surgoon, &
Hardwick Samuel, farmer,Court house medical offi~-r & public vacciuator,
farsons Joseph, Overhill

Phillips Roger, Haberfield hall Hardwickelsaac,farmer,Happerton frm 8th district, :&dminster union, Lad-

Boss Richard Alexander, Lodway villa Harford Edward, farmer, Rudgley way villa

Shepherd Rev. James [missionary], Harford Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Lodway Shepherd Samuel, pilot

Stonefield house Hookway Henry, market gardener, The Stallard William, farmer, Lodway

Walker Rev. Arthur :\f.A. Rectory Common Thomas Wm.Hy.mstr.mariner,Lodway
Hun\ Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wyatt Charles, farmer, Priory fann

COMMERCIAL. Hunt Walter, market gardener Young Thomas, butcher

Alvis Samuel, farmer, Prebendal Lambert Edwin, shopkeeper

EASTRIP, formerly extra-parochial, was in 1850 con- parishes of Bruton and South Brewham; it consisted of

stituted a parish for civil purposes, but under the " Divided Yarious pieces of land, the property of Sir Henry Hoare bart.
Parishes Act" it was by virtue of an Order in Council, 25th who is lord of the manor, and contained 830 acres; rateable
March, 1884, divided between and amalgamated with the value, £876 ; population in t88r, 11.

EDINGTON is a village and ecclesiastical parish, for- east-north-east from Bridgwater, in the Bridgwater dh·ision

merly a chapelry in the parish of Moorlinch, having the of the county, hundred of Witley, petty sessional division,

river Brue on the north, 2! miles south from Edington union and county court district of Bridgwater, rural deanery

Road stati()n on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 6! of Glastonbury, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath

DIRECTORY.] . SO~IERSETSHIRE. • EMBOROUGB • 21:1

-and Wells. The church of St. George is a building of local trict in x881 was 284. There are ~arities• of £go annual

stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, value. Edington House is the seat of Mrs. Westmacott.

south porch n.nd a western turret containing 2 bells: the Lord'Carlingford P.c., K.P., D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor.

staine:l east window is a memorial to the late Misses Jeremy Mrs. Westmacott, and the trustees of the late Capt. John

and the west window to the relatives of William Vale esq.: the Alex. Fownes LnttreU R.N. are the chief landowners. The

church was rebmltin 1879,ata cost of £r,so::>, and has sittings soil is sandy; the subsoil is peat and stone. The chief crops

for 207 persons. The register dates from the year r8rg. The are wheat, beans, barley and oats ; there are also numerous

jliving is a vicarage, with that of Chilton Polden annexed, orchards. The area of t-he parish is 2, r66 acres ; rateable

average tithe rent-charge [51, joint yearly value £150, in value, £g,66o; the population in x88x was 435·
the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and held since I886 .
Iby the Rev. Edward Simeon Elwell D.D. of Worcester Col-· PosT & M. .0. 0., ~· B. & Annmty &.. Insurance Offi~.­

lege, Oxford. The district church at Burtle, 3 miles north John Darch, receiver. . Letters rec6lved through Brldg-
from Edington, erected in I839, at the cost of the late Miss water at 4·~5 a. m. i d~spatched _at 8.40 p.m. The tela-
Field, is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of 1: graph office 1s at the raliwa.y stat10n
chancel and nave, south porch and a western turret contain~ WALL LETTER Box, Burtle, cle~red at 6.20 p.m

ing one bell: there are sitti~gs fo~ ~8o l?ersons. The register Church School, Edington Burtle (mixed), erected in r839, to

dates from the year _1839· !he hvmg IS a perpetual curacy, hold 70 children; average attendance, 45• & has an en-
year!~ value £28o, m the gift of A. R. Poole esq. Q.C. and dowment of 3 acres of land. Henry James Kidd master
held smce I87I by the Rev. Andrew John Yarranton B.A. of
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St. John's College, Cambridge. 'fhe p::>pulation of this dis- Railway Station, Charles Marks, station master

Burridge Miss r Cox Jesse, farmer & turf dealer Jennings John, farmer
Durston John, Burtle
rDarch George, shopkeeper Jennings Thomas, farmer

ElwellRev.EdwardSimeon n.n.Vicarage! Durston John, farmer, Hill farm Lee Herbert, farmer, West Bnrtle

Luttrell Mrs. John Alex. Fownes Durston William, farmer Moxey George, turf dealer, Burtle

Norris Alfred, Pines Godfrey Edwin, turf dealer Moxey Lavina (Mrs.), farmer

Westmacott Mrs. Edingt.on house GodfreyWilliam, turf dealer Nicholas James, farmer Ch:1p~l
Pocock Elizh.(Mrs.),farmer,
Yarranton Rev.Andrew John B.A.Burtle 1 Grant George, shopkeeper hill
1Grant James, farmer, Burtle
COMliiERCIAL. Rugg John Warren, farmer

Coleman Charles, blacksmith, Burtle J Grant Samuel. Railway inn Snook David, farmer

Cox Hubert,grocer & draper,Burtle hillj Harvey William, shoe maker Tratt Joseph (Mrs. J, farmer, Burtle

Cox Edmund, farmer, Burtle James John, farmer, Burtle Webb Richard, farmer

ELM is a small village and parish, comprising GREAT and and there are sittings for 100 persons. The register dates-

LITTLE ELM, 3 miles north-west from l<'rome station on the from the year I697. The living is a rectory', yearly value-

Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth branch of the Great Western £Iso, with residence, in the gift of William Strachey esq.

railway, in the Frome division of the county, hundred, petty and held since I875 by the Rev. Henry Bassano Hare M.A.
sessional division, union and county court district of Frome, of Trinity College, Oxford. Here is a small Wesleyan chapel.

. rural deanery of Frome, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese To the south-west of the village are the remains of a Roman
of Bath and Wells. The village is pleasantly situated on the encampment. Roe~{ House is the seat of William Stra.chey
edge of a woody vale, a stream running through the valley, esq. J.P. lord of the manor and chief landowner. There is

and by its side the winding road to Mells ; the locality is rich an abundance of limestone in the parish, and agricultural

, in beautiful and romantic scenery, and the rocks rising to a edge tools are manufactured here. The soil is various; the-
height of 150 feet are overgrown with coppice and pendent i\·y, subsoil, clay and limestone. The land is chiefly in pasture

and bear evident marks of having been torn from the opposite for dairy purposes. The acreage is 893.; rateable value,
side of the valley by some violent convulsion of nature: the £1,807; the population in 1881 was 359·

projecting rocks on the one side seem to answer to the Parish Clerk, Robert Hobbs.
indentations on the other. The church of St. Mary is an Letters through Frome, which is the nearest money order &

ancient building of stone in the Early English style, con- telegraph office, arrive at 8 a. m. & 4 p.m. WALL LETTER

sisting of chancel, nave, north transept, south porch and a Box cleared at 6. 10 p. m. week days only
western saddleback tower containing one bell: it was restored National School (mixed), erected in 1823, f()r 100 children;
in I837, at a cost of £3oo, when the transept was added, average attendance, 51; Mrs. Emily Newton, mistress

Hare Rev. Henry Bassano M.A. Rectory Fussell James, Isaac & John Limited, Pearce William, farmer, Newlands
Penny William,dairy farmer, Court frm
Hayman Alfred, Hapsford house edge tool manufacturers; & at Mells Willcox Ho3ea, shopkeeper
Williams James, carpenter & wheel-
Hayward George T & Chantry
wright, Hapsford saw mills
Strachey William J.P. Rock house Jones James, dairy farmer

BeauchampHeary, farmer, Manor farm :Morgan James, dairy farmer

Eames Edward, Eagle inn

ELWORTHY is a small scattered parish and village, 3 about one mile and a quarter south-east, on the summit of

miles south-west from Stogumber station on the West which is a tower, affording an extensive view of the Bristol
Somerset branch of the Great Western railway and 5~ north channel, the Wel.sh coast and the surrounding country.
from ·wiveliscombe, in the Western division of the county, There is an ancient British camp on the boundary of the

hundred of Williton and Freemanors, Williton petty sessional parish, about I mile south-west of the chnrch, called.
division, union and county court district, Wiveliscombe dis- "Elworthy barrows." John Blommart esq. .J.P is lord of
trict of the rural deanery of Taunton, archdeaconry of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is principally
Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. rag and stone rush, and produces averd.ge crops of wheat,

Martin is a small building in the Early Perpendicular style, oats, barley, potatoes and turnips; subsoil, new red sand-

consisting of chancel, na\·e, south transept, north porch and stone. Thfl acreage of the parish is 1,635 acres ; rateable •
a battlemented western tower containing 4 bells: the chan- value, £1,7161 the population in I881 was I55·

eel screen, of carved oak and illuminated, is inscribed :-" 0 WrLI.ETT is a hamlet 2 miles south-east of the church.
Lord, prepare our unprepared harts to praye, Anno Domi. Wil1ett House is the seat of B esq. J. P,
I632," and the stalls and pulpit are also of carved oak in the
same style : the east window is stained : there are sittings Sexton, Henry Thorne. John lommart

for 113 persons: in the churchyard is a remarkably fine yew Letters through Taunton via Bicknoller. The nearest
tree of great age. The register of baptisms and burials dates money order & telegraph office is at Stogumber. ·wALL

from the year r6S5 ; marriages, I686. The living is a rec- LETTER Box near the church is cleared at 4 p.m. week
tory, gross yearly value £goo, with residence and 62 acres days only

of glebe, in the gift of the Rev. John Eddy, and held since Parochial School, Willett (mixed), held in a cottage belong-

1867 by the Rev. Matthew Augustin Pierpoint B.A. of New ing to I. Blommart esq. & holding 40 children; average

Inn Hall, Oxford, who is non-resident; the Rev. Charles attendance, 25; the 1School is supported by Mr. & Mrs.

Edward Pizey A.K.C.L. has been curate in charge since I888. Blommart. Other children attend t.he schools at Bromp-

Willett Hill or Tor is a commanding eminence, 950 feet high, 1 ton Ralph & Stogumber ; Mrs. Mary Payne, mistress

Blommart John J.P. Willett house Hawkins John, farmer Prescott W. H. blacksmith, Willett

Pizey Rev. Charles Edward T.A.K.C.L. Hembrough Maria (Mrs.), farmer, Surridge John, farmer, Colford fa.r.n

The Rectory Knight's !arm Surridge William, farmer,Elworthy frm

Cornish George, farmer, Higher Willett Morle Julius Hugo. farmer, Truckwell

EMBOROUGH (or EMBORROw) is a scattered parish, 1 hundred, Shepton Mallet union, Wells county court district,

situated I~ miles north from Binegar station on the Somerset : Temple Cloud petty sessional division, Midsomer Norton
and Dorset railway, 5 north from Shepton Mallet, 5~ north- district of the rnral deanery of Merston, archdeaconry of

east from Wells, 14 south-west from Bath and IS south from I Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St.

Bristol, in the .Northern division of the county, Chewton I Mary is a small building of stone in the Early English l'ltyle,

21-4: EMBOROUGH. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'S

consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, transepts, north manor and chief landownel\. The land is sandy, with a sub-
aisle and an embattled central tower, with pinnacles, con- soil of limestone. The chief crops are hay and corn. The
taining ::~bells, one being a 14th century sanctus bell: there acreage is I,8o4; rateable value, £2,045; the population in
is a mural monument in the nave to the Bath family : the I88I was 178.

church was partially restored in r886, and has roo sittings. Parish Clerk, John Ham.

s.The register dates from 1569. The living is a parochial PosT OFFICE.-John Ham, receiver. Letters received from

chapelry, annexed to the vicarage of Chewton Mendip, gross Bath at ro a.m. ; delivered at 6 a.m. & dispatched at 8. IO
income from tithe rent-charge ;{,402, net £249, with I acre p.m. The nearest money order office is Chewton Mendip
of glebe and house, in the gift of and held by the Rev. Charles & telegraph office Midsomer Norton
Young M. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. John Hippis- The children of this place attend the school in the adjoining
ley esq. F.R.s., D.L., J.P. of Ston Easton Park, is lord of the parish of Binegar

COMMERCIAL. Candy Herbert, farmer Pouting Geo. farmer,Turner'sCourt frm

BARTON ELIJAH .JOHN, proprietor Coles Christiana(Mrs.),frmr.Chrch.frm ReakesAlbert, farmer, Whitenall farm

Somerset pipe, tile, pottery, terra & Gait Edwin, farmer Reakes Geo. Aubrey, frmr.Master's frm

fire clay works Ham John, shopkeeper & parish clerk, I Wareham Chas.frmr.Summer'sHill frm
IBrown Fdk. Wm. farmer, Paradise farm Post office
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ENGLISH COMBE (or lNGLES COMBE) is a parish and Oxford. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is lord of the manor,

village situated near the road from Bath to Wells, r~ miles the greater part of the parish belonging to the Duchy of

south-west from Twerton station on the main line of the Cornwall. The soil is stone brash ; subsoil, stone. The

Great Western railway, and 3 miles south-west from Bath, chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is I,852

in the Frome division of the county, Wellow hundred, acres ; rateable value, £2,268 ; the population in r88r was

Weston petty sessional division, Bath union and county 524.
court district, Keynsham district of the rural deanery of lNGLES BATCH, a hamlet, is I mile south-west.
Bath, archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath and Wells.
The ancient Wansdyke runs through the parish. The Parish Clerk, Georg-e Cox.

church (dedication unknown) is an ancient building of stone PosT 0FFICE.-George Cox, receiver. Letters through Bath

in the Early Norman and Perpendicular styles, consisting of arrive at 8.ro a.m.; dispatched at 4·45 p.m. The nearest

chancel, south chapel, nave, south porch and an embattled money order office is at Holloway & telegraph office at

central tower with pinnacles containing 5 bells : the church Twerton
was restored and reseated in r88S at a cost of £6oo and has WALL LE""'T'l""'ER Box at Ingles Batch, cleared at 7 a.m. week

I35 sittings. The register dates from the year 1728. The days only

living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £170, gross A School Board of 5 members was formed April 15, 1882;

yearly value £2o6, including 15 acres of glebe, with house, J. E. F. Wason, clerk to the board & attendance officer

in the gift of Col. Griffiths R.A. and held since 1882 by the Board School (mixed), erected in 1872, for go children;
Rev. Francis Douglas Dymock M.A. of Hertford College, average attendance, 6o; Christopher Geo. Kiddell, mast-er

Dymock Rev, Francis Douglas M.A. Crewe George, market gardener Short Edward Arthur, blacksmith

Vicarage Date Geo. Tucker, farmer, Ingles Batch Sloman Frank, farm bailiff to H. W.

Kidner Thomas, Barrow house Hassell John, farmer, Ingles Batch Corner esq

Neate Alfred, The Close Hayes William, market gardener Sparks Waiter, farmer, Narlwell

COMMERCIAL. Milsom Thomas, carpenter,Ingles Batch Taylor Joseph, farmer, Burnt ho. farm

Brunt Charles Hy. farmer,Rectory farm Napper Charles Henry Davis, farmer, Ware Waiter Thomas, wholesale florist,

BruntSml.C.Dowling,frmr.Rectoryfrm Haycombe Barn farm Haycombe farm

Chave Richard, farmer & waggoaette Oram John, shopkeeper, Rush hill Week John, baker

proprietor, Blakes farm Phillips John, carpenter Wise Henry Edmund, carpenter

Corner Herbert W. farmer, Maucrfarm Rogers John, nurseryman Young Edwin, beer retailer

ENMORE is a parish and village, situated under the the castle was dismantled and the present structure erected

Quantock Hills, 5 miles south-west from Bridgwater, in the in its place ; it is now re-named Enmore Park, and is the

Bridgwater division of the county, west division of Anders- seat of Thomas Palfrey Broadmead esq. M.A., D.L., J.P.: the
field hundred, Bridgwater petty sessional division, union park is 300 acres in extent and there is a lake of four acres.
and county court district, rural deanery of Bridgwater, .Barford House is a handsome stone building, situated in a
archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. valley, and is the residence of Captain J. Conrtenay Gny
The church of St. Micbael is a building of stone, in the Evered R.N. Colonel Charles Kemeys Kemeys-Tynte D.L.,
Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave of three J.P. of Halswell House, Goathurst, who is lord of the manor,

bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western Thomas Palfrey Broadmead esq. 1\I.A., D.L., J.P. Captain

tower with pinnacles, containing a clock with chimes and J. Courtenay Guy Evered R.N. and Mrs. Wood are the

5 bells: the doorway of the south porch has a good Norman principal landowners. The soil is red clay and the subsoil,

arch, which, as well as four of the windows, were in the old stone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. Tbe

church : the stained east window was presented by Miss area is 1,393 acres; rateable value, £2,469; the population

Corrick, and others in the chancel by the Rev. W. Rouse, in 1881 was 285.

rector, Captain Loraine-Grews and Mrs. Wood: in I873 Sexton, J oseph Coles.

the church was restored and the north aisle added : there PosT OFFICE.-Charles Collard, sub-postmaster. Letters

are sittings for 230 persons : in the churchyard is an ancient from Bridgwater, by foot post, arrive at 7·45 a.m. ; dis-
cross about I r feet in height. The register dates from the patched at 6.30 p.m. The nearest money order & tele-
graph office is at Bridgwater
year I6r8. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- WALL Box, Laxworthy, cleared at 6.so p.m
charge £r8s, net yearly value £228, including 24 acres of
glebe, with residence, now in the gift of the trustees of the
• late Rev. John Levien, and held since 1875 by the Rev. National School (mixed), enlarged in r888, at a cost of
Wanford Rouse, of St. Aidans. Skynner's charity of £3 £ro3, for 8ochildren; average attendance, 62; & endowed
yearly is for the second poor of the parish. Enmore Uastle with £36 yearly, arising from cottage property left in
was built by the Earl of E!!IDont, after the estate had passed I85o by t~e Rev. John Poole, a former rector; Miss M.

from the Malets, who had held it for four centuries: in 1833 Bryant, mistress

the property was bought by Nicholas Broadmead esq. when. CARRIER TO BRIDGWATER.-Brooks, daily

Broadmead Thomas Palfrey M. A., D.L., Board Samuel, farmer, Lexworthy farm Crocker Jas. farmer&maltster,Park frm

J.P. Enmore park Bryant William, market gardener Richmond William, 'shoe maker

Broadmead William Bucknell J. J.P. Coles Henry, shoe maker Rositer Jn.beer &wine ret.Low.Enmore

Enmore park Coles John, blacksmith, Lower Enmore Slade Albert, wheelwright

Evered Captain J. Courtenay Guy R.N. Collard Charles, baker & shopkeeper Talbot Thomas, farmer, Tireland

Barford ho. [Letters throughSpaxton] Collard Edward, miller (water) Wiltshire Andrew Henry, carpenter

Rouse Rev. Wanford, Rectory Collard Frederick, Tynte Arms P.H Wood Sarah (Mrs.), farmer, Stone ball

COMMERCIAL, Cooksley Robert M. shopkeeper Wilcocks Samuel, farmer, Hayne farm

Bird Robert, blacksmith Cornish William, farmer, Trokes .

EVERCREECH is a village and parish, with a station and diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. Peter is

on the Bath extension, and another r! south, called Ever- an ancient building of Doulting stone, in the Perpendicular
creech Junction, on the main line of the Somerset and style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, west porch, transept
Dorset railway, 116 miles from London, 3! south-south- and a lofty tower with an enriched belfry story, pierced
east from Shepton Mallet, 3! north·west from Brnton, in parapet and pinnacles, and containing 6 bells : it was
the Eastern division of the county, Wells hundred and restored and a new aisle built in 1843: the chancel has
Shepton Mallet petty sessional division and union, Brnton belonged to an older church and the east window is in the
district of the rural deanery and archdeaconry of Taunton, Gothic style of the 14th century: there are sittings for 6oo

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DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. EXPORD. 215

persons. TllEf' registel' 'dates from 'T540. The living i8 a of the lloman and later periods have been found in the

vicarage, with Chesterblade chapelry-annexed, joint average vicinity, as well as fragments of pott-ery. A streamlet takes

yearly value from tithe rent'"Charge £2xo, with residence, its rise in tha hamlet, and tlowing by Stratton falls into

in the gift of Henry Dyne esq. and held since 1852 by the Rev. another stream from Batcombe.

the Hon. Edward Plantagenet Airey Talbot B.A. of Trinity Letters through Shepton Mallet arrive at 8.15 a.m. & 4.30

College, Dublin. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There are p.m. Evercreech is the nearest money order & telegraph

charities of ,£28 yearly value, for distribution in kind. Ever- office

creech House, the residence of John Davis Sherston esq. ~.P. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6.10 p. m. on week days only

is a handsome building in the English Domestic style, and PECKINCl MILL, three-quarters of a mile south-west, and

has extensive grounds well wooded. John Davis Sherston SouTHWOOD, I mile south-south-west, are hamlets•
.esq. ~.P. Viscount Portman, Messrs. Hill Brothers, John Stoney Stratton is a hamlet, distant half a mile east-
Purnell Luff esq. Mr. Joseph Allen, Miss Cox and Mr. north-east. Here is the brewery of Messrs. Hill Brothers,

William Cox are the chief landowners. The soil is loamy called Evercreech brewery.

:and the subsoil, limestone and clay. The chief crops are Parish Clerk, Thomas Rowland Wintertou.

bay and grass. The area is 4,078 acres ; rateable value, PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.

,£9,955; the population in 1881 was :r,t26. --James Carter, postmaster. Letters from Bath delivered
Chesterblade is a hamlet 2 miles north. The ancient 7 a.m. & ~ p.m.; dispatched at n.5o a.m. 4.15 & 8.15

.chapel of St. Mary is a building of stone, consisting of p.m.; snndays, 8.15 p.m. Money order office open from

chancel and nave and a turret containing one bell, and was 9 a.m. to 6 p.m
entirely remodelled and reseated in 1888, and a new WALL LETTER Box, Stoney Stratton, cleared on weeks days

~tagonal pulpit of freestone erected at the cost of Mr. 6.50 p.m,; sundays, 10.40 a.m

Joseph Alien, of Chesterblade: there are sittings for go per- INSURANCE AGENT.-Connty Fire, S. Hayes, I Park villas

sons. On the top of the hill above the hamlet, are traces of National School (mix:ed & infants), erected in 1854, for 300

earthworks. Smalldown camp is an oblong entrenchment, children; average attendance, 200; with a small endow-

defended by two deep fosses on the east and south-east ; the ment for four Bluecoat boys ; Thomas Rowland Winter-

<>ther sides being strong from the natural steepness of the ton, master ; Miss Annie Saunders, mistress

,ground. It commands a view of the camp at Cadbury and RAILWAY STATIONS:-

.at Masbury on Mendip, and has some vestiges of ontworks Evercreech New, Edward Rhymes, station master

.on the south-east towards Kingsettle hill. Numerous coins Evercreech Junction, Saml. John Willmott, station master

Evercreech. Clarke Justinian John William, Bell inn SOMERSET TILE &. BRICK WORKS

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Corry Edwin, beer retailer (Clifford Gylbert Cogan, proprietor),

.Boyce Samuel Corry John, shoe maker Evercreech junction

<Jlarke John Chalker Oliver, stone merchant, Ever- Spry Jsph.Farley, inland revenue officr

Dodge William creech Junction station Trevett James, Shapway inn

Feaver Mrs Davis Thomas'& Son,grocers& seedsmen Ward & Son, coal merchants, Ever-

Fowles Mrs. Filbert cottage Dupe Sydney, carpenter creech Junction station

Hargrave Rev. Raymond B.A. [curate] Galpin Matthew, grocer & draper Westlake Jas. dairy frmr.Church farm

Kelly Samuel, Hampton cottage Gibbs Henry, baker & corn factor White George, dairy frmr. Easton frm
Luff John Purnell, Rodmore Goodheart William, tailor Willey Thomas, coal merchant

()shorn Mrs HarrisonWltr.bailiff toJ.D.Sherston esq Stoney Stratton.
Hayes Samuel, relieving station master
.Salmon Miss, Bagborough house Hoddinott J ames,dairy farmer, Park cot Cary Misses
Sherston John Davis J.P. Evercreech ho
Hoddinott John, frmr. Weston Town ho Cox William Hiscox
'Talbot the Rev. the Hon. Edward Plan- J oyceWilliam, beer retailer, Pecking mill Hill Edmund, Stratton house
Kemp James & Sons, silk manufactrs Hill Edward
tagenet Airey B.A. Vicarage Kingwill Geo. Edwd. draper & grocer Hill George, Parsona,<YB

'Tyndale John William Warre M. A., J.P.

Maisonnette · Leversedge Herbert, relieving & vacci- Strong John, Stoney Stratton

COMMERCIAL. nation officer, No. 2 district, & regis- Brown George, farmer, Mazedown frm

.Allen John, farmer & landowner, Ever- trar of births & deaths, Evercreech Fry William, farmer, Stratton corner

creech Park farm sub-district, Shepton Mallet union Green John, dairy farmer

Alien Oswald James, builder, contrac- Loxton Carolina (Mrs.) & Son, dairy Hill Brothers, maltsters, farmers, land-

tor, plumber, painter &house decora- farmers, Horsehill owners, brewers & cheese factorS,

tor; assistant overseer, collector & Luff John Purnell, yeoman, Rodmore Evercreech brewery

assessor of income tax Maby William, shoe maker Hill George, landowner, farmer &

.AshmanJsph.dairy frmr.Smalldown frm Meddlam Jesse, builder cheese factor, Parsonage farm

.AshmanThos.wheelwright &blacksmith Mounter Octavius, shoe maker Hockey Fredk. butcher & beer retailer

.Bailey Robert, stone merchant, Ever- Perry Albert, farmer & miller (water), Lintern William,dairy farmer, Rock ho

creech Junction station Cutterne mill Penny Stephen, farmer

-Baker Robert, beer retailer Read Charles Andrew, grocer & draper, Chesterblade.

.Balch Walter Henry, miller (water) & & agent for W. & A. Gilbey, wine &

dairy farmer, Pecking mill / spirit merchants Allen Joseph,dairy farmer & landowner

Billings John, acting sergeant (police), Reakes Frank, farmer, Southwood Chesterblads New Stone Quarries

Victoria buildings Reakes Joseph, wheelwright (James Gane, proprietor)

_Brown Frederick,dairy frmr.Batt's frm Roles William & Son, coal merchants, Cox l''rederick, dairy farmer

.Bro-w-n William Perry, dairy farmer, Evercreech Junction station Green Frederick, jun. da1ry farmer

Westbrook farm Rossiter William, bailiff to Hill Brothers, Green Frederick, sen. dairy farmer

Carter James, blacksmith, Post office Evercreech brewery Green William, dairy farmer

Carter Kathleen (Miss), stationer ·Snook Mr3. shopkeeper Osb:>rn John, dairy farmer

EXFORD is a parish and village, situated on the banks charity provides about £24 yearly for clothing ([,2 of which

o0f the Exe and on the high road from Minehead to Exmoor go to the parish of Hawkridge), and there are other minor

forest, n miles south-west from Dnnster, 10 north-west gifts. The kennels of the Devon and Somerset stag hounds

from Dulverton station on the Devon and Somerset branch are in this parish. A fair is held on the 14th August for

<>f the Great Western railway and 12 south-west from Mine- cattle and sheep. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Dyke Acland

head, in the Western division of the county, hundred of bart. P.C., F.R.G.s., D.L., J.P. and Col. Sir Frederick William

Carhampton, Dulverton petty sessional division and union, Kn~ht :K.C.B., D.L., J.P. of Simonsbath, Exmoor, who are

South Molton county court district, rural deanery of Dun- lords of the manor, Mr. John Clarke, of Luccombe, Samuel

.ster, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Moore and John Pasmore esqrs. are the chief landowners.

Wells. The church of St. Mary Magdalene is an edifice of The soil is principally shale. The chief crops are oats,

stone in the Gothic style, with windows of the 14th century, turnips and hay. The area is 5,699 acres, a large portion

and consists of nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch of which is moorland ; rateable value, .£3,166 ; the popula-

and an embattled western tower, 70 feet high, containing 5 tion in 1881 was 456.

bells : the east window and another in the south aisle are EnGECOTT is a hamlet, half a mile west from the church.
stained: the church was t·estored in 1869 and has sittings Sexton, Robert Parish.
for 256 persons. The register dates from the year 16og.

The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge ,£210, net PosT 0FFICE.-John Anstey, sub-postmaster. Letters

yearly value£246, including 140 acres of glebe, with house, arrive from Taunton at 10.35 a..m. ; dispatched at 2.15

in the gift of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and held since p.m. Winsford is the nearest money order & Dulverton

:r869 by the Rev. John George Howes M. A. formerly fellow the nearest telegraph office

of that college, who is rural dean of Dunster and prebendary National School (mixed), built in 1873, to hold 90 children;

of Wells. Here is a chapel for Wesleyans. Robert Baker's average attendance, 8o; William Henry Wilkins, master

216 EX FORD. . SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLv's

Heathcote Rev. Samuel Sidney :B.A. Crick John, farmer, Devonscombe Moore J ames, farmer, Court ·

[curate], Rectory Devon & Somerset Stag Hounds (Chas. Newton Aaron, blacksmith

Howes Rev. Prebendary John George H. Basset, Watermouth castle, Ilfra- Newton Theophilns, wheelwright

M.A. Rectory combe, master ; Arthur Heal, hunts- Pearse Thomas, shoe maker, Edgeeott

Oliver William, Yascombe man; John Lee, stud groom) Perry Henry, shoe maker

COMMERCIAL. Do\Vn William, blacksmith Pugsley Mary (Mrs.), baker & grocer·

Adams John, mason Gibbs John, shoe maker Rawle John, farmer, Ludslade

Adams John, farrier & farmer, Hill Gooding George, saddler Reed Abraham, farmer & shopkeeper·

Anstey John, tailor Hayes (i-eo. farmer, Lower Pitsworthy Richards George, farmer, Newland

Baker John, farmer, Buckworthy Hayes William, farmer, Combe Steer Richard, blacksmith

Barrow Emmanuel, farmer, Cott Heal Arthur, farmer, Ley Tarr Jn. Hill, White Horse & Crown P.l!

Barrow Henry, farmer, Chibbott Heal Arthur J ohu, refreshment house Tudball John, tailor

Bawdon George, farmer, Luckesses Heal Frederick George, farmer, Ley Vellacott William Hooper,farmer,Stone

Bawdon William, farmer, Ashott Hobbs James, wheelwright, machinist, Webber George, farmer, Thorn

Burnell David, farmer, Riscombe carpenter & undertaker Williams Robert, farmer, Luckesses

Burnell John, farmer, Thorn Hooper William, farmer, Castle farm Windzer William, farm bailiff to J _

Cann Richard, farmer Mole William, miller (water), Edgecott Clarke esq. Wellshead

EXMOOR, with the village of SIMONSBA.TH, is a parish Bampton, Devon; large numbers of sheep are also reared

situated on the high road between South Molton and Lynton, I here. Col. Sir Frederic Winn Knight K c. B., D.L., J.P. is lord

and partly in Devonshire, r8 miles east from Bamstaple, r8 of the manor and owner ot a considerable portion of theo

south-west from Dunster and 15 north-west from Dulverton, parish. The land is mostly in grass. The area is 20,765.

in the Western division of the county, Dulverton petty ses- acres, of which 274 are in Devon; rateable value, £4,296·;

sional division, unil)n and county court district of South the population in r881 was 313, all in Somerset.

Molton, rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taunton CoRNHAllf FoRD, 3 miles west, and SANDY WAY, 6 miles

and diocese of Bath and Wells. The river Barle rises in this south from the church, are hamlets.

parish. The church of St. Luke is an edifice of stone in the Parish Clerk, William Kingdon.

Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, ..south porch and a PosT OFFICE, Simonsbath.-William Kingdon, sub-posfl-

westem turret containing one bell : there are sittings for master. Letters arrive from South Molton at 11. 10 a. m.;

180 persons. The register dates from the year 1854· The dispatched at 2.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is

living is a vicarage, yearly value £18o, with residence and at North Molton & telegraph office South Molton. Postal!

1:2 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Crown, and held since orders are issued here, but not paid

:r868 by the Rev. William HenryThompson. Exmoor Forest National School (mixed), built in 1816, to hold 40 children·;

has long been celebrated for its red deer and ponies; an average attendance, 30; Mrs. Ellen Buttercase, mistress ;

annual sale of those bred by Sir F. W. Knight is held at William Kingdon, attendance officer
.
Knight Col. Sir Frederic Winn K.c.B., Fry James, William Rufus hotel & Jennings Waiter, mason, Simonsbath.

D.L., J.P. Simonsbath; & Carlton posting house, Simonsbath; within Kingdon Alexander, farmer, Drivers

club, London s w 10 miles of Lynton & South Molton ; Kingdon William, blacksmith, registrar-

Thompson Rev. William Henry, Vicar- accommodation for families, tourists of births & deaths & relieving & school

age, Simonsbath & huntsmen; excellent trout fish- attendance officer, Post office

COMMERCIAL. ing for visitors; hunters for hire , RedWilliam,farmer,Barton,Simonsbath

Brian William, bailiff to Col. Sir F. W. Fry James, farmer Richards Albert, farmer, Horson

Knight K.c.B. West cot. Simonsbath Fry William, farmer, Pickett stone Smyth Charles, farmer, Honeymead

Brooks George, farmer, Sherdon Gillard George, farmer, Sandy way flmyth Jeremiah,farmer,Moleschamber

BuckinghamJohn,Sportsmen'sA.,.,rmmsP. H Hayes John, farmer, Warren Thorne William, farmer, Ferny ball

Carter Henry, farmer, Crooked post Hodge William, carpenter, Simonsbath Tucker Henry & Herbert~ farmers,

Elworthy 'Ihomas,farmer,Lower house, Hooper John, farmer, Red deer Emmetts' grange

Simonsbath

EXTON is a parish and ;illage, situated on the high road Oxford. There is a small Wesleyan chapel at Bridgtown. •

between Dulverton and Dunster and on the river Exe, 6 There is ironstone in the north part of thi..'l parish, but it is

miles north from Dulverton station on the Devon and not worked. W. L. Chorley esq. of Quarme, has hunted

Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, and 10 this country with a pack of harriers for over 20 years at his
south-west from Dunster, in the Western division of the own cost. Captain AndrewRobert Guy Evered J.P. who is
county, petty sessional division and union of Dulverton, lord of the manor, the trustees of the late Mrs. Smith,.

county court district of Tiverton, hundred of Williton, William Loveband Chorley esq. Philip Evered esq. and
rural deanery of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taunton and Courtenay Evered esq. are chief landowners. The soil is

diocese of Bath and Wells. The Quarmewater stream sandy, and the subsoil shillet rock. The crops are wheat,.
flows into the Exe a short distance north of the village. turnips and oats. The area is 4.045 acres ; rateable value,
The church of St. Peter is a plain old stone building £2,889 ; the population in 1881 was 405.
in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of four BRIDGTOWN is a hamlet, a quarter of a mile south from
bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western the parish church.
tower containing 5 bells : the east window is a memorial Parish Clerk, Charles Quartly.

to the Rev. George Bodley Warren, father of the present PosT OFFICE, Bridgtown.-Charles Phillips, sub-postmaster.
rector : the window on the south side of the chancel was Letters arrive from Dulverton R.S.O. at 9·5 a.m. ; dis-
given by W. L. Chorley esq. of Quarme, in memory of patched at 4.20 p.m. ; sundays exceptd. The nearest.
his father and grandfather: the church was completely money order office is at Winsford & the telegraph office at.
restored in 1868 and has 200 sittings. The register dates Dulverton. Letters for Quarme through Dunster arrive a.t.

from 1558. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- 10 a. in. & for StonethroughBridgtown arrive at, ro. 10 a. m

charge £273, net yearly value £243, including 73 acres of Parochial School (mixed), built in 1870, for 40 children;
glebe, with residence, in the joint gift of the Rev. F. Meade- average attendance, 30 ; Mrs. Ellen Baker, mistress

King M.A. and T. M. Comins esq. and held since 1864 by CARRIER.-William Sedgebeer, from Winsford to Minehead
the Rev. Frederick King Warren M.A. of Oriel College, every thurs. & sat

Chorley William Loveband (commis- Clatworthy Jhn. blacksmith, Bridgtown 1Phillips Charles, millwright, machinist.

sioner of taxes & chairman of Dulver- Gold William, farmer, Luck yard agricultural implement agent, wheel-

ton board of guardians), Quarme Howe Henry, farmer, Howtown wright & carpenter, Bridgtown.

Evered Capt. Andrew Robert Guy J.P. Howe Robert, farmer, Red door See advertisement

Stone lodge · Howe Samuel, farmer, Kendle farm Phillips James, grocer & carpenter

Evered Philip, Miltons rocks Howe Thomas, farmer, Quarme Rawle James, farmer, Triscombe

Warren Rev. Fredk. King M.A. Rectory Jennings John, Hare & Hounds P.H Stevens James, farmer, Stone

· COMMERCIAL. · Middleton Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Lans- Taylor John, Rock inn, Bridgtowr1 ;

Bryant Daniel, farmer, Huckham & combe situated by the Exe & Quarme

• Witheridge Norman Jas.Melluish,grocer,Bridgtown streams, with fishing facilities, &

Bryant Samuel, farmer, Widlake Norman William, farmer, Vinnacombe central to the meets of the Devon &

Clatworthy Thomas, harness maker, Phillips & Son, auctioneers, millers Somerset stag hounds

Bridgtown (steam & water), & merchants Wright William, farmer, Almoor

FARLEIGH-HUNGERFORD is a parish and vil- Western rnilway, 3 \Vest from Bradford-on-Avon and 7

Iage, situated on the river Frome, which here separates the south-south-east from Bath, in Frome division of the county.
~ounty from Wiltshire, 2 miles south from Freshford station Wellow hundred, Weston petty sessional division, Bath

on the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth branch of the Great county court district, Frome onion, rural deanery of Frome,

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DIRECTORY.] I FARLEIGH-BUNGERI<'ORD. 217

SOMERSETSHIRE.

archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. A tained in the inner court, occupied the east, north and west

detached portion of this parish, by Order in Council, became sidPs, and included a great hall ; of the fiJur angle towers,

amalgamated with the parish of Winkfield-cum-Rowley, the two attached to the. south side of the court are still stand-

Wilts, 25 Mar. 1885. 'fhe church of St. Leonard, erected ing, although the south-western tower, through the destruc-

by Waiter, Ist Baron Hungerford K.G. in the reign of Hen. tion in 1842 of the ivy which held it together, in part fell

VI. and consecrated Nov. 6 (St. Leonard's day), 1453, by down, and in this condition was sketched by the late Em-

James Blakedon, Bishop of Achonry, is an ancient building peror Napoleon Ill. when, as Prince Louis Napoleon, he

of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, visited Farleigh Castle, 18 Sept. 1846; the north-east tower

nave, south porch and a western tower, 54 feet in height, was standing till 1797: in the south or upper court, and

with a short pyramidal stone tiled spire, containing 4 bells, within a small cemetery, is the Castle chapel of St. Leonard,

dating from 1612 to 1810 : up to the year 1789 the chancel a building of the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, and

windows retained a considerable quantity of ancient glass, probably erected, like the parish church, about 1443 ; it is

some remains of which, including the arms of the Hunger- about 56 feet long and I9f wide, and consists of chancel and

ford family, within three sickles interlaced, and an impaled nave, forming a rectangular structure of five bays, north

shield of the arms of Sir Edward Hungerford, ob. 1521, chapel with vault below it, and a western porch.; the build-

and Jane (Zouche), his 1st wife, stillsexist: the panelled ing, which had been much neglected, was repaired in 1779,

communion rails bear carvings of subjects from the Old and again in 18o6 by the late Lt. Col. John Houlton, who at

Testament, and were erected by the late Col. J. T. Haul- his death, 17 Feb. 1839, left a sum of money in trust for keep-

ton: on the east wall are pictures of "The Supper at ing it in repair, but it has long since ceased to be used for

Emmaus" and "The Agony in the Garden : " the east divine service, and is now converted into a museum of relics,

window contains figures of St. Leonard and other saints, belonging to or found in the village and neighbourhood: both

and the side windows are partly filled with modern heraldic the chapel and cemetery being below the level of the castle-

glass, representing the families of Ellis, Houlton, Torriano yard, the former is reached through the porch by a descent of

and White: the nave also retains in its windows frag- several steps ; it contains a piscina and font brought from the

ments of ancient glass, consisting chiefly of roses and vine present parish church in 1833, but conjectured to have

leaves, but in the easternmost window on the north side originally belonged to the first parish church, which occupied

is the head of a knight, in bascinet and camail ; the former the site of this chapel until the crenellating of the mansion :

is adorned with a fillet or wreath, charged with large orna- the east wall bears a huge fresco of St. George encountering

mental roundels extending over it; round the head are the Dragon ; there are also traces of the kneeling figure of a.

sickles and the initals "~- ~-" presumed to refer to Sir knight, and the adjoining walls were stencilled : the altar

Thomas Hungerford, ob. 3 De<.•. 1398 : a chandelier hanging table is of stone : in the south-east angle of the chancel is an

in the church, was formerly in York Minster, but was pur- altar tomb of freestone, coloured and gilt, the side and end

chased and presented to this church in 1837 by the late Col. bearing the arms of Heytesbury quartering Hungerford ; on

Houlton : over the exterior arch of the south porch is a stone the upper slab IS a marginal inscription to Sir Waiter Hun-

slab, rounded at the top, and bearing a small cross, and gerford kt. ob. 1596, and Edward his son, ob. 6 Dec. 1585 ;

under it the following inscription : " MVNIAT HOC TEMPLY' near this tomb is a modern pulpit : the small chantry on the

CRVCE GLORIFICANS MICROCOSMV': Q' GENVIT XP'M MISERI8 north side, 20 by 15 feet, opens to the chancel by an arch,

P'cE FIAT ASILVM" (may He who by the Cross glorifies man, immediately under which is an altar tomb of freestone, at

protect this church, and may the mother of Christ become one time coloured, and still bearing recumbent effigies of a

a refuge for the wretched by her prayer for them); over the knight and lady, representing Sir Thomas Hungerford kt.

inner doorway is a figure bracket : the organ was presented of "Farley, Welew and Heitesburi," ob. 3 Dec. 1398, and

about 1879, by Anna (Cruickshank), widow of Capt. Sir Joan (Hussey) his wife, ob. I Mar. 1412; the brass inscrip-

Geor~e Houlton kt. as a memorial to her husband, a dis- tions have disappeared, but on the sides of t.he tomb are 13

tinguished officer in the Peninsular war, who died 16 Sept. shields of arms and niches containing small figures ; sur-

1862 ; and to whom there is a monument in the chancel; rounding the tomb is a wrought iron railing of good design

which also contains monuments, with arms, to various and contemporary, adjoining which on the west is an iron

other members of this family, 1799-1868 ; there are also gate opening into the chapel, in the north-east angle of which

memorials to Thomas Flower, rector, ob. 7 Nov. 16go, Dinah, is another altar tomb with inscription to Sir Edward Hun-

his wife, and two daughters, ob. 1691-7; Virgil Parker M.A. gerford kt. ob. 5 Dec. 1607, and Jane (Hungerford) his wife;

rector, ob. 25 Feb. 1697• Anne (York), his wife, ob. 26 Ap. the sides exhibit four shields of arms ; in the north-west angle

1737, and two children, 1719-58; Benjamin Richardson, is an altar tomb of stone, exhibiting on the side the effigies

rector, d. 22 Jan. 1832; Col. Sir John Morillyon Wilson, knt., of a lady kneeling at a desk, and two daughters, and at

C.B., K.H. d. 8 May, 1868, and Amelia (Houlton), his wife, the end the arms of Hungerford; on the wall above is an

d. 1864 ; besides others of the 17th century and many of inscribed brass to Mary, daughter of Waiter, 1st Baron

modern date : the communion plate includes a large covered Hungerford, of Heytesbury, and wife of Thomas Shaa esq.

silver cup with handles, and three silver plates, presented ob. 30 Sept. 1613 ; in the centre of the chapel is a fine altar

in 1803, .a chalice and paten, procured in 185o, and a silver tomb of black and white marble, about 8 feet long and 5

flagon given by the Rev. Henry Ward M.A. curate here wide, erected at a cost, it is said, of £1,IOO, to Sir Edward

1846-g : there are sittings for 200 persons. The register Hungerford K.B. ob. 23 Oct. 1648,and Margaret (Holliday) his.

dates from the year 1673, but many pages are lost. The wife; there are recumbent effigies of both, and an inscription in.

living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £n9, net yearly value, Latin, and around the sides are shields of arms, one of which

£130, including 48 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift displays 15 quarterings ; the heart of this Sir Edward, in-

of Sir Edward Victor Lewis Houlton G.C.M.G. and held since closed in a leaden urn, remained in the vault below until

1875 by the Rev. Thomas Pacey Keene LL.B. of Christ's 1822, when it was removed; the inscribed copper plate form-

College, Cambridge. The Nonconformists have a chapel erly upon it is now affixed to the east wall : the floor of the

here, erected in 1850. Fryer's charity of £16 10s. yearly, chapel is laid down in chequers of black and white marble,

arising from £sso Consols, left by Edward Fryer M.D. by and is still nearly perfect ; the walls and ceiling were painted

will, dated 2 June, 1821, is for clothing. Houlton's charity, about 1650 with numerous figures and devices, and about

now consisting of £175 Consols, given in 1839 by Lt.-Col. 6o shields of arms, repainted in 176o by the Rev. John Lewis,

John Houlton, and augmented by Mrs. M. A. Houlton, his then rector of Great Chalfield : the vault beneath the chapel

widow, is for the support of the school. is a well-built chamber of ashlar, about 14 by 12 feet, and

The remains of l<'arleigh Castle, erected by Sir Thomas contains the remains in leaden coffins of 8 persons, tw&

Hungerford kt. of Heytesbury, Wilts, are situated on the being children, but the wooden shells with their attached

south side of the hill on which stands the church, and which plates having now disappeared, the deceased cannot now be

is partially surrounded by a deep dell filled with trees. The identified, although 11 members of the Hungerford family

manor was purchased by Sir Thomas Hungerford from Bar- are known to have been interred here ; the entrance is secured

tholomew Lord Burghersh in 1369 for the sum of 1,000 marks by an iron gate: at the west. end of the nave is an incised

(£666 13s. 4d. ), and the house already occupying the site slab with effigy vested, and a now almost effaced inscription

was crenellated by him in 1383, and its conversion into a castle to one of the chantry priests of this chapel ; the slab was

completed by his son Sir Waiter Hungerford kt. treasurer of raised by the Rev. B. Richardson, rector :1796-1832, and a.

the Exchequer and 1st Baron Hungerford, who died in 1449. perfect skeleton found to rest beneath it ; human remains •

The Castle, as originally built, surrounded two courts ; the have also been found in the chapel cemetery : the great gate-

inner or northern court being square, with large circular house, a large square embattled tower of two stories, has a

embattled towers at the angles, having pointed roofs lighted single wide entrance arch, and is now nearly covered with

by dormers ; the southern or outer court, separated from the ivy. Farleigh House, an ancient mansion, enlarged and

preceding by a curtain and gatehouse, formed a pentagon altered about 1825 by the late Lt.-Col. John Houlton, has

inclining to the south-east, with bastions, west entrance, and pleasant lawns and gardens and stands in a park of some ex-
a large tower gatehouse with drawbridge at its eastern angle: tent : it is now in the occupation of Sir Edward Victor Lewi~

the fortress was defended on the west and south by a moat, Houltonp.c.M.G., M.A. who is lord of the manor and prind-

and on the north and east by the steep sides of the hill, as well pallandowner. The farms are principally of pasture. The
as by the river Frome and by the Danes Dyke, a stream soil is loamy; the subsoil is grit. The area is 904 acres;

falling into it on the north : the domestic buildings, eon- rateable value, £1,543; the population in 1881 was 18"4.

218 FARLEIGD-HUNGERFORD. SOMERSETSHIRE. (KELLY'~

Letters through Bath arrive at 8.20 a.m. & 6 p.m. The Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1872, for 40 children;

nearest money order k telegraph office is at Road average attendance, 30; Mrs. Orledge, mistress

WALL LE'l"rER Box cleared at 6.20 p.m. ; sundays, 9 a.m

Houlton Sir Edward Victor Lewis Greenhill Arthur, farmer Salter Charles & Co. woollen manufrs

G.C.M.G. Farleigh house Pike Thomas, farmer, I<,arleigh lodge Towill Thomas, farmer

Keene Rev.Thomas Pacey LL.B. Rectory Rudman James, Houlton Arms P.H

F ARMBOROUGH is a. parish and yiJlage, situated on chapels. This parish and others in the neighbourhood are

the road from Bath to Wells, 8 miles south-west from Bath, noted for making superior Cheddar cheese. Francis William
and 2 north-east from Clutton station on the Frome and Bris- Leyborne Popham esq. J.P. of Hunstrete, Marksbury, is lord
tol branch of the Great ·western railway, in the Northern of the manor and principal landowner. The parish consists
division of the county, Keynsham hundred, Clutton union, mainly of rich pasture land, with only a few acres of arable
Temple Cloud petty sessional division and county court dis- land, producing wheat, oats and barley. The soil is a friable

trict, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bath and diOt..oese loam; subsoil, limestone. The area is I,494 acres; rateable
of Bath and Wells. The church of All Saints is an ancient value, £3,512; the population in I88I was 843.
building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, HoBB's WALL, a hamlet, is I mile west.
north porch, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, Parish Clerk, Edwin Gould.
containing a clock and 6 bells: there are several stained PosT OFFICE.-Mrs. Mary Ann Ricketts, postmistress.
windows: the church, with the exception of the west wall and Letters from Bath arrive at 9.20 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.Io

tower, has been rebuilt in the Early Decorated style, but the p.m. week days; sunday, arrive at 9.10 a.m. ; dispatched
tower and west ~nd are Perpendicular : there are sittings for at IO a.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is
250 persons. The register of baptisms dates from I56o; at Timsbury; telegram porterage 6d

marriages, I561; burials, I559· The living is a rectory, WALL LETTER Box at Hobb's Wall cleared at 6.I5 p.m.
average tithe rent-charge £275, net yearly value £47I, week days only
including 8o acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of and held Parochial Schqol (mixed), built in 1857 & enlarged in 1887,
since 1883 by the Rev. Henry Cooper M.A. of St. John's for 127 children; there is a full attendance; Sydney
College, Cambridge. Here are Wesleyan and Free Methodist Watson Warrell, master

Cooper Rev. Henry M.A. Rectory Edwards Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Pow William, farmer, Street farm

COMHERClAL. Emery John, grocer Ricketts Mary Ann (Mrs.), tailoress, &
Frappell William, sen. grocer post office

Ashman Jesse, stone mason Gould Edwin, shoe maker Smith Cornelius, shopkeeper

Bartlett John, farmer, Upp. Barrow hill Hedges William, farmer, Highgrove Tibbotts George, farmer, Castle farm

Biggs George, beer retailer & carpenter Holbrook Alfred, baker Ventin John, farmer

Biggs James; stone mason Johnson Aaron, boot & shoe maker Viner William, shoe maker

BrodribbWm.stone mason&lime burner Lawrence George, farmer, Green farm Weaver Charles, New inn, & butcher

Bush Lawrence, farmer Lippiatt William, Bell inn, & farmer Weaver George, butcher & fanner

ButlerStephen,farmer,BarrowHill farm Maxwell James, farmer & lime burner Weaver John, butcher

Cox Robert, farmer, Cheeves folly Pow George, wheelwright Weaver William, beer retailer & farmer

Dagger David, grocer Pow John, jun. farmer, Manor farm Weeks James, wheelwright

FARRINGTON GOURNAY(orGuRNEY) is a parish Talbot B.A. of University College, Durham, is curate in
and pleasant village, situated in a valley, on the .Bristol and charge. Here is a large Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1881,
Wells road, I mile south from Hallatrow station on the and seating about 250 persons. The charities amount to £8
Frome and Bristol branch of the Great Western railway, yearly. Excellent. cheese is made here. The Manor House,
1:2i miles south from Bristol, 8 north-east from Wells, 12 an ancient mansion, situated at the east end of the village,
west from Frome and 4 west from Radstock station on the is the residence of Mrs. Mogg, whose family has held this
Somerset and Dorset railway, in the Northern division of seat from a period anterior to 16oo; the house is surrounded

the county, Chewton hundred, Clutton union, Temple by beautiful lawns, and commands some fine views. The
Cloud petty sessional division and county court district, Elms, the residence of the Rev. Percival Talbot B.A. is also
Midsomer Norton district of the rural deanery of Merston, an ancient house, and was formerly the seat of the Hole
archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The family, but is now the property of Mrs. Mogg. The

church of St. John, rebuilt and enlarged in 1844, is a build- manor and land belong to the Duchy of Cornwall. The soil
ing of stone in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave is a red sandy loam ; subsoil, principally sandstone. The
of four bays, aisles and a western tower, containing 3 bells: chief crops are hay. The area is 904 acres; rateable value,
there are mural tablets to the Mogg family, and in 1882 the £2,622 ; and the population in 1881 was 535·
church was new-roofed and six of the windows tilled with PosT 0FFJCE.-Enoch Gait, postmaster. Letters are re-

stained glass; the east window by Mr. Thomas James, of ceived from Bristol by train to Hallatrow at 7.25 a.m. ;
Hallatrow; the west by the late Col. John George Mogg, dispatched at 4·55 p.m.; on sundays arrive at 9.2oa.m.;
of Farrington Gurney; one in the south aisle by Mrs. Mogg dispatched at 8.15 p.m. 'fhe nearest nioney order &
his widow, and another in the south aisle by Miss Alien, of telegraph office is at Paulton
Farrington Gurney : there are sittings for 250 persons : in INSURANCE AGENTs :-
the churchyard is an ancient stone cross. The register dates British Empire Mutual Life, H. Blinman & H. T. Blinman,
from 168o. The living is a vicarage annexed to that of Parsonage farm

Ston Easton, joint yearly value £75, with 2 acres of glebe, National Provident Life, Phcenix Fire & Imperial Live

and house, in the gift of the Rev. Richard Stamper Philpott Stock, H. T. Blinman
M.A. prebendary of Wells, and held since 1885 by the Rev. National School (mixed), erected in 185<2, for 120 children;
Henry Palmer Leakey, who is also incumbent of the Octagon average attendance, 65; Mrs. Martha Spinney, mistress
chapel at Bath, where he resides; the Rev. Percival Burney CARRIER.-Wells to Bristol, passes through on mon. & fri

Alien Miss, Crofts cottage Blinman Harry Thorn, auctioneer & 1 Killen R. & C. farmers & cheese makers,
Blinman Henry, Roeland villa
Kingston Francis James farmer & assist. ovrsr. Parsonage frm Manor farm
Mogg Mrs. Manor house
'l'albot Rev. Percival B.A. [curate in Blinman William, farmer, Church farm Osman Austin, plasterer

charge], The Elms Clarke John, beer retailer Osman John, house decorator

COMMERCIAL. Corner Charles & Son, stone masons Parkins Arthur, blacksmith

Blinman & Son, auctioneers & valuers, Corner George, stone mason Watts Benj. Farrington inn, & farmer
surveyors & general agents
Farrington Colliery (William B. Beau- Webb George, shopkeeper •

champ, proprietor) Wensley George, carpenter

Gait Enoch, post office, & shopkeeper West J onah, bill poster

Killen James, farmer

FIDDINGTON is a parish and village, 7 miles north- 1 father : there are sittings for 180 persons. The registe;r
• west from Bridgwater station on the Great Western railway, dates from the year 1644. The living is a. rectory, average

in the Western division of the county, Cannington hundred, tithe rent-charge £168, net yearly value £2oo, including 39
Williton petty sessional division, .Bridgwater union and acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of the trustees of the
county court district, rural deanery of Bridgwater, arch- late Rev. Richard Parkinson, and held since 1:889 by the
deaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and Wells. The Rev. John Thomas Atkin Swan M.A. of Lincoln College,
church of St. Martin is a. small but ancient building of stone Oxford. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The
in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of three principal landowners are Sir Alexander Bateman Periam
bays, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western Fuller-Acland-Hood, hart. D.L., l.P. of Wootton House,
tower, containing 4 bells : the east window and ~he north Col. Rawlings and Mrs. Evered. The soil is stone .brash
window of the chancel are stained : a brass lectern has and clay ; and the subsoil limestone and gravel. The chief
recently (1889) been given by Mrs. Bayley, the widow of crops are wheat and barley. The acreage is 1,27:a; rateable

a former rector, and an embroidered altar cloth by her value, £x,8!}6; the population in 1881 was :a37•

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Letters are received from Bridgwater through Nether WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 6.20 p.m.; sunday, 1 a.m.;

Stowey, arrive at 8 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. The nearest Stowey road, cleared at 6.45 p.m
National School (mixed), for 45 children; average attend·
money order & telegraph office is at Nether Stowey ance, 40 ; Miss Fanny Fern Vaughan, mistress

Govett George Slocombe, Whitnell ho Came Richard, farmer, Bonston wood Gullyes Sarah Jane (Mrs.), Cottage inn,

Hurman William, Coultings villa Carpenter William, farmer, Wood farm St.owey road

Sellick James, Heathfield villa Case Edward Robert, farmer, ' Farm'; Meaker Henry Albert,farmer,Brook frm

Silke Miss, Whitnell telegrams, Stogursey Sellick Charles, machinist, Bonston

Swan Rev. Jn. Thos.Atkin M.A. Rectory Cavil Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Bonston Sellick John, farmer, Whitnell

COMMERCIAL. Chedgey Charles,miller&farmer,Bonstn Seymour lsaac, farmer

Bishop William, farmer Henden Joseph, miller (water) Wyatt John, farmer, Inwood

FITZHEAD is a parish and village, situated on the road affords sittings for 220 persons. The register dates from

from Wiveliscombe to Bishops Lydeard, 6 miles north from the year 1655. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value

Wellington, 2 north (rom Milverton station on the Devon £x8o, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Wivelis-

and Somerset branch of the Great Western railway, and 3 combe, and held since x86x by the Rev. George Robert

east from Wiveliscombe, in the Western division of the Gilling-Lax M.A. of Wadham College, Oxford. Fitzhead

county, Kingsbury West hundred, Wiveliscombe petty ses- Court, an old mansion of some interest, contains a fine

sional division, Wellington union and Taunton county court plaster ceiling, with the arms of the Cannon family, who

district, Wiveliscombe district of the rural deanery of Taun- were resident here in the time of Charles 11. ; it is now the

ton, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath and residence of James Edward Knollys esq. J.P. manager of the

Wells. The church of St. James is a building of stone, in estates of Lord Ashburton, who is lord of the manor and

the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, north chief landowner. The soil is red sand, and is chiefly culti-

aisle and an embattled western tower, containing 5 bells: vated on the Norfolk system of four-course husbandry; the

the tower is the oldest portion, and was restored in x883 at subsoil is the new red sandstone, intermixed with limestone

the cost of the present rector : the nave and chancel were in masses of conglomerate, which burns into tolerable lime,

rebuilt in 1849, when the very fine and richly carved oak which is much used in the neighbourhood for agricultural

screen was removed to the western entrance of the church : purposes, and especially as a preparation for wheat. The

in x88x a north aisle with arcade of three arches was added, crops are wheat, barley, turnips and flax. The acreage is

a new chancel arch built, and the chancel decorated at the x,2o8; rateable ,-alue, £2,026; the population in .r88x

cost of Mrs. Knollys, of Fitzhead Court, who died in April, was 264.

1882, and to whom a memorial window on the south side of PosT OFFICE.-~dward Hobbs, sub-postmaster. L~tt~rB
the chancel has been erected by the parishioners; stained

glass has also been placed by her children in the four arrive from Bishops !'ydeard R.S.O. at 8.5 3:.m. • dll!·

windows of the aisle, representing the "Corporal Works of patched at 5·3° P-m. • !mnday at 9-5 a..m. Mllverton IS

Mercy;" the east window, erected in x863, is a memorial to the nearest money order & telegraph office

the Rev. F. M. Knollis n.n. a former :rector: there are Church of England School (mixed), erected about 185o, for
brasses with inscriptions and shields to Major RobertCannon xoo children; average attendance, 48; Miss Alice Hor-
and Prudence his wife, dated x664 and x684 : the church wood, mistress

Gilling-Lax Rev. Geo. Rt. M.A. [rector] Carpenters' Arms Commercial inn(Wm. Newton John, farmer
Knollys Jas. Edwd. J.P. Fitzhead court Brownsell, proprietor) Perry William, carrier
Robertil Francis, farmer
COMMERCIAL. Copestake Henry, accountant, Byams Slocombe Robert, tailor
Baker James FowleT, butcher & farmer Corner Richard, farmer, Manor farm Spratt John, New inn, & shopkeeper
Bennett Samuel, farmer, Burrow hill Fishleigh Francis, farmer, Knights Stone Charles, farmer, Holcombe
Brownsell William (established over half Hearn Tom, farmer, Dean Venn Charles, stone mason
Hobbs Edward, blacksmith, & post offi Venn James, stone mason
a century), agricultural implement Knollys J ames Edward J. P. agent to Wood Henry, plumber & glazier
manufacturer & farmer ; agent for all
the principal makers,The Wheel wrks Lord Ashburton, Fitzhead court

FIVEHEAD is a parish and village, situated on the resides at Swell. Here is a Baptist chapel. There are

river Ile, and near the road from Langport to Taunton, 5 quarries of blue and white lias limestone here. The land

miles south-west from Langport station on the Bristol and is now much sab-divided. The Manor house, a venerable
Exeter section of the Great Western railway, 6~ north from edifice and now a farmhouse, retains its great hall, with

Ilminster and Si east from Taunton, in the Bridgwater some heraldic glass, and over the porch is the inscription,

division of the county, hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, cut in stone: "John Walshe, Anno Dni. 1559, Serjant at

Ilminster petty sessional division, Langport union and Lawe.'' The family of Walshe held the manor from 12 Hen.

county court district, Ilminster district of the rural deanery VII. ( 1496-7), until the death of the John Walshe just men·
of Dunster, archdeaconry of Taunton and diocese of Bath tionecl, whose daughter and heiress married Sir Edward

and Wells. The church of St. Martin is an ancient edifice Seymour, eldest son of the first Duke of Somerset. The
of stone in the Perpendieular style, consisting of chancel, Hon. Percy Scawen Wyudham J.P. of Cloudes House, East
nave of four bays, south aisle, south porch and an embattled Knoyle, Salisbury, and George Westlake Mitchell esq. are

western tower, containing a clock and 3 bells: there are the principal landowners. The soil is gravelly clay and sand.

memorials to the family of Elyott, 1729-49 ; Caroline, The chief crops are wheat, beans, root crops and teazels.
daughter of Sir Edmund Wyndham, of Kentsford, 1721 ; The acreage is 1,777; rateable value, £2,6ox; the popula-
Hugh Pine, of Cathanger esq. and Mabella, his wife, tion in 1888 was 416.
x6x8-28; and Robert Fairhill, minister of I<'ivehead, x666; CATHANGER, I~ miles west, andMooBTOWN, ximileseast,
here also are buried John Walshe, justice of the Common are tithings in this parish_

Pleas, 1563-72, in which latter year he died, and his wife, Parish Clerk, William Linton.

Jane (Broke) : there are sittings for 235 persons. The PosT 0FFICE.-George Thomas Cooper, receiver. Letters
register dates·from 1654, but is imperfect. The living is a through Taunton, arrive at 4.30 a. m.; dispatched at 8 p.m.
vicarage, with that of Swell annexed, average tithe rent- The nearest money order office is at Curry Rivel & tela-

charge £289, joint gross yearly Yalue £357, including 28 graph office at North Curry
acres of glebe at Swell, with house, in the gift of the Dean INSURANCE A<;ENT.-Phcenix Fire, W. T. Louch, Manor
and Chapter of Bristol, and held since x888 by the Rev. farm

Arthur Edmund Hill B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who Parish School (mixed), Charles Thomas, master

Francis Rev. Edward [Baptist] 1Gridley Samuel, stone mason Musgrove Edwin, carpenter

Harcombe Joshua, farmer, Cathanger Perrin John, farmer
COMMERCIAL. j Harvard Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer Scott Jonah, farmer

Barrington Ro"bert, farmer,Langford ho Hillard Samuel John, shopkpr. &baker Solway John, farmer

Bicknell Thomas, gunsmith, Tanyard Linton William, wheelwright Stevens Thomas, blacksmith

Dinham Alfred, beer retailer Louch Thomas, yeoman, Manor farm Sto<lgell William, lime burner & farmer

Gange Michael, farmer Meade Elizabeth (Mrs.),frmr. Sedgemr Wilcox Frederick, farmer, Listock farm

Gridley John, Foxhound P.H Milton George Thomas, boot & shoe ma WilcoxFrederick&John,farmers,Stowey

FLAX BOURTON is a parish and village picturesquely hundred, Bristol county court district, rural deanery of

situated on the main road from Bristol to Weston-super- Chew Magna, a.rchdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath
Mare, 7 miles from the watering places of Clevedou and and Wells. The village, situated between Wraxall on the
Portishead, and 5 south-west from Bristol, with a station north and Barrow-Gurney on the south, was originally
I mile south from the church and in the parish of Long called " Bourton " or " Burghton ; " and derived its prefix
Ashton on the Bristol and Exeter section of the Great West- from the Abbey of Flaxley, in Gloucestershire, which moo-
ern railway, in the Northern division of the county, Long astic house anciently held the principal estate in the parish.
Ashton petty sessional division, Bedminster union, Portbury The church, supposed to be named St.. Michael, is a. building

•220 .FLAX BOURTON. .SO)iERSETSIIIRE. (KELLY's

of stone, dating from the 12th century, but the only portions Wrockshale, Moreville, Gorges, Codrington and Bamphylde.
now remaining of that period are the chancel arch and the The Court House, a fine old residence, retains some early

·doorway of the south entrance; it consists of chancel, nave oak panelling, and is the seat of William Edward Perham

of three bays, north aisle, south porch and a small embatt.led esq. who is lord of the manor. The chief landowners are

western tower, with pinnacles, containing 2 bells, the tenor Antony Gibbs esq. J.P. of Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Henry Martin
being a bell of very fine tone: the east window, representing Gibbs esq. J.P. of Barrow Court, Barrow Gurney, the Rev.
the ''Ascension," and two others in the chancel are stained : George Streynsham Master M.A. Edward Allison Hingston

the church was restored in r88o, at a cost of £r,2oo, princi- esq. and William Edward Perham esq. of Bourton Court.
pally defrayed by Antouy Gibbs esq. who in r889 gave a The crops are beans, wheat and roots, but the land is chiefly
piece of land as an addition to the present churchyard: in pasture. The soil is loamy; subsoil, clay. The area is
there are sittings for III persons. The register dates from 6u acres; rateable value, £3,333; the population in r88x.
1701. The living, formerly a chapelry attached to the parish was 175.
church of Wraxall, being held in conjunction with that of Parish Clerk, Albert John Jarrett.
Nailsea, was, by Order in Council, dated 19th June, 1844, PosT & T. 0. (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have
constituted a separate benefice, and was declared a rectory R.S.O.Sumerset added).-William Rees,receiver. Letters
.August wth, 1866, a.verage tithe rent-charge £78, gross arrive from Bristol at 6.45 a.m. & 2.35 p.m.. ; dispatched

yearly value £124, including 8 acres of glebe, with house, at 9·5 a. m. & 6.5 & 8.5 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 7-3<>
in the gift of Antony Gibbs esq. and held since 1879 by the a.m. ; departure, 5 p.m. The nearest money order office
Rev. Richard Nicholson Wood M.A. of Jesus College, Cam- is at West Town. Postal orders are issued here but not paid
bridge. The parish was originally a part of the manor of WALL LETTER Box, Batch, cleared 5.30 p.m.; sun. 9.15 a.m
Wraxall, and hence is not accounted for in the Norman National School (mixed), built in 1859, for 6o children;.
survey_ In subsequent records it is styled "hamleta de average attendance, 36; Miss Matilda Congdon, mistress
lJurton," and was successively held by the families of de Railway Station, William Parker, station master

Crook Mrs. Westbrook COMMERCIAL. Maidstone Reginald Herbert, shopkeepr

Downhall Misses Adams Henry, hay dealer Parker William, station master, Station

Evans Ernest D Atherton Edwin, farmer, The Lodge Rees William, carpenter, & post office

Hingston Ernest Alison, Eastfield Atherton Joseph, farmer Sambourne Sarah (Mrs.), laundry

Leonard Ernest Bryant Ge-orge, shopkeeper Vowles William, beer retailer & builder

Master Rev. George Streynsham,Bour- Chidgey Thomas, Angel inn White Benjamin, butcher

ton grange Derrick Henry, painter White Harriet (Mrs.), farmer

Perham Wm. Edward, Bourton court Goodland John, carpntr. & assist.oversr White William, painter

Williams -, The Lodge Hiatt George, farmer ·winstone George, farmer

Wood Rev. Rd. Nicholson M.A. Rectory Jarrett Thomas, blacksmith Woolf Charles, farmer

FOXCOTE (or FoRSCOTE) is a parish and small villag-e, since r869 by the Rev. Alfred Odell Elwell M. A. of Worcester
College, Oxford. Sir John Henry Greville Smyth bart. J.P.
situated on a stream which divides the parish from Wel- of Ashton Court, is lord of the manor and the. principa1
low, 7 miles south-south-west from Bath, 7 north-west from landowner. Here is a corn mill driven by the small stream
Frome and 2 east-north-east from Radstock stations on that runs through the village. There is an abundance of
the Somerset and Dorset and Great Western railways, in
coal, which is worked by a compap.y. The soil is a yellow
the Frome division of the county, western division of Wellow clay, lying on t.he inferior oolite, under which is a bastard
hundred, Kilmersdon petty sessional division, union and freestone. The crops are the usual cereals. The area is
county court district' of Frome, Midsomer Norton district of
554 acres; rateable value, £942; and the population in
the rural deanery of Merston, archdeaconry of Wells1 and r881 was 61.
diocese of Bath and Wells. The church of St. James, with
the exception of the Norman tower, is a modern building, Parish Clerk, Joseph Long.

consisting of chancel, nave and a small embattled westerp Letters through Radstock, via Bath, arrive at 8 a.m. The
tower with four pinnacles, and containing one bell : thell8 are nearest money order & telegraph office is at Radstock. In
sittings for 6o persons. The register dates from 1696. The Shoscombe, a hamlet of Wellow, 1 mile north of Foxcote
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £88, net yearly church, there is a WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 8 p.m.
value £103, including 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in week days only
the gift of Sir John Henry Greville Smyth hart. and held
The children of this place attend the school at Shoscombe

Elwell Rev. Alfred Odell M. A. Rectory Pobjoy Jn.corn miller,Foxcote water ml manager; JohnBatey,consulting en-
gineer); offices at Writ.hlington
Edgell John, grazier & farmer, Foxcote Writhlington Collieries Co. (Foxcote pit)

farm (A. Chivers,sec.; J.CoulthardWalton,

FRESHFORD is a village and parish, situat.ed on the The charities are £17 r6s. yearly. Here are malthouses.

Kennet and Avon canal, which passes a short distance from a brewery and a fulling mill. Freestone is abundant.

the village, and is bounded on the north by the river Avon, Thomas William Player Isaac esq. F.G.s. who is lord of

which here separates the county from Wiltshire, with a sta- the manor, and George Edward Baker esq. are the
tion on the Bath and Salisbury branch of the Great Western principal landowners. The manor house was formerly
railway, 108 miles from London, 4~ south-east from Bath and held by the Carthusian priory of Hinton, on the dissolution
2~ north-west from Bradford-on-Avon, in the Frome division of which it was granted to Anthony Stringer, at whose death
of the county,Bath Forum hundred, Bath union,Weston petty it reverted to the Crown, and was granted by Queen Eliza-

. sessional division, Bradford-on-Avon county court district, beth to John Davidson, from whom it passed to the Methuen
rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bath and diocese of Bath family, and is now the property of Thomas William Player

and Wells. The church of St. Peter is a building of stone Isaac esq. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and beans.

in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, uave of two bays, The soil is loamy, and the subsoil stone. The area is 563

north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower acres ; rateable value, £3,312; and the population in r88r

with pinnacles, containing a clock and 4 bells : there are was 615.
monuments to members of the Still and Ash families : the Sexton, Frederick Williams.
. church affords sittings for 250 persons. The regist~'r of PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.
baptisms dates from the year 1705; marriages, 17o6; burials, - William Watts, postmaster. Letters from Bath arrive

1744,butthe earliest volume is imperfect and almost illegible. at 7.30 a.m. & 2.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 2.40 & 8.ro p.m
The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £146, net WALL LETTER Box, cleared at 2. 30 & 8 p. m
yearly value £230, including 42 acres of glebe,with residence, Clerk to the Burial Board, E. Smith
in the gift of Simeon's trustees, and held since 188o by the Parochial Schools (mixed & infants), erected in 1859, for

Rev. John William Lewis M. A. of Caius College, Cambridge. roo children; average attendance,94; Miss Mary Williams.

There is a Wesleyan chapel. The Cemetery, three quarters mistress

of an acre in extent, was formed in 1873 at a cost of £4oo Railway Station, John Sainsbury, station m!fster
and is under the control of a Burial Board of 9 members. CARRIER TO BATH.-James Reed, mon. wed. fri. & sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Francis George, Vine cottage Macpherson John William, Hillside

Ames Richard James Freeman Wm. Osborne, Freshford mill McMahon Mrs. Grove cottage
Baskett Miss, Hill view Gardener Mrs. Mount Pleasant Morgan Mrs. Oakland cottage
Bythesea Samuel Francis Glossop J.P. Gee William, Woodside Phillips Miss, Rose lawn
George Henry Forster, Claremont villa Popham Henry, Manor house
The Hill Graham Miss, Glen view Saville Mrs. I vythorpe
Cox Miss HallewellEdmund,AbbotsLeigh cottage Smith Edward, Woodbine villa
Eddy Mrs. Laurel house Isaac Thomas William Player F.G.s. 4fbompson John, The Grove
Edwards Lieut.-Col. Spencer Henry Whitehouse Mrs
Freshford house
Hutchins, Abbots Leigh Younghusband Misses, Sharpstone cot
Laverton Miss, Hill cottage COMMERClAL.
Ellis Miss, The Small house Lewis Rev. John William M.A. Rectory
Flemming Thomas Henry M.D Loch Mrs. James, The Hermitage Allen William, quarry master
Forster Richard Courtier, Fairlawn

DIREC'l'ORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. YBOME. .·.>..·.>. 1 •

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•Cemetery (E. Smith, clerk to burial l<'reeman William Osborne, flock manu- Mundy Ellen (Mrs.), laundress

board) facturer, FresWord mill Mustey George, carrier

.Clement John, gardener Gardener George,coal merchant Mustey Henry, stone mason

Coombes William, carpenter Grist Hy. Albert, farmr. Norwood farm Reed Edward, carrier

Crook J oseph, farmer Hathaway Thomas, carpenter Reed James, carrier

Dixon Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Holborn Henry, shoe maker Sainsbury John, lodging ho. Rose cott

Eames Thomas, coal dealer HumphriesJabez,GoldenLionP.H.&grcr Village Coffee Rm. (Jas. Steveus, mangr)

Flemming Thomas Henry M.D. surgeon Huntley James, carpenter Ward Augusta (:Mrs.), laundress

Forster Richard Courtier, brewer & Marchant Richard James, wheelwright Watts Brothers, grocer~, Post office

maltster, Freshford brewery Miles Edward, blacksmith Whitaker John, stone mason

Francis Sarah (Mrs.), lodging house, Millet Peter, beer retailer Whitaker William, stone mason

Wood view Millard Frederick, sawyer Wilson Aberoromby, fruit grower

Morris James, butcher, High street Withers Ellen (Mrs.), dress maker

FROl\lE.

FROME (or FROOME SELWOOD) is a large and populous m~r- repose the remains of Bishop Ken, who, after his deprivation

ket town near Wiltshire, situated 8 miles south-east from of the see of Bath and Wells by King William Ill. found an

Radstock, 13 south from Bath, 24 south-east from Bristol, asylum at Longleat, with his friend Lord Weymouth: he
15 east from Wells and 107 by road from London, having a died xgth March, I7Io-II, and was buried, by his own desire,

:Station on the Weymouth branch of the Great Western rail- at sunrise, in Fromechurchyard, as being the nearest parish
way, :us~ miles from the metropolis, in the Frome division of his old diocese, bequeathing to the said parish, for use of

of the county, rural deanery of Frome, archdeaconry of ' the vicar for the time being, in a quaint leather case, a small

Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. Frome was formerly chalice and paten of silver gilt, for" communion of the sick,"
.a parliamentary borough returning one member, but under bearing the following inscription :-"Given to the parish of

the provisions of the "Redistribution vf Seats Act," 1885, Froome by the late Lord Bishop Ken, 17II ; " this service

the representation of the borough was merged in that of the is still preserved among the communion plate. The church
eounty: it is the head of a union and petty sessional division, was under restoration at various periods during the years

.and is situated in the hundred of its own name and was for- 1846 to x866, and has 1,ooo sittings, half of which are free.
merly a royal demesne. The town, although irregularly The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a

built, and consisting of many narrow streets, is very clean vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £556, yearly value £6oo,

and healthy,the river Frome flowing through its lower part including 64 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the

.and the streets being on a declivity : it is governed by a local Marquess of Bath, and held since 1886 by the Rev. the Hon.
board of 15 members, by whom water works were constructed Alfred Francis Algernon Hanbury-Tracy M.A. of Christ

in January,x88o : the pumping station is situated at Eggford, Church, Oxford. Joseph Glanville F .R.s. author of several

about I~ miles west of the town, and the reservoir at Cottles works on witchcraft and apparitions, was sometime vicar

Oak, the water being obtained from natural springs at Egg- of this parish, and died 4th November, 168o.

fora. The town is lighte.~ with gas supplied bY: the Fr?me That portion of Frome called Woodlands was formed into
~elwood Gas C?. The pans~ church of St: John IS an edJ~ce an ecclesiastical parish Aug. 13, I872: the church, situated
m the Perpend~cular style, with some remams ?f much earl~er to the north of Brimble Forest, was built by Thomas Lord
-date, and co~sists of larg~ chancel, nave of eight bays with Viscount Weymouth in the year 1712 and endowed with £6o
-cler~story, a1sles, four chapels, vestry_ and _north and south
porches, an~ an embatt~ed t?wer With .P!nnacles and _an yearly by the will of his brother, the Hon. Henry Frederick
-oc~agonal spire 139 feet m hm~ht, contami~g a clock With
Thynne, his lordship also augmenting the stipend with £ 30
yearly, and £soo, the greater part of which has been applied
ehi~es and 8. fine toned bells . _the north an~ south door- to the purchase of an estate called Codrington, in this
w~) s, ~nd a mche and doorway discovered durmg the restor- parish, the nett proceeds of which are settled upon the

atwn, m .o?e of the chantry chapels, _are of the Late Norman minister. The present church of St. Katharine, rebuilt, with

-or TransitiOn style : the eastern portiOn of the nave, one, and the exception of the tower, in 1 88o, is an edifice of stone in

perhaps two of Lhe chantry chapels, the basement story of the Late Decorated style consisting of chancel nave of four
-t?e tower, and the chancel, are Decorated: the wester~ por- bays, aisles, south porch'and a western tower: with pinna-

tion of the nave, two _chantry chapels! the upper portiOn of cles and octagonal spire 7T0 hfeeetreignihsteeirghdta, tceosntfaroinmingth3e bells:
the tower, and the spire, are Perpendwular: at the _western there are 100 sittings. year
~~tr~nce are four sculptured figures of the Evangelists, and
Withm four correspondmg figures of St. Aldhel~, the founder r1e8s7i3d.encTeh, ein living is a vicarage, yearly value £ h13e0ld, with
s~. Andrew and St.. George: at the the gift of the Marquess of Bath, and since
sxde, t?e seven statiOns of the cross
-of the church, St. Athleba~nef,t 18 2 tbi~oltlheegeReCva. mTbhroimdgaes. Hoyle Corn ton M.A. of Cor us
north ent!Rnce on C; ris p p
.are beautifully carved m stone : m the south porch, over the '

doorway, is a representation in stone of SS. Peter and John Christ Church is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Sept. q,

healing the lame man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple: 1844, from the parishes of Frome and Marston Bigot1;: the

:along the clerestory walls,in each spandril between the arches, church, in Christ Church street west, is a modern building

.are medallions of the parables and the miracles of our Lord: of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel,
the four chantry chapels are dedicated respectively to St. nave of four bays, aisles, gallerie.~ and an embattled western

Mary the Virgin, St. Andrew, St. Nicholas, and St. John the tower wiLh small turrets at the angles, and containing one ball:
Evangelist : the original licences for permission to found and there are sittings for about 8oo persons. Adjoining the church
.endow the chantries of St. Andrew and St. Nicholas were in is a burying ground. The register dates from 1844. The

-the possession of J. A. Wickham esq. until his death: on the living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £x6o, with residence,

-exterior of the Lady chapel is a group of the Madonna and derived from 6o acres of glebe and voluntary offerings, in

Child, and over the chapel of St. Katharine, now used as a the gift of the Vicar of Frome, and held since 1884 by the
yestry, is another figure: the chancel is separated from the Rev. Richard Raikes Bromage M.A. of Clare College, Cam-

•nave by a low carved stone screen, with gates of iron and bridge, F.R.G.s.

brass ; the floor is composed of inlaid marble and tile work; Holy Trinity ecclesiastical parish was formed oSreipgtin. a1l4ly,
-the reredos, beautifully carved in Carrara marble, represents 1844: the church, situated in Trinity street, and

the Striking of the Rock by Moses, the Children of Israel built in I837 as a chapel of ease to the mother church, is an

.:gathering Manna in the Wilderness, and in the centre the edifice of stone in the Early English style, consisting of

Last Supper; on each side of the chancel are elaborately chancel, nave, north transept and galleries : there are T8h3oe
--carved oak stalls and traceried oak screens separating the sittings. Adjoining the church is a burial ground•.
«ehancel. from th~ adjoining chapels, one of w~i~h, o~ the
-~orth side, c~ntams th_e organ : there ar~ also sediha of rxc~ly Fryeergoairmsltyee,rvaadlnuadtee£sh3eforldoom,swinxic8teh38rI.e8sJiSdTehnbecyel,itvhiinengtRheiesvg.aifWtvoiiclfsatorhnaegeEV,uicgsatrarocsoesf
~rved ~tone. the. ancient font, a work m th~ Early Engh~h
.style, discovered m I8:J-6, was restored, a~d IS now placed I~ 1 Daniel M. A. of Worcester College Oxford and surroooate.
one of the chapels, which serves as a baptistery : the pulpit '' "

of Bath stone is supported on a central pillar surrounded by St. Mary the Virgin is an ecclesiastical parish, formed

five Purbeck marble shafts; the panelled sides are enriched March 25, 1873 : the church, situated on Ennox (or Innox)
·with statuettes: the whole of the windows (with the excep- hill, is a building of stone, in the Early English style, con-
tion of those in the north chantry chapel) are stained. In sisting of apsidal chancel, nave, south porch and a western

"the churchyard, beneath the eastern window of the chancel, turret containing one bell: there is a sanctus bell over the

222 FROME. SOMERSETSHIRE. (XELLY'S

chancel, which is divided from the nave by 8 screen of Bath to the asylum. There is an apprentidng fund affording

stone and contains three stained lancet windows: the church about £8o yearly; endowments of £54 a year for lectures

affords 200 sittings. The register dates from 1873· The and sermons, provided from Stevens' and Methwin's bequests;

living is 8 perpetual curacy, net yearly value £90, with about £u for church purposes, partly from 8tevens'
residence, in the gift of the Vicar of Frome, and held since charity, and from Lock's charity, left by will in 1735~ and
x889 by the Rev. Richard Prior Wintle, of London Univer- a sum of about £55 for distribution in money and kind, ·
sity. partly bequeathed in the years 1857 and 1862-3. The
management of the charities is vested in the hands of 6 feof-
The Catholic chapel of St. Catharine, built in 1853, has fees and 14 assistant trustees, of whom the vicar is ex-officio
120 sittings.
chairman.
.

There are two Congregational chapels, one in Bath street The Mechanics' Institute, a modern building situated on
and another in Whittox lane : the former was founded in Church Slope and erected at a cost of £1,500, is well adapted
1662, rebuilt in 1707, and entirely renovated in x862 ; it is a for lectures and meetings, and has reading-rooms and a
buildmg of stone and contains 500 sittings. In the chapel library of about 2,ooo volumes ; the number of members is
are numerous monuments, including one of freestone and
marble to five ejected ministers from the Church of England 176.

who were the first ministers of this church. The chapel in The Literary and Scientific Institute is a lofty building of

Whittox lane was rebuilt in x8xo and renovated in x889 and stone, in the Italian style, erected at a cost of over £3,000

has sittings for about 700. by the late John Sinkins esq. and occupies a prominent

• position to the south-west of the North parade: the upper
floor includes a museum, a spacious reading and news-room,
The Wesleyan chapel off Christ Church street, built in well supplied with periodicals and a library of about 2,ooo
volumes : in the lower portion of the building is a School of
xBu, at 8 cost of £1,000, is a fine edifice of stone in the Art, founded in 1865, and having over 130 members.

Italian style, and has Boo sittings. Adjoining are residences

for two ministers, and a day school for children with master's

house, built in x863. The Wesleyan Mission room, situated

in the Butts, was built in 1858 at a cost of £150. The Wilts and Dorset Bank, in the Market place, is a sub·

There are three Baptist chapels, one in Sheppard's Barton, stantial building of stone, erected in 1874; and Stuckey's
rebuilt in xBso and seating about 530; another in Badcox Banking Co. have a handsome building in Bath street.

lane, built in 1814, and restored after being damaged by The Recreation Ground, Weymouth road, was opened in
fire, in x889, with 700 sittings; and a third in Naish's street, May, 1888: it is 7 acres in extent, and is well supplied
built in 1835, holding 450 persons.
with seats and shelters, as well as with swings and other

The Primitive Methodist chapel, in Sun street, is a plain gymnastic appliances.

building of stone, erected in 1834, with 350 sittings; the The head quarters of the A Troop, North Somerset Yeo-
Sunday school adjoining was added in 1851. manry Cavalry, are in Bartons lane. The head quarters and

The :Free Methodist Chapel, Catherine street, built in armoury of the D Co. 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Prince
x852 and entirely renovated in x882, will seat about 300. Albert's Somerset Light Infantry are situated in Gentle
street.

The Christadelphians have a meeting room in Long row. The neighbourhood affords indications of Roman occupa-

The Blue Ribbon Gospel Union, a hall in Duke street, and tion. The first mention of Frome occurs in the year 689, in
the reign of Ina, King of Wessex: during his reign, his
there are Salvation Army barracks in Locks lane.
kinsman Aldhelm, a monk of Malmesbury, afterwards

Choir School, for the choir boys of the parish church. Bishop of Sarum (705-9), founded a monastery about the
These boys, about 16 in number, are entirely maintained year 705, at Lower Keyford, and dedicated it to S. John
and educated, the funds for this purpose being supplied by the Baptist. On the occasion of Monmouth's rebellion, the
the offertory and voluntary subscriptions. The Rev. F. W. inhabitants of Frome heartily espoused the Protestant cause,
Vining M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford is the super- and many of the townsmen and neighbouring folk on their
return from the fatal battle of Sedgmoor, July 6th, 1685,
intendent.
were hanged, drawn and quartered.
The manufacture of woollen cloth, which forms the staple

trade, is extensively carried on here and broad cloth, kersey- Fromefield House, situated on the Bath road, and now the

meres and cashmerettes are to some extent produced : residence of the Rev. Robert Gordon M. A. rector of Hammer-

there are also two card makers, a silk mill, dye wood works, wich, Staffordshire, and formerly the seat of the Sheppard

iron foundries and several breweries. family, is a handsome mansion standing in about 10 acres of

The "Frome Market Company," established June 8th, grounds. Specimens of Roman pottery were found in the
1874, for the purpose of carrying on the markets and fairs, grounds in 1819, and a large Roman stone is still to be seen
now receive the tolls which have been purchased from the there.

lord of the manor, and a new and spacious market house has Somerleaze, the residence of George Waiters esq. J.P.
been erected, with an entrance from Bridge street ; there is pleasantly situated about 2 miles from the town, on the
a market place for cattle adjoining. A market is held every Radst.ock road, is a modern house standing in 45 acres of
Wednesday for cattle, corn and general commodities, and garden and pasture land, along the bottom of which runs
every Saturday for the latter only. A cheese market is held the river Frome, spanned near this spot by a very interesting
on the last Wednesday in each month, and a great cheese bridge of the 14th century, still in very good preservation.
fair on the last Wednesday in September. There are two

other fairs held in the course of the year, viz. on the last Vallis House, the ancient seat of the Leversedge family, is.

Wednesday in February and the last Wednesday in Nov- now converted into tenements. The Vallis estate, together

ember. with some others, originally belonged to the Leversedges, and

were in the possession of that familv till 17o6, when Rogel'
A Cottage hospital, situated in Long row, was established Leversedge, who was the last of the ·male line, devised them
-here in 1875 ; and contains 13 beds. The St. John's dispen- to Lionel Seaman esq. who had married Prances, his only
sary, Christ Church street, was established in 1854; the daughter. Mr. Seaman, at his death, devised the same to
total number of patients treated in x888 was x8x.
his relative, the Rev. Dr. Seaman, then vicar of the parish,

CHARITIES.-There are almshouses situated on the bridge, who !"old it to John, Earl of Cork and Orrery, and it is now
held by the present earl. Vallis Vale is noted for its pic-
for 21 aged women, each of whom has a weekly allowance; turesque and romantic scenery.
these· are supported by an endowment of land, left in the

reign of Edw. IV. hy Robert Liversedge, but now con- The Marquess of Bath F.S.A. and the Earl of Cork and
sisting of about £8,8o2 in stocks, producing £446 12s. Orrery K.P., P.c. are lords of the several manors.
yearly. John and Richard Stevens' benefaction of land, left

towards the end of the x8th century in au,on:tentation of the The area is 7,144 acres; the rateable value is £44,336;
foregoing and for the erection of buildings, now consists of the population of the parish in 188x was n,18o, including
about £24,393 invest.ed in stocks, yielding £620 14s. yearly, 251 officers and inmates of the Workhouse.
of which £366 17s. forms an endowment for a hospital for

13 aged men, who are also clothed and receive a weekly Sexton of St. John the Bapti.:,t, George Ashby.
Parish Clerk of Christchurch, Isaac Cray.
allowance, and £253 17s. an endowment for an asylum for
girls, 16 of whom are here lodged, clothed, boarded and

educated ; the hospital and asylum form a single large Parish Clerk of Holy Trinity, George Happerfield.
building, situated at Keyford, and in 1888 the charity was
further endowed by Mr. Harry Ham, formerly of the Blue .

Sexton of St. Katharine'~, Woodlands, George Ashby.

Coat school, who left £1,ooo to the hospital and a like sum Sexton of St. Mary the Vtrgin, Ennox hill, James Butler.

JDIRECTORY. SOMERSETSHIRE. FROliE.

Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c.

POST, 'M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Bath street.-Francis Shaw, postmaster.

------------------------------------D-IS-P-A-T-C-H--O-F--LE-'-IT-ERS &c. --------------------------·
Letters can be re- Letters with an

lUlLS. gistered, & with Letter Box additional jd.
closed stamp will go by
extra fee3o mins. the Mails if
later than the

time given below posted at

Bath, Bristol, & the West & North of England ••••.•..••••••..•.•••••• 9·45 a.m. 10.15 a.m. 1.45 p.m.
4-40 p.m.
London & East Coast, Scotland, Wells, Chipperiham, Trow- 11. o a.m. 11.30 a.m.
1· o p.m.
bridge, Yoovil t; Weymouth .............••....................•......... 1.30 p.m. 2. o p.m. 8.30 p.m.
I.IO p.m. 1.40 p.m. . 8.55 p.m.
Whatley, Chantry, Nunney, Great Elm, Mells, Beckington, Road, 4· o p.m. 4·3o p.m.
5.20 p.m. 5-50 p.m.
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7.50 p.m. 8.20 p.m.
London, Bath, Bristol & South-Western District ..................... 8. o p.m. 8.30 p.m.
9· o p.m. 5-45 a.m.
North Mail: Bath, Bristol & Ireland ....................................
South-Western District, Dorchester &c........•....•........•,............
London, Bath & Salisbury ......................•..............•.............
Dorchester, Weymouth, Bridport & Charmouth .....................

London, Bath, Bristol &c. General Night Mail to all parts .........

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DELIVERY. Highway Board for the Frome District.

Chief Places from which the Mails Arrival. Begins at Meet the first wednesday in each month, at the Board room,
are received. Christ Church street west, at 2 p.m.

London, Bath &c. Night Mail.. .... 4.20 a.m. 7. o a.m Treatmrer, E. H. Dickinson
Clerk, George Walter Bradbury
North, Salisbury, Southampton
&c. Mail .............................. 8.xoa.m. 9·45 a.m Surveyor, William W. Puroell, Kilmersdon, Bath; William
London, Bath & Bristol Day Mail 12 & 2 p.m. 2.15 p.m Adams, 20 Lower Keyford, From. e, assistant surveyor
Bath, Bristol, London, Scotland,
Wells &c .............................. 4· 5 p.m. 4·35 p.m County Magistrates for the Petty Sessional Divi-
sion of Frome.
Local letters may be posted at head office up to 30 minutes

before beginning of each delivery, or up to 15 minutes Cork & Orrery Earl of P.c., K.P., D.L. Marston house,
before, with extra id. stamp
Frome, chairman

PARcELs PosT. Bath Marquess of F.t~.A., D.L. Longleat, Warminster

The office is open for Parcel Post business on week days Dungarvon Viscount D.L. Marston house
from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. On sunday no Parcel Post Weymouth Viscount M.P. Longleat, Warminster
business is transacted Lopes Rt. Hon. L01·d Justice Sir Henry Charles P.C. Hey-

wood house, Westbury

DELIVERIEs.~Parcel deliveries commence at the same time Batten-Pooll Rt. Pool Henry esq. Northfie]d ho.Road,Frome

as the letters (see above), & may be posted for town & Dickinson Edmund Hy. esq. B. A. Chapmanslade, Warminster
country up to half-an-hour before commencement of each Dickinson Robert Edmund esq. Stuckeys Bank, I<'rome
Duckworth Rev. Wm. Arthur M. A. Orchardleigh pk. Frome
deliver•v Hole John Boger esq. Standerwick court, Frome

DISPATCHES.-PARCEL MAILS ARE DISPATCHED AT:- Horner Jn. Fras. Fortescue esq. M.A., D.L. Mells pk. Frome
Le Gros Charles Waiter esq. North hill, Frome
London (day), Trowbridge, Wells, Bath, Bristol & West of Shore John Henry esq_ B.A. Whatley house, Frome
England, xo a.m.; North & South-West of England, Ire· Strachey William esq. Rock house, Elm, Frome
land & Scotland, Bristol & Bath, I.3Qp.m.; Special North
dispatch, 4.20 p.m.; London (night) & all parts, 6.45 Tanner Joseph esq. B.A. Madeley house, Pembroke road,
p.m. ; Bath, Trowbridge, Wells & Bristol, 8.30 p.m Clifton, Bristol

On sunday there is only one delivery by letter carriers, com- Tucker Alfred Harris esq. Keyford house, Frome
mencing at 7 a.m. & letters are delivered at the counter Waiters George esq. Somerleaze, Frome

from 8 until xo a.m. only. Money order office open Clerk to the Magistrates, Percy Wilson Cruttwell, Bath st
from 9 a.m. till6 p.m. ; saturdays, from 9 a. m. till8 p.m. Petty sessions are holden on every alternate thursday at 12
Telegraph office open from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. ; sundays, o'clock & on tuesday & friday, at 12 o'clock each week,
from 8 till 10 a.m
for hearing petty larceny cases, at the Magistrates' Court
PosT & M. 0. 0. & S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, hall, Christchurch street west. The division of Frome
Badco:x:.-D. Oatley, receiver. Box cleared at 11.20 a.m. comprises the parishes of Beckington, Berkley, Buckland
& 1.20, 4-zo, 6.40 & 8.10 p.m
Dinham, Cloford, Elm, I<'rome-Selwood, Laverton, Leigh-
SuB-PosT OFFICE, Spring gardens.-James Richard Francis, on-Mendip, Lullington, 1\Iarston Biggott, Mells, Nunney,
receiver. Letters arrive from Frome at 6.30 a.m. & 2.45 Orchardleigh, Road, Rodden, Wanstrow, Whatley, Witham
p_m_; dispatched at I0-55 a_ m. & 6.30 p_m. on week days Friary, Woolverton
only

WALL LETTER BoxEs.-West Woodlands, cleared at 5.40 Insurance Agents.

p.m.; East Woodlands, cleared at 6.xo p.m Accident, G. W. Wiltshire, Wilts & Dorset Bank, Market

Local Board. place ; Harding & Sons, King street

Board room, Christ Church street west. Alliance Fire & Life, Richard Harding, Styles hill ; & A-
Board day, first monday in e11-ch month, at 3 p.m. Duckett, Stuckey's Bank, Bath street

MEMBERS. Boiler Insurance, G. W. Wiltshire, Wilts & Dorset Bank

British Empire Mutual Life, G. Ballard, 21 Bath street

Elected x887. I Elected x888. British Law Fire, E. Olive, 1 The Bridge
Hodder John Baily John Commercial Union, S. Cuzner, Market place

Bartholemew James I Singer John Webb County Fire, G_ W. Wiltshire, Wilts & Dorset Bank, Market pi

Rawlings Samuel T Chapman Josh Eagle Life, G. W. Bradbury, Bat.h street

Baily Charles Butcher Benjamin Economic Life, D. Watson, Fromefield; & W. H. Kent,.

IMoore Alexander William Sheppard Thomas Byard Board of Guardians' office
Edinburgh Life, A. Duckett, Stuckey's Bank
Winter
English & Scottish Law Life, E. Olive, x The Bridge
Elected 1889.
Flatman Edward General,W. B. Harvey, 20 Bath st. ; & S.Gough,12 Cheap st

Ames Edmund Gifford Life Association of Scotland, E. u. Ames, Cork street
Tucker Alfred Harris .J.P
Case Charles Liverpool & London & Globe, E. G. Ames, Cork street; &.
Baily William G. W. Bradbury, Bath street

London & Provincial, C. Cooper, 14 North parade
National Provident Lire, A. Duckett, Stuckey's Bank

Clerk, George Waiter Bradbury, Christchurch .street west Norwich Union Fire, W. H. Penny, Market place

'freasurer, George William Wiltshire, Wilts & Dorset Bank Ocean Railway & General Accident, H. E. Ame~, Cork st.

Medical Officer of Health, Joshua Parsons, 3 North parade Phrenix Fire, Langford & Keynes, 20 & 21 King street

Surveyor & Inspector of Nuisances, P. Edinger, Palmer st Provident Life, G. W. Wiltshire, Wilts & Dorset Bank

Collector, William Bird, 17 Vallis way Reliance Mutual Life, G. W. Bradbury, Bath street

22-1 FROME. SOMERSETSHIRE.J (KELLY'S..

Rock Life, W. Dunn 1 Relieving Officers, No. l or Frome district, James Willis,

Royal Exchange, E. J. Jelly; 5 North parade Butt's hill, Frome; No. 2 or Kilmersdon district, H. C.

Scottish Equitable, Harding & Sons, 26 King street Meehan, Mells ; No. 3 or Nunney district, A. Bell, Ridgeway

Sun Fire, Cruttwell, Daniel & Cruttwells, Bath street Vaccination Officer, George Waiter Bradbury, Bath st.Frome

West of England Fire & Life, J . .Penny Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. I district,

Westminster Fire, R. J. Dennis, II Portway Frederick Edward Pearse M.D. Argyle house, Frome; No.

Publio Establishments. 2 district, William Godfrey Evans L.R.C.P.Edin. Reeking-

Almshouse (now supporting 21 aged women) & Charity ton ; No. 3 district, Thomas Hewlett Worger, Radstock;
School (now educating 29 boys), situate near the Bridge, No. 4 district, Thomas Galbraith M.D. Nunney; No. 5
Lower Market place; William Brown, superintendent & district, William Cha-rles Glasier Collins L.R.C.P.Edin.
master. The treasurer is appointed annually Mells; No. 6 district, James Howard Kenrick L.F.P.s.olas.

Assembly Rooms, George hotel, Market place ; Frederlck Coleford
Kirbell, proprietor Superintendent Registrar, George Wa.lter Bradbury, Christ-

Asylum (for the maintenance, education & preparation for church street west, Frome ; deputy; William R. Kent,
domestic service of 16 poor girls), matron, Miss Jones; & Christchurch street west, :Frome
Hospital (now supporting xo poor aged men of Frome), Registrars of Births & Deaths, Frome sub-district, Edwin
situated in Keyford; Mrs. Ashby, matron John Jelly, 5 North parade, Frome; deputy, John H.
Vincent; 3 Sunnyside, Frome; Kilmersdon sub-district,
Cottage Hospital, Long row (13 beds); Edmund Cockey, H. C. Meehan, Mells ; deputy, Albert Foxwell, Coleford;
Joshua Parsons, J. Frederick Parsons, Frederick Edward
Pearse M.D. John Moysey Rattray M.A., M.B., C.M. & nnney sub-district, Martin West., Nunney; deputy, S.

William Godfrey Evans L.R.C.P.Edin. medical officers; Wilcox1 Nunney; Road sub-district, J. V. Pickford,
Robert Payne, hon. sec. ; Miss Oliver, matron
County Court, held monthly on tuesday, at Mechanics' hall; Beckington ; deputy, Henry Hillman, Beckington
His Honor C. F. D. Caillard, judge ; Percy Wilson Crutt- Registrars of Marriages, Henry Payne Coombs, Market
well, registrar & high bailiff; Robert Underhill, sub-
bailiff ; office,' Bath street; Edward Gustavns Clarke esq. place, Frome; deputy, Alfred Coombs, 6 Badcox parade,
Bank chambers, Bristol, official receiver in bankruptcy.
The following is the district comprised in the jurisdiction Frome ; H. C. Meehan, Mells ; deputy, A. Foxwell,
of the County Court :-Radstock, Forscote, Writhlington, Coleford
Hemington, Fanlkland, Hardington, Buckland, Kilmers- The Workhouse, situated at the back of the town, is a build-
don, Charlton, Murtry, Maiden Bradley, Norton Ferris,
Yarnfield, Kingston Deverill, Monkton Deverill, Kilming- ing of stone, erected in 1836-7, to hold 450 inmates;
ton, "Witham Friary, New Hitchins, Drury, Upton Noble, Robert T. Cook, master; Rev. R. R. Bromage M.A. chap-
lain; Edmund Cockey, medical officer; Mrs. Elizabeth
Cook, matron ; A. Crosland, schoolmaster ; Mrs. Georgina

Dewson, schoolmistress ; present number of inmates 210
& n officers

•
Batcombe, ·westcombe, Wanstrow, Cloford, East Cran- RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY.

more, Leighton, Marston, Gare Hill, Trudox Hill, Holwell, Meets in the Board room on first wed. in month at 2.30 p.m.
Ridgeway, Nunney,Woodlands,Tytherington,Blatchbridge,
Little Keyford, Feltham, Friggle Street, Whatley, Little Clerk, Geo. Waiter Bradbury, Christchurch st. west, Frome

Elm, Downhead, Leigh-on-Mendip, Stoke Lane, Coleford, Treasurer, Edmund Henry Dickinson, Chapmanslade, Wilts
Lypeat, Babington, Mells, Vobster, Great Elm, Lucking- Medical Officer of Health, Joshua Parsons,North par.Frome
ton, Eggford, Kilmersdon Common, Norton St. Philip, Inspectors of Nuisances, W. Adams, Lower Keyford,Frome;
:Farleigh, Tellesford, Road, Rudge, Stonderwick, Rodden,
& W. W. Purnell, Kilmersdon, Bath

Berkley, Beckington, Wookerton, Laverton, Lullington, ScHoOL ATTENDANCE CoMMITTEE.

Orchardleigh, Clink, Oldford, Spring Gardens Meets in the Board room on alternate tuesdays at2.30 p.m.

Certified Bailiffs appointed under the Law of Distress Clerk, Geo. Waiter Bradbury, Christ Church st. west, Frome
Amendment Act, Chas. Thos. Harding, King st. :Frome ; Attendance Officers, Samuel Hillier, Long ground, Frome;
Charles Cooper, North parade, Frome; ·waiter Harrold,
Vicarage st. Frome; Robt. Underhill, Vicarage st. Frome Henry C. Meehan, Mells; James V. Pickford, Backing-
ton; Alexander Bell, Ridgeway
County Police Station, Magistrates' Court hall, Christ-

church street west, Joseph Williams, superintendent; 3 Public Officers.

sergeants, 2 acting sergeants & 18 constables Assessor of Taxes, William Pulham, Gentle street

Dissenters' Burial Ground, Vallis road (under the manage- Assistant Overseer & Collector of Poor's Rates & Taxes,
ment of Trustees), opened in 1851 ; Rev. William Burton, William Bird, 18 Vallis Way
sec. ; George Brine, superintendent
Certifying Factory Surgeon, Joshua Frederick Parsons,
Jnland Revenue Office, James S. McConkey, officer. The
sittings are held at the George hotel, :Market place, Common hill
quarterly, to receive excise dues, & once a year for land &
ineome taxes Clerk of the Peace for Somersetshire & to the Commissioners
of Taxes for the Frome Division, William Dunn, King st
Market House, Bridge street, G. A. Daniel, sec
Clerk to the Land Tax Commissioners, George Alfred
Mechanics' Hall, Church slope, E. G. Ames, sec Daniel, Bath street
St. John's Dispensary, Christchurch street east; John
Inland Revenue Officer & Inspector of Corn Returns, William
Moysey Rattray M. A., M.B., c.M. medical officer Kelly, 1 Sunnyside, Keyford
:Stamp Office & Office for issuing Establishment Licences,
Inspector of Weights & Measures, Superintendent Joseph
Post office, Bath street; Francis Shaw, distributor; open Williams, Police station
daily from 9 a. m. till 6 p.m
Stamp Distributor, .l<'rancis Shaw, Post Office, Bath street
Surveyor of Taxes Office, 21 King st. ; J. Thomas, surveyor Steward of the Manor of Frome & Steward of the Manor &
Temperance Hall, Catherine hill, W. B. Harvey, sec
V{)lunteer Fire Engine House, opposite the Pack Horse inn, Vicarage of Fromt'-Selwood, William Dunn, King street
Steward of the Manors of Buckland, Dinham & Nunney,

George Alfred Daniel, Bath street
Christchurch st. west ; S. T. Rawlings, captain,& 18 men Town Crier, Thomas Underhill, 14 Christchurch st. west
Volunteers.
Newspapers.
North Somerset Yeomanry Cavalry (A troop); head quar-

ters, Barton's lane; Lieutenant C. ·w. Le Gros, Sergeant- Somerset & Wilts Journal, published at the Selwood printing
works ; published saturday
Major William James Davies, drill instructor
"Prince Albert's Somersetshire Light Infantry, 3rd Volunteer Somerset Standard & Wilts & Dorset Advertiser, TheFrome
Battalion (D Co.) ; head quarters & armoury, Gentle Printing & Publishing Co. Limited, publishers ; published
-street; Captain A. H. Tucker; A. Hiscock, drill instructr saturday

FROME UNION. Places of Worship, with times of Services.

Board day, alternate tuesdays, at n a.m. at the Board St. John the Baptist (parish church), The Rev. the Hon. Alfred
room, Christcburch street west.
Francis Algernon Hanbury-Tracy M.A. vicar; Rev. Frank

The union comprises the following places :-Babingtrn, W. Vining B.A. & Rev. Herbert E. Polehampton M.A.

Beckington, Berkley, Buckland Dinham, Cloford, Elm curates; holy communion 8 a.m. & alternately at 6.30 &

(Great & Little), :Farleigh Hnngerford, Forscote, :Frome, 10 a.m. & daily at 7·45 a. m.; II a. m. 3 p.m. (children's

llardington, Hemington, Kilmersdon, Laverton, Leigh-on- service) & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. & fri. 12 noon ; on the four

Mendip, Lullington, :Marston Biggott, Mells, Nunney, Nor- Great Festivals & St. John the Baptist's Day, 8 p.m. ;

ton St. Philip, Orchardleigh, Road, Rodden, 'fellisford, children's service, thurs. 9 a.m. ; daily, 8.30 a.m.& 6 p.m

·wanstrow, Whatley, Witham Friary, Woolverton & Christ Church, Christchurch street west, Rev. Richard

Writhlington; the population of the union in 1881 was Raikes Bromage M.A., F.R.G.s. vicar; Rev. C. Gordon

23,163; present (1889) rateable value, £122,925. Grist B.A. curate; holy communion 8 a.m.; 11 a.m. 3

Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, George p.m. (children's service) & 6.30 p.m.; holy communion,

Waiter Bradbury, Christchurch street west, Frome tues. thurs. & sat. 8 a. m. ; service :laily 7 & 10 a. m. & 1

Treasurer, Edmund Henry Dickinson, Chapmanslade, Wilts p.m

DIRECTORY.] SOMERSETSHIRE. FROME. 22.5

Holy Trinity, Trinity street, Rev. Wilson Eustace Daniel children ; average attendance, 83 ; Miss Alice A. Spratt,

M.A. vicar; Rev. George Augustus S. Metford M.A. mistress

curate; 8 & 10.30 a. m. 3 & 6.30 p.m. ; wed. 10.30 a. m. St. John's (infants), Vicarage street, for 181 children; aver-

& 7.30 p.m.; fri. 10.30 a.m.&7 p.m.; saints'days,u a.m age attendance, 82; Miss Frances Barre'tt, mistress

St. .Mary the Virgin, Innox hill, Rev. Richard Prior Wintle, Holy Trinity Church (girls & infants), erected in IB-41 &

incumbent; II a. m. 3· IS p.m. (children's service) & 6.30 enlarged in I886, for 28o children; average attendance,

p.m. ; daily, 8 a.m g6 girls & I20 infants ; Miss Fanny King, mistress ; Miss

St. Katharine's, Woodlands, Rev. Thomas Hoyle Compton Alice Kelson, infants' mistress

M.A. vicar; 9 & II a.m. & 3 p.m. ; in the summer, 6.30 Christ Church (girls & infants), erected in I844 & enlarged

p.m.; daily, 8.30 a.m. & 6.30 p.m in I88g, for 4IO children ; average attendance, 136 girls &

St. Catharine Catholic, Conigar, Rev. John J. Archdeacon, 145 infants; Miss Fanny Gowan, mistress; Miss Deborah

priest; holy communion, 8.30 a.m.; mass, 10.30 a. m.; Newport, infants' mistress

compline, instruction & benediction, 6.30 p.m. ; holy days, British, Milk street (boys, girls & infants), erected in I843

mass,g.3o a. m.& benediction, 7.30 p.m.; daily,mass,S a.m & enlarged in I878, for 732 children ; average attendance,

Baptist, Badcox lane, Rev. William Burton; 10.30 a.m. & 275 boys, 229 girls & I49 infants; Alfred Osborne, master;

6 p.m. ; mon. & thurs. 7.30 p.m Mrs. Porter, mistress ; Miss Kate Morgan, infants' mist

Baptist, Naish's street, Rev. A. W. Fawkes; 10.30 a.m. & 6 Wesleyan (mixed), erected in I863, for I75 children; aver-

p.m. ; thurs. 7-IS p.m age attendance, 45 boy\ 35 girls & 45 infants; John Thos.

Baptist, Sheppard's Harton, Rev. James Walker; 10.30 a. m. Skelton, master

& 6 p.m.; wed. 7-IS p.m St. Katharine's (mixed), at the Woodlands, erected in 1874,

Congregational, Rook lane, Bath street, Rev. George S. for So children; average attendance, 55 ; Miss A. Compton,

Walker;· I0.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; mon. & wed. 7-IS p.m mistress

Congregational, Whittox lane (Zion), Rev. Frederick Walker Railway.

Clarke B.A. ; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; mon. 7.30 p.m. & Great Western station, Portway (Weymouth branch), Wm.
Mitcham, station master
thurs. at 7· IS p.m
Primitive Methodist, Whittox lane, Rev. Joseph Knipe; An omnibus from the George hotel, Market place, meets

I0.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; tues. & fri. 7-IS p.m
United Methodist Free Church, ministers various; 10.30 every train
Carriers.
a.m. & 6 p.m.; thurs. 7-IS p.m
Wesleyan, Butts hill, Rev. Marmaduke Riggall & Rev. Wm. LoNDON & all parts of the kingdom, Tucker (Great W~stern

James Rogers; I0.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; thurs. 7-IS p.m Railway Co.'s goods agent), 2 Badcox parade, daily;

Wesleyan Mission (Bethel), Butts, ministers various; 6 Frederick Kirbell (Great Western Railway parcels agent),

p.m. ; mon. 7 p.m George hotel, daily; Sutton & Co. (J. D. Pulham, agent),

Christadelphian Meeting Room, Long row; II a.m. &6 p.m.; S Bath street, daily

wed. at 8 p.m BATCOMBE-Davis, from the ' George Tap' on wed

Blue Ribbon Gospel Union Hall, Duke street ; 7 & u a.m. ; BATH-Cross, omnibus from 7 Gentle street, mon. wed. fri.

3 & 6.30 p.m. ; daily 8 p.m & sat. at 8 a. m. ; returning from 'Lamb & Lion,' Lower

Salvation Army Barracks, Locks lane; 7 & II a. m. ; 3 & Boro' Walls at 4.30 p.m

6.30 p.m. ; daily 8 p.m BucKLAND-Weaver, from the' Angel & Crown' on wed

Schools. COLEFORD-T. Kerton, from the' Sun,' wed. &sat.; Adlam,
from the 'Unicorn,' wed.; Miller, from the 'Unicorn,'

Blue Coat School, erected & re-endowed about 1720 from a wed. & sat

sum of £I,o87, together with some former donations. HoRNINGSHAM-Mrs. Doel, from the ' Unicorn' on wed. &

About 29 boys are clothed & educated for five years, & sat. ; Barnes, from the 'Unicorn,' wed. & sat

subsequently apprenticed, with £I2 premium; there KINGSTON DEVERILL-White, from the' Unicorn,' thurs

are also about 30 private pupils receiving a higher educa- LEIGHTON MENDIP-J. Kerton, from the' Sun,' wed. & sat

tion, for which fees are paid; William Brown, master, with MAIDEN BRADLEY-Hooper, from the 'Unicorn' on mon. ;

assistants Mees, from the' Lamb,' mon. wed. & sat.; Taylor, from

Frome School of Art, North parade (in connection with the the ' Lamb' on wed

Science & Art Department, South Kensington); W. G. B. MELLs-Lacey, from the' Wagon & Horses,' daily

Collins, master; W. H. Cruttwell esq. treasurer; J. W. MERE-Mees, from the 'Lamb,' mon. wed. & sat. ; Hooper,

Singer, honorary secretary from the 'Unicorn,' mon

National, Bath street (boys!, erected in I827, for soo chil- STOURTON-Mees, from the ' Lamb,' mon. wed. & sat

dren; average attendance, 24S: this school has an endow- WANSTROw-Mrs. Bond, from the 'Lamb,' wed

ment of about £6o from Richard Stevens's charity : W ARMINSTER-Stubbs, from the ' Victoria,' wed

Richard John Dennis, master WITHAM FRIARY-Davis, from the 'George Tap,' wed'

St. John's (girls), Church lane, erected in I875, for I2S ZEALs-Mees, from the' Lamb,' mon. wed. & sat

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Brook Henry, 47 Keyford Coombs Arthur Henry B.A. Sunny

sAlien Isaac, 3 Wallbridge Brooking Rev. Arthur M. A. West hill lawn, Keyford

Alien Mrs. West end Brown Benjamin, 19Christchurch st.we Cooper Chas. Brunswick ter.Fromefield

Alley Mrs. r8 Christchurch street west Brown Francis, Bridge house Cooper Misses, 2 Fredk. pl. Somerset rd

Ames Edmund Gifford, Ken house Brown Frederick P. 4 Pilly vale Cox Waiter Edwd. Henley v1. West end

ArchdeaconRev.Jn.J.[Catholic],Conigar Brown John P. Garston Cox William Haydn, Bath street

Babington Miss, 4 West end Brown Mrs. Bridge house Cray John, 2 Cork villas, Butts

Badger Miss, 2 West end Brown Silas, 6 Gould's ground Crees Henry, I 3 Keyfo!'d

Bailey Miss M. I4 Vallis way Brown Willi!l.m Geo. 7 Weymouth road Cromey-BuckHrbrt.Rupert,OldFord ho -

Bailey Mrs. J. Marlboro' ho. The Butts Brunsdon Miss, 6 Vicarage street Cruttwell Percy Wdson, Northcote,

Baily Alfred Richard,Willow Vale house Burgess William, 26 Christchurch st. we Bath road

Baily Charles, Clumber house Burney Mrs. rClaremont vls.Barton's la Cruttwell Waiter Harry Wilson, Oak~­

Baily Edmund,Garth viis. Welshmill rd Burton Rev. William [Baptist], Hall field, Cottles oak

Baily Jn.FairLawn ho. Christchrch.st.ea house, Cork street Cuzner Samuel, 14 Butts hill

Baily Miss, Oriel cot. Christchurch st. we Butcher Benjamin, I6 Keyford Daniel Rev. Wilson Eustace H.A. [vical'

Baily Mrs. Parbury house Case Charles, Hillside, Keyford of Holy Trinity & surrogate], 28

Baily Mrs. E. Lower Keyford Channon Horatio, 17 Vallis way Gould's ground

Baily William, I4 Vallis way Chester Miss, I6 Christchurch st. west Deacon Alfred, 6o Keyford

Baily William, sen. 4 Vallis way Clarke Rev. Frederick Walker B.A. Deacon Uriah, Cork villas, Butts hill

Barnes Charles, Stone ho. Long ground [Congregational], Weymouth road Deggan Edward, Willow vale

BendleFk. Portway lo. Christchurch st. ea Clarke Mrs. IS Portway Dickinson Rt.Edmd.J.P.Stuckey's Bank

Bennett Miss, Conigar house Cloud Mrs. 4 Keyford terrace Doggerel! James, 6o Broadway

Bewsey Mrs. I6 Portway Cockey Edmund, Christchurch st. west Doherty Mrs. Willow vale

Bird Charles, 30 Christchurch st. west Cockey Henry, South hill Dommett Misses, Phcenix: hall

Bishop Edward, 62 Keyford Cockey Misses, South hill Dommett Mrs. I3 Vallis way

BishopHy.Drapr.Rockhill, Welshmill rd Cogswell Mark, 8 Weymouth road Dommett William Hams, I2 Vallis war

Bloom George, 2 West end Collings John Lindon, Innox Hill cott Druce Mrs. 3 South parade

Bradbury George Wait. Upper Butts ho Collins Mrs. 54 Keyford Duckett Arthur, Bath street

Bromage Rev. Richard Raikes M.A., Colwell Miss, 7 South parade Dunn William, Garston lodge •

F.R.G.s. [vicar of Christ Church & Compton Rev. Thomas Hoyle M.A. St. Dyer Thomas, Weymouth roat!

chaplain to the union & surrogate], Katharine's vicarage, Ea. Woodlands Edgell Mrs. St. Helens

The Vicarage, Locks lane Coombs Alfred Ernest, 2-J. Bath street Evans Mrs. 8 Vallis way

8. G. & B. 1~

~26..! FROME. SOMERSETSHIRE. [KELLY"S

Ferris Alfred J. West end Langford William, I West end Sinkins Mrs. Wallbridge house

Flatman Edward, 53 Keyford Langley Mrs. IO Bath street Spackman Mrs. Garston

Ford Mrs. Box villa, Keyford Ledyard Misses, Garston hill Spencer Mrs. 8 West end '

Frankham William Hy. 2 Wallbridge LeGros Charles Waiter J.P. North hill Spill Samuel, I2 Keyford

J<'ussell William, Lock's hill LeGros Mrs. North hill Stokes Spedding,26 Christchurch st.wst

Garrett Mrs. 5 Sunnyside, Keyford Lewis Samuel John, 7 West end Sutton George, 42 The Butts

Gillman Eli, Bath Road villas Lincoln Albert,Belmont lodge, Butts hill Tabraham Mrs. Box villa, Keyford

Glencross Mrs. Garth vils. Welshmill rd Lippiat<; Thomas, 2 Waterloo Tanner Joseph B.A.,J.P. Seathwaitecot.;

Goodridge George Thomas, 9 West end Long Waiter, Hope villa, New buildings & 72 Pembroke road, Clifton, Bristol

Gordon Rev. Robert M.A. [rector of Lush Hugh, 7 Culver hill Tanner Lanfear R. B.A.Seathwaite cot

Hammerwich, Staffs], Fromefield ho Lush Miss, I4 Keyford Tanner Russell R. M.A. Portway house

Gough Mrs. 6 Christchurch street east Mason William, 33 Fromefield Taylor Mrs. Prospect ho. Vallis way

Gradidge John, 2 Cork street Merryweather Edward, Park Hill house Taylor Vivian, I3 Butts hill

Grant Charles John, 5 Pilly vale Metford Rev. George Augnstus M.A. Tazewell Mrs. I Wine street

Grant Thomas, 6 North parade [curate ofHolyTrinity],IIWeymth.rd Thick William,I Marston pl. Barton's la

Gregory Mrs. 9 Weymouth rood Mitchell-Innes Mrs. 36 Fromefield Thompson Henry, Spring hill

Griffin William, 2 Locks lane Moore Alexander Wm.14 Welshmilllane Thompson Miss, Knoll house, Gentle st

Grist Rev. Gordon Clunes- B.A. [curate Mowat Miss, 4 Sunnyside, Keyford Thorns JohnAlexander,5 Weymouth rd

of Christ Church], 5 Weymouth road Nicholson Misses, 6 West end Thorburn James, 52 Keyford

Haley Abraham, York villa, Portway Norvill Mrs. 4 Keyford Thresher George, 6 'Weymouth road

Haley Herbert, I Long ground Nowell Mrs. 26 Wine street Thresher John, 9 Vallis road

Hanbury-Tracythe Rev. the Hon.Alfred Orledge Robert, Flora villa, Orchard st Tremlett Miss, Claremont, Cottles oak

Francis Algernon M.A. [vicar of Padfield Thomas, 62 Broadway TrotmanEdwd.Russll.TbeElms,Vallis rd

Frome], The Vicarage Palmer Edward Wilton, 3I Fromefield Trotman Miss, 5 Gould's ground

Bapperfield Albt.Stphn. I Weymouth rd Palmer Miss, :r Pilly vale Tuck Miss, I2 Keyford terrace

.Happerfield George, sen. I2 Trinity st Parrott Samuel, I2 Butts hill Tucker Alfred Harris J.P.Keyford house

.Harding Charles, Grandon farm Parsons Joshua, North end Vaters Miss, Vallis Oak villa

.Harding Misses, Welshmilllodge Parsons Joshua Fredk. Common hill Vincent Henry, II Catherine street

Harding Richard, Rodden lake ParsonsonWm.Attewll.7Gould's ground Vincent Thomas Bailey, The Chesnuts,

Barding Thos. Chas. Bath Road villas Patterson Gordon, I I Keyford terrace North parade

Harrold Mrs. 4I Vicarage street Payne Robert, Welshmill house Viner Edward, Vallis lodge

Harrold Waiter, 4 Weymouth road PearseFdk.Edwd. M. D. Argyle ho. Bath st Vining Rev. Frank Whittaker B.A.

Harvey William, 9 Butts Penny Francis H. I Keyford terrace [curate of St. J ohns'], The College,

Hayward William, 2 Sunnyside Penny Mrs. 2 Church slope Christchurch street east

Higdon William, I5 Portway Phillips Rev. Sidney H. [Wesleyan], Walker Rev. Geo. S. [Congregational],

Hill Frederick Thomas, 48 Keyford Spring grove Claremont cottage

Hinchcliffe Mrs. I6 Christchurch st. east Pickford John, 66 Broadway .Walker Rev. James [Baptist], I2

Hiskett John, 36 Blunt street Polehampton Rev. Herbert Edwd. M.A. Sheppard's Barton

Hockaday Henry Estal, 20 Gentle street [curate of St. John's], 14 Palmer st Wallis Joseph, 54 Broadway

Hodder Albert, Fairview, Cottles oak Polehampton Rev.John M.A.lghtham lo Waiters George J.P. Somerleaze

Hodder Edward H. So Keyford Porter Henry Charles, IO West end Watson Daniel, 3 Fromefield

Hodderl<'rdk.J.Melbourne ter. Broadway Pratten Frederick, 2 Welshmill villas Watson Leonard J. Weymouth road

Hodder John, Fairview, Cottles oak Purnall Mrs. Thomas, 33 Vicarage st Watson Thomas H. Weymouth road

Hodder Waiter L. 50 Broadway Rattray John Moysey M.A., M.B., c.M. Weeks Frederick, Phrenix terrace

Hoddinott Mrs. Samuel, Ashton house Rook Lane house Welham Herbt. H. Monmouth ho. Cork st

Hodgson Percival S. Hall ho. Cork st Rawlings Henry Tovey, Stoke house, Wheeler George, 2 Henley villas

Holroyd Thomas Henry, Providence cot Christchurch street west Wheeler Herbert, 3 Weymouth road

Horwood Edwin, 4 South parade Rawlings Mrs.Sl. Melrose ho. Whittox la Wheeler Thos. J<'ern cot. Lower Keyford

House James, 16 Sunnyside Rawlings Samuel T. I7 Portway Wheeler Thomas James, Fair Lawn

Howell Charles, 6o Broadway Rendell Mrs. Waverio vil. Weymouth rd cottage, Christchurch street east

Isaacs Samuel, 2 Weymouth road Riggall Rev. Marmaduke [Wesleyan], White Charles Hy. Henley viis. West end

.Jelley Thos. Edmund Smith,Garston ho Wesley villas White James, 3 Keyford terrace

Keen Miss, 32 Broadway RogersRev.Wm.Jas.[Wes.],Wesley viis White Miss, I7 Christchurch st. west

Kent Mrs. I South parade Seward Frederick John, Butts hill White Mrs. 2 Sunnyside, Keyford

Kent William, 2 Keyford Sewell Miss, 10 Vallis road Williams Rev. William Hy. 58 Broadway

Keynes William, 2 Fromefield 8heppard Mrs. Byard, 32 Fromefield Wilson George Robert, Bath Road villas

Knight Jonathan Drew, Ennox hall Sheppard Mrs. John, The Cottage Wiltshire Geo. Wm. Bank ho. Cheap st

Knight Miss, Oldfields cottage, Murtrey Sheppard Thomas Byard Winter, Iron- Wintle Rev. Richard Prior [incumbent

Knight Mrs. G. C. 3 Pilly vale gates, King street of St. Mary the Virgin], Innox hill

Knipe Rev. Joseph [Primitive Metho- Singer John Webb, North Hill cottage Wintle Yaugban B.A. Bath Road villas

disQ, 13 Whittox lane Singer Waiter Herbert, The Conigar Witham Frederick, I5 Keyford

COMMERCIAL. Aylesbury Agnes (Miss), grocer, 5 Christchurch ~treet east

Adams Francis, currier & boot maker, 5 Palmer street Aylesbury Frank, grocer, 1 The Butts

Adams William, assistant surveyor of highways & inspector Ayres Elizabeth (Miss), shopkeeper, 5 Catherine street

of nuisances to the rural sanitary authority, 20 Lower Ayres William Charles, general dealer, 8 Whittox lane

Keyford Bailey Alfred, pawnbroker, 8 Palmer street

Adlam William, builder & general contractor, carpenter & Bailey Simeon, draper, 3, 9 & IO Cheap street

undertaker, 18 Keyford .Baily E. & Son, millers (steam & water) & maltsters, Wall-

A.llard Joseph & Frank, farmers, Figgle street bridge mills ; office, 2 Pilly vale

Allard Wm. (Mrs.), frmr. New Church farm, EastWoodlands BAILV .JOHN &. THOMAS, strong & bitter beer, family ale

.Allard William, farmer, Bollow farm, East Woodlands & & porter brewers, La m b brew ery
Ames Edmund Gifford, solicitor, perpetual commissioner ton George, tailor, 2 Cheap street
1'Bain

commissioner for taking oaths & affidavits, agent to the Baker Elizabeth (Miss), milliner, 9 Palmer street

Liverpool & London & Globe Fire & Life Office & to the Baker Joseph, insurance agent, 73 Keyford

Life Association of Scotland, Cork street Ballard & Son, watch makers & jewellers, 2I Bath street

.Ames Herbert Edmund, solicitor, Cork street Barnes Alexander, farmer & gr-azier, Tytherington

Ames Stephen, farmer, West Woodlands BARNES CHARLES, builder & general contractor & under-

Ancient Order of Foresters, Court Selwood Forest, No. taker, 8 Long ground

I,96o (J. N Coombs, sec.), 40 Blunt street; Court Sel- Barnes Edward, butcher, 25 Catherine street

wood Oak, No. I1946 (A. H. Read, sec.), 2 Trinity street BarnesHarry, grocer & beer retailer, 37 KeyfOi"J
Anderson William, travelling draper, 29 Vicarage street Barnes Henry, builder, Locks lane

Andrews Sidney, jobbing gardener, Hapsford Rarnes Henry, grocer, 24 Milk street

Ashby Alfred, farmer, Gibbet's Hill farm Barnes Hugh, shopkeeper, 20 Vallis way

Ashby Edward, farmer, Blatchbridge hill Barnes Noah, beer retailer & shopkeeper, IO Portway

Ashby Joseph, plumber & lead burner, gasfitter, house 1 Barnett Frederick, shoe maker, 9 Grope lane

decorator &c. 44 Keyford Barry Charles, blacksmith, Lower Keyford

Ashby Thomas, dairy farmer, Spring gardens Barter Frank, baker, 26 Duke street

Ashford Thomas, farmer, Egford Lane farm Bartholomew Jas. hair dresser & tobaccnst. 9 Catherine hill

Assembly Rooms (Frederick Kirbell, proprietor), George Bartlett Charles B. outfitter, I Stoney street

hotel, Market place Barton James, basket & umbrella maker, I Catherine hill

Atkill8 Albert, baker, 5 Bridge street Beauchamp Henry, baker & corn dealer, 47 Vallis way

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Beaven Charlotte (Mrs.), milliner, 53A, Catherine street Coleman Thomas, farmer, East Woodlands

Heaven Henry, baker, 6 Whittox lane Collins Mary (Mrs.), dress maker, 77 Keyford

Bebbington Thomas Byron, Spread Eagle P.H. Long row Col well Kate (Miss), high school for girls, 7 South parade

Bell John, photographer, 49 Catherine street COOMBS &. SON, ironmongers, I Upper Market place

Bellamy John, currier & leather seller, I7 Cheap street Coombs Alfd. grocer, & dep. reg. of marriages, 6 Badcox par

Bendle Frederick, coal merchant. 27 Christcburch street Coombs Amy (Miss), girls' school, Wine street

· east & Coal wharf, Wallbridge COOMBS ARTHUR HENRY B.A. KEYFORD SCHOOL

Bendy Richard & Son, blacksmiths, Blue Boar yard for boys (boarding & day), Sunnyside, Keyford

Bendy Richard William, blacksmith, Bridge street Coombs Henry Payne, registrar of marriages for Frome

Bennett George, nurseryman, IO Nunney lane union, I Upper Market place

Biggs James Trotman, confectioner, 19 Lower Market place Coombs John, beer retailer, 29 Catberine street

Bird William, assistant overseer & collector of local board Coombs Wm. cabinet ma. & upholstr. 28 & 44 Catherine st r

rates & taxes, r8 Vallis way CoombsWm.ironmngr.plumbr.&c.IoVallis way & Badcox par

Biss John, gardener & seedsman, 15 King ~;~treat Cooper Charles, agricultural, brewers', licensed victuallers'

Bloom George, draper, see Ferris & Bloom & general auctioneer & valuer, I4 North parade

Blue Coat School (William Brown, head master) Co-operative Boot Stores (Fraucis Mackay, manager), <tB

Bolus Andrew, insurance agent, 24 Wine street Catherine hill. See advertisement

Bolus Waiter, commission agent, 25 Wine street Cornish Henry, coal dealer1 79 The Butts
Bowles Harry, general dealer, 33 Catherine street Cottage Hospital (Edmund Cockey, Joshua Parsons, J.

:Sown Benjamin, grocer, 3 Church street Frederick Parsons, J<'rederick Edward Pearse M.D. John

SOWN FRANK, wholesale & retail grocer & provision dealer Moysey Rattray M.A., JII.B., c.M. & William Godfrey Evans
& patent medicine vendor, 50 & sr Catherine street
L.R.C.P.Edin. medical officers; Robert Payne, hon. sec. ;

Bown Seward (Mrs.), farmer, Highcroft, Woodlands Miss Oliver, matron), Long row

:Sown William Robert, Crown hotel, Market place Cottle Frederick John, confectioner, 25 Catherine hill

Bradbury :Florence (Miss), teacher of singing, Butts house County Court (office open from IO till 4; Saturdays, 10 till

Bradbury George Waiter, clerk to the local & highway boards I ; His Honor Camille Felix Desire Caillard, judge ; Percy

& superintendent registrar & clerk to the guardians & Wilson Cruttwell, registrar & high bailiff; Robert Under..

rural sanitary authority & school attendance & assessment hill, sub-bailiff), Bath street

committees, Christchurch street west COX .J. DAVIS &. SONS, pianoforte warebo. I9 Bath street

BRAY CHARLES AXFORD, BILL POSTER & advertising Cox Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer, ~elwood farm

agent, 2 Church street Cox Francis, basket maker, 62 Christchurch street east

Bridgman George, jobbing gardener, I3 Robins lane Cox Robert, farmer, Fullbrook & Woodcock farms

Brimson Elisha, carpenter, 43 Keyford Cox Sarah Jane (Miss), ladies' school, 34 Fromefield

Brimson George, carpenter, Keyford field Cox Waiter Edward, teacher of music, Henley vil. West end

Brimson Robert, boot & shoe maker, 6 Horton street Cox William Haydn, teacher of music, Bath street

British & Foreign Bible Society's Depository (William B. Cray Henry, butcher, I7 Gore hedge

Harvey), 20 Bath street Cray Joseph, nurseryman & seedsman, 3 Coffinspring lane

Brittain Jonathan, jobbing gardener, StilP.s hill Crees Catherine (Miss), dress maker, 4 Broadway

Broadribb John, Ship inn, Old ford Croom John, farmer, Critchills farm

.BRODRIBB RICHARD SHERRING1 wholesale grocer, & Cross Charles, wholesale & retail china & glass warehouse, Si

wine & spirit merchant, Stoney street; & at War·minster CroSstos nEel•vizsatbreeteht (Mrs.), refreshment rooms, 56 Catherine st f
Brown Florence & Kate (Misses), girls' school, 4I Vicarage st

Brown Emily (Miss), grocer, 33 Keyford Cross George, boot maker & carrier, 7 Gentle street

Brown Frederick P. builder & contractor, Pilly vale Cross Henry, brick & tile & drain pipe maker, Flintford

Brown George, jobbing gardener, 5 Redland terrace brick & tile works

Brown Hannah Mary Jans (Mrs.). coffee tavern, Stoney st Cross Henry, tailor, 40 Catherine street

Brown 1\'illiam George,architect & surveyor,7 Weymouth rd Cross Mark, jobbing gardener, 8 Crown yard, Keyford

Browning Charles, boot maker. I7 Paul street Cross William, fly proprietor, 56 Catherine street

Browning Harry, tobacconist, 30 Catherine hill Crossman Joseph, shopkeeper, I3 Cross street

Bryant Thomas, Angel hotel, King street Cruttwell, Daniel & Cruttwells, solicitors, & agents for the

Bull Eliza &Maria (Misses}, Bull's restaurant & hotel, Lower Sun Fire & Life Insurance Co. Bath street

Market place Cruttwell George Alfred Daniel, solicitor, see Cruttwell,

Bunce Henry Edwin, boot & shoe maker, I4 Stoney street Daniel & Cruttwells

Burgess Arthur, boot maker, I Nail street Cruttwell Percy Wilson (firm, Cruttwell, Daniel & Crutt-

.Burgess James, baker & grocer, 75 Broadway wells), solicitor, & commissioner for oaths, clerk to the

Burgess John (Mrs.), grocer, 43 Milk street Frome magistrates & reg. & high bailiff of Co.Court,Bath st

Burgess Sarah (Mrs.), King's Head l'.H. I Cross street Cruttwell Waiter Harry Wilson, solicitor (firm, Cruttwell,

Bush George, farmer, Hollow hill Daniel & Cruttwells)

.Bush Matthew Henry, farmer, Park Hill farm Cuff Eli7.abetb (Mrs.)," monthly nurse, 79 Keyford

.Butler & Son, carpenters, Keyford Curtis Charles, chair maker, 9 Culver bill

Butler & Tanner, printers, The Selwood printing works Cuzner George, iron founder, Butts hill

.Butler Henry, cabinet maker & upholsterer, I Catherine st Cuzner Samuel, art furniture manufacturer, hair dresser &

Butt William, grQCer, 27 Catherine hill general stores, Bath street

.Bynoth Frederick, grocer, 3 Nail street Dance William George, outfitter, 8 & 9 Ca.therine hill

Candy Edwin H. farmer, Egford farm Daniel George Alfred (firm, Cruttwell, Daniel & Cruttwells),

Candy Emily (Miss), dairy, 20 Paul street solicitor, commissioner for taking affidavits, perpetual

Carpenter Henry, secondhand clothes dealer, 2 Long row commissioner for taking acknowledgments of married

Carpenter William Ford, draper, I2 & I3 Catherine bill & women, clerk to the magistrates for the Kilmersdon divi-

Market place sion,steward of the manors of Buckland Dinham & Nunney,

Case Charles, tanner & calf kid manufacturer, Lower general treasurer of the Frome & Nunney charities & clerk

Keyford to the land tax commissioners, Bath street

Case George, grazier, Ivy cottage, Keyford Davage Alfred, pork butcher, 9 Cross street

ChampionHerbert,farmer,Brick Chimney farm,Blatchbridge Davies Sergt.-1\'lajor William James, drill instructor to the

Champion Robert, farmer, Blatchbridge hill A troop, North Somerset Yeomanry, 5 Marston place

Cbapman Joseph, monumental sculptor, Portway Davis James, dairyman, r6 Broadway

Cheek John Andrew, baker, n Whittox lane Deacon Alfred, butcher, 36 Catberine hill

<::hislett & Son, builders, 32 Catberine street Deacon Joseph, fishmonger, 7 Stoney street

Christmas Wm. Green, chemist & druggi~t,34Catherine hill Deacon Sarah (:VIrs.), shopkeeper, I8 Cheap street

Church of England Sunday School institute Depository Dennis Charles, shopkeeper, 4 Duke street

(William B. Harvey's), 20 Bath street Derrick Isaac Thos. Woolpack inn, & shopkeeper, Culverhill

Clark Charles Wesney, tailor & outfitter, 53 Catherine street Deverall William, grocer, Cross street

Clark Hophni, insurance agent, 2I Keyrord Dick R. & J. (F. C. Danes, manager), boot & shoe makers,

Clarke Edwin, Castle P.H. 35 Catherine hill 25 Market place

Cockey E. & Sons Limited, gas engineers, iron founders, Diocesan Boys' Home (Rev. R R. Bromage, sec.), Sunnyside
Dissenters' Burial Ground (under the management of trus-
manufacturers & contractors, The Iron works

Cockey & Rattr.ay, surgeons, Christchurch street west tees ; Rev. W. Burton,hon.sec. ; Geo.Brine,supt. ),Vallis rd

Cocksedge John, beer retailer, 38 The Butts Dodge Augustus, boot & shoe maker, 2 & 3 Stoney street

Cogswell Mark, hair dresser &c. I2 Stoney street Doel Elizabeth (Mrs.), greengrocer, 20 Catherine street

Coleman Ann (Mrs.), greengrocer, 27 Keyford Doel William, coal dealer, 93 Broadway

Coleman Eli, farmer, East Woodlands J Dowling Henry, outfitter, 29 Catherine hill

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Down Edward Cook (Mrs.), shoeing smith, I Badcox parade Gould George farmer, Lower Marsh, Blatchbridge

Down Frank, provision dealer, 31 Keyford Gradidge John, family & general draper, Waterloo bousep

Duckett Arthur, joint manager of Stuckey's Bank, Bath st Market place

Dunford Richard, furniture broker, 34 Catherine street GRANT BROTHERS, painters & house decorators, King st.

Dunn William, clerk of the peace for Somerset, solicitor, Grant Benjamin, coal haulier, Spring gardens

commissioner for taking affidavits, perpetual commissioner Grant John, cattle dealer, 5 Gentle street

for taking acknowledgments of married women, steward GrantMaryAnn (Mrs.),wood trnr. & cloth fuller,Springgdns

of the manor of Frome & sec. to the Frome Gas Co.King st Grant William John, organ builder, King street

Dunning Sarah (Mrs.), grocer & baker, 6 Naish's street Green Arthur Herbert, grocer, 9 Keyford

Dunsford Emily (Mrs.), teacher of music, 28 Christchurch Green Edmnd. Clement,chemist &druggist, 15 Catherine hilJ

street east Green Henry, pianoforte tuner, 2 Horton street

Dunsford George Edgcome, editor of the •• Somerset Stan- Green Mary Ann (Miss), berlin wool repository, 7 Market pl

dard," 28 Christchurch street east Greenland James, baker, 82 Keyford

Dyke Henry, stationer, 42 Catherine street Greenslade Henry, house agent, 32 Vallis way

Eames Frederick, seedsman, 13 Paul street Greenslade Mary Jane (Miss), toy dealer, 32 Vallis way

EAMES HAROLD, BILL POSTER, the old established; Greeves Esther (Miss), ladies' outfitter, 7 The Bridge

also stationer, news agent & advertising agent, 10 Stony st Gregory James, grocer, 42 Vallis way

Eames Harriet (Mrs.), news agent, 12 Paul street Gunning George Henry, farmer, Feltham farm

Edwards Frances (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bell lane Hackett James, plasterer, 9 Catherine street

Edwards Waiter, market gardener, 6 Keyford Hagley Julia (Miss), dress maker, 18 Fromefield

Elliott John, shoe maker, 34 Keyford Halliday Enos, farmer, Whatcombe farm

Eyers William, plumber & glazier &c. Christchurch st. west Hamlett William, coal dealer, 42 Broad street

Farthing William, wheelwright, 10 Robinson's lane Hancock Louisa (Mrs.), dress maker, 5 Long row

Fawkes Arthur William, boot & shoe maker, 11 Broadway Happerfield George, plumber & painter, 16 Trinity street

Feltham John, jobbing gardener, Barton's lane HARDING &. SONS, auctioneers, appraisers, valuers & land

Feltham Thomas, farmer, Cherry Garden farm surveyors, 26 King street

Ferris & Bloom, drapers, Market place Harding Charles, farmer, Grandon farm

Finniear Sarah (Miss), dress maker, 7 Whittox lane Harding Charles, jun. tobacconist, Io Palmer street

FloydeAlma (Mrs.), dress maker, 27 Welshmilllane Harding Job, lamp & oil dealer, 31 Broadway

FOREMAN &. SON, tailors, habit & breeches makers & Harding Richard, agent for the Alliance Fire & Life Insur-

hatters, 21 Market place ; & at Warminster ance Co. St.yles Hill lane

Francis Stephen, fishmonger, 6 Catherine hill Harding Stephen, carpenter, 7 Cross street

Frapwell James, general dealer, 35 Vallis way Harding William, farmer, Flintford farm

French Alfred, boot & shoe maker, 7 King street Harris Samuel Henry, outfitter, 3 Catherine hill

Fricker Matilda (Mrs.), White Hart P.H. Cheap street Harrold & Son, chemists, 4 Bath street

Frome Conservative Club (A. H. Tucker, president; J. W. Harrold Waiter, auctioneer &c. 40 Vicarage street

Singer, W. Mason & J. Baily, vice-presidents; G. W. Harvey James, cabinet maker, 2 & 3 King street

Jackson, sec.), Weymouth hall Harvey James Bond, tinplate worker, 11 Cheap street

Frome Creche (Mrs. Brooking, hon.sec. & treas.),Whittox la Harvey Lucy (Mrs.), ironmonger, 5 Catherine hill

FROME DAIRY CO. (THE) (John P. Brown, manager), Harvey William Brett, pharmaceutical chemist, printer,.

makers of & dealers in all kinds of dairy produce, Garston stationer & bookseller, publisher & proprietor of the.

Frome District Agricultural Society (G. W. Wiltshire, trea- "Frome Almanack," 20 Bath street

surer; William Pulham, sec.), 2 Gentle street Harvey William John, newspaper reporter, 12 Orchard st

:Frome & District Benefit Building Society (E. G. Ames, Hawkins Sophia (Mrs.), apartments, 15 Sunnyside, Keyford'

solicitor; R. J. Dennis, sec.), Mechanics' hall Hawkins William, beer retailer & shopkeeper, Water lane

Frome Home for Trained Nurses (Miss Mary Briggs,matron), Hayman Alfred Geo. L.D.s.Irel. dental surgeon, The Bridget

Christchurch street west Hayward Thomas, butcher, Badcox

Frome LiberalClub(ArthurLewis,sec. ),21Christchurch st. we Heal Alfred, shoe maker, 13 Gore hedge

Frome Market Co. (G. W. Wiltshire, treas. ; G.A. Daniels,sec) Heal William, grocer, 26 Vallis way

Frome Mechanics' Mutual Benefit Building Society (H. E. Heath Samuel F. farmer, Packsaddle farm, Innox hill

Ames, sec.), Cork street Henderson John, travelling draper, I Welshmill road

FromeMutualBeuefitSoc. (Rev.W. E. DanielM.A. H. Cockey Hepburn Jane (Miss), lodging house, 5 South parade.

& G. W. Bradbury, hon. secs. ; George W. Jackson, clerk) Higgins William, Unicorn P.H. Keyford

Frome Permanent Building Society (Waiter H. W. Crutt- Hill Job, Horse & Groom P.H. East Woodlands

wcll, solicitor; William Langford, manager), 20 King st Hillier Charles, machinist, The Butts

l<'rome Printing & Publishing Co. Limited (The) (W. Mason, Hillier Richard, secondhand furniture dealer, 2 Broadway

managing director), Church street. See advertisement Hillma.n Jonah, musical instrument dealer, 3 Christchurch

Frome School of Art (in connection with the Science & Art street east

Department, South Kensington) (W. G. H. Collins, Hinchcliffe George, card & belt maker, Christchurch st. east

master; The Hon. Mrs. R. C. T. Boyle, lady patroness ; Hinks Joseph, permanent way inspector to G. W. Railway,_

W. H. Cruttwell, treas.; J.W. Singer, hon. sec.),North par 10 Fromefield

Frome-Selwood Gas Light Co. (William Dunn, sec.; Henry Hiscocks Reuben, grocer, 13 Cheap street

Cockey, manager) Hiskett Ellen (Mrs.), servants' registry office, 7 Catherine st

Frome Sunday School Union (F.H. Penny,sec.), 11 Market pl Hiskett James, grocer, 7 Catherine street

Frome United Breweries Co. Limited (J. Lyndon Collings, HODDER &. SONS, builders & general contractors, timber

sec.), registered offices, The Brewery, Badcox mers. wheelwrights, undertkrs.&quarryowners,Broadway

Frome Vinegar Brewery Co. Welshmill. See advertisement Hoddinott Frederick Samuel, grocer & butcher, 40 Butts hl

Froom William George, tobacconist, 14 Market place Holloway Charles, hatter & tobacconist, 23 Market place

Gaisford Stephen, timber merchant, Spring gardens Holloway Charles, jun. tailor, 14 Cheap street

Gallon Jane (Mrs.), apartments, 29 Christchurch st. east Holloway Lucy (Mrs.), feather dresser, 23 Market place

Gane William, dairy farmer, Brimble's farm, Woodlands Holroyd James & Son, dye wood & chemical manufacturers,

Gardener Charles, chimney sweeper, 10 Broad street Providence mills

Gardiner Hubert, chimney sweeper, 3 Sun street Horsey & Witcomb, brush manufactrs.Culver hill & King st

Garrett Charles, brush manufacturer, 7 Keyford Horwood Edwin, glass painter & lead glazier, 20 Christ-

Garrett Frederick John, baker, 5 King street church street west

George family commercial hotel & posting house &assembly Horwood Edwin Isaac, nurseryman, seedsman & florist, 17

rooms (Frederick Kirbell, proprietor), Market place Palmer street & at Mells

George Frank, beer retailer, Vallis road Houlton Charles, grocer, 2 Catherine street

Gerrett Alfred, greengrocer, 18 King street House Sarah (Mrs.), berlin wool & fancy repos. 18 Bath st

Gerrett Ann (Mrs.), dress maker, 24 Broadway Houston Henry & Son, woollen manufacturers, Vallis road

Gerrett George, tailor, 38 Broad street Howell Frederick, grocer & butcher, 108 The Butts

Gerrett James, beer retailer, Clink road Hugman John, draper, 52 Catherine street

Gerrett Windham Charles, baker & grocer, 27 Catherine st Humphries J. photographer, Van Dyck studio, North par

Giddings Edwin, grocer, 45 Vallis way Hunt John, Wagon & Horses P.H. Gentle street

Gifford Samuel, shopkeeper, 30 Broad street Independent Order of Foresters (Court, Selwood Forest)

Glass John, farmer, Clink farm (G. Cross, sec), 7 Gentle street

Golden Elizabeth (Mrs.), tailoress, 36 Vicarage street Independent Order of Odd Fellows {Loyal True Briton

Goodenough Samuel, farmer, Keyford House farm Lodge) (J. Bishop, sec.), 10 Keyford terrace

Goodfellow & Son, coach builders, Butts hill Isaacs Albert Henry, hardware dealer, 32 Catherine hill

Goodland Jane (Mrs.), toy dealer, 30 Keyford Isaacs Samuel Bennett, hatter, 14 Catherine hill

Gough Robert Sloper, miller (water), Spring gardens Jackson George Wilson, conservative registration agent,

Gough Sidney, butcher, 12 Cheap street & Nail street J<'rome district, 5 Keyford